Category: Feature

August 8, 2020

Catching up in lockdown

IN ANOTHER LIFE? An Argentine correspondent researching the matter tells me that one Angus Shaw was shot dead with 40 of his fellow anarchists on December 8, 1921 in a...

Catching up in lockdown

IN ANOTHER LIFE? An Argentine correspondent researching the matter tells me that one Angus Shaw was shot dead with 40...

A Bridge Too Far

Our Zimbabwe government boasts it has opened a nice new bridge in rural Mvurwi that cost of up to US$...

Haiti, I always wondered why – and more now with the hand-wringing over history

Having been to Haiti in my professional meanderings a while ago, I have often wondered what made it such a...

Walking backwards to the Dark Ages. Is there no shame?

A leading light in agriculture for many years recalls starting his farm in untouched bush in the early 1960s. At...

Power crisis: where has all the money gone, long time passing?

What a life. Endless electricity cuts of around 10 hours a day, endless petrol queues and endless consumer price increases...

Flying high for the few

As Mr Mnangagwa gets a luxury jet to fly from Harare to Bulawayo, his people insist the plane is on...

Water, water, what a mess

Bravo, bravo to the gallant conservationists who have stopped construction work on the Monovale vlei and wetlands. Opposition to their...

What a palaver

So grandfatherly old Mr Biden kissed a woman’s hair on the back of her head. He touched noses with another,...

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

It goes on and on. Sanctions blah, blah, blah. Economy rebounding, blah, blah, blah, currency collapsing blah, blah blah. A...

Lies, lies and more damned lies

It beggars belief. Our friend Botswana was going to lend us $600 million, we were told in the state media....