They are good farmers and, yes, their employment practises probably are feudal. They provide the only economic security their workers are likely to find in a cruelly impoverished country. There are precious few stellar social structures or relationships in Zimbabwe at present. And it is certainly the case that farmers are now investing considerably in money, in land and in expertise both to improve their workers' lot and in private land redistribution projects that answer the suicidal rapacity of the ruling party's land grab. He has played the race card for all it is worth and has still been humiliated in a referendum defeat where his supporters, who ran the referendum, were ultimately unable to rig the result.
Whites are active as human rights campaigners and lawyers.
They have helped to bring forensic experts from Argentina to Zimbabwe to identify the remains of their fellow citizens who were this government's first victims. So it is likely, in the coming weeks and months before the election, that things in Zimbabwe will become pretty hellish. If his party wins the election, Morgan Tsvangtral may prove to be capable enough to reverse the country's decline. I hope that there will be whites in Zimbabwe one hundred years from now. I pray that they will include my descendants - who will perhaps remember the epic sojourn of their ancestral spirit in exotic Walthamstow.