A new Dawn

Growing up in the Southern part of Zimbabwe were Highlanders Football is so popular, it has been a tough weekend for my hommies, hearing that Ngezi Platinum had thrashed thee favorite team 2 goals to nill wasn't good news to me. Well I had high hopes that the ZPSL cup would be in the City of Kings for the second year.  After the game I had to call one of my best friends whom I know breaths and dine Bosso each and every weekend and he was like "bosso is a Christian team and we don't promote the drinking of beer".

Well that was his view, for 2016 the league cup won't be in Bulawayo. What got me to the bar and dance the whole night were the people of Norton, pachi rasta I say big oup to them.

After our Vice Presidents vaMnangagwa and Mphoko unlike my brethren I wont call him Mboko as I know the right spelling and the way to pronounce it, well I give him repsect for being the only Bulawayo hustler who has managed to make it in Harare by staying in the Hotel for three good years, congrats for that my nigga Mphoko (but I aint happy with what you are doing).

Eish I am likely to forget what I wanted to say, once again Mphoko big ouop my hustler, although ma rasta angu eku Nortorn proved you wrong guys, instead of you spending time in the office and trying to find solutions of making Zimbabwe better or by the way you have already failed to fix this state, you were busy promising people stands and food.

My question now is, the land that you had promised to give to people if they voted for my beloved party WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH IT?

Ko madii kungoti pavhurwe ma industry since its already an industrial area that you wanted to build houses or you are already planning to build a Mansion for our pot bellied Tyson.

Another question that I had for my self is that those who were going to be lucky in getting these residential stands, did they have the money to build chero chimbuzi zvacho, talking of toilets is the area serviced and at whose expense just hope its not at the local authority nekuti marii haipo kukanzuro, apa kanzuro yeku Norton ikutodedzera musangoDotera pesepese, ndizvo zvapotsa zvaitika totenda Mliswa.

So as to shed light on my position I wasn't a fan of Mliswa n I am still not his fan, but what the people of Norton has done let this be lesson to Zimbabwe.


 Food and Stands don't buy votes
 As a citizen of Zimbabwe it is my right to be sheltered and when Elnino has affected us the way it has done my government has to source food for me. Why should it be exchanged with my innocent vote, by the way how did the government let our beloved country get affected by drought and now they want to make a butter exchange


The ballot does work.
We might be in 2016 but well 2018 is just around the corner ndezvekungoti hamusi kumuwona chete asi akadongorera, let us go and vote in numbers we can win this battle, we no longer want politicians who always cry foul with our voting system, rigging is just a word let's unite and vote for change what we need. I didn't say let us go and vote for Morgan I know my friends have a tendency of misinterpreting things.

The struggle is still on
At some point I always thot that my fellow comrades will let me down when they are told of food and stands well they proved me wrong even if the second highest offices trued to butter them with lollipops they had to stand for them selves and bring in change in Norton. We are now left with 2018 ngazvienderere mberi

To every youth out there let us go and register to vote, the process is on from January to December. We need your voice n you need mine. As my high school director used to say together we can make big things happen, yes we can as the children of Zimbabwe. our fathers went to the battle because they were fighting for their future since they were in their youth days, we are now the youths they have done they part and brought independence home, the struggle is now ours.

let's fight against corruption, we can't keep on getting educating to be vendors, we need to be in those offices. I also need to be the Minister of Transport one day and I promise to close all those potholes that or let me just promise you to open new roads since it would be a time of new things.

My fellow country men this is the time for a new dawn kwete mavambo avaMakoni.

it only takes me and you to join hands and do this. We are more than 13 million in Zimbabwe but only 5 million people voted last election. We are letting ourselves we can do it, Its not Norton alone but the whole of Zimbabwe can do it.


2018 here we come but I am still bitter Dynamos sold a game to Caps united so as to sabotage Highlanders, we really needed that cup in Bulawayo.

Baboons (and rank touts) A Menace In Gwanda

Residents of Gwanda have raised a concern about the influx of baboons in the greater parts of the town particularly the CBD area.

Complaints sent to this bulleting by residents claim that the population of the baboons has grown so big that its now virtually impossible to control them.

According the residents the animals have grown so stubborn to human beings that they can't even scare them away.

"The baboons have grown so stubborn that its virtually a waste of time trying to scare them away. They just look at you and not move an inch and instead scare you away in return"said a lady in a whatsapp tip off.

