Category: Archive

Don’t pick at old bones …

THE HOME FOR THE BEWILDERED In the clinic, the Home for the Bewildered, they asked me if I had smuggled anything in.  How do you find your way to a...

Death in the family

My dear, intelligent Border Collie went to doggies’ heaven. Heaven because I can’t see how she could ever have sinned. Gabby, originally named after the angel Gabriel, succumbed to kidney...

Algorithm mystery solved, or is it?

An algorithm is a formula that solves problems: x+y = z. Got it?  No, the formula goes so much further than that. Heaven forbid, it can now be called “a...

What’s the verdict on them there wigs?

Our justice system is considering whether to rid our judges of bleached horsehair wigs, a vestige of colonialism. As Zimbabwe approaches the 43rd anniversary of independence from Britain on April...

Corruption and the gold mafia

Zimbabweans, and hopefully the world, are trying to get their heads around last night’s first Al Jazeera broadcast on our region’s gold mafia. On social media, heads are spinning this...

The getaway car broke down …

What a bummer, man! That is what we would have said in the old hippy days about a disappointing experience. Like the time the getaway car broke down. Our getaway...

A dead giveaway …

Sometimes I am accused, even in retirement, of being irresponsible or reckless with the little money I’ve got from a lifetime of reporting and writing. Oh, I do give to...

The Oscars and me

Jamie Lee Curtis just won an Oscar. I knew her old man. It’s probably fairer to say Tony Curtis knew me. To cut a long story short, I had been...