You got a car? You are the celebrity!
My closest college buddy brings his car to school. Of course, to the average first world middle class citizen, this is a norm, with kids form this group even driving Mercedes Benz and BMWs even to high school. However to the average African who still believes owning a car is a sing of wealth, bringing one to school makes you fit to eat with the gods and makes you nothing less than an arch-angel.
Its funny how people will literally lick my friend’s ass just to be with him; boys and girls alike. Not that I am worried he gets all the attention; being in his shadow gets me a few licks as well. Take this example; there is this girl who goes out of her way to please the the guy, bringing him food (Get a life bitch. If he can afford to bring a car to school, he sure can afford his own food). She goes out of her way finding silly excuses to get stuck with the guy in the car in the middle of the night. So when her antics failed to do the trick, she turned to me thinking since we are buddies, I can convince him how blah-blah she is and he would change his mind about her. Although I haven’t done anything to date, I still get spoilt to one or two. Read more
Can the media stop prostitution?
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
Zimbabwe: Queues of Despair
If a Martian landed in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital today, he would certainly be taken aback by the length and number of human queues.
Like garden worms, the human queues twist and turn throughout the city, blocking traffic as people wait to get a chance to get money from their bank accounts.
The queues start early in the morning and last well into the night. As long as people think there is a faint chance to get a hold of their cash, they remain huddled in the queue.
If anything, human queues have become an additional indicator of the collapse of the Zimbabwean nation state, in particular, the financial system.
Due to a multi-billion percent inflation, the Zimbabwean government is no longer able to meet the paper money needs of its citizenry. Read more
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
Masoja nehuori
Today I went to the bank to collect my hard earned cash only to find a long winding Q’. As a good citizen, full of respect to the majority & as a principled man I decided to join the back of the Q’. Seconds later some members of the (un-informed) force came and went straight to the front in total disrespect to the general populace.
Allow me, dear reader to highlight the gross antisocial behaviour that l noticed with my Four eyes in broad daylight. These members of the unifomed forces have been allocated a branch of their own at market square were they will not mingle with civilians. However they display their stuborn nature & lack of discipline by simply neglecting their Branch as they come to harass poor inocent civilians. If you dare say a word to them u will be in for a real good treat. Such behoviour left me with a lot of questions than answers. Read more
Learn the seven laws of money
It has since been established that in truth money is not the root of all evil, but rather a necessary tool of exchange that allows men and woman to trade goods and services and that money is also a tool that can improve the life of anyone who handles it well.
In Zimbabwe, people burn money but it does not light up in flames but rather it multiplies itself.
It is not actually money that is the root of all evil, but the love of money. Read more
