The Threads That Connect Us To Zimbabwe 11 September 202511 September 2025 Lunar eclipse in Zimbabwe 10 September 202510 September 2025 Silent Streams And Rising Dust 29 August 202529 August 2025 Critical Minerals Or A Loaf Of Bread 14 August 202515 August 2025 Trumpeter Hornbills And Punishing Honesty 1 August 20251 August 2025 The Timeless Pulse of Africa 18 July 202518 July 2025 Swopping Green Soap For Food 3 July 20253 July 2025 The Headstones Keep Their Secrets 20 June 202521 June 2025 Thumb power and ‘using our airwaves’ 5 June 20255 June 2025 Zimbabwe’s Polar Bear Club 22 May 202522 May 2025 By The Light Of The Nurse’s Cellphone 8 May 20258 May 2025 Fighting Talk In Frightening Times 24 April 202524 April 2025 It Is You Who Have Carried Me 10 April 202510 April 2025 Whispers On The Streets 20 March 202520 March 2025 Beauty and Shame Walk Side By Side In Zimbabwe 5 March 20256 March 2025 Reaping What Our Government Sowed 20 February 202520 February 2025 Big Giants Versus Little Vendors 6 February 20256 February 2025 Of Sugar, Sugar Tax and Passing The Buck 23 January 202523 January 2025 The Ghost Bird and the Bizarre Back-pocket 9 January 20259 January 2025 The Beating Heart Of Every Zimbabwean Home 12 December 202412 December 2024 Lunch On A Stick 28 November 202428 November 2024 Zimbabwe’s night orchestra 14 November 202414 November 2024 Of comets, five dollar notes and tea bags 30 October 202431 October 2024 Zimbabwe’s Moral Conscience Has Gone 17 October 202417 October 2024 Pith Helmets, bulging bellies and the rest of us 3 October 20243 October 2024 The Time Before The Rain 19 September 202419 September 2024 Come with me to the hand pump 4 September 20244 September 2024 Boulevards, Villas and the Last Oomph 22 August 202422 August 2024 For The Love Of An Elephant 8 August 20248 August 2024 The Prisoners and the Full Moon 25 July 202425 July 2024 Zimbabweans: you do us so proud 11 July 202411 July 2024 Visible Scars of Torture 27 June 202427 June 2024 Seventy-five Cents and a Zimbabwean Dinosaur 12 June 202412 June 2024 Lunch Money and Wild Food 29 May 202429 May 2024 Orange eyes at night 16 May 202416 May 2024 What’s in a Name Zimbabwe 2 May 20242 May 2024 The Zulu Warrior and Zimbabwe’s ZiG 17 April 202417 April 2024 Getting Burnt In Zimbabwe’s Currency Collapse 2 April 20242 April 2024 One Farm In Zimbabwe, 24 Years Later 21 March 202421 March 2024 Three Goats and the Old Man’s Wisdom 7 March 20247 March 2024 A Walk on Zimbabwe’s Wild Side 22 February 202422 February 2024 Standing up for What’s Right in Zimbabwe 8 February 20248 February 2024 One-armed Banditry and the Traffic Lights 24 January 202424 January 2024 Zimbabwe makes us criminals again 11 January 202411 January 2024 Flying Watermelons: Christmas in Zimbabwe 23 December 202323 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 11. Zambezi Valley Sunset 22 December 202322 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 10. Footprints in the Sand 21 December 202321 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 9. Rainbow After the Rain 20 December 202320 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 8. Fish Eagle Lookout 19 December 202319 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 7. Mtarazi River 18 December 202318 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 6. Hidden Rocks 17 December 202317 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 5. Mwenezi’s Silver Streams 16 December 202316 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 4. Pull up the anchor 15 December 202315 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 3. Gairezi River 14 December 202314 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute. Day 2 . Sunrise over Hwange 13 December 202313 December 2023 