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Morgan Tsvangirai<br />
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SEA OF RED . . .<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> Style<br />
MAKWAVARARA:<br />
HAPPY TO GIVE<br />
ANIMALS A VOICE<br />
PAGE SS3 PAGE 32<br />
standardsport<br />
CAPS UNITED<br />
CRUMBLE AT<br />
MANDAVA<br />
A huge crowd turned out for the MDC-T’s 15 th anniversary celebrations at Mucheke Stadium yesterday. See full story on page 2. Picture: Tatenda Chitagu<br />
Grace Mugabe’s PhD: Academics speak<br />
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News<br />
Tsvangirai regains mojo<br />
Egypt has a key role to play in countering<br />
Islamic State militants in Iraq<br />
and Syria, US Secretary of State John<br />
Kerry said on a visit to Cairo. He said<br />
Egypt could “publicly renounce” IS<br />
ideology, reaffirming US support for<br />
Egypt’s battle against Sinai militants.<br />
Foreign fighters crossing Sinai en<br />
route for Syria are advising local militants<br />
there, US officials say. Kerry is on<br />
the last leg of his Middle East tour as<br />
he tries to form a broad coalition to<br />
tackle IS militants.—BBC<br />
Ukrainian government troops say<br />
they have repelled an attack by pro-<br />
Russian rebels on Donetsk airport. All<br />
morning yesterday gunfire was heard<br />
from the area, controlled by government<br />
forces despite rebel victories<br />
in the rest of the eastern city. Correspondents<br />
say the fresh violence is<br />
a big challenge to a fragile ceasefire<br />
agreed on September 5. Meanwhile,<br />
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk<br />
has accused Russia of wanting<br />
to “eliminate” his country. — BBC<br />
Also AvAilAblE on<br />
bY TATEndA ChiTAgU<br />
MASVINGO — MDC-T<br />
president and former<br />
prime minister,<br />
Morgan Tsvangirai<br />
yesterday<br />
pulled a bumper crowd of over<br />
15 000 in Masvingo.<br />
Mucheke Stadium was full to<br />
the rafters as thousands of MDC-<br />
T supporters converged to celebrate<br />
the party’s 15 th anniversary.<br />
<strong>The</strong> celebrations came a few<br />
months after the party was rocked<br />
by a new split led by Tsvangirai’s<br />
former secretary-general Tendai<br />
Biti who has now formed the MDC<br />
Renewal Team.<br />
But the split did not deter the<br />
MDC-T supporters from painting<br />
Masvingo red since Friday as thousands<br />
in their party regalia and<br />
holding posters walked or drove<br />
through the streets.<br />
Throughout the day, there was<br />
joyful singing and dancing at<br />
Mucheke Stadium as supporters,<br />
who had travelled from different<br />
parts of Masvingo province and<br />
beyond, patiently waited to be addressed<br />
by the MDC-T president.<br />
Tsvangirai, who was in apparent<br />
fighting mood, was accompanied<br />
by his top officials including<br />
vice-president Thokozani Khupe,<br />
party chairman, Lovemore Moyo<br />
and organising secretary, Nelson<br />
Chamisa.<br />
He called on his supporters to<br />
take President Robert Mugabe<br />
and Zanu PF head-on by embarking<br />
on crippling nationwide mass<br />
street protests to demand an end<br />
to the deteriorating economic situation<br />
in the country.<br />
He said Zimbabweans had to<br />
break from the cocoon of fear enveloping<br />
them and confront the<br />
situation or risk suffering forever<br />
at the hands of Mugabe and his<br />
party.<br />
<strong>The</strong> country is facing an economic<br />
crisis characterised by<br />
a crumbling industry, liquidity<br />
crunch, unemployment and<br />
widespread poverty among other<br />
woes.<br />
Tsvangirai said Zimbabweans<br />
had suffered for too long at the<br />
hands of Mugabe and could no<br />
longer afford to remain docile.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> time has come to say ‘we<br />
cannot continue to be docile in<br />
this abyss. We are too docile as<br />
Zimbabweans, yet everyone has a<br />
right to public expression of disgruntlement,<br />
not to keep on complaining<br />
in your house without<br />
doing anything about it,” he said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> constitution allows demos,<br />
yet the police arrest people.<br />
But if they will take us to jail, we<br />
will fill up those jails. I am waiting<br />
for a day when workers, the<br />
youths, vendors, business, in fact,<br />
everyone, get into the streets and<br />
protest. That will be the day when<br />
Zimbabweans wake up from their<br />
slumber.”<br />
He said the road towards his<br />
party attaining 15 years had been<br />
very bumpy, having lost several<br />
elections at the hands of Mugabe<br />
in polls which he said were rigged.<br />
“It has not been an easy road.<br />
We lost some colleagues along the<br />
way at the hands of the same dictatorship<br />
which we are fighting.<br />
<strong>The</strong> MDC is a mixture of joy and<br />
tears today. We refused to run and<br />
decided to fight,” the former premier<br />
said.<br />
Turning to the state of the party,<br />
Tsvangirai blasted the MDC<br />
Renewal grouping for being over<br />
ambitious and impatient.<br />
“Pane vamwe vanovhima vane<br />
munyu muhomwe. Vamwe voti<br />
zvandinonokera [there are those<br />
that go hunting with salt in their<br />
pockets and others that say the<br />
struggle is taking too long],” he<br />
said.<br />
“Such people will never survive<br />
in the MDC when they have unbridled<br />
ambition and are interested<br />
in looking for positions.”<br />
Tsvangirai said the MDC was<br />
celebrating its 15 years when the<br />
country was going through debilitating<br />
economic hardships. But<br />
he re-affirmed the party’s commitment<br />
to unseat Mugabe and<br />
Zanu PF.<br />
“We are celebrating 15 years on<br />
a sad note because the country is<br />
on the edge. <strong>The</strong> country is not<br />
like what it was when we formed<br />
the MDC.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> situation has continued to<br />
deteriorate, but we remain determined<br />
to achieve the objective of<br />
freeing this country,” he said.<br />
Grace’s PhD: Academics speak<br />
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bY oUR sTAFF<br />
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe defied<br />
all odds when she graduated with<br />
the Doctor of Philosophy degree<br />
(PhD) at the University of Zimbabwe<br />
on Friday.<br />
News of her feat was received<br />
with surprise, even shock, by many<br />
who marvelled at how quickly she<br />
had worked on it and graduated.<br />
President Robert Mugabe who<br />
reportedly has seven degrees, and<br />
a host of long serving lecturers at<br />
the UZ do not hold PhDs whose attainment<br />
is no mean achievement.<br />
Some have questioned Grace’s<br />
achievement considering that reports<br />
show that she completed her<br />
first degree in Chinese Language<br />
barely three years ago in 2011.<br />
Grace was part of the 3 274<br />
graduands who were capped by<br />
Mugabe, who is the Chancellor of<br />
the University of Zimbabwe (UZ).<br />
She graduated with a Doctor of<br />
Philosophy (PhD) degree in the<br />
Faculty of Social Studies. Grace<br />
was capped along with Vice-President<br />
Joice Mujuru, who also graduated<br />
with a PhD under the Faculty<br />
of Commerce.<br />
But Mujuru already had a Masters<br />
degree in Strategic Management<br />
attained with Chinhoyi University<br />
of Technology.<br />
It was not clear when Grace registered<br />
for her PhD with UZ, but<br />
a few months ago, it was reported<br />
that she had registered for a doctorate<br />
with the institution and a<br />
well-known UZ sociology professor<br />
was her supervisor.<br />
Grace got her first degree<br />
through distance learning with<br />
the People’s University of China.<br />
It could not be established if she<br />
completed the requisite post-graduate<br />
degree course to enable her<br />
to register for a PhD.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> yesterday asked<br />
academics and administrators<br />
from different universities the<br />
process required to complete a<br />
PhD and the requisite entry qualifications.<br />
UZ lecturer Professor Greg Linnington<br />
said a doctorate involved<br />
President Robert Mugabe, who is also the Chancellor of all universities in Zimbabwe, caps his wife Grace on Friday<br />
writing a thesis and often would<br />
take several years for one to finish<br />
their research.<br />
“A doctorate involves writing a<br />
thesis, after having a research question<br />
prepared, write a proposal and<br />
then write the thesis where one<br />
needs to research on, critique it then<br />
it can be marked, but that could take<br />
a few years,” Linnington said.<br />
“It however varies with individuals<br />
to complete. Some just do a<br />
thesis while others might do one<br />
with some course work, but usually<br />
it’s a minimum of three years.”<br />
He said one needs to have an undergraduate<br />
or a Master’s degree<br />
but said that also varied from university<br />
to university.<br />
Another lecturer and university<br />
administrator who refused to be<br />
named said one would need a good<br />
Master’s degree in order to enrol<br />
for a doctorate.<br />
“One would need to make various<br />
presentations of each phase<br />
during the studies. One also needs<br />
to publish their work in a renowned<br />
academic journal,” he said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> process of research until<br />
writing the final thesis takes between<br />
three and seven years and<br />
for one to pass and be awarded a<br />
PhD, they have to make a significant<br />
contribution to the body of<br />
knowledge.”<br />
He said at most universities, a<br />
PhD was an academic apprenticeship<br />
which proved that one is an<br />
academic expert in that area of<br />
study.<br />
“At most universities that are<br />
worth their salt, the supervisor<br />
for any student must be a Professor<br />
with many years’ experience<br />
and the final thesis the student<br />
writes must be passed by at least<br />
two external independent examiners,”<br />
said the university administrator.<br />
Another professor said for one<br />
to embark on a doctorate, they<br />
would need a supervisor and one<br />
needs to suggest a topic which<br />
would then be passed.<br />
“Qualifications usually needed<br />
are a good first degree, a Masters’<br />
degree and then they write a proposal<br />
which will go through the<br />
university,” he said.<br />
“After that, one has to do their<br />
research which is usually between<br />
them and their supervisor.<br />
And the minimum for one to<br />
attain a doctorate is three years.<br />
One will have to be an exceptionally<br />
brilliant student to finish it in<br />
less than three years.”<br />
He also said the thesis is then<br />
passed by at least two examiners<br />
in which one of those should be<br />
an external examiner.<br />
In 2001, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> reported<br />
that Grace had dismally failed<br />
most of the examinations she had<br />
written for a University of London<br />
Bachelor of Arts (English) degree.
News<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 3<br />
Zhuwao wants to be ‘govt advisor’<br />
BY PAIDAMOYO MUZULU<br />
Steenkamp family<br />
object verdict<br />
THE parents of Reeva Steenkamp say “justice<br />
was not served” after South African athlete<br />
Oscar Pistorius was acquitted of murdering<br />
their daughter.<br />
June and Barry Steenkamp told of their<br />
“disbelief ” that the court had believed Pistorius’s<br />
version of events.<br />
Judge Thokozile Masipa found him guilty of<br />
the lesser charge of culpable homicide, saying<br />
the state had failed to prove he intended to kill.<br />
Pistorius has been allowed bail ahead of<br />
sentencing on October 13.<br />
Judge Masipa said the athlete had acted<br />
“negligently” when he shot his girlfriend<br />
through a toilet door, but in the “belief that<br />
there was an intruder”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Paralympic sprinter had strenuously denied<br />
murdering Steenkamp after a row on Valentine’s<br />
Day last year, saying he shot her by mistake.<br />
But in the interview with NBC, June Steenkamp<br />
said: “This verdict is not justice for Reeva,<br />
just want the truth. He shot through the door<br />
and I can’t believe that they believe it was an<br />
accident.”— BBC<br />
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s nephew<br />
Patrick Zhuwao says he no longer has<br />
ambition to seek public office but would<br />
like to serve the nation through providing<br />
“evidence-based research” to help<br />
the government reach informed decisions.<br />
Zhuwao made the claims in an interview with<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> as speculation swirls that the formation<br />
of the Zhuwao Institute could be a subtle<br />
way of reinventing his floundering political career.<br />
“I am not interested in public office any longer. I<br />
can serve Zimbabwe much better without the constraints<br />
of public office,” Zhuwao said.<br />
He said the country’s problems were compounded<br />
by making decisions without the requisite evidence-based<br />
research into solutions.<br />
“Zimbabwe’s biggest challenge is that economic<br />
decisions are made in the absence of thorough<br />
economic considerations and this causes our<br />
businesses to struggle because they fail to relate<br />
to the socio-economic environment,” he said.<br />
He stressed the need for the country to have<br />
many think tanks to assist in providing new information<br />
and advising policy makers.<br />
“We need to have a proliferation of think tanks<br />
and research institutions that will assist the<br />
country to go towards evidence-based policy making,”<br />
he said.<br />
Zhuwao’s political star dimmed in 2013 when<br />
he lost his Zvimba East parliamentary seat to his<br />
distant relative and former Mugabe security aide<br />
Francis Mukwangariwa in party primaries.<br />
However, last month Zhuwao came back into<br />
the public limelight just before the Zanu PF<br />
Women’s League conference that endorsed Grace<br />
Mugabe’s elevation to the politburo as the women’s<br />
league boss when he claimed Zanu PF Harare<br />
province wanted to banish the First Lady to<br />
Zvimba.<br />
Zhuwao was also part of the group of four<br />
(Philip Chiyangwa, Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere<br />
and himself) who were reportedly approached<br />
to help source funding for the women’s<br />
conference after the party had held a chaotic<br />
youth conference a few days earlier.<br />
Speculation then grew that Zhuwawo belonged<br />
to the Mnangagwa faction that was allegedly behind<br />
Grace’s entrance into politics from the top<br />
— the politburo.<br />
Zhuwao dismissed the allegations as spurious<br />
and the work of people who could not read politics.<br />
“Anybody who reads into that in that manner is<br />
devoid of reason and an irreconcilable idiot. <strong>The</strong><br />
effort we contributed was from all members of<br />
C<br />
the women’s league, not a faction,” he said.<br />
M<br />
He added, “One of the big donors to the Women’s<br />
League was Vice- President Mujuru and that Y<br />
makes it totally nonsensical to read our gesture as<br />
CM<br />
factional, let alone assisting Mnangagwa.”<br />
MY<br />
Despite his denials, it is emerging that Zhuwao,<br />
through his institute, could turn out to be the ultimate<br />
guardian of Mugabe’s legacy in the party<br />
CY<br />
CMY<br />
and country where he is strategically positioning<br />
K<br />
himself as the brains behind the throne.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> institute will be giving research-based advice<br />
to government departments and cabinet on<br />
possible solutions to socio-economic problems,”<br />
he said.<br />
Zhuwao said he funded the institute and it would<br />
soon be earning an income from its projects such<br />
as offering Strategic Planning and Institutional<br />
Development training to public institutions.<br />
“We will be working with local authorities and<br />
other public bodies and private companies on capacity<br />
development as consultants,” he said.<br />
Zhuwao argued his academic qualifications put<br />
him in a good position to create a think tank and<br />
help the development of the country socio-economically.<br />
He holds five degrees which include BSc Computer<br />
Systems Engineering, MBA in Information<br />
Technology Management, BSc Hons Economics,<br />
Masters in Management and Public and Development<br />
Management and the MSc Economics that<br />
he was awarded on Friday at the University of<br />
Zimbabwe.<br />
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Local News<br />
‘Sekeramayi is wrong on generals’<br />
By CHARLES LAITON<br />
Defence minister<br />
Sydney Sekeramayi’s<br />
recent decision to review<br />
upwards the retirement<br />
age for military<br />
generals and other serving<br />
war veterans from 60 to 65 years,<br />
is unconstitutional, Veritas, a local<br />
lawyer grouping has said.<br />
Just over a week ago, Sekeramayi<br />
gazetted Statutory Instrument<br />
134/2014 for non-commissioned<br />
members and Statutory<br />
Instrument 135/2014 for<br />
other officers spelling out the<br />
exception to the standard retirement<br />
age for members of the<br />
army and the air force.<br />
<strong>The</strong> upward review of the retirement<br />
age, which was done<br />
with President Robert Mugabe’s<br />
blessing, gave a new lease of<br />
life to military generals, many<br />
of whom are nearing the retirement<br />
age of 60.<br />
But Veritas, a local organisation<br />
that analyses the work of<br />
the Parliament and the Laws<br />
of the country, said both statutory<br />
instruments were invalid<br />
because they were made by the<br />
minister of Defence, instead of<br />
the Defence forces commission.<br />
“Whatever section 113 of the<br />
Defence Act may say, the Minister<br />
of Defence no longer has<br />
the power to make regulations<br />
for the conditions of service of<br />
Defence force members,” Veritas<br />
said.<br />
“Section 218 of the constitution<br />
makes that clear when it<br />
provides for the Defence forces<br />
Service commission, albeit<br />
with the approval of the minister,<br />
to make regulations to fix<br />
and regulate conditions of service<br />
of members of the Defence<br />
forces, including their salaries,<br />
allowances and other benefits.<br />
“In addition, before fixing<br />
those salaries, allowances and<br />
other benefits, the commission<br />
must get the approval of the<br />
President, given on the recommendation<br />
of the Minister of<br />
finance and economic Development<br />
and after consultation<br />
with the Minister of Defence.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> two statutory instruments<br />
gazetted on September 5<br />
this year, spell out an exception<br />
to the standard retirement age<br />
of 60 years for members of the<br />
Army and Air force.<br />
And, from now on the retirement<br />
age for members who are<br />
“war veterans” as defined in<br />
the War Veterans Act, would be<br />
65 years.<br />
But chief Law Officer chris<br />
Mutangadura yesterday told<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> that Veritas had<br />
missed the point, given that<br />
Sekeramayi simply exercised<br />
delegated legislation.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> minister did not provide<br />
any conditions of service<br />
in this particular instance. He<br />
was simply exercising delegated<br />
legislation and therefore<br />
whatever he did, for as long as<br />
it was within the four corners<br />
of the enabling Act, it can never<br />
be said to be non-compliant<br />
with the constitution,” Mutangadura<br />
said.<br />
But Veritas said: “It is true<br />
that section 113 of the Defence<br />
Act still says on the printed<br />
page that the Minister of Defence<br />
may make regulations for<br />
conditions of service, but that<br />
merely reflects the different approach<br />
under the previous constitution<br />
from 1994 onwards.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> nGO further said, as the<br />
supreme law, the present constitution<br />
overrode any conflicting<br />
provisions in section 113 of<br />
the Act.<br />
“Paragraph 10 of the Sixth<br />
Schedule to the constitution,<br />
which deals with the continuation<br />
of existing laws such as<br />
the Defence Act, says that such<br />
laws must be “construed in<br />
conformity with” the constitution,”<br />
Veritas said.<br />
Sydney Sekeramayi<br />
Cuba to send doctors to Ebola areas<br />
Cuba is sending 165 health<br />
workers to help tackle the ebola<br />
outbreak in West Africa, officials<br />
say.<br />
Doctors, nurses and infection control<br />
specialists will travel to Sierra<br />
Leone in October and stay for six<br />
months.<br />
<strong>The</strong> announcement comes as the<br />
World Health Organisation says<br />
new cases in West Africa are increasing<br />
faster than the capacity to<br />
manage them.<br />
More than 2 400 people have died<br />
from the virus in recent months and<br />
some 4 700 people have been infected.<br />
<strong>The</strong> death toll remains highest in<br />
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.<br />
World Health Organisation<br />
(WHO) officials say the number of<br />
people affected is likely to be much<br />
greater than current estimates suggest.<br />
In Liberia WHO experts say there<br />
is not a single bed left to treat patients<br />
with ebola.<br />
But the world football association,<br />
fifa, says it is joining forces with the<br />
United nations to turn the country's<br />
national stadium into a large-scale<br />
ebola treatment unit.<br />
Margaret chan, director of the<br />
WHO, said: “If we are going to go to<br />
war with ebola we need the resources<br />
to fight.<br />
“I am extremely grateful for the<br />
generosity of the cuban government<br />
and these health professionals<br />
for doing their part to help us contain<br />
the worst ebola outbreak ever<br />
known.”<br />
She added: “cuba is world-famous<br />
for its ability to train outstanding<br />
doctors and nurses and for its generosity<br />
in helping fellow countries on<br />
the route to progress.”<br />
Through a global medical programme,<br />
doctors have been deployed<br />
to a range of countries, from<br />
Algeria to South Africa.<br />
And many consider this medical<br />
help to be a central part of cuba’s<br />
international relations.<br />
One of cuba’s most extensive efforts<br />
is an eye surgery programme<br />
Cuba will send doctors, nurses and infection control specialists to Sierra Leone in October.<br />
in Venezuela where thousands of<br />
cataract operations have been performed.<br />
Hundreds of cuban medical<br />
workers were sent to Haiti during<br />
the earthquake in 2010.<br />
<strong>The</strong> country also trains thousands<br />
of overseas medical students,<br />
many of whom return to their home<br />
nations to work. —BBC<br />
Zanu PF bira fails to take off<br />
By OUR STAFF<br />
A bira (traditional religious<br />
festival) meant to seek guidance<br />
from “ancestral spirits”<br />
on the country’s political<br />
problems, and a solution to<br />
the intensifying factional and<br />
succession fights in Zanu Pf<br />
failed to take place yesterday.<br />
Only a small group of war<br />
veterans and a few Zanu Pf<br />
supporters descended at a<br />
farm in Mazowe on friday<br />
night to “welcome” a spirit<br />
medium led by “Mbuya nehanda”<br />
purportedly to deliver the<br />
people of Zimbabwe from the<br />
various difficulties they were<br />
facing.<br />
Zanu Pf sources said the<br />
“spirit mediums” who organised<br />
the bira were allegedly<br />
working with war veterans in<br />
Harare and some military bigwigs<br />
linked to a faction in the<br />
ruling party.<br />
But an official yesterday<br />
said the main ceremony was<br />
cancelled when the media publicised<br />
the event.<br />
A police officer in plain<br />
clothes from the Police Intelligence<br />
Services (PIS) was present<br />
at the event and had come<br />
to relieve his colleague who<br />
had spent the night at the ceremony.<br />
When <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> arrived<br />
at the venue yesterday, there<br />
were no dignitaries or military<br />
leaders but a small group<br />
of people jovially drinking<br />
beer, eating and taking snuff.<br />
One Murava Mpofu, a<br />
spokesman for the event, insisted<br />
that the ceremony was<br />
not political. He said the event<br />
was meant to bring together<br />
Zimbabweans of diverse backgrounds<br />
and celebrate the “arrival”<br />
of Mbuya nehanda’s<br />
spirit.<br />
"We are not after any publicity.<br />
Anyway, she [Mbuya nehanda]<br />
will reveal herself to<br />
President Robert Mugabe<br />
the country spiritually,” he<br />
said.<br />
Mpofu said the spirit would<br />
relieve the people of Zimbabwe<br />
from the problems associated<br />
with disease, hunger or<br />
even war as the country had<br />
been chosen to enjoy the blessings<br />
bestowed on it.<br />
Zanu Pf has been witnessing<br />
serious internal squabbles<br />
as factions position themselves<br />
for the succession of<br />
90-year-old President Robert<br />
Mugabe who has been in power<br />
for the past 34 years.<br />
<strong>The</strong> factions have been<br />
throwing dirt at each other in<br />
the public.<br />
One faction is reportedly<br />
linked to Vice-President Joice<br />
Mujuru while the other is said<br />
to be loyal to Justice minister,<br />
emmerson Mnangagwa.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two however have persistently<br />
denied leading factions<br />
or harbouring presidential<br />
ambitions.
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6 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014<br />
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Insurance firms<br />
take Zimra<br />
to ConCourt<br />
<strong>The</strong> impasse between the two organisations<br />
has now spilled to the Constitutional Court<br />
BY CHARLES LAITON<br />
Daggers have been drawn<br />
between the Tour Operators<br />
Business Association<br />
of Zimbabwe (Tobaz)<br />
and the Zimbabwe<br />
Revenue Authority (Zimra)<br />
with the former accusing the latter<br />
of creating a monopoly in the<br />
issuance of insurance cover.<br />
<strong>The</strong> impasse between the two<br />
organisations has now spilled to<br />
the Constitutional Court (Con-<br />
Court) with Tobaz seeking to bar<br />
Zimra from “unconstitutionally<br />
operating as an insurance company”<br />
while leaving its mandate of<br />
collecting revenue.<br />
Tobaz is an association of tour<br />
operators in Zimbabwe who provide<br />
a wide range of insurance<br />
services in the country which include<br />
arranging for motor vehicle<br />
Delta, Dairibord<br />
at loggerheads<br />
over advertising<br />
BY FELUNA NLEYA<br />
insurance for foreign registered<br />
vehicles entering the country.<br />
In its application, under case<br />
number CZ23/14, Tobaz cited Motor<br />
Insurance Pool of Zimbabwe,<br />
Zimra and the chairman of the<br />
Insurance and Pensions Commission<br />
as first, second and third respondents<br />
respectively.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> second respondent has<br />
then proceeded to itself issue out<br />
insurance cover on behalf of the<br />
first respondent. It must be emphasised<br />
that the first respondent<br />
is an association of short term insurers<br />
and is not itself an insurance<br />
company and cannot therefore<br />
offer insurance services,” Tobaz<br />
said in its application.<br />
“Zimra has declined to accept<br />
insurance other than that issued<br />
by itself as agent for the first respondent<br />
in the issuance of TIPs.<br />
It published a public notice which<br />
It is a legal requirement that all foreign registered vehicles entering Zimbabwe be issued with a Temporary Import Permit (TIP).<br />
advised that it could only issue insurance<br />
cover for the purposes of<br />
the issuance of TIPs.”<br />
“<strong>The</strong> effect of the above is that<br />
a monopoly has been created by<br />
Zimra, ICZ and Ipec. No one else<br />
can venture into insurance in<br />
the area covered by the monopoly.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no legal authority<br />
for this state of affairs. Zimra is<br />
not a registered insurer. It cannot<br />
lawfully issue insurance, even as<br />
an agent of another,” Tobaz added.<br />
Tobaz further said its members<br />
had been barred from issuing insurance<br />
policies or arranging for<br />
the same for foreign registered vehicles<br />
and that much business had<br />
as a result, been lost.<br />
<strong>The</strong> billboard at the centre of an advertising storm between Delta Beverages and Dairibord<br />
Holdings. Picture: Aaron Ufumeli.<br />
An advertising war has erupted<br />
between two of the country’s<br />
leading beverage manufacturers,<br />
Delta Beverages and Dairibord<br />
Holdings.<br />
Delta Beverages recently erected a<br />
billboard along Rekai Tangwena Road<br />
next to Dairibord Holdings’ factory, advertising<br />
Super Sip, a ready to drink<br />
dairy beverage which was introduced<br />
onto the local market late last year<br />
to rival other existing dairy fruit flavoured<br />
beverages by Dairibord.<br />
<strong>The</strong> move by Delta Beverages to advertise<br />
competing beverage products<br />
in the vicinity of Dairibord Holdings’<br />
premises has not gone down well with<br />
the milk producer which manufactures<br />
Cascade, a competing nutritious<br />
dairy fruit mix.<br />
“Obviously this is mischief,” Dairibord<br />
Holdings’ spokesperson Emeldah<br />
Shoko said. “Our loyal and valued consumers<br />
know that Dairibord Holdings<br />
products like Cascade, Nutriplus and<br />
Yoghurt are genuine quality dairy based<br />
offerings that contribute towards the<br />
sustenance of good health and should<br />
not be confused with imitations on the<br />
market.”<br />
“Dairibord Holdings has a heritage<br />
of providing nutritious foods and beverages<br />
to the nation and the region which<br />
spans over half a century.”<br />
However, Delta Beverages spokesperson<br />
Alex Makamure defended the<br />
beverages manufacturer’s move, saying<br />
there was no unfair practice as<br />
their advert was placed on a publicly<br />
available space.<br />
“Advertising sites come up at different<br />
times as the space is limited,” Makamure<br />
said.<br />
“We lodged a request for sites and the<br />
supplier had this particular one available.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is nothing unfair in advertising<br />
a product on publicly available<br />
spaces.”<br />
“We have signed a long-term contract<br />
with the supplier for this site and<br />
we will be rotating our brands as our<br />
brand campaigns evolve.”<br />
This is not the first time that competitors<br />
have engaged in aggressive marketing<br />
campaigns as local cigarette<br />
manufacturer Savannah Tobacco erected<br />
its billboard advertising its products<br />
just at the doorstep of its competitor<br />
British American Tobacco Zimbabwe<br />
(BAT) along Simon Mazorodze road in<br />
Harare.<br />
“This has been an unnecessary<br />
restriction of the applicants’<br />
members’ right to carry on their<br />
profession as brokers and providers<br />
of insurance,” Tobaz said.<br />
According to Tobaz, it is a legal<br />
requirement that all foreign registered<br />
vehicles entering Zimbabwe<br />
be issued with a Temporary<br />
Import Permit (TIP) and that one<br />
of the legal requirements for the<br />
issuance of such a TIP is that the<br />
importer must have valid insurance<br />
cover for the period of the<br />
validity of the TIP.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> applicant contends that<br />
neither the first nor the second<br />
respondents are registered as<br />
providers of insurance in accordance<br />
with the Insurance Act. This<br />
BY CHRISTOpHER MAHOvE<br />
BOgUS municipal police officers<br />
are on the rampage<br />
in Harare’s Central Business<br />
District, extorting money<br />
from unsuspecting street<br />
vendors.<br />
Harare Metropolitan Police<br />
Chief Inspector, Rachel<br />
Mawoyo, told a meeting of<br />
vendors and council officials<br />
in Harare on Thursday that<br />
her office was aware that<br />
there were bogus municipal<br />
police who were confiscating<br />
goods and extorting money<br />
from vendors in the city.<br />
She said council was on<br />
the hunt for the suspects. Mawoyo<br />
said those approached<br />
by anyone claiming to be<br />
from the municipal police<br />
department should demand<br />
identification before surrendering<br />
their goods and money.<br />
“We know that there are<br />
bogus police officers on the<br />
sprawl, some of them that<br />
we know are former employees<br />
who were dismissed<br />
from work a long time ago.<br />
We are looking for them and<br />
we will get them arrested,”<br />
she said.<br />
Mawoyo said any vendor<br />
approached by anyone they<br />
suspected to be a bogus officer<br />
should phone her office<br />
immediately for assistance.<br />
“If anyone approaches<br />
you and you are not sure<br />
about them, call our national<br />
control centre and we will<br />
deploy our officers immediately,”<br />
she said.<br />
is not denied by these respondents,<br />
suffice to say that the Motor<br />
Insurance Pool alleges that it<br />
has been allowed by the minister<br />
responsible for the administration<br />
of the Road Traffic Act to issue<br />
out insurance policies,” Tobaz<br />
said.<br />
“This need not detain us. Only<br />
registered insurance providers<br />
can issue motor vehicle insurance<br />
cover under the Road Traffic<br />
Act. To this end therefore, the<br />
agreement is ultra vires the Insurance<br />
Act and the Road Traffic<br />
Act.”<br />
Zimra is yet to file its response<br />
and the matter has not been set<br />
down for hearing. Tobaz is represented<br />
by Advocate Lewis Uriri.<br />
Bogus municipal police<br />
on the rampage<br />
<strong>The</strong> vendors had complained<br />
during the meeting<br />
that they were not finding<br />
their confiscated goods<br />
when they followed to the<br />
municipal offices to pay<br />
their fines.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y said some corrupt<br />
officers were also confiscating<br />
their goods and giving<br />
them to their “runners” who<br />
would then sell the items on<br />
their behalf.<br />
Mawoyo said municipal<br />
officials who were engaged<br />
in such acts risked being arrested<br />
and losing their jobs.<br />
“We do not send people out<br />
there to come and steal from<br />
you. It is unfortunate but we<br />
don’t expect that kind of behaviour<br />
from our officers, especially<br />
women officers who<br />
know the pains of looking after<br />
families,” she said.<br />
Mawoyo said confiscated<br />
perishables were supposed<br />
to be forwarded to the Zimbabwe<br />
Republic Police Licensing<br />
Department who<br />
would either destroy or auction<br />
them, adding that the<br />
law on perishables did not allow<br />
council to destroy what<br />
would have been confiscated.<br />
Vendors confirmed at the<br />
Combined Harare Residents<br />
Association (CHRA) organised<br />
meeting that they knew<br />
of Municipal police officers<br />
who had multiple vending<br />
stalls and enjoyed strategic<br />
immunity from the police.<br />
“This patrimonial system<br />
has hit hard those that do<br />
not have their own patrons to<br />
protect them,” CHRA said.
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 7<br />
Renewed hunt for gold in Penhalonga<br />
Displaced from farms during the farm<br />
invasions, hundreds of desperate and poor<br />
people have ventured into illegal gold mining,<br />
leaving a trail of environmental destruction<br />
BY CLAYTON MASEKESA<br />
THE dust road meanders<br />
down to the Mutare River,<br />
then breaks into a<br />
dirt path. Red dust puffs<br />
up as hundreds of fatigued,<br />
barefoot illegal gold miners<br />
march in single file, carrying<br />
hoes, picks and shovels.<br />
Women, schoolchildren, young<br />
and old men wade across the river<br />
to the eastern bank. <strong>The</strong>re they<br />
cut trees, overturn rocks, and<br />
push the debri into Mutare River,<br />
choking it with mud.<br />
<strong>The</strong> disconnected sound of<br />
hammers drowns out the rush of<br />
the river.<br />
Saungweme Mountains and<br />
Mutare River close to Redwing<br />
Mine have been besieged by the illegal<br />
gold panners.<br />
Pushed by endless poverty, desperate<br />
illegal gold seekers have<br />
begun a new wave of panning,<br />
tearing down Zimbabwe’s countryside<br />
in Penhalonga’s DTZ<br />
Ozgeo Redwing Mine in search of<br />
the precious stone.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are leaving behind a trail<br />
of destruction that includes devastated<br />
fields and forests, mudchoked<br />
rivers and mercury-tainted<br />
water along the Mutare River.<br />
Widespread hunger that has<br />
wreaked havoc in the small mining<br />
area has forced virtually everybody<br />
regardless of gender or<br />
age to join the gold rush following<br />
the closure of the mine in March<br />
this year.<br />
Penhalonga has become synonymous<br />
with gold panning where<br />
gold seekers follow mining concessions<br />
belonging to the gold<br />
mining concern.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Environment Management<br />
Agency (EMA), closed sections of<br />
the Russian-owned DTZ Ozgeo operations<br />
along the Mutare River.<br />
EMA stopped the company<br />
from mining, ordering it to rehabilitate<br />
land where it carried out<br />
previous operations and to complete<br />
an Environment Impact Assessment<br />
(EIA).<br />
Environment minister Saviour<br />
Kasukuwere has said the government<br />
will not entertain appeals by<br />
the Russian gold miner to be allowed<br />
to resume alluvial mining<br />
operations at the mine.<br />
<strong>The</strong> miner, a 60/40 joint venture<br />
between Econendra of Russia and<br />
the Development Trust of Zimbabwe,<br />
in May this year appealed to<br />
Parliament to lift a ban on alluvial<br />
mining saying it would be forced<br />
to dismiss its nearly 500 workers<br />
following the closure of the mine.<br />
“We are not backtracking on<br />
our stance because DTZ has not<br />
communicated with us. Even if<br />
they do, it won’t be of any significance,”<br />
Kasukuwere said.<br />
He said the ministry was updating<br />
legislation to include a ban on<br />
riverbed mining practised by several<br />
companies.<br />
“We took a decision as government<br />
that mining along riverbeds<br />
will not be tolerated. <strong>The</strong> law will<br />
prescribe the certain minimum<br />
conditions that have to be met before<br />
mining can go ahead as in the<br />
case of DTZ,” Kasukuwere added.<br />
However, like many of the young<br />
unemployed youth, Privilege Kamusoko<br />
(25) has joined the gold<br />
rush, after hearing that Penhalonga<br />
was “overflowing” with gold.<br />
“All I am looking for is survival.<br />
I want to survive and fend for<br />
my family. I’m here because of<br />
hunger, because there is nothing<br />
for my family, no food for them,”<br />
he said.<br />
Kamusoko, who is one of many<br />
Gwejas (illegal gold panners) said<br />
in a “lucky” week, he can make<br />
more than US$500 from selling<br />
gold at US$40 per gramme, but<br />
most of the money is used to buy<br />
food.<br />
<strong>The</strong> buyers come from in and<br />
outside the country. <strong>The</strong>y are seen<br />
milling around the nearby business<br />
centres in Chinyanjera and<br />
Tsvingwe.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two business centres have<br />
become a hive of activity owing to<br />
Illegal panners near Saungweme Mountain<br />
the cash that is exchanging hands.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are many teenagers doing<br />
this. If you come in the evening,<br />
you’ll see the sheer number<br />
of people mining here who<br />
come back to their camps in the<br />
mountains,” said Kenneth Madziwachando<br />
from Tsvingwe in Penhalonga.<br />
Displaced from farms during<br />
the farm invasions, hundreds of<br />
desperate and poor people have<br />
ventured into illegal gold mining<br />
in Penhalonga, leaving a trail of<br />
environmental destruction of unprecedented<br />
magnitude. Farmers,<br />
environmentalists, and traditional<br />
leaders are alarmed by the destruction.<br />
Mutare River is fast filling with<br />
silt, harming ecosystems as well<br />
as farming, fishing, and drinking<br />
water. <strong>The</strong> illegal miners cut and<br />
burn wood indiscriminately to<br />
fuel their makeshift camps.<br />
<strong>The</strong> illegal panners use mercury<br />
and cyanide to separate gold<br />
from the ore, and then flush the<br />
toxins into the same river.<br />
A visit to some of the mining<br />
fields in the area revealed that the<br />
illegal panners arrive at the river<br />
in the afternoon and during the<br />
night in search of the precious<br />
mineral.<br />
“Before, there was a lot of gold<br />
and few people panned for gold<br />
because that time there was food<br />
and people didn’t care about gold.<br />
Right now, because there is hunger<br />
all over, people have come<br />
from all over to mine and are competing<br />
to have the few pieces of<br />
gold,” said Madziwachando.<br />
Children have also joined in the<br />
gold hunt and, like countless others,<br />
are missing out on education.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have traded the education<br />
books for the pick and shovel and<br />
are hoping for a golden ticket out<br />
of poverty.<br />
Manicaland police spokesperson<br />
Assistant Inspector Luxson<br />
Chananda said he was still to get<br />
information on the new gold rush.<br />
“As of now, I do not have complete<br />
information on the invasion<br />
of the mine by the gold panners.<br />
We will do some investigations<br />
and I will come back to you with<br />
full information,” said Chananda.<br />
Nevertheless, Chananda said,<br />
the police have been urging people<br />
to desist from illegal gold mining<br />
as it has many dangers associated<br />
with it.<br />
<strong>The</strong> community’s hopes rest on<br />
the establishment of mining laws<br />
that promote investment and development.<br />
“What we need are international<br />
investors to come in and mine<br />
for gold and benefit the community,”<br />
said Chief Mutasa.<br />
“We need the government to offer<br />
licences to locals to do proper<br />
mining by giving them claims.<br />
This will provide some jobs to the<br />
local community and some basic<br />
services.”<br />
According to police, an estimated<br />
400 illegal gold panners are refusing<br />
to vacate Mutare River<br />
banks and Saungweme Mountain<br />
in Penhalonga.<br />
Villagers and residents in Penhalonga’s<br />
Tsvingwe high-density<br />
suburb said the illegal panners<br />
were causing serious social problems<br />
in the area such as drug and<br />
alcohol abuse, prostitution and violence.<br />
Unilever launches Geisha<br />
Musha Mukadzi campaign<br />
BY OUR STAFF<br />
UNILEVER recently celebrated<br />
the role of Zimbabwe’s mothers<br />
through the launch of the Geisha<br />
Musha Mukadzi campaign.<br />
<strong>The</strong> campaign is a celebration<br />
and acknowledgement of the<br />
many women and mothers that<br />
have achieved great things in<br />
their different walks of life.<br />
Speaking at the event, Unilever<br />
marketing director Juliet<br />
Ziswa said the company prided<br />
itself with quality brands that<br />
had added value to its consumers<br />
and communities every day.<br />
Unilever is the manufacturer<br />
of household brands such as<br />
Omo, Sunlight, Royco, Geisha,<br />
Vaseline and Stork margarine.<br />
“Through a research that we<br />
did among our consumers, we<br />
found out that mothers are not<br />
only looking for real value and<br />
benefit for the whole family, but<br />
also natural products that are<br />
mild and gentle and leave the<br />
skin looking healthy and cared<br />
for,” she said.<br />
“We have gone and borrowed<br />
from nature and developed a<br />
new Geisha. <strong>The</strong> new Geisha is<br />
sourced from nature. We have<br />
used the pure and gentle goodness<br />
of nature that leaves your<br />
family’s skin looking healthy<br />
and well cared for.”<br />
Women’s Affairs, Gender and<br />
Community Development minister<br />
Oppah Muchinguri said<br />
the ministry was working closely<br />
with women in the country to<br />
ensure that progress was made<br />
in empowering the Zimbabwean<br />
women.<br />
“Since independence women<br />
in the country have achieved<br />
a 95% literacy rate which has<br />
placed us a step further to<br />
achieving gender equality. <strong>The</strong><br />
ministry has worked hard in realigning<br />
legislation that affects<br />
women in our society,” she said<br />
in a speech read by her deputy<br />
Abigail Damasane.<br />
“We are therefore very excited<br />
as a ministry when there<br />
are businesses like Unilever<br />
through Geisha, who take time<br />
to acknowledge and celebrate<br />
women that have made great impact<br />
in their communities. Geisha<br />
has become part of every<br />
home, symbolisng a mother’s<br />
love.”<br />
Unilever marketing director Juliet Ziswa presents a Geisha hamper to Deputy Minister of<br />
Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development Abigail Damasane at a branding<br />
launch ceremony in Glen View recently.
