Mister Twelve.
He's the only way to communicate with the Winds of this world.
Posted on 04/27/2002 5:28:38 AM PDT by Clive
Dear Family and Friends,
Last Saturday morning a war veteran named Wind, accompanied by a bunch of young men, arrived on my farm in the morning.
He gave my tenants and their young children two days to get off the farm and out of the house as he says it now belongs to him. Wind then went over the road and issued a verbal eviction order to my neighbours and then to the family living in their cottage.
These eviction orders were all non negotiable and backed up by threats of violence. One of the threats was to throw a four year old deaf child into a silage pit.
Wind and his men then went to the houses of all the people who live and work on these farms. All the men, women and children were also ordered out.
Wind closed the trading store on my farm and said it was now his.
He ordered that all the dairy cows on one of the farms and all the laying hens on the other farm were not to be moved as they now belong to him.
He ordered that all the agricultural equipment be left behind as this also belongs to him - including a tractor and plough, borehole motors, feed tins, water pipes, wheelbarrows, drums of fuel, rakes, shovels etc.
The police were informed but said they could not get involved as it was political.
I went out to my neighbours and tried to help them pack.
Driving towards the farmhouse gate I was met by Wind. He was wearing orange overalls, a brown leather belt, a big hat and carried a large Zimbabwe flag on a pole in his back pocket. At his side was a thin dog and a number of youths were hanging around, many with shaven heads and wearing Ray Ban sunglasses.
I had phoned ahead so a friendly face was waiting at the gate for me and I drove in rapidly before Wind and his helpers could get in.
There were no friendly, barking dogs to meet me as usual; they had been put to sleep the evening before because there will be no room for them in the tiny cottage the owners are moving to.
Inside the house was utter chaos. The contents of a 22 year life on this farm were strewn everywhere. Boxes and crates were filled, curtains taken down, pictures removed from walls, furniture moved outside onto the lawn.
Everything was done in haste and all under the watchful gaze of Wind and his men. Throughout the packing and loading they patrolled up and down the driveway, leant against the gate, climbed trees and just stared.
When we were finally done and the removal truck was loaded, we all sat on the front step of the little porch and looked for one last time out onto the farm. We shared a cup of coffee out of the only things not packed - a cracked plastic cup and a chipped china mug without a handle.
There was not much to say that didn't include swear words. For me there were a million memories of happy days, lunch parties, fat cattle at the feed tins, burning firebreaks together under the pine trees, glossy starlings at the bird bath, trying to corner a nightape which had been stealing eggs.
For the owners there were just silent tears. For them this is the end. They are too old to start again anywhere else. They had invested their life in this farm which is not even designated for government acquisition. They have been forced to just walk out and let a bunch of thugs move into their home. There is no money, no compensation, nothing - just get out or .... .
When we were ready to leave Wind was waiting at the gate. Bored louts lolled against the fence and trees down the driveway and we all thanked God we had got out alive.
There had been no time to harvest the vegetables in the garden, the paw paws or bananas dripping from the trees; there had been no time to dig up treasured plants from the flower beds.
The tenants on my farm had a much more torrid time. Wind and his men supervised the loading of their furniture; at one point barricaded them in for some hours and later changed the lock on the gate so they couldn't get back in to collect the last load.
They demanded all the keys to my house, dairy, workers houses and the trading store. Wind and his men are now living in my house, lying in my bath, sitting on my veranda.
My tenants have lost their home and livelihood. I have lost the farm it took a decade to pay for and establish and the rent I was getting which was my only income.
In an article I wrote for a local newspaper about the events of last weekend I pointed out the immediate results of Wind's actions. 63 people are now homeless, 28 adults and 35 children. Because of these evictions, Zimbabwe is immediately deprived of 110 dozen eggs a week; 1500 litres of milk a week and 1000 kgs of beef a week.
The events on my farm and that of my neighbours were not the only evictions this week. It is happening all over the country and this week war veterans have made a new pronouncement - this time to Asian Zimbabweans who they say are hogging commercial enterprises. War veterans have threatened to take over these commercial properties as "the wealth must be shared."
I apologise for not telling you of any of the other horrors from Zimbabwe this week, including a woman in her fifties who was beheaded by govenment supporters in front of her two daughters. I also apologise for not answering any of your messages this week.
Until next time, with love, cathy.
Taking their farms will not be enough.
The Famine is coming, and someone will have to take the blame.
People, you ( Yes! Y-O-U out there! ) really need to pay attention to this stuff. Think it can't happen near you? Better think again... that's what the poor souls in the story above probably believed at one time, too.
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Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if "Rev." Jackson wanted to find a way to rob everyone in THIS country that way. <grumble>
Mister Twelve.
He's the only way to communicate with the Winds of this world.
You're a very STUPID woman. Why didn't you have someone salt the fields, chop down the trees, let the cows into the garden, slaughter the livestock (after they've eaten and trampled the gardens), destroy the machinery and burn the houses down, so that their theft won't benefit them in the medium term? What, not a single SABOTAGE? Geez, what a moron. Sure, in the long term the land won't contribute to the economy of Zimbabwe since these morons don't have any sense of business, why would you give them everything???
There is no need to commit a single act of sabotage, Mugabe's thugs will destroy everything quite well in orgies of vandalism and through neglect.
Have you walked in her shoes?
Thank God you're not typical of Canadians! I'm not sure what you're typical of. Been on the Jerry Springer show?
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