It is not just Supa Mandiwanzira, our IT minister, comparing 92-year-old Mr Mugabe to a matured whisky of the highest quality. No-one wants a 5-year-old whisky, good whisky gets better...
Well, now there’s a new guardian of the nation’s moral rectitude, Mr Mugabe’s 27-year-old daughter, Bona. Unless there are specific exemptions relating to her duties on the official Board of...
Aha, so now we know. Mr Mugabe doesn’t sleep at meetings. He closes his eyes against bright lights, television lamps and flashbulbs. According to his spokesman, the light-sensitive eye condition...
Desperate schoolgirls and children in rural Zimbabwe are selling sex – up to five “clients” a night – for as little as an empty Coca Cola bottle, redeemable at a...
So Mr Mugabe was accused in some sections of society of looking “scruffy” the other day when he appeared at a regional economic summit in Mauritius wearing an open-neck white...
An old friend gave me sound advice 40 years ago. When you get home to Zimbabwe, you must buy bricks and mortar, dear boy. John Worrall was a legendary Africa...
It is peculiarly southern African to have traffic lights we call ‘robots.’ But don’t get nostalgic for robots here in Harare. Half of them don’t work and the police are...
Mr Mugabe went to pay his condolences to the family of Primrose Kurasha, the vice chancellor of the Zimbabwe Open University, at her home in the northern suburbs of Harare....
First, an outbreak of scurvy at the Ingutsheni psychiatric hospital in Bulawayo. Scurvy is caused by vitamin and dietary deficiencies and can make teeth fall out, along with fatigue, skin...
People on the social networks are finding all sorts of symbolism – and satire – in the latest Time magazine Person of the Year cover I mentioned last time for...
