Eyes smile, they admonish, they smoulder, they moisten. The eyes show what’s going on behind them. Evasiveness and dishonesty, for...
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How do you cook an elephant? With some difficulty. And how’s the cooked hippo?
Good grief! There’s discord in music too …
Beyoncé isn't coal black but in the way of many Americans she isn't white either. It is election year over...
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Shit happens …
Anglophiles among us will have been following the English tradition of the annual boat race between the universities of Oxford...
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From Russia with love
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission plus a smattering of government freeloaders back from a trip to the Russian election have sworn...
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Don’t worry, be happy …
In every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double/ Ain't got no place to lay...
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First the good news …
Some of our gaping potholes are getting fixed. The bad news is that after years of neglect this is not...
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Times they are a-changin’
After my recent piece from chaotic, dispirited and decrepit Harare I dug out something I did for Skyhost, the Air...
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So sorry, dear Valentine
As local legend has it, the hopeful young man takes roses to a girl on Valentine’s Day. Jeez, she cries,...
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick’s classic film comes to mind all these years later. It’s about psychotic leaders hurling us towards disaster in...
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Postcard from Harare
Our ruler and his entourage have met Ms Maloni, Italy’s neo-fascist prime minister. What is unusual about this is...
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