Monthly Archive: December 2016

It’s not all that meets the eye

People on the social networks are finding all sorts of symbolism – and satire – in the latest Time magazine Person of the Year cover I mentioned last time for...

Lies, lies, lies and more lies …

Well, well, well, what a sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in. Here we have US$100 issued by a bank in single, grimy one dollar notes – the only...

Here we go again. Another shocker.

The August holiday period is often called ‘the silly season’ when newsmakers are away from their posts. Nothing much happens

All the news is bad – shut your mind and heart to it or it will surely drive you mad

It is not just Supa Mandiwanzira, our IT minister, comparing 92-year-old Mr Mugabe to a matured whisky of the highest

Will Bona be exempted from watching hard core porn?

Well, now there’s a new guardian of the nation’s moral rectitude, Mr Mugabe's 27-year-old daughter, Bona. Unless there are specific exemptions

What a relief. It’s official. Mr Mugabe, 93, isn’t sleeping after all …

Aha, so now we know. Mr Mugabe doesn't sleep at meetings. He closes his eyes against bright lights, television lamps

Yet another lost generation … and I am angry, I am very angry

Desperate schoolgirls and children in rural Zimbabwe are selling sex - up to five "clients" a night - for as

The famous Cuban shirt

So Mr Mugabe was accused in some sections of society of looking “scruffy” the other day when he appeared at

Where assets become liabilities. Anyone for Kilimanjaro?

An old friend gave me sound advice 40 years ago. When you get home to Zimbabwe, you must buy bricks

I give up

It is peculiarly southern African to have traffic lights we call 'robots.' But don't get nostalgic for robots here in

Some roads are more equal than others

Mr Mugabe went to pay his condolences to the family of Primrose Kurasha, the vice chancellor of the Zimbabwe Open

It’s been a daunting year so far …

First, an outbreak of scurvy at the Ingutsheni psychiatric hospital in Bulawayo. Scurvy is caused by vitamin and dietary deficiencies

Monthly Archive: December 2016

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