On investigation it was indeed apparent that the area around 1st and 2nd Avenues in the town are literally a home for the baboons.

Taking a drive around the town the news crew met up with various groups of the baboons that easily totalled into thousands of the baboons.

In an interview a grounds man at St Christopher's Primary School located at the edge of town who would not be named said that they have literally lost the battle with the baboons and have given up the fight. The man said that the baboons are causing a lot of damage at the school costing a lot of money in repairs.

"As you can see all these windows were broken by the baboons over the holiday. The furniture is damaged, books and charts are torn to pieces all by the baboons and all these must be replaced before schools open next week," he said.

In another incident a baboon strolling in the town's CBD is said to have found its way to a furniture shop displaying beds for sale outside the shop and took a "deserved" nap on the bed causing panic and mayhem from people in the shop. People tried to scare it of but it relaxed unmoved on he bed.

In another incident one baboon is said to have been seen walking around town wrapped in a political party cloth known as Mazambia.

Several people complained of laundry disappearing from the laundry line to confirm the possibility of the baboon having found itself wrapped in the "Zambia" cloth.

Residents claim that they now can no longer afford to have their doors or windows open as the baboons get into the houses and help themselves to any food stuff they find. Residents showed several cars with broken rear view mirrors or roofs bent downwards as baboons find a playing field on the parked cars.

The baboons are reported not to be scared and more so dangerous to women and children.

"What scares us the most is that the baboons are not at all scared of women and children and get aggressive to us," said the woman in her whatsapp alert. "We are scared one day they will rape a woman or maim our children, we need urgent help," she said.

No comment could immediately be obtained from the Department of Parks and Wild Life in the town who are said to be based in West Nicholson some 60 kilometers out of town.

Meanwhile several complaints have been received from the town over a taxi rank tout only called Martin who is said to be speaking vulgar in the open everyday uncontrolled by the police. The tout who is said to have once been arrested for beating up a police officer is reported to be always drunk and drinking in open in front of the police swearing all forms of vulgar in front of the police.

"Can something be done about this tout called Martin who has no respect of people and swears vulgar willy nilly in front of the police and drinks beer in open. Please we are tired of him," reads a complaint.

this reporter visited the area and indeed found not only Martin but a group of touts drinking beer in public, swearing at people boarding taxis at the taxi rank in front of about six police officers on bicycles.

In one incident a desperate woman passage was seen being pushed into a taxi in the most uncomfortable manner for a woman. Asked why the police were watching the touts drink and harass people uncontrolled, one of the officers who would not be named replied "Ziva zvako shamwari, basa nderedu iri." (Mind your own business my friend, this job is ours not your) before cycling away.

A driver of one of the kombis said that there was nothing they could do to the touts as they are equally harassed by the touts who drink from as early as 6am everyday.

Spotlight on Arts and Culture in Zimbabwe

Spotlight on Arts and Culture in Zimbabwe

By Chief K. Masimba Biriwasha

Hivos Southern Africa in partnership with the Royal Norwegian Embassy (RNE) recently launched a booklet titled "Spotlight on the Culture Frame: Stories from the Ground," a culmination of eight years of supporting the arts sector in Zimbabwe.

After many years of grant funding to the cultural sector in Zimbabwe, in 2007, Hivos and the Norwegian Embassy decided to combine their various experiences, capacities, expertise, and resources to support the sector in a project called ‘Culture Frame’. 

The objective of their collaboration was to strengthen the cultural sector in Zimbabwe, with emphasis on access to culture and improved spaces for cultural and free expression.

Sixteen arts and culture organisations accessed grants through the Culture Frame for periods ranging from two to eight years. The Culture Frame was one of the very few funds available in Zimbabwe which allowed for both institutional and programme support for the arts sector.

"Spotlight on the Culture Frame: Stories from the Ground" documents lessons learned and experience gained by both the donors and the implementing partners as a result of this collaboration.

In his foreword, Norwegian ambassador Bard Hopland writes how the booklet is evidence of the rich cultural life Zimbabwe has to offer:  "Freedom of expression is the foundation on which all other democratic freedoms rest. Freedom of expression can take many forms. Through supporting the culture sector in Zimbabwe, we hope that we have helped to expand the space for freedom of expression and thereby strengthened fundamental human right. The right to practice one's culture freely and without fear of discrimination or persecution is essential to the development of a free and democratic society".

To this, Hivos Southern Africa Director Tanja Lubbers adds: “In the context of Zimbabwe, as in any other countries where Hivos has supported the arts and culture, every effort has been taken to respect the cultural values, traditions and beliefs of the local people”.

