Always something new out of Africa

LAUGHING and crying are often synonymous and Spigot did both on reading of the latest twist to the sad tale of Zimbabwe's demise. A female traditional healer (polite word for witchdoctor) is on the run for claiming to have found diesel fuel oozing out of a rock. It was, she claimed a "gift from ancestral spirits who saw that their children were suffering because of the fuel shortage." Knowing that a picture is worth a thousand words, this indigenous genius had herself photographed holding a hosepipe stuck into a rock, "spewing the oil," the Sunday Mail reported at the weekend. Sadder still is that three senior cabinet members were immediately despatched to "investigate" and report back to the ZANU-PF politburo.