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Govt suffers as fights over
Grace Mugabe intensify
by eveRSon MUSHAvA
NEVER-ENDING Zanu PF factional
fights have inflicted a major blow
on government work as ministers
and top officials spend their time
plotting against each other.
The Standard was told yesterday, the situation
was getting out of hand following First
Lady Grace Mugabe’s entry into the political
area which has spawned a dog-eat-dog fight for
positions.
A concerned senior Zanu PF official who
preferred anonymity for fear of victimisation
said government was operating at its lowest as
Cabinet ministers and other senior officials
were spending their energies fighting each
other. This was having a debilitating effect on
efforts to revive the comatose economy.
He said everyone seemed to be fighting for
their political turf instead of concentrating on
government work.
Another official said Mugabe’s government
was no different from the Government of National
Unity (GNU) where the coalition partners
were sabotaging each other.
“Factionalism and the succession fights
have resulted in ministers of government discrediting
and sabotaging each other instead of
working together to resolve the problems facing
the country,” said the senior Zanu PF official.
“As a result, it is the country and the economy
which suffers.”
The officials said they were worried by the
fact that politburo matters had become more
important than Cabinet business while the
Central Committee meetings appeared to have
superseded Parliament business in terms of
importance.
Mugabe was now spending most of his time
attending to party business, including politburo
meetings, some lasting more than 10 hours.
However, Zanu PF spokesperson Rugare
Gumbo yesterday defended the long politburo
meetings, saying the party was responsible
for formulating policies that directed government
work.
“We have said it over and over that the politburo
is the main organ that makes decisions
that will direct government work,” Gumbo
said.
“There is nothing unusual about those long
meetings. We spend a lot of time because we
want to formulate policies. The politburo leads
government. Cabinet ministers are seconded
by the party.”
However, a Zanu PF insider expressed concern
over the attention that was given to party
matters at the expense of government business.
“It’s the government that is suffering
more. Ministries are being run by permanent
secretaries as the Zanu PF ministers will be
fighting for political turf in the raging succession
fights. There is a missing link between
policy makers, implementers and legislators.
Power project cost raises suspicion
by MoSeS MATenGA
FORMER Energy minister Elton
Mangoma yesterday questioned the
US$533 million Kariba South Power
Station extension project launched
by President Robert Mugabe last
week, saying there was serious suspicion
of inflation of prices and
looting by officials involved.
“Initially when we signed,
the total cost for the project was
US$370 million, now they are talking
of US$530 something million.
They now want to steal the money.
The question is, what has now
made the cost go up in over a year
and half ? What has changed?”
Mangoma questioned.
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace
Policy-makers will be busy at the politburo
and government work suffers,” he said.
“The country is run using the structure of a
three legged pot — the party, Cabinet and Parliament.
But in Zimbabwe, the party leg seems
to be taller than the other two and definitely,
the pot will tip over.”
He said as long as the succession issue was
not addressed in Zanu PF, government business
would remain at a standstill.
Mugabe’s economic blueprint, Zimbabwe
Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic
Transformation (Zim Asset) needs funding to
the tune of US$27 billion.
Last week, Mugabe was in China for a state
visit where he signed several business agreements.
China, according to Finance minister
Patrick Chinamasa, pledged to fund only bankable
programmes.
Asked in an interview yesterday when the
first deal landed in China would become reality
in Zimbabwe, Chinamasa’s phone kept dropping
due to network problems.
However, even as the country is reeling under
economic challenges, Cabinet is not known
to have sat down for as many hours as the politburo
to deal with this national crisis.
Former Energy minister in the GNU, Elton
Mangoma said in an interview yesterday that
the longest Cabinet meeting chaired by Mugabe
that he remembered lasted for six hours.
“Zanu PF has never been interested in people’s
welfare, but keeping power. We knew it
before we entered government, we witnessed
it during our time in government and we are
still experiencing it today,” Mangoma said.
“This [project] was awarded in
January 2013 when I was still the
minister [of Energy]. Something
is not right. And to say Zesa must
raise US$230 million in the next
four years is what makes this project
not work. There are unnecessary
costs.”
Mangoma said because of the
lack of clarity of the deal, there
were fears that tariffs would increase.
The project, when completed, is
expected to feed an additional 300
megawatts on the national power
grid.
According to the official website
for Zimbabwe Power Company,
the total cost for the project
stands at US$355 million and is
supposed to take 42 months to be
completed.
Government says the total cost
of the project will be US$533 million
of which China Export-Import
Bank will provide US$320
million while Zesa is expected to
raise the remainder. It is set for
completion by end of 2017.
A Chinese company, Sino-Hydro
will carry out the main work in
the project, which is expected to
create about 700 jobs.
Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire
was not picking up calls
last night while board chairman
for Zesa Herbert Murerwa was
also not immediately available.
He said during those Cabinet meetings,
Mugabe would at times doze off only to be appraised
of the developments by the Chief Secretary
in his office, Misheck Sibanda.
Mugabe has however remained awake at
Zanu PF meetings. A few weeks ago, the 90-
year-old was up until 5am when the Zanu
PF youth elections were finalised. An alert
Mugabe however failed to prevent party officials
from influencing the election outcome.
Political analyst Takura Zhangazha said
Mugabe prioritised party business more than
government work and was more anxious about
nightmares caused by the succession issue in
his party.
“He is taking government work in a technocratic
way. Political contestation in his party
is a vehicle to get into government and keep
power, so Mugabe is more worried about developments
in his party than in government,”
Zhangazha said.
Zhangazha said Zanu PF decisions directed
Cabinet business.
“Decisions are made in the politburo and
Cabinet is the implementation arm of those
resolutions. Zanu PF controls the majority
in Parliament. It uses the August house to
endorse decisions first debated at party level.”
Unlike other countries, Zimbabwe has
not been able to separate party business
from government work. Government institutions
are politicised and have not
been spared from Zanu PF factional fights,
which have been escalated by Grace’s entry
into politics.
Elton Mangoma

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The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 3
No sacred cows for
candid Gumbo
Gumbo’s comments should not be viewed as a challenge to Mugabe,
but as proper advice coming from a seasoned politician and a strategist
who has seen it all politically
BY MOSES MATENGA
ZANU PF spokesperson
Rugare Gumbo last week
displayed rare courage,
hardly seen in Zanu PF
when he openly told
President Robert Mugabe to be
wary of divisive elements in the
party and to focus more on critical
economic matters facing the
country.
Mugabe had for the past two
weeks been blasting members of
a faction allegedly trying to scuttle
his wife Grace’s ascendancy in
party structures.
Just a day after Mugabe returned
from China, Gumbo openly
told him that he was being misled
by “wicked” characters.
In a press statement, bearing
the party’s logo, Gumbo said
there were some elements in Zanu
PF who were advancing a “regime
change agenda” through feigning
love for the veteran leader yet
they harboured sinister motives.
“Zanu PF won a historic 5-yearmandate
to address critical matters
of national interest and
that is what we should all focus
on,”he said.
“Indeed we must all be wary
of elements that feign love for
President Mugabe and Zanu PF
yet their real agenda is to divert
President Mugabe’s attention
from the core business of government
in order to create problems
for the party and for President
Mugabe in 2018 when elections
are due.”
“We have always known that
there is a regime change agenda
in place, only this time it is being
pushed by our own people under
the guise of loving President
Mugabe. This is unacceptable behaviour
which smacks of deceit
and a very high level of wickedness.”
The comments, which set tongues
wagging in Zanu PF, attracted a
sharp rebuke from Mugabe who
then declared that he was more
informed than anybody else in
Zanu PF.
Gumbo is again said to have reportedly
told Mugabe openly in
the Politburo meeting the same
week that he risked being dragged
into factional fights within Zanu
PF.
While the matter appeared at
the end of last week to be water
under the bridge, analysts said
Gumbo’s pronouncements reflected
his fearless character, a trait
that could be traced back to the
liberation struggle.
Political analyst Ibbo Mandaza,
when asked to comment on the
character of Gumbo, could only
say he was a veteran nationalist
and very experienced politician.
“He is a senior nationalist, obviously
long in the game and a
very experienced politician,” said
Mandaza.
Another analyst Alexander
Rusero said that Gumbo’s comments
should not be viewed as a
challenge to Mugabe but as proper
advice coming from a seasoned
politician and a strategist who
has seen it all politically.
“People like Gumbo came
back into the party because of
Mugabe’s benevolence so they
wouldn’t utter statements out of
frustration. It’s a way of advising
Mugabe properly to say that as
spokesperson, he knows what is
happening,” Rusero said.
“To Zanu PF, he has been the
best spokesperson who relates
well with both the private and
public media. The latest statement
is an indicator of a dysfunctional
structure of communication
in Zanu PF where communications
don’t take proper channels.
As spokesperson, he should
be more informed than anyone
else on what is happening in the
party.”
“Whoever ignores Gumbo’s advice
is doing it at his or her own
peril because he is a seasoned politician,
a strategist and the only
surviving member of the Dare re-
Chimurenga. You can’t take anything
away from him; he has seen
it all.”
Political analyst Takura Zhangazha
said Gumbo has done his
part as Zanu PF spokesperson
above board and has pronounced
outcomes of meetings without being
influenced by factional fights.
“Gumbo has done his job as
Zanu PF spokesperson above
board and he is straight forward.
He has taken to speaking frankly
about outcomes of Zanu PF Politburo
meetings and policies,”
Zhangazha said.
Zhangazha added that in making
announcements as spokesperson,
Gumbo has rarely spoken
with influence from alleged factions
but his latest statement was
an indication of frustration with
the media which had sought to
preempt the party positions without
official comment.
“He is now stamping his authority
on party positions on some
matters and reminding the media
that he is the spokesperson of the
party and also as a warning to factions
that he knows what they are
doing,” Zhangazha said.
Gumbo’s frankness and candid
comments dates back to the
liberation struggle where he was
at one time arrested for differing
with Mugabe on some issues.
In an interview with The Herald
newspaper on the eve of the 1980
general elections, Gumbo narrated
how he was detained.
“After Geneva there was a meeting,
then it all happened. Mugabe
asked me a point blank question.
Rugare Gumbo
He said, Gumbo, do you want us
to dissolve Zanu in order to join
the PF [Patriotic Front] and I said
yes, if that is the only way we can
unite the people of Zimbabwe because
as far as I am concerned,
the issue of unity is above party
politics. Mugabe said I will never
leave Zanu. I will do everything
that I can to make sure that we do
not unite with Zapu. Shortly after,
we were arrested and detained,”
Gumbo said then.
He was detained with other
Zanla officials including Dzinashe
Machingura (the late Wilfred
Mhanda), Happison Muchechetere
(Harry Tanganeropa),
the late Jones Jichidza (Sebastian
Musabayana), Victor Maunde and
Gwarada (Poyter Kaseke).
Those who worked closely with
Gumbo during and after the liberation
struggle said he was a fearless
character, very open and candid
in his comments and analysis.
“He is a man who can speak his
mind without fear or favour. He is
brave and suffered a lot during the
war because of his character but
never gave up,” said a war veteran
who worked closely with him.
Gumbo told The Standard on
Friday that his duty was simply to
issue statements on behalf of the
party without adding or subtracting
anything.
On his working relationship
with Mugabe, Gumbo said: “My
working relationship with the
President is normal. I am his party
spokesperson and work closely
with the President from a party
point of view.”
Earlier this year Gumbo attacked
Information minister Jonathan
Moyo and Presidential spokesperson
George Charamba over Zanu
PF election results in Mashonaland
Central and declared that he had
the authority and duty to say what
the party would have decided on.
Responding to accusations that
he was defying Mugabe, Gumbo
said: “Those are tricks to try
and create a rift between me and
the President. But we [him and
Mugabe] know each other. We
have been in this game for a long
time from the 1960s. I would never
defy the President because I speak
for the party.”

4 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
News
‘Economy
demands
convergence
of minds’
NCA is suspicious the MDC-T could be trying to
mobilise other parties so that they will garner
more votes during election time
Douglas Mwonzora
by Edgar gwEshE
THE MDC-T has said the
current economic problems
facing the country
are out of control and require
opposition parties
to accept their idea of “national
convergence” to alleviate the
country’s challenges.
The party spokesperson, Douglas
Mwonzora told a public meeting
organised by the Media Centre
in Harare on Thursday that
even the MDC-T alone had no capacity
to resolve the problems if
given the opportunity to do so.
He said problems currently fac-
ing Zimbabwe transcended political
boundaries, hence the need to
find synergies.
Mwonzora said the MDC-T
would be inviting civic society
groups to join hands in an endeavor
to find a solution to Zimbabwe’s
economic and political woes.
“What we have realised is that
the problems facing Zimbabwe
do not affect MDC people alone.
What we mean by national convergence
is that we must face national
issues without looking at
our political identities,” he said.
“It’s a paradigm shift on our
part. We are thinking of our
colleagues even those with less
membership than ours. We are
saying let’s work together. The
problems Zimbabwe is facing are
beyond the capacity of one political
party and they are beyond
the capacity of the present government.
So we are saying let us
work together.”
Since last year’s harmonised
elections won by President Robert
Mugabe and Zanu PF, the economy
has been on a downward spiral
with unemployment levels rising
due to the continued closure of
industries.
The MDC-T is set to hold its 14 th
anniversary in Masvingo next
Saturday under the theme Towards
a National Convergence:
Mobilising for victory.
Mwonzora’s proposal was however
shot down by National Constitutional
Assembly (NCA) national
spokesperson, Madock
Chivasa.
Chivasa said they were suspicious
the MDC-T was only trying
to mobilise other parties for them
to garner more votes at election
time.
“I do not see anything wrong
with opposition parties working
together, especially if it is to do
with improving the people’s welfare,
but what we are not interested
in is a convergence to do
with elections. We have a problem
when someone calls us so that
we can have one candidate during
elections,” said Chivasa.
Mwonzora however reiterated
that his party’s proposal was
made in good faith.
“They think that the MDC-T is
out to cheat them and then rule
alone, but what we are saying on
the issue of a national convergence
is that it is high time we
have a change of thinking. The
issue of a national convergence
is different from an election pact
which deals with who should be
our candidate.
“We are talking about the problems
facing Zimbabwe and how
best they can be solved,” said
Mwonzora.
Plane with Americans gives
‘false info’, lands in Iran
DUBAI — An Iranian official said
yesterday that an airliner carrying
Americans from Afghanistan
to Dubai had been forced to land in
Iran because the crew had supplied
“false information”.
The chartered Fly Dubai plane,
carrying about 100 Americans from
the US airbase at Bagram, Afghanistan,
landed in Dubai early yesterday
morning after being diverted
to Bandar Abbas, just across the
Strait of Hormuz.
“The crew used false information
so the authorities became suspicious
. . . Because the information
provided was incorrect, we asked
the airplane to land so we could
gather more information,” said
Jassem Jaderi, governor of Hormozgan
province in southern Iran,
according to the official Mehr News
Agency.
A US State Department official
said the plane had failed to update
its flight plan after leaving Bagram
several hours late for Dubai, on a
route that took it over Iran.
When Iranian civil aviation officials
identified the plane, they
could not find it in their system because
it was supposed to have flown
through hours earlier, the official
said. —Reuters
FREETOWN — Sierra Leone
will impose a four-day, countrywide
“lockdown” starting September
18, an escalation of efforts
to halt the spread of Ebola
across the West African country,
a senior official in the President’s
office said on Friday.
The move underscores the
radical steps West African nations
are being pushed to take,
over six months into an outbreak
that is the worst on record
and shows no sign of easing having
already killed over 2 100 people
since March.
Citizens will not be allowed to
Sierra Leone to impose
4-day anti-Ebola lockdown
leave their homes between September
18-21 in a bid to prevent
the disease from spreading further
and allow health workers to
identify cases in the early stages
of the illness, said Ibrahim Ben
Kargbo, a presidential adviser
on the country’s Ebola task
force.
“The aggressive approach
is necessary to deal with the
spread of Ebola once and for
all,” he said. As of Friday, Sierra
Leone has recorded 491 of the
total of suspected, probable and
confirmed Ebola deaths, according
to UN figures.
Kargbo said 21 000 people
would be recruited to enforce
the lockdown. Thousands of police
and soldiers have already
been deployed to enforce the
quarantining of towns in Sierra
Leone’s worst-hit regions near
the border with Guinea.
Organisations from across
the world are rushing funds and
equipment to West Africa, but
Ebola is spreading faster than
ever and experts say the lack of
trained staff in weak health systems
is a major obstacle to the
response.
— Reuters
Politburo reverses youth suspensions
LILIAN MASITERA
masiteral@yahoo.com
Rise above,
Take flight &
Move on!
Usave Saskam,
verenga udzore pfungwa
by NUNUraI JENa
ZANU PF Mashonaland West
provincial vice-chairman Ziyambi
Ziyambi said he will not
write a letter to lift the recent
suspension of Youth leader Vengai
Musengi as the party’s Politburo
had already made a ruling
on the matter.
Ziyambi, who is the chairperson
of the provincial disciplinary
committee, said Musengi
was automatically reinstated
through a Politburo resolution
reversing the suspensions of all
youths countrywide who were
recently kicked out of office as
part of the factional fights in
Zanu PF.
Musengi was suspended by
the Mashonaland West Provincial
Executive Committee
on various allegations including
misappropriation of party
funds. He was also accused of
lying to Mugabe that the provincial
executive was opposed
to the elevation of First Lady,
Grace Mugabe as the new Women’s
League boss.
But President Robert Mugabe
addressing party supporters in
Kariba on Thursday said after
deliberating on the issue during
the Politburo meeting, it was resolved
to reverse all suspensions.
Ziyambi said writing again
to the previously suspended
members was not necessary
and would be tantamount to undermining
the Politburo’s decision.
“I’m not a fool. I’m a lawyer
and I will not write anything.
The Politburo’s decision was
loud and clear that all suspensions
have been reversed so it’s
a closed chapter,” he said.
“Whoever feels that the youth
leader has a case to answer
must write to the Party National
Chairman like what the President
advised.”
But Zanu PF Mashonaland
West chairman, Temba Mliswa
last night said upon receiving
official communication from
Khaya-Moyo, the provincial executive
would act accordingly.
President Mugabe said if the
province is convinced that there
were some youths who really
needed to be disciplined, it should
write to the National Chairman,
Simon Khaya Moyo who would
sit with his committee to see if
the suspended youths had a case
to answer.

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The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 5
Academic tips Mujuru to take over
BY PAIDAMOYO MUZULU
RENONWED University of London
academic and expert on Zimbabwean
politics Professor Stephen
Chan has revealed that in
the Zanu PF succession battles
he preferred Vice-President Joice Mujuru
to take over after his experiences when he
worked in her office soon after independence.
Chan made the remarks on Thursday
evening at Sapes Trust during a public discussion
on succession in Zanu PF where
former minister Priscilla Misihairabwi-
Mushonga and Research and Advocacy
Unit (RAU) senior researcher Derek Matyszak
were on the panel.
The discussion was held as Zanu PF is
locked in factional succession fights that
threaten to destroy the party. The factions
are believed to be led by Mujuru and Justice
minister Emmerson Mnangagwa
though both deny harbouring ambitions to
succeed Mugabe.
“You have your choices but my preference
as successor is Joice Mujuru. I worked
in her ministry in the 80s,” Chan said.
He added that the international community
was only interested in a successor who
had an inclusive ethos both in terms of domestic
politics and international relations.
“The West is not interested in the successor’s
ideological position but his/her ability
to take technocratic advice,” he said.
Chan is well- respected in the United
Kingdom and has access to the majority
of the mandarins at Whitehall, the British
seat of power.
Misihairabwi-Mushonga said it was
highly unlikely for Mugabe to change his
position once he had made his mind based
on her understanding of the man during
the five years tenure of the inclusive government.
Mugabe is the one who made the decision
to elevate Mujuru to the party and national
presidium.
“If Mugabe has taken a position, he
doesn’t change. I doubt he has changed his
position on Mujuru in spite of everything,”
she said.
Matyszak told the audience that there
were so many legal hitches to the smooth
transfer of power to a successor if Mugabe
resigned, or was incapacitated or in the
event of his sudden death both in the national
constitution and the party constitution.
“It is evident that there are a number of
grey areas in respect to election to the office
of any of the four posts in the Zanu PF
Presidium, including the post of President
and First Secretary. The clarity of the procedures
leaves much to be desired and is a
fertile area for dispute.” Matyszak said
The debate around succession
will continue to dominate the political
discussions in Zimbabwe
and beyond, possibly until
the party’s watershed
December
congress.
Vice-President Joice Mujuru
Ebola: CDC director
rallies health workers
United Nations Development Programme
BY FELUNA NLEYA
UNITED States Centre for Disease
Control and Prevention
(CDC) says there is need for
health workers in Africa to unite and
volunteer to go to the Ebola affected
areas to help fight the deadly virus.
CDC director Tom Friedan told
journalists through a telephonic
conference that he would travel to
Addis Ababa and engage the African
Union in a bid to have health workers
from the region go and help in
the fight against Ebola in the affected
West African countries.
“We are trying to mobilise more
health workers,” Frieden said.
“In fact, I am departing to go to the
African Union in Addis Abba and
negotiate such participation. They
are very ready and willing, but obviously,
we need to be protected during
the course of clinical care so that
we do not acquire any more Ebola in
healthcare workers.”
He noted that from his visit to the
affected countries specialist doctors
were available, but what was in
shortage was basic health care.
“We do not need large numbers of
specialists or expatriate doctor specialists,
what we need are those who
can provide a basic level of care, meticulous
attention to fluid and electrolyte
status, and these other simple
medications,” Freiden said.
“Of course, everyone would like
to do more advanced care and that
carries with it other risks, needle
stick injuries and others, but
I think we are confident that if
we put these treatment centres
up, the health workers will come,
but of course they have to be adequately
trained and supervised and
equipped with personal protective
equipment.”
Speaking through the same conference,
Special Assistant to President
Barack Obama and Senior Director
for Development and Democracy,
Gayle Smith said although capability
on the ground was there, there
was need for more health workers.
“There is both a capability and
willingness. We do need more healthcare
workers in order to enable that
and we have had some recent successes
in reaching out to many of
our partners,” Smith said.
“We are working, including with
other countries, to make sure that
we can, hopefully very soon, provide
additional assistance that will allow
for healthcare workers to make sure
that they get the care they need.”
Smith said the US was working
with other countries to contain the
situation.
“There have been people affected
who have been evacuated to make
sure those capabilities again are
available, but I want to stress, from
our point of view, the important
piece is to think of health workers
in this case internationally, both national
and those who may come from
outside,” Smith said.
Frieden said the deadly Ebola disease
was spiralling out of control
and there was need for countries not
affected to scale up their rapid response
teams.
Ebola has claimed over 1 900 lives
in West Africa, mostly in Guinea, Liberia,
Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
Southern African countries have
also increased their surveillance
programmes following reports that
the Democratic Republic of Congo
had recorded Ebola cases.
The Ebola virus, which has no
cure yet, is spread between humans
through direct contact with an infected
person’s bodily fluids.
Empowered lives.
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Local News
Bullet lodged in Marange villager’s head
One of the victims has
a bullet lodged in his
head and another in
his back
By OBEy MANAyITI
DIAMOND mining companies in
Chiadzwa have been rapped for
their heavy-handedness when
dealing with surrounding communities,
with the Centre for Research
and Development calling
on government to immediately
act to stop human rights abuses in
the area.
Samson Elijah Manono was
shot and killed two weeks ago, allegedly
by security guards at the
Marange Resources mine while
his uncle Cleopas Mubuwa is battling
for his life in the intensive
care unit at Mutare Provincial
Hospital.
The two were shot while looking
for stray cattle at a nearby disused
mine.
The Standard was shown hospital
records stating the critical
head injuries Mubuwa sustained
in the shooting. Doctors say he
has a bullet lodged in his head and
another in his back.
A family spokesperson Panganayi
Mubuwa said even as
Cleopas is still battling for his life
at the hospital, none of the company
officials have visited him.
“Doctors said Cleopas has a
Mossberg bullet in his head and
another on his buttock. They are
still trying to find ways of removing
them and they will give us
feedback on Tuesday,” said Panganayi.
“It’s now over a week since this
incident happened and not even a
single company official from Marange
has approached us. We are
paying the hospital bills on our
own and at the funeral of Samsom
Manono they didn’t even show
up”.
Panganayi said villagers in Marange
were up against the victimisation
of locals.
“Traditional leaders said they
are taking it upon themselves to
restore order in Marange,” he
said.
Panganayi said the recurrence
of such incidences was worrisome
to the community. Similar
incidents have been reported in
the past but were allegedly swept
under the carpet, he claimed.
Human Rights abuses have been
a matter of concern in the diamond
mining area for years now.
In 2012 a senior police boss, Joseph
Chani, was jailed 18 years for
causing the death of a local villager,
Tsorosai Kusena.
CRD said there was need to reform
operations at the diamond
mines to promote transparency
and accountability.
“The CRD raises concern over the
increase in incidences of human
rights abuses taking place in the diamond
fields of Marange,” said the
organisation in a statement.
“Taking advantage of the porous
security situation, hundreds
of artisanal panners are accessing
the diamond fields every
night to pan for diamonds. Overwhelmed
by these numbers, security
guards manning the diamond
fields have become heavy-handed
in their efforts to keep away illegal
panners leading to loss of life.”
CRD said the lack of transparency
and accountability in the management
of Marange diamonds explained
the on-going human rights
abuses and diamond leakages.
The CRD also urged the government
to expeditiously review
mining contracts in Marange and
bring on board potential investors
with the capacity to bring the
change needed for mining investments
in Marange to meet human
rights standards.
Mugabe blasted
for trying to gag
Zanu PF officials
By EVERSON MUSHAVA
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is an
Commission in a manner that adds
independent electoral management body [EMB]
professionalism and integrity to the
established in terms of Section 238 of the Constitution of
Commission.
Zimbabwe. Its major functions are to manage and conduct KEY COMPETENCIES
elections to the offices of the President, Parliament and · An administrator par excellence;
local authorities, and referendums, and all related electoral · A strategic thinker and decision maker;
processes in accordance with the laws of Zimbabwe and · An effective communicator both orally
also following international best practice.
and in written form;
The Commission wishes to recruit a professional of high · A visionary leader and
integrity with good communication and decision making · A person of impeccable integrity.
skills, and sound knowledge of electoral democracy to a
vacancy that has arisen in the institution.
ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL COMMISSION
VACANCIES NOTICE
QUALIFICATIONS:
· A good first degree in Administration,
JOB TITLE OF VACANCY: CHIEF ELECTIONS OFFICER Social Sciences, Law, Information
(CEO)
Technology, Business Administration,
REPORTING TO : THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE Education.
COMMISSION AND THE · A Master's Degree in Administration or
COMMISSION.
any other post graduate qualification
will be an added advantage.
JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY: · Proven track record of performance,
Guided by the law and the policy direction of the
delivery and governance,
Commission, the CEO is the accounting officer of the · Knowledge of elections is an added
Commission, responsible for:-
advantage
· Strategizing, formulating and · At least 10 years' experience in a senior
coordinating the activities of the
position.
Commission in the conduct of all
referendums and elections to the offices Interested and qualified persons must apply in writing,
stipulated in the law;
attaching their detailed and updated curriculum vitae and
· Managing all the assets and funds of the certified copies of their qualifications. Suitably qualified
Commission to ensure effective and women are encouraged to apply. Send applications to:
efficient utilization for the attainment of
The Chairperson
the Commission vision and mission.
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
· Implementing all the decisions of the Mahachi Quantum Building
Commission in its discharge of its
1 Nelson Mandela [Corner Kaguvi Street/Jason
constitutional mandate.
Moyo Avenue]
· Recruiting and training staff of the P.Bag. 7782 Causeway
Commission;
Harare, Zimbabwe
· Supervising all staff and activities of the
Commission;
The above post is at Head Office in Harare. Only shortlisted
· Ensuring that the Commission applicants will be invited for interviews. The remuneration
discharges its Constitutional mandate packages will be revealed during the interviews.
and is accountable for its conduct of
referendums and elections to public The closing date for receipt of applications is 22 September
office; and
· Engaging all stakeholders of the
2O14.
MEDIA advocacy groups and media experts have
blasted President Robert Mugabe for attempting
to gag his Zanu PF officials from engaging the
independent media saying such a move would
worsen media polarisation in the country.
While addressing Zanu PF supporters in Kariba
on Thursday, Mugabe warned party bigwigs against
dealing with the private media in the on-going factional
fights, labelling it the “opposition media.”
His utterances came following public spats
between top Zanu PF supporters over issues
linked to factionalism. Factions allegedly pitting
Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Justice minister
Emmerson Mnangagwa are locked in bitter
fights in the race to succeed Mugabe.
The situation has been made worse by the entry
of Mugabe’s wife into the political arena,
with the Mnangagwa faction accusing the Mujuru
camp of attempting to block her from leading
the Women’s League.
Mugabe admonished his party officials from
playing their factional fights in the private media
saying the party had laid down procedures to
handle grievances.
Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe executive
director Loughty Dube said Mugabe’s comments
were unfortunate coming from the Head
of State who should promote unity in the country.
“His [Mugabe] statements will worsen media
polarisation,” Dube said. “We don’t know how
his party members will take it, but this will likely
ignite hostilities towards newspapers that are
seen as against his party.”
Dube said Mugabe was misguided because privately-owned
media was not opposition media.
Media Institute of Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
(Misa), director Nhlanhla Ngwenya said it was
unfortunate that Mugabe continued to see the
media with political lens for reporting and analysing
issues affecting ordinary Zimbabweans.
Ngwenya said viewing the media as an outlet
of opposition politics was not only unpleasant,
but would potentially open the private media
to attack from overzealous party members
who would seek to stifle the free flow of information.
“This will invite risk for the private media.
What Mugabe is saying will work against the
spirit and effort of Impi. This will worsen polarisation,”
Ngwenya said.
Media expert Alexander Rusero said Mugabe’s
comments would aggravate media polarisation
and ultimately, divide the nation. He said persecution
of private media was likely to follow
Mugabe’s comments.
“Mugabe’s utterances will be a big blow to
[Information minister Jonathan] Moyo who
has been trying to thaw the frosty relations
that existed among people during the government
of national unity and between the media,”
Rusero said.
When Moyo established Independent Media
Panel of Inquiry (Impi), he said his prime objective
was to fight media polarisation and close the
divide that had, for more than a decade, existed
between the public and private media.

