No obstacles, no potholes, no mangled wreckage. Here's to wishing it could be so. First person: “I’m giving up drinking,...
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Money laundering in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe money laundering given a whole new meaning.
Year-end diary. The wide mouthed frog and other stories …
(Pixels of pics have been reduced to ease download times and save on data. Also, on smaller phones or screens,...
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Bejesus, let there be light
(Dateline Harare) How does it feel when extreme weather events cut off electricity to a few million households though it...
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Lament for a tortured friend
So, it’s boring as fuck. Sorry for that. Very few hits on my last story. We’ve slipped right off the...
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Let’s make Orwell fiction again
Even in these far reaches of the globe it is impossible to escape from the noise of those damned elections...
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How to launder money
We tried washing grimy notes in gentle soap suds and warm water. Then a machine cycle took 45 minutes and...
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Pomp versus poor
They all do it. They deliver a state of the nation address (SONA) to legislatures, painting a rosy picture of...
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Trickle down? Where? When?
Ask any economist. Trickle down from wealth at the top is a fine theory but where and when does it...
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Kissing up to Chairman Mao
Harare, Zimbabwe. Our admiration for Chairman Mao, architect of China's Cultural Revolution from 1949 to 1976, is boundless. We have...
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Railroad to nowhere
China, the master of rail and bullet trains, has offered to step in and fix it. Don’t hold your breath....
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