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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 –...

Colonel John Henry Patterson tried to induce the natives to work on the East African railway but, despite the great famine in 1897–99, found that they were indifferent to money...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

A Trivial Pursuit question: Who was the white South African dowager who said she would prefer to be murdered in her bed than have to make it herself in the...

    In these parts, if you order tette delle monache with your cappucino you’ll get a delicious cream-filled cake more commonly known as “a nun’s breast.”     Italians don’t seem...