Stripped of their land and forced to watch their house torched, Kent-born Ben Freeth and his family have seen first-hand the violence and unpredictability of Zimbabwe’s authoritarian regime. Yet after beatings, torture and court battles, he still has hope for the hundreds of thousands of farmers and farmworkers who have lost their livelihoods to Robert Mugabe.
There is just birdsong now, birdsong and the sound of the breeze rustling the long, dry grass that surrounds Ben Freeth’s ruined home. ‘It’s a little haven of peace,’ the British-born farmer remarks wryly as he surveys the remains of the house that he and his wife, Laura, built with their own hands, of local materials, on the fertile plain of central Zimbabwe in 1997.
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Gee, where is Jimmy Carter, Desumd Toot Toot, and the rest of the media who demanded Whites hand over power to the black Africans, when you need them? I guess 'White rights' don't matter.
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Gee, where is Jimmy Carter, Desumd Toot Toot, and the rest of the media who demanded Whites hand over power to the black Africans, when you need them?
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