The courts in Zimbabwe fined a former farmer US$800 for “remaining on State land illegally” have now ordered the eviction of the farmer and his wife from a small cottage of his former farm. He had been given permission to remain in the cottage after which the State decided to prosecute.

Having been stopped from farming, we are probably not surprised that Mugabe’s paranoia and racist hatred has bubbled over and now stretches towards victimisation…

The Mugabe-sponsored land grab has taken on an all new facet, with a farmer who had already been chased off his farm some years ago, now being chased out of the bungalow he and his wife were living in.

“As the current offensive against Zimbabwe’s remaining commercial farmers gathers momentum, it would appear that even non-farming members of the community are being hounded, arrested and prosecuted.

Campbell-Morrison has instead been working at the tourist hotel next door, where he is the greens keeper for the venue’s golf course.”

Mugabe is making it very clear that he wants no whites in Zimbabwe. And, if he gets his own way, he will achieve that objective.

We also have to remember that many of the farmers that are being evicted, only purchased their farms after Zimbabwean independence, after the Mugabe government had declared ‘no interest’ in the land - a legal requirement.

Why then, does Mugabe want the land? Especially since it is not being handed to the ‘landless’ blacks as he claims, but to his hierarchy - and then lies fallow?

“But, regardless of this, the Campbell-Morrisons are now packing up their cottage, as the fast track prosecution of farmers, active or not, picks up speed. Justice for Agriculture’s (JAG) John Worsley-Worswick explained on Thursday that Campbell-Morrison’s prosecution highlights “the racist, ethnic and citizen issues that still mar the land debate.”

He said that white farmers in most cases are still widely regarded as ‘enemies of the state’, but emphasised that they still have the same citizens rights as the rest of Zimbabwe. The JAG official continued that there are fears the case is the start of the widespread fast-track prosecution of commercial farmers, and that active farming will not necessarily be an indicator of potential prosecution.”

Isn’t it quite amazing that the farmers are considered ‘enemies of the state’ when the Mugabe administration wants their land - but the same administration was quite happy to sell the land to the farmer, and eat the products thereof?

Racism is still alive and well, and living within ZANU PF.

Robb WJ Ellis
The Bearded Man