Random thoughts and observations
The Australian Government has forbidden our national cricket team from touring Zimbabwe later this year. I can’t recall such a decision ever being made before. Sporting contact was banned with South Africa from about 1970 until the end of apartheid, but in terms of overseas tours I believe it was a voluntary decision of the [...]
There was a letter to the editor in The West Australian this week which moved me to tears, something which doesn’t happen very often these days as I become hardened to the world I wish there was a link, or that I had the hard copy in front of me to reprint extracts, but I [...]
I’m not the first person to notice Britain’s hypocrisy in relation to Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe. As readers of the Daily Telgraph commented, if Zimbabwe had a thimblefull of oil it would have been brought into line by now. Europe intervened in the Balkans and the “coalition of the willing” did a job in Iraq, [...]
This is the last in my current nostalgia series. The photo was taken in October 1990 at Victoria Falls from the Zambian side. I did a week-long tour of Zimbabwe and really enjoyed the spectacle of the falls. With another Australian, two Swiss and an Italian we hired bikes, hazarded the border crossing and took [...]
Fate has delivered a couple of interesting coincidences in the past week. Firstly, a friend I hadn't seen for more than 15 years contacted me at work. I met Carol, from Zimbabwe, at Alice Springs in 1988 and visited her in Harare and Kwe Kwe in 1990. It turns out she has been living in [...]
