We all knew it was coming, but it still managed to take us by surprise. With the general stresses of a third year student, the impending chaos swept everyone away.
On Tuesday 25th and 26th November 2019, a video was broadcast on Hardtalk on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. The journalist was Stephen Sackur. The film was titled “Could Victoria Falls dry up”?
The basic premise to the story is that Victoria Falls is drying up due to the effects of drought and climate change.
I have always wanted to understand more of what my Godfather does and so decided to take the opportunity to interview him for one of my blogs.
In early November 2017, Robert Mugabe was removed after 37 years in power, in what was effectively a bloodless coup. Millions of people celebrated. Everybody was in full party mode, hugging each other and crying tears of joy.
My father worked for 5 years with a UK foundation to help rehabilitate schools in a very remote area of Zimbabwe.
The foundation was called the Phyllis Aspinall Foundation and Phyllis was a close friend to our UK relatives.
I was 7 years old when Zimbabwe finally descended into official Hyperinflation. It lasted for a period of approximately five years when Zimbabwe in early 2009 stopped printing the Zimbabwe Dollar and returned to using the US Dollar as its legal tender. The largest denominated Zimbabwe Dollar note was Z$100,000,000,000,000 – a 100 trillion.
The Farm invasions and the scary realities that were bought along with it.
My parents and two brothers (Jeremy aged 4 and Alastair aged 18 months) returned to Zimbabwe in 1993 to farm after my father was retired for medical reasons from the Metropolitan Police. My father is Zimbabwean and was born into a farming family from Gatooma, Rhodesia in 1961.
I was born in Norton, Mashonaland, Zimbabwe on the 15 December 1997. I was born into an ordinary family, mother (Frances), father (Charles), two older brothers (Jeremy and Alastair) and more recently, sister in law, Imogen.
Cecil John Rhodes pioneered and established Rhodesia in 1890. The British colonial state where my Great Grandmother was born. 90 years later the British colony became the independent state of Zimbabwe.
