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...

China taken to task, but will they listen?

The Chinese, aided and abetted by local politicians and business people, rip up the landscape with no care for the...

The end of the world is nigh, well, almost …

The world, as we know it, is changing fast and it makes no sense. Doomsayers predict artificial intelligence is as...

Total eclipse of the economy

A total eclipse happens when one celestial body blocks the light of another. Down on earth, a once successful economy...

Over the moon, but …

Weekend postcard from Harare Potential travellers to London are over the moon. The national airline has resumed direct flights there...

Remembering Iran’s Supreme leader

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei must have been relieved to arrive home in fundamentalist Teheran after his Zimbabwe trip in 1986, safe...

In other words, bugger off …

HARARE, Zimbabwe. As hardships mount, the family who last month hosted a Jeff Bezos-style wedding wants people to stop begging...

Singing the blues at World Cup 26

Whatever you think of football, love it or hate it, the World Cup is singing the blues this time...

The Big, the Bad and the Hurt

As the southern hemisphere winter takes hold, hundreds of homes are being demolished, leaving families without shelter shivering and chilled...

King Hez enters the fray

In Biblical times King Hezekiah prayed to be granted more time on the throne, believing he was indispensable to his...

Born to Suffer

It has just been the country’s 46th anniversary of independence from colonial rule. A stark reality is that only 9%...