I have been deeply moved by your story. I watched your film tonight and then looked for whatever articles I could find about you and your family regarding this struggle. I have nothing profond to say, no remarkable observations…just admiration.

I am moved by your continued faith in God and in your own ability.

I sat in my bed and thought about my life, the ease in which I live compared to you and your family, to be thankful for the stable government and general harmony I live in…everyday I take these things for granted.

I am struck by the courage of the women in your life…to remain, to risk, to love and at the end of the day to protect their loved ones.

I admire your belief in goodness and justice.

Thinking of you and keeping you in my prayers in Ireland.

This is incorrect, we hear a lot about Ben Freeth in Scotland, meet his supporting uncle:

Sir Robert Smith (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) (LD): I should declare an interest, as my nephew is a Zimbabwean who has been evicted from farmland.

The hon. Gentleman mentioned the change in process that led to the collapse in productive capacity. One of the biggest underlying problems it is that, because the process does not give legal title to the new owners and the transfer has no proper legal underpinning, the new owners have no means of investing in the farms. We therefore need to bring back legal stability and a proper legal process to land ownership in countries such as Zimbabwe, to enable investment for the future so that productive capacity can be restored.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100324/halltext/100324h0006.htm

This explains why Ben Freeth is to become a Member of the British Empire.

Mr Freeth was sent to European schools while his father and his future father in law were both military officers involved in Zimbabwe’s brutal civil war.
Mike Campbell’s sins gave the South African captain a large estate with 500 workers to feed him and his family for decades.
Now ask Ben Freeth to come clean and to tell the world when did his father in law purchased the land he claims is his.

Thinking of you all across Zimbabwe

-Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons in 1936, warning of the dangers of Nazism.

Unless whites get rid of their ‘oppressive’ label (which often they gleefully self-impose) and blacks get rid of the hard-done-by attitude, each will continue to wallow in guilt and self pity respectively. The solutions are misguidedly perceived to lie in trading appeasement with condescendment. Its appears to be more important how much give and take is apportioned from a retrospective base-line, instead of forgive and forget and getting a move on forward.

Until racists like Mugabe and his ilk are removed from Africa, and wimpy apologists bury their forefathers indescretions, the Zimbabwe situation will live on as the ‘Zimbabwe Syndrome’.

Mr Freeth is a young man so I imagine he was still at primary school learning how to read and write when the struggle for liberation was going on and Smith ruled. So unless you quite literally subscribe to the view that “the sins of the fathers are the sons too”, he cannot be held responsible for what you are trying to accuse him of. If you do believe that then you better get busy rounding up the children of murderers.

As for your comment asking him if he was like “most whites” – Google is your friend!

Smith’s party received 13,622 white votes for the ‘white seats’ in 1980, but the white population (1975) according to wikipedia stood at 296,000.

My question is: are the approximately 4% of the white population who bothered to vote for Smith the “most whites” you refer to, or is it possible that the majority who did not make an effort to support him and did not vote for him, recognised and understood the need for change? My family never ever supported Smith and what was going on in Rhodesia (labelled communists as a result) and it would be arrogant of me to assume we were unique.

It’s such a shame Kudu-girl, that in your haste to look ‘right-on politically correct’ you expressed a view that is actually quite prejudiced.

Just as in Nazi Germany, silence and consent by so many of Zimbabwe’s ordinary citizens between 1982 and 2000 was a significant factor that allowed Mugabe’s evil agenda to gain a stranglehold in the country.

It could also be argued that, after the atrocities of Gukurahundi in 1982, those who continued to vote for Mugabe or give aid or pay taxes to the Zimbabwe government (Ben Freeth and Old Mutual included) effectively propped up Mugabe’s worsening dictatorship. It may depend on one’s moral standpoint, but we might want to ponder whether in fact our only two honorable options at that stage were either to leave the country entirely, thereby depriving Mugabe of our tax revenues, or to have consistently, actively and openly taken up the struggle against Mugabe’s odious rule. If we did anything less, it leaves each of us, black or white, open to allegations of complicity in our own downfall.

Finally, distressing as his and many others’ personal stories are, Ben is naïve to think that the rest of the world is going to act meaningfully to save him or Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is not a flashpoint for World War 3, it has no strategic value to prompt Western intervention, and it would become a political quagmire if it did (remember the USA’s farcical intervention in Somalia, the ongoing debacle over oil riches in Nigeria’s delta region, and the millions of recent deaths over mineral riches in the Congo).

There are no knights on white horses charging to the rescue in Zimbabwe. We will have to rely on the slow tide of history and perhaps the bravery of a few heroes on the ground.

As a result of the communist government, the country which was the breadbasket of Africa, is now home of a population that is starving. Farmers like Ben Freeth should not have been forced off of THEIR LAND – the citizens are now suffering as a result of the communist- racist government.

God bless you Ben Freeth and your family, and thanks for your article about the Zimbabwe holocaust. It is a shame that the world does not know about, or care about your once great country.

Thanks to Sokwanele.com for publishing this article!

– Tucker
– Illinois,
United States
of America