I was approached by a group of three muggers on Fourth Street last night… the same place where my uncle suffered a broken arm and lost a phone, jacket and rafters three weeks ago.
Zimbabwean pickpockets are rather too diplomatic. They always try to be polite, ask for something they know you cant give, and then [...]

I passed through Africa Unity Square this morning on my way to work. The images I saw were a reincarnation of Brueghel’s Icarus… which depicts individual human sufferings, and the indifference with which they are greeted as outlined in W.H Auden’s poem, Musee Des Beaux Arts (Museum of Fine Arts)
At the corner of Nelson Mandela [...]

100s of Zimbabweans illegally enter SA daily
From Tawanda Kanhema in Beitbridge
INTENSIFIED patrols on Zimbabwe’s border with South Africa are failing to deter border jumping and smuggling along the Limpopo River, with illegal crossings facilitated by well organized syndicates taking place right under the nose of Zimbabwean law enforcement agents manning the old Limpopo bridge.Illegal crossings [...]

The flight of skilled manpower from southern African economies to the global market has reached critical levels, as Zimbabwe, South Africa and other countries in the region contemplate novel strategies to plug the brain drain and retain their best brains or at least maximise earnings from remittances.
In the wake of Europe’s growing demand for skilled manpower, driven by its declining birth rates and an aging workforce, southern African countries are redrafting their immigration laws to mitigate the impact of human capital loses and facilitate the influx of remittances from their established diasporas.