8 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Local News<br />
Tuku and daughter Selmor in happier times. Picture: Shepherd Mutamba<br />
‘Mtukudzi disowns daughter’<br />
Selmor Mtukudzi . . . she is not on talking terms with her famous father<br />
An upcoming book revealing<br />
sensational secrets<br />
of Zimbabwe’s<br />
international music<br />
legend Oliver Mtukudzi<br />
sheds light on the musician’s<br />
strained relationship with his<br />
daughter, Selmor, also a singer.<br />
Titled Tuku Backstage and set<br />
to be published before the end of<br />
the year, the book was written by<br />
Tuku’s former publicist and journalist,<br />
Shepherd Mutamba.<br />
Extracts from a chapter “Daughters”<br />
exclusively made available to<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> reveal how the relationship<br />
between Tuku and his<br />
daughters, Selmor and Sandra,<br />
from his first marriage to Melody<br />
Murape, had collapsed irretrievably<br />
after Selmor (31) made sensational<br />
accusations in the media,<br />
in 2012, that the superstar was a<br />
neglectful father. She said if Tuku<br />
was supportive, she would have<br />
been somewhere in life.<br />
We publish the extracts below<br />
where Selmor’s comments provoked<br />
Tuku’s wrath in the explosive<br />
book:<br />
Selmor’s remarks devastated<br />
Tuku, he did not see the comments<br />
coming. He never envisaged his<br />
daughter sharing, with the whole<br />
world, her opinion of him.<br />
I met many people who, after<br />
reading Selmor’s story, thought<br />
Tuku was just a pretentious father<br />
who does not apply the same<br />
family values that he espouses<br />
in most of his own music. Others<br />
viewed him as a greedy and<br />
despicable father deserving public<br />
humiliation and posted comments<br />
on social networks supporting<br />
Selmor. Others who actually<br />
deify Tuku did not know what<br />
to say about the man.<br />
After his daughter’s remarks,<br />
were splashed in the media, Tuku<br />
stopped eating well, for several<br />
days, sometimes skipping breakfast<br />
and lunch altogether and surviving<br />
only on one meal a day —<br />
supper. His health took a serious<br />
battering but he forced himself to<br />
work and fulfill prior bookings for<br />
shows.<br />
Tuku has a history of intestinal<br />
ulcers, that relapsed with serious<br />
intensity, most likely triggered by<br />
worry and the eating disorder. At<br />
breakfast, in nyanga, (for a show)<br />
Tuku did not finish just a single<br />
egg and settled for a tiny glass<br />
of fruit juice after Daisy (Tuku’s<br />
wife) insisted that he took something<br />
at least. That drink was all<br />
he had and nothing at lunch. His<br />
diabetic condition deteriorated.<br />
His state of health required hospital<br />
admission and weeks of rest<br />
After reading Selmor’s<br />
story, many people<br />
thought Tuku was just<br />
a pretentious father<br />
who does not apply the<br />
same family values<br />
that he espouses in<br />
most of his own music<br />
from work to recuperate. His body<br />
was frail, his face evidently emaciated.<br />
He became skeletal like<br />
the Auschwitz survivors. Everyone<br />
seemed to annoy him. <strong>The</strong> relationship<br />
with his daughter had<br />
collapsed.<br />
Below Tuku comments publicly,<br />
for the first time, in the<br />
book, on the state of relationship<br />
with his daughters, particularly<br />
Selmor:<br />
“I have disowned her (Selmor)<br />
because she is not my daughter.<br />
If she was my daughter she would<br />
not say such bad things about me.<br />
none of what she says is true.<br />
And what makes her say those<br />
things now? If she had issues<br />
with me she must have talked to<br />
me as family and not having to go<br />
to the press. I think she hates me<br />
so badly she wishes that I die.<br />
“I am hurt to the core of my<br />
heart. I did my part as a parent and<br />
sent her to school and supported<br />
her musical career, even playing<br />
with her in my own band and taking<br />
her on tour overseas, not because<br />
she was good but I wanted<br />
to promote her career and inviting<br />
her to many of my events to enable<br />
her to work and earn a living.”<br />
Tuku Backstage also reveals<br />
the failed relationship between<br />
Tuku and his first born daughter,<br />
Sandra (35), who does not have<br />
very kind words, in the book, for<br />
the music icon who turns 62 next<br />
week and set to release his 63 rd album<br />
soon.
Local News<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 9<br />
<strong>The</strong> making of Tuku Backstage<br />
TUKU Backstage, to be published<br />
before the end of the year, cross<br />
pollinates several genres; biography,<br />
criticism and photography<br />
steeped in the music and life of<br />
Oliver Mtukudzi, aka Tuku.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book, also recollects some of the author’s<br />
own memoirs from life and work experience.<br />
“From where I stood as Tuku’s long-serving<br />
publicist, the book inevitably finds itself<br />
criticising the man and his character.<br />
I frankly articulate my thoughts about<br />
Tuku’s contradicting personality but I also<br />
pay very special attention and tribute to<br />
his honest music. I devoted many different<br />
chapters to his art and creativity,” said Mutamba.<br />
“People love Tuku’s music, especially<br />
the different ways that the music touches<br />
our hearts. But if fans have the opportunity<br />
they would also love to read<br />
about the inner personality behind the<br />
great music. And so the book unravels<br />
Tuku’s life and secrets, his failed first<br />
marriage, relationships, the fights with<br />
his wife Daisy and the squabbles with<br />
his daughters, including the question of<br />
the alleged love-child, a son called Selby<br />
and a daughter born outside wedlock,<br />
Sybil, for whom he eventually admitted<br />
paternity.<br />
“But the book also covers Tuku’s philanthropic<br />
work and his humble beginnings<br />
in life and in music, plus the evolution<br />
of the music and its significance<br />
and relevance in traditional and contemporary<br />
cultures. I write about his<br />
days, as a young boy, in the rural areas<br />
where he was helped to shape some of<br />
his perspectives about life and the melodies<br />
that we now know as Tuku Music.<br />
Over 20 chapters are devoted to Tuku’s<br />
many different aspects of his music and<br />
creativity.<br />
“In other words, one gets, from the<br />
book, a view of what is held back about<br />
Tuku and discusses what is rarely conversed<br />
about his great music. That is why<br />
I titled the book, Tuku Backstage, because<br />
it explores issues tucked away behind<br />
the scenes and beyond what is ordinarily<br />
known.”<br />
“<strong>The</strong> book traverses through the 1970s,<br />
1980s and 1990s to this day. People look at<br />
Tuku for his music, they also look at him<br />
for his moral and ethical values as an<br />
icon. Does he personify his didactic music?<br />
Does he have to? Tuku Backstage converses<br />
with the man’s dreams, successes,<br />
adversities but also his moral and ethical<br />
challenges, the relevance of his music in<br />
diverse cultures, education, politics, spiritualism<br />
and social cohesion,” said Mutamba.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book features 200 exclusive pictures<br />
shot by the author, exploding with Tuku’s<br />
untold emotion on and off stage and giving<br />
readers a rare glimpse into his intensely<br />
private life.<br />
“Pictures are vital in the narrative of<br />
Tuku’s music and life. In other words,<br />
photography reinforces the book substantially.<br />
What my pen missed, photography<br />
captured far more accurately and<br />
honestly than words. I photographed all<br />
the pictures in the book in Zimbabwe and<br />
away seeing things through my own eyes.<br />
Photography stimulated my thoughts, complementing<br />
the trajectory of my writing<br />
with fulfilling perspective, relevance and<br />
presentation. I attempted to use photography<br />
to memorialise Tuku at the level of his<br />
music.”<br />
Mutamba said it was not easy writing<br />
because some of the people, close to<br />
Tuku’s early years and work and would<br />
have reinforced the book, did not want to<br />
talk. Some who spoke did not inspire the<br />
author.<br />
“But that did not stop the book because<br />
Tuku himself said I should write. I spent<br />
two years on research, interviews, photography<br />
and of course listening to his<br />
music day and night. Three years went<br />
into drafting, writing, editing and production.”<br />
Tuku on stage.<br />
Picture: Shepherd<br />
Mutamba<br />
Shepherd Mutamba . . . authored Tuku Backstage
10 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Comment & Analysis<br />
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR<br />
Leaders need wisdom<br />
more than degrees<br />
Tsvangirai, Pistorius: <strong>The</strong><br />
media’s ‘poster boys’<br />
ZIMBABWEAN politicians now rank among the most<br />
educated officials in Africa but their record in government<br />
is appalling to say the least.<br />
While their academic credentials may be impeccable, their<br />
performance leaves one with an impression they lack common<br />
sense and basic problem-solving skills needed to rescue<br />
the country from an economic crisis.<br />
Flashback to 2007. When a Cabinet full of people with doctorate<br />
degrees was confronted with a fuel crisis, President Robert<br />
Mugabe, who boasts of seven degrees, and his ministers with<br />
Ph.Ds turned to Rotina Mavhunga, a Grade 11 drop out.<br />
<strong>The</strong> self-styled spirit medium misled them into believing<br />
that diesel could flow out of the rocks of Maningwa Mountain<br />
near Chinhoyi.<br />
Rotina’s aides simply bought the diesel from haulage<br />
trucks passing near the mountain, put it into plastic containers<br />
which she hid up some rocks and siphoned the fuel using<br />
a pipe, making it flow over the rocks — and bingo, she had the<br />
barefoot Cabinet ministers clapping their hands with glee!<br />
<strong>The</strong>y all swallowed the trickery hook, line and sinker and<br />
Rotina was showered with expensive gifts.<br />
After this embarrassing debacle, the same group of ministers<br />
believed that by planting jatropha, Zimbabwe could also<br />
banish her fuel problems for good. As a result, US$5 million<br />
was wasted in constructing a bio-diesel plant that is now rotting<br />
in Mt Hampden.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are too many examples that show how our Ph.D holding<br />
ministers can become clueless when confronted with national<br />
problems.<br />
In many cases, their conduct leaves one doubting if they<br />
genuinely acquired their degrees, or if some fawning universities<br />
just gave them titles for self-gratification.<br />
It is against this background that Zimbabweans woke up<br />
on Saturday to see pictures of Vice-President Joice Mujuru<br />
and First Lady Grace Mugabe in full academic dress, having<br />
graduated with doctorate degrees at the University of Zimbabwe.<br />
Lazarus Dokora, the minister of Primary and Secondary<br />
education also graduated with a doctorate. Ironically, Dokora<br />
stands accused of harming Zimbabwe’s education system<br />
through a raft of unpopular policies. Grace has ruffled<br />
many feathers in her bid to be elevated to the Zanu PF politburo.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se officials might have sweated to get their doctorates,<br />
but they need to do more to convince the nation that the degrees<br />
will enhance their ability to positively contribute to<br />
the social, political and economic sectors of the Zimbabwean<br />
society.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is one thread so strongly<br />
similar about Morgan Tsvangirai<br />
and Oscar Pistorius<br />
which I thought I should share with<br />
other readers. In their respective<br />
countries, these two were underdogs<br />
who triumphed over adversity<br />
with varying degrees of success.<br />
People tend to love underdogs.<br />
Tsvangirai offers the story of<br />
an uneducated man who rose<br />
from being a mere mine worker<br />
to lead a labour union, eventually<br />
persuading university academics,<br />
student leaders and civil society<br />
leaders to form the first ever<br />
credible post-independence opposition<br />
party to challenge Robert<br />
Mugabe’s grip on power.<br />
Fifteen years down the line, Tsvangirai’s<br />
endurance still makes<br />
headline news having bagged the<br />
Prime Ministerial post at one<br />
time — right under the nose and<br />
tutelage of his erstwhile political<br />
foe Mugabe.<br />
Pistorious comes across as a<br />
double amputee who awed the<br />
world with his speed using prosthetic<br />
legs. We are told Pistorious<br />
grew up as an amputee, who<br />
through his late mother’s encouragement<br />
and sheer hardwork, has<br />
scaled the zenith of his adopted<br />
sport to the pinnacle.<br />
What makes these two guys interesting<br />
to me is where they<br />
stand today vis-à-vis their past<br />
relationship with the media in<br />
their respective countries and<br />
even beyond their borders. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
have even charmed the likes of<br />
BBC and CNN in the past. During<br />
their rise to fame, the media<br />
understandably fell for these underdogs<br />
who had to endure strong<br />
and often humiliating challenges.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir backgrounds presented<br />
a narrative of breathtaking<br />
courage. Such characters obliviously<br />
attract media attention not<br />
by their own volition, but the circumstances<br />
under which their energies<br />
and willpower are tested.<br />
Pistorious transformed man’s<br />
understanding and perception towards<br />
the “able-bodied”. <strong>The</strong> media<br />
could not be blind to this.<br />
How could Tsvangirai succeed<br />
where struggle stalwarts like<br />
Edgar Tekere and Joshua Nkomo<br />
failed? Where even such consummate<br />
lawyers like former Supreme<br />
Court Judge Chief Justice<br />
Enock Dumbutshena, had failed<br />
with his Forum Party.<br />
How could Pistorious win legal<br />
battles to run and represent<br />
Oscar Pistorius . . . he disappointed a<br />
lot of people who viewed him as a role<br />
model for the disabled.<br />
MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai . . . he<br />
has offered hope and disillusionment in<br />
equal measure.<br />
his country with prosthetic legs<br />
at the Olympics, of all places and<br />
even come back home with a gold<br />
medal! Such facts surpass human<br />
thinking and attract positive coverage<br />
from the media. Even some<br />
of their glaring goofs are left unscrutinised<br />
for fear of embellishing<br />
these adorable characters.<br />
Both Tsvangirai and Pistorious<br />
have had their human failings<br />
exposed in the past. Tsvangirai’s<br />
electoral loss has always been attributed<br />
to Zanu PF chicanery.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2005 MDC split was attributed<br />
to a “power-hungry” Welshman<br />
Ncube who could not stomach being<br />
led by an indecisive leader. Today,<br />
the media face another challenge<br />
of Tsvangirai exposing his<br />
dictatorial tendencies given the<br />
way Elton Mangoma’s renewal<br />
call was handled by Tsvangirai,<br />
with the subsequent expulsion of<br />
other perceived anti-Tsvangirai<br />
cadres.<br />
<strong>The</strong> media finds itself in a dilemma.<br />
How do they repackage<br />
such a battered image of one who<br />
offered so much hope against tyranny,<br />
corruption, nepotism and<br />
incompetence? How do we discard<br />
such a horse in politics?<br />
Equally, in South Africa and<br />
elsewhere, the media finds it hard<br />
to take that Pistorius has committed<br />
such a dastardly act of killing<br />
his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.<br />
Both men seem to have fallen victim<br />
to the underdog sense of moral<br />
exception: they are right while<br />
everybody else is wrong.<br />
In some quarters, as the public<br />
dramas have played out, both men<br />
have forfeited their victim status.<br />
In Zimbabwe, the public media will<br />
have a field day over the Biti-Tsvangirai<br />
battle. <strong>The</strong> private media and<br />
most anti-Mugabeists in Zimbabwe<br />
would be at pains to label the “daring”<br />
Tsvangirai the catalyst to the<br />
breaking up of a once formidable<br />
1999 MDC. Public opinion about Tsvangirai<br />
is divided.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are many reasons why<br />
some media houses remain loyal<br />
to Tsvangirai ranging from atavistic<br />
adherence to the anti-Mugabe<br />
stance, to the fact that most Zimbabweans’<br />
lives had improved<br />
during the GNU era. Like I said,<br />
there had not been, until now, a<br />
credible black-led opposition in<br />
Zimbabwe. A Tsvangirai-led MDC<br />
has also sold newspapers. Few are<br />
willing to bite the hand that feeds<br />
them. For the many young teenage<br />
girls in South Africa and other<br />
disabled young people Pistorius<br />
was the ultimate loverboy,<br />
warrior and hero. <strong>The</strong>se two men<br />
have not only left the media in a<br />
quagmire, but also thousands and<br />
millions of sympathisers just cannot<br />
understand why. <strong>The</strong> jury is<br />
still out.<br />
Odrix Mhiji, Chitungwiza<br />
Help households to manage litter<br />
DiDyMus Mutasa (with Jersey) claps hands in Maningwa hills where Rotina Mavhunga<br />
played her tricks.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are a lot of anti-littering<br />
signs along roads. What has<br />
given rise to these are the irreponsible<br />
litter-bugs among us.<br />
It is a fact that Harare City Council<br />
cannot cope with the mountains<br />
of litter that residents generate<br />
on a daily basis. <strong>The</strong>y have<br />
always argued that they do not<br />
have enough vehicles, manpower<br />
and sometimes fuel to remove garbage<br />
either from the city centre or<br />
residential areas.<br />
Dumping waste recklessly, just<br />
like ignoring a veld fire, attracts<br />
a fine, if not a jail erm. We need<br />
the Environmental Management<br />
Agency to educate people on ways<br />
to manage litter. Litter should be<br />
separated at household level with<br />
plastics being sent for recycling.<br />
It would help to have small composts<br />
at each household where biodegradable<br />
matter would be deposited<br />
and later used in the garden.<br />
I am angry with people who actually<br />
drive in the night to go and<br />
dump their domestic waste at<br />
open spaces or on the shoulders<br />
of the roads. <strong>The</strong>y leave an assortment<br />
of litter that includes used<br />
diapers. Stray dogs rip them apart<br />
and what we have is something<br />
that one cannot look at twice. We<br />
are an educated lot, but we lack<br />
wisdom. Each one of us must be<br />
an anti-litter police of sorts for a<br />
cleaner environment.<br />
Anti-littering<br />
wHERE TO<br />
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the writer’s name and address, even if a nom de plume is<br />
used. Letters published in other papers are less likely to<br />
be used in ours.
Comment & Analysis<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 11<br />
ONLINE FEEDBACK<br />
OPINION<br />
Dr Grace Mugabe: Now the sky is the limit!<br />
the oracle<br />
BY TANGAI CHIPANGURA<br />
In his traditional interviews granted to<br />
ZTV every February to mark his birthday,<br />
President Mugabe this year said he was<br />
sticking on to the leadership of his party and<br />
therefore country because he was afraid his<br />
party would disintegrate due to factional fissures<br />
that have been growing deeper by the<br />
day.<br />
He also confirmed that, even at the age of<br />
90, he did not want anyone to discuss his retirement<br />
or succession because it was not yet<br />
due — that he was still around and not going<br />
anywhere!<br />
Mugabe said: “But why should it [succession]<br />
be discussed when it’s not due? Is it<br />
due? Well, the leadership still exists that<br />
runs the country. In other words, I am still<br />
there. <strong>The</strong> people can discuss it if they want,<br />
but the moment they start discussing it, they<br />
are going into factions and then you find the<br />
party dividing itself, and so why dividing,<br />
why discuss it when it’s not due?<br />
“When the day comes and I retire, that’s<br />
sure, the day will come. What I don’t want<br />
is, I don’t want to leave my party in tatters; I<br />
want to leave it intact.”<br />
With these words coming from his mouth,<br />
little doubt remains that Mugabe entertains<br />
the idea of being Life President — of dying<br />
in office. <strong>The</strong> message he sends is that he has<br />
the desire and ambition to stay in power and<br />
his excuse is that the situation in Zanu PF<br />
and Zimbabwe has become so bad it is only<br />
him that can save the country.<br />
Watching and listening to him speak — relating<br />
how Americans and Europeans fear<br />
and hide away from him each time they see<br />
him, “because of the power that you have invested<br />
in me” — you cannot doubt the man’s<br />
strength and determination.<br />
It is evident the President is brimming<br />
with ambition to take the throne to the grave.<br />
Of course, the excuses advanced for the<br />
permanent occupancy of the throne are just<br />
the typical platefuls of bull that we eat up<br />
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe<br />
from our politicians day in and day out.<br />
Just as almost all those eagle-eyed politicians<br />
would have us believe that none of<br />
them harbour Presidential ambitions — that<br />
they are all there for nothing but to be the<br />
people’s servants — we know all that is lies<br />
and that virtually all of them have keen ambition<br />
to one day become President!<br />
While in other countries political power<br />
(inter or intra party) is exchanged after a few<br />
years, politicians in Zanu PF all pretend that<br />
they actually do not want the apex seat in<br />
the party and country yet, behind the scenes<br />
vicious fights amongst this cowardly lot rage<br />
night and day.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are all simply too cowardly to stand<br />
up and challenge for the top post which each<br />
of them long for.<br />
But then again, Mugabe’s intimidating utterances<br />
about there being “no vacancy” for<br />
his post and about “succession debates not<br />
due” do not help matters. Those men and<br />
women whom Zanu PF renegade, the diminutive<br />
firebrand Margret Dongo once described<br />
as Mugabe’s wives, are then thrown<br />
into dark corners of silence or into a bootlicking<br />
frenzy.<br />
Nonetheless Zanu PF politicians must<br />
know that it is absurd for them to deny they<br />
want power — such denials are just red meat<br />
on the platter.<br />
In any case, it would also be absurd for us<br />
to believe their denials. After all, there is<br />
virtually nothing wrong or criminal or disrespectful<br />
or immoral about being an ambitious<br />
politician.<br />
What is interesting however is that, while<br />
they may publicly castigate those “accused”<br />
of seeking to grab the throne from Mugabe,<br />
there are certain politicians whose inadvertent<br />
speeches and or actions have betrayed<br />
their presidential ambitions.<br />
So, surrounded by fearful comrades, most<br />
of whom have in fact been scrambling to<br />
idolise him and make him an infallible demigod,<br />
Mugabe is tempted to make himself Life<br />
President, or to create a Mugabe dynasty in<br />
Zimbabwe.<br />
Already, the President has declared that<br />
everyone, including the usually exempted<br />
members of the presidium, is going to have<br />
to fight for their positions at the coming December<br />
congress. <strong>The</strong>re are only two exceptions<br />
— only two people that cannot be challenged<br />
— Mugabe and his wife Grace.<br />
Mugabe and his wife have conveniently<br />
been endorsed in their positions of party<br />
President and Women’s League Secretary.<br />
But for the distant observer, it just does<br />
not look exactly clean, innocent, moral, decent<br />
or prissy that everybody but the leader<br />
and his wife must face challenges for their<br />
positions — that only the leader and his wife<br />
must not be challenged!<br />
In the circumstances, the possibility of the<br />
creation of a Gu-Shung-Ho dynasty becomes<br />
difficult to discount — given the overwhelming<br />
authority of the President.<br />
Now that the First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s<br />
official title becomes: <strong>The</strong> First Lady, Comrade<br />
Secretary for Women’s Affairs, Dr.<br />
Grace Mugabe — the Sky is the Limit!<br />
Feedback: tchipangura@standard.co.zw<br />
RESPONDING to the opinion piece;<br />
Zanu PF secrets: Mutsvangwa must tell<br />
it all (<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 6 to 13<br />
2014) Mapingu writes: While I do agree<br />
with Mutizwa on almost all issues he<br />
raised, I only want to say, may be just a<br />
single drop of truth for whatever purpose<br />
its revealed, makes the ocean better<br />
than one filled with lies. True, [Chris]<br />
Mutsvangwa, like all Zanu PF officials is<br />
not honest and patriotic by any measure,<br />
hence his highly selective pronouncement<br />
of truth. Most of us who<br />
were of age during the struggle have<br />
always known that Joice [Mujuru] never<br />
downed any plane. It has all been a<br />
figment of Zanu PF elite’s imagination<br />
calculated to propel individuals to positions<br />
they don’t deserve under the<br />
guise of such past heroic expeditions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> beauty of it is, since it now comes<br />
from another Zanu PF cadre, then our<br />
most abused youth might start realising<br />
that most of the rubbish sold to them as<br />
“History of the Struggle” is worse than<br />
James Bond fiction. Immediately after<br />
Mutsvangwa revealed this well-known<br />
element of truth one young man who I<br />
believe has always doubted me when I<br />
said most of Zanu PF heroes, including<br />
Joice, are Zanu PF manufactured heroes,<br />
immediately phoned me and said “now<br />
bro I believe you; all along I thought you<br />
were bluffing”. All I am saying is, may be<br />
it’s the beginning of the writing of a truthful<br />
Zimbabwe struggle history. All along<br />
it has been lies, lies, lies, lies. Zanu PF lies.<br />
Col Shadow writes: “Never in a thousand<br />
years” was what Smith said during<br />
the struggle .Think like a revolutionary.<br />
We fought and won the struggle.<br />
What’s so amazing about differences in<br />
the house? Don’t try to make a mountain<br />
out of an anthill, it’s us Zanla /Zipra<br />
and the patriotic Zimbabweans who liberated<br />
this country. Mutsvangwa is justified.<br />
Patriotism comes with pride and<br />
costs that cannot be measured .Waivepi<br />
iwewe? [where were you?]<br />
No Lies says: <strong>The</strong> whole truth will surface<br />
one day. <strong>The</strong> question is, will it be<br />
of any good? Every time some information<br />
comes up about where we came<br />
from as a country we start realising that<br />
we’ve been fed with lies all along. This<br />
makes us question everything about<br />
our so-called heroes and doubt their<br />
decision -making as leaders, that’s why<br />
we find ourselves in this current situation<br />
where we are led by people who<br />
got to their positions through lies and<br />
they appoint their friends not on merit<br />
but as a way to buy their silence. <strong>The</strong> big<br />
question is: Who are our true heroes?<br />
Do they exist? Who are our enemies?<br />
Are our so-called heroes our enemies,<br />
just in a different skin colour ?<br />
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Comment & Analysis / Opinion<br />
Building a political<br />
career around<br />
orphanage wrong<br />
sundayopinion<br />
BY CONELIA MABASA<br />
Naturally, what people do<br />
and how they carry themselves<br />
around speak better<br />
for them than having to use<br />
words to build an identity.<br />
Imagine if Oliver Mtukudzi<br />
“Tuku” would take every opportunity<br />
to tell us that he is a great<br />
musician? That would take much<br />
from his stature. It makes much<br />
sense to let the music speak for<br />
him. To get the guitars, drums<br />
and other instruments spread the<br />
message, to give his versatility a<br />
chance to interact with the audience.<br />
It is a skill to be able to leave<br />
music reviewers to critique his<br />
work, then to take lessons therefrom<br />
without prejudice. Humanity<br />
values humility.<br />
Events in the political arena<br />
have given us Grace Mugabe as<br />
the incoming Women’s League<br />
boss come the December Zanu<br />
PF elective congress. She is taking<br />
over from war cadre Oppah<br />
Muchinguri who recently conceded<br />
that her next political appointment<br />
depends on Robert Mugabe.<br />
She had to give way for amai,<br />
so she says, because as women,<br />
they felt they had to do something<br />
for her to acknowledge the<br />
good work she has done being the<br />
pillar upon which the President<br />
rests. Isn’t that as it should be for<br />
husband and wife?<br />
For years, people compared the<br />
First Lady with Mugabe’s first<br />
wife, Sally, who was a compassionate<br />
woman. When Grace established<br />
an orphanage in Mazowe,<br />
I thought she was finally<br />
going to exonerate herself from<br />
the mean woman tag, extravagant<br />
and worshipping on the altar<br />
of opulence. She followed that<br />
up by building a school in the<br />
area to “educate the orphans”.<br />
She has been on a spree to acquire<br />
more and more land without<br />
a care what happens to people<br />
who used to occupy the surrounding<br />
farms. She also plans to build<br />
a hospital, a museum and a university<br />
in the area.<br />
What becomes repulsive at the<br />
end of the day is that she has<br />
turned that orphanage into a political<br />
spring board. Instead of<br />
leaving the philanthropic work<br />
to do the talking for her, she has<br />
turned Mazowe into some personal<br />
political space.<br />
Zanu PF women, youths and<br />
now the chiefs are visiting her at<br />
the orphanage to pronounce their<br />
support and endorsement for the<br />
position of the powerful women’s<br />
league boss. It is given that she<br />
will take over because she won’t<br />
be contested at congress. <strong>The</strong><br />
stampede is just to curry favour<br />
with her and the President.<br />
Are we witnessing an abuse<br />
of the under-privileged to further<br />
powerful people’s ambitions?<br />
Yes, she has given the children a<br />
home and hope of a bright future,<br />
but is she turning them into initiates<br />
of Zanu PF’s partisan politics<br />
by engulfing them with slogans<br />
every now and then? It was<br />
at Mazowe that she declared that<br />
she is “strict but firm”, threatening<br />
to pull bigger punches against<br />
enemies and promising to rein in<br />
those who dared stand in her way.<br />
Grace Mugabe<br />
Some orphans and care workers at Grace Mugabe’s Mazowe orphanage.<br />
She used language so bad it<br />
should not come out of a head of<br />
state’s wife, so vicious it can’t be<br />
said within children’s earshot; so<br />
intimidating that it instils fear<br />
when people need to feel confident<br />
and safe in their own country.<br />
<strong>The</strong> language is so telling of<br />
dictatorial leadership on the way.<br />
Why use the orphanage as a political<br />
selling point? Where is the<br />
compassion? Is she using it as<br />
a tool to reach the hearts of the<br />
electorate ahead of the congress?<br />
A means to an end. A launch pad<br />
for her political career.<br />
Surely the insincerity of it<br />
cannot escape us all.<br />
Parents should not shoulder burden of education<br />
<strong>The</strong> Rural Teachers Union<br />
of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) is saddened<br />
and stunned by the<br />
stance taken by Primary and Secondary<br />
Education minister Lazarus<br />
Dokora of calling for the<br />
reprimanding of the poor parents<br />
who fail to raise tuition fees<br />
for their children as was reported<br />
in the media. It is disgusting that<br />
Dokora unashamedly continues,<br />
to call for legal action against poverty-stricken<br />
parents yet it is the<br />
duty and responsibility of the government<br />
to fund education. Article<br />
27 of the Zimbabwe constitution<br />
clearly states that the government<br />
should fund basic education,<br />
hence calling for the arrest of “defaulting<br />
parents” is unconstitutional.<br />
<strong>The</strong> RTUZ urges the minister to<br />
reconsider and withdraw his uninformed<br />
and capitalistic stance<br />
of lobbying for the privatisation<br />
of education. RTUZ wishes to advise<br />
the minister to stop being a<br />
stumbling block but instead be<br />
a building block that encourages<br />
the government to exercise its<br />
duty of funding education instead<br />
of threatening the poor parents.<br />
RTUZ would also want to urge<br />
the government to prioritise the<br />
education sector if the empowerment<br />
mantra is supposed to be a reality<br />
because education is the pragmatic<br />
empowerment tool that can<br />
capacitate citizens. That the government<br />
only contributed a paltry<br />
US$600 000 as compared to Unicef ’s<br />
US$2,4million towards the Capacity<br />
Development Programme, clearly<br />
shows that the government is reluctant<br />
to contribute towards education<br />
yet millions are channeled<br />
to the army and police as if we are<br />
a country at war.<br />
While the Capacity Development<br />
Programme is a good initiative<br />
by Unicef (and not by government<br />
as reported in the media),<br />
RTUZ urges those responsible<br />
for the implementation of<br />
the programme to ensure that the<br />
programme is lopsided in favour<br />
sunday<br />
view<br />
BY RTUZ<br />
of rural teachers. This will lure<br />
qualified personnel to teach in<br />
rural areas, which in return will<br />
boost pass rates.<br />
RTUZ would also like to make<br />
it clear that it supports government<br />
on the idea of curriculum<br />
review. However, the association<br />
urges government to engage all<br />
relevant stakeholders in the implementation<br />
of this long overdue<br />
curriculum review initiative. It<br />
is also our hope that the curriculum<br />
review will not be politicised,<br />
but instead, the new curriculum<br />
should be beneficial to the learners<br />
in preparing them for life after<br />
school. In other words, the curriculum<br />
should not be tailor made<br />
Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora<br />
to suit hegemonic agendas of certain<br />
individuals or political parties<br />
as has been the case before.<br />
Lastly, RTUZ hopes that the curriculum<br />
review will be a panacea<br />
for fashioning and producing<br />
learners that will be effective in<br />
community building as far as development<br />
is concerned. <strong>The</strong>refore,<br />
it is important that whoever<br />
will implement the programme be<br />
non-partisan and well-informed;<br />
otherwise the curriculum review<br />
will end up being an ideological<br />
tool of some egocentric and parochial<br />
individuals for hammering<br />
their propaganda into the heads<br />
of our children.