Cathy’s Christmas Tribute Day 1. Rain over the mountains 12 December 202312 December 2023 My Christmas message From Zimbabwe 12 December 202312 December 2023 Taxing Backyard Chicken Growers in Zimbabwe’s 58 trillion budget 8 December 20238 December 2023 The Imposter Unravelling Zimbabwe 24 November 202324 November 2023 A Life Lost But Never Forgotten 10 November 202310 November 2023 Zimbabwe’s Muppet Show 26 October 202326 October 2023 Zimbabwe Sinks Into Silence 11 October 202311 October 2023 Looking for Lions 28 September 202328 September 2023 Zimbabweans don’t want to be refugees in foreign lands 15 September 202315 September 2023 Walking to the edge in Zimbabwe’s 2023 election 7 September 20238 September 2023 Presidential election results August 2023 27 August 202327 August 2023 Zimbabwe elections: Now we wait, with fear in our hearts 24 August 202324 August 2023 Stoned to Death in Zimbabwe 5 August 20235 August 2023 Looking For Hope For Zimbabwe’s Wild Places 26 July 202326 July 2023 Zero to Hero in a Mouthful 8 July 20238 July 2023 Under the Big Old Tree in Mutare 22 June 202322 June 2023 Patriotism and Popcorn, Zimbabwe on the Edge 9 June 20239 June 2023 Under the Sausage Tree 27 May 202327 May 2023 Giants of Men and Women in Zimbabwe 11 May 202311 May 2023 Walk in my shoes in Zimbabwe 28 April 202328 April 2023 Gold, the curse of Zimbabwe 14 April 202314 April 2023 The Story I Cannot Tell 30 March 202330 March 2023 The Snake and the Shooting Stars 16 March 202316 March 2023 Zimbabwe’s Greatest Treasure 3 March 20233 March 2023 Red Mud and Gold Bars 15 February 202315 February 2023 Grab that farm and don’t wear yellow 3 February 20234 February 2023 The Big Ball of String 19 January 202319 January 2023 Time goes backwards in Zimbabwe 7 January 20237 January 2023 Christmas in Zimbabwe 2022 9 December 20229 December 2022 Catch and release where the thieves are always freed 25 November 202226 November 2022 At the going down of the sun 10 November 202210 November 2022 Brush the Chip off Your Shoulder at Shangani 21 October 202221 October 2022 Full Pantry While Pots are Empty 7 October 20227 October 2022 Finding Solace in the Quiet Beauty of Wild Places 23 September 202223 September 2022 Queen Elizabeth II . A Life of Service 9 September 20229 September 2022 The Predator at the Waterhole 3 September 20223 September 2022 August always has a story to tell 14 August 202229 August 2022 Jewels in the dust 29 July 202215 August 2022 Gold and the Godfather Syndrome in Zimbabwe 15 July 202214 August 2022 Thousand dollar shopping in Zimbabwe 1 July 202214 August 2022 Crisis? What Crisis? 17 June 202214 August 2022 Seizing maize and deja vu 3 June 202214 August 2022 Thirteen cents an hour in Zimbabwe 21 May 202214 August 2022 The crocodiles will take the goats before the children 5 May 202214 August 2022 The geese and The Post Office 14 April 202214 August 2022 The time is now to grow food Zimbabwe 4 April 202214 August 2022 Don’t blame the police 18 March 202214 August 2022 Evil and Innocence Side by Side 4 March 202214 August 2022 Zimbabwe’s Thuggery Methods 18 February 202214 August 2022 Yellow is Zimbabwe’s new red 5 February 202214 August 2022 Teachers in leg irons in a beautiful Zimbabwe 20 January 202214 August 2022 Guilty during land reform 8 January 202214 August 2022 Happy Christmas from Zimbabwe 23 December 202114 August 2022 Too hot to walk barefoot 10 December 202114 August 2022 Dung beetles and MPs who are ‘pink pigs’ 27 November 202114 August 2022 Walking with elephants 12 November 202114 August 2022 The sounds of Zimbabwe 29 October 202114 August 2022 “Zim dollar now in real peril,” back on the slippery slope again 15 October 202114 August 2022 Hands across the fence 1 October 202114 August 2022 Sun spiders