The film shows the farmers’ fight to keep their farms all the while Mugabe’s government tries to evict them, harass them and ultimately beats them up and successfully seizes their land. It is meant to be a sad story, and it is–highlighting the plight of the White farmers in Zimbabwe. It is also a blatant attempt to rewrite history, to cast the White farmers in a new less revealing light, to gain international sympathy, and to bury the sordid colonial history of Zimbabwe under a barrage of White apologetics. … Read More

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Good post, good review, good responses. They all raise the question: in what ways can we look at those settlers who endure decolonisation? Can they be good guys, or must they be bad guys? Whatever your answer, this looks like an interesting documentary worth tracking down.