Tymon Smith and Lomin Saayman caught up with Douglas Rogers, author of The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe, during his time in South Africa:
When Douglas Rogers was in his early teens, one of his sisters returned to the family farm from the nearest town, Mutare, in eastern Zimbabwe, with a videotape of Out of Africa. As the film started and Meryl Streep’s incarna-tion of Karen Blixen drawled, “I had a fa-a-rm in A-afrika,” the Rogers kids, in unison, said, “Oh, God, not this s**t,” and switched it off.But that farm in Africa which he and his siblings so passionately hated when they were young, and which they could not leave fast enough once they had grown up, has haunted Rogers mercilessly over the past decade. It has yapped at his heels and, as Zanu-PF unleashed the full horror of its violent persecution of the millions of Zimbabweans who oppose its regime, it started growling and biting.
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