Andrew Saxon Revisited

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…

Pope Francis seems like a good bloke, but didn’t they all at one time or another in recent decades, if not in the more distant history of the Roman Catholic Church when they were corrupt and cruel? Mr Mugabe has asked Francis to come to Africa. Here’s remembering Pope John Paul’s southern African trip (from Andrew…

The eavesdropped conversation went like this: Diplomat: ”What are you going to do to fix that corruption problem I read about in the morning paper?” Politician: ”We’ll fix the reporter.” ANDREW SAXON revisited: A rave from the past. The riches of language.   ZBC’s morning recipe was read by a new voice and he was talking…

  Oh dear. Where is all this leading to? Who is running the country? Who is going to stop the tailspin we’re in? I, for one, couldn’t believe my ears the other day (17 years ago, that was)  when Mr Mugabe said Zimbabwe is going to start “socio-economic” reconstruction in Kabila’s Congo. The people there need…