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46<br />
In This Issue<br />
20<br />
8 84<br />
Cover Story<br />
Editorial Team<br />
Acting Editor : Chiedza Mebe<br />
Copy Editor: Judith Shumba<br />
Journalists : Terence Zimwara<br />
Shane Makanjera<br />
Tarisai Maringire<br />
Tafadzwa Dombodzuku<br />
Contributors : Fadziso Kadene<br />
Shleter Chieza<br />
Dr Speakeasy<br />
Photographer : Taurai T Mudehwe<br />
Tafadzwa Dombodzuku<br />
Graphic Designer : Taurai T Mudehwe<br />
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Bruce Masikati<br />
Sales & Marketing : Wilson Mbereko<br />
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Contents 32<br />
Focus<br />
Culture & Society<br />
8 Queen of Afro fusion - Cynthia’s soul<br />
searching journey<br />
20 The fresh breeze of style<br />
32 Intimate Apparel<br />
46 The housewives saga<br />
84 8 ways to activate your spiritual life<br />
Fashion & Beauty<br />
24 Hello winter<br />
27 Curvy girls guide to conservative<br />
chic<br />
28 Crimes of Fashion<br />
30 African inspired fashion<br />
32 Intimate Apparel<br />
34 Men’s guide to formal shoes<br />
Models & Pageants<br />
36 5 Minutes with The Parade Queen<br />
July - Tapuwanashe Arimuzhi<br />
37 The Parade Queen August<br />
Competition<br />
Living Healthy<br />
80 Breaking Bad<br />
<br />
46 The housewives saga<br />
48 Protect or Prosecute - Conjuring up<br />
solution to witchcraft accusations<br />
52 African feminism taking a lead ...<br />
56 Harare sanitary lane & walls turned<br />
into toilets<br />
58 AFZ Commander’s shooting<br />
competition<br />
60 A black box lost in the clouds<br />
Regulars<br />
44 Fiction - Tortured Love<br />
50 In the Courts -Speechless after<br />
winning<br />
50 Religion -8 ways to activate your<br />
spiritual life<br />
87 VaChihera -Lobola postponed 3<br />
times<br />
88 Padare naMhofu - The acts of our<br />
times - Group sex euphoria<br />
94 Home improvement- Don’t be afraid<br />
to be bold<br />
96 Games & Puzzles<br />
Contents continued on next page<br />
The Parade - Zimbabwe’s Most Read Lifestyle Magazine August 2014<br />
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In This Issue<br />
62<br />
Inside<br />
Music<br />
14 16<br />
Continued<br />
8 Queen of Afro fusion<br />
12 All that Jazz from Kambuzuma<br />
14 Edson Nhongo a new gospel<br />
revelation<br />
16 Jah Warria keeps up the faith<br />
18 Dance craze hits Zimbabwe<br />
Arts & Theatre<br />
20<br />
The fresh breeze of style<br />
22 Wallen: Sowing the seeds of love<br />
Love & Relationships<br />
38<br />
The single life<br />
40 The friendzone<br />
42 Post orgasmic depression<br />
Business, Careers, &<br />
Technology<br />
62 Common mistakes made by SME<br />
owners<br />
64 Dealers in post 2008<br />
66 Street vendors & city pavements<br />
68 Is the ZSE ownership wrangle<br />
<br />
<br />
72 Just how big is insurance fraud in<br />
<br />
74 Govenment must wean off SEPs<br />
76 Zim dollar: To bring it back or not<br />
77 Zimbabwe failing to meet IMF<br />
reforms<br />
Sport<br />
90<br />
<br />
92 It came, it went & Germany are the<br />
champions<br />
93 Mixed reaction at 2014 world cup<br />
From the Editor’s Desk<br />
Just the other day I dropped a<br />
glass and it broke into a million<br />
pieces. This was not new to<br />
me seeing as I have done this a<br />
number of times over the years but this<br />
time breaking that glass was different.<br />
As I picked up the pieces I thought<br />
about the many things that have broken<br />
in our lives, are soon thrown away and<br />
forgotten but what really got to me the<br />
most is that there are some things we<br />
break including our own relationships<br />
with a loved one, a family member or<br />
friend, that we regret, get upset or angry<br />
about when they are broken because we<br />
<br />
together, all brand new, but unfortunately<br />
we can’t, because if its gone its gone for<br />
good. If its broken its broken.<br />
How many of our relationships<br />
whether plutonic or not have broken and<br />
we have tried so hard to put the pieces<br />
<br />
issue here is that we should all go back to<br />
those feelings and remind ourselves that<br />
this is not something you want happening<br />
again in the future.<br />
Everyone should remember like all<br />
things material, relationships too can be<br />
lost in an instant. It’s this fragility that<br />
should spur us on to value and nurture<br />
the relationships we have. No relationship<br />
is bulletproof, all relationships are fragile,<br />
however, most of us often forget this<br />
especially when we have it good. We then<br />
take what we have for granted.<br />
Do you want to wait till you have<br />
to put the pieces together or would it<br />
not better to nurture and protect the<br />
<br />
people get comfortable and quite easily<br />
people start to treat their loved ones<br />
like they will always be there, once this<br />
is done, you hardly even see that there’s<br />
something wrong until its too late.<br />
Until its broken. Do not wait for that<br />
to happen. Remember this quote by J.D.<br />
Spoon, “Relationships are like glass.<br />
Broken Glass<br />
They are fragile and easily<br />
broken. You can pick up<br />
the pieces and put them<br />
back together, but you<br />
<br />
Even if you do and manage<br />
to reassemble them,<br />
the cracks will<br />
always<br />
show.<br />
The real trick<br />
is deciding if<br />
its worth<br />
p i e c i n g<br />
b a c k<br />
together<br />
o r<br />
t h r o w i n g<br />
it away and<br />
starting over.”<br />
We all want<br />
the best there is<br />
for ourselves and the<br />
relationships we care<br />
about. This requires<br />
effort on your part, I<br />
therefore implore you<br />
to do the right thing.<br />
Repeat this mantra<br />
I came across while<br />
reading, “If you want<br />
to have love in abundance,<br />
you must be committed to it.<br />
Commitment is the true test<br />
of love. If you want to have<br />
loving relationships you<br />
must be committed to loving<br />
relationships.<br />
When you’re committed<br />
to someone or something,<br />
quitting is never an option.<br />
Commitment<br />
distinguishes<br />
a fragile relationship from<br />
a strong loving one.” We all<br />
deserve this kind of love, the<br />
fullness of it and not the halves<br />
that come with brokeness but<br />
its eveyone’s responsibility to do<br />
what they have to, to have it.<br />
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August 2014
I will end with this quote by an Unknown writer, “There<br />
are people we meet in life that make everything seem magical<br />
cherish them.” This month the talented Cynthia Mare graces<br />
our cover with an exclusive story on her soul searching<br />
journey.<br />
As always music lovers will quench their thirst with<br />
articles on reggae, jazz and gospel musicians. Our number one<br />
priority is our readers and its important that we feed you with<br />
positivity, 8 ways to activate your spiritual life is guaranteed<br />
to lead you in the right direction. We delve into the key steps<br />
<br />
Fashion and sport lovers have no fear this month we<br />
will have you coming back for more.<br />
Till next time !!<br />
<br />
Chiedza<br />
3<br />
<br />
<br />
Love<br />
There is nothing more uplifting than<br />
loving someone and having that person love you<br />
back. We all deserve our little slice of paradise and<br />
love does exactly that. Love breaks down barriers<br />
and if that’s not powerful enough for you I don’t<br />
know what is.<br />
Friendship<br />
My friends have been there for me through it all. I<br />
can never thank them enough. This is the family I<br />
got to choose for myself. The older I get the better<br />
<br />
friends forever. I choose to surround myself with<br />
positivity, people who uplift me in every single<br />
way. It’s my biggest hope that every one of our<br />
<br />
helps you become not only a good friend but<br />
a better person.<br />
Family<br />
It’s quite obvious that no two families<br />
can be the same. Each and every family is<br />
dysfunctional in its own way and I guess<br />
that’s the beauty of family. At times you<br />
want to strangle a family member, other<br />
times you just want to hug them. There<br />
<br />
there’s also the laughter that you can<br />
never<br />
Trending &<br />
Fashion tips<br />
Dear Editor,<br />
Thank you for The Parade<br />
Magazine. Every month i make<br />
sure i go onto your site to check<br />
out whats new and trending.<br />
I am never disappointed ... I<br />
really like your fashion tips.<br />
Keep up the good work.<br />
Emily, Harare.<br />
Dear Emily, Harare,<br />
Thank you Emily we always<br />
try to keep you updated on<br />
all new trends and styles. We<br />
source fashion tips from all<br />
around the world and make<br />
them locally relevant. We are<br />
working with a number of<br />
local fashion houses to bring<br />
you the latest trends you can<br />
get in Zimbabwe. So keep you<br />
eye peeled.<br />
ZimDancehall’s<br />
time<br />
Dear Editor,<br />
It is very encouraging to see<br />
young upcoming artistes such<br />
as Shinsoman, Soul Jah Love<br />
and Killer T making inroads<br />
in the mainstream market. I<br />
editor@theparade.co.zw,<br />
Music<br />
would like to encourage these<br />
youngsters to stay focused<br />
and not to become big headed<br />
because this has led to the<br />
downfall of many artistes. I<br />
urge The Parade team to keep<br />
on supporting these upcoming<br />
artistes and you should also<br />
cover artistes from outside<br />
Harare, they need your<br />
support.<br />
Munya Guyo, Harare.<br />
Dear Munya Guyo,<br />
Munya, we thank you for your<br />
feedback. The Parade prides<br />
itself in celebrating our local<br />
artistes no matter where they<br />
are from within the country.<br />
In our last edition we featured<br />
artists fron Karoi & Norton.<br />
These artistes especially<br />
upcoming, can also feel free<br />
<br />
can get to know more about<br />
them and introduce them to<br />
the rest of society through the<br />
magazine. Our magazine is for<br />
the people, all kinds of people<br />
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lives as possible through our<br />
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Page 5
Feature<br />
Tarisai Maringire<br />
It’s never easy, getting to the top and<br />
building a brand. It comes with a<br />
<br />
devoting a lot of time to that cause.<br />
For Cynthia Mare it is something that<br />
she really knows well and she is ready to<br />
put in the work to achieve her dreams.<br />
Tracking her down was not easy as<br />
she hopped from one meeting to another.<br />
<br />
rehearsing in the capital we sat down and<br />
had a chat about her musical journey.<br />
As I arrived where she was rehearsing,<br />
I was serenaded by her soul-soothing and<br />
touching music.<br />
The song bird was in the company<br />
of talented vocalists and Pakare Paye<br />
guitarist Donald Kanyuchi, strumming<br />
his guitar on the track “Shinga”.<br />
Cynthia Mare who has a knack of<br />
coming up with hits from her real life<br />
<br />
she composed the song “Shinga” after<br />
her mugging horror in which she lost<br />
her handbag with laptop, iPad, camera,<br />
<br />
“I wrote it after I got robbed, so it’s<br />
like relating to the incident, when you<br />
<br />
you need someone to be around for you,”<br />
narrated Cynthia Mare.<br />
Cynthia who grew up singing in the<br />
AFM church in Manhenga, Bindura,<br />
believes that going to the United Kingdom<br />
was part of Gods plan to realize her long<br />
cherished dream of being a songstress.<br />
“From the youngest age I knew I<br />
wanted to be a singer. I only managed<br />
to start when my dad moved the whole<br />
family to the UK. I would go to the studio<br />
in my spare time, as at that time I was<br />
going to university. I was young and had<br />
energy for anything so it was fun,” she<br />
said.<br />
The songbird<br />
recalls how she would<br />
sneak out against her<br />
father’s overtures that<br />
she must concentrate<br />
on her academics.<br />
“I remember the<br />
<br />
father that I wanted<br />
<br />
he told me a straight NO.<br />
“He didn’t support it at all. It was very<br />
hard even when I was going to the studio<br />
I used to go behind his back. But now he<br />
is very proud of me,’’ she said.<br />
The “Zuva Rimwe” hitmaker attracted<br />
the attention of a UK recording label,<br />
Outnumbered which went defunct before<br />
<br />
songs as an independent artiste.<br />
“They thought they had found a new<br />
Sunshine Anderson, as my voice was<br />
husky like hers so they wanted to do that<br />
American RnB stuff. That’s how I ended<br />
up singing RnB.<br />
“I sent some of my songs back to<br />
Zimbabwe they started playing on radio<br />
and my track ‘Summer Love’ was played<br />
on BBA. People actually didn’t know that<br />
I was Zimbabwean,” she said.<br />
After her graduation at BCUC<br />
University where she obtained a<br />
<br />
Nursing, Cynthia started to<br />
fund her music through<br />
her income. Finding<br />
the love of music too<br />
powerful to resist she<br />
quit her job as a nurse<br />
in the United Kingdom<br />
to concentrate on her<br />
music career.<br />
“The fact is I love music<br />
more than anything, made it easy. I<br />
would save up my money and pay for<br />
professional recording; I didn’t have<br />
anyone sponsoring me. I had to make<br />
things happen, no one was coming to my<br />
doorstep saying Cynthia I want to make<br />
you a superstar,” she said.<br />
While she lived in UK she teamed up<br />
with Nigeria’s 2 Face Idibi’s manager,<br />
who assisted her in doing collaborations<br />
in Nigeria and promotional tours. She<br />
also worked with UK rappers, and had<br />
videos on MTV Base.<br />
It was her song “Catch me when I<br />
fall” taken from her 2010, album entitled<br />
“Summer of Love” that put her on the<br />
map as a serious singer in Zimbabwe.<br />
So far she has won three awards<br />
BEFFTA Awards, ZIM Achievers Award<br />
and a ZIM Award in her musical journey.<br />
“It was amazing I didn’t recognize that<br />
people are appreciative, it’s just amazing<br />
when people appreciate what you are<br />
doing,” she says.<br />
The diva is not slowing down as<br />
she continues to shine and stay<br />
on top of her game. There is not<br />
even a shadow of doubt in her<br />
mind that it was the right<br />
decision to retrace her roots<br />
after ten years in the United<br />
Kingdom.<br />
“I moved to the<br />
UK when I was 16,<br />
I decided to come<br />
back home to<br />
reinvent myself<br />
<br />
Cynthia Mare<br />
<br />
all give that<br />
package to<br />
Zimbabwe.<br />
After that<br />
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Feature<br />
Queen<br />
of<br />
Afro<br />
Fusion<br />
Cynthia’s Soul<br />
Searching<br />
Journey<br />
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Feature<br />
I will take the package to the world.<br />
“At the moment we are almost<br />
completing phase one of packaging this<br />
product for Zimbabwe,” she said sounding<br />
<br />
Not even the recent mugging has killed<br />
her spirit or changed the love of her<br />
country.<br />
“I was robbed, smashed, left scarred<br />
and I was really shaken considering I was<br />
alone that night and other things have<br />
happened but Zimbabwe is a beautiful<br />
country we should all be ambassadors<br />
of our country and culture, I’m one such<br />
person. No place in the world is perfect,”<br />
she points out.<br />
<br />
The Parade, Cynthia<br />
opened up about<br />
her<br />
soul<br />
searching<br />
j o u r n e y<br />
i<br />
n<br />
music,<br />
starting as an RnB artiste to become an<br />
Afro Fusion singer over the years.<br />
She gets emotional when talking about<br />
her mother’s untimely death and how it<br />
signaled the change of her music from<br />
RnB to Afro fusion and how she perceives<br />
life when her mother was still alive.<br />
“It was such a shock to lose my mum<br />
and two days after her burial, I went<br />
into the studio with Joseph Madzivire<br />
of Zimpraise and we recorded the track<br />
“Zuva Rimwe” and “Hatina Musha<br />
Panyika” (on the album-The Songs My<br />
Mother loved).<br />
“It was the beginning of a new<br />
direction for my music, if you listen to the<br />
last song called ‘Going In’, that I recorded<br />
before my mother passed away, it was<br />
totally RnB,” a somber atmosphere<br />
engulfed<br />
the place as she<br />
narrated her story.<br />
“I was in such pain as I<br />
went into the studio and<br />
<br />
singing from my heart.<br />
All this time my songs<br />
were all about party<br />
songs and having fun.<br />
<br />
sang something I<br />
meant.<br />
“After that I<br />
realised that this<br />
is the sound for<br />
Cynthia Mare this<br />
is how I discovered<br />
myself the person<br />
that you see today,<br />
the Afro fusion<br />
singer that I am<br />
today. I call my<br />
music Afro fusion<br />
because it is not<br />
limited to a certain<br />
genre it is a fusion of<br />
genre/sounds. ”<br />
The songbird said<br />
the album “The<br />
Songs<br />
My<br />
M o t h e r<br />
Loved” holds a special place in her heart<br />
<br />
listening to the album.<br />
“Music was a therapy to deal with<br />
the loss of my mother...Dai zvaibvira<br />
ndaikumbira Zuva rimwe ndikuudzei<br />
<br />
words were due to the fact that I never<br />
managed to talk to my mum again<br />
because when I arrived from the UK she<br />
<br />
singing in Shona before that I sang in<br />
English,” added Mare.<br />
The soulful singer revealed her<br />
thoughts on going into the future.<br />
“I have got a lot of materials which I’m<br />
always writing so there is going to be a lot<br />
of music coming,” she assures her fans.<br />
Cynthia recently landed an<br />
endorsement deal to become the G Tel<br />
brand ambassador and she is in the midst<br />
of talks with more companies she could<br />
team up with.<br />
“I became the ambassador of G Tel<br />
in May this year, they saw my potential<br />
and that I could bring something to the<br />
table. I’m a person with good ideas and<br />
very passionate about what I do and<br />
I have joined the G tel team as a brand<br />
ambassador,” said Mare.<br />
Besides her enviable music talent,<br />
the talented beauty has taken the small<br />
screen by storm. She landed a presenting<br />
job on Zimbabwe’s popular music show,<br />
Coke On The Beat.<br />
Mare says she is enjoying every part of<br />
it and it didn’t take time to adjust.<br />
“I love talking, so Coke On The Beat<br />
is a great opportunity for me to talk to<br />
people and share music, it’s fantastic for<br />
me. There are no challenges in adjusting<br />
as in music I’m on stage, do videos and<br />
interviews. It’s just switching roles and<br />
I’m now the one interviewing musicians,<br />
<br />
In addition to watching her on Coke On<br />
The Beat, her fans will be treated to the<br />
upcoming project which will be released<br />
later if all goes according to plan. Mare<br />
<br />
<br />
the girl child, near and far.<br />
While music might not be enough<br />
<br />
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August 2014
things as she looks to grow the<br />
brand Cynthia Mare. She is now<br />
dabbling in fashion as she is set to<br />
launch a fashion label Black Things<br />
in conjunction with designer Fadzai<br />
Mupfudza.<br />
<br />
her relationship.<br />
“I’m in a relationship, I<br />
have no children. The ideal<br />
man for me is someone who<br />
understands me, someone<br />
who doesn’t want to change<br />
the core of me but who makes me<br />
better,” she said with a smile on her<br />
face.<br />
The diva has one message<br />
to upcoming musicians: “Be<br />
passionate about what you<br />
do, love it with all your<br />
heart, give everything you<br />
have and don’t listen to<br />
what people say if you<br />
are sure of what you<br />
want to do, people<br />
are going discourage<br />
you. Don’t be lazy,<br />
you have to work<br />
hard it’s not easy<br />
but you can make<br />
it,” she said.<br />
For now her<br />
star continues<br />
to shine and she<br />
has set her eyes<br />
on conquering<br />
Africa and<br />
b u i l d i n g<br />
a devoted<br />
f o l l o w i n g<br />
around the<br />
world.TP<br />
Feature<br />
The Parade - Zimbabwe’s Most Read Lifestyle Magazine August 2014<br />
Page 11
Music<br />
Growing up in the dusty streets<br />
of Kambuzuma, as a young<br />
cadre Brian Nyahuma used<br />
to listen and imitated to<br />
the classic music of James Chimombe,<br />
Bhundu Boys, Tobias Ariketa and Marshal<br />
Munhumumwe and soon his passion for<br />
music grew.<br />
Today the pint-sized artiste has either<br />
perfomed or collaborated with the who’s<br />
who in the local music industry from the<br />
late greats Adam Chisvo, Sam Mtukudzi,<br />
Chiwoniso Maraire to Victor Kunonga,<br />
Alexio Kawara, Philip Svosve, Mono<br />
Mukundu and Rute Mbangwa to name<br />
just a few.<br />
“I started music when I was in grade<br />
<br />
with marimba instruments, so I just fell<br />
in love with the instrument and would<br />
sneak in to listen to what the senior guys<br />
were playing.<br />
“One day the teacher caught me and<br />
asked me to play after him or risk being<br />
punished and to my surprise I imitated the<br />
tune and that’s how I was incorporated<br />
into the band,” said the former Wadzanai<br />
Primary student.<br />
“We used to go to the Agricultural show<br />
at the then Lever Brothers stand playing<br />
marimba and I continued into high school.<br />
I remember playing with some of the guys<br />
from Hohodza marimba band.<br />
“In 1998 when I was in form 4 I was<br />
offered a deal by Hohodza to join them<br />
for a French tour but sadly my parents<br />
never liked the idea and I missed that<br />
opportunity to travel with the band,” he<br />
said.<br />
As fate would have it in 2004 there<br />
was a compilation that was being made at<br />
Connected Studios and Brian was invited<br />
by a friend to try his luck, which he did<br />
but unfortunately the producers couldn’t<br />
add his afro-fusion song as they argued it<br />
was too different from the Urban Grooves<br />
sound featured on the album.<br />
<br />
“Uri Muroyi” but couldn’t be part of the<br />
album because back then Urban Grooves<br />
was dominating.<br />
“They gave me my song and some<br />
of the people who heard it, liked it and<br />
encouraged me to record my own music,”<br />
he said.<br />
A decade is way too long a time to<br />
carry a dream, however, the 32 year-old<br />
did not only that, but also managed to<br />
make his dream a reality by recording his<br />
debut album “So They Say” in 2007.<br />
“I then found someone who was willing<br />
to sponsor me to record an album and I<br />
<br />
said.<br />
Just as the case is with several<br />
artistes, Brian recorded another album<br />
titled “Ndingatii Zvangu” which did not<br />
really penetrate the market, “mainly due<br />
<br />
something in store for him.<br />
“My breakthrough came when I<br />
recorded my third album “Hausi Wega”<br />
which got me into the mainstream<br />
industry as I got a marketing contract<br />
from Metro Studios and I also did a video<br />
All that jazz fro<br />
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for the song “Uchandida Chete” which<br />
gave me mileage as people got to know<br />
me, as it is also on YouTube, it debuted at<br />
number 32 on top 50 charts in 2012.<br />
“I have also had the opportunity to<br />
perform on tour in Spain on the World<br />
Youth Day for Catholic in 2011, I have<br />
worked with a number of artistes and<br />
through it all I have learned and still am<br />
learning,” he added.<br />
Brian’s music is rich in quality with<br />
an Afro-centric instrumentation and is<br />
pregnant with meaning which he said he<br />
draws inspiration from everyday life.<br />
“What inspires me as a person are<br />
the people around me and things that<br />
happen in our day to day life. Me being<br />
a youth I have a role to play in trying to<br />
conscientise my fellow youths especially<br />
as far as life is concerned.<br />
“Nowadays the youth spend less time<br />
with parents and the only way they can<br />
be taught about life is through music<br />
because wherever they go they will listen<br />
to music, so most of my songs are directed<br />
to them,” he said.<br />
With four albums under his belt namely<br />
“So They Say”, “Ndingatii Zvangu”, “Hausi<br />
Wega” and “Yambirika”, the artiste is<br />
currently riding high with the single<br />
track titled “Zvanyanya”, on which he<br />
castigates parents for domestic violence.<br />
“The institution of marriage is no<br />
longer being respected as it used to and<br />
domestic violence is reported daily. So<br />
we the children are saying to parents<br />
we have had enough and your domestic<br />
violence is affecting our studies and our<br />
peace. It’s an outcry for parents to solve<br />
their differences amicably,” he explained.<br />
He also urged artistes to be steadfast<br />
and exemplary to their followers if they<br />
are to be respected and want to make it in<br />
the industry.<br />
“I being a Christian means everything<br />
that I do has to have Christian values in<br />
it. We were created in the image of God<br />
and being an artiste I really need to be<br />
role model to all those young stars who<br />
look up to me.<br />
Music<br />
“My fellow artistes should improve<br />
lyrical content because bad publicity<br />
sells in America and not here. Zimbabwe<br />
has its own values, which needs to be<br />
preserved.<br />
“That’s why the senior superstar<br />
Oliver Mtukudzi has managed to stay in<br />
the game for such a long time because it’s<br />
because he has managed to uphold those<br />
values,” he said.<br />
He however, bemoaned lack of support<br />
by locals who look down upon artistes<br />
and urged them to support art by buying<br />
original music.<br />
“Zimbabwe has a lot of talent but<br />
the problem is sponsorship. Artistes are<br />
regarded as low class people in society.<br />
And I urge fans or promoters to appreciate<br />
art.<br />
“Fans should buy original music and<br />
give us value for our work and shun<br />
piracy because pirates are stealing from<br />
us,” he said.TP<br />
m Kambuzuma<br />
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Music<br />
Edson Nhongo<br />
...a new gospel revelation<br />
Tafadzwa Dombodzvuku school cheering for our sports teams with other genres because it spreads the word<br />
