And my sense is that most MDC are not too upset about a few white men now gettting their comeuppance, especially if there is half a chance they might share in the spoils (just look at how they behaved over the Merc perk).

I would love to be proved wrong, but putting the MDC on a pedestal, with high expectations that they will fearlessly deliver justice, fairness, democracy and non-racialism, and will avoid Africa’s tradition of greed, corruption, nepotism and intolerance, is, I suspect, setting oneself up for a big disappointment.

“It is important that the PM and minister of Home Affairs be able to come
to visit the farms in Chegutu where disruption is continuing, to see the
situation for themselves.”

But I don’t believe the PM or either of the Home Affairs Ministers are up to the challenge – they are seriously failing this family.

There are ways to sort out land issues, but what’s going on now is illegal, racial and despicable. The MDC is still turning a blind eye, some even condoning it (see Mutsekwa’s reaction quoted above.)

And you really don’t understand why the west is slow to open up their coffers?

Quoting HaggarYou call it a land grab and racism, how did whits get all the land, and can have 500 people working for them? How do those people get paid and what land do they the blacks have.

99% of all commercial farm land in Zimbabwe was purchased, it is as simple as that, if you are confused by that simple statement of economic fact then you are dim beyond recovery.If your next question is ” where did the whites get the money ?” implying but unspoken that they somehow did wrong then you are nothing but a racist through and through.Only when one can see beyond colour will Zimbabwe be free.It is a historical fact that when Rhodes’s column fought the Matebele and freed the Shona slaves from lifetime servitude their gratitude and gifts of land to ” whites” were meant to be a gift of gratitude to be enjoyed forever.Forever is short inh some tribal memories.

Firstly he keeps reiterating that the police being a political tool of Zanu-PF has not been their fault!! So they are not to blame for what they’ve been doing!!

Secondly, he is back-peddling on the whole issue of the current farm invasions, which MDC said had to cease at once: I quote:

“Violet: Shouldn’t there be a call to say stop all the invasions, stop the
illegal activities and actually threaten to arrest the perpetrators of
violence if this continues?

Mutsekwa: Violet you can only (instruct) the police to arrest people if you
have established that what they are terming as certificates of occupation is
either true or false. Right now as I said, there is this debate that is
going on and it would be honestly unfair for the police just to jump in and
arrest people when they are not certain as to what is going on.”

I am beginning to think that with the MDC it is a case of “we won’t because we can’t” when it comes to intervening in certain ongoing activities of the Zanu-PF – especially abductions and farm invasions.

I also hope, and pray, that this publicity does not cause Mr Campbell and his family to be singled out even more for human rights abuses, since the Inclusive Government so far seems powerless to prevent these abuses which continue with impunity.