The New Nation - Internet Edition

AFP, Johannesburg

Some 40,000 farmworkers and their families have been displaced as a result of violence and intimidation by pro-government militias since Zimbabwe's elections, a union leader said on Thursday.

"Since the elections we have recorded a total of 40,000 people who have been displaced," Gertrude Hambira, general secretary of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe, told a press conference in Johannesburg.

"Our members and their families have been left homeless. They have been attacked by a group of militias wearing army uniforms. "They have been accused of voting for the opposition. Most of them are either on the roadside or sheltering at some farms."