Simon Reader

Simon Reader

My Country of Flickering Lights”€”Dispatches from the New South Africa

  Cape Town in December isn"€™t South Africa or even Africa. It resonates deeply with sophistication, void of boring locals. The restaurants are world class, accompanied by some of the finest wine lists in the Southern Hemisphere, and the beach bars and bistros spill out onto pavements with ...

Zimbabwe Hits Bottom

Robert Mugabe hates black people more than the most technical architects of apartheid ever could and he's never been shy about demonstrating it. From 1982-1985, he waged a full scale slaughter against the minority Ndebele people that saw mass graves holding some 20,000 dead. To this murder campaign ...


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