Now we are again overwhelmed with pain and helplessness at the greed of the ‘elite’ who are unravelling our beautiful country. Moneyweb Zimbabwe CathyBuckle
When someone they called a ‘giant of a man’ asked me to write a book about his life I knew it was a story that needed to be remembered. It was over a decade ago but is as fresh in my mind today as it was then. Norman was a giant of man in every way and for 15 months I visited him twice a week for a couple of hours at a time with my laptop, a microphone, notebook and a bunch of pencils to scribble notes as he talked, laughed and smoked his pipe.
To distract them I turned to the scores of questions I had scribbled in pencil and one of them was: “What was your favourite animal, Norman?” Again and again Norman asked me to ask him that same question, and every time I did he gave me a different answer – sometimes it was a lion or leopard, other times it was a warthog or an otter or, his deepest love of all, the elephant. “They have souls you know,” he said to me of elephants.
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