Like carpentry, music is also his my friends,” said Nhongo.<br />
of God faster than other genres and also<br />
passion hence multi-tasking has His debut album Ndinoshuva Kuenda because he had repented.<br />
never been a concern to Edson Kudenga was recorded and produced at “I chose gospel music over other genres<br />
Nhongo who has broken into Revival studios in Hillside.<br />
because it broadcasts the word of God<br />
the music arena with a well composed<br />
and arranged gospel album entitled<br />
Ndinoshuva Kuenda Kudenga.<br />
Born 28 years ago in Njanja, Edson<br />
Nhongo was destined to become a<br />
musician but which genre he was going<br />
to sing was the only stumbling block<br />
hindering his progress.<br />
The album carries soul soothing tracks<br />
that brings one closer to God in the wake<br />
of troubled times characterised by wars,<br />
hunger and the economic recession facing<br />
the world today.<br />
<br />
kuenda kudenga a title track, Pakudenga<br />
kuna baba, Hakuna zita sera Jesu,<br />
better, helps me to get into the praying<br />
mood also and I also know God, that is<br />
why I sing gospel,” said the musician.<br />
So far, the talented gospel musician<br />
does not have a group to back him but<br />
relies on the assistance he gets from<br />
Gibson Njowa, Belinda Alimando and<br />
Primrose who do backing vocals in his<br />
Nhongo attended Jeche Primary Mufudzi ndiye Jehovah and Pane sipiti songs.<br />
school, Svinurai and Mushipe Secondary<br />
schools in Njanja before he moved to<br />
Harare.<br />
The musician who is also a carpenter<br />
spends most of his time at the Glen<br />
View home-based industry, known as<br />
“paComplex” working with wood to<br />
manufacture bedroom and dining suites.<br />
“Singing has always been in my blood<br />
from a tender age, we used to sing at<br />
rizere neropa.<br />
Most of the songs on the album are<br />
found in the Methodist hymn books. The<br />
musician did justice to the songs and<br />
brings in a new dimension to the output<br />
of the songs.<br />
In a time where most youths are<br />
venturing into Zim Dancehall, Nhongo<br />
who is also a member of Methodist<br />
Church in Zimbabwe chose gospel over all<br />
The musician told this publication he<br />
will be releasing his second album end of<br />
November this year, so he can capitalise<br />
on the Christmas euphoria.<br />
“The second album will be released end<br />
of November, so that we can capitalise on<br />
the Christmas mood,” said Nhongo.<br />
Asked whether carpentry will not<br />
infringe on his music or vice versa, the<br />
artist highlighted that he has a team he<br />
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works with who can cover and take care<br />
of the business in his absence, whilst he<br />
will be performing at live shows.<br />
“I have a team who helps me in<br />
carpentry, so when I am doing a show<br />
somewhere, I will just direct my team to<br />
do the business,” said the artist.<br />
The pint-sized musician advised<br />
the listener’s to concentrate more on<br />
the lyrics on gospel songs before they<br />
enjoy the fusion of instruments to fully<br />
understand the message.<br />
“People must listen to the message in<br />
the songs; they might be saved through<br />
music and learn the word of God,” said<br />
Nhongo.<br />
The musician bemoaned the marketing<br />
of his music which he says, “It is a<br />
challenge, especially if you are not<br />
known out there,” and local radio stations<br />
Music<br />
have not been playing his music despite<br />
submitting all the copies to relevant<br />
authorities so he can get airplay.<br />
“We have done all the necessary<br />
procedures to get our music to be played<br />
on the radio but we have not received<br />
airplay from radio stations and musically<br />
we are lacking an opportunity to be<br />
known out there,” bemoaned the gospel<br />
musician.<br />
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Music<br />
Jah Warria<br />
Ha i l i n g<br />
f r o m<br />
t h e<br />
d u s t y<br />
streets of Glenview<br />
no one ever gave him<br />
a chance to make it<br />
in life.<br />
Fast forward 10<br />
years down the line,<br />
Jah Warria (born<br />
Irvine<br />
Kamudyariwa)<br />
has managed to change<br />
that perception.<br />
The 30<br />
yearold<br />
reggae artiste who is also a<br />
professional graphic designer said he gets<br />
inspiration from God and some household<br />
names in the reggae genre.<br />
“I’m inspired by the most high and<br />
certain ones and ones in the community.<br />
“Musically I am inspired by one of<br />
the greatest reggae bands Black Uhuru,<br />
Steel Pulse and of course Sizzla and Jah<br />
Mason,” he said.<br />
As has been the case with all other<br />
artistes, Jah Warria’s music journey has<br />
not been an easy stroll in the park. He<br />
had to take a long route which brought<br />
him through the ranks of a church choir<br />
before turning to his preferred reggae<br />
music later on in his career.<br />
“I started music when I was young,<br />
singing in the church choir but decided<br />
to go professional<br />
i n<br />
2008. I got<br />
a<br />
major<br />
b o o s t<br />
when I<br />
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... keeps up the faith<br />
Music<br />
was given a scholarship to study music<br />
at the Music Crossroads Academy last<br />
year and that same year I made a maiden<br />
appearance when I played alongside<br />
two Jamaican artistes who perfomed in<br />
October 2013.<br />
“I chose reggae music because of the<br />
deepness of the messages I want to give<br />
to the people. Reggae music also gives me<br />
an opportunity to express myself more<br />
comfortably,” he said.<br />
Asked how he juggles his work as a<br />
graphic artist and his music career, the<br />
former Glenview 2 High student said it’s<br />
manageable because the two intertwine<br />
along the way.<br />
“It’s not much of a hustle because I’m<br />
an artiste and so everything I do is about<br />
being creative so the two get along very<br />
easily,” he said.<br />
The pint-sized artiste who has a<br />
Christian background, was however<br />
sceptical about his apostasy from<br />
Christianity and coronation into the<br />
Rastafarian faith.<br />
“Through reasoning<br />
with the elders and<br />
research I knew that<br />
the way for me was<br />
the Rastaman levity<br />
because it is all<br />
about peace,<br />
love and unity<br />
regardless of<br />
who you<br />
a r e ,<br />
colour or creed. We are all sons and<br />
daughter of the Most High,” he said.<br />
In as much as his move was successful,<br />
Jah Warria said it was met with mixed<br />
feelings from his family and friends some<br />
of whom saw it as weird.<br />
<br />
was going on but they later on accepted it<br />
because of the persistence and endurance.<br />
There is a saying that no prophet is<br />
accepted in his homeland,” he said.<br />
With one album under his belt which<br />
was released last year, Jah Warria said<br />
he is working on his second offering to be<br />
released later on this year.<br />
“I have one album to mi name which<br />
was released in 2013 called Royal Creed<br />
and I’m working on my second right<br />
now,” said Jah Warria with a Jamaican<br />
patois accent.<br />
Never one to shy from ambition, the<br />
sing-jay said that he hoped to become a<br />
role model to would-be<br />
upcoming artistes and<br />
teach them goodness.<br />
<br />
years I see myself as an<br />
icon to the upcoming<br />
younger generation<br />
and as a<br />
Zimbabwean reggae ambassador using<br />
reggae music to teach the youths the right<br />
way of life which is righteousness.<br />
<br />
adequate resources to come up with a<br />
good sound quality.<br />
“Coming from the ghetto, lack of proper<br />
funding and promotion is hindering our<br />
careers. We also produce poor sound<br />
quality although we are improving a bit,”<br />
he said.<br />
He was however quick to acknowledge<br />
the potential of the local music industry<br />
as it continues to grow.<br />
“The industry is still growing and<br />
obviously there are ups and downs<br />
because that’s how it is,” he said.<br />
He urged youths to embrace education<br />
and preserve the country’s cultural<br />
values and history.<br />
“I say to the youths of today education<br />
is the key, preserve our culture because<br />
a nation without knowledge of their<br />
past is like a tree without roots and<br />
always remember to praise the almighty<br />
all the days of your lives, Jah<br />
guidance and<br />
protection,”<br />
he added.<br />
TP<br />
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Music<br />
Dance<br />
Craze<br />
hits Zimbabwe<br />
Tarisai Maringire<br />
The Zimdancehall phenomenon<br />
which has taken the nation by<br />
storm has given birth to a new<br />
dance culture.<br />
Gone are the days when people used<br />
to dance to muchongoyo, jikinya and<br />
many other traditional dances. Urban<br />
contemporary dances are now the in<br />
thing.<br />
Following the trend in Jamaica where<br />
dances have become part of the dancehall<br />
culture, new music (riddims) come with a<br />
new dance style which can either make or<br />
break an artiste’s career.<br />
Some of the Jamaican phenomenal<br />
dances which have illuminated the<br />
dancehall scene include the “Badman Pull<br />
<br />
Bounce.”<br />
<br />
dancehall music have now emerged on<br />
our streets and has swept across the<br />
nation.<br />
Attending many of these ‘Passa Passa’<br />
street parties which are held in the<br />
Harare ghettoes which includes areas<br />
such as Mbare, Mufakose, Glen Norah<br />
and Mabvuku among other suburbs one<br />
cannot ignore the dance moves which will<br />
be on exhibition and are breathtaking to<br />
say the least.<br />
One of the dances that has swept the<br />
ghettoes and streets is what they term<br />
<br />
incarcerated dancehall star Vybz Kartel’s<br />
tune by the same name. It has soared in<br />
<br />
entertainment circles, sports events and<br />
in the high density suburbs.<br />
If you think dance is only for the grown<br />
ups you’d be wrong, even kids as little as<br />
four years make an effort to try to dance<br />
to this current style.<br />
Names that have propelled this new<br />
phenomenon include DJ Smylie, Guspy<br />
<br />
to mention just a few.<br />
If there is one artiste who can be<br />
accredited for the introduction of new<br />
<br />
has to be the charismatic and energetic<br />
DJ Smylie known for his catch phrases<br />
which include, ‘Usadaroo’ and “Any<br />
girl who can’t wine wasara” simply<br />
translating to if you can’t dance you are<br />
outdated.<br />
According to the DJ, dancing brings out<br />
the fun in music and breaks the boredom<br />
of playing the music without the visuals.<br />
<br />
titled “Magetsi” which was accompanied<br />
by the Magetsi dance which is a routine<br />
characterized by the dancer looking like<br />
he has been electrocuted.<br />
The DJ went on to introduce the Koka<br />
moto dance and recently introduced the<br />
Chameleon dance which is a dance routine<br />
which imitates how the chameleon moves<br />
spiced with some deft footwork.<br />
<br />
has won admiration from people for his<br />
well choreographed dances. His dancers<br />
<br />
But one dance which became an<br />
<br />
name Emmanuel Manyeruke from his<br />
song Seunononga which became a street<br />
anthem. It has become so popular that<br />
merrymakers have adopted it for their<br />
weddings and birthday celebrations.<br />
The dance frenzy has been surrounded<br />
by controversy of course; it is sometimes<br />
associated with scantily-clad girls<br />
with dances which some people feel<br />
are of a sexual nature because of their<br />
concentration with the pelvic area and all<br />
the gyration.<br />
However, many dancehall lovers feel<br />
that they cannot be judged because of<br />
their dances alone as it is only an artistic<br />
expression and a way of relaxation and<br />
merrymaking.<br />
They argue that although the street<br />
dances look like sexual dances, it’s all<br />
about expressing love and joy. You can see<br />
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Music<br />
it in the way they dance.<br />
The dancers note that there is nothing<br />
new about gyrating as it has been there<br />
as far back as the pre-independence era<br />
were Jerusalem, Mbende and kongonya<br />
were performed.<br />
Most dances are formed according<br />
to what has been happening in people’s<br />
surroundings. There is a blend of<br />
European and African dances.<br />
In Zimbabwe many dancehall dance<br />
groups have been formed such as Street<br />
<br />
<br />
group Ghetto Creepers.<br />
The dance groups usually clash at<br />
different explosive musical shows<br />
where they are judged according to their<br />
originality and creativity.<br />
The dance craze has also given way to<br />
job creation and unemployed youths to<br />
change their circumstances. Those who<br />
have made it big through dancing include<br />
the late great dance icon Gerald “Bogle”<br />
<br />
<br />
development of the dance scene into a<br />
<br />
it will also help youngsters trapped in<br />
poverty and hopelessness to live a better<br />
life. TP<br />
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The Fresh Breeze<br />
Tarisai Maringire<br />
Art & Crafts<br />
Having made her mark in the<br />
spoken word scene, popular<br />
poet Barbra Breeze Anderson<br />
is ready to face new<br />
challenges as she has made a dramatic<br />
entrance in the fashion scene with the<br />
unveiling of her hand bag collection,<br />
under Aame Creations.<br />
Aside from her natural talent and<br />
<br />
elements that she has somehow managed<br />
to weave into her handbags. Barbra is<br />
certainly one of the hottest new talents<br />
in the fashion industry, and is certainly<br />
one to watch. Tarisai Maringire caught<br />
up with the handbag designer to get the<br />
lowdown on her career.<br />
.<br />
<br />
?<br />
I am a 23 year old spoken word artist,<br />
writer and designer. I am an aspiring<br />
events manager and workshop facilitator<br />
interested in community projects.<br />
<br />
– <br />
?<br />
I was always a designer, I was knitting<br />
and sewing most of my childhood and my<br />
interest in bags got me into design.<br />
<br />
?<br />
<br />
priority and urgency on each and every<br />
thing I do. The good thing about all the<br />
<br />
at the same time, so I can organize on a<br />
yearly basis.<br />
<br />
?<br />
I grew up in a crafters house and so it<br />
was easy to get into it.<br />
<br />
?<br />
Yes it was tough and it still is, I am<br />
doing everything from sourcing fabric,<br />
marketing, to design and the work gets<br />
a little hectic. I cope because I am an<br />
organizer by profession and I know how<br />
to juggle everything.<br />
<br />
?<br />
The challenges are still there but at<br />
least l now know what is expected of me,<br />
what my business needs and what I need<br />
to provide. I did not have the knowledge<br />
before and it gets better as I get into the<br />
business more.<br />
<br />
<br />
?<br />
I have realized that my market is from<br />
teens to mature ladies. I have hip bags,<br />
sling bags, shoulder bags, laptop pouches<br />
and clutch bags.<br />
<br />
?<br />
I work with thick durable fabrics like<br />
hessian, netting, thick suiting, mandy,<br />
java and batiks.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
?<br />
Handmade patterned fabric bags.<br />
The line is unique because of its love for<br />
detail, pattern combination and its key<br />
interest in recycling.<br />
<br />
?<br />
I taught myself and analysed each and<br />
every bag I laid my eyes on.<br />
<br />
? <br />
?<br />
Aame creations means African and<br />
modern me. The name came from a poem<br />
I wrote and it inspired me to pursue my<br />
passion further.<br />
<br />
?<br />
As authentic and original products that<br />
have both comfort and style.<br />
<br />
?<br />
The main inspiration behind my bags<br />
is my poetry and the fact that whatever<br />
I put my mind to I can do. The bags are a<br />
constant inspiration for me as a person,<br />
especially in realizing my capabilities.<br />
<br />
,<br />
?<br />
Kerry Washington, that woman is self<br />
driven and I admire that.<br />
<br />
<br />
Becoming bigger than I imagined and<br />
supplying internationally.<br />
<br />
<br />
?<br />
<br />
intended to keep for myself.<br />
<br />
<br />
3 days.<br />
<br />
?<br />
Making bags for people and seeing<br />
<br />
?<br />
TP<br />
Poet ve<br />
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of Style<br />
Art & Crafts<br />
ntures into the fashion world.<br />
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Art & Crafts<br />
Wallen:<br />
Tarisai Maringire<br />
Wallen Mapondera is one<br />
of the distinguished<br />
new crops of visual<br />
artists to emerge in<br />
Zimbabwe. His art pieces hang in various<br />
art galleries and stand in numerous art<br />
museums worldwide. He has mastered<br />
the visual arts, after completing a three-<br />
<br />
Gallery Visual Arts Studios (BAT Visual<br />
Arts Studios) in Harare.<br />
His works have made him a household<br />
name as a contemporary and conceptual<br />
abstract expressionist who uses mixed<br />
media to create works of art. His pieces<br />
stem more from<br />
exploring social norms,<br />
cultural and industrial practices, which<br />
exploit and abuse animals.<br />
Through his paintings, the artist<br />
invites the spectator to imagine himself<br />
living the life of an animal, a dog that<br />
spends the day on a leash, a pig in a dirty<br />
sty, a bull in a slaughterhouse or dogs and<br />
<br />
According to an art enthusiast, the<br />
Ambassador of Switzerland Luciano<br />
Lavizzari says, through his art, Wallen<br />
explores, by analogy, human society and<br />
its form of power structure, sociopolitical<br />
norms and social relationships.<br />
“The ruthlessness and thirst for<br />
domination with which human beings<br />
treat and abuse animals decried in his<br />
paintings, mirror the violence and cruelty<br />
which characterizes human society,” he<br />
said.<br />
The Parade reporter Tarisai Maringire<br />
had a chat with Wallen Mapondera on<br />
the sidelines of his solo exhibition Social<br />
Zoometry at the Delta Gallery were he<br />
took the time to speak about his art,<br />
along with a few other subjects.<br />
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Wallen Mapondera is a full<br />
time visual artist who works and<br />
lives in Chitungwiza.<br />
I was born in<br />
Chitungwiza on the 27th of December<br />
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Visual Arts Studios from 2005-2007.I am<br />
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Thank heavens it was easy for me to be<br />
approved by my family to do art as a<br />
career. They support me big time.<br />
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?My art journey has had its<br />
ups and downs, mostly I cherish the ups<br />
and learn from the downs, they pushed<br />
me kuti ndisanete (kept me going). In<br />
1998 I won in the whole Harare region a<br />
competition organised by Agro chemicals<br />
titled “Why Use Agro Chemicals”,<br />
ndopandakaona kuti I am talented, since<br />
then I haven’t turned back.<br />
I always had a passion for art when<br />
I was young. I would get beaten for<br />
drawing on the wall at home and on all<br />
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me to take up art, I knew what I wanted.<br />
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Publicity is the main challenge. Old folks<br />
in the game do not like to uplift young<br />
artists and galleries like to work with<br />
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be established when there is no platform<br />
to develop.<br />
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I love sleeping and karate (he laughs).<br />
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I would like to call my type of art,<br />
expressionism.<br />
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Social Zoometry is there to replace the<br />
roots of cruelty with the seeds of love;<br />
love for animals is the beginning of a<br />
welcoming and loving nation.<br />
I can see you concentrate more on<br />
animals as your subject matter…..<br />
Yes animals are a subject that not most<br />
people talk about in their work that alone<br />
makes me use them as my subject matter.<br />
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point when I use animals.<br />
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From the comments I get many people<br />
who say that my work is powerful, very<br />
conceptual, not knowing what they say<br />
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when I am not around (he laughs).<br />
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I have managed to exhibit in different<br />
countries such as United States, Germany,<br />
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to continue to show my works worldwide.<br />
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Masimba Hwati, I have spent a lot of<br />
time with him and we have done some<br />
projects together so I know his personality<br />
and his approach to life as well. Victor<br />
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I am a full time artist. Art is my life.<br />
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The art industry in Zimbabwe is not<br />
as appreciated as compared to other<br />
countries. Maybe it is like this because of<br />
these economical hardships or people are<br />
just too reluctant to appreciate.<br />
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By giving them advice and mostly<br />
show them avenues in the arts industry<br />
that might help in their career.<br />
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My<br />
future<br />
plans<br />
are to<br />
give<br />
young<br />
artists<br />
a<br />
platform<br />
to<br />
be recognised<br />
internationally,<br />
I don’t know how<br />
I’m going to pull<br />
that one off. With<br />
the little connection I<br />
have, I will try to share.<br />
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?<br />
There is a lot<br />
of rejection in<br />
this career, one<br />
needs to be<br />
strong<br />
and<br />
pursue your<br />
goal<br />
like<br />
it is the<br />
o n l y<br />
way. TP<br />
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Fashion & Beauty<br />
Guide to Conservative Chic<br />
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Fashion & Beauty<br />
Chiedza Mebe<br />
This piece will help our<br />
dear fashion friends avoid<br />
committing unholy crimes<br />
of fashion. This is our list Tof things to ditch and avoid totally,<br />
lest you fall victim to a fashion<br />
suicide.<br />
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First question, Who<br />
does that? The answer is<br />
nobody should ever do that<br />
to themselves but we still see a<br />
number of sensible women prancing<br />
around in this look. Truth is it should never<br />
be done. If you do go around in this look,<br />
sorry to say but, you don’t deserve a fair trial,<br />
it’s straight to the death chambers for you.<br />
Wearing a dress or skirt over jeans, doesn’t even<br />
make sense. Choose one from the two already. It<br />
always looks awkward, and trust us awkward<br />
is not a good look.<br />
<br />
Why torture yourself with these shiny<br />
looking pants? Stick to the rules and get<br />
yourself a decent pair<br />
of pants. Let<br />
us all try<br />
to<br />
forget<br />
that these<br />
Crim o<br />
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pants even exist. Leaving them in<br />
the 50s were they belong. Move<br />
along now, there are better fashion<br />
statements to be made.<br />
<br />
The fashion police car alarm bells went off<br />
from just the mention of the words “shell suits”.<br />
Shell suits look like something someone in space<br />
would wear and trust us it’s not a pretty sight.<br />
To emphasize how bad these are, take note, shell<br />
suits are considered one of the worst fashion<br />
crimes of all time. Shell suits do nobody justice.<br />
The ground might as well just swallow you whole,<br />
if you wear these.<br />
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Say no to tie dye<br />
crime. Where do<br />
we start with tie<br />
dye?<br />
Besides,<br />
it’s ugly, it’s<br />
really<br />
ugly.<br />
The word<br />
b e a u t i f u l<br />
or pretty<br />
doesn’t link<br />
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anywhere with tie dye. Anyone wearing<br />
tie dye in all its forms, whether it’s on<br />
a skirt or a top has committed a fashion<br />
crime.<br />
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Lock them up and throw the key<br />
away. There is absolutely no fashion<br />
statement that can be made with these<br />
shoes. In the dictionary they fall under<br />
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DON’T, they don’t belong in any sensible<br />
fashionista’s closet. If they do nothing for<br />
you, then they deserve to be binned, end<br />
of story.<br />
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Should these even exist? Surely they<br />
belong on another planet. Jelly sandals<br />
leave a sour taste in the mouth. These<br />
sandals can never be classy, sophisticated<br />
or a must-have fashion item. If that won’t<br />
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won’t get compliments for wearing them<br />
either.<br />
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These shoes have been<br />
seen on a<br />
couple of fashion idols; however, these<br />
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They’re huge, they’re clunky and the will<br />
make your feet look like boats. Do you<br />
want to look like you’re walking around<br />
with boats on your feet? Didn’t think so,<br />
now dig a hole in your back yard and bury<br />
them.<br />
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Worn in kindergarten, skorts were<br />
cool then. Increase the years and you’re<br />
still wearing these. Ladies, you should<br />
be ashamed of yourself.<br />
Skorts look like a giant<br />
napkin and should<br />
be banned from the<br />
streets. This fashion<br />
No No doesn’t cut it in<br />
fashion circles. Nothing about a skort<br />
is cute. Best give them the boot.<br />
We have imparted our angelic fashion<br />
advice on things to avoid. Don’t<br />
