Food for thought
An official report shows that just four of the 29 grain silos at Lions’ Den are usable after years of neglect. Most of the unusable ones are cracked and crumbling...
ANGUS SHAW Blog
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 water ‘ATM.’ Good thinking, but why not here?
In Kenya’s waterless townships and shanties, the Nairobi municipality is installing the water ‘ATM.’ Consumers buy a charge card and insert it to fill a chigubu from a tap...
F-word Boris and the driver of a black London cab
Some people are saying the mophead mayor of London Boris Johnson is a racist. But the cabbie in this episode was not black at all; a black cab is common...
James Horner’s final crescendo
🔊 Theme music from Titanic, a popular movie in Zimbabwe and repeated often on satellite television. Prolific Hollywood composer James Horner died from what the coroner called “blunt force trauma”...
‘Allo, ‘allo, ‘allo, what do we have here then?
Illegal street vending from a police vehicle – registration ZRP 3256M clear for all to see. Not a policeman in sight and the pick-up looks like it might have been...
Down like ninepins. Ruin in a smartphone
The scourge of the smartphone has brought wrack and ruin to many in the skittle alley of life. For the second year running, Miss Zimbabwe has been sacked after earlier...
Money doesn’t grow on trees
In the record books, again for all the wrong reasons. Until September, Zimbabweans can cash in their old defunct local currency, the Zimbabwe dollar. The biggest bank note, ZD 100...
This and that. Hungry for scud and other stories
🔴 Scud: our traditional ‘food and drink’ beer. Fifteen young and middle aged men are in the Kudenga rural store. The proprietor has put in a free-to-play pool table because...
This and that. Blatter, breakfast and power
🔴 Jacob Zuma and Sepp Blatter. So farewell, Mr Blatter. You are stepping down after 17 years in power because you no longer have the full support of world football....
