Archive for December 2015
Santa and the hard facts about angels
Dear Santa, when you bring the presents this year please go around inside all the houses and collect up all the guns and all the instruments of hatred and torture and put them in your sack and take them to the North Pole and hide them there forever – Anon. Season’s best wishes to you…
Read MoreMonkey business in Milton Park
My old friend Brown Moyondizvo has already spoken of the stunning surrealism in Kiki Divaris, once a staunch follower of Ian Smith, being declared a liberation hero before her burial the other day at the Pioneer Cemetery, the resting place of many old-school settlers. Let her rest in peace for now. But the family name…
Read MoreBootlicker of the Year Award, 2015
And the Oscar goes to the Zimbabwe Sunday Mail for this second-to-none performance. The British have a similar trophy. It is called BrownNose of the Year: “When Obama, Cameron met the real lion of Africa …” It’s not everyday that one finds the US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor…
Read MoreMissed the boat again …
It looks like Zimbabwe has missed the boat again. No-one here has thought about it lately, but when the nearest harbour in neighbouring Mozambique was being rehabilitated three decades ago with the help of Zimbabwe’s own Beira Corridor Group of consultants, engineers and investors electricity was drawn from ships to keep the projects going and…
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