newsCategory: Obituaries
Guy Arnold, leading British anti-apartheid activist, dies at the age of 87
By TREVOR GRUNDY The British explorer, writer, scholar and anti-apartheid campaigner Guy Arnold died in London on Saturday January 4. He was 87. Arnold was a prolific author and journalist… Read more >
Cephas Msipa: Zimbabwe’s reluctant hero
Cephas Msipa, the mild-mannered primary school teacher who left the classroom to help a generation of freedom fighters turn white-ruled Rhodesia into black-led Zimbabwe in 1980, has died in… Read more >
Chenjerai Hove – A voice for the voiceless in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
By TREVOR GRUNDY He was a man of principle during the course of a lonely 14-years exile in America, France and Norway. He was a voice for the voiceless… Read more >
Peter Mackay: An officer and a gentleman who Rhodesian whites imprisoned and branded a “kaffir-loving KGB agent.”
By Trevor Grundy When Peter Mackay died in 2013 at his well-kempt, humble cottage home in Marondera (the former Marandellas) he was 86. He was, wrote the historian Terence… Read more >