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Forty years after his brutal murder hope rises for the canonisation of Zimbabwe’s “leper saint.”
By TREVOR GRUNDY On the 5th September 1979, a group of Robert Mugabe’s guerrillas (ZANLA) kidnapped and then slaughtered the former head of a leper colony in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)…. Read more >
Blood River – A memory at the heart of the Afrikaners’ battle to surivive
Bridge Over Blood River: The Afrikaners’ Fight for Survival by Kajsa Norman (Hurst & Company, London 2016) TREVOR GRUNDY reviews Kajsa Norman’s book Bridge Over Blood River MODERN HISTORIANS… Read more >
For Two Thousand Years – A literary masterpiece into English at long last
“For Two Thousand Years” by Mihail Sebastian (Penguin Books, London 2016, 231pp £9.99) Reviewed by Trevor Grundy The Romanian-Jewish author Mihail Sebastian (1907-45) isn’t a… Read more >
Corporation with a licence to kill
Reviewed by Trevor Grundy SO MANY words of Indian origin have entered the English language and the Hindustan word for plunder, loot, is the best known. Indeed, Loot… Read more >
Lawrence Vambe’s funeral in London
A Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for the life of Lawrence Chinyani Vambe (March 5, 1917 – September 14, 2019) was held at 2.30 pm at St Joseph’s Roman… Read more >