Opinion<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 13<br />
Unpacking NPRC’s mandate<br />
justicematters<br />
BY DZIKAMAI BERE & PROSPER MAGUCHU<br />
Healing cannot happen without justice and<br />
closure<br />
<strong>The</strong> Parliament’s supreme<br />
decision making<br />
body, the Committee on<br />
Standing Rules and Orders<br />
will soon announce<br />
the names of shortlisted candidates<br />
for the commissioners to<br />
the National Peace and Reconciliation<br />
Commission (NPRC). Predictably,<br />
there will be no surprises<br />
but we cannot assure you that<br />
there will be no disappointments.<br />
Many actors have invested so<br />
much energy and resources into<br />
this process and it is important<br />
that we keep watch. Stakeholders<br />
must monitor both the process<br />
and its substance.<br />
One of the important things<br />
to monitor and highlight will<br />
be the calibre of the people who<br />
will be appointed commissioners.<br />
We do not wish to preempt<br />
that so we will move to the next<br />
equally significant aspect of the<br />
process — the mandate of the<br />
NPRC. In order to faithfully unpack<br />
the mandate of the NPRC,<br />
we need to understand whether<br />
the NPRC is a truth commission<br />
or not? <strong>The</strong> words of eric<br />
Brahm (2009) are very instructive.<br />
he posed the thorny question:<br />
Why does it matter that the<br />
truth commission label is used<br />
in different ways?<br />
For many, it matters little<br />
whether or not the investigation<br />
his or her government creates is<br />
formally called a truth commission.<br />
But as policy reform advocates,<br />
we should care about the<br />
meaning behind the label because<br />
it helps us detect potential threats<br />
against the commission.<br />
For Zimbabwe, does it matter<br />
that we are going to have a National<br />
Peace and Reconciliation<br />
and not something else? It is important<br />
to answer this question<br />
even before we read the text of<br />
the constitution that tells us what<br />
the NPRC will be in substance<br />
through its mandate.<br />
Independent Zimbabwe is<br />
fraught with serious violation of<br />
human rights such that as early<br />
as 1997, many human rights<br />
groups had started calling for a<br />
Commission to investigate these<br />
violations. Breaking the Silence,<br />
Building True Peace: A report into<br />
the disturbances in Matabeleland<br />
and the Midlands (CCJP & LRF:<br />
1997) was in response to these<br />
calls for truth recovery that fell<br />
on deaf ears and the failure by the<br />
Chihambakwe Committee of Inquiry<br />
to make its findings public.<br />
In February 1999, the Zimbabwe<br />
Congress of Trade Unions called<br />
for “a Truth and Reconciliation<br />
Commission to deal with unresolved<br />
aspects of our past that<br />
hinder national integration.” (T.<br />
F. Kondo: 2000)<br />
In its 2008 election campaign,<br />
the MDC promised a “Truth, Justice<br />
and Reconciliation Commission.”<br />
In 2010, we visited over<br />
84 most violent constituencies<br />
speaking to Zimbabweans about<br />
what their preferences were on<br />
transitional justice in Zimbabwe.<br />
In almost every meeting, the people<br />
spoke of a commission to deal<br />
A handshake . . . past violent elections and other abuses demand reconciliation<br />
with aspects of truth, justice and<br />
reconciliation. In the same year,<br />
the Law Society of Zimbabwe in<br />
its model constitution proposed<br />
a “Truth, Justice, Reconciliation<br />
and Conflict Prevention Commission”<br />
to investigate past abuses,<br />
provide remedies for victims, and<br />
prevent future conflicts.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se proposals were presented<br />
to the Parliamentary Select Committee<br />
(Copac) in its constitutional<br />
reform consultation meetings.<br />
Copac did not heed clear calls for<br />
a “truth”, “justice” and “reconciliation”<br />
commission. Instead,<br />
it opted for a “national”, “peace”<br />
and “reconciliation” commission.<br />
This leads to a reasonable conclusion<br />
that the powerful partners in<br />
government were not comfortable<br />
with a “truth, justice and reconciliation”<br />
commission because<br />
they feared it would seek to bring<br />
to light the “forbidden truths” of<br />
our past. <strong>The</strong>se fears are not new<br />
to Zimbabwe. Sri Lanka is a good<br />
example where President Mahinda<br />
Rajapaksa refused to appoint<br />
a Truth and Reconciliation Commission<br />
and settled for a Lessons<br />
Learnt and Reconciliation Commission<br />
(2010) which however produced<br />
a damning report on how<br />
he handled the war with the Tamil<br />
Tigers.<br />
here in Zimbabwe we do not<br />
think we need to worry about the<br />
label of our commission. This is<br />
because while the name is vague<br />
and seems to avoid elements of<br />
justice and truth, the mandate, as<br />
it is in the constitution, creates a<br />
very powerful truth commission,<br />
by any name.<br />
<strong>The</strong> constitution sets out a very<br />
broad mandate for the NPRC in<br />
section 252 (a) which is to ensure<br />
“post-conflict justice, healing and<br />
reconciliation.” <strong>The</strong> term “postconflict”<br />
is used loosely to refer<br />
to “the period after violent conflicts”,<br />
for no society ever goes<br />
into post-conflict phase because<br />
conflict is eternally part of the<br />
human society.<br />
This is powerfully expressed<br />
in the words of Galtung (2004:2)<br />
that “without a goal, life ceases<br />
to exist. . . .Where there are<br />
goals, there will also often be contradictions<br />
[or conflicts] within<br />
the same organism or between<br />
them;… “<strong>The</strong>re are human beings<br />
without contradictions, they<br />
Mahinda Rajapaksa . . . he refused to appoint a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, settling for a Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation<br />
Commission<br />
are called corpses,” the Chinese<br />
say. Life, goal and contradiction<br />
are inseparable. “Conflict prevention”,<br />
preventing conflict, is<br />
meaningless. But “violence prevention”,<br />
preventing violence, is<br />
extremely meaningful and beneficial.”<br />
What we try to deal with is<br />
not conflict, but violent conflict.<br />
We seek to bring an end to violent<br />
conflict, and build justice, healing<br />
and reconciliation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> constitution framers could<br />
have ended the functions of the<br />
NPRC with only section 252 (a)<br />
— they would still have done a<br />
splendid job. everything else that<br />
comes from (b) to (j) was just overkill<br />
and would most suitably belong<br />
to the enabling Act, not a<br />
constitution. however, others regard<br />
this as a positive. Section 252<br />
(a) which talks of ensuring post –<br />
conflict justice, healing and reconciliation<br />
brings into this NPRC<br />
everything that Zimbabwe will<br />
ever need in a commission after a<br />
legacy of violence: Justice, healing<br />
and Reconciliation. What are<br />
listed thereafter are just tools and<br />
steps for achieving these three<br />
very important objectives!<br />
Any commission that is serious<br />
about achieving reconciliation<br />
has also to realise that healing<br />
is part of the reconciliation<br />
process. healing however, cannot<br />
happen without justice and<br />
closure. At the same time, justice<br />
and closure inevitably bring<br />
into the equation the most urgent<br />
need for truth seeking processes.<br />
A genuine reconciliation process<br />
will have to include all the aspects<br />
of transitional justice that<br />
Zimbabweans have called for in<br />
this commission.<br />
We therefore argue that the objectives<br />
set out by the constitution<br />
for the NPRC are comprehensive<br />
enough. Our NPRC is indeed<br />
a truth commission with a generously<br />
broad mandate. A good Act<br />
of parliament must now be crafted<br />
to assist the upcoming commission<br />
translate this mandate<br />
into a reality. More importantly,<br />
the effectiveness of the NPRC<br />
will largely depend on the calibre<br />
of the commissioners who will be<br />
appointed for the task.<br />
• Dzikamai Bere & Prosper Maguchu<br />
write in their own personal<br />
capacity. <strong>The</strong> views expressed<br />
here are not the views of the organisations<br />
they are associated<br />
with. For feedback, please write<br />
to: dzikamaibere@gmail.com
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Regional News<br />
Pistorius used<br />
disability as<br />
defence<br />
athletes are not<br />
people that focus<br />
on their disabilities,”<br />
Oscar pis-<br />
“Paralympic<br />
torius said as he prepared to compete<br />
for South africa in the 2012<br />
Olympics. “<strong>The</strong>y focus on their<br />
abilities.”<br />
“i’m not disabled,” he said on<br />
another occasion. “i just don’t<br />
have any legs.” That’s perhaps<br />
his most famous quote. He wasn’t<br />
“overcoming” a disability. He was<br />
defying it. He was “self-defining,”<br />
as one scholar wrote.<br />
For double-amputee athlete pistorius,<br />
who was convicted Friday<br />
of “culpable homicide” but found<br />
not guilty of murder, transcending<br />
disability was his trademark,<br />
his claim to fame, fortune and<br />
the attention of beautiful women<br />
such as model reeva Steenkamp.<br />
But for pistorius the defendant,<br />
disability was something else: an<br />
excuse. His lawyers constructed a<br />
narrative that could explain why<br />
he wasn’t negligent — at the very<br />
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Oscar Pistorius . . . waiting for sentencing<br />
least — when he heard a noise<br />
coming from his bathroom and,<br />
instead of calling police or security<br />
guards in his gated community<br />
or yelling out an open window, he<br />
grabbed his 9mm pistol, walked<br />
on his stumps 16 feet across the<br />
room and fired four bullets into<br />
the bathroom door of his pretoria<br />
home, killing Steenkamp.<br />
“calling security or calling for<br />
help from the balcony probably<br />
would have taken as much time<br />
as it would have taken for him to<br />
go to the bathroom and discharge<br />
the four shots,” Judge Thokozile<br />
masipa said Thursday, shortly<br />
after saying she could not find<br />
him guilty of murder, but perhaps<br />
of negligence. Why didn’t he just<br />
seek help?<br />
<strong>The</strong> answers to that question<br />
were critical to the outcome of<br />
the trial. and the ones provided<br />
by pistorius and his lawyers<br />
came more clearly into focus as<br />
the judge recounted them — and<br />
they all were excuses, all tied to<br />
disabilities of one form or the other,<br />
or disadvantage. <strong>The</strong> most obvious<br />
was pistorius’s lack of legs,<br />
which made him feel helpless that<br />
night without his prosthetics. But<br />
others were his family circumstances<br />
— their anxiety, and his,<br />
about crime in South africa. His<br />
lawyers even argued that anxiety<br />
stemming from his disability was<br />
responsible for his erratic testimony<br />
in the trial.<br />
Far from mastering his disability,<br />
a defence psychiatrist suggested,<br />
the disability came to master<br />
him. <strong>The</strong> initial surgery to remove<br />
his legs when he was 11<br />
months old was a “traumatic assault”<br />
that left him with an “anxiety<br />
disorder.” pressure growing<br />
up to pretend the disability<br />
was not crippling further scarred<br />
young Oscar.<br />
as an adult, his lawyer Barry<br />
roux told the court, his disability<br />
produced a “slow burn effect….<br />
<strong>The</strong> evidence is clear that<br />
the effect of disability, vulnerability<br />
and anxiety could be triggered<br />
at any time, even after a relaxing<br />
evening” with his girlfriend.<br />
and then there was his mother’s<br />
fear of crime. His father, the<br />
psychiatrist told the court, left the<br />
family when pistorius was young.<br />
His mother developed such a fear<br />
of intruders she kept a gun under<br />
her bed. This made an indelible<br />
impression on pistorius, who also<br />
kept a gun under his bed.<br />
pistorius’s defence tactic has<br />
not gone unnoticed by people who<br />
are disabled — and many don’t<br />
like it.<br />
“as a disabled person myself,<br />
i’m still insulted by how roux,<br />
presumably on instruction from<br />
pistorius, continues to make absurd<br />
claims about how he suffered<br />
incessantly due to his handicap,<br />
causing weird and massive<br />
damage to his mental capacities,”<br />
wrote michael Simpson in<br />
Health24.<br />
“Strange that Oscar used to<br />
fight for the right of the disabled<br />
to be treated on absolutely<br />
equal terms to the able-bodied.<br />
This must have been some kind<br />
of sham, because now his lawyer<br />
is insisting that this was never so,<br />
that Oscar has been deeply and<br />
permanently scarred by his handicap,<br />
and absolutely must not be<br />
treated as an equal, but as a profoundly<br />
and eternally impaired<br />
person.”<br />
But of course it’s a legal defense<br />
by a man potentially facing prison.<br />
all of this was intended to explain<br />
why he fired at the door instead<br />
of doing something else,<br />
and why he was not negligent in<br />
doing so — and therefore guilty of<br />
“culpable” homicide, the equivalent<br />
of manslaughter.<br />
<strong>The</strong> test of that — whether a<br />
“reasonable” person in similar<br />
circumstances would behave as<br />
pistorius did — is subjective. a<br />
judge in South africa’s legal system<br />
must inevitably engage in<br />
supposition. and while trying to<br />
do so objectively, supposition inevitably<br />
summons up not just law,<br />
but personal experience.<br />
<strong>The</strong> problem perhaps for pistorius<br />
is this particular judge<br />
knows something about being disadvantaged.<br />
and she knows something<br />
about crime-ridden neighbourhoods.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Olympic athlete faces<br />
charges of premeditated murder<br />
in the Valentine’s Day 2013 shooting<br />
of his girlfriend.<br />
masipa (66), grew up poor and<br />
black in the South african township<br />
of Soweto under apartheid.<br />
She was one of 10 children.<br />
Five died in childhood. One was<br />
stabbed to death at the age of 20.<br />
masipa was jailed for participating<br />
in an anti-government protest<br />
during apartheid. She worked<br />
delivering cups of tea to get<br />
through school and was a crime<br />
reporter before becoming only the<br />
second black woman on the bench<br />
in South africa.<br />
as pistorius, who is from a<br />
comfortable family and is now<br />
wealthy, sobbed and vomited his<br />
way through his trial — and as<br />
he and his lawyers described his<br />
deeply unfortunate circumstances<br />
— she sat calmly taking notes,<br />
her face giving no hint of what<br />
she was thinking.<br />
On Thursday, the world found<br />
out. Neither disability nor disavantage<br />
is a defence, she said. <strong>The</strong><br />
“defence says the accused’s disability<br />
made him feel vulnerable,<br />
which contributed to him arming<br />
himself with a firearm,” she<br />
said. “many people in South africa<br />
have been victims of violent<br />
crime, but they have not resorted<br />
to sleeping with firearms under<br />
their pillows.” many people have<br />
disabilities too, she said, and they<br />
don’t cower in fear about crime<br />
and sleep with guns.<br />
“if the accused had awoken in<br />
the middle of the night and in<br />
darkness saw a silhouette hovering<br />
next to his bed, and had in a<br />
panic shot at that figure, only to<br />
find it was the deceased, his conduct<br />
would have been understandable<br />
and perhaps excusable,” she<br />
said. “in such a case, he would not<br />
have been expected to call security<br />
first, as he would have been<br />
faced with a real emergency.”<br />
in this case, however, pistorius<br />
“had enough time to assess<br />
the situation and call for help.”<br />
She was not convinced, she said,<br />
that a “reasonable person” with<br />
“the accused’s disability” would<br />
have fired “four shots into the cubicle….<br />
<strong>The</strong> accused knew that<br />
there was a person behind the toilet<br />
door. He chose to use a firearm<br />
which was a lethal weapon. He<br />
was competent in the use of firearms<br />
as he had undergone some<br />
training,” the judge said.<br />
“Did the accused fail to take the<br />
steps which he should reasonably<br />
have taken to guard against the<br />
consequence? yes,” said masipa.<br />
“in the circumstances, it is clear<br />
that his conduct was negligent.”<br />
Friday, she acquitted pistorius<br />
of murder, saying the government<br />
had not proven that he intended to<br />
kill her, but convicted him of “culpable”<br />
homicide, killing Steenkamp<br />
untentionally.<br />
—Washington Post
News<br />
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Satanists to hold black mass<br />
<strong>The</strong> organisers will wear profane<br />
costumes, use explicit language<br />
and desecrate the fake host<br />
A<br />
devil-worshipping group hell-bent on<br />
hosting a satanic black mass is planning<br />
to go ahead with its controversial<br />
ceremony this month, despite fervent<br />
protests by residents of Oklahoma City<br />
and a lawsuit from the Catholic Church.<br />
<strong>The</strong> co-founder of Dakhma of Angra Mainyu<br />
said that the religious and educational organisation<br />
decided to hold the black mass in public but<br />
it will be a “tamer” version than some traditional<br />
satanic ceremonies by, for example, substituting<br />
vinegar for acts involving urine to comply with<br />
state health laws.<br />
<strong>The</strong> upcoming event has generated controversy<br />
because black masses mock Christianity and the<br />
rituals that make up their services but organisers<br />
see it as an integral part of their religion.<br />
“One of the dictates of the church is not only to<br />
educate the members but to educate the public,”<br />
Dakhma of Angra Mainyu’s Adam Daniels said,<br />
“and to debunk the Hollywood-projected image of<br />
our beliefs.”<br />
Daniels said all 88 tickets to the September 21<br />
event — held at the theatre in the city’s civic centre<br />
— have been sold. <strong>The</strong> parks and recreation department,<br />
which rented the space to the group for<br />
US$420, cited First Amendment protections in allowing<br />
the group to meet in a public facility.<br />
“Daniels must abide by our local ordinances,<br />
our fire codes and all of our state laws,” Parks<br />
and Recreation spokeswoman Jennifer Lindsey-<br />
McClintock said. “No blood-letting of any kind<br />
will be allowed.”<br />
A US$17,50 ticket buys participants a frontrow<br />
seat to the festivities, which include a performance<br />
from the band God in a Machine and readings<br />
that call for the renunciation of God. Male<br />
participants and audience members are encouraged<br />
to wear black, hooded, full-length robes, but<br />
evening wear is also appropriate for spectators.<br />
Anthony Briggman, an assistant professor<br />
of theology at Emory University in Atlanta, explained<br />
that the general motivating principles behind<br />
satanic groups — including Dakhma of Angra<br />
Mainyu — is to “parody” Roman Catholic liturgy<br />
by “demonstrating their opposition to orthodox<br />
Christian beliefs and practices.”<br />
“<strong>The</strong> line between parody and mockery is a<br />
fuzzy one and it is unclear to me on which side<br />
of the line they usually fall,” he said of satanic<br />
groups in general.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> goal seems to be to acquire some of the<br />
spiritual power [and] magic that they associate<br />
with the Roman Catholic ritual of transubstantiation,<br />
the transformation of the Eucharistic bread<br />
and wine into the body and blood of Christ,” Briggman<br />
said.<br />
Co-founder Daniels said the September 21 ceremony<br />
will take place before an altar-like table<br />
where a woman in lingerie lies (another concession<br />
to reflect the state’s nudity laws).<br />
<strong>The</strong> culmination of the event comes when the<br />
Dakhma of Angra Mainyu deacons and priest<br />
stomp on the, in this case, unconsecrated host<br />
and spit on it. Daniels said organisers will wear<br />
profane costumes, use explicit language and desecrate<br />
the fake host, which Catholics believe is a<br />
form of the resurrected Christ.<br />
Professor Briggman said that in other instances,<br />
he has “heard the reports of ritualistic practices<br />
of sex, blood-letting, and sacrifice . . . but it is<br />
unclear to me how much these reports are hyperbole<br />
designed to capture the attention of the press<br />
and public.”<br />
Daniels said the Oklahoma City ceremony will<br />
wrap up with a Satanic exorcism intended to draw<br />
the Holy Spirit from the follower’s body, which<br />
contrasts with traditional exorcisms that are designed<br />
to expel the devil from the individual.<br />
“Our practices have gotten it to about 22 to 25<br />
minutes,” Daniels said of the ritual.<br />
Additional controversy has surrounded this<br />
particular event because the Oklahoma City Archdiocese<br />
filed a lawsuit against Daniels’ group after<br />
media reports that he was in possession of a<br />
consecrated host, a wafer that some Catholics believe<br />
is literally the body of Christ.<br />
<strong>The</strong> host in question has since been handed<br />
over to the archdiocese and the legal action has<br />
been stopped, but that has not put all of the Archbishop’s<br />
concerns to rest.<br />
“I remain concerned about the dark powers that<br />
this satanic worship invites into our community<br />
and the spiritual danger that this poses to all who<br />
are involved in it, directly or indirectly,” Archbishop<br />
Paul Coakley said in a statement.<br />
<strong>The</strong> group is separate from <strong>The</strong> Satanic Temple,<br />
a national group with similar beliefs that has<br />
long fought with Oklahoma City officials about<br />
the right to have a statue of the devil placed prominently<br />
in the Oklahoma State Capitol.<br />
Lucien Greaves, the leader of <strong>The</strong> Satanic Temple,<br />
said Dakhma of Angra Mainyu may be timing<br />
its black mass in order to coincide with the publicity<br />
drummed up by <strong>The</strong> Satanic Temple’s legal<br />
battle for the devil statue.<br />
“I have a feeling that they’re rather inspired<br />
by the attention that our activity has gotten,”<br />
Greaves said, “but I don’t think there’s a particularly<br />
higher concentration in Oklahoma than anywhere<br />
else.” — ABC News<br />
Satan statue
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NSSA helps Chegutu, Shamva and<br />
Norton ease housing shortages<br />
oon after the inception of the national<br />
pension scheme in 1994, the National<br />
Social Security Authority (NSSA) began<br />
working with several local authorities around<br />
the country to help them improve housing<br />
delivery.<br />
<strong>The</strong> authority’s housing projects in Chegutu,<br />
Shamva and Norton have helped ease the<br />
housing shortages in these towns.<br />
In Chegutu NSSA partnered the then<br />
Founders Building Society in the construction<br />
of 200 housing units on 300 square metre<br />
stands. BHP Platinum employees were among<br />
the first beneficiaries of the project.<br />
Construction of the houses began in October<br />
1998 and was completed in 2000.<br />
In 1999 NSSA worked with the Chaminuka<br />
Rural District Council in Shamva under a<br />
partnership between itself, the council,<br />
housing construction firm Instamac and the<br />
Central African Building Society (CABS)<br />
which saw 50 families acquire homes of their<br />
own.<br />
NSSA invested the money required for the<br />
project in CABS permanent paid-up shares<br />
(PUPS). CABS provided loans for Shamva<br />
residents selected by Chaminuka Rural<br />
District Council to enable them to purchase<br />
the stands and houses. Many of those who<br />
purchased houses and stands were<br />
contributors to the NSSA national pension<br />
scheme. <strong>The</strong> stands were sold at above cost but<br />
below market prices.<br />
Work on the project began in March 1999.<br />
Four-roomed houses were built on 10 of the 50<br />
stands in Wadzanai township. <strong>The</strong>se were sold<br />
to Shamva residents who were first on the<br />
project waiting list. <strong>The</strong> rest of the stands were<br />
sold to residents willing to build their own<br />
houses.<br />
Chaminuka Rural District Council Chief<br />
Executive Officer Sydney Chiwara<br />
commended NSSA for its efforts in ensuring<br />
that its contributors had decent<br />
accommodation. He said such efforts brought<br />
relief to local authorities, most of which had<br />
insufficient houses to meet the housing<br />
demand.<br />
“Such efforts by NSSA and its strategic<br />
partners always come as a relief not only to<br />
(national pension scheme) contributors but to<br />
local authorities as well.<br />
“As we know, access to decent shelter is a<br />
basic human right and it is good that<br />
contributors do not have to wait till retirement<br />
to get a benefit from NSSA but the authority<br />
actually ensures they get a benefit while they<br />
are still working,” said Mr Chiwara.<br />
Shamva Residents’ Association General<br />
Secretary Fungai Musawo concurred with Mr<br />
Chiwara, saying such public-private<br />
partnerships in major critical projects were<br />
important in ensuring that residents’<br />
expectations from local authorities are<br />
fulfilled.<br />
He said while the association acknowledged<br />
the role local authorities played in national<br />
development, local councillors should be<br />
reminded that service delivery should be their<br />
major priority and should always be high on<br />
their agenda in order for them to remain<br />
relevant in their constituencies.<br />
One of the beneficiaries of the Shamva<br />
project, Cecilia Chirima, applauded NSSA for<br />
diversifying its product portfolio through<br />
provision of houses.<br />
“As beneficiaries we applaud NSSA for their<br />
housing development programmes as these<br />
make contributors realise one of their lifetime<br />
dreams of owning a house during their<br />
working life,” said Mrs Chirima, a mother of<br />
four who has already seen two of her children<br />
complete secondary school while staying in<br />
Wadzanai.<br />
She urged other housing delivery players to<br />
complement NSSA’s efforts by providing<br />
more housing.<br />
NSSA also facilitated the construction of<br />
47 two-bedroomed houses in the Shasha area<br />
of Norton. <strong>The</strong>se houses were occupied by<br />
members of a housing cooperative who were<br />
also NSSA contributors. This project started<br />
in 2000 and was completed in 2001.<br />
Norton Town Council Deputy Housing<br />
Director Tichaona Rambiyawo commended<br />
NSSA for providing close to 50 families with<br />
decent accommodation.<br />
“Indeed the gesture will always be cherished<br />
by the Norton Council as this has significantly<br />
helped in reducing the housing shortage in<br />
urban areas, which is actually a crisis the<br />
council is facing,” he said.<br />
A beneficiary of the Shasha Housing<br />
Cooperative, who is also the cooperative’s<br />
Vice-Chairman, Mr Francis Chitsinde, said<br />
their dream of owning their own houses<br />
seemed far-fetched when the original 26<br />
cooperative members started making<br />
contributions in 1996.<br />
“From being mere members of the<br />
cooperative, we are now landlords. I actually<br />
look forward to retirement because I no longer<br />
worry about having to pay rent now that I own<br />
my own home,” Mr Chitsinde added.<br />
Another of the beneficiaries of the<br />
cooperative’s housing scheme, Ms Rudo<br />
James, a mother of three daughters who are<br />
now all grown up and living on their own,<br />
says she is happy she does not need to burden<br />
her children with money for rentals.<br />
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Mr Chitsinde (left) and other<br />
beneficiaries of the Shasha Cooperative<br />
Ms Rudo James and her granddaughter<br />
standing in front of her house<br />
Chaminuka Rural District Council<br />
housing beneficiaries at their home<br />
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PolIcy revIew does not InsPIre conFIdence/18<br />
IMF team<br />
heads for<br />
Zimbabwe<br />
Patrick Chinamasa said government was<br />
committed to continue implementing a<br />
comprehensive reform programme of<br />
policies to foster sustained and inclusive<br />
economic growth<br />
BY NDAMU SANDU<br />
A<br />
team from the International<br />
Monetary<br />
Fund (IMF) will be in<br />
the country this week<br />
for a review of its supervised<br />
economic reform programme<br />
on the country as Zimbabwe<br />
pushes for a successor plan.<br />
In June last year, the IMF agreed<br />
to a Staff Monitored Programme<br />
(SMP) on Zimbabwe after Harare<br />
had pledged to undertake a raft of<br />
reforms as it builds bridges with<br />
the multilateral financial institution.<br />
<strong>The</strong> SMP — an informal agreement<br />
between country authorities<br />
and the Fund staff to monitor<br />
the implementation of the authorities’<br />
economic programmes<br />
— came after intensive lobbying<br />
by the inclusive government as<br />
part of its re-engagement with<br />
the global lender.<br />
<strong>The</strong> SMP focusses on putting<br />
public finances on a sustainable<br />
course, while protecting infrastructure<br />
investment and priority<br />
social spending, strengthening<br />
public financial management, increasing<br />
diamond revenue transparency,<br />
reducing financial sector<br />
vulnerabilities, and restructuring<br />
the central bank.<br />
In his mid-term fiscal policy review<br />
last week, Finance and Economic<br />
Development minister Patrick<br />
Chinamasa said an IMF Review<br />
Mission would be in the<br />
country from September 17 to October<br />
1.<br />
“It will be important for Zimbabwe<br />
to negotiate a successor SMP<br />
after the expected successful conclusion<br />
of the third review of the<br />
existing SMP in September 2014,”<br />
Chinamasa said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> successor SMP should<br />
also relate to ZimAsset [the Zimbabwe<br />
Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic<br />
Transformation],<br />
support a stronger policy framework<br />
for the economy and build<br />
on the achievements to date.”<br />
Chinamasa said government<br />
was committed to continue implementing<br />
a comprehensive reform<br />
programme of policies to foster<br />
sustained and inclusive economic<br />
growth, aimed at significantly<br />
reducing poverty levels.<br />
“This should be under-pinned<br />
by fostering investment, especially<br />
foreign direct investment and<br />
increasing productivity,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> SMP was supposed to run<br />
up to December 2013 but was extended<br />
after Zimbabwe failed<br />
to meet its targets saying it was<br />
hampered by the electoral process<br />
and the post-election transition.<br />
Three out of five structural<br />
benchmarks for the first review<br />
Finance and Economic Development minister Patrick Chinamasa<br />
were met. IMF said the new Income<br />
Tax Bill was submitted<br />
to Parliament in May 2013 and<br />
passed in June.<br />
IMF said the new framework<br />
for contingency planning and<br />
systemic risk management was<br />
submitted to the RBZ Board and<br />
approved in October 2013 and the<br />
time-bound action plan by the<br />
Public Service Commission on<br />
measures to modernise human<br />
resource management and payroll<br />
systems was submitted to<br />
the ministry of Finance and Economic<br />
Development in December<br />
last year.<br />
IMF said the stock of verified<br />
pre-2013 domestic arrears was finalised<br />
in mid-December 2013.<br />
Zimbabwe made public the total<br />
stock of domestic arrears and<br />
the strategy to clear it in the context<br />
of the 2014 National Budget<br />
Statement submitted to Parliament<br />
in December 2013.<br />
<strong>The</strong> country however did not<br />
issue a statutory instrument establishing<br />
a formula for diamond<br />
dividends as envisaged under<br />
the programme, but took broadly<br />
equivalent measures to increase<br />
diamond revenues and boost<br />
transparency in the industry.<br />
For the second SMP review, the<br />
authorities met three of the six<br />
revised quantitative targets.<br />
Zimbabwe met the floors on the<br />
stock of usable international reserves<br />
and on Poverty Reduction<br />
Growth Trust payments and the<br />
continuous ceiling on the stock<br />
of new non-concessional external<br />
debt.<br />
<strong>The</strong> target for the primary fiscal<br />
balance on a cash basis was<br />
missed by about 1,6% of GDP, due<br />
to the weaker economic growth<br />
and the associated tax revenues<br />
weakness in Q4 of 2013.<br />
IMF said one of the five structural<br />
benchmarks for the second<br />
review was met. It said the RBZ<br />
(Debt Assumption Bill) was approved<br />
by Cabinet in November<br />
2013 and submitted to Parliament<br />
in April 2014.<br />
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18 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Business<br />
‘Policy review does<br />
not inspire confidence’<br />
BY OUR STAFF<br />
Finance minister Patrick<br />
Chinamasa’s midterm<br />
fiscal policy review<br />
and its associated measures<br />
do not inspire confidence<br />
for economic momentum<br />
required for growth, analysts and<br />
stakeholders have said.<br />
Chinamasa proposed a raft of<br />
measures to raise additional revenue<br />
in the wake of declining revenue<br />
from taxes and soaring expenditure.<br />
<strong>The</strong> minister increased excise<br />
duty on diesel and petrol to<br />
US$0,30 and US$0,35 cents per litre<br />
from US$0,25 cents and US$0,30<br />
cents respectively with effect from<br />
September 12.<br />
He proposed to levy excise duty<br />
of 5% on airtime for voice and<br />
data, with effect from tomorrow<br />
(Monday), and a 25% customs<br />
duty on mobile handsets effective<br />
October.<br />
A research analyst said revenue<br />
measures being put in place highlighted<br />
the limited options government<br />
was facing in generating<br />
revenue.<br />
“Such measures are short term<br />
as they do not address the key<br />
challenges in the economy. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
are also going to strain the general<br />
populace further stifling aggregate<br />
demand,” he said.<br />
Chinamasa increased duty on<br />
imported cars saying vehicle imports<br />
accounted for 10% of the import<br />
bill in the period January to<br />
June.<br />
This would see passenger motor<br />
vehicles of engine capacity below<br />
1 500cc — the favourite among the<br />
hard pressed Zimbabweans — attracting<br />
a duty of 40% from 25%<br />
with effect from November 1.<br />
<strong>The</strong> grey imports are more affordable<br />
for locals compared to<br />
locally assembled cars in the absence<br />
of cheap financing from<br />
banks.<br />
Chinamasa said the local assembly<br />
of motor vehicles benefitted<br />
downstream industries, such<br />
as paint, carpet material, glasses’,<br />
tyres’ and batteries’ manufacturers,<br />
among others.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>se industries have, however,<br />
either closed or are operating<br />
at very low capacity due to low<br />
demand for goods and services<br />
from local motor vehicle assembly<br />
plants,” he said, adding that the<br />
measure takes into account the<br />
need to protect consumers from<br />
unfair pricing and substandard<br />
products.<br />
But a survey by <strong>Standard</strong>business<br />
showed that the local car assemblers<br />
have no capacity to meet<br />
the demand. In addition, their<br />
prices are beyond the reach of<br />
many in a harsh economic environment.<br />
Willowvale Mazda Motor<br />
Industries stopped assembling<br />
cars two years ago.<br />
“You can’t say you are protecting<br />
industry because we don’t<br />
have industry to talk of. <strong>The</strong> economy<br />
is dead,” former Finance<br />
minister Tendai Biti said.<br />
He said Zimbabweans were on<br />
the rocks with company closures<br />
yet Chinamasa was imposing a<br />
tax burden to improve the fiscal<br />
revenue.<br />
“It is a measure that seeks to<br />
draw water from a stone. Why tax<br />
food stuffs, vehicles, handsets and<br />
airtime which is the only form of<br />
communication our people have?<br />
It is the worst financial statement<br />
I can remember,” Biti said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> past president for the Confederation<br />
of Zimbabwe Industries<br />
Kumbirayi Katsande said the<br />
minister was looking for revenue<br />
raising measures in the wake of<br />
shrinking consumer demand and<br />
tax base.<br />
“I think this is a desperate situation.<br />
Government is not anywhere<br />
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s mid term policy review will only impose a tax<br />
burden that will impact on the population negatively. Graphic by Tapiwa Zivira<br />
near what the existing recurrent<br />
expenditures are. We need to look<br />
at ways to reduce our costs as well;<br />
that is critical,” he said.<br />
Katsande said Chinamasa needed<br />
to be supported in his efforts to<br />
get foreign direct investment.<br />
Economist John Robertson said<br />
Chinamasa was wrong about the<br />
economy growing as it will only<br />
shrink further.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> measures introduced will<br />
reduce the amount of money people<br />
can spend on other things.<br />
Shops will record lower profits<br />
and there will be fewer tax sources<br />
from other sectors, there is no<br />
net gain for government,” he said.<br />
He said that the ease of doing<br />
business in Zimbabwe is one of<br />
the lowest in the world and the<br />
new measures only worsened the<br />
situation.<br />
“Government still has to build<br />
factories and the duty increases<br />
targeting food and household<br />
items are a start in the wrong<br />
place. Most active farmers in Zimbabwe<br />
are growing tobacco and<br />
not food,” said Robertson.<br />
Analyst Eric Bloch said government<br />
still had a long way to go,<br />
adding that the increases in duty<br />
were inflationary.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> increase in fuel for example<br />
will increase the cost of transportation<br />
of goods. This will affect<br />
retail prices and impact on<br />
the population negatively [in<br />
terms of cost of living],” he said.<br />
“Nothing was said about stimulating<br />
investment, reinstatement<br />
of export incentives or steps to inspire<br />
investor confidence.”<br />
A research analyst said the midterm<br />
review highlighted the glaring<br />
fact that growth in the economy<br />
was slowing down as shown by<br />
the downward revision of growth<br />
projections.<br />
“With soft commodity prices<br />
and a struggling manufacturing<br />
sector and lower funding, even in<br />
the agriculture sector, we do not<br />
see the 3,1% target being achievable,”<br />
he said.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 19<br />
Yet another scramble for Africa<br />
Both the US and China<br />
want a share of<br />
resources from Africa<br />
in the<br />
money<br />
with NESBERt RUwO<br />
Turn back the hands of<br />
time to 1876. Europe is<br />
experiencing an economic,<br />
social and military<br />
revolution. King Leopold<br />
II of Belgium has just read the report<br />
that the mineral resources<br />
in the Congo Basin (modern day<br />
DrC) could provide a substantial<br />
return for anyone willing to take<br />
the risk and invest in the region.<br />
Leopold wants his property in the<br />
basin to be internationally recognised.<br />
A European conference<br />
thereafter (Berlin Conference<br />
1884-85) laid down the rules for<br />
the division of Africa. By 1914, all<br />
African countries except for Ethiopia<br />
and Liberia had been “split<br />
and divided” among European<br />
countries. <strong>The</strong> need for raw materials<br />
and trade networks, among<br />
other reasons, drove this “scramble<br />
for Africa”. This was the then<br />
scramble for Africa.<br />
Fast forward to 2014. Africa has<br />
attained political independence<br />
and has been de-colonised. Economic<br />
independence is yet to be<br />
achieved in most countries. But<br />
Africa is experiencing a rapid<br />
rate of economic growth — supported<br />
by urbanisation, reconstruction,<br />
discovery of precious<br />
resources (like gas) and industrialisation.<br />
Only in 2000, <strong>The</strong> Economist<br />
called it “the hopeless continent”<br />
characterised by famine,<br />
wars, corruption and political<br />
instability and a decade later,<br />
in 2011, the same publication saw<br />
“Africa rising”.<br />
Once again, Africa is attracting<br />
increasing interest from the global<br />
investment community driven<br />
by surging demand for its resources.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new interest is coming<br />
from notably the resourcehungry<br />
Bric countries, uS, as well<br />
as Europe, who are all looking for<br />
raw materials and markets for<br />
their industries. <strong>The</strong> rapid urbanisation<br />
and consumerisation in<br />
Africa has instigated the demand<br />
for modern goods and services<br />
such as mobile telecoms, vehicles,<br />
computing, entertainment gadgets<br />
and banking services. Most of<br />
these goods and services are supplied<br />
by global businesses based<br />
in Asia, Americas and Europe. African<br />
Development Bank estimated<br />
that there were 350 million Africans<br />
in the middle income class<br />
in 2010 and this number is growing<br />
rapidly. This class of people<br />
is driving the demand for modern<br />
goods in Africa.<br />
<strong>The</strong> modern scramble for Africa<br />
is no longer military but mostly<br />
an economic power game. This<br />
is being achieved through infrastructure<br />
investments (e.g. roads,<br />
dams, and power stations), funding<br />
at concessionary interest<br />
rates, aid and grants, and preferential<br />
trade agreements. Billions<br />
of dollars in investments and aid<br />
are coming into Africa.<br />
Just as recent as August, Barack<br />
Obama hosted a uS-Africa<br />
Leaders’ Summit — a summit focused<br />
on trade and investment<br />
and on strengthening partnership<br />
between Africa and the uS. <strong>The</strong><br />
uS’s annual trade with the continent<br />
is estimated at about uS$85<br />
billion while that of China stands<br />
at uS$200 billion. It’s obvious that<br />
the uS is playing catch-up in the<br />
new scramble for Africa. China is<br />
leading the pack given its insatiable<br />
appetite for resources to support<br />
its rapid economic growth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bric countries are invested in<br />
or have interests in countries like<br />
Angola, DrC, Mozambique, nigeria,<br />
South Africa and Sudan.<br />
Given the potential within Africa,<br />
international investors are always<br />
scouting for the right investment<br />
country destinations. At a<br />
country-specific level, each country<br />
must provide the right environment<br />
to attract this global capital.<br />
This includes the right policy<br />
framework and supportive legal<br />
and institutional frameworks.<br />
South Africa, for example, with<br />
its developed infrastructure, regulatory<br />
and institutional framework,<br />
sees itself as a “springboard<br />
into Africa” for international<br />
investors looking to invest<br />
in the rest of Africa. Other African<br />
countries are also offering attractive<br />
propositions. Countries<br />
like Kenya, Angola, Mozambique,<br />
Ghana, and nigeria have become<br />
Africa’s international investment<br />
hotspots. It’s a “beauty contest”<br />
to attract international investors.<br />
As a country, where does Zimbabwe<br />
stand in the contest for global<br />
investments targeted towards Africa?<br />
US President Barack Obama . . he hosted African leaders in Washington DC last month<br />
King Leopold II of Belgium<br />
<strong>The</strong> future for Africa<br />
It is clear that Africa proffers<br />
huge opportunities for investors.<br />
McKinsey Global Institute (2010)<br />
estimated that Africa owns 60%<br />
of the world’s total amount of uncultivated<br />
arable land, while the<br />
World Bank (2012) indicated that<br />
<strong>The</strong> modern scramble<br />
for Africa is no<br />
longer military but<br />
an economic power<br />
game<br />
China president Xi Jinping<br />
Africa needs annual investments<br />
of at least uS$80 billion for infrastructure<br />
given the deficiencies in<br />
infrastructure development. Africa<br />
also has massive untapped reserves<br />
of minerals like platinum,<br />
gold, oil, gas, copper etc, as well as<br />
impressive tourist destinations.<br />
Fifty percent of the continent’s<br />
one billion people are under 24<br />
years of age, making it the youngest<br />
market in the world. Its population<br />
is estimated to double<br />
by 2050 while the middle income<br />
class is expected to balloon. Over<br />
50% of the population will be<br />
living in cities by 2030. That is a<br />
huge potential that gets international<br />
investors drooling.<br />
But the recent attention to Africa<br />
may not solely be based on<br />
a goal to improve the well-being<br />
of Africans, but on the need by<br />
the investor countries to secure<br />
a supply of raw materials for the<br />
industries and new markets for<br />
their goods. Africa’s massive natural<br />
resource base and its youngest<br />
market status makes it a pretty<br />
much untapped continent. It<br />
is important that Africa benefit<br />
from the extraction of its resources.<br />
African policy makers must be<br />
strategic when dealing with investor<br />
countries, especially on resource<br />
exploitation, environmental<br />
issues, sustainable development,<br />
and monopoly rights over<br />
resources. <strong>The</strong> focus should be on<br />
long-term sustainable economic<br />
and social development than on<br />
short-term gains.<br />
• Nesbert Ruwo is Zimbabwean-born<br />
investment banker<br />
based in South Africa. He can<br />
be contacted on: nesr@opportunvest.co.za
20 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Business<br />
Can local SMEs break the wave?<br />
sme’s<br />
chat<br />
with phillip chichoni<br />
“Change will not come if we wait<br />
for some other person, or if we<br />
wait for some other time. We are<br />
the ones we have been waiting for.<br />
We are the change that we seek.’’<br />
Barack Obama<br />
Presenting the Old Mutual<br />
interim report for the<br />
half year ended June 30<br />
2014, chief executive Jonas<br />
Mushosho said the<br />
group has taken a strategic decision<br />
to grow CABS as it provides a<br />
platform for future growth.<br />
Mushosho said CABS is going<br />
to be the key for entering the<br />
new clusters of economic growth,<br />
the informal sector and the SME<br />
space. This is timely, as traditional<br />
big firms have found the going<br />
tough in a changing Zimbabwean<br />
economy. <strong>The</strong> big firms are<br />
bogged down by dilapidated machinery,<br />
high operating costs, old<br />
management styles and stiff competition<br />
from low cost modernised<br />
suppliers from South Africa<br />
and the Far East, mainly China.<br />
<strong>The</strong> truth is the country is going<br />
through an economic transformation<br />
phase. This is not<br />
unique to Zimbabwe.<br />
Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev<br />
observed, in his book <strong>The</strong><br />
Major Economic Cycles (1925) that<br />
the world economy goes through<br />
cycles of prosperity and depression.<br />
Kondratiev identified three<br />
phases in the cycle, expansion,<br />
stagnation and recession. Innovation<br />
and technology launch new<br />
industries. Every wave of innovation<br />
lasts until the profits from<br />
the new innovation or economic<br />
sector fall to the level of the older<br />
more traditional sectors. It is a<br />
situation when the new technology,<br />
which originally increased<br />
a capacity to utilise new sources<br />
from nature, reached its limits<br />
and it is not possible to overcome<br />
this limit without the application<br />
of another new technology.<br />
<strong>The</strong> technological cycles can be<br />
labelled as follows:<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Industrial Revolution<br />
— 1771<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Age of Steam And Railways<br />
— 1829<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Age of Steel and Heavy<br />
Engineering — 1875<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Age of Oil, Electricity,<br />
the Automobile and Mass Production<br />
— 1908<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Age of Information<br />
and Telecommunications — 1971<br />
<strong>The</strong> Great Depression was a severe<br />
worldwide economic downturn<br />
in the 1930s which fitted into<br />
the Kondratiev wave. Companies<br />
closed, people lost jobs and general<br />
populaces suffered in countries<br />
both rich and poor. Cities around<br />
the world were hit hard, especially<br />
those dependent on heavy industry.<br />
Renowned economist and the<br />
founder of “modern management”<br />
Peter F Drucker noticed<br />
the disrupting of the Kondratiev<br />
wave in the US. When smokestack<br />
industries were collapsing in the<br />
1970s, the United States was creating<br />
jobs while the rest of the<br />
world was losing jobs. Every expert<br />
knew that it was a period of<br />
no growth, stagnation or recession.<br />
<strong>The</strong> old job creators were<br />
retrenching. <strong>The</strong>re were new job<br />
creators in the USA, small and<br />
medium sized businesses, most<br />
of them new businesses which<br />
didn’t even exist 20 years before.<br />
It wasn’t hi-tech which was creating<br />
the majority of new jobs. Entrepreneurship<br />
disrupted the 60<br />
year Kondratiev-wave cycle. Small<br />
businesses began to rise at the expense<br />
of big enterprises. Although<br />
Western Europe was following the<br />
Kondratiev-wave, the US and Japan<br />
were doing something that<br />
was upsetting the cycle. New small<br />
enterprises were mushrooming,<br />
creating employment and fuelling<br />
economic growth.<br />
Zimbabwe has been through<br />
a decline since before independence,<br />
with government controls<br />
and incentives masking the lack<br />
of growth. Come dollarisation<br />
and we see the true picture. Small<br />
scale tobacco farmers made a killing<br />
in the past season, grossing<br />
over US$600 million. At a price<br />
of US$400 per tonne, a ten hectare<br />
maize farmer with an average<br />
yield of 10 tonnes per hectare<br />
grossed US$40 000, or US$1 500 per<br />
month assuming costs of 50%,<br />
Vendors display their goods outside Mupedzanhamo market in Mbare. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />
trying to make a living and it is wrong to demand taxes from them as if they were<br />
entreprenuers.<br />
well above the poverty datum<br />
minimum wage of US$550.<br />
With enough serious entrepreneurial<br />
farmers, this country will<br />
break out of this wave, even though<br />
it is not really Kondratiev. <strong>The</strong> key<br />
is to run your small enterprise, be<br />
it farming, manufacturing or another<br />
form of value addition, like<br />
a serious business. <strong>The</strong> majority of<br />
informal traders targeted by Gershem<br />
Pasi are not entrepreneurs.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are just people trying to make<br />
a living, buying goods for resale.<br />
If, in their eagerness, they can be<br />
tuned to add value, they can make<br />
a difference to this country, all 2,8<br />
million of them.<br />
What they need is direction. <strong>The</strong><br />
GMB has been funded. I hear they<br />
are paying cash of US$1 350 per<br />
tonne of sugar beans, cash on delivery<br />
and there are no supplies! What<br />
is happening to all the young people?<br />
Our students at the agric-colleges<br />
need entrepreneurial vision and<br />
business management skills. I’m<br />
sure there are idle farms around for<br />
them to practise what they learned<br />
and then bit, by bit, they grow into<br />
commercial farmers.<br />
Resources are there in the soil.<br />
Let’s wake up and sniff the soil.<br />
No one is gonna give it to you. Go<br />
out there and get it yourself.<br />
Please read my article on the<br />
Three Cogs to Success in Farming<br />
at http://smebusinesslink.<br />
com and don’t forget to share your<br />
feedback.<br />
• Phillip Chichoni is a business<br />
development consultant who<br />
works with SMEs and entrepreneurs.<br />
You may contact him by<br />
email: chichonip@smebusinesslink.com.<br />
You can also visit:<br />
http://smebusinesslink.com
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Recovered Ebola patient to return to Africa<br />
<strong>The</strong> first British person to<br />
contract Ebola in the current<br />
outbreak in Africa is<br />
to return to the country<br />
where he was infected in<br />
order to help others fight the disease.<br />
William Pooley (pictured right)<br />
was treated in London after being<br />
flown out of Sierra Leone.<br />
He has made a full recovery and,<br />
having been discharged from hospital,<br />
said he is to travel back within<br />
“a few weeks”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 29-year-old said he was “impatient”<br />
to return and that it was<br />
likely he was now immune to the<br />
deadly illness.<br />
Pooley had been working as a<br />
volunteer nurse in Sierra Leone,<br />
which is one of the worst affected<br />
countries, when he contracted the<br />
virus.<br />
Around half of the 3 000 people<br />
infected in the current African outbreak,<br />
which started in Guinea,<br />
have died.<br />
“I’m quite impatient to get back<br />
doing what I know needs to be<br />
done,” Pooley said.<br />
“And I feel like I’ve left things undone,<br />
having left prematurely. And I<br />
know there’s a lot of work to do out<br />
there, and we need to get out there<br />
and do it.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> nurse, from Eyke in Suffolk,<br />
was treated in a special isolation<br />
unit at the Royal Free Hospital,<br />
where he was given the experimental<br />
drug ZMapp.<br />
“It’s massively safer for me. I<br />
have immunity now to this strain<br />
of Ebola,” Pooley said.<br />
“We’re not sure how long that immunity<br />
lasts or whether it’s 100%,<br />
but it’s massively safer for me to<br />
work there now than it was before.”<br />
Pooley’s passport was incinerated<br />
upon his evacuation from Sierra<br />
Leone.<br />
He said his new one was “in the<br />
post” and that his family was supportive<br />
of his plans to return to volunteer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> volunteer nurse was flown<br />
back to the UK by the RAF last<br />
month.<br />
He was in the earlier stages of<br />
the disease — suffering from a high<br />
temperature and uncontrollable<br />
shakes — but he was not bleeding.<br />
He has urged Prime Minister David<br />
Cameron to “take global leadership”<br />
in helping to improve hospital<br />
resources in the affected parts<br />
of Africa.<br />
Estimates suggest up to 20 000<br />
people will be infected during this<br />
outbreak.<br />
“It could go a few different ways,”<br />
he said.<br />
“If proper action starts now then<br />
we could see more deaths in the<br />
thousands, coming under control<br />
within a matter of a few months.<br />
If there’s a really concerted effort<br />
now.<br />
—BBC<br />
Airline boss suggests<br />
Malaysian MH17 tragedy<br />
could have been avoided<br />
<strong>The</strong> boss of Emirates said it would not have<br />
flown over Ukraine if the knowledge that<br />
high altitude missiles were there had been<br />
passed on.<br />
Sir Tim Clark said there was evidence missiles<br />
had been on site for a number of weeks. Emirates<br />
did not know that.<br />
He said though that some carriers did appear to<br />
know, but didn’t share information.<br />
Sir Tim added it was likely that every airline<br />
would have by-passed the danger zone if they had<br />
known.<br />
It’s widely believed that a missile downed Malaysian<br />
flight MH17 on July 17, killing all 298 people<br />
on board.<br />
Planes had been cleared to fly in the area as long<br />
as they stayed above a certain height, and a report<br />
earlier this week highlighted the fact that three<br />
other large passenger jets were in the same area<br />
at roughly the same time as the Malaysian flight.<br />
Sir Tim said: “<strong>The</strong>re was evidence that these<br />
missiles had been on site, in situ for a number of<br />
weeks beforehand.<br />
“Emirates did not know of that fact, and I don’t<br />
think many others did. Had we known that, we<br />
would probably have reacted in a manner that<br />
would have seen a complete avoidance of Ukrainian<br />
airspace, probably as an industry.<br />
“We have a concern that that information was<br />
known by certain stakeholders... and should have<br />
been passed... at least to the industry, to the organisations<br />
that regulate the industry.<br />
“We understand now that certain carriers were<br />
aware of that and had already taken avoidance action.”<br />
British Airways was among several airlines<br />
that had been avoiding Ukraine for weeks. But in a<br />
recent BBC interview, the overall boss of the company,<br />
Willie Walsh, said that decision was based<br />
on information that was publicly available at the<br />
time.<br />
Sir Tim is calling for an information “clearing<br />
house” to be set up, that can warn all airlines,<br />
quickly, if there are any new threats in an area.<br />
At the moment it’s down to each individual airline<br />
to decide whether to travel over a war zone,<br />
based on information from local air traffic control<br />
and from their own government. And carriers<br />
aren’t obliged to pass on the information to each<br />
other.<br />
Sir Tim, who is one of the most respected voices<br />
in the industry, also says that a “Yes” vote for Scotland<br />
would heighten the need for a new runway in<br />
the south of England.<br />
Although he made clear that he didn’t want to<br />
get involved in the politics of the decision, he told<br />