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8 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
News
Mpilo Hospital looks for partnerships
Public-Private Partnerships have raised the
quality of service at Chitungwiza Hospital
by our correspondent
BULAWAYO’S largest but
ailing referral hospital,
Mpilo Central Hospital,
is inviting investors to
partner it through Public
Private Partnership (PPPs) in
the provision of quality health
service to the public.
Mpilo Hospital chief executive
officer (CEO) Laurence Mantiziba
said the institution, which needs
a whooping US$15 million to regain
its former glory, was now
open for joint ventures with private
players in order to raise capital
for reviving the institution.
“Over US$15 million is needed
to restore the hospital to its
former position and this can be
raised through joint ventures,”
said Mantiziba in a recent interview
in Bulawayo.
According to the hospital report,
the health institution is
facing challenges in setting up a
pharmacy department and needs
private partnerships for a joint
venture. The hospital is offering
an opportunity for investors to
complete construction of a mortuary
which has remained uncompleted
for the past 15 years.
The hospital also seeks investors
to establish a funeral parlour,
as well as a bigger and modern
laboratory — a key component
for the diagnosis, monitoring,
treatment and prevention of
disease. The hospital is also looking
for partnerships that will help
set up X-Ray and Renal Unit departments.
Mantiziba said a number of
companies such as Corporate24
and Doves Funeral Services had
already partnered Mpilo Hospital
in some sectors.
“Already, we now have a joint
venture between Mpilo and Corporate24
in which the latter shall
develop two private wards at the
hospital. The equipment has
been procured while the renovations
are to start,” he said, adding
that they had also partnered
with another company, Snowhite,
in the provision of laundry services.
Chitungwiza Hospital CEO
Obadiah Moyo said the Zimbabwe
public sector was facing numerous
challenges and there was
need for innovative solutions to
help the situation. He said Chitungwiza
Hospital had adopted
the PPPs strategy as a way of raising
capital and the institution was
“now a citadel of PPPs in Zimbabwe’s
health sector”.
Moyo said partnerships between
the public and private sectors
in healthcare were important
for promoting economic development.
“Chitungwiza Hospital previously
benefitted from the Target
Approach and appropriately
utilised the funds. The funds
were exhausted and the hospital
resorted to operating with some
PPPs on a small scale in the theatres
and ophthalmology, renal,
laboratory and radiology, pharmacy
and dental and mortuary,”
said Moyo.
He said when Chitungwiza Hospital
made joint ventures with
private companies, service delivery
was vastly improved after the
partners brought state-of-the-art
equipment to the hospital. The
result was that Chitungwiza became
the first public hospital in
southern Africa to achieve ISO
certification.
Moyo said opportunities for
private player participation in
the joint venture projects in the
Zimbabwe health care system
could be broadly classified along
key thrust areas such as infrastructure
development, management
and operations among others.
He said the participation of the
private sector was expected to
spur innovation thereby quickly
bridging the resource gap in
infrastructure for health care. A
feasibility study needed to be carried
out before the private partnership
programes commenced,
he said.
“This helps in efficient resource
allocation, so as to channel
resources towards projects
with a better chance of success,”
said Moyo, adding that it was important
to ensure that the PPPs
would not make the health delivery
system inaccessible to the economically
disadvantaged members
of society.
Use condoms:
Parirenyatwa
by Musa dube
THE Minister of Health and Child Care David Parirenyatwa
says people should use condoms to stop contracting Sexually
Transmitted Infections (STIs).
Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede has been quoted recently
calling on people to stop using condoms, among other
family planning methods. Mudede argued among other reasons
that contraceptives were conduits for diseases such as
cancer, especially in women.
The RG also claimed that contraceptives were a ploy by
powerful nations to retard population growth in Africa as a
way of weakening the continent.
However, in an interview, Parirenyatwa said although he
had not seen Mudede’s report, he urged people to use contraceptives
by all means.
“What I would like to emphasise is that the use of
condoms is one of our very critical prevention methods
that has helped us in the reduction of STIs and HIV
and unwanted pregnancies in Zimbabwe,” said Parirenyatwa.
Against this background, Parirenyatwa said they would
always advocate for contraceptive use.
“So as the government, we advocate very strongly for the
use of condoms,” said the minister.
A social worker with a non-governmental organisation,
Sarah Mpofu, echoed the same sentiments, saying
condoms were necessary in the fight against HIV and
Aids.
“We have a lot of people who are dying of Aids every day
and we also have a lot of children who have been orphaned
by Aids and many of these orphans are struggling to make
ends meet, so we would like people to use condoms and curb
the spread of STIs which are causing many challenges,”
said Mpofu.
“Zimbabwe is striving to have a HIV and Aids free generation
and the other way to achieve it is through use of contraceptive
methods,” said Mpofu.
Al Shabaab leader Godane dies
Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa
THE Pentagon confirmed on Friday
that Ahmed Abdi Godane, a leader of
the al Shabaab Islamist group, was
killed in a US airstrike in Somalia last
week, calling it a “major symbolic and
operational loss” for the al Qaeda-affiliated
militants.
“We have confirmed that Ahmed Godane,
the co-founder of al Shabaab, has
been killed,” Rear Admiral John Kirby,
the Pentagon’s press secretary, said in
a statement.
Since taking charge of al Shabaab
in 2008, Godane had restyled the group
as a global player in the al Qaeda network,
carrying out bombings and suicide
attacks in Somalia and elsewhere
in the region, including the September
21 2013 attack on the Westgate
shopping mall in nairobi, Kenya, that
killed 67 people.
Godane publicly claimed responsibility
for the Westgate attack, saying it
was revenge for Kenyan and Western
involvement in Somalia and noting its
proximity to the anniversary of the
September 11 2001 attacks on the United
States.
His death leaves a gap in al Shabaab’s
leadership and was seen as posing the
biggest challenge to the group’s unity
since it emerged as a fighting force
eight years ago.
Abdi Ayante, director of the Heritage
Institute for Policy Studies in the
Somali capital of Mogadishu, said Godane’s
death would be “a game-changer
in many ways for al Shabaab.”
“What is likely to happen is a struggle
for power,” he said a day before the
Pentagon confirmed Godane’s death.
Ayante said fragmentation was also
possible in the absence of a leader
with Godane’s experience and ruthless
approach to dissent.
“He was a strong leader of al Shabaab
. . . and had basically taken care of rivals
pretty effectively,” said Matthew
Olsen, director of the US government’s
national Counterterrorism Centre.
Al Shabaab is a “very fractious”
group, and “there are a number of potential
candidates” to succeed Godane,
Olsen said. — Reuters
Nursing
posts remain
elusive for
graduates
by our correspondent
UnEMPLOYED nurses are
still failing to get jobs despite
an announcement
by the government that
it had opened up all the
nursing posts.
There are over 2 500
trained nurses who are
unemployed after the government
stopped employing
them citing budgetary
constraints. Health and
Child Care minister, David
Parirenyatwa however
said recently that nursing
posts had been unfrozen,
meaning that unemployed
nurses would be
taken into government
employ.
But this does not seem
to have happened as many
nurses said in recent interviews
that they were still
sitting at home doing nothing.
“We don’t know what’s
happening because when
we went to the provincial
offices looking for jobs,
the officials said they
were yet to get a go ahead
to recruit,” said Leslie
Moyo, from Bulawayo.
Another graduate, who
identified himself just as
Rodrick, said he had been
to the Ministry of Health
offices in Bulawayo several
times seeking for employment
without success.
“We are confused because
the government
said the jobs have been
unfrozen but the officials
at the ministry keep telling
us to come next time,”
said Rodrick.
Parirenyatwa however
confirmed in a recent interview
that government
had indeed opened up the
posts.
“The posts were unfrozen.
It’s now a matter of
trying to identify where
the vacancies are and how
to distribute the resources
that are available,” said
the minister.
He said it was now up
to the responsible institutions
to put their houses
in order before they recruited.
“It’s now left with the institutions
but at policy level,
we have unfrozen the
posts,” said the minister.
Every year, hundreds
of nurses graduate from
training institutions
countrywide but struggle
to secure employment.
The job freeze policy,
which was effected in 2010,
has affected the health delivery
system amid revelations
that most hospitals
and clinics are now run by
students.
Mpilo and UBH serve as
major referral health centres
for hospitals in the
country’s Southern Region
that encompasses
Masvingo, Gweru, Victoria
Falls, Gokwe and Beitbridge.

The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 9
» Investing in people for social and economic justice
» ZIMCODD’s Position on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Debt Assumption Bill
» On Friday, June 13 2014, the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) gazetted the Reserve
Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Debt Assumption Bill that is meant to address the Central
Bank’s US$1.12 billion debt that it incurred prior to 31 December 2008. The essence of
the Bill is the Government’s willingness to assume RBZs debts so that it will revert to
its core business of being lender of last resort. Whereas there are a number of aspects
that have a bearing on transparency and public accountability in relationship to public
debt management and loan contraction, ZIMCODD wishes to flag out some issues
and state the organization’s position as outlined below. In as much as the Bill will have
implications on the economy and the general operations of the Central Bank, as a social
and economic justice movement, ZIMCODD is concerned about the fate of the tax
payer (who bears the brunt of repaying) once the Bill becomes law.
»
» For the record, ZIMCODD has been advocating for a lasting solution to the country’s
crippling debt for the past 14 years calling for among other things; the conducting of
a national debt audit, cancellation or repudiation of illegitimate and odious debts and
the focus on domestic resource mobilisation, transparent and accountable utilisation
of the same for human and social development which should translate into an improved
GDP per capita. Therefore, for ZIMCODD, the RBZ’s debt should not be treated
as a separate issue from the broader national debt question.
»
» The RBZ Debt Assumption Bill has various clauses that are of great concern to ZIM-
CODD. Clause 2 of the Bill defines Zimbabwe Debt Management Office (ZDMO) as
a department within the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. The establishment
of ZDMO is in line with the general international best practice, which is
commendable. However, ZIMCODD calls for an independent debt management office
that has some autonomy to recruit and make decisions without the direct influence
of the executive power and other political actors thereby enhancing transparency
and accountability.
»
» In terms of Clause 3 of the Bill, the GoZ will assume debts that are prior to 31 December
2008 which was a period of economic meltdown for the country. Social and
economic development was stagnant and the RBZ assumed the supposed role of the
state to provide for its citizens through quasi fiscal activities. If the poor and the marginalised
indeed benefitted from these activities, ZIMCODD commends the Central
Bank’s efforts but this calls for a social impact evaluation to determine the extent to
which they benefitted and justify why the government should assume the RBZ debt.
»
» ZIMCODD calls for an inclusive validation and reconciliation process that includes
other stakeholders to append their signatures. The Parliament, on behalf of the tax
payers must also be fully satisfied that all the information pertaining to the assumption
of the debts has been disclosed. The process should be able to show the legitimacy
of the loans contracted by the RBZ.
»
» Implications of the Bill on the taxpayer
The government’s argument for the Bill in its current form is that it will allow the
RBZ to revert to its core business. The next step will be to restore confidence in the financial
sector by capitalising the Central Bank to effectively perform its functions. The
questions that immediately come to mind are:
» • Will the ordinary citizens have the same confidence in the Central Bank?
» • Where will the funds for the bank’s recapitalisation come from?
» • Under what conditions and implications to the tax payer will the government get
the
capital to inject into the Central Bank?
» Even if it were efficient for financial stability reasons to let taxpayers bear the burden
» of assuming the bank’s debts, it would be unpalatable to them, and it would be
» unfair unless they can exert effective and direct control and benefits on their taxes.
A critical analysis of the Government’s move to assume the RBZ’s debt shows
that the
» tax payers will be negatively affected. Once the Bill is passed into law, the RBZ
» becomes immune and cannot be sued by its creditors.
»
» ZIMCODD therefore recommends that there be a provision in the bill compelling
banks to take special treasury bills in respect of the assumed debt so that they can immediately
pay their creditors. From a heavily taxed citizen’s point of view, the assumption
of the RBZ’s debt by the State has negative implications on the tax payers as they
are the ones who will be expected to repay the debts through taxes. Currently, Zimbabwe’s
tax system is regressive as the poor and vulnerable are contributing a greater
proportion of their earnings through Value Added Tax and Pay As You Earn.The schedule
of the debts to be assumed clearly shows that some of these liabilities might not
have benefited the tax payer but individuals and companies that have nothing to do
with the provision of public services, thus strengthening ZIMCODD’s call for an official
debt audit before the assumption of the debts by the State. Therefore, if the debts
are assumed there will be a situation where the poor and vulnerable will subsidise the
debt obligations of private interests.
»
» The major implication of the debts in any situation is the burden to repay, which is
placed on the tax payers and the suffocation of social and economic development
as the funds are diverted towards debt repayments. Assuming the RBZ’s debt entails
an increase in the level of the Central Government’s debt stock which stands at US
$9.909 billion as of 31 December 2013 (Press Statement by Minister Chinamasa on 3
July 2014). An increase in the government’s debt stock implies a prolonged transfer of
resources from the poor and marginalised to finance the debts as well as the potential
introduction of various taxes and levies by the Government, which will continue
to push the tax payers into the dungeons of poverty.
»
» In light of the above, ZIMCODD restates its position on the roadmap towards resolving
the national debt question as:
» An Official Public Debt Audit- As the starting point towards a lasting solution, a national
public debt audit should be commissioned. The audit will surface the origins,
structure, and legitimacy, how much is owed to who, growth and impact of the loans
on social and economic development in general.
» Debt audit will also show the extent to which the government is committed to
transparency and accountability regarding debt management. It will further inform
the government on some institutional and policy gaps that need to be addressed in
the debt management process.
» ZIMCODD therefore calls for the following:
» • On the Zimbabwe Parliament to set up a Public Debt Commission to conduct
an
official public debt audit before any debt relief mechanism can be
considered for
both the national and RBZ debts.
» • There is need to know the beneficiaries and the extent to which they have
» benefited. In the Schedule attached to the Bill, a list of debts to be assumed by
» the GoZ has been given. However, this information is not enough as it is void
on
who actually benefited in terms of sectors. Some purposes for the
debts are
» not even mentioned for example a US$4 million loan from Metallon and a total
of US$2.9 million owing to Kingdom Capital Tier.
» Convening of an All Stakeholders Public Debt Dialogue Platform that brings together
representatives from the various sectors of our society (faith based organizations,
labour, special interest groups, among others), parliament, representatives of
creditors, GoZ, to inform the process of finding a sustainable solution on the national
debt question.
» Total and Unconditional Cancellation of the debt- International Financial Institutions
(IFIs)’ macro-economic prescriptions that have a history of infringing on people’s
social and economic rights must not be accepted as conditions for debt relief.
» Domestic Resource Mobilisation: Instead of focusing on repaying debts in order
to be able to borrow again, the GoZ should focus on domestic resources mobilisation
and plugging of illicit outflows through high levels of corruption, tax evasion and tax
dodging in the extractive industry, particularly the mining sector, wildlife, forestry,
fishery among others. Focus on tapping domestic resources for development is more
sustainable and desirable in any democracy.
»
» For more details contact
» Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development
» 226 Samora Machel Ave, Eastlea 803, 8th Floor, Charter House, Leopold
Takawira
» Harare Bulawayo
» Tel:+263-4-776830 Tel:+263-9-886594/5
» Email:zimcodd@zimcodd.co.zw Website:www.zimcodd.org.zw

10 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Comment & Analysis
Time to build bridges,
revive economy
After raising the nation’s hopes for economic revival
during his visit to China, President Robert Mugabe
and his large delegation returned with nothing that
could change the lives of the people of this nation in the foreseeable
future.
Following glowing media reports about the so-called mega
deals, many had hoped that Mugabe’s visit to China would
bring immediate relief to the people’s suffering and halt the
economic tailspin worsened by a severe liquidity crunch,
company closures and high unemployment.
But no, that was not to be. Other than loads of MOUs and
of course personal trinkets bought with cash taken from the
drying national purse, Mugabe and his delegation did not
come with any funds — which is what Zimbabwe desperately
needs to get out of this economic quagmire.
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa told parliamentarians
that the Chinese had not given them any budgetary support
— not even a cent. What they gave were mere promises
to support viable projects — projects that when undertaken,
will bring profit to the Chinese.
So, any hopes that we might soon wake up to find our industries
running, bringing back the many thousands of jobs
lost in the past year, will not come to fruition.
It is no wonder that the focus of the President’s attention
upon his return has not been giving the nation feedback of a
successful trip, but on fighting internal party rivals accused
of trying to block his wife Grace’s ascendancy to the top echelons
of power.
This is not what Zimbabweans expect from their President.
They want a leader who focuses on serious challenges that
confront the nation.
Instead of spending 10 hours locked in a politburo meeting
to deal with political squabbles arising from Grace’s entry
into politics, the President should be spending those hours
crafting economic revival strategies in cabinet with government
ministers.
Instead of telling potential economic saviours to go to
hell — ordering them out of the country and inciting violence
against the few whites remaining on farms — Mugabe
should be building bridges so that our tourism, industry, agriculture,
health and education can come back to life.
PresiDent robert Mugabe . . . he has been busy with fights in his party at the
expense of the economy.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Men-of-God should not mislead the sick
I
want to thank Health and Child
Care minister David Parirenyatwa
for reprimanding the socalled
Men-of-God who mislead
people into defaulting on their
medication for chronic ailments.
I have cousins who have had a
difficult time trying to convince
their mother into taking her
ARVs without success because the
pastor gets in the way. The pastor
has pushed her back into denial
by telling her that she is healed,
when she is not. As a result it has
Dokora erodes gains
made under Coltart
Before independence in 1980
very few blacks had O’Level
or A’Level. Today our professionals
can be found almost in every
corner of the world. Free mass
education achieved its objectives,
but we were slow to switch from
quantitative to qualitative education.
The first decade went well.
By the late 80s, large student numbers
started to chase very scarce
resources in schools. Books, desks
and even pieces of chalk became
scarce, let alone manila or pens.
By the early 90s, it was clear
massive cash injection was needed
in education. Little regard was
being put to improve the quality
of our education, resulting in the
Nziramasanga Commission. Successive
education ministries never
bothered to improve the quality
side of our product. The lowest
point for those in education was
the era of Aeneas Chigwedere.
Chigwedere was appointed at a
time when the morale of teachers
had dipped, their conditions
of service had worsened and their
hitherto respectable status had
taken a huge knock.
Instead of improving teachers’
welfare, Chigwedere declared war
on teachers he perceived to be anti-Zanu
PF for daring to go on industrial
action. The scapegoat
was they were were members of
the radical Progressive Teachers’
Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ).
After the 2000 constitutional
referendum, teachers in rural
schools were in constant fear of
Zanu PF militias. In urban areas
teachers were wary of the CIO.
The hyper-inflation years saw
schools going without basics like
chalk, textbooks, exercise books,
water and electricity. We still have
that lost generation of pupils in
our midst. The government and
Chigwedere in particular, never
cared for both teachers and pupils
from poor backgrounds. Their
parents were only remembered at
election periods. It was about retention
of power at any cost.
Concerned parents then started
subsidising schools, especially
boarding schools in rural areas.
Research has shown that boarding
schools were the first to offer
teachers incentives to keep
them at school during persistent
strikes. Parents bought food packs
for teachers. Soon, urban parents
copied this concept of incentives
to motivate teachers who queued
at supermarkets with worthless
bearers cheque. It was during this
era that extra lessons and private
schools mushroomed. It was never
the struggling teachers’ idea to
been a sad cycle; she flushes down
her tablets in the toilet, gets bedridden
and very sick. They take
her to hospital and the Opportunist
Infections (OI) nurses sit
her down for tough talk. When
she gets better and goes back to
church, the cycle begins. My cousins
are going to lose their mother
because of a selfish pastor who
should instead be helping by encouraging
this woman to take her
tablets consistently.
It is true that churchmen are
Former education minister David Coltart
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fuelling stigma, it’s as if HIV
and Aids is not a disease for the
Christians, or they do not want
to preach to the sick or those afflicted
by the disease. Pastors
and prophets who put up posters
claiming that they can heal viral
diseases should be arrested. After
all, it is God that heals. There is
no need to derail the gains made
so far in the fight against HIV and
Aids and other chronic ailments.
Tambu,
Zaka
start extra lessons. Urban parents
approached their children’s teachers
to go the extra mile at their
homes for a negotiated fee. Given
his battered status, the unmotivated
teacher found the offer too good
to ignore. Soon, this spread even
to rural areas where buckets of
maize or chickens were voluntarily
offered. Up until this year, this
has been the norm as teachers are
still underpaid. Incentives were
and still remain a necessary evil
as long as teachers are underpaid.
Some semblance of order came
during David Coltart’s tenure as
Education minister during GNU
era. Coltart served with humility.
He was the first post-independence
minister to engage teacher
representative bodies on an equal
footing. Prior to Coltart, successive
education ministers had tended
to treat Zimta with kid-gloves
but was heavy-handed against
PTUZ in particular. Coltart vigorously
campaigned for depoliticisation
of schools where some
Zanu PF militias had formed bases.
Cognisant of the poor remuneration
for teachers, Coltart then formalised
incentives and levies as
temporary measures to mitigate
against economic hardships faced
by teachers and school administrators.
A 10% cap was put on all
levies collected during a particular
term as incentives for teachers.
Coltart again formalised holiday
lessons at schools to assist exam-writing
classes who had lost
out from 2000. It’s cheap politics to
then turn around and portray the
teacher as the mercenary.
Coltart went on to convince
Western nations through Unicef
to bring textbooks and exercise
books for both primary and secondary
schools throughout the
country. That is what we call a
legacy. Coltart was a servant of
the people, ready to improve the
lot of pupils from poor backgrounds
by considering the fate
of both the teacher and the student.
Schools today have a bookstudent
ratio of one to one due
to Coltart’s efforts. There was,
up until this year, a degree of
normalcy and commitment in
schools. It’s a pity Coltart is no
longer there. He epitomised honesty,
integrity and above all, humility
in servitude. He declared
that incentives would remain until
teachers got PDL-pegged salaries.
The present minister Lazarus
Dokora is undoing the sterling
work started by Coltart. How
could he pronounce openly in the
glare of media cameras that students
should go to schools even
without paying a cent? How do
schools pay their water and electricity
bills in towns and boarding
schools?
Dokora has taken the populist
route with no consultation at all.
He has become unpopular with
both parents and teachers. Will
his directives take education forward?
Only stable economies can
afford free education. Education
needs a minister who engages all
stakeholders.
Odrix Mhiji
PTUZ Harare Information Officer