The booklet details how the arts contributed to the expansion of breeding grounds that fomented and nurtured ideas for allowing new voices to be heard. Hundreds of emerging artists and arts practitioners capitalised on platforms like festivals and exhibitions to establish networks that served to improve the cultural infrastructure and the livelihoods of artists.

Examples of the fourteen stories in the booklet include those of youths in poor and marginalised communities using hip hop, spoken word, rap music, paintings, dance and social media to express themselves and amplify their voices. The booklet also tells stories of how community theatre mobilised citizens around specific issues pertinent to their lives.

Despite its successes, the Culture Frame project ended in December 2015. The booklet highlights lessons that can be learnt and experiences that can be drawn on by such collaborative efforts in supporting the arts and culture sector.

Former VP Mujuru: I Am Ready to Face Mugabe's Zanu PF Party

Tanonoka Joseph Whande

This ridiculous proliferation of political parties has made us more of followers than originals. We have embraced political mediocrity to a level that sees us strangling ourselves as we gasp for air.

Yet another party has been registered in Zimbabwe.

Why a fledgling political party has to be “registered” by another political party remains a mystery to me.

Be that as it may, Dr Joice Mujuru, a Zanu-PF cadre who reportedly interrupted her primary school education as a little girl to join the liberation war and who distinguished herself in battle so much that she remained in cabinet for the rest of her days in Zanu-Pf, has formed her own party, Zimbabwe People First.

Dr Mujuru went as high as being Robert Mugabe’s Vice President for 10 years until she was waylaid by a cross-border trader who had managed to squeeze through layers and layers of presidential security to bed Mugabe in an infidelity romp that culminated in a marriage outrageously solemnized by the Catholic Archbishop of Harare.

After being pushed out of Zanu-PF, the only political party she has known all her life, Mujuru established her own party last week.

And that, my friends, is a bit of a problem.

Mujuru, who persevered until she earned an academic doctorate degree in 2014, has held no other allegiance except to Robert Mugabe and to Zanu-Pf all her life.

After benefitting from the system and accumulating a sizeable amount of pennies along the way, she now has to learn to bear allegiance to herself and to her own party.

Will “they” let her?

The political landscape is littered with tens and tens of political dinosaurs who formed political parties that crumbled but whose founding leaders still claim to lead a political party. At inception, founding party leaders virtually own a party. No one who formed and led a political party in Zimbabwe has ever stepped aside to let someone else take over to lead the party unless they are dead.

So another political dinosaur has been added to the ever growing list. Reports say people are defecting from Mugabe, Biti, Mangoma, the MDC formations and from elsewhere to join Mujuru’s party.

Mujuru should not, however, beat her chest in gleeful self-congratulations because of the number of people reportedly rushing to join her party.

She must be reminded that she was, until less than two years ago, part of the machinery that castrated the political will of the people of Zimbabwe. She too became victim to the same.

For decades while she was part of Zanu-Pf, people were murdered, elections rigged, treasury raided and one of the saddest chapters in our history occurred in the slaughter of thousands of fellow citizens to suppress divergent thought.

I am troubled that Mujuru would still be in Zanu-Pf, defending Mugabe and sloganeering, had she not been humiliated out of there.

Unlike other political parties in the country, Mujuru arrives on the scene with a ready-made following. She did not have to look for supporters; supporters from all other political parties, including Zanu-Pf, were looking for her and that is both unusual and scary.

Unusual because a political party must, at least, sell itself first to impress and attract followers; scary because she is being mobbed by old Zanu-Pf faithfuls who already seem ready to fight for positions in the new party.

The danger here is that we are going to have the same old Zanu-Pf people under a new name.

And, as always, the termites are already at work! Even law suits have already started against her party! Next will be treason charges, a fatal car accident here and there, planted Zanu-Pf spies being discovered, accusations of dictatorship…yet there is already talk of a grand coalition like we have seen and heard thousands of times before.

Mujuru must not rush or be pushed into coalitions.

She and her party must stand alone at this point and make an effort to establish their political philosophy, aims and doctrine. This must be hammered into the people to make a clear distinction between itself and other political parties.

They must have an upper hand in substance and content, something all other political parties have failed to impress on people.

They must shore up their base so that when uniting with other parties, they have an undeniable focus known by the people. All these other political parties do not want to join anyone; they want to be joined. Most bring nothing to the table. Besides, they have tried it among themselves and failed countless times.

