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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Clint and the silly King Cnut
Clint, as in Eastwood, the actor, film director and producer, is the abbreviation of the first name Clinton, like Dick...
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The ball is in your frying pan now
Harare, Zimbabwe Language, they say, is a wonderful thing, a moveable feast of expression and misunderstanding. An advert in our...
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Folly through a looking glass
Sudan skyline, 2024 Back In Vietnam, an estimated 3 million people died over a decade, most of them...
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