
Mugabe and the White African
Michael Campbell, a 75-year-old white farmer, and his son-in-law Ben Freeth spend the film fighting to keep their farm in Zimbabwe as Robert Mugabe's land redistribution program moves against them. Rather than accept eviction, the family takes their case to the Southern African Development Community Tribunal, arguing that seizing land from white farmers on racial grounds violates the law of the region Mugabe himself signed onto. Cameras follow the Campbells through legal filings, death threats, and an assault that leaves Freeth badly beaten, while also sitting in their kitchen and living room during the quieter stretches between crises. Archival footage of Mugabe's own speeches sits alongside the family's testimony, letting his stated justification for the land program answer directly to what happens on this one farm. The film stays close to a single case rather than surveying the whole land reform campaign, using the Campbells' fight through the tribunal to show what the policy costs one household in practice, court date by court date, threat by threat.