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...
My dear, intelligent Border Collie went to doggies’ heaven. Heaven because I can’t see how she could ever have sinned. Gabby, originally named after the angel Gabriel, succumbed to kidney...
An algorithm is a formula that solves problems: x+y = z. Got it? No, the formula goes so much further than that. Heaven forbid, it can now be called “a...
Our justice system is considering whether to rid our judges of bleached horsehair wigs, a vestige of colonialism. As Zimbabwe approaches the 43rd anniversary of independence from Britain on April...
Zimbabweans, and hopefully the world, are trying to get their heads around last night’s first Al Jazeera broadcast on our region’s gold mafia. On social media, heads are spinning this...
What a bummer, man! That is what we would have said in the old hippy days about a disappointing experience. Like the time the getaway car broke down. Our getaway...
Sometimes I am accused, even in retirement, of being irresponsible or reckless with the little money I’ve got from a lifetime of reporting and writing. Oh, I do give to...
Thinking about things “woke.” It certainly has nothing to do with rising from a good night’s sleep. Definitions of the word are, at best, unclear. Wikipedia says it derives from...
Jamie Lee Curtis just won an Oscar. I knew her old man. It’s probably fairer to say Tony Curtis knew me. To cut a long story short, I had been...
