Author: Angus Shaw

Let there be light.

Let there be light. Fat chance. Daily electricity blackouts now last up to 18 hours. It will be a bleak winter as temperatures drop in the southern hemisphere. The energy...

Don’t let the facts spoil a good story

Nice one. ‘Photoshopped’ image from Bambazonkie. Correspondent Sean warns travelers on the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway. “There are unexpected and very deep potholes along the way and right in line of your...

The race card. Say no more

American cop beating the hell out of a black man as another looks on in New York   What’s with this current obsession with racism? American police shooting blacks. Black...

More troubles ahead. Mayday Mayday Mayday Part Two

More troubles lie ahead.  Current food harvests are woefully inadequate. FEWS NET, the international non-government Famine Early Warning Systems Network, in its new April report just out, says food production...

The envy of Zimbabwe’s street fighters

  The Floyd Mayweather ‘Fight of the Century’ against Manny Pacquiao is done and dusted. It enthralled Zimbabweans, especially those for whom Manny’s background resonated. He started out living hand-to-mouth...

Mayday Mayday Mayday

The furnaces at the New Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company have long been extinguished Engines of growth? NRZ is operating at 15 percent of its capacity   Mayday Mayday Mayday...