To anyone who cares

It is time that the truth be told. Minister Welshman Ncube from JOMIC has now denied that there are any land invasions. If he were to come here right now he would see Minister Shamuyarira’s men busily reaping thousands of US dollars worth of Mike Campbell P/L sunflowers in broad day light with complete impunity using Mike Campbell P/L tractors on land that Mike Campbell P/L has court orders and international judgements protecting.

We have video footage of this and the looting of the other crops. Mike Campbell P/L did the land preparation; Mike Campbell P/L bought the fertiliser and seed and planted the maize and the sunflowers and fertilised them and weeded them; and now land invaders continue to reap thousands of US dollars each day of crops that they never sowed or did anything for. Day after day, week after week and now month after month

this has continued since the 4 April 2009 when the invasion took place and they reaped the mango crop and the orange crop. Not a single mango, orange, maize cob or sunflower head has been able to be reaped by the owner from that date. The invaders are now interfering with the cattle and saying that the several hundred head of cattle on the property belonging to Mike Campbell P/L are now owned by Shamuyarira too!

Workers have been beaten, abducted and hospitalised; houses and sheds have been broken into; people have been terrorised; water has been cut off by the invaders for weeks and they have plunged the workers into darkness by cutting off their electricity as well; tens of thousands of productive fruit trees have been left without irrigation, fertilisation or spraying. .

Police know all about it and refuse to arrest anyone or even stop them despite the 2 High Court orders saying the invaders must be evicted and the SADC Tribunal judgement saying that Mike Campbell and his family and workers should be allowed to farm without disturbance.

The Honourable Professor has white-washed such situations by saying it is only where there are “eviction letters” and the farmer is not complying, that there are “land disputes.” There is not a farmer in the country who has not vacated immediately on being given an eviction order from a court. The alternative is jail. I challenge JOMIC to give just one example anywhere in the country where a farmer has not complied with an

eviction order from a court. The disputes are taking place where people clutching offer letters are taking the law into their own hands and carrying out lawless acts with impunity such as what they are doing on Mount Carmel farm. Does JOMIC really believe that an offer letter gives the authority for invaders to take the law into their own hands and evict

people and take their belongings?

How can a Government continue to condone theft and thuggery with lies and with silence in a starving country with no job creation and no investment taking place? How can the people continue to put up with this sorry situation? What sort of signal is it sending out to anyone wanting to grow food crops this coming summer or put any investment into the country? Why should donors be pouring their tax payers money into

Zimbabwe to feed us when, with the re-establishment of the rule of law, we would be exporting food as we did when we had the rule of law prior to the farm invasions?

For the sake of everyone who believes in a future for themselves and their children, a full investigation needs to take place into why the law enforcers allow such nefarious activities to continue to go on in Zimbabwe with such impunity.