I will try my level best not to write about farming in this article.I will try to avoid at all cost the topic of land.I know like all of you that where Zimbabwe's failures is concerned the media latches on how farming deteriorated.Forget that.It is how Zimbabwe has deteriorated.
When Zimbabwe got majority rule in 1980 the estimated population stood at between 5 and 7 million.Inflation was not 0% as some people wrongly believe;it was 7%!What else?Oh ja, the number of primary schools in Zimbabwe then was about 2400 rising to about 4500 ten years later.Secondary schools were to rise from about 170 to 1500.Many roads were built some tarred .Some rural areas were electrified and some kind of town centres called growth points were developed.In education two main titles entered the vocabulary;hot sitting and upper tops.Hot sitting ,almost understandable,but upper tops,I have no clue what that comes from.
All these facilities were provided for a higher population yet at development they were meant for a few.Kariba dam was generating electricity for Rhodesia since the fifties.Wankie power station ,Bulawayo power station,Munyati power station and Harare power stations were all meant for a small population of Rhodesians without much room for sudden epidemic proportions usage that majority rule brought.
The roads that link major towns or that are trade routes were not meant for the traffic on them today.All commercial goods were a monopoly of a near efficiently run railway network.The Railways act guaranteed that.Those roads are still of same capacity they were 30 years ago.All rail traffic which initially was on rail has now been rechanneled to roads further burdening them.
Water and sewage works were being upgraded to meet housing boom supported mostly by world bank funding.when the funds dried up still the population is growing resulting in some homes housing 5 times their capacity.Water and sewage works are now overloaded and at break point.Even additional water sources have not been beyond party rally announcement stage.
And back to the schools;the schools still stand.Universities still stand and enrol.There are no teachers.This is because the economy has made them realise it is more blessed to labour in RSA farms than to teach.Schools have no books pens and many other classroom requirements.Computers have been donated to these schools by some mad man masquerading as the country's president.Mad in the sense that he donated to schools without even a single electricity outlet.Mad in the sense that I know of no primary school colleges training computer teachers.Mad
Health .In the eighties there was a slogan which went "health for all by year 2000" Granted,there was not much known about aids then.But minus aids we still failed to score half of that wish .Hospitals are all literally hospices now;koNangalezo or kwaMisodzi or kwaBataimaoko.Instead of saying ,"we took him to the hospital",people could just as well say ,we took him to the mortuary.People are dying due to a totally failed health delivery system .Shameless politicians have even been worrying about burial ground than on saving lives.What with politicians urging the dying to consider cremation to save burial land?The irony of that eludes them.
There we are no land issue no farming but all the same plenty to weep about.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Telling lies
I am sure every little saint struggles with lies than with any other vice.Lies are almost natural for humanes.Some people lie so well that even when a truth eventual comes out noone wants it.I suppose this is because lies are from the devil and therefore resemble the beauty of their fallen father,lucifer.(John 8:14 of the Bible.)Lies can be sweet .Lies can save lives.Lies can be more convenient than the truth in some circumstances.Like it was said,"We all tell lies yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral"(Epictetus,Greek philosopher).
A friend,used to say to me ,lies have short legs.I now know that it is said to be a Russian idiom.I also remember many a sunday school lesson where lying was painted as the worst sin.Yet as soon as sunday school was over if asked why you were late coming home no one would dare say,"sike sazilibazisa sidlala uski".It would be a simple siphuzile ukuphuma"(we finished late).
British writer Terry Pratchett is quoted as having said ,"the truth may be out there but lies are inside your head".How very true.Lies are in our heads and we carry them .Because they are lies they do not exist anywhere than in our formulations.Yet we are all liars.From the little,No I am not sleeping ,I am just closing my eyes;To the dangerous ones the big ones like women claiming someone raped them.All are lies.
Lies are told at work places.A man who lives close to his work place yet he claims he is late because he was held up on the motorway.People caught up by their partners in a cheating act raise hell of them lies.Yet some people are just ammusement liars,they dont have to be under any threat.They tell lies that entertain.You just have to spend a day with with Admore to experience what I am saying.Or the kind my brother in law's cousin would tell .He was changing a helicopter tyre in mid air under fire from rebels somewhere in DRC .
There are some lies that are lies to everybody else while the teller believes them to be true.Many years ago while in church in Makokoba Township (Old location) there was an old man we nicknamed vaMuzenda.(will not even try remember his real name)Whenever he was asked to preach he would tell of this scenario.He would ask people if they have ever seen moving little lights in the sky at night.When people said they have,he would ask what they think the lights are.Everytime people would always say they dont know no matter how many times he told his story.
"When you see those lights go tayi tayi in the dark nights those are the little machines used to protect all world leaders," he would say with conviction.and add ,"even our own president has his own".Such rubbish in church.
Before I finish ,is there any reason why people should lie? Do you recall any situation where if you had told the truth you would not be where you are today,positively or otherwise.My school motto translated to the truth sets free.Despite all the bad about lying I am still a liar,a bad one for that.What about you?
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A friend,used to say to me ,lies have short legs.I now know that it is said to be a Russian idiom.I also remember many a sunday school lesson where lying was painted as the worst sin.Yet as soon as sunday school was over if asked why you were late coming home no one would dare say,"sike sazilibazisa sidlala uski".It would be a simple siphuzile ukuphuma"(we finished late).
British writer Terry Pratchett is quoted as having said ,"the truth may be out there but lies are inside your head".How very true.Lies are in our heads and we carry them .Because they are lies they do not exist anywhere than in our formulations.Yet we are all liars.From the little,No I am not sleeping ,I am just closing my eyes;To the dangerous ones the big ones like women claiming someone raped them.All are lies.
Lies are told at work places.A man who lives close to his work place yet he claims he is late because he was held up on the motorway.People caught up by their partners in a cheating act raise hell of them lies.Yet some people are just ammusement liars,they dont have to be under any threat.They tell lies that entertain.You just have to spend a day with with Admore to experience what I am saying.Or the kind my brother in law's cousin would tell .He was changing a helicopter tyre in mid air under fire from rebels somewhere in DRC .
There are some lies that are lies to everybody else while the teller believes them to be true.Many years ago while in church in Makokoba Township (Old location) there was an old man we nicknamed vaMuzenda.(will not even try remember his real name)Whenever he was asked to preach he would tell of this scenario.He would ask people if they have ever seen moving little lights in the sky at night.When people said they have,he would ask what they think the lights are.Everytime people would always say they dont know no matter how many times he told his story.
"When you see those lights go tayi tayi in the dark nights those are the little machines used to protect all world leaders," he would say with conviction.and add ,"even our own president has his own".Such rubbish in church.
Before I finish ,is there any reason why people should lie? Do you recall any situation where if you had told the truth you would not be where you are today,positively or otherwise.My school motto translated to the truth sets free.Despite all the bad about lying I am still a liar,a bad one for that.What about you?
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Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Zimbabwean crisis,what has been done so far.
I am moved by Zimbabweans in the diaspora and at home.They are generally agreed that the situation at home is not what we should have.Zvinhu hazvina kumira mushe,that much we agree.The only problems we as Zimbabweans have are agreeing on ,what has caused that and how to get out of it.This is where we start breaking into fragments and become pieces.Small pieces for that!
I will try to identify what has been done so far in trying to solve our crisis as a nation and allow others to identify where we went wrong.It is very important that we take note of what is wrong first.There is plenty that is wrong.We are feeding on aid,when we can easily be feeding ourselves.We have no currency of our own and us money from a nation thousands of miles away.We are ruled by people many of us do not like any more.We are living with the reality of broken families,with spouses and offspring living in different countries.Our education system has become the worst in the educated world.We have virtually no reasonable sanitary conditions.water and electricity have become scarce.Crime is at all time high.We have no basic freedom.I could go on and on.
What has been done so far in reaction to this crisis is varying.Some lucky professional have left and established new life in other countries of the world.Children of the lucky few have made it to universities of the world.Even those who support the cruel regime have left with their membership cards and live in the comfort of forgiving nations.Some unlucky people ar toiling away in the land of their birth.Living the harsh reality of seeing things getting worse by the day.
Political pressure groups have been formed.WOZA,sokwanele,(zvakwana),makemugabehistory,Bulawayo Dialogue,Mthwakazi,Bulawayo agenda,Kubatana,zimbabwe coalitition,Madhuku's CA,and many others.They have me with the state's heaviest rutlessness.They have been subjected to the most grinding brutality and achieved basically nothing.
There hav been political parties like the liberty party,Mavambo,ZAPU (siwela)ZAPU 2000,ZAPU the proper and many more.Also come the MDC which in the end split and eventually succumbed to ZANU-pf pressure.Many a party leader have been beaten and tortured,some killed.All that has reduced the political solution to a reserve of the brave,the real real brave.
Then there have been,the donors the people who have kept people alive,in the same process keeping the regime credible.this is the sad reality.They have helped feed the nation and have ade breathing space for the cruel regime.yet i would be evil not to acknowledge the good work done by World vision,danida,red cross,red banner christian care,unicef,unesco lwf tear fund,children's cup masiye trust the christian churches and many others.
With or without direct effort to change anything all these have failed to turn the situation in Zimbabwe around.There sits a stubborn president on the throne and with him idiots and killers of cannibalistic proportion.People who truly see life as a cross on the ballot paper.People like Kasukuwere,Mutasa,Mohadi who have been directly linked with murder and gone free.There are many murders that were conducted in the name of the ruling party,zanu-pf.Yet the suspects roam the streets and paths with no smell of justice near them.
There also has been international interference.The common wealth tried and Mugabe pulled Zimbabwe out of that club.The EU tried and Mugabe decided to take sanctions than their advise.The USA tried and Mugabe rather took sanctions than their advise.The AU tried and Mugabe gave them a challenge they could not take:let the sinless among you lot cast the first stone.Then sadc tried and Mugabe put them in his pantry-cum-bar and locked it.They all emerged singing his praises until today.
And last but not least,some young soldiers tired some kind of a coup.It is reported that they were brutally assaulted and eventually assassinated.There is no way of verifying this report but going according to newspapers some young soldiers even attacked the state house.On that sad note I shall leave you dear reader to work out where we have gone wrong,what can be done next,and how really Zimbabwe should recover its glory.As it is there are two ruins in the country,the great Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean economy.
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I will try to identify what has been done so far in trying to solve our crisis as a nation and allow others to identify where we went wrong.It is very important that we take note of what is wrong first.There is plenty that is wrong.We are feeding on aid,when we can easily be feeding ourselves.We have no currency of our own and us money from a nation thousands of miles away.We are ruled by people many of us do not like any more.We are living with the reality of broken families,with spouses and offspring living in different countries.Our education system has become the worst in the educated world.We have virtually no reasonable sanitary conditions.water and electricity have become scarce.Crime is at all time high.We have no basic freedom.I could go on and on.
What has been done so far in reaction to this crisis is varying.Some lucky professional have left and established new life in other countries of the world.Children of the lucky few have made it to universities of the world.Even those who support the cruel regime have left with their membership cards and live in the comfort of forgiving nations.Some unlucky people ar toiling away in the land of their birth.Living the harsh reality of seeing things getting worse by the day.
Political pressure groups have been formed.WOZA,sokwanele,(zvakwana),makemugabehistory,Bulawayo Dialogue,Mthwakazi,Bulawayo agenda,Kubatana,zimbabwe coalitition,Madhuku's CA,and many others.They have me with the state's heaviest rutlessness.They have been subjected to the most grinding brutality and achieved basically nothing.
There hav been political parties like the liberty party,Mavambo,ZAPU (siwela)ZAPU 2000,ZAPU the proper and many more.Also come the MDC which in the end split and eventually succumbed to ZANU-pf pressure.Many a party leader have been beaten and tortured,some killed.All that has reduced the political solution to a reserve of the brave,the real real brave.
Then there have been,the donors the people who have kept people alive,in the same process keeping the regime credible.this is the sad reality.They have helped feed the nation and have ade breathing space for the cruel regime.yet i would be evil not to acknowledge the good work done by World vision,danida,red cross,red banner christian care,unicef,unesco lwf tear fund,children's cup masiye trust the christian churches and many others.
With or without direct effort to change anything all these have failed to turn the situation in Zimbabwe around.There sits a stubborn president on the throne and with him idiots and killers of cannibalistic proportion.People who truly see life as a cross on the ballot paper.People like Kasukuwere,Mutasa,Mohadi who have been directly linked with murder and gone free.There are many murders that were conducted in the name of the ruling party,zanu-pf.Yet the suspects roam the streets and paths with no smell of justice near them.
There also has been international interference.The common wealth tried and Mugabe pulled Zimbabwe out of that club.The EU tried and Mugabe decided to take sanctions than their advise.The USA tried and Mugabe rather took sanctions than their advise.The AU tried and Mugabe gave them a challenge they could not take:let the sinless among you lot cast the first stone.Then sadc tried and Mugabe put them in his pantry-cum-bar and locked it.They all emerged singing his praises until today.
And last but not least,some young soldiers tired some kind of a coup.It is reported that they were brutally assaulted and eventually assassinated.There is no way of verifying this report but going according to newspapers some young soldiers even attacked the state house.On that sad note I shall leave you dear reader to work out where we have gone wrong,what can be done next,and how really Zimbabwe should recover its glory.As it is there are two ruins in the country,the great Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean economy.
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Tuesday, 2 March 2010
The Hansard III
On the 10 th of February 2010 the Zimbabwean House of assembly was alive .It featured the deputy prime minister (DPM),Elton Mangoma ,Joseph Made ,Kasukuwere ,Gorden Moyo and many other MPs and Ministers.
The session started with questions directed at Ministers of various portfolios.The first question asked by Mr Madzimure was very interesting.It wanted the minister of mines to inform the house on what progress has been achieved with diamond mining.The question itself was jumbled up and made no grammatical sense.Diamond mining was questioned again later in the session.I found Obert (the mining minister) very irresponsible.Effectively he said he was preparing a report for the PM and therefore did not want to pre empty it.Pre empty a report by answering a specific question? Come on Owner-abled Minister,show some respect or had your owner disabled you?The imagined answer is there is no progress as expected by the public ad the House of assembly.
There was a reminder at some point that MPs ask policy questions.This I undestand would be questions that really question government policy issues; like whats government policy on diamond mining and selling;is govt.aware there is no policy guidelines on issue abc;or any other issues that are non-specific .The speaker identified the question on the mining accident at Antenior between Gwanda and Collin bawn as a non-policy question.Obert decided to answer it all the same .His answer was more or less,"We have tried our best.There are two makorokoza who could not be found,so what?"He got the Mine wrong but then maybe it was just the Hansard reporter's fault.The mine was spelt as Antonia.It is Antenior (pronounced locally as ha-nti-nya).
The are two special ones for me.The first was the deputy PM.He was asked to explain something about Nestle Zimbabwe and the Gushungo Holdings milk.The question does sound edited because it feels like it has words missing.Arthur went on about personal business freedom of speech blah blah.He went on about one government even warning MPs to stop thinking of themselves as opposition.Interestingly what made this business issue off bounds was the fact that it brings Robert into it.Robert,yes,the Robert.Personally what is wrong wit asking about a company that was going to pull out of business because of harassment.The Kingdom and Meikles issue was discussed publicly despite being private business?
The second interesting one was involving Saviour Kasukuwere.Before reading the hansard I thought I had been told the indigenous law was rejected for being a number of wrong things.Enter the foul-tampered (nearly called it fowl) and he was more like "i am the minister and i can do what I want."He must have fumed steam and flames before someone remarked,"ko unotsamwireyi,unotsamwira basa regovernment?"The guy in just a few minutes talk I could tell if you find yourself on the wrong side of that guy then you are gone.His answer was a typical of a man who says and does as he pleases.The sad thing is he even lied.He says he spoke to all investors and they are happy with indigenising 51% of holding?Where did he find the investors or is Zimbabwe got just a handful of investors aka Kasukuwere chiyangwa Chomboand others.
"Hello,this is Saviour Kasukuwere here.Yes from Zimbabwe ministry of indigenisation.yes I am the minister.Right ,is that Richard Branson?" "yes I am .How can I help you?" "Right ,right eh Richard do you want to invest in our beautiful country?" "No" "Fine fine no problem .Do you have any problem if we set aside 51% of any investment for our indegenous people,". "sorry mate I have no interest in what you do with your country.Set aside 100% or 1% its got nothing to do with me"
"Right right fine so you are ok with that then" Richard cuts the call and goes ,"what a lunatic!!What was that for".
They don't call him Tyson for nothing.
The session started with questions directed at Ministers of various portfolios.The first question asked by Mr Madzimure was very interesting.It wanted the minister of mines to inform the house on what progress has been achieved with diamond mining.The question itself was jumbled up and made no grammatical sense.Diamond mining was questioned again later in the session.I found Obert (the mining minister) very irresponsible.Effectively he said he was preparing a report for the PM and therefore did not want to pre empty it.Pre empty a report by answering a specific question? Come on Owner-abled Minister,show some respect or had your owner disabled you?The imagined answer is there is no progress as expected by the public ad the House of assembly.
There was a reminder at some point that MPs ask policy questions.This I undestand would be questions that really question government policy issues; like whats government policy on diamond mining and selling;is govt.aware there is no policy guidelines on issue abc;or any other issues that are non-specific .The speaker identified the question on the mining accident at Antenior between Gwanda and Collin bawn as a non-policy question.Obert decided to answer it all the same .His answer was more or less,"We have tried our best.There are two makorokoza who could not be found,so what?"He got the Mine wrong but then maybe it was just the Hansard reporter's fault.The mine was spelt as Antonia.It is Antenior (pronounced locally as ha-nti-nya).
The are two special ones for me.The first was the deputy PM.He was asked to explain something about Nestle Zimbabwe and the Gushungo Holdings milk.The question does sound edited because it feels like it has words missing.Arthur went on about personal business freedom of speech blah blah.He went on about one government even warning MPs to stop thinking of themselves as opposition.Interestingly what made this business issue off bounds was the fact that it brings Robert into it.Robert,yes,the Robert.Personally what is wrong wit asking about a company that was going to pull out of business because of harassment.The Kingdom and Meikles issue was discussed publicly despite being private business?
The second interesting one was involving Saviour Kasukuwere.Before reading the hansard I thought I had been told the indigenous law was rejected for being a number of wrong things.Enter the foul-tampered (nearly called it fowl) and he was more like "i am the minister and i can do what I want."He must have fumed steam and flames before someone remarked,"ko unotsamwireyi,unotsamwira basa regovernment?"The guy in just a few minutes talk I could tell if you find yourself on the wrong side of that guy then you are gone.His answer was a typical of a man who says and does as he pleases.The sad thing is he even lied.He says he spoke to all investors and they are happy with indigenising 51% of holding?Where did he find the investors or is Zimbabwe got just a handful of investors aka Kasukuwere chiyangwa Chomboand others.
"Hello,this is Saviour Kasukuwere here.Yes from Zimbabwe ministry of indigenisation.yes I am the minister.Right ,is that Richard Branson?" "yes I am .How can I help you?" "Right ,right eh Richard do you want to invest in our beautiful country?" "No" "Fine fine no problem .Do you have any problem if we set aside 51% of any investment for our indegenous people,". "sorry mate I have no interest in what you do with your country.Set aside 100% or 1% its got nothing to do with me"
"Right right fine so you are ok with that then" Richard cuts the call and goes ,"what a lunatic!!What was that for".