Opposition parties hate each other more than they hate Zanu-Pf so Mujuru’s party must take its time and try to be a people’s party before trying to be all things to all parties.

The people of Zimbabwe are weary and honestly wish for a true liberator. They are hungry for freedom and would like an opportunity to be left alone to care for their families without being dragged to meaningless rallies to watch fat cats getting fatter while they are starving and while their children cannot even go to school.

The arrival of a political party comes with both high expectations and false promises, raising the hopes of Zimbabweans who are so keen to move forward but always get thwarted by bickering politicians.

Mujuru must not over-estimate her presence or popularity.

We are aware that she did not walk away from Mugabe and Zanu-Pf but that they humiliated her out of both the party and cabinet. Otherwise she would still be in Zanu-Pf.

We are aware that they have been partners in crime for more than 30 years, supporting and protecting each other. This makes it almost impossible for either half to ill-treat the other in real terms without risking one side or both divulging dangerous, decades-old secrets.

“He (Mugabe) keeps files on everybody,” Mujuru told the Sunday Times (UK) last week. I just wonder how far Mujuru will go with this if it becomes a real threat to Mugabe.

For now though, she should remember all the things they used to do together.

She must start there and apologise to the very same people whose support she now seeks to stay relevant in Zimbabwean politics.

She could apologise for her own presence in government during the Gukurahundi genocide instead of trying to pass herself as clean by saying her life-long tenure in Zanu-Pf was just “a marriage of convenience”.

It is difficult to believe that having been in cabinet since 1980 and having been Mugabe’s Vice president for ten years until last year, Mujuru knew nothing about electoral fraud.

“I never saw the rigging… I am sure it was a very small clique that was doing it,” she said. Insulting people’s intelligence like this is a sure way to lose credibility.

Many people have already been tempted to believe that the arrival of Mujuru’s political party in Zimbabwe is the answer; that it is the awakening of silence.

Zimbabweans seriously seek the purity of Mujuru’s intentions.

Mugabe, Zanu-PF, war veterans, Mnangagwa, Joice Mujuru and the people they surround themselves with all ghoulishly remind us of the song Hotel California…”We are all just prisoners here of our own device…You can check out any time you like but you can never leave”.

Former VP Mujuru: I Am Ready to Face Mugabe's Zanu PF Party

Thomas Chiripasi

01.03.2016 21:56

HARARE—

Former Vice President Joice Mujuru on Tuesday appeared in public for the first time since her expulsion from Zanu PF last year and told a news conference that she was ready to deliver political change in Zimbabwe.

Addressing a news conference in Harare, Mrs. Mujuru, who is leading the newly-formed Zimbabwe People First party on an interim basis, said she was ready to get Zimbabwe out of its social, economic and political problems.

The former vice president said a coalition to unseat President Robert Mugabe’s government was necessary. However, she noted that negotiations with other opposition parties were yet to start.

Mrs. Mujuru’s remarks confirmed earlier assertions by former Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change party who told reporters last month that the coalition talks were yet to begin.

She also called for key democratic reforms to be implemented ahead of the 2018 polls to ensure that the elections do not breed a pre-determined outcome. She, however, fell short of saying the 2013 polls were rigged by President Mugabe and his Zanu PF party, adding that policies that scare away investors such as the black economic empowerment law should be reviewed.

The former vice president said she would work flat out to ensure that Zimbabwe rejoins the Commonwealth.

Former Vice President Joice Mujuru making a point Tuesday when she publicly announced that she is ready to tackle Zanu PF. (PhotoL Mavis Gama)

Zimbabwe pulled out of the Commonwealth in 2002 after it was accused of election rigging and rights violations.

Mrs. Mujuru further said a steering committee has been set up to spearhead People First’s inaugural elective congress that would be held on a date yet to advised.

The former vice president, who was accused of corruption and plotting to assassinate Mr. Mugabe, said her hands were clean hence the police have not arrested her.

Asked by one journalist of her relationship with Mr. Mugabe following her expulsion from both Zanu PF and government, Mrs. Mujuru said her business is to focus on key national developmental issues than to talk about other people.

She added that if Mr. Mugabe, who turned 92 last month was to come face to face with her, she doubted if the nonagenarian leader would recall what he said when he called her a witch.

Upon getting out of the hotel where she addressed journalists, Mrs. Mujuru was surprised to see hundreds of her supporters singing outside.

