ANGUS SHAW Blog

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        Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed off the Sardinia coast. For us non-Brits, flippered literally means having flippers on in the water but in urban slang it...

Putin heading this way …

Putin might be in Africa this week. Maybe or maybe not. He should have his hands full with Ukraine’s promised counter offensive due any day now, that’s if he’s a...

Money talks, says goodbye

The political and economic health of a country can be measured by its exchange rate against hard currencies, experts say. Zimbabwe is a classic example. But first though, see how...

Those royals and destiny, theirs and ours

I  told you so. Camilla began romancing Charles right here in Zimbabwe around our independence in 1980. Here is corroborating evidence from our very own Chronicle of Bulawayo. Even if...

Can of worms at the crowning

  Former British colonies and protectorates had an eye on all the jewels at the coronation of King Charles III.  Diamonds, gold, silver and many precious artifacts were plundered in colonial times...

ED, our man in the back row

Why did our Zimbabwe President E.D. Mnangagwa get an invitation to the coronation of King Charles III? Our track record in international relations isn’t good.  We are not a member...

Good show! No politics allowed

The Eurovision Song Contest was never everyone’s cup of tea. Banale, trite, cheesy? But this year it got into a hullaballoo over whether Vladimir Zelenski should be allowed to speak...

Bringing out our dead …

It’s hard to shelter from the deluge of news from Sudan and Ukraine. So PTSD brings all this back, particularly in the dark dreams of night … Death, danger and...

Horst Faas and Mohamed Amin

  IMAGES OF CONFLICT Horst Faas should know what he’s talking about in the foreword to Images of Conflict on war reporting. He won two Pulitzers for his photography of...