They don't call him Tyson for nothing.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
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Thursday, 18 February 2010
The great Zimbabwean writers
I was walking about the Harare International airport duty shops one morning.My intention was to buy a few books by Zimbabwean writers.I had people in my head whose books i would have snapped at any cost.Charles Mungoshi and possibly the less known jokeful sibling of Charles,David.I was hoping to find people like Arumenda,ndabezinhle sigogo,the nevanji madanhires,the hamutyineyis,and possibly new surprise offers.
Instead there were some books by American writers,books by some African writers,west Africa Tanzania and Kenya.The closest I saw to Zimbabwe was one by Ngugi wamiiri,the late Kenyan long term resident in Zimbabwe.I could only wish I had .If only i had appreciated more the works of Giles kuimba,Mordecai hamutyinei,Ignatius .....,Bernard chidzero(will ask Paul if he has his father's chinzvenga mutsvairo).Matigimu.
There were prolific writers .people who gave us Tambaoga mwanangu,Chakafukidza dzimba matenga,kutonhodzwa kwachauruka.People who gave us those great works of literary art like Feso,Dzasukwa Mwana asina hembe,Pfungwa dzasekuru mafusire.The great heroes who gave us books like uSethi ebukhweni bakhe,yeyeni madoda , Umgcici kandoyi.Those were the writers that some of us grew up enjoying between the bhaisikopo,comics football,schoolwork and an odd nick carter or Hadley chase
Instead there were some books by American writers,books by some African writers,west Africa Tanzania and Kenya.The closest I saw to Zimbabwe was one by Ngugi wamiiri,the late Kenyan long term resident in Zimbabwe.I could only wish I had .If only i had appreciated more the works of Giles kuimba,Mordecai hamutyinei,Ignatius .....,Bernard chidzero(will ask Paul if he has his father's chinzvenga mutsvairo).Matigimu.
There were prolific writers .people who gave us Tambaoga mwanangu,Chakafukidza dzimba matenga,kutonhodzwa kwachauruka.People who gave us those great works of literary art like Feso,Dzasukwa Mwana asina hembe,Pfungwa dzasekuru mafusire.The great heroes who gave us books like uSethi ebukhweni bakhe,yeyeni madoda , Umgcici kandoyi.Those were the writers that some of us grew up enjoying between the bhaisikopo,comics football,schoolwork and an odd nick carter or Hadley chase
Monday, 15 February 2010
Kambe abanjwa njani amagundwane (imbeva)
Hatshi bakithi abelungu bathi ukudla kweyinye indoda yitshefu kweyinye ndoda.Uyazi uyalibona igundwane limunyama tsu selivuthuzwe ngumlilo.Um'bone ubaba elithi hap,inhloko ehlafune.Elithi hlep,ezeeyoliqedisa ngasemsileni.Iqiniso yikuthi angikalidli ,ngizalizama ukuze ngilitshele kuhle ukuthi kambe limnandi na.Lapha ngifuna ukulicasisela ukuthi abanjwa njani amagundwani.
Amagundwani liwabona njalo alomahluko.Kule gundwani elihlala endlini kumbe esiphaleni.Lelo alidliwa njalo ngesishona yilo abalibiza ,'gozho or gonzo'.Igundwani elidliwayo ngelitholakala emasimini kumbe egangeni njalo yilo imbeva.Lalo lelo lilomahluko.Kukhona elikhulu abalibiza Banya (u-ba njengo ba kubaba ngesishona) kube leshana kulomudende kulamanye njeamagama amagundwani .
Ukuthiywa kwamagundwani kuyatshiyana.Abanye basebenzisa ukuyinto okuthiwa ngu 'munheva'. Umunheva yi cone shape eyelukwa ngontshani.Othiyayo uyadinga lapho okulomgwaqo wegundwane efake lo munheva.Igundwani ke lizabuya ligijima eseliyethusile lifike lingena ku munheva wake.Hawu,sejimbile.
Abanye bayawagebha kodwa lokhu akudumanga kangako.Okudumileyo yikusebenzisa amatshe.Othiyayo uyadinga amtshe ake amakhudlwanyana kodwa eflat.Uzawafakake duzani lomulindi wegundwane.Umathiya uzachola idobi lakhe elamazambani atshisiweyo abe munyama .Uzadinga igxoza kumbe umnxeba (intambo) azawu gcoba ngedobi uze unuke idzobi.Ukuthiya okulula kwenziwa ngelitshe,okuyisgodo okuncane lentambo,kwesinye isikhathi lezambani kumbe intanga yomumbu kumbe yejodo.uyabophela intanga kucentre yentambo sunyathelisa ekucineni kwentambo ngelitshe.Icele lentambo eliseleyo subophela esigodweni.Ilitshe lizahlala pezu kwentambo intambo ibelethwe yisigodo.
Kuzathi sokusebusuku Igundwani lizezwa umnuko wedobi liphumeke emlindini.Lingaphuma lizalandela umunuko lize liyofika phansi kwelitshe.Ngobuthutha liza luma inthanga kumbe inthambo ilithse lize liwe.Lisiwa lelo litshe liwela phezuka gundi,ugundi seyisitshebo.
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Amagundwani liwabona njalo alomahluko.Kule gundwani elihlala endlini kumbe esiphaleni.Lelo alidliwa njalo ngesishona yilo abalibiza ,'gozho or gonzo'.Igundwani elidliwayo ngelitholakala emasimini kumbe egangeni njalo yilo imbeva.Lalo lelo lilomahluko.Kukhona elikhulu abalibiza Banya (u-ba njengo ba kubaba ngesishona) kube leshana kulomudende kulamanye njeamagama amagundwani .
Ukuthiywa kwamagundwani kuyatshiyana.Abanye basebenzisa ukuyinto okuthiwa ngu 'munheva'. Umunheva yi cone shape eyelukwa ngontshani.Othiyayo uyadinga lapho okulomgwaqo wegundwane efake lo munheva.Igundwani ke lizabuya ligijima eseliyethusile lifike lingena ku munheva wake.Hawu,sejimbile.
Abanye bayawagebha kodwa lokhu akudumanga kangako.Okudumileyo yikusebenzisa amatshe.Othiyayo uyadinga amtshe ake amakhudlwanyana kodwa eflat.Uzawafakake duzani lomulindi wegundwane.Umathiya uzachola idobi lakhe elamazambani atshisiweyo abe munyama .Uzadinga igxoza kumbe umnxeba (intambo) azawu gcoba ngedobi uze unuke idzobi.Ukuthiya okulula kwenziwa ngelitshe,okuyisgodo okuncane lentambo,kwesinye isikhathi lezambani kumbe intanga yomumbu kumbe yejodo.uyabophela intanga kucentre yentambo sunyathelisa ekucineni kwentambo ngelitshe.Icele lentambo eliseleyo subophela esigodweni.Ilitshe lizahlala pezu kwentambo intambo ibelethwe yisigodo.
Kuzathi sokusebusuku Igundwani lizezwa umnuko wedobi liphumeke emlindini.Lingaphuma lizalandela umunuko lize liyofika phansi kwelitshe.Ngobuthutha liza luma inthanga kumbe inthambo ilithse lize liwe.Lisiwa lelo litshe liwela phezuka gundi,ugundi seyisitshebo.
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Nenguva iyo zviyo zvainge zvava muminda paizoita zvipembenene zvinonzi makugwe (makurwe)(gugwe or gurwe in singular.)Anowana mbiri yawo muchirevo chinoti,'gwendo gwangu gwegweru gwagugwa negugwe'.Makugwe aya zvipembenene zvinodyiwa.Ndava nemakore chaizvo ndakaguma kuadya asi ndinofunga kuti anongonaka nazvino.Gugwe rainaka hama yangu.
Makugwe aibatwa nezhira mbiri.Zhira yokutanga yanga yakati rerukei mumavoko.Izvi zvaiitwa usiku.Maitora mwenje/rambi/lamp mopinda naro mumakura mairira makugwe.Anorira nekutambisa mapapiro awo zvinoita ruzha.saka mainonyangira nemwenje wenyu mobata gugwe renyu risati radzokera mumwena.Pamwe mairikonewa pamweo mairibatirapo.Maigona kutozadza tswanda mosvikotumbura makugwe anyo mokanga ;hwatova vusavi.
Imwe zhira yekubata nayo makugwe yairema.Paidiwa badza nesvisimba svakati o.Waitora badza rako wonanga kumakura.Gugwe rinochera mwena waro richisiya chitutu chinoonekera kuzhe.Saka chitutu ichochi ndicho chairatidza mucheri kuti pangangova negugwe.Waichera zvinyoronyoro uchitevera mbudyo (mwena warinopinda napo).Mwena uyu waizokusvitsa pawaiparadzana .umwe wairamba uchitsa pasi,umwe uchikwira .waikwira wainzi 'kumunda'.Wayitsa wainzi kumusha.Wokutsa ndiwo waiwanikwa wakashuzhigwa nemashizha nezvimwe zvinodyiwa negugwe.
Uyu waikwidza handizivi kuti wanga uri weyi;kuda ndiko kwaraibuda nako rondorira here.Kana kuti raizotizira ikoko kana kwarinovata kwaita mvura.Kana kuti yaingovavo nzvimbo yaro yekutizira muvengi kana nzvimbo yaro yoku'chila'.Waiti wabata makugwe ako achiwanda,waitora uswa hweshambo wobaya gugwe muhuro (kutungira) uchingodaro kusvika mutungiro wako wazara.Badza pafudzi,mitungiro yako miviri mitatu,ndiwe uyo kuuuumba.Waibva waita shasha wochiritimba nemakugwe musi iwoyo.Waimukangamwa aseva nehuku.
Makugwe aibatwa nezhira mbiri.Zhira yokutanga yanga yakati rerukei mumavoko.Izvi zvaiitwa usiku.Maitora mwenje/rambi/lamp mopinda naro mumakura mairira makugwe.Anorira nekutambisa mapapiro awo zvinoita ruzha.saka mainonyangira nemwenje wenyu mobata gugwe renyu risati radzokera mumwena.Pamwe mairikonewa pamweo mairibatirapo.Maigona kutozadza tswanda mosvikotumbura makugwe anyo mokanga ;hwatova vusavi.
Imwe zhira yekubata nayo makugwe yairema.Paidiwa badza nesvisimba svakati o.Waitora badza rako wonanga kumakura.Gugwe rinochera mwena waro richisiya chitutu chinoonekera kuzhe.Saka chitutu ichochi ndicho chairatidza mucheri kuti pangangova negugwe.Waichera zvinyoronyoro uchitevera mbudyo (mwena warinopinda napo).Mwena uyu waizokusvitsa pawaiparadzana .umwe wairamba uchitsa pasi,umwe uchikwira .waikwira wainzi 'kumunda'.Wayitsa wainzi kumusha.Wokutsa ndiwo waiwanikwa wakashuzhigwa nemashizha nezvimwe zvinodyiwa negugwe.
Uyu waikwidza handizivi kuti wanga uri weyi;kuda ndiko kwaraibuda nako rondorira here.Kana kuti raizotizira ikoko kana kwarinovata kwaita mvura.Kana kuti yaingovavo nzvimbo yaro yekutizira muvengi kana nzvimbo yaro yoku'chila'.Waiti wabata makugwe ako achiwanda,waitora uswa hweshambo wobaya gugwe muhuro (kutungira) uchingodaro kusvika mutungiro wako wazara.Badza pafudzi,mitungiro yako miviri mitatu,ndiwe uyo kuuuumba.Waibva waita shasha wochiritimba nemakugwe musi iwoyo.Waimukangamwa aseva nehuku.
Friday, 12 February 2010
Zimbabwe and sanctions
I am not going to help bust them even if it was easy to do so.I am only going to ask a few questions .Zimbabwe is a country I love very much.Maybe not quite my country as Mugabe and his regime would want me to think;but all the same I love Zimbabwe and it is one of those places which when I say home I mean.It is my home.Maybe not a land of my birth ,but a land of my forefathers:My motherland.
There is concern that Zimbabwe is under economic sanctions.I will not argue on whether it is or whether it is not.What I want to tackle is the reason for those sanctions.Before tackling that i will however acknowledge that there is an arms embargo on Zimbabwe.There is ZIDERA and there are targeted sanctions on ZANU PF ,Mugabe and some Mugabe henchmen and hang abouts.
Collectively these sanctions were meant to deal a blow on Mugabe but bacause of his look east and the far east's uncouth business ethics he feels very little of them.He misses Europe and the MDC are giving him a propaganda coup on a plate by continously talking about sanctions too.
Whatever the sanctions are,they were imposed for a reason.Europe declared at some point that they did not recognise Mugabe's government .This followed a flawed election in which they were refused to observe.Its a long story.That plus human rights abuses absence of law and order general we-do-not-care mentality created a them and us relationship between Zimbabwe and Europe.The absence of law manifest itself through mostly the land grab but through other ways too.
The MDC myself yourself Mugabe Zuma the african union and sadc can never remove the sanctions no matter how much we cry.The only way the sanctions will be removed is when the conditions of their application are removed.The rule of law has not returned.The rule of law itself is a concerpt that can be seen defined and applied .when it is there it is there.It is not abstract.The GNU so far has failed to influence that change.The MDC fraction of the GNU still writhes under the same absence of the rule of law.
Human rights abuses are still rife.the police are still a band of uniformed thugs who visit anger on anyone deemed unfriendly to the system.There are still draconian war time type laws like posa and aipa.We are trying to negotiate a constitution but that is being done under a barrage of abuses as well.
The army is still partisan and violent to the common man.Recently a Sabhuku in Chibi is reported to have received a karate kick from an army warrant officer for not being ZANU PF.Corruption is rife especially where perpetrators are party caders.
As for property laws we are worse than the wild west times.Anyone can have a farm from another if only he knows who to support or supports him.Land laws are so confusing and many that it would not surprise if the Animal husbandry act is still citable if you sustitute certain words with Black.
Do you need enemies when you got ZANU pf in power?And and an MDC that is slowly getting blind.
There is concern that Zimbabwe is under economic sanctions.I will not argue on whether it is or whether it is not.What I want to tackle is the reason for those sanctions.Before tackling that i will however acknowledge that there is an arms embargo on Zimbabwe.There is ZIDERA and there are targeted sanctions on ZANU PF ,Mugabe and some Mugabe henchmen and hang abouts.
Collectively these sanctions were meant to deal a blow on Mugabe but bacause of his look east and the far east's uncouth business ethics he feels very little of them.He misses Europe and the MDC are giving him a propaganda coup on a plate by continously talking about sanctions too.
Whatever the sanctions are,they were imposed for a reason.Europe declared at some point that they did not recognise Mugabe's government .This followed a flawed election in which they were refused to observe.Its a long story.That plus human rights abuses absence of law and order general we-do-not-care mentality created a them and us relationship between Zimbabwe and Europe.The absence of law manifest itself through mostly the land grab but through other ways too.
The MDC myself yourself Mugabe Zuma the african union and sadc can never remove the sanctions no matter how much we cry.The only way the sanctions will be removed is when the conditions of their application are removed.The rule of law has not returned.The rule of law itself is a concerpt that can be seen defined and applied .when it is there it is there.It is not abstract.The GNU so far has failed to influence that change.The MDC fraction of the GNU still writhes under the same absence of the rule of law.
Human rights abuses are still rife.the police are still a band of uniformed thugs who visit anger on anyone deemed unfriendly to the system.There are still draconian war time type laws like posa and aipa.We are trying to negotiate a constitution but that is being done under a barrage of abuses as well.
The army is still partisan and violent to the common man.Recently a Sabhuku in Chibi is reported to have received a karate kick from an army warrant officer for not being ZANU PF.Corruption is rife especially where perpetrators are party caders.
As for property laws we are worse than the wild west times.Anyone can have a farm from another if only he knows who to support or supports him.Land laws are so confusing and many that it would not surprise if the Animal husbandry act is still citable if you sustitute certain words with Black.
Do you need enemies when you got ZANU pf in power?And and an MDC that is slowly getting blind.
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Commodity prices Zimbabwe
These days anyone you talk to in Zimbabwe tell you,"Izinto sezitholakala kodwa ziyadura" Stuff is available only they are expensive.This is true of bread ,meat dairy products mobile hones and computers.Obviously the common man is worried about food and clothing.Also worrying to the common and the rich alike is accommodation.
The introduction of the American currency has done wanders but it has also reduced the buying power of those of us in the diaspora.Gone are the days when paying a builder could cost £20 and still buy a quality service.Gone are the days when sending money home meant a £100 would be so much a whole village would talk about it.Gone.
According to some advertisements anything from £10 000 pound could buy one a house in Zimbabwe now,well a house.Houses of a certain calibre obviously cal for a lot of dosh.I have seen houses that only millionaires (real millionaires) can dream of.I have seen such houses going for a possible maximum of about £500 000.Residential land has also gone from a few hundreds to tens of thousands but that's relatively affordable.
Luxury goods are expensive because of them being imports.Mobile Phones have gone down from the peak of the regime's ineptitude .As at now one can buy a privately sold i-phone for about £500.Airtime that was once exorbitantly priced is fairly priced now.The last time I was in Zimbabwe a Sim card was anything around R600-R1000.Now the Sim cards are more available and not madly price anymore.Mobile phones though some are still expensive some are quite fairly priced.Simple nokias samsungs and the like are quite fairly priced both as used and new.
Cars as well have become more relatively available in both price and stock levels.There is quite an assortment of cars for sell be they new or used.The sad thing is they are almost all imported.That obviously spells bad news for people like Willowvale motor industries,Quest,Lonrho and other car or vehicle industries.
I am not quite happy with all this.We are in the happier times than before the GNU but we are in a deceptive phase.A period when things that are OK are OK because of temporary arrangements.The use of the USdollar and the ZARRand is not a solution .He use of imported commodities is not the best.What we need is a return to the days when we had almost 100% Zimbabwean products in food stores and at least more than 50% local produce elsewhere.We just have to be a normal producer/consumer not just be South Africa's supermarket shelf with a few East Asian goods here and there.
The introduction of the American currency has done wanders but it has also reduced the buying power of those of us in the diaspora.Gone are the days when paying a builder could cost £20 and still buy a quality service.Gone are the days when sending money home meant a £100 would be so much a whole village would talk about it.Gone.
According to some advertisements anything from £10 000 pound could buy one a house in Zimbabwe now,well a house.Houses of a certain calibre obviously cal for a lot of dosh.I have seen houses that only millionaires (real millionaires) can dream of.I have seen such houses going for a possible maximum of about £500 000.Residential land has also gone from a few hundreds to tens of thousands but that's relatively affordable.
Luxury goods are expensive because of them being imports.Mobile Phones have gone down from the peak of the regime's ineptitude .As at now one can buy a privately sold i-phone for about £500.Airtime that was once exorbitantly priced is fairly priced now.The last time I was in Zimbabwe a Sim card was anything around R600-R1000.Now the Sim cards are more available and not madly price anymore.Mobile phones though some are still expensive some are quite fairly priced.Simple nokias samsungs and the like are quite fairly priced both as used and new.
Cars as well have become more relatively available in both price and stock levels.There is quite an assortment of cars for sell be they new or used.The sad thing is they are almost all imported.That obviously spells bad news for people like Willowvale motor industries,Quest,Lonrho and other car or vehicle industries.
I am not quite happy with all this.We are in the happier times than before the GNU but we are in a deceptive phase.A period when things that are OK are OK because of temporary arrangements.The use of the USdollar and the ZARRand is not a solution .He use of imported commodities is not the best.What we need is a return to the days when we had almost 100% Zimbabwean products in food stores and at least more than 50% local produce elsewhere.We just have to be a normal producer/consumer not just be South Africa's supermarket shelf with a few East Asian goods here and there.
