White Zimbabwe policeman denied asylum in Britain; but Robert Mugabe ZANU PF black torturer can stay

Zimbabwe policeman is denied asylum in Britain... but Robert Mugabe torturer can stay

By Jack Doyle, DailyMail.UK
Last updated at 10:53 PM on 5th June 2011

His British great-grandfather fought for his country in the Boer War and on the Somme before the family moved to Zimbabwe.

Now Guy Taylor has sought refuge in Britain, fearing a return to his native land would leave him facing persecution.

But despite his pleas for asylum in this country, immigration judges have dismissed his bid and he faces being deported.

The 31-year-old's case has provoked fury as it follows the decision to allow one of Robert Mugabe's former henchmen to stay in the UK indefinitely.

Phillip Machemedze was involved in 'savage acts of extreme violence', including smashing a man's jaw with pliers and then pulling out his teeth.

But last month it emerged an immigration tribunal ruled he cannot be sent back to Zimbabwe, as he fears for his human rights and could face torture.

Mr Taylor, by contrast, fears he could be deported within weeks.

He was born in Zimbabwe but his great-grandfather was Welsh and served in the Army during the First World War.

His mother's great-grandfather was born in Dublin and emigrated to South Africa at the turn of the last century.

Zim 'White African' Farmer who took Mugabe to court dies of his injuries

[Mugabe & White African] :: [Zimbabwe: White Refugees]

Farmer who took Mugabe to court dies of his injuries


07 April, 2011 02:54:00
The Zimbabwean

Mike Campbell (79), the Zimbabwean commercial farmer who made legal history when he took President Mugabe to the international court of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal in 2007 and won the case a year later, passed away at his temporary home in Harare on April 6.

Campbell never recovered from the abduction and brutal beatings meted out to him, his wife Angela and son-in-law Ben Freeth by Zanu-PF thugs late at night in a remote militia camp on June 29, 2008 just two days after the Presidential run-off election.

Eventually their captors forced them at gunpoint to sign a paper stating that they would withdraw from the SADC Tribunal court case, due to be heard in Namibia the following month. They were dumped outside the town of Kadoma from where they were rushed to hospital.

Campbell sustained severe head injuries which resulted in brain damage, broken ribs and damage to his lower limbs caused by a crude and brutal torture method known as falanga.

This involves beating the soles of the feet with iron bars, logs or cables and can result in permanent disability or death due to kidney failure. Campbell’s medical report noted that severe force had been used and that the possibility of permanent damage was likely.

A dedicated farmer and conservationist, Campbell purchased Mount Carmel farm in the Chegutu district in 1975 and spent the next 24 years paying back the loan.

The farm was transferred legally into the family’s company name in 1999 on receipt of a “certificate of no interest” from the Mugabe government which had the first purchase option on any sale.

UK Immig. Judge refers to Zimbabwe Farm Invasions as 'racially motivated' Genocide..

Woman who took part in violent attacks on white farmers in Zimbabwe denied UK asylum

By David Gardner, Daily Mail.UK
Last updated at 7:52 PM on 16th September 2010

Land invasions: A woman who applied for UK asylum admitted she had been involved with gangs who scared white farmers off their properties in Zimbabwe (file photo)

A woman who admitted taking part in savage evictions of white farmers from their homes in Zimbabwe lost her bid for asylum after a High Court judge accused her of ‘crimes against humanity.’

Mr Justice Ouseley threw out the widowed mother-of-two’s appeal to remain in the UK after she confessed to beating up ten people during two land invasions.

The judge said the state-sponsored mob violence, which saw white famers’ land seized and shared out among President Robert Mugabe’s cronies, was akin to genocide.

‘We are satisfied that the two farm invasions were crimes against humanity,’ he said, likening the 39-year-old woman’s role to a concentration camp guard who followed Nazi orders during the Holocaust.

The woman, who cannot be named, came to Britain illegally in 2002 and did not claim asylum until six years later.

Loyal: The woman, who cannot be identified, said her actions were in support of President Robert Mugabe

Her bid for refugee status was rejected on the grounds that her own violent actions in Zimbabwe disqualified her from humanitarian protection in this country.

