Archive for October 2022

Zimbabwe has draconian public order laws and enforcers often exceed them in breach of protection in the constitution HERE: Ahead of elections early next year, opposition gatherings are banned or disrupted willy-nilly, ordinary remarks are interpreted as incitement to violence and unguarded jokes overheard in the bar or anywhere else in public lead to arrests for insulting…

  Government ministers in Zimbabwe admit that underpaid rank and file soldiers and military personnel on duty – and the police as well – are getting worse food rations than inmates in our already bankrupt prisons. The unformed forces have a gruel of sadza (maize meal) and beans but don’t have any cooking oil. Sometimes…

  Don’t get sick in Zimbabwe unless there’s hard currency at hand for private care. Public health is a death trap, Go in standing up and come out in a box. The diagnositics here: big cars and hospitalisation abroad for the bosses worth zillions more than the value of new cancer, dialysis and radiography machines.…