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by Angus Shaw · 20 December 2025

Anyone for cricket? It’s World Cup time again

The late Robert Mugabe once famously described cricket as “a civilising influence.” It “creates good gentlemen. I want everyone in...

Well, well, well - this early, what a year it has already been. Starting with Venezuela and then Ms Machado...

The Harare mayor’s ceremonial limo broke down taking him a short two kilometres to the switching on of the city...

MUTOKO MADNESS. From Rhodesia’s Bush War to Africa’s Killing Fields. A Reporter’s Journey. The long road, peppered with Africa’s beauty...

With all the bucks on the sticky fingers of officialdom, the state electricity company can’t buy extra cable and spare...

We the extra terrestrials came down to see for ourselves. But soon we put our flying saucers into reverse gear...

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If some behaviour at the just-ended UN General Assembly was theatre of the absurd ... make no mistake, it's not...

To escape from woeful international news there's been the week's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. It throws up this...