F Angus Shaw Fidel Castro, ‘the revolutionary,’ and Ian Smith, ‘the reactionary,’ never actually met, but we all found it rather amusing that the Cuban embassy bought a house...
Andrew Saxon was a pen name of mine. Our “Public Eye” column in newspapers and magazines was quite well-liked in Zimbabwe, as modesty would have it said. Let’s see if...
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...
As the old musical said: Stop the World I Want to Get Off. It’s not possible unless you want to take out your 9mil and shoot yourself in the head,...
Disturbing to see professional Zimbabwe cricketer Gary Ballance has retired after “falling out of love with the game,’’ as the British tabloid press put it. In truth, he fell out...
The people out there are saying that Mbuya Nehanda is crying: You put me on the 50 dollar note now worth a measly 3 US cents.. Even a ‘freezit,’ the...
After four decades of freedom from colonialism Zimbabwe is free from electricity too. Those of us who got into solar after seeing the writing on the wall long ago tend...
The world wouldn’t be in the kak it is in today if more men like “Whisky Bill” Davidson had been running it. He wouldn’t like kak, southern Africa’s word for...
Zimbabwe is celebrating 43 years of independence tomorrow, the anniversary of freedom from colonial rule. An astonishing 75.4 per cent of our present population are “born free” in or after...
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...
