I was appalled to read this story on The Zimbabwe Situation: A 79 year old widow has been given a month to vacate her dairy farm and home of 50 years, or face a jail term, after she was convicted earlier this year for failing to vacate her farm. Hester Theron, who runs a local [...]
Zimbabwe cricket success
Charles Coventry this week set a new world record score for batting in a one-day international cricket match. The fact he achieved it for Zimbabwe against Bangladesh means it has largely slipped under the radar. It was a marvellous achievement. Likewise, the massive strike by Brendan Taylor a few years ago to win the game [...]
Ray Price
I’m glad that Ray Price is playing for Zimbabwe again. I rate him as the best left-arm spinner in the world with Daniel Vettori. He bowled well in the test against Australia that I saw in Sydney and he was a key player in Zimbabwe’s victory against the West Indies yesterday in Harare. Price returned [...]
Vale Ian Smith
The world lost a significant man today. I won’t call him a great man, even though I believe him to be one, because there is too much controversy surrounding him, and in terms of greatness, he failed his mission. Ian Smith was a war veteran who led his country of Rhodesia through what many thought [...]
Zimbabwe inflation
When I visited Zimbabwe in 1991 the currency was stable and the country was relatively prosperous. The Zimbabwe dollar was worth about the same as the rand, almost two to one Australian dollar. That’s hard to believe now, considering the inflation rate hit 7634 percent in June. I bought this old banknote in Harare. It’s [...]
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