One Cause for One Nation- with Leander Kandiero on PowerFM
Filed under: Health & Well Being, How Zimbabwe can be better, News you won't find elsewhere
One Man.One Day. One Station. One Cause for One Nation- with Leander Kandiero on PowerFM
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For the first time ever in Zimbabwe, and indeed in world history, a 24-hour marathon broadcast on HIV and AIDS!
The brainchild of POWER FM, a musical station wholly owned by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings, the 24-Hour marathon broadcast to be aired on Power FM presents Zimbabweans with an opportunity to reflect, talk about, question as well as map the way forward regarding the country’s responses to HIV and AIDS.
Student life
Filed under: How Zimbabwe can be better, Inspire & motivate, Zimbabwean diaries
The sun sets so beautifully into the horizon. The ordinary person marvels at the wonder of the glory of God, yet to the student who is at a university that is about to close its doors, who slept on an empty stomach yesterday, the setting of the sun does not signify anything. All he askes is a simple innocent question, ‘Is God mverled at my pain?’
This year I am certainly praising God for making me able to pay US$2500 for my college tuition which with current situation that our country is in is a fortune. As I praise God I know there is someone who is cursing the blessing of the burning syndrome that made his poor parents afford to send him to one of Zimbabwe’s most expensive universities. Why shouldn’t he, when his school fees drained everything from their coofers that all they could manage to give their son for school was a little forex which today seems to be also affected by the sporadic runaway inflation that has brougth our country down? Read more
Zimbabwe’s education system endangers students
Filed under: How Zimbabwe can be better, I was just thinking, Opinion, Analysis, Advice, Zimbabwe, For & About
It’s official: Zimbabwe’s educational system is now in the morgue. The state of our education system is clear testimony to how self-destructive Zimbabwe has become. In a word, Zimbabwe is structurally deficient and in a desperate need for repair and construction.
The idea that we have a generation of young people who are receiving a half-baked education is at best, preposterous, and at worst, downright mindlessly stupid.
The failure of the education sector, like many other sectors in Zimbabwe, is a mere revelation that our country is going down the tubes. And in the process, we’ve become like an alcoholic bent on hanging onto to self-suicidal behaviour.
The picture is grim, to say the least. Teachers have abandoned schools. There are no books in schools. Infrastructure is delapidated, and in the erstwhile so-called elite schools such as Prince Edward etc. standards are going to the dogs. Read more
Obama’s win should make Africa stop & ponder
Filed under: How Zimbabwe can be better, Inspire & motivate, Politics
Right here in Africa we have our own Obamas, men and women who if you hear or read their thoughts you feel inspired to change all the wrongs in your nation. Such men and women if given the chance to realize their vision of Africa could change Africa to be a nation to reckon with.
All that Africa needs to do is discover such charismatic leaders and groom them to takeover leadership democratically at a later stage. But then Africa, being Africa instead of supporting such people so that they can bloom to their full potential feel threatened by them and so frustrate them or spread lies that undermine them. Usually the end result is such men of potential deciding to immigrate to other countries were their intelligence can be appreciated. This explains the brain-drain Africa experiences, year after year.
One such inspirational and charismatic leader whom we can compare to Obama is Jeremiah Kure; he is a professional working in the corporate governance arena, based in Johannesburg. He is the founder of the Heights We Must Climb movement and a firm believer in a progressive Africa; an Africa not tied to her stereotyped past but one that is steadily reclaiming her dignity and potential in the global space. He is 33 years old. Read more
Ploughing back in our former schools
Filed under: Family, Friendship, Community, How Zimbabwe can be better, I was just thinking
Many of our former primary and secondary schools, which were once vibrant and high-flying have gone into a great decline and have experienced extreme dilapidation. Visiting one’s former school, one is sure to get a rude shock and awakening by the sheer deterioration.
This makes one think of the importance of giving back to our former schools which actually provided our foundation as we were nurtured in our early academic lives. It was this foundation laid upon which we now have the sound knowledge that we have acquired as adults. I think it would be a noble thing to help our former primary and secondary schools in any way that we can, being in cash or in kind. Read more
The atrocities of the traditional customary practice of “kuripa ngozi”
Filed under: Books & literature, How Zimbabwe can be better, I was just thinking
The African continent has diverse cultural backgrounds and in contemporary Zimbabwean culture, traditional customary practices have a strong foothold and remain an integral part of the everyday lives of many Zimbabweans. In this regard, women in Zimbabwe are still vulnerable to some entrenched customary practices, despite the legal prohibitions which have since been enacted by the Zimbabwe judicial system. Blatant violations of women’s and girls’ human rights are made possible by the maintenance of some of the detrimental and discriminatory customary laws which allow for the continuation of practices, that negatively affect women, and among these persistent practices are:
“KURIPA NGOZI” – The customary practice of offering a young girl or grown woman as compensatory payment in inter-family disputes as well as in the appeasement of avenging deceased spirits. An avenging spirit is appeased by offering a young woman in marriage to the aggrieved spirit in an uncanny and an extraordinary spiritual marriage covenant and the spirit husband is the spiritual manifestation the inevitably follows. Read more
