Zimbabwe: Please read

[bringmesunshine]

Dear all, I have attached an email that my in laws in S.Africa received recently.

No miracle will be forthcoming however I thought you might like to know the reality of Zimbabwe.

Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:50 AM
Subject: Fw: Zimbabwe: Last white farmers in Masvingo area under "siege" from Mugabe hi from robin and merle perth

Dear Family and Friends,

Well never thought I would have to do this email do not know if it may be my last from our farm "Chidza".

At 3.30pm today a lorry load of so called Mugabe brain washed "war-vets" arrived at our gate to take over our land, equipment and pedigree cattle. This crazy action is occurring in a country where there is v little food being produced !

It is now 6 pm and they have been singing their war songs at our gate for three hours, the atmosphere is violent and more and more of them have arrived.

We managed to get our daughter Alison and her young son "Little John" into town and for now it is just John and myself, plus our dogs remaining in the house on the farm.

They have said that our labour will not work tomorrow . They have demanded that John must kill them a sheep, which John has flatly refused to do, so no doubt they will simply kill one for themselves.

None of our paid labour will even attmpt to come to work tomorrow either! Graham Richards who lives south of us is also under siege at the same time as us, so this siege of the last remaining whites is an orchestrated plan.

The Goddards and Deidricks are in the same boat. They have already taken over Pa-Nyanda Guest Lodge, and Graham and his wife Callie are now in town. Alison is at John sisters in Masvingo town and her husband Carl is expected back from Bulawayo tonight.

Lorna's telephone no. is Zw code 39-264323 ; Ali is on 011216643
Our Phone Landline is 039-266080
Cell Phone Nos. 011-215275 ; 023-258810

Please pass this email on to as many folk as you would like to , this illegal action must become "known" thru out the world .

If you know of anyone in the Media, please ensure that they become aware/are alerted to this evil tyrant's actions to keep power at all costs. We have to let the world know what is happening.

Well done to Zesa. As they load shedded us and I phoned my friend in the Zesa Faults and he phoned Harare and they have switched us back on.

So for now please keep all of us in your prayers and we will send a follow up tomorrow if we are able.

Our love to you all.

John and Joy from Chidza.

sympathies to all. But the reality for ordinary non land owning zimbabweans has been far more perilous for yonks.
desperate times for all though indeed

Too depressing I wonder when/if the international community will become more involved as they did here in Kenya?

We watched Mugabe denounce the UK once again in his National Day speech last week.

I hope your friends remain safe. As happened here, it is the man on the street who suffers...

letters from Zim

I can't bear to read much any more.... And wonder if I'll live long enough to be able to go back to the county of my birth

agree Piffle this made me weep when I read it the other day.

i don't understand why we don't make this situation a priority rather than the poor middle east

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Bring me sunshine, I hope your family and their neighbours are safe.

I do pray that the ship load of arms turned away by South Africa are permanently lost but mostly I wish that the international community would stand up and be counted.

Whilst the world stands by and watches such attrocities, those with the power should be ashamed.

no one is interested as there's no oil there. it sucks.

Southeastastra, perhaps Zimbabwe would be a priority if it was an oil rich country - unfortunately its not.

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what I don't understand is why other leaders in Africa are not taking a stand/negotiating with him? The S Africans stopped a ship carrying a massive load of arms coming from China en route to Zim. However it defied an order to dock and was last heard of heading up to a port in Mozambique. Are they therefore scared of a massive unleashing of organised violence by the state if the elections are publically challenged? Is that why ordinary Zims are too scared to protest against the results as they did here?

Thanks all - I am going to email John and Joy this thread back and let them know they are in peoples thoughts and not forgotten

they aren't forgotten at all, i hope they will be okay. we know what's going on.

Mugabe funded Mbeki in the past so that's why he does fuck all nothing. It's the old boys network...

I've been ranting about the injustice for years but no-one wants to know

There's no oil

now there's no wildlife

now there's no food

soon there will be no people as they all starve to death

The stories I've heard about torture to simple human beings trying to earn a living and the criminal treatment of cattle and livestock..

And Mugabe rants on about the British being to blame for it all, which is why Britain sits idly by

I despair and it breaks my heart. The beautiful land of my birth holds a powerful hold over me but I can never go back

I refused to buy produce from Zim as it was taking food out of the mouths of the needy and only lined Mugabe's pocket. My mum went there in recent years on safari and I was furious as I imagine the money she took in would not have gone anywhere near the people, only straight into Mugabe and his cronies pockets....

hope everyone just gets out

south africa will be next. .

I have no doubt that farms are being taken over again in this way, however i do have some doubts about the authenticity of this email. Google "farm "chidza" and you will see that there are copies of this email all over the net, with a number of different dates.

South Africa won't do anything because they know they will shortly be implementing similar policies.

Nelson Mandela is the security in South Africa, and there are a lot of fears over what will happen when he dies.