Ranging from Matabeleland in the 1890s to Zimbabwe and India in the 1980s, David Fyfes stories of humour and bravery cover vastly differing aspects of a country at the crossroads.
Who could fail to laugh at Station Foreman Patrick OHalloran and his snake bite? Who could fail to be moved by Manxiwenis account of his District Commissioner, a fair-haired giant nicknamed
Dlamini, who met a soldiers death in the bush
wars of the 1970s? Or be fascinated by the authors expedition to the mysterious Drotskys Cave in the middle of the Kalahari, and his eerie encounter with Bushmen?
Time was when...