She admitted to being part of a gang of thugs from Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party who invaded two white-owned farms intent on causing maximum terror and driving away black workers.

The woman, referred to only as ‘SK”, agreed she had beaten up to ten people whilst their homes burned, ‘inflicting enough pain to get them to run away.’

She said that on one occasion, she beat a woman so badly she thought she would die.

However, she insisted she had taken part in the raids under duress to prove her loyalty to Mugabe’s regime and she had never intended to kill anyone.

Mr Justice Ouseley, sitting at the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber said the farm invasions were ‘part of widespread, systematic attacks’ against white farmers and their black workers, carried out with the full knowledge of the regime ‘as a deliberate act of policy’.

The intention behind the ‘obviously inhumane’ invasions ‘was to cause great suffering or inflict serious physical or mental injury’ on victims and cow them into never returning to their homes or opposing the Mugabe regime, he added.

'We're going to take the land & determine the price' - Malema Report to ANCYL National General Council

For, months prior to the 2010 World Cup, this blog recommended a “No Normal Sport in TRC Hypocrisy on Steroids ZA” Boycott of the World Cup, for among other reasons: ‘Zimbabwe style farm invasions may be delayed ... but will definitely happen in SA's future’ - Lt. Gen. Mojo Matau, Former Chief of Mil. Intel., SANDF, but the majority of South Africans -- black and white -- love sport more than honest and honourable goverment, and so the result is their corrupt goverment allows them to watch and play as much sport as they wish, to keep them distracted from how the 'National Democratic Revolution' plans and dealings for the Zimbabwefication of South Africa are being implemented step by step...

‘We’ll take the land and give you nothing’

2010-08-27 11:34
City Press

Landowners who refuse amounts offered during expropriation should have their land taken away with no payment, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has said.

“Willing seller, willing buyer is not working, (black economic empowerment) is not working,” Malema told the Mail & Guardian when asked what the league meant when it said it did not want leaders to tell the queen (of England) that economic policies would not change.

Malema said that in 10 years, a certain percentage of land should have been transferred to the majority of the population.

“It’s a simple policy. We’re going to take the land, but we’ll compensate and we’ll determine the price. We go to (Eugene) Terre’Blanche’s farm and say: for these many hectares we will give you R2 million, thank you very much.

“If you say that’s too little and you don’t want it, then we take the land and give you nothing. It’s called expropriation with compensation determined by the State.”

Without mentioning President Jacob Zuma, who travelled to the United Kingdom earlier this year and met Queen Elizabeth II, he said that when the ANCYL was formed, it was opposed to forms of struggle such as petitions, or “sending delegations to the queen”.

“Now that you are given power by the people of South Africa, you still go to the queen and behave like you don’t have power from the people.

“When you say that there will be no change in South Africa’s economic pattern, you are saying that it will remain the same as during the colonial regime.”

Farmers at War in Zimbabwe: South African Farmers Under Attack in Zimbabwe

Family appeals to SA govt over land attacks

Written by SW Radio, UK Zimbawean
Friday, 06 August 2010 12:46

Farmer at War, by Trevor Grundy & Bernard Miller [Rhodesia Min of Info] (PDF) [The Farmer at War was published in Rhodesia in 1979 while the Lancaster House talks were in process. It describes the embattled position of the farmers in 1979 and, even more relevant today, concludes that without the farms and farmers there was no future for the country. Includes photos and a Roll of Honour of Farmers and their families killed up to 1979.]

A South African family farming in Zimbabwe has made a desperate appeal to President Jacob Zuma’s government to come to their aid in their bid to fend of attempts by a senior politician to grab their farm.

Philip and Ellen Hapelt from Grasslands Farm in Somabhula have been fighting for several months to hold on to their property, which has caught the eye of parliamentarian Jabulani Mangena.

Mangena has led a campaign of harassment, vandalism and violence against the Hapelts and their workers, claiming he has an offer letter entitling him to the property. Late last year, the Hapelts were brutally beaten by a gang of thugs, in an attack the family believes was meant to drive them from their farm.

The Hapelts many years ago voluntarily gave up the majority of their land for the sake of ‘reform’, under an agreement that would allow them to remain on their homestead with a small portion of farming land. They also have two Court orders that entitle them to live on the farm without fear of invasion or persecution. But Mangena is openly disregarding the courts and has even threatened the Hapelts with more violence if they approach the courts again.