and land invaders 17 September 202114 August 2022 Zimbabwe’s sound of hope 3 September 202114 August 2022 The Goodbye Store and lost dreams 20 August 202114 August 2022 Roving bandits and trumpets in the wind 30 July 202114 August 2022 Oh South Africa 16 July 202114 August 2022 The money changers and the old lady 2 July 202114 August 2022 Sunbirds and apple rings 18 June 202114 August 2022 River of many hippos and the bronze statue 4 June 202114 August 2022 Blue Duikers and landmark rulings 22 May 202114 August 2022 Give a loaf to a stranger 7 May 202114 August 2022 Baobabs, donkey carts and armoured beetles 23 April 202114 August 2022 Close your eyes, feel the warm breeze, walk with me 3 April 202114 August 2022 Caterpillars, corruption and utter absurdity 19 March 202114 August 2022 INNOCENT VICTIMS released as a paperback by Merlin Unwin 14 March 202114 August 2022 Be warned. No more land invasions, except for … 5 March 202114 August 2022 The rock paintings and the learners who didn’t learn 19 February 202114 August 2022 Free vaccines, sanctions and a goat on a rope 5 February 202114 August 2022 Courage doesn’t mean you aren’t afraid 22 January 202116 August 2022 You can’t breathe but you can’t come in 9 January 202116 August 2022 Walk with me. Christmas Letter From Zimbabwe 20 December 202016 August 2022 COVID didn’t ravage Zimbabwe in 2020 but corruption and greed did 4 December 202016 August 2022 Hostages and hostage takers 20 November 202016 August 2022 Gold bars or blue jeans. Only in Zimbabwe. 6 November 202014 August 2022 Empty pockets and empty tummies; Sanctions didn’t do this to us 24 October 202014 August 2022 Beautiful Zimbabwe, Big Men and 12 cents a day 9 October 202016 August 2022 Surviving Zimbabwe 25 September 202016 August 2022 The red Msasas and the crisis that isn’t a crisis 11 September 202016 August 2022 “Fear runs down the spine of many of our people” 28 August 202016 August 2022 Zimbabwe on the edge 8 August 202016 August 2022 Dashed hopes and a journalist called Hopewell 24 July 202014 August 2022 Zimbabwe’s clock ticking towards immense crisis 10 July 202016 August 2022 Can I pay for your shopping? 26 June 202016 August 2022 What’s hiding behind the mist of Coronavirus lockdown in Zimbabwe? 12 June 202016 August 2022 5 slices of bread and willing participants in their own torture 29 May 202014 August 2022 MP dumped in a pit and brutally assaulted 15 May 202016 August 2022 Barry the bull and Zimbabwe’s realities 2 May 202016 August 2022 Zimbabwe, “suicidal” to end lockdown 18 April 202016 August 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 15 of 21 13 April 20205 September 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Easter 2020 10 April 20205 September 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 10 of 21 8 April 202017 August 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 9 of 21 7 April 202017 August 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 8 of 21 6 April 20206 September 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 7 of 21 5 April 202017 August 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 6 of 21 4 April 20205 September 2022 Coping with Coronavirus Zimbabwe style 3 April 20206 September 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 4 of 21 2 April 20205 September 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 3 of 21 1 April 20205 September 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 2 of 21 31 March 20205 September 2022 Zimbabwe in lockdown: Day 1 of 21 30 March 20205 September 2022 A story from Zimbabwe’s campfire 22 March 20206 September 2022 Zimbabwe waits for the red stain of Coronavirus 13 March 20205 September 2022 Letter for Lydia 28 February 20206 September 2022 Looting cheap food from