CRICKET360 PITCHED BY EDITOR SATURDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2009 It was a bad past few days for cricket and cricket news, with the mother of all cricket scandals, a pitch that crumbled so that playing on it was impossible, and cricket leagues troubled with financial and other troubles. Now however, things ma...

M.D.C., a.k.a. Millions of Dead Cops, a.k.a. Multi-Death Corporation, a.k.a. Millions of Dead Children, a.k.a. Millions of Dead Christians, a.k.a. Millions of Damn Christians, a.k.a. Magnus Domin...

Business Day 6 February 2009 By Tony Heard A CACOPHONY of sceptics. That collective noun aptly describes the underlying disbelief over the South African-led peace effort in Zimbabwe. And it will persist. This correspondent has some personal experience of it, because last year in Business Day he vent...

Friday’s announcement from Morgan Tsvangirai came as no surprise. For me it was a moment of resignation – I am resigned to the fact that following nine years of hard work, hours spent recording one catastrophe after another and the energy that has gone into saving the endless victims of the vile...

Washington Post By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, January 31, 2009 JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 30 — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party announced Friday that it would enter a unity government with autocratic President Robert Mugabe, bending to pressure to end a nearly five...

Today we again add our voices to the chorus singing that ole’ Zimbabwean spiritual - “Fuck Fuck Fuck Mugabe“ except we’d like to add a new chorus to that old refrain today. “You Thought it was over till you met our new head man; then you saw that this man isn’t wo...

Let’s hope Susan Rice is being forthright here: At her Senate confirmation hearing, Rice pledged to confront the regime of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, urging China, Russia and southern African countries to join the Obama administration in isolating the veteran strongman. “Their i...

Recovering this morning from an amazing day at the DC MSDN Developer Conference in Reston, VA. I had a blast helping out with the keynote, presenting on Azure, and seeing and hanging out with so many folks from the Mid-Atlantic developer community. Also finally got a chance to put some faces with na...

Washington Post Foreign Service By Karin Brulliard Sunday, January 11, 2009 As More Perish and Poverty Deepens, Kin Abandon Traditions HARARE, Zimbabwe — Noel Nefitali died of cholera on Dec. 28 at age 35, though no one passing by his grave site would know that. The cheapest chipboard coffin a...

Washington Post By David Coltart Wednesday, December 24, 2008 BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — There is a perfect humanitarian storm in my country. The threats of AIDS, poverty, hyperinflation and malnutrition, and now cholera, combined with a regime that has given up on its people, add up to an all-but-u...