Description:

Everyone today knows where Zimbabwe is, and has heard of the hyper-inflation there and the trials and tribulations of the people, and Robert Mugabe. This is the story of the six hundred years or so which have culminated in the Republic of Zimbabwe today, 2008. In Part 1 entitled “Zambezia” covering the period 1390 AD to 1890, I have written what I think might have happened. Part 2, entitled “Rhodesia”, relates events which by and large did happen; while the final part, Part 3, “Zimbabwe”, which takes us up to the end of the last millennium and beyond,is another story, but my own. Memoirs, really. I was in what may have been a unique position in that I was well acquainted and well connected with the conservative business establishment, but also very close to the corridors of political power from Independence in 1980 on. So this a story book, with three separate but linked stories which together make – a history?