Dinner With Mugabe

Author : Heidi Holland
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143027417
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinner With Mugabe written by Heidi Holland and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements; Preface; Timeline: A chronology of key events in Robert Mugabe’s life; Introduction; 1 Brother in the background; 2 Mummy and Uncle Bob; 3 The prisoner’s friend; 4 Comrades in arms; 5 A surprise agreement; 6 Tea with Lady Soames; 7 I told you so; 8 Britain’s diplomatic blunder; 9 A reluctant politician; 10 The faithful priest; 11 In the eyes of God’s deputies; 12 The man in the elegant suit; 13 Two of a kind; 14 Yesterday’s heroes; 15 As it was in the beginning; 16 The good, the bad, and the reality; Postscript; Selected bibliography; Index

Author : Heidi Holland
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742286232
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinner with Mugabe written by Heidi Holland and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I don't make enemies. Others make me an enemy of theirs.' Robert Mugabe, exclusive interview The man behind the monster . . . This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe takes us into the mind of the man whose career began as the great hope for his nation - the man who would save it from the repressive regime of Ian Smith - and has resulted in Zimbabwe's destruction. Heidi Holland's tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Magabe the freedom fighter and ends more than 30 years later in a searching interview with Mugabe the president. In between, she interviews those who have been closest to Mugabe at successive stages of his life, charting his gradual psychological deterioration and the devastation of his country, and uncovers the complicity of some of the most respectable international players in the Zimbabwe tragedy. 'By tracking down the key figures in Mugabe's life, Heidi Holland has come closer than anyone else to discovering what makes the old dictator tick.' - Mugabe biographer David Balir, Daily Telegraph 'The most intimate account yet published of Robert Mugabe's transformation from liberation hero to reviled despot.' – The Economist 'Compelling.' The Age

Author : Heidi Holland
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143203460
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinner with Mugabe written by Heidi Holland and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I don't make enemies. Others make me an enemy of theirs.' Robert Mugabe, exclusive interview The man behind the monster . . . This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe takes us into the mind of the man whose career began as the great hope for his nation - the man who would save it from the repressive regime of Ian Smith - and has resulted in Zimbabwe's destruction. Heidi Holland's tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Magabe the freedom fighter and ends more than 30 years later in a searching interview with Mugabe the president. In between, she interviews those who have been closest to Mugabe at successive stages of his life, charting his gradual psychological deterioration and the devastation of his country, and uncovers the complicity of some of the most respectable international players in the Zimbabwe tragedy. 'By tracking down the key figures in Mugabe's life, Heidi Holland has come closer than anyone else to discovering what makes the old dictator tick.' - Mugabe biographer David Balir, Daily Telegraph 'The most intimate account yet published of Robert Mugabe's transformation from liberation hero to reviled despot.' – The Economist 'Compelling.' The Age

Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786732938
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mugabe written by Martin Meredith and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant white prime minister Ian Smith was forced to step down and Mugabe was elected president. Initially he promised reconciliation between white and blacks, encouraged Zimbabwe's economic and social development, and was admired throughout the world as one of the leaders of the emerging nations and as a model for a transition from colonial leadership. But as Martin Meredith shows in this history of Mugabe's rule, Mugabe from the beginning was sacrificing his purported ideals—and Zimbabwe's potential—to the goal of extending and cementing his autocratic leadership. Over time, Mugabe has become ever more dictatorial, and seemingly less and less interested in the welfare of his people, treating Zimbabwe's wealth and resources as spoils of war for his inner circle. In recent years he has unleashed a reign of terror and corruption in his country. Like the Congo, Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Zimbabwe has been on a steady slide to disaster. Now for the first time the whole story is told in detail by an expert. It is a riveting and tragic political story, a morality tale, and an essential text for understanding today's Africa.

Author : Blessing-Miles Tendi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108472893
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe written by Blessing-Miles Tendi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential biographical record of General Solomon Mujuru, one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics.

Author : Fraser Grace
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breakfast With Mugabe written by Fraser Grace and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty and provocative new play by Fraser Grace. Explores conflict between African and European values.

Author : Andrew Meldrum
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555846904
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where We Have Hope written by Andrew Meldrum and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist’s harrowing account of life in Zimbabwe—and the human rights atrocities perpetuated—under President Robert Mugabe’s despotic rule. Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew Meldrum arrived in a Zimbabwe flush with new independence, and he fell in love with the country and its optimism. But over the twenty years he lived there, Meldrum watched as President Robert Mugabe consolidated power and the government evolved into despotism. In May 2003, Meldrum, the last foreign journalist still working in the dangerous and chaotic nation, was illegally forced to leave his adopted home. Meldrum’s unflinching work describes the terror and intimidation Mugabe’s government exercised on both the press and citizens, and the resiliency of Zimbabweans determined to overturn Mugabe and demand the free society they were promised. “[A] remarkable odyssey . . . A compelling and, ultimately, heartbreaking story that demands to be read by anyone concerned about contemporary Africa.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Author : Soner Cagaptay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178673236X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Sultan written by Soner Cagaptay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Since 2002, Erdo?an has consolidated his hold on domestic politics while using military and diplomatic means to solidify Turkey as a regional power. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent - scores of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and many of the highest-ranking military officers arrested. In some senses, the nefarious and failed 2016 coup has given Erdo?an the licence to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability under a 'strongman'. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at Erdo?an's roots in Turkish history, what he believes in and how he has cemented his rule, as well as what this means for the world. The book will also unpick the 'threats' Erdogan has worked to combat - from the liberal Turks to the Gulen movement, from coup plotters to Kurdish nationalists - all of which have culminated in the crisis of modern Turkey.

Author : Julie Livingston
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822353423
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improvising Medicine written by Julie Livingston and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.

Author : Douglas Rogers
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307459845
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Resort written by Douglas Rogers and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country’s long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the United States. But when Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim white-owned land and Rogers’s parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed. Lyn and Ros, the owners of Drifters–a famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the eastern mountains that was one of the most popular budget resorts in the country–found their home and resort under siege, their friends and neighbors expelled, and their lives in danger. But instead of leaving, as their son pleads with them to do, they haul out a shotgun and decide to stay. On returning to the country of his birth, Rogers finds his once orderly and progressive home transformed into something resembling a Marx Brothers romp crossed with Heart of Darkness: pot has supplanted maize in the fields; hookers have replaced college kids as guests; and soldiers, spies, and teenage diamond dealers guzzle beer at the bar. And yet, in spite of it all, Rogers’s parents–with the help of friends, farmworkers, lodge guests, and residents–among them black political dissidents and white refugee farmers–continue to hold on. But can they survive to the end? In the midst of a nation stuck between its stubborn past and an impatient future, Rogers soon begins to see his parents in a new light: unbowed, with passions and purpose renewed, even heroic. And, in the process, he learns that the "big story" he had relentlessly pursued his entire adult life as a roving journalist and travel writer was actually happening in his own backyard. Evoking elements of The Tender Bar and Absurdistan, The Last Resort is an inspiring, coming-of-age tale about home, love, hope, responsibility, and redemption. An edgy, roller-coaster adventure, it is also a deeply moving story about how to survive a corrupt Third World dictatorship with a little innovation, humor, bribery, and brothel management.