Sugar Daddy!!
Daddy Time with Rebecca
Of late I have been spending a lot of time working on a website www.eatout.co.zw and this led me to lose out on quality time with my three children Jared, Rebecca and Cassandra. On Monday I decided to spend a little quality time alone with my daughter Rebecca - I fetched her from school - something her mom usually does. We then went for lunch - or more accurately I went to have lunch, Rebecca just wanted to have ice-cream and chocolate sauce. To make it a little sweeter she wanted to sprinkle sugar - now I usually wouldn’t agree and I can see you cringing at the thought. She made those angel eyes and of course I said Yes!
This was all happening at Theo’s Coffee Shop - which I know as 167 on Enterprise Road. Rebecca then decided that she wanted to put her feet in the swimming pool and she said “Oh! please Daddy!”. The shoes and socks came off and there sat a thirty something business man in the middle of the working day barefoot in a public place with his daughter.
No matter what anyone says it was absolutely worth it.
Joseph
Defunct educational system
Three kindergarten kids
With pocket money
More than the teacher’s three month salary
Tease their sleeping teacher.
“Come on teacher,
Teach us some grammar and arithmetic
And we will give you
Bits of pocket our money
Then maybe you won’t always
Be so miserable.”
The teacher purrs softly
Unoffended by their noisy teasing
And when they persist
He raises his head and says
“Go teach your fathers
To change the government.”
By Lawrence Hoba
Dzimwe haiku muchiShona
Nekuenda kwenguva, haiku yaita ichiwanza zvaino taura nazvo.
Kare yaisapinda munyaya dzerudo kana dzenyika ; yaingo reveswa
zveusikwa, kupindana kwemazuva nemwaka nekugarisana kwevanhu neusikwa.
Haiku muChiRungu inenzvanyira [silab'le] 17 chete [gumi nenomwe : seven’tini] dzakarongwa kuti shanu [5], nomwe [7] neshanu. Izvi zvinosiyana mutauro nemutauro nekuti marongerwo enzvanyira anosiyana. Uyezve, pane mazwi anepikisano. Read more
Zimbabwe Give-Me-A-Book Campaign
Dear comrades and friends – countrymen and countrywomen – lend me your ears for a minute; for we surely can do something together to help the children of our country have a chance to own a book to read. There are many books that lie like dead and silent tombs in our houses that, if resurrected, could help to shape a vibrant reading culture in our beloved village of Zimbabwe. We need to dig up such books from our homes and give them away to those that do not have access to books like the little orphaned and vulnerable children in many parts of our land. Every child in Zimbabwe must be given an opportunity to own a book, and the solution lies at our doorstep. Access to books is every child’s right and a long-term investment for the future.
Having said that, let me take this opportunity to introduce the Zimbabwe Give-Me-A Book Campaign. The Zimbabwe Give-Me-A-Book Campaign is nationwide effort with a single mission: to give children the opportunity to read and own books. The primary goal is to collect and distribute books to children who, for socio-economic reasons, have little or no access to books. Our objective is to promote literacy, life-long learning and understanding by distributing donated books and other forms of educational media to orphaned and disadvantaged children. Read more
