cry zimbabwe...

 Dear Family and Friends,
Well never thought I would have to do this email do not know if it may be my last from our farm "Chidza".
At 3.30pm today a lorry load of so called Mugabe brain washed "war-vets" arrived at our gate to take over our land, equipment and pedigree cattle.  This crazy action is occurring in a country where there is v little food
being produced !  It is now 6 pm and they have been singing their war songs at our gate for three hours, the atmosphere is violent and more and more of them have arrived.  We managed to get our daughter Alison and her young son "Little John"  into town and for now it is just  John and myself, plus our dogs remaining in the house on the farm.  They have said that our labour will not work tomorrow . They have demanded that John must  kill them a sheep, which John has flatly refused to do, so no doubt they will simply kill one for themselves.  None of our paid labour will even attmpt to come to work tomorrow either!  Graham Richards who lives south of us is also under siege at the same time as us, so this siege of the last remaining whites is an orchestrated plan.  The Goddards and Deidricks are in the same boat. They have already taken over Pa-Nyanda Guest Lodge, and Graham and his wife Callie are now in town.  Alison is at John sisters in Masvingo town and her husband Carl is expected back from Bulawayo tonight.