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This film is part of IDA's DocuWeeks '09. Michael Campbell is one of the few hundred white farmers still left in ...
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Mugabe and the White African much of which was filmed clandestinely tells an alarming story from one of the world's most troubled nations. In Zimbabwe de ...
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