Mugabe's Calling Card - Zimbabwe

June 2008

Violence in Zimbabwe escalates as Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party fights growing political resistance. Using a hidden camera we follow the MDC's resistance movement.

Julius is a young man in-hiding after an attack by Mugabe loyalists left him with severe injuries. He was beaten unconscious and left to drown. Many of his attackers were neighbours, 'I used to socialise with them', he says. 'Our crime was that we voted for the MDC', Julius tells us. 'We were beaten because they said we wasted our votes and sold our country'. A badly injured man, targeted by ZANU PF for acting as a polling officer, is being treated at a nearby hospital. He knows he is risking his life by appearing on-camera but does not turn us down; 'I want the world to know that it is true', he explains. 'People are being beaten by ZANU PF, people are being killed by ZANU PF'.

Produced by SBS/Dateline
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[koffiekpatcha]

If Whites can't own land in Africa,

then I guess Blacks can't own land outside of Africa. Is that the politically correct statemant of the day?

Praise be to Allah's snackbar and may the Prophet have a beer at Mugabe Falls (use to be Victoria)

[Kryptonian250]

AN INVASION by the British would destroy Mugabe and drive him from power.

[Dippers85]

There's no denying, and I don't mean this to be critical but, Zimbabwe/Rhodesia was actually a prosperous nation under British colonial administration. I wonder how many of the older generation of Rhodesians wish for the days when the British ran things.

[makererekivulu]

@denilson200, you are a disgrace to all that is decent in humanity. As a black man from Zimbabwe, I am ashamed to think that you may be my neighbor just down the road. How did we get here so fast? How did we shirk our responsibility to our children; to raise them not to hate, to teach them that hardwork leads to self determination? I cry for my people, God please help us.

[toshia156]

Arn't we all human and brothers and sisters in Christ!

[DaytonaRoadster]

You can thank the English for this, fucking over Rhodesia and giving to communist fucking Mugabe, they betrayed their own people

[75amoeba]

Mugabe is scum.

[TheDerickh]

colonization by white man was better than colonization by our own people

[TheDerickh]

HOW CAN YOU KILL YOUR OWN PEOPLE FUCK MUGABE

[TheDerickh]

FUCK MUGABE

[whiteozzie1]

@tatonga11able, Be informed?!?!?!?!?!?! Let me INFORM you, you fucking fool of a man. People like you and mugabe have fucked this country up, you have shamed yourself and you have brought great shame to all of zimbabwe! You and your zanu-pf buddies have destroyed everything!. Stop blaming the white man for your fuck ups. This shit is your fault, not the whitemans. When it was Rhodesia the country was prospering, you guys fucked it all up, you,mugabe and zanu-pf are to blame.Wake up idiot!!!!!!