Dear Family and Friends, In our beautiful wide blue skies of early May, winter warned us she was near and sent a cold wind, grey sky and unexpected rain this week. Temperatures overnight plunged into single digits and during the day into the low teens. Zimbabwe got out her blankets and put on her wooly hats. …
Dear Family and Friends, After a short time away I was travelling home on Zimbabwe’s 41st Independence Day. It had been a long journey, over 1650 kilometres, filled with images of life in our country that seem to have come from another era, a place where time has stood still and there is little sign …
Dear Family and Friends, Happy Easter from Zimbabwe. Twenty one years ago I started writing this Letter From Zimbabwe, telling the story of events in our country week by week from my perspective, never knowing that so many people in so many places around the world would want to read it. This Letter today is …
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Dear Family and Friends, Blue skies and sunshine are filling our days this March in Zimbabwe as our prolific rainy season starts to wane. Up in the trees absurdly hairy orange caterpillars spend their days zipped up close together in fiery orange mats, waiting for darkness when they break up the pack and spread out …
JUST RELEASED ! Delighted to advise that my book “INNOCENT VICTIMS” about Meryl Harrison’s rescues of animals stranded during land invasions in Zimbabwe, published by Merlin Unwin in UK is now available as a paperback. Follow this link to order: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Innocent-Victims-Rescuing-Zimbabwes-invasions/dp/1910723894/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=innocent+victims+by+catherine+buckle&qid=1611754928&sr=8-1 CathyCathy Buckle is well known for her writings of daily life in Zimbabwe. These …
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Dear Family and Friends, Heading north east on the highway a few days after the easing of the latest Covid lockdown it was a joy to be able to see our beautiful Zimbabwe again. How I had missed her! Ahead of me a huge 30 tonne rig had stopped and the driver was buying a …
Dear Family and Friends, Navigating a field of red mud that covered the potholed road, the scene in front of me was beautiful and desperate side by side, a scene which has become the dramatically contrasting face of Zimbabwe that we see every day, everywhere we go, forty one years after independence. On the left …
The rock paintings and the learners who didn’t learn Read More »
Dear Family and Friends, After weeks of rain we’ve had a few windows of blue sky and sunshine for the past few days giving things a chance to dry out and water to sink in. The amazing beauty and diversity of life in our newly washed and rehydrated Zimbabwe is stunning. Sunrises that are pink …
Dear Family and Friends, After twenty one years of writing this Letter from Zimbabwe, at first every week and then every fortnight, I find the words come harder and harder as the heart grows weak at describing our decades of pain, injustice and suffering and, when writing about it, self censorship is always uppermost. Despite …
Dear Family and Friends, I am writing this letter to you from beneath a dark grey sky in Zimbabwe. A big storm is approaching, high winds are stripping leaves off trees, everything is switched off and unplugged, lightning is crackling and exploding, thunder booming and banging all around. Grey curtains of rain are marching up …
