Quote:Racist Zimbabwe pleads for the white farmers it brutalised to come back and rescue its economy.

Shockingly but unsurprisingly, this ABC report attempts to downplay the ugly truth behind Zimbabwe’s precipitous decline. The racially motivated and brutal attack on productive white farmers which began in 2000 saw the country’s economic decline by a disastrous 50 percent. Here are just some of the minor details this ABC report neglected to mention.

WHITE FARMERS MURDERS SINCE 2000 1. David Stephens 15 April 2000 2. Martin Olds 18 April 2000 3. Allan Stewart Dunn 7 May 2000 4. Henry Swan Elsworth 12 December 2000 5. John Weeks 14 May 2000 6. Tony Oates 31 May 2000 7. Willem Botha 23 July 2000 8. Gloria Olds 4 March 2001 9. Robert Fenwick Cobbet 6 August 2001 10. Terrence Ford 18 March 2002 (remember the little dog curled up against his body) 11. Thomas Samson Bayley 1 May 2002 12. Charles Anderson 2 June 2002 13. Pieter Silverton January 2004 14. Ole Sunde 6 February 2005 15. Donald Stewart 26 November 2005 16. Phillip Tenant 1 April 2006 17. Mary Austen 17 November 2008 18. Bob Vaughan Evans 7 July 2009 19. Ray van Rensburg 16 July 2009 20. Sophia Hart 29 August 2009 21. Kobus Joubert 26 October 2010 22. Lourens Abrams Korsten 28 February 2011 (Assaulted 31 December 2010) 23. Mike Campbell 6 April 2011 24. Colin Zietsman 2 September 2011 25. Keith Nicholson 14 September 2011 26. Bobby Ervine 8 April 2012 (Assaulted on 2 October 2011) 27. Catherine Francis 14 May 2014 (Assaulted on 10 May 2014) 28. Malcolm Francis 20 May 2014 (Assaulted on 10 May 2014)