say we didn’t warn you when the<br />
fashion police state that, “You’re<br />
under arrest. Choose to stay on<br />
point. TP<br />
Fashion & Beauty<br />
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Fashion & Beauty<br />
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Chiedza Mebe<br />
African themed fashion is<br />
trending the world over. Are<br />
we not lucky to have this<br />
fashspiration in our own<br />
backyard? Invest in these key pieces to<br />
nail this fabulous trend.<br />
Exotic animal prints<br />
Fashion goes safari with an assortment<br />
of exotic animal prints making a debut<br />
everywhere. Let your inner animal<br />
come out and get on the bandwagon of<br />
fashionista’s who love this trend. These<br />
prints will give you edge and command<br />
the right attention. Wear different options<br />
and go for zebra, python, crocodile and<br />
leopard. Not only do you get prints on<br />
clothes but all your accessories are covered<br />
so there’s no need to fret. Just don’t go<br />
overboard with the print. Designers<br />
have gone as far as making coats in blue,<br />
pink and red spots of leopard which is<br />
perfect for this time of the year and oh so<br />
glamorous. Keep it cool and trendy as you<br />
go wild on this fashion craze.<br />
Bright primary colours<br />
Add freshness to your winter wardrobe<br />
in bold bright colours. Choose to be<br />
sensual and energetic in these attractive<br />
colours. Must wear colours to inject into<br />
your winter wardrobe are cayenne red,<br />
freesia, indigo blue and celosia orange.<br />
Complete your look with these show<br />
stopping colours. These are the perfect<br />
colours for dresses and handbags this<br />
season.<br />
Tribal prints<br />
Prints are very on trend. The perfect<br />
way to nail this look is by getting colourful<br />
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Graphic courtesy of Kelseo Fashion, A Fashion Student Experience at Parsons the School of<br />
Design called BODY NARRATIVE MOOD BOARD<br />
mix patterns of geometric and abstract<br />
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neon colours to keep it chic and stylish.<br />
Also work it with earthy modern coloured<br />
tribal prints. With the temperature getting<br />
lower and lower invest in an ethnic block<br />
print scarf to keep you warm. For added<br />
freshness to your winter wardrobe stick<br />
to prints with warmer tones. You can also<br />
incorporate the tribal print look to your<br />
accessories and shoes.<br />
Feathers<br />
Feathers are one of the micro breaking<br />
trends of the year. However, just because<br />
they are a micro trend doesn’t make them<br />
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seen designers in Africa and the world<br />
over embellishing their clothing and<br />
accessory designs with decadent feathers<br />
in every shade. Igniting a touch of fantasy<br />
feathers are a style do. Give yourself the<br />
pleasure of embracing this micro trend.<br />
Leather accessories<br />
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point that wild is in. Bold, outrageous and<br />
lots of attitude stems from any fashion<br />
junkie who dons leather accessories.<br />
Leather accessories are stylish and can be<br />
worn in many ways. Add leather details<br />
to your ensemble by wearing a leather<br />
cuff, bracelet or necklace. Leather belts<br />
also beautify your look. To be on trend<br />
keep an eye out for or grab a black leather<br />
bondage belt which is so in right now and<br />
don it to showcase your individuality.<br />
Leather belts are multifunctional and<br />
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including dresses, shirts or coats. TP<br />
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Fashion & Beauty<br />
Chiedza Mebe<br />
Often when one hears the words intimate apparel<br />
they are quick to switch their minds to sassy<br />
and naughty looks. Intimate apparel is indeed<br />
all these things. It can be sexy and classy at the<br />
same time depending on how one chooses to dress. The<br />
scoop on what’s on trend for intimate apparel is right here<br />
<br />
the precise intimate look. Choose a top to bottom look<br />
that’s smoking hot. Remember when it comes to intimate<br />
apparel you can choose to be sweet or go all out.<br />
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Leather is a big trend this year. Be a bad girl and rock<br />
leather. It’s very edgy and looks good on those who want to<br />
dominate or be dominated. Leather is bold and daring and<br />
<br />
fashionable and invest in a short leather skirt, mid length<br />
leather dress, pants or a biker jacket, which is perfect for<br />
the colder season. This rock n roll look will keep all eyes<br />
on you. Perfect when accented onto leggings, leather gives<br />
a different feel to any look.<br />
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On modern women corsets have transformed from<br />
being just lingerie (only to be worn in the bedroom) into<br />
being daring outer wear. Corsets are just too pretty to<br />
hide. They can be feminine, sexy and have lots of edge.<br />
Screaming “Look at me” this look is not for the timid. The<br />
current trend clearly states that these pieces were made<br />
to be seen. Spice up your wardrobe with a vintage classy<br />
<br />
and create havoc on the streets.<br />
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The delicate fabric is being added to designs everywhere.<br />
It’s a must have for any woman’s wardrobe. Lace can<br />
be a beautiful piece to wear as it is ultra feminine and a<br />
tres romantic look. Wear lace in bold playful colours like<br />
fuchsia, red, blue and emerald. If worn at night lace can<br />
add sex appeal and naughtiness to an ensemble. Join the<br />
naughty vixen crowd and look more than irresistible in<br />
decadent lace.<br />
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Take on a strong bombshell elegant<br />
stance by wearing a velvet ensemble.<br />
Boudoir chic looks are go-to elements<br />
for intimate apparel. A velvet dress in<br />
a striking colour will have you looking<br />
fashionably on point and have “glam girl”<br />
written all over you. Wear a velvet dress<br />
with swag as it hugs onto your body.<br />
<br />
will be the envy of every woman. Perfect<br />
for evening events donning a velvet<br />
ensemble will not only set you apart but<br />
will guarantee that you will be one classy<br />
lady. Take the luxurious route and be a<br />
velvet style star.<br />
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Silk is reminiscent of exotic nights in<br />
bed with the man of your dreams. Well in<br />
some people’s dreams it is. The softness<br />
of silk is feminine, sexy and inviting.<br />
There’s something about a silk ensemble<br />
that makes anyone want to touch it. It is<br />
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The sensual fabric can be worn at night<br />
and can even be toned down for day.<br />
Captivate the hearts of many in perhaps a<br />
beautiful silk evening gown. TP<br />
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Apparel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.<br />
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Fashion & Beauty<br />
Men’s Guide<br />
to Formal Shoes<br />
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A cap toe refers to the extra stitched<br />
layer of leather near the front of a shoe.<br />
Different kinds of formal shoes can also<br />
be capped for example an Oxford shoe<br />
can be capped. Get a sleek cap toed shoe<br />
for formal events. Cap toes add a unique<br />
look to a formal shoe, adding heaps of<br />
personality. Cap toed dress shoes can be<br />
worn with a tuxedo on a night out or with<br />
a suit.<br />
Chiedza Mebe<br />
Men should love all<br />
things formal. If you’re<br />
attending a formal event<br />
or your work environment<br />
requires you to dress formally, remember<br />
that there is a formal shoe to suite every<br />
occasion. This men’s guide to<br />
formal shoes, breaks down the<br />
different types and styles of<br />
formal shoes that can be worn<br />
out and about, on your formal days.<br />
Read on to see, which shoe is for you and<br />
perhaps maybe, you might be interested<br />
in investing in all the formal shoes.<br />
After all you can never have too<br />
many shoes.<br />
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Winter is here and dress boots are great for this kind of weather. A dress boot<br />
that is sleek and minimalistic can be worn with a suit. Dress boots come in a wide<br />
variety of styles. The boot is a formal dress shoe option that was worn on formal<br />
occasions. Opt for dark leathered boots for formal events. It’s much classier.<br />
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The formal pump also known as an Opera pump is a<br />
formal type of loafer made from shiny black patent leather.<br />
It usually has a ribbon decoration on the cap of the shoe.<br />
Formal or Opera pumps are best suited for formal black<br />
tie or white tie events. Opera shoes are occasionally seen<br />
at full-dress events on fashion conscious individuals, the<br />
rest preferring to stick to Oxfords.<br />
Fashion & Beauty<br />
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Many designers these days are<br />
designing penny loafers with a modern,<br />
streamlined shape; that make it a<br />
perfect shoe for formal occasions.<br />
Wear them with a sleek suit at a black<br />
tie event and steal the show. TP<br />
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(in black)<br />
Look stylish, tasteful, and<br />
masculine in black polished<br />
lace up shoes at formal<br />
dinners or in the work<br />
place. Lace ups<br />
are men’s go<br />
to shoes,<br />
when it<br />
comes to<br />
formal dress shoes.<br />
They are the most<br />
dependable and versatile<br />
shoes one can own.<br />
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The gold standard of dress<br />
shoes, the Oxford balmoral has a<br />
round toe, like mentioned earlier can<br />
also be capped with a closed lacing. Oxfords<br />
are the highest peak for formal option shoes,<br />
especially when it comes to what to wear for<br />
business or a black tie event. If you own one pair of<br />
formal shoes, it has to be black Oxfords. This plain and<br />
s i m p l e shoe can be worn with almost everything.<br />
shoe can be worn with almost everything.<br />
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White bucks are Oxfords<br />
made of white buckskin,<br />
which is a rough leather. In<br />
reality it is not exactly white.<br />
They are considered professional<br />
shoes.<br />
Image courtesy of www.heritageofscotland.com<br />
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Models & Pageants<br />
5 Minutes with The Parade Queen July<br />
Tapuwanashe Arimuzhu<br />
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Funny, smart and determined.<br />
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Experimental chic that is,<br />
I keep up with fashion<br />
trends, yet I am my<br />
own inspiration.<br />
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Me, because I<br />
always surprise<br />
myself.<br />
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I am a good<br />
makeup artist.<br />
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Focusing on the bright side<br />
and being happy. Smiling<br />
makes you look younger and<br />
more beautiful than when you<br />
frown.<br />
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I think the qualities that make up<br />
<br />
<br />
someone who rises above<br />
modeling stereotypes whether<br />
negative or positive and brings<br />
something new to the table.<br />
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My mother, she is the<br />
most caring, patient and<br />
supportive person I<br />
know.<br />
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R e s p e c t<br />
means being<br />
considerate and<br />
having a regard of<br />
other people’s lifestyle<br />
or beliefs and thus doing<br />
unto others as you would<br />
want them to do unto you.<br />
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It’s hard to choose one but<br />
eyeliner is the one thing I<br />
cannot live without.<br />
In life what can’t you live without?<br />
My friends and family<br />
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Having a God-fearing family has been<br />
the greatest gift of all<br />
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I am assertive, I know what I want<br />
and go for it, I am very loyal to the<br />
ones I love and they know they can<br />
trust me with anything. I am also very<br />
sociable, funny and I can easily make<br />
friends with anyone.<br />
<br />
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one who is intelligent enough to be<br />
independent, knows how to stand her<br />
ground when it comes to her beliefs<br />
especially when it comes to what’s right<br />
and wrong and is respectful to others on<br />
her way up the success ladder.<br />
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I quote, “If you know not where you<br />
come from you are doomed to live in<br />
shame.” –Mutabauka dub poet. Culture<br />
is important because it keeps us in touch<br />
with our roots and keeps our morals in<br />
check.<br />
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My crazy big gold hoop earrings.<br />
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Yes! I always thought it would be fun and<br />
have always been interested in it because<br />
of the opportunities modeling presents.<br />
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Watching movies and hanging out with<br />
my friends.<br />
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parent’s reaction about me passing was<br />
my proudest moment.<br />
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I would want to do environmental<br />
awareness and charity work. I also<br />
intend to put a smile on people’s faces,<br />
teaching people to save our environment<br />
and to sustainably utilize it for future<br />
generations.TP<br />
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Love & Relationships<br />
Chiedza Mebe<br />
Say hello, to what could possibly<br />
be some of the best days of your<br />
life. The single life is a time to<br />
celebrate and enjoy yourself.<br />
<br />
who you want to settle down with? If<br />
you are going to spend the rest of your<br />
life with someone you might as well enjoy<br />
being single now. This is easier said than<br />
done, especially if everyone else around<br />
you seems to be settling down and<br />
encouraging you to do the same. If you’re<br />
not ready yet or just haven’t met the one<br />
you can learn how to master the art of<br />
being happily single with this mini-guide.<br />
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Being single gives you the time to<br />
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hurts lead to a broken outlook on future<br />
relationships. The mistakes of an ex<br />
become the mistakes of your current<br />
partner. Because a previous relationship<br />
failed some people become insecure and<br />
bring on feelings that they will never be<br />
good enough for anyone. This becomes<br />
a problem in itself. Take a time-out,<br />
learn to forgive yourself a n d<br />
allow yourself to<br />
accept the<br />
situation. This<br />
will help<br />
you move<br />
forward as<br />
whole and<br />
not broken<br />
i n d i v i d u a l .<br />
Take<br />
this time to learn to love yourself and<br />
therefore you can love someone else fully<br />
when they come along.<br />
2 <br />
<br />
for your inner being. If you’re<br />
comfortable alone then you will be happy<br />
being happily single. By appreciating<br />
<br />
quiet moments you are well on way to<br />
succeeding in living a happy single life.<br />
Think about it this way once you become<br />
one with someone else and start a family<br />
the quieter and more peaceful moments<br />
become hard to come by. Enjoy them. It’s<br />
okay to just chill out at home, read a good<br />
book, watch a good movie, lie in bed all<br />
day, not because you’re sad and alone but<br />
because you’re happy and want to.<br />
3<br />
With couple time eliminated<br />
from your schedule, discover your<br />
dreams and succeed at them. Make your<br />
dreams a reality, without the distraction<br />
and comfort a relationship brings.<br />
Keeping your eye on the ball, make that<br />
business come together, pursue that<br />
career, get the diploma or college degree<br />
you have always wanted. By focusing on<br />
your life and achieving your dreams, each<br />
step your take is a success and will give<br />
you something to be proud of and happy<br />
about.<br />
4 <br />
<br />
<br />
relationships they neglect their family<br />
and friends, choosing to spend every<br />
moment with their<br />
partner. This is<br />
when people<br />
often lose<br />
themselves as it’s hard for couples to live<br />
separate lives. It’s inevitable that this<br />
happens at some point in the relationship.<br />
Being single gives you more time to<br />
devote to the other relationships in your<br />
life that also deserve your full attention.<br />
Chances are your family and friends will<br />
always be there however, nuture these<br />
relationships as they truly matter. The<br />
love and attention you get from them<br />
<br />
time spent with them will put you in a<br />
good space and you’re bound not to notice<br />
that you’re single. If only one could<br />
change their Facebook status from single<br />
<br />
<br />
5<br />
,<br />
’<br />
Avoid moping around, crying<br />
about the doom that you might die alone.<br />
Chances are this won’t happen and the<br />
life you want will come in its own time.<br />
Not everyone’s fairytale comes when<br />
they want it too. It’s okay to be single.<br />
Life is worth living, be happy and live it<br />
whether you’re in a relationship or not.<br />
Enjoy having a good time, travelling to<br />
places you have never been to and yes you<br />
can go alone or with a group of friends.<br />
There’s nothing better than a bonding<br />
road trip. A popular quote states that,<br />
“Life is about the journey and not the<br />
destination.” What are you waiting for?<br />
Live already!<br />
6 <br />
;<br />
<br />
<br />
There comes a time when you feel<br />
like all your friends are settling down,<br />
and looking happier than they have ever<br />
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looked. It can be quite hard to not feel like<br />
you’re missing out on something beautiful.<br />
<br />
(fear of missing out). Resentment and<br />
envy rears its ugly head in the situation.<br />
<br />
note that because they look happy doesn’t<br />
mean they actually are. Take your time,<br />
be genuinely happy for your friends and<br />
continue to enjoy the single life. Your time<br />
will come. Choose to be the supportive<br />
friend while you continue with your life’s<br />
journey.<br />
7 <br />
Invest in yourself. Take care<br />
of yourself and focus on your<br />
inner and outer being. Instead of using<br />
your energy concentrating on another<br />
individual, concentrate on yourself fully.<br />
Building yourself, working on your selfesteem,<br />
your outward appearances, spoil<br />
yourself at the spa, enjoy your monthly<br />
manicure or weekly haircut, and feed<br />
your inner spirit. Work on the negatives<br />
and polish up on the positives.<br />
8 <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Being single gives you room to be able<br />
<br />
a relationship, in your own time. Take<br />
this time to write up a list on what you<br />
would like from a man or woman and a<br />
relationship. The list should include what<br />
you will tolerate and not tolerate in a<br />
relationship. Being aware of what you<br />
deserve is the key to knowing your worth.<br />
This will help you decide what it is you<br />
want when you’re ready to start dating<br />
again. TP<br />
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Love & Relationships<br />
Chiedza Mebe<br />
The friendzone is a term coined<br />
in popular culture to describe a<br />
platonic relationship, in which<br />
one of the friends, usually<br />
the man, wants more than the platonic<br />
relationship. The man often seeks out<br />
a romantic or sexual relationship with<br />
the friend, however, the sad news is the<br />
woman prefers to contain the relationship<br />
and maintain their friendship status.<br />
For most men, the primal hunters who<br />
go in for their prey with skilful elegance<br />
and get what they want, the friendzone<br />
<br />
best to stay away and avoid the friendzone<br />
with a woman who he is attracted to. Ask<br />
any man who has experienced this and<br />
<br />
to be. They might even encourage you to<br />
run like you’ve never run before.<br />
The friendzone has been known to cause<br />
a lot of frustration for most as this<br />
eventually leads to the breakdown of the<br />
friendship as well, or lead one down the<br />
road of torture, where one has to pretend<br />
to be okay with just being friends, while<br />
the woman goes on talking about the man<br />
<br />
have been friendzone<br />
Other signs include she suggests you<br />
always hang out as a group, you get no<br />
special treatment, physical contact<br />
is never long, shows no interest,<br />
compliments you on how<br />
good of a friend you are and<br />
the worst one is when she<br />
refers to you as her bestie<br />
(best friend).<br />
For some men it takes<br />
a while to accept that<br />
they have been put in the<br />
friendzone, for others, they<br />
quickly move on. After all it’s the<br />
right thing to do. A wiser man,<br />
might stick around,<br />
in the hopes<br />
they might get<br />
introduced to<br />
the woman’s<br />
e q u a l l y<br />
attractive<br />
s i n g l e<br />
f r i e n d s .<br />
It can’t possibly be wrong to do this,<br />
besides if you’re just friends they should<br />
<br />
deserves to be put in her own friendzone<br />
if she can do it, so can you.<br />
If however, you are still keen on being<br />
with this woman or you foresee a woman<br />
you’re attracted to putting you in this<br />
place (the friendzone), here’s some advice<br />
on how to avoid this situation.<br />
<br />
Try not to get too comfortable with her,<br />
because the last thing you want is for her<br />
to start seeing you as her friend or worse<br />
<br />
in and discuss other men with. Instead be<br />
a man, get your primal instincts on and<br />
go in for the kill. It’s as simple making<br />
your intentions known and making them<br />
known fast. The sooner the better, keep<br />
that in mind. What’s the worst that could<br />
happen? It’s either a yes or a no, which is<br />
better than being stuck in the confusion,<br />
the friendzone brings.<br />
<br />
Take the plunge and ask her out on a date<br />
(a real date), not one that you would take<br />
your friend out. If she’s the one you want<br />
to be with, you have to make an effort.<br />
Women love to be spoiled, go ahead and do<br />
that. Chances are if she agrees<br />
to go out on a date, you<br />
<br />
goodbye to the<br />
friendzone.<br />
<br />
Inaction is one of the deadliest traits that<br />
<br />
the jail cell of the friendzone. Make a<br />
move before she does, and when she does<br />
it will probably be followed with this<br />
statement, “You’re such a great friend.”<br />
Everything about this statement is clear<br />
you are just a friend, yes, just a friend.<br />
It’s your fault if your dream about being<br />
with this woman is crushed in this very<br />
instance. Stop playing it cool and lean<br />
in for that kiss, remember to stay sober<br />
when you do it and choose the right time.<br />
Do not wait for someone with the big<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This is tricky but true on<br />
many levels. However,<br />
it would be sadder to<br />
see yourself helping<br />
her choose a dress<br />
for a date she’s going<br />
on with some other<br />
guy. After this you<br />
should know staying away<br />
from being friends to begin<br />
with might not be such a<br />
bad idea. Being<br />
honest<br />
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Registered with the G.P.O as a newspaper<br />
from the get go might work in your<br />
favour. Women love a man who shows<br />
<br />
always determines who gets the girl or<br />
not. Give it a try.<br />
<br />
Repeat this quote, “No more Mr Nice guy”;<br />
sometimes pulling the plug does help<br />
people appreciate you more. Leave the<br />
friendship for a while. This however, might<br />
be hard to do, especially if you’re stuck<br />
in a situation where you would rather be<br />
their friend, than not see<br />
them at<br />
all. Choose to give her space. This might<br />
make them change their mind about you.<br />
‘Distance makes the heart grow fonder’<br />
rings true when it comes to this. If you’re<br />
lucky, when you return, you might just<br />
get more than a friendly hug.<br />
good luck!<br />
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Love & Relationships<br />
Post Orgasmic Depre<br />
Chiedza Mebe<br />
Have you ever had the most<br />
amazing intimate encounter,<br />
were two souls set alight a<br />
powerful spark, a connection<br />
so undeniable, only to feel extremely low<br />
soon after? A number of people feel this<br />
way, especially when they seek a deeper<br />
connection and the only connection they<br />
get is plus or minus twenty minutes of<br />
bliss and after that it’s back to reality.<br />
This has been coined a somewhat post<br />
orgasmic depression. Medically this rare<br />
condition is known as Post-orgasmic<br />
illness syndrome (POIS) or Post-coital<br />
tristesse (PCT).<br />
Sadness after sex is a very real<br />
condition. It is however, not common<br />
to hear that some people feel depressed<br />
soon after sex. The truth is suffer ers of<br />
this condition are not alone, a number of<br />
people feel that way. When the afterglow<br />
of sexual intercourse is replaced with<br />
negative feelings of depression instead of<br />
positive mood boosting emotions it can<br />
become frustrating<br />
and confusing for<br />
the sufferer.<br />
According to<br />
experts there<br />
are many reasons why someone would<br />
feel this way. The answer is usually<br />
psychological. Some reasons include post<br />
traumatic stress disorder for example in<br />
rape victims, having sexual relations with<br />
an abusive individual, not being ready<br />