Comment & Analysis
The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 11
ONLINE FEEDBACK
REsPoNdINg to the opinion piece,
Zimbabwe’s opposition parties in disarray
by Pius Wakatama (The Standard
August 31 to September 6 2014) Rumbidzai
writes: Morgan Tsvangirai is the
best thing that ever happened to Zanu
PF and is the gift that keeps on ensuring
it will be Zanu PF forever. Tsvangirai
and simba Makoni are not even a faint
threat to the status quo. There’s plenty
of diamonds still remaining in the
country and there is nothing to stop
the looters from an eternity of corruption.
The generation of Zimbabweans
who will have even a remote chance
of a better life in Zimbabwe has not yet
been born.
Aliphelithemba says: Mavambo/Kusile/dawn
(MKd) exists as a party only in
the media. Actually, this is just a title to
boost Makoni’s political ego and nothing
more. As for the so-called Renewal
crowd, there is nothing really except
the tired slogan, “gumbura this, gumbura
that…” With the MdC-T congress
approaching in october one wonders
whether there will be anything left of
it, considering this final push to throw it
over the cliff in the last couple of weeks.
What a wasted 15 years! As for MdC-N
[led by Wleshman Ncube], its leader did
not listen to the voice of advice and reduced
the party to the level of a social
club. Unfortunately, Zapu seem to have
taken this route to oblivion too.
OPINION
Unemployment: Is it 90 or 10 percent?
guest opinion
BY BERNARD BWONI
IN Zimbabwe the actual unemployment rate
is in the region of 10,5% contrary to some
sensational figures of 85-90% as carelessly
proposed and paraded by some economists.
The majority of people in the country are economically
active and as long as a person does
an hour’s work per day or per week, they are
employed. This is the criteria used by the International
Conference of Labour Statisticians
(ICLS) when defining employment.
The definition means having done some
“work” over the past day or week and anyone
who has worked at least one hour over the
day or week is in fact employed. This is in no
way meant to understate the economic challenges
impacting on the majority of the people
in the country. However, an understanding
of the country’s informal sector is relevant to
addressing some of the economic challenges
which continue to burden the country.
According to the ICLS, “the concept of informal
employment is considered to be relevant
not only for developing and transition
countries, but also for developed countries,
for many of which the concept of the informal
sector is of limited relevance”. In the developed
world informal employment is synonymous
with self-employment. In the developing
world there is formal and informal employment
and in the UK they use employed and
self-employed and it’s the same in most industrialised
countries. So, in the context of labour
statisticians’ definition, any “work” including
those engaged in the production of goods and
services, are in fact employment.
In Zimbabwe the distinction between employed
and “employed” is not clear. Only formal
employment often makes it to the statistics
records whilst informal employment is
neglected. But it is partly due to the informal
sector that the country is still on its feet in the
face of the “economic” sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Take a young man who herds cattle in
the rural areas on behalf of a family in Harare
and at the end of the month earns US$140;
is that young man employed or unemployed?
A lady who sells her wares at the market every
day and at the end of the week takes home
US$500 and has been doing that for over 15 years;
is that lady unemployed? A gentleman who is
rearing chicken in his back garden earns US$2
000-US$3 000 a month from his project. Is that
gentleman unemployed? What of the newly resettled
farmer who suddenly realised US$20 000
from the tobacco auction floors? The list is endless
and most of the proceeds from these informal
set-ups do not make it in the formal monetary
system. This is an untapped tax revenue
base that is ready for harnessing.
In Zimbabwe you have people who have not
known formal employment, some by choice and
others not for a very long time and have engaged
in a number of informal work activities. Many
have excelled as informal sector workers and
employers. These individuals who are economically
active and “gainfully” employed, and if we
are to measure “gainful” with property ownership
and possessions, many have acquired properties,
cars and other tangible assets.
The issue in Zimbabwe is that most people
would only consider themselves as employed
if they are in a formal work setting and hence
the distorted employment and unemployment
statistics. There are many people in the country
who work in the informal sector who earn
more than those who are formally employed
and how can we justify saying such persons
are unemployed? This is not to downplay the
fact that more people in the informal sector or
self-employed might point to some weaknesses
in the labour market. However, it cannot be ignored
that those engaged in the informal sector
are indeed economically active.
The unemployment rate measures the number
of people actively seeking work or for a
job as a percentage of the labour force. Statisticians,
in their definition, treat all those who
“work” as employed. There is informal and
formal work, informal and formal employment,
employed and self-employed depending
on where you are.
The ICLS recognises all economic activity
as “work” and thus includes people engaged in
activities such as farming — whether commercial
or communal — and all those who work in
the informal sector. According to the Zimbabwe
National Statistical Agency, 50% of the
country’s population was employed in the agricultural
sector, 42% were classified as communal
farmers or communal farm workers
and the rest of the employed figure was 58%.
From the data on activity for Zimbabwe from
the 2012 population census the economically
active population was 67%, the unemployed
population was 11% and the figure for those
employed was 89%.
In many countries throughout the world
self-employed figures are incorporated into
national statistics. In South Africa 10% of the
workforce is self-employed; that is a figure of
1,3 million self-employed. In Zimbabwe around
60% of the country’s economy is informal and
hence why you often hear of the staggering figures
of 80% or 90% unemployment. That is because
it does not factor in the self-employed
statistics and the informal economy of the
country.
The national unemployment and GDP figures
in Zimbabwe do not reflect the highly informalised
economy in the country. Once the country
starts formalising the informal sector and
starts incorporating the figures into GDP and
employment statistics, this will reveal a solid
economy on a sound backdrop of an economically
empowered indigenous majority. The
trickle-down effect of an economy propped up
by indigenous stakeholders is that they have a
higher propensity to invest back into the country
unlike erstwhile minority investors and
multinationals who abandoned Zimbabwe in
her time of most need following the necessary
and highly successful land reform.
It is imperative that formal studies are carried
out to gauge the actual size of Zimbabwe’s
informal economy and GDP in nominal terms.
If you look at trade in the country it happens
mostly informally at flea-markets, market traders,
in homes, flourishing greenhouses, the
chicken-rearing in the back gardens, fish-farming
in the backyards, you name it, and these are
the figures that are not reflected in the national
GDP and national economy.
The solution is to carry out that study to find
out the exact figures of the informal economy,
getting the self-employed to incorporate their
activities, registration and means of follow up
and action plans.
— Bernardbwoni.blogspot.com
IN response to the story, Teachers produce
maths DVD, Mai Mbiri says: Thanks
guys. I have been travelling around the
country and have seen children who
are going to benefit from your mathematics
dVd. I hope the Ministry of Education
purchases those dVds for our
children, especially in rural areas. As for
the parents who can afford, please buy
these dVd’s for your children. It will go
a long way to help your children understand
some mathematics concepts.
Ronald writes; This is really what we
call thinking outside the box guys. I like
it, keep it up! god bless you.
ZIMbAbWEANs must be reassured that
the MdC Renewal Team is growing every
day. Zimbabweans from across the
country and in the diaspora are finding
home in the MdC Renewal Team, where
there is real hope for the ultimate removal
of Zanu PF. We believe in politics
of inclusion and consensus on critical
national policies and issues. We therefore
dismiss the reported fall-out between
our leadership as mere figment
of the imagination of our detractors.
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12 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Comment & Analysis / Opinion
‘Quality
leadership is
all we need’
sundayopinion
BY ELTON MANGOMA
Zanu PF women break into song
The system we have in
Zimbabwe is not producing
the leaders we want
or expect, so we must
change the system to get
different results — true democracy,
freedom, justice and solidarity.
Unless we spend time defining
our future as a country, we will
find ourselves at a place where we
really do not want to be.
From our history, we left the
definition of our future to somebody
else; we gave our politicians
carte blanche to create our future
and we trusted them. We trusted
they would make decisions that
would best serve our aspirations;
we were wrong and must not repeat
the same mistakes.
We have to create a psychological
momentum towards change
and usher in a better future for
our country.
By continually focusing on what
we want, we will create positive
energy towards the outcomes that
we desire most, as compared to
continually dwelling on the negative
past which we cannot change.
The foundation and progress
of any nation is attributed to the
quality of leadership a nation
has. Good leaders have a clear vision
of the future of the country
and care for the people. Where we
have good leaders, it goes without
saying that, we will experience
their goodness as reflected in how
they govern public and private institutions.
Where good leadership lacks, as
is the case now in Zimbabwe, nations
will regress as the values
promoted or represented by bad
leadership behaviour permeate
all sectors of society.
Although Zimbabwe has all the
human and natural resources to
develop rapidly, the lack of good
leadership has made all these resources
we possess redundant.
Our future cannot be the same.
In order to understand why people
in political leadership in Zimbabwe
behave the way they do,
and seem indifferent to the consequences
of the bad decisions that
they make, we need to appreciate
why they are the way they are. We
must seek to understand our problem
situation first before we can
remedy it.
Our observations are simple;
most of our current leaders
came from the struggle days and
their view of how the world operates
continues to be influenced by
their experiences then.
In the bush, it was survival of
the fittest and our leaders essentially
operated in two simple mental
spheres; you are either a friend
or an enemy.
If we extrapolate this to today,
you either support Zanu PF or you
are an enemy. These were exactly
the slogans used in the past to
motivate and encourage combatants
(now war veterans) and communities
to support the armed
struggle effort. We still hear it today
where, according to our politicians,
the problems we are expe-
riencing today are a result of the
enemy out there.
Where leaders think in this dichotomy,
they will continue to seriously
believe that there is an enemy
and if that is not the truth,
they will manufacture the enemies.
Our questions are thus; can our
current leaders be able to serve
the interest of the country and all
Zimbabweans regardless of their
political affiliation? Can they represent
the interests of Zimbabweans
in general? Can they be able
to give their best to national interest?
Can they tolerate those who
differ?
The answer for all the above is
of course, no.
Political power without leadership
is dangerous as we have seen
here in Zimbabwe. The priority of
those in power is to stay in power
and as a result, our country can
never experience its full potential
until we change our leadership.
The Zimbabwe we want cannot be
led by leaders who have a partisan
agenda and only look after their
own interests.
The Zimbabwe we want needs
an inclusive economic and social
agenda that seeks to deliver value
to all citizens. It must be led by a
completely different type of leaders.
It must be led by leaders who
have a high self-esteem and who
do not rule by instilling fear or
violence on perceived enemies. It
must be led by people who appreciate
that their role is to facilitate
development and allow others to
lead where necessary.
The leaders we want must have
a compelling vision for our country.
They need to be driven by purpose.
Our leaders must be open to
being questioned and challenged
so that they may make better decisions.
It cannot be a crime to criticise
the President.
Past leaders have sought political
power as an end in itself and
so we have individuals with political
power but are bad leaders.
In the Zimbabwe we want, leadership
must be a privilege of those
who have the competency to lead
and not a politically acquired
right or entitlement.
If we assume that indeed we
can get such leaders in Zimbabwe,
the question would be what
should we expect them to do in order
for Zimbabwe to rise again?
The first step must be to create
a participative democracy where
the constitution is sacrosanct.
This participative democracy we
speak of must be led by the people;
leaders represent the interest
of stakeholders and facilitate the
attainment of the country’s full
potential.
A participative democracy
means that every citizen has a
right not only to vote, but to continually
challenge the status quo
for the good of the country. It also
requires us as citizens to take responsibility
for creating the circumstances
we want without
fear.
We need leaders who are not
threatened by the truth; leaders
who are not threatened by the
opinions of others, but encourage
and embrace robust debate
on everything; leaders who know
that they don’t know what they
don’t know and therefore must
shed the “god complex” of knowing
it all.
We also cannot afford personality
cults to develop in the Zimbabwe
we want for that is the birth
place of dictators. The answers
that we need to revive Zimbabwe
cannot be found only in the brains
of one man or one political party
or one organisation. The myriad
of opinions and ideas about our
future must be encouraged and
harnessed from all citizens for
our good.
Above all in the Zimbabwe we
want, we want leaders who are
value-driven and not money-driven;
leaders who are genuinely concerned
about the well-being of all
citizens regardless of race, tribe
or political affiliation. We shall
require leaders who are principled
and are not driven by material
accumulation but by serving
the needs of citizens.
It is therefore imperative that
we get the leaders we want, for
Zimbabwe to surely rise.
• Elton Mangoma is a Zimbabwean
politician and entrepreneur
and you may contact him
on mangomaes@gmail.com
Zanu PF secrets: Mutsvangwa must tell it all
ChrISTOPher Mutsvangwa’s
revelations that Joice Mujuru did
not shoot down a rhodesian Air
Force helicopter during the war
of liberation and that she doesn’t
deserve the position of Vice-President
is a direct insult on President
robert Mugabe’s intelligence. It
was Mugabe who made people believe
that Joice Mujuru was indeed
a war heroine by awarding
her a ministerial post at independence
in 1980 regardless of her being
without requisite educational
qualifications then. Mugabe went
further to appoint her Vice-President
in 2004. That time Ambassador
Mutsvangwa was among
the first people to congratulate
Joice Mujuru and hailed her appointment
as a milestone towards
women empowerment in Zimbabwe.
Does Mutsvangwa think people
have short memories?
Mujuru has deputised Mugabe
for more than 10 years both in government
and in the party. When
Mutsvangwa attacks Mujuru, he
does not only attack her in per-
sunday
view
BY RUYEDZO
MUTIZWA
son but also the office she holds.
Mutsvangwa has disgraced the
entirety of Zanu PF, the liberation
struggle and Mugabe in particular,
unless he is Mugabe’s attack
dog.
Mutsvangwa has the courage to
tell the world that Didymus Mutasa
did not fight from the trenches
but does not say how many bullets
Mugabe fired and which war zone
Mugabe operated from. Mutsvangwa
cannot expect us to believe
that his hatred for those who were
not in the front is spared when it
comes to Mugabe. he must say the
same for Mugabe.
Mutsvangwa’s failure to acknowledge
the importance of effective
propaganda as a war winning
weapon is comparable to
stray bullets fired from an automatic
machine gun in the hands of
a cowardly foot soldier. It is shocking
to say the least. In the art of
war, it is propaganda and strategy
that rules supreme while the rest
trails.
Mutsvangwa should be reminded
that the Look east policy
adopted by his party Zanu PF, for
which he has been a torch-bearer,
is nothing but propaganda designed
to win over the West while
at the same time auctioning Zimbabwe
to the Chinese for a song.
had the Look east policy produced
the intended results, surely
Mutsvangwa would have been
the hero of the moment, akin to
the propagandist of the second
Chimurenga who made the world
believe that the Ian Smith regime
was down and out.
Sadly, Zimbabweans have endured
a lot of uncertainty and insecurity
as a result of the cheap
Look east gimmick.
The holier than thou attitude
being displayed by Mutsvangwa
must be condemned in the strongest
of terms. he must tell us what
really happened to Josiah Tongogara.
he must give a true account of
the liberation war. We have questions
that require answers and it
seems Mutsvangwa has all the answers.
We want to know who murdered
our relatives during the period
1973 to 1980, a period which,
according to Mutsvangwa, was the
defining period of the struggle. he
must tell us why the refugees at
Chimoio were not protected before
the rhodesians attacked.
he is however silent on the period
that has witnessed mass exodus,
mass graves, massive property
destruction, mass unemployment,
runaway inflation, hunger,
disease, violence and torture —
that is the period 1982 to 2014. We
want to know about the Matabeleland
Gukurahundi and not forgetting
vashandi [workers].
Zimbabwe’s politics cannot be
characterised by praise-singers
who have high-flying tongues and
snail’s brains. As a country, we
have suffered enough under the
leadership of people driven by
emotions and bent on undermining
democracy and the rule of law
while pursuing personal agendas.
Mutsvangwa is fighting from his
wife’s [Monica Mutsvangwa] corner
and wants everyone to believe
that he is a genuine comrade.
The succession battles in Zanu
PF are none of my business
and I don’t care who takes over
the reins. My concerns are that
Mutsvangwa must tell it all and
that Zimbabweans must be freed
from tongue-lashing politicians
and an unbankable 90-year-old
President. Who in the progressive
world would sign a meaningful
deal with a 90-year-old President?
Only the hangers-on in
Zanu PF will forever hero-worship
Mugabe.
• Ruyedzo Mutizwa is the interim
Chairman of the People’s
Democratic Party.

Opinion
The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 13
Transitional Justice: An urgent quest
justicematters
BY DZIKAMAI BERE & PROSPER MAGUCHU
IN the last few weeks we have
reflected on reconciliation.
We have met with many people
who find more questions
than answers in these discussions
and the suggestions we
make. In our polarised society, solutions
for one group create problems
for the other, hence the dialogue
must always continue. Our
suggestions in this area can never
be exhaustive. They are not expert
solutions – far from it. They
are part of a conversation that we
all must engage in. As alluded to,
this conversation is fraught with
contradictions and seems to excite
more questions. These contradictions
sometimes lead to the
categorisation of different transitional
justice measures as soft
justice, and others as hard justice.
What can we make out of
these questions and contradictions?
Issues of reconciliation and
national healing are sometimes
regarded as the
soft aspects of transitional
justice while
issues of institutional
reform are
arguably the hardcore
of transitional
justice. As
a result, the aspects
that call
for accountability
are snubbed.
Fr Oskar Wermter . . . he advocates for justice
A victim of political violence (file picture)
As such, it has become difficult
for any transitional justice measures
to be comprehensive and holistic.
Different sectors of society always
fight to protect themselves
from their perceived opponents,
hence reconciliation appears to
us to be a very important issue.
How can people terrorised by
their own government for two
decades ever trust that government
again? Transitional justice
invites all of us to ask, and
search for strategies to such challenges.
At the same time, members of
the ruling elite are always suspicious
of those pushing for transitional
justice because they believe
transitional justice tools
can be manipulated for political
gain. In Guatemala, the military
contested the use of the
phrase; “Truth Commission”
because they feared that
the commission would
be used for witch-hunting.
In the end they settled
for “Commission
for Historical Clarification”
because they
believed this would
restrict the Commission
to matters of
history and not accountability.
On the
other hand, those
in opposition often
believe that transitional
justice is actually
about regime
change, and that
there can never be
transitional justice
without regime
change. Often,
when they push for
transitional justice,
the belief is that such
measures must force
the ruling elite to relinquish power
over key institutions such as
security.
Sometime ago we happened to
be part of a team of researchers
who visited communities
to find out their perceptions on
how Zimbabwe can effectively
deal with the constantly prevailing
problem of violence. In
most meetings, participants who
were political activists were convinced
that transitional justice
must be about removing the current
administration. To them, issues
concerning reform of institutions
had the primary goal of
ensuring that there is political
transition. There is absolutely
nothing wrong with such a goal,
except that it is NOT the goal of
transitional justice to change
governments. This confusion erroneously
contributes to the suspicion
in which issues of transitional
justice are held.
Justice advocates must have a
vision beyond the next government
and beyond the actors of today,
because we know from history
that the heroes of today can be
the villains of tomorrow, and victims
today can be tomorrow’s perpetrators,
as long as the culture
and the structures that mould it
have not been transformed. Transitional
justice must not focus on
inaugurating a new government.
It must focus on inaugurating
a new culture of doing things,
for all — state and non-state actors.
At a very basic level, this
is what ordinary Zimbabweans
talk about when they address issues
of transitional justice.
In the research referred to
above, Zimbabweans who were
not political activists spoke
clearly and simply about their
deepest wishes. The recurring
pleas were … “I just want to
live in peace with my family”,
“I just need my house rebuilt”,
“I hope they won’t come back”,
“I am tired of making reports
but nothing happens”, “I hope
I will return home someday”.
These are real voices of real
families, who many times, are
not political activists. But we
cannot deny that most of their
suffering is linked to political
events and political figures.
Seventy-two percent of human
rights violations in independent
Zimbabwe are linked to political
events. And yet transitional
justice must not be reduced to
these events and figures only but
rather to a culture that must be
transformed.
In transforming the political
culture, society must not be waylaid
by the compartmentalisation
of soft justice and hard justice.
The processes are all complex.
The emotional healing of a child
who witnessed the murder of her
mother is as hard as the prosecution
of the political leader who ordered
the assassination of political
opponents. None of these two
must be elevated above the other.
Reform of institutions is not an
end in itself, but rather it must be
part of a comprehensive leadership
transformation programme
that touches both state and nonstate
actors. Many times when the
transitional justice discourse is
appropriated by political actors,
victims and survivors tend to carry
political labels, while those
who reject these labels are abandoned.
A comprehensive leadership
transformation programme must
acknowledge the important role
of citizens in shaping the leadership.
As Father Oskar Wermter
writes; better citizens make better
leaders, (NewsDay, July 30
2014). What we need in this country
are not just new leaders, but
rather new citizens who in turn
create a new leadership culture.
Transforming a culture requires
the commitment of both leaders
and citizens in establishing tools
of enforcing accountability and
achieving transparency. Things
like institutional reform, vetting
and lustration then become tools
for the broader agenda.
When we return to the basic
question of what ordinary Zimbabweans
yearn for, we then learn
that transitional justice is not
the answer to the problem of violence.
Rather, it is a quest for
the answer. Society must open a
no limits conversation, dig deeper
and reach wider in search for
solutions on how to build a more
just society. In the end, we know
that societies with accountable
leadership will develop faster and
can effectively eliminate violence
by peaceful means.
• Dzikamai Bere & Prosper
Maguchu write in their personal
capacities. For feedback,
please write to: dzikamaibere@
gmail.com

