After the initial chaos of Zimbabwe's farm invasions, a tenuous truce based on a survival philosophy of negotiations, barter and political alliances has left about 600 white farmers on their land. Sustained by a belief that things "will get better", after nearly 4,000 other white farmers were driven off their land by the ZANU-PF government's fast-track land redistribution programme that started in 2000, these diehards are overcoming the insecurity that their farms can be taken in an instant.