Eyewitness News understands several farms in Zimbabwe are under siege in the Chegutu district, south of Harare.

Farmers were apparently told to vacate their property or face possible violence.

Scores of farmers have lost their land in recent years in President Robert Mugabe?s so-called Land Reform Programme.

Sue Beattie said her family had been carting away furniture and other possessions since Thursday, after being threatened.

"Today there is about 30 of them around our house, some of them very drunk and they are threatening my husband. I am locked in the house," she said.