Arrest of Peter Etheridge
February 27th, 2009
Via Press Release — This evening, just before dark, Peter Chamada headed out towards Mount Carmel in 2 vehicles.
Martin Joubert, from Chegutu, followed them to see what their intentions were. Peter Chamada’s vehicles turned around and chased after him and so he drove to the Chegutu police station to try to make a report.
Whilst there, 8 policemen went out in Mr. Chasauka’s vehicle. Mr. Chasauka is the GMB manager for Chegutu. He has recently invaded the Downs farm belonging to Wayne Seaman. The house has been broken into and Mr. Seaman has been prevented from milking his cows or living on his property. Mr. Seaman also has a final order with protection from the SADC Tribunal.
The policemen went to Stockdale farm where they arrested Peter Etheredge and have put him in cells. Peter has had invaders on Stockdale farm for several weeks. Edna Madzongwe, Chairperson of the Senate and beneficiary of a number of other farms, has been trying to take over the farm for some time. In June 2008, there was whole scale looting on Stockdale with all the Etheredges household effects having been looted.
Mr. Etheredge has a High Court Order as well as protection from the SADC Tribunal. The Sherriff of the court evicted the invaders but they simply returned immediately afterwards in direct contempt of the High Court order. For some weeks the Chegutu police have been promising to arrest the invaders but they have always complained of lack of man power.
3 days ago, Mr. Etheredge was given a bit of paper signed by Mr. Kunonga telling him to cease all farming operations. The invaders have tried to enforce this. Today, in a move to provoke a clash, the invaders came to loot fire wood from his homestead. The situation became volatile and Mr. Etheredge fired some warning shots into the air. He is now in the Chegutu police cells while the invaders remain free to do what they like on his property.
Justice for Agriculture Press Release
March 2nd, 2009 10:26
This is just a tale of so many, same pattern, same mindset, all because of greed and the fact that the farmer is a white man and made the country into “the breadbasket of Africa”. Well go for it, take all the farms the country has no food allready and illness is the order of the day. How sad for the younger generation who really deserve better.
March 3rd, 2009 03:53
These are the last kicks of a dying horse we all know that all this is coming to an end its just a matter of time. And I dont think someone with common sense would want to contiune ruining our country. We will win this no matter what victory is certain and we will bring Zimbabwe back.
March 3rd, 2009 11:51
What’s happening on the few remaining farms now is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple.
What a pity that western liberals (riven by their own feelings of guilt) still refuse to acknowledge that black racism exists, and should be condemned as strongly as white racism.