Archive for April 2023

As the old musical said: Stop the World I Want to Get Off. It’s not possible unless you want to take out your 9mil and shoot yourself in the head, so we have to make do with what we’ve got. Away from the daily troubles of 2023, it helps to look at the wondrous world…

Disturbing to see professional Zimbabwe cricketer Gary Ballance has retired after “falling out of love with the game,’’ as the British tabloid press put it. In truth, he fell out of favour. Cricket fell out of love with him. Gary, 33, former England and Yorkshire county player, was dragged into the highly publicised scandal at…

The people out there are saying that Mbuya Nehanda is crying: You put me on the 50 dollar note now worth a measly 3 US cents.. Even a ‘freezit,’ the frozen flavoured drink sold on the street that comes in a small plastic sachet, costs four Mbuya Nehandas – 200 Zimbabwe dollars, and probably less.…

After four decades of freedom from colonialism Zimbabwe is free from electricity too. Those of us who got into solar after seeing the writing on the wall long ago tend to be snobbish about it. Don’t you know God Giveth What The Government Hath Taken Away? Didn’t you see the ruling party ZANU PF bringing…

The world wouldn’t be in the kak it is in today if more men like “Whisky Bill” Davidson had been running it. He wouldn’t like kak, southern Africa’s word for shit; he would prefer ‘cactus,’ the world is in the cactus, the cactus has hit the fan. Bill never swore, and certainly not within earshot…