My quota of three grave professional errors – erreurs graves professionelles – had been used up. It was the end of a quiet night shift, the slot (duty editor) and I...
It’s three meals a day at the summit in the sumptuous surroundings of St Petersburg. Food is high on the agenda. Is there enough within reach, now and in times...
In Harare, Zimbabwe In so-often discredited history, it could be said the French did it better. For the most part they didn’t send permanent settlers to far flung territories they...
Sock it to ’em! Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather has been in the headlines again. He has apparently spent US 7 million in the Gucci shop in Joburg and was escorted out...
Harare, Zimbabwe. Happy to be home in Africa, says ‘ Roots syndrome’ Mayweather Floyd Mayweather has been and gone and the state media has made a meal of it. The...
Think of bikers. Do you think of Hell’s Angels? Down here in Zimbabwe we have a different sort of biker. Big and powerful motorbikes? Yes. Skull and crossbones logos and...
In these parts we have been through capitalism, Marxist-Leninist communism, humanism, socialism, corrupt elitism – and now we’ve got a new one: ‘miserablism.’ It is suffered by the majority of...
Keen Russia watchers are confused. What really went on with Wagner? Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, son of a Vladimir, has had to admit paying Yevgeny Victorovich Prigozhin, son of a Victor,...
Poor old Henry Kissinger. He just has had his 100th birthday and howls persist that it’s not too late to punish him, perhaps The Hague and jail, for political and...
Much ado about Rusty Markham lately. The honourable opposition member of parliament stormed out of the bulding during heated debate, evidently saying he was sick and tired of constant racism,...
