Archive for January 2016

They say money talks, but ours only says goodbye. This is generally the case unless you are in the tiny elite that has accumulated immense wealth in Zimbabwe through corruption, patronage and greed. In today’s papers alone, the front page headlines go like this: “Audit unearths multi-million dollar scam” and “Hospital chief in car scandal.”…

Zim should stand together in prayer, says the headline above Mpofu’s cartoon in the The Herald,  Zimbabwe. And God speaks? After a prolonged dry spell, much needed rain has come. Mr Mugabe’s state media would have us believe our prayers have been answered. As a nationwide week of prayer meetings for rain, called by Vice…

Let the New Year smile upon us  and if it doesn’t we’ll just have to grin and bear it. And hold our noses. (Right:  The Marimba river entering Lake Chivero at year end, almost all the flow is stinking, noxious  industrial effluent, sewage and God knows what else going straight into the Harare water supply unchecked.)…