14 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Features
Africa’s peace,
security: China
not a free rider
China is willing to work together with the US
and other members of the international
community to promote peace and
development in Africa
by Liu Guijin
American leaders said
publicly during the USafrica
Leaders Summit
that the US would
offer help for africa’s
security, insisting that its security
interests in africa are not just
about countering terrorism, and
that it would engage the african
Union and ecowas and improve
their capacities so that they are
able to effectively safeguard their
own neighbourhood. By so doing,
the US projects itself as a peace
angel that can bring lasting peace
and security to africa. at the
same time, during an interview,
the american leader marked china
as a free rider for 30 years in
world peace and security affairs.
But is that true?
During the years when africa
was troubled by unrest and turmoil,
the US did not show much
enthusiasm in safeguarding peace
and security in africa. When the
tide was turned and africa’s political
and security situation as a
whole was turning better, the US
however, out of its counter-terrorism
needs, rushed into setting up
an africa command, establishing
drone bases in a number of african
countries and sending more
military experts to the continent.
it is evident that the US “return to
africa” has nothing to do with africa’s
security, but simply driven
by its strategy to strengthen military
presence and control africa’s
security lifeline. african countries
are soberly aware of this,
and oppose the relocation of USafricom
to africa. That is why it
is still embarrassingly based in
Stuttgart of Germany.
counter-terrorism has become
a catchphrase for the US to interfere
in africa’s peace and security
affairs in recent years. However,
the double standard approach,
unilateral means and pursuit of
regime change, coupled with domestic
political considerations,
made the counter-terror activities
seldom successful. in most cases,
it made things worse. in the early
1990s, the US used force in Somalia
under Unosom, but rashly
withdrew its troops due to domestic
pressure brought by the incident
of “Blackhawk Down”, leading
to years of civil war among
the warlords in the country and
the spread of the terrorist forces
from the land to the sea. in 2011,
it was just the bombardment of
nato and military actions of the
US and France that toppled the
muammar Qaddafi regime, leaving
Libya in chaos until today and
a safe haven for many terrorist
and extremist forces in the Sahel
region. many of these terrorists
and extremists were just the forces
the US and its allies relied on in
toppling the Qaddafi regime. The
outflow of terrorist forces from
Libya inflated the conflicts in the
north of mali, almost toppling the
legal government.
contrary to what it said, at the
US President Barack Obama addresses African heads of state at the US-Africa summit last month
time for peace in africa, the US often
took “neo-interventionism”
and the “responsibility to protect”
as an excuse to blatantly interfere
with africa’s internal affairs irrespective
of the legitimate appeal
of the aU and african sub-regional
organisations, which weakened
the authority of the aU and undermined
the efforts of the african
people to solve african problems
in the african way. Since africa is
not the US’s core interest and diplomatic
priority, although being a
world police itself, the US has very
limited presence in the Un peacekeeping
missions in africa.
china has never been a free rider
of the US regarding africa’s
peace and security issues. On the
contrary, china is making visible
contribution to africa’s peace
and security. Over the years, china
has sent more peace-keepers
to the Un missions in africa than
any other permanent member of
the Un Security council. Up till
now, china has participated in
16 Un peace-keeping missions in
africa, contributing over 1 800
peace-keeping personnel now on
the continent. Last year, china
sent for the first time a unit of security
forces to mali, and plans
to send similar security forces to
South Sudan this year. china’s
active involvement in peace-keeping
missions has been widely commended.
Starting from 2009, china
has sent 17 batches of fleets,
escorting over 5 400 chinese and
international vessels in the Gulf
of aden and Somali seas. in 2012,
china launched the “initiative on
china-africa cooperative Partnership
for Peace and Security” at the
fifth ministerial conference of Focac,
with the purpose of deepening
cooperation in relevant fields with
the aU and african countries.
During his visit to africa last
may, chinese Premier Li Keqiang
proposed to upgrade china-africa
cooperation in peace and security,
announcing that china
would actively explore ways to
help the development of an african
Standby Force and african
capacity for immediate response
to crisis, and support the collective
security mechanisms in africa.
The chinese government has
also been actively involved in the
mediation efforts to stop wars and
address hotspot issues.
it is natural for china to take a
more active part in africa’s peace
and security construction with
the growth of china-africa cooperation
and people-to-people exchange.
However, china has been
consistent in its diplomatic policies
and concepts. china respects
the sovereignty of african countries,
values the roles of the Un
and regional organisations, is always
persuasive and unbiased
and pushes peaceful talks. china
never seeks selfish geo-political
interests and always works
for the sake of peace and stability
of related countries and regions.
Such practice will inject new dynamism
in the cause of african
peace and security.
We know well that due to complex
histories and realities, africa
is still confronted with severe
challenges and restraints in its
pursuit for peace and security, and
needs concerted efforts and active
participation of the international
community. The US, with its military
might and influence in africa,
can play a crucial role. We are
willing to work together with the
US and other members of the international
community to promote
peace and development in
africa for win-win results and
benefits of the entire mankind.
• Liu Guijin, President of China
Asia-Africa Society:
website: www.xinhuanet.com
US-Africa Summit: A case of late love
THe first-ever US-africa Leaders
Summit was held in the
United States early august.
it seems that Washington is trying
to show “love” to africa, which
comes a little bit late, but the love
is still not so reliable. if not so,
why such a lot of groundless irresponsible
comments on chinaafrica
co-operation? Bragging by
tarnishing others?
Some weight carrying figures
in the US deliberately exaggerate
china’s needs for africa’s natural
resources, making groundless criticism
over the nature of china’s investment
in africa, trying to leave
people with the impression that
china does not care about africa’s
long-term development. However,
in the face of facts, these provoking
remarks cannot hold at all.
The BP’s latest annual report
shows that nearly 60% of africa’s
oil export is to the US and european
countries, and that western
mineral companies control most
of the quality resources of africa.
The US has always been africa’s
biggest investor in minerals since
2009, with its total investment in
the sector in africa standing at
US$4,241 billion in 2011, making
up 82,7% of its total investment in
africa for that year.
Let’s take nigeria, one of the
largest oil producers in africa, for
example. Due to the limit in exploitation
technologies, talent and
capital, nigeria’s oil resources are
tightly grasped by western multinationals.
companies like chevron
Texaco and exxon mobil control
over 90% of the oil resources
in that country. Through joint
venturing and profit sharing, they
get over 40% of nigeria’s oil output
profit “in the open”. On top of
this, by concealing information of
exploitation quantity and pricefixing,
they are also taking away
nigeria’s oil wealth “in secret”.
What has africa got in return
in this process? Statistics show
that the top nine mineral companies
of the West own 120 coal
mines and 216 metal mines in africa,
but have built only 29 refineries
and 11 smelteries in that continent.
Just as the nigerian people
complain that nigeria only
gets enough pollution from its cooperation
with the West, its infrastructure
and industrial capacity
remain weak. While rich in oil resources,
the country still relies on
the import for fuel oil.
in the development and utilisation
of africa’s resources, china
is a newcomer. The scale of china’s
energy cooperation with africa
is small. china’s imports
only makes up 18% of africa’s total
oil export, and normally chinese
mineral companies only get
patches of mineral blocks disdained
by Western companies.
in its resource cooperation with
african countries, china pursues
fair trade and mutually beneficial
cooperation and gains wide popularity
in african countries. energy
and resources constitute important
comparative advantage
for african countries’ economic
development. china buys raw
materials from africa at fair prices,
which has increased the value
of africa’s energy and resources,
helped africa to get capital for development,
enhanced africa’s capacity
for self-dependent development
and price setting in the international
market, and helped
african countries to translate
their advantages in resources into
advantages in development and
turn potential in resources into
real developing strength.
What is more important is that
china also pays attention to helping
africa to improve its energy
and resources deep processing capability.
china has helped Sudan
and chad to build their own complete
oil industry systems, so that
the two countries have changed
from net importers into exporters
of fuel oil. This is unprecedented
not only in the histories of the
two countries, but rarely seen in
the history of the african continent.
The chinese oil businesses
have helped Sudan to build oil refinery
and petrochemical plants,
and completed a 3 600km-long
crude oil pipeline as well. The upstream-downstream-integrated
cnPc chad Project is now able to
exploit and refine 1 million tonnes
of crude oil a year, helping chad
to realise self-sufficiency and even
export in petrol and diesel, creating
over 30 000 jobs and US$296
million of tax to the government.
Western countries started their
looting exploitation of africa’s resources
even in colonial times, but
have done little to help long-term
prosperity to africa. as for the nature
of investment, it is true that
china’s investment in africa really
has a different nature than that
of those Western countries.
— China People’s Daily

Feature
The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 15
Hope thinning for Zim youth
BY CHIPO MASARA
Hope of ever living the
decent life they may
have envisaged is fast
running out for the
bulk of Zimbabwean
youth.
“We have US$2 and all we need
is another dollar. please be a good
sport and give us US$1,” pleaded
*Sam, the self-appointed spokesperson
for a group of four young
men that normally linger around
the shops in my neighbourhood.
I have talked to the group a
number of times, and each time
they end up begging me for money.
They usually ask for US$1 but
when they feel I am not budging,
they quickly drop the figure to
R5, which is what I normally give
them in the end — when I can afford
to spare some loose change.
on this particular day however,
because I was having some serious
money problems of my own, I
did not take their request quite as
kindly as I usually did.
“All you do is ask me for money
every time I see you. Are you
guys mistaking me for an ATM?”
I snapped, but soon after I could
not help but feel bad. I have over
the years learned that with the
hard times people must endure in
this country, oftentimes those you
meet have problems and there is
no use in worsening it by being
rude. Sam’s response to my reaction
did not help make me feel any
better.
“If we had any other choice, we
would not be doing this [begging].
You know things are really bad in
the country my sister and we are
just trying to survive,” said Sam
in a pleading voice.
I knew what he was taking
about. The unemployment rate in
the country is believed to be soaring
above 80%, and has adversely
affected especially the youth, most
of who are struggling to earn an
income. So I decided it was pointless
to ask them why they did not
look for jobs. Instead, I wanted
to know what they planned to do
with the money they were asking
for, in the unlikely case that I was
to give it to them.
“To tell you the truth, we want
to buy a bottle of medicine [Broncleer]
because when we take it,
life becomes bearable,” said Sam.
Broncleer — a cough syrup — is
one of the drugs popular among
youths in Zimbabwe and is being
taken as a “feel good drug”.
The cough syrup should normally
be taken for the alleviation of
coughs and can be purchased in
pharmacies. each 5ml of the syrup
contains 10mg of codeine phosphate,
12,5mg diphenhydramine
HCL, 125mg ammonium chloride
A man downs medication straight from the bottle
and 50mg sodium citrate. Health
experts warn that the cough medicine
should be taken cautiously
as overdosing may lead to respiratory
depression, cyanosis and hypertension,
or even the development
of a coma, among other side
effects.
“I thought you were going to
tell me you wanted to buy food.
Instead you want me to give you
money so you can buy drugs. Do
you even know how dangerous
that cough syrup can be when taken
excessively?” I asked.
“Sister listen, kusiri kufa ndekupi?
If the drugs do not kill us, the
stress in this country will. With
the drugs at least we die happy,”
quipped *Moses, who had been
quite all along and was prompted
by the need to defend the group’s
drug-taking habits to join in the
conversation.
Moses went on to tell me he
had good passes at A’Level but
could not proceed to university
as his family could not afford
his tuition fees. Despite looking
for a job for many years, he said
all he has so far managed to get
are piece jobs, most of which last
only for a few hours, paying very
little.
But theirs is not a unique story.
The majority of Zimbabwe’s
youth are at wits’ end over what
to do with themselves after completing
their studies and failing to
find employment. The country’s
universities have been churning
out thousands of graduates each
year, most of whom have been reduced
to paupers and are ready to
resort to any activity that offers
them a few dollars. There are reports
of a large number of graduates
having since turned to street
vending in a desperate attempt to
survive.
Zimbabwe is facing major economic
challenges that have seen
companies continually closing
down while many of those
that are still operating have had
to cut down their staff in order
to remain viable. The continued
absence of foreign direct investment
(FDI) into the country,
blamed mostly on the country’s
controversial Indigenisation policy
that is chasing away potential
investors, has worsened the situation.
It has become rare to hear of
any available job vacancies in
the country and as such, it has
become common to see youths
scrounging for menial jobs, performed
under harsh conditions.
To add to their predicament, the
United Nations Development Programme
youth have to compete with elderly
people for jobs. As much as old
people in the country might want
to rest and let younger people take
over, many of them do not have retirement
savings and will struggle
if they leave work, so they
hold on.
Meanwhile, some companies
that are still operating are reportedly
taking full advantage of the
harsh economic conditions in the
country, overworking the youth
while greatly underpaying them.
But because getting any type of
job is considered a blessing, those
lucky enough to be employed,
even if it is just for a day, perform
tasks assigned to them without
any questions asked.
Some Zimbabwean youths, deciding
they have had enough of
their home country which has so
little to offer them, have joined
the great trek to the Diaspora,
mostly neighbouring South Africa.
Although many Zimbabwean
youths in South Africa admit that
life there is not as easy as they had
imagined, they insist it is much
better than life in Zimbabwe. Most
have sworn not to return until the
situation is back to normal.
It is the millions of youth that
remain in the country that are
suffering and are at great risk of
perishing before they see the situation
in Zimbabwe return to normal.
*Not their real names
Empowered lives.
Resilient Nations
Most youths spend their days just loitering or vending to eke out a living

16 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
NATIONAL
PENSION SCHEME
20 th

Business
The Standard
September 7 to 13 2014 • www.thestandard.co.zw
Telecel explains separate infrastructure
Atlas Mara
intensifies
African
acquisitions
Atlas Mara will acquire the remaining 4,2%
to wholly own a pan African banking group
with operations in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana,
Mozambique and Tanzania
BY NDAMU SANDU
ATLAS Mara, the parent
company of pan-
African banking group
ABC Holdings (ABCH),
will acquire a 20,9%
shareholding in a Nigerian bank
as it consolidates its presence in
Africa’s biggest economy.
The acquisition will take its
stake in Union Bank of Nigeria
(UBN) to 29,9%.
The acquisition comes after Atlas
Mara — co-founded by ex-Barclays
Plc chief executive officer
Bob Diamond and entrepreneur
billionaire Ashish Thakkar —
acquired 95,8% shareholding in
ABCH and African Development
Corporation (ADC) as part of its
thrust to build a premier financial
services group in sub-Saharan
Africa.
Atlas Mara will acquire the remaining
4,2% to wholly own the
pan-African banking group with
operations in Zimbabwe, Zambia,
Botswana, Mozambique and Tanzania.
In a notice on Friday, Atlas
Mara said it had exercised an option
agreement to acquire approximately
20,9% in UBN for US$270
million.
UBN is a publicly-traded financial
institution with substantially
all of its operations in Nigeria
with a network of 340 branches
across the country.
As at June 30 2014, UBN had assets
totalling US$6,3 billion and
deposits of US$3,1 billion.
Diamond said the acquisition
was significant in that the group
had established strategic market
positions in “three of Africa’s
leading economic communities:
the Southern Africa Development
Community, the East Africa Community
and Economic Community
of West African States”.
Ashish Thakkar said by increasing
its stake in UBN, combined
with the completed acquisitions
of BancABC and ADC and
its pending acquisition of the
commercial banking operations
of Rwanda Development Bank
(BRD), “we are well on the way to
becoming a leading African financial
institution that will benefit
from, and contribute to, the continued
growth of rapidly expanding
sub-Saharan Africa”.
Atlas Mara will have 100%
shares in a commercial bank to be
formed in Rwanda. The bank will
Ashish Thakkar
be formed through the transfer of
BRD assets and liabilities to the
new entity.
Atlas Mara will acquire 100%
shareholding in the commercial
bank at a price of between US$10
million and US$25 million. The
entry into Rwanda will be Atlas
Mara’s gateway to East Africa.
Atlas Mara sees its strategy in
sub-Saharan Africa’s financial
services sector as a “positive disruptive
force” buoyed by a strong
capital position and acquisitions.
Since debuting on the London
Stock Exchange last year,
the group has so far raised over
US$800 million. It raised US$325
during its initial public offering.
In May, it raised US$300 million
from a private placement and secured
a commitment agreement
for a debt facility of up to US$200
million to finance its pan-African
drive.
ABCH chief executive officer
Douglas Munatsi said the new
shareholders were more ambitious
and wanted to be top in markets
they operate in.
“We have been saying that we
want to be in the top five. They are
saying top five is not enough, maybe
top three. They are far more
ambitious than us. They have
much greater capacity to mobilise
capital,” Munatsi said.
BancABC will remain the chosen
brand for the Sadc region,
BRD will retain the same name
and there won’t be any wholesale
changes to the corporate identity
or structure, Munatsi said.
Munatsi will join the executive
committee at Atlas Mara which
has chief executive officer John
Vitalo, Jyrki Koskelo and Bradford
Gibbs.
Rufaro Marketing reduces debt to US$5 million
BY TARISAI MANDIZHA
RUFARO Marketing says it has
reduced its debt to US$5 million
from the US$6,8 million since
turning its business model to real
estate despite facing challenges in
collecting rentals.
In 2012, Rufaro Marketing converted
into a real estate as its liquor-selling
business was loss making.
In an interview last week, Rufaro
Marketing finance director
Daniel Mutiwadirwa said the retirement
of debts to various creditors
had been slow as a result of
the economic challenges currently
obtaining in the country. He
said most businesses registered
poor performance as a result of
subdued local demand, lack of
funding for working capital and
capital expenditure, retrenchments
and closure of companies.
“All these have not spared our
new business customers, our tenants.
As a result, the business has
accumulated a huge debtor’s book
of over US$2 million since restructuring
and this would have
assisted in reducing the creditor’s
book. We have since paid US$608
000 of the retrenchment packages.
“We currently owe about US$5
million of the US$6,8 million we
owed at the time of changing the
business model,” Mutiwadirwa
said.
He said the company had leased
out 83 of its 86 outlets but rentals
were hard to come by.
“The economic challenges in
the country deepened during our
business transitional period and
this compounded our problems,
as we had transitional problems
to manage. However, we have no
regrets about the new direction
we have taken. We are happy and
we will remain resilient, steadfast
and resolute so as to deliver shareholder
value,” Mutiwadirwa said.
“Because of the legacy debts
which are not fully paid up, we
have not been able to fully implement
our plans, which include
property development as this is
a resource-hungry business project.”

18 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Business
Telecel explains
reasons for
separate
infrastructure
by Our COrrespOndent
MOBILE phone companies
in the country
say although
it makes economic
sense for them to
share infrastructure, the current
set up cannot permit them.
Speaking at the Mobile Markets
and Telecoms forum in Bulawayo
last week, Telecel Zimbabwe regional
manager Nelson Chipangamate
said there were a number of reasons
why it was currently impossible
for local telecommunication operators
to share infrastructure.
“Operators would not want to
share the infrastructure because
of our current situation. In other
countries, you find there is an
independent company that sets
up the infrastructure so that the
mobile operators can come in and
share that infrastructure,” said
Chipangamate.
“In our scenario here in Zimbabwe,
each and every company has
to put up their own infrastructure
and it involves putting a lot
of money there and if we are to
force them to share the infrastructure
we can actually give rise to
what we ‘call free rider problem’
whereby others would just wait
for someone to go and put up the
infrastructure so that they come
in and put up their equipment,”
he said.
He further said sharing infrastructure
was also impossible because
having wider network coverage
in Zimbabwe was competitive
advantage.
“In Zimbabwe, mobile network
operators view coverage
as a competitive advantage
so when I put up a base station
for instance in Guyu and I
am the only operator there, it’s
natural that you would want to
protect your territorial advantage
Telecel offices along Seke Road in Harare
As a matter of fact
and say I am the only operator
there,” Chipangamate said.
He however challenged fellow
mobile operators to have a change
of mindset towards the issue.
“But as mobile operators, there
is need to change and have a paradigm
shift in the way we view this
issue and look at the bigger picture
in terms of how we operate. It
makes economic and social sense if
mobile operators share infrastructure
and it is something we need
to seriously rethink. We need to
move away from a situation where
we view coverage as a competitive
advantage and maybe compete on
other fronts like quality of service
and other value added services and
so on,” said Chipangamate.
He said the operators should
strive to cover everyone “whether
they are in rural areas or in
towns”. Currently, telecomms companies
in Zimbabwe are setting
up separate infrastructure. This
has reportedly resulted in a lot of
duplication of communications
infrastructure, resulting in high
investment costs in network infrastructure
such as base stations
and other specialised equipment.
Such a scenario has resulted in
high service tariffs, poor service
delivery and stunted expansion
of network range.
IN last week’s edition of The
Standard (August 31 to September
6 2014), we published an article
in which local banks expressed
reservations about the
bankability of the 99-year leases
given to new farmers by government.
In the article, we attributed
particular quotes on the issue
to Joel Zidyah, a representative
of BancABC who was
present at the function where
the statements were allegedly
made. Zidyah has since distanced
himself from the statements
and we wish to apologise
to Zidyah and BancABC who
the statements may have inconvenienced.
— Editor

Business
The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 19
Bad loans: Who pays the price?
in the
money
with NESBERt RUwO
Early august 2014, a Johannesburg
Stock Exchange-listed
and South
africa’s largest microlender,
african Bank
(“abil”), was placed under curatorship
by the central bank of Sa.
This followed a report on widespread
credit losses that threatened
the bank’s capital adequacy.
abil’s share price plummeted
61% when it published its quarterly
operational review on august
6 2014 showing massive losses
and an extremely high level of
non-performing loans (NPls).
The group reported that it
was expecting a full year (to September
2014) headline loss of at
least r6,4 billion (approximately
US$640 million) compared to a
profit of r365 million generated
in the previous year. The banking
unit is reported to be expecting an
NPl level of 31,7%. The trading
statement and a proposed recapitalisation
call of at least r8,5 billion
spooked investors who supported
the business with r5,5 billion
in a November 2013 rights issue.
The group was bleeding cash
despite management assuring the
market that the worst was over.
The share price shed off 95%
of its value from r6,88 at close of
business on august 5 to 31 on august
8 2014. almost r10 billion in
the lender’s market capitalisation
was lost in three days!
The South african reserve Bank
(Sarb) moved swiftly and placed
abil under curatorship on august
10 and “decided to implement a
number of support measures” to
“further strengthen the resilience
of the banking system as a whole”.
The problems at abil were cen-
Bad loans are always a huge setback for banks
tred on rapid credit growth, impairment
and provisioning policy
and a poor performing furniture
business (Ellerines Holdings).
abil is the only Sa bank exposed
directly to a furniture business.
abil has been trying to dispose
of the perennial loss maker Ellerines
with no takers in sight.
The curatorship programme
will involve restructuring the
business of abil — separation
of the good and bad assets. Sarb
will purchase the substantial portion
of the “bad book” which has
a book value of r17 billion for r7
billion and the “good book”, with
a value of r26 billion, will be recapitalised
for r10 billion underwritten
by a consortium of Sa
banks (absa, Firstrand, Investec,
Nedbank and Standard Bank)
and the Public Investment Corporation.
The cost to investors
depends on the type of investor.
Senior debt providers and wholesale
funders will stomach a “haircut”
of 10% estimated at about r5
billion, while equity-holders effectively
lost all value when the
business was suspended on the
JSE. However, the equity holders
will be afforded “the opportunity
to participate in the good bank”,
obviously at a price of investing
more cash into the business.
Closer home, the Zimbabwean
banking sector has been experiencing
weaker collections as borrowers
fall under financial distress.
rBZ notes that NPls have
been rising since June 2009 when
it recorded an NPl level of 1,62%
to the current level of 18,5%. The
NPls are expected to worsen as
long as the economic fundamentals
remain under pressure. The
rising NPls can be attributable to
specific institution weak risk and
lending management systems,
borrowers funding mismatch i.e.
borrowing short for long term assets,
and weaker economic fundamentals.
NPls do affect the profitability
and erode banks’ capital
and thereby limit their lending
capacity and this would have
a negative multiplier effect to the
whole economy. as a consequence
of institution-specific factors and
a tough economic environment,
four Zimbabwe banks (Metbank,
allied Bank, afrasia and Tetrad)
were in distress as of July 2014,
reports the rBZ in its July 2014
Monetary Policy Statement.
In response to the high level of
NPls, rBZ will establish a special
purpose vehicle (SPV), Zimbabwe
asset Management Corporation
(Pvt) ltd (Zamco) to buy “bad
books” from Zimbabwean banks,
leaving the banks with “good
books” and fresh capital. This is
with a view to support credit extension
growth. Up until august
15, US$45 million of NPls had
been bought by Zamco.
Unless the fundamental governance
and risk management systems
are strengthened at the lending
institution level, there is risk
that incidence of NPls will not be
mitigated. In the case of abil, the
curator will be responsible for the
transformation of the business
model to ensure its going concern.
On the other hand, failure to collect
or enforce on the “bad books”
bought by the central banks-sponsored
SPV will result in the central
banks and other SPV investors losing
capital. loss of capital “invested”
by a central bank in an SPV implies
that the loss will be borne by
everyone. On September 2, Sarb appointed
a Commissioner to probe
alleged negligent and reckless
lending and questionable management
practices at abil. If abil acted
recklessly and negligently in its
lending, this might bring into question
the enforceability of the “bad
book” bought by Sarb.
So when banks’ lending books
become bad (mainly due to weak
lending and risk management polices
at an institution level), everyone
pays the price. The investors
(both equity and debt) do get
“haircuts”, so does everyone as
the central banks have (as highlighted
in the cases in this article)
to carry the “bad books”. But
should everyone pay for the sins
of the few for the greater good?
[Using a Zar/US$ exchange
rate of r10]
• Nesbert Ruwo is Zimbabwean-born
investment banker
based in South Africa. He can
be contacted on nesr@opportunvest.co.za
HONOURED . . . .
Zimbabwe’s leading travel
agents, at the Emirates
Travel Agents Awards
ceremony at Meikles Hotel
in Harare last week.
Emirates flies daily from
Harare to Lusaka and Dubai.
It has celebrated the importance
of Zimbabwe’s travel
agents by launching an
annual award ceremony to
recognise their importance
in sparking the nation’s
desire for travel.
Traverze Travel received the
airline’s top award for excellence
— Top Agent 2013/14
— along with the First Class
Top Sales prize for 2013/14.
The glittering ceremony was
attended by some 50 senior
representatives from the
industry.

