Archive for March 2016

Like life in general here,  getting about on our roads and streets has gone haywire. Motoring costs have soared, lives are in danger every moment, the frustrated public psyche is to drive hell-for -leather, potholes notwithstanding, and police threaten drivers at roadblocks everywhere. Five checkpoints on a six kilometre stretch in the once-thriving industrial district…

  The television network CNN called it the most poached mammal in the world that no-one’s ever heard of – the pangolin, also known as the scaly ant-eater, the shy nocturnal animal that rolls up into a ball in its armour-like scales when in danger. The pangolin is endangered worldwide because it is much sought…

This is Chimhini, or ‘Short Tail’ in Shona. She is a pub cat and, like many of the patrons much of the time, she’s a darn cool cat. She is comfortable among imbibers of all the various waters of wisdom. She is at home in the geniality and bulldust and gets stroked by the hardest…