Posts by Angus Shaw

Arnie has just had a ball at the Cannes Film Festival – there to promote his new action, comedy and drama Netflix series called FUBAR, which stands for “F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition,” or in more polite circles “Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition.” If you are a mess you are a fubar, the noun. It’s…

Walking backwards in time, some things stay the same despite the stresses of the day. Land Rover devotees are as resilient as the vehicle itself. Multitudes of them have been celebratinge the 75th anniversary of the first Land Rover produced commercially in 1948. Apart from its majesty in rugged bush country, the Land Rover is…

        Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed off the Sardinia coast. For us non-Brits, flippered literally means having flippers on in the water but in urban slang it has a flip-flop sexual connotation. And surely everyone knows what a leg-over is? Lima Oscar in old military jargon. Have I got your attention now?…

Putin might be in Africa this week. Maybe or maybe not. He should have his hands full with Ukraine’s promised counter offensive due any day now, that’s if he’s a hands-on sort of fellow. He has been invited to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, SA) summit this weekend in Cape Town and has been…

The political and economic health of a country can be measured by its exchange rate against hard currencies, experts say. Zimbabwe is a classic example. But first though, see how the formula works. The South African rand took a tumble after the Americans accused its armaments industry of providing weapons to Russia. The South Africans…

Africa Day is celebrated on May 25 every year to mark the formation of the  Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. From the outset it was hardly African because the lighter skinned Arab world north of the Sub-Sahara nations considered themselves scarcely African. And it was never really united either. The same applies to…

I  told you so. Camilla began romancing Charles right here in Zimbabwe around our independence in 1980. Here is corroborating evidence from our very own Chronicle of Bulawayo. Even if newspapers aren’t always to be believed, this time it was right on the money. Eye-witnesses among local glitterati, mostly foreign expats and Brits in for…

  Former British colonies and protectorates had an eye on all the jewels at the coronation of King Charles III.  Diamonds, gold, silver and many precious artifacts were plundered in colonial times and the rightful owners want them back.   A truly gruesome episode in this plunder was of the gold tooth of the Congolese pan-Africanist hero Patrice…