us: “Clearly, if they do become independent they<br />
will develop their own civil aviation strategies,<br />
they will probably develop Glasgow, Edinburgh<br />
and Aberdeen. But therefore there is more impetus<br />
required for the remaining parts of the UK to<br />
develop their aviation strategy, to fill a gap.”<br />
Like so many others in the business world, the<br />
Emirates’ president says that doing nothing is not<br />
an option, be it expansion at Heathrow, Gatwick,<br />
or even at the mayor of London, Boris Johnson’s<br />
preferred location, in the Thames Estuary.<br />
—BBC<br />
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Scottish independence: Implications for the Queen<br />
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BUCKINGHAM Palace has made<br />
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wish to influence the Scottish<br />
referendum, saying it is “a matter<br />
for the people of Scotland”.<br />
But would the Queen’s role north of the<br />
border change if Scotland votes for independence?<br />
<strong>The</strong> Royal Family’s links with Scotland<br />
are well-known: Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire<br />
is one of its most famous residences,<br />
bought for Queen Victoria by<br />
Prince Albert.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen spends a week every year at<br />
Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, the official<br />
residence of the British monarch in<br />
Scotland.<br />
Prince Charles went to boarding school<br />
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kilt.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Royal Family also has Scottish titles<br />
— Prince Charles carries the title<br />
Duke of Rothesay, while the Duke and<br />
Duchess of Cambridge are referred to as<br />
the Earl and Countess of Strathearn.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> 2<br />
nd<br />
and the 5<br />
of October are<br />
travelling dates.<br />
th<br />
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond<br />
is keen to stress these associations, pointing<br />
out that the union of the crowns predates<br />
the union of the parliaments which<br />
he wishes to end.<br />
His government has always maintained<br />
that the Queen would still be “Queen of<br />
Scots” if the country votes “Yes” on September<br />
18.<br />
Earlier this week, he said the Queen<br />
“would be proud” to be the monarch of an<br />
independent Scotland.<br />
However, not everyone in the “Yes”<br />
camp agrees.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Royal Family’s future in Scotland<br />
has been questioned by pro-independence<br />
campaigners such as chair of the “Yes”<br />
Scotland campaign Dennis Canavan, who<br />
has said he personally favours a referendum<br />
on who should be the head of state.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> sovereign’s constitutional impartiality<br />
is an established principle of our<br />
democracy and one which the Queen has<br />
demonstrated throughout her reign.<br />
“As such, the monarch is above politics<br />
and those in political office have a duty to<br />
ensure that this remains the case.<br />
“Any suggestion that the Queen would<br />
wish to influence the outcome of the current<br />
referendum campaign is categorically<br />
wrong.<br />
“Her Majesty is firmly of the view that<br />
this is a matter for the people of Scotland.”<br />
Members of the Radical Independence<br />
movement — a coalition of activists on<br />
the left — would also like to enable Scotland<br />
to become a republic if it wants to do<br />
so.<br />
Earlier this month, a YouGov poll suggested<br />
54% of Scots favour keeping the<br />
monarchy if Scotland votes “Yes”, compared<br />
with 39% who would like to see it<br />
scrapped. Among SNP voters, this narrows<br />
to 46% compared with 39%, though<br />
the survey had a smaller sample size.<br />
Although these figures indicate the<br />
monarchy still has more fans than it does<br />
detractors, in the UK as a whole support<br />
is higher, at 77%, and opposition is lower,<br />
at 17%, according to Ipsos Mori’s latest<br />
survey.<br />
Even if Salmond gets his preference<br />
and the Queen remains head of state in an<br />
independent Scotland, her role would be<br />
likely to change, according to director of<br />
UCL’s Constitution Unit, Professor Robert<br />
Hazell.<br />
He says the Queen’s duties would “depend<br />
on the role provided for head of state<br />
in Scotland’s new written constitution”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Scottish government has specified<br />
that under independence, the people of<br />
Scotland would be sovereign, whereas at<br />
present sovereignty rests with the Crown<br />
in Parliament.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is also the question of funding.<br />
<strong>The</strong> White Paper says it would be “right<br />
for an independent Scotland to continue<br />
to contribute to the expenses of the monarchy<br />
through taxes” but precise arrangements<br />
would be decided in post-referendum<br />
negotiations.<br />
Holyrood Palace would presumably be<br />
under particular scrutiny here, since unlike<br />
Balmoral, it is partly funded by the<br />
public purse and its conservation is carried<br />
out by a Scottish government executive<br />
agency, Historic Scotland.<br />
Such a situation is not unprecedented.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s responsibilities in Scotland<br />
are “likely to be very similar to her role<br />
she fills in the Commonwealth realms of<br />
which she is head of state such as Australia<br />
and New Zealand”, says Prof Hazell.<br />
In most Commonwealth countries, the<br />
Queen is regularly briefed through a governor-general<br />
who acts as her representative.<br />
So would a governor-general be introduced<br />
in Scotland?<br />
Constitutional historian Lord Hennessy<br />
told BBC Radio 4’s <strong>The</strong> World at<br />
One the idea has not been floated because<br />
of Westminster’s insistence on not making<br />
any contingency plans for Scottish independence.<br />
“I’d be very surprised if in any cupboard<br />
there was ‘what do we do about HM<br />
Queen in the event of a Yes vote’,” he says.<br />
—BBC
International News<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 23<br />
2<br />
1<br />
Clockwise (1) the Apple smartwatch; (2) Owners of the smartwatch will be able to make payments via Apple<br />
Pay; (3) the Watch is also being marketed as a must-have accessory<br />
3<br />
Does anyone need a smartwatch?<br />
In his trademark black T-<br />
shirt, blue jeans, and trainers,<br />
Apple co-founder and<br />
chief executive Steve Jobs<br />
convinced consumers, time<br />
and time again, that they desperately<br />
desired a product for which<br />
they had never previously felt a<br />
need.<br />
On Tuesday, his successor Tim<br />
Cook took to the stage at an event<br />
in California hoping to follow<br />
suit, by unveiling a smartwatch<br />
that Apple hopes will finally put a<br />
wearable device on to the average<br />
Joe’s wrist.<br />
But does the Apple Watch do<br />
enough to kick-start a hitherto<br />
lacklustre market?<br />
James McQuivey, an analyst at<br />
the research firm Forrester who<br />
has seen the iPhone and iPad<br />
launches come and go, certainly<br />
thinks so.<br />
“I think it is very clearly one of<br />
those moments,” he said.<br />
“People know they need watches,<br />
they know that they need<br />
smartphones, and Apple has made<br />
a combination of those things<br />
that is better than each of them.”<br />
However, he admits that there<br />
is no “killer app” on the device.<br />
Rather, the Apple Watch is a “collection<br />
of benefits”, which will<br />
appeal to those who already spend<br />
an awful amount of time checking<br />
their phones each day.<br />
“This is not asking people who<br />
are analogue to become digital,”<br />
he explains.<br />
“This is asking people who are<br />
already digital to take it to the<br />
next level.”<br />
Indeed, Apple is not marketing<br />
its watch at technophobes or novices.<br />
For a start, the Watch works<br />
only with an iPhone, and offers<br />
little in terms of functionality<br />
that cannot already be done by its<br />
bigger sister.<br />
Additionally, few of the Watch’s<br />
integrated technologies are particularly<br />
revolutionary. A heart<br />
monitor might enable more accurate<br />
health readings, but several<br />
apps on the iPhone already offer<br />
similar capabilities.<br />
Its contactless payments facility<br />
replicates what many in Europe<br />
can already do with credit<br />
and debit cards.<br />
It may be the case that the device’s<br />
user interface is its biggest<br />
innovation — thanks to the “digital<br />
crown” control that lets users<br />
navigate around apps and the<br />
introduction of a “force touch”<br />
pressure-sensitive display.<br />
Even so, some may find the device<br />
rather more cumbersome<br />
for sending messages or reading<br />
texts than a quick glance at their<br />
smartphone.<br />
That’s partly why Angela McIntyre,<br />
an analyst at research firm<br />
Gartner, believes the jury is still<br />
APPlE Watch Selected tech<br />
bloggers, other journalists and<br />
celebrities were invited to Apple’s<br />
launch.<br />
Of course, that didn’t prevent<br />
a flood of instant feedback before<br />
U2 had a chance to round<br />
off the press conference. Below<br />
is a selection of what appeared<br />
online in the hours after the announcement.<br />
Vogue: From a fashion point<br />
of view, the external aesthetic<br />
seemed neutral: neither superstylish<br />
nor repellent. I would imagine<br />
that geeks would love it<br />
more than aesthetes. Yet smartphones<br />
have already transformed<br />
the fashion world in a<br />
way we never imagined.<br />
Apple spent much of the<br />
launch highlighting the Watch’s<br />
fitness-tracking facilities.<br />
Gizmodo: Maybe the cleverest<br />
part of the Apple Watch’s design<br />
out on whether the Apple Watch<br />
is another landmark moment for<br />
the firm.<br />
“It’s still wait-and-see,” she<br />
says, adding that the smartwatch<br />
is likely to mainly appeal to early<br />
adopters, or those who already<br />
own many Apple devices.<br />
Additionally, she argues, the<br />
US$349 (£216) price tag could provide<br />
a stumbling block, and it may<br />
take a significant drop in cost to<br />
bring the Watch to the mass market.<br />
Indeed, research by Forrester<br />
shows that just one in four adults<br />
in the US is considering spending<br />
money on a wearable device in the<br />
next year.<br />
But McQuivey believes Apple<br />
has carefully considered the price<br />
point of the Watch.<br />
is how you control it. Instead of<br />
relying on multi-touch gestures<br />
designed for bigger screens, the<br />
Apple Watch leans on the use<br />
of the “digital crown,” aka “the<br />
spinny knob” aka that thing you<br />
typically use to adjust the time...<br />
Think clickwheel 2.0.<br />
Wired: An intriguing feature<br />
is the Maps app, which in addition<br />
to offering directions also<br />
takes advantage of the haptic<br />
vibration system inside the device.<br />
In practice, this allows Apple’s<br />
Maps app to not only plot<br />
a journey from your current location,<br />
but guide you using different<br />
types of vibrations on the<br />
wrist.<br />
Reactions to the smartwatch<br />
<strong>The</strong> Verge: Apple left out<br />
some key details about the product,<br />
such as screen resolution,<br />
processing capabilities, and<br />
most importantly, expected battery<br />
life.... It also doesn’t bode<br />
well that the display is not always<br />
on and only lights up when<br />
you move your wrist or interact<br />
with the watch.<br />
Financial Times: What’s<br />
the psychology behind showing<br />
your audience a rapid-fire demo<br />
of your most important new<br />
product for years, then blasting<br />
them senseless with a deafening<br />
rock band? Maybe it’s to bludgeon<br />
us all into submission.<br />
Techcrunch: It seems spectacular,<br />
worlds better than other<br />
solutions. no doubt there are<br />
countless other consumer companies<br />
gearing up to announce<br />
their Android Wear devices.<br />
And now, instead of simply competing<br />
with the round-faced<br />
Moto 360, they have to announce<br />
their device in the face of the<br />
Apple Watch.<br />
“That’s why they invested in<br />
making it beautiful,” he argues.<br />
“That’s why you’ve got someone<br />
from Burberry now working<br />
at Apple — they wanted people to<br />
say ‘I’d spend that money even if<br />
it wasn’t digital’.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Watch, he says, is primarily<br />
a “digital lifestyle enabler”, not a<br />
piece of revolutionary tech.<br />
“I still don’t think people who<br />
buy it and love it will see themselves<br />
as watch wearers.”<br />
“In fact, it might have made<br />
sense not to call it a watch.”<br />
Time — if you’ll excuse the pun<br />
— may yet prove the Watch a more<br />
universally coveted tool, but the<br />
device’s pioneers could find themselves<br />
left behind.<br />
“Early adopters tend to get penalised,”<br />
says Tim Stevens, editor-at-large<br />
at the news site Cnet.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y pay the most and get<br />
technology that is most rudimentary,<br />
while a newer product comes<br />
along that is thinner, has a better<br />
battery life and is usually cheaper.”<br />
Those who rushed out to buy<br />
the first-generation iPad, for example,<br />
were left to ponder quite<br />
how wise that decision was when<br />
the device became slow and prone<br />
to crashes, because of its relatively<br />
meagre RAM memory.<br />
Subsequent models of the<br />
Watch may address some of the<br />
drawbacks of the current device,<br />
such as the reliance on the iPhone<br />
to provide GPS tracking, the lack<br />
of sleep tech or the limited health<br />
functions.<br />
Some commentators, including<br />
McIntyre, have noted that despite<br />
the “limited” functionality<br />
of the Watch at present, Apple is<br />
inviting third-party developers to<br />
create apps for the device, which<br />
could result in a flood of new features<br />
by the time it goes on sale<br />
next year.<br />
She highlights starting one’s<br />
car using a smartwatch or controlling<br />
a house’s thermostats as<br />
examples.<br />
But Apple will also have to<br />
watch out for the competition.<br />
When the iPhone and iPad<br />
launched, there were few who<br />
could claim to have any device<br />
that came close to them.<br />
Today, not only are there several<br />
competitors in the smartwatch<br />
arena — including Google, Samsung<br />
and Sony — but there are<br />
also many other devices fighting<br />
to become the wearable of choice,<br />
such as smart glasses and smart<br />
clothing.<br />
And watches may not appeal to<br />
the younger generation of Apple<br />
enthusiasts, many of whom have<br />
given up wearing a timepiece altogether.<br />
<strong>The</strong> clock, as they say, is ticking.<br />
—BBC
24 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014<br />
International News<br />
Islamic State:<br />
Can its savagery<br />
be explained?<br />
Since the sudden appearance<br />
of the extremist<br />
Sunni islamic State<br />
(iS), the group has seized<br />
headlines with a shocking<br />
level of blood-letting and cruelty<br />
— but can its savagery be explained,<br />
asks Fawaz A Gerges.<br />
islamic State has become synonymous<br />
with viciousness — beheadings,<br />
crucifixions, stonings,<br />
massacres, burying victims alive<br />
and religious and ethnic cleansing.<br />
While such savagery might<br />
seem senseless to the vast majority<br />
of civilised human beings,<br />
for iS it is a rational choice. it is<br />
a conscious decision to terrorise<br />
enemies and impress and co-opt<br />
new recruits.<br />
iS adheres to a doctrine of total<br />
war without limits and constraints<br />
— no such thing, for instance,<br />
as arbitration or compromise<br />
when it comes to settling<br />
disputes with even Sunni islamist<br />
rivals. Unlike its parent organisation,<br />
al-Qaeda, iS pays no lip<br />
service to theology to justify its<br />
crimes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> violence has its roots in<br />
what can be identified as two earlier<br />
waves, though the scale and<br />
intensity of iS’s brutality far exceeds<br />
either.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first wave, led by disciples<br />
of Sayyid Qutb — a radical egyptian<br />
islamist regarded as the master<br />
theoretician of modern jihadism<br />
— targeted pro-Western secular<br />
Arab regimes or what they<br />
called the “near enemy”, and, on<br />
balance, showed restraint in the<br />
use of political violence .<br />
Beginning with the assassination<br />
of egyptian President Anwar<br />
Sadat in 1980, this islamist insurgency<br />
dissipated by the end of the<br />
1990s. it had cost some 2 000 lives<br />
and saw a large number of militants<br />
head to Afghanistan to battle<br />
a new global enemy — the Soviet<br />
Union.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Afghan jihad against the<br />
Soviets gave birth to a second<br />
wave, with a specific target — the<br />
“far enemy”, or the United States<br />
and, to a lesser extent, europe.<br />
it was spearheaded by a wealthy<br />
Saudi turned revolutionary, Osama<br />
Bin Laden.<br />
Hundreds of jihadists have joined IS<br />
IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi<br />
Some extremists are attracted to IS by its savage nature<br />
Bin Laden went to great lengths<br />
to rationalise al-Qaeda’s attack on<br />
the US on September 11 2001, calling<br />
it “defensive jihad”, or retaliation<br />
against perceived US domination<br />
of Muslim societies.<br />
conscious of the importance of<br />
winning hearts and minds, Bin<br />
Laden sold his message to Muslims<br />
and even Americans as selfdefence,<br />
not aggression.<br />
This kind of justification, however,<br />
carries no weight with iS<br />
leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,<br />
who cannot care less what the<br />
world thinks of his blood-letting.<br />
in fact, he and his cohorts revel<br />
in displaying barbarity and coming<br />
across as savage.<br />
in contrast to the first two<br />
waves, iS actually stresses violent<br />
action over theology and theory,<br />
and has produced no repertoire<br />
of ideas to sustain and nourish its<br />
social base. it is a killing machine<br />
powered by blood and iron.<br />
Going beyond Bin Laden’s doctrine<br />
that “when people see a strong<br />
horse and a weak horse, by nature<br />
they will like the strong horse”, al-<br />
Baghdadi’s “victory through terrorism”<br />
signals to friends and foes<br />
that iS is a winning horse. Get out<br />
of the way or you will be crushed;<br />
join our caravan and make history.<br />
increasing evidence shows that<br />
over the past few months, hundreds,<br />
if not thousands, of diehard<br />
former islamist enemies of<br />
iS, such as the al-nusra Front and<br />
the islamic Front, answered al-<br />
Baghdadi’s call.<br />
iS’s sophisticated outreach<br />
campaign appeals to disaffected<br />
and deluded young Sunnis worldwide<br />
because it is seen as a powerful<br />
vanguard that delivers victory<br />
and salvation.<br />
Far from abhorring the group’s<br />
brutality, young recruits are attracted<br />
by its shock-and-awe tactics<br />
against the enemies of islam.<br />
its exploits on the battlefield<br />
— especially capturing huge<br />
swathes of territory in Syria and<br />
iraq, and establishing a caliphate<br />
— resonate near and far. nothing<br />
succeeds like success, and iS’s recent<br />
military gains have brought<br />
it a recruitment bonanza.<br />
Muslim men living in Western<br />
countries join iS and other extremist<br />
groups because they feel<br />
part of a greater mission — to resurrect<br />
a lost idealised type of caliphate<br />
and be part of a tight-knit<br />
community with a potent identity.<br />
initially, many young men from<br />
London, Berlin and Paris and<br />
elsewhere migrate to the lands of<br />
jihad to defend persecuted co-religionists,<br />
but they end up in the<br />
clutches of iS, doing its evil deeds,<br />
such as beheading innocent civilians.<br />
<strong>The</strong> drivers behind iS’s unrestrained<br />
extremism can be traced<br />
to its origins with al-Qaeda in<br />
iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,<br />
who was killed by the Americans<br />
in 2006.<br />
not unlike its predecessor, iS<br />
is nourished on an anti-Shia diet<br />
and visceral hatred of minorities<br />
in general, portraying itself as<br />
the spearhead of Sunni Arabs in<br />
the fight against sectarian-based<br />
regimes in Baghdad and Damascus.<br />
Al-Zarqawi and al-Baghdadi<br />
view Shias as infidels, a fifth column<br />
in the heart of islam that<br />
must be wiped out — a genocidal<br />
worldview.<br />
Following in the footsteps of<br />
al-Zarqawi, al-Baghdadi ignored<br />
repeated pleas by his mentor<br />
Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of al-<br />
Qaeda, and other top militants to<br />
avoid indiscriminate killing of<br />
Shia and, instead, to attack the<br />
Shia-dominated and Alawite regimes<br />
in iraq and Syria.<br />
By exploiting the deepening<br />
Sunni-Shia rift in iraq and the<br />
sectarian civil war in Syria, al-<br />
Baghdadi has built a powerful<br />
base of support among rebellious<br />
Sunnis and has blended his group<br />
into local communities.<br />
He also restructured his military<br />
network and co-opted experienced<br />
officers of Saddam<br />
Hussein’s disbanded army who<br />
turned iS into a professional sectarian<br />
fighting force.<br />
iS has so far consistently focused<br />
on the Shia and not the “far<br />
enemy”. <strong>The</strong> struggle against the<br />
US and europe is distant, not a<br />
priority; it has to await liberation<br />
at home.<br />
At the height of israeli bombings<br />
of Gaza in August, militants<br />
on social media criticised iS for<br />
killing Muslims while doing nothing<br />
to help the Palestinians.<br />
iS retorted by saying the struggle<br />
against the Shia takes priority<br />
over everything else.<br />
now that the US and europe<br />
have joined the conflict against<br />
iS, the group will use all its assets<br />
in retaliation, including further<br />
beheading of hostages. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
is also a growing likelihood that it<br />
will attack soft diplomatic targets<br />
in the Middle east.<br />
While it might want to stage<br />
a spectacular operation on the<br />
American or european homeland,<br />
it is doubtful that iS currently<br />
has the capabilities to carry out<br />
complex attacks like 9/11.<br />
A few months ago, in response<br />
to chatter by his followers, al-<br />
Baghdadi acknowledged that his<br />
organisation was not equipped to<br />
attack the Americans at home.<br />
He said though that he wished<br />
the US would deploy boots on the<br />
ground so that iS could directly<br />
engage the Americans — and kill<br />
them.<br />
— BBC
Sport<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 25<br />
Montezemolo<br />
pays price<br />
for Ferrari<br />
breakdown<br />
Luca Di Montezemolo (right) greeted Fernando Alonso with a hug at the recent Italian GP, but the pair do not get on<br />
Despite having Fernando Alonso, the greatest<br />
driver of the era, in one of their cars, the F1<br />
team has been slipping backwards since the<br />
last time they won a world title in 2008.<br />
Luca Di Montezemolo is<br />
an iconic figure in motorsport<br />
and Italian public<br />
life, for his many great achievements,<br />
for his charisma, and for<br />
the theatre with which he conducted<br />
himself.<br />
His problem was that in recent<br />
years the play was not very good<br />
and the acting had gone stale.<br />
Di Montezemolo has done<br />
great things with the road-car<br />
side of Ferrari’s business. <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
current range is arguably the<br />
best they have ever had, and the<br />
company is poised to announce<br />
record financial figures.<br />
But Ferrari’s brand image<br />
rests to a large degree on its involvement<br />
in Formula 1, and<br />
there the company is in serious<br />
trouble.<br />
Despite having Fernando<br />
alonso, the greatest driver of<br />
the era, in one of their cars, the<br />
F1 team has been slipping backwards<br />
since the last time they<br />
won a world title in 2008.<br />
alonso has carried the team<br />
on his back, masking their<br />
shortcomings with his incredible<br />
commitment and consistency<br />
and the sheer quality of his<br />
performances.<br />
Somehow, alonso came within<br />
touching distance of two world<br />
titles in 2010 and 2012, despite<br />
the inferiority of Ferrari’s car.<br />
But this year even he cannot<br />
make their performance look acceptable.<br />
Two podium finishes is all<br />
they have to show for 13 races<br />
of unstinting effort. <strong>The</strong>ir worst<br />
year since the dark days of the<br />
early 1990s has brought things to<br />
a head.<br />
Di Montezemolo cannot escape<br />
responsibility for this decline,<br />
for all his success with Ferrari’s<br />
road cars, or the reputation he<br />
built up in organising the Italia<br />
’90 World cup, and as team principal<br />
in the 1970s rebuilding Ferrari<br />
from another low into the<br />
dominant force it became with<br />
Niki Lauda from 1975-7.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fact is, Di Montezemolo<br />
had come to be seen as part of<br />
the problem — as Fiat cEO Sergio<br />
Marchionne, who will take<br />
over as Ferrari president, hinted<br />
on Wednesday.<br />
“Our mutual desire to see Ferrari<br />
achieve its true potential on<br />
track has led to misunderstandings,”<br />
Marchionne said of Di<br />
Montezemolo in the wake of his<br />
“resignation”.<br />
When it became clear in recent<br />
days and weeks that time was<br />
running out for Di Montezemolo,<br />
a source close to the team remarked<br />
sardonically: “Finally,<br />
Ferrari has a chance to sort itself<br />
out.”<br />
This year, it has all gone wrong<br />
for Di Montezemolo.<br />
after backing the new hybrid<br />
regulations in F1 before the season<br />
started, confident in the mistaken<br />
belief they would enable<br />
Ferrari to become competitive<br />
again, he then criticised them<br />
when Ferrari’s failings became<br />
apparent.<br />
He turned up at the Bahrain<br />
Grand Prix to bemoan the new<br />
“taxi-driving” F1, only for the<br />
drivers to put on the best race in<br />
years. But it was a race in which<br />
Ferrari had only a bit part.<br />
alonso and his team-mate<br />
Kimi Raikkonen struggled to<br />
hold on in the frantic battle for<br />
the final podium position behind<br />
the two Mercedes drivers. Time<br />
and again, the Ferrari’s lack<br />
of power was exposed, as Mercedes-engined<br />
cars blasted past<br />
the red ones on the straight.<br />
In the Ferrari pit, an exasperated<br />
Di Montezemolo glowered<br />
at then team principal Stefano<br />
Domenicali before throwing up<br />
his arms and storming off before<br />
the end of the race.<br />
It is said that when he and Domenicali<br />
got back to base in Maranello,<br />
Di Montezemolo demanded<br />
the head of the boss of<br />
the engine department, Luca<br />
Marmorini. Domenicali refused,<br />
offering his own resignation instead.<br />
With that, Ferrari lost the<br />
chance to sign the architect of<br />
Mercedes’ dominant power unit,<br />
as Domenicali had been in advanced<br />
talks with the German<br />
company’s engine boss andy<br />
cowell, who then got cold feet.<br />
If cowell was put off by the<br />
blame culture at Ferrari, he is<br />
not the only one. at least two<br />
other senior engineers from other<br />
teams have decided against<br />
joining this year for that very<br />
reason. Marmorini went anyway,<br />
sacked later in the summer.<br />
Meanwhile, rumours that either<br />
former Mercedes team principal<br />
Ross Brawn, or their former<br />
technical director Bob Bell,<br />
could join the team continue to<br />
rumble, as they have done all<br />
year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> impression is of a team<br />
in chaos, just as it was in the<br />
early 1990s before Brawn, Jean<br />
Todt and Michael Schumacher<br />
arrived, presaging a period of<br />
dominance the like of which the<br />
sport had never seen before.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are signs of hope,<br />
though. Domenicali’s replacement,<br />
Marco Mattiacci, is quietly<br />
making a good impression<br />
Ferrari’s statistics under Luca Di Montezemolo<br />
Michael Schumacher (left) won five consecutive world drivers’ championships during Luca Di Montezemolo’s 23-year tenure<br />
among senior figures in F1 as a<br />
man who means business and<br />
looks like he can deliver.<br />
Mattiacci, it is said, has decided<br />
to back the team’s new technical<br />
director James allison to<br />
the hilt as the Englishman seeks<br />
to sort out the mess of the engineering<br />
department while inevitably<br />
fighting the politics doing<br />
so brings with it.<br />
and Marchionne is a hardnosed<br />
industrial manager who<br />
gets things done.<br />
But the big question is what effect<br />
Di Montezemolo’s departure<br />
will have on alonso.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two-time world champion<br />
was already considering his future<br />
with the team.<br />
He has a contract until 2016,<br />
but McLaren are desperately trying<br />
to persuade him to join them<br />
in their new era with Honda engines,<br />
and want him as soon as<br />
they can get him, either next<br />
year or, more likely, for 2016.<br />
alonso spent an hour with<br />
Di Montezemolo at Maranello<br />
on Monday, presumably picking<br />
over the bones of an Italian<br />
Grand Prix that was even worse<br />
for Ferrari than that of Bahrain.<br />
But forget any claims you hear<br />
that alonso has lost an ally in Di<br />
Montezemolo.<br />
In fact, they did not get on at<br />
Sergio Marchionne, current Fiat CEO, will replace Di Montezemolo as Ferrari president<br />
all — and that is putting it mildly.<br />
all the hugs in the garage, the<br />
urban handshakes in the paddock,<br />
were for show — just like<br />
Di Montezemolo’s trips to the<br />
Monza pit wall to wave at the<br />
fans, when in fact the grandstand<br />
was half-empty and responded<br />
hardly at all.<br />
That scene, played out on Saturday<br />
morning, seemed to be a<br />
perfect metaphor for Di Montezemolo’s<br />
fall.<br />
He gave a defiant news conference,<br />
even if what he said was<br />
not exactly the denial it was presented<br />
to be. But the writing was<br />
on the wall. and four days later,<br />
he is gone.<br />
an era is over, an era in which<br />
Ferrari dragged itself out of the<br />
doldrums only to slip inexorably<br />
back into them again.<br />
For that, Di Montezemolo has<br />
been held accountable. charismatic<br />
and engaging figure<br />
though he was, his time was up.<br />
and he has left his successors<br />
with an awful lot to do.<br />
— BBCSport
26 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Sport<br />
Pooley — <strong>The</strong> accidental world champion<br />
<strong>The</strong> 31-year-old broke the course record in<br />
Switzerland, tackling the gruelling course<br />
which consisted of a 10km run, 150km bike<br />
ride and a further 30km run in a time of 6:47:27<br />
“If you love something enough,<br />
you can put up with a bit of suffering,”<br />
is Emma Pooley’s sporting<br />
philosophy.<br />
Which goes a long way to explain<br />
why, after retiring from professional<br />
road cycling only last<br />
month, she has already become a<br />
world champion in her new sport<br />
— long distance duathlon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 31-year-old broke the course<br />
record in Switzerland, tackling<br />
the gruelling course which consisted<br />
of a 10km run, 150km bike<br />
ride and a further 30km run in a<br />
time of 6:47:27 — more than half<br />
an hour ahead of the second place<br />
finisher.<br />
She told BBC Sport: “I have<br />
been wanting to take part in the<br />
Powerman World Championships<br />
in Zofingen for many years.<br />
“I love running as well as cycling<br />
and the course was very<br />
hilly which definitely suited me.<br />
“But as a professional cyclist,<br />
I could never do it, because it’s<br />
only a couple of weeks before the<br />
UCI World Championships and<br />
that’s simply too short a time to<br />
recover.<br />
“So, when I retired from cycling<br />
in August, I did have Zofingen<br />
at the back of my mind as a<br />
target.<br />
“I thought it would be a good<br />
test of my new challenge of trying<br />
to race professional triathlon!<br />
But I only had about a month<br />
to do some hard run training after<br />
the Commonwealth Games, so<br />
I was concerned that I wouldn’t<br />
survive the running.<br />
“But I think that sometimes if<br />
you love something enough, you<br />
can put up with a bit of suffering!<br />
I really love running — and actually<br />
I think I run better off the<br />
bike than fresh, relative to other<br />
people.<br />
“By the last descent into the<br />
finish my legs were killing me,<br />
downhills really damage the<br />
muscles. But I knew I had a good<br />
gap on the next competitor and so<br />
there was not too much pressure,<br />
which was definitely a relief !”<br />
Pooley’s aim when she started<br />
at Cambridge University almost<br />
a decade ago was not to become a<br />
professional sportswoman.<br />
<strong>The</strong> engineering student only<br />
started cycling at the age of 22 as<br />
a bit of fun because an injury at<br />
the time prevented her from long<br />
distance running.<br />
A surprise fourth place at the<br />
National Championships set<br />
Pooley off onto what ultimately<br />
became a successful career on<br />
her bike for nine years. She won<br />
a time trial world title, national<br />
titles, an Olympic medal, and<br />
numerous professional races be-<br />
Emma Pooley won the world duathlon title on her first attempt<br />
fore bowing out at the Commonwealth<br />
Games with two silver<br />
medals to her name.<br />
Although now concentrating<br />
on duathlon and triathlon, Pooley<br />
will remain on cycling’s world<br />
governing body, the UCI’s women’s<br />
commission where she works<br />
to bridge the inequality gap between<br />
men’s and women’s cycling.<br />
Pooley, alongside world and<br />
Olympic champion Marianne Vos,<br />
Ironman champion Chrissie Wellington<br />
and Kathryn Bertine, was<br />
instrumental in lobbying for a<br />
women’s Tour de france which led<br />
to La Course being staged around<br />
the streets of Paris in July.<br />
“It’s a positive time for the<br />
sport. I’m really happy to see it<br />
improving. La Course is the start<br />
of something great, and I hope it<br />
will grow next year; I’d love to see<br />
a longer women’s stage race in<br />
france,” Pooley said.<br />
And she is a big advocate of cycling<br />
for fun and is an ambassador<br />
for Breeze, which is a British<br />
Cycling initiative to get more<br />
women on bikes.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Breeze rides are a great<br />
way for women to try out cycling<br />
in a no-pressure, friendly environment,”<br />
she said.<br />
“Cycling can be a daunting<br />
sport, especially when you’re new<br />
to it — I can remember when I<br />
started I didn’t know what kit to<br />
wear, how to stay warm enough,<br />
or that there are saddles out there<br />
that can make cycling so much<br />
less painful!<br />
“Whether you want to cycle to<br />
commute, for fun, for fitness, or to<br />
get into racing — these rides are<br />
a great way to get started and develop<br />
a regular cycling routine.<br />
It’s often easier to go out cycling<br />
when you’re meeting others and<br />
know you’ll have good company<br />
for your ride!” — BBCSport<br />
highest paid<br />
African football<br />
players of 2014<br />
Samuel Eto’o (US$90 million) Didier Drogba (US$70 million) Yaya Touré (US$65 million)<br />
Emmanuel Adebayor (US$27 million) Michael Essien (US$25 million) Kolo Touré (US$18 million)<br />
1. Samuel Eto’o (US$90 million)<br />
ThE wealthiest player on the continent,<br />
and the recipient of four<br />
African Player of the Year trophies,<br />
this Cameroonian striker<br />
is sheer wonderment.<br />
When he played with Anzhi<br />
Makhachkala from 2011 to 2013,<br />
he was the richest African kicker<br />
as well, earning about US$25 million<br />
a year. he’s played for Real<br />
Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan,<br />
Chelsea, and as of August 2014<br />
signed with Premier League side<br />
Everton.<br />
he started his own charity, fundacion<br />
Privada Samuel Eto’o, in<br />
Cameroon, providing citizens<br />
with basic health care.<br />
2. Didier Drogba (US$70 million)<br />
ANOThER prominent member<br />
of Côte d’Ivoire’s “Golden Generatio”,<br />
this striker did not earn a<br />
big move until he was transferred<br />
at the age of 26 to Chelsea, where<br />
he was paid US$170 000 a week.<br />
he is the club’s fourth-highest<br />
goal scorer ever, and was number<br />
one scorer for foreign players on<br />
the team.<br />
he once played for Turkey’s Galatasaray<br />
for about US$5,2 million<br />
annually, combining those earnings<br />
with some lucrative sponsorship<br />
deals. But as of now, he is<br />
back at Chelsea.<br />
3. Yaya Touré (US$65 million)<br />
ANOThER Ivorian sensation (it<br />
runs in the family), this midfielder<br />
for Manchester City has embossed<br />
his name in football history.<br />
formerly a Barcelona star, he<br />
signed a five-year deal with Manchester<br />
City to the tune of around<br />
US$40 million. his combined<br />
earnings for his all-star international<br />
performances amount to<br />
roughly $15 million annually.<br />
4. Emmanuel Adebayor (US$27<br />
million)<br />
hE’S Togo’s top scorer of all time,<br />
and the striker earned a reported<br />
US$268 000 a week with Manchester<br />
City. he has signed a loan deal<br />
to play with Real Madrid, and now<br />
kicks for Tottenham hotspur. he’s<br />
known for quarreling with managers<br />
and also donating lots of<br />
money to charities.<br />
5. Michael Essien (US$25 million)<br />
hE used to be Africa’s wealthiest<br />
soccer player with his 2005 transfer<br />
from Lyon to Chelsea, a signing<br />
that gained the Ghanaian midfielder<br />
around US$40,5 million.<br />
After eight years with the British<br />
club, Essien signed onto AC Milan<br />
in January of 2014 for a one-and-ahalf<br />
year contract.<br />
6. Kolo Touré ($18 million)<br />
ThE Ivorian juggernaut central<br />
defender has played for some of<br />
England’s biggest clubs: Arsenal,<br />
Manchester City, and now Liverpool,<br />
where’s he’s on contract until<br />
2015. Kolo has a money-raking<br />
sponsorship deal with Adidas.<br />
he’s the wealthy sibling of the<br />
even wealthier footballer, Yaya<br />
Touré, and the late player Ibrahim<br />
Touré, who died in June at<br />
age 28 following a battle with cancer.<br />
7. John Obi Mikel (US$15 million)<br />
hIS career started with the Norwegian<br />
club Lyn Oslo, but this Nigerian<br />
midfielder became famous<br />
for his playing with Chelsea, despite<br />
the infamously extended contract<br />
embroilment between the<br />
two clubs and Manchester United<br />
which took place in 2005. Mikel<br />
ended up with Chelsea, and will<br />
play with them on a contract until<br />
2017.<br />
8. Frédéric Kanouté (US$12 million)<br />
hE’S from Mali, and has played<br />
with Lyon in france, West ham<br />
in England, and Sevilla in Spain.<br />
A devout Muslim, he purportedly<br />
spent US$700 000 buying a mosque<br />
which was about to be sold in<br />
Spain. he is currently playing for<br />
Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super<br />
League.<br />
9. Seydou Keita (US$10 million)<br />
ThE Malian sensation returned to<br />
Valencia at the beginning of 2014,<br />
after a year with the Chinese Super<br />
League, where he made US$16<br />
million before tax with their Dalian<br />
Aerbin football club. In June, he<br />
signed a one-year contract with Serie<br />
A club AS Roma.<br />
10. Christopher Samba (US$8<br />
million)<br />
ThE great Congolese defender made<br />
US$160 000 a week with the contract<br />
he signed for Anzhi Makhachkala,<br />
and he he earned the same amount<br />
between shifts with Anzhi playing<br />
for Queens Park Rangers. he now<br />
plays for Dynamo Moscow.<br />
— afkinsider.com
Sport<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 27<br />
Arsenal, Manchester City share the spoils<br />
Arsenal were denied<br />
victory by Martin<br />
Demichelis’s late equaliser<br />
as they fought out<br />
an entertaining draw<br />
with Manchester City at Emirates<br />
Stadium.<br />
England striker Danny Welbeck<br />
made his Arsenal debut after his<br />
£16m move from Manchester United<br />
— and should have celebrated<br />
with a goal only to strike a post<br />
when clean through early on.<br />
Sergio Aguero made Arsenal<br />
pay for that miss by putting City<br />
ahead before half-time but goals<br />
from Jack Wilshire and Alexis<br />
Sanchez saw the Gunners in sight<br />
of a memorable victory.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir hopes were dashed when<br />
poor marking at a corner allowed<br />
Argentine defender Martin<br />
Demicelis to beat Arsenal keeper<br />
Wojciech Szczesny to earn a point<br />
seven minutes from time.<br />
In a frantic finish, Aleksandar<br />
Kolarov hit the post for Manchester<br />
City and Arsenal defender Laurent<br />
Koscielny cleared against his<br />
own post as the Premier League<br />
champions threatened to snatch<br />
the three points, which would<br />
have been very cruel on Arsene<br />
Wenger’s side.<br />
Wenger will be frustrated at Arsenal’s<br />
failure to close out the win<br />
but he will have been delighted by<br />
the spirit and quality shown by his<br />
side.<br />
Jack Wilshere was a driving force<br />
in midfield while Welbeck, despite<br />
missing his best opportunity, was<br />
energetic and mobile enough in attack<br />
to suggest he will offer Arsenal<br />
a focal point and something different<br />
as the season progresses.<br />
Meanwhile, Diego Costa scored<br />
his first Chelsea hat-trick as they<br />
came from behind to beat Swansea<br />
and maintain their 100% start to<br />
the Premier League season.<br />
Swansea took the lead as John<br />
Terry turned a low cross into his<br />
own net but Costa equalised just<br />
before half-time.<br />
Chelsea’s dominance was rewarded<br />
when Costa converted a<br />
Cesc Fabregas pass.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spain striker guided a low<br />
Ramires shot past Lukasz Fabianski<br />
and Loic Remy scored his first<br />
Blues goal before Jonjo Shelvey’s<br />
late consolation.<br />
As Chelsea opened up a threepoint<br />
gap at the top of the table,<br />
summer signings Costa and Fabregas<br />
offered further evidence of<br />
the extra edge they have added to<br />
a team that finished third last season.<br />
Costa, who passed a late fitness<br />
test on a hamstring injury suffered<br />
on international duty with Spain,<br />
departed to a standing ovation after<br />
scoring his seventh goal in four<br />
games for the Blues.<br />
Fabregas now has six assists, a<br />
tally only Eden Hazard exceeded in<br />
the whole of Chelsea’s 2013-14 campaign.<br />
Swansea had started the match<br />
as the only other team in the league<br />
with an unblemished record and<br />
for much of the first half they were<br />
the better side.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y carved out an early opening<br />
as Wayne Routledge found<br />
space in the area but could not control<br />
his volley.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Welsh team took a surprise<br />
lead via a slick passing move. Ki<br />
Sung-Yeung opened up the Chelsea<br />
defence with a slide-rule pass and<br />
left-back Neil Taylor’s low cross<br />
was diverted by Terry into his own<br />
net.<br />
Yesterday’s results<br />
Arsenal 2-2 Man City<br />
Chelsea 4-2 Swansea<br />
Crystal Palace 0-0 Burnley<br />
Southampton 4-0 Newcastle<br />
Stoke 0-1 Leicester<br />
Sunderland<br />
West Brom<br />
2-2 Tottenham<br />
0-2 Everton<br />
—BBCSport<br />
LVG accepts<br />
challenge to finish<br />
in top three<br />
LoUIS van Gaal believes a top three Premier<br />
League finish is a realistic aim for Manchester<br />
United.<br />
Battling a lengthy injury list now containing<br />
Phil Jones, who is a doubt for England’s Euro<br />
2016 qualifiers next month, United have struggled<br />
so far.<br />
Yet Van Gaal has no problem with the expectations<br />
laid out to investors by executive vicechairman<br />
Ed Woodward this week.<br />
“I don’t think it is an unreasonable target,”<br />
said the Dutchman.<br />
“A club like Manchester United has to put<br />
targets. I also put targets.<br />
“But the top three, it is logical because Manchester<br />
United wants to be in the Champions<br />
League.”<br />
With just two points and two goals from their<br />
opening three Premier League games, in addition<br />
to a shock Capital one Cup exit at League<br />
one MK Dons, United will be seeking a first<br />
win of the season in today’s old Trafford encounter<br />
with Queens Park Rangers.<br />
Summer arrivals Radamel Falcao, Marcos<br />
Rojo, Daley Blind and Luke Shaw could all<br />
make their debuts, with British record £59.7m<br />
signing Angel di Maria set for his home bow.<br />
However, there are nine players unavailable<br />
for this afternoon’s game, including Jones who<br />
picked up a hamstring injury on England duty<br />
in Switzerland last week.<br />
And the 22-year-old is now a doubt for the<br />
matches against San Marino at Wembley on<br />
october 9 and in Estonia three days later.<br />
“Jones is maybe three weeks to a month,”<br />
said Van Gaal.<br />
<strong>The</strong> United boss knows that with over £150m<br />
spent this summer and the table to climb, results<br />
have to improve, no matter what the injury<br />
situation.<br />
“We have done very well in the transfer period,”<br />
he said.<br />
“In spite of us not playing in the Champions<br />
League, players are coming to Manchester<br />
United.<br />
“That is a big plus. But we also have to produce<br />
the results — and we have to start today<br />
against Queens Park Rangers.” —BBCSport<br />
Louis van Gaal
28 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Sport<br />
Cry our beloved Kepekepe<br />
<strong>The</strong> late great Shacky Tauro,<br />
Joel Shambo, and Stanley<br />
“Sinyo” Ndunduma<br />
must be turning in their graves<br />
over how the great CAPS United<br />
Football Club — a team that they<br />
built — has fallen from grace to<br />
grass.<br />
What is on parade today is no<br />
longer the great CAPS United<br />
team that was virtually invincible<br />
in knockout tournaments to<br />
the extent of being dubbed the<br />
“Cup Kings”.<br />
It is no longer the same side<br />
that in 1996, with the inspirational<br />
Alois Bunjira and Stewart<br />
Murisa, swept all that stood before<br />
them in the Premiership. It<br />
is no longer the same team that<br />
in 2004 and 2005 under the guidance<br />
of Charles Mhlauri and parading<br />
the likes of energy Murambadoro,<br />
Joseph Kamwendo<br />
and Cephas Chimedza, was simply<br />
unstoppable.<br />
<strong>The</strong> creative and attractive<br />
short passing game is gone and<br />
gone too are the individual skills<br />
from the likes of Stanford “Stix”<br />
Mtizwa, Joel “Jubilee” Shambo,<br />
Stanely “Sinyo” Ndunduma,<br />
Chimedza, and Bunjira that<br />
brought pride to the Makepekepe<br />
family.<br />
In their place now is a CAPS<br />
United that is so inept, so lacking<br />
in creative and firepower to<br />
an extent that it has written its<br />
own piece of history following a<br />
6-0 humiliation in the Zimbabwe<br />
National Army Charity Cup final<br />
at the hands of an FC Platinum<br />
side which is itself struggling in<br />
the Premiership.<br />
Also gone is the sound management<br />
style that was the envy of<br />
the whole Premiership as Julius<br />
Chifokoyo, and later Shepherd<br />
Bwanya, and others before them<br />
that guided the ship through plain<br />
waters with no strikes or fights<br />
over non-payment of bonuses.<br />
In their place today is a breed<br />
of leaders who cannot even raise<br />
funds to enable a team to travel<br />
to Bulawayo to fulfill a league<br />
match against Bantu Rovers.<br />
In Bwanya and Chifokoyo’s<br />
place is a new type of leadership<br />
that can have players wait in the<br />
city centre until the middle of<br />
the night on Christmas eve, only<br />
to make them leave without attending<br />
to their end of year payment<br />
grievances.<br />
In fact, the sight of their coach<br />
a few days before the Bantu Rovers<br />
debacle tells the story of the<br />
real state of affairs at the Green<br />
insidesport<br />
with MICHAEL KARIATI<br />
Machine.<br />
I met Taurayi Mangwiro walking<br />
down Chinhoyi Street with<br />
his huge training bag, which<br />
appeared too heavy for him,<br />
strapped on his back.<br />
I expect Mangwiro, coach of<br />
the third biggest football team<br />
in the country in terms of crowd<br />
attendances, to be driving the<br />
smallest of cars, a Toyota Fun<br />
Cargo or even a Nissan March<br />
— or being chauffeur driven to<br />
his Mufakose home if he cannot<br />
drive.<br />
Yet, for his troubles, Mangwiro<br />
has to go home in a crowded<br />
commuter omnibus, riding along<br />
with the same people who threaten<br />
his life at stadiums. Sometimes,<br />
it is said, he has to dig<br />
deep into his own pocket for that<br />
transport fare back home as the<br />
club cannot afford to provide him<br />
dignified transport.<br />
That is now the life at the<br />
Green Machine.<br />
But to say that CAPS United<br />
do not generate enough money<br />
to sustain themselves would be<br />
making a mockery of Zimbabwean<br />
football. <strong>The</strong>ir problems are<br />
of their own making. <strong>The</strong>y are a<br />
good example of a football club<br />
being run badly.<br />
While we might try to turn a<br />
blind eye to the chaos reigning<br />
at the former Cup Kings, the major<br />
problem at the club lies in its<br />
management structure in which<br />
the club president Twine Phiri<br />
runs virtually everything.<br />
While he might have done well as<br />
chairman of the Premier Soccer<br />
League, Phiri has let CAPS United<br />
fans down.<br />
Although from the outside,<br />
CAPS United appear to have a<br />
chief executive officer and an executive<br />
that runs the day-to-day<br />
affairs of the club, the truth is<br />
that he is there to carry out duties<br />
as instructed by the club<br />
president.<br />
Yes, Dynamos might be suffering<br />
because their huge financial<br />
pot has too many dirty hands digging<br />
into it, but what of CAPS<br />
United who are owned by one individual?<br />
Any football follower will tell<br />
you that a team with such prodigious<br />
talent as Tafadzwa Dube,<br />
hardlife Zvirekwi, Ronald Pfumbidzai,<br />
Kennedy Bulaji, and Dominic<br />
Chungwa, should be somewhere<br />
better than where it is today.<br />
But due to mismanagement,<br />
misconceptions, and a self-inflicted<br />
financial crisis, CAPS<br />
United are in depths of despair.<br />
If I was the Premier Soccer<br />
League boss myself, I would employ<br />
people with the know-how to<br />
run a football team and then enjoy<br />
my financial pickings from<br />
the club.<br />
But tell that to most Zimbabwean<br />
football club owners, and all<br />
you do is create enemies.<br />
Are we a one day wonder?<br />
On August 31, harare Sports<br />
Club resembled a venue for a musical<br />
show as Asians, Blacks, coloureds,<br />
and whites were all united<br />
as they beat their drums, sang<br />
and danced with joy, celebrating<br />
Zimbabwe’s historic three-wicket<br />
win over the world’s top ranked<br />
ODI team, Australia.<br />
Although Zimbabweans are<br />
entitled to reflect on that victory<br />
with pride, there are fears<br />
that the famous win will come<br />
to pass as just a one day wonder,<br />
should there be no other such<br />
achievements in the immediate<br />
future.<br />
While Zimbabwe has not<br />
played regularly against the top<br />
ranked teams, they need more of<br />
those victories each time we face<br />
big teams for us to believe that<br />
we can challenge the best in the<br />
world.<br />
Right now, we are living in<br />
dreamland, believing we are good<br />
enough when we have failed to<br />
convincingly beat small teams on<br />
a regular basis.<br />
Defeat at the hands of associate<br />
teams like Afghanistan who<br />
came to Zimbabwe in July for<br />
a Series that ended 2-2 and the<br />
heartbreaking loss to Ireland<br />
during the ICC World Twenty 20<br />
in Bangladesh, quickly come to<br />
mind.<br />
One thing that is clear is that<br />
the bridge between Zimbabwe<br />
and the other Test playing nations<br />
is widening while the gap<br />
between the Chevrons and the<br />
Associate teams is narrowing.<br />
Zimbabwe is no longer in the<br />
During happier times . . . CAPS United followers cheer their team<br />
same league with the likes of India,<br />
Australia, South Africa and<br />
others, but is slipping down and<br />
could soon join the likes of Afghanistan<br />
and Ireland.<br />
Zimbabwe Cricket’s financial<br />
situation which saw them failing<br />
to pay the team has not done<br />
the sport any good as players<br />
like Craig ervine, Kyle Jarvis,<br />
Charles Coventry, and Graeme<br />
Creemer have taken their talents<br />
elsewhere.<br />
Despite those challenges, Zimbabwe<br />
have always found the<br />
resolve to punch above their<br />
weight, as shown by the win over<br />
Australia. <strong>The</strong> Test win over Pakistan<br />
in 2013 raised hopes for<br />
the Zimbabwe fans who last saw<br />
the Chevrons beating a top side<br />
in 2011 when they stunned New<br />
Zealand in an ODI.<br />
With the Series against Australia<br />
and South Africa now<br />
done and gone, Zimbabwe will<br />
now have to show the progress<br />
they made in their tour of<br />
Bangladesh. This will be Zimbabwe’s<br />
last competitive Series<br />
before the World Cup, to be cohosted<br />
by Australia and New<br />
Zealand.<br />
As we brace for the World Cup<br />
in which Zimbabwe is also in the<br />
same group with India, South Africa,<br />
the West Indies, Pakistan,<br />
Ireland, and the UAe, one question<br />
that needs to be answered is<br />
whether we should continue to<br />
rely on the same inconsistent old<br />
guard that has failed to bring in<br />
the required results.<br />
It is high time experienced<br />
players like elton Chigumbura<br />
start to take a leaf from other<br />
international players and perform<br />
consistently for the national<br />
side. having scored a match<br />
winning 52 runs against Australia,<br />
it was disappointing to<br />
see Chigumbura go out cheaply<br />
for 13 in the next game against<br />
South Africa. <strong>The</strong> same should<br />
be said of Brendan Taylor, Prosper<br />
Utseya, Vusi Sibanda and<br />
hamiltom Masakadza who at<br />
one time was the youngest player<br />
to score a Test century on his<br />
debut.<br />
Surely, given the international<br />
exposure they have gained over<br />
the years, it is high time these<br />
senior players start winning<br />
matches for Zimbabwe.<br />
Should they continue to underperform,<br />
the question that we<br />
should start asking ourselves is:<br />
are they good enough to sustain<br />
realistic challenge or is it time to<br />
give others a chance?<br />
Between now and the World<br />
Cup is the time for coach Steve<br />
Mangongo to make sacrifices. he<br />
has to pick the best team for the<br />
World Cup — not based on association<br />
or reputation, but on the<br />
capability to deliver.<br />
• For views and comments,<br />
email: mkariati@gmail.com,<br />
or WhatsApp on 077 3 266 779.<br />
Zifa struggle to<br />
attract friendlies<br />
for next month<br />
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA<br />
AFTeR missing the recent weeklong<br />
international football period,<br />
Zifa are still battling to find opponents<br />
for the national Under-23<br />
team in next month’s international<br />
days.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Warriors have however been<br />
invited for a friendly match by Morocco<br />
slated for November 16.<br />
From October 9 to 15, 2015 Africa<br />
Cup of Nations (Afcon) and Uefa<br />
euro 2016 qualifiers would be underway,<br />
presenting a warm-up opportunity<br />
for the Young Warriors.<br />
But Zimbabwe is still to find opponents<br />
for this period after Zifa<br />
stressed that they should never<br />
miss an international match.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Under-23s are currently the<br />
country’s flagship following the<br />
dissolution of their seniors after<br />
a first round exit from the Afcon<br />
qualifiers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2016 Olympic Games to be<br />
staged in Brazil have now become<br />
Zifa’s top priority.<br />
But with less than 30 days to go<br />
before the next international days,<br />
there is still no Under-23 team in<br />
place and Olympic qualifiers are<br />
set to begin early next year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> current developments have<br />
given the strongest indication that<br />
the Under-23 project is headed for<br />
another embarrassing campaign.<br />
Zifa spokesperson Xolisani Gwesela<br />
could not spell out next<br />
month’s plans for the Under-23.<br />
Instead, Gwesela laid blame on<br />
Libya’s withdrawal from a friendly<br />
match that had been scheduled<br />
to take place last Wednesday in Morocco.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re was no time to arrange<br />
another friendly match after Libya<br />
pulled out at the last minute. We<br />
Zifa CEO Jonathan Mashingaidze<br />
had no other option,” said Gwesela.<br />
This is despite that no preparations<br />
for that friendly had been<br />
done even before the North Africans<br />
announced their withdrawal.<br />
To assert that Under-23 business<br />
is at a standstill, supposed coach<br />
Kalisto Pasuwa said a week before<br />
the Libya friendly date that he<br />
could not assemble a team because<br />
he was yet to be formally appointed<br />
by Zifa.<br />
Apart from Zifa’s financial problems<br />
to fulfill assignments, the<br />
Warriors’ low standing has a bearing<br />
on them attracting opponents<br />
for the Under-23 team.<br />
Another challenge at Zifa is their<br />
struggle to raise money to fly in<br />
overseas-based players.