Monday, 1 February 2010
Tomana,Hitschmann and impeachment
There is one thing that has occupied the mind of Zimbabweans who follow Zimbabwe's criminal court cases and particularly the trial of MDC's Roy Bennet.The prosecution has been one of the few I remember in recent zimbabwean legal history where the attorney general has taken the role of prosecutor.Legally there is nothing wrong with that.There is only two issues;it shows the president wants a conviction at any cost.Also it might expose the AG as the most incompetent Zimbabwean AG ever .
The issue that is mind boggling is the issue of a witness called Peter Hitschmann.The gentleman stated he had nothing to witness on behalf of the state right from the beginning.The state knew he was that 'hostile '(adverse) to their cause and still called him as a witness.It leaves one wandering what Tomana (johannes )wanted to achieve.
My guess is that Tomana wanted to have Hitschmann say anything in court just anything.The court would then see he was not for the prosecution and have the court with no choice than declare him a hostile witness and allow his impeachment.As we all know it did not work quite well as he was allowed impeachment but Judge was reluctant to accept some evidence from earler statements.The credibility of Hitschman's witness testimony depends on the earlier recorded staements.Because those have been thrown out as unacceptable then Tomana has nothing to compare hitschmann to.
I also find this wasteful.Another view would be that Tomana knew that Michael Peter Hitschmann (MPH)would be very valuable as a witness to the accused.He chose to make him a witness for the state so he can not be a witness for the accused?I am sure that is a possibility at law?I however think that has failed too.MPH will just say what he wants as he has already done.It is now up to Tomana the AG to find anything good there from.He will not find much,I think Tomana arikuumburuka musvina.Hameno hokoyo naBob.
This is the tragedy of being controlled like a dog;you are at the mercy of your handler.
The issue that is mind boggling is the issue of a witness called Peter Hitschmann.The gentleman stated he had nothing to witness on behalf of the state right from the beginning.The state knew he was that 'hostile '(adverse) to their cause and still called him as a witness.It leaves one wandering what Tomana (johannes )wanted to achieve.
My guess is that Tomana wanted to have Hitschmann say anything in court just anything.The court would then see he was not for the prosecution and have the court with no choice than declare him a hostile witness and allow his impeachment.As we all know it did not work quite well as he was allowed impeachment but Judge was reluctant to accept some evidence from earler statements.The credibility of Hitschman's witness testimony depends on the earlier recorded staements.Because those have been thrown out as unacceptable then Tomana has nothing to compare hitschmann to.
I also find this wasteful.Another view would be that Tomana knew that Michael Peter Hitschmann (MPH)would be very valuable as a witness to the accused.He chose to make him a witness for the state so he can not be a witness for the accused?I am sure that is a possibility at law?I however think that has failed too.MPH will just say what he wants as he has already done.It is now up to Tomana the AG to find anything good there from.He will not find much,I think Tomana arikuumburuka musvina.Hameno hokoyo naBob.
This is the tragedy of being controlled like a dog;you are at the mercy of your handler.
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
WE ARE PEOPLE
We are that which when we are born people gather to celebrate
We are people we exchange gifts and be happy to be more
We are that which sits and names our newly born
That who will seek who we look like even back generations
We are people we are raised hungry and full
We they who are raised clean and raised dirty
Yet we are they expected to be equal to be happy and together
And we are they expected to grow and be strong
We are;we are people in name and in did
We cry towards laughter and laugh towards sadness
We are people and we mourn when we lose anotherand yet
We rejoice when someone else dies as we choose
We gather and put eleven men dressed strangely facing each other
We sing and shout as they kick a ball about and fall
We are people we are who enjoy this thing this noise
We sit all facing an empty field ;expecting them to return
We will cry and look aside as drunken men hammer fists into another
Yet we cheer and screem when we call it sport
Pay out huge sums and sums of them millions to the two
knowing full that we will not have the millions they will have
We are people we put faith in the power of mechanics
As they make us soar into the skies and the high waters
Certain that we will get there and return again the same way
Even sleeing eating drinking and being merry
We are people we will live happily in a country at war
We will trust that no mad man will take charge
Mad as will wipe us from the surface of earth
As surely many a capable and wishing
We ,we people of this world we are in there somewhere
We can create weapons money and chemicals and utilities
Yet when all goes wrong ,when we lose control of it all
We fall and die in pain as we fail to return where it all began
We are people we worship and we deny
We fill churches for goodness as we fill places of evil
We kill as much as we endevour to save heal and feed
We are people ours is a life of death and dying
We read our own books and listen to our own stories
We think that is learning ;acquiring knowledge
How can it be any knowledge when it is us who have authored
Yet we are people and our minds are that simple
We are people
We are people we exchange gifts and be happy to be more
We are that which sits and names our newly born
That who will seek who we look like even back generations
We are people we are raised hungry and full
We they who are raised clean and raised dirty
Yet we are they expected to be equal to be happy and together
And we are they expected to grow and be strong
We are;we are people in name and in did
We cry towards laughter and laugh towards sadness
We are people and we mourn when we lose anotherand yet
We rejoice when someone else dies as we choose
We gather and put eleven men dressed strangely facing each other
We sing and shout as they kick a ball about and fall
We are people we are who enjoy this thing this noise
We sit all facing an empty field ;expecting them to return
We will cry and look aside as drunken men hammer fists into another
Yet we cheer and screem when we call it sport
Pay out huge sums and sums of them millions to the two
knowing full that we will not have the millions they will have
We are people we put faith in the power of mechanics
As they make us soar into the skies and the high waters
Certain that we will get there and return again the same way
Even sleeing eating drinking and being merry
We are people we will live happily in a country at war
We will trust that no mad man will take charge
Mad as will wipe us from the surface of earth
As surely many a capable and wishing
We ,we people of this world we are in there somewhere
We can create weapons money and chemicals and utilities
Yet when all goes wrong ,when we lose control of it all
We fall and die in pain as we fail to return where it all began
We are people we worship and we deny
We fill churches for goodness as we fill places of evil
We kill as much as we endevour to save heal and feed
We are people ours is a life of death and dying
We read our own books and listen to our own stories
We think that is learning ;acquiring knowledge
How can it be any knowledge when it is us who have authored
Yet we are people and our minds are that simple
We are people
Monday, 18 January 2010
Phone cards and the rip off that they are.
There are times when one needs to talk to people back home in Zimbabwe.Maybe you have a few cows and you want to know how they are doing.You want to keep audit from a distance.Maybe you have old folk and you want to keep in touch.You probably building and want to keep abreast with the progress.This is when you want to make that call.But how costly is it to call home?
BT charges are broken into plans called friends and family,freedom then they have the standard plan.The first two are 8p per minute and the standard plan costs are 95p for day time and 77 at night.The friends and family is a special plan where BT ask their customers to pick where you want to call for special rates.
Virgin Media has two plans that would interest Zimbabweans.One is the standard call rate which is 106.68 pence per minute for a land line.It costs 131.15 pence for calling a Zimbabwean mobile phone.With a special plan called Talk International the calls are significantly lower.It would cost someone with the international plan 8.8p to call the Zimbabwean land line and 33.27p for calling a mobile.
Given these two fixed phone providers one is left wandering if the phone card companies make any sense at all.To get it there is a fee and some special conditions .
Cards are a double whammy if not just a rip off.Some cards do not work at all.Some will cost you £5 claiming a return of 500 minutes when in actual fact it will give you 120 or even 100 minutes effectively.A simple calculation shows that means anything from 1p to 5p per minute.Some have a expensive geographic numbers which phone companies charge exorbitantly.So one's own provider charges for the geographic number .
My advice will always be that one thinks twice before making use of many schemes available for calling home.I am not sure which one is best myself but I surely know that some are complete rip offs.They help not you and I but the guy sitting in some office somewhere in the world;someone whose account is getting very fat.
BT charges are broken into plans called friends and family,freedom then they have the standard plan.The first two are 8p per minute and the standard plan costs are 95p for day time and 77 at night.The friends and family is a special plan where BT ask their customers to pick where you want to call for special rates.
Virgin Media has two plans that would interest Zimbabweans.One is the standard call rate which is 106.68 pence per minute for a land line.It costs 131.15 pence for calling a Zimbabwean mobile phone.With a special plan called Talk International the calls are significantly lower.It would cost someone with the international plan 8.8p to call the Zimbabwean land line and 33.27p for calling a mobile.
Given these two fixed phone providers one is left wandering if the phone card companies make any sense at all.To get it there is a fee and some special conditions .
Cards are a double whammy if not just a rip off.Some cards do not work at all.Some will cost you £5 claiming a return of 500 minutes when in actual fact it will give you 120 or even 100 minutes effectively.A simple calculation shows that means anything from 1p to 5p per minute.Some have a expensive geographic numbers which phone companies charge exorbitantly.So one's own provider charges for the geographic number .
My advice will always be that one thinks twice before making use of many schemes available for calling home.I am not sure which one is best myself but I surely know that some are complete rip offs.They help not you and I but the guy sitting in some office somewhere in the world;someone whose account is getting very fat.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Juged in a cinema shooted in a school
These are words taken from a caption below a memorial drawing of the heroes of Cabinda as honoured by their living.It is on a modest website of the Republic of Cabinda.To those who have just woken up Cabinda is where the Togo football team were shot at by gunman claimed by an organisation calling itself FLEC.This same organisation is highly praised with some words viva F.L.E.C following the cursor whenever it moves on the site.
It is totally unacceptable that a gun-battle would derail the Africa Cup of Nations .If you ask me that counts for cowardice.However think the fighters of Cabinda made one point;that the world should know that they are there.The African Union has really failed to tackle the issue of Cabinda fairly.The Cabinda situation represents closely what African nations fought for for many years.Cabind is not Angola so much that I do not understand why Congo or DRC have not claimed it too.
The AU has already rejected the Cabinda government in exile and it is seen as their way of limiting the threat of other regions following suit elsewhere.I would understand their concern if there were many exclaves in the continent.I am not aware of many.The closest we have to an exclave in Southern Africa is Kaprivi strip another of Africa's possible future problems.Why no one is doing anything more than what happened in the 1990's is just because there is no oil yet,in the Kaprivi.Oil, it ends il like evil and its probably no coincidence.
When asked about terrorism in Africa on BBC some years ago,i could not have predicted FLEC being involved in a so called terrorist attack.All I spoke of was the Somalia and Sudan regions.Little did I know that one day ,just one day star footballers from the motherland would be in tears having survived African terrorists.But beside the attack FLEC have a point?
It is totally unacceptable that a gun-battle would derail the Africa Cup of Nations .If you ask me that counts for cowardice.However think the fighters of Cabinda made one point;that the world should know that they are there.The African Union has really failed to tackle the issue of Cabinda fairly.The Cabinda situation represents closely what African nations fought for for many years.Cabind is not Angola so much that I do not understand why Congo or DRC have not claimed it too.
The AU has already rejected the Cabinda government in exile and it is seen as their way of limiting the threat of other regions following suit elsewhere.I would understand their concern if there were many exclaves in the continent.I am not aware of many.The closest we have to an exclave in Southern Africa is Kaprivi strip another of Africa's possible future problems.Why no one is doing anything more than what happened in the 1990's is just because there is no oil yet,in the Kaprivi.Oil, it ends il like evil and its probably no coincidence.
When asked about terrorism in Africa on BBC some years ago,i could not have predicted FLEC being involved in a so called terrorist attack.All I spoke of was the Somalia and Sudan regions.Little did I know that one day ,just one day star footballers from the motherland would be in tears having survived African terrorists.But beside the attack FLEC have a point?
Friday, 8 January 2010
The Hansard ii
This time around I hae chosen to review for our benefit ,the hansard from one of our neighbours;Botswana.Interesting stuff.I must say i was impressed by the professional debate particularly in the Hansard for 7 April 2009.The batswana were talking about their economy and it makes very impresive reading.
A motion debated first by Mr Magama was picked up by the parliamentary leader of opposition Mr.Otsweletse Moupo.It was on the economy and the opposition to privatisation plans .Oh my G!I have never seen this type of debating in our own parliament,Zimbabwe,that is.Typifying our exciting moments are mockings like the one where a young parliamentarian once mocked some sleeping geriatric during a session. The debates lack any academic detail.Suppose it might be difficult to engage certain people in any debate especially those who believe their role in parliament is to safeguard the gains of independence whatever that means.
anywhere Mr moupo a lawyer and holds a journalist diploma from the London school of journalism.I donot know how eloquent he really is but following his quotes and debates he sounds quite verbose.mr Moupo tried to raise the success stories and lessons from the Latin Americas and East Asia .He argued quoting authors and scenarios from the world war.He turned that debate into some academic discussion .
The deputy Minister of Finance came in and tried to answer him.At some point an MP asked him if he was for capitalism or for nationalisation as his arguement was for government to create parastatals .His answer was that he personally is for mixed economy.Theories like the keynesian economy the great depression.Russian economic turn around.Roman abromovic and chelsea fc feature prominantly too.Even the responses from the deputy Minister of Finance were equally impressive.Overwhelmed by all this academic bombardment the Minister himself eventually asked to be shown anywhere in the policy where government had said they wished to privatise.What an answer to so much waffling.
A motion debated first by Mr Magama was picked up by the parliamentary leader of opposition Mr.Otsweletse Moupo.It was on the economy and the opposition to privatisation plans .Oh my G!I have never seen this type of debating in our own parliament,Zimbabwe,that is.Typifying our exciting moments are mockings like the one where a young parliamentarian once mocked some sleeping geriatric during a session. The debates lack any academic detail.Suppose it might be difficult to engage certain people in any debate especially those who believe their role in parliament is to safeguard the gains of independence whatever that means.
anywhere Mr moupo a lawyer and holds a journalist diploma from the London school of journalism.I donot know how eloquent he really is but following his quotes and debates he sounds quite verbose.mr Moupo tried to raise the success stories and lessons from the Latin Americas and East Asia .He argued quoting authors and scenarios from the world war.He turned that debate into some academic discussion .
The deputy Minister of Finance came in and tried to answer him.At some point an MP asked him if he was for capitalism or for nationalisation as his arguement was for government to create parastatals .His answer was that he personally is for mixed economy.Theories like the keynesian economy the great depression.Russian economic turn around.Roman abromovic and chelsea fc feature prominantly too.Even the responses from the deputy Minister of Finance were equally impressive.Overwhelmed by all this academic bombardment the Minister himself eventually asked to be shown anywhere in the policy where government had said they wished to privatise.What an answer to so much waffling.
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
The Commodity Factor
The Commodity Factor is my 2007/2008 project.It was my first flirt with the idea of an e-shop and I am happy to say that dream is still alive in my head.It might not be on top of my priority projects,it being 2 years cold (not old).Commodity Factor is one of those projects which as the concept source I must admit I did not plan for it and I mismanaged it.
The Factor was created to trade in general commodities but mostly in electronic products.For starters to trade immediately it had to be an e-bay shop to start with then I would spread it to an agent on Kalahari and then at some point it would become a stand alone e-shop.
The first mistake was going into ebay without much knowledge than the millionaire stories told by faceless people.Nothing wrong with ebay especially but there is a lot to learn before one plunges.This is why they have what they call the ebay university and it makes sense that one acquaints themselves with it before going far.Knowledge must be stage one in not only my projects but yours too.
Then after ignorantly setting up the ebay part of The Commodity Factor I ordered some bulk goods which consisted of home phones .It was two huge boxes ,so huge the delivery man just left them in the front garden ;all full of 100 phones.I had to stock take which was easy but also resolved to test each and every phone that it basically could call and receive.That done I took photos of each type and uploaded and set the products up.
My first critic was my friend who thought the pictures (some taken from a mobile )were amateurish.Some Products were not too clear.Anywhere bids and purchases came up and so were problems .I then realised with ebay costs and all not selling was not just zero income but actually negative income.I still paid ebay fees and subscription for the shop and disaster was visible even before long.
Then the reality of human patronage took over,Suddenly I had plenty of products reported not working despite testing each product before dispatch.Naively I would just send a replacement and that meant selling two for the price of one..a definite loss.The Commodity Factor just had to suspend trade to go to school.It was becoming a PR disaster and was slowly creating a rogue trader out of itself.Products up into the loft and Commodity Factor bid farewell to ebay even after collecting some certificates for reaching certain targets.
The Factor was created to trade in general commodities but mostly in electronic products.For starters to trade immediately it had to be an e-bay shop to start with then I would spread it to an agent on Kalahari and then at some point it would become a stand alone e-shop.
The first mistake was going into ebay without much knowledge than the millionaire stories told by faceless people.Nothing wrong with ebay especially but there is a lot to learn before one plunges.This is why they have what they call the ebay university and it makes sense that one acquaints themselves with it before going far.Knowledge must be stage one in not only my projects but yours too.
Then after ignorantly setting up the ebay part of The Commodity Factor I ordered some bulk goods which consisted of home phones .It was two huge boxes ,so huge the delivery man just left them in the front garden ;all full of 100 phones.I had to stock take which was easy but also resolved to test each and every phone that it basically could call and receive.That done I took photos of each type and uploaded and set the products up.
My first critic was my friend who thought the pictures (some taken from a mobile )were amateurish.Some Products were not too clear.Anywhere bids and purchases came up and so were problems .I then realised with ebay costs and all not selling was not just zero income but actually negative income.I still paid ebay fees and subscription for the shop and disaster was visible even before long.
Then the reality of human patronage took over,Suddenly I had plenty of products reported not working despite testing each product before dispatch.Naively I would just send a replacement and that meant selling two for the price of one..a definite loss.The Commodity Factor just had to suspend trade to go to school.It was becoming a PR disaster and was slowly creating a rogue trader out of itself.Products up into the loft and Commodity Factor bid farewell to ebay even after collecting some certificates for reaching certain targets.
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
2010 projects
This should not come to you as a surprise new yea resolution.It is a way of making sure it happens because i have laid it open for all of you.Every single year i lay out a project and this year i have two.One is carry over from last yea,not as failure but as an ongoing 3 year project.
please hold me to account so that I don't fall back and relax.2010 should see us lodging an investment club.Those close to me who would want to be a part of this project are well come.it is a business and it will be a learning curve with lots of business decisions and responsibilities for one and all.
come 2010,we are launching.please ask me regularly what is happening so that the pressure you apply on us may result in huge success for me.thank you all readers.maybe use the same tact.tell people about your project so by asking you thy put pressure on you to perform.I will keep you posted of progress please pressure me whether you be part of it or not.i love criticism.
A great teacher is encouraged by his dull ignorent children yet he is also encouraged
by the gifted
please hold me to account so that I don't fall back and relax.2010 should see us lodging an investment club.Those close to me who would want to be a part of this project are well come.it is a business and it will be a learning curve with lots of business decisions and responsibilities for one and all.
come 2010,we are launching.please ask me regularly what is happening so that the pressure you apply on us may result in huge success for me.thank you all readers.maybe use the same tact.tell people about your project so by asking you thy put pressure on you to perform.I will keep you posted of progress please pressure me whether you be part of it or not.i love criticism.
A great teacher is encouraged by his dull ignorent children yet he is also encouraged
by the gifted
Are psudonyms a sign of cowardice?
The use of false names have been used for a long time.Writers have published under false names for many reasons.During the Rhodesian war use of false names was prevalent especially among ZANLAand ZIPRA guerrillas and also among the regular Rhodesian army operatives.Names like Peter Ghost,Rovamushe,Kutamura Makaza,Soza Chimurenga,Trust Chimurenga,Kingstone Zviregeyi,Gwinyai chamatanda (a cruel sadist if you ask me) and many others come to mind.Mabhunu Muchapera and comrade Masango were quite common names.
