31 agriculture sector in 2000, as well as a further 250,000 seasonal and casual worker families also living on these same farms. 40 The respondents reported employing 16,917 full-time employees [see Table 17 below], having 60,003 dependents. Ignoring the part-time employees, many of whom were drawn from the families of the full-time employees, this would suggest that, for the 4,324 farmers evicted, it could mean a potential number of commercial farm workers and dependents in the range of 1,310,369 people. The Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe report in 2003, referred to above, suggests that up to 70% of this population have lost their livelihoods, which would suggest about 917 258 persons have been placed at severe risk. Table 15 Number of employees per Province Full-time Part-time employees employees Employee family members Manicaland 829 784 3519 Mash Cent 4296 4967 16372 Mash East 3193 3047 13733 Mash West 7945 5257 24846 Masvingo 143 80 81 Mat North 40 10 50 Mat South 322 840 744 Midlands 149 265 658 16917 15250 60003 Totals: 61% of the respondents reported that their employees enjoyed access to a clinic or medical care on the farm, whilst 66% also provided an AIDS/HIV awareness programme. Using the estimates given above, this suggests that between 800,000 and 900,000 people lost these benefits. An attempt was made to estimate the effects of the loss of these two benefits, and the respondents were asked to estimate the number of employees that have died since losing their jobs, as well as the number of employees’ family members that had died. Clearly, this was a highly inaccurate estimate, given that the employers and employees had both been displaced from the farms, and hence contact between the two groups has been highly erratic and even absent. The results suggest that about 1% [12,686] of the population has died since losing their jobs. This is clearly a gross underestimate, and anecdotal evidence from commercial farmers suggests that the figure is considerably higher. 41 40 See again The Situation of Commercial Farm Workers after Land Reform in Zimbabwe. A report prepared for the Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe, by Lloyd M Sachikonye. March 2003. 41 In a series of interviews with farmers and farm workers, it seems commonly agreed that at least 20% of former employees may have died since losing their jobs. For example, one farm worker indicated that 30 out of 160 former employees have died since 2002. Another source indicated that, by the end of 2004, there had been a mortality rate of 47% amongst the full-time employees on one farm near Karoi in Mashonaland West Province. A Preliminary Report on Human Rights Violations on Commercial Farms, 2000 to 2005.