Hope and lessons for Zim from the Desiderata
Commuter Omnibuses, Harare (PHOTO: FUNGAIFOTO)
An elderly lady was breathing fire the other day. Kombi fares had shot up in the last hour she had come into town, and now on her return trip home, an astronomical fare had come into place. All she wanted to know was why? Did the hwindis, “loaders” and rank marshals think that money grew on some Zimbabwean trees that only they knew?
Needless to say the response she got from one hwindi in particular was less than savoury. It bordered on contempt and gross disrespect for her gender and age. That set her off.
Then she said, “Munoti muZimbabwe mazara huori, saka regai tese tiite huori, asi tiripo vamwe vasina kuora!” (Roughly, you say that Zimbabwe is now full of corruption, so there is nothing wrong with being corrupt, but after everything we have been through, some of us are still not corrupt…” Read more
On The Zimbo Jam- Blame it On Us - By The ZimSwag BoyzIt's great that ZimSwag have apologised for the chaos at the stadium on Saturday. However, being an entertainment site, we were thinking that it would have been so much better if they were to release a musical version of that apology. We reckon it would sound very much like Akon's hit song Blame it On Me and would go something like this...
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- Blame it On Us - By The ZimSwag Boyz