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Vanduzi (ex-Nova Vanduzi), Manica province, Mozambique (next to the Zimbabwean border).21 November 2007.Portrait of Kevin Gifford, 37 years old, whose farm was occupied by supporters of Robert Mugabe in 2002, is the only person left of a group of 37 Zimbabwean farmers who came living in this part of Mozambique to continue producing tobacco. He said to the journalist: " Whoever doesn't adopt an attitude to save the country, must pay for that. If somebody only stays to see what happens, scared of saying "stop, this also is my life", then this person must live with that. Because I defended what I believed in, which was not only a personal question, but a national preoccupation, the one about maintaining Zimbabwe as a productive country, I paid the price: that was to see my house looted and to be expulsed from my farm without any compensation. This is the reason why I don't have feelings for a Zimbabwean that has not done anything to stop what occurred, because everybody must fight to defend what is correct. ".Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe managed, in less than a decade, to turn what was once known as "Africa's jewel" into a colalpsing economy, putting it's own people in agony..An annual 8000% hyperinflation, 80% unemployed, fuel, food and electricity shortage, a flourishing black market and more than 20% of the adult population infected with HIV..A violent and politically motivated land reform that reopened the racial divide and sank the country even further..Censorship of the independent press, control of the media, repression and torture of all political opposition....Photo: EZEQUIEL SCAGNETTI / PHOTOSHELTER
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Vanduzi (ex-Nova Vanduzi), Manica province, Mozambique (next to the Zimbabwean border).21 November 2007.Portrait of Kevin Gifford, 37 years old, whose farm was occupied by supporters of Robert Mugabe in 2002, is the only person left of a group of 37 Zimbabwean farmers who came living in this part of Mozambique to continue producing tobacco. He said to the journalist: " Whoever doesn't adopt an attitude to save the country, must pay for that. If somebody only stays to see what happens, scared of saying "stop, this also is my life", then this person must live with that. Because I defended what I believed in, which was not only a personal question, but a national preoccupation, the one about maintaining Zimbabwe as a productive country, I paid the price: that was to see my house looted and to be expulsed from my farm without any compensation. This is the reason why I don't have feelings for a Zimbabwean that has not done anything to stop what occurred, because everybody must fight to defend what is correct. ".Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe managed, in less than a decade, to turn what was once known as "Africa's jewel" into a colalpsing economy, putting it's own people in agony..An annual 8000% hyperinflation, 80% unemployed, fuel, food and electricity shortage, a flourishing black market and more than 20% of the adult population infected with HIV..A violent and politically motivated land reform that reopened the racial divide and sank the country even further..Censorship of the independent press, control of the media, repression and torture of all political opposition....Photo: EZEQUIEL SCAGNETTI / PHOTOSHELTER