Archive for August 2015

Thank goodness, this high rise neon hoarding imploring us all to ‘FLY air zimbabwe, non-stop to London’  has been removed after at least two decades as part of Harare’s skyscraper skyline – peering from 25 floors above the Ambassador building, the foreign ministry, the president’s town office, the High Court and other state edifices below.…

Now a little respite from quick, back-to-back cricket tours by India and New Zealand. Zimbabwe might well have been hammered all round but fans who saw the Kiwis, sent in to bat first, notching up 303 runs for four wickets in their first One Day International were electrified  when the home team – greatly troubled…

It is a common belief that you should not speak ill of the dead. You should not rake up old bones either. What happens if you do is not clear. The writer Alexander Kanengoni tells us in The Patriot newspaper that fellow poet and writer Chenjerai Hove died “a miserable man in deplorable and shameful…