Monthly Archive: July 2026

Over the moon, but …

Weekend postcard from Harare Potential travellers to London are over the moon. The national airline has resumed direct flights there for the first time in 14 years. A Spanish air...

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 at last from the effrontery of wine, women and song....

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 for money from them. The marriage of Taona Tagwirei, son...