Archive for March 2017

So Mr Mugabe was accused in some sections of society of looking “scruffy” the other day when he appeared at a regional economic summit in Mauritius wearing an open-neck white shirt. His office obliged by saying it was his Cuban shirt and he sometimes wore it to identify with the ideology of the Cuban revolution.…

An old friend gave me sound advice 40 years ago. When you get home to Zimbabwe, you must buy bricks and mortar, dear boy. John Worrall was a legendary Africa correspondent for the Financial Times newspaper in London who had wandered the length and breadth of the continent. But he never bought a property, living…

It is peculiarly southern African to have traffic lights we call ‘robots.’  But don’t get nostalgic for robots  here in Harare. Half of them don’t work and the police are too busy scamming money out of innocent drivers at roadblocks to actually do their job of controlling the traffic at intersections where the  ‘bots’ are…