President Robert Mugabe in the Harare parliament ….. What an extraordinary chain of events. Mr Mugabe, 91, delivered the wrong speech at the official opening of parliament, one he had already made there three weeks before. The apologists jumped in and said it could happen to anyone; he was given the wrong text by his…

These two brand new street sweeping trucks have been imported to clear up the mess Harare has become. Too little too late, once again? And will the ladies in city overalls with brooms and barrows join the riptide of unemployed? In unprecedented scenes in the Zimbabwe parliament, Mr Mugabe was roundly booed by the opposition during his…

When will the cactus really hit the fan? How deep in it are we? The electricity supply people just announced that from September 1 power output from the Kariba hydroelectric dam, currently the biggest provider, will be slashed from 750 MegaWatts to 475 MW until water levels in the lake rise again. That won’t be…

Thank goodness, this high rise neon hoarding imploring us all to ‘FLY air zimbabwe, non-stop to London’  has been removed after at least two decades as part of Harare’s skyscraper skyline – peering from 25 floors above the Ambassador building, the foreign ministry, the president’s town office, the High Court and other state edifices below.…