Monthly Archive: December 2016

It’s not all that meets the eye

People on the social networks are finding all sorts of symbolism – and satire – in the latest Time magazine Person of the Year cover I mentioned last time for...

Lies, lies, lies and more lies …

Well, well, well, what a sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in. Here we have US$100 issued by a bank in single, grimy one dollar notes – the only...

Year-end diary. The wide mouthed frog and other stories …

(Pixels of pics have been reduced to ease download times and save on data. Also, on smaller phones or screens,...

Bejesus, let there be light

(Dateline Harare) How does it feel when extreme weather events cut off electricity to a few million households though it...

Lament for a tortured friend

So, it’s boring as fuck. Sorry for that. Very few hits on my last story. We’ve slipped right off the...

Let’s make Orwell fiction again

Even in these far reaches of the globe it is impossible to escape from the noise of those damned elections...

How to launder money

We tried washing grimy notes in gentle soap suds and warm water. Then a machine cycle took 45 minutes and...

Pomp versus poor

They all do it. They deliver a state of the nation address (SONA) to legislatures, painting a rosy picture of...

Trickle down? Where? When?

Ask any economist. Trickle down from wealth at the top is a fine theory but where and when does it...

Kissing up to Chairman Mao

Harare, Zimbabwe. Our admiration for Chairman Mao, architect of China's Cultural Revolution from 1949 to 1976, is boundless. We have...

Railroad to nowhere

China, the master of rail and bullet trains, has offered to step in and fix it. Don’t hold your breath....

How to be a good bedfellow

Putin is our pal. As is Xi Jinping. So is the Supreme Leader in the crucible of radical fundamentalism, Iran....