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Cathy Buckle explains how unexpected hope for Zimbabwe came about recently in the form of a Zimbabwean High Court ruling.
As they crackdown on dissent, the Zimbabwean government continues to detain individuals who speak out against them. Stories of abduction and torture abound.
Zimbabwe has been devastated by political greed and incompetence and now it braces for the onslaught of a deadly disease that not even the most well-resourced countries have been able to easily contain.
Four and a half months after the army made Robert Mugabe resign and enabled Emmerson Mnangagwa to take over as President, the infatuation of the nation has worn off, says Cathy Buckle.
But this letter isn’t about the absurd, unnecessary facts of daily life in Zimbabwe, it’s about the jewels in the dust.
National debt stands at US$17bn. And still, the ANC defends Zimbabwe. Cathy takes refuge in her natural surrounds, as any true pantheist would.
Every morning in Zimbabwe you look at your phone first thing, not for the time, date, weather or missed calls, but for the exchange rates.
Cathy Buckle in her inimitable pantheistic way sketches these peaceful pastoral scenes with a dark undercurrent of potential tragedy.
As dawn breaks in Zimbabwe, there’s a delicate pink in the wispy early morning clouds in the days leading up to Easter, writes Cathy Buckle.
In her inimitable way, Cathy Buckle juxtaposes the deceptively hopeful brush of Cyclone Gombe with the edges of Zimbabwe.