All for Nothing

<p>C.G. Tracey became a farmer at sixteen at the beginning of the Second World War. Entrepreneuer businessman plant-breeder racehorse owner and breeder sanctions-buster chairman and director of many companies husband father and gentleman C.G. was active and involved through the many unsettled years of Zimbabwe's history. This included the Central African Federation and its break-up Ian Smith's UDI followed by sanctions and the war Zimbabwean independence in 1980 and the search to put the country on a sound-footing. Having had considerable influence in the development of our still fledging nation in the closing years of his long life he suffered the loss of his won farm in a period in which his brother sister and children were all tragically affected and his sister-in-law was murdered.</p>