Cathy Buckle: Gold, the Curse of Zimbabwe

Gold, The Curse Of Zimbabwe Posted on April 14, 2023 Dear Family and Friends, These mid April days it is cool and misty in the mornings. The grass is dying back and turning golden, the red hot pokers are flowering in the wetlands and the termites are back in the trees, their orange soil tunnels tracking skywards. We wake these April mornings not to the sound of bird calls but to the roar of generators or the noise of people chopping wood or pushing wheelbarrows of empty containers to look for water. We do not wake to the smell of…