Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Beauty And Shame Walk Side By Side in Zimbabwe Dear Family and Friends, When the bright white lightning flashed across my living room, crackling and sizzling, it wasn’t a good time to be holding a cup of tea, which ended up all over me, along with a terrified dog trying to get on my lap, […]
Zimbabwe’s Moral Conscience Has Gone Dear Family and Friends, Walk with me in the rain today and listen to this absurd story I have to tell you. I am writing this letter to you with the sound of the first rain of the season falling on my roof. It is very early in the […]
The Prisoners and the Full Moon Dear Family and Friends, Walking past a small dam where the remaining water was just a muddy stagnant pool, a big bird lifted up into a leafless tree. The beautiful Purple heron sat very still watching me, it is not a common bird around here and was the perfect […]
Seventy-five Cents and a Zimbabwean Dinosaur Dear Family and Friends, An icy cold moved into Zimbabwe this week with night time temperatures dropping to three degrees Celsius in my home town sending us running to the markets looking for warm clothing. ‘Only US$10 Ma’am,’ the vendor said at the market as she looked through […]
Folks, Cathy and the folks she lives among lead a hard existence. Might I encourage anyone who feels so inclined to make a donation to her work in Zimbabwe? I know that she uses the money we send her not only for her own needs but for those around her, as she discusses in her […]
One Farm In Zimbabwe, 24 Years Later Dear Family and Friends, Twenty four years after farm invasions began in Zimbabwe it was time for me to go back to my farm again and have a look. Surely 24 years later, there would be something to see to support the legend that what happened on commercial […]
ZAMCON is a conservation operation tailor-made for Zimbabwe. Working in the Zambezi Valley, ZAMCON will cover an area of around 200 square kilometers with 60 kilometers of river frontage along the Zambezi River on the international border with Zambia. The entire area falls within the boundaries of National Parks land. Blake Muil, a Professional Guide […]
The Imposter Unravelling Zimbabwe Dear Family and Friends, Under a scorching sun in a deep blue November sky where we are gasping for rain, the ‘imposter’ madness came to my home town this week in the most ridiculous situation which continues to purge Zimbabwe of the last shreds of democracy. “Thank you for the support. […]
A Life Lost But Never Forgotten Dear Family and Friends, Zimbabwe is not allowed to join in the wreath-laying at the Cenotaph in London in memory of their soldiers who lost their lives in World War One and Two. 34,000 soldiers of all races from Southern Rhodesia served during the World Wars. 800 died in […]
Zimbabwe’s Muppet Show Dear Family and Friends, The first rain in seven months came from a dark black sky with strong wind and hail pinging off the windows, rattling on the roof and bouncing on the dusty ground. In twenty minutes it had come and gone leaving a carpet of white hail stones, tree […]
Zimbabwe sinks into silence Dear Family and Friends, October is exactly how it should be in Zimbabwe. It is everything you will always remember about this time of year. Sizzling hot. Scorched. Parched. Breathless. Too hot to move. Too hot for a sheet at night. Too hot to walk barefoot outside. Windows wide open. Dust […]
Looking for Lions Dear Family and Friends, This is a story of the wild and beautiful face of Zimbabwe. I hope you will walk with me into this stunning wilderness today and that it may bring you solace and hope after the despair of our latest election fiasco. At last light the elephants appear out […]
Zimbabweans don’t want to be refugees in foreign lands Dear Family and Friends, I am writing this extra letter today in recognition of you, the people out there who care about Zimbabwe and what happens here and who are as stunned as we are about what went on in the August election. A quietness has […]
In a personal communication after the Zimbabwean elections, Cathy writes: Our elections have now come and gone and have been a shambolic mess. Observer missions from the region, the continent, Europe and America have all criticised the process from beginning to end and said it was not free, fair or credible. The opposition have refused […]
Zimbabwe Elections: Now we wait with fear in our hearts Dear Family and Friends, We got here, we didn’t think we could or would. A coup in Nov 2017 and then a contested poll in 2018 left us with armed soldiers on the streets of Harare shooting innocent people in broad daylight. From then till […]