Africa's Indiginisation -- Bread Basket to Basket Case -- Pied Piper....

Is South Africa turning into Zimbabwe?, Scotland Herald

“Hardly a decade from now, Zimbabwe will be our destination, our reality,” wrote Barney Mthombothi in his column in this weekend’s Financial Mail, South Africa’s equivalent of The Economist.

From African jewel to basket case: Looking back at Mugabe's Zimbabwe, National Post

Seven years ago, after he started seizing his country's white-owned farms, the former school teacher eagerly compared himself to Adolf Hitler.

Indigenisation Law Is Second Rape of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Mail

The implosion of the Zimbabwean economy, which led to hyper-inflation and pushed millions to the brink of starvation, has been generally attributed by analysts the world over to its land grabs which turned the once powerful agricultural sector into a disaster of epic proportions.

Zimbabwe's Indigenisation Policy, and South Africa's BEE, are the same policy, Newstime

Why would anyone, except the Chinese and Arabs, invest in South Africa in those circumstances? Arabs and Chinese are classified black. And the irony is that blacks are not the indigenous populations of Southern Africa anyhow.

Is Julius taking Mugabe lessons in ‘Let them Eat Tiannamen Chop Suey?’

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Paul Trewhala gives an interesting perspective to China's historical role in the ANC and current events. I particularly don't agree with his conclusion where he gives the ANC only two options to choose from. In my view there are far more than two options. However his his choice to narrow the ANC's options down to two, gave me the impression of a kind of 'good cop, bad cop' routine, pretending to project two opposing points of view, but in essence both cops have exactly the same goal.

I also don't think his observation and historical analysis of the ANC's motives are impartial or accurate reality, more like wishful thinking; but irrespective.

I read once that one of the most fundamental contributions the British Empire made to its colonies was the Jury system of law; imagine if the upcoming Chinese Empire colonialists would educate Africans to adopt a one-child only procreation policy? Now that would be one cultural revolution!

Malema, China and the 'Mugabe turn'

Paul Trewhela says the ANC faces a stark choice as to which path to follow

Paul Trewhela, Politicsweb
18 April 2010

The president of the ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, has positioned himself at the confluence of the imperial interests of China in southern Africa and those of a faction in the ANC, indicating the possibility of a new Cold War in the sub-continent.

In a speech at Colesburg in the Northern Cape on Saturday, Malema repeated previously made threats to white-owned and western property interests in South Africa and added that "if investors were to leave, the Chinese would come in. 'The Chinese will work with anybody,' he said".

This adds a sharp focus to Malema's positioning of himself as the political representative in South Africa of the regime of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, which is in debt economically, politically and militarily to China.

Black Zimbabweans say life was better under White Rhodesian Goverment...

Black Zimbabweans say life was better under White Rhodesian Goverment...

Postcard From Zimbabwe

By Nicholas D. Kristof
Published: April 7, 2010, New York Times

HWANGE, Zimbabwe: Here’s a measure of how President Robert Mugabe is destroying this once lush nation of Zimbabwe:

In a week of surreptitious reporting here (committing journalism can be a criminal offense in Zimbabwe), ordinary people said time and again that life had been better under the old, racist, white regime of what was then called Rhodesia.

“When the country changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, we were very excited,” one man, Kizita, told me in a village of mud-walled huts near this town in western Zimbabwe. “But we didn’t realize the ones we chased away were better and the ones we put in power would oppress us.”

“It would have been better if whites had continued to rule because the money would have continued to come,” added a neighbor, a 58-year-old farmer named Isaac. “It was better under Rhodesia. Then we could get jobs. Things were cheaper in stores. Now we have no money, no food.”

Over and over, I cringed as I heard Africans wax nostalgic about a nasty, oppressive regime run by a tiny white elite. Black Zimbabweans responded that at least that regime was more competent than today’s nasty, oppressive regime run by the tiny black elite that surrounds Mr. Mugabe.

