Monthly Archive: July 2024

The curse of interesting times …

May you live in interesting times! This started out as a Chinese curse. Thus, don’t expect tranquil and peaceful times. So...

Poverty strikes, but not for everyone

Five cops have been caught after demanding a “free passage” bribe to let a truck proceed on a highway east of Harare city. They shared the $5 dollar bill. This...

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%...

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When will we ever learn?

Click below. Country Joe and the Fish. Have a quick listen to this classic anti-war song of 1969. Then flip...