Dear Family and Friends When I put my fingers into a black china bowl of water in the sink to scoop out what I thought was a leaf, I found myself holding a small black scorpion. A yelp of alarm, a few unrepeatable swear words and a quick flick of my wrist left the scorpion …
Dear Family and Friends, It never rains but it pours in Zimbabwe. Having melted through weeks of unbearable heat with temperatures over 38 degrees Celsius, the rain finally moved into Zimbabwe with high winds, deep purple clouds and pounding rain. In some places storms of 150 mm (6 inches) of rain were recorded in a …
Dear Family and Friends, Sitting under the shade of a big sausage tree I looked out into the 37 degree heat that characterized many parts of Zimbabwe this Christmas and New Year. A mirage was running across my view and I alternately cursed and smiled at the Vervet monkey which sat in a tree nearby …
Sausage Trees, Teachers and Zimbabwe’s education crisis Read More »
Dear Family and Friends, As I write this letter from Zimbabwe today deep purple rain clouds hang over my home town, there is neither electricity nor water but there is what the media are calling ‘feasting in a time of famine’ going on not very far away. Seven thousand Zanu PF delegates, VIPs and the …
A Frenzy of feasting and opulence while Zimbabwe starves Read More »
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Dear Family and Friends, The rains have arrived in Zimbabwe, the first storms coming with violent winds and hail which blew roofs off houses, felled trees, stripped fruit from branches and shredded new young crops. The only happy faces in my garden after a violent hail storm were Mousebirds feasting on the fruit of a …
After 19 years of Letters from Zimbabwe and 8 books about our tragic decline, I am delighted to present another face of our country in my Beautiful Zimbabwe Calendar 2020. To preview images in the calendar and to order, follow this link: www.lulu.com/spotlight/CathyBuckle2018 CathyCathy Buckle is well known for her writings of daily life in …
Dear Family and Friends Two years ago today, on the 14th November 2017, I got up early after a stormy, thundery, night and switched on ZBC TV, Zimbabwe’s only television station. The day before, army tanks had been seen approaching Harare and overnight there were numerous reports of explosions and gunfire from the capital city. …
Doctors Or Cars. Zimbabwe Chooses Cars And Fires 286 Doctors Read More »
Dear Family and Friends, Everything’s upside down in Zimbabwe this October. Usually known as suicide month because of extremely high temperatures, the blistering heat has yet to take hold this summer. Instead of shorts, T shirts and slip slops this mid October we’re back in jackets and jerseys until midday in my home town. Every …
Dear Family and Friends, Down the yellow sandy road, over the hump, round the dusty corner and I was face to face with the luscious eyelashes of a giraffe. Luscious eyelashes hiding hungry eyes in our parched land where we are all reduced to being watchers, waiting for something to happen. For the past fourteen …
Citizens Must Prepare For Zimbabwe’s Economic Armageddon Read More »
