Archive for May 2023

F   Angus Shaw Fidel Castro, ‘the revolutionary,’ and Ian Smith, ‘the reactionary,’ never actually met, but we all found it rather amusing that the Cuban embassy bought a house next door to Ian Smith’s in Harare. For so many years Cuba was anathema to our pre-independence prime minister. The Cubans were the very symbol…

Andrew Saxon was a pen name of mine.  Our “Public Eye” column in newspapers and magazines was quite well-liked in Zimbabwe, as modesty would have it said.  Let’s see if Saxon stands the ravages of time in an upcoming serialisation of snippets beginning right here. Ghosts from three decades past will need some annotations.  Muammar…