ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the motivations and dynamics of the contest and its probable impact on memory and resolution of the land issue. Throughout Zimbabwe’s land crisis the Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe has used its website even to publicise judicial decisions of Zimbabwean Courts in which it was a directly involved party. Humwe’s unrivalled potential to placate the mischief at the heart of the land issue without violating the inherent dignity of all stakeholders in the process cast it as the favoured way of disposing the mischief at the core of the land issue in the Southern African Development Community. All human rights instruments call for the “respect” and not “humiliation” of human dignity. The ultimate victim in all of the appears to be “the inherent dignity of man”. Labels intended to justify, sympathise with and to condemn others are evident in the struggle for the coveted label of “ultimate victim”.
