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...

Money doesn’t grow on trees …

Money doesn't grow on trees but there's plenty of it to be found beneath and beyond. There are risks in...

Howie Burditt, our all-weather china

(china: old southern Africa lingo from London Cockney rhyming slang 'china plate' or mate.) Obituary-Howard Burditt, long-serving Reuters photographer in...

Buckets full of bull

So much bull around these days it’s hard to keep up. Who is the craziest billionaire of them all?...

Felicity Wood: Another legend gone

Harare, Zimbabwe Felicity Wood, a beacon in our contemporary history, has died after a long and fearful battle with cancer....

Monkey business in Milton Park

Charlie, the young vervet monkey, was dead, heartlessly gunned down in the leafy Harare suburb of Milton Park. For about...

Cocaine, Ukraine and the French

The French have found it necessary to deny that Monsieur Macron and his British and German buddies Starmer and Merz...

So farewell then …

As the Jesuits used to say: Give us the boy and we'll keep the man, no matter his digressions in...

Easter tidings. Just saying …

In the Christian faith Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus and the Almighty's victory over sin and death and symbolises...

Dizzying trillions

There's much being said across the ocean about how many trillions are to be gained from new trade policies and...

Weekend read: Dildos in the Mist

The local store has started selling coffee from faraway Rwanda, reminding me of my visits there, before, during and after...