I Refuse To Live In Fear

White farmer kicked off  land

By Robyn Dixon
June 3, 2009
Reporting from Chegutu, Zimbabwe — Possession is nine-tenths of the law. That’s Mike Campbell’s bitter motto.

“The moment you move off, you’re finished,” is how he puts it.

The thugs who want his farm almost finished him. They beat the 75-year-old so badly last July that he hasn’t been quite the same since. They broke his wife’s arm. But the Campbells weren’t finished yet. Ignoring their nightmares and their forebodings, they went home to their farm.

Returning to the land where he’d lived for 36 years, Campbell prepared himself for the empty closets, the looted farmhouse.

But he wasn’t ready for the sight that greeted him, driving through the gate that August day: All the farmworkers had gathered in welcome.

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