Post Tagged with: "Cathy Buckle"

Fall of Nehanda tree bad omen for Zanu PF

Fall of Nehanda tree bad omen for Zanu PF

The day before the official opening of Zanu PF’s Bulawayo conference the collapse of a tree in Harare got tongues wagging and left the superstitious running for cover writes author Cathy Buckle.

A week of captains, torturers, deported pensioners

A week of captains, torturers, deported pensioners

It’s been one of those weeks where we’ve been shaking our heads in disbelief all the time. A week of ship captains, torturers, deported pensioners and watching TV in the dark writes author Cathy Buckle

For a change Williams said it like it is

For a change Williams said it like it is

When the Archbishop of Canterbury came to Zimbabwe last week it gave us all a lift, regardless of our religious persuasions. Here was a man who had the courage to say it like it is, something we’ve been sadly starved of for the last two and a half years.

Commercial farm areas have become wastelands

Commercial farm areas have become wastelands

Taking a friend home to his rural village this week, my eyes were wide open to absorb sights that we once took for granted in Zimbabwe, before farming districts became ‘no-go areas,’ writes author Cathy Buckle.

Fire engine with no water for Mujuru farm fire

Fire engine with no water for Mujuru farm fire

Zimbabwe was rocked to the core this week by the death of the Commander of the Defence Forces, retired General Solomon Mujuru, in a fire at a farm in Beatrice writes author Cathy Buckle.

It’s not about Mugabe or Tsvangirai

It’s not about Mugabe or Tsvangirai

I met a young man back from the diaspora this week and as we talked I knew that if our country’s oppression and economic collapse had done anything good for Zimbabwe, it was this.

Yellow bellied losers or jackals?

Yellow bellied losers or jackals?

We have had two years of relative tranquillity under the uneasy governance of a combined MDC and Zanu PF regime but that is starting to change very rapidly writes author Cathy Buckle.

Nowhere to hide & accountability now reality

Nowhere to hide & accountability now reality

This week it hasn’t t just been the beauty of nature which has lifted our spirits in Zimbabwe but also two pieces of news writes Zimbabwean author Cathy Buckle.