The Odd Man In: Mugabe's White-Hand Man

Denis Norman was born into an ordinary farming family in Oxfordshire, England in 1931, and 22 years later he travelled to Africa to become an assistant on a tobacco farm in Southern Rhodesia. Within a few years, he had bought his own farm, and had begun to rise through the ranks of the countryís agricultural administration. He was President of the Commercial Farmersí Union when Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980 and, with no previous political affiliations, he was appointed Minister of Agr...