![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() People were sharing the little bit they had. Shaynie turned to the poetic iSiNdebele language for a name for Misty’s baby, one that had real meaning in the current day. I had visions of my mugshot being hastily printed on a sheet of paper, along with a reward for my capture… I remember feeling rather like Ned Kelly. In April I found myself on the wanted-persons list of the Zimbabwe Republic Police. This particular year spewed forth a grand measure of the outrageous. It’s what the early map-makers declared when they believed that they’d arrived at the edge of the world, and it seems to sum up my life in the Hwange bush where something unsavoury always appears to be lurking just around the corner, ready to pounce. There’s an expression, from bygone days, that has repeatedly rolled around in my mind since my arrival in Africa: ‘Beyond this place there be dragons’. This particular incident happened in 2008, and by then I was becoming quite accustomed to the ridiculous. Despite the beauty and the fun times, absurd events had, in actual fact, been the yearly norm for me since my 2001 arrival in the Hwange bush. … I knew that something unbelievably preposterous would eventually happen, since the year to date had been relatively uneventful. ![]()
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