Betting the farm against Mugabe (BBC news online)
Born and raised in Britain, Ben Freeth has become one of a handful of farmers in Zimbabwe to resist the seizure of his land.
Continue Reading October 21st, 2009
Posts filed under 'Zimbabwe'
Sympathy for the devil (Prospect online)
Heidi Holland’s biography of Robert Mugabe does something deeply unsettling – it makes me feel the dictator’s pain.
Continue Reading Add comment July 2nd, 2008
From the frontlines of procrastination (Daily Telegraph)
In 1975, an idealistic 17-year-old leaves the small Norwegian town of Stavanger to help the poor and wretched in Colombia.
Continue Reading Add comment May 3rd, 2008
Farmer challenges legality of land grab laws (Daily Telegraph)
A British farmer in Zimbabwe has launched a legal challenge to the government’s land reform programme that has forced out thousands of fellow white farmers.
Continue Reading Add comment March 31st, 2007
Africa’s moderate extremist (Prospect)
Thabo Mbeki the enigma has become a cliché. But so far there have been few attempts to fathom the man who in 1999 was given the impossible task of replacing Nelson Mandela. William Gumede’s unauthorised biography is therefore to be prized.
Continue Reading Add comment December 1st, 2005
Zimbabwe’s press strikes back (The Guardian)
When Zimbabwe’s best selling Daily News was forced to close by repressive media legislation two years ago, critical voices disappeared from the country’s mass media, and independent reporters fled abroad.
Continue Reading Add comment November 21st, 2005
Streak ends Test career as coaching row engulfs Zimbabwe (The Times)
On the day that Heath Streak announced his retirement from international cricket, his former Zimbabwe colleagues were demanding that the country’s cricket board reinstates Phil Simmons, the coach who was dismissed in August.
Continue Reading Add comment October 19th, 2005
Simmons blames politics for Zimbabwe dismissal (The Times)
Phil Simmons, who was dismissed last month as Zimbabwe coach, has attacked the country’s administrators, saying that they have “no understanding of cricket”.
Continue Reading Add comment September 28th, 2005
The tourist trap (The Guardian)
At Linquenda House, Harare’s gloomy immigration department, the official inspecting my visa extension form asks me what I do. “I’m a wineseller,” I lie. “You’re not a news seller?” he shoots back, his eyes watching me mischievously. “What’s that?” I say, trying to be innocent, but taken aback by his apparent mind-reading.
Continue Reading Add comment April 25th, 2005
A royal mess (FT magazine)
At what point do journalists working in the shadow of a repressive regime give up?
Continue Reading Add comment April 16th, 2005