Now a little respite from quick, back-to-back cricket tours by India and New Zealand. Zimbabwe might well have been hammered all round but fans who saw the Kiwis, sent in to bat first, notching up 303 runs for four wickets in their first One Day International were electrified when the home team – greatly troubled…
It is a common belief that you should not speak ill of the dead. You should not rake up old bones either. What happens if you do is not clear. The writer Alexander Kanengoni tells us in The Patriot newspaper that fellow poet and writer Chenjerai Hove died “a miserable man in deplorable and shameful…
An official report shows that just four of the 29 grain silos at Lions’ Den are usable after years of neglect. Most of the unusable ones are cracked and crumbling inside and out. The depot was built in the 1970s and silos of this type need re-lining and re-sealing after about 15-20 years to protect…
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…
In Kenya’s waterless townships and shanties, the Nairobi municipality is installing the water ‘ATM.’ Consumers buy a charge card and insert it to fill a chigubu from a tap below. Clean water costs a couple of cents, a tiny fraction of the foul-smelling polluted river and stream water touts and vendors sell for 50 Kenya…
Some people are saying the mophead mayor of London Boris Johnson is a racist. But the cabbie in this episode was not black at all; a black cab is common usage for the distinctive London taxi, if not all of them are black these days. Johnson, an occasional visitor to Zimbabwe when working as a…
🔊 Theme music from Titanic, a popular movie in Zimbabwe and repeated often on satellite television. Prolific Hollywood composer James Horner died from what the coroner called “blunt force trauma” when the plane he was flying crashed into a forest in California and burnt up. Horner was 61. He won two Oscars for his score…
Illegal street vending from a police vehicle – registration ZRP 3256M clear for all to see. Not a policeman in sight and the pick-up looks like it might have been sold off as old stock. If so, the number plates should have been changed for chunky fees to the roads authority and the taxman. The…
The scourge of the smartphone has brought wrack and ruin to many in the skittle alley of life. For the second year running, Miss Zimbabwe has been sacked after earlier naked photos went out on the net. What has happened in both cases, it seems, is that one-time partners felt cuckolded by the more glamorous…
In the record books, again for all the wrong reasons. Until September, Zimbabweans can cash in their old defunct local currency, the Zimbabwe dollar. The biggest bank note, ZD 100 trillion, gets US 40 cents. (Contemporary Zimbabwean Art Deco) Just how much is 100 trillion mathematically? If the pyramids in Egypt are 5,000 years old,…