Category Archives: Zimbabwe

Posts written about, or linked to, Zimbabwe, the country in which I was born and went to school and where my family have lived for four generations.

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ZANE: Hurray! He’s nearly there …

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Tom Benyon OBE en route to Canterbury Cathedral
Jane Benyon discovering a footpath
Tom Benyon OBE and his wife Jane, fellow fundraising walker for ZANE

The finish is just around the corner – the end of  the miles and miles from Holyhead to Oxford.

Today at 12 noon Tom Benyon OBE should be arriving at the Martyrs Memorial at the south end of St Giles in Oxford.  He will have walked 271.5 miles in 24 days – all to raise money for ZANE (Zimbabwe a National Emergency).

Tom’s blog has kept us watching, amazed, as he has kept on going.  Sadly the blog will come to an end but I suppose we have to let him hang up his pen alongside his boots … for a while at least.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2018

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The art of recycling – ingenious giraffe crafted in Harare, Zimbabwe

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A few days ago I posted a short story Chipepo’s Box.  It was based on the relationship between crafts and tourism in Zimbabwe.

This morning, with a few minutes to scan through other WordPress blogs, I found this on the Zim Creative blog.

Chipepo sold his box at the foot of a baobab tree in the Zambezi Valley – Manners Mukuwiri works in Chitungwiza just outside Harare .   His giraffe aren’t quite the same as Sibongile’s soapstone giraffe but their need for customers is.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2018

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“Souvenirs” – torture remembered ‘live’ on stage in Bath

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"Torture, hatred and political rhetoricstoke the flames."

“Torture, hatred and political rhetoric
stoke the flames.”

In 2013 Hasani, who writes protest poetry and advocates for recognition of human rights and justice in his homeland, Zimbabwe, was on stage at the Bath Literary Festival as one of the cast in “Souvenirs”.  The play was written by the cast, who were all members of Freedom from Torture’s creative writing group – Write to Life.  

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