Tagged: Money Matters

Money doesn’t grow on trees …

Money doesn’t grow on trees but there’s plenty of it to be found beneath and beyond. There are risks in getting it out of the ground – gold, that is....

Money baffles brains, as do the ghosts of yesteryear

As the classic tale for us old broke folk recalls: “If they say money talks, mine only says goodbye.” Plenty of money is floating around but it is not coming...

A picture tells 1,000 words

This old saying saves people like me trying to explain it and getting dragged into a snake pit of debate....

Peace, a faraway place

It was a clever plan. The warring sides could meet for peace talks on a train straddling the border. The...

The blanket principle

"I would rather be cold under one blanket than warm under 10 blankets owned by the Anglo American Corporation."...

A blast from the past. Don’t miss it

It's just days away on Saturday Aug 2. Get your diary out and make a plan. It'll be worth it....

Anyone for tennis?

Two of them were betting on the Wimbledon final. The one whose barks and yelps favoured Jannik Sinner won...

Money doesn’t grow on trees …

Money doesn't grow on trees but there's plenty of it to be found beneath and beyond. There are risks in...

Howie Burditt, our all-weather china

(china: old southern Africa lingo from London Cockney rhyming slang 'china plate' or mate.) Obituary-Howard Burditt, long-serving Reuters photographer in...

Buckets full of bull

So much bull around these days it’s hard to keep up. Who is the craziest billionaire of them all?...

Felicity Wood: Another legend gone

Harare, Zimbabwe Felicity Wood, a beacon in our contemporary history, has died after a long and fearful battle with cancer....

Monkey business in Milton Park

Charlie, the young vervet monkey, was dead, heartlessly gunned down in the leafy Harare suburb of Milton Park. For about...