Why did our Zimbabwe President E.D. Mnangagwa get an invitation to the coronation of King Charles III? Our track record in international relations isn’t good. We are not a member...
The Eurovision Song Contest was never everyone’s cup of tea. Banale, trite, cheesy? But this year it got into a hullaballoo over whether Vladimir Zelenski should be allowed to speak...
It’s hard to shelter from the deluge of news from Sudan and Ukraine. So PTSD brings all this back, particularly in the dark dreams of night … Death, danger and...
IMAGES OF CONFLICT Horst Faas should know what he’s talking about in the foreword to Images of Conflict on war reporting. He won two Pulitzers for his photography of...
Horst Faas, veteran war photographer and twice Pulitzer price winner wrote this: On Monday 12 July 1993, a mob murdered four men who...
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...
