Monthly Archive: July 2025

Anyone for tennis?

Two of them were betting on the Wimbledon final. The one whose barks and yelps favoured Jannik Sinner won five bucks.The third one didn’t show much interest but got...

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 getting it out of the ground – gold, that is....

Anyone for tennis?

Two of them were betting on the Wimbledon final. The one whose barks and yelps favoured Jannik Sinner won...

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...