Last White Farmers Under Siege

I received the following e-mail, forwarded from friends overseas (I have blanked out the phone numbers):

Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:00:05 +0200
Subject: Last White farmers under siege, instigated by Mugabe

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.

Lorna's telephone no. is Zw code xx-xxxxxx ; Ali is on xxxxxxxxx Our
Phone Landline is xxx-xxxxxx Cell Phone Nos. xxx-xxxxxx ; xxx-xxxxxxx
Please pass this email on to as many folk as you would like to , this
illegal action must become "known" thru out the world .

If you know of anyone in the Media, please ensure that they become
aware /are alerted to this evil tyrant's actions to keep power at all costs.
We have to let the world know what is happening.

Well done to Zesa. As they load shedded us and I phoned my friend in
the Zesa Faults and he phoned Harare and they have switched us back on.
So for now please keep all of us in your prayers and we will send a
follow up tomorrow if we are able.

Our love to you all.

John and Joy from Chidza.