Film 'Mugabe and the White African'

Film directors Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson. The film was shot in 2009.

The screening will start at 19.30 pm at the ISS in room 2.01. The running time of the film is 92 minutes.

Local Amnesty members, ISS students and staff members are welcome.

For those who are not familiar with the Institute of Social Studies: you will locate it on Kortenaerkade 12 in The Hague. There will be somebody at reception to point you to room 2.01

This event is organized by Amnesty International in the Hague. Amnesty members will be there to welcome you and ask you to sign petitions on behalf of U MYINT AYE from Burma and CHEN ZHENPING from China. If you search the Internet you will find a lot of information about their plight.

The petition signing is optional.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILM

 ‘ MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN ’

MICHAEL CAMPBELL IS ONE OF A HANDFUL OF WHITE FARMERS STILL LEFT IN ZIMBABWE SINCE PRESIDENT MUGABE BEGAN ENFORCING HIS CONTROVERSIAL LAND SEIZURE PROGRAM, AN INITIATIVE INTENDED TO RECLAIM WHITE-OWNED LAND AND TO REDISTRIBUTE IT TO POOR BLACK ZIMBABWEANS.

SINCE 2000, FORMERLY THRIVING FARMS THAT EMPLOYED THOUSANDS, NOW SIT DERILICT WHILE POVERTY AND HUNGER ARE RIFE AMONST THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY’S CITIZENS, BUT MIKE CAMPBELL REFUSES TO BACK DOWN.

SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE TUMULTUOUS 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, ‘MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN’ FOLLOWS MIKE AND HIS SON-IN-LAW BEN FREETH’S HARROWING ATTEMPT TO TAKE MUGABE TO AN INTERNATIONAL COURT FOR RACISM AND VIOLATION OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.

IT IS AN UNPRECEDENTED CASE, UPON WHICH RESTS NOT ONLY MIKE AND HIS FAMILY’S FUTURE, BUT ALSO THE FUTURE OF MILLIONS OF ORDINARY ZIMBABWEANS WHO CONTINUE TO SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST INFAMOUS TYRANTS.

LUCY BAILEY & ANDREW THOMPSON DIRECTED THE FILM IN 2009.