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....
(china: old southern Africa lingo from London Cockney rhyming slang ‘china plate’ or mate.) Obituary-Howard Burditt, long-serving Reuters photographer in Zimbabwe ANGUS SHAW, FORMER AP CORRESPONDENT Veteran Reuters Zimbabwean photographer...
So much bull around these days it’s hard to keep up. Who is the craziest billionaire of them all? No prizes for an answer because it’s all in the...
As the Jesuits used to say: Give us the boy and we’ll keep the man, no matter his digressions in between. It worked well for Robert Mugabe. After years as...
The famed fast food outlet in South Africa has donated children’s desks to a school in dire need of them. Bad policy priorities across...
(Kleptocracy from ancient Greek: Rule by thieves ) The display of motor oils on the forecourt of a filling station a couple of blocks away is impressive. But the containers...
The bad news is that after years of neglect this is not being done as a public service. A summit meeting of heads of state and government is coming soon....
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...
May Day, mayday, mayday, the international radio distress signal for ships and planes but no-one has heard ours. Zimbabwe is going down fast and furious and there’s no rescue on...
THE HOME FOR THE BEWILDERED In the clinic, the Home for the Bewildered, they asked me if I had smuggled anything in. How do you find your way to a...
