Archive for September 2018

Much controversy and ridicule swirls right now around excessive government spending on luxuries and the proposed crowdfunding  to help pay for the fight against  cholera. Aren’t we a bit overwhelmed and deadened by it all, like this house in the Namibian desert? Crowdfunding is defined as raising money from a large number of private, ordinary…

Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF Politburo met and appointed most of the dropped ministers from the previous Cabinet as full time party officials in eleven party departments, presumably on good pay and keeping their big cars and security personnel (payable by whom, the party or the taxpayer?). The most wealthy, Obert Mpofu, remains as secretary for…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. So said the French philosopher Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Kerr in 1849. Our once favourite and strong Madison cigarettes, ‘celebrating 40 years of quality,’ are still killing people. So are the police, intelligence organisations, soldiers and the establishment in…