This is Chimhini, or ‘Short Tail’ in Shona. She is a pub cat and, like many of the patrons much of the time, she’s a darn cool cat. She is comfortable among imbibers of all the various waters of wisdom. She is at home in the geniality and bulldust and gets stroked by the hardest…
Phew, that’s a relief! Mr Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe has acquired 600,000 tons of grain and staple foods from Ukraine to ward off starvation. The Grain Millers’ Association calculates that at the height of the food crisis, Zimbabwe will need to import 120,000 tons a month, or 4,000 tons a day through Mozambique. South Africa’s ports…
A retiree who lives down the road says he has just had a wonderful holiday without leaving town. He switched off all his electronic devices for a week, except for the TV to watch cricket. It may not be practical for everyone. So addictive has the electronic media become, a survey in Britain shows that…
Those unfortunate enough to need protective psychiatric care in Harare are surely among the damned of the earth. The only lock-up is the Annexe at the government’s main Parirenyatwa Hospital, otherwise known as Ward 12, the psychiatric unit (pictured right) in the former colonial-era Lady Chancellor building. Much as the badly paid nurses and staff…
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.)…
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…
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…
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…