20 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Business
Effective leadership elicits best performance
sme’s
chat
with phillip chichoni
Leadership is the art of getting
someone else to do something you
want done because he wants to do
it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
SpEaking at a business
breakfast meeting at the
Meikles hotel recently,
renowned international
leadership expert Rene
Carayol brought out a point that
most of us running small/medium
sized businesses often neglect
to consider: the importance
of leadership. it is good that leadership
can be learned, that means
all of us can learn to be effective
leaders.
i will tell you a story about an
associate of mine, let’s call him
Jim. Jim has been running a manufacturing
outfit for nearly 10
years now. he employs nearly 50
people and his business has been
doing reasonably well, except for
one thing. Jim has always been
complaining about his employees’
lack of discipline and laziness. he
has had to fire over a dozen employees
in the past five years, including
two supervisors.
Jim consulted a friend who was
running a very successful business.
The friend gave him some
tips and also advised him to read
books on leadership. after reading
several books, Jim said, he
was surprised to discover that
he was actually the problem. he
came to understand that he lacked
effective leadership skills to really
manage his people. he gave me
the example of David Moyes who
failed at Manchester United.
“Well,” Jim said, “the level of
leadership required at a top club
is different from that required at
a smaller club. This is because
you are dealing with superstars,
people who might even be earning
more than you. With their big
egos, they are harder to control;
they can question your decisions
and that can make you angry.”
Jim went on to explain how he
was in a similar position, managing
people with modern and higher
qualifications than him and
who were struggling financially
in a difficult economic environment.
according to experts, leadership
is critical to running a business
or any organisation successfully.
This is especially so in
our modern day with people who
are more knowledgeable and informed.
Your workers will most
probably know a lot more than
you do in certain areas. an effective
leader in that situation is one
that can energise people towards
a vision.
according to Brian Tracy, a
leader must have a sense of vision
or a mission in order to be effective.
This vision uplifts, motivates
and inspires people to heights of
wanting to achieve. Each person
has a desire to achieve something
bigger than themselves. Look at
the way people follow a national
sports team when it is playing an
important international match.
Everyone rallies behind the team,
supporting in whatever way they
can. if you can articulate a vision
for your business in a similar way
to a national achievement, people
will rally behind you.
That means you have to have
a goal; a goal that excites and inspires.
people are not inspired
by salary increases or profits. inspiring
goals are qualitative. We
do get inspired, not by money,
but by bringing a product or service
to people who need it, about
being the best, about being superb
in our field, about winning
or achieving success in a competitive
field.
a good goal gives a clear sense
David Moyes . . . he found the going tough at Manchester United
of direction, a feeling toward
achievement which brings out the
best in people. Ordinary people
will perform extraordinary acts
if they are unified by an inspiring
goal.
Take the biggest football club
in Zimbabwe, Dynamos, for instance.
it does not necessarily
have the best players. neither
does it pay the highest wages. in
fact, the players have been seen
going on strike over wages numerous
times. however, when a
player is in the field donning the
blue Dynamos jersey, they just
perform wonders and the team
wins most of the time. it’s because
of the sense of mission associated
with the team: the vision
to win.
Effective leaders are action-oriented.
They don’t waste time contemplating
or analysing but they
act and drive others into action.
The most successful businesses
are those that try more: launch
new products, try new markets,
offer new services, offer new customer
experiences. They are led
by action-oriented leaders. They
may fail in some actions, but because
they drill more holes, they
are more likely to hit the gold
seam.
Some business owners think being
tough with employees makes
them more productive. Effective
leadership works the other way
round. You need to compliment
workers for a job well done, encourage
them and motivate them
and they will happily do more.
They will not only work when you
are watching, but they will put in
all their effort all the time to see
the company’s goals achieved; because
they love working there.
if you feel your leadership is
not as effective as you would like,
start reading and studying leadership
now and you will achieve
far greater things with your people.
You will find mind resources on
entrepreneurship on my website
http://smebusineslink.com.
• Phillip Chichoni is a business
development consultant who
works with SMEs and entrepreneurs.
You may contact him
by email: chichonip@smebusinesslink.com.
You can also visit:
http://smebusinesslink.com
SA’s MTN in
mobile tower
venture
A customer leaves an MTN shop in Johannesburg
DUBai — South africa’s
MTn has agreed to sell 9
151 mobile towers in nigeria
to a new joint venture with
specialist tower company ihS,
which MTn said will cut its costs
and boost its call and data capacity
in africa’s most populous country.
The latest ihS tie-up with MTn,
nigeria’s top mobile operator
with a 46% share of subscribers,
is the fifth between the companies
following transactions in ivory
Coast, Cameroon, Rwanda and
Zambia in the past two years.
ihS will take operational control
of the jointly owned company
in a deal due to close in the fourth
quarter, subject to regulatory approvals,
Lagos-based ihS said.
The towers specialist did not reveal
the deal’s value, but an agreement
in august to buy and lease
back 2 136 towers from Etisalat
nigeria, an affiliate of abu Dhabi’s
Etisalat, was said by banking
sources to be priced at about
US$400 million. Based on roughly
the same valuation, the new MTn
deal would be worth about US$1,8
billion.
“There’s massive growth potential
in nigeria,” ihS chief executive
issam Darwish said.
“Broadband will be the most
important factor. part of the reason
mobile operators are selling
their towers is to free up capital
and resources to concentrate on
this opportunity.”
nigeria has about 125 million
mobile subscribers, while mobile
internet subscriptions total
around 66 million, according to
the industry regulator. nigeria’s
population is 177 million, the Cia
Factbook estimates.
Darwish said the relatively
slow take-up of mobile internet in
nigeria, and africa in general, is
because of the high cost of smartphones
and limited frequencies
for operators.
But some handsets now cost
less than US$100 and prices are
likely to fall further, while regulators
are freeing up spectrum better
suited to mobile broadband,
Darwish said, which should lead
to an internet boom.
“We’re very bullish, while there
is still also growth in voice,” Darwish
said.
The MTn-ihS deal will “reduce
MTn nigeria’s operating costs,
drive network efficiencies and
further expand MTn’s voice and
data capacity,” MTn said in a separate
statement
Building and maintaining mobile
communications towers in
africa is typically more expensive
than in other regions because
of security costs and electricity
shortages, while revenue per user
is often lower.
That has prompted many operators
to sell or lease towers to specialist
companies, which can reduce
building and maintenance
costs by hosting multiple tenants
— mobile operators and internet
providers — on the same towers.
it also allows operators to focus
on marketing and customer service,
which become more important
to rival operators as differences
in network quality diminish.
The new joint venture will invest
more than US$500 million
over four years to upgrade the
MTn towers, boost maintenance
and improve service quality, the
ihS statement added.
On completion, ihS will manage
more than 20 000 towers in africa.
The company aims to manage
more than 25 000 towers by the
end of 2015, it added.
Darwish said ihS would build
the bulk of these extra towers,
though small-scale acquisitions
are also possible.
— Reuters

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22 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
International News
Timing on
immigration
reform holds
risks for Obama
WASHINGTON —
When President
Barack Obama
stepped into the
White House Rose
Garden in June to announce he
would single-handedly reform US
immigration policy, he startled
advocates by announcing a firm,
end-of-summer deadline for executive
action.
“If Congress will not do their
job, at least we can do ours,” he
declared. “I expect . . . recommendations
before the end of summer
and I intend to adopt those recommendations
without further delay.”
Fast forward nine weeks and
both the deadline and the wisdom
of setting it are in doubt. Obama’s
Democrats risk losing control of
the US Senate in November 4 elections
and, for many struggling incumbents,
a policy shift on a hotbutton
issue in the middle of their
campaigns looks unwelcome.
So the White House, having
touted its deadline for weeks, has
turned noncommittal on the timing
of an immigration announcement,
creating the impression of
disarray on a top domestic policy
priority.
“There is the chance that it
could be before the end of the
summer, there is the chance that
it could be after the summer,”
spokesman Josh Earnest said on
Tuesday.
Some 11 million immigrants,
most of them Hispanics, live in
the United States illegally. Their
status is a controversial topic for
voters. A Reuters/Ipsos poll last
month found that 70% of Americans
believed the immigrants
threatened the country’s beliefs
and 63% that they burdened the
economy.
Republicans, who already control
the House of Representatives,
have seized on the issue to
bash vulnerable Democratic senators.
In New Hampshire the issue
helped Republican Scott Brown
erode the lead of Democratic Senator
Jeanne Shaheen.
This has left immigration rights
advocates and others close to the
White House wondering whether
the administration thought
through the politics at all.
White House officials calculated
earlier this summer that immigration
would not play a major
role in the elections, except
perhaps for the sizeable Hispanic
population in Colorado, where executive
action could boost Democratic
Senator Mark Udall.
Now other Democratic candidates
in tough Senate races are
asking the White House to delay.
But immigration rights advocates,
wary of what they see as
another broken-promise-in-themaking,
say waiting carries risks
US President Barack Obama
as well. They warn that Hispanics
could stay away from the polls in
protest if Obama postpones a decision.
“If he doesn’t follow through on
his promise to take action by the
end of the summer, it will make
it harder for the people who are
knocking on doors in the Latino
community to mobilise voters,”
said Frank Sharry, executive director
of the America’s Voice advocacy
group.
Lorella Praeli, director of advocacy
and policy at immigrant
youth organisation United We
Dream, said civil disobedience
and an aggressive media strategy
with Latinos would increase in
the event of a delay.
Obama must weigh the drawbacks
of losing support in Latino-heavy
states such as Colorado
against the risk of energising
right-leaning Republican voters
in states such as Alaska, North
Carolina, Louisiana, Kentucky,
and New Hampshire.
A surge of some 60 000 children
crossing the border from Central
America to the United States has
complicated the debate. Obama
pledged to send the migrant children
home, an approach that advocacy
groups see as overly harsh.
He sought to soothe anger over
that policy with his promise to
use executive measures to ease deportations
of undocumented immigrants
who have already lived
in the United States a long time.
Among the reforms his administration
is considering are granting
work permits and temporary
relief from deportation to as
many as five million undocumented
immigrants.
Other issues could factor into a
delay of that decision.
A House Democratic aide said
Obama was likely “tamping down
expectations” of an imminent announcement
to ease tensions that
might stand in the way of Congress
passing a spending bill in
September to keep the government
running.
Republican efforts to undermine
Obama’s signature healthcare
initiative led to a 16-day shutdown
of the federal government
last year.
All of this raises the question
of why Obama set a deadline in
the first place.
“I wish I knew,” said Angela
Kelley, an immigration specialist
at the liberal-leaning Center for
American Progress, adding the
White House would have to explain
its thinking if it decided on
a delay. “I don’t know what their
plan is, but they sure better have
one.”
— Reuters
African leaders seek fund to fight militant groups
AFRICAN leaders proposed
on Tuesday creating a
special fund to combat Islamist
militant groups growing
in strength from Kenya to Nigeria.
African Union (AU) states announced
the idea after Nairobi
talks on a problem highlighted
on Tuesday by capture of a town
in north-eastern Nigeria by Boko
Haram militants. Fighting killed
scores of people, according to security
forces, and sent at least
5 000 fleeing.
A senior European Union official
also told the summit that Islamic
State’s gains in Iraq and
Syria, where it controls vast
swathes of territory, could help
set off a competition between it
and al-Qaeda to become the leading
Islamist militant group in Africa.
President Uhuru Kenyatta of
Kenya, where al Shabaab gunmen
last September killed 67
people in a raid on a shopping
mall, said African countries
should stand together against
the threat of Boko Haram and al
Shabaab.
No single state can tackle this
threat alone,” he said. “It is particularly
worrying in Africa today
that terrorist organisations have
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta . . . al Shabaab killed 67 people in Kenya last year in
September.
grown both in terms of number
and capability.”
Chad President Idriss Deby,
who is chairperson of the AU
Peace and Security Council, said:
“There is a proposal to establish
a special fund to combat terrorism.”
But Deby, flanked by Kenyatta
and Nigerian President Goodluck
Jonathan at a news conference,
gave no details about who would
contribute to the fund or how the
money would be used.
Swathes of Africa has been
ravaged by Islamist insurgencies,
with the likes of Boko Haram
launching attacks in Nigeria
and Cameroon, while Somalia’s
al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels
have struck at targets in Kenya
and Uganda.
The idea of the fund was mooted
by Kenyan President Uhuru
Kenyatta and would be discussed
at the next full AU summit.
Kenyatta said African states
would have to increase their own
spending on security to curb the
organised militant groups.
Many African countries, including
Kenya and Nigeria, are key
Western allies in the global fight
against Islamist militants and
their security services receive
substantial training and support
from the United States, Britain
and other donors.
The United States has said it
is assessing whether al Shabaab
leader Ahmed Abdi Godane was
killed in a US airstrike in Somalia
last week.
Saudi Arabia said it would contribute
US$10 million to the AU to
fight militant groups which have
often taken advantage of porous
borders and inept police forces
across the continent.
The wealth and military might
of Islamic State militants have led
the United States and others to
view it as a threat capable of surpassing
that once posed by al Qaeda,
which is seen as hobbled since
the 2011 killing of its founder Osama
bin Laden.
African intelligence officials
have said that they are concerned
that Islamists may be emboldened
by the Islamic State’s gains in the
Middle East.
Gilles de Kerchove, the European
Union’s counter-terrorism coordinator,
said the Islamic State’s
strength could attract African Islamist
militants in search of funding
and training.
“It’s not only that Isis might provide
more money or resources,”
Kerchove said. The two groups
might also engage in a “competition
for the leadership,” with al
Qaeda using Africa as a staging
ground to remain relevant.
“It’s a concern. I’m not saying it
will happen,” he said.
— Reuters

International News
The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 23
Designer takes Xhosa heritage global
It is not every day that a designer
showcasing at the
Mercedes-Benz Fashion
Week in Johannesburg for
the very first time gets a
standing ovation.
But that is exactly what happened
to Laduma Ngxokolo, a
young man from the Xhosa ethnic
group, whose colourful range of
knitwear had lit up the catwalk.
Laduma is the founder and creator
of MaXhosa by Laduma.
Born in 1986, he was taught by
his mother how to use a knitting
machine.
the design range showcased
in Johannesburg was conceptualised
as a project titled, the Colourful
World of the Xhosa Culture,
while Laduma was studying
textile design and technology at
the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
University in Port Elizabeth.
In 2010 his project won the
South African Society of Dyers
and Colourists’ design competition,
earning him a trip to London
where he was awarded first
prize in an international competition.
the success of the project led to
the creation of MaXhosa. “the initial
aim behind my project was to
find design solutions for Xhosa initiates,”
says Laduma.
“I decided to develop a Xhosainspired
collection of knitwear
using traditional Xhosa beadwork,
colours and motifs.
“I decided to call the name of
my brand MaXhosa by Laduma
because I wanted to showcase the
astonishing beauty of the Xhosa
people and translate it in a modern
way that actually appeals to
the current youth that is influenced
by international trends.”
His success turns decades of
what some see as cultural imperialism
on its head.
“European designers like Missoni
and Jean-Paul Gaultier have
often taken inspiration from African
tribes and sold it around
the world,” says Siphiwe Mpye,
a journalist and former assistant
editor of GQ South Africa who
hails from the same area as Laduma.
Now Mpye says the attitude of
African designers is: “If we don’t
do it someone is going to come
Colourful . . .the man and his creations
Proud creator . . . Laduma Ngxokolo
and appropriate it and make loads
of money from it, so we might as
well do it ourselves and be authentic
about it and treat it with
the integrity it deserves.”
After seeing the growth and
potential of his business, Laduma
decided to relocate from Port
Elizabeth to Cape town, where
he found a knitwear producer
that could handle the capacity he
needed.
“It was a good market to actually
establish my brand because
there was already a demand in the
city and I could get more publicity
in Cape town as well,” he says.
In Cape town, Laduma met
Jacques Burthy from Vuya Fashions
who bought into his vision
for MaXhosa and began producing
garments for him from his
factory.
Now Laduma spends most of
his time at the factory checking
on production and creating new
designs.
He has already branched out
into other areas like carpets and
cushions, by working with new
partners.
As his business expands, Laduma
admits there is a need to get
more investment but this is something
he is prepared to set aside
for now as he fears it may compromise
the brand he is still building.
One such decision was to turn
down an offer from a large South
African retailer to form a partnership
with him to sell his garments.
“I make 100% sure that whichever
decision I make won’t actually
affect the work that I have
already done because it was not
easy to get here and a wrong decision
could take us 10 steps back,”
he said.
While most of his sales have
been from the shop Merchants
on Long on Long Street in Cape
town, Laduma has launched his
own online store to increase sales.
But he is quick to admit that it is
not as easy as he thought it would
be.
“It is sort of a physical store
that is up in the air. You have
to control it, so I had to get in a
few more people to be involved
to actually help me manage,” he
says.
“It’s a great platform for us because
we get to connect directly
with our customers and service
them the way that we feel is best
A woman works on the knitwear
A showcase of the knitwear
for us.”
One of those helping him in his
business is his sister tina, who is
also a fashion designer.
As Laduma seeks to grow his local
market, he is already attracting
attention on the international
fashion scene.
He has showcased his work in
Berlin, London, New York and
Paris, and in May, he was one of
the speakers at an international
conference in Amsterdam, called
What Design Can Do, which looks
at the power of design as an agent
for social renewal.
But whatever success he garners
around the world, Laduma
will always remain true to his
roots.
He says his ultimate goal is to
establish MaXhosa by Laduma as
an international premium brand
— proudly made in South Africa.
— BBC

24 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Africa
Students create an online jobs giant
Three students had time
on their hands in the
summer of 2009 when
their university lecturers
in Nigeria went on
strike.
Instead of slacking off, Ayodeji
Adewunmi, Olalekan Olude and
Opeyemi Awoyemi started an online
job search company.
Five years later their start-up,
Jobberman, has got a multi-million
dollar valuation, employs 125
people, and is still growing.
While Nigeria is Africa’s largest
economy it still has massive
unemployment problems, in particular
among young people who
are also more likely to be connected
to the internet.
Jobberman has become the single
largest job placement website
in sub-Saharan Africa, helping
over 35 000 people find jobs within
the last two years.
The number of companies using
the site to find employees has
grown from about 40 in 2009 to
some 35 000 today.
Carrying between 500 and
1 000 jobs on the site every day, the
founders estimate that there are
about 1 000 active users searching
for a job at any given time.
“The growth has been tremendous,
it’s at rocket speed. One of
the biggest challenges has been
to keep up with the volume of
work,” says Olalekan.
however, there have been other
challenges along the way.
“In the beginning a lot of people
did not trust an internet-based
business because at that time a lot
of people were using the internet
to perpetuate fraud here in Nigeria,”
he says.
But as other online businesses
thrived and became trusted, so
Jobberman thrived. Companies
would dip their toe in the water
with one or two postings and then
when they trusted the site they
would come back.
In 2012 some of Jobberman’s clients
wanted to use the site to find
workers in Ghana and so the company
took its first work outside
Nigeria.
Two years later it says it is now
the biggest online job site in Ghana
as well as Nigeria.
The company is now expanding
its reach to Kenya with a partner
called Brighter Monday. The partnership
also gives it a footprint in
Uganda and Tanzania.
Some people find a job through
the site without actually applying
for one.
Amarachi Apakama uploaded
her details and was approached
by a company to take the position
of executive assistant at a mobile
phone content company.
“That really changed my life,”
she says. “It was a morale booster.
It helped my confidence — the
fact that my interests and my experience
put together such a good
Jobberman employs more than 125 people
fit that I didn’t have to apply for
the job.”
Olalekan Olude adds: “If you
put food on the table by virtue
of getting a job for someone, that
person also fends for a mother, or
a brother and you create a multiplier
effect within that household.
“And anytime we get to hear
of such stories, we are very, very
happy. It motivates us, it makes
us look forward into the future
and try and get more people to get
more jobs.” — BBC
Amarachi Apakama . . . grateful to Jobberman
Brewing a beer
revolution
in Africa
Beer may be big business in
Africa, but it is a sector dominated
by multinationals
and Oscar Olsen is taking them
on.
hailing from the pint-sized island
of Mauritius, Olsen, much
like the ales and lagers he brews,
is not what you would expect.
For someone who calls himself
a professional “beer hunter”, he
is surprisingly slim and fit.
he is also one of those rare people
who has managed to turn a
genuine passion into a thriving
business.
“I learnt from my parents that
you need to make your passion
your job because the day you have
an issue or problems, you need
Olsen’s brewery in Mauritius
that passion to drive you out of an
issue.”
Olsen (37) is the proud owner
of Mauritius’s only microbrewery
and beer house, which is
aptly, and humourously, named
the Flying Dodo Brewing Company.
For over 40 years the only beer
made and widely distributed in
Mauritius was Phoenix Lager.
“I thought this was funny, as
if to be a brewery in Mauritius
you had to be named after a bird,
so that is why I took the name
‘Dodo’,” Olsen says with a wry
grin.
“We are very small, we have
limited amount of money in order
to compete with the others,
Oscar Olsen (right) with the Mauritian Foreign minister Arvin Boolell at the opening of Flying Dodo Brewery in 2012
we took the name from a different
angle.”
Olsen’s love of beer started just
after high school, when he and his
friends would tour around the island
sampling the limited number
of beers on offer.
But it was while studying
abroad that his idea of becoming
a brewery owner began to truly
ferment.
“In America it just happened
I was living where there was a
big beer festival, and in Germany
I stayed in Franken, and that
area is known for breweries,”
he says.
“I had 350 different breweries
all around me. Life made it that it
had to be my passion.”
Once back on home soil, and
fuelled by his frustration with the
continuing lack of beer diversity
on the island, he decided to set up
the Flying Dodo Brewing Company.
It all started with the Lambic
Beer house in 2009, a bespoke
beer restaurant and shop, which
imports over 400 beers and is run
out of a small colonial-era house
in the country’s capital city, Port
Louis.
In 2011, Olsen took the leap of
faith opening his own brewery,
investing US$2,5 million in the
project, with the construction
of a dedicated brewery in a newly
built shopping centre just outside
of Port Louis, costing around
US$800 000.
In June 2012, the brewery drew
its first draught and while he admits
he may have lost some hair
and a few local rupees at first, it
has been a glass half-full kind of
journey.
“If I was living in europe, this
project of mine would have been
difficult because it exists already
there.
“And that is the nice thing with
Africa — it is still, for a lot of
things, virgin territory, and those
with ideas that are willing to do
something can achieve a lot of
things here,” Olsen says.
“Mauritius I’d say is a good
place to start a business. Of
course we have hurdles, and there
are lots of things that us Mauritians
get really irritated with but
overall I’m quite happy to do it
here.”
The market across Africa is
dominated by the likes of SAB
Miller and Guinness, but Olsen
hopes to change this by exporting
his passion and expertise across
the continent.
Olsen says he has been approached
by several like-minded
entrepreneurs, mostly from east
Africa, to set up similar beer-orientated
projects.
“The brewing community is
a small community and it’s all
about helping each other and this
is what we want, to help other
countries in Africa to make craft
beer. And this is our kick, this is
passion.
“We already have five other projects
that we are with throughout
Africa — people who have seen
what we have done here, and they
wanted to import the idea to their
country and we have helped them
to do this.”
— BBC