hungry Zimbabweans 21 February 20206 September 2022 Hungry Zimbabwe and the scorpion in the sink 7 February 20206 September 2022 Manhunt for a biology teacher; Zimbabwe’s shame 24 January 20205 September 2022 Sausage Trees, Teachers and Zimbabwe’s education crisis 9 January 202014 August 2022 A Frenzy of feasting and opulence while Zimbabwe starves 13 December 201914 August 2022 Zimbabwe’s Holiday Hamper of Horrors 28 November 20195 September 2022 Beautiful Zimbabwe Calendar 2020 22 November 20196 September 2022 Doctors Or Cars. Zimbabwe Chooses Cars And Fires 286 Doctors 14 November 201914 August 2022 High Risk Of Chaos In Zimbabwe 17 October 201914 August 2022 Citizens Must Prepare For Zimbabwe’s Economic Armageddon 3 October 201914 August 2022 The Winds Of Discontent 19 September 20195 September 2022 Robert Mugabe. The End Of An Era 7 September 20195 September 2022 Jackals, Transformers, Chicken and Chips 5 September 201914 August 2022 Marching Towards Starvation And Baton Sticks 16 August 201914 August 2022 Zimbabwe, The Country We Don’t Know How To Survive 3 August 201919 August 2022 Zimbabwe Burns While The Lights Are Out 19 July 201914 August 2022 Orange! Crisis Sunsets And Tempers 5 July 201914 August 2022 Wrestling For A Loaf Of Bread 20 June 201914 August 2022 Oops! Put The Car On Charge 31 May 201914 August 2022 Hot Air On A Cool Winter Wind 15 May 201914 August 2022 The Crocodile And The Duck 26 April 201914 August 2022 Heroism, Heartbreak And The Ever Growing 2% 5 April 20196 September 2022 The Huge Heart Of Zimbabwe After Cyclone Idai 22 March 201914 August 2022 Queen Bees And Red Flags 8 March 201914 August 2022 The RTGS Smoke Screen: Where Are All Our US Dollars? 22 February 201914 August 2022 Camouflage Trousers On The Rusty Fence 8 February 201914 August 2022 Broken Hearts And Broken Bones 1 February 201914 August 2022 Back To Bush Tactics 25 January 201914 August 2022 Zimbabwe: The Silencing Of Our Voices 18 January 201914 August 2022 The Price Of Paradise? 11 January 201914 August 2022 Zimbabwe’s 2018 Christmas Story 13 December 201814 August 2022 No Thank You! I’d Rather Go Without! 7 December 201814 August 2022 Finding Our Voices 23 November 201814 August 2022 My Heart Was Not Strong Enough For What I Saw 9 November 201814 August 2022 Tadpoles In The Shark Pond 26 October 201814 August 2022 Coming In And Going Out 26 September 201814 August 2022 What Safe Running Water? 14 September 201814 August 2022 Giving Away The Essence Of Zimbabwe 7 September 201814 August 2022 Zimbabwe: Our Hearts Are Heavy Tonight 24 August 201814 August 2022 Selfies With Soldiers: No One Shot At Us Then 16 August 201814 August 2022 We Have Not Woken Up To The New Zimbabwe We Dreamed Of 3 August 201814 August 2022 Change Zimbabwe! It’s Not Normal To Live Like This 27 July 201814 August 2022 Courage Zimbabwe: The Time For Change Has Come 21 July 20185 September 2022 Hogwash! Bulawayo Isn’t In Darfur! 14 July 201814 August 2022 Not Repeating The Mistakes Of 2013 6 July 201814 August 2022 Big Mac And The Tainted Wool 29 June 201814 August 2022 When Winners Are Losers 22 June 201819 August 2022 Does A Leopard Ever Change Its Spots? 8 June 201814 August 2022 Nothing To Go Back To 24 May 20186 September 2022 Life Is Tough: The Human Faces Of Zimbabwe’s “Land Chaos” 11 May 201814 August 2022 The Call Of The Nightjar 26 April 201814 August 2022 Zimbabwe’s First Mugabe-Free Independence 13 April 201814 August 2022 The Honeymoon Is Over 30 March 201814 August 2022 Undoing Zimbabwe’s Disgrace 16 March 20185 September 2022 Same Bus, Different Driver 2 March 201814 August 2022 Of Course You’re Going To Vote. It’s A Clear Case! 16 February 201814 August 2022 The Red Soil Of Hope For A New Zimbabwe 2 February 201814 August 2022
