33 Table 18 Brick housing Electricity and/or lights Farm store Orphanage or orphan care Piped water Provision of creche Toilet facilities Sponsored sport Vegetable gardens Number [%] 178 [94.2] 133 [70] 121 [64] 53 [28] 171 [91] 121 [64] 177 [94] 142 [75] 169 [89] As can be seen from Table 18, the farms provided very high frequencies of these various amenities, and, certainly in the context of Operation Murambatsvina, the provision for secure housing and decent living conditions must have been an extreme loss for the workers and their families. 4. Findings In all the rhetoric that has accompanied the land problem, it has been endlessly asserted by the Zimbabwe government that this is a conflict between Britain and Zimbabwe, with the commercial farmers owing strong allegiance to Britain and vice versa, but this is questionable on these data. 75% of this sample report that they are Zimbabweans by citizenship, and most have remained in Zimbabwe after being evicted from their farms: very few have gone to the UK [2%]. This suggests a group of people committed to the country, and, as been noted much earlier, most [more than 80%] had acquired their farms after Independence in 1980 with certificates of “no present interest” from the same government that subsequently evicted them. Interestingly, most know who currently occupies their farm, and most report that this person was involved in their eviction. This is not a picture that accords with “spontaneous” land invasions, but rather suggests organized appropriation by an elite, as has been widely claimed. It is clear that there were very high rates of human rights violations experienced on the commercial farms between 2000 and 2005. More than 50,000 violations are reported, and many people suffered more than one form of violation. If this is extrapolated to the commercial farm sector as a whole, then it is possible that more than 1 million violations took place: assuming an average of 288 violations per farm from this sample, then the extrapolated figure would be in the order of 1,245,312 violations. It is clear that the worst affected areas were the 3 Mashonaland Provinces, and this supports the conclusions of other observers and reports that these Provinces were particular targets because of their significance for elections. As noted earlier, farm workers A Preliminary Report on Human Rights Violations on Commercial Farms, 2000 to 2005.