Saturday, August 14, 2010
"Mugaabe and the White African"
Forget your Hollywood "Action Heroes." The real life Mike Campbell and his son-in-law Ben Freeth, white Africans, and their famililies are the most noble examples of courage and decency that I've ever seen. This is a heart-wrenching documentary about the plight of the white farm owners in Zimbabwe who, under the Presidency (read: dictatorship) of Robert Mugabe - (who can only be compared to Hitler), retain their faith in God, and their determination not to be dispossessed of the farmland they bought legally years ago. The beatings, the killing, the illegal seizing of property in a land without law and order is shocking to see. Literally risking life and limb, Campbell and Freeth finally takes their case to the International Court for relief. You won't believe what happens. By the way, both men are on the best of terms with the 500 black Africans who work on the the farm. They take care of the workers and their families, and cannot understand racisim and hatred of anyone because of the color of his skin. Mugaabe hates the whites. This is a marvelous documentary, some of which had to be filmed secretly by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson, who would have been arrested if they had been caught revealing what was actually going on. FOUR STARS
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