for sex, fears of rejection, guilt, shame,<br />
emotional distance within a relationship<br />
and low self esteem. Experts have further<br />
pointed out that one’s biology may also be<br />
against them.<br />
The science behind this condition is<br />
that one’s body creates the hormone<br />
prolactin which counteracts the release<br />
of dopamine, the sexual arousal hormone.<br />
Prolactin is the cause of one’s depressed<br />
state soon after sexual activity.<br />
Walter Last the writer of the<br />
Neurochemistry of sex, in his work stated<br />
that “Orgasm is generally regarded as the<br />
ultimate goal of recreational sex. Wilhelm<br />
<br />
the nature and purpose of the orgasm<br />
as a discharge of excess bio-energy with<br />
additional liberation of feeling energy<br />
and he also recognized the negative<br />
consequences of blocked sexual energies.”<br />
Last went on to explain that, “After<br />
orgasm dopamine levels fall sharply with<br />
the usual withdrawal symptoms. This<br />
reaction tends to be immediate in males<br />
and delayed in females. Also prolactin<br />
levels rise and androgen receptors<br />
fall after orgasm. Low testosterone is<br />
associated with irritability and anger.”<br />
This is usually why an individual may<br />
<br />
after sex.<br />
Psychiatrist Dr Friedman discussed this<br />
very phenomenon where he prescribed<br />
Prozac which also goes by the name<br />
Fluoxetine to patients who experienced<br />
this phenomenon. This medication is<br />
known to be one of the most effective<br />
anti-depressants on the market. Although<br />
patients noticed a reduction in sexual<br />
<br />
the results after taking the medication.<br />
It can be hard for any sufferer to, not<br />
<br />
that occur during and after a sexual<br />
experience. There is a way out and your<br />
<br />
you do suffer from this condition, if the<br />
symptoms continue to present themselves<br />
and you want to rid yourself of the<br />
negative emotions that after sex brings it<br />
would be wise to seek professional help.<br />
TP<br />
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Tafadzwa Dombodzvuku<br />
An epitome of perfection, a<br />
wholesome nourishing beauty,<br />
a paragon of virtue all packed<br />
in one, where the exact words<br />
to describe Elizabeth’s unquestionable<br />
beauty, which had the power to light up<br />
the world during a blackout.<br />
Even in the midst of her never ending<br />
troubled thoughts, the woman had a<br />
beauty that can conquer all. The smile<br />
across her face was gracious with a<br />
piercing sparkle in her eyes that any<br />
right-minded man could not miss.<br />
Since the time she came to live in our<br />
village, I tried the best I could to win her<br />
heart but she always turned down my<br />
overtures, saying, “I’m not ready to date<br />
a man.”<br />
The previous man in her life had<br />
done extreme damage and had dented<br />
her appetite for love or a relationship.<br />
Elizabeth had a son who was in the sixth<br />
grade. Like Siamese twins, they were<br />
<br />
to say the least.<br />
“If only you can give me a chance to<br />
love you, I promise to bring you the sun;<br />
you are a beautiful woman Eliza.<br />
“Each time I see you passing by, I feel<br />
<br />
beauty melts my frozen heart. It is only<br />
natural that I would fall in love with<br />
you,” I said in a sober toned voice.<br />
My efforts felt like trapping an elephant<br />
with a thin wire snare. They never came<br />
into fruition. She would always give me<br />
the same answer, but it did not deter<br />
my zeal or dampen my spirits. For me<br />
it would be a crime to give up on such a<br />
beautiful lady.<br />
In my elusive bag of tricks, I found<br />
that the best way to win a woman’s heart,<br />
especially, a woman like Elizabeth, was<br />
through loving & making friends with her<br />
children. So, I befriended her son,Tapiwa<br />
and tried to be the man in his life. The<br />
kid was a marvel to accommodate in my<br />
tiny antiquated designed heart that I had<br />
inherited from my deceased grandfather.<br />
“I appreciate what you are doing for<br />
my son, thank you for being a father<br />
<br />
man like you,” complimented Eliza.<br />
Her words encouraged me in my<br />
endeavours to win her heart. Her aunt,<br />
whom she stayed with, seemed to like me<br />
a lot and I kept on believing that one day<br />
I would win her over.<br />
Elizabeth was a beautiful woman, in<br />
her late twenties. She had come to live<br />
in Hurungwe after what she had told me<br />
was a “horrendous experience in Harare.”<br />
I tried in vain to have her open up and<br />
tell me her story but she was reluctant.<br />
Until one day, I met her aunt at the well,<br />
in her absence.<br />
Her aunt tricked me into pumping<br />
water for her so she could tell me more<br />
about Elizabeth. She enticed me by<br />
promising to tell me Elizabeth’s whole<br />
history and I readily agreed with my<br />
labour. I was very much inquisitive to<br />
hear about the story of ‘My Love’ and to<br />
<br />
her to despise men with so much vigour.<br />
“It is a long story my son,” she said as<br />
she sighed.<br />
“I have all the time in the world to<br />
listen tete,” I replied.<br />
“The situation is very complicated and<br />
I don’t blame Eliza for despising men. She<br />
endured excruciating, heart-felt pain, a<br />
pain she has learnt to live with. Not all<br />
woman can live with such a heavy burden<br />
but my niece has managed,” said tete.<br />
I was getting curious and impatient to<br />
hear the whole story.<br />
Tete was a very good storyteller and<br />
she knew how to whet the appetite of a<br />
listener before dropping the bomb.<br />
My patience was tested and my veins<br />
were stretched. The food was getting cold<br />
before we could consume the delicacy,<br />
quoting a popular local idiom, as her aunt<br />
toyed with my mind and my heart. She<br />
was taking her time, telling me of the life<br />
that Elizabeth lived<br />
“Stop beating about the bush tete,<br />
you know very well I love Eliza. Stop<br />
trampling on my feelings,” I said.<br />
“Can you grasp what I am about to tell<br />
you?” asked tete.<br />
“I can bear anything and everything.<br />
<br />
alter the undying love I have for your<br />
niece,” I replied.<br />
The conversation persisted as I<br />
<br />
white containers. I was sweating and tete<br />
was looking on, hesitating, as we say, to<br />
break and fry the egg.<br />
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them in her wheelbarrow, begging tete to<br />
<br />
her home. I was to push the wheelbarrow<br />
<br />
the way.<br />
Two do not walk together unless they<br />
are in agreement. People were looking at<br />
us as we were walking lackadaisically<br />
down the road, as from a distance we<br />
seemed to be quarrelling.<br />
“Tafadzwa, Elizabeth was wronged by<br />
a man she trusted very much,” said tete.<br />
“Wronged, what exactly are you trying<br />
to say, tete,” I quizzed. Not fully grasping<br />
what she was alluding to, but knowing<br />
from the movement in my stomach what<br />
she was talking about.<br />
“She was tortured by the every man<br />
whom had been trusted with her care,”<br />
she continued. I tried to imagine different<br />
types of torture and the pain Elizabeth<br />
went through, because torturing was not<br />
an easy experience and from what I learnt<br />
in history books of people who were<br />
tortured during the liberation strugglethe<br />
phenomenon was not an easy walk in<br />
the park.<br />
“Let me explain further, Tafadzwa.<br />
Elizabeth’s parents were involved in an<br />
accident and died on the spot when she<br />
was doing her grade seven. Since I was<br />
staying and working in South Africa as a<br />
nurse, I could not be there for my niece<br />
so she was left under the care of a local<br />
priest.<br />
“Life was never the same for this little<br />
girl, who was her parent’s only child. She<br />
was under a lot of emotional stress after<br />
losing her parents at such a tender age,”<br />
said tete.<br />
I still had not fully grasped the whole<br />
story, I was still imagining the torture<br />
and the pain that I thought Elizabeth had<br />
gone through.<br />
“Elizabeth lived for four years with<br />
the Priest and his wife. But unfortunately<br />
his wife died of breast cancer when<br />
Elizabeth was doing her form three. After<br />
that, things we never the same between<br />
Elizabeth and the Priest.<br />
“In the year that followed, the Priest<br />
started making overtures at Elizabeth.<br />
She refused, rapeatedly, but he forced<br />
himself on her. Elizabeth was raped by the<br />
priest, resulting in her falling pregnant.<br />
She gave birth to Tapiwa,” narrated tete.<br />
I felt the ground drop from my feet,<br />
as I unloaded the containers from her<br />
wheelbarrow. I had been listening<br />
attentively as I worked, but I stopped and<br />
could only stare blankly at her<br />
“My niece could not sit for her O’levels<br />
and she was robbed of her bright future.<br />
She could have become a teacher or nurse<br />
if she had sat for her exams,” explained<br />
tete.<br />
“What happened to the Priest?” I asked.<br />
“He was sentenced to 20 years behind<br />
bars for raping and impregnating a<br />
minor,” tete concluded.<br />
<br />
a harrowing and torrid time and I needed<br />
to take a different approach if I was going<br />
to win her heart.<br />
I decided to invited Elizabeth to my<br />
house the following day. To my surprise<br />
she did not turn me down like she used to.<br />
“I know the whole story, tete told<br />
me yesterday and I am sorry for what<br />
happened,” I said offering a shoulder to<br />
lean on.<br />
To my surprise, she accepted my offer<br />
of comfort. She cried, cried and cried her<br />
lungs out. All I could do to help was have<br />
her lean on my shoulder as I patted her on<br />
her back whilst I consoled her.<br />
Her greatest fear was all men were the<br />
same. She did not trust men later alone<br />
be able to love a man. She poured out her<br />
heart and laid bare all her fears, thoughts<br />
and feelings.<br />
As I was comforting her in my<br />
antiquated room, seated on my<br />
dilapidated bed we lost track of time and<br />
found ourselves caressing, kissing and<br />
then making passionate love.<br />
After love making, I felt very much<br />
connected to the pros and cons of Eliza’s<br />
persona. I just wanted to delve deeper<br />
into her.<br />
Moments after eating the forbidden<br />
fruit, we sat far apart from each other and<br />
she was ashamed of herself and remained<br />
speechless until I asked her a question,<br />
“What are we now?”<br />
“Just a pen in the hand of a creator,<br />
I love you Tafadzwa and please do not<br />
break my heart,” she said with tears<br />
trickling down her virtually wrinkled<br />
cheeks.<br />
I lost the will to talk but just nodded<br />
my head in agreement. TP<br />
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Culture & Society<br />
Tarisai Maringire<br />
Growing up Tatenda Mutasa<br />
(28)* had a dream of becoming<br />
an accountant and having a<br />
family of her own.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tatenda* enrolled at a local University<br />
where she studied Accounts for four years.<br />
While at the tertiary institution she met<br />
the love of her life and everything seemed<br />
to be what she had always wanted.<br />
Her world went topsy-turvy one<br />
day when her husband out of the<br />
blue told her that she had to quit<br />
her job and become a full time<br />
housewife.<br />
“When I met him he was<br />
proud of everything I achieved,<br />
he knew that I have always<br />
loved my job. It was a big blow<br />
to me. I didn’t expect that<br />
from him since he saw<br />
me hustle my way<br />
through<br />
college<br />
to achieve my<br />
c h i l d h o o d<br />
dream<br />
of<br />
becoming<br />
a<br />
n<br />
accountant,” said Tatenda.*<br />
Many women have faced the same<br />
predicament where husbands have forced<br />
their spouses to resign from their jobs<br />
to be full time housewives for various<br />
reasons.<br />
Men in favour of wives staying at<br />
home say that it will give them ample<br />
time for taking care of the kids without<br />
divided attention.<br />
A sentiment which is echoed by Gogo<br />
Madzinga (60) who says<br />
children who are raised<br />
by their mothers<br />
are<br />
usually<br />
well mannered<br />
compared<br />
to<br />
those raised by<br />
maids.<br />
She says those<br />
mothers have never<br />
missed a milestone in<br />
their children’s lives.<br />
<br />
<br />
love and socialization. Families educate<br />
children to be responsible adults and<br />
better parents, so it’s critical for mothers<br />
to be there all the way,” said Gogo<br />
Madzinga.<br />
However, others disagree with this<br />
school of thought.<br />
“You can nurture<br />
your children and<br />
still go t o<br />
work. I have raised all my three kids this<br />
<br />
mom who also works full-time.<br />
Charity Nyoni, a working mother, notes<br />
that, “One of the aspects of mothering<br />
that’s terribly important is making sure<br />
that you can provide for your children<br />
<br />
She added that women should work to<br />
be prepared for unforeseen circumstances<br />
like husband’s unemployment, a divorce<br />
or illness.<br />
The current tough economic conditions<br />
have seen families headed by one parent<br />
struggling to make ends meet. So many<br />
stories have been heard on how families<br />
struggle to survive after the working<br />
spouse has been retrenched or dies.<br />
Roselyne Muchenje* said she learned<br />
the hard way after divorcing her husband<br />
of two years because of irreconcilable<br />
differences. She now faces life as a jobless<br />
single mother and seeks maintenance<br />
from her former husband.<br />
“Whatever path you decide is best for<br />
you and your family, one thing is certain<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
of that decision as you leave your paid<br />
work,” she advised.<br />
Mr Manenji said he stopped his wife<br />
from going to work after discovering that<br />
her boss was always soliciting for sexual<br />
favours from employees.<br />
Psychologists argue that all this is<br />
caused by mistrust in a relationship<br />
rather than anything else.<br />
Other women have pointed out to the<br />
envy that comes from husbands whose<br />
wives earn more than what they earn.<br />
“I’m the main breadwinner in our<br />
house and there are times when my<br />
husband doesn’t like it. We have<br />
arguments and he always threatens<br />
that he will make me quit my job,” said<br />
a lady who preferred anonymity.<br />
<br />
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by their wives when it comes to career<br />
and money. Men like to feel that they are<br />
the head of the family,” agreed Tongai<br />
Maphosa.<br />
According to traditional beliefs, men<br />
are the providers or breadwinners of the<br />
family while women are the care-givers.<br />
Feminists feel that the practice is<br />
patriarchal and it is designed to favour<br />
male domination as women are relegated<br />
to be just care givers and the males won’t<br />
have to be challenged by their women<br />
counterparts at the work place.<br />
“Men and women should have equal<br />
opportunities at home and work; a couple<br />
should share care for the children and<br />
house work, and they should both be<br />
able to go out to work if they want. It<br />
is unprogressive for women to be only<br />
care-givers. Each woman has to make the<br />
<br />
her hopes and dreams.<br />
“Women should voice their views in the<br />
quest for emancipation and empowerment<br />
against the patriarchal social set-up<br />
which has always suppressed them from<br />
mastering their own destiny,” said Kundai<br />
Nyamutsenha who works with women<br />
organisations.<br />
Tatenda says it pains her to hear<br />
many stereotypes about housewives, “We<br />
tend to be portrayed as unmotivated,<br />
depressed and uneducated. It’s not true<br />
we also have ambitions.”<br />
Not all men agree that women are<br />
supposed to be just housewives as they<br />
argue that when you marry you get<br />
yourself a helper who should also work to<br />
give the family stability.<br />
“When the pressure of bills and<br />
<br />
do well with a helper as the current<br />
economical condition doesn’t need a sole<br />
breadwinner,” said Tendai Gondo.<br />
According to the scriptures, husbands<br />
should be the head of the family and<br />
should make decisions, which he views<br />
are the best for his family.<br />
“For the husband is the head of the wife<br />
as Christ is the head of the church. Now<br />
as the church submits to Christ, so also<br />
wives should submit to their husbands<br />
in everything says Ephesians 5:22,” said<br />
<br />
Over the years women have been<br />
<br />
facets of life. TP<br />
*Not their real names.<br />
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Conjuring u<br />
Culture & Society<br />
Protect or<br />
Witchcraft<br />
Being accused of being a witch<br />
or sorcerer has never been<br />
comfortable business.<br />
Europe and the Catholic<br />
Church probably take the price for the<br />
nastiest witch-hunts in history. Today<br />
some of the worst places to be accused of<br />
practicing black magic are in Africa.<br />
The catastrophic and often violent<br />
consequence for the mostly innocent<br />
victims begs the question of what the<br />
government can do to curb and manage<br />
witchcraft allegations?<br />
“In the countryside, people’s belief in<br />
witchcraft is strong like iron,” explained<br />
Belinda Masvanhise, who works for the<br />
social ministry of the government.<br />
But this belief expresses itself<br />
differently depending on the social<br />
context.<br />
“As a child my parents would point out<br />
certain old people in our village and tell<br />
me they are witches and sorcerers and<br />
that we shouldn’t play in front of their<br />
houses,” she said.<br />
This is fairly typical of the mild social<br />
exclusion found all over the world that<br />
mostly affects those people not seen to be<br />
complying completely with certain social<br />
norms.<br />
But in some parts of the country,<br />
witchcraft accusations can lead to a<br />
decidedly more brutal outcome, with<br />
accusations frequently leading to<br />
mistreatment and violence against the<br />
accused. This can ultimately lead to<br />
eviction from the village and the cutting<br />
of social bonds.<br />
Often it is an event such as the death of<br />
the member of the community that leads<br />
to accusations of witchcraft.<br />
“In the villages, there is no ‘natural<br />
<br />
behind the death,” explains Peter Kaviya.<br />
Guilt is often established in a witchhunting<br />
ceremony. A traditional healer<br />
or ‘prophet’ is summoned to perform a<br />
cleansing ritual on which he or she may<br />
enter a state of trance and is believed to<br />
be ‘guided’ by the spirit of the dead to his<br />
or her murderer.<br />
In some cases the deceased is buried<br />
holding some ‘muti’ that would make him<br />
or her return to haunt the murderer.<br />
Interestingly, those accused of<br />
practicing black magic and driven out<br />
of their communities overwhelmingly<br />
<br />
“They are mostly female, poor and<br />
without family support. 99% of them are<br />
poor and old,” says Masvanhise.<br />
<br />
persons can vary from place to place.<br />
In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic<br />
Republic of Congo, accusations are mostly<br />
leveled against children.<br />
NGOs in the city estimate that as many<br />
as two thirds of all of the city’s tens of<br />
thousands of street children have been<br />
chased away from home due to witchcraft<br />
allegations.<br />
Meanwhile, in areas of the Central<br />
African Republic and Angola it is again<br />
mostly old men and women who are<br />
accused, even though there are increasing<br />
reports of child accusations in the former.<br />
The fact that witchcraft accusations<br />
<br />
areas begs the question of whether there<br />
isn’t a deeper social mechanism at work<br />
in superstitious beliefs than the mere<br />
searching for explanations when the<br />
seemingly inexplicable happens?<br />
“In regions where there is high<br />
demographic pressure, the reaction to<br />
witchcraft accusations is violence and<br />
eviction.<br />
“It is the poor, practically isolated<br />
women, who are the victims in 90% of<br />
all cases. In the majority the cases, they<br />
are women after their menopause, who<br />
are widows, who are poor, who have no<br />
support, and of whom you want to rid<br />
yourself because they have become a<br />
useless mouth to feed, in the context of<br />
high poverty,” she said.<br />
For the accused, being cast out<br />
of their home and social network is<br />
often catastrophic, especially because<br />
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Prosecute?<br />
p solutions to<br />
Accusations<br />
it is typically the most vulnerable of<br />
society that are targeted. For states and<br />
governments, witchcraft allegations raise<br />
both questions around their monopoly<br />
of power and of how to deal with the<br />
victims?<br />
Zimbabwe and the Central African<br />
Republic can be seen as two opposing<br />
models in that sense. While Zimbabwe has<br />
prioritised the protection of the accused,<br />
the Central African Republic still carries<br />
on with the French colonial attitude of<br />
treating witchcraft itself as a crime and<br />
trying to institutionalise the process of<br />
accusation and trial.<br />
Both the British and the French<br />
colonial rulers introduced laws against<br />
witchcraft, but while the French only<br />
punished the practice of witchcraft,<br />
the British also suppressed witchcraft<br />
allegations no matter if one was accusing<br />
others falsely or claimed to be a witch<br />
themselves. Zimbabwe abandoned the<br />
British law in the 1980s, but failed at<br />
the time to introduce a law banning<br />
witchcraft accusations.<br />
Instead, the government set up a series<br />
of institutions like Zinatha and otherwise<br />
relied on laws against communal violence<br />
and forceful eviction to punish the<br />
perpetrators of witchcraft allegations.<br />
This approach has proven to be<br />
<br />
<br />
Many of them, for example, do not<br />
know how to deal properly with the<br />
police and courts. If they even approach<br />
law enforcement, Masvanhise told The<br />
Parade, they are often turned away<br />
because they only tell the police about<br />
the witchcraft allegations and fail to<br />
<br />
happened as a consequence of those<br />
accusations.<br />
By contrast, the Central African<br />
Republic has kept its colonial-era law and,<br />
contrary to some other African states, is<br />
making frequent use of it. According to a<br />
study by UNICEF, about 25% of all cases<br />
brought to court in the capital Bangui<br />
and 80-90% of all cases in rural areas are<br />
witchcraft-related. 70% of all prisoners<br />
in Bangui central prison are incarcerated<br />
because of witchcraft accusations.<br />
In theory, an argument can be made<br />
for the punishment of ‘black magic’ in<br />
African societies. Witchcraft is not only<br />
believed in, but also actively practised<br />
all over the continent and the anecdotal<br />
and factual evidence of malign witchcraft<br />
practices abounds.<br />
Completely doing away with<br />
recognising witchcraft as a crime<br />
therefore bears the real risk of lowering<br />
the trust in the judicial system and<br />
driving the practice of punishing witches<br />
underground; after all, in the eyes of<br />
most of the population, somebody has to<br />
protect them from the evil intentions of<br />
witches and sorcerers.<br />
But this risk is probably worth it, if<br />
one looks at the problems associated with<br />
witchcraft-related trials. How do you<br />
prove that somebody is involved with<br />
the supernatural? In the Central African<br />
Republic, the answer is simple: You just<br />
ask somebody else who purports to wield<br />
similar powers.<br />
“That is hard because if my neighbour<br />
gets on my nerves and I want to get rid<br />
of her, I can just say she is a witch. I’m<br />
against that,” argued Kaviya.<br />
It is also worth asking whether a<br />
sustainable solution to the suffering<br />
produced by witchcraft accusations can<br />
even come from attacking witchcraft<br />
related practices at all?<br />
As has been established, these<br />
accusations are largely a function of<br />
underlying social issues like poverty, low<br />
levels of education and insecurity.<br />
Witchcraft allegations typically target<br />
the most vulnerable in society, but how<br />
can beliefs “as strong as iron” be tackled?<br />
TP<br />
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Speechless<br />
after winning<br />
In the Courts<br />
Tafadzwa Dombodzvuku<br />
Theresa Mapete who recently<br />
applied for a protection order<br />
recently at the Harare Civil<br />
Court was left with egg on her<br />
face after the respondent Dennis Kucheni<br />
insisted that the presiding magistrate<br />
Barbra Masinhire should go ahead and<br />
“Grant Theresa everything and more than<br />
she is asking for.”<br />
The court was left in stitches after the<br />
applicant was left seemingly confused by<br />
the judge’s decision in a case where she<br />
was seeking a protection order to restrain<br />
her husband of four years from visiting<br />
her work place, verbally abusing her,<br />
taking money from her and harassing her<br />
in front of their daughter.<br />
“I am applying for a protection order<br />
against Dennis the father of my daughter;<br />
he takes money from me to take care of<br />
his other family, threatens to kill me,<br />
harasses me, verbally abuses me at my<br />
work place and I do not want him to call<br />
me,” said Mapete.<br />
The magistrate inquired what the<br />
respondent would have to do if he wanted<br />
to see his child, and maybe he would<br />
want to give them groceries.<br />
“If I may ask what the respondent is<br />
supposed to do if he wants to<br />
see the child, maybe<br />
he would want<br />
to give groceries<br />
and so forth?”<br />
asked magistrate<br />
Masinhire.<br />
“If it is about for<br />
<br />
the child, there is no problem he can call<br />
me it is okay,” said the applicant.<br />
Dennis did not deny the application<br />
but went on to insist that the court must<br />