Yet you have real heroes like Tongogara who were still known as Josiah Tongogara,other high profile heroes like Jason Yiyapapa Moyo,Nikita Mangena,Dumiso Dabengwa were also known by their names though they also had nom de guerre.There were regular Rhodesian army operatives who were known by their self given or somehow acquired false names.To mind comes names like the mystical white soldier called Makaranga,the home burning cruel like Mbudziyadhura,Sikhathi yenaphelile,Dumukwa,Valamuva,The Gun and the like.There were prominent soldiers like Teurayi ropa who we only came to know as Joyce long after the war.It was only recently that i discovered she was actually born Runaida Mugari.Joyce is probably another self given name.Even her husband Rex Nhongo was better known as Rex than as Solomon Tapfumanei mujuru.
The trend has spread to Zimbabwe's modern writers and diaspora residence.One self made Mugabe mouth piece calls himself Nathaniel Manheru.People have worked out from his style and some slip ups that it must be George Charamba.Why can he not face writing as George Charamba?That has sparked some opposite called Nathaniel Masikati.Regular on comments in the online newspapers are John Motsi (that might be or might not be a real name),Njayothuvi,Yimi,Abel.On another news site are people like Parks Papindanyoka ,commrade Zvazvaita,Popiro,Simbimbino and mkoma Pedzi.
From their arguments and at times their claims these are well educated people.Some claiming to have PhD and some too showing very educated logic in the points.The question is why would they hide behind false names?I have some funny Fb friends with false names but I suppose those are more like humour than any fear.I am aware of one maiMabelts who I believe is mai Mabhande.I am aware of others I suppose I know them somehow I just quickly know what their real names are .Would I use a pseudonym?No not anymore.Have I used one?Yes I have and that was immature cowardice.
Yet you have real heroes like Tongogara who were still known as Josiah Tongogara,other high profile heroes like Jason Yiyapapa Moyo,Nikita Mangena,Dumiso Dabengwa were also known by their names though they also had nom de guerre.There were regular Rhodesian army operatives who were known by their self given or somehow acquired false names.To mind comes names like the mystical white soldier called Makaranga,the home burning cruel like Mbudziyadhura,Sikhathi yenaphelile,Dumukwa,Valamuva,The Gun and the like.There were prominent soldiers like Teurayi ropa who we only came to know as Joyce long after the war.It was only recently that i discovered she was actually born Runaida Mugari.Joyce is probably another self given name.Even her husband Rex Nhongo was better known as Rex than as Solomon Tapfumanei mujuru.
The trend has spread to Zimbabwe's modern writers and diaspora residence.One self made Mugabe mouth piece calls himself Nathaniel Manheru.People have worked out from his style and some slip ups that it must be George Charamba.Why can he not face writing as George Charamba?That has sparked some opposite called Nathaniel Masikati.Regular on comments in the online newspapers are John Motsi (that might be or might not be a real name),Njayothuvi,Yimi,Abel.On another news site are people like Parks Papindanyoka ,commrade Zvazvaita,Popiro,Simbimbino and mkoma Pedzi.
From their arguments and at times their claims these are well educated people.Some claiming to have PhD and some too showing very educated logic in the points.The question is why would they hide behind false names?I have some funny Fb friends with false names but I suppose those are more like humour than any fear.I am aware of one maiMabelts who I believe is mai Mabhande.I am aware of others I suppose I know them somehow I just quickly know what their real names are .Would I use a pseudonym?No not anymore.Have I used one?Yes I have and that was immature cowardice.
Saturday, 26 December 2009
The games children played
I do not know what they play now but those days it was plenty of games.It was from the innocent ones to some which if an elder was seen all would dash for cover.
I am aware of the traditional games like nhodo.I never played much of nhodo which was a favourite for my sister Lucky (RIP).From her I was so discouraged from playing nhodo because it was one of those things sheplayed with passion.I only remember there were games dzemamu six mamu eight,and mamu twelve.
The games that I could play and remember included chipure.Chipure was played by at least two people on sandy ground.A round seed would be used.All it was was one player would make a small pile of sand.He would then hide the little seed or pebble in one i the sand .He would then divide the pile of sand into small piles maybe six or eight,one of which would contain the hidden seed.the opponent,s task would be to guess which pile contained the hidden seed.Boring one would say but it would last for hours.
Tsoro yomu twelve was more advanced.It is also called muravarava and in English a similar version is called nine man moris.This could keep the whole village me busy tespecially in the hot summer.People used to play it using amarula fruit,mapfura or amaganu.Its unique strength was its ability to be drawn even on the ground .
The games which could easily lead to mischief were chapta and play button.These are the ones which would make us run whenever we saw madhara madhara.Chapta because it was a coin heads and tail gambling game which resulted in theft and fist fights.Play button would result in many buttonless shirts encroaching to even clothes of everyone else in the home.
Chapta was just a normal coin spin .One would spin a coin then while it was spinning they would quickly palm it down covered.A opponent would slide under the palm a coin showing the face one thinks the hidden coin is showing.When the two do not match then the coin spinner won.When they matched the one guessing won and the winner would take both coins .
Play button was similar in the sense that it was a game of deprivation too.Traditionally it used to be played using nhondo,thats seeds from a mutondo or musasa tree.The seeds closely resemble buttons this is why for value reasons the cheap seeds gave way to buttons.A little circle woulr be drawn on flat ground.There would be a sport kick place .A button or seed would be placed on the shooting point the aim being to 'kick' te button by ne's fingure.The kicked button would then land in the circle.If an opponent's button landed outside the circle he would lose it
I am aware of the traditional games like nhodo.I never played much of nhodo which was a favourite for my sister Lucky (RIP).From her I was so discouraged from playing nhodo because it was one of those things sheplayed with passion.I only remember there were games dzemamu six mamu eight,and mamu twelve.
The games that I could play and remember included chipure.Chipure was played by at least two people on sandy ground.A round seed would be used.All it was was one player would make a small pile of sand.He would then hide the little seed or pebble in one i the sand .He would then divide the pile of sand into small piles maybe six or eight,one of which would contain the hidden seed.the opponent,s task would be to guess which pile contained the hidden seed.Boring one would say but it would last for hours.
Tsoro yomu twelve was more advanced.It is also called muravarava and in English a similar version is called nine man moris.This could keep the whole village me busy tespecially in the hot summer.People used to play it using amarula fruit,mapfura or amaganu.Its unique strength was its ability to be drawn even on the ground .
The games which could easily lead to mischief were chapta and play button.These are the ones which would make us run whenever we saw madhara madhara.Chapta because it was a coin heads and tail gambling game which resulted in theft and fist fights.Play button would result in many buttonless shirts encroaching to even clothes of everyone else in the home.
Chapta was just a normal coin spin .One would spin a coin then while it was spinning they would quickly palm it down covered.A opponent would slide under the palm a coin showing the face one thinks the hidden coin is showing.When the two do not match then the coin spinner won.When they matched the one guessing won and the winner would take both coins .
Play button was similar in the sense that it was a game of deprivation too.Traditionally it used to be played using nhondo,thats seeds from a mutondo or musasa tree.The seeds closely resemble buttons this is why for value reasons the cheap seeds gave way to buttons.A little circle woulr be drawn on flat ground.There would be a sport kick place .A button or seed would be placed on the shooting point the aim being to 'kick' te button by ne's fingure.The kicked button would then land in the circle.If an opponent's button landed outside the circle he would lose it
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Re-doing the kitchen
My kitchen was not looking good.Not at all.It required no telling and it was getting this damp stink.That's it it was time to take it out.
I made a visit to the local shops including B&Q.B&q were well priced and their design was quite good.I loved it and they said they would send an engineer to make the final checks.Three days later a brother turned up.Impressive he turned out to be.He appeared like some one who knew his stuff.Brilliant.
We agreed on the final measurements and on the final design and how it would look.Then he went away so as to send paper work for the final quotation.On a copy to his managers he put something like "I do not think the customer has any money" and that was it.I somehow felt offended whether he meant it as a favour to have the quotation considered at minimum charge I do not know.For that alone I went to Homebase.
Homebase happened to be more expensive on the comparable design but it later turned out cheaper as they had loads of promotions going.The units were delivered and it was time for me and my mate Paul to go for it.I should mention the delivery by Homebase was done into the house;Some delivery people will only deliver to the kerbside.
It turned out the wall board behind the cupboards was rotten and wet.The area was so dirty and damp I thought probably the previous owner had just pushed the cupboards in without cleaning.We knocked that out and re-plastered the wall.We bought a new board and cut and fitted.We ripped out the old water and waste pipes behind the cupboards .That is where the "we" ends and Paul takes over.
Paul is no malala-pipe trades man(cowboy).He is good and thorough in what he does.Its a pity he does this only for himself and friend(s) otherwise I would recommend him to anyone.Doing it between work and spare time I would say he took a reasonable time .Of cause we were tired of take aways and begging friends for use of their kitchens but it was worth it.I just wish the Engineer from B&Q could see what a man with no money does if his only resource is will.
I made a visit to the local shops including B&Q.B&q were well priced and their design was quite good.I loved it and they said they would send an engineer to make the final checks.Three days later a brother turned up.Impressive he turned out to be.He appeared like some one who knew his stuff.Brilliant.
We agreed on the final measurements and on the final design and how it would look.Then he went away so as to send paper work for the final quotation.On a copy to his managers he put something like "I do not think the customer has any money" and that was it.I somehow felt offended whether he meant it as a favour to have the quotation considered at minimum charge I do not know.For that alone I went to Homebase.
Homebase happened to be more expensive on the comparable design but it later turned out cheaper as they had loads of promotions going.The units were delivered and it was time for me and my mate Paul to go for it.I should mention the delivery by Homebase was done into the house;Some delivery people will only deliver to the kerbside.
It turned out the wall board behind the cupboards was rotten and wet.The area was so dirty and damp I thought probably the previous owner had just pushed the cupboards in without cleaning.We knocked that out and re-plastered the wall.We bought a new board and cut and fitted.We ripped out the old water and waste pipes behind the cupboards .That is where the "we" ends and Paul takes over.
Paul is no malala-pipe trades man(cowboy).He is good and thorough in what he does.Its a pity he does this only for himself and friend(s) otherwise I would recommend him to anyone.Doing it between work and spare time I would say he took a reasonable time .Of cause we were tired of take aways and begging friends for use of their kitchens but it was worth it.I just wish the Engineer from B&Q could see what a man with no money does if his only resource is will.
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Christmas Box review of christmas in my life
I have had so many Christmases that I care not remember how many.What I know for real is that I do not recall Christmas Before I turned 7.I can only deduce that the Christmas of when I was two was very sad for my family despite that that's the year my little sister was born .A few weeks before Christmas.That was the year when my father passed away most tragically.That was the year family started to mean what it now means to me.Anywhere lest I digress ,its Christmas I am on about.
I remember sitting just outside the house at Matihwa school.We were eating bread with sun jam and drinking tea.There had been meant to be a Christmas service that day but only vaMabhibho and a few women turned up and the service down graded to a prayer meeting.In no time at all they were gone.I am not sure what makes me remember such a dull day but probably it was just the first Christmas and it had to leave some impression.
As for gifts , Christmas gifts I only remember new clothes.there was a certain short trousers that stuck to my memory.It was beautiful,a still remember it was brown.That trousers must have been the same Christmas with some blue cardigan that mum got from Gweru.It was the cardigan tha had to be my first charity lesson when 6 months later I was ordered to give it to a stranger,a boy we played football with but all the same a stranger.Six months later in means i got a cardigan in summer which come winter I had to give it away.Who can forget that?
Christmas I have spent many a Christmas on my own.I have spent one on the side of the road.I just decided I wanted to go kwaMatihwa for Christmas.Shelly had promised to visit from Harare and she had not by Christmas eve.I told my flatmate I was not going to wait.Better kundochema nhamo dzangu dzerudo ndinamai vangu,I resolved.I got into Mnene bus bound for Chiredzi.No I had no car then .I was just a second year student.Just by the flyover at Oreti near Zvishavane,the bus broke down.Christmas was then spent there.
The many other Christmases that followed my working life were spent on Railway service.I have spent close to a full 24 hours at work on a Christmas day in my life.I suppose I must thank my Lord for I have not spent Christmas in hospital.I have not spent Christmas at a funeral parlour.I have not spent Christmas in a cell jail.Thank God for my Christmas without any memories.Thank God if your Christmases have been any better.Christmas is a day of joy but not everyone has had it that way.
I spent Christmas in Cresta Jameson Hotel,only to later phone my cousin and hear he was at a funeral of one of his relatives.Let us not take for granted the joy that Christmas brings.Let us be thankful.On a lighter note I want to challenge any one to produce a chicken curry recipe that would beat my maiguru's .If she cooked chicken it would always be the best,especially at Christmas.MERRY CHRISTMAS VEDUWE ZVANGU HAMUNGAZVIPEDZI.LIBE LEKEFU LEKISIMUSI ELIHLABUSAYO
I remember sitting just outside the house at Matihwa school.We were eating bread with sun jam and drinking tea.There had been meant to be a Christmas service that day but only vaMabhibho and a few women turned up and the service down graded to a prayer meeting.In no time at all they were gone.I am not sure what makes me remember such a dull day but probably it was just the first Christmas and it had to leave some impression.
As for gifts , Christmas gifts I only remember new clothes.there was a certain short trousers that stuck to my memory.It was beautiful,a still remember it was brown.That trousers must have been the same Christmas with some blue cardigan that mum got from Gweru.It was the cardigan tha had to be my first charity lesson when 6 months later I was ordered to give it to a stranger,a boy we played football with but all the same a stranger.Six months later in means i got a cardigan in summer which come winter I had to give it away.Who can forget that?
Christmas I have spent many a Christmas on my own.I have spent one on the side of the road.I just decided I wanted to go kwaMatihwa for Christmas.Shelly had promised to visit from Harare and she had not by Christmas eve.I told my flatmate I was not going to wait.Better kundochema nhamo dzangu dzerudo ndinamai vangu,I resolved.I got into Mnene bus bound for Chiredzi.No I had no car then .I was just a second year student.Just by the flyover at Oreti near Zvishavane,the bus broke down.Christmas was then spent there.
The many other Christmases that followed my working life were spent on Railway service.I have spent close to a full 24 hours at work on a Christmas day in my life.I suppose I must thank my Lord for I have not spent Christmas in hospital.I have not spent Christmas at a funeral parlour.I have not spent Christmas in a cell jail.Thank God for my Christmas without any memories.Thank God if your Christmases have been any better.Christmas is a day of joy but not everyone has had it that way.
I spent Christmas in Cresta Jameson Hotel,only to later phone my cousin and hear he was at a funeral of one of his relatives.Let us not take for granted the joy that Christmas brings.Let us be thankful.On a lighter note I want to challenge any one to produce a chicken curry recipe that would beat my maiguru's .If she cooked chicken it would always be the best,especially at Christmas.MERRY CHRISTMAS VEDUWE ZVANGU HAMUNGAZVIPEDZI.LIBE LEKEFU LEKISIMUSI ELIHLABUSAYO
Friday, 18 December 2009
Those hypocrites of the third world especialy Zimbabwe
According to Mahatma Gandhi corruption and hypocrisy should not be products of democracy but are.How true.At the Copenhagen summit on climate demonstrators from the third world put a Sterling performance.Leaders from the third world were not to be out done and also caused the rich nations to scamper for cover.Then not to be out done Mugabe spoke with so much conviction that even some asylum seeker from his political abuse mimicked him on her blog.
I choose to call these hypocrites based especially on Mugabe and his life style and politics.Mugabe goes around in an s600 .As if the carbon emissions that produces are not enough he is always in an entourage of many cars and motorcycles.Mugabe is probably has more flight hours than some pilots.He has even been nicknamed Vasco da Gama.He clocks miles and miles driving and flying across Zimbabwe every election time ,campaigning disregarding the fact that his elections are won by violence not campaign persuasion.Mugabe has many houses all with electricity and obviously a lot of electric gadgets.He obviously is blind and deaf to that kind of truth.
Mugabe has overseen the worst economic decline any modern economy has seen.At Hwange lie two major greenhouse disasters that he has failed to deal with due to incapacity.The thermal power stations and the colliery itself Self induced incapacity.His farming disaster is supported only by those who are helping him achieve it.Areas which had green trees have been turned into bare land.A major contribution to climate change.Nature has been destroyed to the point where even a rabbit is a rare specie if the truth were to be told.A man like that then stands accusing the developed world as if he is all green?If every African family was leading the life style of the Mugabe's and other African politicians the carbon print would be worse in Zimbabwe than in England.
I choose to call these hypocrites based especially on Mugabe and his life style and politics.Mugabe goes around in an s600 .As if the carbon emissions that produces are not enough he is always in an entourage of many cars and motorcycles.Mugabe is probably has more flight hours than some pilots.He has even been nicknamed Vasco da Gama.He clocks miles and miles driving and flying across Zimbabwe every election time ,campaigning disregarding the fact that his elections are won by violence not campaign persuasion.Mugabe has many houses all with electricity and obviously a lot of electric gadgets.He obviously is blind and deaf to that kind of truth.
Mugabe has overseen the worst economic decline any modern economy has seen.At Hwange lie two major greenhouse disasters that he has failed to deal with due to incapacity.The thermal power stations and the colliery itself Self induced incapacity.His farming disaster is supported only by those who are helping him achieve it.Areas which had green trees have been turned into bare land.A major contribution to climate change.Nature has been destroyed to the point where even a rabbit is a rare specie if the truth were to be told.A man like that then stands accusing the developed world as if he is all green?If every African family was leading the life style of the Mugabe's and other African politicians the carbon print would be worse in Zimbabwe than in England.
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
The use of Beer parties in a Karanga village
There are tragedies and good memories all coming from the Karanga beer parties.To mind come tragedies like ,though not quite a beer party,but matidohwaa okwaMuvhundusi.A real tragedy that still pains many a family.But there are times of joy and song as demonstrated in many drunken songs.A happy fine celebration of life within my people.
The Karanga people probably like other African make use of beer and food to come together and celebrate or come together for something.It is in this article that I will try to clarify what place beer (and food) get to be used for.
I true tradition I do not remember the use of beer and food in celebrating any one's birthday.All my life I never heard anyone rich or poor in the village having a birthday party.In those traditional days I can assume no food or drink was used in the celebration of birthdays,that therefore would be modern trend.There was however some low key celebration of birth,(kupemberera mwana)
There were celebrations like wedding muchato muchadho or mutimba.There there would be so much food depending on what it was and how many guests were expected and how ell to do the family was.There would be beer brewed,beer bought and goats cows and chicken slaughtered for the guess.This was also true of other marriage rites like masungiro ,pwanyazhowa ,and the like which would be celebrated but at lower level than the marriage or wedding.By the way masungiro and pwanyazhowa are some unique African rites with no comparison in English life.
There was use of beer and food in abundance when there was a humwe.Some call it nhimbe.People would be invited to come and help the host with his chores ,like thrashing his grain,(humwe yokupura) or ploughing his fields (humwe yokurima,or weeding his fields (humwe yokushakura.)People would come with their own implements some even with more food .Work as identified would be done and in between work people would have drink and food breaks.Songs out of there ould normally be dirty like 'chandanunga muguyo','museve wezheve' and rova ikoshore to name but a few.(anyone wants lyrics of these songs can conact the writer privately)
The most popular beer party was ndari,pronounced with a heavy nda as in ndhari.This was more like a village shebeen.This is the one my brother would be after when he asked a passing someone ,'Nhasi rinodyiwepi'(where are we eating today).Surprisingly there would be days when there would be nothing for very long range.yet he would answer ,'hoo apo',as if it was close by when told where there was ndari.With ndari thy could send even under age children to buy take away.At times one would be entitled to a free cup called nzwisa,as if to taste and sample the brew first.This where the teenager would have his first taste.