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26 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Sport
Carl following where McGuigan dared to tread
Frampton doesn’t fight like McGuigan used to
fight. Both men can punch but whereas
McGuigan was an all-out pressure fighter,
Frampton can box going forwards or
backwards
My taxi driver, previously
loud and hearty, fades to
a hesitant whisper as the
guns grow bigger above us. Guns
wielded by men in balaclavas,
bookended by the words: “Prepared
for peace. Ready for war.”
Only a mural, but real enough.
A short trot down the Shore
Road in north Belfast, situated in
the staunchly loyalist enclave of
Tiger’s Bay, is the Midland Boxing
Club. No gun-wielding men
daubed on its exterior, just a kid
in boxing gloves, proud as punch
in an Ireland vest. If you thought
the adage that boxing unites was
trite, you should pay a visit.
Behind the doors, the kid in
question is all grown up. And
from the way Carl Frampton
makes the heavy bag hiss and
shudder, he is ready for war and
peace can wait. So pity Kiko Martinez,
whom Frampton challenges
for the IBF super-bantamweight
title in Belfast this week.
Watching the 27-year-old intently
is his manager Barry McGuigan,
a former featherweight world
champion and a hero to all of Ireland.
Smart in a shirt and jacket,
but set up to fight: feet perfectly
positioned, head twitching, rolling
with the blows.
“I don’t want to boast about
him too much,” says McGuigan,
“but when people get to know
him, they’re going to really love
him. He’s a bright kid, likeable,
funny and he can really fight.
He’s a very special talent, no
question about that.”
Frampton doesn’t fight like
McGuigan used to fight. Both
men can punch but whereas
McGuigan was an all-out pressure
fighter, Frampton can box
going forwards or backwards.
But beyond the ropes their stories
are strikingly similar.
McGuigan was a Catholic from
just south of the border who won
a gold medal for Northern Ireland
at the 1978 Commonwealth
Games, fought for Ireland at the
Olympics, married a Protestant
and took British citizenship.
Frampton is a Protestant who
won two Irish amateur titles
(boxing, like rugby union, is an
all-Ireland sport), a silver medal
at the 2007 European Amateur
Championships, married a Catholic
and lives part-time in England.
“Carl is doing what I did,” says
McGuigan, whose son Shane,
himself a former Ulster champion,
is Frampton’s principal trainer.
“He’s a beacon for peace and
reconciliation and represents
the future of Northern Ireland.
Albeit, it’s not as treacherous at
the moment — we don’t have the
troubles like we did back then.”
McGuigan remembers when
the gun-wielding men in balaclavas
were a very real presence in
Belfast and not restricted to murals.
But even when there were
soldiers on the streets, paramilitary
groups exploding bombs and
innocent people being killed, boxing
managed to cut through the
carnage.
“Growing up I’d hear stories
about Barry boxing in the loyalist
club on the Shankill Road, wearing
the green vest with a shamrock
on,” says Frampton, who
was born two years after McGuigan
beat the great Eusebio Pedroza
to claim the IBF featherweight
crown, a fight watched by a television
audience of 20 million.
“This was at the height of the
Troubles, when the Shankill
Butchers were around. But when
it comes to boxing, no-one says a
dickie bird.
“When Barry turned pro, there
was that old saying: ‘Leave the
fighting to McGuigan.’ It doesn’t
sound much, but when he was
fighting, the trouble in the streets
would stop for a couple of hours.
He was a hero for both communities.”
McGuigan boxed his first senior
international, against East
Germany, in a working men’s
club on the Shankill Road in the
mid-1970s.
“There I was, a Catholic guy
from the south boxing right in
the heart of loyalist Belfast with
the Troubles at their worst,” says
McGuigan, still amased at the
thought of it. “We beat the East
Germans, my dad got up and sang
and it was a brilliant night. Boxing
was the one thing then that
could unify people.”
Almost 40 years on, what were
a few twinkles on the Shankill
and elsewhere have burst into
light all over the land. But while
Northern Ireland is an infinitely
more peaceful place than it was,
it’s not quite goodbye to all that.
The house where Frampton
grew up is in a so-called interface
area. The unionist Tiger’s
Bay is separated from the nationalist
New Lodge by 30ft-high
fences, designed to repel petrol
bombs and other missiles. On one
side of the divide are Union Jack
flags and kerbstones painted red,
white and blue; on the other side
are Irish tricolours and murals
depicting republican martyrs. To
an outsider, it is forbidding.
“The quickest way from Tiger’s
Bay to Belfast city centre
is through New Lodge but I
wouldn’t go that way when I was
a kid — you’d take the long way
round,” says Frampton. “I saw a
lot of trouble. Riots would break
out in an instant. It was dangerous,
but when you’re a kid it’s exciting;
you want to see it.
“A friend’s brother, Glen
Branagh was his name, lost his
life in a riot. He was only 14. I
tried to stay out of all that stuff
as much as I could but when
something like that happens, you
don’t want to see anything like it
again.”
On the other side of the fence
is the famous Holy Family Boxing
Club, which Frampton started
visiting as a young kid. But
he still remembers the first time
he made the trip on foot, a measure
of how momentous that short
trip was.
“It was only a five-minute walk
but we’d always go by car,” he
says. “But one day I was going
over to spar and an old trainer
from the Midland said we were
going to walk in. I didn’t want to.
I was a wee bit shocked.”
Holy Family’s head coach, the
venerable Gerry Storey, had been
waving his olive branch for decades.
And between his four walls,
Frampton was respected for what
Barry McGuigan (facing camera) won the IBF featherweight title at Loftus Road in 1985, a fight watched by 20 million people
Carl Frampton knocked Martinez out in the ninth round when they first met in Belfast last year
he was — just another workingclass
kid who wanted to box.
“We all knew we were in a
tough sport,” says Frampton,
whose best man was the impish
Paddy Barnes, a product of
Holy Family, a two-time Olympic
bronze medallist and a two-time
Commonwealth Games champion.
“So it was a case of ‘cut all
the other nonsense out, boxing’s
tough enough without all that’.
“I get asked all the time, ‘would
you have liked to have boxed for
Great Britain?’ And the answer
is no. I was looked after by Irish
boxing from pretty much 11 years
old and was very proud to box for
Ireland.”
From the doorstep of his parents’
house, Frampton can see
the tops of the Harland and Wolff
cranes, “Samson” and “Goliath”,
only half a mile away.
During the shipyard’s heyday,
labourers from Tiger’s Bay made
up the bulk of its workforce.
Things got worse for the neighbourhood
before they got better
but that story has been told and a
more uplifting chapter has started
to unfold.
“There’s still a bit of tension
here,” says Frampton, who now
has a house in Lisburn, just
south of Belfast, which he shares
with wife Christine and daughter
Carla. “But mostly it’s fine now.
I’m very proud to say I’m from Tiger’s
Bay.”
Beneath those same cranes,
next to where the Titanic was
built and launched, Frampton
Where it all started . . . Carl Frampton’s training place
will attempt to hammer and bend
Martinez to his will.
Frampton has already outgrown
Belfast’s indoor arenas
and his fight against Martinez,
whom he knocked out last
year (in that weird way boxing
works, the Spaniard got a world
title shot first, beating Jhonatan
Romero last August to claim the
IBF title) will take place at a purpose-built
arena holding 16 000,
making it Northern Ireland’s biggest
ever boxing gate.
Dethrone Martinez and Frampton
will become his country’s
first bona fide world champion
since Wayne McCullough in 1996.
But that’s only the beginning.
“A world title fight at home at
such a historic venue, a stadium
built especially for me, it’s
hard to believe,” says Frampton.
“And it’s very humbling to know
that so many people are supporting
me from all over Ireland and
mainland UK.
“But once you reach that goal
you have to start setting new
goals. There are a few guys to be
taken care of at super-bantamweight,
so the next goal is to unify
the division. After that, I want
to become a two-weight world
champion.”
When our interview is done, an
old boy covered in loyalist tattoos
pulls up in his car, climbs out and
heartily greets McGuigan. Little
kids throw down their bikes, run
home for scraps of paper and return
for Frampton’s autograph.
It’s a peaceful sight.
— BBCSport

Sport
The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 27
Sturridge out
of qualifier
with injury
STRIKER Daniel Sturridge says
he is heartbroken after being
ruled out of England’s opening
Euro 2016 qualifier against Switzerland
tomorrow.
The 25-year-old injured his thigh
during Friday’s training session at
Fifa corruption
probe calls for action
A corruption investigation called for action against
“individuals” over bids for the 2018 and 2022 World
Cup, and changes for future bidding campaigns in a
report handed in on Friday, Fifa said.
The ethics panel led by former US federal prosecutor
Michael Garcia has notably been looking into
the way Qatar won the 2022 World Cup. The Gulf
state has faced corruption accusations but strongly
denied any wrongdoing.
“Over the course of this year-long investigation,
the Investigatory Chamber interviewed more than
75 witnesses and compiled a record that, in addition
to audio recordings from interviews, includes more
than 200 000 pages of relevant material,” Fifa said in
a statement.
“The report sets forth detailed factual findings;
reaches conclusions concerning further action with
respect to certain individuals; identifies issues to be
referred to other Fifa committees; and makes recommendations
for future bidding processes,” it added.
Fifa did not give any indication as to the recommendations
made or the individuals named. But it
said the deputy head of the investigation, Cornel
Borbely, had submitted separate reports “covering
his review of activities of the United States and Russia
bid teams.”
Borbely, from Switzerland, took charge of the investigation
into the 2018 tournament given to Russia
because Garcia is barred from entering Russia over
a dispute between the Russian and US governments.
Russia was given the 2018 World Cup while the
United States was one of the losing candidates
for the 2022 tournament. Both tournaments were
awarded at a controversial vote in 2010.
Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper has alleged
that former Qatari football boss Mohamed Bin Hammam
paid more than US$5 million to gain support
for the nation ahead of the vote.
Qatar has strongly denied the allegations. The
new statement called the reports “baseless and riddled
with innuendo designed to tarnish the reputation
of Qatar’s 2022 Bid Committee.”
Qatar’s World Cup bid chiefs have said leaks were
made to the press in a bid to influence Garcia’s inquiry.
Fifa’s adjudicatory chamber will now decide
on the future of the report and whether it will be
published. Fifa leader Sepp Blatter has indicated
that no decisions will be taken before October. — Supersport
Uefa lifts sanctions
on PSG, Barca clash
UEFA has lifted a partial stadium closure against
Paris Saint-Germain which would have applied when
they host Barcelona in the Champions League.
Uefa said its appeals body partially upheld PSG’s
challenge against sanctions for “discriminatory conduct”
by fans toward disabled supporters of Chelsea
at a quarterfinal match last season. Uefa had ordered
the French champion in July to close two sections
of Parc des Princes at their next home Champions
League match.
Barcelona visit Paris on September 30. Instead,
Uefa fined PSG 50 000 euros. — Supersport
St George’s Park.
The Football Association confirmed
that the Liverpool player
will miss next week’s game in Basel.
“Heartbroken soul right now,” he
tweeted. “Nothing worse than being
injured.”
Out injured . . . England forward Daniel Sturridge
Sturridge added: “Hopefully be
back soon fighting fit for LFC.”
An FA spokesman said: “Daniel
Sturridge has had a scan and
will now return to Liverpool FC
for treatment. He will play no part
in the forthcoming Switzerland
match.”
Sturridge, who has scored five
goals in 16 international appearances,
left Liverpool’s pre-season tour
of the United States early after injuring
a hamstring.
He played in the Reds’ first three
Premier League matches, scoring
the winner in the 2-1 opening-day
victory over Southampton.
England manager Roy Hodgson
will have captain Wayne Rooney,
Liverpool’s Rickie Lambert and
new Arsenal signing Danny Welbeck
as his remaining attacking options.
Chelsea central defender Gary Cahill
believes the game will be one of
England’s toughest tests in a qualifying
group also featuring Slovenia,
Estonia, Lithuania and San Marino.
The 28-year-old asked for supporters
to show patience as England
seek to rebuild following their early
World Cup exit and the international
retirements of experienced midfielders
Steven Gerrard and Frank
Lampard.
“Switzerland will be confident,
but it is a great opportunity to
bounce back from a disappointing
summer,” he said. — BBCSport

28 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Sport
Excuses will not be tolerated
Kirsty Coventry, who
made the world sit up
and take notice at the
2004 and 2008
Olympic Games, will
be 33 years old in Rio
THE 2016 Olympic Games in
Rio de Janeiro might look
far away but in sport, time
moves fast. In sporting language,
the global sports festival is just
around the corner. But what are
we doing about it?
Kirsty Coventry, who made the
world sit up and take notice at the
2004 and 2008 Olympic Games,
will be 33 years old in Rio. History
dictates that swimmers are
normally at their best at a younger
age, and now at 31, the road
ahead might not be as it was in
the past.
Coventry has won seven of the
eight medals Zimbabwe has won
since admission to the Olympic
Games in 1980 with the other coming
from the hockey team at the
1980 Games in Moscow (gold).
This could simply be taken
to imply that in the country’s
34 years of participation at the
Olympic Games, Zimbabwe has
produced only one athlete of note.
That is not a good record for a
country of 15 million people.
Truly Coventry has played her
part. Seven medals — two gold,
four silver and a bronze — spread
over two Olympic Games, is no
insidesport
with MICHAEL KARIATI
mean achievement. She has set an
example for others to follow.
But have we done enough to create
or build other athletes of Coventry’s
stature? What have we
done to ensure that the baton of
success is passed on to the next
generation?
Whatever the situation is now,
the objectives of the journey
to the Olympic Games will not
change. We need medals, and
nothing else. Excuses will not be
entertained.
That will require abandoning
the old system of waiting until
only a few months or weeks
remain before an international
tournament or competition to
begin serious preparations. The
Zimbabwe Olympic Committee
should not wait until 2016 or mid-
2015 to select their team.
Word has been spreading about
who might be going, but it is still
all just hearsay.
The athletes earmarked for the
2016 Games have to be identified
right now and given the time to go
for specialised training and high
level coaching. It is not too early
to embark on the road to Rio de
Janeiro.
The “we have seen it all” kind
of arrogance has no place in this
journey.
That aside; one of the most notable
decisions the Premier Soccer
League has made since the
league’s introduction by Morrison
Sifelani and Chris Sibanda in
1993 was making it mandatory for
all clubs in the 16-team assembly
to register five players that are 20
years or below for each season.
It was and remains a noble idea
that is meant to stimulate development
at junior level in clubs,
and to also bring exciting new
talent into the PSL. But whether
this is bringing the required
results is something else as registration
alone does not mean
giving the players the chance to
shine.
It is no secret that Zimbabwean
football is resistant to change
to the extent that instead of bringing
in new talent on board, the
clubs are busy recycling the same
old players. Those rejected by one
club, find a new home at another
PSL club.
Even James “Van Damme”
Matola who has returned from
South Africa — at the age of 36
— has realised this. He feels he
can still play in the Castle Lager
Premiership, and even went for
trials at Mutare based side Buffaloes.
The five registered junior players
have found themselves being
victims of this resistance to
change. Most of them have been
left in the wilderness, spending
time either on the substitutes
bench or on the stands as
Queen of the pool . . . Kirsty Coventry
the coaches prefer the same old
guard.
This, in other words, means the
youngsters’ talent is being wasted
and not developed.
There are however a few junior
players who have been accorded
playing time; for example Dynamos’
goalkeeper Tatenda Mukuruva,
although the youngster
has only seen game time when
the 1998 CAF Champions League
finalists are in a goalkeeping crisis.
If the PSL were really serious
about this junior development
programme, they should have
made it mandatory for each club
to field at least two of the junior
players in every game. Perhaps
that way, potential talent would
not go to waste.
If that is not possible, then why
not remove the regulation for the
registration because it is serving
no purpose.
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Zim ladies’
golf star in the
making
By MunyARAdzI MAdzoKERE
BARELY 20 months after her father
Ryan Bekker discovered
she had a natural golf swing and
bought her own set of girls clubs,
11-year-old Danielle Bekker, has
been nothing short of extraordinary
in her short budding golf career.
Having started as a 36 handicap
and now pegged at an astonishing
12 in such a short period, the girl
has already competed and proved
her mettle in South Africa, Botswana,
Malaysia and Scotland,
as well as in the United States of
America.
Under the tutelage of Cathy Riley
at Chapman Golf Club where
she is a member, Danielle won her
first ladies tournament, the Harare
Provincial Strokeplay in July
2013 to open the flood gates for
many other accolades to follow.
In August 2013, she came 2nd in
the Junior Africa Challenge at Zebula,
South Africa, a performance
that won her “green status” which
meant automatic entry to the Malaysian
Open, the European Open
& the World Championships.
Only a fortnight ago she took a
crack at the ZLGU Open Strokeplay
title in the championship division
and finished seventh out of
11 contenders.
Standardsport caught up with
Danielle’s parents Ryan and Illonka
Bekker who spoke about the
rise of Danielle as a serious future
golf flag bearer for the country.
“My son Jacques and I would
play golf a lot, sometimes in Durban,
South Africa and Danielle
did not really like golf because
she said it was a boys’ game so she
preferred playing with her dolls.
When she started taking interest,
I saw something special about
her,” said her father.
“She had often watched them
play. Then when her father saw
her swing her brother’s clubs he
noticed that she had a very natural
swing – and a decision was
made to buy her a set of girls’
clubs and give her the opportunity
to play and develop her golf,” Illonka
explained.
“Danielle started playing regularly
in early 2013 being coached
by Cathy Riley at Chapman and
played in her first Junior Daily
Tournament in April 2013 off a 36
handicap.
“She played in her first ladies
Raising golf star Danielle Bekker
tournament in July 2013 [and won
her division] and her first junior
major tournament in August
2013,” she added.
The former Gateway School student
enjoyed a fruitful debut as a
golfer which culminated in her
being nominated the 2013 Female
Junior Golfer of the Year at the
inaugural Zimbabwe golf awards
in June this year.
Locally Danielle has bagged at
least 11 trophies since she started
and her profile internationally
has been constantly rising as
she is currently second on the SA
kids, 11 and 12 years, girls order
of merit.
After coming second in the Junior
Africa Challenge at Zebula in
South Africa, she automatically
qualified for the Malaysian Open,
the European Open & the World
Championships where she acquitted
herself very well.
She came second in the European
Championships in May 2014 as
she led in the first two days, only
to drop to second place on the last
day.
In July and August 2014 she entered
four different competitions
and her best result was a 34th
place out of 99 in the World Championships
played at Pinehurst.
Her father was at a loss for
words to explain how she has fallen
in love with golf.
“She really loves her golf now.
The other time she marvelled at
what Nick Price achieved as a
golfer from Zimbabwe and she
said, ‘daddy, why can’t I do it as
well?’ It’s now her dream to one
day play in the LPGA and do well
for herself and the country,” he
said.
Danielle is a staunch admirer
of legendary American golfer
Phil Mickelson and his putting
and chipping prowess, hence her
strength in the short game has
developed in leaps and bounds.
But what are her short and
long term plans in her career?
“Danielle’s handicap is currently
12 — she aims to have this at 9
by the end of the year — and then
below 5 by the end of 2015. This
will be achieved by constant training
— improved core strength —
and more focus on her putting and
short game,” said Illonka who is
now an official with the Zimbabwe
Ladies Golf Union.
Born on November 15 2002, the
number one female junior golfer is
also a karateka and when not playing
golf she enjoys reading and
playing with her dog Rosebud.
One thing for sure is that she
is a golf star in the making, but
time will tell.

Sport
The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 29
Zifa sells
Pasuwa
dummy
“NO one has approached me regarding that. I
only read it in newspapers that I am the
national Under-23 coach but nothing of that
sort is true as far as I am concerned,” said
Pasuwa.
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA
ZIFA’S new national Under-23s project
could turn out to be another disaster
as it emerges Kalisto Pasuwa
is yet to be formally appointed substantive
coach.
The association last month gave
the nation the impression that they
had held discussions with the Dynamos
coach whom they purported to
have officially given the mandate to
lead the Young Warriors.
A Zifa High Performance Technical
Committee recommended the
appointment of Pasuwa who is set
to be assisted by ZPC Kariba gaffer
Saul Chaminuka and Hwange’s Na-
Dynamos coach Kalisto Pasuwa has denied having met with or being contacted by Zifa
to discuss his new role as national Under-23 coach
tion Dube.
With the Warriors out of competitive
action for over a year, the three’s
task is to ensure qualification for
the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
But with Zimbabwe still smarting
from the Warriors’ premature exit
from the 2015 Afcon qualification, it
has turned out that Zifa could have
sold the nation a dummy.
The association said they regarded
the Warriors failure as a national
disaster but events that preceded
that doomed campaign appear to be
repeating themselves.
Zifa also insisted that they would
not miss any Fifa international
match programme but the period
which opened last Wednesday
and closes mid this week is about
to lapse with the Under-23s still inactive.
Currently, there is no team in
place and Olympic qualifiers begin
early next year although Fifa is yet
to release the dates.
A proposed international friendly
with Libya was cancelled last week
by the North Africans.
The sparring match had been
scheduled for this Wednesday but a
week before the game, Pasuwa had
not been formally engaged by Zifa to
allow him time to scout for players,
an exercise that normally should
have begun two months ago.
“I cannot talk about the Under-23s
because I have not been officially appointed
coach,” said Pasuwa.
“No one has approached me regarding
that. I only read it in newspapers
that I am the national Under-23
coach but nothing of that sort
is true as far as I am concerned.”
Zifa have not requested Pasuwa’s
CV nor have they offered him a contract
– just as happened when former
Warriors coach Ian Gorowa
worked with the disbanded Warriors.
However, Zifa communications
manager Xolisani Gwesela seemed
to dismiss Pasuwa’s claims, insisting
that the appointment was done
and that Zifa was in fact expecting
an action plan from him.
“We wrote to Pasuwa a letter of
appointment and he received it last
month. We expect him to provide us
with a programme of action,” said
Gwesela.
“I doubt if we will manage to play
any friendly matches during the
current Fifa period. Our Under-23
team has to be subjected to a number
of friendly internationals because
we want to build a strong
team that would be a force to reckon
with on the continent,” he said.
Yet, Zimbabwe could make a formidable
side for the Olympics with
Tear-away Warriors winger Kudakwashe
Mahachi, Dutch-based midfielder
Marvelous Nakamba and
Sweden-stationed linkman Archford
Gutu eligible for the Olympics.
Dynamos right-back Blessing
Moyo is also eligible for the quadrennial
tournament that calls for
players born on or after January 1
1993.
Teenage sensation Macauley
Bonne of English League One side
Colchester United has also availed
himself for the Young Warriors.
The 18-year-old forward was born
in England to Zimbabwean parents.
But cash-strapped Zifa could find it
difficult to fly in the players for assignments.
Fifa has set October 25 deadline
to register teams for the Olympics
where only four African teams’ slots
are reserved for qualification.
Have our strikers lost their tradition?
BY MICHAEL KARIATI
WHEN Roderick Mutuma was
crowned the Golden Boot Award
winner in 2011, the Dynamos
striker had scored a paltry 14
goals, less than half of the total
games that constitute the season’s
Castle Lager Premier Soccer
League fixtures.
A year later, it was the turn for
Shabanie Mine striker Nelson
Mazivisa who ended up with the
Golden Boot Award after scoring
18 goals, which were three more
than half the season’s 30 league
matches.
Chicken Inn’s Tendai Ndoro
smashed in 18 goals in the 2013
top hitman title. Some, however,
argue that Ndoro could have surpassed
the 20 goal mark had he
not moved to South Africa’s Mpumalanga
Black Aces during the
course of the season.
This season, the rate of scoring
goals appears to have gone further
down, as the leading scorer at the
moment is Highlanders’ Charles
Sibanda who has so far managed
only 12 goals in 22 matches.
Kuda Musharu, who threatened
to come out with a glut of goals
come the end of the season after
plundering six goals in the first
four matches, is now in second
place with only nine goals from 22
games.
Observers are prepared to place
bets that at this rate, Sibanda and
Musharu will not be able to reach
the 18 goal target come the end of
the season.
This has raised questions as to
what has happened to the land of
great strikers. In the past, Zimbabwe
had the likes of the late legendary
Peter Nyama who scored
62 goals in 1971, the same year he
won the Castle Soccer Star of the
Year Award when turning out for
Chibuku Shumba.
Peter Ndlovu (in yellow) during his days at Birmingham City. He is one the top strikers
that Zimbabwe has ever produced
In 1986, a young Moses Chunga,
then playing for Dynamos, plundered
in 46 goals in one season.
This was well after the likes of
Gift “Ghetto” Mpariwa, Maronga
Nyangela, and Shacky Tauro, had
all gone past the 30 goal haul.
“My job was just to score goals
and people counted them for me.
I don’t even know how many I
scored,” boasted Chunga, who
now coaches Buffaloes.
Then came the likes of Agent
Sawu, Wilfred Mugeyi, Zenzo
Moyo, Adam and Peter Ndlovu, as
well as Alois Bunjira who grabbed
goals at will and running their totals
also past the 30 goal target.
Some critics are quick to point
out that the reason why Chunga,
Sawu, and Mugeyi’s goals reached
astronomical figures was that
they included those from knockout
tournaments such as the
Chibuku Trophy, the Rothmans
Shield, the BAT Rosebowl, and
the Castle Cup, unlike today when
only league match goals count.
But ask how many goals
Charles Sibanda has scored in
tournaments like the One Wallet
Cup, and the Chibuku Super Cup
to add to his current tally. You
might realise that he would still
have only the 12 goals to his name,
all of which he scored in league
games as he did not score any in
the knockout competitions.
It is also important to note that
the then Super League had only
12 clubs compared to today when
there are 16 teams. This means
the PSL clubs are playing eight
games more than what was on offer
in the Super League.
But the question is: Why has
the situation sunk so low to an
extent that the best striker in the
land ends up with as little as 14
goals?
Masimba Mutami, assistant
coach of first division side Flame
Lilly offered his view. He says the
quality of the strikers we have at
the moment is not as good those
of the olden days.
“In terms of quality, there is a
huge gap between the strikers we
have today and the ones we had in
the past. Yesteryear’s strikers had
the appetite and hunger for goals
unlike the ones we have today,”
said Mutami.
As theories and suggestions
come through, former Black
Rhinos defender and Zimbabwe
Under-23 international Nesbert
Saruchera offers a similar
view to Mutami, but differs a bit.
Saruchera thinks the strikers of
today lack the basics of scoring
goals as they are starting football
at a late age, and lack technique.
Saruchera said during their
days they had a conveyor belt that
ran from primary school football,
to secondary, then to youth club
football in the suburbs, “until one
was approached by a club to play
for their junior teams from where
he would then graduate to the senior
team and maybe later into the
national teams.”
He claims this system created
so much competition in all departments
that a striker had to be
seen to be scoring many and great
goals to attract attention, which is
not the case today. “[These days], a
22-year-old player comes from nowhere
and gate crashes into the
top flight league,” said Saruchera.
In addition, the former Chipembere
defender also offered an interesting
point. He said most of
today’s strikers were diminutive
in structure — very small framed
strikers — while most of the strikers
during their time had an imposing
physical appearance. He
says they had strong and tough
strikers in the form of Tauro,
Gift Mpariwa, Charles Chirwa,
Nyaro Mumba, Madinda Ndlovu,
amongst others, whose appearances
threatened defenders.
“Today, the strikers are weak.
They do not have that aggression
and physical power to knock down
defenders in search of goals,” said
Saruchera.
The former Warriors trialist
attributed this to the changing
world, adding that the physically
stronger strikers were still there
but no one was going out to find
them in schools.
He warned that the situation
needed to change as fans attended
matches for goals and to be entertained.
He said although the
impact might not be immediate,
it would not be long before the
crowd lost patience and started
deserting stadiums as there was
no entertainment for them.
But Kennedy Ndebele, was of
the opinion that the reason why
there has not been a glut of goals
was due to the change in playing
systems.
Ndebele argued that the formations
that have been adopted these
days, the 3:5:2, and the 4:5:1, were
more defensive and did not give
enough opportunities to strikers
who are normally surrounded by
two or more defenders.
“Everywhere the goals are drying
up,” he said. “Only last season,
the top goal scorer in South
Africa had 11 goals only,” Ndebele
said.