Sport<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014 29<br />
Boxing control<br />
board statutes<br />
archaic<br />
NatioNal Boxing Control Board shall not<br />
“register any person as a boxer or a wrestler<br />
who is not of the male sex.”<br />
World Boxing Council International and All Africa welterweight champion Charles Manyuchi (centre).<br />
By Michael Kariati<br />
<strong>The</strong> Zimbabwe National<br />
Boxing and Wrestling Control<br />
Board is living in the<br />
past with an archaic act that does<br />
not recognise females as professional<br />
boxers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> law was enacted in 1956<br />
and has not been amended<br />
since then. Chapter 8 section<br />
(11) of the Zimbabwe National<br />
Boxing and Wrestling Act says<br />
that the Zimbabwe National<br />
Boxing Control Board shall not<br />
“register any person as a boxer<br />
or a wrestler who is not of the<br />
male sex.”<br />
<strong>Standard</strong>sport has a copy of<br />
the act which does not in any way<br />
refer to females in any of its contents<br />
as outlined by the power of<br />
registration.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> board is empowered to issue<br />
certificates of registration<br />
authorising any person who has<br />
been registered as a boxer or<br />
wrestler to take part in tournaments<br />
in the capacity in which<br />
he has been so registered,” reads<br />
the act.<br />
<strong>The</strong> vice-president of the Zimbabwe<br />
National Boxing and<br />
Wrestling Control Board Lorraine<br />
Muringi says they have<br />
taken note of the anomaly and<br />
have highlighted the issue with<br />
the ministry of sport that it can<br />
be tabled with the relevant parliamentary<br />
committee for a<br />
change of wording to include female<br />
boxers.<br />
“We have sought advice from<br />
the ministry of sport on how best<br />
we can handle the matter. <strong>The</strong> issue<br />
will be forwarded to parliament,”<br />
said Muringi.<br />
A legal practitioner said although<br />
the gender discrimination<br />
aspect of the act has fallen<br />
away due to the changes in the<br />
constitution, amendment to the<br />
act needed to be effected by parliament.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are certain things that<br />
from the outset look very simple<br />
and easy. But changing the wording<br />
of the act to include female<br />
boxers would need a parliamentary<br />
sitting,” said the legal practitioner.<br />
efforts to get clarification from<br />
the chairman of the Parliamentary<br />
Portfolio Committee on education,<br />
Art, Sport, and Culture,<br />
<strong>The</strong>mba Mliswa, were unsuccessful<br />
as his mobile phone was constantly<br />
not reachable.<br />
Muringi said she was shocked<br />
that the situation had been allowed<br />
to continue like that 34<br />
years after Zimbabwe was admitted<br />
to international sport. She<br />
said despite the act, they had con-<br />
Current boxing board boss Paul Nenjerama<br />
tinued to register female boxers<br />
as they inherited the registration<br />
process from the Richard hondo<br />
led board that had been in office<br />
from 1980 to 2012.<br />
Although there have been limited<br />
female boxing tournaments<br />
in the country, fighters such as<br />
Monalisa Sibanda and Patience<br />
Masitara have become regular<br />
fighters outside the country after<br />
getting clearance from the boxing<br />
controlling board.<br />
In fact, Sibanda went to the extent<br />
of challenging for the world<br />
title but fell short after she was<br />
knocked out in the sixth round<br />
by Zambia’s esther Phiri after<br />
she challenged the latter for her<br />
World International Boxing Association<br />
and World Boxing Organisation<br />
light welterweight titles in<br />
2012.<br />
Although female boxers have<br />
not been very successful on the<br />
international scene, Zimbabwean<br />
boxing in general has had its<br />
fair share of success. Zimbabwe<br />
has a World Boxing Council International<br />
and All Africa welterweight<br />
champion in the form of<br />
Charles Manyuchi.<br />
Gweru-based Langton “Schoolboy”<br />
Tinago won three Commonwealth<br />
titles at three different<br />
weight divisions in the 80s and<br />
was followed by Arifonso Zvenyika<br />
who also won the Commonwealth<br />
flyweight title in 1998.<br />
Prior to that, Zimbabwe had<br />
two All Africa champions in the<br />
form of the late Proud “Kilimanjaro”<br />
Chinembiri in the heavyweight<br />
category and Stix McLoud<br />
in the bantamweight division.<br />
Pamushana High School launches soccer academy<br />
By NyaMBira chivasa<br />
PAMuShANA high School has<br />
scored yet another first by launching<br />
the first ever soccer academy<br />
in Masvingo province.<br />
<strong>The</strong> school is known for its academic<br />
excellence as well as for excelling<br />
in sporting activities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> establishment of the soccer<br />
academy came as a result of continued<br />
calls by former students — some<br />
of whom have become renowned<br />
footballers — who believed coming<br />
up with an academy was the only<br />
way to tap and nurture raw talent<br />
that is in abundance in the province.<br />
“Coming up with a football academy<br />
at the school is the way to go.<br />
Funds realised from the academy<br />
will be used to develop soccer at the<br />
school, in the province and the entire<br />
country,” said Gabriel Nyoni,<br />
highlanders Football Club striker,<br />
a former Pamushana high School<br />
student.<br />
Recently, Masvingo province<br />
Youth Games select football team<br />
won gold, beating Bulawayo province<br />
at the 12th edition of the national<br />
event held at Mucheke.<br />
Team Masvingo was under the<br />
It all started at Pamushana High School . . . Highlanders striker Gabriel Nyoni<br />
guidance of Bernard Matenga of<br />
Pamushana high School while former<br />
Warriors gunslinger Agent<br />
sawu guided the Bulawayo province<br />
to the finals as well.<br />
In a statement, the school lamented<br />
that although they had moulded<br />
a number of players into premiership<br />
material and helped them secure<br />
football careers, the school had<br />
benefitted nothing in spite of investing<br />
so much in developing talent.<br />
“A number of families have benefitted<br />
extremely as soon as their<br />
Dream coming true . . . Johnson Madhuku<br />
children moved to greener pastures<br />
as they got development fees whenever<br />
a player joined any club while<br />
the school gets nothing from those<br />
deals.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> school continues to pump<br />
out a lot in this regard to other upcoming<br />
star players,” reads part of<br />
the release.<br />
however, the school has moved a<br />
step further in fulfilling Pamushana<br />
high School headmaster Johnson<br />
Madhuku’s dream of building<br />
a modern multi-purpose sporting<br />
arena at the school. A begging bowl<br />
is already in circulation to raise<br />
funds for the project.<br />
“It is our vision that any benefits,<br />
should they come our way, should<br />
assist the school in the development<br />
of talent for other youths. We<br />
also intend to build a stadium that<br />
meets modern and acceptable football<br />
standards. For all this to be<br />
possible, we need money,” the statement<br />
says.<br />
<strong>The</strong> school envisages a situation<br />
whereby they would join Division<br />
One as a school and get promoted<br />
into the Premier League.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Reformed Church in Zimbabwe<br />
establishment also envisaged<br />
being twined with other schools,<br />
soccer academies and clubs abroad<br />
to further develop talent.<br />
<strong>The</strong> academy is registered with<br />
Zifa. Its establishment came after<br />
realising that the school had<br />
churned out quite a number of soccer<br />
giants into the Zimbabwe Premier<br />
League, the likes of Artwell<br />
Mukandi, hasmania Ziso, Takudzwa<br />
Mahori, Simba Sithole and Gabriel<br />
Nyoni, to name just a few.
30 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Sport<br />
Zenzo Moyo<br />
adds voice<br />
on strikers<br />
“I think my social team where I link up with<br />
Masawi and Siza Khoza is now attracting much<br />
more interest than what Highlanders are<br />
doing,”<br />
By Brian nkiwane<br />
By mid-season in the year<br />
2000, Highlanders gunslinger<br />
Zenzo Moyo had already<br />
scored 22 goals before moving<br />
abroad to join his new club Olympiakos<br />
Nicosia in Cyprus.<br />
<strong>The</strong> goals that the then pencil-slim<br />
striker scored helped the<br />
Bulawayo giants win the league<br />
title with a two point cushion<br />
ahead of the now defunct town rival<br />
Amazulu.<br />
Bosso had a big goal difference,<br />
with all the credit going to Moyo,<br />
who went on to be crowned Top<br />
Goal Scorer of the season after<br />
playing only half-way through the<br />
season.<br />
All the strikers that remained<br />
playing in the league failed to beat<br />
his 22 goal mark. It remains anybody’s<br />
guess how many goals he<br />
would have scored had he played<br />
the entire season.<br />
Bosso managed to score 73 goals<br />
that season which had 20 clubs,<br />
later reduced to 16 the following<br />
season after six clubs, Black Aces,<br />
D T Africa, Tongogara, Air Zim<br />
Jets, Arcadia United and Hackney,<br />
were relegated from the top<br />
flight league.<br />
However, Moyo does not buy the<br />
idea that strikers used to score<br />
more goals because there were<br />
more teams in the league than<br />
now. He has other views on how<br />
local strikers have failed to emulate<br />
yesteryear stars.<br />
“I think football is dynamic just<br />
like everything else. Just look at<br />
every league, you will see that<br />
coaches have become so defensive<br />
that it has become really hard for<br />
strikers to score goals. Even when<br />
the coach knows very well that<br />
his next opponent is a better side,<br />
you will hear him say; ‘we better<br />
lose 1-0’. This has killed the job of<br />
strikers which is scoring goals,”<br />
said Moyo.<br />
“One thing that I have discovered<br />
with strikers of today is<br />
that they concentrate more on<br />
entertaining the gallery than<br />
scoring goals. Ask any player<br />
in the league, they will tell you<br />
I was not skillful at all. My job<br />
was to score goals. An outright<br />
striker does not have to be skillful.<br />
I would not have time to dribble<br />
as these boys do or exchange<br />
passes in a range where I smell a<br />
goal. We were not afraid of taking<br />
chances at goal, pick a spot<br />
and score. <strong>The</strong>re was no time to<br />
waste.”<br />
He added, “<strong>The</strong> other motivating<br />
factor during our time was<br />
that most of us were bread winners.<br />
So we knew very well that<br />
each time we won, we would have<br />
better allowances and then we<br />
were able to make our families<br />
smile at the end of the day. It was<br />
because we were not employed.<br />
That was our fulltime job so we<br />
had to work hard to get reasonable<br />
wages.”<br />
Moyo also added his voice on<br />
Highlanders legend Zenzo Moyo<br />
Defenders, goalkeepers have became so good .. . Rodrick Mutuma<br />
the bad patch that has been going<br />
on at Highlanders.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> problem is that most of<br />
former Highlanders players want<br />
to be coaches and no one wants<br />
to take up football administration.<br />
We can win the war in the<br />
field but the club also needs former<br />
players as administrators. I<br />
think my social team where I link<br />
up with Thabani Masawi and Siza<br />
Khoza is now attracting much<br />
more interest than what Highlanders<br />
are doing,” joked the former<br />
striker who is pursuing his<br />
ambitions of being a Fifa registered<br />
player agent.<br />
He however dismissed any<br />
plans of coming back to the club.<br />
“As I have already said, I am<br />
pursuing a career as a registered<br />
player agent; the only time that<br />
I might come back to assist is in<br />
player transfers that is if they<br />
would be in need of any favours<br />
from me.”<br />
Moyo helped Highlanders win<br />
two titles before moving to Cyprus<br />
to join Olympiakos Nicosia.<br />
Moyo stayed with the club until<br />
January 2005 when he moved<br />
to Greece and joined Atromitos<br />
Athen.<br />
He was with the club until 2008<br />
when he made a comeback to the<br />
team that gave him fame before<br />
ending his career to pursue other<br />
avenues.<br />
Mkhokheli Dube, former Highlanders<br />
striker now with Chicken<br />
Inn after seeing action in the<br />
United States, said formations<br />
that clubs have resorted to have<br />
also contributed to the few goals<br />
by strikers.<br />
“In Europe, if a team decides<br />
to use a lone striker, they will<br />
have four creative midfielders<br />
who can also get goals. Again,<br />
if you stick to a formation that<br />
needs a lone striker, he should<br />
be of top quality. So you can’t<br />
say strikers are not getting goals<br />
while you use creative midfielders,”<br />
he said.<br />
Dynamos striker Rodrick “the<br />
Prince” Mutuma who was Top<br />
Goal scorer in 2011 having scored<br />
only 14 goals, said football has developed.<br />
“Defenders have become too<br />
clever to trick these days, even<br />
goalkeepers are coming up with<br />
strings of brilliant saves which<br />
could have easily gone in as goals<br />
in most cases. So strikers have<br />
to dig deeper into their bags of<br />
tricks to continue scoring,” Mutuma<br />
said.<br />
Top goal scorers<br />
1996 Alois Bunjira CAPS United 23<br />
1999 Chewe Mulenga Railstars 24<br />
2000 Zenzo Moyo Highlanders 22<br />
2003 Sageby Sandaka Amazulu 17<br />
2004 Leonard Tsipa CAPS United 18<br />
2005 Edmore Mufema Motor Action 17<br />
2006 Ralph Matema Highlanders 19<br />
2007 Cuthbert Malajila 15<br />
2008 Evans Chikwaikwai Njube Sundowns 23<br />
2009 Nyasha Mushekwi CAPS United 21<br />
2010 Norman Maroto Gunners FC 22<br />
2011 Rodrick Mutuma Dynamos 14<br />
2012 Nelson Mazivisa Shabanie Mine 18<br />
2013 Tendai Ndoro Chicken Inn 18<br />
Two new jockeys join the fray at Borrowdale<br />
By Michael kariati<br />
TWO new jockeys Marshall Bikausaru<br />
and Lovemore Haruzivi<br />
have joined the fray at Borrowdale<br />
race course, the home<br />
of Zimbabwean horse racing, increasing<br />
the number of jockeys<br />
battling for honours this season<br />
to 39.<br />
Bikausaru and Haruzivi are<br />
among the four apprentices including<br />
Norbert Takawira and<br />
Stallone Sawere who have taken<br />
to the course in a dangerous but<br />
highly rewarding field that for<br />
the past two years has been dominated<br />
by Quinton Riddle and<br />
Sherman Brown.<br />
Mashonaland Turf Club spokesperson<br />
Bertina Gurajena said<br />
apart from the Borrowdale race<br />
course, the jockeys at the Zimbabwe<br />
Jockey Academy would<br />
also be offered the opportunity to<br />
race in South Africa where racing<br />
takes place on a regular basis.<br />
Racing at MTC comes after<br />
every two weeks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> appearance of new jockeys<br />
at the Borrowdale race<br />
course offers competition as the<br />
same names Quinton Riddle,<br />
Sherman Brown, Lance Pagel,<br />
and Karl Zechner have been very<br />
dominant in the past years with<br />
the champion jockey title consecutively<br />
changing hands between<br />
Riddle and Brown.<br />
Bikausaru and Haruzivi had<br />
a feel of the Borrowdale race<br />
course turf after Bikausaru rode<br />
though without victory in some<br />
races on the opening day of the<br />
Zimbabwe horse racing season<br />
on September 7.<br />
Bikausaru rode in four races<br />
saddling Rocket Runner, Atso’s<br />
Girl, Felan and Stylish Runner<br />
while Haruzivi had a feel of Purple<br />
Turtle, and Veneficus, in two<br />
of the seven races which were<br />
carded for the day.<br />
With the major races — the<br />
Castle Tankard, the OK Grand<br />
Challenge and the Republic Cup-<br />
— coming later in the season,<br />
it remains to be seen whether<br />
these apprentices will be offered<br />
the chance to ride in those highly<br />
competitive Grade One and<br />
Grade Two races.<br />
Last year, an apprentice, Donovan<br />
Dillon, rode Menacing<br />
in the Grade One Castle Tankard<br />
that attracted a strong field<br />
of 17 horses and won by the filly<br />
Equina which was ridden by<br />
Zechner.<br />
<strong>The</strong> coming in of Bikausaru<br />
and Haruzivi also increases the<br />
number of black jockeys at Borrowdale<br />
race course. <strong>The</strong>re is resistance<br />
from the community to<br />
take up horse riding as it is considered<br />
dangerous.<br />
Some of the jockeys, though,<br />
like S’manga Khumalo, travel<br />
all the way from South Africa<br />
to compete at MTC. Khumalo,<br />
a regular at Borrowdale race<br />
course, last year won the Durban<br />
July, the biggest horse racing<br />
event in South Africa.<br />
Riddle, the champion jockey<br />
after riding 30 winners, was<br />
placed second on 30 occasions<br />
and rode 28 horses that came<br />
in third place. He had 32 fourth<br />
placed horses for a 13%winning<br />
rate and 38%placing rate.<br />
This is in comparison to Brown<br />
who had a 14%winning rate but<br />
fell out in the placings in which<br />
he recorded only 31%to come second<br />
in the jockeys standings.<br />
With more jockeys at Borrowdale<br />
race course, the race for<br />
the champion jockey title this<br />
season is likely to be highly competitive.<br />
Racing will continue at Borrowdale<br />
race course on September<br />
21.<br />
A horse leads the pact towards the finishing line at<br />
Borrowdale Race Course.
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Harare City claim<br />
Chiredzi scalp<br />
Losing coach Gishon Ntini<br />
beamoned some sloppy<br />
defending for his team’s<br />
loss<br />
BY MUKUDZEI CHINGWERE IN ZVISHAVANE<br />
Chiredzi FC…(1) 1<br />
Harare City. . . (1) 2<br />
HARARE City booked their<br />
place into the semifinals of<br />
the Chibuku Super Cup with<br />
a spirited comeback to knock<br />
out Chiredzi FC.<br />
Osborne Mukuradare and Martin<br />
Vengesai’s goals outweighed Sam Msimbu’s<br />
effort to ensure Masimba Dinyero’s<br />
charges’ progression into the semis.<br />
Dinyero saluted his side for picking<br />
themselves up to victory.<br />
“I am happy with the performance of<br />
the team and that we progressed. <strong>The</strong> attitude<br />
of the players was wrong earlier on<br />
as they were underrating the opponents<br />
Zimbabwe’s<br />
Afcon<br />
challenge<br />
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA<br />
Tourism and Hospitality Industry<br />
minister Walter<br />
Mzembi (pictured right) has<br />
said co-hosting the 2017 Afcon<br />
gives Zimbabwe a better chance to<br />
stage the biennial football tournament<br />
than trying to go it alone.<br />
Zifa are pushing to get hosting<br />
rights after initial hosts and<br />
strife-stricken Libya last month<br />
withdrew due to the political upheavals.<br />
<strong>The</strong> local football governing<br />
body has been guaranteed support<br />
in their hosting bid by the tourism<br />
ministry as well as the Ministry<br />
of Sport, Arts and Culture<br />
and final approval now lies in the<br />
hands of Cabinet.<br />
Mzembi’s ministry has been the<br />
most vocal in Zimbabwe’s case,<br />
stressing that Afcon comes with<br />
immense tourism opportunities.<br />
Bid submissions close on September<br />
30, after which the Confederations<br />
of African Football<br />
(CAF) will name the hosts next<br />
April.<br />
With only three years left before<br />
the tournament is played,<br />
Mzembi said joint-hosting would<br />
increase Zimbabwe’s chances of<br />
being granted the rights.<br />
“We are very serious about<br />
this issue. We should not do<br />
nightmares, but do dreams,”<br />
said Mzembi.<br />
“We are going for a shared-hosting<br />
programme. Right now we will<br />
have to engage our neighbouring<br />
countries on that to boost our<br />
chances. This is a national project<br />
where there has to be staunch input<br />
from everyone. That is why we<br />
are taking this issue to Cabinet.<br />
“Look, South Africa is a new<br />
but they later on played well,” he said.<br />
Losing coach Gishon Ntini beamoned<br />
some sloppy defending for his team’s loss.<br />
“We made unnecessary mistakes for<br />
the goals but we played well though. It<br />
was not our day. We could have equalised<br />
even in the dying stages of the game,”<br />
said Ntini.<br />
Msimbu breathed life into the match<br />
when he headed in David Sengu’s freekick<br />
for the opening goal after 29 minutes<br />
of action.<br />
Five minutes before the breather, Sengu<br />
was on hand to create another goal.<br />
But this time it was for the opponents’<br />
equaliser when he fouled James Jam on<br />
the edge of the box and from the resultant<br />
freekick, Mukuradare fired home.<br />
Barely a minute into the second half,<br />
Francisco Zekumbawire flicked the ball<br />
into the path of Vengesai whose low shot<br />
sailed past Stephen Chimusoro in goal for<br />
Chiredzi.<br />
Nine minutes later, a well-positioned<br />
Mukuradare failed to hit target when he<br />
blasted over Zekumbawire’s cross.<br />
Crispen Dickson denied Ntini’s outfit a<br />
leveller right at the death when he cleared<br />
Tawanda Muyendi’s effort from the goal<br />
line.<br />
country after the 2010 Fifa World<br />
Cup. We really need this to put<br />
our country into spotlight. Hosting<br />
Afcon would leave legacy assets<br />
like spruced-up stadiums,<br />
roads, hotels and training facilities.”<br />
However, no neighbouring<br />
country has so far expressed interest<br />
to host the tournament.<br />
Zambia now boasts of two<br />
world class stadiums but could be<br />
having a lot on their plate as they<br />
are set to host the 2017 African<br />
Under-20 Championships.<br />
It would be a mammoth task<br />
for Zimbabwe to convince CAF it<br />
could take the onus alone given<br />
that the country has sub-standard<br />
football infrastructure.<br />
Harare and Bulawayo would<br />
likely be the host cities in case of<br />
a joint venture, but hotel accommodation<br />
could be overwhelmed<br />
by teams, multitudes of travelling<br />
fans and service providers.<br />
Massive refurbishment of roads,<br />
efficient transport system and decongesting<br />
Harare would be some<br />
of the work that would need to be<br />
done inside the next three years.<br />
Zimbabwe were handed rights to<br />
host the 200th edition of Afcon but<br />
unpreparedness saw CAF moving<br />
it to Ghana and Nigeria at the last<br />
minute.<br />
<strong>The</strong> country also lost the 2010 bid.<br />
“You do not have to be ready to<br />
host something,” said Mzembi.<br />
“We were never ready to host UN-<br />
WTO (2013 United Nations World<br />
Tourism Organisation) general assembly<br />
but when we were told that<br />
Zim progress in Davis Cup<br />
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA<br />
it was coming to Zimbabwe, everyone<br />
got up on their feet and it was a<br />
success at the end of the day.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re is so much need for national<br />
commitment, willingness<br />
and effort. We have to respond to<br />
our own vision as Zimbabwe.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> strongest candidacy has<br />
so far emerged from East Africa<br />
where Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda<br />
and Uganda have declared interest.<br />
Kenya is pushing for a Kenya,<br />
Rwanda and Uganda joint-hosting<br />
and the countries have already<br />
contacted each other on the<br />
opportunity.<br />
Rwanda wants to stage it together<br />
with Kenya and Tanzania.<br />
Rwanda has an edge over Zimbabwe<br />
with a track record of<br />
hosting the 2009 African Youth<br />
Championships as well as the<br />
2011 African Under-17 Championship.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2016 Africa Nations Championships<br />
will also take place in<br />
Rwanda. Only Ethiopia from East<br />
Africa has staged Afcon before<br />
and they have done that thrice.<br />
Mali, Ghana and Egypt have also<br />
declared contention to welcome<br />
the continent in 2017.<br />
Zifa chief executive Jonathan<br />
Mashingaidze was unavailable to<br />
state their strategies to convince<br />
CAF on the issue.<br />
Hosting Afcon would afford<br />
Zimbabwe automatic qualification<br />
for the tournament.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Warriors have graced the<br />
tournament twice (2004, 2006) in<br />
their history.<br />
Triangle out to maintain<br />
cup games momentum<br />
BY KENNETH NYANGANI<br />
TRIANGLE head coach Biggie<br />
Zuze will be hoping to continue<br />
with his side’s fairytale run in<br />
the country’s knockout competitions<br />
when they engage army side<br />
Black Rhinos in the Chibuku Super<br />
Cup last eight at Ascot tomorrow.<br />
Triangle are currently in the finals<br />
of the One Wallet Cup where<br />
they are set to lock horns with Dynamos.<br />
Despite being unfortunate in<br />
playing all their cup matches<br />
away from home, they have registered<br />
impressive results.<br />
For progressing into the last<br />
eight of the Chibuku Super Cup,<br />
they dispatched Hwange 5-3 on<br />
penalty shoot-outs after the match<br />
had ended 0-0 in regulation time.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were in a devastating form<br />
in their last match when they defeated<br />
FC Platinum 2-0 at Gibbo<br />
Biggie Zuze<br />
Zimbabwe Davies Cup team<br />
ZIMBABWE made a step towards<br />
making a return to the<br />
prestigious Davis Cup World<br />
Group with a 2-0 win over<br />
Namibia in an Africa Zone<br />
Group III playoff semi-final<br />
match at the Smash Tennis<br />
Academy in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> victory saw Zimbabwe<br />
qualifying for the 2015 Euro/<br />
Africa Zone Group II which<br />
is two tiers below the elite<br />
Group.<br />
Benjamin Lock emphatically<br />
beat 6-1, 6-0 Jacobus Serdyn,<br />
while Takanyi Garanganga<br />
overpowered Tuki Jacobs 6-2,<br />
6-2.<br />
With Zimbabwe carrying<br />
an unassailable 2-0 lead, the<br />
doubles match of Mark Fynn<br />
and Lock against the Namibian<br />
pair of Serdyn and Jacobs<br />
was rendered unnecessary to<br />
play.<br />
Zimbabwe’s non-playing<br />
captain Martin Dzuwa<br />
praised the Zimbabwean team<br />
following their performance.<br />
“We performed well in all<br />
our matches here,” said Dzuwa.<br />
“All the matches were fine<br />
for us and we did well considering<br />
the tough group we<br />
came from. Our main goal<br />
was to qualify to the next<br />
group and good for us it came<br />
out that way.”<br />
Yesterday’s heroics capped<br />
a fine outing in Egypt which<br />
started from Pool A with a 3-0<br />
win over Congo, followed by<br />
that pool’s victories over Madagascar<br />
(2-1) and Nigeria (3-<br />
0) also coming in convincing<br />
fashion.<br />
By qualifying to Euro/Africa<br />
Zone Group II, Zimbabwe<br />
will now be hosting and visiting<br />
the likes of Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina,<br />
Finland,<br />
Luxembourg and South Africa.<br />
This group is likely to offer<br />
the Zimbabweans the muchneeded<br />
experience as the fight<br />
to surge to the elite Group continues.<br />
<strong>The</strong> win comes at a time<br />
when Old Mutual has breathed<br />
life into the team by pumping<br />
in the much-needed financial<br />
assistance whose sponsorship<br />
results were displayed by the<br />
team.<br />
This Zimbabwean crop is<br />
chasing to reach the World<br />
Group played in by Zimbabwean<br />
tennis legends Kevin Ullyett,<br />
Byron, Wayne and Cara<br />
Black.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Zimbabwean team is expected<br />
back home on Monday.<br />
Stadium in their last league encounter.<br />
Zuze told <strong>Standard</strong>sport that<br />
his team was raring to go.<br />
“Obviously, this is going to be a<br />
tough match because we all need<br />
to progress to the next stage of<br />
the tournament. We are having a<br />
good run in the Cup competitions<br />
because everyone is putting an effort,”<br />
he said.<br />
“Another issue is that motivation<br />
is high and that is the major<br />
thing every player wants. We will<br />
fight very hard to beat Rhinos.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are a good side, so we should<br />
be at our best.”<br />
Triangle will bank on the likes<br />
of strikers Richard Kawondera,<br />
Nhamo Lameck and Tatenda<br />
Tsuro.<br />
Rhinos will however be no<br />
push-overs with coach Jostein<br />
Mathuthu appearing inspirational<br />
since his mid-season takeover<br />
of the technical bench.
