Category: Mutoko Madness

12 Mar, 2015

Prologue

Home for the Bewildered The man in the next bed, Thought he had a coffin Growing out of his head. He couldn’t wear his hat, What do you think of...

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4 Mar, 2015

Mutoko Madness

A Memoir By Angus Shaw How do you behave in a poker game with a genocidal murderer? General Mohammed Siad Barre of Somalia had a revolver lying beside his over-flowing...

Walking backwards to the Dark Ages. Is there no shame?

A leading light in agriculture for many years recalls starting his farm in untouched bush in the early 1960s. At

Power crisis: where has all the money gone, long time passing?

What a life. Endless electricity cuts of around 10 hours a day, endless petrol queues and endless consumer price increases

Flying high for the few

As Mr Mnangagwa gets a luxury jet to fly from Harare to Bulawayo, his people insist the plane is on

Water, water, what a mess

Bravo, bravo to the gallant conservationists who have stopped construction work on the Monovale vlei and wetlands. Opposition to their campaign

What a palaver

So grandfatherly old Mr Biden kissed a woman’s hair on the back of her head. He touched noses with another,

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

It goes on and on. Sanctions blah, blah, blah. Economy rebounding, blah, blah, blah, currency collapsing blah, blah blah. A

Lies, lies and more damned lies

It beggars belief. Our friend Botswana was going to lend us $600 million, we were told in the state media.

Danger: Zimbabwe is harmful to health

Is it any wonder we are all confused? The state media says one thing - which is mostly very far

Lunatics running, robbing the asylum?

Er, umm … It’s hard to think of anything to say except that the lunatics are running the asylum and

Thinking too much

We have a local word in these parts: ‘kufungisisa.’ Literally in the Shona language it means ‘thinking too much.’ But