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29 January 2012 06:22

Why so hush, hush?

The Post Office is moving out of the Post Office (Yes you read that right), writes Cathy Buckle.

When I arrived at my local Post Office this week I couldn’t believe my eyes as I squinted through the brick dust and picked my way around the rubble. For the past six weeks there have been increasingly loud whispers that the Post Office was moving out of the Post Office. (Yes you read that right!)

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22 January 2012 13:26

Just doing my job

A human cyclone was underway in Bulawayo, writes Cathy Buckle.

All week we received increasing warnings about an approaching cyclone. ZBC radio and TV advised people to avoid low lying areas, not to try and cross flooded bridges or fast moving rivers and to be prepared for heavy rainfall and big storms.

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15 January 2012 06:02

Porcupine quills filled with gold

Zim’s latest gold rush began with stories that 100kgs of gold nuggets had been found.

Since Christmas we’ve been watching, wide eyed and open mouthed, the developments in Zimbabwe’s latest gold rush. This time it’s in Kwekwe where nuggets, metal detectors, panning, digging, pounding and hammering are the words on everyone’s lips.

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08 January 2012 05:14

A new year and the madness continues

Minister of Transport issued a circular ordering Air Zimbabwe to stop flying to South Africa.

Finding a wild Flame Lily to welcome the New Year was a difficult task this year. Normally they are all over the bush by late December, glorious flashes of crimson in knee-high, lush green grass.

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18 December 2011 06:10

Letter to Father Christmas

Please could we have water, electricty and stop farm invasions, writes Cathy Buckle

I know that you only give gifts to children and I’m not a child but I wonder if you would consider the items on my list for the benefit of all Zimbabwe’s children, most of who don’t have a voice, and for their parents who struggle so much every day.

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