Monthly Archive: November 2022

Books, bookshelves and TV

You can buy false bookshelves these days by the metre in length. Commentators and experts being interviewed on TV or Zoom and stuff almost always have books behind them to...

And now for something different

With all that’s going on in the world today, it might be time to look at peculiarities, the off-beat and the humour prevailing in past and present times. Exactly 50...

Youngsters to save the world …

  Smoking very bad. War very bad. The Great Plague very bad. Most things very bad in the olden days. It’s different now! In Afghanistan, starving children are sold to...

A litany of scandals

So it’s just two years since our playboy ‘Ginimbi’ Kadungure died in his Rolls Royce on the way home from all night revelling and drinking at his now closed Harare...

The Ukraine factor

Former British envoy to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert, now ambassador in Moscow, is summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry over British involvement in Ukraine. Maria Zhakarova, one of Putin’s main spokespeople,...