Beautiful Mount Nyangani turns hostile in moments. It “swallows people” in the local legend – many have disappeared without trace over the years but there’s no way of knowing exactly...
The censors have just cut Fifty Shades of Grey, just as they cut Another Nine and a Half Weeks, hence the new local titles,”Thirty Shades of Grey” and “Another...
More chance of seeing Elvis in the local supermarket, more chance of getting shot dead in a random drive-by. More chance of stumbling across an unpublished Ernest Hemingway manuscript,...
Well, well, Mr Kissinger. The outlook might have looked different in 1974. Dire economic hardships persist in the developing world. Poor, inadequate harvests are again forecast in Zimbabwe this year....
Shock, horror. The euro has now fallen well below the U.S. dollar. A chocolate euro now costs more than the real coin is worth. As Zimbabwe abandoned the local dollar...
Unless a demented co-pilot plunges his Airbus into the French alps with the loss of all on board, or Jihadists decapitate or burn alive their captives, we seldom reflect on...
I became acquainted with loss at an early age. Both my parents died when I was a child, my mother before my father. My father had once forgotten to collect...
Harare – The washing machine cycle takes about 45 minutes _ and George Washington comes out much cleaner than before in Zimbabwe-style laundering of dirty money. One US$ bill...
After Mr Mugabe’s 91st birthday party in Victoria Falls, where elephant was served, an American newspaper wanted to know how to cook an elephant. There are difficulties of scale here....
The test of a good baked bean is being able to snack it cold, right out of the tin. One of Zimbabwe’s first major investments after independence in 1980 came...
