Fidel Castro and Ian Smith
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...
Category: Andrew Saxon Revisited
From the past, Saxon rises again?
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...
Monkey business in Milton Park
My old friend Brown Moyondizvo has already spoken of the stunning surrealism in Kiki Divaris, once a staunch follower of Ian Smith, being declared a liberation hero before her burial...
Pope Francis seems like a good bloke …
Pope Francis seems like a good bloke, but didn’t they all at one time or another in recent decades, if not in the more distant history of the Roman Catholic...
The riches of language
The eavesdropped conversation went like this: Diplomat: ”What are you going to do to fix that corruption problem I read about in the morning paper?” Politician: ”We’ll fix the reporter.”...
Then and now, the same questions
Oh dear. Where is all this leading to? Who is running the country? Who is going to stop the tailspin we’re in? I, for one, couldn’t believe my ears the...
