A sporting life in Africa
May 18, 2022
2 minutes
Nearly 20 years ago, the Fletchers found themselves barricaded inside their farmstead with Mugabe’s war veterans running amok outside during Zimbabwe’s land invasions. To pass the time, ex-Selous Scout Johne and his son, Robert, sifted through the papers of their ancestor, also Robert, a map-maker for Cecil Rhodes, who surveyed what is now southern Zimbabwe and knew Lobengula, the last Ndebele king.
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