I once owned a house in Westdene – overlooking the park, with an old coal stove and a fruit garden, when it was still very much a lower class area. Many times I wish I had not sold – but then I would never have had the money to hitch hike around Europe and to go scuba diving in Mozambique!

Long bro’too long!

What about the role of the military in Zim and their influence in the region?

Check out my blog for a very one-sided opinion piece on this issue.

The ordinary Brits in her pub in London. She doesn’t approve – she is only telling me how ignorant they are about anything to do with Africa. She takes the p..ss out of them all the time. Tells them I hear elephants at night (which I do – the Knysna Elephant Park is nearby), and thatsnakes hibernate in my house – which has only happened once!

My daughter tells me they say neither Mugabe nor Mandela should have been let out of jail.

Who says that and what informs their opinion? Missing the “good old days”?

Consulting engineer – who allowed that pakistani shopkeeper to open the shop and impose those kind of pricing of goods on its customers whether by lay-by or not. And why are your workers going there if they know the prices are exorbant. Its all good and humanitarian of you to fork the cost of the goods your workers want, kudos, but what about all the other black folk patronising those stores?

Its ecomically frustrating but I guess we all have a right to protect what we think belongs to us, our turf, our backyards, our territory, so if strangers keep coming into your backyard, they are going to be a few many reactions and drastic ones if it has been an ongoing for some time.