This is our story, how our lives were changed forever.
In 2002 were living on our 1000 acre farm in Zimbabwe. We were building up the farm by producing horticultural crops for export to Europe and vegetables and beef cattle for the local market.
At peak season, 180 people worked on our farm.
In 2000, in a desperate attempt to stamp out all political opposition, the Zimbabwe government decided to expel all commercial farmers from their farms without ANY compensation and hand these productive farms over to their cronies.
Many farmers and their farm workers were killed in the ensuing chaos. Hundreds more were badly beaten and many have never recovered.
The violent farm takeovers spread across the farming areas. We were lucky, we escaped any serious problems and held out in the face of serious intimidation and attempts to attack us for almost 3 years.
During this time, our equipment and crops were being stolen, our workers threatened until finally our entire labour force had no choice but to strike.
We were blockaded in our house and subjected to death threats for days at a time.
Not only would the police not help us, they were actively assisting the political thugs in forcing farmers off their land.
We had held out until we were only one of the remaining two operating farms in a district of formerly, 43 farms.
Finally, on 8 November 2002, whilst on an errand in our village, I was illegally detained by the police and thrown in a filthy prison cell with 27 common criminals - merely because I refused to leave our farm which we legally still own to this day.
After 3 days and nights, I was taken before a kangaroo court and given the option of agreeing not to return to our farm and being released or going to prison for perhaps 6 months before my next court appearance.
I had no choice but to agree.
Sue was given 3 days to move our personal possessions, horses, cattle, dogs and cats off the farm.
We had managed to move some of our trucks, tractors and other equipment, but all our fencing, irrigation equipment and houses were lost.
With hyper inflation, the money we realized from the sale of our salvaged equipment and furniture soon vanished. We had no choice but to leave our homeland.
Click this link for information on the current disastrous situation in Zimbabwe
In 2004 we arrived in Canada with 2 suitcases. After paying for our air tickets, all the cash we had left bought us a used 8 year old pickup truck.
At the age of 54, we started over, rebuilding our lives and our financial future.
We are not yet where we want to be, but by working on our Network Marketing and on line business, we are well on our way there.
We share our story, not to frighten you, or even suggest that our story could be repeated in your country, but as an example of how all of our fortunes can literally change in a heartbeat and also that it is possible to start again in a new country and rebuild our lives.
Do you want to wait until the bottom falls out of your world or are you prepared to take that first step to securing your future?
Go to the What We Do page and see how we started on our journey of recovery.
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