Archive for October 2015

Much as there is sympathy for migrants streaming into Europe, the families of the victims of the latest earthquake or flood and shock at the unending violence between Israelis and Palestinians,  it is no longer a simple blessing that Zimbabwe is so far away from all of it. On the way to Glen Forest Memorial Park…

Charles Frizell writes in to say images in stone sculpture and drawings of NyamiNyami, the legendary river god of the Zambezi, look like the logo of  Italian carmaker Alfa Romeo. The Italians who built the Kariba dam in the 1950s brought the first Alfa Romeo cars to the Zambezi valley. The Alfa logo first appeared…

It is abidingly and enormously satisfying to stand in the shower and, for the first time, wash away the grime, dust and chaos of Zimbabwe with water heated by God’s own sunshine without depending on the tin-gods and the oafs of politics for electricity. The solar geyser is online, as are solar panels on the…

If it’s at all possible, forget about the debilitating  18-hour electricity  cuts for a moment. The agonising and costly writing of a new Zimbabwe constitution, accepted overwhelmingly in a 2013 referendum, seems to have been yet another waste of time and money; much of the reformed constitution still has to be adopted into hard and…

  Much as Zimbabwe’s ability to laugh at itself is to be applauded, the lighter side of the 18- hour 4.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. power cuts isn’t a laughing matter any longer. The neighbour’s young daughter gets up in the dark to get ready for work and comes home to darkness, father goes to…