‘Stray Boys’ and The Kruger Park
Jacob Dlamini Sometime in September 1920, an unnamed African from Mozambique was killed and his corpse eaten by hyenas inside the Sabi Game Reserve. According to the findings of a government investigation launched by CL Harries, the Sub-Native Commissioner for Sibasa, the African was part of a group of labour recruits travelling from […]
HIFA: The Price of Art
In Writing Revolt, British historian Terence Ranger’s memoirs of his time in Rhodesia, he states that “Salisbury [now Harare] was the most segregated city in southern Africa”. This sounds rather melodramatic considering that the scholar, en route to taking a teaching appointment at the University College of Rhodesia − as the University of Zimbabwe […]
A Harare State of Mind
Salisbury was founded on 12 September 1890 by a band of British settlers who identified themselves as the Pioneer Column. They were pioneers because the land they were about to occupy was empty and without form, virgin territory, you know, no people, no traditions, nothing. But the area they conquered, in fact, was under […]