Archive for July 2023

It’s three meals a day at the summit in the sumptuous surroundings of St Petersburg. Food is high on the agenda. Is there enough within reach, now and in times ahead? Donor fatigue is a worry and delegates speak of Russian help in Africa – development, investment and continent’s future food security alongside ever present…

In Harare, Zimbabwe In so-often discredited history, it could be said the French did it better. For the most part they didn’t send permanent settlers to far flung territories they claimed  for their flag – unlike others in Europe. With notable exceptions they didn’t stay on after being posted out as functionaries, civil servants and…

Sock it to ’em!  Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather has been in the headlines again. He has apparently spent US 7 million in the Gucci shop in Joburg and was escorted out by uniformed security guards with assault rifles.   Then he flew off to have dinner with his girlfriend in St Tropez in the south of  France.…

Harare, Zimbabwe. Happy to be home in Africa, says ‘ Roots syndrome’ Mayweather Floyd Mayweather has been and gone and the state media has made a meal of it. The millionaire US boxer hosted a private dinner and the big brass invited were impressed by his agility of mind in business matters and his intellect,…

Think of bikers. Do you think of Hell’s Angels? Down here in Zimbabwe we have a different sort of biker. Big and powerful motorbikes? Yes. Skull and crossbones logos and regalia? Yes. Misnamed, mean-minded outlaw gangs with equally poisonous groupies and hangers-on? No. Our bikers are certainly not wimps though. It’s an addiction and a…

In these parts we have been through capitalism, Marxist-Leninist communism, humanism, socialism, corrupt elitism – and now we’ve got a new one: ‘miserablism.’ It is suffered by the majority of the people who neither have the will nor the energy to defeat it after being downtrodden for so long. Elections are around the corner but…

Keen Russia watchers are confused. What really went on with Wagner?  Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, son of a Vladimir, has had to admit paying Yevgeny Victorovich Prigozhin, son of a Victor, for doing dirty tricks for the Russian state all along.  The dreadful Alexander Grigoryvich Lukashenko, son of a Grigory, claims to have given the mercenary…