I was trying to recall the title of one of English writer James Hadley Chase's novels. I never got to read it so I am not sure what he was referring to in particular. But I imagined its relevance to our current grinding economic circumstances and their invocation of a glorious past which a majority blacks never enjoyed.
In the past few years, a combination of economic sanctions on Zimbabwe, inclement weather patterns and deliberate acts of man have reduced most of us to a state of desperation. The state of our polarised and partisan politics has coloured this national emergency differently.
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