ANC planning Zimbabwe style land invasions after 2010 World Cup

ANC planning Zimbabwe style land invasions after World Cup

29 March, 2010 01:40:00
Zimbabwe Mail

HARARE - South Africa’s ruling party ANC is planning Zimbabwean style land invasions after the FIFA 2010 World Cup, amid reports Zimbabwe’s Zanu PF and War Veterans Association will provide crucial support for the programme, sources in Zimbabwe said on Monday.

Controversial African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President, Julius Malema, is set to visit Zimbabwe for a series of meetings with Zanu PF counterparts. The crucial meeting will go a long way in exchanging ideas and preparatory stages for both logistics and mobilisation for sporadic land invations.

A member of the Zanu PF security department told our reporter that the basis of Malema’s visit to Harare is a follow up to a secret discussion between President Mugabe and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma, three weeks ago.

The source said when South African President Jacob Zuma visited Zimbabwe during the coalition talks between Zanu PF and the MDC, he discussed at length, matters ranging from the British media’s personal attacks on his private life during the recent visit to the United Kingdom and the need to expedite South African land reform.

It is at this stage that Mugabe converted Zuma into his camp, and the two leaders agreed to join hands in actively assisting each other in the land reform and indigenisation process.

This week, a high-level delegation in the South African security forces, intelligence and media with close links to the ruling party ANC are travelling to Zimbabwe and they will spend three months training at the Zimbabwe National Army’s Staff College.

‘Zimbabwe style farm invasions may be delayed ... but will definitely happen in SA's future’ - Lt. Gen. Mojo Matau, Former Chief of SANDF Mil. Intel

Mugabe is their darling

Zim dictator regarded as hero by Africa’s upper middle classes

Aidan Hartley, The Spectator
25 October 2003

In Johannesburg recently I hooked up with Mojo, an old drinking chum from Dar es Salaam, where in the 1980s I was an FT stringer covering the ‘frontline states’ and he was an officer in the ANC’s armed wing, Mkhonto we Sizwe. These days I’m a settler on the land in Kenya, while Mojo has risen to become Lieutenant-General Mojo Matau, South Africa’s chief of military intelligence. At our reunion the beers flowed freely into the night as we remembered the old days. Mojo and I slapped each other on the back and held hands for a bit. Then I asked my friend, this man in the kitchen cabinet of ANC power in the new South Africa, what he thought of Robert Mugabe. At his reply my heart sank. He described Zimbabwe’s President as a hero for what he’s done to white farmers, and a leader who illuminated the path ahead for South Africa. I remonstrated, as I always do, and ended by telling Mojo that I saw myself as an African first, a white second, and that it was my ardent wish to stay on the continent. ‘Your only home,’ countered Mojo, gently taking my hand again, ‘is England.’

From Rhodesia's Kings Feast Breadbasket... to Zimbabwe's Bitter Harvest Basketcase

Rhodesia to Zimbabwe

Transvaal Agricultural Union: "South Africa Bulletin"

Forty four years ago on 11 November 1965, Prime Minister Ian Smith of the then Rhodesia announced a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain. Smith's party the Rhodesian Front knew the pitfalls ahead if they were to succumb to British government pressure for majority rule.

Their predictions of course came true - Zimbabwe became the basket case of Africa. Its leader Robert Mugabe's tyranny, cruelty and barbarism equalled that of Idi Amin, and he ruined what was a superlative example of how a few talented and dedicated men who loved their country could bring plenty where hunger and pestilence had ruled.

It is sobering to look back at the state of agriculture in the old Rhodesia, at what a few farmers achieved in a relatively short time. When we compare then and now, it beggars belief that such successes should have been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness and a Western need to rid itself of African colonies, come what may.

Dr. Mick Gammon has written the following in the magazine Rhodesians Worldwide and it is good and even necessary to remember what Rhodesia was, and what Zimbabwe is today.

A tribe in trouble: The short sad life of whites in Africa

White Africans on the screen

Mar 4th 2010
The Economist print edition

TWO compelling documentaries illuminate the dilemmas facing Africa’s dwindling white tribes. One is set in Zimbabwe, the other in Kenya. The Zimbabwean film, “Mugabe and the White African”, is the more straightforward and should be shown as widely as possible to help end one of Africa’s great tragedies: the ruin of one of the continent’s most successful countries and the moral bankruptcy of the governments of the nearby states (bar plucky Botswana) for failing to isolate and oust a vile dictator.

