The national holiday this week, Heroes’ Day, remembers fallen freedom fighters and their surviving, now-elderly brothers and sisters. In the words of the ancient Chinese masters, a guerrilla must swim...
The comb is for tidying a new beard gown to distract you from my thinning cheeks and jowls, the side effects of weakened health and aging. Before the chin...
Farewell Jane Birkin, singer and actress dead at the age of 76 in Paris. To those of us initiates in our distant Bohemian days, she was born British, in Chelsea...
My quota of three grave professional errors – erreurs graves professionelles – had been used up. It was the end of a quiet night shift, the slot (duty editor) and I...
It’s three meals a day at the summit in the sumptuous surroundings of St Petersburg. Food is high on the agenda. Is there enough within reach, now and in times...
In Harare, Zimbabwe In so-often discredited history, it could be said the French did it better. For the most part they didn’t send permanent settlers to far flung territories they...
Sock it to ’em! Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather has been in the headlines again. He has apparently spent US 7 million in the Gucci shop in Joburg and was escorted out...
Harare, Zimbabwe. Happy to be home in Africa, says ‘ Roots syndrome’ Mayweather Floyd Mayweather has been and gone and the state media has made a meal of it. The...
Think of bikers. Do you think of Hell’s Angels? Down here in Zimbabwe we have a different sort of biker. Big and powerful motorbikes? Yes. Skull and crossbones logos and...
In these parts we have been through capitalism, Marxist-Leninist communism, humanism, socialism, corrupt elitism – and now we’ve got a new one: ‘miserablism.’ It is suffered by the majority of...
