Mugabe and the White African

'The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.' – Robert Mugabe.

Since 2000, in parallel with the country's deep economic crisis, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has pursued a campaign of aggressive land reform, claiming land owned by white farmers. Government supporters have occupied many white-owned farms, with violence flaring frequently, and a number of white farmers and their black workers have been killed. Though Mugabe proposed that the land would be distributed among the poorer black population, evidence suggests most has been put in the hands of government officials and cronies. White farmer Michael Campbell faced intimidation and aggression, but chose to put up a fight for his land, taking the unprecedented step of challenging Mugabe before the South African Development Community's international court, charging him and his government with racial discrimination and of violations of Human Rights. Filmed covertly in a country where a press ban exists, Mugabe and the White African provides a valuable, unsettling insight into the reality of life under Mugabe's dictatorship, following Campbell and his family on their brave campaign, as they fight for the right just to live peacefully.

Michael Hayden