Great sadness

[Les]

It was with great shock and sadness that we learned of the murder of David Rattray at his popular tourist lodge, Fugitive's Drift. He was arguably the best raconteur and story teller about the Zulu War and many members will have been spellbound at his lectures at the lodge or here at the Royal Geographical Society in London. His death robs us of an exceptional larger than life individual with a fund of stories who made a bridge between his beloved Zulus and interested Europeans. The motive for the killing was not theft but most likely political. As a prominent white landowner, he was a prime target for those politicians who would wish to follow Mugabe's example and confiscate white-owned farms, irrespective of the misery it has brought Zimbabwe. One can only pray that sanity will prevail and that David's murder is not a prelude to a large scale tragedy.

courtesy victoriacrossociety.com

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