grant her everything she is asking for.<br />
“I am not against the application, your<br />
worship; you can grant her everything<br />
and more of what she is asking for.<br />
“I was actually surprised to receive<br />
summons that I am wanted at the court<br />
because for the four years we lived<br />
together I never raised my hand to beat<br />
her up neither did I harass her,” said<br />
Kucheni.<br />
Magistrate Masinhire double checked<br />
if Dennis was not against the application<br />
and if she can go ahead in granting the<br />
application to the applicant.<br />
“You can proceed and grant her<br />
everything and more of what she is<br />
asking for but I just want to say problems<br />
started when her uncle’s sent some<br />
people to take her from our matrimonial<br />
<br />
get my wife back.<br />
“This did not go down well with me<br />
since at the moment I am unemployed<br />
<br />
pay the lobola,” said Kucheni.<br />
“Since the respondent is not against<br />
the application, the court has<br />
granted a protection<br />
order to the applicant,”<br />
ruled magistrate<br />
Masinhire.<br />
The applicant<br />
seemed to<br />
have gotten<br />
c o n f u s e d<br />
that she<br />
won her case<br />
with ease<br />
and there is no<br />
lobola coming for<br />
h e r<br />
uncles hence she took the time in front of<br />
the magistrate to ask for something that<br />
failed to come out.<br />
Meanwhile, in another identical case<br />
Esnida Watambwa Kwashirai brought<br />
Lovemore her ex-husband before the<br />
court seeking a protection order, for<br />
the respondent not to come to her work<br />
place, harass her, scold her and shout<br />
obscenities in public.<br />
“I’m applying for a protection order so<br />
that he (Lovemore) stops coming to my<br />
work place, to harass me, scold me and<br />
shout obscenities at me in public,” said<br />
the applicant.<br />
Lovemore was not opposed to the<br />
protection order and went on to say, “I<br />
am not abusing her but the real issue is<br />
she does not love me anymore and I am<br />
not opposed to the protection order but<br />
I want to ask what I can do because we<br />
work at the same place?”<br />
Both the applicant and the respondent<br />
are vendors at Mbudzi bus terminus area<br />
and the applicant’s parents live next door<br />
to the respondent’s parents.<br />
The applicant vowed to take the child<br />
to the parents of the respondent if he<br />
wants to see the child.<br />
“I will take the child to his parents if<br />
he wants to see him,” said Kwashirai.<br />
The protection order was granted to<br />
the applicant and the respondent was<br />
advised not to abuse, harass, hurl shouts<br />
at Kwashirai and that they must conduct<br />
their vending business in peace. TP<br />
Shocking protection orders<br />
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African Femi<br />
long<br />
way over the past half century or so. In<br />
<br />
organisations were often tied to the patronage<br />
politics of the single-party state and tended to<br />
focus on welfare, domestic and developmental<br />
concerns whilst avoiding political engagement.<br />
At the grassroots level women’s groups produced<br />
handicrafts, promoted literacy, farmed, engaged in<br />
income-generating projects, and engaged in cultural<br />
activities.<br />
This began to change in the 1990s as women’s<br />
<br />
international women’s rights agendas as well as<br />
by the United Nations, African Union, Southern<br />
African Development Community and other subregional<br />
organisations.<br />
The 1985 UN Conference on Women held in<br />
Nairobi and especially the 1995 UN Conference<br />
on Women in Beijing served as catalysts for many<br />
organisations and activists. International donors,<br />
weary of state corruption and waste, began to shift<br />
resources towards non-governmental organisations,<br />
including women’s associations.<br />
At the same time women activists became<br />
involved in democratization movements, which<br />
in turn opened up political space for women’s<br />
mobilization. One-party systems gave way to multi-<br />
taking a lead in changing<br />
has<br />
often been seen as a<br />
Western concept, but<br />
‘Feminism’<br />
African women are<br />
<br />
<br />
rest of the world.<br />
We often hear a raft of statistics that<br />
both celebrate and lament the status<br />
of women. While some indicators of<br />
gender equality have improved, others<br />
continue to shock and disappoint,<br />
<br />
different discrete areas can often<br />
prove a troublesome task.<br />
For instance there is news that<br />
South African women hold 40% of the<br />
country’s parliamentary seats while it is<br />
also alleged that in Gauteng province 1 in 4<br />
women have been raped.<br />
However, in this context, the more<br />
<br />
movements have made globally often go<br />
unnoticed. Far from following a trajectory that<br />
seeks to ‘catch up’ with Western feminism,<br />
several African countries and social groups<br />
have forged their own conceptions of equality<br />
and provided models for the rest of the world<br />
to follow.<br />
Women’s movements in Africa have come a<br />
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the World<br />
party systems, military dictatorships<br />
dissolved into civilian rule, freedom<br />
of press, association and assembly<br />
<br />
Africa, especially after 2000, further sped<br />
up the push for women’s rights, especially<br />
<br />
With time, women’s organisations<br />
became increasingly independent of<br />
government and the dominant political<br />
party. Women activists began to acquire<br />
their own resources, select their own<br />
leaders and forge their own agendas.<br />
They started taking on some of the<br />
most challenging issues that affected<br />
women. These included issues relating<br />
to domestic violence, inheritance rights,<br />
female genital cutting, child marriage and<br />
other issues relating to customary law.<br />
More recently, there has been increased<br />
support for cervical screening and more<br />
awareness around abortion and other<br />
contentious issues.<br />
Although the older welfare-oriented<br />
and developmental agendas persist to<br />
this day, a new emphasis on political<br />
participation and advocacy has emerged.<br />
New women’s organisations formed to<br />
improve leadership skills, encourage<br />
women’s political involvement, promote<br />
women’s political leadership, press for<br />
legislative changes, and conduct civic<br />
education.<br />
On the one hand, some of the successes<br />
of African women’s movements can<br />
be attributed to the roles played by<br />
international organizations in catalyzing<br />
change, providing broad spaces for<br />
debate and action, and offering examples<br />
for African nations and campaigners to<br />
emulate.<br />
But on the other hand, African<br />
organisations can be seen to have<br />
taken unique and novel approaches to<br />
campaigning for female empowerment in<br />
<br />
world.<br />
In Africa, the term “feminism” has<br />
often carried with it the baggages of<br />
being regarded as a Western and foreign<br />
construct. However, this is rapidly<br />
changing as feminism itself has been<br />
<br />
in Africa to suit their own purposes.<br />
While some of these women’s<br />
rights agendas have been inspired<br />
by international feminism, African<br />
women are themselves contributing<br />
<br />
and implementation of women’s rights as<br />
we see in the struggles over quotas and<br />
constitutional reform.<br />
The notion of ‘gender mainstreaming’<br />
that became popular in the 1980s<br />
had been articulated by women like<br />
Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo from Burkina Faso in<br />
1960, when at a UN meeting she argued<br />
for the need to, “keep a double stream, to<br />
<br />
the same time trying to involve them in<br />
the mainstream of decisions and actions”.<br />
More recently, women’s increasingly<br />
visible presence in African legislatures<br />
has also resulted in new global discussions<br />
about strategies to enhance women’s<br />
political representation.<br />
The incremental model of increasing<br />
women’s representation in parliament<br />
that led to high rates of female<br />
representation in the Nordic countries<br />
in the 1970s has now been replaced by<br />
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the ‘fast track’ African model whereby<br />
dramatic jumps in parliamentary<br />
representation are brought about by the<br />
introduction of electoral quotas.<br />
At Independence Zimbabwe adopted<br />
<br />
promote women in all spheres of society.<br />
Today, Zimbabwe has one of the<br />
most vibrant representations of women<br />
including a female vice-president and<br />
a myriad of women organizations like<br />
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA),<br />
Women in Politics Support Unit (WIPS)<br />
and Msasa Project to name just a few.<br />
“It shows that Africa is keeping abreast<br />
with the changes around the world and it<br />
should make us proud when our continent<br />
is referred to as a model in gender issues,”<br />
said Cresencia Murwira.<br />
Laws and deliberate policies have been<br />
put in place and targets set to facilitate<br />
women’s inclusion in decision-making<br />
positions, with Sadc and the African<br />
<br />
deadlines for the attainment of this goal.<br />
Sadc has mandated its members to give<br />
women 50% political representation by<br />
2015.<br />
With regards to women’s access to<br />
decision-making roles the South African<br />
parliament, which had a mere 2, 7%<br />
representation of women before 1994,<br />
now has 42% representation since the<br />
2009 elections following consistent<br />
improvement after each election.<br />
South Africa’s 25-member cabinet has<br />
13 female ministers and 16 female deputy<br />
ministers.<br />
The former President of Malawi Joyce<br />
Banda is female, so is former South African<br />
minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who<br />
is now the African Union Commission<br />
chairperson, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi is<br />
United Nations Development Programme<br />
director of Democratic Governance, while<br />
former South African Vice-President<br />
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is United<br />
Nations Women Executive Director.<br />
<br />
having the highest number of women in<br />
Parliament. Females constitute 56, 5% of<br />
the Rwanda’s National Assembly and 38,<br />
5% of its Senate.<br />
In Senegal and Seychelles more than<br />
40% of parliamentary seats are held by<br />
women, while in Mozambique, Angola,<br />
Tanzania and Uganda more than 35% of<br />
the seats are occupied by women. There<br />
are female speakers of the house in one<br />
<br />
higher than the world average of 14%.<br />
But beneath these statistics lies an even<br />
greater success.<br />
Unlike many other rights, which are<br />
dictated from a top-down international<br />
(and often Western) level, Africa has<br />
actively enhanced global understandings<br />
of feminism and the future looks even<br />
brighter. TP<br />
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August 2014
Culture & Society<br />
Harare’s sanitary lanes &<br />
walls turned into toilets<br />
Terence Zimwara<br />
Harare city’s sanitary lanes<br />
between buildings have<br />
become restroom facilities<br />
for pedestrians who cannot<br />
afford the fee charged at paid restrooms<br />
or cannot access the free ones.<br />
You normally see drunken men and<br />
young boys making a turn towards these<br />
lanes once they feel the need to relieve<br />
themselves, while mothers actively<br />
encourage their young children to relieve<br />
themselves at these undesignated toilets.<br />
The result is often a strong stench that<br />
<br />
to say it poses a potential for disease<br />
outbreaks.<br />
<br />
stop or arrest anyone violating the city<br />
by laws that prohibit the use of sanitary<br />
lanes to relieve themselves. The police<br />
force however, seems to be overwhelmed<br />
at times, while the odd good citizen<br />
would dissuade fellow citizens from<br />
engaging in this unbecoming behaviour.<br />
This however, has disappeared as well.<br />
Harare City has to bore the brunt of this<br />
problem although the same is prevalent<br />
in other cities across the country as well.<br />
The Parade asked some Harare resident<br />
their thoughts concerning this problem<br />
and many blamed the council for not<br />
doing enough to alleviate the situation.<br />
Ronah a hairdresser accused the city<br />
council of being complacent towards the<br />
continued soiling of sanitary lanes, where<br />
street kids and thieves now prowl.<br />
“Almost every place in town has<br />
become a toilet especially these sanitary<br />
lanes and worse it happens throughout<br />
the day,” said Ronah.<br />
In the past people would use these<br />
undesignated toilets at night only to avoid<br />
detection, but now throughout the day<br />
you see grown man relieving themselves<br />
in these lanes.<br />
The few well maintained public toilets<br />
charge a fee for residents to use while<br />
restroom facilities at designated public<br />
<br />
unusable to some.<br />
According to Ronah this forces people<br />
to resort to sanitary lanes and other<br />
places to relieve themselves when nature<br />
calls.<br />
The few public restroom facilities that<br />
were built during the colonial era were<br />
meant to be used by only a few people<br />
that is, the white minority.<br />
As many of these were built with the<br />
<br />
of the population, their opening up to the<br />
rest of the population suddenly put an<br />
enormous strain on the facilities leading<br />
to their constant malfunction.<br />
The question is when is this going to<br />
end? Who is going to put a stop to this?<br />
City councils bear most responsibilities<br />
in this matter and how they approach<br />
the problem might provide the lead for<br />
everyone to follow.<br />
The Environmental Committee of<br />
the Harare City council in an attempt to<br />
tackle the problem, made a resolution last<br />
year that all building owners had to put<br />
gates on sanitary lanes, yet nothing has<br />
been done judging by the number of these<br />
lanes that still do not have gates.<br />
Suggestions had been made that the<br />
council had to use its resources to install<br />
such gates and then levy building owners<br />
in order for it recoup its costs.<br />
However, just like the issue of potholes<br />
and refuse collection, the city fathers will<br />
simply not do anything but wait, while<br />
forever hoping that the problems will go<br />
away.<br />
For Ronah and many others, the<br />
residents of the city will have to live<br />
with the stench of the sanitary lanes and<br />
hope that no serious disease outbreaks<br />
occur because of it, unless of course they<br />
can pressure city fathers to act, which is<br />
unlikely at this point. TP<br />
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Culture & Society<br />
Air Force of Zimbabwe<br />
Commander’s<br />
shooting competition<br />
Tafadzwa Dombodzvuku<br />
The Air Force of Zimbabwe<br />
conducted the Commander’s<br />
Shooting Competition last<br />
<br />
Range.<br />
Sergeant Kangongwa won the top<br />
<br />
competition and pocketed US$120, a<br />
<br />
<br />
Holdings Limited.<br />
<br />
the contestants drawn from different<br />
services battling each other in different<br />
shooting ranges.<br />
Gospel sensation Fungisai Mashavave-<br />
Zvakavapano graced the occasion and<br />
took part in the shooting funfare with<br />
other civilians who had not held a gun<br />
before.<br />
Air Force of Zimbabwe commander<br />
Air Marshal Perence Shiri who was also<br />
the guest of honour, applauded shooters<br />
for a job well done and encouraged the<br />
participants to further enhance their<br />
skills in shooting.<br />
<br />
<br />
competition and to those who did not<br />
<br />
but keep on practising,” said Air Marshal<br />
Shiri.<br />
The commander went on to invite<br />
civilians to take part in the competition<br />
<br />
Force of Zimbabwe to come together and<br />
<br />
sporting atmosphere.<br />
“The Air Force of Zimbabwe would like<br />
to invite all civilians to take part in this<br />
unparalleled sporting discipline.<br />
<br />
competing for the top honours in the<br />
individual and teams, from various<br />
shooting positions such as prone, sitting<br />
and standing at the 100m, 200m and<br />
300m range,” said Air Marshal Shiri.<br />
<br />
increase in the number of women<br />
participating despite the fact that<br />
<br />
sport, which requires mental strength<br />
and rigorous training.<br />
Women who participated in the<br />
commander’s shooting competition<br />
included some war veterans who were<br />
a part of the second Chimurenga and<br />
other civilians drawn from Harare and<br />
Chitungwiza municipalities.<br />
“It is important to note the increase<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
of life.<br />
<br />
the participants for a successful shooting<br />
competition that was conducted in a<br />
sportsmanship manner,” said the Air<br />
Force commander.<br />
In the female teams shooting<br />
competition Thornhill Air Base came<br />
third with Air Force Headquarters Team<br />
<br />
<br />
Air Force of Zimbabwe Team C and<br />
<br />
<br />
sitting on the third position.<br />
<br />
Metropolitan came third and Murenga<br />
ZDF Team B and A sitting on second and<br />
<br />
Harare Metropolitan Province beat<br />
<br />
civilians shooting competition.<br />
The competition was a success through<br />
the help of the corporate world that<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
individuals and companies that donated<br />
in cash and kind towards this event,” said<br />
Air Force Group Captain Command Sports<br />
<br />
The AFZ Commander’s shooting<br />
competition is an annual event that<br />
draws participants from the civilians and<br />
<br />
<br />
Police, Presidential Guard and Zimbabwe<br />
Prisons and Correctional Service. TP<br />
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Culture & Society<br />
A Black box los<br />
Staff Writer<br />
In relatively advanced countries<br />
<br />
point your location from a simple<br />
emergency 911 call.<br />
When you travel outside Zimbabwe<br />
to say South Africa or Britain and you<br />
log on to your favourite internet based<br />
application such as Facebook, Google or<br />
use a Wi Fi in those countries, then almost<br />
immediately your location is known.<br />
We now live in the smartphone era;<br />
many people now use these devices to<br />
access the internet or to make phone calls.<br />
These devices come with applications<br />
that identify your location, so you can<br />
never really get lost when using most<br />
Android phones.<br />
The question comes back again to<br />
the missing Malaysian plane MH370.<br />
How can it go missing with this entire<br />
pinpointing technology? Can such a huge<br />
plane just go missing without any traces<br />
of its whereabouts?<br />
A Boeing 777 plane is equipped with a<br />
series of devices that allows the airliner<br />
to keep tabs on the plane at all times.<br />
In fact, it is also believed that Boeing,<br />
the company that manufactures these<br />
planes actually installs devices<br />
unbeknown to<br />
airliner operators. These devices allow<br />
Boeing to have unfettered surveillance of<br />
the plane even if something goes wrong<br />
with the normal tracking devices.<br />
It is interesting that Boeing has not<br />
really come out to give its take or thoughts<br />
on the disappeared plane and indeed<br />
the former Prime Minister of Malaysia<br />
Muhitair Mohamed, a critic of the West<br />
pointed this out.<br />
He claimed that Boeing had the<br />
technology to remotely control a plane<br />
once it was thought to have been<br />
sabotaged and that this technology had<br />
been in place since the 9/11 attacks.<br />
For those in the IT world debate has<br />
now shifted on trying to have a black box<br />
in a different setting, a ‘black box in the<br />
cloud’.<br />
Black box in the cloud is the<br />
technological response to the drama that<br />
has characterized the missing MH370<br />
plane. A Canadian airliner, First Air will<br />
soon become one of the few operators that<br />
will have this option to live stream black<br />
box data in the event of an emergency.<br />
FLYHTStream was made, a Calgary<br />
based company FLYHT Aerospace<br />
Solutions and it allows safety experts to<br />
<br />
cockpit audio recorder in the event of an<br />
emergency.<br />
During an aircraft safety breach,<br />
the Automated Flight<br />
Information Reporting System (AFIRS)<br />
retrieves back live 20 seconds of black<br />
box data from the point at which the<br />
<br />
breach began and immediately streams to<br />
a secure server.<br />
The pilot can activate FLYHTStream<br />
inside the cockpit while the FLYHTStream<br />
software can also be pre- programmed to<br />
automatically switch on during an aircraft<br />
<br />
<br />
responder did see it go off its course, the<br />
procedure would be to activate the Flight<br />
Stream.<br />
This then allows the contact crew to<br />
see what is going on and perhaps this<br />
<br />
answers to families of those that were on<br />
<br />
At a recent air show held in the UK,<br />
aviation safety and security experts<br />
called for the compulsory black box<br />
data management backup systems in an<br />
international digital age of aviation.<br />
Such aviation backup systems will<br />
enmesh ‘the cloud’, big data, wireless and<br />
social media based communications.<br />
<br />
shown the world that the black box alone<br />
may not be enough anymore.<br />
Since governments have failed to give<br />
real answers or clues, the MH370 story<br />
will remain a mystery and unfortunately<br />
in the end conspiracy theories about what<br />
happened will eventually become the<br />
accepted theory.<br />
A black box in the cloud seems like a<br />
good shot at preventing another MH370<br />
from ever happening again. It remains to<br />
be seen if the rest of the world’s airliners<br />
will adopt this technological innovation.<br />
TP<br />
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Culture & Society<br />
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Business, Careers & Technology<br />
Common mistakes<br />
made by SME owners<br />
Terence Zimwara<br />
It is not uncommon to learn of a<br />
friend or relative who decided to<br />
start a business enterprise. We often<br />
applaud such steps because if the<br />
business eventually succeeds individuals<br />
can learn from the success, while for<br />
many others it is always convenient to<br />
have a business owner close by in case of<br />
emergency.<br />
However, it is not always smooth<br />
sailing for those that choose to join the<br />
business world, often a lot of the new<br />
established businesses collapse within<br />
<br />
Statistics from not only Zimbabwe but<br />
from across the world show that this is<br />
a common trend, new businesses fail<br />
shortly after starting operations. The<br />
question is why?<br />
This article will attempt to answer<br />
<br />
and why people still fall into the<br />
same pitfall.<br />
<br />
<br />
held by owners of the businesses. In fact<br />
the initial motivation for venturing into<br />
business could be the reason why the<br />
business ultimately fails.<br />
During the last days of the Zimdollar<br />
era, business activity was highly unusual;<br />
there were a lot of shortages of just<br />
about everything. The few that were<br />
courageous took the initiative to source<br />
these products that were in short supply<br />
and their success seemed almost instant.<br />
During that time whatever that was<br />
not available locally could be brought into<br />
the country and the merchant would<br />
<br />
However, we must<br />
not forget that<br />
d u r i n g<br />
t h a t<br />
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time we had an unstable currency, record<br />
<br />
of foreign currencies. Nonetheless an<br />
unhealthy syndrome was created by<br />
<br />
eradicate ever since.<br />
<br />
Zimbabweans, a notion of making a quick<br />
b u c k <br />
effort was nurtured.<br />
The philosophy of<br />
working hard to<br />
achieve something,<br />
which had been<br />
the cornerstone for<br />
success for larger and<br />
<br />
was discarded by the<br />
youthful generation<br />
who seemed to be making it during that<br />
<br />
Unfortunately for those that subscribed<br />
to this school of thought, the Zimbabwean<br />
economy now resembles that of a normal<br />
economy. There are no longer shortages as<br />
was the cases in the 2000s, the Zimdollar<br />
is gone and in its place is the American<br />
dollar.<br />
<br />
in fact it is in negative territories or<br />
a scenario that economists refer to as<br />
<br />
there is no demand because people are<br />
not earning enough or cannot access<br />
loans from banks.<br />
Now for anyone who thinks that they<br />
can start a new business and immediately<br />
<br />
awaits them. One must note that they<br />
will incur losses in the initial period of<br />
staring operations and these losses will<br />
be related to funds that one will use for<br />
<br />
Hard work is inevitable especially<br />
with the state of the economy; you will<br />
have to work harder to get customers,<br />
customers that may not always pay you<br />
in time. In fact some customers will<br />
default and you will have to absorb the<br />
losses and this is generally the normal<br />
way a new business has to evolve.<br />
If an entrepreneur wants their business<br />
to be successful then they cannot run<br />
away from some of these basics. The<br />
casino economy that we saw in the last<br />
decade is gone and a lot of ‘business<br />
people’ of that era have since gone<br />
bust.<br />
We all know how the ‘change<br />
money dealers’ fared soon after the<br />
dollarization of the economy in 2009.<br />
A lot of them found the real order of<br />
<br />
solace in formal employment putting<br />
to trash their philosophy of the easy<br />
money and lifestyle.<br />
So it is imperative for new business<br />
owners to be realistic in their goals. It<br />
is good to be dreamers and ambitious<br />
but understanding that there are no<br />
short cuts to success. Hard work is<br />
inevitable, yet it will ultimately<br />
