"The Battle for Zimbabwe" book launch in Sydney on 17th February at 5.30pm in Parliament House
Join us at the Parliament House in NSW for the launch of Geoff Hills new book - "The Battle for Zimbabwe"
Geoff Hill is a lively speaker who adds humour to his talks and his address in Sydney will bring you right up to date on the situation in Zimbabwe.
THE BOOK
Zimbabwe’s ruling party is currently experiencing its most intense economic and political challenge in its 20-year history. This book, written in an easy-to-read journalistic style, charts these troubled times. It takes the reader inside Robert Mugabe’s party, ZANU-PF, and the oppositional Movement for Democratic Change. The author has met with members of both parties who have been prepared to talk candidly with him, giving him behind-the-scenes information.
The book considers the role of critics and observers - the role and treatment of the press within Zimbabwe, and the often contradictory responses to Mugabe from the international community. It also looks at the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans living in a collapsing economy. Finally, it considers Zimbabwe’s future - the challenge that lies ahead to rebuild the conutry.
His book, The Battle for Zimbabwe (now on sale in Australia) charts the country¹s history and recent events. Over three years Geoff interviewed more than a thousand people -- incl 80 torture victims -- and amassed more than four million words of research to produce one of South Africa¹s best-selling books for 2003/4.
In November 2003, ahead of the Abuja CHOGM, he was invited to address the Royal Inst for International Affairs in London on the subject of Zimbabwe.
THE AUTHOR
Geoff Hill was born in 1956 and grew up in Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe, where he became fluent in the Shona language. In 1980, he joined the Manica Post newspaper on the border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and, after the nationalisation of the press in 1982, he moved to Australia and spent eight years with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. In 1992, he co-founded the world¹s first international magazine on travel to Africa, African Safari.
In Sydney, Geoff hosted a weekly radio programme, lectured on African affairs, was Australia-Pacific correspondent for Radio 702 Johannesburg and spent 12 weeks a year in Africa to gather stories for his travel magazine. He was also a founder member and first vice-president of the ASABC.
In 1997, Geoff returned to Zimbabwe where he worked as a journalist and hosted music programs on FM radio. In 2002, he moved to Johannesburg where he is Africa correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and a daily paper in Washington DC.
In September 2000 he became the first non-American to receive a John Steinbeck Award for short-story writing and also won the 2000 Commonwealth Short Story Award for Africa.
Here is the flyer that covers this launch
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