Author: Angus Shaw

A new “hut tax,” going for broke?

In his just-delivered budget speech, the finance minister wants to bring in a new property tax. He is proposing a one percent levy on homes in the wealthier bracket –...

No more cop outs on climate, please

Our man at the helm has been at the climate change summit, Cop28, in luxurious Dubai, a place better known to his countrymen as the hub of our illegal gold...

Tough Times

I’m not the only one who puts words on paper – it’s rich and rewarding, except financially. I’m not alone. Alongside Liz Truss, David Cameron’s story was also remaindered in...

Lessons from extremes, then and now

  The spectre of Iran hangs in the air … today, as war rages, the indelible hand of the ayatollahs, the mullahs and their Islamic theocracy has got everyone by...

Haunted by a very black Black Friday

Harare, Zimbabwe Black Friday, usually around November 24 every year, is not a shopping bonanza in this neck of the woods. For us, November 14, a Friday in 1997, was...

Elvis and his blue suede shoes

Harare, Zimbabwe If the world has too many problems right now – endless wars, famine and pestilence – it might be the time to spare a thought for Elvis Presley’s...