Archive for November 2015
Thank you
Thank you one and all for your warm birthday greetings. My 66th was an excellent day. To use a golfing term, I have played more than half the course and find myself on “the back nine,” maybe the 10th or 12th fairway. I hope the clubhouse, the 19th hole, will still be open when…
Read MoreFake Mr Mugabe quotes. New York Times in the doghouse
The virtuous New York Times is in the doghouse. They slipped up by using unverified quotations from Mr Mugabe that appeared in a Kenyan magazine. In an article on corruption in Kenya, The New York Times attributed to Mr Mugabe these thoughts: “The people of East Africa shock me with their wizardry in stealing. You…
Read MoreOdd man out, but what did he bring from India?
So what does it matter if Mr Mugabe didn’t wear the traditional Indian attire like all the other heads of state in the photo line-up at the just ended Africa India summit in New Delhi? So what if he appeared to stumble on the shallow step up to the podium and had to be helped…
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