bring the desired results.<br />
Business, Careers & Technology<br />
The other reason why new and small<br />
businesses seem to fail is what is termed<br />
over trading. Overtrading entails trying<br />
to chew more than you can swallow,<br />
trying to grow at a rate that is beyond<br />
your capacity.<br />
This often happens when a new<br />
business tries to get supply orders that are<br />
mouth watering but orders they simply<br />
<br />
<br />
For someone who wants quick success<br />
taking on such an order seems like a good<br />
<br />
the small business owner will borrow<br />
heavily based on the promise of huge<br />
<br />
However, as it often so happens, the<br />
customer will take his time to pay and<br />
in the particular case of Zimbabwe. The<br />
business owner or supplier of a service<br />
or goods will be told of the liquidity<br />
crunch as the main reason why they<br />
are being paid late. In some cases the<br />
payments will come in bits over time and<br />
in the meantime interest on the borrowed<br />
money will grow.<br />
In the end one will realise little from<br />
the sale because of the high interest<br />
<br />
<br />
a number of times with big customers,<br />
a business owner might be discouraged<br />
from carrying on operating.<br />
However, as a business person one<br />
should understand their capacity and they<br />
should have the courage to ignore these<br />
lucrative orders if one does not wish to be<br />
discouraged from running their business.<br />
There is no real success story of a<br />
business that has grown quickly and<br />
stayed on as a successful enterprise. The<br />
bubble will always burst at some point<br />
and the story of TN holdings, Afrofoods<br />
or Spiritage always come to mind.<br />
Allow the business to grow steadily<br />
and avoid the lure of a quick buck from<br />
sidetracking the primary objective which<br />
is to grow the business.<br />
Other reasons why small businesses fail<br />
also include failure to maintain records<br />
and lack of access to funding, yet it would<br />
<br />
that are the foremost causes of failure. TP<br />
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Business, Careers & Technology<br />
Dealers in<br />
Terence Zimwara<br />
The post 2008 era has seen the<br />
typical dealer face hard times,<br />
a far cry from the extravagant<br />
lifestyle they led when the rest<br />
of the economy was in the doldrums.<br />
Money changers, the most prominent<br />
of these dealers went along with ease<br />
and a large number of them where<br />
<br />
environment of the 2000s.<br />
If anything the economic environment<br />
worked wonders for them, having access<br />
to foreign currency during that time<br />
made it easy for them to get anything they<br />
wanted.<br />
<br />
currency dealers then because the main<br />
transactions were between the Zimdollar<br />
and other foreign currencies.<br />
<br />
was an unknown phenomenon, people<br />
paid little attention to changes in<br />
<br />
profound effect on the then prevailing<br />
exchange rate.<br />
This is where the currency dealer<br />
would make their abnormal mark ups,<br />
<br />
general public.<br />
However, since the adoption of the US<br />
dollar as Zimbabwe’s primary currency,<br />
there has been little business for currency<br />
dealers and that is why a majority of them<br />
have opted out.<br />
Fast forward to 2014, few street foreign<br />
currency dealers are no longer exactly<br />
living large. Some have been reduced to<br />
close to nothing.<br />
The margins they now earn have<br />
reduced tremendously to what are<br />
relatively normal levels. For instance,<br />
at the moment you can exchange one<br />
American dollar for about ten rands and<br />
<br />
cents or a low commission.<br />
<br />
percent, a far cry from the twenty percent<br />
or more one would get charged during<br />
<br />
<br />
because people still shun banks when<br />
changing their money preferring dealers<br />
operating from Roadport and all the way<br />
right down to First Street in Harare.<br />
Currency dealers are not the only<br />
ones to have fallen on hard times since<br />
the economy stabilized back in 2009.<br />
The infamous illegal traders at the now<br />
defunct Ximex Mall complex have also<br />
found themselves falling on rocky times.<br />
During their heyday, Zimbabweans<br />
<br />
to purchase the latest mobile phones,<br />
laptops or even semi durable household<br />
items. Again traders at this mall had<br />
access to foreign currency, something<br />
that established and formal businesses<br />
did not have.<br />
People had few or no option but to buy<br />
from the street traders although there was<br />
always the risk of getting conned. Just<br />
like their currency dealing counterparts,<br />
street traders around Ximex have found<br />
the going has become tougher since the<br />
start of dollarization back in 2009.<br />
When restrictions on foreign currency<br />
movement were removed it became<br />
easier for established businesses to start<br />
the business of importing goods into<br />
the country, hurting prospects of street<br />
dealers in the process.<br />
Conventional shops started stocking<br />
and selling mobile phones, laptops plus<br />
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Business, Careers & Technology<br />
post 2008<br />
accessories, along with the usual add-ons<br />
like warrants or guarantees something<br />
street dealers cannot offer.<br />
Slowly customers began to abandon<br />
Ximex traders in favour of established<br />
outlets. To compound matters for dealers,<br />
it was announced the mall would be<br />
closed to pave way for the construction<br />
of a new building.<br />
Raids by municipal and police details<br />
soon followed with more intensity. Soon<br />
all tenants had been removed from the<br />
building and the entire building has now<br />
been demolished.<br />
What is astonishing though is the<br />
continued presence of street dealers<br />
around the barricaded site where Ximex<br />
Mall once stood. Dealers have nowhere<br />
to go. In their minds business can only<br />
be conducted at Ximex, never mind that<br />
building no longer exists.<br />
There is no doubt that the changed<br />
circumstances have hurt dealers who<br />
may now be forced to look for other<br />
avenues for survival.<br />
The formalization of the economy has<br />
not succeeded in completely eradicating<br />
street dealers. Many still do business at<br />
various places in Harare and sometimes<br />
their activities border on illegal.<br />
In the streets of Kaguvi in downtown<br />
Harare, there is a band of dealers selling<br />
motor vehicle spare parts and these seem<br />
relatively unscathed by the ever changing<br />
economic environment. These street<br />
dealers do not exactly run retail outlets<br />
of motor vehicle spares or accessories, yet<br />
they survive by selling these on behalf of<br />
shop owners or individuals.<br />
For some reason customers actually<br />
prefer dealing with these energetic and<br />
knowledgeable dealers than actual retail<br />
<br />
and once the customer pays, they will<br />
remit the full selling price to the retailer<br />
and pocket the difference.<br />
Retailers are happy to deal this way<br />
because street dealers do not pose as direct<br />
competition but actually complement the<br />
business of retailers.<br />
This is how they survive and their<br />
operations have not been altered much by<br />
the dollarization of the economy and that<br />
has been one of the few exceptions.<br />
Other dealers include touts that offer<br />
quick services to document seekers in and<br />
<br />
<br />
Causeway building offering insurance<br />
and other vehicle registration services, as<br />
<br />
selling vehicle licenses.<br />
It has already been noted, some of the<br />
services offered are illegal and dealers<br />
actually risk arrest if they get caught, yet<br />
that has not deterred these unemployed<br />
individuals from continuing.<br />
High unemployment levels and the<br />
ongoing closing down of companies,<br />
forces people to resort to rather<br />
unorthodox means of survival. Perhaps<br />
if authorities were to create policies that<br />
favour investment, foreign investment<br />
<br />
simply move to the more formal way of<br />
doing things. TP<br />
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Street Vendors &<br />
City Pavements<br />
... Human congestion and pick-pocketing as vendors take<br />
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A<br />
walk around the Central<br />
Business District of Harare is<br />
becoming a daunting task by<br />
the day.<br />
Pavements were pedestrians are<br />
supposed to walk have been converted<br />
into mini tuck-shops with clothes, shoes<br />
and basic foodstuffs laid all over, making<br />
human congestion, pick-pocketing and<br />
noise pollution rife as vendors resort to<br />
outdoing one another in advertising their<br />
products.<br />
Lack of proper employment for many<br />
has seen Zimbabwe being reduced to a<br />
vending nation, with not only vegetables<br />
being sold along the streets but also<br />
intimate garments like underwear and<br />
bras.<br />
Crowded pavements are fraught with a<br />
strong stench emanating from perishable<br />
<br />
distance.<br />
A survey by The Parade showed that<br />
most of the sweets and<br />
chocolates sold on<br />
the streets have<br />
either expired or<br />
getting closer to<br />
their expiring<br />
dates.<br />
to city pavements<br />
The down-town area is particularly<br />
worse with most of these street vendors<br />
even being rude if you happen to nudge<br />
their stall.<br />
“I was once insulted by a vendor who<br />
called me all sorts of names after I stalled<br />
his table while passing by, since then I<br />
now avoid using some roads when I go<br />
home,” said Primrose Chauke.<br />
A stroll down Mbuya Nehanda Street<br />
and Robert Mugabe Way bears testimony<br />
of just how bad the vending situation in<br />
Harare has become.<br />
Every corner is stacked with wares as<br />
some stalls even overlap into the road,<br />
<br />
possibility.<br />
Outside a major supermarket situated<br />
at the corner of Robert Mugabe Street<br />
and Julius Nyerere, vendors seem to feel<br />
at ease while going about their business.<br />
Right at the door of the supermarket<br />
are vendors selling everything from<br />
canned foods to sweets, while directly<br />
opposite is a stream of women selling<br />
<br />
The Parade caught up with one vendor<br />
<br />
described the situation on the streets as a<br />
dog eat dog world.<br />
He said he was once formally employed<br />
at a heavy industrial site but when his<br />
company closed down, he had to hustle to<br />
survive.<br />
“I am lucky because I am yet to have<br />
a family of my own but my siblings still<br />
expect me to help,” Ishmael said.<br />
He added that, “most of the commodities<br />
like sweets and chocolates that people sell<br />
are nearing their expiration date or have<br />
reached its sell-by date but we get these<br />
from supermarkets on a wholesale price,<br />
with potato crisps and snacks being some<br />
of the few items that are fresh”.<br />
Ishmael argued that on a good night,<br />
he can get more than $50 from selling his<br />
commodities on the street while on some<br />
days he gets $15.<br />
Another vendor Beatrice Marumo<br />
said when she realised that people were<br />
making a living from selling food and<br />
clothes, she joined the bandwagon.<br />
Mambo said she used to trade in<br />
Epworth but later discovered that it was<br />
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“I used to sell vegetables and other<br />
things at home but a friend of mine told<br />
me of brisk business in town and I have<br />
since resorted to street vending and trust<br />
me I’m living a better life than before,”<br />
she said.<br />
“Surely town council police may<br />
harass us during the day but when I<br />
come at night it is much better because<br />
everyone is busy going home. Even law<br />
enforcement agents buy our stuff without<br />
arresting us,” Marumo added.<br />
A visit to Chitungwiza also showed<br />
that the trend of bulk selling was catching<br />
up, with shoes being sold on the front<br />
pavements of large supermarkets such as<br />
TM stores.<br />
During weekends it is a common sight<br />
to see food and clothing sharing the same<br />
crowded pavement with people.<br />
<br />
if I quit this where am I going to get<br />
another job, we are trying to earn a<br />
living in a country that is not doing well<br />
economically.<br />
“Until that time when the government<br />
is able to create proper employment for<br />
all of us, I will keep on doing what I<br />
am doing,” added another vendor who<br />
requested anonymity.<br />
Though the Harare City Council often<br />
had a blitz to curb street vending, those<br />
like Ishmael and Marumo only start<br />
operating their businesses late in the day<br />
and way after normal working hours.<br />
<br />
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency<br />
(ZimStat), Zimbabwe’s unemployment<br />
rate stands at 11 percent contrary to 85<br />
percent claimed by some economists.<br />
They allege that out of the total<br />
population of 13 061 239, 68.2 percent are<br />
economically active while 32.5 percent<br />
are not.<br />
The ZimStat survey also indicated that<br />
3, 7 million people are employed in the<br />
informal sector with women constituting<br />
the majority with 54, 6 percent.<br />
Last year the Ministry of Small and<br />
Medium Enterprises and Cooperative<br />
Development alleged that $7, 4 million<br />
was circulating in the informal sector and<br />
needed to be harnessed into banks. TP<br />
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Is the ZSE ownership<br />
<br />
Terence Zimwara<br />
The recent signing of<br />
the memorandum of<br />
understanding between the<br />
government, Securities and<br />
Exchange Commission (SECZ) as well as<br />
the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has<br />
been aptly called a new dawn.<br />
The memorandum of understanding<br />
(MOU) sets the pace for the demutualization<br />
of the exchange, a process that will see<br />
the ZSE being transformed from mutual<br />
society to a broadly owned private entity.<br />
The government which was<br />
represented by the Finance Minister,<br />
Patrick Chinamasa, will assume 32<br />
percent of ownership of the exchange<br />
while the remainder will be owned by<br />
brokers.<br />
Presently the ZSE operates as a mutual<br />
society where members enjoy rights of<br />
ownership, decision making (one member,<br />
one vote) and trading.<br />
Thus, the essence of demutualization<br />
is that of separating ownership of<br />
the exchange from management and<br />
participation through adherence to<br />
internationally accepted code of corporate<br />
governance.<br />
For years on, brokers had been<br />
reluctant to let go of control of the<br />
exchange using different tactics to stall<br />
the process of turning the exchange into<br />
a private entity.<br />
The replacement of the ZSE Act with<br />
the Securities Act in 2004 culminated<br />
in the creation of a capital markets<br />
regulator, SECZ.<br />
Prior to this, the ZSE had been a ‘self<br />
regulating’ entity and the creation of SECZ<br />
resulted in repeated clashes between the<br />
two, with the former arguing that by<br />
virtue of its presence before the latter’s<br />
creation it therefore could not be asked to<br />
restart a process of registration.<br />
In fact, in a sign that hostilities have<br />
not totally ended, at the signing of the<br />
MOU, Tafadzwa Chinamo chief executive<br />
of SECZ repeated his organisation’s long<br />
stated position, that the ZSE was not<br />
properly registered.<br />
Minister Chinamasa who was the last<br />
to give a speech, immediately tried to<br />
reconcile the two parties by telling SECZ<br />
what he felt were the reasons for ZSE’s<br />
reluctance to fully register itself with the<br />
regulator.<br />
He repeated the ZSE line that it was<br />
already operating prior to the change in<br />
the Act, governing its operations however<br />
the minister promised to help solve the<br />
long standing issue in the not too distant<br />
future.<br />
The raising of such an issue at a<br />
memorandum signing raises questions<br />
about the whole demutualization process.<br />
If stakeholders are still publicly slating<br />
each other even in front government,<br />
then there is every chance that the big<br />
egos of brokers and that of regulators<br />
may torpedo the latest effort to realign<br />
the country’s sole capital market player.<br />
Minister Chinamasa in his speech<br />
<br />
lack of it as the prime cause for past<br />
problems at the ZSE. He added that the<br />
<br />
organisation, this created governance<br />
issues and the lack of operational<br />
<br />
Eve Gadzikwa current chairperson<br />
of ZSE applauded the signing of the<br />
memorandum because the status quo<br />
lacked clarity in terms of, who owns what<br />
and who does what?<br />
She believed having this clarity will<br />
promote growth of the exchange and it<br />
will cease to be a club as is the current<br />
perception which arises primarily out of<br />
the ownership structure.<br />
The road map as set out by the<br />
memorandum indicates that shareholding<br />
structures will change after the<br />
demutualization has been completed.<br />
When demutualization is done and<br />
dusted, government’s shareholding of<br />
the exchange will be reduced from 32 to<br />
16 percent. Similarly, brokers are also<br />
expected to reduce their shareholding<br />
from 68 to 34 percent.<br />
The rationale for this according<br />
to Minister Chinamasa is to have a<br />
<br />
the exchange is such an ‘important’<br />
institution whose shareholding cannot be<br />
vested in a few stakeholders.<br />
The remaining 50 percent will be shared<br />
<br />
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individuals and Chinamasa implored<br />
SECZ and ZSE to immediately start the<br />
process of identifying potential suitors for<br />
the exchange.<br />
In the envisaged aftermath of the<br />
demutualization, the ZSE will court<br />
strategic partners but holders of voting<br />
shares in the ZSE will not be allowed to<br />
hold more than ten percent of total voting<br />
shares in ZSE.<br />
Government also said it expects other<br />
players to enter the capital markets as<br />
competitors to ZSE something that has<br />
been impossible to do now due to what<br />
the minister called barriers to entry.<br />
The ambitious goals that stakeholders<br />
have set for themselves will only be<br />
achieved if indeed the brokers are now<br />
ready to let go of the exchange and if the<br />
ZSE management itself is committed to<br />
the reforms.<br />
In the past former ZSE chief<br />
executive Emmanuel Munyukwi and his<br />
management were accused of corporate<br />
malaise with media reports suggesting<br />
unbridled mismanagement of resources.<br />
The ZSE ultimately dismissed Mr<br />
Munyukwi and Alban Chirume now<br />
leads the revamped ZSE management.<br />
The MOU now sets the tone for more far<br />
reaching reforms and the good behaviour<br />
of all stakeholders will be the key in<br />
seeing this out. TP<br />
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ZSE counters too few?<br />
Terence Zimwara<br />
Zimplats is probably the largest mining<br />
the country’s main tourist destinations<br />
The companies are too few to<br />
<br />
and the combined value of these<br />
entice global fund managers to<br />
<br />
properties is well over $22 million that<br />
look at Zimbabwe as a possible<br />
is not listed and the list extends even<br />
the market is valuing the group.<br />
investment destination. Africa<br />
beyond mining companies.<br />
Africa Sun is not the only counter<br />
is widely seen as a better investment<br />
While the ZSE is thought to be one of<br />
<br />
destination with returns higher than<br />
the best performing stock markets on the<br />
Colliery the coal miner is valued at $8<br />
most other continents.<br />
<br />
<br />
The recent fund managers’ workshop<br />
mass in terms of volumes and transactions<br />
one looks at the assets and inventory of<br />
organized by Imara brought global fund<br />
<br />
coal the company owns.<br />
managers to the country and according to<br />
There is just not enough trading;<br />
In normal settings market forces will<br />
<br />
transactions mostly involve the blue chip<br />
correct this anomaly; the share price will<br />
<br />
counters like Delta Beverages or Econet<br />
rise until it reaches a point where the<br />
invest.<br />
Wireless. The rest of the counters are<br />
market capitalisation will almost be at<br />
“Fund managers are not looking at<br />
<br />
par with the book value of a particular<br />
starting businesses here but they wish<br />
once you acquire them.<br />
company.<br />
<br />
For a fund manager this situation<br />
<br />
said Chinamasa.<br />
is not ideal because it creates a sense<br />
alone have not been able to make this<br />
He explained that during his interaction<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
there is need for foreign participation as<br />
they were looking at companies that offer<br />
disinvest. It is unhealthy that only about<br />
<br />
better prospects and the Zimbabwe Stock<br />
<br />
the stock market in large enough volumes<br />
Exchange (ZSE) is one place they will try<br />
<br />
to help realign share prices.<br />
<br />
So in sense fund managers were<br />
Foreign investors have for the greater<br />
Chinamasa added that one take away<br />
<br />
part been reluctant to come because of the<br />
<br />
minister that there were a few counters.<br />
perceived country risk. The controversy<br />
there are a few companies listed on the<br />
<br />
<br />
ZSE. Local business people with brilliant<br />
<br />
<br />
ideas are not aware of the opportunity to<br />
any other exchange to really attract fund<br />
have combined to create the so called<br />
raise the much needed capital via listing<br />
managers.<br />
<br />
on the stock market.<br />
The other issue with the ZSE concerns<br />
investors to commit their resources.<br />
<br />
<br />
While the government has said it is<br />
companies but about four of these are<br />
shares relative to the underlying values<br />
reforming the exchange to ensure greater<br />
<br />
of the companies. Share prices of most<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
foreign investors that alone will not<br />
While the minister has the impression<br />
<br />
entice these investors.<br />
that locals needed to be educated on<br />
value for companies.<br />
Addressing the empowerment laws<br />
<br />
<br />
as well as the perception that there is<br />
are other reasons why listing is not as<br />
share price was 2.8 cents as at 21 July<br />
no respect for property rights will go a<br />
lucrative.<br />
<br />
long way in allaying fears that foreign<br />
<br />
just $22 million.<br />
investors still have about Zimbabwe. <br />
that are surprisingly not listed on the ZSE.<br />
The hotel group has vast properties in<br />
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and save power<br />
Make sure you switch off<br />
all appliances that are not<br />
in use all the time to<br />
save power.<br />
“I always make sure<br />
that all unused<br />
appliances at home<br />
and office are<br />
switched off so<br />
that come<br />
World Cup<br />
soccer time, I don't<br />
miss it.”<br />
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Borrowdale - Harare<br />
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Business, Careers & Technology<br />
Just how<br />
big is<br />
insurance<br />
fraud in<br />
Zimbabwe?<br />
Recent media reports indicate<br />
that Zimbabwe could<br />
now be a safe haven for<br />
insurance fraudsters who<br />
prey on unsuspecting insurers or service<br />
providers.<br />
Big Brother winner Wendall Parsons<br />
was arrested last year after he was<br />
accused of having committed insurance<br />
fraud to the amount of $25 000. Allegations<br />
are that he claimed insurance for a car<br />
which he had crashed when in fact the<br />
car was not insured at the time thereby<br />
prejudicing an insurance company of the<br />
said amount. He was however, acquitted<br />
of the crime, the case however is; how<br />
many other people out there are guilty of<br />
such predetermined crimes?<br />
Recently Cimas a medical aid service<br />
recently announced it was upgrading its<br />
system especially cards that it issued to<br />
its members. This followed widespread<br />
abuse of the present cards by members<br />
who used them to pay for medical bills of<br />
persons not covered by the medical aid.<br />
Cimas says this is insurance fraud and<br />
i t<br />
h a s in the<br />
past issued statements encouraging its<br />
members to desist from such practices.<br />
Douglas Hoto, chief executive of First<br />
Mutual Limited a life assurance company,<br />
recently told The Parade that insurance<br />
fraud was real and sometimes people<br />
committing this thought it was not a<br />
crime.<br />
In the life assurance business cases of<br />
fraud were very low according to Mr Hoto<br />
because companies had devised systems<br />
that would easily detect fraudulent<br />
claims.<br />
However, criminals still tried to<br />
defraud the insurers by using fake<br />
documentation. In this case First Mutual<br />
Limited, Mr Hoto said his company now<br />
made it a point to accompany persons<br />
whom they suspected to be using fake<br />
documents, to the funeral just to verify<br />
if indeed there had been a death of an<br />
insured member.<br />
“It happened that one of our clients<br />
wanted to defraud<br />
us, he claimed that his father had<br />
passed away. We gave him part payment<br />
<br />
accompany him and we would release the<br />
rest of the money when we arrived at the<br />
funeral. The guy wanted to run away on<br />
hearing this,” said Mr Hoto.<br />
He explained that is how First Mutual<br />
Limited was dealing with cases of funeral<br />
insurance fraud. However, First Mutual<br />
Limited had a health insurance arm<br />
and just like Cimas, it faced sustained<br />
fraudulent claims from members.<br />
“When someone is sick but are not<br />
insured, their insured relative will<br />
negotiate with the medical practitioner<br />
to treat the sick person using the card<br />