Ndari could also be had in residence.It could at times be there for the whole night.or even for some days.Ndari by its nature was a fund raising brew.beer would be brewed and sold.Some would add a ti party and have it go overnight with food for sale and music and dance.Unfortunately it was ndari which always caused fist and knife fights when some people would take to gambling or talk to some one's girlfriend.
Although death was a community function beer would not be as abundant because it will be only by buying.No one actually brews beer for a funeral because it is not anticipated and planned for that way.It would be taboo to brew beer in anticipation for some one's death.So normally mourners are catered for through buying from ndari.Food is normally provided mostly because among my people burial is a community thing that no one is paid to take part in.grave diggers are just the able bodied
men of the community.
The main ritualistic beer party is doro rechikaranga or chivanhu.This is also called bira.This is a religious rite.Beer is brewed and people are invited to the function.This is normally a family gathering but because of the openness of the culture people in the community are always welcome.They may not necessarily take part in the rites but they do take part in the eating.These ritual parties are many and varied depending on families.
For the wider community there is also the rain making ceremony or mutoro.Others call I mukwerere.This is a ritual party bringing together people in the community under he hostage of the community traditional and spiritual leaders(not the christian spiritual leaders).The rain making brews are far and wide but when they are done people are expected to attend and give their support.
There are other gatherings where my people use beer and food.I am happy to hear further inputs from readers but these almost cover the main ones.
The Karanga people probably like other African make use of beer and food to come together and celebrate or come together for something.It is in this article that I will try to clarify what place beer (and food) get to be used for.
I true tradition I do not remember the use of beer and food in celebrating any one's birthday.All my life I never heard anyone rich or poor in the village having a birthday party.In those traditional days I can assume no food or drink was used in the celebration of birthdays,that therefore would be modern trend.There was however some low key celebration of birth,(kupemberera mwana)
There were celebrations like wedding muchato muchadho or mutimba.There there would be so much food depending on what it was and how many guests were expected and how ell to do the family was.There would be beer brewed,beer bought and goats cows and chicken slaughtered for the guess.This was also true of other marriage rites like masungiro ,pwanyazhowa ,and the like which would be celebrated but at lower level than the marriage or wedding.By the way masungiro and pwanyazhowa are some unique African rites with no comparison in English life.
There was use of beer and food in abundance when there was a humwe.Some call it nhimbe.People would be invited to come and help the host with his chores ,like thrashing his grain,(humwe yokupura) or ploughing his fields (humwe yokurima,or weeding his fields (humwe yokushakura.)People would come with their own implements some even with more food .Work as identified would be done and in between work people would have drink and food breaks.Songs out of there ould normally be dirty like 'chandanunga muguyo','museve wezheve' and rova ikoshore to name but a few.(anyone wants lyrics of these songs can conact the writer privately)
The most popular beer party was ndari,pronounced with a heavy nda as in ndhari.This was more like a village shebeen.This is the one my brother would be after when he asked a passing someone ,'Nhasi rinodyiwepi'(where are we eating today).Surprisingly there would be days when there would be nothing for very long range.yet he would answer ,'hoo apo',as if it was close by when told where there was ndari.With ndari thy could send even under age children to buy take away.At times one would be entitled to a free cup called nzwisa,as if to taste and sample the brew first.This where the teenager would have his first taste.
Ndari could also be had in residence.It could at times be there for the whole night.or even for some days.Ndari by its nature was a fund raising brew.beer would be brewed and sold.Some would add a ti party and have it go overnight with food for sale and music and dance.Unfortunately it was ndari which always caused fist and knife fights when some people would take to gambling or talk to some one's girlfriend.
Although death was a community function beer would not be as abundant because it will be only by buying.No one actually brews beer for a funeral because it is not anticipated and planned for that way.It would be taboo to brew beer in anticipation for some one's death.So normally mourners are catered for through buying from ndari.Food is normally provided mostly because among my people burial is a community thing that no one is paid to take part in.grave diggers are just the able bodied
men of the community.
The main ritualistic beer party is doro rechikaranga or chivanhu.This is also called bira.This is a religious rite.Beer is brewed and people are invited to the function.This is normally a family gathering but because of the openness of the culture people in the community are always welcome.They may not necessarily take part in the rites but they do take part in the eating.These ritual parties are many and varied depending on families.
For the wider community there is also the rain making ceremony or mutoro.Others call I mukwerere.This is a ritual party bringing together people in the community under he hostage of the community traditional and spiritual leaders(not the christian spiritual leaders).The rain making brews are far and wide but when they are done people are expected to attend and give their support.
There are other gatherings where my people use beer and food.I am happy to hear further inputs from readers but these almost cover the main ones.
Monday, 14 December 2009
Who will look after the Leaderless
Joseph Mwale is a Zimbabwean whose name comes together with other murderers lik Kitsiyatota(umangoye uzichamele),Konangale(yonder,ikoko),and other self styled war vets.He has been avoided by the law for over ten years .Not because of a crime that would make a state president stammer trying to find it during a press interview.He is plainly a main suspect in the murder of Talent Mabika
Roy Bennet is a Zimbabwean whose name is associated with farming,community development and Zimbabwean politics.He also has the misfortune of being associated with the politics of challenging the god of ZANU-pf.Why am I writing about Joseph Mwale ,a murder suspect and Roy Bennett ,a convict and suspected terrorist?What would they have in common?
I am compelled to write about this issue because of two observations and one conclusion I have come to ,All to do with the President of Zimbabwe.By the way in this article I am writing more as a Malawian than as a Zimbabwean.Okwanamhla ngibhala ngiyisikhasumani.Nhasi ndiri kunyora ndiriMunyasarandi,mubharandayi,munhu asina mutupo.
The thing with Mr Mugabe is he is a shameless racist and shameless tribalist and he shamelessly believes he has the right to be.Unfortunately it would be a tragedy if any type of racist evil is ever taken as acceptable ever again.He has come out suggesting Bennet is not a Zimbabwean because he is a descendant of settlers.I am aware of four descendants of foreigners here.
Lest he is not aware of it,many people including myself and wikipedia believe Robert Mugabe is a descendant of a settler who settled in Zimbabwe from Malawi.AMugabe ndiachimwene.Ndowezhira.Sivela sonke ekhaya,siyizikhasumani sonke mina laye.Then comes Joseph Mwale.Joseph Mwale ndiachimwene.He too is the descendant of settlers.Roy Bennet is a descendant of settlers.Akabva mhiri.His ancestors came from abroad.
The only difference the four of us have from Roy Bennet is he is white.So it is plain that Mugabe views Bennet as unacceptable because Bennett is white not because he is a settler's son.Mugabe is of Malawian origin,and he is the PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE,COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY ,HEAD OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT.I have Malawian origins.I am involved in Zimbabwean politics with Zimbabwean politics.If I was in ZANU I could be probably a councillor or even MP.Mwale is of Malawian origin.He is a settler's son yet he is a criminal who Mugabe does not even mind.No one is worried about it not even Mugabe.But racist Mugabe does not want white people in his country?
Roy Bennet is a Zimbabwean whose name is associated with farming,community development and Zimbabwean politics.He also has the misfortune of being associated with the politics of challenging the god of ZANU-pf.Why am I writing about Joseph Mwale ,a murder suspect and Roy Bennett ,a convict and suspected terrorist?What would they have in common?
I am compelled to write about this issue because of two observations and one conclusion I have come to ,All to do with the President of Zimbabwe.By the way in this article I am writing more as a Malawian than as a Zimbabwean.Okwanamhla ngibhala ngiyisikhasumani.Nhasi ndiri kunyora ndiriMunyasarandi,mubharandayi,munhu asina mutupo.
The thing with Mr Mugabe is he is a shameless racist and shameless tribalist and he shamelessly believes he has the right to be.Unfortunately it would be a tragedy if any type of racist evil is ever taken as acceptable ever again.He has come out suggesting Bennet is not a Zimbabwean because he is a descendant of settlers.I am aware of four descendants of foreigners here.
Lest he is not aware of it,many people including myself and wikipedia believe Robert Mugabe is a descendant of a settler who settled in Zimbabwe from Malawi.AMugabe ndiachimwene.Ndowezhira.Sivela sonke ekhaya,siyizikhasumani sonke mina laye.Then comes Joseph Mwale.Joseph Mwale ndiachimwene.He too is the descendant of settlers.Roy Bennet is a descendant of settlers.Akabva mhiri.His ancestors came from abroad.
The only difference the four of us have from Roy Bennet is he is white.So it is plain that Mugabe views Bennet as unacceptable because Bennett is white not because he is a settler's son.Mugabe is of Malawian origin,and he is the PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE,COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY ,HEAD OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT.I have Malawian origins.I am involved in Zimbabwean politics with Zimbabwean politics.If I was in ZANU I could be probably a councillor or even MP.Mwale is of Malawian origin.He is a settler's son yet he is a criminal who Mugabe does not even mind.No one is worried about it not even Mugabe.But racist Mugabe does not want white people in his country?
Friday, 11 December 2009
THE HANSARD.
The first time I became aware of the hansard was when malume Lo(pronounced Laah)got a job there.From those long days gone I have followed it quite closely.I used to buy it religiously when it was available in the goverment print outlet in Main street in Bulawayo.Naturally I was thrilled to find that the hansard is available online ,fairly up to date.
There are quite some interesting things n thee hansard generally.Beginning with funny full names of the legislators and ministers.It was in the hansard,for example ,where I learnt that the full name of one Chen c Chimutengwende was actually Chenhamo Chikezha Chimutengwende.(My friends add Chehasha Chenharo).So Yes the hansard has informed m over some years.
I found the November 11 issue quite interesting.I must admit my main reason for checking the 11 November was whether any one would be too happy enough (kufarisa,ukuthaba kakhulu)to the point of somehow mentioning the Rhodesian independence.How things easily get forgotten;no one made that mistake.Anywhere there I was paging through the Parliamentary Hansard of 11 November 2009.
Questions were asked and answered and one that caught my eye specificlly was asked by a legislator only quoted as Mr Madzimure,I will assume he is Willias Madzimure the MDC-T MP for Kambuzuma.His question was ,"The resident of this country signed a United Nations Convention Against Torture six years ago.The document has not come to Parliament, why is this?"
I think the basis of his question was that when the president in his executive duty signs a convention paper parliament have to pass it like every other legislation if it is to become a binding in the country.Unfortunately he was not answered.
He started off by directing his question to the Co-Minister of Home affairs and was told to redirect his question.He was again asked to redirect his question and redirected it to the Minister of policy implementation .The poor man , it just was not the day for his question.The speaker helped him out,"I am advised you should direct your question to the leader of the house",who is the prime minister Mr Tsvangirai.
Again Morgan refused to answer it .He referred the question to ,"a minister who is responsible for answering this question."So the question was not answered.It probably means there is no answer because no one has bothered to check that or the worst.The worst being ,(shh whisper please),amaphepha asekwapheni likaMgaxa,shh.Mapepa anakedu Matibiri and hapana angati bufu.The papers are with Bob and no one dares say a thing.
There are quite some interesting things n thee hansard generally.Beginning with funny full names of the legislators and ministers.It was in the hansard,for example ,where I learnt that the full name of one Chen c Chimutengwende was actually Chenhamo Chikezha Chimutengwende.(My friends add Chehasha Chenharo).So Yes the hansard has informed m over some years.
I found the November 11 issue quite interesting.I must admit my main reason for checking the 11 November was whether any one would be too happy enough (kufarisa,ukuthaba kakhulu)to the point of somehow mentioning the Rhodesian independence.How things easily get forgotten;no one made that mistake.Anywhere there I was paging through the Parliamentary Hansard of 11 November 2009.
Questions were asked and answered and one that caught my eye specificlly was asked by a legislator only quoted as Mr Madzimure,I will assume he is Willias Madzimure the MDC-T MP for Kambuzuma.His question was ,"The resident of this country signed a United Nations Convention Against Torture six years ago.The document has not come to Parliament, why is this?"
I think the basis of his question was that when the president in his executive duty signs a convention paper parliament have to pass it like every other legislation if it is to become a binding in the country.Unfortunately he was not answered.
He started off by directing his question to the Co-Minister of Home affairs and was told to redirect his question.He was again asked to redirect his question and redirected it to the Minister of policy implementation .The poor man , it just was not the day for his question.The speaker helped him out,"I am advised you should direct your question to the leader of the house",who is the prime minister Mr Tsvangirai.
Again Morgan refused to answer it .He referred the question to ,"a minister who is responsible for answering this question."So the question was not answered.It probably means there is no answer because no one has bothered to check that or the worst.The worst being ,(shh whisper please),amaphepha asekwapheni likaMgaxa,shh.Mapepa anakedu Matibiri and hapana angati bufu.The papers are with Bob and no one dares say a thing.
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
world aids day
For the world it is indeed just one day.One of the days of the year put aside for the memory of aids.One day to stop the world activities and concerntrate on that which relates to hiv and aids.Thats very thoughtful.In the village where I grew up I am sure they are commemorating it.Not in enacting and prepared speaches.As we speak they might be rushing to bury one so they can rush and bury another at some other homestead.
To some lucky people of this world it is a time to count figures , a time to take stock.It is a time to give shining and wordful reports of what the yea has been like.It is a time to report on the challenges (a term very popular with NGOs.The last time I heard a Minister talk on aids day he spoke of the burial space quickly disappearing.That was a fact what didnot make sence was his solution.He was urging people to consider cremation.to me such a minister has no place in the health ministry.instead of lowering of death figures he has given up and thinks ,'lets accept these figures and deal with the dead.'How sad.
To some donor communities it is time they pledge and commit.We will give so much to Africa,we will give so much to research.we will give so much to aids orphans.to a poor woman whoin the last days of her life she is to care for her 40 year old son it is no easy matter.It is the peak of human love.The heart and spirit that calls for recognition beyond even all nobel awards.It is a job whose only pay is to be able to say when the son is gone,"he has rested",with the satisfaction that she tried her best.
On prevention the world is ditherring on whether it is moral to dish out condoms.Some churches find it ungodly.Some people still think ,well he has aids its his fault.Some still would ignore any advice and carry on as if sex is still in fashion.Unfortunately it is not.We appreciate that for us to be it all startted with sex but it is no wisdom at all to end life the same way we started it.The question of prevention should not be debatable.All sex must be viewed as one views electricity lines,consider them dangerous even if you think they are off.
Is there any hope?For there to be hope one has to split the problem.There is hope figures may go down.There is hope that one day remote as it may be,one day a cure will be found.What ever one hopes for,it depends on all of us doing our part.This problem is not about being poor.There is no time for conspiracy theories.It is time to creat conditions that will make our hope real;if not for us then for our children and their children.
To some lucky people of this world it is a time to count figures , a time to take stock.It is a time to give shining and wordful reports of what the yea has been like.It is a time to report on the challenges (a term very popular with NGOs.The last time I heard a Minister talk on aids day he spoke of the burial space quickly disappearing.That was a fact what didnot make sence was his solution.He was urging people to consider cremation.to me such a minister has no place in the health ministry.instead of lowering of death figures he has given up and thinks ,'lets accept these figures and deal with the dead.'How sad.
To some donor communities it is time they pledge and commit.We will give so much to Africa,we will give so much to research.we will give so much to aids orphans.to a poor woman whoin the last days of her life she is to care for her 40 year old son it is no easy matter.It is the peak of human love.The heart and spirit that calls for recognition beyond even all nobel awards.It is a job whose only pay is to be able to say when the son is gone,"he has rested",with the satisfaction that she tried her best.
On prevention the world is ditherring on whether it is moral to dish out condoms.Some churches find it ungodly.Some people still think ,well he has aids its his fault.Some still would ignore any advice and carry on as if sex is still in fashion.Unfortunately it is not.We appreciate that for us to be it all startted with sex but it is no wisdom at all to end life the same way we started it.The question of prevention should not be debatable.All sex must be viewed as one views electricity lines,consider them dangerous even if you think they are off.
Is there any hope?For there to be hope one has to split the problem.There is hope figures may go down.There is hope that one day remote as it may be,one day a cure will be found.What ever one hopes for,it depends on all of us doing our part.This problem is not about being poor.There is no time for conspiracy theories.It is time to creat conditions that will make our hope real;if not for us then for our children and their children.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
The National Youth Service (Zimbabwe)
Recently there were some reports that so many youths had graduated from youth centres in Zimbabwe.One would perhaps be inclined to rejoice if it was a useful graduation.This graduation seems to bring sadness to my heart.
There are more countries than Zimbabwe who do some kind of a youth service or another.Most of them give clumsy excuses like so the youth can have work experince,so the youth can be patriotic;so the youth can be taught their history and values; so the youth can learn life skills.One particular country has established its youth programme for he reasons of creating employment.
A youth in zimbabwe asked about the youth service called it the B team of zanu-pf with the army as A team.That alone shows the idiot went in as an idiot and came out as a dangerous idiot.What hope o we have when our children our brothers our cousins go into some programme meant for their progress and come out imbecilic.
So what do they teach these children?Another report says one of the text books is a book claimed to have been authored by one robert gabriel mugabe.The book is called "inside the third chimurenga".
That book is a must read for all zimbabweans.Anyone who loves and supports robert mugabe must read that book.yet everyone who hates mugabe needs to read for themselves what Mugabe is.If you objectively read that boring book and still come out believing mugabe is a liberator then you are possibly mugabe's soulmate.On the other hand if you are his supporter i am sure you are likely to be heard going icho icho in the typical nathaniel manheru fashion.
My questions though are is it necessary to have a youth service?What would be the purpose of such?I also would want to know wo would want to asign his or her children to this service?Is this progamme designed for all of our children or only for those ones the regime would have written off?Fr that period when the youth is in the programme what would be going on in that person's life?Is going to University comparable with this programme?what criteria is used who is you service matterial and who is university bound?What is wrong with a parent who would send his minor child to the nys instead of school ?Think about these things
There are more countries than Zimbabwe who do some kind of a youth service or another.Most of them give clumsy excuses like so the youth can have work experince,so the youth can be patriotic;so the youth can be taught their history and values; so the youth can learn life skills.One particular country has established its youth programme for he reasons of creating employment.
A youth in zimbabwe asked about the youth service called it the B team of zanu-pf with the army as A team.That alone shows the idiot went in as an idiot and came out as a dangerous idiot.What hope o we have when our children our brothers our cousins go into some programme meant for their progress and come out imbecilic.
So what do they teach these children?Another report says one of the text books is a book claimed to have been authored by one robert gabriel mugabe.The book is called "inside the third chimurenga".
That book is a must read for all zimbabweans.Anyone who loves and supports robert mugabe must read that book.yet everyone who hates mugabe needs to read for themselves what Mugabe is.If you objectively read that boring book and still come out believing mugabe is a liberator then you are possibly mugabe's soulmate.On the other hand if you are his supporter i am sure you are likely to be heard going icho icho in the typical nathaniel manheru fashion.
My questions though are is it necessary to have a youth service?What would be the purpose of such?I also would want to know wo would want to asign his or her children to this service?Is this progamme designed for all of our children or only for those ones the regime would have written off?Fr that period when the youth is in the programme what would be going on in that person's life?Is going to University comparable with this programme?what criteria is used who is you service matterial and who is university bound?What is wrong with a parent who would send his minor child to the nys instead of school ?Think about these things
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Fighting for one's bread and women in RSA ?
