Posted in July 9th, 2008
Letter from Zimbabwe sent in by John Winter I reckon that these are the last days of TKM and ZPF. The darkest hour is always before dawn.
We are all terrified at what they are going to destroy next……..I mean they are actually ploughing down brick and mortar houses and one white family with twin [...]
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Posted in May 30th, 2008
This is an ‘agro cheque’ . It looks like it has been printed on ordinary office paper and it feels like it too!
Zanu PF’s PR skills reached new heights with this one. Zimbabe’s new ‘currency’ note that captures the mood of the country . Most people are feeling fairly ‘agro’ about the new cheques [...]
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Posted in May 18th, 2008
Traveling through Zimbabwe recently, I was stopped and “arrested” for speeding just outside a small town. According to the radar-instrument (which was actually working, unlike many other we saw at roadblocks over the last couple of years), I was doing 68km/hour in a 60km zone.
ABOVE: Arrested for speeding and waiting for the cop [...]
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