Recent moves by the Zimbabwean government to allow white farmers whose land was confiscated to resume farming, have drawn a variety of responses. "They killed people; they threw them out of their farms, they destroyed the economy. Now they want us to rescue them," Gerry Whitehead, whose land was seized in 2002, told IPS. However, Doug Taylor-Freeme -- president of the predominantly white Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) -- said there appeared to be "a conducive environment to progress with this matter."