Every language has a graveyard of words that used to mean something specific and now mean whatever the room decides they mean. My dear mentor Tendai has just built an entire column on the false idea that words are haunted forever by wherever they were born, and that failing to research a phrase’s family tree before you say it is some kind of moral failure. … Continue reading Tendai Ruben Mbofana is Confusing Etymology for Ideology
Twenty plastic-wrapped bundles of US$100 notes, stacked in full view of a packed congregation. That was the scene at United Family International Church in Chitungwiza this past Sunday, as Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa presented his followers with a US$1 million cash gift from businessman Wicknell Chivayo. The room, by all accounts, erupted — cheers, whistles, applause, the unmistakable sound of a miracle being witnessed in real … Continue reading $1 Million Cash on a Church Altar
I send invoices like prayers.Gentle. Hopeful. Read at 3:14am and never replied to. They say freelancing is freedom.Yeah the kind of freedom where you’re free to starve creatively.Free to chase clients like you’re the debt collector and the therapist.Free to do five people’s jobs for the price of exposure and a thank-you emoji. Underpaid Continue reading Underpaid
Nine African countries including Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year cut interest rates, citing lower inflation, high foreign demand for their local-currency denominated bonds and current account surpluses. Nine countries. Months of careful fiscal management. Coordinated monetary policy. The quiet, unglamorous work of keeping economies stable enough to grow. Then on February 28th the bombs started falling on Tehran … Continue reading Nine Countries Cut Interest Rates Before The Bombs Dropped
Zimbabwe’s fuel price was $1.54 per litre in November 2025. That was before Brent crude was $61 a barrel. Brent is now above $100 and steadily climbing. Now petrol per litre is USD 2.08. A prolonged conflict or at the Strait of Hormuz could see prices skyrocket toward $120 to $140 per barrel. Zimbabwe’s fuel pricing framework adds government levies, the Strategic Reserve Levy, carbon … Continue reading The Price At The Pump In Marondera
Zimbabwe is amending its constitution. Parliament has confirmed it and governing party ZANU-PF has the numbers to make it happen. The public hearings on this issue lasted less than a week across a country of 15 million people, which works out to roughly one hour of democracy per province if you are being generous with the arithmetic. We are doing this since the amendment is … Continue reading Since We Are Already Amending, Let’s Dump The Dumb Shit In Our Constitution
Zimbabwe has always had a gift for doing things no one thought to put in the rulebook. We invented the “constitutional coup” before anyone else thought the phrase made grammatical sense. In November 2017 the military rolled tanks to the national broadcaster, a general read a statement off a sheet of paper and, Robert Mugabe was gone by morning. Nobody called it what it was … Continue reading Zimbabwe’s CAB3 Will Make A Treasonous Coup Way More Easier If Passed
Why Did Trump Fire Pam Bondi And Throw Caroline Leavitt Under The Bus? There is a pattern in how Donald Trump manages people, and it has nothing to do with performance. It has everything to do with polls. On March 31, standing in the Oval Office, Trump complained to reporters that he was receiving “93% bad publicity.” Rather than consider that the publicity might reflect … Continue reading When The Boss Needs Someone To Blame
Pete Hegseth outlined a three-part military mission strategy against Iran. 1. Destroy missile capabilities. 2. Cripple its navy. 3. Prevent nuclear weapons. That’s the Fox News headline. Clean. Structured. Three parts. A plan, with competent men behind it. Read the same day’s Al Jazeera. The death toll is past a thousand. Tehran is being hit in what the Israelis are calling the tenth wave of … Continue reading Fox News And The Three Part Mission
We have not seen anything like this in pretty much the history of the Strait of Hormuz,” says the chief economist at Rystad Energy. He compares it to blocking the aorta. That’s not hyperbole. About 20 million barrels of oil, roughly one-fifth of globally traded oil, transits the corridor daily, alongside roughly 22 percent of global liquefied natural gas trade. When you block the aorta, … Continue reading Dispatch 004: The Strait of Hormuz is the World’s Jagular, and The United States just Closed it
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