Cops in Zimbabwe abduct farmer's wife, demand farm in exchange...

Gary and Jane Sharp who had been evicted from their farm in the Shamva area won a court case last wednesday allowing them to return to their farm and collect their belongings.

No sooner had Mrs Sharp walked out of the Court, when she was bundled into a police van and taken to Shamva Police station where she was held in the Charge office overnight. Her husband was told that if he wanted his wife free he must sign his farm over - over to who???! After intervention by their lawyer, Mrs Sharp was released without charge, on Thursday evening.

Indications are that the Minister of Transport and Communications, Nicholas Goche, also MP for Shamva North, is behind this. If so, then the minister clearly sees himself as above the law. Mrs Sharp was kidnapped/abducted by the Police – kidnapping is a serious crime anywhere in the world except, it seems, in Zimbabwe. More...

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