A leading light in agriculture for many years recalls starting his farm in untouched bush in the early 1960s. At first, no water, no electricity and just a clapped-out generator....
What a life. Endless electricity cuts of around 10 hours a day, endless petrol queues and endless consumer price increases as the exchange rate rockets out of control. Rolling power...
As Mr Mnangagwa gets a luxury jet to fly from Harare to Bulawayo, his people insist the plane is on free loan from his new friends in the United Arab...
Bravo, bravo to the gallant conservationists who have stopped construction work on the Monovale vlei and wetlands. Opposition to their campaign came from vested interests but at least this time...
So grandfatherly old Mr Biden kissed a woman’s hair on the back of her head. He touched noses with another, not the eskimo greeting but an encroachment on her private...
It goes on and on. Sanctions blah, blah, blah. Economy rebounding, blah, blah, blah, currency collapsing blah, blah blah. A looting continua, blah, blah, blah. Not to leave Kim Jong-un...
It beggars belief. Our friend Botswana was going to lend us $600 million, we were told in the state media. ( The equivalent in height in $100 bills of 600...
Is it any wonder we are all confused? The state media says one thing – which is mostly very far from the truth – and independent voices say another, not...
Er, umm … It’s hard to think of anything to say except that the lunatics are running the asylum and they think we will believe anything they say. The torrent...
We have a local word in these parts: ‘kufungisisa.’ Literally in the Shona language it means ‘thinking too much.’ But it is also the accepted word for the condition we...
The government claims the latest cholera epidemic is under control. It’s no consolation to the family, friends and colleagues of eminent musician, composer and choirmaster Rodwell Samkange who has succumbed...
