Monthly Archive: May 2017

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The famous Cuban shirt

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

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