Catherine Buckle or Cathy Buckle is a writer living in Marondera, Zimbabwe. She and her husband bought "Stow Farm" and spent over ten years turning its rocky grounds into fertile soil, making the farm productive and viable. However, in 2000 she lost her farm, home and livelihood to a group of "war veterans" who claimed rights to her land. Cathy has written three books for children. Most recently she has written "African Tears" and "Beyond Tears", two books telling about her struggle after she lost her farm and how, when she returned to it two years later, it had been turned into a squatter camp. Despite heavy pressures on writers by the Zimbabwean Government Cathy is determined that the truth about her home country is known. Therefore she writes a weekly e-mail telling of the current situation in Zimbabwe which is sent around the globe. Marondera, formerly known as Marandellas, a town in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe located about 72km east of Harare; population 40,000 (Central Statistical Office, Zimbabwe. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... A veteran (from Latin vetus, meaning old) is a person who is experienced in a particular area, and is particularly used to refer to people in the armed forces. ...
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