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Dinyero elated<br />
“I am happy with the performance<br />
of the team and<br />
that we progressed. <strong>The</strong> attitude<br />
of the players was<br />
wrong earlier on as they<br />
were underrating the opponents<br />
but they later on<br />
played well.”<br />
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CAPS United<br />
crumble at<br />
Mandava again<br />
FROM MUKUDZEI CHINGWERE IN<br />
ZVISHAVANE<br />
FC Platinum… (1) 1<br />
CAPS United 0<br />
CAPS United defender<br />
George Nyirenda beat<br />
his side’s two goalkeepers<br />
in as many weekends<br />
after fooling Tafadzwa<br />
Dube yesterday at Mandava<br />
against similar opposition, to<br />
hand FC Platinum passage into<br />
the Chibuku Super Cup semifinals.<br />
As CAPS tried to erase grim<br />
memories of the previous weekend’s<br />
ZNA Charity Shield 6-0 disgrace<br />
by the same side in which<br />
Nyirenda scored past his own<br />
goalie Jorum Muchambo, the<br />
centre back once again pounced<br />
against his side and this time it<br />
was the decider.<br />
United showed intent to revenge<br />
but the early goal was a big blow,<br />
with coach Taurai Mangwiro attributing<br />
the defeat to the Malawi<br />
international’s error.<br />
“We were just careless in the<br />
manner we conceded that goal.<br />
Today we started off well and we<br />
looked more likely to win, but we<br />
failed to avoid the goal. We only<br />
had two scares, the goal and that<br />
chance that hit the bar,” said Mangwiro.<br />
With the victory, winning coach<br />
Norman Mapeza sealed his arrival<br />
at Mandava where he is slowly<br />
establishing a fortress.<br />
<strong>The</strong> former Galatasaray midfield<br />
hardman commended his<br />
charges for getting the better of<br />
CAPS once again but admitted<br />
that his opponents had done their<br />
homework to make up for that<br />
half a dozen goal harvest.<br />
“I am happy we won the game<br />
but today they did their homework<br />
and history does not usually<br />
repeat itself in football. It is still<br />
too early to talk about winning<br />
the Cup and even going to the final.<br />
We will talk about that when<br />
we get there,” he said.<br />
It took 13 minutes for the hosts’<br />
Zambian forward Obrey Chirwa<br />
to present his credentials as the<br />
biggest threat in the platinum<br />
miners’ final third.<br />
Under-pressure Nyirenda turned<br />
Chirwa’s cross into his own net following<br />
an intelligent solo run from<br />
the centre line by the striker.<br />
With the Zambian responsible<br />
for Nyirenda’s howler, he threatened<br />
to again torment CAPS like<br />
he did in the 6-0 win in which he<br />
grabbed a hat-trick.<br />
Eight minutes later, pure platinum<br />
play threatened to run over<br />
their opponents but Tarisai Rukanda<br />
was denied by the cross bar.<br />
Chirwa then fired at goal but his<br />
shot was scrambled away by a desperate<br />
Dube following a brilliant<br />
turn and shoot.<br />
Five minutes before the breather,<br />
CAPS nearly reduced arrears<br />
but Gerald Phiri’s effort was<br />
cleared on the goal line by Raphael<br />
Muduviwa with Dynamos goalkeeper<br />
target Petros Mhari in goal<br />
a beaten man.<br />
Ten minutes after the restart,<br />
Pervington Zimunya fluffed another<br />
chance for an equaliser<br />
when he blew his effort over the<br />
bar.<br />
Mapeza’s charges survived a<br />
few minutes of CAPS’ dominance<br />
with Phiri and Leonard Fiyado<br />
coming close.<br />
Dube proved that he deserves<br />
top billing when he ably repelled a<br />
Elvis Moyo free kick late into the<br />
CAPS United defender George Nyirenda challenges FC Platinum’s Benjamin Marere for the ball at Mandava Stadium yesterday.<br />
Picture: Nelson Chekera.<br />
game.<br />
Chirwa’s injury-inspired substitution<br />
reduced FC Platinum’s<br />
attacking verve.<br />
Mapeza seemed to be intent on<br />
sitting back and protecting the<br />
lead when he brought in Thabani<br />
Kamusoko and Aaron Katebe to<br />
protect the defense.<br />
Kamusoko’s introduction proved<br />
masterstroke as he combined well<br />
with Simon Shoko to boss the midfield<br />
where they starved CAPS of<br />
clean supplies to their front runners.<br />
Chibuku Super Cup: Kaindu faces stern test<br />
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA<br />
HIGHLANDERS coach Kelvin<br />
Kaindu must be feeling relieved<br />
that he is not facing Dynamos<br />
this afternoon.<br />
Bosso cross swords today with<br />
How Mine in a Chibuku Super<br />
Cup quarterfinal match at Hartsfield.<br />
Still smarting from last weekend’s<br />
4-1 demolition by Dynamos<br />
in a TM Pick n Pay Challenge<br />
Cup, Highlanders have something<br />
to divert attention from<br />
that embarrassment.<br />
<strong>The</strong> defeat by Dynamos sparked<br />
outrage from Bosso fans and<br />
claimed the scalp of captain Innocent<br />
Mapuranga who has since<br />
been replaced by Ariel Sibanda.<br />
It also led to a two-week suspension<br />
of striker Njabulo Ncube<br />
while fellow forward Charles<br />
Sibanda and linkman Joel Ngodzo<br />
are now sitting on final warnings<br />
for indiscipline.<br />
How Mine could therefore provide<br />
relief for Kaindu. But a loss<br />
to the gold miners could ring the<br />
death knell on Kaindu’s reign as<br />
Bosso coach.<br />
“On the Dynamos loss, these<br />
are the kind of results that are<br />
there. What is important now<br />
is how you focus on the next<br />
match,” said Kaindu.<br />
“A derby is tricky and especially<br />
that this is a Cup game. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
has to be a winner and we hope<br />
we will be the better side.”<br />
Kaindu is not mourning the<br />
absence of suspended Ncube<br />
who is yet to score since his July<br />
return to Bosso.<br />
“Every player in our team<br />
is important. <strong>The</strong>re are others<br />
who can come in for Njabulo and<br />
it will be their opportunity to<br />
claim their stake in the team,”<br />
he said.<br />
Pre-match tension has already<br />
characterise the match with How<br />
Mine being barred from training<br />
at the match venue.<br />
<strong>The</strong> goal miners’ coach Luke<br />
Masomere says “cheap politics”<br />
was at play to frustrate them<br />
ahead of the game.<br />
Masomere claims they were<br />
denied entry into Hartsfield on<br />
Tuesday before they trained on<br />
the stadium’s B field.<br />
He also said he agreed with<br />
Highlanders that on Wednesday<br />
they would train at the main arena<br />
in the morning before Bosso<br />
work-out in the afternoon but<br />
they were again denied entry.<br />
According to Masomere, the<br />
same story occurred on Thursday<br />
before they were completely<br />
locked out on Friday when they<br />
were not allowed to even train on<br />
the B field.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> stadium does not even<br />
belong to Highlanders but we are<br />
undeterred by the cheap politics.<br />
It is actually confusion,” said<br />
Masomere.<br />
“Apart from all those frustrations,<br />
we are ready for them. Morale<br />
is high in our camp and we<br />
are not under pressure.”<br />
It would be Masomere’s third<br />
game in charge after recording a<br />
loss and a win so far.<br />
<strong>The</strong> coach welcomes on his<br />
side Menard Mupera from a<br />
long-term injury while Timothy<br />
January and Nhasha Mukumbi<br />
are out injured together with<br />
teenage goalkeeper Donovan<br />
Bernard who has a huge grassburn<br />
on his thigh.
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Home & Garden<br />
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Enter our competition<br />
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Kitchens<br />
12 Gardening<br />
What was Noah thinking<br />
Food & Drink<br />
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15 Is there a time for wine<br />
Lebbie<br />
Family<br />
19 Family of the Week<br />
Mr & Mrs Shonhai & Family<br />
21 Education<br />
Raising Your Self Esteem<br />
P14<br />
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Enjoying a mountain club hike<br />
Arts<br />
26 Breaking New Ground<br />
African Couture<br />
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Prudence Muganiwah<br />
Her chosen career is far from the cliché, far<br />
from what any typical girl would choose for<br />
herself. But that is her passion, and each day<br />
she wakes up with extra va-va-voom to attend<br />
to the next dog, cat, horse, or cow, and make it<br />
feel better.<br />
Tapiwa Tatiana Makwavarara, a last<br />
born child who comes from a family of three<br />
girls is a veterinarian, and she loves her profession.<br />
“I grew up in Harare, attended school<br />
in Murewa and graduated with a Bachelor of<br />
Veterinary Science degree from University of<br />
Zimbabwe in 2008.”<br />
Tashie, as she is otherwise affectionately<br />
known, says being a veterinarian is one of<br />
the most amazing professions as it is a broad<br />
profession that covers a lot of disciplines. “I<br />
enjoy being a voice for the voiceless, animals<br />
are considered inferior to human beings but<br />
they also have the same needs as we do and to<br />
devote my life to protecting them makes a big<br />
difference to me. Animals and humans are interlinked<br />
in a lot more ways than we think.”<br />
Besides animal health being her main<br />
focus, Tashie gets to do a lot of extension<br />
work in indigent communities educating<br />
them on job creation and poverty alleviation<br />
through agricultural development.<br />
She also educates on how communities<br />
can protect themselves and<br />
their<br />
animals<br />
from some<br />
of the<br />
devastating<br />
im<br />
pacts diseases can have.<br />
Her passion is women, and their development.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> girl child goes through so many<br />
hardships and is vulnerable to a lot of things.<br />
I would love to help women and to encourage<br />
them to know that they can be anything that<br />
they want to be even when exposed to difficult<br />
circumstances. Coming from a not so stable<br />
childhood myself I experienced so many odds<br />
but I stuck to what I believed in and pulled<br />
myself out and up. I believe anyone can do the<br />
same.”<br />
Considering that Veterinary Medicine till<br />
recently has been a male-dominated profession,<br />
it is not only pleasantly surprising but<br />
also inspiring that this never-say-die spirited<br />
girl chose this seemingly challenging career.<br />
Currently resident in South Africa, she talks<br />
of how it has not been a bed of roses trying<br />
to prove herself in her field. “Being black and<br />
foreign does not make it easier. You have to go<br />
through strong efforts to prove yourself capable<br />
to do the job.”<br />
Yet the young lady has not given up yet.<br />
In fact, she continues to strive harder to make<br />
a significant contribution to society through<br />
various other projects she involves herself in.<br />
“I have been involved in the Vets for Change<br />
mass vaccination and sterilisation campaigns,<br />
a German based NGO initiative. I have<br />
also been involved in sterilisation campaigns<br />
for the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to<br />
Animals (SPCA) and Provincial Government<br />
in the Northern Cape. I wish to launch similar<br />
projects within my area. <strong>The</strong>se campaigns are<br />
aimed at reducing dog populations and rabies<br />
transmission between domestic carnivores<br />
and to humans.”<br />
Her biggest achievement thus far has<br />
been to be recognised in parts Limpopo Province<br />
(South Africa), as an active participant<br />
in the fight against Rabies and as an eloquent<br />
speaker on disease awareness.<br />
Tashie mentions that it has been a tough<br />
road to walk alone, without the mentorship<br />
of her mother, whom she lost in December<br />
of 1999. “My mother is my role model though<br />
long gone she left something inside of me<br />
which was; to be the best that you can be in<br />
any circumstance and to leave people better<br />
than how you found them. Wonder how far I<br />
have gone with that though . . .”<br />
A typical day for the mother of one involves<br />
a lot of regulatory, clinical and administrative<br />
work as well as the daily demands<br />
of motherhood – Tashie dotes on her son and<br />
makes sure that in her free time she spends<br />
quality time with him and travels a lot. With<br />
regard to her family, she has this to say, “<strong>The</strong><br />
most I enjoy about family is the unconditional<br />
love that comes with it; you can mess up<br />
and still have the assurance that you are still<br />
loved.”<br />
It is not surprising though, that the animal<br />
doctor who is a staunch Christian has<br />
made it this far, as she is quite a woman of<br />
principle. “I value self-respect and sticking to<br />
what is right regardless of what the world has<br />
conformed to in a nutshell it is all about integrity.<br />
I also believe that Jesus Christ is alive<br />
and try as hard as I can to live under biblical<br />
principles.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> positive minded, ever-determined Tashie<br />
who detests arrogant and self-centred people,<br />
says, “If God had the same attitude we would<br />
have no freedom or we would have been wiped<br />
off the face of the earth!”<br />
In her time away from home, she says she<br />
has grown so much as an individual ever since<br />
she left the country, and most of it has to do<br />
with values that she learnt back home. “When<br />
the time is right I would like to share whatever<br />
I have acquired here and make a difference in<br />
my own community back in Zimbabwe.”<br />
Tashie believes when she is ready, she<br />
will come to resettle in Zimbabwe and make<br />
a positive contribution in her field of interest.<br />
“Zimbabwe is my home and will always be and<br />
yes I would resettle if things are the way they<br />
should be. I remember how things were and<br />
right now they are not like that.”<br />
Advising younger generations, the high<br />
achieving individual says hard work, a positive<br />
attitude and humility even in the face of<br />
obstacles is the only way to success. “It takes<br />
a lot of hard work to get from one place to another<br />
and it doesn’t mean that when thing get<br />
tough your destiny is failure.<br />
It is no wonder that Tashie has managed<br />
to attain what she has, given the motto she<br />
lives by, “Humility will take you places where<br />
education won’t.”<br />
“I grew up in Harare,<br />
attended school in<br />
Murewa and graduated<br />
with a Bachelor of<br />
Veterinary Science degree<br />
from University of<br />
Zimbabwe in 2008.<br />
“
4 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / FASHION<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Mother of the Bride<br />
Shamiso Catherine Ruzvidzo<br />
<strong>The</strong> mother of the bride is close to being the centre of attention<br />
at her daughter’s wedding as her daughter, it is important<br />
for her to stand out in a modern outfit that is elegant and wellfitted.<br />
This season mint greens, pastels, rose pinks, neutrals and a<br />
meadly of blues are ruling the bridal runways. Fabrics dominating<br />
weddings remain the same, with lace in the forefront as the<br />
fabric of choice. Styles are modern and fresh with sheer sleeves<br />
a perfect option for women who want to stay cool in summer,<br />
but keep their arms covered. <strong>The</strong> 1970s capes and capelets have<br />
been readapted to create a modern, flawless feminine look for<br />
the brides’s mother. Tiered skirts with layers of draped chiffions<br />
are available in various palettes of colour. One thing resonantes<br />
this season, the mother of the bride is sure to look feminine, romantic<br />
and magestic on her daughter’s big day.<br />
Shopping for the Mother of the Bride<br />
pinks and a meadly of blues dominate weddings this season<br />
Tiered skirts, sheer sleeves, 1970 capes and capelets are trending as this<br />
season’s must have looks for the mother of the bride.<br />
Facinators are a<br />
perfect alternative<br />
to wearing hats.<br />
• Remember to keep the dress or skirt length over the knee or long. This is the best alternative, as you wouldn’t want to<br />
steal your daughter’s shine wearing a dress or skirt that is way too short.<br />
• Fitting is of the essence, make sure you have several fittings well in time. You wouldn’t want to be in the spotlight for a<br />
poor fitting outfit.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> mother of the bride can change outfits when her daughter changes outfits, there is no set rule that frowns upon this.<br />
Just make sure you discuss this with the bride first.<br />
• Hats never go out of style for weddings, pick a hat that matches your dress or bag. If hats are not your style, beautiful<br />
facinators are on the market and are available all around Zimbabwe from boutiques or wedding stores. Facinators are<br />
modern and come in beautiful styles and colours.<br />
• Final tip - Yes the mother of the bride can match her outfit colour with the wedding party. Why should the wedding<br />
party have all fun?<br />
Image source: www2.mastoloni.com; http://www.bridalguide.com; http://www.dressempire.com ; pinterest.com<br />
Rufaro Mushonga<br />
THE WEDDING PLANNER<br />
TRIMMING YOUR WEDDING BUDGET – PART ONE<br />
A<br />
number of years ago I had a consultation<br />
session with a couple<br />
who were planning their wedding<br />
for the following year. We discussed<br />
their wedding vision from beginning<br />
to end, and they told me how much<br />
money they would like to spend on their<br />
wedding. <strong>The</strong>y were also very specific<br />
about the wedding venue they wanted.<br />
I advised them that given the number of<br />
guests they wanted to plan for, choosing<br />
this venue would throw them way out of<br />
pocket. I built a budget for them based<br />
on their choice of venue, and sent it to<br />
them. <strong>The</strong>y insisted that they wanted<br />
this venue, and were not impressed with<br />
me at all when I recommended other options.<br />
I assumed they did not want to<br />
disclose their real budget to me for fear<br />
of being ripped off. So I went ahead and<br />
booked the venue.<br />
Two months before the wedding, the<br />
fun and games began. <strong>The</strong>y ran short of<br />
money, and of course they blamed me<br />
for it. It was a nightmare for all parties<br />
involved. As a couple, you know how<br />
much money you are able to spend on<br />
your wedding. If you are working with<br />
a tight budget, here are three practical<br />
tips on how to keep your budget down.<br />
Get an expert to help you with<br />
budgeting and planning<br />
A wedding planner already has good<br />
relationships with wedding service providers,<br />
so hiring one will help you to<br />
save money and stay within a specified<br />
budget.<br />
Choose your venue wisely<br />
Avoid venues that insist on you using<br />
upmarket caterers, decorators and<br />
hiring companies. Venues that do not<br />
require you to hire a tent may be less<br />
costly – with the exception of hotels.<br />
Some venues will offer you an affordable<br />
all-inclusive package, so make sure<br />
you consider such options<br />
Watch your guest list<br />
Reducing the number of guests you<br />
would like to invite is the fastest way to<br />
trim the budget. <strong>The</strong> costs that are numbers<br />
driven have more impact on your<br />
budget.<br />
Get the budget in order, right from the<br />
start, and you are halfway to having a<br />
memorable wedding day without committing<br />
“financial suicide.”<br />
Rufaro Mushonga<br />
rufmush@gmail.com<br />
Photography by Tasha Creations
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
THE STANDARD STYLE / INSPIRATION 5<br />
Profile of the<br />
Game-changers:<br />
<strong>The</strong> real deal (Part 2)<br />
Cynthia Hakutangwi<br />
<strong>The</strong> Real Deal is an expression often used<br />
to refer to someone or something that is<br />
very good and has all the qualities that<br />
people say they have. In the first part of<br />
this series which profiles the attributes of<br />
game-changers we challenged individuals to<br />
pursue and discover their personal authentic<br />
identity before they allow others to define<br />
them. We briefly examined these three gamechanging<br />
(GC) attributes:<br />
GC1: Personal Leadership and Transfor<br />
mation<br />
GC2: Possessing the courage to be a<br />
thought leader<br />
GC3: <strong>The</strong> ability to think and see with a<br />
relational lens<br />
We established that there are major phenomena<br />
profoundly altering the world’s landscape<br />
on various interfaces which call for<br />
game-changers who will not only adapt, but<br />
possess the strength of character to change<br />
the ways things are done. From the many definitions<br />
that have been provided, we adopted<br />
one from the business dictionary which describes<br />
a game-changer as “a person or idea<br />
that transforms the accepted rules, processes,<br />
strategies and management of business<br />
functions.” Our discussion however will not<br />
be confined to business functions alone but<br />
stretches it to cover various levels of organised<br />
units ranging from families to organisations,<br />
communities and ultimately nations.<br />
This article will examine and reflect on the<br />
next three GC attributes of game-changers.<br />
GC Attribute Four: <strong>The</strong>y make the best<br />
out of breaking-point frustrations<br />
Whilst many people fear the breaking<br />
point because of its life-threatening nature,<br />
there is a treasure that lies in this state of<br />
affairs. Sometimes the course of our lives<br />
cannot be changed until our situations reach<br />
breaking point. Whilst being pro-active is a<br />
plausible virtue that enables preventative effectiveness<br />
and reduces risks within systems<br />
and organisations, life sometimes may call for<br />
us to allow the breaking point to be reached.<br />
Until we “snap” sometimes our world order<br />
may remain the same and we may continue<br />
to get the same results in our traditional comfortable<br />
environments. Snap in this instance<br />
refers to tapping from our reserves beyond the<br />
ordinary provision. <strong>The</strong> breaking point is generally<br />
accepted as being the moment of greatest<br />
strain at which someone or something<br />
gives way. Too often, we fear reaching this<br />
point because of the high levels of discomfort<br />
and a strong fear of death. <strong>The</strong> paradox of<br />
death is that it is so closely related to the ushering<br />
of new life in the same way that whilst<br />
a mother’s life is at stake, she gives birth to a<br />
new life. My personal experiences with child<br />
birth will forever remain magical moments<br />
where I remember transitioning from one extreme<br />
of deep anguish to another extreme of<br />
pure bliss and elation at the arrival of a new<br />
life through it all. Human psychology defines<br />
the breaking point as “a moment of stress in<br />
which a person breaks down or a situation becomes<br />
critical.” It is very possible that when<br />
we reach our end and surrender to another dimension<br />
of engagement we may very well be<br />
on our way to giving new definition to a completely<br />
new way of doing things.<br />
GC Attribute Five: <strong>The</strong>y are not afraid to<br />
initiate movement in stagnant situations<br />
Very often when situations around us persistently<br />
remain stagnant we can be tempted to<br />
remain silent observers in the motionless state<br />
of affairs and sometimes even dare the still<br />
waters to begin to move themselves around<br />
us. When the still and stagnant waters around<br />
us do not move, it may be a sign that we need<br />
to generate the requisite movement so that we<br />
get a positive ripple effect that spreads far beyond<br />
us. On the other extreme, we may even be<br />
tempted to step out of the stagnant waters and<br />
situations that we find ourselves in to pursue<br />
other “seemingly active waters” to avoid being<br />
the causative agents of movement. What<br />
have you been sitting and watching for too<br />
long in your life, just waiting for it to move?<br />
Wisdom and discernment is required to help<br />
us to establish the reasons why we may be located<br />
and positioned in those stagnant waters<br />
for that season. Maybe, just maybe, the very<br />
same is waiting for you to start making moves<br />
that will awaken the sleeping giants within<br />
and around you. <strong>The</strong> traction starts with the<br />
movements we initiate in the right direction<br />
so that the potential of those things around us<br />
is stirred to manifest and align with their destiny<br />
as we align with our purpose.<br />
GC Attribute Six: <strong>The</strong>y are not led by frivolous<br />
emotions<br />
Game-changers are not led by frivolous emotions<br />
but instead take time to meditate and<br />
listen to sound wisdom. In their professionalism,<br />
they choose to respond and not react to<br />
provocations within and around them. It takes<br />
great strength of character coupled with maturity<br />
for an individual to value their brand<br />
and not reduce themselves to react impulsively<br />
to their own whims, challenges or careless<br />
dysfunctions of others. In spite of all their<br />
power to influence, game-changers remain<br />
humble and modest as they build momentum<br />
for even greater accomplishments. This protects<br />
them from being dangerously exposed<br />
and extinguished prematurely. Unbridled<br />
pride and ego inevitably become a recipe for<br />
the demise of any game-changer who cannot<br />
keep their emotions in check.<br />
Join us again in the next issue as we explore<br />
and examine the next three game-changing<br />
attributes.<br />
Cynthia is a Communications and Personal<br />
Development Consultant, a Life Coach,<br />
Author, and Strategist. She is the Managing<br />
Consultant of Wholeness Incorporated. “A<br />
passionate and fervent motivational speaker<br />
who speaks at seminars, workshops and conferences<br />
provoking people and institutions to<br />
challenge their comfort zones by imparting<br />
vital knowledge and information which can<br />
help them to live balanced lives and create<br />
trans-generational solutions.”<br />
E-mail: cynthia@wholenessincorporated.com<br />
<strong>The</strong> art of building your castle in bits and pieces… [Part II]<br />
Tafadzwa Zimunhu Taruvinga<br />
<strong>The</strong> Caterpillar and the Butterfly<br />
In the month of September, my focus is on<br />
what it means to build up towards your life’s<br />
purpose in bits and pieces. If you’ve even attempted<br />
Accounting 101 not-so-impressively<br />
like myself, you might remember “piecemeal<br />
liquidation” in which a company is sold off<br />
in small chunks, rather than in one sweeping<br />
goal. Building the castle of your life’s<br />
dreams, if it will be worth a Dollar, should<br />
take time. In keeping with the old truth “all<br />
good things take time” tiny ants toil daily, ferrying<br />
pieces of bread and grains of soil in order<br />
to build a home. Birds too build their nest<br />
one strand at a time.<br />
Chapter two of my book which I published in<br />
June this year, “Serve Your Customers Excellentl,<br />
Or Not At All!”, is entitled “<strong>The</strong> Caterpillar<br />
and the Butterly”, and it tells what I<br />
consider a rather interesting story as thus:<br />
“I want to tell the story of the caterpillar and<br />
the butterfly. I think it’s amazing. When a<br />
caterpillar hatches from an egg, its life begins.<br />
Unless it doesn’t go through the full metamorphosis<br />
cycle for one reason or another, the caterpillar<br />
feeds on leaves and grass, growing<br />
longer and fatter, shedding its skin off gradually.<br />
When it’s had quite enough to eat, the caterpillar<br />
hangs upside down from a plant and<br />
spins itself into a shiny chrysalis. It’s in that<br />
chrysalis where, through further metamorphosis,<br />
the caterpillar transforms itself into a butterfly.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, as the story goes, the butterfly flies<br />
into the magnificent African sunset and lives<br />
happily ever after.”<br />
We learn a valuable lesson from the ants,<br />
birds, caterpillars and butterflies of this<br />
world. We learn that we too are capable of<br />
building good things in the good time, and<br />
that good time demands a special kind of patience<br />
and delayed gratification. In a sense<br />
then, the excerpt above is ample prescription<br />
of how best we, like the caterpillar which<br />
ends up as a butterfly, can build our castles in<br />
bits and pieces. <strong>The</strong>re are nine pieces which<br />
matter in the piecemeal approach to building<br />
one’s dreams, three of which we looked<br />
at last week, three of which we will look at<br />
today, and the last three in the last part of this<br />
title next week.<br />
4. <strong>The</strong> Shedding of Skin<br />
Shedding off your skin comes in two forms.<br />
Firstly, it challenges you to let go of your inhibitions.<br />
Your inhibitions are those innate<br />
unique characteristics which are not progressive.<br />
This is important because you are,<br />
in many instances, afraid of even embarking<br />
on any journey before you actually do. It’s<br />
a natural condition, sure, but it’s one which<br />
you should get rid of right from the get go.<br />
Marianne Williamson summed it up in the<br />
famous quote which says “Our deepest fear is<br />
not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear<br />
is that we are powerful beyond measure…”<br />
What does this mean in practice? It means<br />
that you should walk unchartered paths and<br />
challenge yourself to get rid of your fears.<br />
For instance, if the line of work to which<br />
you aspire involves public speaking, but you<br />
know that you are naturally an introvert,<br />
take active steps to counter such inhibition.<br />
Join a public speaking society in order to improve<br />
your speaking skills. <strong>The</strong> second skin<br />
to shed is your limitations, which are mostly<br />
external, the likes of a lack of capital to start<br />
a small business. Limit your limitations. If<br />
a bank has not given you a loan to start your<br />
business in 12 months, take a step back and<br />
consider this. Should you now stop pursuing<br />
the bank and start pursuing other alternate<br />
sources of capital such as your savings or<br />
small repayable loans from close friends or<br />
relatives?<br />
5. Turning Upside Down<br />
Turning upside down comes in two forms<br />
too. In the first part, it entails turning challenges<br />
into opportunities, or making lemonade<br />
out of sour lemons. <strong>The</strong> current harsh<br />
economic climate especially requires you to<br />
do this as much as is possible. Here’s a practicable<br />
example. If catering has been your<br />
income-earning passion for years and you’ve<br />
concentrated on selling gourmet meals with<br />
a higher average revenue of $5.00 per unit<br />
sale all along, consider making 80% of your<br />
menu a “sadza and (something)” variety with<br />
an average return of $2.00 per unit sale, simply<br />
because the market demands affordable<br />
meals at lunch for five days a week, rather<br />
than expensive gourmet meals for two days a<br />
week on a weekend. See if you can transform<br />
your service from being price-driven to being<br />
volumes-driven. On the other hand, turning<br />
upside down is about introspection and questioning<br />
oneself whether to remain on the<br />
path so far walked along or find a new path.<br />
It’s about reinventing yourself. It’s about taking<br />
a walk every morning and thinking about<br />
what it is that you can do differently or in addition<br />
to what you’ve been doing all along.<br />
6. Spinning into a Shiny Chrysalis<br />
Spinning into a shiny chrysalis is significantly<br />
related to turning upside down. It’s about<br />
reinventing oneself and it’s about introspection.<br />
But it goes one step further. You would<br />
shine the most if you brought out your good<br />
qualities a lot more often than you would<br />
your weaknesses. In the grander scheme of<br />
life, this is about accentuating your strengths<br />
and limiting your weaknesses. If you are a<br />
people person for instance, network with people<br />
from all walks of life. You never know<br />
where it might lead.<br />
In Part III next week, we will examine your<br />
transition from caterpillar to butterfly, living<br />
happily ever after and your flight into the African<br />
sunset.<br />
Tafadzwa Taruvinga is a trilingual Customer<br />
Service Consultant and the first Zimbabwean<br />
Member to sit on the Advisory Council of Customer<br />
Value Creation International (CVCI).<br />
He is the author of the 200-paged book “Serve<br />
Your Customers EXCELLENTLY, Or Not At<br />
All!” and he facilitates customer service training<br />
workshops. Tafadzwa can be contacted on<br />
e-mail at tafadzwazt@gmail.com and his profile<br />
is available at www.customervaluecreation.org<br />
> “About Us”.
6 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / GROOMING<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
<strong>The</strong> return of <strong>The</strong> Gentleman!<br />
Marshall Malikula<br />
It’s a given, that you must always<br />
put your best foot forward, your<br />
grooming has to be top deck.<br />
I can never stress this point<br />
enough. On the contrary, you are<br />
also as good as you carry yourself<br />
in public. Every man has to back up<br />
his good looks with good etiquette<br />
in order to come up with a total<br />
package. Impressions management<br />
is an integral part of grooming and<br />
acceptable social behaviour. Just<br />
like on a first date, first impressions<br />
are the lasting ones. It’s really<br />
great, if you make a good one,<br />
but really hard to reverse a negative<br />
impact. Manners make a man.<br />
Failure to adhere to good etiquette,<br />
sorry to say, I will most likely label<br />
you as a douchebag.<br />
A man’s body is God‘s temple,<br />
therefore should be treated with respect<br />
it deserves. This has nothing<br />
to do with whether you are metro,<br />
retro or conservative man. In fact,<br />
it has nothing to do with sexuality,<br />
long gone were days when it was<br />
acceptable for men to be mud hogs.<br />
Treat your body with respect and<br />
so will others. Treat others with<br />
respect and they will return the favour<br />
threefold. Maintain a healthy<br />
lifestyle and high standards of<br />
grooming.<br />
Posture makes perfect, as does<br />
the right body language. A gentleman<br />
never sits with his legs spread.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no need to advertise. Sit<br />
with legs crossed or close together.<br />
Don’t stretch your feet out towards<br />
another person. This is disrespectful<br />
in any culture. When engaging<br />
in conversation, try not to fidget.<br />
Hold a position and keep eye contact<br />
at all times. <strong>The</strong> people you<br />
meet like to think that they are<br />
worthy of your undivided attention.<br />
Always listen intently, never<br />
interrupt a conversation and NEV-<br />
ER take a phone call or step away<br />
during that conversation.<br />
Table manners are ‘next to<br />
Godliness’. A respectable man<br />
never speaks with a mouth full,<br />
doesn’t slurp and always makes<br />
sure his face and table are stain<br />
free. If you have a moustache, be<br />
extra cautious with crumbs and<br />
sauces, make use of available table<br />
napkins. Don’t pick your teeth at<br />
the table, if it’s unavoidable do so<br />
by covering your mouth with the<br />
other hand. If you not sure which<br />
piece of cutlery to use, observe the<br />
host and follow suit. Your cutlery<br />
is always grouped on either side of<br />
your plate, start with the most outward<br />
working your way in.<br />
When dining in a group, a gentleman<br />
always comes prepared<br />
with enough cash to settle the<br />
whole bill. Of course, you are not<br />
obliged to do so, but should the<br />
need arise you can settle without<br />
making a point of it. This prepares<br />
you for split bills where one party<br />
refuses to acknowledge the mysterious<br />
appearance of caviar on the<br />
bill. Never dispute at the table, you<br />
can always strike later in private.<br />
Chivalry is not dead, treat all<br />
women with respect, and put that<br />
woman first! Always open doors<br />
and let any woman in first. Give<br />
your seat up on the bus, not only for<br />
hot chicks but any one of the fairer<br />
sex. If you are still to tie the knot,<br />
your prospective will look at how<br />
you treat women around you to see<br />
if you caring at all, so it pays being<br />
the ultimate gentleman.<br />
Last but not least a gentleman<br />
dresses appropriately for events. I<br />
have been to so many events, in our<br />
bustling city and wondered, “I am I<br />
the one on the wrong or somebody<br />
did not just get the memo?” Before<br />
going to any event, look at the invite<br />
for clues and colour schemes,<br />
consult with Google or even closer<br />
to home, yours truly. My dad used<br />
to tell me there is no excuse for ignorance,<br />
same applies to all men<br />
folk out there. Let’s all clean up our<br />
acts, life will reward you for being<br />
nice, whether it’s a job interview or<br />
the hot chick you been eyeing, you<br />
will not score till you behave.<br />
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September 14 to 20 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / PROFILE 7<br />
Star Profile<br />
Gorden Taurai Nzira<br />
“<br />
Strong, focused and ready to minister to the world….<br />
“<br />
Prudence Muganiwah<br />
Gorden Taurai Nzira is a Zimbabwean<br />
gospel singer, song writer as well as<br />
music director/producer who was<br />
born in Gwanda and raised in the<br />
city of Bulawayo. Famed for his hit<br />
songs Seiko and Usatani he is an<br />
artist in the making, and not even the<br />
long sabbatical he took from the music<br />
industry has got him rusty – it’s as if<br />
he has been singing and perfecting his<br />
art the whole time.<br />
“I am passionate about creating<br />
music, whether I am singing, writing,<br />
playing drums or directing. I believe music<br />
is my ministry and it is through this<br />
gift that I can be a blessing to the world. <strong>The</strong><br />
thing about a passion is that it controls you<br />
most of the time.” Gorden confesses that there<br />
are many times when he has foregone meals<br />
so he can record himself on his phone<br />
in a bid to remember a chorus that<br />
would have popped up in his<br />
creative and ever-busy artistic<br />
mind. “I love what I<br />
do such that a day in the<br />
studio for me feels like<br />
just an hour.”<br />
To the hardworking<br />
young man, who,<br />
needless to say is<br />
also a praise and<br />
worship director<br />
at his church,<br />
creating music<br />
has never been<br />
a job. It is something<br />
that he<br />
loves so much<br />
that it consumes<br />
him and is quite<br />
literally, part of<br />
his life and being.<br />
“I love making<br />
something out<br />
of almost nothing,<br />
it’s a wonderful<br />
feeling.<br />
When a song<br />
is given to<br />
me through<br />
the inspiration<br />
of the<br />
Holy Spirit,<br />
I get it as a<br />
complete<br />
song. I hear<br />
everything,<br />
the rhythm,<br />
bassline<br />
and sometimes<br />
even<br />
the arrangement.<br />
Now working<br />
to put<br />
that down<br />
so that everyone<br />
can<br />
hear it is<br />
amazing.”<br />
And it is<br />
crystal<br />
clear that<br />
the artist is<br />
full of passion.<br />
That being<br />
said,<br />
Gorden, who<br />
is currently<br />
based in South<br />
Africa, says that his<br />
chosen field is not entirely a<br />
bed of roses as it comes with<br />
its own fair share of buts, fame<br />
being the biggest one. “Dealing<br />
with fame has not been easy, especially given that I did a lot of<br />
wrong footing earlier on in my career. I made some mistakes<br />
and I felt like I needed a break from the lime light. <strong>The</strong> long<br />
sabbatical I took from the music industry has helped mature.”<br />
Married to Nandipha Siyanga and a father of two, a threeyear-<br />
old girl called Mbalenhle and one-year-old boy called Nicanor,<br />
Gorden is also quite your typical family man who loves<br />
spending time with those he holds dear to the heart. “My kids<br />
are both hyper-active so much that when they decide they want<br />
to play with me I have to make sure I have my game on because<br />
they don’t get tired, and as expected they get into a lot of mischief<br />
during the games!” Gorden confesses that he is not big on<br />
shopping and leaves that to his wife as he is a “really terrible<br />
shopper.”<br />
Gorden, who is also a great drummer, believes that the break<br />
he took from music has enabled him to attain a greater understanding<br />
of what it is to be a minister of the gospel. “God has<br />
been good to me and I am back now strong, focused and ready to<br />
minister to the world.”<br />
Basing his career, vision and life mission on the word of<br />
God, Gorden believes that mankind should all have love for one<br />
another regardless of race, creed, gender or tribe. “<strong>The</strong> Lord<br />
Jesus Christ gave it as a new commandment. He said “A new<br />
commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I<br />
have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall<br />
all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to<br />
another. —John 13:33-35.” According to him, love is a solution<br />
to strife and conflicts, and he believes the endless conflict in the<br />
world is caused by greed.<br />
It is evident that he is a born artist as despite that he does<br />
most of his music in the studio over the weekends as opposed<br />
to every day, he still sings to perfection. <strong>The</strong> rest of his week<br />
is typically characterised by office runs, meetings with clients<br />
and studying.<br />
On life achievements, Gorden, who says in another life he<br />
would have done marketing or insurance, says, “besides marrying<br />
the woman of my dreams, I would say I had the greatest<br />
feeling of achievement when I released my first album Seiko in<br />
2006. It had been a dream of mine since childhood.”<br />
Besides building his own career, he is also currently a director<br />
for a group called Yadah Praise and is working on building a<br />
record label in Bulawayo for upcoming local artists. Asked if he<br />
has any pet peeves, the ever smiling, easygoing guy who loves<br />
his Zimbabwean food says, “I don’t like it when people eat in my<br />
car, it just irritates me.”<br />
Taking inspiration from Miles Monroe as a result of his<br />
tireless motivational work, Pastor Dan Zimuwandeyi and Pastor<br />
Eddie Chizeya, Gorden says he also has a lot of respect for<br />
gospel music maestro, Pastor Gee Gwanzura whom he says is<br />
always giving him advice regarding to his music.<br />
Expressing his love for musical art and his wish for young<br />
minds to explore their options and pursue their passions, Gorden<br />
says, “I remember when I started off doing shows, I did lots<br />
of free ones because I was doing it out of passion and that’s<br />
how I met some of the people that helped me record my first<br />
album. Your success is in your passion, follow that and you will<br />
make it. Don’t compare yourself with anyone just do the best<br />
you can.”
