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05 February 2012 05:47

Footprints in the dust

After 11 years of farm seizures there is no sign the pressure has for ordinary people.

A disturbance before dawn one morning this week led to the search for who or what had made the noise on the roof. Running footsteps, a thump and a thud and then the eerie quiet. Following an invisible scent, the dogs showed the route taken by the intruder. Running with increasing frenzy, noses millimetres off the ground, they stormed under hedges and thick bushes, ran backwards and forwards across the lawn before coming to a stop with tails wagging stiffly and tongues dripping, under a big Musasa tree.

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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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