![]() Scribbling the Cat is a grimmer title than it sounds: "scribbling" is a term current among Rhodie veterans for the act of killing. ![]() ![]() That's why he abolished the present and left his enforcers and Henry the Fourth (HIV infection to you) to take care of the generation shift. It might have helped me understand where President Mugabe was going when he told me (as British high commissioner), just before pulling up the drawbridge, that the winds of change were irrelevant to Zimbabwe and he would take the country back to its roots and rural strengths.įor Mugabe, the past is a comfort zone, full of certainties, free of challenge. Spot them at the end of a Harare Rhodie bar or even worse stumbling towards you across the terrace of a bush hotel and it's time to grab the bill. Remaindered from the Rhodesian war, all they have now is their ghosts inadequately repressed by extreme religion, alcohol, purple pills or a penchant for tearing down bars. ![]() Yesterday's world had rules of engagement. For the leftovers of Ian Smith's killing machine who people Fuller's new book, the past is all there is. ![]()
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