Going round in circles
We are going round in circles, pretending to be on the same team. Will these old men ever let go? Will Nehanda’s dream ever come true? Will this constitution ever get out? Are we just playing games to pass the time?
I have a feeling that we are being taken for a long painful ride…
Dictator
Dictator
Even these walls,
Where you have pasted your face
And allowed no other
To write their own election graffiti,
Have begun to hate you.
By Lawrence Hoba
Don’t matter
Through this currency
My dreams and hopes
Don’t matter
As the politicians get fatter
I look at my skinny son
A reflection of my situation
I pray for my salvation
A whole nation in my position
On the brink of starvation
Our ambitions
Dont matter
To the corrupt politicians
As they seek higher positions
They don’t listen to our questions
In their quest to stay in power
They come to our ghetto election time
To address the poor
Like ghetto veterans
Jive talking slang
Giving temporary handouts
With promises of land
They dont understand
Their dreams and hopes
For this land
Don’t matter to me
Rising out of the mud and the thorns
A few years ago, working as a journo for a paper that is now truly dead and buried, I wrote an article, “Who will Rescue us From the Mud and Thorns”. I quoted the following: “Imi veririsechi, muri vana vedu. Ndimi maziso edu. Ndimi nzeve dzedu Naizvozvo tinotarisa kwamuri kuti mutibvise mumadhaka matiri nemunzira dzine minzwa umo tiri kufamba. Tinodaira kuti kana muchida munogona kutibatsira,” a village head said to [Claude] Mararike during a discussion with villagers, padare, a community circle that represents the continuity of life and the links that bind the individual to the community, and the community to the individual. Read more
The Asylum Story of Courage Shumba
Courage Shumba, 30, is currently awaiting a decision from the Home Office on his application for asylum.
Here he tells how he was forced to leave his home country and seek refuge in the UK and how he feels the asylum system has, so far, failed him:
In 1999 I enrolled at the University of Zimbabwe to study law; soon after I was elected to the students’ Executive Council as Vice President.
I was the first branch chairman for the Movement for Democratic Change at the university and heavily involved with the National Constitutional Assembly.
I wasn’t a part-time political activist - I was fully involved in trying to liberate our country from the barbaric and brutal regime of Robert Mugabe.
In 2001 I was expelled from the University for political activism. I’d studied law for three years but they refused to give me my results or grant me a hearing. Read more
George W. Bush- Many Reasons to Laugh
Umbrella or funnel?
Top 10 Bushisms by George W. Bush
George W. Bush gave us many reasons to cry- but many more to laugh…
10) “Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
9) “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.” —Greater Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000
“I hear there’s rumors on the Internets that we’re going to have a draft.” —second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004
7) “I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.” —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
6) “You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn’t it? I mean, that is fantastic that you’re doing that.” —to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 Read more