It shows how a brave film company, embedding itself with a beleaguered family of white farmers off and on for a year, can bring to life the horrors that have befallen an entire country. Like the large majority of the 5,000-odd white farmers who stayed on after Robert Mugabe became prime minister in 1980 and later president, Mike Campbell and his son-in-law Ben Freeth acquired their farm and the regulation government certificate showing that no black citizen also sought to buy the same farm, which then became Zimbabwe’s largest producer of mangoes and employed 500 locals. When a man with ministerial connections claimed the property for himself a few years ago, Messrs Campbell and Freeth refused to go, prompting a campaign of intimidation, arson and assault, including the beating up not just of the two farmers but also their wives, all horrifically shown on screen.

When they took their case to a tribunal of the Southern African Development Community, a 15-nation club including both Zimbabwe and South Africa, and won, Mr Mugabe’s thugs ignored the verdict and burned down the farmsteads. Much of this is covertly filmed, sometimes by the farmers themselves, with wobbly camera shots enhancing the sense of chaos and terror. It is impossible to watch without feeling sympathy for the farmers and their loyal but terrified black workers, and revulsion for the barbarities of Mr Mugabe’s regime. A shocking postscript is that, although the film is to be screened on British television's Channel 4, no cinema in neighbouring South Africa, which could stop Mr Mugabe in his tracks, has yet seen fit to air it.

The Kenyan film, “Murder on the Lake”, is more intriguing and complicated. Already screened on the BBC and elsewhere, it looks at the murder in 2006 of a famous wildlife photographer, Joan Root (pictured), who was shot in her home beside Lake Naivasha, the centre of Kenya’s flower industry. The film offers a tangled web of whodunnit theories. What is certain is that in the last decade of her life, Mrs Root set up a local task force to wage a harsh but ecologically admirable campaign against fish poachers destroying the lake’s resources. When she was made to disband the force, some of its aggrieved members turned against her. But she had made other enemies along the lake. It has never been clear who killed her.

The film shows the ecological and social turmoil of modern Kenya: the success of horticulture on the lake’s edge, at a cost of draining the lake’s waters; the growth of the riparian village from a one-horse town to a seething metropolis of 350,000 in a couple of decades, creating tribal tension and mass poverty in burgeoning slums; the greed and corruption of politicians and police; and the resentment of many locals who feel that white conservationists care more about wild animals than people. Above all, it highlights the awkwardness of the role of the engaged white person in the midst of a society that is still, in many respects, at odds with Western norms.

Julius Mugabe: ‘Let the black peasants eat cake.’

Robert Mugabe mocks a nation facing famine with a birthday feast broadcast on TV

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:03 PM on 26th February 2010

Eight thousand lobsters and 4,000 portions of caviar were eaten last night at a birthday party for Mugabe which was broadcast live to a nation facing famine.

The £330,000 televised feast to celebrate the Zimbabwe president's 86th birthday came as crop failure and drought raised the prospect of widespread hunger in the poverty-stricken country.

The list includes 200 bottles of champagne (Moet & Chandon or 61 Bollinger preferred); 8000 lobsters; 100kg of prawns; 4000 portions of caviar; 8000 boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates; 3000 ducks and much else besides.

A postscript adds "No mealie meal" - the ground corn staple on which the vast majority of Zimbabweans survived until the country's collapse rendered even that a luxury.

Mugabe's political opponents, the Movement for Democratic Change, said the food served was enough to feed 50 villages.

The MDC branded the 12-hour all-night gala a 'senseless extravagance'.

Also on the menu were 200lb of prawns and 500 bottles of whisky.

Guests at the party in Bulawayo were entertained by a Jamaican reggae star flown in specially and more than 30 musicians.

Zimbabwe to White Farmer: “We torched your farm - and we'll come back to eat your children...”

For Mike and Angela Campbell, Ben and Laura Freeth's story is not simply about the plight of a white landowning family in Africa. It depicts more vividly than words can say the devastating decline of an entire country and its people at the hands of a megalomaniac and his lynch mobs. And it shows that even today, more than a year after a power-sharing agreement between President Mugabe and his former political rival Morgan Tsvangirai was meant to end the troubles, those lynch mobs are still going about their evil work.

