Archive for May 2016

To get to this, you need to go with this. The driver who took this photo on his phone of one of the convoy escorts was briefly arrested. No photos! They took the phone but the shots were already stored in the cloud. Remember Mr Mugabe tripping up at Harare airport last year when officials…

VILANKULOS, Mozambique – In case it passed unnoticed, it is 50 years exactly since Chairman Mao began China’s Cultural Revolution that killed, conservatively, 2 million people in the beginning and many more millions as the Red Guards continued to rampage across the country to enforce it. The new Chinese leadership has ignored the anniversary for…

Bored with politics and the US presidential race in particular? Monica Lewinsky’s legacy (courtesy Private Eye.) As the old saying goes, if you think your single vote doesn’t make a difference, spend the night in a closed room with a single mosquito. Malaria alert.   No anti-material prophylaxis tablets available Harare – the local drug…

“A bus service runs from place A to B. The driver is one Tanaka who is on a renewable contract. After a while, the bus comes back every month with something missing – a wing mirror, a headlamp, the ticket dispenser and even the steering wheel. Sometimes Tanaka has accidents which cost a large amount…

  Carpe Diem, ‘seize the day’ or enjoy the present instead of placing all hope in the future. Literally from the Latin: “pluck the day while it is ripe.” This boat, named Carpe Diem, beached in the harbour at Vilancoulos, has had its ripe day and won’t be sailing into the future any time soon. Here’s…