18/01/2026
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I think back on all we have gone through, particularly my dad, Terry.
It’s been 15 years since he first started Chewore Lodge and Campsite in a JV with National Parks.
Sometimes it’s like a bad dream that i keep trying to wake up from.
My dad has done nothing but lawfully rent land, build a camp that our clients who have become friends love, and created an escape in the bush , with an incridible team of guys, for his children and grandchildren to adventure and explore Mother Africa.
He taught us all to ‘always put back in the pot’, to always contribute and look after others where we can.
We have been illegally shut down, threatened to be evicted, had armed rangers deployed at camp,told to move(many times),he’s been ABDUCTED, had false charges put against him, sent to remand, had his passport taken off him, missed seeing his sister for the last time before she passed away( we got his passport back the day she died),and now our appeal has been dismissed.
There is A LOT I could say about that appeal.
And through all of this, my Dad, supported greatly by mom, Diane, is still fighting and we are now, making our way to the constitutional courts of Zimbabwe seeking justice.
There have been many many lessons, a lot of them I didn’t even know I needed, but the greatest of them all is the ability to keep getting up and going. That regardless of what is , or more accurately ‘who’ is against us, there is always a way when you are protected by truth.
Because while we may have just lost our appeal. The truth is still there. The facts remain the same and it can’t be changed.
The truth ALWAYS comes to light.
Yes, sometimes I wish it would bloody hurry up. But it will come. It always does.
Again, to my parents, YNWA, this isn’t over, we aren’t finished yet and quite possibly, the best is yet to come 😉
Laura Kelly.