The black workers at Mount Carmel were threatened with guns by the mobs, and told never to mix with white bosses again. Shaking with fear, they were dragged off to brutal, all-night political indoctrination classes to 'persuade' them of Mugabe's way of thinking.

A successful case brought by this brave family against the Zimbabwean government at an international human rights' court counted for nothing. The judges of the 15-nation Southern African Development Community in Namibia condemned Mugabe for racism, ruled he was in contempt of court, and said the land grabs from white farmers must halt.

Yet the words fell on deaf ears, and the dictator simply reiterated his view: 'The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans.' A document distributed soon afterwards by his cabinet promised that the evictions would continue. 'No foreigner should be allowed to own rural agricultural land in Zimbabwe,' it declared defiantly.

70 % of Top Ten Failed States in Africa: Obama Says Africa Must Stop Blaming Whitey for Its Problems

Foreign Policy & the Fund for Peace 'Failed State Index' project, still subscribes to the idea, that what Failed States need is external help (More $$ Aid from Whitey!), instead of some Tough Love: “Africans are Responsible for the F**k Up that is Africa!”: “If You Can't Feed Em; Don't Breed Em!”

The label "failed" remains a powerful way to describe those states that no longer serve their people. That harsh term sharpens the attention of policymakers and helps single out countries that should be of utmost concern. The threat of such state failure also focuses attention on the soon-to-crumble; it is those countries that need the most external help.

Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa; By Keith B. Richburg [*Amazon*] [*Kalahari**Kalahari*]

Yet for such a classification to be useful, it must be more objective, more precise, and more discriminating than the popular conception of a failed state is today. Rather than lumping countries together qualitatively, the title of failed state should surgically distinguish countries at risk. The term should tell us that the country in question demonstrates certain characteristics, rather than merely evoking an amorphous sense of dysfunction.

Mugabe & White African: Zimbabwe's Climate of Fear Worse than Gaza, Afghanistan or Iraq...

The film took more than a year to make and involved Thompson taking five clandestine trips into Zimbabwe, smuggling in large-format film equipment that was difficult to conceal. Despite his experiences as a cameraman in hostile environments such as Afghanistan and Iraq, he says he has never worked in a more terrifying place and was quite unprepared for the threatening atmosphere of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.

'Ben had told me about a cloud of fear that hung over the country but I don’t think I really appreciated it until I began making this film there. In Gaza, for example, if you have a permit you can film everything all the time. In Zimbabwe, there are no permits and you never know what will happen next. It is a very intimidating place, ruled by fear, but that’s precisely what Mugabe wants the country to be like.’

I remember the UK forcing South Africa to close the border to force Ian Smith to hand over power to Mugabe. UK put Mugabe in power, and has left the people of Zimbabwe to their fate.

Why don't they force the issue by forcing SA to close their borders. They did it before why not now!!!
-- Dave on January 08, 2010 at 07:04 PM

A violent African dictator.
African thugs, rape, violence, murder.
Hatred of white people, who grow the food to feed everyone.
Collapse of society when the whites leave.
(This pretty much describes every African country I know of.)
-- Gerald Holmes on January 08, 2010, at 07:04 PM

Mugabe & the White African (Best documentary at the British Independent Film Awards in Dec 2009)

Mugabe and the White African is a feature length documentary:

An intimate and moving film charting one family's extraordinary courage in the face of a relentless campaign of state-sanctioned terror.

In 2008 Mike Campbell, 74 years old - one of the few remaining white farmers to have so far held-out against Mugabe's brutal land seizure programme - took the unprecedented step of challenging President Mugabe in an international court, to defend his property and to charge Mugabe and his government with racial discrimination and of violations of basic human rights.

This film, much of it shot covertly, documents the astonishing bravery and dignity of a white african family who've endangered everything they have and everything they are in defence of what is right.

Emigrated Liberal White Zimbabweans pontificate: “Why were we so wrong on Mugabe?”; while Zimbabwe White Farmers are being Exterminated..