30 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Sport
gutu FC head coach
hails under-17
appointment
“What is left is for me to reward them for
putting trust in me”
By NyamBira Chivasa iN masviNgo
Tafadzwa Mashiri, the national
Under-17 team coach,
has praised the zimbabwe
football association (zifa) for
placing their faith in him.
despite being one of the highly
qualified soccer coaches in the
country, being a holder of a Level
four coaching certificate as well
as being armed with both the
Caf a and B licences in coaching,
his appointment was critisised
by some coaches who felt
that the job should have been given
to an experienced coach with
a traceable record of success in
working with juniors.
Mashiri, a Physical Education
teacher at Gutu High School —
a Reformed Church in zimbabwe
run institution — is the head
coach at Eastern Region division
One outfit Gutu fC.
His football history dates back
Chairman of the Zifa High Performance Technical Committee Gibson Homela
horse racing returns after break
By miChael kariati
HORSE racing returns to Borrowdale
Park race course today
after a break with 91 horses accepted
for the seven races carded
for the day at the home of zimbabwe’s
racing.
Race goers had to wait for seven
weeks to give Charles Mubariki
and his boys the chance to prepare
the course for the new season
and the horses a well-earned
rest.
It is now all done and the course
is now ready for the horses to gallop
with small seven fields lined
up, which should ensure good entertainment
and big payouts for
the punters.
The highlights of the afternoon
are the two feature races,
the Merit Rated 80 Handicap to
be run over 1 600 metres and the
Merit Rated Sprint to be contested
over 1 200 metres.
Three horses stand out in the
small field of the eight-horse Merit
Rated 80 Handicap, and they
are hard to separate as they have
raced against each other for some
time. These are the top weighted
argentina bred Orbit war which
will be carrying 61,5 kg, as well
as Macchiato and Menacing, both
from South africa.
However, I am giving Menacing
the nod to take the race. Coming
from the Lisa Harris stable,
the four-year-old son of Go deputy
and fearsome is under the
best yard in the land. added
with the services of Karl zechner
who won both the OK Grand
Horses gallop towards the finishing line in the OK Grand Challenge last year.
Challenge and the Castle Tankard,
that should give him a head
start.
Of the rest of the field, the other
horse that could mount a serious
challenge to the Orbit war,
Menacing, and Macchiato, is
Ghokan Terzi’s filly, Got a Hold
On Me, which is well-drawn in
lane one and carrying only 57 kg.
The 55 Handicap features two
zimbabwean bred horses in Mica
Point which is from the Harris
yard as well as delta Special from
the Kirk Swanson stable which
will be ridden by francois Herholdt.
This race has a bigger field of
11 horses with Maridadi, dawn
Light, Purple Title, Little Venice,
Sword of Truth, Oh My
Gosh, Sparkle with Speed, Motive
Mambo, and Rocket Runner,
all in the run.
Big and Open fields make
punters sweat to find the winners
but for those looking for
tips — dawn Light, Rocket Number,
and Sword of Truth — are
my favourites.
to his days as a player at the
now defunct Gutu Leopards fC
in 2011, a team which was bankrolled
by Masvingo business tycoon
Tanda Tavaruva.
The notable success story of
Mashiri in football circles includes
his 2012 victory in the
windmill football Tournament
with Gutu High School after edging
provincial rivals dewure
High School 1-0 at Prince Edward
High School in Harare.
Standardsport spoke to Mashiri
to find out more about the man
whom zifa has entrusted with
identifying talent for the future.
“at times it’s always good to
give other people a chance to show
what they can do. I have to thank
God for the appointment as national
Under-17 team coach. what
is left is for me to reward them for
putting trust in me,” said Mashiri.
He commended zifa for casting
their net wide in selecting national
team coaches for all the national
teams as he believes it is
going to improve the process of
identifying talent.
zifa used to look at coaches only
in and around big cities: Harare,
Bulawayo, and Gweru, leaving out
small towns like Masvingo. I am
happy they have come to a point
where they noticed the good job
that we have been doing as well.
I hope the move will help in improving
talent identification in all
corners of the country,” he added.
Mashiri hopes the vast experience
he has attained over the
years will help him achieve his
goals.
“with the experience that I have
gained as a player and now as a
coach, I will be capable of guiding
the youthful side in their campaign
during and after the african
Union Sports Region VI Games. I
have since received my offer letter
and I am now more than ready to
start working and I am sure I will
pull through,” he said.
african Union Sports Region
VI Under-20 Youth Games will be
held in Bulawayo from december
4 to 15 this year. fifteen countries
will converge in the country’s second
largest city and these include
South africa, Namibia, Mozambique,
Swaziland, zambia, dRC,
Tanzania, Madagascar, Mauritius,
Seychelles, angola, Botswana,
Lesotho, Malawi and zimbabwe.
zimbabwe is among countries
like zambia, Ghana, Sudan, Namibia
and South africa that have
had a Caf a licence programme.
Recently zifa announced head
coaches of the Under-13, 15, 17, 20
and 23 teams.
dynamos coach Kalisto Pasuwa
is rumoured to have been appointed
head coach of the Olympic
squad — the Under-23 — taking
over from Peter Ndlovu who is
now team manager at South african
side Mamelodi Sundowns.
Jairos Tapera has been re-appointed
national Under-20 coach.
Mashiri is the head coach of the
Under-17 national team with former
Kiglon head coach Pearson
Matipedza coming in as the new
Under-15 head coach.
James Mohala from the Naph
structures will head the Under-13
national team.
Bulawayo’s Sithethelelwe Sibanda
has been appointed head coach
for both the Under-20 and Under-23
women’s teams while Hwange High
School English teacher Evelyn Rimai
is the new Under-17 women national
team boss.
However, zifa is yet to appoint
assistant coaches.
Uefa consider
away-goals
rule change
UEfa is contemplating whether
the away-goals rule should remain
in force in European competition
and is looking to change how
Champions League clubs are seeded.
The issues were discussed as
part of Uefa’s two-day meeting of
leading coaches in Nyon. The awaygoals
rule was introduced nearly 50
years ago when playing away in Europe
was a novelty, but critics say it
has now become counter-productive,
unnecessary and unfair.
“There was a bit of a debate about
whether it has any significance today,”
said Sir alex ferguson, who
was chairing the meeting. “Some
think it is not as important as it
used to be ... and the attacking emphasis
on the game today means
more teams go away from home and
win.
“If we go back, say, 30 years, counter-attacking
consisted of one or
maybe two, players. Today, counterattacks
have players flooding forward
in fives or sixes and really positive,
quick passing.”
The rule, under which away goals
count double if a two-legged tie ends
with the aggregate scores level, was
introduced into European competition
in the Cup winners’ Cup in
1965-66.
It was first used in a second-round
tie when Honved progressed at the
expense of dukla Prague following
a 4-4 aggregate draw. — Dailymail

Sport
The Standard September 7 to 13 2014 31
Blessing Moyo arrives at DeMbare
He was thrown back to the sidelines where he
patiently waited for his time. The time finally
came in May this year in a ZNA Charity Shield
semifinal match against CAPS United
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA
WHEN Dynamos coach Kalisto
Pasuwa relegated his vice-captain
Thomas Magorimbo and another
battle-hardened utility player
Oscar Machapa to the bench in
favour of a fresh-faced teenager
Blessing Moyo, he appeared like a
clueless coach.
But in his first full Premier
Soccer League season, Moyo has
shamed Pasuwa’s critics by impressively
personalising the
right-back position at the Glamour
Boys.
Staking a claim in the starting
line-up was however an enormous
task for the 19-year-old.
After completing the entire 90
minutes against Monomotapa
last October in his first competitive
match, he did little to convince
the DeMbare faithful that
he was the godsend that the coach
seemed to regard him.
He was thrown back to the sidelines
where he patiently waited
for his time. The time finally
came in May this year in a ZNA
Charity Shield semifinal match
against CAPS United.
Dynamos assistant coach Philemon
Mutyakureva was at the
helm with Pasuwa away on na-
tional duty with the Warriors in
Tanzania.
Many thought Mutyakureva
was doing things his own way,
disregarding his boss Pasuwa by
throwing the 19-year-old into the
cauldron.
On that Sunday afternoon, an
out-of-sorts Moyo was a bunch of
nerves, apparently jittery and puzzled
fans who watched in disbelief
Mutyakureva’s “experiment” as
DeMbare went on to lose 1-0.
Pasuwa came back to confirm
the “experiment” was on his orders
– that he had confidence in
his greenhorn. The boy has now
shamed detractors, paying his
coach’s faith abundantly.
“I still remember that game
against CAPS United,” said Moyo.
“Obviously, I was nervous mainly
because we were playing our biggest
rivals and such a game comes
with a lot of pressure. The coach
just told me that football is the
same. He said I should go onto the
pitch and play my normal game.
But as time went on I adjusted and
I am now enjoying my game.
“I think I am now composed
because I came through the club
ranks and I am used to the Dynamos
system. I have settled well
in the team. I want to thank my
coach and teammates who helped
me stay focused on my football.”
That bid for the first team jersey
began eight years ago when
he joined Dynamos juniors as an
11-year-old.
“I came through the hands of a
number of coaches. At first it was
Simon Chuma, then Elvis Chiweshe,
Biggie Zuze and Tonderayi
Ndiraya. I owe it to all these
coaches for nurturing me into the
player that I am today,” he said.
Moyo cemented his place at
Dynamos last weekend when he
scored his first ever goal for the
21-time Zimbabwean champions
against How Mine in the NetOne
One Wallet semifinal match at
Mandava.
After that long drive which is a
serious contender for the Goal of
the Season, Moyo then developed
the knack for long distance drives.
In a league match against
Chiredzi FC last week, he had four
powerful shots launched from
outside the box that troubled the
Lowveld side’s defence.
“I felt great to score my first
goal for Dynamos in that match
against How Mine. I knew that
one day I would score and it is a
plus that it was a beautiful goal,”
he said.
The soft-spoken defender has
now stolen the limelight, but has
been barred from talking to the
media by team manager Richard
Chihoro because “he is still too
young and we do not want him to
be put under pressure.”
But Pasuwa unleashed him
to the media soon after the How
PSL comes hard on DeMbare
Dynamos roving right back Blessing Moyo
Mine game and the player quickly
expressed enormous desire to
help Dynamos retain the league
championship.
“I really want to lift the league
championship. It is good that this
year I am fully involved in the
fight for it unlike last season. The
NetOne Cup is also important to
the team and we will give it our
best shot,” Moyo said.
The right-back position could
be solved in Pasuwa’s Under-23
squad if the former Churchill
Boys High student’s star continues
to rise.
Zim in memorable Tri-Series
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL)
has taken a hard stance on Harare
giants Dynamos over the team’s
longstanding debt to Motor Action
boss Eric Rosen.
PSL says it will garnish Dynamos’
prize money from yesterday’s
TM Pick n Pay Challenge Cup to
settle the US$16 000 outstanding
fees for the 2009 transfer of William
Kupera from Motor Action to
the Harare giants.
DeMbare owe Motor Action boss
Rosen US$16 000 which ballooned
from the initial US$8 000 due to interest
and legal costs.
The court recently granted Rosen
a second writ of execution
which was served to the PSL as the
curators of Dynamos.
PSL then wrote to DeMbare requesting
the club to give them a
payment plan flexible to them but
they received no response.
The league had also suggested
that Dynamos could pay the debt
in tranches but the club reportedly
snubbed the advice.
“I am not aware of the garnishing
order because we never received
it from the court. What I
know is that it was served to the
PSL and not to us,” said Dynamos
secretary general Webster
Chikengezha.
Chikengezha’s stance on the issue
has angered the PSL who have
now resorted to take a hard stance
on DeMbare.
PSL chief executive officer Kenny
Ndebele said they were now
moving to safeguard their image
and interests since the garnishing
order was placed on their desk.
“The PSL is left with no choice
in offsetting the Motor Action debt
but to garnish the prize money that
PSL chief executive officer Kenny Ndebele
Dynamos earn from their immediate
competition,” said Ndebele.
“Dynamos are not cooperating.
They ignored our letter in which
we requested a payment plan they
are comfortable with.
“We have a court order served to
us and our fear now is that the image
of PSL will be soiled. There is
need to protect our name. We had
asked them to pay US$1 000 from
the gate takings earned from the
Chiredzi FC game but they did not.
The problem is that the PSL does
not have access to the club’s gate
takings, so garnishing their prize
money remains the only workable
solution. ”
The development comes at a time
when Dynamos are struggling to
pay their players outstanding signing-on
fees and winning bonuses.
Dynamos have already had property
attached over the Kupera debt
but the money recovered was not
enough to offset the debt.
Kupera was acquired by the Farai
Munetsi-led executive from Motor
Action before Dynamos sold the
player to the now-defunct Kiglon
for an undisclosed fee.
The player had only participated
in three games for DeMbare.
Since 2009, Rosen has been struggling
to get his money and all his efforts
have been in vain.
BY ouR STAff
THE last two weeks have been memorable
for Zimbabwe’s cricket despite
winning just one and losing
three in a Tri-Series against Australia
and South Africa.
Zimbabwe were seemingly overwhelmed
by the occasion, starting
off in the worst possible manner
with a 198 runs thumping loss to the
Aussies.
Stephen Mangongo’s men then
improved a little to lose by 61 runs to
neighbours South Africa as spinner
Prosper Utseya bowled his name
into the elite league of gentlemen
who have claimed ODI hat-tricks, albeit
in a losing cause.
The next match was one match
which will always be reference
point for Zimbabwe cricket for a
long time to come. First of all, Zimbabwe
restricted the Aussies to a 209
for nine score but few people gave
them a chance against a team they
had failed to beat for 31 years.
Fortunately, the gods smiled at the
Chevrons as they caused a major
upset and made headlines all over
the world as they scampered to an
unforgettable three -wicket triumph
with Utseya and Chigumbura steering
the team to a famous win.
Although Zimbabwe lost their final
match to the Proteas, no one really
cared as the win against Australia
lingered on.
For Mangongo, a new coach who
was increasingly becoming unpopular
for his methods and philosophy,
everything was forgiven. His determination
to fix up the Zimbabwe top
order batting was admirable, and
gave as many players as possible a
chance to shine
Cyclone Stars beat ZRP Harare
BY THEopHILuS MAkoMBE
Cyclone Stars . . . (2)3
ZRP Harare . . . (0)1
CyCLONE Star handed women
football Super League newcomers
ZRP Harare a thorough
beating with a 3-1 victory
at Prince Edward High School
yesterday.
Mighty Warriors fringe player
Felistus Muzongondi and
Talent Marondera were on target
for Cyclone Stars in the first
half.
The newcomers then grabbed
one goal just after the breather
through Molin Karingizha
while Stars added their goal tally
to three through Chipo Mbepo.
Cyclone Stars coach Prosper
Manzungu said they took advantage
of ZRP’s poor defence.
“It was a good match on our
side. We caught them on counter
attacks capitalising on their
weak defence. We then relaxed
and conceded a simple goal,”
said Manzungu.
In another match played yesterday,
Black Rhinos Queens
beat Flame Lily 2-0.
Cyclone Stars will this afternoon
invade the mining town
of Bindura for a date against
Auckland at Herman Germaine
Grounds in a league match.
In yet another match this afternoon,
Aces youth Academy
will take on Conduit at Callies
Sports Club at 11am. Conduit
are from Guruve.

32 The Standard September 7 to 13 2014
Sport
The Standard
www.thestandard.co.zw
Moyo arrives at DeMbare
“I felt great to score my
first goal for Dynamos in
that match against How
Mine. I knew that one day
I would score and it is a
plus that it was a beautiful
goal, ”
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DeMbare lift TM Cup
A Simba Sithole brace
and Roderick Mutuma,
as well as substitute
Washington
Pakamisa’s strikes
cemented Dynamos
hegemony in
Zimbabwean football
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA
Dynamos…2 (4)
Highlanders . . . 1
We are the champions . . . Dynamos players celebrate after lifting the TM Pick n Pay Challenge Cup, beating bitter rivals Highlanders
4-1 at the giant National Sports Stadium yesterday. Picture by Nelson Chenga
PREDICTABLY, Dynamos
scored four goals with little
resistance from opponents
Highlanders to lift the inaugural
TM Pick n Pay Challenge
Cup at the National Sports
Stadium yesterday.
A Simba Sithole brace and
Roderick Mutuma, as well as
substitute Washington Pakamisa’s
strikes cemented Dynamos’
hegemony in Zimbabwean football.
Bosso offered no meaningful
resistance with Felix Chindungwe
grabbing their consolation
and Dynamos easily marched to
victory.
It is now Dynamos’ second trophy
of the season after dismantling
the same side in the Bob90
Super Cup earlier this year.
Sithole slid in a Ronald Chitiyo
low cross for the opener on
21 minutes as Dynamos read the
riot act.
This was after Walter Mukanga
had an earlier attempt at goal
but released a weak shot as early
as the third minute.
Highlanders left-back Bruce
Kangwa and his midfielder Joel
Ngodzo shot off target to ask for
more punishment from Dynamos.
The hosts dominated throughout
the encounter with Sithole
scrambling off target a throw in
by Blessing Moyo.
Chitiyo hit the post from a
Mukanga dummy but Highlanders
remained sterile.
Mutuma easily connected a
Sithole low cross after the break
to make it three for Dynamos.
Felix Chindungwe missed it
for Highlanders in what was
the miss of the year but he later
atoned for it.
Sithole could have grabbed
a hat-trick had he not missed
Rusike’s cross in what was the
miss of the day.
Speaking after the match,
Highlanders coach Kelvin Kaindu
admitted that he needed to
come up with a lasting solution
to his right back position that
has been giving him sleepless
nights since the beginning of
the season.
“I have to deal with that position
once and for all. I have
tried all the players in that position,
including the ones that
we bought during the just-ended
transfer window but all of
them seem to be uncomfortable.
Eric Mudzingwa has been better
in that position but you saw
how we conceded all those three
goals from that side,” Kaindu
said.
Steyn, Du
Plessis seal
title for SA
SOUTH Africa won a first-ever
tournament final against Australia
after a Dale Steyn bowling masterclass
handed them the advantage
and an anchoring innings
from Faf du Plessis — which ended
just four short of what would
have been a fourth century in
the series — guided a composed
chase.
Steyn’s four wickets, which included
two in two balls, led a surge
through the Australian middle-order
in which South Africa plucked
five wickets for 29 runs.
Australia at one stage were
144 for 8 with 12 overs remaining
and in danger of totalling less
than their lowest score of the series
— 209 for 9 when they lost to
Zimbabwe — but James Faulkner
helped them to a total of 217. Aaron
Finch top scored with 54 runs
while Faulkner’s 39 was second
best.
In the chase South Africa lost
Quinton De Cock early but reached
the target in the most comfortable
manner using Du Plessis’ purple
patch as the pivot and winning
with 9,1 overs remaining.
Du Plessis’ touch was Midaslike
as he drove through covers,
swatted short balls to midwicket
and skipped down the track to
Faulkner to hit him for six and
bring up a 50 with Amla, who was
almost invisible.
Du Plessis gave Australia an opportunity
when he was on 34 as he
skied one over long-off but Finch
could not judge his position well
enough to take the catch. After the
let-off, Du Plessis punished Lyon
to reach his 50 off 45 balls, before
Amla got to his, off 72 deliveries
in the next over. Amla only added
another run and then hit a Smith
long hop straight to cover.
Needing eight to win, Du Plesis
smashed four off the first ball of
Johnson’s final over, refused a single
off the next ball and then saw
the third called a no-ball.
— Cricinfo
FC Platinum run riot to bag ZNA Charity trophy
BY MUKUDZEI CHINGWERE IN ZVISHAVANE
FC Platinum . . (2)6
CAPS United . . . 0
FC PLATINUM lifted the ZNA
Charity shied after a 6-0 rout of
CAPS United in the final at Mandava
yesterday.
A hat-trick by Zambian import
Obrey Chirwa plus strikes
by Walter Musona, Tarisayi Rukanda
and George Nyirenda
condemned the Green Machine
to their heaviest defeat in memory.
It is a result that owes a lot to
the Zambian forward Chirwa who
had a hand in all the half a dozen
goals, scoring three and having a
hand in the other three goals.
The match was scrapped of it’s
shine when referee Rugare Kusosa
dished out three red cards
to the Harare giants trio of David
Chipala, David Nyirenda and
Hardlife Zvirekwi.
After the convincing victory
Norman Mapeza commended his
charges for a job well done.
“It was a good result for us but
those red cards were unfortunate.
But I don’t want to comment
much on that. I just want to congratulate
the boys for a job well
done,” said Mapeza.
CAPS United coach Taurai
Mangwiro was apologetic at the
end of a hiding, describing the officiating
as a circus.
“It is a disgraceful day for CAPS
United and my apologies to the
CAPS United family and the travelling
fans. It was a circus but I
don’t want to comment on the referee,”
said Mangwiro.
Chirwa opened his account in
the second minute when he tapped
in a low cross from Rukanda.
On the stroke of half-time, the
Zambian doubled the lead when
he timed his run to perfection
and fired a low shot from an intelligent
feed by Tatenda Dzumbunu.
Chipala protested the goal and
was given his marching orders.
Eight minutes after the breather,
Nyirenda deflected Chirwa’s
cross into his own net beating Jorum
Muchambo in goals for the
Mangwiro-coached side.
Five minutes later, Rukanda
tapped the fourth from a Chirwa
assist, again beating Muchambo
who had a shameful day in office
by the standards of professional
football.
Nyirenda capped his terrible
day when he was ordered to follow
Chipala to the stands for a reckless
lunge on Dzumbunu with 20
minutes still to play.
Warriors midfielder Zvirekwi
protested the booking and
was also given the marching orders.
In the 79 th minute Walter Musona
was released by the hat
trick hero on the right to score
the fifth.
Four minutes before full-time
Chirwa capped a memorable afternoon
with a third goal.
FC Platinum coach Norman Mapeza

