If you want a very different take on what is happening in Zimbabwe, then give ZNU - Zimbabwe News Update - a listen.
Robb Ellis, aka Mandebvhu from The Bearded Man blog, took over this podcast from an idea I had some time back and before I left South Africa. Robb has the time and inclination to be doing a much better job than I could ever give this show. He could learn some basic presentation rules - like stay away from the reverb - but the content is worth his regular walk down long tiled passages!
Give it a listen.
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19 September 2007
19 December 2005
Paradise Lost #005
Another voice from home (Clive) talks about why he stays in Zimbabwe 
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Are journalists ‘weapons of mass destruction’ as a Zim cabinet minister incredulously said last week?
Tichaona Jakonya – his first name means “we will see” ... in case you don’t get the pun! All the links to stories are in the shownotes: www.paradiselostpodcast.blogspot.com
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12 October 2005
Did the earth move, dear?
Whoa!
It's bit eerie when you are thinking about the horrible loss of life in the Pakistan/India/Kashmir earthquake over the weekend, and then feel an earth tremor yourself! My desk shook, and I watched my backpack wobble on the couch in my office, just a few minutes ago. I am sure it was just a baby tremor, Joburg gets them all the time, and not a patch on the big one that has caused so much loss of life and trauma.
Wait until I ask my wife if the earth moved for her too, today!
Here's a link to something about the last decent tremor Joburg had, back in March this year. These are often blamed on all the gold mining done in these here parts for more than a century. I haven't plugged Rob Ellis' blog, The Bearded Man, for a while, but he does a great job of scanning news about Comrade Bob, so click through if you are interested.
Post Script - Rose did indeed feel the earth move for her today, in her office, which is about 6 kms from mine. She said the whole building kind of wobbled for a few seconds, twice. I only felt one of them She also said the news on radio coming home spoke of a 4.5 scale tremor with an epicentre about 200kms from where we live.
It's bit eerie when you are thinking about the horrible loss of life in the Pakistan/India/Kashmir earthquake over the weekend, and then feel an earth tremor yourself! My desk shook, and I watched my backpack wobble on the couch in my office, just a few minutes ago. I am sure it was just a baby tremor, Joburg gets them all the time, and not a patch on the big one that has caused so much loss of life and trauma.
Wait until I ask my wife if the earth moved for her too, today!
Here's a link to something about the last decent tremor Joburg had, back in March this year. These are often blamed on all the gold mining done in these here parts for more than a century. I haven't plugged Rob Ellis' blog, The Bearded Man, for a while, but he does a great job of scanning news about Comrade Bob, so click through if you are interested.
Post Script - Rose did indeed feel the earth move for her today, in her office, which is about 6 kms from mine. She said the whole building kind of wobbled for a few seconds, twice. I only felt one of them She also said the news on radio coming home spoke of a 4.5 scale tremor with an epicentre about 200kms from where we live.
15 March 2005
More Zimbabwe Nostalgia
Remember when a Zimbabwe $5 note would get you a big plate of food at a Wimpy in First Street? I'd show you a picture of one, but the lads at ZIMDAYS have slapped a clever little java thingy over their graphics ... so you will have to go and look for yourself. Fun site, but not if you are a seriously depressed WHENWE struggling at the end of a cold UK winter! (There is no Wikipedia entry for whenwe ... perhaps someone should give a definition a go and submit it?)
And thinking about nostalgia, I enjoyed seeing a picture on Robb Ellis' blog of Les Brown Swimming Pool - taken from the adjacent Holiday Inn Crown Plaza, formerly known as The Monomatapa Hotel. Swimming was my sport at school, and so I remember many swimming galas (swim meets to North Americans) in both the short and long course pools there, and in fact just about the whole time of my serious swimming, the big 20 storey hotel was being constructed next door. I remember endless lengths of backstroke watching the cranes and workers watching us.
And thinking about nostalgia, I enjoyed seeing a picture on Robb Ellis' blog of Les Brown Swimming Pool - taken from the adjacent Holiday Inn Crown Plaza, formerly known as The Monomatapa Hotel. Swimming was my sport at school, and so I remember many swimming galas (swim meets to North Americans) in both the short and long course pools there, and in fact just about the whole time of my serious swimming, the big 20 storey hotel was being constructed next door. I remember endless lengths of backstroke watching the cranes and workers watching us.
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