issued to the insured relative,” lamented<br />
Mr Hoto.<br />
<br />
2014, First Mutual Limited had detected<br />
about $30000 worth of such claims which<br />
it disputed and did not pay. Doctors<br />
apparently are part of the problem and as<br />
a result insurers have had to devise ways<br />
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to<br />
detect<br />
fraud even at<br />
service provider level.<br />
For instance, First Mutual Limited<br />
acquired a system called Nexus whose<br />
tariff coding system can identify fraud.<br />
In the case of Cimas, it announced that<br />
it was phasing the current cards and is<br />
replacing them with new ones that are<br />
emblazoned with the face of the holder of<br />
the card.<br />
This way, Cimas which estimates<br />
that 30 percent of claims it receives<br />
are fraudulent, can help honest service<br />
providers to determine the authenticity<br />
of some of the claims they receive.<br />
Of course this will only be effective if<br />
the doctors themselves are not complicit<br />
in the fraudulent claims.<br />
Short term insurance is one area<br />
that has really suffered at the hands of<br />
fraudsters because their fake documents<br />
<br />
insurers to refuse certain claims.<br />
There are numerous cases of people<br />
exaggerating claims on damaged vehicles<br />
and colluding with panel beaters and<br />
other service providers who then provide<br />
quotations to support such fraudulent<br />
claims.<br />
The panel<br />
beating companies<br />
and hardware stores aid<br />
people who wish to defraud<br />
insurers by producing documentation<br />
<br />
circumstances an insurance company<br />
will have no way of knowing if the claim<br />
is exorbitant.<br />
The more brazen of these fraudsters<br />
actually take out a policy for a nonexistent<br />
vehicle only to later submit a<br />
claim that it has been stolen. They take<br />
advantage of the fact that some insurance<br />
companies do not carry out physical<br />
inspections to determine if the car really<br />
exists before insuring the said vehicle.<br />
Others choose to over insure their<br />
assets with the view to submitting a<br />
claim at a later stage. In this instance,<br />
<br />
insured for a value well over the amount.<br />
<br />
higher premiums for the asset knowing<br />
<br />
when they later deliberately cause an<br />
accident or damage to the asset.<br />
The insurance industry has not been<br />
<br />
in terms of values of money lost to<br />
fraudsters but there is general agreement<br />
that fraud is rising.<br />
In developed countries where<br />
insurance fraud is more prevalent,<br />
<br />
ever changing tactics of criminals.<br />
<br />
<br />
reported earlier this year that it had<br />
unearthed about 380 false insurance<br />
claims worth $2.66 million. In one of the<br />
cases the fraudsters were ordered to pay<br />
nearly $400000 as punishment for their<br />
activities.<br />
<br />
a new trend by car insurance fraudsters,<br />
<br />
Zimbabwe eventually.<br />
It said certain motorists were<br />
deliberately causing accidents in order<br />
to cash in on insurance money. A driver<br />
who had a right of way would signal by<br />
<br />
<br />
motorists would immediately move<br />
thereby causing a crash. This trick is<br />
<br />
However, when authorities arrive<br />
<br />
signaled the other driver to pass insisting<br />
that he had the right of way hence he was<br />
right by law. Police will have no proof of<br />
<br />
the other driver for not giving way.<br />
It would be helpful if the entire<br />
insurance industry engages investigating<br />
companies to determine the<br />
characteristics of insurance fraud locally<br />
thereby helping reduce losses suffered as<br />
result of false claims.TP<br />
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Government must w<br />
(State owned enterp<br />
Terence Zimwara<br />
Privatization of State owned<br />
enterprises (SEP) has been on<br />
the cards for several years, yet<br />
nothing seems to happen. SEPs<br />
have for years been draining resources<br />
from treasury because the business<br />
models they use guarantees failure.<br />
While the government continues to<br />
drag its feet on the issue, a media blitz<br />
on corruption in SEPs earlier this year<br />
suggested the rot is if far worse than<br />
what was believed.<br />
There is massive and perhaps<br />
ongoing graft at several publicly owned<br />
enterprises like Zimbabwe Broadcasting<br />
Corporation, AirZimbabwe, CMED and<br />
the list seems endless.<br />
All these SEPs have one thing in<br />
common; they incur losses and more<br />
losses which can only be written off via<br />
a government bailout, a bailout which is<br />
never repaid.<br />
For several years the government<br />
would come to the aid of ailing SEPs,<br />
often with huge sums of state money yet<br />
nothing would happen to the concerned<br />
management. In a sense the bailout would<br />
seem to be an endorsement of whatever<br />
management is doing and that is why the<br />
losses are continuing.<br />
However, things have since changed,<br />
after dollarization the government found<br />
itself in very different circumstances,<br />
unable to borrow money locally or to<br />
<br />
the government had to resort to a<br />
cash budgeting system starting<br />
in 2009.<br />
The then minister of<br />
<br />
famous for coining the term ‘what we kill<br />
is what we eat’, hinting that new realities<br />
now dictated government had live within<br />
its means.<br />
With 70 percent of revenues raised<br />
going towards civil servants salaries,<br />
it became clear SEPs could no longer<br />
continue as before because there was<br />
simply not enough money for the<br />
government.<br />
During the tenure of the inclusive<br />
government again the question of<br />
privatizing the SEPs came to the fore<br />
with the then State Enterprises minister<br />
Gordon Moyo trying hard to push for<br />
privatization.<br />
However, the question has to be<br />
asked: Does privatization really offer<br />
the solution? Is there a precedent of this<br />
working?<br />
Well the answers lie very close to<br />
home, where a few SEPs were allowed<br />
to go into private hands and they are still<br />
around performing remarkably well.<br />
Dairiboard is one company that<br />
quickly comes to mind, a former SEP<br />
that has been a market leader even in the<br />
<br />
products.<br />
Dairiboard is a classic example of<br />
how allowing private hands enables a<br />
company to escape the<br />
shackles of bureaucracy and<br />
the red tape often associated<br />
with government control.<br />
The company is now listed on the<br />
stock market and it is one of the best<br />
performers vindicating the decision to<br />
privatize the enterprise.<br />
<br />
telephone provider is an SEP which<br />
is has not been privatized and it has<br />
suffered greatly as result. Before 1996 the<br />
company enjoyed a monopoly yet that did<br />
not prod the company to expand its size.<br />
The company is thought to have over<br />
<br />
unchanged since the 90s. When TelOne’s<br />
monopoly was ended by the Supreme<br />
Court in the mid 1990s new players have<br />
since come in and in a short space of time<br />
they have eclipsed the former.<br />
Econet Wireless only started operations<br />
in 1998 yet the company has grown to<br />
become the biggest telecoms company in<br />
the country with its subscribers edging<br />
towards 10 million.<br />
Telecel has about 2.5 million, while<br />
fellow government owned mobile phone<br />
operator NetOne which is plagued by the<br />
<br />
able to reach 1 million subscribers.<br />
The changes that have occurred in the<br />
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rises)<br />
telecoms sector aptly lay down the case for<br />
privatization. SEPs are held back by slow<br />
government action, bloated structures<br />
<br />
does allow them to quickly seize on<br />
opportunities as they emerge.<br />
Econet which is privately owned<br />
has managed to reach a point of market<br />
dominance not through government<br />
favours but through a focused and<br />
sustainable business model.<br />
TelOne could have remained the<br />
country’s number one telecoms provider<br />
even after the Supreme Court decision.<br />
Government only had to privatize it<br />
allowing it to compete with the less<br />
experienced new entrants.<br />
<br />
<br />
government once controlled but was<br />
allowed to fall into private hands. The two<br />
are success stories of privatization that<br />
should constantly remind government the<br />
merits of weaning off SEPs.<br />
Government cannot continue to bailout<br />
entities like Air Zimbabwe, which as<br />
media reports have suggested, is riddled<br />
with corruption. It is only by allowing it<br />
to stand on its own will Air Zimbabwe be<br />
saved, anything else will yield nothing.<br />
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Business, Careers & Technology<br />
Terence Zimwara<br />
Debate on the<br />
currency has inevitably<br />
dominated business headlines<br />
for the past year and looks to<br />
remain the case for years to come.<br />
The current wave of this debate was<br />
prompted by the pronouncements by<br />
Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, and<br />
pronouncements to the effect of blaming<br />
dollarization for the economy’s woes.<br />
While the minister’s report to<br />
parliament centred on the cost structures<br />
that emerged after 2009, at the heart of<br />
the matter is the incapacitated state, a<br />
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of the economy because the country uses<br />
other currencies and not its own.<br />
With the central bank playing a<br />
ceremonial role, the government has been<br />
reduced to begging as its only means of<br />
<br />
Since the demise of the Zim dollar back<br />
in 2008, the country monetary policy<br />
has made way to those countries whose<br />
currencies it adopted, that is the United<br />
States and South Africa.<br />
Some<br />
industrialists<br />
have made a strong<br />
case for a return to a locally<br />
issued currency but just to underline the<br />
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greater part of the population remains<br />
heavily opposed to this idea.<br />
In an era of openness and pragmatism,<br />
regular newspaper columnists have taken<br />
the lead in singing a hymn against a Zim<br />
dollar return. In fact this debate is quite<br />
open in both state and privately owned<br />
media.<br />
The general consensus is that<br />
government has to refrain from even<br />
entertaining the idea of a Zim dollar<br />
return and of course the reasons are<br />
driven out of fear and not real economics.<br />
However, this fear should be enough<br />
to dissuade anyone contemplating on<br />
bringing back the failed currency, it will<br />
be rejected. It is also helpful to learn from<br />
history what the talk of bringing the Zim<br />
dollar has done to markets, the confusion<br />
it has brought.<br />
<br />
consistently tried to give positive signals<br />
by announcing that the multiple currency<br />
regime will stay in place until 2018.<br />
Yet soon after elections last year, there<br />
was a rumour mill that the incoming<br />
government planned an immediate return<br />
of the local dollar.<br />
What followed was a frenzied<br />
withdrawal of cash from banks by citizens<br />
<br />
already seen a spike in such withdrawals<br />
as corporates and individuals took a wait<br />
and see approach.<br />
The panic is motivated by past<br />
experiences at the hands of the Zim<br />
dollar, the disappeared bank balances and<br />
the bank queues.<br />
It is clear that Zimbabweans,<br />
particularly this generation, this<br />
generation that bore the brunt of the hyper-<br />
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relic, one that invokes memories of total<br />
despair and helplessness.<br />
It should then be crystal clear<br />
to everyone especially Zim dollar<br />
proponents, that the panic cash<br />
withdrawals that often follow reports of<br />
an imminent return of the Zim dollar, are<br />
enough evidence that citizens still have<br />
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<br />
the body or the system that issues the<br />
currency; consequently this means that<br />
whatever sugar coating or name is given<br />
to that currency, few people will have<br />
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stand. History of how money evolved<br />
to what it is now can help those who<br />
advocate for the Zim dollar to appreciate<br />
complexities involved in issuing currency.<br />
However, it is even more complicated<br />
to reintroduce a currency to the same<br />
generation, a generation that deserted an<br />
earlier currency-the Zim dollar.<br />
A few years before the disappearance<br />
<br />
institutions were already not accepting<br />
the Zimdollar because to them the<br />
currency had collapsed.<br />
It took a few more years before the rest<br />
of the country rejected the Zim dollar,<br />
favouring the US dollar and the South<br />
African rand instead.<br />
It is a fact the government only formally<br />
adopted the use of multiple currencies<br />
in February 2009, yet by mid 2008 the<br />
Zim dollar was no longer accepted as<br />
legal tender by a large majority of the<br />
population.<br />
Carefully analyzing the chain of events<br />
leading to the eventual dollarization of<br />
the economy will show that government<br />
did not elect to abandon the Zim dollar. It<br />
was the rejection of the Zim dollar by the<br />
masses that forced government to adopt<br />
multiple currencies.<br />
Therefore no amount of emotions or<br />
parroting will change the perceptions<br />
about the Zim dollar by those that suffered<br />
heavy losses at the hands of this currency.<br />
The Finance Minister Chinamasa is<br />
apparently well aware of this and he duly<br />
repudiated the remarks that had been<br />
attributed to him. In an article penned in<br />
one local weekly newspaper the Minister<br />
asserted that the present multiple<br />
currency regime was going to stay.<br />
Yet, there are still a few people who<br />
believe that simply printing currency will<br />
solve the economy’s liquidity problems. It<br />
is unfortunate the quick buck syndrome<br />
<br />
make money in an economy that was<br />
<br />
Unfortunately the era is gone,<br />
everyone will struggle to make money<br />
and that is not necessarily a bad thing.<br />
<br />
the economy move forward, which is the<br />
only prescription that will work for now.<br />
Even if the government eventually<br />
mends its relations with donor nations,<br />
every Zimbabwean will still have to<br />
understand that piecemeal approaches to<br />
complex problems will not work.<br />
Only through hard work and more<br />
hard work can this nation realise its true<br />
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Zimbabwe failing to meet IM<br />
Terence Zimwara<br />
Zimbabwe has not managed to<br />
meet the goal of an International<br />
Monetary Fund (IMF) initiated<br />
staff monitored programme<br />
(SMP) and may not qualify for assistance<br />
anytime soon.<br />
The IMF management recently<br />
<br />
of SMP and it generally concluded the<br />
<br />
of the programme.<br />
An SMP is an informal agreement<br />
between country authorities and IMF<br />
Fund staff to monitor the implementation<br />
of the authorities’ economic program. The<br />
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agreement in more than decade.<br />
This SMP was started during the<br />
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arrangement.<br />
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Chinamasa has endorsed the same but<br />
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to the conclusion by the IMF that targets<br />
had not been met.<br />
While the IMF noted the authorities<br />
<br />
<br />
going forward.<br />
<br />
the program was slowed by a long<br />
electoral and a protracted post election<br />
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Zimbabwean authorities began<br />
implementing policy measures aimed at<br />
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reform measures.<br />
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its commitment to policies under the<br />
SMP and enhanced engagement with<br />
their creditors and the international<br />
community.<br />
<br />
including the IMF close to $10 billion;<br />
it defaulted on repayments during the<br />
economic turmoil of between the years<br />
2002 and 2008.<br />
Subsequently the country’s sound<br />
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their way into the country come at a high<br />
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little business sense for borrowers.<br />
<br />
so called non performing loans which<br />
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F reforms<br />
with<br />
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system.<br />
Following a number of failed reforms<br />
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support to Zimbabwe.<br />
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repayments altogether leading to the<br />
ballooning of the national debt. Part of<br />
the reasons why Zimbabwe signed on to<br />
the SMP was an attempt by authorities to<br />
demonstrate a change of approach when<br />
<br />
<br />
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“A staff- monitored program is an<br />
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dialogue between the Fund staff and a<br />
member country on its economic policies.<br />
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support. In fact SMPs do<br />
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assistance<br />
or<br />
e n d o r s e m e n t<br />
by the IMF<br />
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further read the<br />
statement.<br />
Z i m b a b w e<br />
is in a midst<br />
of a gripping<br />
liquidity<br />
crunch<br />
and it desperately<br />
<br />
which has not been<br />
f o r t h c o m i n g .<br />
In the past the<br />
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<br />
board has had<br />
frosty<br />
relations<br />
with the Zimbabwe<br />
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the suspension of the<br />
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with Western powers.<br />
Meanwhile the economic slide shows<br />
little signs of abating with the last<br />
<br />
<br />
Reports suggest more companies are<br />
not only retrenching but shutting down<br />
completely as the situation gets more<br />
desperate.<br />
<br />
now that economists are predicting<br />
<br />
<br />
economy.<br />
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weighing down on the economy. Add<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
uses other currencies thereby limiting the<br />
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Breaking B<br />
Health<br />
Chiedza Mebe<br />
Breaking bad habits has never<br />
been an easy thing to do for<br />
most. A lot of people say they<br />
would like to put a stop to their<br />
bad habits, but for most it is a constant<br />
struggle with oneself to let go and break<br />
the habit. The easier route is sticking<br />
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kick a bad habit. Anyone with a terrible<br />
habit or addiction to a substance will tell<br />
you it’s no easy feat. Habits may be hard<br />
to change however; this doesn’t mean it<br />
cannot be done. Read on to see how you<br />
can kick a habit.<br />
1 <br />
No matter how much you want<br />
to get rid of a bad habit if you don’t do<br />
anything or are not ready for change,<br />
change won’t come and you will always<br />
go back to square one. Make up your mind<br />
and decide that this is what you want for<br />
yourself and stick to it diligently. Getting<br />
rid of bad habits has a higher chance of<br />
being successful when one is one hundred<br />
percent committed to change.<br />
2 <br />
This helps because this slowly<br />
forces an individual to convince their<br />
minds into getting used to the fact that<br />
you are slowly getting rid of the need to<br />
indulge in such behaviour. The more you<br />
get used to the idea the easier it becomes.<br />
For example if you drink too much coffee<br />
perhaps you can start by decreasing the<br />
number of cups until you get to a cup<br />
or two a day. Because you’re slowly<br />
decreasing the number of cups, it’s less of<br />
a full blown withdrawal and much easier<br />
to keep up with in terms of reaching<br />
your goal. By doing this one can manage<br />
to exercise this step gradually into their<br />
daily routine and successfully kick their<br />
habit.<br />
3 <br />
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Practice different types of self control<br />
by developing a counter behaviour that<br />
you can employ when the going gets<br />
tough and you feel the urge to surrender<br />
to your habit. Developing a counter habit<br />
has been known according to experts to<br />
minimize and help release an individual<br />
from their negative actions. For example<br />
if you have a habit of blowing up at people<br />
when you get angry choose to take your<br />
frustrations out through perhaps a sport<br />
like boxing or take a run, or write your<br />
feelings down in poem as a calming down<br />
mechanism. They are countless things<br />
one can do as a counter. Find one that’s<br />
best suited for you.<br />
4 <br />
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It’s best to get a friend or relative who<br />
reminds you of your goal and holds you<br />
accountable for your actions. The thought<br />
that someone else is monitoring your<br />
behaviour will encourage you to behave<br />
in a way that pushes for you to make a<br />
change, as you are most likely not going<br />
to want to disappoint them. This will<br />
prompt you to cut to the chase and get<br />
the job done. There will be no time to be<br />
lazy and thus you have kicked your habit<br />
in the butt.<br />
5 <br />
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Finding out your habit prone situations<br />
will make you fully aware of how and<br />
why you end up doing the bad habit.<br />
<br />
because you will be able to identify<br />
these situations and this will reduce<br />
your chances of indulging in this bad or<br />
unhealthy behaviour and will help you<br />
break the habit much faster.<br />
6 <br />
Acknowledge that these<br />
things take time. Do not be<br />
disheartened if you fall back. It’s all<br />
part of the learning experience<br />
as you get to know what<br />
works and what doesn’t.<br />
Keep pushing and it<br />
will all work for good.<br />
You’re only defeated if<br />
you give up. Repeat this<br />
mantra over and over again<br />
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Health<br />
ad<br />
in your head “I will not give up.” At the<br />
end of the day remember that you control<br />
the habit and the habit has no place<br />
controlling you. With the right attitude<br />
the habit will break.<br />
7 <br />
This applies to all bad habits. Take<br />
for example if you over-eat, write up a diet<br />
that you can take on. Stick to your diet<br />
diligently and when you’re on course you<br />
can reward yourself by allowing yourself<br />
to have at least one thing that you crave<br />
once a week. Rewarding yourself will<br />
help<br />
you learn self discipline<br />
and in turn give you<br />
something<br />
that<br />
will keep you on<br />
track as you look<br />
forward to your<br />
reward.<br />
The<br />
point is to stick<br />
to the plan. TP<br />
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Chiedza Mebe<br />
Religion<br />
8<br />
Ways to activate your<br />
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Is a great way to enter into God’s rest. Prayer<br />
enables you to listen to the Lord’s guidance as you<br />
seek him dligently. Designate time to pray each day<br />
although there are no limits to how often you do pray.<br />
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The ability to let go as you sing songs of praise<br />
and dance without fear of judgement expands<br />
your spiritual growth. It is in moments of praise and<br />
surrender that the Lord comes into one’s heart. Let<br />
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with peace and joy. Praising even in the hard times<br />
also strengthens your spiritual resolve.<br />
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This is where you will learn the<br />
principles required to enter<br />
into the rest of the Lord and<br />
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to rule and reign in this<br />
world. The word helps<br />
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belief and greater<br />
understanding.<br />
With time it has<br />
been proven<br />
that the more<br />
you read the<br />
word, even<br />
verses you’ve<br />
read before<br />
the more<br />
the deeper<br />
meanings of<br />
the word are<br />
revealed to<br />
you.<br />
Always<br />
seek the<br />
Lord’s help<br />
and pray for<br />
wisdom when<br />
you take to his<br />
word. Pray that<br />
he opens your eyes<br />
as you do so. There<br />
is much to learn from<br />
the teachings of the bible.<br />
The lessons learnt will<br />
pave a way in activating your<br />
spirituality.<br />
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spiritual life<br />
Religion<br />
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Grow in faith as you have others<br />
supporting you. There is much<br />
to learn in the presence of others.<br />
Matthew 18:20 states “For where<br />
two or three are gathered<br />
together in my name, there<br />
am I in the midst of them.”<br />
The fact that God’s word<br />
is constant and true,<br />
corporate worship<br />
through prayer will<br />
enable God to<br />
work through you<br />
all as your true<br />
worship enables<br />
his presence to<br />
manifest within<br />
these groups.<br />
There is authority<br />
in prayer also<br />
when it is<br />
expressed in unity.<br />
This creates room<br />
for powerful prayer.<br />
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Strive to be a doer of the word and<br />
not just a listener. Fasting as part of<br />
growth will help you grow. Believe and<br />
have faith that if you do the Lord’s work<br />
and follow his commandments he will<br />
magnify you to heights you can’t even<br />
