On their return
“Pssst!”
I turned around with a start.
“Hallo.”
My heart sank. I had always known they would return. Everyone knew they would return. It was just a question of time. But none of us had expected them to return so, so, soon, with such speed and ferocity.
“You are back,” I said resignedly.
“We never left. We’ve always been here,” they said smugly.
1 August 2008 is not light years away. That day that heralded a new currency and the new transaction dispensation minus 10 zeroes. That week coins were all the rage. But we knew it wouldn’t last. Read more
Of individualistic indifference and collective hatred
As a young boy I was raised in a socialistic family in which values of sharing, interdependence and community contribution where empathized. I remember my good uncle bringing home books and articles on Lenin, Trotsky, Mikhail Gorbachev and the mighty Union Of Soviet Socialist Republic(USSR). USSR was the dream country for me. Then I went to college and embraced the values of independent thinking and personal development and motivation enshrined in the capitalistic ideology of the western world. My college buddies avoided any talk on Jack Welsh or GE because that led to yours truly preaching to them why Jack Welch was the best thing to happen to the corporate world. Read more
My Zimbabwe
Filed under: Economy, How Zimbabwe can be better, Opinion, Analysis, Advice
I have listened to a thousand critics about the Zimbabwean situation. People are busy pointing fingers, insulting and anything their troubled mind can think of. Almost everyone at one moment pointed a finger but has that ever changed the situation? No!!! Why? Only you and I know better.
In my own view, the economic situation has been a blessing in disguise. Despite the pain we went though as a nation, I strongly believe that we are a better paople. Let the sun in our situation rise and you will know exactly what I am talking about. Read more
531 billion percent inflation- we need new text books
I understand that the latest estimates put inflation in Zimbabwe at 531,000,000,000 %! That’s astounding even for me a Zimbo through and through. I laugh when I think of how so impossible it must be for people who have never been to Zim to understand how the bleep this is can exist in parallel with an economy that somehow still clunks along. Read more
Joy cometh in the Morgan
Filed under: Economy, Pictures and postcards, Zimbabwean diaries
When I saw this photo of Morgan Tsvangirai visiting banks in Harare on Friday to assess the cash shortages I couldn’t help but smile at the sheer joy of the faces and body language captured. Zimbabweans are so pregnant with hope that perhaps this time, just perhaps this one time, the rock will move from the political entrance and let in the light of day.
“Joy cometh in the morning”
- Psalms 30:5
Original photo from NewZimbabwe.com
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