It is very hard to imagine a United States of Africa.It is hard to imagine real lasting cordial ties between people of Africa among themselves if one is kept reminded of our hatred for one another by the xenophobia among the poor of south Africa.It is not possible to justify it but for me it is very easy to understand.It is not unique to south Africa at all and the more we come to accept this truth the better.It is a pure African problem based on hate for one another.
The hatred for each other that we see in south Africa now and in Africa in general is based on very important factors .One a natural factor and three of which are man made and foreign.The realistic difference that makes Africans identify one another as foreign is just our different tribal languages and dialects.It is sad that the Malawian was a perpetual victim of hate and scorn for many years in the hands of Zimbabweans and other southern African nations.And so were many other southern africans working as migrant labour in zimbabwe.(isikhasumani,munyasarandi,bwidi,mubrandaya.)Mozambicans were always zvimakarusha,chimukarusha changu chemombe.Zambians were Umzambezi,and all that.
Although there was never group attacks on foreigners in Zimbabwe the threat was always there.It was a combination of a docile guests and hosts.A Zimbabwean could not imagine spilling innocent blood while a Malawian ,for instance was sworn to a non violent life.Things almost took a nasty turn when the hate filled zanu leader tried to incite people in mbare to flash out "zvivanhu zvisina mitupo"(totem less people).
The other of two factors Africans base their hate on is the artificial borders we had drawn for us by colonialists.Who said Zimbabweans end their national claim by the river Limpopo?Who said the Vendas of Beitridge are not South African or that the Kalangas are Zimbabwean while their cousins are Tswana?We are ready to be divided by a foreign principle and even kill to justify it.A desperate and pathetic way to protect national wealth!
The other is a document called passport.Just for carrying it one seems to prove he is a national of the place he says he is.A combination of it and a different dialect convinces some ravaging savage that one is foreign and should be violated.This idea is completely foreign and African tribes have always been for nationhood.They were communities which would welcome a stranger and assimilate them into the tribe.he would soon fall in love, marry and become one of them.
Finally whats the south African government thinking about this.Are we going to see and charges and compensations?And how about the traditional leadership,do they want their children spill foreign blood on their doorstep?And for pan africanist at home and abroad,whats the view when brother starts eating brother?And for the racist haters of black people I am sure they are smiling and saying to one another,"Are any surprised Piet".
The hatred for each other that we see in south Africa now and in Africa in general is based on very important factors .One a natural factor and three of which are man made and foreign.The realistic difference that makes Africans identify one another as foreign is just our different tribal languages and dialects.It is sad that the Malawian was a perpetual victim of hate and scorn for many years in the hands of Zimbabweans and other southern African nations.And so were many other southern africans working as migrant labour in zimbabwe.(isikhasumani,munyasarandi,bwidi,mubrandaya.)Mozambicans were always zvimakarusha,chimukarusha changu chemombe.Zambians were Umzambezi,and all that.
Although there was never group attacks on foreigners in Zimbabwe the threat was always there.It was a combination of a docile guests and hosts.A Zimbabwean could not imagine spilling innocent blood while a Malawian ,for instance was sworn to a non violent life.Things almost took a nasty turn when the hate filled zanu leader tried to incite people in mbare to flash out "zvivanhu zvisina mitupo"(totem less people).
The other of two factors Africans base their hate on is the artificial borders we had drawn for us by colonialists.Who said Zimbabweans end their national claim by the river Limpopo?Who said the Vendas of Beitridge are not South African or that the Kalangas are Zimbabwean while their cousins are Tswana?We are ready to be divided by a foreign principle and even kill to justify it.A desperate and pathetic way to protect national wealth!
The other is a document called passport.Just for carrying it one seems to prove he is a national of the place he says he is.A combination of it and a different dialect convinces some ravaging savage that one is foreign and should be violated.This idea is completely foreign and African tribes have always been for nationhood.They were communities which would welcome a stranger and assimilate them into the tribe.he would soon fall in love, marry and become one of them.
Finally whats the south African government thinking about this.Are we going to see and charges and compensations?And how about the traditional leadership,do they want their children spill foreign blood on their doorstep?And for pan africanist at home and abroad,whats the view when brother starts eating brother?And for the racist haters of black people I am sure they are smiling and saying to one another,"Are any surprised Piet".
Friday, 20 November 2009
Beware the Heroes
I have tried in vain to get the records of trials of Robert Gabriel Mugabe which got him 10 years and more in the jail of a white man.I have not been as successful as I have been ,say with the Mandela cases.I am well aware these are two different people but the principle I am looking at is ,to their respective supporters they are almost deity.I am yes, trying to compare their credentials,their personal claims to heroism. This is where I find Mugabe's heroism missing that one bit,which Court,what charge,who was his lawyer.that cannot be too much to ask.
Continuously drawing blanks has made me think ,how much of our heroes do we know and how much of it is true.I will not question Mugabe's credential.I will keep my opinion to myself for now but just in case someone has the court date,the trial court,the venue etc please keep me informed.why I am concerned is because i found some unbelievable stories about certain of our "heroes".
In politics I have realised there are those who are heroes because of what they have been,there are heroes because of what they have done and there are heroes because of what they tell us.African politics is full of the last group,those who are heroes because they say so. There are some people who would want us to believe that in their youth just by a stroke of political genius they became aware the politics of white rule was wrong.They then decided to leave all walk to Mozambique Botswana Zambia or where ever and come back armed with an ak47 and a few rouds.Shot the hell out of the white man's army and liberated us.Thank you to them.
It is however unfortunate that some of the stories we hear are not so true.It must be painful to be lied to by your hero.imagine how this friend of mine felt when his war hero confided to him that when he went to join the war he was running away from the law.There was a stabbing incident at then Harare musika where he ws a pick pocket.The net was closing in on him and he went to be a mukomana,a terr a comrade and now a mu'o'vet.Small fish this is.
Not very far from Harare musika was RBC's Harare studios.In the african service of the Rhodesia broadcasting corporation worked one Hero to be.He and his admirers want us to believe that he said something and I quote,"hedzinoyi nhema dzichiverengwa na...." while reading some news.Before the law knew what was going on he had run away and resurfaced in Maputo.the alternative truth though is this was a fugitive running away from a case of insurance fraud.
Another hero did plenty of work in the camps training the medics and treated the sick and injured.Very well and nice but how did he ,a high flying township doctor end up in a bush camp?Patriotism,baba,patriotism we would be told.What he does not want to hear and has probably tried to erase from history is that he was wanted for back street abortions.The net was closing in and off he fled to Mozambique.
Another doctor yes doctor again was a hero and a very flamboyant and popular guy.He also had a bit of an active waistline such that I am sure he left a family in Mozambique.Anywhere nothing to do with women directly but he went to war he was on the run from the law.He stole tablets from Mpilo Hospital for his practice probably.
Another comrade says he was a coca cola salesman.He ran away with cash and was not seen again until he resurfaced as an ak 47 wielding hero singing ,mukoma Nhongo.of cause there are some last minute heroes like the minister of home affairs who says he fought one of the most fierce battles in Bulawayo on his own.Besides his account,I have never heard his story from someone else.(self corroboration)then of course the chinos who never went anywhere near the border never fought and are zanu-pf's creation.
Why the fugitives were ending up in the liberation war was simple.If they went to South Africa they would end up being sent back to face the law because the NP government and RF governments were budies.Anyoe arriving in the liberated neighbours door steps would end up in the hands of the liberation movements.
This article recognises the sacrifice of many zimbabweans who lost their lives silt their blood,went without ,were exposed to wild life and elements,were maimed in an effort to free their nation.However a record of facts must be kept even when it is not sweet.
Continuously drawing blanks has made me think ,how much of our heroes do we know and how much of it is true.I will not question Mugabe's credential.I will keep my opinion to myself for now but just in case someone has the court date,the trial court,the venue etc please keep me informed.why I am concerned is because i found some unbelievable stories about certain of our "heroes".
In politics I have realised there are those who are heroes because of what they have been,there are heroes because of what they have done and there are heroes because of what they tell us.African politics is full of the last group,those who are heroes because they say so. There are some people who would want us to believe that in their youth just by a stroke of political genius they became aware the politics of white rule was wrong.They then decided to leave all walk to Mozambique Botswana Zambia or where ever and come back armed with an ak47 and a few rouds.Shot the hell out of the white man's army and liberated us.Thank you to them.
It is however unfortunate that some of the stories we hear are not so true.It must be painful to be lied to by your hero.imagine how this friend of mine felt when his war hero confided to him that when he went to join the war he was running away from the law.There was a stabbing incident at then Harare musika where he ws a pick pocket.The net was closing in on him and he went to be a mukomana,a terr a comrade and now a mu'o'vet.Small fish this is.
Not very far from Harare musika was RBC's Harare studios.In the african service of the Rhodesia broadcasting corporation worked one Hero to be.He and his admirers want us to believe that he said something and I quote,"hedzinoyi nhema dzichiverengwa na...." while reading some news.Before the law knew what was going on he had run away and resurfaced in Maputo.the alternative truth though is this was a fugitive running away from a case of insurance fraud.
Another hero did plenty of work in the camps training the medics and treated the sick and injured.Very well and nice but how did he ,a high flying township doctor end up in a bush camp?Patriotism,baba,patriotism we would be told.What he does not want to hear and has probably tried to erase from history is that he was wanted for back street abortions.The net was closing in and off he fled to Mozambique.
Another doctor yes doctor again was a hero and a very flamboyant and popular guy.He also had a bit of an active waistline such that I am sure he left a family in Mozambique.Anywhere nothing to do with women directly but he went to war he was on the run from the law.He stole tablets from Mpilo Hospital for his practice probably.
Another comrade says he was a coca cola salesman.He ran away with cash and was not seen again until he resurfaced as an ak 47 wielding hero singing ,mukoma Nhongo.of cause there are some last minute heroes like the minister of home affairs who says he fought one of the most fierce battles in Bulawayo on his own.Besides his account,I have never heard his story from someone else.(self corroboration)then of course the chinos who never went anywhere near the border never fought and are zanu-pf's creation.
Why the fugitives were ending up in the liberation war was simple.If they went to South Africa they would end up being sent back to face the law because the NP government and RF governments were budies.Anyoe arriving in the liberated neighbours door steps would end up in the hands of the liberation movements.
This article recognises the sacrifice of many zimbabweans who lost their lives silt their blood,went without ,were exposed to wild life and elements,were maimed in an effort to free their nation.However a record of facts must be kept even when it is not sweet.
Thursday, 19 November 2009
The law on insulting or denigrading a President.
Many may remember when Harrison Nkomo the top lawyer in Zimbabwe was brought before the courts for insulting the president.What he did is he was representing some journalists in one of those silly cases again and the prosecutor was one Michael Mugabe.Then whether in jest,(many a true word said in jest)or seriously he remarked something to Michael."Sha taurira mudhara wako achiwesha or aite achisiya mhani".Little Michael thought are well i will not tell him .I will tell his many servants.So one way or the other word was out,"Nkomo atuka chef","ah mufana Nkomo atuka baba", "ah guys Harrison avakufarisa nhayi.kwanzi atuka jongwe".Or ,"kune nyaya iri very serious guys kucourt uko.Zvanzi pana lawyer ashudha mudhara zvisingaiite".Anywhere this is why in ancient Roman times when a man committed treason not just him , but all his sons would be killed with him.sons will side with their dads.Sons will seek to revenge for their dads.Worse kamuzukuru or mwana wemunin'ina,he also was looking at means of endearing himself with mudhara.
Some other people who time has forgotten have been jailed charged jailed and charged for just saying things some people donot want to hear.Remember how Tuku's Bvuma wasakara got many in trouble.
One thing that I cannot understand is whether Mugabe himself believes this to be a good law.If he did he wouldnot insult other people.What makes him able to say Chamatama chokushata ,zvivanhu zvisina mitupo and all names he calls other people if we cannot call him names.Someone told me that a real respected man can even shit himself in public and no one will laugh or see it as shameful.A bad man will be laughed at all his life for a little fart.
Mugabe though is not the founder of this stupid law .The Dutch once were rulers of Indonesia and left such a law in Indonesia.It was repealed in recent years after a court found that it did not promote democracy.
A teacher in Mali did more or less what Zimbabwean teachers have done before.UBob uthandana loGrace saga?In the case of the Malian teacher he asked his students to write an essay about a young prostitute who had a child with a president.Well there is this saying in shona which I will never understand literally."kuvhunduka chati kwati hunge uine katurike".I cant even translate it to Ndebele let alone English mainly because I dont know what katurike is .I have not heard anyone who quite knows it though this is a common saying.Anywhere proverbially it would mean
"you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide."
Even luminary African democracies like botswana seem to dislike their presidents being insulted.Recently Ian Khama deported a man for suggesting he was homo-something,no not homosapien.
The sad thing is that people are the makers and supporters of this stupid law somehow.Many people think it is right for the president to be insulated from abuse.I can be considered out of sinc but I will never see a President as different from any other citizen.none the less for such trivial issues.he should be a state leader , a head of state a head of government,commander in chief but at the end of it all he is a muntu.He must be subjected to the same human treatment we all get.if he will use a toilet.If he will bleed.if he will shed a tear.if he will laugh if he will feel hunger.if he will be angry then he is like me.
It is these silly hero worships which create dictators who later turn into man eaters.All men should be equal.In his office I should be subject to the authority of his office but when we are man to man we are all equal.what makes a teacher and a pupil equal outside the classroom should make these selfish old men (presidents) equal to all of us unless as they exercise their office.Does Zimbabwe have a general equality clause?
Some other people who time has forgotten have been jailed charged jailed and charged for just saying things some people donot want to hear.Remember how Tuku's Bvuma wasakara got many in trouble.
One thing that I cannot understand is whether Mugabe himself believes this to be a good law.If he did he wouldnot insult other people.What makes him able to say Chamatama chokushata ,zvivanhu zvisina mitupo and all names he calls other people if we cannot call him names.Someone told me that a real respected man can even shit himself in public and no one will laugh or see it as shameful.A bad man will be laughed at all his life for a little fart.
Mugabe though is not the founder of this stupid law .The Dutch once were rulers of Indonesia and left such a law in Indonesia.It was repealed in recent years after a court found that it did not promote democracy.
A teacher in Mali did more or less what Zimbabwean teachers have done before.UBob uthandana loGrace saga?In the case of the Malian teacher he asked his students to write an essay about a young prostitute who had a child with a president.Well there is this saying in shona which I will never understand literally."kuvhunduka chati kwati hunge uine katurike".I cant even translate it to Ndebele let alone English mainly because I dont know what katurike is .I have not heard anyone who quite knows it though this is a common saying.Anywhere proverbially it would mean
"you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide."
Even luminary African democracies like botswana seem to dislike their presidents being insulted.Recently Ian Khama deported a man for suggesting he was homo-something,no not homosapien.
The sad thing is that people are the makers and supporters of this stupid law somehow.Many people think it is right for the president to be insulated from abuse.I can be considered out of sinc but I will never see a President as different from any other citizen.none the less for such trivial issues.he should be a state leader , a head of state a head of government,commander in chief but at the end of it all he is a muntu.He must be subjected to the same human treatment we all get.if he will use a toilet.If he will bleed.if he will shed a tear.if he will laugh if he will feel hunger.if he will be angry then he is like me.
It is these silly hero worships which create dictators who later turn into man eaters.All men should be equal.In his office I should be subject to the authority of his office but when we are man to man we are all equal.what makes a teacher and a pupil equal outside the classroom should make these selfish old men (presidents) equal to all of us unless as they exercise their office.Does Zimbabwe have a general equality clause?
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
The honourable Thamsanqa Mahlangu and phone theft.
During his time of being bombarded Deputy minister mahlangu had arrows coming from all directions.One I remember tried to link the youthful politician with a criminal township gang some of you might remember,Star force the notorious Nkulumane gang.I did not know the membership of that gang but I suspected the suggestion was totally a fabrication.
Now that he has been acquitted I would like to say a few things.Personally I think there was a case of some kind , blown out of proportion and in that way out of the court.He nicked a mad man's phone,reminding me of a village Granny called VaChapungu some years back.
My mum was on teacher duty at some school where she taught.People used to pass and help themselves to the school orchard's mango fruit.This particular granny did not just help herself she literally harvested .My mum then intervened and confiscated most of the mangoes she had in her tswanda,basket.She didn't take it lightly but she had respect for my mum so no fighting.However along the way everyone she met including a few friends and I were told a different story."Nhasi zvandaitwa namiteresi.Vaba mengo dzangu".(Today what the mistress(lady teacher) did,she stole my mangos)It was hilarious but I suppose that is what Chinos did.
Anyone he met "Mahlangu aba seri foni yangu".I suppose the consolation is he can still pursue his civil case though.That he was acquitted does not necessarily mean chinos has no civil claim.
I feel sorry for Mahlangu.He might also want a claim of some kind.What the public came to know about him as a result of this phone is not Honourable.Headlines like "Mahlangu had threesome" Mahlangu smuggled two women into hotel , will not show him in good light.If he has a wife she might even get to a point of "sengiya hlalela abantwabami" (I will now just stay here for my kids).
I feel sorry for the young man.but a few questions still come to mind.what was chinos doing in a conference?Who was he in that conference.It does make me think MDC should be wary of some of the people they sit to eat with.
i must admit though that for legal purposes i was disappointed because i wanted to see how he would have been sentenced the Zimbabwean style.a cell phone thief,a real one was given a suspended sentence recently.
Now that he has been acquitted I would like to say a few things.Personally I think there was a case of some kind , blown out of proportion and in that way out of the court.He nicked a mad man's phone,reminding me of a village Granny called VaChapungu some years back.
My mum was on teacher duty at some school where she taught.People used to pass and help themselves to the school orchard's mango fruit.This particular granny did not just help herself she literally harvested .My mum then intervened and confiscated most of the mangoes she had in her tswanda,basket.She didn't take it lightly but she had respect for my mum so no fighting.However along the way everyone she met including a few friends and I were told a different story."Nhasi zvandaitwa namiteresi.Vaba mengo dzangu".(Today what the mistress(lady teacher) did,she stole my mangos)It was hilarious but I suppose that is what Chinos did.
Anyone he met "Mahlangu aba seri foni yangu".I suppose the consolation is he can still pursue his civil case though.That he was acquitted does not necessarily mean chinos has no civil claim.
I feel sorry for Mahlangu.He might also want a claim of some kind.What the public came to know about him as a result of this phone is not Honourable.Headlines like "Mahlangu had threesome" Mahlangu smuggled two women into hotel , will not show him in good light.If he has a wife she might even get to a point of "sengiya hlalela abantwabami" (I will now just stay here for my kids).
I feel sorry for the young man.but a few questions still come to mind.what was chinos doing in a conference?Who was he in that conference.It does make me think MDC should be wary of some of the people they sit to eat with.
i must admit though that for legal purposes i was disappointed because i wanted to see how he would have been sentenced the Zimbabwean style.a cell phone thief,a real one was given a suspended sentence recently.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Personal disasters caused by the Zimbabwean economy part 1
I visited real estate agent because i had been asked by a friend to find her a flat in down town Bulawayo.It was then that i spotted some agricultural equipment and decided to draw closer.Little did I know that this little machine was to be my first entry into the indegenous business world.It was a Chinese made grinding machine.
It was being auctioned because it had been re-possessed by a finance house from a defaulting war vet from Insuza.There was no market research except that a peasant friend had just remarked one day,"Ncube,uyazi ungasifakela isigayo lapha ungayenzimali uyazi." So here I was presented with the almighty chance.
