Includes Meier's views on the South African scene and the Argus Group/Rhodesian Printing and Publishing Company (RP & P) (1969); South Africa's slow response to lessons from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), its politics and politicians; Lancaster House and its consequences; intimidation, elections, political and tribal infighting, and party finances; post-independence politics (Nkomo, Tekere) and the performance of Mugabe and his government - emigration, aid and its absence, party control of the press, disorders, state control of Rhobank, and trouble in Matabeleland.