But even the most sanguine harvest forecasts leave Zimbabwe 40 percent short of its needs.
However, the team managed to retrieve the footage and left Zimbabwe shortly after.
In the ten-year period from 1980 to 1990 approximately two thirds of the white population left Zimbabwe.
After being forced from the paper by new management in December 2002, Nyarota left Zimbabwe.
As a prominent supporter of the Smith administration, Ward was forced to leave Zimbabwe.
Many people, both black and white, are leaving Zimbabwe, which has been racked by political violence and economic hardship.
The show ends with the characters thinking of leaving Zimbabwe, but realising that they were "born African" and deciding to stay.
Many wind up leaving Zimbabwe for etter economic opportunities in South Africa.
Pearce left Zimbabwe in 2000 as a result of the conflict in his home country.
In December 2005 his passport was seized and he was barred from leaving Zimbabwe.