Mugabe and the White African

9/26/2026

A part of the agreement that saw the eventual establishment of the Zimbabwean state was that the farmers who had settled for generations were to be left in peace. Robert Mugabe, however, needed to shore up his own declining popularity in the face of hyper-inflation and so promised the indigenous population more land - and that land was to be appropriated from the whites. One farming family rather defiantly thought to avail themselves of the legal protections to which they were entitled, and this documentary follows their efforts to keep their home against what appear to be increasingly insurmountable and violent odds. Now this isn't a balanced critique of the situation, it's fairly and squarely presented from the perspective of the farmers who felt disenfranchised in terms of their propert