09 October 2018 1 Min Read

One of the ‘chosen whites’: I made Mugabe laugh

in News / South Africa by Peta Thornycroft
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends the launch of basic commodities in Harare, Zimbabwe July 16, 2008.
Image: REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo
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Zimbabwe’s first post-independence agricultural minister, Denis Norman, now 88, changed the world for tens of thousands of subsistence farmers.

One of a handful of whites chosen by Mugabe to serve him, he talks in a new book about land grabs, making Mugabe laugh, and losing his heart for Zimbabwe.

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