Peace, a faraway place
It was a clever plan. The warring sides could meet for peace talks on a train straddling the border. The negotiating table in the dining car was to be bang...
ANGUS SHAW Blog
The blanket principle
“I would rather be cold under one blanket than warm under 10 blankets owned by the Anglo American Corporation.” Words drawn from the fight against colonialism in southern Africa....
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. It’ll be hot nostalgia on these chilly evenings. Grog and...
Anyone for tennis?
Two of them were betting on the Wimbledon final. The one whose barks and yelps favoured Jannik Sinner won five bucks.The third one didn’t show much interest but got...
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....
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 Zimbabwe ANGUS SHAW, FORMER AP CORRESPONDENT Veteran Reuters Zimbabwean photographer...
Buckets full of bull
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...
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. She was 84. For 60 years she ploughed through the...
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 three months, little Charlie had been living happily in the...
Cocaine, Ukraine and the French
The French have found it necessary to deny that Monsieur Macron and his British and German buddies Starmer and Merz snorted cocaine on their way from Ukraine by train. Russia...