Consider the warnings of Ian Smith:

Smith, the white prime minister of Rhodesia who engineered the country's unilateral independence from Britain in 1965 and led resistance to the black majority until Zimbabwe was born of post-civil war negotiations in 1979, has written an unrepentant, heavily detailed account of his leadership. He proceeds from the posture that the black majority, significantly rooted in traditional culture, should be "gradually" brought up to "standards of Western civilization."

Perspective from a Supporter of Ian Smith:

If you are British or American you will need a strong stomach to read The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith. Indeed you may well want to throw-up at the political chicanery and cowardice of your politicians and diplomats. One examaple is the attitudes of Lords Carrington and Soames. During the 1980 Zimbabwe-Rhodesia election, Ian Smith, (former Rhodesian PM, 1964-79) reminded Soames, the British Governor responsible for overseeing fair play, that the Lancaster House agreement was being breached by massive political intimidation by ZANU(PF) forces. Soames conceded that he had received over 1000 affidavits, many endorsed by British observers who had witnessed Mugabe's comrades distinctive campaigning style-with the point of a gun!

The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith; By Ian Douglas Smith [*Amazon*]

When Smith, who had handed government over to Bishop Abel Muzorewa in mid-1979, reminded Soames to do his duty and disqualify the gangsters from participating in the poll, Soames pathetically replied that Carrington ( foreign secretary in Thatcher's new Tory government) advised that such a course would be unacceptable to the OAU (Organisation of African Unity) and that "the principles and standards on which you and I were brought up to believe in, are no longer part of this world." One could add, probably because certain British 'gentlemen' see no further need to stand up for such values!

Frank Ellis #2: BBC's Reporting on White Farm Murders in South Africa & Zimbabwe

BBC's Reporting on White Farm Murders in S. Africa & Zimbabwe

In Dr. Ellis's first email to Ms. Derbyshire, BBC Radio 5, he wrote:

I am contacting you in the hope that during your visits to Zimbabwe and South Africa you will confront head on with your black interlocutors (some of whom will be regime stooges) the racist and murderous behaviour of Mugabe’s regime and the tacit encouragement given by Zuma’s regime to black racist murderers in South Africa. There exists the very real danger – you work for the BBC after all – that you will refuse to tackle these questions since the organisation for which you work insists on presenting an anodyne, rainbow-coloured picture of South Africa to the rest of the world rather than the gruesome and savage reality that exists.

More Dr. Frank Ellis, Former Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Leeds Univ. UK:

• Nick Griffin on Question Time, BBC1
  
• Time to Face the Truth about Multiculturalism
  
• The teaching establishment is bad for our schoolchildren
  
• Dr. Frank Ellis vs Victoria Derbyshire on the Logic of Multiculturalism
  
• Frank Ellis #1: BBC's Reporting on White Farm Murders in South Africa & Zimbabwe

Frank Ellis: BBC's Reporting on White Farm Murders in South Africa & Zimbabwe

Perhaps one day the BBC will appoint Mr. Ellis as their Editor in Chief, what a day for Truth that will be:

Now, imagine the politically-correct, anti-racist fervour which would consume the BBC if some 3,000 black farmers had been robbed, tortured, raped, sodomised and executed by whites since 1994. One thing we can take for granted: FIFA would never have awarded the 2010 World Cup to South Africa.

There is absolutely no doubt at all that Mugabe’s policy of dispossessing capable, productive white farmers and handing over the land and assets to incompetent blacks in the hope that blacks will simply continue what whites have created, nurtured and improved is the major cause of Zimbabwe’s miserable plight today. Indeed, inspired by Mugabe’s grotesque, Marxist policies of murder and mayhem, South Africa is already repeating the whole experiment and on a much bigger scale (see below). It is important that you and your masters understand these facts since Mugabe is solely responsible for turning a once thriving farming industry, with healthy surpluses for export, into a typical, Third-World basket case.

More Dr. Frank Ellis, Former Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Leeds Univ. UK:

• Nick Griffin on Question Time, BBC1
  
• Time to Face the Truth about Multiculturalism
  
• The teaching establishment is bad for our schoolchildren
  
• Dr. Frank Ellis vs Victoria Derbyshire on the Logic of Multiculturalism