Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- It is just before 7 am as I start this posting, but I don't envisage it being published much before lunchtime as between now and then, I have to go and see the GP. With just 10 days to go until surgery I am... [view entry]

Howzit Today's posting will be somewhat shorter than normal as I have a few things to do today - and they involve having the go to town. Tomorrow's posting will be late as I have to visit my GP for antibiotics in preparation for the bone graft on May 4. [view entry]

Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- It didn't take Mugabe's ZANU PF very long to react to the release on bail of the MDC activists, did it? And Mugabe tells the world that there are 'no political prisoners in Zimbabwe'... Every single Zimbabwean in the country that is experiencing some... [view entry]

Howzit One of the items to be discussed and resolved yesterday by Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mutambara was the future of one Gideon Gono - the Mugabe-appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. How fitting that a report like this should break on the very day the three men are... [view entry]

Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Someone is telling porkies (but when it comes to Zimbabwean politics, that would most certainly not be a first...). "A senior official has denied press reports last Friday that former South African President Thabo Mbeki, the broker of the ZANU PF-MDC unity deal, was... [view entry]

Howzit Let's get straight into it. I see that three more ZANU PF thugs have been kailed in Chiredzi for their activities last year. I wonder if Patrick Chinamasa is intending to order their release as well? "There was jubilation at the Chiredzi Magistrates’ Court in Masvingo Province when three... [view entry]

Howzit Well - it would appear that I have upset someone. At 1745 hours last evening I received a telephone call at home and was greeted by an individual (with an African accent) who proceeded to tell me in no uncertain terms that I should leave this country and stop... [view entry]

Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- You would have thought that with the accident that killed Susan Tsvangirai early last month that someone in authority would have speedily made good on this road surface - but no, Mugabe & Co have got bigger fish to fry (like hijacking one ministry's... [view entry]

Howzit So much for spring. It is overcast, drizzling with a seriously cold wind cutting through the whole thing. Who's bright idea was it to call the weather change "global warming"? Nothing warm about it at all! -o00o- Zimbabwean cricketers must all be brimming with pride today. Following on from... [view entry]

Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- It was quite strange this morning. I awoke at 7 o'clock and immediately I could hear that it was raining. Then I heard thunder. Thunder here in the UK has not got the same ferocity as in Africa. Indeed, the weather here has not... [view entry]