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Farmers Speak
THE WORLD MUST KNOW YOUR STORY

 

Dear Farmer

 

I remember the first time I saw the film that told our story, titled ‘Mugabe and the White African’. It was a very traumatic experience – especially as it was the day after our home was burnt down in front of us - Sunday 30 August 2009, as we arrived home from church.  This was the day that we finally moved off Mount Carmel farm and lost everything on it.

 

Telling our stories about such things is traumatic. Many people have never told theirs – or the full extent of the trauma that they, and in many cases their farm workers, experienced. But each adds to the whole story and builds the foundation for the future. It is only you that can tell your story and thus make a vital contribution to the documentation of the terrible events that took place during the brutal farm invasions.  And since nobody else can tell your story, it’s very important that you do this.

 

 

Review of new book by David Coltart: 

The Struggle Continues: 

 

50 years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe

 

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Website Objectives

 

This website seeks to publicise the extent and trauma of the brutal farm invasions, the gross injustices perpetrated and their catastrophic consequences.  The farmers’ stories, told in their own words, present a human face to this deliberately strategised tragedy. Zimbabwe’s commercial farmers were a pillar of the country’s agri-based economy and they played a vitally important supportive role within the rural communities....

Read a Farmers' Story

 

 

A farm is not just a piece of agricultural land.  It’s home to the farmer and his family, as well as his workers and their families, some of whom may go back for generations.  It’s a place where the farmer’s hopes, dreams and vision are translated over many years into a viable, productive and carefully nurtured enterprise of which he’s justifiably proud.  And he passes on his knowledge.....

Submit Your Story

 

 

Your story is unique, just as your farm was unique.  And the circumstances through which your home and livelihood were taken away, often with appalling brutality, are also unique.  Your workers have become destitute.  Your once productive land lies idle.  Please fill in our questionnaire (mark whether it’s confidential or for open viewing) and tell us your story .... the World Must Know.

 

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