Written by a former Zimbabwean High Court Judge, this is a biography spanning the southern African region during a time of momentous change. As well as being intriguing, absorbing and informative, it is also thought-provoking on critically important issues such as justice, ethnicity, xenophobia, affirmative action, the death sentence, rape and patronage.
This book is very different from the many books that have come out of the Zimbabwe situation. It is written with intent to set out truth based on authentic experiences of a Coloured person, in particular.
The outcome is also quite brutal on a number of levels. It is a unique biography that fascinates and provokes. Although the story starts in Zimbabwe, it spans the whole region in a quest to answer the central question what has liberation actually done for ordinary human beings especially Zimbabweans? And how are we treated in other countries?
A whole gamut of issues are traversed, including racism and xenophobia, with subsets like the death sentence, rape and the rights of an accused person.
This is a biography that is both enthralling and educative whether you are a judge, a human rights activist, one of the millions in the Zimbabwe Diaspora or just someone who is concerned that for, whatever reason, you are sometimes treated differently as the Other.
No punches are pulled about inconvenient truths and convenient untruths.
Included is an expos on the Edgar Tekere trial and the stance of Ian Smiths military commanders during the liberation war. Characters who are honourably featured include Richard Brown, the late Danny Pillay, Vernon Bowers, the late Sister Mare Nujent, Edgar Rogers, Minister Dullah Omar, among many others.
Given that the world comprises a multi racial, multi ethnic mix concerned with truth, happiness and justice, The Other Without Fear, Favour or Prejudice ” is a must-read.
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About the Author
Greenland made history when, in 1973, he became the first non-white person in the region to be appointed to the magisterial bench. In 1980 he served on the politically correct constituted court that tried Edgar Tekere. Again history was made when, as an assessor, he wrote the judgment that overruled the judge and Tekere was acquitted of murder.
Later, as an Advocate, he defended Samson Nhari and nine other ZAPU cadres, accused of attempting a coup and plotting to murder then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. Also notable was his successful defence of Gertrude Paweni and acting for the late Edson Zvobgo in a defamation suit.
He was appointed as a judge in 1987, which office he carried with distinction until taking voluntary retirement at the end of 1991. Since then he has worked in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia in the road crash compensation system. He is proud of the fact that Namibia now has an internationally unmatchable compensation system.
Excerpts from the book
The Tekere Trial
That the trial was to be sensational was guaranteed firstly on account of the fact that Tekere, was the president of the Zimbabwe African Union. The man was the leader of the majority component of the victorious liberation forces. Secondly was the fact that he had killed a white farm manager. During the only recently ended war such people were routinely targeted by the guerrillas and many lost their lives. Now the killing of such a person was to be visited with a trial in which conviction exposed Tekere to a sentence of death by hanging.
On the already known facts Tekere had not behaved as a criminal. He had not killed a man during the course of a robbery or over a woman or for any of the usual criminal motives. The man had been killed by a member of his uniformed platoon as he was embarked on a security sweep of a farm from which gunfire had emanated the night before. Why was Mugabe putting the president of his party on trial in such circumstances? If convicted would Tekere hang? These questions loomed large in the minds of an intrigued new society.
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About two weeks before resumption Judge Pittman phoned me to say he had changed his mind and would be sending me a draft judgment to that effect, convicting Tekere of murder. The document never arrived
True Life
It is a warm November evening. The shapely form of a woman stands on the kerbside. Car after car stops next to her. In each case she waves the driver off. Loveness Chipisa [name altered] is in a good mood. She is expecting someone special. She is quite sure that in their last encounter she had given him more than he had expected. That he would return for more she had very little doubt. As she walks slowly down Charter road she surveys each approaching vehicle with heightened anticipation. “My rich Jew boy client is bound to come back for me” she had boasted to her friends – “It was his first time to taste chikapa”. Chikapa is sex involving serious hip gyrations in which only black girls are reputedly skilled
Dont miss further excerpts from The Other in the next issue of The Zimbabwean.
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Greenland could have stayed behind in Zimbabwe to assist the tirade of destruction and poverty. Instead he ran off to new countries to make money.