The nearest work of SA Lit to hand at this instant in time is Douglas Rogers’ memoir of Zimbabwe, The Last Resort. Here’s the first paragraph, as preface to this week’s events podcast with myself and Tymon Smith:
I was eight thousand kilometres away, drunk and happily unaware at a friend’s birthday party in Berlin, when I learned that the first white farmer had been murdered. Someone had left a television on in the corner of the apartment. I knew, even with the sound off, that it was a news report on Zimbabwe.
And here’s the podcast:
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