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Beyond Tears
Zimbabwe's Tragedy
Author: Catherine Buckle
218pp; size 222 X 152mm
Softcover; ISBN 1-86842-139-2. Bar code 9781868421392
Non fiction.
This book is a searing indictment of the Zimbabwe Government's desperate land grabs, the destruction of the country's agricultural sector, and the suffering of those who lived and worked on those farms. It is indeed a horrifying story of how a country is being destroyed by a government determined to retain power at all costs.
In Beyond Tears Cathy talks to people involved in the weekend horror of the murder of a farmer and the abduction of five other farmers from the apparent safety of the Murehwa police station.
She also interviews two women who were viciously raped and afterwards found it difficult to find anyone who would help them. Then she goes back to her once thriving farm and finds that it has been turned into a squatter camp.
This book is a sequel to African Tears, the moving account of how she and her husband turned a 1 000 acre rocky piece of land near Marondera into a productive farm, only to lose it to a group of so-called 'war veterans' ten years later.
Readers' Comments:
One of the bravest chroniclers of Robert Mugabe's dictatorship in Zimbabwe, Catherine Buckle, provides vivid testimony of the terror and destruction he has inflicted on the country and its people.
Martin Meredith, author of Robert Mugabe, Plunder and Tyranny in Zimbabwe.
. . . Cathy is white and I am black. But we have a lot of things in common . . . perhaps most important of all in the context of this book [is that] we are all Zimbabweans in a country we love and cherish dearly. Unfortunately the norms and values we share as Zimbabweans are threatened by Mugabe's naked lust for power.
Trevor Ncube, publisher and CEO of the Zimbabwe Independent and The Standard.
NB: The Price includes shipping costs inside South Africa.
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