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...

Mutoko Madness. On sale now!

MUTOKO MADNESS. From Rhodesia’s Bush War to Africa’s Killing Fields. A Reporter’s Journey. The long road, peppered with Africa’s beauty...

Height of the ridiculous

With all the bucks on the sticky fingers of officialdom, the state electricity company can’t buy extra cable and spare...

Thanks, but we’re out of here …

We the extra terrestrials came down to see for ourselves. But soon we put our flying saucers into reverse gear...

New twists

Nowadays few will remember the dance craze made popular by Chubby Checker based on moves likened to drying one’s back...

I woke up this morning feeling the blues

Yet there are antidotes for the blues. Sunrise and sunset (left), the dawn chorus, all-embracing music, the beauty of storytelling...

Theatre of the absurd

If some behaviour at the just-ended UN General Assembly was theatre of the absurd ... make no mistake, it's not...

Moses the Masai Warrior

To escape from woeful international news there's been the week's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. It throws up this...

A picture tells 1,000 words

This old saying saves people like me trying to explain it and getting dragged into a snake pit of debate....

Peace, a faraway place

It was a clever plan. The warring sides could meet for peace talks on a train straddling the border. The...

The blanket principle

"I would rather be cold under one blanket than warm under 10 blankets owned by the Anglo American Corporation."...