And so UDI, I protest…
Filed under: Family, Friendship, Community, Relationships, Zimbabwean diaries
So, having waited those five months, having emailed UDI (Norweigian Directorate of Immigration) many times, the Norwegian embassy in Harare even more times and even the King of Norway four times, and receiving from non of these parties a response that would tell me when I would get the VISA I must protest. To this day I am told “we do not know when your papers will be processed.”
Five months later! Not acceptable. In my own country where government departments have all but fallen apart, I applied for a passport and got it within two weeks. So, will someone please tell me, how a country, which has year after year been said to be the best place to live in the world, cannot process a VISA application in five whole months?
Can someone tell me how in an age of online transactions that take five seconds to process, it should take so long for a man to get the paperwork so that he can be with his wife?
And so I protest. Vehemently, I protest.
Starting Monday, 2nd March 2009, I am going on a reunification fast and I will drink only water till I get word about when I will be with my wife. I am also hoping that this action will bring attention to this issue and urge the UDI and other immigration departments around the world to fast track family reunification VISAs.
Sorry sweetie, but I protest.
Five months of waiting…
Filed under: Family, Friendship, Community, Relationships, Zimbabwean diaries
I have been waiting now for almost five months. It will be 5 months on March 7th. No sign of a VISA. No sign that there will be a sign of a VISA- and yet they told me two months. What system is this, designed to keep people apart for so long? What bureaucracy that does not make way- even for love?
Methodist Church in Zimbabwe invites you
Am inviting you all guys to our Youth Week Program which started yesterday & our theme this year is
THEME : GOD’S KINGDOM - MY HERITAGE
COME, CLAIM & RESTORE YOUR FATHERS HERITAGE WHICH SATAN STOLE FROM YOU!
IN CHITUNGWIZA, HARARE EVERYWHERE WHERE THERE IS METHODIST CHURCH BRANCH AT 6 PM TILL 7:30 PM
Wonekano
pazvakavambwa, watambarara shamwari
ko, zvawafamba wega, mwana waMwari
chokwadi zvaguma here, wasiira ani
ndima yako . Ko kapadza kako, mupini
hakachina anobata. Watisiya hama tashama
dai ndaiziva chakakuroya, hama
chakakubaya chatibaya pahana
chatyokera munyika, hapachina kutana
hausiwega munzira, tichabatana
nemabasa ako haurovi ; watisiya kudai takashama.
tasvimha tose tose, kufunga iwe
kufunga vana, vako nevedu mwachewe
tinokuwana kupi kana worwadza mwoyo
zvawava nyikadzimu, waenda kumweya.
Farai Madzimbamuto
Jan 2009
[ndichiyeuka Chiremba Isidore Pazvakavambwa
akatisiya musi wa 25 Januari 2009]
King Mswati’s wife lights up Tsvangirai inauguration
Filed under: I was just thinking, Pictures and postcards, Politics
One of King Mswati’s wives pictured at the inauguration of Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and Thokozani Khupe in Zimbabwe last week. She was the talk of the day and had many people wondering who she was…
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Counting days…
I am waiting Mr Prime Minister. Counting the days tick by. Long hours that still reek of poverty. Empty pockets that have no jingle-jangle.
I am waiting not for handouts- but for opportunities, for justice, for a fair chance to prove my worth…
