On the ark
you guys thanks a milion for such an interesting discussion, I thought i was the only one haunted with the possibility of zimbabweans having a link with the biblical israel!!!!
Pfumo nemuridzi waro
Iyi ngano iyi ndakainzwa musuuno. Yakandifadza chaizvo ndikati zvimwe pane anga nakidzwa wo nayo .
Zvinonzi musuuno, VaTsvangirai nekufamba famba kwavarikuita, vaifamba zvavo muAddis Ababa. Vainge vari kutevedza mumvuri we stubhu vachitaura zvavo nevamwe vaiva vava shamwaridza muguta imomo. Vakaerekana vadzivirirwa pamberi pavo nemumwe murume. Aive mukuru asi asati achembera - sezvatakangoita wo isusu. Aive ne mhumhu mudiki asi akakombama kombama musana. Muruwoko rwerudyi maive mune mubhadha murefu uri mukobvu, waito enzana kureba naVaTsvangirai. Kufamba aito zendamira mubhadha uyu onzvizvuva. Tsanda dzemumaoko dzaive dzakakura dzakati tande kurakidza kusimba chaizvo. Read more
Deliver us from Facebook, amen
Filed under: Family, Friendship, Community, I was just thinking
I have nothing against social network sites having been on MySpace for close to a year now but I have always had this thing for Facebook. To say I hated it would be an understatement; I loathed it perhaps more than I hate AIDS. The dislike went on to the extent that I would give everyone who was on the network a long good lecture. Whether it was too my disadvantage or not I dont know, but soon everyone got the hang of it and stopped telling me they were on facebook. Can you believe that even my best friend hid it from me for two years?
Whenever I surfed the net, I would make sure that the site was nowhere near my URL address bar and I would groan and moan especially in internet cafes where every Tom and Dick would be logged on. You know, its as irritating as walking out of your house with a confident gait in your new Guccis, Prada and Armani only to find that everyone is putting on the same thing. Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t Facebook supposed to be used by people of a certain social standing who are in a certain age group? What then happens if a granddad is the number one user? Read more
Zim- Dog Eat Dog Nation
Last weekend, I happened to have got the recently introduced $100 and $50 million dollar notes. I went out of Harare. Just as I got back into town, the following day, I wanted to board a kombi home but failed to, for a possible 2hrs. Not that there were no kombis, but the hwindis (conductors) wanted only people with smaller denominations. I thought of buying airtime so I could get change for transport, but the vendors said they had no change. I went into the shops, and tried to get something to eat, but they had no change. Finally, someone hinted- if you go by Chinhoyi St and Speke Ave, you will find guys selling ‘change’. You give them Z$50 million, they give you Z$40 million in smaller denominations. If you give them Z$100, they give you Z$80 million as ‘change’. Though not suprised by that move, I still wonder where we are going. In areas like Greendale, Mandara, Mabvuku, Tafara, Glen View, other people with access to water, sell it per litre to desperate Zimbos.
Zimbabwe is now a nation whereby individuals who have ’something’ which will be in shot supply, try to gain as much as possible from that through selling it to others at exhorbitant prices.
Can the media stop prostitution?
Filed under: Family, Friendship, Community, Health & Well Being, I was just thinking, Joking around, Opinion, Analysis, Advice, Relationships, Religion, Social Issues, Spirituality for such a time
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness-Leviticus 19:29
I don’t think it is news to any Zimbabwean that the crisis that has engulfed our nation has seen a rise in prostitution. Yet the media seems to think it should be news. Time and time again, the pages of the few remaining papers will have some account of these women who feel they have no choice but to sell their bodies. We are told how they are afraid of AIDS, but fear the imminent death from hunger even more. Then, of course, the papers find something else to fill their pages with.
Yes, I am coming down on our media! It is deplorable, this morbid fascination with a social evil and the victims of it that makes little effort to illicit at least our sympathy let alone motivate us to want to do something about it. Interviews with a couple of prostitutes, a generous supply of directions for those who don’t know where they can procure the services of these women and how much it will cost and a statement from a pastor nobody has ever heard of only leaves me wondering what the aim in printing such a story was. Read more
Phanuel Mverengwi new blog
Please note that I am now blogging at
http://phanuelmuverengwi.blogspot.com
Thanks.
