Good show! No politics allowed
The Eurovision Song Contest was never everyone’s cup of tea. Banale, trite, cheesy? But this year it got into a hullaballoo over whether Vladimir Zelenski should be allowed to speak...
Author: Angus Shaw
Bringing out our dead …
It’s hard to shelter from the deluge of news from Sudan and Ukraine. So PTSD brings all this back, particularly in the dark dreams of night … Death, danger and...
Horst Faas and Mohamed Amin
IMAGES OF CONFLICT Horst Faas should know what he’s talking about in the foreword to Images of Conflict on war reporting. He won two Pulitzers for his photography of...
IMAGES OF CONFLICT
Horst Faas, veteran war photographer and twice Pulitzer price winner wrote this: On Monday 12 July 1993, a mob murdered four men who...
Fidel Castro and Ian Smith
F Angus Shaw Fidel Castro, ‘the revolutionary,’ and Ian Smith, ‘the reactionary,’ never actually met, but we all found it rather amusing that the Cuban embassy bought a house...
From the past, Saxon rises again?
Andrew Saxon was a pen name of mine. Our “Public Eye” column in newspapers and magazines was quite well-liked in Zimbabwe, as modesty would have it said. Let’s see if...
‘Fings ain’t wot they used to be
May Day, mayday, mayday, the international radio distress signal for ships and planes but no-one has heard ours. Zimbabwe is going down fast and furious and there’s no rescue on...
Stop the World I Want to Get Off
As the old musical said: Stop the World I Want to Get Off. It’s not possible unless you want to take out your 9mil and shoot yourself in the head,...
The curse in cricket, now the race card
Disturbing to see professional Zimbabwe cricketer Gary Ballance has retired after “falling out of love with the game,’’ as the British tabloid press put it. In truth, he fell out...
Our foremost hero Mbuya Nehanda is crying
The people out there are saying that Mbuya Nehanda is crying: You put me on the 50 dollar note now worth a measly 3 US cents.. Even a ‘freezit,’ the...
