Mugabe and the White African

In 2008 Mike Campbell - one of the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe to have held fast in the face of the violent ‘Land Reform’ programme - took the unprecedented step of challenging President Robert Mugabe before the SADC International Court (SADC - South African Development Community) to defend his farm, which is also home to 500 black workers and their families, and to charge Mugabe and his government with racial discrimination and with violations of Human Rights.

Yea just your normal light hearted look at life in Zimbabwe, of course I am joking. This film is one more then a documentary, for it comes from a land where most media organisation are banned, where to be outspoken against the government normally leads to beating and murder and thats if you are black.

It showed that this uprooting of white farmers takes its toll on so much more then the direct families that own the farm. They are in themselves little villages and communities with children growing up and spending their whole lives living and working on them. It also shows the utter shamefulness that exists, the Land Reform Act was to put farms in control of the poorest of people, but as this film shows it is promised to ministers and corrupt officials.

This long struggle is represented so well in this tale but you think to yourself will it ever be victory for this farm. No matter what happens the country has gone too far now to resolve the issues that presented it self to get to a point where white farmers were told to give the land back.