Mugabe and the white African

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [London]: distributed by Dogwoof, 2009Description: 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • video disc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Music composed and performed by Jonny Pilcher; director of photography, Andrew Thompson ; producers, David Pearson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock ; directors, Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey
Mike Campbell, Andrea Campbell, Ben FreethSummary: Family patriarch Mike Campbell is one of the few white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent land seizure program in 2000. Since then the country has descended into chaos, the economy brought to its knees by the reallocation of formerly white-owned farms to Mugabe cronies, who have no knowledge, experience or interest in farming. In 2008, after years of intimidation and threats to his family and farm, Campbell decides to take action. Unable to call upon the protection of any Zimbabwean authorities, he challenges Mugabe before an international court, [the Southern African Development Community Tribunal], charging him and his government with racial discrimination and human rights violations
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Music composed and performed by Jonny Pilcher; director of photography, Andrew Thompson ; producers, David Pearson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock ; directors, Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey

Mike Campbell, Andrea Campbell, Ben Freeth

Family patriarch Mike Campbell is one of the few white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent land seizure program in 2000. Since then the country has descended into chaos, the economy brought to its knees by the reallocation of formerly white-owned farms to Mugabe cronies, who have no knowledge, experience or interest in farming. In 2008, after years of intimidation and threats to his family and farm, Campbell decides to take action. Unable to call upon the protection of any Zimbabwean authorities, he challenges Mugabe before an international court, [the Southern African Development Community Tribunal], charging him and his government with racial discrimination and human rights violations

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In English & Shona with English subtitles.

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