Taxing backyard chicken growers in Zimbabwe’s 58 trillion budget

Source: Taxing backyard chicken growers in Zimbabwe’s 58 trillion budget A beautiful but deadly trio of young Lanner Falcons are perfecting the art of survival on these steamy December days under a bright blue sky and a burning sun. The trio wail and scream to each other from the high branches of the deep green shady Msasa trees, alerting each other to birds being flushed, warning of danger and generally causing panic and alarm in the garden. Sometimes they hunt on the crackly, sunburnt grass, catching insects but mostly they perch higher up, watching and waiting for everything that moves from little finches and waxbills to mousebirds and doves. They swoop and descend at speed, dive on flushed birds, chasing, pursuing and catching them on the wing. As little feathers drift down you know a killing’s been made and hardly is one dispatched then they start again, looking for the next victim, on the ground, in the trees, in the air; nowhere is safe. It all feels very much like what’s ...