8 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / WHEELS<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Nissan Qashqai<br />
THE ULTIMATE URBAN EXPERIENCE<br />
Fact Jeke<br />
<strong>The</strong> world's most popular compact crossover<br />
now enters its second generation<br />
with the introduction of the all new 2014<br />
model. Witnessed firsthand last Friday<br />
at the Nissan Clover Leaf showroom as it was<br />
officially launched, one thing is for sure, creativity<br />
is taking centre stage when it comes to<br />
vehicle production.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first generation model proved to be<br />
overwhelmingly popular, achieving more<br />
than two million sales worldwide since its<br />
2007 launch. Now, the all-new, all-improved<br />
Qashqai is set to continue this success in a<br />
market segment which is unequivocally led by<br />
Nissan. <strong>The</strong> new Nissan QASHQAI ultimately<br />
personifies Nissan’s ‘Innovation that Excites'<br />
ethos."<br />
This is a compact crossover produced by<br />
the Japanese car manufacturer Nissan since<br />
December 2006. It replaced the off-road capable<br />
body-on-frame Mistral/ Terrano as its<br />
small SUV offering. Nissan named it after the<br />
Qashqai semi-nomadic tribe living in mountainous<br />
Southwestern Iran. It’s a compact<br />
SUV suited for both urban driving and bundu<br />
bashing. It has been built at Nissan's Nissan<br />
Motor Manufacturing UK (NMUK) Sunderland,<br />
Tyne and Wear in the last eight years. It<br />
clearly has some English in its DNA.<br />
It is the first model to be styled by Nissan Design<br />
Europe in London, and was globally presented<br />
at the 2006 Paris Motor Show marking<br />
the beginning of its successful journey.<br />
Since its facelift in 2010, the Qashqai has<br />
sold over 200 000 annual units in Europe every<br />
year, and the first generation has sold more<br />
than 2 million units in world over during its<br />
7.5 year production run. An award winner,<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Qashqai was named Car-Of-<strong>The</strong>-Year<br />
at What Car? Awards in London early this<br />
year and has been the official vehicle for the<br />
Cosafa Cup, increasing its brand visibility.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Qashqai is a rival to such cars as the<br />
Toyota RAV4, Hyundai iX35, BMW’s X1, and<br />
the Honda CR-V. Its pricing is competitive as<br />
well with the price under US$50 000.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sub-Saharan African market offers<br />
the 2014 Qashqai in five-model range supported<br />
by three engine variants and two trim lines,<br />
in a 1.2T, 1.5dci and 1.6dci variants. Nissan<br />
South Africa is aiming for high sales as Africa<br />
is rapidly becoming urbanised with hip young<br />
people rapidly moving into business positions<br />
as the continent’s rapid development accelerates.<br />
It’s affordable, efficient, modern, trendy<br />
and energetic in its execution, the new Nissan<br />
Qashqai is not just a reworked original with<br />
a renewed lease on life. Longer, wider, lighter<br />
and redesigned from the ground up, features a<br />
refreshing, trendy new design, state-of-the-art<br />
technology and more.<br />
This compact SUV spearheaded a revolution<br />
and now it’s back in the year 2014. With<br />
a more powerful, bold new design, the all-new<br />
Nissan Qashqai is the agile urban crossover<br />
created to take on the city – and more. It’s<br />
packed with advanced, intuitive technology<br />
and state-of-the-art connected services, its dynamic<br />
ride and handling give you complete<br />
control, always. Being in Harare, you can<br />
take on the city and embark on an urban adventure.<br />
<strong>The</strong> intensity of the all-new Nissan<br />
Qashqai means you can take on the world in<br />
style.<br />
Taking a drive in this car you can experience<br />
an explosion of innovation. It’s the intelligent<br />
new urban triathlete with looks to<br />
match. Razor sharp and more predatory than<br />
ever, with a proudly provocative, aerodynamic<br />
profile, the all-new Nissan Qashqai makes<br />
a powerful statement wherever it goes: <strong>The</strong><br />
original crossover is back like never before<br />
and you won’t be disappointed with its performance<br />
and handling capabilities.<br />
For the ones who struggle to reverse<br />
without bumping into walls or other cars, it<br />
comes fitted with four cameras that deliver a<br />
panoramic exterior view to make reversing<br />
and parking a real cinch. <strong>The</strong> bird’s eye view<br />
lets you check out the lay of the land from<br />
above, then opt for different dual views while<br />
manoeuvring – once you experience it you’ll<br />
never want to drive without it.<br />
In this new model, you can avoid any<br />
scratches. Whether you are in drive or reverse,<br />
push the camera button to switch off the overhead<br />
for a side view – it’s great for checking<br />
how close you are to the curb. You are guaranteed<br />
that those blind spots are covered. In reverse,<br />
you see what’s directly behind and use<br />
the overhead view to check for short objects<br />
that may otherwise be hidden below your window.<br />
Nissan’s chassis control functions deliver<br />
responsive and engaging handling, while delivering<br />
a smoother ride experience.<br />
Till next week, keep it pumping and God bless<br />
you.<br />
Contact me via email on missjeke@gmail.com<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Nissan LEAF is taking pride of place on the<br />
Nissan Stand at the Zimbabwe Auto Show on<br />
13-14 September.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 100-percent electric Nissan LEAF<br />
has globally soared in popularity and<br />
sales. Now in its fifth year of global<br />
production, and delighting more than<br />
100,000 owners world-wide, the Nissan<br />
LEAF is visiting Zimbabwe and taking a<br />
bow at the Auto Show.<br />
Your Nissan Dealers in Zimbabwe<br />
will be manning the stand at the Auto<br />
Show. Along with the LEAF, they will<br />
be showcasing a selection of the local<br />
Nissan range, including Nissan passenger<br />
model ALMERA, extraordinary JUKE and<br />
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10 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / TRENDS<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Kitchens<br />
Simple kitchen<br />
with elegant<br />
floors and<br />
splash of<br />
colour.<br />
Fabulous<br />
Noma Ndlovu<br />
Kitchens are the soul of the home. Gone are<br />
the days where kitchens were the domain<br />
of maids and mothers, where you only went<br />
to get your food refill. Things have changed,<br />
kitchens have become the crowning glory of a<br />
home. <strong>The</strong> old formula to create a triangular<br />
flow - fridge, sink and stove has been replaced<br />
by a functionality that is user-friendly and interactive.<br />
Kitchens have evolved to showcase personality<br />
and style. I have often pointed out that<br />
each room of the house is important but detail<br />
and state of a room is what sets your property<br />
apart from the rest should you decide to sell.<br />
A kitchen is a good selling point, the classier<br />
and modern the kitchen is the more value it<br />
adds to your home.<br />
Before you decide on the theme of your<br />
kitchen, you need to be clear on whether you<br />
are remodelling or renovating. Remodelling<br />
is a completely new kitchen where you are<br />
changing not only the fixtures but the floor<br />
plan , space , appliances and all else. Renovating<br />
is simply updating fixtures and fittings<br />
and without changing the floor plan or removing<br />
walls. Your wall colour will set the tone for<br />
your kitchen.<br />
Kitchen Must Haves<br />
Sinks and Faucets. Kitchens have become<br />
trendy in the last decade. Stainless steel kitchen<br />
sinks have a new look. New material is<br />
now being used in the design of sinks that can<br />
match the colour of your floors, counter tops<br />
or appliances. Sinks can now be under mount,<br />
top mount or apron style, just depends on your<br />
preferences.<br />
Countertops. <strong>The</strong>re are many options<br />
when it comes to counter tops. You can use<br />
granite, quartz, marble, concrete, wood, stainless<br />
steel, laminate, solid surface, recycled<br />
glass and tiles. I love granite countertops especially<br />
the ones that glow in the dark. If budget<br />
is not an issue I definitely recommend granite<br />
for your countertops. It really does add value<br />
to your home and it wears well. It holds heat<br />
well and has the second hardness rating after<br />
diamonds. Choose a countertop that is durable<br />
and easy to maintain. Local kitchen designers<br />
have a wide range of these counters to<br />
help make your kitchen dream come true.<br />
Cabinets and Back Wash. You can’t go<br />
wrong with wood. Wood can be stained to suit<br />
your colour choices to a certain extent. Wood<br />
gives your kitchen a more rustic feel and ages<br />
well. Wood laminate is a cheaper alternative<br />
but does not age well. You can get creative<br />
with your space. It does not mean that a small<br />
space can’t have a stunning kitchen. In fact<br />
small kitchens are the best to design as you<br />
are working with fewer elements. Use sliding<br />
drawers for lower cabinets and grooved sling<br />
drawers for spices. Work with colour tones<br />
and accents as these will help give an illusion<br />
of space. Dark woods on white walls or white<br />
woods against dark walls or light walls the<br />
end result is always a stunning kitchen. Back<br />
wash or back splash that’s the area between<br />
your top cabinets and the counter tops. This<br />
area needs to stand out and flow with the design.<br />
Sitting Area. <strong>The</strong> kitchen being the soul<br />
of the home, a sitting area is a must. Depending<br />
on the size of your family you might need<br />
to remodel your kitchen if space is an issue.<br />
However sitting area does not necessarily<br />
have to be in the kitchen per se as these days<br />
open plan is the in thing and the kitchen spills<br />
into the dining area. You can choose to have<br />
a sliding glass door to separate the two areas<br />
just to add a bit of mystery and pizazz to your<br />
area. Choose light sitting which is durable and<br />
blends well with your space.<br />
Pantry and Scullery<br />
In larger kitchens, these are generally over<br />
flow rooms. <strong>The</strong>se need not be dreary rooms<br />
or spaces. If you are remodelling you can add<br />
them to your floor plan as overflow rooms or<br />
as part of the kitchen cabinetry. <strong>The</strong> scullery<br />
can house your dishwashing machine, washer<br />
and dryer.<br />
Appliances, Lighting and Flooring<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a plethora of appliance manufacturers<br />
who provide a range of appliances that suit<br />
any budget. You can select your appliances to<br />
go with your colour scheme. If yellow is your<br />
theme go with the flow and ensure cohesiveness<br />
in your design that wows and welcomes<br />
people into your space. Lighting in the kitchen<br />
should not be limited to the one bright florescent<br />
light that we all know. Have three sources<br />
of lighting – the bright one for you to see what<br />
you are cooking, the dim one for dining and<br />
the general one for normal lighting. Flooring<br />
should be practical as well; I love Caesarstone<br />
tiles which can also be adapted to countertops.<br />
High gloss wood, ceramic and stone tiles<br />
should be your options. Stick to one colour for<br />
your flooring, not only does this add flow to<br />
your theme; it adds value and simple elegance<br />
to your home.<br />
Kitchens are now classified as contemporary,<br />
eclectic, traditional, luxury, classic,<br />
modern, bespoke, funky, coastal, the list goes<br />
on. However what is most important is how<br />
you define your kitchen space. <strong>The</strong>se dream<br />
kitchens are attainable, all you need is to decide<br />
what you what, stablish your budget,<br />
shop around and choose a reputable Interior<br />
designer or a Specialist Kitchen Designer who<br />
can match your ideas to form and functionality.<br />
<strong>The</strong> good thing is we have talented Kitchen<br />
Designers in Zimbabwe that you can work<br />
with to create a beautiful bespoke kitchen that<br />
suits your needs. Till then Keep Calm and<br />
Love your Home.<br />
Credits – SA home Owner – August 2014.<br />
www.Interiordec.about.com www.ramseyinteriors.com<br />
flickr.com. www.edmondsoninteriors.co.uk<br />
Noma Ndlovu is an Interior Designer & Property<br />
Stylist. Feedback on unaminkosi@yahoo.<br />
co.uk or www.facebook.com/unamihomestyle<br />
Sliding drawers for lower cabinets to minimize clutter an excellent way to maintain an elegant<br />
kitchen<br />
A double under mount sink with a high pressure shower faucet.<br />
A built in storage area for your washing machines
September 14 to 20 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN /INSPIRATION 11<br />
THE COLOURS OF SUMMER: ORANGE AND BLUE<br />
Spacework<br />
late, Coffee & Cream<br />
While you revamp your wardrobe and<br />
stock it with the hottest summer<br />
trends, it is also the perfect time to<br />
e this season bygive giving your it home a cosy a brand warm new makeover<br />
room that is reflect in tune your with personality the season’s and spirit. preferences . But keep it practical. This<br />
winter interior. Don't be afraid to use your<br />
make each<br />
r scheme is<br />
Summer<br />
inspired<br />
is a<br />
by<br />
time<br />
our<br />
of<br />
delectable<br />
renewal, rejuvenation<br />
winter indulgences - chocolate, coffee and<br />
and rebirth. Now is the time to let your house<br />
be engulfed in vivacious colours and bold patterns.<br />
In the upcoming weeks we will share<br />
some decor ideas to help give your interiors a<br />
hoose for your walls is probably one of the biggest decisions you have to make when<br />
refreshing summer atmosphere.<br />
g as they are This the biggest week we most will explore prominent a colour feature palette<br />
for that making is striking, a statement and that will in aalso living give room. You can set off your living room<br />
in orange the that room. resonates Creamy with hot you. chocolate<br />
re wall colour<br />
t this decadent<br />
your home<br />
colour<br />
a wow<br />
making<br />
impression.<br />
them stand<br />
Although<br />
out.<br />
most<br />
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12 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / GARDEN<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
What was<br />
Noah thinking?<br />
Dylan Wilson Max<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of Noah and the Ark is one of my<br />
favourites; the dove at the end with the olive<br />
branch is a true testament to faith. However<br />
with hindsight, there are some little crawlings<br />
for which gardeners blame Noah. He gave<br />
them a free ride!<br />
Maybe what Noah needed was a couple<br />
of “touts” calling the shots – maybe we need<br />
another flood so that this time we can get it<br />
right! I touched on aphids and thunder flies<br />
last week, this week we want to touch on the<br />
other general pests and diseases that made it<br />
onto the ark “without paying their 5 Rand.”<br />
Plants are resilient wise more advanced than<br />
humans. You can chop their head, dry them<br />
out and abuse them in ways that would drive<br />
any human being to the grave, but you find<br />
they still revive and in some cases come back<br />
much stronger than before.<br />
Fungi is to plants what kryptonite is to<br />
Superman. Fungi is definitely the “uber”<br />
bad guy in a Superhero flick. <strong>The</strong>y have the<br />
ability to actually over time form a protective<br />
shield around themselves thus ensuring<br />
that the job of destroying your garden is done<br />
in a peaceful environment. <strong>The</strong>y also spread<br />
themselves around quite efficiently producing<br />
large numbers of spores by using mediums<br />
like wind, rainwater and animals to further<br />
ensure that their life is replicated efficiently.<br />
One of the signs of fungi is powdery mildew,<br />
this can form on roses, lilacs, zinnias, grapes<br />
etc... When you see a white powdery substance<br />
on your plants without explanation, know that<br />
the enemy is at work.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are remedies for fungi. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
“salad dressing” options I mentioned, however<br />
it would be best to consult your favourite<br />
agrochemical supplier and look for fungicidal<br />
chemicals. A fungus can turn a lush palm tree<br />
into a sick looking mess in a matter of months<br />
and they do their most work during our windy<br />
months. Fungi, not really Noah’s fault ….but<br />
the jury is still out on this one!<br />
Army worms and other caterpillars are getting<br />
ready for the summer. Be on the look-out<br />
for these, especially wedding venue owners<br />
near farms. Remember what happens around<br />
you will start happening to you when we speak<br />
of pests and diseases.<br />
Snails and slugs can also prove to be a<br />
problem, especially with your more succulent<br />
stemmed plants. <strong>The</strong> pests love the good stuff,<br />
mainly all the nutrients located at the base of<br />
the plant upwards from the roots.<br />
In all the above cases prevention is always better<br />
than cure. This cold spell might be useful<br />
in delaying attacks; however it will get warmer,<br />
be on the look-out for black pots, powdery<br />
mildew and caterpillars. Treat them early and<br />
save yourself the hassle in the future.<br />
Till Next Week …Go with God…As they say<br />
Papua New Guinea<br />
Come and join us for a<br />
wonderful day out at <strong>The</strong><br />
Annual Garden Show on<br />
13th-14th September.<br />
Come and get some ideas for your own garden by looking at the<br />
exciting garden designsthat our nurseries and landscapers are<br />
putting together.<br />
Bring a piece of a plant you’d like identified or come and ask<br />
questions about your garden at our experts Q&A Panel and listen<br />
to a variety of other interesting talks and demonstrations<br />
(all free).<br />
<strong>The</strong> tea garden will be serving delicious teas and lunches,<br />
with gluten and dairy-free options available.<br />
For the kids there will be a fantastic Kid’s Zone (enclosed, shaded,<br />
bottled water available, no water slides) and African <strong>The</strong>mes<br />
Pottery will be there with a “Kiddies Corner” where your children<br />
can paint and decorate their own piece of pottery.<br />
Get Inspired! Get Gardening!
THE STANDARD STYLE<br />
FOOD & DRINK<br />
1<br />
In this issue<br />
of Food & Drink<br />
(1,2) <strong>The</strong>o’s 167 Enterprise road<br />
(3) Lebbie<br />
2 3
14 THE STANDARD STYLE / EATING OUT / THEO’S 167 ENTERPRISE ROAD<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Breakfast at <strong>The</strong>o’s/167, Enterprise Road, Lewisam.<br />
Dusty Miller<br />
Main picture: “Lolly” Nel, co-owner of 167<br />
wither her son, <strong>The</strong>o.<br />
I<br />
woke early on Wednesday, realising<br />
I’d nothing to fill the then<br />
yawning centimeters of this column.<br />
It meant breakfast then or actually<br />
going for a lunch I’d planned<br />
thrice but on each occasion a flurry<br />
of e-mails and/or minor panic at<br />
the Word Factory kept me chained<br />
Dusty’s “What’s on Diary”<br />
Contributions are welcome, to arrive in good time, bearing in mind<br />
events in which readers of this page are interested.<br />
SMS 0733 401 347 or 0776 903 161; (e-mail dustym @zimind.co.zw)<br />
CUT OUT, KEEP, WATCH FOR NEXT UPDATE<br />
Sept 14 (today)Rhino Awareness Day.<br />
Battle of Britain Sunday Service Athol Evans Chapel.<br />
REPS fun pub quiz (music…Spot the Tine!) with Tony Palmer. Main bar 11:15<br />
sharp. Royal Society of St George Battle of Britain private picnic lunch<br />
Royal Navy Officers’ Association of Southern Africa Battle of Britain lunch Harare<br />
ClubLast day Zimbabwe Motor Show, Old Georgians<br />
Last day AEL Tiger Fishing Challenge, Eagle’s Rest Hotel, Siavonga, Zambia.<br />
Lunch: Alo, Alo, Arundel; <strong>The</strong>o’s, 167, Enterprise Road; Adrienne’s, Belgravia;<br />
Da Eros, Fishmonger and Great Wall, East Road; Sitar, Newlands; Palms, Bronte<br />
Hotel; Willow Bean Cafe, Rolf Valley, English roast/pudding US$15. (BYOB, no<br />
corkage.) Paula’s Place; Wild Geese, Teviotdale buffet/live music; City Bowling<br />
Club, Harare Gardens (roast brrf, Yorkshire pud etc); Italian Club, Strathaven, Mu<br />
kuvisi Woodlands Coffee Shop; Centurion Pub & Grill, Harare Sports Club, Arti’s,<br />
New Section, Borrowdale Village; Hellenics, Eastlea<br />
Sept 15 Keep fit, Zumba Dancing, City Bowling Club, Harare Gardens. And every working<br />
night except Fridays. 5:30pm-6:30pm.To Sept 17 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”<br />
REPS <strong>The</strong>atre 7pm. Matinee Saturday 2:30pm<br />
Sept 16 7pm Line dancing City Bowling ClubSept 17 Farmers’ market, Maasdorp Avenue,<br />
Belgravia (next to Bottom Drawer)<br />
Sept 17-20 and 24-27 <strong>The</strong> Importance of Being Earnest REPS 7;30pm and matinee Saturday<br />
at 2:30<br />
Sept 18 (and every Thursday) Tapas night and music by Evicted, Amanzi Restaurant,<br />
Chisipite. (and every other Thursday) fun pub quiz blue@2 Private Wine Bar, 2,<br />
Aberdeen Rd, Avondale. Booking essential, Tel 0772 856 371<br />
Sept 26.<br />
Sept 27<br />
to the work station… or, at a pinch,<br />
supper that evening, writing early<br />
Thursday.<br />
Given the state of Harare’s<br />
roads and drivers ranging between<br />
selfish and suicidal, I tend to rarely<br />
“do” evening meals out these days.<br />
I have, however, attended evening<br />
fun pub quizzes in the bar at<br />
GGF&WAS lunch Fishmonger, East Rd. twelve-thirty for 1pm<br />
Karaoke night, with Dave and Debbie, City Bowling Club, from dusk. Supper<br />
available.<br />
Greek night with Costa Nicolas, Hellenic Club, Eastlea. Details Joanna 0772 390<br />
960 Murder Mystery dinner 6:30pm, <strong>The</strong> Venue, Avondale. Tables of eight,<br />
US$75 p/p. Details nancybenham@aol.comOct10-11-12. Zimbabwe 5s Bowling<br />
Tournament City Bowling Club. Full bar and catering; pig-on-a-spit Friday, music,<br />
raffles.<br />
Oct 11-12 Zimbabwe Trout Fishing championships Nyanga. To compete: mmatipano@zim<br />
parks.co.zw stay at Rhodes Nyanga Hotel.<br />
Oct 22-25 53rd annual Kariba Invitation Tiger Fishing Tournament, Charara Eastern Basin<br />
Oct 29-Nov 8. EatOut Zimbabwe Restaurant Week. Enjoy bargain 2 and 3 course meals at<br />
top eateries in Harare and Bulawayo.<br />
Dec 29-31 Jameson Victoria Falls Festival. Book now!<br />
(Neither <strong>Standard</strong>Plus nor Dusty Miller take responsibility for inaccuracies,<br />
postponements, cancellations. No charge for entry.<br />
Deadline 10am Tues prior to publication day.)<br />
“167” (Enterprise Road) and it was<br />
in that direction I drove to break my<br />
fast on a rather warm spring day. In<br />
fact sitting on the stoep at 167 awaiting<br />
their splendid “full English<br />
breakfast”: of the sort which few<br />
Poms have enjoyed since the days of<br />
King Edward VII, was at one stage<br />
uncomfortable in full sun.<br />
I dipped into a Cold War spy<br />
thriller, people-watched (the “people”<br />
all seemed to be regulars and<br />
largely knew one another) and<br />
gawped at comical silky bantams<br />
quartering the pretty gardens by a<br />
swimming pool needing some TLC<br />
for the odd grub. I always think<br />
there’s something therapeutic about<br />
watching poultry scratch, squabble<br />
and indulge in lightning-fast fornication.<br />
167 is the enjoyable little eatery<br />
at 167 Enterprise Road, also known<br />
as <strong>The</strong>o’s House of Coffees and (by<br />
many, still) <strong>The</strong> Stables. (<strong>The</strong>re was<br />
a livery stable there a generation<br />
back.) It sits where Lewisam meets,<br />
Chisipite, Colne Valley and Rietfontein.<br />
Incidentally did you know<br />
Lewisam isn’t a misspelling of<br />
London suburb Lewisham, as often<br />
claimed?<br />
Sam Lewis, a colourful Jewish<br />
Pioneer of this country, began an<br />
early woodlot and timber-yard just<br />
off the road to Enterprise Valley’s<br />
once highly productive farms… today’s<br />
Lewisam, (his name almost<br />
reversed, geddit?)<br />
Now the plush, leafy suburb is<br />
largely populated by diplomats on<br />
“hardship” postings to Ha-ha-harare<br />
(Africa’s fun capital!)<br />
<strong>The</strong>o’s is a splendid little family<br />
outlet. I like al fresco eating when<br />
the weather’s right (about 350 days a<br />
year in this “hardship” post in Sunshine<br />
City!) <strong>The</strong> gardens and stoep<br />
are always inviting.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s maybe three hectares<br />
of rolling real estate fringed with<br />
venerable trees; several arty-crafty<br />
shops and boutiques are dotted<br />
around the property and then a little<br />
oasis of manicured green lawn,<br />
lovely roses, pool with brand new<br />
slides and early Colonial-style<br />
dwelling, which is now a daytime<br />
eatery. What I assume was the original<br />
farmstead is a bar (at nights)<br />
often with live entertainment, a fun<br />
pub quiz every fortnight and great<br />
value US$5 suppers.<br />
Matronly part-owner “Lolly”<br />
Nel (a former van der Merwe, from<br />
Lupane) is, sadly, rather poorly at<br />
the moment. Previously she told me<br />
there were many bijoux businesses<br />
operating on what was until fairly<br />
recently a small-holding, including<br />
a used vehicle dealership, run by<br />
her son, the eponymous <strong>The</strong>o, and<br />
stunning garden centre.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Nels owned the (then) hugely<br />
popular Hot Springs Resort at<br />
Chimanimani, but had a torrid (and<br />
horrid) time with so-called war-vets,<br />
who thought they could just walk in<br />
and “liberate” it. Last time I called<br />
it had been “given” to Chimanimani<br />
Rural District Council, notwithstanding<br />
the fact the RDC had made<br />
a total dog’s breakfast of running<br />
Chimanimani. It was operated by<br />
a “committee” of councilors and<br />
functionaries all wanting pay, freebies<br />
and perks.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir manager was loading<br />
crates of empties onto a chicken bus<br />
going to Mutate for him to return<br />
many hours later with (hopefully)<br />
“fulls”. It was, of course, a committee<br />
which designed the camel when<br />
they wanted a cow!<br />
<strong>The</strong>o’s lists several breakfasts<br />
and, enjoying them, you can vicariously<br />
tour the world! I liked<br />
the sound of an Irish one: two Irish<br />
potato cakes topped with creamy<br />
scrambled egg and tea or coffee at<br />
$7; full English is US$13, American<br />
breakfast, US12 or American pancakes<br />
US$8 and French toast $4!<br />
I chose the full English job: two<br />
sunshine-yolked soft poached eggs,<br />
a stack of excellent bacon, nice<br />
pork sausage, maningi mushrooms,<br />
grilled (ox heart?) tomato, a mountain<br />
of golden chips and brinjal<br />
with two slices of toast, butter and<br />
lovely thick shred piquant marmalade<br />
with TWO pots of hot, thirstquenching<br />
tea and biscotti: a very<br />
filling, satisfactory US$13 artery<br />
clogging greasefest, as good as you’d<br />
have been served in a Pommie transport<br />
“caff ” 50 years ago (for fivebob!):<br />
that’s praise indeed!<br />
To offset that, they serve grand<br />
healthy salads; bacon and blue<br />
cheese is one of seven nice-sounding<br />
toasties which come with chips<br />
and a side salad or you can have it<br />
in baked potatoes (or crepe.) In the<br />
past, I’ve had a huge tasty baked<br />
floury potato stuffed with a splendid<br />
creamy chicken and mushroom<br />
filling (now US$9), with substantial<br />
side salad for late lunch.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y open 8am-5pm weekdays, from<br />
9am at weekends. Telephone: 443720<br />
or 0772 881 877.<br />
<strong>The</strong>o’s House of Coffees, 167,<br />
Enterprise Road (opposite Lewisam<br />
Motors). Dusty Miller rating threeand-a-half<br />
stars.<br />
dustymiller46@gmail.com;<br />
www.dailymiller.co<br />
<strong>The</strong>o Nel<br />
Full English breakfast in the<br />
sunshine<br />
Mushroom-filled baked potato<br />
with salad<br />
A US$5 spaghetti Bolognaise as<br />
served at night in the bar. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
are especially popular at the pub<br />
quizzes.<br />
All pictures by Dusty Miller
September 14 to 20 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK / WINE 15<br />
Lebbie Musavaya<br />
“It is well to remember that<br />
there are five reasons for<br />
drinking: the arrival of a<br />
friend; one’s present or future<br />
thirst; the excellence of the<br />
wine; or any other reason.”<br />
~Latin Proverb<br />
Over the years, I have often found myself questioning my<br />
inner self as to what reason I had for opening a bottle<br />
of wine. This, I found, was more so, during spontaneous<br />
acts.<br />
Without actually spelling it out, I found that I didn’t need a reason<br />
to open a bottle of wine. Can the old adage “anytime is tea<br />
time”, be applied and interpreted as “anytime is wine time”?<br />
I’d love to hear your thoughts on that, wine lovers.<br />
Earlier on this year, a visit to the Cape Winelands saw me<br />
tasting wine from as early as 10am right through to 5pm and,<br />
through all that, still looked forward to having dinner with<br />
wine. A visit to Europe, in particular, Portugal, Spain, France<br />
and Italy, reminded me of a common culture of a glass of wine<br />
with lunch. <strong>The</strong> wine enthusiast in me easily embraced and<br />
adopted this culture with ease and enjoyment.<br />
In May of this year, an acquaintance dropped by on a<br />
Thursday evening to say hello. <strong>The</strong> wine collector in me came<br />
in handy once again, as I took out a Barefoot, white Zinfandel<br />
to say ‘hello’ over, a tasteful and delightful light wine, pink in<br />
colour and a flavourful of fruit. <strong>The</strong> ‘hello’ had to be extended,<br />
just to finish the bottle of wine.<br />
One of my favourites, a versatile grape variety, a Riesling,<br />
(Nederburg Riesling Reserve), came in handy at a last minute<br />
invitation to a lunch time braai. With its easygoing character,<br />
freshness and crisp acidity, it paired perfectly. Although, a not<br />
so common grape variety with the crowd invited, the Riesling<br />
lived up to unexpected standards and I’ve got to say, there’ll<br />
be more Riesling drinkers somewhere out there, at their next<br />
Is there<br />
a time<br />
for<br />
Wine?<br />
gathering.<br />
A month ago, a childhood friend in all aspects, Lorraine,<br />
called me up at about 7:30pm to share a KWV Magnum Roodeberg<br />
2008. This is a blend of mainly Cabernet Sauvignon,<br />
Shiraz, Merlot and other varietals in small percentages. With<br />
its medium body, it was an instant hit on its own, with rich<br />
berry aromas that followed fruitily on the palate, balanced and<br />
smooth tannins. Afraid that it may have reached its full potential,<br />
we had nothing to worry about as the Magnum (1.5litres)<br />
was far from a disappointment. It was amazing how we managed<br />
to compress all our childhood years to current ‘us’ all in<br />
1,5 litres. With no idea where the wine had gone, but just the<br />
tick tock of the clock to alert us to 1:30am, we called it an evening.<br />
An awesome evening filled with nostalgia and wine to help<br />
us sail through it.<br />
Yes, “Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer<br />
tensions and more tolerance”. -- Benjamin Franklin<br />
On more occasions than one, I have stumbled and even fallen<br />
over because of life’s challenges. A bottle of wine, especially a<br />
“bubbly” has helped me zone in on my feelings and pleasantly<br />
reflect on events. Looking into a glass of ‘bubbly’, surprisingly<br />
has always brought pleasant memories, so even though I had<br />
initially started with a mind full of challenge, through it all<br />
plus the bottle of ‘bubbly’, I walk away satisfactorily with,<br />
though mixed feelings, and most of them, of a pleasant nature.<br />
Two weekends ago, my in-laws, gogo and sekuru Musavaya<br />
celebrated their Golden anniversary (50 years) in the institute<br />
of marriage. This was a definite celebration. <strong>The</strong> Golden toast<br />
was cemented with a Graham Beck Brut NV, which lived up to<br />
its standards as ‘an all round crowd pleaser and extremely versatile<br />
bubbly’, which proved popular amongst the evolved palate<br />
with its creamy limey palate and freshness. <strong>The</strong> Graham<br />
Beck Bliss Demi-Sec NV, pleased the sweeter palate with its delightful<br />
sweet nose of honey and butterscotch, which followed<br />
through on the palate.<br />
Wine lovers, the various reasons for having a glass of wine<br />
will definitely exceed the 101 mark. Make everyday an occasion.<br />
Make ‘wine time’, YOUR time. I have my bottle of Idiom<br />
Viognier 2012 chilled and ready for my wine time. Care to join<br />
me?<br />
MyLifeAndWine@icloud.com
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us, we see the past,<br />
present, and future.<br />
~Gail Lumet Buckley
20 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / PARENTING / BACK TO SCHOOL<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
It’s the back to school blues again, isn’t it?<br />
Prudence Muganiwah<br />
And if you are a parent to one or<br />
two young ones, or three, you are<br />
bound to have gone through one<br />
hell of a time this past week! What<br />
with the packing off to boarding<br />
school, replacing uniforms that had<br />
become too small, standing in bank<br />
queues to pay fees, getting the little<br />
princesses’ hair done and so on. And<br />
this was obviously over and above<br />
the usual work routines, church and<br />
community engagements, caring for<br />
elderly parents, and the list goes on.<br />
As the new school term settles in,<br />
there are a lot of practical tips that<br />
may help ease your day just a little<br />
more, dear parent:<br />
Carpool – Organize one with<br />
your friends or other parents from your<br />
area. That half-hour you do not make a<br />
morning or afternoon school run will<br />
save you in terms of time, and allow<br />
you to get your other tasks done earlier.<br />
Sleep routines – Your little<br />
one/s was understandably now used<br />
to the holiday routine where probably<br />
they woke up around 9 and started<br />
off their day playing games with<br />
their pet, friends, siblings or watching<br />
their daily dose of cartoons. <strong>The</strong><br />
transition to the school days routine<br />
will not be easy as they now need to<br />
wake up at least 3 hours earlier. You<br />
will have to make sure the mornings<br />
are less hectic by being more<br />
organized the night before – pack<br />
lunchboxes, aid your son or daughter<br />
in doing their homework And<br />
checking it, make sure all shoes are<br />
polished and uniforms are ready.<br />
More lunch ideas - Be creative<br />
with the lunchboxes. Think out of<br />
the box, literally! Always strive to<br />
come up with quicker ideas on how<br />
to fill your child’s stomach – BUT<br />
without compromising their health.<br />
Give them lunch money as opposed<br />
to a packed lunch at least once a<br />
week, to help on the variety as well<br />
as keep the fun! Involve your kids as<br />
well in the packing of their meals –<br />
you are helping them become more<br />
self-sufficient as well as ensuring<br />
you actually pack what they like –<br />
I know one kid who would always<br />
come back with all his sandwiches<br />
and the mum had no clue what was<br />
wrong, sometimes even yelling at<br />
him. Only to discover that all the<br />
poor little one could not stand was<br />
the butter mum used as a base on all<br />
her sandwiches.<br />
Hopefully with these seemingly<br />
insignificant tips, your days will<br />
be made easier, your kids’ more fun<br />
and consequently this coming week<br />
will be better.<br />
Prudence Muganiwah<br />
THIrd term is upon us, and the<br />
Ordinary and Advanced level candidates<br />
in your home are probably<br />
besides themselves as panic mode<br />
sets in and nerves are all over the<br />
place. Of course they are wondering<br />
if they have done enough in terms<br />
of studying, research and mentally<br />
preparing themselves for the exams<br />
that they are due to write in a few<br />
weeks. Exams that will determine<br />
their next step in terms of education<br />
– exams that will determine<br />
their fate. And naturally, you are<br />
probably increasingly concerned<br />
too, as the days draw nearer. Is there<br />
anything that can be done now? But<br />
of course!<br />
• Form study groups – your<br />
teen’s teachers may have already<br />
done this, but it may be beneficial<br />
for your child to be part of a study<br />
group so that they share ideas, exchange<br />
notes and books, and help<br />
each other understand their studies<br />
better. It may even be a Whatsapp<br />
group where helpful links are<br />
shared.<br />
• Go over notes – this is the oldest<br />
and safest way to keep all that data<br />
locked up in your teen’s brain. Encourage<br />
them to try to read as they<br />
go, after a day at school, they should<br />
go over everything they wrote so it<br />
sticks. And they should not just flip<br />
pages, but make sure they understand<br />
and grasp concepts otherwise<br />
they are just looking at words and<br />
passing time!<br />
• Start the syllabus over – now<br />
this is not to say your child will<br />
need to do everything from scratch,<br />
there is simply no time! But in their<br />
spare time, they can start from the<br />
very first chapter of all the recommended<br />
text books, and go over the<br />
basic, main topics just to refresh<br />
their minds and have an overview<br />
of the whole course.<br />
• Seek extra help – whilst going<br />
over what they have learned by<br />
themselves is a good way to brace up<br />
for exams, it is also crucial that your<br />
teen seeks their teacher or tutor’s<br />
help and guidance where needed.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y may be grey in some areas,<br />
or doubtful of certain concepts –<br />
daily attempts should be made to<br />
just try and clear these as the term<br />
progresses so that when exam time<br />
comes, both you and your teen don’t<br />
regret not having asked.
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / EDUCATION 21<br />
Raising Your<br />
Self Esteem<br />
Edson Chivandikwa<br />
Self-esteem is a significant aspect of one’s wholeness.<br />
Teenage years are a period of the development<br />
of a self-concept and identity formation.<br />
Low self-esteem can cause a lot of complications<br />
in these determinative years and even prolong into<br />
adulthood. Self-esteem refers to the evaluation of<br />
oneself; it is about how one feels valued, accepted and<br />
loved by those around him or her. It is not a fixed identity<br />
but can transform as situations change.<br />
Causes of low self-esteem<br />
Low self-evaluation can be a product of criticism or<br />
ridicule by parents, siblings, friends, peers or authority<br />
figures. On the other hand, it can emanate from<br />
self-criticism and self-inflicted degradation. Belittling<br />
oneself, especially in comparison with others can<br />
erode one’s self-image. Setting unrealistic expectations<br />
for ourselves can also have an abrasion effect on<br />
our self-esteem if we fail to meet those expectations.<br />
Sometimes we want to achieve unrealistic feats when<br />
we clearly do not have the requisite qualities to match<br />
those exploits.<br />
Consequences of low self-esteem<br />
Those who suffer from low esteem usually feel upset<br />
about themselves and others, depending on who they<br />
blame for the situation. In most cases, one’s self-care<br />
declines and thinking narrows and focuses on the<br />
negative.<br />
What can be done to restore self-esteem?<br />
First one needs to identify the triggers to low self-esteem.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se triggers may be situational (for example<br />
the presence or absence of some people). Those who<br />
suffer from low self-esteem need to adjust their selfimage,<br />
especially when their expectations of themselves<br />
are too high and unrealistic. Most significantly<br />
they need to know themselves and their potentialities<br />
and peg their targets realistically.<br />
A common problem with low self-esteem people is that<br />
they unnecessarily compare themselves with others.<br />
This should be avoided since it is self-defeating. Instead<br />
of comparing oneself with others, one should<br />
concentrate on self-care: good health excellent appearance<br />
and a healthy mind and self-assertiveness. Low<br />
self-esteem people should use the assertive “I” to express<br />
what you feel, think, want and see. <strong>The</strong>y must<br />
not allow themselves to be abused or demeaned; they<br />
should boldly say no.<br />
Remember: self-esteem is learnt within social situations;<br />
it is not inherited. You can transform it!<br />
Motivational<br />
for new term<br />
As the new term starts, whether you’re a student, a teacher or a parent. you<br />
may need some motivation to get off to a good start:<br />
1. “Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too<br />
busy later.” - Dana Stewart Scott<br />
2. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change<br />
the world.” - Nelson Mandela<br />
3. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to<br />
acquire it.” - Albert Einstein<br />
4. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” - Victor Hugo<br />
5. “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” - Ray LeBlond<br />
6. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you<br />
educate a generation.” - Brigham Young<br />
7. “<strong>The</strong> whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -<br />
Sydney J. Harris<br />
8. “Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education.”<br />
- Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
9. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time<br />
to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.” - Oscar Wilde<br />
10. “<strong>The</strong> educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ<br />
from the dead.” - Aristotle<br />
11. “<strong>The</strong> difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a<br />
lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you<br />
a lesson.” - Tom Bodett<br />
12. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the<br />
people who prepare for it today.” - Malcolm X<br />
13. “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” - Edmund<br />
Burke<br />
14. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”<br />
- W.B. Yeats<br />
15. “School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.” - Jim Benton<br />
16. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school<br />
like I did.” - Yogi Berra<br />
17. “What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem,<br />
support, and friendship.” - Terry Tempest Williams<br />
18. “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him<br />
how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” -- Confucius<br />
19. “In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive<br />
purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?”<br />
- John Irving<br />
20. “Just don’t take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”<br />
- Woody Allen<br />
www.latintimes.com/back-school-quotes-20-motivational-sayings
22 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / HEALTH<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
9 Practical Ways To<br />
Lose Weight This Summer<br />
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We’ve all heard the advice: if we want to<br />
lose weight, we need to eat less and move<br />
more. It seems simple enough, but it’s a<br />
largely useless proposition without a plan.<br />
What I’ve found to be effective (and what<br />
I’ve written about in several books) is the<br />
5:2 approach to intermittent fasting. This requires<br />
calories to be slashed to a quarter of<br />
the usual intake (that’s about 500 calories for<br />
a woman, 600 for a man) just two days a week.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other five days, you eat normally.<br />
Do this, and you can expect to see changes<br />
on the scales, and, crucially, significant benefits<br />
to your health, including lowering the<br />
risk of a number of age-related diseases.<br />
So what realistic, daily steps can you make<br />
right now to take you from hopeful words<br />
to guaranteed action? Below are my top 9<br />
weight-loss tips; try some, or all, of these for<br />
six weeks and you may well find that you’ve<br />
gone down a size, but — far more importantly<br />
— you’ll have started to modify your appetite<br />
and your attitude to food.<br />
1. Take an “alcoholiday”<br />
One of the smartest, swiftest routes to weight<br />
loss is to cut out (or cut back on) alcohol. Sadly,<br />
alcohol is chemically similar to sugar, so<br />
drinking it will set off the same insulin resistance<br />
that can promote weight gain. Your<br />
glass of Chardonnay or your Mojito contains<br />
plenty of calories, but very little nutritional<br />
benefit — so, for six weeks, aim to give it (and<br />
your liver) a break. Think of it as an “alcoholiday.”<br />
And if you must drink? Try a white<br />
wine spritzer; make every second drink water;<br />
and watch the mixers. (OJ will double<br />
the calorie count of a vodka shot.)<br />
2. Choose your carbs with care<br />
Highly refined carbohydrates — the processed<br />
white carbs that are the basis of so<br />
many meals and snacks — will spike bloodsugar<br />
levels and encourage the pancreas to<br />
produce insulin, which both facilitates the<br />
accumulation of fat, and then guards against<br />
its depletion. Swap fast-release, refined<br />
carbs for slow-burning, unrefined ones: jumbo<br />
oats, brown basmati rice, stone-ground<br />
wholemeal bread. Small change, big impact.<br />
3. Fight the 50/50s<br />
We humans crave energy-dense fat-sugar<br />
combinations, but, according to neuroscientist<br />
Professor Paul Kenny at the Scripps Research<br />
Institute in Florida, food with a 50:50<br />
fat:sugar ratio interferes with our mechanisms<br />
of self-regulation; there’s simply no<br />
OFF switch, as there would be when consuming<br />
either macronutrient alone. While this<br />
particular ratio doesn’t happen in nature, it<br />
does occur in plenty of the treats we’ve come<br />
to know and love: cheesecake, donuts, fudge<br />
brownies… So strike the 50:50s off your<br />
shopping list — just for a while — and make<br />
a bid for freedom.<br />
4. Cruise the Med<br />
It may be a shorthand way to say “axe the junk,”<br />
but the good people of the Mediterranean know<br />
a thing or two about healthy eating. For a sixweek<br />
period, take a leaf from our Italian cousins<br />
and move towards a diet rich in vegetables,<br />
whole-grains, fruit, nuts, olive oil, lean protein<br />
and low-fat dairy. Bellissima!<br />
5. Stick with soup<br />
Soup, according to research from Penn State<br />
University, is a great appetite suppressant because<br />
it consists of a hunger-busting combination<br />
of liquids and solids; eat it before a meal<br />
and you can lower your overall calorie intake<br />
by up to 20% compared to a meal without soup.<br />
Alternatively, swap your daily lunchtime sandwich<br />
for a veg-based soup … you’ll lower your<br />
carb and calorie intake, while increasing your<br />
veg quota.<br />
6. Implement the Rule of Three-Quarters<br />
It’s a simple, almost obvious, idea, but a great<br />
way to put good diet sense into practice: just fill<br />
your plate with veg at the expense of meat and<br />
carbs – a 75:25 ratio would be ideal. <strong>The</strong> idea is<br />
to make meat a treat, and give carbs a supporting<br />
role – making the veg star performers. For<br />
plenty of great veggie 5:2 meals, have a look at<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fast Diet Recipe Book and Fast Cook, or<br />
check out the recipes at our website.<br />
7. Go on portion patrol<br />
It’s easy to think that the portion we are served<br />
is the amount we actually want, or need, or can<br />
manage — even though portion sizes in restaurants<br />
and food outlets have rocketed in the<br />
last two decades. We tend to eat 92% of the food<br />
we serve ourselves — so serve a little less. We<br />
also tend to go on eating until the plate is done.<br />
Again, pay attention. Downsize. A smaller<br />
plate? Why not?<br />
8. Junk the juice<br />
Fruit juice is a higher sugar, lower-nutrient<br />
version of its source — and it contains less<br />
fiber, too. Besides, plenty of the nutritional<br />
goodies in fruit are concentrated in the skins,<br />
which tend to be lost in juicing. If you want<br />
apple juice, eat the apple, and have a glass of<br />
water with it. (It’s important to stay hydrated<br />
when on the 5:2.)<br />
9. Change your coffee order<br />
While coffee itself is no bad thing, the dairy<br />
and sugar that often go into it can be real calorie<br />
traps. For the next six weeks, swap your usual<br />
latte for black coffee, green tea, herb tea. You<br />
may well find that after six weeks, the milky,<br />
frothy lattes you once adored have lost their allure…<br />
this is the ‘brain retrain’ you’re after: a<br />
change of mind to change your shape.<br />
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
THE STANDARD STYLE/ INVESTMENTS 23
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
THE STANDARD STYLE/ INVESTMENTS 23
24 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY /GETAWAY<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Enjoying a Mountain Club hike<br />
Rosie Mitchell<br />
A couple of times a year, I lead a walk for the<br />
Mountain Club. If you’d like to get out and<br />
about into scenic areas over the weekends,<br />
meet some new people, and get or keep fit, this<br />
is the club for you. It’s often the first port of<br />
call for people from overseas who arrive in<br />
Zimbabwe to live and work for a while, either<br />
in the diplomatic service or for an NGO, and<br />
don’t know quite where to start exploring<br />
our beautiful country. Soon, with energetic<br />
Mountain Clubbers, they are off out into the<br />
bush every weekend, to experience some new<br />
and lovely place that’s close enough to town<br />
to make it possible as a day or afternoon hike.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mountain Club also organises some extended<br />
several day hikes out of town, and even<br />
out of Zimbabwe. <strong>The</strong>ir members are very<br />
friendly and they have a social evening every<br />
Wednesday as well, and also offer rock climbing,<br />
including for beginners, in Haka Park by<br />
Cleveland Dam. <strong>The</strong> club has a several decade<br />
history and an enthusiastic membership and<br />
annual subscriptions are tiny, so think about<br />
joining, for a whole new lease of life, a new social<br />
circle and some fun adventures exploring<br />
beautiful places on foot over weekends!<br />
In late August, I took a friendly and thoroughly<br />
cosmopolitan group of Mountain<br />
Clubbers and their friends, out for an afternoon<br />
hike in the Chishawasha area. From<br />
Canadians to Americans, Germans to French,<br />
some visiting, some here for a couple of years,<br />
some resident, and of course, Zimbabweans,<br />
this was an interesting bunch of people. Lots<br />
of long conversations took place en route and<br />
good times were had by all. When I lead these<br />
hikes, I like to show the participants places<br />
very close to the city that they might not know<br />
about, that are quiet and scenic and away<br />
from the “madding crowd” yet easily accessible.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are areas I’ve mostly discovered via<br />
solitary exploring on the run, since I took up<br />
running a decade ago. I much prefer running<br />
in the bush to running on suburban roads, because<br />
there is no traffic, I often see interesting<br />
birds and wildlife, it’s quiet, and I really enjoy<br />
the varied scenery. It’s surprising what pretty,<br />
wild places there are to explore, very close to<br />
the suburbs, you just have to go and look for<br />
them. Some, I tracked down by going on Google<br />
Earth, and simply looking for open spaces,<br />
and the nearest suburban roads via which I<br />
could access these.<br />
At a run, I went on a “recce” of my<br />
planned route a couple of days before the club<br />
hike, into the rolling hills and rocky outcrops<br />
of Chishawasha communal land, with just a<br />
10-minute drive to the starting point, work-<br />
ing out roughly where I’d lead everyone. On<br />
the day, however, detours proved necessary.<br />
Sadly, a raging fire was racing its way through<br />
the exact area I’d planned to take them. It’s<br />
always distressing to witness the careless,<br />
wide- ranging environmental degradation and<br />
destruction caused by these fires, started both<br />
carelessly and deliberately, and each year in<br />
the “fire season” I cannot help but be angered<br />
and saddened by this. Such fires rage through<br />
wetlands and greenbelts and peri-urban open<br />
spaces across our towns and cities, as well as<br />
through game parks and rural areas all across<br />
the country, causing untold ecological damage.<br />
As there was a fair amount of wind, the<br />
fire spread far and wide during the course of<br />
our hike, wreaking havoc on the landscape,<br />
and no doubt, on the small unseen wildlife<br />
within it.<br />
Nonetheless, we had a very enjoyable, social<br />
time on the hike, and managed to avoid<br />
the fire and thoroughly enjoy the scenic<br />
Chishawasha landscape, so close to the city.<br />
To find out more about Mountain Club, email<br />
lorraine@zimbiz.net.<br />
Haka Game Park<br />
Another very enjoyable place to walk, run,<br />
mountain bike, picnic, game spot and enjoy<br />
with the family very close to town, is Haka<br />
Game Park, where the animals are breeding<br />
very well and the landscape is looking lovely.<br />
I took my nieces Carly and Jaime and nephew<br />
Jayden on a bush adventure in Haka last<br />
weekend, for the first time in ages, and we had<br />
a wonderful time.<br />
Haka is adjacent to Cleveland Dam and<br />
recreational area, in itself a very popular<br />
place for family outings over weekends, and I<br />
was happy to see lots of groups relaxing, picnicking<br />
and enjoying this pretty place. You<br />
can hire canoes by the Dam and actually canoe<br />
into the Game Park and see it from the<br />
water, and there are lots of good picnic sites at<br />
Cleveland.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Game Park itself offers varied landscapes,<br />
from woodland to wetland to kopje to<br />
open plain, and you can easily spend a full day<br />
hiking around it. Equally, there is an excellent<br />
network of well-maintained roads if you<br />
prefer to do a game drive instead, and several<br />
really good developed picnic sites. At the<br />
entrance gate you can buy firewood and cool<br />
drinks and for gardening enthusiasts and<br />
those interested in re-afforestation, Haka also<br />
runs a good nursery.<br />
Game to be spotted at Haka includes wildebeest,<br />
eland, zebra, giraffe, impala, duiker,<br />
bush pig, civet, genet, jackal, various mongooses,<br />
and a wide diversity of birds, trees,<br />
plants, and more.<br />
We had a very enjoyable walk and rockclimb<br />
– there are lots of rocks and kopjes and<br />
in fact, some San rock paintings in Haka also.<br />
So if looking for somewhere to take the family<br />
for a weekend outing, consider Cleveland Dam<br />
and Haka Game Park. Turn left into the Cleveland<br />
entrance just after the recently opened<br />
TM hypermarket on Mutare Road. <strong>The</strong> Haka<br />
sign and entrance gate are un-missable, and<br />
for Cleveland itself, simply continue beyond<br />
there.<br />
Rhino AWAREness Day today at Raintree<br />
Today is AWARE Trust’s Rhino AWAREness<br />
day at Raintree, from 10 am to 4pm. You can<br />
buy tickets on the gate and there is lots of entertainment<br />
and activity for the whole family<br />
throughout the day, including a fun run and<br />
walk, in the morning, skydivers, live music,<br />
food and drink on sale, and you can take your<br />
own picnic too.
