More troubles lie ahead.  Current food harvests are woefully inadequate. FEWS NET, the international non-government Famine Early Warning Systems Network, in its new April report just out, says food production by rural households in southern Zimbabwe is “next to nothing” this season and they will be suffering what they call the Crisis phase  (IPC 3)…

  The Floyd Mayweather ‘Fight of the Century’ against Manny Pacquiao is done and dusted. It enthralled Zimbabweans, especially those for whom Manny’s background resonated. He started out living hand-to-mouth as a  “a street kid” and street fighter at the at the age of 12 in his backstreet neighbourhood in the Philippines. Our own boxer Dereck…

The furnaces at the New Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company have long been extinguished Engines of growth? NRZ is operating at 15 percent of its capacity   Mayday Mayday Mayday is the international aviation and maritime emergency call. It was adopted in the 1920s as a radio distress signal that cannot be mistaken in poor…

What do you think is going on here? It can’t be influencing the young and impressionable because they are not supposed to smoke or play with fire. She can’t be advocating drug abuse, surely? Maybe she is promoting self medication. This is a ‘Clipper’ brand cigarette lighter from China, a cheap copy of the Spanish-designed…

Charlie got a hole in one on the ninth. In his last will and testament he asked that his ashes be sprinkled on the ninth green and fairway. And so it was done on a quiet day after the funeral. Cremation is a cultural taboo among the majority in these parts. It is not done,…