Rhodesia

An Uncomfortable Narrative – Joseph Mahoney

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Digby Reflects on a Return to Rhodesia – Kariba

RETURN TO RHODESIA: 2. KARIBA Our trip home to Rhodesia from Australia in 1978 gave us a chance to see Kariba (and another jiggle of the dice of death). I hadn’t seen Kariba since...

Digby Reflects on a Return to Rhodesia – Matopos

RETURN TO RHODESIA: 1. MATOPOS Anne and I returned to Rhodesia in 1978 at the climax of the war for independence. We hadn’t realised how much the situation had deteriorated, though this was wilful...

Digby Reflects further on being an oral historian (3)

Oral Historian is an Ancient Calling, the Essential Craft, my Dream Job: and all they want to read about is politicians I wish now that I’d kept copies of all my transcripts and summaries,...

Digby Reflects further on being an oral historian (2)

Oral Historian is an Ancient Calling, the Essential Craft, my Dream Job: and here’s why it wasn’t perfect I served between 1972 and ’75 as Oral Historian at the National Archives of Rhodesia I...

A Memoir of Early British South Africa Police Days – Bernard Hugh Seymour-Hall #Preview #History #Africa

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Digby Reflects on being an oral historian

Oral Historian is an Ancient Calling, the Essential Craft, my Dream Job: and here is my most memorable Winter 1975. It was poor country, low knobby trees, scrub. Wispy grass on stone-strewn sand. Barbed...

Goromonzi – Digby Hartridge

Goromonzi by Digby Hartridge Now, I could sanitise this, make it more acceptable to 2025 sensibilities, like so many people do, Whites and Blacks. But that would make it unhistorical, and it’s already been...