Rhodesia Stories

1970 is not a great year for newly independent African nation of Rhodesia. With tensions of the rise from all directions, as well as internal strife building to resolution, the waining government turns to mercenary air support to hold onto power.

shows the Divisions all the nations sent in during the Gate wars

Just a book to explain away my Zambesia Region idea, from it's history to its Pokémon to its armed forces to its factions in full detail and with all facts covered and every major member and significant action covered in full detail. (Note, not all the images are mine, they belong to their respective artists and sources)

During the transition to black majority rule in many parts of Africa, currency controls were a way of life. Wealth, money and transportable assets (gold and jewellery, gems, stamps and coins) were moved around the sub continent in large sums - this is a story about such a series of events and the inner workings of one such organization - a private, extremely secretive world of intrigue, action, camaraderie, bribery, corruption and of course MONEY.

My grandfather wrote his story about what his life was like as a Tsetse Field Officer before he sadly passed away 7th October 2015. His dream was to get his book rewritten and published professionally. The book follows his family and him when he was in charge of a hunting team in the remote areas of Rhodesia which is now called Zimbabwe from the period of 1965-1981 I hope I do this book and him justice.

When the worst of times are the best of times Two years before Nikita Khrushchev's famous shoe banging incident at a United Nations gathering, the writer's father fears political sabre rattling is leading up to another war. Losing parents, wife and child still fresh in his mind he evacuates his young new family to colonial Southern Rhodesia. While the Cold War takes hold on the other side of the equator and Patrice Lumumba is murdered in the Belgian Congo, life is good. Labour hopefuls in the UK make idealistic promises, igniting an untimely process with serious repercussions for ordinary Rhodesians. Skipping some thirty years of 'hard-labour' in the global corporate world the writer is at crossroads of his own. Picking himself up, he heads back to what was Rhodesia. Zimbabwe has retained its vast natural beauty and once again, life is good. Eventually, totally unprepared, he ventures into farming. With more than 350 men, women and children living on his land, two villages and a cemetery he develops a deeper understanding or lack thereof and discovery of a whole new world of pitfalls and astonishment, simultaneously rewarding and excruciatingly painful. After ten years in the 'Most Beautiful Empty Spot on Earth' the wheels come off as the country sinks into financial quagmire. Inspired by his father's life lessons and ability of 'starting again', humour is never far beneath the surface, despite mishaps, heartaches and hardships. Anecdotes backed up with just a few historical insights provide the reader with a light-hearted narrative of a writer who (almost) always sees the bright side.