Lighten up
In times of turmoil and uncertainty, there’s a need to lighten up. Not necessarily with beer. But Derek Watts, an old friend who died last week, sums it up in...
Author: Angus Shaw
Beautiful Zimbabwe. All is not lost. Yet
Check this out on a somewhat fraught national elections day Here’s an absolutely stunning video. To plagiarise David Livingstone, angels in flight must be gazing on scenes as lovely...
Heroism
The national holiday this week, Heroes’ Day, remembers fallen freedom fighters and their surviving, now-elderly brothers and sisters. In the words of the ancient Chinese masters, a guerrilla must swim...
Man buys comb
The comb is for tidying a new beard gown to distract you from my thinning cheeks and jowls, the side effects of weakened health and aging. Before the chin...
A great loss …
Farewell Jane Birkin, singer and actress dead at the age of 76 in Paris. To those of us initiates in our distant Bohemian days, she was born British, in Chelsea...
Last Tango in Paris
My quota of three grave professional errors – erreurs graves professionelles – had been used up. It was the end of a quiet night shift, the slot (duty editor) and I...
Anyone for lobster?
It’s three meals a day at the summit in the sumptuous surroundings of St Petersburg. Food is high on the agenda. Is there enough within reach, now and in times...
Ups and downs of revolutionaries and The Case of the Unrolled Jeans
In Harare, Zimbabwe In so-often discredited history, it could be said the French did it better. For the most part they didn’t send permanent settlers to far flung territories they...
Sock it to ’em
Sock it to ’em! Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather has been in the headlines again. He has apparently spent US 7 million in the Gucci shop in Joburg and was escorted out...
Behold Floyd Mayweather, the new scarfman at election time
Harare, Zimbabwe. Happy to be home in Africa, says ‘ Roots syndrome’ Mayweather Floyd Mayweather has been and gone and the state media has made a meal of it. The...
