Harare, Zimbabwe. Our admiration for Chairman Mao, architect of China’s Cultural Revolution from 1949 to 1976, is boundless. We have just named a new highway after him. Back in a...
China, the master of rail and bullet trains, has offered to step in and fix it. Don’t hold your breath. The rail network has suffered from years of neglect. Lines...
Putin is our pal. As is Xi Jinping. So is the Supreme Leader in the crucible of radical fundamentalism, Iran. It goes something like this. The so-called ‘progressive world’ helped...
It’s like popcorn. Hot it up, it gloriously shows itself and then it’s gone before the end of the movie. The popcorn politics of deceit, lies and broken promises are...
May you live in interesting times! This started out as a Chinese curse. Thus, don’t expect tranquil and peaceful times. So...
Five cops have been caught after demanding a “free passage” bribe to let a truck proceed on a highway east of Harare city. They shared the $5 dollar bill. This...
You can’t fatten a pig on market day. That’s a cry heard around election manifestos that offer a variety of enticements to voters that fall short of real solutions. A...
Does anyone follow this eyes-ears-mouth wisdom that originated in ancient Japan? It is especially hard to do in this grim day and age. Nor are we meant to speak ill...
We used to say when there was lightning it was just God taking your photo. Sheets of lightning cracked through the night skies, followed by rolling thunder a moment or...
Some of us might remember roll-ups in the good old bad old days. Bill Clinton said he tried a hand-rolled spliff at college but didn’t inhale. The rolling papers were...