The reserve price on the grinding mill was affordable but that would have meant wiping all the servings I had.Give me some credit please because in the spirit of friendship I asked friends to come aboard the new business.Two unlikely people took to my request.it was a brother in law and my boss at work.The machine was acquired at fifty-25-25 ratio and delivered to site.
No meeting was called except the brother inlaw being an accountant came up with a partnership contrat of some kind and it never got to be quite signed.The partnership ran on auto.Securing a licence to operate was another mountain.We needed to register the business with the council and I honestly never thought of that before.It was through some distant uncle who was a councillor that I managed to get the business registered as THELEKA GRINDING MILL.It had a mobile grinding mill licence.
Anywhere there were operational problems .Fuel ,for this was a diesel engine, was a particular problem.We even resorted to buying on the black market and that created major breakdowns.I remember one day arriving to find the little thing was coughing a cloud of pure white smoke after the magayisa had fed it some break fluid or hydrolic fluid.it was never the same from then.
Yes money as per the peasant friend ,who by now was the magayisa , was there.It was modestly ok and had things been normal it could been sustainable.things started going pear shaped when a drought hit the country and grain had to be imported and donated.The was a competitor a few kilometers away who had some political history.His place was used as a venue for ZANU-PF and war vet meetings.It was always going to happen and it did.
The villagers were told they had to use his grinding mill ahead of any other because they wanted to monitor and make sure no one processed genetically modified grain.I believed this was rubbish but I had seen many fight useful but endless battles and lose.i was not going to do so.The power of politics had shifted from local government (councillors)to unelected but unreasoning war vets and I was not going to waste my breath.The magaisa kept on withdrawing a salary for a few months as we still hoped and got one rare customer.Soon his pay was getting into savings and the machine was still feeding on contaminated oils.
When we eventually called it a day there was no fuel in the country and there just was no way we could go on.But well we had money in the bank or so I thought.The money in the bank was soon worthless and the bank had charges to apply.In the end I think form a healthish bank balance ,I think now if we ever visited that account we probably owe the bank millions in bank charges.
It was being auctioned because it had been re-possessed by a finance house from a defaulting war vet from Insuza.There was no market research except that a peasant friend had just remarked one day,"Ncube,uyazi ungasifakela isigayo lapha ungayenzimali uyazi." So here I was presented with the almighty chance.
The reserve price on the grinding mill was affordable but that would have meant wiping all the servings I had.Give me some credit please because in the spirit of friendship I asked friends to come aboard the new business.Two unlikely people took to my request.it was a brother in law and my boss at work.The machine was acquired at fifty-25-25 ratio and delivered to site.
No meeting was called except the brother inlaw being an accountant came up with a partnership contrat of some kind and it never got to be quite signed.The partnership ran on auto.Securing a licence to operate was another mountain.We needed to register the business with the council and I honestly never thought of that before.It was through some distant uncle who was a councillor that I managed to get the business registered as THELEKA GRINDING MILL.It had a mobile grinding mill licence.
Anywhere there were operational problems .Fuel ,for this was a diesel engine, was a particular problem.We even resorted to buying on the black market and that created major breakdowns.I remember one day arriving to find the little thing was coughing a cloud of pure white smoke after the magayisa had fed it some break fluid or hydrolic fluid.it was never the same from then.
Yes money as per the peasant friend ,who by now was the magayisa , was there.It was modestly ok and had things been normal it could been sustainable.things started going pear shaped when a drought hit the country and grain had to be imported and donated.The was a competitor a few kilometers away who had some political history.His place was used as a venue for ZANU-PF and war vet meetings.It was always going to happen and it did.
The villagers were told they had to use his grinding mill ahead of any other because they wanted to monitor and make sure no one processed genetically modified grain.I believed this was rubbish but I had seen many fight useful but endless battles and lose.i was not going to do so.The power of politics had shifted from local government (councillors)to unelected but unreasoning war vets and I was not going to waste my breath.The magaisa kept on withdrawing a salary for a few months as we still hoped and got one rare customer.Soon his pay was getting into savings and the machine was still feeding on contaminated oils.
When we eventually called it a day there was no fuel in the country and there just was no way we could go on.But well we had money in the bank or so I thought.The money in the bank was soon worthless and the bank had charges to apply.In the end I think form a healthish bank balance ,I think now if we ever visited that account we probably owe the bank millions in bank charges.
Saturday, 17 October 2009
Fighting Sekai Holand's corner,No No I am not!!
I will not be the one calling for the banning of Sekai Holland nor will I be the one for her sacking.I have tried to find a real transcript of what Sekai Holland or vaSekai to me really said on that day in Mozambique.I am afraid I have to judge her based on what I will assume she said because what she said has not been quite made a public dormain issue or did I miss it.Zenzele Ndebele of a Bulawayo community radio the last time I knew has a 38 seconds YouTube record .It has not provided me with anything I am afraid.
I will however assume that vaSekai said something that made a certain Nation very angry.So angry that even khulu,Chief Khayisa Ndiweni had to be roped in for it.as i said its not quite clear what she said especially now that emotions have run high and many things have been said in anger.In summary I think she said king Mzilikazi was a violent man who led cattle thieves .I believe she referred to warriors of the kingdom and that includes my own grandpa as cattle rustlers.VaSekai must have been drunk,uthi ukhulu waelisela,ngiyadana.
The truth though is that Sekai ruffled feathers already ruffled.People are already on the edge what with the gukurahundi 'moment of madness'.People are already angry over non development and being sidelined.Umthwakazi uzondile.However on this one I want to say Mthwakazi is angry or the wrong person.Sekai can be castigated for heaping blame of Africa's violent generation on one king.She can be castigated for saying things she does not know.African history is complex and Zimbabwean history is not any easy.You do not go there unless people fear you for other reasons or you are just a natural liar like zvigwedere zvenguva yedu (the Chigwederes of our times.)I have reasons for saying Mthwakazi are angry for the wrong person.
The real enemy of Mthwakazi is out there somewhere teaching falsehoods.There are people writing wrong history and who deserve to be banished from Matebeeland.These should be the people the likes of sekai consult in an effort to impress.If you went on the hunt for King Mzilikazi's biography you will be shocked.On a website called www.Bulawayo1872.com.He is potrayed as a violent person leading a violent nation.It is the correction of such descriptions which we should be concernd with.Www.sahistory.org.za describe him as pillaging and slaughtering.It also clearly states he stole king Shaka's cattle.
Robert Moffat said to have been the king's friend described him as charming dignifed good looking (handsome pfacha,not the belly pushing pictures these historians want to give us.Yet Rev Moffat also says if he wasn't witness to some executions he wouldn't have believed the king's reputation.Www.answers.com say he is commonly remembered as a marauder.There is plenty negative things written about this nation building Ndebele supremo .He is painted as a murderer.If people want to dislodge negative perceptions and wrong lectures they must deal with the source.The Khumalos the Bandas the Nqwababas and all must apply their anger to these sites.This is the story the sites and textbooks tell us and the gullible and naive will swallow that hook line and sinker.
I will however assume that vaSekai said something that made a certain Nation very angry.So angry that even khulu,Chief Khayisa Ndiweni had to be roped in for it.as i said its not quite clear what she said especially now that emotions have run high and many things have been said in anger.In summary I think she said king Mzilikazi was a violent man who led cattle thieves .I believe she referred to warriors of the kingdom and that includes my own grandpa as cattle rustlers.VaSekai must have been drunk,uthi ukhulu waelisela,ngiyadana.
The truth though is that Sekai ruffled feathers already ruffled.People are already on the edge what with the gukurahundi 'moment of madness'.People are already angry over non development and being sidelined.Umthwakazi uzondile.However on this one I want to say Mthwakazi is angry or the wrong person.Sekai can be castigated for heaping blame of Africa's violent generation on one king.She can be castigated for saying things she does not know.African history is complex and Zimbabwean history is not any easy.You do not go there unless people fear you for other reasons or you are just a natural liar like zvigwedere zvenguva yedu (the Chigwederes of our times.)I have reasons for saying Mthwakazi are angry for the wrong person.
The real enemy of Mthwakazi is out there somewhere teaching falsehoods.There are people writing wrong history and who deserve to be banished from Matebeeland.These should be the people the likes of sekai consult in an effort to impress.If you went on the hunt for King Mzilikazi's biography you will be shocked.On a website called www.Bulawayo1872.com.He is potrayed as a violent person leading a violent nation.It is the correction of such descriptions which we should be concernd with.Www.sahistory.org.za describe him as pillaging and slaughtering.It also clearly states he stole king Shaka's cattle.
Robert Moffat said to have been the king's friend described him as charming dignifed good looking (handsome pfacha,not the belly pushing pictures these historians want to give us.Yet Rev Moffat also says if he wasn't witness to some executions he wouldn't have believed the king's reputation.Www.answers.com say he is commonly remembered as a marauder.There is plenty negative things written about this nation building Ndebele supremo .He is painted as a murderer.If people want to dislodge negative perceptions and wrong lectures they must deal with the source.The Khumalos the Bandas the Nqwababas and all must apply their anger to these sites.This is the story the sites and textbooks tell us and the gullible and naive will swallow that hook line and sinker.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Investing in Zimbabwe
I am not sure if I will ever be able to invest in the motherland.I would surely love to.Maybe one day I will win the euro millions and take them to the teapot shaped country that I call home;and do what?
the "and do what" question landed me onto the Zimbabwe investment centre website.Its bad news guys I was disappointed with what I found.This is not the Mr. Perfect in me who was disappointed ,it was just the ordinary me.The idea of an investment centre is just perfect and that is plausible.The idea of website is even better and that much I give to them.
I am nt a publicity person .I am not a marketing person .What I think though is this website is not selling at all.To begin with why would an important website like that say I am only visitor 61.Considering that its the third time I have ever visited this site it means it has been visited only 58 other times.alternatively I was on a similar website for another African country and I did not like what I saw.I logged on and I was visitor 28767 then logged off.20 minutes later when I came back I was visitor 30009.Mudede please rig those hits please!!
I skipped the bit on Zimbabwe facts well it would be a lie anywhere.They cannot say they have no rule of law or that they have a brand of democracy called guided democracy where everyone must vote the ruling party or else.I could not bother myself viewing the facts because I knew they would b untrue.As it turned out anywhere they have basic ones .The real detailed facts are "under construction".
My port of call was the "road map to investing in Zimbabwe"page.I found some kindergarten flow chart and very poor visually.There is a four or five stage process depending on how you read them.There are no time frames,there is no road map .I would expect a road map to say what they are looking at as they consider one's investment.I expect a road map that says how long each process is expected to take.How much I am expected to pay for the process.How much foot work am I expected to do with the forms.And best of all I would have expected them to have suggestions as to what investment areas take how long to process and facts like that.
the forms are available to download ,thats what we are informed.I tried to download a form and the site lonked me to a broken link.On the oops link broken is also a ZIA page which I clicked on and a it linked me to another search result.Clicking on that then downloaded a form.And yes it was a wrong form!!What I wanted was at least a registration form but I got a re-registration form for companies whoseapplications they already have.
There are statistics about investors by country by sector and by year of investment.These have interesting data.The highest investor in the mining sector is Virgin Island.Following that is yet another island the Mauritius and yet another island the Isle of Man?I smell rats?nginukelwa ligundwane!!us$600000000 from BVI between January and June in 2009?is that for diamonds,I wonder?
our look east policy has only earned us us$20m from china and nothing from our friend such as Singapore,Malaysia.Our biggest investor sector wise was in the mining sector and followed by manufacturing which is about 50 times less.What I find curious though is that both the Isle of Man and the BVI is that they are both tax havens .Anywhere that's the ZIA website.I am not trying to be an unfair critic.I just want to contribute to the goodness of my country .If they take on my concerns maybe just maybe the zia might attract investors.Maybe one day the great Zimbabwe will be great again.
the "and do what" question landed me onto the Zimbabwe investment centre website.Its bad news guys I was disappointed with what I found.This is not the Mr. Perfect in me who was disappointed ,it was just the ordinary me.The idea of an investment centre is just perfect and that is plausible.The idea of website is even better and that much I give to them.
I am nt a publicity person .I am not a marketing person .What I think though is this website is not selling at all.To begin with why would an important website like that say I am only visitor 61.Considering that its the third time I have ever visited this site it means it has been visited only 58 other times.alternatively I was on a similar website for another African country and I did not like what I saw.I logged on and I was visitor 28767 then logged off.20 minutes later when I came back I was visitor 30009.Mudede please rig those hits please!!
I skipped the bit on Zimbabwe facts well it would be a lie anywhere.They cannot say they have no rule of law or that they have a brand of democracy called guided democracy where everyone must vote the ruling party or else.I could not bother myself viewing the facts because I knew they would b untrue.As it turned out anywhere they have basic ones .The real detailed facts are "under construction".
My port of call was the "road map to investing in Zimbabwe"page.I found some kindergarten flow chart and very poor visually.There is a four or five stage process depending on how you read them.There are no time frames,there is no road map .I would expect a road map to say what they are looking at as they consider one's investment.I expect a road map that says how long each process is expected to take.How much I am expected to pay for the process.How much foot work am I expected to do with the forms.And best of all I would have expected them to have suggestions as to what investment areas take how long to process and facts like that.
the forms are available to download ,thats what we are informed.I tried to download a form and the site lonked me to a broken link.On the oops link broken is also a ZIA page which I clicked on and a it linked me to another search result.Clicking on that then downloaded a form.And yes it was a wrong form!!What I wanted was at least a registration form but I got a re-registration form for companies whoseapplications they already have.
There are statistics about investors by country by sector and by year of investment.These have interesting data.The highest investor in the mining sector is Virgin Island.Following that is yet another island the Mauritius and yet another island the Isle of Man?I smell rats?nginukelwa ligundwane!!us$600000000 from BVI between January and June in 2009?is that for diamonds,I wonder?
our look east policy has only earned us us$20m from china and nothing from our friend such as Singapore,Malaysia.Our biggest investor sector wise was in the mining sector and followed by manufacturing which is about 50 times less.What I find curious though is that both the Isle of Man and the BVI is that they are both tax havens .Anywhere that's the ZIA website.I am not trying to be an unfair critic.I just want to contribute to the goodness of my country .If they take on my concerns maybe just maybe the zia might attract investors.Maybe one day the great Zimbabwe will be great again.
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
the un charter
i watched colonel Mouamar Gadhafi or Gaddafi or Qadaffi doing some podium tantrums at the UN recently.Obviously his antics were over shaddowed by the Robert Mugabe and Christianne interview which generated a hot debate for me and other of famous Zimbabwean journalist Mududuzi Mathutu's friends.I found myself in total agreement with a dictator.Yes I found myself agreeing with the Colonel Gadaffi.
I must admit though that right from my school days I had this Jamahiriya magazine whose origin I can not remember.It had all the stories and essays said to have been authored by the Colonel himself.I remember admiring his democracy model and thinking this could stop the kind of violence zanu-pf thrives on.Anywhere I was a misguided youth who eventually came to senses and realisd that all the same the Colonel is a dictator.
I must admit as I have already said that I found myself applauding the Colonel .Not for throwing away the copies of the un charter;not for asking what is wrong with the Taliban.I agreed and still do with the Colonel about the weaknesses of the UN and the UN charter.I could go on and on about it like the Colonel did but no, I will just pick a few things.
The security council is just too powerful for its size.It is made up of only 15states compared to 191 states in the UN.Only five are permanent members non of them is from Africa.The Security Council permanant members have power to sort of over rule a majority voice (veto) .They can and often veto the decisions of the general assemby which is made up of the majority.Whose interests do they save then?
The UN is mandated to maintain world peace.The colonel correctly observed that there have been too many wars since the UN and it has performed badly in trying to stop and prevent wars.There has been so many wars that it feels as though the un are a waste of world space.What do bosses do with non-performers?
Israel is an example of one political thorn in the flesh of the world.Through history they have gone to war and claimed this or that reason.The fact that there is still a problem in the Middle east palestine and Israel is a sure sign that the UN peace task is not being tackled well.Some agressive nations attack others at will. The common article they all want to claim is article 51.Very much more like an individual human claiming he killed another in self defence.That is what section 51 is all about.
My real problem with the un though is same with all other coming-togethers of states.There doesn't seem to be any remedy when someone decides to just not subject themselves to its authority.What would the un do if,like Zimbabwe and SADC,one state refuses to walk the straight?There is nothing other than sanctions and only as an extreme specially preserved possibly for oil producing nations military intervention.
I must admit though that right from my school days I had this Jamahiriya magazine whose origin I can not remember.It had all the stories and essays said to have been authored by the Colonel himself.I remember admiring his democracy model and thinking this could stop the kind of violence zanu-pf thrives on.Anywhere I was a misguided youth who eventually came to senses and realisd that all the same the Colonel is a dictator.
I must admit as I have already said that I found myself applauding the Colonel .Not for throwing away the copies of the un charter;not for asking what is wrong with the Taliban.I agreed and still do with the Colonel about the weaknesses of the UN and the UN charter.I could go on and on about it like the Colonel did but no, I will just pick a few things.
The security council is just too powerful for its size.It is made up of only 15states compared to 191 states in the UN.Only five are permanent members non of them is from Africa.The Security Council permanant members have power to sort of over rule a majority voice (veto) .They can and often veto the decisions of the general assemby which is made up of the majority.Whose interests do they save then?
The UN is mandated to maintain world peace.The colonel correctly observed that there have been too many wars since the UN and it has performed badly in trying to stop and prevent wars.There has been so many wars that it feels as though the un are a waste of world space.What do bosses do with non-performers?
Israel is an example of one political thorn in the flesh of the world.Through history they have gone to war and claimed this or that reason.The fact that there is still a problem in the Middle east palestine and Israel is a sure sign that the UN peace task is not being tackled well.Some agressive nations attack others at will. The common article they all want to claim is article 51.Very much more like an individual human claiming he killed another in self defence.That is what section 51 is all about.
My real problem with the un though is same with all other coming-togethers of states.There doesn't seem to be any remedy when someone decides to just not subject themselves to its authority.What would the un do if,like Zimbabwe and SADC,one state refuses to walk the straight?There is nothing other than sanctions and only as an extreme specially preserved possibly for oil producing nations military intervention.
Monday, 21 September 2009
RELATIONSHIPS IN A SHONA FAMILY? PART 1
YOU MUST REMEMBER I AM A TOKEN MUKARANGA AND WILL THEREFORE BE BIASED TO THE KARANGAS WHEN IT COMES TO SHONA ISSUES.I AM IN THIS ARTICLE GOING TO TRY AND EXPLAIN RELATIONSHIPS IN THE BROADNESS OF A KARANGA EXTENDED FAMILY.THE BASIC TRUTH TO REMEMBER IS THAT EVERYONE IS RELATED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.THATS HOW WE ARE AND THAS HOW I WISH WE COULD STAY.
THE FIRST BASIS OF A RELATIONSHIP IS MURUME NOMUKADZI.THIS IS SIMPLY HUSBAND AND WIFE.THE DETAILS OF WHETHER THEY MARRIED IN CHURCH OR THEY HAD MUTIMBA OR THEY JUST MARRIED BY ROORA OR MUKUMBO IS SOMETHING ELSE BUT THEY ARE MURUME NEMUKADZI.