fathom. Be thankful in good and bad<br />
times. Develop a Christ-like mentality<br />
to guide you as you grow spiritually.It<br />
is also wise to use what you’ve learnt in<br />
your daily life.<br />
These will strengthen your<br />
relationship with God. You will<br />
learn all you need to know to enable<br />
God’s<br />
love and<br />
blessings to manifest into your life.<br />
Always seek to get closer to God. Pursue<br />
habits that cultivate your relationship<br />
with God. If you want more sow more,<br />
it’s that simple. Discussions help you go<br />
deeper as you go directly into the word.<br />
Sometimes one learns things better from<br />
another’s perspective and not merely just<br />
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for spiritual growth. One can never go at<br />
it alone.<br />
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Tithes and offerings are of great<br />
importance. Malachi 3:8 states,<br />
“Bring ye all the tithes into the<br />
storehouse.”<br />
This command<br />
is followed by the verse<br />
in the same book of Malachi in chapter<br />
3 verse 10 where it states, “And I pour<br />
you out a blessing that there shall not be<br />
room enough to receive it.” Centre your<br />
priorities on the Lord and give with a<br />
cheerful heart knowing that all you have<br />
comes from Him. You will soon realize<br />
that God is a faithful provider.<br />
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Allow yourself to focus on the<br />
important things. Make it a priority<br />
to meditate on the word,listen to what<br />
the word is telling you and develop a<br />
connection with the Almighty. TP<br />
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VaChihera’s answer<br />
My dear it saddens me to here of your<br />
predicament. It is very clear to me<br />
that you really love this man because you<br />
have allowed yourself to endure all that<br />
he has been putting you through. The real<br />
question is do you love yourself?<br />
If you do then you should know that<br />
you can no longer make excuses for a<br />
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and is emotionally unavailable to you. It’s<br />
time to ask yourself the hard questions.<br />
Do you feel you deserve to be treated this<br />
way after devoting 7 years to this man?<br />
If he really wanted to marry you after all<br />
this time, he would have done it already<br />
don’t you think?<br />
I am sorry to say this but I hardly<br />
soften the truth no matter how brutal<br />
it may sound. You deserve better.<br />
The fact that he keeps postponing the<br />
lobola ceremony is a direct and clear<br />
message that he does not intend on<br />
marry you anytime soon or most likely he<br />
never intends to. We all know that when<br />
someone wants something they will do<br />
all they can in their power to get it.<br />
As you have pointed out, he clearly<br />
has the means to pay your bride price but<br />
the only thing that is really in the way of<br />
him doing it is himself. As unfortunate as<br />
this may sound, it is clear to me that this<br />
man is stringing you along for his own<br />
<br />
you willing to endure this? I advise you<br />
to leave this man before he emotionally<br />
damages you further.<br />
There is nothing left to talk about,<br />
because you have made it clear more<br />
than once what you want and he has<br />
on many occasions ignored and taken<br />
advantage of the love you have for him.<br />
Leave it to God. Go out there and do<br />
not let this man stop<br />
you<br />
<br />
h a p p i n e s s .<br />
Remember you<br />
deserve someone<br />
who loves you<br />
back and will do<br />
anything to keep<br />
you. A good man<br />
will come<br />
along. TP<br />
VaChihera<br />
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The acts of our time;<br />
Group sex<br />
euphoria<br />
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Things have changed and the<br />
times are evolving surely.<br />
I was left amazed in my<br />
capacity as a scribe for this<br />
column this other day when I was<br />
welcomed by a totally thought provoking<br />
story on a Facebook page prescribing that<br />
it is actually, “Wow and out of this world<br />
to have group sex.”<br />
In the hey days sex was predominantly<br />
a very conservative and sensitive issue<br />
that could not be discussed in public<br />
forums, let alone aired on social media<br />
platforms like in the current scenario<br />
<br />
posting about sexually related issues on<br />
their Facebook pages.<br />
The administrator(s) of<br />
the page is running<br />
a series of<br />
stories about<br />
people who are engaging in group sex, a<br />
thing deemed unethical and unorthodox<br />
by some who are lobbying for the total<br />
eradication of HIV/AIDS and STIs.<br />
Judging by the number and nature of<br />
comments below the story, it can be aptly<br />
said that those things we never imagined<br />
could happen during the time we became<br />
sexually active, are the same things that<br />
have taken over the youths with so much<br />
vigour and zeal. In other words it seems<br />
like for the youths it is the in thing to do.<br />
Surely there is no amount of advice<br />
that can sap the energy out of this gross<br />
misdemeanour; the youths of today have<br />
changed. Even the biblical teachings that<br />
one’s body should be his/her temple seem<br />
to have faded during this era. We are in<br />
the era were sex sells and is no longer as<br />
taboo as it was before.<br />
The pages are promulgating that, it<br />
is actually enjoyable and fascinating to<br />
have group sex and the idea will cascade<br />
to many. It may even continue till we get<br />
to a time whereby it will be very normal<br />
to have sex as a group.<br />
It is of paramount importance to note<br />
<br />
especially when these stories are coming<br />
out. My intelligence tells me it is already<br />
practised out there by those careless<br />
enough to contract and spread diseases<br />
knowingly and unknowingly.<br />
The people of our time have witnessed<br />
and can testify that people are much<br />
more interested in experimenting than<br />
before. The thrill and curiosity may be<br />
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the reason why others indulge or try out<br />
this act.<br />
The incarcerated RMG Independent<br />
End Time Message leader Robert Martin<br />
Gumbura is alleged to have indulged<br />
in group sex casually with his many<br />
wives. If a man of cloth can do it what<br />
about a juvenile in school without proper<br />
guidance counselling on these issues?<br />
The bible clearly states that sex was<br />
<br />
people, when God discovered that Adam<br />
needed a woman by his side to comfort<br />
and help him in the Garden of Eden.<br />
The acts of our times clearly show that<br />
people seem to be more ignorant about the<br />
dangers that are associated with group<br />
sex such as the transmission of HIV/AIDS<br />
and STIs. It seems the need for pleasure is<br />
surpassing the need for morality and self<br />
consciousness.<br />
It appears that mainly the youths<br />
from schools and colleges are the ones<br />
engaging in this immorality, however,<br />
it cannot be dismissed that much older<br />
adults are engaging in the very same<br />
activity, subjecting themselves to fatal<br />
ailments that can be attained from<br />
sleeping around.<br />
The youths are expected to be at the<br />
forefront of denouncing such acts but<br />
they are the ones who are leading the<br />
pack.<br />
This is a serious matter that requires<br />
one to honour his wellbeing no matter<br />
how much one is drunk or ecstatic<br />
because at the end of the day it is<br />
only the perpetrator who suffers the<br />
consequences. Chances are when things<br />
turn for the worse this group of people<br />
you engage in group sex with will start<br />
to disappear.<br />
Until we meet again next month, I say<br />
play it safe, condomise and stick to one<br />
faithful partner.<br />
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Sports<br />
End of the<br />
road for<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
The Zimbabwean Rugby national<br />
team the Sables participated<br />
in three matches in Madagascar<br />
last month to book a place<br />
for next year’s rugby World Cup set to be<br />
hosted by England however, they failed<br />
to earn a direct place to represent Zimbabwe<br />
at the global showcase.<br />
The Brendan Dawson coached side de-<br />
<br />
match before they failed to measure up to<br />
the eventual winners Namibia in the second<br />
game. The Sables however, were not<br />
deterred in their quest as they went on to<br />
<br />
The loss to Namibia proved detrimental<br />
to the Zimbabwean side who were<br />
aiming to qualify for their third world<br />
cup appearance.<br />
The Sables last played at the World Cup<br />
in 1991 when their current coach was<br />
part of the playing team. Under the same<br />
gaffer the team was looking forward to<br />
pass through the stumbling blocks on<br />
their way, but a defeat to Namibia hindered<br />
their progress.<br />
For being the runners up in Madagascar,<br />
the Sables can salvage some pride and<br />
qualify for the world cup through the rep-<br />
Sables?<br />
echage, in which they will have to play<br />
<br />
against the Russians.<br />
<br />
Dawson picked a fair 26-man team Namibia secured an automatic entry<br />
on superior points difference at next<br />
that comprised of seven uncapped players<br />
and the biggest surprise was the inclusion year’s World Cup after they clinically defeated<br />
the host 89-10.<br />
of 19-year-old Old Georgians prop Farai<br />
Mudariki, the young brother of scrumhalf “The thinking was that if we didn’t<br />
Hilton.<br />
score from the line-out and Kenya scored<br />
The other inexperienced players that or got a late penalty, we would have been<br />
found their way in the team that participated<br />
in Madagascar are half-back Guy Middleton.<br />
<br />
The sables will now have to travel and<br />
play against Russia this month in a playoff<br />
match where the winner will book a<br />
<br />
rence Clemenson, scrumhalf Peter Du home and away series against the winner<br />
<br />
of other play-off between Uruguay and<br />
Sables had a chance to qualify had Hong Kong.<br />
they not opted to take a costly decision in Meanwhile, for winning their two<br />
qualifying matches in Madagascar, Zimbabwe<br />
climbed the ladder on the Inter-<br />
Kenya, when they went for posts instead<br />
of a bonus point fourth try during the 28- national Rugby Board rankings, rising to<br />
10 win over Kenya. That decision cost the position 23.<br />
team an automatic ticket to next year’s The Sables rose three places after their<br />
Rugby World Cup.<br />
win over Kenya, submerging Namibia<br />
Zimbabwe needed a bonus point victory<br />
against Kenya to automatically qualnents<br />
in the Rugby World Cup play-offs,<br />
who are now 24th and their next oppoify<br />
for the Rugby World Cup and having Russia are ranked 20th behind Uruguay<br />
scored three tries past Kenya, a fourth (19) while Hong Kong is ranked 22nd. TP<br />
<br />
guaranteed them a place at next year’s<br />
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Sports<br />
It came, it went & Germany are the champions<br />
Tafadzwa Dombodzvuku<br />
The 20th edition of the FIFA<br />
world cup came and went with<br />
the Germans being crowned as<br />
the champions after beating<br />
<br />
played at the Rio de Maracana stadium<br />
on the 13th of last month.<br />
Germany wrote their own piece of<br />
<br />
European team to win the World Cup in<br />
South America.<br />
<br />
match a wounded lion after they had<br />
missed shots at winning the World Cup in<br />
2002, 2006 as host and in 2010 they were<br />
<br />
nothing but their eyes on the thirty eight<br />
centimetres tall and 18 gold carat coveted<br />
trophy.<br />
The Joachim Loew coached side, last<br />
won the competition 24 years ago when<br />
they were known as West Germany, they<br />
defeated the same team 1 nil at the 1990<br />
World Cup in Italy.<br />
This year marked eight years of Loew<br />
in charge of the national team, it was his<br />
second time trying to win the World Cup<br />
with Germany.<br />
The Deutsch as they are commonly<br />
known back home started off the<br />
tournament against Portugal who where<br />
boasting of having the reigning world<br />
footballer of the year Christiano Ronaldo.<br />
The Germany machine was well oiled in<br />
<br />
their European counter parts defeating<br />
them 4 nil.<br />
In their second match the World Cup<br />
winners met up with the Africans in form<br />
of Ghana whom they fought to secure<br />
a 2 all draw before they took on team<br />
USA mentored by their own son Jurgen<br />
Klinsman and the match was a close call<br />
<br />
The result meant Germany would<br />
progress as the group winners and they<br />
faced the runners up of group H, the<br />
Desert Foxes of Algeria whom they<br />
<br />
they took on Les Blues in the quarter<br />
<br />
an imperious defender Mats Hummels<br />
<br />
Bookmakers feared the Ides of March<br />
would come to haunt the Germans again<br />
<br />
host. Germany had developed a knack<br />
<br />
around they had to make sure they won<br />
at all costs. In 2006 and 2010 Germany<br />
lost to Italy and Spain respectively in the<br />
<br />
It was a high mountain to climb for the<br />
Europeans who were facing a determined<br />
Brazil in their own backyard and riding<br />
high on pure emotions they sent a<br />
stubborn Colombia out of the World Cup<br />
<br />
<br />
were very high for both teams; they all<br />
wanted to win the cup. Brazil was in<br />
agony on losing their talismanic players,<br />
Neymar because of a back injury and<br />
<br />
suspension.<br />
<br />
Brazil who suffered a record breaking<br />
<br />
Germany wrung Brazil to bits as they<br />
<br />
cheering supporters.<br />
Brazil’s weaknesses were exposed by<br />
the well oiled German machine and like<br />
their former chancellor Adolf Hitler, the<br />
Europeans were ruthless in their way of<br />
<br />
<br />
half.<br />
There was a public outcry in Sao Paulo<br />
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after the defeat of the Le Selecao who<br />
suffered their heaviest defeat at home and<br />
marked the end of Brazil’s quest to win<br />
the prestigious cup. They last won for the<br />
<br />
On the other side of town in Belo<br />
Horizonte, Argentina was struggling<br />
to overcome a determined Dutch side<br />
playing under Manchester United bound<br />
Louis Van Gaal and an instrumental Arjen<br />
Robben.<br />
The Lionel Messi captained side had<br />
to settle for penalties to progress to the<br />
<br />
<br />
in regulation and extra time.<br />
The stage was set for an epic encounter<br />
in Rio de Janeiro at Estadio do Maracana<br />
near the Copa Cabana beach for a grand<br />
<br />
and the South Americans were chastised<br />
for missing guilt edged chances.<br />
Argentina paid dearly when second<br />
half substitute Mario Gotze secured the<br />
win in the second half of extra time.<br />
Gotze, who is dubbed by many in<br />
Munich as the future of German football,<br />
controlled a gem of a cross from Chelsea’s<br />
forward Andre Schrulle with his chest<br />
before calmly putting the goal beyond the<br />
reach of Romeru who was left clutching<br />
his head.<br />
The goal summed up what had been<br />
the night of brilliant football from Bastian<br />
Schweinsteiger who silenced Messi from<br />
making his daunting runs from the<br />
<br />
and Sergio kun Arguero in the second half.<br />
“Congratulations to Germany for<br />
winning the cup and all the teams that<br />
lost I say try again next time you never<br />
know lady luck might smile on you,” said<br />
Lloyd Mhizha a football analyst.<br />
Asked about Zimbabwe’s chances of<br />
qualifying for the World Cup in 2018<br />
Mhizha said, “With the way football is run<br />
in this country, we have slim hope that<br />
Zimbabwe will qualify for Russia 2018.”<br />
The minister of tourism Walter<br />
Mzembi highlighted that government<br />
will bid to host the 2034 World Cup and<br />
maybe until then Zimbabwe will keep on<br />
watching other countries playing at the<br />
tournament. TP<br />
Sports Writer<br />
The 2014 FIFA World Cup<br />
brought with it a full<br />
package of entertainment<br />
galore, surprises and boring<br />
moments.<br />
The tournament kicked off in earnest<br />
on Thursday the 12th of June a day<br />
before the most feared day in the world<br />
by those who are superstitious (Friday<br />
the 13th), with the host Brazil taking on<br />
Croatia in Sao Paulo. The Croatians sent<br />
shivers down Brazil’s spine when Real<br />
Madrid full back Marcelo scored an own<br />
goal in the opening stages of the game<br />
<br />
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With the advancement in technology<br />
<br />
shared with ease over social media<br />
networks.<br />
WhatsApp groups were awash with<br />
debates on who was the best player, best<br />
team, who was going to win and so on.<br />
<br />
14 was very active during the World Cup<br />
with its subscribers at one time getting<br />
on each other’s nerves in gruesome<br />
debates.<br />
Betting houses made a fortune out<br />
of punters who lost their fortunes to<br />
the dark horses especially when Costa<br />
Rica beat Uruguay and Italy. Most if not<br />
all had predicted a straight win for the<br />
2006 champions.<br />
Nyandoro, a subscriber on Soccer<br />
Zone 14 stuck with his German team<br />
from the beginning of the tournament<br />
and was a very happy man when<br />
Sports<br />
Mixed Reactions at 2014 World Cup<br />
Germany beat the South Americans in<br />
<br />
“Hail Germany, hail Schweinsteiger,”<br />
said Nyandoro in appreciation of the<br />
<br />
game.<br />
Facebook was awash with<br />
congratulatory messages but most<br />
Barcelona fans were left with egg on<br />
their faces after their club hero Messi<br />
failed to exhibit his magic and talent to<br />
beat the Europeans and win the World<br />
Cup.<br />
“Oh Messi, has failed to do it again I<br />
am hurt to the bone,” said a Barcelona<br />
fan on Facebook.<br />
Messi failed to replicate other legends<br />
like Pele and Diego Maradona who have<br />
won the World Cup during their peak.<br />
Maradona went on to blast FIFA for<br />
awarding a Golden Ball award to Messi<br />
saying, the pint sized forward did not<br />
deserve the award but it should have<br />
been awarded to either Rodriguez or<br />
Thomas Mueller.<br />
Rodriguez was the tournament’s<br />
top goal scorer with six goals ahead of<br />
<br />
dubbed to be the goal of the tournament<br />
against Uruguay when he controlled<br />
<br />
goal, before he made a sharp turn to<br />
score with his left foot.<br />
The tournament will forever remain<br />
as one of the best in history and FIFA<br />
President Sepp Blatter has praised Brazil<br />
for hosting a good tourney and admitted<br />
the tournament was better than that of<br />
South Africa 2010. TP<br />
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Home Improvement<br />
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Shelter Chieza<br />
I<br />
used to be one of those people<br />
that preferred the dark, dull,<br />
conservative, traditional colours for<br />
interior spaces. This fear stretched<br />
even to my wardrobe. It was up until I<br />
made the decision to get over my fear<br />
for colours that I started experimenting.<br />
I am no longer afraid of going bold and<br />
over the top in almost everything I do for<br />
my interior spaces. There is something<br />
about being bold that speaks of vibrancy,<br />
youthfulness and freshness. Over time,<br />
I had gotten rid of awkwardly shaped<br />
spaces and a proliferation of orange<br />
brown cabinets in almost every room.<br />
Now I prefer going lighter and<br />
brighter in colour and texture. There is<br />
something about white that lifts the feel<br />
of a space. Instead of the brown woody<br />
feel cupboards, try white for a refreshing<br />
and fresh look that is bound to accentuate<br />
your accessories.<br />
I was recently engaged on an<br />
assignment where the brief I got from the<br />
husband was to make sure I came up with<br />
a design that had a sleek and modern look<br />
while the wife preferred something more<br />
relaxed and colourful. At least they agreed<br />
on their favourite colours. They said,<br />
they loved turquoise and yellow, and just<br />
wanted me to knock them out with my<br />
imagination. I absolutely adore it when I<br />
get to deal with not so fussy clients.<br />
<br />
a soothing neutral tone would do. In<br />
designing home interior spaces, avoid<br />
using dark colours for the walls as it<br />
can make it appear to recede. Horizontal<br />
strips make a wall appear wider; I then<br />
added a little interest with wallpaper.<br />
By incorporating blue and turquoise this<br />
generally adds a tranquil feel in a space,<br />
while dashes of yellow and coral add the<br />
warmth.<br />
This place had an open plan. I admit<br />
it’s never easy to decorate an open plan<br />
space but it can be done. What I needed to<br />
come up with was to demarcate different<br />
areas and come up with clear zones. I<br />
decided as a way of separating the living<br />
room from the entrance to bring in an<br />
L-shaped couch and place a low bookshelf<br />
behind it. I believe in using few but larger<br />
pieces of furniture and so I added a carpet<br />
that helped in designating a dining area.<br />
Because it was a compact space, I<br />
chose multipurpose furniture such as<br />
a versatile side table and ottoman that<br />
doubled up as coffee table and additional<br />
seating, which you can do in your home<br />
too. I added a sleeper couch that was<br />
inviting enough for the couple to lie<br />
down and watch television comfortably.<br />
Circular side tables are always a good idea<br />
especially where walk through space may<br />
be limited. Who says you must always<br />
design your space with the television as<br />
the focal point? Be different.<br />
I suggested to my clients to visit an<br />
antique shop and they could not believe<br />
what they saw. Mixing styles and eras is a<br />
quick and simple way to create interesting<br />
spaces. To place an antique chair next<br />
to a simple contemporary lamp may be<br />
just what you need. This space was a<br />
combination of antique and modern.<br />
Books are a fantastic way to add<br />
height and interest to a coffee table<br />
and any curated space. They actually<br />
<br />
accessories and they bring instant colour<br />
to shelves and tables.<br />
I also played around with the living<br />
<br />
It’s easier to connect the two by using<br />
natural tones and textures.<br />
If you thought ceramics are outdated,<br />
you may need to research more; ceramics<br />
are one of the hottest collectables around.<br />
Sticking to a single colour palette can<br />
help give a diverse collection of ceramics<br />
<br />
to creating interesting displays is to<br />
include pieces of varying heights and to<br />
add depth by layering ornaments in front<br />
of each other. Rather than dotting them<br />
around your home, create impact by<br />
displaying your ceramics en masse.<br />
This works particularly well<br />
when you have a collection of<br />
ornaments in a single colour.<br />
I found turquoise blue and<br />
yellow ceramics that I put on<br />
the room divider.<br />
Soft and silky carpets with a<br />
delicate sheen are the current<br />
trends. Natural and earthy<br />
shades are still in demand but<br />
bright and cheerful colours are<br />
making a big comeback.<br />
Contrary to popular<br />
belief, you don’t need to<br />
avoid carpets if you suffer<br />
from allergies as carpet<br />
traps airborne allergens<br />
<br />
removing them from the<br />
air. Plus, some carpets are<br />
available ready treated<br />
with an anti-microbial<br />
<br />
restores pile height and<br />
removes trapped dust and<br />
allergens improving the<br />
indoor air quality.<br />
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old<br />
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Home Improvement<br />
So, don’t be afraid of experimenting,<br />
go bold and in coordinating your spaces<br />
don’t be afraid of bending a few rules.<br />
Till next time. May God richly bless<br />
you. Happy Decorating. TP<br />
Shelter Chieza is an Interior Decor<br />
Consultant. She can be contacted at<br />
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It’s Coloring time<br />
Can you colour using the best colours you can think of? I know can. Give it a try.
Spot the Difference<br />
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Dot -to - Dot & Coloring<br />
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Give it a try?<br />
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Mind-Bender Crosswords Puzzle<br />
18 10 23 8 9 11 7 13 3 14 10 17 20 11 13 22<br />
by Milly Zerf<br />
1<br />
8 10 6 11 11 6 14 6<br />
14 8 7 6 16 7 3 6 11 7 7 6 3 8 7 2<br />
6 11 4 8 5 8 7 4 4 7 22<br />
19 10 13 2 8 16 14 7 8 9 11 2 8<br />
6 22 10 14 1 13 11 1 10 7 11 3 10<br />
10 13 8 5 8 7 4 16 1 4<br />
5 10 3 12 8 14 8 9<br />
13 13 1 8 9 9 13<br />
17 22 6 11 13 9 10 7 4<br />
8 1 10 3 2 13 10<br />
9 8 14 13 12 15<br />
9 14 6 19 6 2 8 10<br />
5 8 10 9 11 14<br />
10 4 12 19 10 4 21 8 14 19<br />
7 13 8 4 10 7 5 8 2 22 8 14 6<br />
7 10 3 14 8 22 6 21 8 23 8 7 2<br />
8 14 10 2 6 12 8 7 14 3 2<br />
14 10 11 7 4 14 6 1 5 6 7 6 14 10 11 9<br />
8 1 8 16 13 11 9 8<br />
4 8 2 6 7 10 2 8 13 22 11 7 21 9 8 13<br />
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represents a word within the crossword (an four letter word).<br />
Name:..............................................................Postal Address:..............................................................................................<br />
Telephone:.........................................Cell Phone(s):................................................................................................................<br />
Email:......................................................................................................................................................................................<br />
2 T<br />
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6<br />
7 N<br />
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9 L<br />
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13<br />
14 R<br />
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