THE STANDARD STYLE<br />
ARTS & CULTURE<br />
In this issue<br />
of Arts & Culture<br />
(1) African Couture<br />
(2) Melgin Tafirenyka<br />
(3) <strong>The</strong> useless book with usefull lessons<br />
(4) Joan Rivers<br />
2 3 4
26 THE STANDARD STYLE /COMMUNITY/ BREAKING NEW GROUND<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
African Couture<br />
brings out the<br />
best in Tendayi<br />
Patricia Mabviko-Musanhu<br />
Confidence is a very important quality<br />
to have as an individual. Many people<br />
struggle to find confidence and yet it<br />
seems to be the simplest of things that<br />
lies somewhere within each one of us. <strong>The</strong><br />
Merriam Webster Online Dictionary defines<br />
confidence as “a feeling or belief that you can<br />
do something well or succeed at something”.<br />
My extrapolation of this is that it is a feeling<br />
that comes from within and is deeply rooted<br />
in one’s ability to accept who they are as well<br />
as what they can do and express it without<br />
fear or shame. Alongside this, I believe is the<br />
ability to acknowledge and accept the context<br />
within which one exists regardless of how different<br />
or how “demeaning” that context may<br />
be viewed by outsiders. Peter T. McIntyre once<br />
said; “Confidence comes not from always being<br />
right but from not fearing to be wrong”.<br />
Tendayi Matanga spent most of her life<br />
as a house wife because of her desire to give<br />
most of her time to raising her three children.<br />
This decision left her with very little room to<br />
pursue any personal development skills or to<br />
further her education. Today, she is the proud<br />
owner of a business that makes unique and<br />
elegant African Couture. She makes outfits<br />
that are uniquely African and very suitable<br />
for the executive office, for weddings as well<br />
as for your “glitz and glamour” events! Her<br />
business, which is just over a year old, is growing<br />
steadily as the demand from both her local<br />
and global clientele continues to increase.<br />
“I have a keen interest in fashion and I have always<br />
been very good at sewing. From the time<br />
I was in school this is one subject I excelled in<br />
year after year,” she said. A year ago, she received<br />
encouragement from a friend in the Diaspora<br />
to sew some African outfits. As a result<br />
of having spent so many years at home, she<br />
initially doubted her ability and capacity to do<br />
it. Tendayi’s eldest child is now at University.<br />
“When you have spent so many years at home,<br />
you almost stop believing that you can do anything<br />
else,” she said. After further encouragement<br />
Tendayi spent a bit more time thinking<br />
about who she was and what she could do and<br />
remembered more vividly her outstanding<br />
gift in sewing. She overlooked everything else<br />
and reached out to do what she knew she did<br />
very well. She made her first outfit for this<br />
friend in 2013. <strong>The</strong> design came out so well<br />
that she received a number of requests from<br />
people in the Diaspora who had seen it. In order<br />
to respond adequately to her clientele in<br />
the Diaspora, she set up a face book page to<br />
exhibit her African Couture.<br />
This experience has proved to Tendayi<br />
that confidence does not come from what one<br />
has acquired but rather from what one is able<br />
to do. From her initial thoughts on starting<br />
a business, she presumed that there were<br />
many factors which were not in her favour.<br />
One of these was her lack of experience and<br />
knowledge in managing and growing a business.<br />
If it were not for her decision to believe<br />
in herself, this was enough to convince her to<br />
give up the idea of starting a business. Today,<br />
with one employee and well as another sewing<br />
room under renovation, she is working hard<br />
to satisfy the ever growing demand for her African<br />
Couture.<br />
Tendayi is also grateful for having acquired<br />
useful business skills from raising<br />
children. “Raising children is not an easy job<br />
and many a times it is looked down upon as<br />
having no benefits as far as skills development<br />
is concerned. Today, I am thanking God<br />
for the patience I developed over the years as<br />
it is allowing me to spend as much time as is<br />
necessary to modify a design to a client’s satisfaction.<br />
I will work on an outfit until I see a smile<br />
on my client’s face. That’s when I stop making<br />
adjustments. My client does not leave my office<br />
until he or she is happy,” she added.<br />
Patricia Mabviko Musanhu is a Company Director/Producer<br />
at Black and White Media Productions.<br />
She can be contacted at pmabviko@<br />
gmail.com
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS 27<br />
Melgin Tafirenyka<br />
up for an award<br />
Silence Charumbira<br />
South Africa based film-maker<br />
Melgin Tafirenyka has been<br />
nominated for the Zimbabwe<br />
Achievers Awards South African<br />
chapter in the personality-ofthe-year<br />
category.<br />
Tafirenyika told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> on<br />
Friday that he was humbled by the<br />
nomination after years of work.<br />
“Seeing myself being nominated in<br />
this category to me is not just a nomination,<br />
but a dream come true,”<br />
said Tafirenyika.<br />
“It was not easy to be nominated because<br />
there were judges who were<br />
there to look at the profile and see if<br />
you really deserve to be nominated<br />
and that I made it I feel elated.”<br />
He will be battling it out for the<br />
award with Leeroy Gopal of the Yellow<br />
Card fame.<br />
Tafirenyika is currently riding high<br />
after the success of a video he features<br />
in.<br />
<strong>The</strong> video by Nigerian singer Simi<br />
is currently doing well on the chats<br />
and on social network You Tube,<br />
where just after two weeks, it has a<br />
steady 13 000 hits.<br />
In the video, he plays the role of a<br />
hunky police detective chasing elusive<br />
robbers.<br />
One night he literally bumps into a<br />
beautiful woman whom he asks for<br />
her contact number.<br />
In the investigation one of the leads<br />
is a little paper that the thieves leave<br />
as a way of identifying themselves<br />
and it so happens that it is the same<br />
paper on which woman writes her<br />
number.<br />
<strong>The</strong> filmmaker said he is already<br />
working on his third film titled, My<br />
first boyfriend, although he refused<br />
to get into the details of that movie.<br />
Tafirenyika’s first movie was l will<br />
marry myself which is showing on<br />
DStv’s Mzansi Magic while the second<br />
one, Sour Milk, was supposed to<br />
have been launched this month before<br />
the producer decided to enter it<br />
for various film festivals around the<br />
world before release.<br />
BIG BROTHER HOUSE HAS<br />
BEEN FOUND AND OFFICIAL<br />
LAUNCH DATE REVEALED<br />
M-Net and Endemol SA are delighted to<br />
confirm that a new Big Brother house<br />
has been found in Johannesburg,<br />
South Africa following the devastating<br />
fire that demolished the original house<br />
on 2 September. <strong>The</strong> search was concluded<br />
after exploring all possible options<br />
both locally and internationally,<br />
for a suitable venue to produce the 9th<br />
season of Africa’s biggest reality show.<br />
M-Net and Endemol SA are pleased to<br />
announce that Big Brother Hotshots<br />
will officially launch on Sunday 5 October<br />
at 7pm. As they countdown to the<br />
launch, fans across the continent can<br />
look forward to some pleasant surprises<br />
in true Biggie fashion.<br />
<strong>The</strong> producers wish to thank fans<br />
far and wide for all the patience and<br />
continuous support over the past few<br />
days.<br />
For more information, follow the action<br />
in the lead-up to the Premiere on<br />
social media by following @BigBroAfrica,<br />
liking facebook.com/BigBrotherAfrica<br />
or go to the official website at<br />
www.bigbrotherafrica.com
28 THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / BOOKWORM<br />
September14 to 20 2014<br />
By Bookworm<br />
I<br />
HAVE known Memory Chirere for many<br />
years – as a mentor, writer and colleague. He<br />
is one of a few versatile local writers who<br />
can maneuver between English and Shona<br />
easily. When news filtered through that he had<br />
a collection of Shona poetry coming, I eagerly<br />
anticipated its release. Perhaps, it was because<br />
his previous groundbreaking collection<br />
of short-short stories Tudiki-diki tickled me<br />
so much that I could not wait to see what he<br />
had done with the Shona language this time.<br />
His new book is oddly titled, Bhuku Risina<br />
Basa nekuti rakanyorwa masikati (<strong>The</strong> useless<br />
book because it was written in the afternoon).<br />
<strong>The</strong> unusual title for the book was<br />
inspired by the fact that the poems were written<br />
in between chores. For a man who is a full<br />
time university teacher, Chirere, had to sneak<br />
in poetry lines during breaks. This is a characteristic<br />
of the new Zimbabwean writer.<br />
In fact, the temperament of the creative<br />
writer in contemporary Zimbabwe evolves<br />
out of a preoccupation with concrete, practical<br />
matters, and a tendency to rush and hurry,<br />
thus demanding that its literature be terse<br />
and to the point. And, since most writers gaining<br />
prominence today work other jobs and do<br />
not depend on writing alone, they only write<br />
when they have the time and space and this<br />
could be one major reason why for Chirere the<br />
gestation period was long.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book is a journey that spans over two<br />
decades of life experiences. In an interview<br />
with Beavan Tapureta, Chirere explained that<br />
the book “… is a way of putting together so<br />
many things that I have said to myself and<br />
others for the past 20 years so that they do not<br />
get lost.”<br />
While many young writers now feel that there<br />
is more honour in writing in English than<br />
their mother tongue, Chirere is one of a handful<br />
of writers celebrating the beauty of their<br />
language and the beauty of the philosophy<br />
their own language. In an almost show-off like<br />
manner, there is a way in which Chirere’s exuberant<br />
dance in the rhythm of his language is<br />
infectious. Reading Bhuku Risina Basa is like<br />
a dance in the rain.<br />
Instead of merely using the Shona language<br />
as a cultural relic, he uses the language<br />
to interrogate many issues. In their breadth<br />
of perspective and depth of scrutiny, the 70<br />
<strong>The</strong> useless<br />
book with<br />
useful lessons<br />
poems in the book strike a balance between<br />
private sentiments and public themes to a<br />
point where some of them render individual<br />
feelings as public sentiments.<br />
Chirere skillfully bridges the gap between<br />
the living poem and its written counterpart. If<br />
you know the man, as you flip from one page<br />
to the other, it is easy to imagine him reading<br />
it. Some of these poems were recited to live audiences<br />
as part of real events. That probably<br />
largely accounts for the easy flowing rhythm<br />
to have an immediate appeal to the reader.<br />
<strong>The</strong> only other Shona poet who gives me goose<br />
bumps when I read his work is the inimitable<br />
Chirikure Chirikure. His collection, Hakurarwi,<br />
is a particular favourite.<br />
Perhaps due to colonial influences and<br />
limitations Shona literature has always been<br />
seen to be didactic and moralistic. But with<br />
Chirere, he tears away the old script and<br />
writes a new kind of poetry that has humour<br />
and message infused in a clever way. Good poems<br />
should be able to lift the reader out of the<br />
ordinary and give glimpses of a more illuminating<br />
reality. This is where the contradiction<br />
in Chirere comes out. Though he insists that<br />
his book is useless, it is a combo of delicious<br />
poetry. He does not give too much or too little,<br />
but just enough. Chirere thinks deeply about<br />
both his message and method.<br />
If Bhuku Risina Basa is the future of<br />
Shona poetry, then Zimbabwe is truly blessed.<br />
Reading a lot of tepid poetry floated around by<br />
“wanna be writers” we face the danger of failing<br />
to develop or consolidate a clear tradition<br />
of written Shona poetry because it appears<br />
that the current crop of Shona poets does not<br />
read one another, or those who came before.<br />
Chirere uses his mastery of English in the<br />
book to his benefit. Most of his poetry clearly<br />
shows that his influence by English. He has a<br />
tendency to use the mode of writing of English<br />
using regular lines and rhyming schemes,<br />
which is not found in traditional Shona poetry.<br />
Traditional poetry doesn’t use that kind<br />
of meter or beat but depends on repetition,<br />
which is the basic unit of Shona poetry. Shona<br />
poetry typically uses a lot of repetition and a<br />
lot of imagery.<br />
<strong>The</strong> subjects of the book are as varied and<br />
rich, private and public. Because the book<br />
grew with the writer, it is a journey full of<br />
nostalgia and retrospect and forward looking.<br />
If there is anything Chirere has always ably<br />
done, it is to make his readers laugh out loud<br />
at themselves and the world around them. He<br />
is a genius of humour.<br />
<strong>The</strong> preface to Bhuku Risina Basa was<br />
written by another Shona writer and Chirere’s<br />
publisher at Bhabhu Books, Ignatius<br />
Mabasa. It is not easy to translate but must be<br />
best read in the language it is written in. In<br />
short, he says, “nhetembo (dzaChirere) dzinofamba<br />
nemakumbo dzichibva pamakadzirongedza,<br />
dzichienda kunogara pamaifunga<br />
kuti hapagarwe kana kusvikwa nenhetembo.”<br />
[the poems defy the stereotypes to rest in places<br />
people thought were unreachable]<br />
Chirere is a genius and Bhuku Risina<br />
Basa is a manifestation. Don’t be fooled by the<br />
title, it’s a book worth rekindling your love affair<br />
with Shona.<br />
Feedback: bhukuworm@gmail.com<br />
LILIAN MASITERA<br />
masiteral@yahoo.com 0772 924 796<br />
Usave Saskam,<br />
verenga udzore pfungwa
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / CELEB NEWS 29<br />
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Joan Rivers’ funeral<br />
Joan Rivers’ funeral was held Sunday morning<br />
at Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East side of<br />
New York City, and the tribute was one fit for a<br />
legend. Howard Stern delivered the eulogy and<br />
it was attended by everyone from Hugh Jackman to<br />
Diane Sawyer. Rivers died last week at 81.<br />
<strong>The</strong> New York City Gay Men’s Chorus sang “Hey<br />
Big Spender” and Audra McDonald performed a<br />
rendition of “Smile” in tribute to the comedian. A<br />
program for the funeral featured three of Rivers’<br />
most famous comedic lines—”Can we talk?”, ‘’Who<br />
are you wearing?”, and “Because I’m a funny person.”—the<br />
AP reports.<br />
<strong>The</strong> funeral was attended by people in fashion,<br />
entertainment, and media alike. From the AP:<br />
A legion of notables turned out to remember Rivers,<br />
who died Thursday at 81: comedians Kathy<br />
Griffin, Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg;<br />
colleague and friend Kelly Osbourne; Sarah Jessica<br />
Parker and Matthew Broderick; and celebrity<br />
doctor Mehmet Oz.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ater stars Bernadette Peters, Alan Cumming<br />
and Tommy Tune were there. Record producer<br />
Clive Davis was, too. Fashion designers Carolina<br />
Herrera and Michael Kors were in attendance.<br />
Stars from TV such as Barbara Walters, Geraldo<br />
Rivera, Diane Sawyer, Kathie Lee, Hoda Kotb and<br />
Andy Cohen. Late night band leader Paul Shaffer.<br />
And moguls Barry Diller, Donald Trump and Steve<br />
Forbes.<br />
Rivers’s own funeral wishes, which she enumerated<br />
in her memoir I Hate Everyone . . . Starting<br />
With Me, were printed in the funeral program book<br />
and included such memorable requests as “Meryl<br />
Streep crying, in five different accents.”<br />
- gawker.com<br />
FOOD NETWORK (DStv<br />
Channel 175)<br />
DStv September<br />
2014 Schedules<br />
Street Eats (Season 1): Food is one of the top reasons<br />
why people like to travel. <strong>The</strong> best place to find the<br />
most authentic local food scenes around the world<br />
is right on the streets! <strong>The</strong>re is no better place to rub<br />
elbows with the locals and grab a bite that’s fast, inexpensive<br />
and translates the culture. In some countries,<br />
street food represents a melting pot of traditions.<br />
Street Eats travels to Latin America, Africa, <strong>The</strong> Middle<br />
East, Asia, the United States and Europe to bring this<br />
experience to viewers who may never get the chance to<br />
taste it for themselves. Tune in from 22 September and<br />
watch it on weekdays at 07:40 and 11:00 CAT.<br />
Recipes that Rock (Season 2): Alex James is bass player<br />
in the British rock band, Blur. He’s also a writer, farmer,<br />
father and cheesemaker. Chef Matt Stone has hip restaurants<br />
in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Matt has full<br />
sleeve tattoos, a skateboard and an attitude to match,<br />
he rocks too. In this series of Recipes That Rock, there’s<br />
fun and adventure in the Great Southern, searching<br />
out the best of the best foods that producers grow,<br />
harvest, hatch and catch. Series 2 opens with succulent<br />
oysters in Oyster Harbour, Albany, and a merry visit to<br />
the local whisky distillery. In later episodes, the inquisitive<br />
duo discover a unique way of farming chickens for<br />
eggs, learn about the worldwide delicacy Abalone,<br />
and close the series with a huge party celebrating all<br />
of the produce they’ve discovered and wonderful<br />
characters they’ve met in this magnificent part of<br />
the world. Watch from Sunday 8 September at 09:20<br />
and 13:55 CAT.<br />
TLC ENTERTAINMENT<br />
(DStv Channel 172)<br />
Breaking the Faith (Premiere): This series shares the<br />
story of eight young men and women who are trying<br />
to build a new life outside of the Mormon church. <strong>The</strong><br />
young men, known as ‘lost boys’, are cast-out from<br />
their homes and not welcomed back, while the women<br />
are intent on escaping the controlling ways of the<br />
community – including arranged marriage and a life of<br />
complete submission – and are hoping for a better life<br />
on the outside. For this group, being faced with making<br />
life-altering choices in their effort to win their freedom<br />
comes with the fear of the consequences that may<br />
come for leaving the compound forever. From Tuesday<br />
16 September at 20:55 CAT.<br />
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (Premiere): After the<br />
rip-roaring success of the first series, Honey Boo Boo<br />
returns with her family for more mishaps, joviality and<br />
raucous redneck fun. In this series, birthday girl June’s<br />
spirits are sagging as she copes with an empty nest after<br />
Anna and Kaitlyn decide to move out. Finally, without<br />
Anna and Kaitlyn around, the family spends very<br />
little time together. Alana hopes the family’s love for<br />
food will reunite them - but just as with family game<br />
night and pottery painting, her efforts fall short. From<br />
Wednesday 24 September at 20:00 CAT.<br />
My Naked Secret (Premiere): Follow the personal stories<br />
of 10 more people as they begin to overcome the<br />
body issues that are ruining their lives. In each episode<br />
an individual with a medical condition or physical abnormality<br />
that is causing them great shame and untold<br />
misery embarks on a transformative and poignant journey<br />
in search of acceptance. <strong>The</strong>y then begin treatment<br />
for their condition in a bid to finally have a body they<br />
love. But will this enable them to come to terms with<br />
their anxieties? Find out from Friday 26 September at<br />
20:55 CAT.<br />
Oprah Prime: Pharrell Williams: Oprah meets up with<br />
seven-time Grammy® winner Pharrell Williams, one of<br />
the most innovative and sought-after artists in the music<br />
industry today. On the heels of his number one hit<br />
“Happy,” a single off the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack,<br />
for which he received an Oscar® nomination, Oprah<br />
and Pharrell discuss his critically acclaimed album G I<br />
R L and his rise to fame. Plus, Pharrell shares how his<br />
creative vision has propelled him to music stardom.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y also discuss his recent marriage to Helen Lasichanh<br />
and fatherhood. Airs on Thursday 11 September<br />
at 20:00 CAT.<br />
Oprah’s Masterclass: Justin Timberlake: <strong>The</strong> brand new<br />
season kicks off with one of this generation’s most<br />
celebrated entertainers, multiple Grammy and Emmy<br />
award-winning musician and actor Justin Timberlake.<br />
Sharing never-before-told stories about his youth and<br />
his musical influences, Justin imparts his most valuable<br />
life lessons yet, including how to find your voice, how<br />
to break the mould and how to hold on to your ambition.<br />
Watch it on Thursday 25 September at 20:00 CAT.<br />
Oprah’s Masterclass: Oprah Winfrey (Part 1&2): In Part<br />
1 of an intimate conversation, Oprah opens up about<br />
her tumultuous childhood and adolescence and the<br />
lessons she still carries with her today. She tells littleknown<br />
stories about her early days in television, including<br />
how losing her hair helped her gain a new sense of<br />
self. What guides her and drives her to do her best?<br />
In Part 2, she reflects on her experience getting cast in<br />
<strong>The</strong> Color Purple and the cultural phenomenon of <strong>The</strong><br />
Oprah Winfrey Show. She opens up about her private<br />
life, and what she feels her true calling was meant to<br />
be. Revealing and deeply personal, Oprah offers new<br />
insights on how we all can become masters of our lives.<br />
Watch it on Thursday 04 September at 20:55 CAT.<br />
Oprah’s Masterclass: Jay-Z: Candid, raw and real, Jay-Z<br />
charts his unlikely rise from the hard-knock life of the<br />
Brooklyn projects to worldwide superstardom and what<br />
he’s learned along the way. He reflects on his failures,<br />
the healing power of hip-hop and how he finally made<br />
peace with his father before he passed away. Plus, Jay-Z<br />
shares his personal revelations about integrity and why<br />
knowing your own truth is the foundation for everything<br />
great. Airs on Thursday 11 September at 20:55 CAT.<br />
Oprah’s Next Chapter: Cissy Houston: Oprah sits down<br />
with Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, for her<br />
first in-depth interview since her daughter’s passing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> superstar’s mother talks about raising a daughter<br />
whose voice became a national treasure, teaching Whitney<br />
about the music business, and her biggest regrets.<br />
Oprah also talks to Cissy about Whitney’s drug use, how<br />
she really felt about her daughter’s marriage to R&B<br />
singer Bobby Brown, and the true nature of Whitney’s<br />
relationship with her high school best friend, Robyn<br />
Crawford. Airs on Thursday 18 September at 20:00 CAT.<br />
DISNEY XD (DStv Channel<br />
303)<br />
Star Wars fans: Star Wars Rebels: In the run-up to this<br />
exciting event Disney is airing a series of shorts introducing<br />
a new character from the series each week so<br />
viewers can get to know them better. Get ready to meet<br />
Zeb, Ezra, Kanan and Hera on Saturdays throughout September.<br />
Star Wars Rebels animated shorts airs on Disney<br />
XD on Saturdays at 09:15 CAT.<br />
Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened:<br />
When the Genesect army attacks New Tork City<br />
while Ash is visiting, it’s up to Pokemon Mewtwo to<br />
protect them. Can he persuade the Genesect to spare<br />
New Tork? Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the<br />
Legend Awakened premieres on Sunday 7 September<br />
at 12:15 CAT.<br />
Star Wars: <strong>The</strong> New Yoda Chronicles – <strong>The</strong> Raid on<br />
Coruscant: In <strong>The</strong> Raid on Coruscant the Emperor uses<br />
information on the recovered Holocrons to launch devastating<br />
attacks on planets sympathetic to the Rebellion.<br />
Luke knows there’s only one solution: a daring raid on<br />
Coruscant to get the Holocrons back. In the end, Luke<br />
makes the boldest move of all destroying the Holocrons<br />
so the Emperor can no longer use them. But unknown<br />
to Luke, R2-D2 has saved one last Holocron - which just<br />
happens to “star” the young Anakin Skywalker. Star<br />
Wars: <strong>The</strong> New Yoda Chronicles – <strong>The</strong> Raid on Coruscant<br />
premieres on Saturday 13 September at 09:20 CAT.<br />
DISNEY CHANNEL (DStv<br />
Channel 304)<br />
Phineas and Ferb: Mission Star Wars: In exciting and entertaining<br />
epic animated adventure Phineas and Ferb:<br />
Mission Stars Wars Phineas and Ferb find themselves in<br />
the midst of a galactic rebellion and an epic struggle of<br />
good versus evil that tears the brothers apart and pits<br />
them against one another when Ferb goes to the Dark<br />
Side! Meanwhile, Stormtrooper Candace is hot on their<br />
trail and desperate to stop the boys from making matters<br />
worse, but her allegiance falls into question when<br />
Phineas saves her and she realizes that all Rebels are<br />
not bad. Disney Channel is proud to present Phineas<br />
& Ferb: Mission Star Wars on Sat 27 Sept at 10:40. It<br />
will be repeated on Sun 28 Sept at 15:00. May the Ferb<br />
be with you!<br />
Wolfblood (Season Two): September sees the return of<br />
hit series Wolfblood to Disney Channel, as season two<br />
launches. Wolfbloods have lived among humans for centuries,<br />
disguising their heightened senses and abilities;<br />
and doing their best to blend in. Maddy and her parents<br />
are the only wolfbloods in their area until one day a new<br />
boy starts at Maddy’s school. Maddy and Rhydian return<br />
for a second season of Wolfblood from Wednesday 24<br />
September at 18:30 CAT.<br />
Disney Princess Academy: In this brand new series of<br />
shorts, which air every Monday throughout September<br />
at 16:05, seven little girls learn core princess values,<br />
new skills and how to apply them. In each short, one<br />
little girl meets her fairy godmother mentor and learns<br />
This Week’s<br />
Highlights<br />
to become a Disney princess in that specific skill. <strong>The</strong>n she graduates<br />
and gets a princess badge and diploma. Princess Academy shorts<br />
premiere every Monday throughout September at 16:05 (before Violetta)<br />
and are repeated throughout the week.<br />
DISNEY JUNIOR (DStv Channel<br />
301)<br />
Pocahontas: This is the powerful and moving story of a Native American<br />
princess and her ill-fated love for an English sea captain. Set in<br />
1607, it tells of the beautiful, brave and compassionate daughter of<br />
Chief Powhatan who asks her forest friends (Meeko the raccoon, Flit<br />
the hummingbird and Grandmother Willow, a 400 year old spirit that<br />
resides in an ancient tree) for advice. It tells how her life changes<br />
when she meets John Smith, one of a party of sailors which has come<br />
to the New World searching for gold. Eventually they are forced to<br />
part, but their spirits remain entwined. This beautiful and moving story,<br />
enhanced by a superb soundtrack, make Disney’s 33rd animated<br />
feature film an unmissable gem. Vocal stars include Mel Gibson. It airs<br />
on Sunday 2 September at 10:30 CAT.<br />
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Sea Captain Mickey: <strong>The</strong>re’s an exciting<br />
event on Disney Junior this month. When Professor Von Drake’s<br />
sonar-detecting machine discovers that there’s something big at the<br />
bottom of Mickey Lake, Mickey and the gang hop into the Clubhouse<br />
Submarine and set out to find the “Big Something”. It turns out to<br />
be a Giant Rubber Ducky that’s stuck on the bottom of the lake. But<br />
where did it come from? <strong>The</strong> gang set out to discover Ducky’s secret!<br />
Our special Sea Captain Mickey airs on Saturday 13 September at<br />
08:00 CAT.<br />
Sofia the First: From Monday 22 September at 09:00 CAT Disney Junior<br />
gives fans a chance to catch-up with all the specials featuring<br />
Princess-in-training Sofia the First, in the run-up to the launch of<br />
season two of the series. Season two premieres on Saturday 27 September<br />
at 09:00 CAT. In the first episode, <strong>The</strong> Enchanted Feast, Sofia<br />
must learn to trust her instincts, helped by legendary Disney Princess<br />
Snow White, when she suspects a visiting sorceress is not what she<br />
seems and has an ulterior motive.<br />
For more information on DStv channels, log onto www.dstv.com
30 THE STANDARD STYLE / ENVIRONMENT<br />
September 14 to 20 2014<br />
Turning trash<br />
into cash<br />
Part 2<br />
Michael Nott<br />
If you’ve ever taken your rubbish to the Pomona<br />
dumpsite you’ll no doubt have seen<br />
just how huge the problem of solid waste<br />
management is in Harare. It’s not even a<br />
proper landfill site, which to be environmentally<br />
acceptable should be lined with non-porous<br />
material to prevent hazardous pollution<br />
leaching into our already threatened ground<br />
water supplies. Late last year a fire broke out<br />
at the dumpsite which claimed at least one<br />
life and generated a fog of poisonous smoke<br />
which engulfed the surrounding suburbs for<br />
days. <strong>The</strong> Environmental Management Agency,<br />
(EMA) has for years been lobbying the City<br />
of Harare to create a properly engineered and<br />
maintained landfill site. At a well planned<br />
landfill site no refuse should be left uncovered<br />
overnight. Every day a layer of soil at<br />
least 15cms thick should be compacted on top<br />
to prevent foul odours, air pollution, reduce<br />
the risks of uncontrolled fires and discourage<br />
rats and other rodents. Although there are<br />
plans under consideration to construct a new<br />
landfill site near Mount Hampden, it could be<br />
several years before it begins to operate properly.<br />
And to exacerbate the already dire situation,<br />
for some years the City of Harare was<br />
not collecting household or industrial waste<br />
on a regular basis. This was due to severely<br />
limited resources, financial restraints and,<br />
in some instances, simply poor management.<br />
Fortunately there has been some progress<br />
lately as more resources have become available<br />
and proper planning has improved.<br />
<strong>The</strong> absence of appropriate waste manage-<br />
ment policies lead to residents, and some unscrupulous<br />
industries, dumping their waste<br />
wherever they could. <strong>The</strong> City began to be<br />
swamped by piles of illegally dumped waste,<br />
blocking up storm water drains, filling up<br />
shopping centres and creating eyesores and<br />
health hazards with serious environmental<br />
effects. Some concerned and responsible<br />
citizens began taking matters into their own<br />
hands. Organisations like Environment Africa<br />
and Miracle Missions, in partnership<br />
with City of Harare, embarked on massive<br />
clean-up initiatives in shopping centres and<br />
public spaces, along roadsides and waterways.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se clean-ups are still ongoing and have<br />
made a huge contribution towards dealing<br />
with the waste problem. Together with school<br />
programmes and other community based<br />
initiatives to educate people about waste management<br />
it seems there is a brighter, cleaner,<br />
healthier future ahead for the City.<br />
One positive outcome from the problem of<br />
waste management has been that some enterprising<br />
individuals and businesses have begun<br />
to look at trash in a new light. Companies<br />
like Plastix Incorporated and Petrecozim –<br />
mentioned in last week’s article – have had the<br />
foresight to see the potential in trash. Through<br />
their plastic recycling endeavours not only<br />
are they helping to take waste out of the environment,<br />
they are creating employment and<br />
generating income. Zimbabwe National Waste<br />
Paper (part of Art Corporation) has been collecting<br />
paper waste for quite a few years now<br />
for processing to create recycled paper, tissue<br />
and cardboard. <strong>The</strong> Can Man, in conjunction<br />
with the Lion’s Club of Gwebi, has been collecting<br />
and compacting tin cans which are<br />
exported for recycling for cash. Other community<br />
based organisations like Shingirai Trust,<br />
Lynde Francis Foundation and the Zee Bags<br />
Project encourage artists and crafters to use<br />
recycled materials to create useful, beautiful<br />
articles, which most importantly can be sold<br />
to generate income.<br />
Helen’s Refuse Collection Services is another<br />
example of resourceful Zimbabweans<br />
creating viable businesses from the challenges<br />
presented by waste management. <strong>The</strong> company<br />
was officially registered last year as part of<br />
the ‘Go Green Harare’ project. <strong>The</strong> idea for the<br />
company came to Helen Davidson in the years<br />
when City of Harare’s waste collection schedule<br />
was erratic or in some cases non-existent.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y provide (in parallel with the City’s waste<br />
collection services) a collection service for individual<br />
households, schools, embassies and<br />
businesses. When you join up you can decide<br />
how often you want your rubbish to be collected<br />
– weekly, monthly or twice monthly. For<br />
individual households it’s as little as US$5 per<br />
collection – for bigger corporates rates vary,<br />
although the prices are still very competitive<br />
when you consider that it costs around US$240<br />
for a waste skip to be collected.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’ll give you four colour coded bags<br />
free – green for plastic, blue for cans, red for<br />
glass and yellow for paper. <strong>The</strong>se are all recyclable<br />
– you can continue to use the normal<br />
black bags for non-recyclables to be collected<br />
by the council. (Other household waste like<br />
vegetable peels or spoiled food should be composted.)<br />
Once your bag is full and it’s been<br />
collected, they’ll give you a replacement bag.<br />
Some households will find that they’ll fill up<br />
a plastic bag every week but it might take two<br />
weeks or more to fill up the glass bag or the<br />
can bag. Homeowners have found that by sorting<br />
their rubbish they end up with only one<br />
bag or half a bag per week of non-recyclables<br />
which end up at Pomona, whereas in the past<br />
they had five bags of waste. Once your bags<br />
have been collected they’re taken to their depot<br />
in Tynwald where the rubbish is sorted<br />
again. Plastic, for example, is sorted into High<br />
Density, Low Density, PET, etc. Helen’s Refuse<br />
Collection Services then acts as an intermediary<br />
between house holders and recycling<br />
companies. Once the waste has been sorted<br />
it’s then sold on to the appropriate businesses<br />
as raw materials for further production and<br />
manufacturing. Some of the plastic, for example,<br />
is sent to Plastix Incorporated to be remade<br />
into more colour coded bags or vehicle<br />
litter bags. At the moment Helen is stockpiling<br />
tons of glass for recycling in the hope that<br />
Zimglass will soon be able to process it all.<br />
Glass is one of the few products that can be<br />
recycled infinitely to create more glass products,<br />
so perhaps there’s an opportunity there<br />
for some enterprising entrepreneur to start<br />
up a glass processing industry?<br />
For more information email: helendzim@<br />
gmail.com or gogreenharare@gmail.com<br />
WildLeaks saves precious lives<br />
<strong>The</strong> slaughter of wildlife for the<br />
benefit of international markets<br />
is on the increase worldwide.<br />
Poaching of many endangered species<br />
has reached a crisis point globally,<br />
leaving them wondering what<br />
to do next to try and tackle the trend<br />
and save their threatened natural<br />
heritage.<br />
<strong>The</strong> past decade has seen a<br />
surge in illegal wildlife trade and<br />
Zimbabwe has not come off lightly,<br />
elephants, rhino, pangolin just to<br />
name a few are seriously vulnerable.<br />
A new force in this fight against<br />
these poaching atrocities has been<br />
recently formed and it is called<br />
WildLeaks, an anonymous platform<br />
where concerned citizens can<br />
become heroes and share information<br />
that will help authorities clamp<br />
down on these criminal activities.<br />
Its creator is Andrea Crosta, a<br />
security consultant and executive<br />
director of the Elephant Action<br />
League. Since its inception Wild-<br />
Leaks has already assisted in<br />
o elephant poaching in Africa and<br />
illicit ivory trading in Hong<br />
Kong;<br />
o killing of Sumatran tigers, of<br />
which there are just 400 left in<br />
the wild;<br />
o illegal lion and leopard hunting<br />
in South Africa;<br />
o chimpanzee trafficking in<br />
Liberia;<br />
o illegal fishing activities in<br />
Alaska, including alleged mafia<br />
involvement;<br />
o importing of illegal African<br />
wildlife products into the US;<br />
o illegal logging in Mexico,<br />
Malawi and Siberia.<br />
<strong>The</strong> main aim of the WildLeaks<br />
website which has been in operation<br />
for over six months is to target the<br />
kingpins of wildlife crime. It gives<br />
whistle-blowers the opportunity and<br />
the power to put a stop to the desecration,<br />
safe in the knowledge that<br />
the information they have shared<br />
cannot be linked back to them.<br />
For security reasons WildLeaks<br />
has no contact numbers or addresses.<br />
Citizens with information about<br />
wildlife crimes and the individuals<br />
behind it can submit everything, including<br />
pictures and videos, through<br />
the secure WildLeaks website that<br />
is based on the ‘Tor’ Technology to<br />
protect individuals who submit the<br />
information. Alternatively information<br />
can also be sent and submitted<br />
via encrypted PGP email.<br />
<strong>The</strong> illicit international wildlife<br />
trade is worth $10-20bn a year<br />
according to Interpol. Only drugs,<br />
people and arms trafficking earn<br />
more for criminals and the corruption<br />
and violence accompanying<br />
wildlife crime takes a heavy toll on<br />
local communities. <strong>The</strong> illegal trade<br />
of wildlife is global, but Africa is a<br />
prime source, with an abundance<br />
of species. <strong>The</strong>re are a few countries<br />
in Africa namely; Kenya, Tanzania,<br />
Mozambique, South Africa<br />
and a few countries in Central and<br />
Western Africa, that have benefitted<br />
from the work that WildLeaks is<br />
doing, these countries have realised<br />
that the WildLeaks platform is assisting<br />
in filling an essential information<br />
gap.<br />
“We had our first tip within 24<br />
hours and the response has been<br />
beyond our wildest imagination,”<br />
said Crosta, the pervasive corruption<br />
means that whistle-blowers<br />
frequently fear that contacting local<br />
law enforcement could put their<br />
lives in danger. “You can’t, for example,<br />
export containers full of ivory<br />
from Mombasa without bribing<br />
people left, right and centre,” Crosta<br />
said. “We definitely feel we are filling<br />
a gap, a three-month trial period<br />
has yielded 24 serious tip-offs so<br />
far.” WildLeaks doesn’t just wait for<br />
tip-offs though; it is also a proactive<br />
organisation having started three<br />
investigations on its own recently.<br />
WildLeaks takes every tip-off<br />
seriously; each one is anaylsed by a<br />
small team made up of legal and security<br />
experts who are specialists in<br />
both conservation and international<br />
trade. <strong>The</strong>y determine whether to<br />
follow-up on the information provided.<br />
“Investigations of wildlife<br />
crime can be slow and painstaking”,<br />
said Crosta, “but it can be achieved<br />
with the help of local communities<br />
who want to protect their heritage”.<br />
WildLeaks offers everyone and anyone<br />
in a community an opportunity<br />
to save lives and put an end to the illegal<br />
trade of wildlife.
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September 14 to September 20 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / MyClassifieds 31<br />
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CHEATERS<br />
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RHINO PRODUCTS<br />
RHINOBOARDS..................................$11.75<br />
RHINOCORNICE.................................$6.00<br />
RHINOSET..........................................$10.25<br />
RHINOBOND......................................$10.25<br />
COVEBOND........................................$17.50<br />
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Call: 447 763/4<br />
Livingstone: 0736 165 745, 08644 101859<br />
Tinashe 0782 794 518<br />
Christian 0772 338 803<br />
S H E L T E R I N C O R P O R A T E D ( P V T ) L T D<br />
T / A<br />
Developers of Rockview Park<br />
NOW SELLING ADELAIDE PARK HIGH TO MEDIUM<br />
DENSITY RESIDENTIAL STANDS<br />
Measuring 200m², 300m², 400m² & 600m²<br />
Priced from $8,600.00<br />
Deposits from $1,700<br />
Instalments over 36 months<br />
Servicing in progress<br />
Contact us at<br />
75 Sam Nujoma Street/Cnr Livingstone Avenue Harare<br />
Switchboard: +263 4 774455; 748121; 748023<br />
Mobile phone (sales): 0772 638 191; 073 3 258 356<br />
Email: sales@shelter.co.zw Web: www.shelter.co.zw<br />
“We nurture our society”
32 THE STANDARD STYLE<br />
September 14 to 20 2014