OBVIOUSLY THESE TWO BRING EACH THEIR OWN SIDE OF THE FAMILY .THE WIFE THEN HAS NEW RELATIONS WITH THE HUSBAND'S PEOPLE AND THE HUSBAND TOO WITH THE WIFE'S PEOPLE.TO HER HUSBAND'S MUM SHE IS A MUROORA.THIS EQUATES TO DAUGHTER-IN-LAW.THE MOTHER-IN-LAW IS VAMWENE OR MORE CASUALLY JUST MA (MOTHER).TO THE FATHER OF THE HUSBAND SHE ALSO IS MUROORA AND HE IS VATEZVARA OR SIMPLY BABA (FATHER).
THE HUSBAND CALLS HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW AMBUYA, CAREFULLY PRONOUNCED DISTINCTLY FROM AMBUYA ,IN GRANDMOTHER.SHE CAN ALSO BE CALLED MBUYAWASHA OR MORE CASUALLY MAI.FATHER-IN-LAW IS VATEZVARA (NOT TSANO OR VACHIBARAMATSEKETSA) OR JUST SIMPLY BABA (FATHER).
IF THERE ARE GRANDPARENTS THEY ARE ALL JUST CALLED SEKURU OR MBUYA WITHOUT DISTINGUISHING THEIR IN-LAW NATURE.THE SON-IN-LAW HIMSELF IS MUKWASHA OR MUKWAMBO (NOT CHIKWAMBO) .
IF THE HUSBAND HAS SIBBLINGS THEY HAVE THE FOLLOWING TITLES.HIS SISTER TO HER IS VATETE IRREGARDLESS OF AGE.HIS BROTHERS WHEN OLDER ARE BABAMUKURU (LITERALLY BIG FATHER/OLDER FATHER) AND HAS A NON CONTACT RELATIONSHIP.THE YOUNGER BROTHER IS BABAMUNINI OR BABAMUDIKI (ZEZURU VARIATION) WHICH LITERALLY WOULD BE SMALL FATHER.BOTH SETS OF SIBBLINGS CALL THE WIFE MAIGURU EXCEPT THE ELDER BROTHERS WHO CALL HER MAININI.BABAMUNINI CAN BE MAIGURU'S FRIEND BUT BABAMUKURU IS MORE LIKE A FATHER.
WHERE THE WIFE HAS SIBBLINGS,THEY ARE CALLED DIFFERENT FROM THE HUSBAND'S SIBBLINGS.THE WIFE'S LITTLE SISTERS ARE VARAMU (SINGULAR MURAMU) OR MAININI,(SMALL MOTHER)(NO NOT SMALL HOUSE,LOL!!).THE ELDER SISTER IS MAIGURU .THE BROTHERS ARE TEZVARA,TSANO,OR BABA .THE HUSBAND IS ALSO MUKWASHA,TSANO,MUKWAMBO.
THE OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS ARE THE PRODUCTS OF THIS MUKADZI NEMURUME.AT THIS STAGE LET US NAME THEM VHENENZIYA AND RAVHUMO.IF VHENE HAS A SON AND HER SISTER HAS A SISTER THEY ARE NOT COUSINS OR COUSIN BROTHER OR SUCH THING.THEY ARE SIMPLY BROTHER AND SISTER.HANZVADZI NEHANZVADZI AND THEY DO NOT ENGAGE IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP.IF RAVHUMO'S BROTHER HAS A SON THEN RAVHUMO'S SON AND RAVHUMO'S BROTHER'S SON ARE BOTHERS.AGAIN THEY ARE NOT COUSINS OR COUSIN BROTHERS.MUKOMA NEMUNUKUNA.BROTHER AND YOUNG BROTHER.
OH YES RAVHU AND VHENE'S CHILDREN ARE AMONG THEMSELVES BROTHERS IF SONS AND SISTERS IF GIRLS.IF MIXED THEN THEY ARE MUKOMA (HANZVADZI) FOR A BOTHER AND OR MUNUKUNA (LITTLE SISTER ) FOR A YOUNGER SISTER.SISTERS NORMALLY WOULD BE VAKOMA,FOR THE ELDER AND MUNUKUNA FOR THE LITTLE ONE.
MORE NAMES.LETS CALL VHENE AND RAVHU'S CHILDREN CHIPO,(AND GIRL)AND WIKI (BOY).WHEN WIKI AND CHIPO ARE FACED WITH VHENE'S BROTHER THEY CALL HIM SEKURU
THE FIRST BASIS OF A RELATIONSHIP IS MURUME NOMUKADZI.THIS IS SIMPLY HUSBAND AND WIFE.THE DETAILS OF WHETHER THEY MARRIED IN CHURCH OR THEY HAD MUTIMBA OR THEY JUST MARRIED BY ROORA OR MUKUMBO IS SOMETHING ELSE BUT THEY ARE MURUME NEMUKADZI.
OBVIOUSLY THESE TWO BRING EACH THEIR OWN SIDE OF THE FAMILY .THE WIFE THEN HAS NEW RELATIONS WITH THE HUSBAND'S PEOPLE AND THE HUSBAND TOO WITH THE WIFE'S PEOPLE.TO HER HUSBAND'S MUM SHE IS A MUROORA.THIS EQUATES TO DAUGHTER-IN-LAW.THE MOTHER-IN-LAW IS VAMWENE OR MORE CASUALLY JUST MA (MOTHER).TO THE FATHER OF THE HUSBAND SHE ALSO IS MUROORA AND HE IS VATEZVARA OR SIMPLY BABA (FATHER).
THE HUSBAND CALLS HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW AMBUYA, CAREFULLY PRONOUNCED DISTINCTLY FROM AMBUYA ,IN GRANDMOTHER.SHE CAN ALSO BE CALLED MBUYAWASHA OR MORE CASUALLY MAI.FATHER-IN-LAW IS VATEZVARA (NOT TSANO OR VACHIBARAMATSEKETSA) OR JUST SIMPLY BABA (FATHER).
IF THERE ARE GRANDPARENTS THEY ARE ALL JUST CALLED SEKURU OR MBUYA WITHOUT DISTINGUISHING THEIR IN-LAW NATURE.THE SON-IN-LAW HIMSELF IS MUKWASHA OR MUKWAMBO (NOT CHIKWAMBO) .
IF THE HUSBAND HAS SIBBLINGS THEY HAVE THE FOLLOWING TITLES.HIS SISTER TO HER IS VATETE IRREGARDLESS OF AGE.HIS BROTHERS WHEN OLDER ARE BABAMUKURU (LITERALLY BIG FATHER/OLDER FATHER) AND HAS A NON CONTACT RELATIONSHIP.THE YOUNGER BROTHER IS BABAMUNINI OR BABAMUDIKI (ZEZURU VARIATION) WHICH LITERALLY WOULD BE SMALL FATHER.BOTH SETS OF SIBBLINGS CALL THE WIFE MAIGURU EXCEPT THE ELDER BROTHERS WHO CALL HER MAININI.BABAMUNINI CAN BE MAIGURU'S FRIEND BUT BABAMUKURU IS MORE LIKE A FATHER.
WHERE THE WIFE HAS SIBBLINGS,THEY ARE CALLED DIFFERENT FROM THE HUSBAND'S SIBBLINGS.THE WIFE'S LITTLE SISTERS ARE VARAMU (SINGULAR MURAMU) OR MAININI,(SMALL MOTHER)(NO NOT SMALL HOUSE,LOL!!).THE ELDER SISTER IS MAIGURU .THE BROTHERS ARE TEZVARA,TSANO,OR BABA .THE HUSBAND IS ALSO MUKWASHA,TSANO,MUKWAMBO.
THE OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS ARE THE PRODUCTS OF THIS MUKADZI NEMURUME.AT THIS STAGE LET US NAME THEM VHENENZIYA AND RAVHUMO.IF VHENE HAS A SON AND HER SISTER HAS A SISTER THEY ARE NOT COUSINS OR COUSIN BROTHER OR SUCH THING.THEY ARE SIMPLY BROTHER AND SISTER.HANZVADZI NEHANZVADZI AND THEY DO NOT ENGAGE IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP.IF RAVHUMO'S BROTHER HAS A SON THEN RAVHUMO'S SON AND RAVHUMO'S BROTHER'S SON ARE BOTHERS.AGAIN THEY ARE NOT COUSINS OR COUSIN BROTHERS.MUKOMA NEMUNUKUNA.BROTHER AND YOUNG BROTHER.
OH YES RAVHU AND VHENE'S CHILDREN ARE AMONG THEMSELVES BROTHERS IF SONS AND SISTERS IF GIRLS.IF MIXED THEN THEY ARE MUKOMA (HANZVADZI) FOR A BOTHER AND OR MUNUKUNA (LITTLE SISTER ) FOR A YOUNGER SISTER.SISTERS NORMALLY WOULD BE VAKOMA,FOR THE ELDER AND MUNUKUNA FOR THE LITTLE ONE.
MORE NAMES.LETS CALL VHENE AND RAVHU'S CHILDREN CHIPO,(AND GIRL)AND WIKI (BOY).WHEN WIKI AND CHIPO ARE FACED WITH VHENE'S BROTHER THEY CALL HIM SEKURU
Thursday, 17 September 2009
HIV AIDS A REALITY THAT BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES
I HAVE AVOIDED WRITING ABOUT AIDS FOR A LONG TIME.I ONCE TRIED A BOOK BUT SOON ABANDONED THE IDEA BECAUSE EVERY TIME IT WOULD BRING ME SO CLOSE TO TEARS.AS I WRITE NOW I JUST KEEP ON SAYING TO MYSELF ,"GO ON JAMES YOU ARE A MAN", AS TEARS HAVE BEEN TRIGGERED BY A SOUTH AFRICAN DOCUMENTARY ON TELE.BUT I HAVE TO WRITE.
HERE I WAS WINDING UP A BUSY DAY .I WAS DOING A BIT OF THIS AND THAT IN THE OFFICE GETTING READY TO CALL IT A DAY.A YOUNG ENGLISH MAN WHO PROBABLY HAS NEVER SEEN A DEAD BODY LET ALONE AN AIDS PATIENT CALLED OUT MY NAME EXCITEDLY."JAMES", HE WENT,"DO YOU NOT THINK IT IS GOOD FOR ALL PEOPLE WITH AIDS TO SACRIFICE THEMSELVES TO SAVE THE REST OF THE WORLD".BY SACRIFICE HE MEANT OFFER TO DIE .I DID NOT ANSWER HIM AND AT THAT INSTANT IF HE HAD COME CLOSER TO ME HE WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT I DROPED A TEAR OR TWO.THE IGNORENCE AND CASUALNESS AND WHAT FOLLOWED SHOCKED ME."IF SOMEONE SHAGGED A MONKEY AND GOT AIDS WHY SHOULD THE REST OF US SUFFER FOR HIS STUPIDITY?".
HE PROBABLY DIDNOT REALISE THAT TO ME AIDS IS NOT PEOPLE.AIDS IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE CLOSELY FELT, A PERSONAL TRAGEDY.MAN,I ENDED MY DAY PREMATURELY AND WENT HOME TO THINK ABOUT THIS.IT LEAVES ME WANDERING WITH ALL THE DOCUMENTARIES ,ALL THE FACTS AND ALL THE E-INFO AVAILABLE WHAT LEAVES PEOPLE IN EUROPE SO IGNORANT ? WOULD THIS YOUNG COLLEAGUE OF MINE WATCH THE AGAPE DOCUMENTARY AND SEE WHAT I SAW OR WOULD HE WATCH IT BRIEFLY AND FLIP ON TO CRICKET BECAUSE ,"ITS BORING"ITS NOT HIS FAULT MANY PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME WORSE QUESTIONS ABOUT AFRICA AND MAYBE THAT IS WHAT THEIR EDUCATION TEACHES THEM.
AFRICA HAS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT AIDS.GET MONEY INTO RESEARCH AND MORE RESEARCH WITHOUT WAITING FOR THE WEST.ONLY AFRICA CAN FIND THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW AIDS STARTED AND HOW IT SPREAD AND CONTINUES TO SPREAD.I WILL NOT GO INTO PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AS I HAVE ALREADY INDICATED BUT ENOUGH TO SAY YES AIDS IS TRANSMITTED BY SEXUAL ACTIVITY.YES SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED AIDS CAN BE REDUCED BY USE OF CONDOMS AND BY ABSTAINING.BUT MY BIGGEST FEAR IS DISCOVERING ONE TIME IN THE FUTURE THAT MAYBE IT CAN BE TRANSMITTED BY SOME OTHER MEANS EVEN MORE COMMON THAN SEX.WE HAVE TO BE WARY OF THAT AND ONLY US AS AFRICA AS VICTIMS CAN GUARD AGAINST SUCH .
PEOPLE STILL HAVE A DUTY TO PRO CREATE.PRO CREATION IS A BIBLICAL COMMISSION ,FOR CHRISTIANS AND FOR ALL OTHERS IT IS AN INBORN MECHANISM THAT HUMANS AT SOME POINT JUST FEEL LIKE WANTING TO HAVE A CHILD.SO SEX BEING THE NATURAL PRO CREATION METHOD WILL ALWAYS BE THERE.HOPING LIKE CERTAIN CHURCHES AND MORALISTS THAT IT CAN JUST DISAPPEAR IS IZIFISO ZIKA THEMBA.AN ANALYSES OF THE WAY FORWARD CALLS FOR METHODS THAT LOOK AT REALITIES.LIKE THE USE OF THE CONDOM.IT IS PRACTICAL AND ADDRESSES AN EXISTING PRACTICE WITHOUT CHANGING IT.
I FEEL SAD AND ANGRY EVERY TIME I THINK HOW MUCH AIDS IN AFRICA HAS BECOME A FUND RAISER FOR GOVERNMENTS AND GREEDY NGO DIRECTORS.A COUNTRY WITH A HIGH AIDS STATISTICS FIGURES LIKE SWAZILAND BOTSWANA AND ZIMBABWE HAVE NO DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR RESEARCHING.THEY CONTINUE TO TAP INTO POVERTY ALLEVIATION FUNDS AND NO MOVEMENT TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO AIDS.ALL WE KNOW IS WHAT COMES FROM THE WESTERN SCIENTISTS .ALL WE KNOW IS FROM NATIONS WHICH HAVE TOTALLY DIFFERENT SOCIAL PRACTICES TO OURS;TOTALLY DIFFERENT DIETS;TOTALLY DIFFERENT SOCIAL AMENITIES.
HOSPITALS ARE NOW REFERRED TO AS KWA BATAI MAOKO,A PLACE FOR CONDOLENCES.CEMETERIES ARE FEELING UP FAST AND WHY NOT WHEN ALL WE ARE HOPING FOR IS THAT "MAYBE SOME DONOR WILL BUY US DRUGS".I CANT GO ON .I CANNOT CARRY ON WITH THIS
HERE I WAS WINDING UP A BUSY DAY .I WAS DOING A BIT OF THIS AND THAT IN THE OFFICE GETTING READY TO CALL IT A DAY.A YOUNG ENGLISH MAN WHO PROBABLY HAS NEVER SEEN A DEAD BODY LET ALONE AN AIDS PATIENT CALLED OUT MY NAME EXCITEDLY."JAMES", HE WENT,"DO YOU NOT THINK IT IS GOOD FOR ALL PEOPLE WITH AIDS TO SACRIFICE THEMSELVES TO SAVE THE REST OF THE WORLD".BY SACRIFICE HE MEANT OFFER TO DIE .I DID NOT ANSWER HIM AND AT THAT INSTANT IF HE HAD COME CLOSER TO ME HE WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT I DROPED A TEAR OR TWO.THE IGNORENCE AND CASUALNESS AND WHAT FOLLOWED SHOCKED ME."IF SOMEONE SHAGGED A MONKEY AND GOT AIDS WHY SHOULD THE REST OF US SUFFER FOR HIS STUPIDITY?".
HE PROBABLY DIDNOT REALISE THAT TO ME AIDS IS NOT PEOPLE.AIDS IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE CLOSELY FELT, A PERSONAL TRAGEDY.MAN,I ENDED MY DAY PREMATURELY AND WENT HOME TO THINK ABOUT THIS.IT LEAVES ME WANDERING WITH ALL THE DOCUMENTARIES ,ALL THE FACTS AND ALL THE E-INFO AVAILABLE WHAT LEAVES PEOPLE IN EUROPE SO IGNORANT ? WOULD THIS YOUNG COLLEAGUE OF MINE WATCH THE AGAPE DOCUMENTARY AND SEE WHAT I SAW OR WOULD HE WATCH IT BRIEFLY AND FLIP ON TO CRICKET BECAUSE ,"ITS BORING"ITS NOT HIS FAULT MANY PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME WORSE QUESTIONS ABOUT AFRICA AND MAYBE THAT IS WHAT THEIR EDUCATION TEACHES THEM.
AFRICA HAS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT AIDS.GET MONEY INTO RESEARCH AND MORE RESEARCH WITHOUT WAITING FOR THE WEST.ONLY AFRICA CAN FIND THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW AIDS STARTED AND HOW IT SPREAD AND CONTINUES TO SPREAD.I WILL NOT GO INTO PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AS I HAVE ALREADY INDICATED BUT ENOUGH TO SAY YES AIDS IS TRANSMITTED BY SEXUAL ACTIVITY.YES SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED AIDS CAN BE REDUCED BY USE OF CONDOMS AND BY ABSTAINING.BUT MY BIGGEST FEAR IS DISCOVERING ONE TIME IN THE FUTURE THAT MAYBE IT CAN BE TRANSMITTED BY SOME OTHER MEANS EVEN MORE COMMON THAN SEX.WE HAVE TO BE WARY OF THAT AND ONLY US AS AFRICA AS VICTIMS CAN GUARD AGAINST SUCH .
PEOPLE STILL HAVE A DUTY TO PRO CREATE.PRO CREATION IS A BIBLICAL COMMISSION ,FOR CHRISTIANS AND FOR ALL OTHERS IT IS AN INBORN MECHANISM THAT HUMANS AT SOME POINT JUST FEEL LIKE WANTING TO HAVE A CHILD.SO SEX BEING THE NATURAL PRO CREATION METHOD WILL ALWAYS BE THERE.HOPING LIKE CERTAIN CHURCHES AND MORALISTS THAT IT CAN JUST DISAPPEAR IS IZIFISO ZIKA THEMBA.AN ANALYSES OF THE WAY FORWARD CALLS FOR METHODS THAT LOOK AT REALITIES.LIKE THE USE OF THE CONDOM.IT IS PRACTICAL AND ADDRESSES AN EXISTING PRACTICE WITHOUT CHANGING IT.
I FEEL SAD AND ANGRY EVERY TIME I THINK HOW MUCH AIDS IN AFRICA HAS BECOME A FUND RAISER FOR GOVERNMENTS AND GREEDY NGO DIRECTORS.A COUNTRY WITH A HIGH AIDS STATISTICS FIGURES LIKE SWAZILAND BOTSWANA AND ZIMBABWE HAVE NO DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR RESEARCHING.THEY CONTINUE TO TAP INTO POVERTY ALLEVIATION FUNDS AND NO MOVEMENT TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO AIDS.ALL WE KNOW IS WHAT COMES FROM THE WESTERN SCIENTISTS .ALL WE KNOW IS FROM NATIONS WHICH HAVE TOTALLY DIFFERENT SOCIAL PRACTICES TO OURS;TOTALLY DIFFERENT DIETS;TOTALLY DIFFERENT SOCIAL AMENITIES.
HOSPITALS ARE NOW REFERRED TO AS KWA BATAI MAOKO,A PLACE FOR CONDOLENCES.CEMETERIES ARE FEELING UP FAST AND WHY NOT WHEN ALL WE ARE HOPING FOR IS THAT "MAYBE SOME DONOR WILL BUY US DRUGS".I CANT GO ON .I CANNOT CARRY ON WITH THIS
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