Archive for September 2015

Coming out of retirement, this charcoal iron that for decades has been used as a door stop. The daintily painted flowers will burn off as soon as it is fired up. The new wave of power cuts have met everyone’s worst fears. Mr Mugabe’s state media confirms the cuts from 4.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m.…

Power cuts can now be expected in our cities starting from as early as 4.00 a.m. and lasting through to 10.00 p.m. or thereabouts, says the electricity utility. It is no longer that we have crippling 18 hour cuts by day, but rather that we might be lucky to get six hours of electricity at…

Those who don’t like Rhodes have been at it again. They have cut off his nose with a power tool, probably an angle grinder. The bronze bust gazes into the Table Mountain National Park on Devil’s Peak overlooking Cape Town. It’s a clean cut into the light brownish colour of bronze behind a face tarnished…