Why I Write

But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class. Serious writers, I should say, are on the whole more vain and self-centred than journalists, though less interested in money.
  • Trevor Ncube Has Discovered That Free Speech Is More Complicated When You’re the Boss
    Trevor Ncube has built his public standing on the case for a free press. Last month his own publishing company is reported by ZimLive to have gone to the High Court against 36 of its employees. ZimInd Publishers, which publishes NewsDay, The Standard and the Zimbabwe Independent, is claiming US$100,000 over statements it says were defamatory, in a summons dated September 25, ZimLive reports. The …
  • Gweru Has a Sewer Problem. Naturally, the Residents Are on Trial.
    On 9 October The Herald reported that Gweru City Council is battling sewer blockages it blames on residents flushing plastic bags, nappies, sanitary products and rags, with sewage spilling into homes and streets in Mkoba, Mtapa, Senga and Ascot. The council has the contents of its pipes right. Mayor Martin Chivhoko told councillors that crews had responded to more than 300 blockages in a single …
  • Zimbabwean Government, A Forecast Is Not a Disaster Plan
    Hurricane Isaias came ashore near Destin, Florida, United States, on Friday night last week as a Category 2 storm. Its winds were 105 mph at landfall. By early Saturday, more than 726,000 customers in Florida and Alabama had lost power, and some Panhandle counties had briefly suspended emergency response because conditions were too dangerous. Everyone saw this coming. Forecasters had warned of storm surge of …

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