Mrs. Mujuru then told her loyalists that she would work hard to uplift their standard of living and called for an end to politically-motivated violence in Zimbabwe.

One of her supporters, Nester Chikowore of Harare’s Budiriro high-density suburb said she was happy that the former vice president had formally joined opposition politics.

Chikowore hoped that Mrs. Mujuru – as a woman- would advance the interests of women if she is elected president in 2018. She, however, urged Mrs. Mujuru to form a coalition with other opposition parties in order to increase the opposition’s chances of winning elections in 2018.

Another youth, Christelle Kanoshambira, who supports Mrs. Mujuru said she also expects her leader to push for the creation of jobs if she becomes president one day.

Diplomats and other notable political figures such as Didymas Mutasa, Rugare Gumbo, Ibbo Mandaza, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Bright Matonga, Sylvester Nguni, Retired Major Kudzai Mbudzi, and Pearson Mungofa attended Mrs. Mujuru’s press conference.

Joice Mujuru forms ZPF to oppose Mugabe

A powerful former ally of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has launched a party to challenge his 35-year rule. Joice Mujuru said the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party had been formed because “Zimbabwe is a broken country”. 

Ms Mujuru was Mr Mugabe’s second-in-command until he sacked her in 2014 after accusing her of plotting to oust and kill him.

“I’m neither a witch nor an assassin,” Ms Mujuru said, at the party’s launch in the capital, Harare.

She is the most senior former Zanu-PF leader to form an opposition party, and is tipped to be its presidential candidate in the 2018 election. Her supporters ululated as she entered the hall to announce ZPF’s launch, reports the BBC’s Nomsa Maseko from the scene.

Ms Mujuru, 60, was flanked by other former Zanu-PF heavyweights, including Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo.

She hailed the formation of ZPF as historic, and said it would fight the “scourge of corruption” in Zimbabwe.

“Some revolutionaries are busy pulling Zimbabwe down,” Ms Mujuru said.

Our correspondent says she was a Zanu-PF member for more than 30 years, and will it find difficult to convince voters that she represents a new era.

But, encouragingly for Ms Mujuru, her supporters turned up at the launch to give their backing, she adds.

Zanu-PF has nominated Mr Mugabe, who turned 92 last month, for re-election in 2018.

However, because of his advancing age, a battle to succeed him is raging in Zanu-PF between Mr Mugabe’s wife, Grace, and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was appointed to the post following Ms Mujuru’s expulsion, correspondents say.

Mrs Mugabe led the campaign to oust Ms Mujuru, who was seen to harbour ambitions to succeed Mr Mugabe as Zanu-PF leader and president.

- Source BBC

Who polices the police officers

Leroy Ndlovu relates a tale from the unforgettable era of Zimbabwe 2008, involving the traffic police.

Peugeot 504 Station Wagon: ‘The Old Gal’ – constant target for traffic police

The old gal was just out of the garage. Old Mdawini, the one-eyed mechanic, had been looking after her as long as I could remember, and for a long time I believed all mechanics had to have one eye if they were good at their work. He had changed the brake pads and tuned up the engine until it was as silent as a Peugeot 504 station wagon could get in 2008. She had seen her fair share of Christmases, but she had been loyal.

Two brothers cruising

Throwback! Music on cassette

That being done she was ready to get back to work. My father reared chickens at home and sold them at a shop in town. The Peugeot was the only vehicle we had for delivering chickens to the shop. My brother, being sensible enough to have a drivers’ licence (which I still don’t have to this day), was in the driver’s seat and I rode shotgun as we drove to the shop bright and early on a Monday morning. We were still a couple of years from seeing MP3 FM modulators, so we nodded our heads to Tupac’s Until The End of Time on cassette, cruising along Old Esigodini road without a care in the world.

Police ahead

As we hit the curve at the Ascot Race Course, men and women in reflective green suddenly appeared in the road and we both sighed. It was the police, and we were in an old car. Even in our wildest dreams we couldn’t hope to get past without being stopped. The officer who stopped us reminded me of the cat in Alice in Wonderland. He was smiling ear to ear like he had just won the lottery. Understandably so, the civil service hadn’t exactly been glamorous for a long time, and we knew how the police were making ends meet of late. My brother and I chuckled at how hungry he looked despite his best efforts to look cheerful.

Makadii maboss? (how are you gents?)

My brother responded in Ndebele.