Nzwiraiwo vamwe
Mandiwana ! Mandibata ! Handityi !
Handizi ndega. Ndiri ‘fandareva.
Ndionerei zvenyu pasi. Muchapagara.
Kwamuri ndiri mbeu yeparuware.
Asi ndipo paino onekwa nevakawanda
Rovai zvenyu. Pondai ! Handirove.
Magaro, tsoka, musana, sikarudzi.
Chirarai hope dzandashaya, dzimai
Pfungwa nezvipo, muumbavha gutsanai
Kundipfuudza kusandigumisa.
onai meso avanhu, ringai maziso avo
Ndiri mwenje mubako. Uchapisa.
Kunzwira vamwe kuti vave vanhu, semi.
Farai Madzimbamuto
Nov 2008.
Nyadire
Nyadire, rwizi rwekwedu rwakandirera.
Rwaive nemadziva akarema nemazambuko
Rwuno pinda nemumisha yakawanda
Marwuno pfuura rwakatakura madiro
Rwakazara rwainzwika nekure kushinyira
Nepamutserendende pataitambira, tsve mombe.
Zigwengwe kuribata, dzinza rese raitunhidzwa
Musorochena kudai, mucherechdzo wenguva
Asi tiri hova imwe, kubvira pamadiro
Anotiona zvino ano shaya mavambo edu
Misodzi yako ndakaitiva, ndika nwira
Takapa mvura vashomavo, tikapatsanisa
Vasinga gare vese. Tava pamasangano
Nzizi dzenyu nedzedu, dziri muvana vedu.
Farai Madzimbamuto
Nov 2008
Living a simple life
Like many people, you probably run through your life bogged down by a heavy load of worries about finances, traffic jams, your career, how you look, and what people think of you etc.
Thoughts rummage through your head like the mad rush of a river on a stormy day, all needing attention which reduces you to a monkey-state.
In reality, as much as you worry about giving shape to your life, you need to realize that you actually have very little control.
The unending spiral of thoughts and desires to control your existence only leads to suffering, distress and despair.
Rather than becoming a victim of the intransient and ephemeral, there is a way to enjoy your life at the cost of nothing.
What more, when you choose to enjoy your life in its presence form, you become who you really are and will find yourself attracting better things towards your being. 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
On The Zimbo Jam- Alick Macheso- Lucky Guitarist or Musical Genius?By Memory Chirere Although many Zimbabwean music lovers are agreed that Alick Macheso is the King of Sungura, the Zimbabwean brand of Rhumba, that is as far as the agreement will go. As Masimba Kuchera admits in an article on the Chesopower website, ‘there have been many schools of thought on the (real) strength of Macheso- some arguing about his skills with the bass guitar, some contending that it is his vocals and others proffering his dancing skills, it is generally agreed that the musician is of immense talent.’ When people agree that you are extremely talented but go on to debate hotly about exactly whether your strength lies in theway you walk or the way you run, then that is a mark of genius. You actually put people in a crisis of naming aspects of a phenomenon.
- A Dance Farewell for Isabel MatolaBy Ruvimbo Hope Masike Here is one of the most beautiful things about Zimbabwe. It is inimitably Zimbabwean. We Zimbabweans love peace, of course, among other things. We love fun, joy and we are naturally celebratory people even when there isn’t much to celebrate about. For instance young children jump around joyously chanting “Ndege! Ndege!” when an aeroplane passes over them. Now when there is something worthy of the celebration, the joy is electric, understandably so, considering how almost everything else around us is seemingly dull and confusing and uninspiringly so. As a result, when Isabel Matola’s Mozambique Dance Festival came by, it turned out to be one of the brightest lights in town, which was a well deserved acclaim.
- Kanda Bongo Man Lands in Harare With One Guitar[Herald] France-based rhumba maestro Kanda Bongo Man had just one guitar when he set out to perform at the Harare International Conference Centre on Wednesday evening, and his day was saved by a local musician who offered him his instruments on the 11th hour to avert what could have turned out to be an international disaster.
- Alick Macheso- Lucky Guitarist or Musical Genius?
