BOOKS BY CATHY BUCKLE

African Tears

The bestselling story of the seizure of a farm at the beginning of land invasions in Zimbabwe 2000. A police force that would not protect farmers and their employees; the government sanctioned desecration of property rights in Zimbabwe. The destruction of food security.

Cathy Buckle describes week by week how their home, livelihood and future was taken over while lawlessness unfolded around the country.

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Beyond Tears

Eyewitness accounts of events that ripped Zimbabwe apart between 2000 and 2002. Widespread political violence, terror, torture, rape, arson and murder. Widespread farm invasions and violent evictions.

Farmers abducted from the safety of a police station; the invasion of companies and businesses; harassment and intimidation of MDC (opposition) supporters.

Torture camps and the disputed 2002 election.

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Can You Hear The Drums

Letters From Zimbabwe 2000-2004.

Eye witness accounts of the country’s descent into lawlessness and economic mayhem. Everyday life where a house is petrol bombed three doors away; war veterans raid German and Canadian NGOs; farmers and MDC supporters are held hostage in their own homes, others tortured and murdered.

Food shortages, bread queues, the scramble for sugar and cooking oil. Hyperinflation, suitcases of money. Health and education crisis.

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Millions, Billions, Trillions

Letters From Zimbabwe 2005-2009.

Eye witness accounts of super-hyper inflation of 230 million percent. Jobs, homes, pensions and life savings lost. A third of the population flees to the Diaspora. Empty shops; fuel, food, bank notes, water and electricity shortages.

700,000 left homeless in Operation Murambatsvina. 4,369 deaths from Cholera.

Three violent, disputed elections leave hundreds dead, thousands brutalized and hundreds of thousands displaced and on the run.

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When Winners Are Losers

Letters From Zimbabwe 2009-2013.

No food in the shops; no money in the banks; a currency denominated in trillions, quadrillions and septillions. Widespread hunger. The opposition MDC are forced to share power with Zanu PF after a disputed election.

Worthless Zimbabwe dollars are replaced by US dollars and SA Rand; the economy begins to recover but the government is an increasingly dysfunctional coalition. Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF win widely disputed elections in 2013.

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Finding Our Voices

Letters From Zimbabwe 2013-2017.

The last five years of Robert Mugabe’s grip on power were characterized by protests, demonstrations, and defiance, met with tear gas, baton sticks and brutality. ‘Finding our Voices’ tells the stories of those years which ended in a coup and the resignation of Robert Mugabe.

The Years 2013 to 2017 will be remembered as the time when Zimbabweans found their voices, learnt the power of persistence and came together in huge crowds to say enough is enough. This is the fourth book in a series that chronicles two turbulent decades in Zimbabwean history.

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Sleeping Like A Hare

The story of a young man who leaves his family behind and travels to the Diaspora to find work in order to send money home to keep his family alive. Training and qualifications mean nothing and he becomes one of millions in the Diaspora doing whatever job he could get to survive.

With poignant, tender memories of his childhood and family, Lovemore’s journey to the unknown is made from necessity not choice, to save his family from the collapse of Zimbabwe.

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Surviving Zimbabwe

The stories of how Zimbabweans survived a country in collapse. Surviving when the nearest supermarket is 2,400 kms away; when no water comes out of taps; when electricity is only on for four hours in the middle of the night.

Our survival tools became solar panels, water containers, batteries, invertors, generators and fuel cans. Learning to navigate corrupt officials and police road blocks; growing your own food, finding your own protein and becoming experts at bartering and swopping.

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Rundi Walking With Elephants

When two baby elephants are rescued from culling, they are taken to a game park in Harare. Wild and terrified, they are covered in wounds and not weaned. Cathy and Simon must calm them, treat their wounds and teach them to drink milk from a bucket. Walking every day in the bush with Cathy or Simon the elephants must learn to feed themselves in the wild.

This is a heart-warming story of two elephants that changed the lives of everyone involved in their care; gentle giants in the heart of the city. A story of love and laughter, escapes and adventures. Book contains over 40 black and white photographs.

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Imire

A three legged leopard, a crocodile in the swimming pool, sundowners with a hippo, a lion in the garden. This is the story of Norman Travers, a visionary conservationist who lived a life full of adventure and built Imire into a significant wildlife park. Norman and Gilly’s family life included lions, elephants, leopards, hippo and ‘a stream of naughty, smelly little animals.’

Often a glass of whisky, always a pipe and a twinkle in his eye, Norman relates these wonderful stories about a life of adventure and wilderness encounters in Zimbabwe. “Imire” is accompanied by beautiful wildlife line drawings and a dozen back and white photographs and plates.

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Photobooks

Zimbabwe’s Timeless Beauty

Each 7.5” square photobook contains 24 full colour photographs accompanied by a 300 word evocative story. Available in hardback and paperback these books are the perfect keepsake and gift, a little memento, a touch of wild and beautiful Zimbabwe at the turn of every page.

2026

Put your chair under a big shady tree on a warm sunny day and let Zimbabwe share her secrets with you. Look out on valleys of golden grass, tree covered hills and rocky gorges, mountains, waterfalls, rivers and pools.

From Chimanimani to Mavhuradonha, Gonarezhou to Hwange, Matopos to Marondera, let “Zimbabwe’s Timeless Beauty 2026” bring sunshine into your home and love into your heart.