Siyaphila bra. (we are well, brother)

Faultfinding

He was asked for a driver’s licence. It was inspected and returned. We went through the routine checks; handbrake, brakes, tail-lights, brake lights, indicators – everything was in good working order. In a different world he might have grinned and wished us a good day. But not here; not in our beautiful homeland. The hungry looking officer went around the car twice. Taking in every single detail. Finally, he stopped in front of the car and I knew when his impossible grin got even wider that we were in trouble.

He strolled over to the driver’s window and said, “The numbers on your licence plate are not clear.”

We paid our ‘fine’ and drove away wondering if we had actually done anything wrong.

Police corruption rampant

It was only the beginning of course. Over the last few years this practice has become so common that we don’t even bat an eyelid when it happens. We accept it as a norm and go about our daily business. That day we got away with paying twenty rand, which I’m sure translated to a lot of bearer cheques; but as the years have gone by it has gotten worse. Recently an officer of the law was caught with a fake receipt book and eight hundred dollars in his pocket at a ‘Road Block.’

Eight hundred dollars! If I could make that kind of money in a day!

We could joke and say that civil servants don’t get paid much, and that the cops have to do what they can to survive; but who will take responsibility for this monster that has grown unabated these last few years?

Who polices the police?

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Leroy Ndlovu is a passionate writer and actor. He appeared in Qiniso The Movie and various other projects with Ya-sibo? Media. He is currently working on his first book.

THE WORD WITH MABALEKA- STEM!!!!

Ok for thé record akula kunyamalalisana okukhona lapha. Ryt????? Ok kume kanje

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It is a shame that newspapers are making a mockery of themselves if you do not live in Bulawayo and read the chronicle you would think that Bulawayo is the promised land The newspaper sees only good and good and only government good yet it fails to take note that for the so called STEM it is making so much noise about, it is only for the people in Manicaland Mashonaland and Harare plus those in Mashonaland and Mashonaland East Central and Central again
can answers to this be availed

1. How will students in Mat North benefit from this stem? nonsense when they are not so many schools that offer sciences, you will say to me there is St James John Talach etc. these schools are not attended by people from those regions it is Bulawayo parents who can afford to send their children to boarding there, take not these are not government Schools

2. is Marondera a province maybe I did not pass my ordinary levels and I do not know about it. Wrong i passed them explain then how it is that Marondera not a province has a Zimdef office yet it is only 40 km away from Harare where there is a Zimdef office yet is Beitbridge 400+ ks away Vic Falls 400+ ks away tsholotsho 150+ ks away Binga 430+ks away Nkayi 100 + ks away

3. The economy is already strained the son or daughter of a politician or business man who can afford still has a chance to compete with the offspring of farmers retrenched workers bonus less civil servants and even the son of a disabled war veteran what are we doing

4. we are saying lets promote sciences education i agree very correct and noble. Why then are we underpaying our doctors engineers and all the scientist agricultural scientists graduates are languishing in poverty and unemployment where will these stemitised kids go to WE SHALL EXPORT THEM, i am ashamed that we have become inhuman if we start to view our children as animals and horses that we rear to export is that not a brain drain??

5. where will the money to pay for their education come from a raise in tax ??? maybe, or donors maybe??? or it will rain from the sky maybe this however I am sure the money that was deducted from your payslip in one form or another or from the toll gate will find its way there but then who am I to question how the money is used. however what i can question is the wisdom of giving out money when none is coming in
do not get me wrong the program is good however it has issues such as above. it is a program ahead of its time it should be shelved until such a time when Zim has learnt a few lessons on economics and law and as well as how to attract and retain Direct Foreign Investment believe it or not China looked west for economic growth its laws have suffered a lot of modification to accommodate the west For the Naive minds that need proof of the obvious is NIKE a Chinese brand hell no!!! if you think of most of the nike outfits you have seen they are made in china think about this is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$24.1 billion china looked west and east this is one of the few items to note
I respectfully submit that yes it is a good idea yes we are happy about it, yes the kids will learn yes we shall pay taxes for that yes the poor will not get preference, yes the money is there Im kidding it is not there is no money this is a project way beyond its time. if this was done when we had a shortage of science educated people and we had employed all of them i would say a double yes but at the moment we would rather think of how to accommodate those recently graduated, then stem later
just wondering why the newspaper did not see it fit to note that mat south mart north and Bulawayo have to share one office which is at times 400+ kilometers away when Harare and Marondera offices are only 40 ks away from each other or its just co incidence