Catherine Buckle

Cathy Buckle is a writer and blogger living in Marondera Zimbabwe. She writes not as an academic or a historian but as a single mum living in rural Zimbabwe. Her "Letter from Zimbabwe" blog is read around the world and is often featured in print and broadcast media outlets. Cathy originally trained as a social worker at the University of Rhodesia and graduated in Social Work in 1979.

Buckle has written four books for children, one of which was selected as a set book in 2017 for English Literature students in Zimbabwean senior schools. She has written eleven works of non fiction including “African Tears” which chronicles the personal story of the invasion of her farm bought after Zimbabwean independence and with government approval. The book was serialized in the UK's The Sunday Times, South Africa's Femina magazine and Rapport newspaper. Her other books include “Beyond Tears” which chronicles eyewitness accounts of harassment and intimidation in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2002. “Innocent Victims: Rescuing the Stranded Animals of Zimbabwe's Farm Invasions” was published by Merlin Unwin in the UK. Buckle has published a series of four books of her collected Letters From Zimbabwe: "Can You Hear the Drums 2000 - 2004", "Millions, Billions, Trillions 2005 - 2009", "When Winners are Losers 2009 - 2013", "Finding Our Voices 2013 - 2017". Her story of a Zimbabwean's encounters in the Diaspora "Sleeping Like a Hare" was published in 2015. Her wildlife and conservation memoirs include: "Imire. The Life and Time of Norman Travers" (2010) and "Rundi. Hand rearing baby elephants" (2016). Her most recent book “Surviving Zimbabwe” was published in 2020.

• African Tears. The Zimbabwe Land Invasions. (2001)[1]
• Beyond Tears. Zimbabwe's tragedy. (2002)
• Imire. The Life and Times of Norman Travers. (2010)
• Can you Hear the Drums. Letters from Zimbabwe 2000 - 2004. (2013)
• Millions, Billions, Trillions. Letters from Zimbabwe 2005 - 2009. (2014)
• Sleeping Like A Hare (2015)
• Rundi. Hand Rearing baby Elephants. (2016)
• Finding Our Voices Letters from Zimbabwe 2013 - 2017. (2018)
• When Winners are Losers Letters from Zimbabwe 2009 - 2013. (2018)
• Surviving Zimbabwe (2020)

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