Rhodies at the Zambezi River Bar
Remember When Duncan Clarke Contents About the Author The heat coming off the Zambezi and in the valley that October evening was the sort that clung to the skin like…
SOUP TO NUTS: A SONG OF LIFE
By Nigel Henson. My apologies for having been absent for six months or so. As there have been no public demonstrations, tipping of trash cans, or even an ANC building…
Leonardo DiCaprio – The ‘Last Rhodesian’ in Hollywood
Duncan Clarke * One has ‘arrived’ if pictured in glorified celluloid and technicolour by Hollywood. Indeed, Rhodesians there might have reached their zenith when Leonardo DiCaprio became ‘the Rhodesian’, described…
You can’t just tell a Leopard to FUCK off. (Part 2)
Paul Connolly (The colourful title of this story goes to the credit of Nelfie Kemp.) However my polite suggestion that it leave the property forthwith was met with insolence and…
You can’t just tell a Leopard to FUCK off. (Part 1)
Paul Connolly (The colourful title of this story goes to the credit of Nelfie Kemp.) It was when we were sitting under the teak trees at the Victoria Falls Primary…
Fishing with Leon ‘Dog’ Varley.
By Paul Connolly.* For a long time the two good friends did not speak to each other, but the incident has been forgotten and now they’re in irregular communication. Even…
William Henry Vernon Pridgeon
John Pridgeon William Henry Vernon Pridgeon Circa 1886, a young man by the name of William Henry Pridgeon climbed off a ship bound for Cape Town from England. Among other…
Rough Ride on the Rufiji River
by Hannes Wessels – In sub-Saharan Africa there are few river-systems as wild and wonderful as that of the Rufiji as it wends its way to the sea through the…
‘Dog’ Varley
by Hannes Wessels – When the men who settled Rhodesia decided they needed a place of learning for their sons they positioned it in the harsh, dry country bordering on…
The Parable of Colonialist and Colony.
by August Pointneuf Colonialist was beguiled by this beauty. A compulsion to join forever and create a mutual life of productivity and security were the drivers. There was mutual attraction,…