I’m all for it

From the LRB letters page: [ 18 May 2000 ] Robert Creamer [ 1 June 2000 ] Terry Philpot, Julian Roach, Douglas Kretzmann, Gloria Grove-Stephensen, R.W. Johnson [ 22 June 2000 ] Michael Brookes, John Pook [ 20 July 2000 ] Martin Murray.

R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.

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Her Boy · Mark Thatcher

Nerds, Rabbits and a General Lack of Testosterone · Major and Lamont

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How Mugabe came to power · R.W. Johnson talks to Wilfred Mhanda

Rogue’s Paradise · The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War by Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova

Burning Blankets · Robert Mugabe’s latest tidy-up

Where do we go from here? · Zimbabwe