We all know company brand slogans that we immediately identify with particular products. “It’s the real thing” immediately brings to mind a popular fizzy drink; or “Just Do it”, which identifies a particular brand of casual wear. Closer to home, we have, over the years many slogans that will help us identify certain brands: “Where […]
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To my – and many others I’m sure – astonishment, our President Emmerson Dambudzo (ED) Munangagwa, apparently donated one million Dollars (American) to a global fund on HIV etc., after stopping over in Uganda where he received `The most Excellent Order of the Pearl of Africa’ from President Yoweri Museveni on the occasion of Uganda’s
Robert Mugabe On the morning of Friday, September 6th, 2019, I woke up to the news of Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s death. I felt nothing. No anger, no elation, no sympathy, no empathy, no pity; nothing. Even to myself, this was a surprising reaction. For most of my life – in fact for all my adult
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A young lady I gave a lift to into town the other day told me that she was going into hospital for a review of injuries she suffered as a result of being beaten up by people who were ‘stealing’ firewood from her resettlement farm. After the initial shock at another example of the kind
It is perhaps instructive of the state of our country that the only thing that currently works with clockwork precision and efficiency is the times at which the national Power utility switches us off and on. For most of us – the vast majority I think – this means that you get switched off in
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enhlanyeni (Sindebele for ‘a place for mad people’) I remember when I was young, hearing about a place called enhlanyeni (Sindebele for ‘a place for mad people’), where one of the tests used to determine ones ‘madness’ was to give them a bucket full of holes and asking them to fetch water. If they quickly