2 THE STANDARD STYLE / CONTENTS
August 31 to September 6 2014
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The Standard
Style
Contents
Woman & Man
Home & Garden
Food & Drink
Family
Arts
3 Woman Profile
Jenny Wall
9 Home of the Week
Enter our competition
14 Restaurant Guide
Mojo’s Steakhouse
19 Family of the Week
Mr & Mrs Khaka & Family
26 Breaking New Ground
Dr Muchazondida Mkono
5 Motivation
Tafadzwa
10 Trends
Master Bedrooms
15 A Summer Wine
Lebbie
21 Education
Getting ahead in the job market
28 Bookworm
Breaking The Silence
7 Man Profile
Tendai Maduwa
12 Gardening
Roses
24 Family Getaway
Running Commentary
29 Arts
Celeb news
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September 7 to 13 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / PROFILE 3
Star Profile:
Jenny Wall
“My passion is to empower the women of Zimbabwe…..”
Prudence Muganiwah
Jenny Wall has made it her mission to
find solutions for women’s needs and for
them to live their lives to the full. Born in
Marondera, in 1980 and a former Chisipite
School girl, Jenny m Moved back
to Zimbabwe from England in 2011
with a dream. “ I want women to
be celebrated for having a period
and for being child bearers,
and to be provided for with
the best sanitary wear
they can afford.”
Because of her burning
passion for the needs
of the girl child, especially
given the
prevailing harsh
economic environment,
Jenny designed
a product
that has come to
be appreciated by
women from all
over the country
– the reusable
sanitary pad.
“Traditionally
in Zimbabwe, a
girls’ first menses
are celebrated as
she becomes a
woman
which
i s
wonderful, however, very often she is then left
to find her own way of dealing with her flow
– month after month. My wish is for sanitary
wear to be affordable and as important
for men to buy for their wives and
daughters as food. Sanitary
wear is not a luxury
item, it is a basic requirement
of life.”
She goes on to
speak of how
the majority of
men don’t know
much about
this ‘taboo subject’,
adding
that if women
opened up,
and men were
taught about
what women
go through,
they would
surely love
and honour
the females
in their lives
more, and
they would
want to provide
for
them.”
T h e
warm,
soft
spoken but full of life Jenny says she meets a
lot of people everyday as a result of the overwhelming
response her product has received.
“Through My Pads I’m moving out of my comfort
zone and meeting people from all spheres
of life from successful business owners to orphans.
I’m seeing new areas of Harare, new
communities and the very real needs of the
poor. My horizons are broadening every day
and making me a better, richer person.”
She does however say that the path to
where she is now as business person, as a
people’s person and as a mother of all sorts,
has not always been so clear and easy to walk
on. “Starting My Pads has been the toughest
challenge I have had to face. I learn so much
by trial and error … unfortunately.” It is clear
however that she is a woman who is set in her
decisions and firm in her determination within
her home country as despite the challenges,
she continues to yearn for success and a better
tomorrow. “I think moving back to Zimbabwe
after so long away was the hardest personal
challenge. Zimbabwe had changed so much,
and so had we so there was more to adjust to
than we expected. We love it here – there is no
place like home.”
A firmly grounded woman who also has
expertise in IT, Jenny’s value-based routine
revolves around God, her family, and work
- although she says it is hard to always keep
them in that order. “I believe that God created
me for such a time as this (Esther 4 v 14). As
stressful as it is for me juggling a family and
starting a business, God has called me to do all
of it, and He gives me the strength to do it.”
She holds very highly her role as a parent as
she says they are her support system. “I think
that being a parent is the most important ‘job’
that many of us are lucky enough to do. Invest
time in your children. Make every minute
count, and teach them to be good people.
Show them by your actions, not just your
words, what’s important in life..”
Not surprisingly, Jenny is a loving and
doting mother to Reece (6) and Kyla (4) and
has been married to Derian for the past 12
years, “I’ve known him more than half my
life! I wouldn’t change him for the world.
He works hard for us, and has allowed me to
work crazy hours for no income to get My
Pads up and running with no complaints! I
love my family more than I ever imagined
I would! I didn’t know kids were such a
blessing until I had my own. Fortunately
my parents and one brother live down the
road from us, but we miss most of our
family who live overseas.”
She mostly works from home which
she says is a mixed-blessing as she gets
to be close to her children. “I never really
get a break as it’s too easy to quickly
check e-mails etc, but it has allowed
me to keep my kids close to me rather
than leave them at home if I had to go
to an office.” One of the things she says
she enjoys most with her family is holidaying
around the country, especially Zambezi
River. “I loved scuba diving in Mauritius
a few years ago, but closer to home, I saw my
life flash before my eyes when I did a Gorge
Swing in Victoria Falls last year!”
What perhaps is most intriguing about Jenny
is that during her stay in England, she was
an IT Training Manager for a huge project,
managing the training programme for 6,000
people to learn new computer systems with
on-line training and 1,000 people for classroom
based training. Yet still she found
it fulfilling to come back home and start
this new project which reaches out to the
poorest of the poor. She says about her time
in IT, “The training was hard, but changing
people’s mind-sets and getting them to accept
the new IT processes instead of paper-based
was by far the toughest challenge! We went
live with the new system on the planned day
and the training was a success.”
Jenny, who loves being creative around
the home and finding new ideas on Pinterest,
is thankful for having brilliant friends who
“fill up my tank every day. Even if it’s just a
quick chat at school pick-up, or a ‘whatsapp’
message checking on each other, I really need
my friends and their kids.”
Typically, Jenny’s sources of inspiration
are the women of Africa, whom she says are
true heroes. “ On the My Pads facebook page
we have a photo with a caption by George
Monbiot ‘If wealth was the inevitable result
of hard work and enterprise, every woman in
Africa would be a millionaire.” Of noteable
mention amongst her role models is Waris
Dirie a Somalian, who wrote a book called
Desert Flower about her life as a nomad in
Somalia and her journey to becoming a world
famous model and UN Special Ambassador.
“Terrible things happen to us in life and
we can’t understand why at the time. But
there are heroes who show us that overcoming
them is possible, and we can make good come
out of them for the benefit of others.” Jenny
says.
What she detests the most in people is dishonesty.
“As painful as it may be for you – just be
honest! Be honest about love, your time, your
intentions, your business activities. You are
only deceiving yourself if you lie because God
knows the truth, and those around will soon
find out and you’ll lose their respect.”
Advising the youth of today, Jenny had
this to say, “Pressures on our youth today
are huge. Internet and cell phones are taking
over our lives. Make every effort to have real
friends – not just ‘friends’ on Facebook. Have
real conversations – not just e-mails and messages.
Before life gets too serious, find your
passion and purpose, and a way to include it
in your life. With any luck it’ll earn you some
money by doing it too!”
Respect your elders. They are full of life
experience and wisdom. They may not know
how to use your iPhone but they know about
the important things in life, like relationships
– personal and business, and they are longing
for you to succeed in life so take the time to
listen to them.
True to her personality,
Jenny aptly ended with her
favourite saying that speaks
volumes about her
warm heart:
“Everyone is fighting
a battle,
You know nothing about.
Be kind.
Always.”

4 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / FASHION
September 7 to 13 2014
Summer stripes
Shamiso Catherine Ruzvidzo
The stripe trend dominates fashion week’s around
the globe season to season, it’s a trend that simply
never goes out of trend. Sripes are constantly
being reinvented, whether they come across as
vertical, horizontal, in colours or simply in the traditional
black and white – one thing remains, they never go
out of style.
When you pair stripes with black and white, it
is one of the most classic pieces that you can hold onto
for years. Stripes are diverse and can be dressed up or
down. They can be worn in almost any setting and always
remain classy. This summer however the bright
vibrant stripes are dominating, here are a few looks that
i am loving;
Modern summer horizontal pairing
Vertical Black and White Jumpsuit
for the young at heart
This Summer - Think bright, vibrant stripes!!!
Dress up your stripes
Dots and Stripes - Mixing both is
now allowed!!
Two tone sandals pair well with stripes
Striped satchel in black and white
The striped watch for the
adventurous
Casual stripes for the weekend
Image source: http://www.forwardforward.com; www.walmart.com ; www.sweetcouch.com; pinterest.com
THE WEDDING PLANNER
Rufaro Mushonga
Choosing Your Wedding Vendors
There is a wedding expo coming up in
Harare soon, so for couples who are
planning weddings for next year, this
is an appropriate time to talk about
choosing your wedding vendors. As a
wedding planner, I can safely say that I
now have my pool of reliable vendors –
more commonly referred to as wedding
service providers. I discovered that the
best way to establish a pool of tried and
tested service providers is to talk to other
professionals in my line of work, and
get good referrals. As a couple planning
a wedding, you only have one chance
to create a memorable wedding day. So
your best bet is to consult or hire a wedding
planner. A wedding planner has
done all the groundwork and has years
of experience. So my question to you is
why risk choosing an inexperienced or
unprofessional vendor who will spoil
your special day? A day you will never
forget – ever?
I know in reality, many of you will opt
to plan your own wedding. But how do
you know whether you have chosen a
reliable service provider? What will you
do if your cake collapses on the wedding
day? You can’t exactly go to the nearest
bakery and order another wedding cake.
Sure, you could try and sue the service
provider -- but you cannot turn back
the clock. What do you do when you go
to inspect your wedding set up the day
before your wedding only to discover
there are no table cloths? You call your
hiring company to tell them they forgot
to deliver these items, and they tell you
these items are not included in the “allinclusive”
package. Sure, you can hire
the extra items at the last minute, but
that is an extra cost you had not planned
for. Maybe you don’t have the extra cash,
because for the past two weeks you have
been trying to contact the photographer
you hired and paid, to no avail. So you
spent money hiring another one at the
last minute. Then your video team suddenly
need money for transport. Who
knows why they did not tell you this
when you initially met with them. You
tried to argue with them, but they told
you if they don’t get the transport money
they may not make it to the venue. So
if you opt to plan on your own, how do
you reduce the risk of being disappointed
on your wedding day?
Check References
No matter who recommends a wedding
service provider to you, ensure that you
do a wider reference check. Do your
own “due diligence.” Make sure you are
given at least three references to check,
and one of those must either be a wedding
planner or a wedding vendor that
your potential vendor has worked with
before.
Remember that “Cheap is Expensive”
I am sure you’ve heard this quote before.
You buy a shoe for US$2 and it lasts two
days. While this may not always be the
case, experience has taught me to be
very wary of cheap and cheerful wedding
service providers. So before committing
to something because it is cheap,
do your homework. Don’t be too quick to
go for a seemingly cheaper option without
shopping around, comparing packages
as well as the costs involved.
Use a Checklist
A service provider can make or break
your special day, so do not be afraid to
fire questions at them before you commit.
Go to all your meetings with a
comprehensive checklist and ask every
possible question you can – even the
seemingly stupid ones. How long have
they been in the business? Can they
show you samples of their work? Can
you visit them at their next event to get
a feel of how they work? Get a complete
quote - make sure you have not been
given “half ” quotations.
Ensure you get a comprehensive
contract
A receipt for your payment is not good
enough. Make sure you get a detailed
and signed contract. And ensure that
you meet with your chosen vendor before
the wedding and go through that
contract again.
The truth is you cannot eliminate the
risk, but you can reduce the risk. This
is only the beginning when it comes to
dealing with your wedding vendors. I
have barely scratched the surface here.
If you make the right choices from the
start and choose professionals, you will
find that they are easier to deal with
closer to and on the day of your wedding.
rufmush@gmail.com
(photography by Tasha Creations)

September 7 to 13 2014
THE STANDARD STYLE / INSPIRATION 5
Profile of the
Game-changers:
Discovering authentic
personal identity (Part 1)
Cynthia Hakutangwi
As the world keeps evolving and its systems
daily metamorphosing to adapt to the global
village profile, life altering trends and innovations
will be equally determined by individuals
with a game-changing mindset and profile.
There are major phenomena which are
profoundly altering the world’s landscape on
various interfaces which range from advances
in technology, to changing demographics and
tastes, and the global recession among many
others. All these dynamics continue to provide
fertile ground for the emergence of new
behaviours which demand more innovative
ways of doing things and strategies to adapt to
and benefit from the changes. In the multicoloured
and multi-layered backdrop of all this,
bellows a clarion call for game-changers who
will not only adapt but possess the strength of
character to change the ways things are done.
Game-changing is one of many powerful words
which may fast be losing its value because of
its regular abuse where it is lazily thrown into
“marketingspeak” and “managementspeak.”
Oxford dictionaries defines a game-changer
as “an event, idea, or procedure that effects a
significant shift in the current way of doing or
thinking about something.” The business dictionary
further describes a game-changer as
“a person or idea that transforms the accepted
rules, processes, strategies and management
of business functions.” In the next series of
articles we are going to examine and converse
around the profile of the individual who can
proudly stand above and beyond the rest to
truly call themselves a game-changer.
Whilst we may also understand a gamechanger
as that Aha-a moment where you
see something that others do not, we want to
embark on a journey of unearthing the transformational
formula that builds the profile of
the game-changer. In this series, we will consider
12 qualities, traits and attributes that
are characteristic of individuals who possess
the strength of character to take families, organisations,
communities and nations from
ordinary to extraordinary. Throughout the
series, we shall be referring to these as Game-
Changing (GC) Attributes. This article will
profile the first three attributes; these are not
presented in any particular order of significance.
GC Attribute One: Personal Leadership and
Transformation
A game-changer is a visionary. Personal
leadership calls for individuals to lead themselves
well before they lead others. This starts
with them knowing and understanding their
authentic personal identity. In this also lies
the need to discover one’s purpose and decide
to make deliberate efforts to allow personal
transformation. By its very nature, gamechanging
has a way of reshuffling priorities
and rearranging lives. In the absence of a clear
purpose and goals individuals run the risk of
losing the plot of their lives in the quest to
becoming world proclaimed game-changers
at the expense of their souls. Personal leadership
gains definition as we begin to respond to
Building Your Castle in Bits and Pieces… [Part I]
Tafadzwa Zimunhu Taruvinga
these questions:
Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I
going? How will I get there? What will be my
legacy?
GC Attribute Two: Possess the courage to
be a thought leader
A game-changer alters the way that something
is done, thought about or made. Thought
leaders are people of impact who invest in
themselves not out of a selfishness which
violates the values of others but rather with
the greater perspective of improving their
ability to serve, produce and contribute in
meaningful ways. These individuals change
the world in meaningful ways and engage
others to join their efforts by providing best
practice methods, processes and guidelines.
They are foundational in their thinking and
allow others to build on their successes void
of a possessive ownership of ideas. They possess
the ability to alter a business strategy and
conceive an entirely new business plan which
not only competes with competitors but sets
new trends in the industry. The journey from
leader to thought leader calls for intense monologues
and brutal self-introspection. Whilst
thought leadership is highly impactful and attracts
influence, platforms and growth, it does
come with its fair share of risks as one enters
the spotlight. One must prepare to face resistance.
GC Attribute Three: Ability to think and
see with a Relational lens
The ability to challenge prescriptive hierarchies
that dictate a simplistic approach to
the management of relationships determines
how much one’s relationships can usher them
into another dimension and trajectory of life.
The game-changing relationship is the one
that comes along and changes the familiar
landscape of life and rearranges the previous
order in new and unexpected ways. Fear and
unhealthy alliance with our comfort zones often
keep us away from discovering such relationships
that change the course of our lives
and world around us. We need to examine our
critical relationships closely beyond their
shape and size but rather in terms of their
qualitative content and ability to take us to
the next level of our destiny and calling.
Join us again in the next issue as we explore
and examine the next three game-changing attributes.
Cynthia is a Communications and Personal
Development Consultant, a Life Coach,
Author, and Strategist. She is the Managing
Consultant of Wholeness Incorporated. “A
passionate and fervent motivational speaker
who speaks at seminars, workshops and conferences
provoking people and institutions to
challenge their comfort zones by imparting
vital knowledge and information which can
help them to live balanced lives and create
trans-generational solutions.”
E-mail: cynthia@wholenessincorporated.com
The Caterpillar and the Butterfly
In the month of September, my focus is on
what it means to build up towards your life’s
purpose in bits and pieces. If you’ve even attempted
Accounting 101, you might remember
“piecemeal liquidation” in which a company
is sold off in small pieces, rather than
in one sweeping goal. Building the castle of
your life’s dreams, if it will be worth a Dollar,
should take time. In keeping with the old
truth “all good things take time” tiny ants toil
daily, ferrying pieces of bread and grains of
soil in order to build a home where all ants
are well-catered for. Birds too build their
nests one strand of grass at a time.
Chapter two of my book which I published
in June this year, Serve Your Customers Excellently,
Or Not At All!, is entitled “The Caterpillar
and the Butterly”, and it tells what I
consider a rather interesting story as thus:
“I want to tell the story of the caterpillar
and the butterfly. I think it’s amazing. When
a caterpillar hatches from an egg, its life begins.
Unless it doesn’t go through the full metamorphosis
cycle for one reason or another, the
caterpillar feeds on leaves and grass, growing
longer and fatter, shedding its skin off gradually.
When it’s had quite enough to eat, the caterpillar
hangs upside down from a plant and
spins itself into a shiny chrysalis. It’s in that
chrysalis where, through further metamorphosis,
the caterpillar transforms itself into a butterfly.
Then, as the story goes, the butterfly flies
into the magnificent African sunset and lives
happily ever after.”
We learn a valuable lesson from the ants,
birds, caterpillars and butterflies of this
world. We learn that you too are capable of
building good things in the good time, and
that good time demands a special kind of patience
and some delayed gratification. In a
sense then, the excerpt above is a bounteous
prescription of how best we, like the caterpillar
which ends up as a butterfly, can build
our big castles in bits and pieces. There are
nine pieces which matter in the piecemeal
approach to building one’s dreams, three of
which we will look at today, and the other six
in the second and third parts of this series.
1. Hatching Talents from the Egg
You can think of the discovery of your unique
talents, even when you have only vaguely
identified them, as a kind of their hatching
from the egg. This part is the most critical
because it’s the part at which the hatched
caterpillar is most sensitive, when it is most
susceptible to dearth or even to death. The
parallel of such peril in the context of your
discovered talents is this. You should nurture
your discovered talents right from the
point at which you discover them. What does
this mean in practice? It means that if you
have discovered a passion for playing a musical
instrument, for instance, you should try
to save up what you can in order to invest in
music lessons. In other words, it’s better, and
even practicable, to save US$10 a month for a
year and to attend four guitar lessons from
those savings, than to not do it at all, lest, like
a frail caterpillar just hatched, your passion
vanishes into thin air, even just after you’ve
discovered it.
2. Feeding On Leaves and Grass
During the process of metamorphosis, the
caterpillar feeds on leaves and on grass in
order to grow. It feeds on what is within its
reach, because therein lies the source of nutrition
and of life. Your discovered talents
need feeding too. They need to be constantly
fed and you can achieve this in by actively
pursuing those resources which are good for
your discovered caterpillar. As an example,
you can surround yourself with people who
have a similar interest to yours. If motor
mechanics is your passion or talent, identify
and approach a workshop where you can repair
cars on weekends, perhaps pro bono at
first, and, as time goes when you will have
earned your clients’ trust, perhaps for a fee.
As you make money from your weekend earnings,
the next step could be attending evening
classes in motor mechanics, using those earnings
to pay tuition. Effectively, you would be
feeding your passion on some leaves, namely
those people who share your passion, and on
some grass, namely the money which you
would reinvest into evening classes.
3. Growing Longer and Fatter
As your caterpillar continues to feed on leaves
and grass, it’s bound to grow longer and fatter.
In other words, your passion grows in significance
the more you invest in it. The key
thing to remember is that investment is more
than the money which you plough back in.
In fact, people are your biggest investment. I
would go so far as to say that the more productive
and good relationships you build, the
more the growth of your unique talents leans
towards becoming both incremental and exponential.
In Part II next week, we will examine shedding
off your caterpillar skin, turning upside
down and spinning into a shiny chrysalis.
Tafadzwa Taruvinga is a trilingual Customer
Service Consultant and the first Zimbabwean
Member to sit on the Advisory Council of Customer
Value Creation International (CVCI).
He is the author of the 200-paged book “Serve
Your Customers EXCELLENTLY, Or Not At
All!” and he facilitates customer service training
workshops. Tafadzwa can be contacted on
e-mail at tafadzwazt@gmail.com and his profile
is available at www.customervaluecreation.org
> “About Us”.

6 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / GROOMING
September 7 to 13 2014
MEN’S FASHION STAPLES
Marshall Malikula
We live in an era where image is everything.
Its high time brothers caught
on to this sentiment. Bad dress sense
is a big turn off, whether you male or
female. Men’s wear has totally evolved, it’s no
longer enough plonking a shirt, trousers and
off you go. Now we need to pay more attention
to fit and quality fabrics.
Let’s kick start your make over by going
through men’s daily essentials. Staples are basically
classics that make a foundation of every
successful man’s wardrobe. Take caution
though, classic does not mean boring; instead
they are must have basics, that can always be
dressed up or down depending on occasion.
The first step in wardrobe building is to
assess your lifestyle, that is; do you need a suit
every day or you work in a more casual setting?
The answer determines what you should
have more in your wardrobe.
1 – A dark suit
All man must have a well-structured classic
suit in black or grey. It does not matter
whether your life style is casual or not. We all
need a good suit, for a rainy day when you really
need it, either for an interview, wedding
or funeral. It’s appalling when people rock up
at weddings in a soccer Jersey and jeans, but
that’s another story for another day. Owning a
suit is a non-negotiable, trust me you will be
glad you have one when the need arises. Great
thing about suits, you can either dress up or
down. Suit jackets work well with dress shirts
and jeans, cross it over and voila…you are in
style!
2 – White dress shirt
No one can afford not to have a white dress
shirt in their wardrobe. A crisp white shirt is
versatile and never goes out of style. It looks
good with everything and can be worn in
the day or at night. Be wary of over wearing
it, once it’s beginning to yellow it certainly
means it has seen its fair share of days and
need a replacement.
3 – Solid tie
Ties can lift a simple shirt from relaxed to sophisticated.
Ties can be worn under a blazer,
suit or sweater. Try solid ties as they are easy
to coordinate. If solid doesn’t tickle your fancy
then try diagonal stripes.
4 – Khakis and jeans
For less formal settings you need a pair of
jeans and chinos. I swear by Chinos and jeans
as they are versatile. These too can be dressed
up or down for a contemporary cross over
look. Chinos originally came in khaki colour
but now include countless different hues, including
stone, mocha, taupe, mustard, navy
and berry shades. Chinos come in different
silhouettes, in pleated and flat front fits, therefore
pick one according to the shape of your
body. It’s pertinent, that you get the right fit,
get measured by a professional if that’s what
it takes.
5 –A Coat
This is an essential for the cold winter days, in
either short or long silhouettes. At trench coat
can either make or break your winter outfit.
Find one that can be worn different kind of
ways, for example water proof or detachable
lining depending on the temperature outside.
Coats are every stylist dream as they are great
for layering sweaters, scarfs and other accessories.
6 - Athletic wear
Tracksuits are great even if you are not a
sportsman. Ideal for lazy Sundays or a dash
to the shops. In fact the sporty trend is one of
2014’s biggest trends. College, baseball jackets,
shorts, vests in mesh and number printed T
shirts are all the rage.
7 – Classic sweater
Take your pick in either V neck, Crew neck or
cardigan style. Go for a flattering colour and
good fit.
Marshall Malikula is an Image Consultant
and Stylist get in touch with him on marshmaliq@gmail.com

September 7 to 13 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / PROFILE 7
Star Profile
Tendai Maduwa
Prudence Muganiwah
He is more than a poet. He is a born presenter,
actor, performer, motivational
speaker, life coach and author, all rolled
into one very enigmatic, jovial young
man.
The internationally acclaimed poet has
had some of his poems published in The Enchanted
World, an anthology which he co-authored
in India that has many authors from
around the globe. What is perhaps worth noting
is that he was actually the only Zimbabwean
poet to have his poems included in
the publication.
The Mutoko born artist who began his
career in earnest at the tender age of 7 at
a school prize-giving ceremony, professionally
kicked it off at the age of 11 with the
nurturing and mentorship of Ben Sibenke,
a local legendary actor. “My upbringing was
sour and bitter,” he admits, describing how
as an orphan, he had to drop out of school
at one point and live on the streets. His poetry
performances were thus one of the
few highlights of his childhood.
His poetry is inspired by his
background and life’s circumstances
which he translates into an outburst
of words that he is ever
willing to share. As a result
of his unique style of art
on the stage, Maduwa
has found himself
participating at
major events and
festivals in Africa,
Asia and
Europe.
Besides his
versatile career,
one
thing 25-year-old Tendai Maduwa is very passionate
about is to see others attain their goals,
especially for the less privileged
groups to be global
players. Orphans
he says, are
most dear to
his heart and
he strives
to see them
succeed in
their pursuits
despite
their
disadvantaged
backgrounds.
“Most of my
friends are orphans,
street
children, peo
ple with disabilities
and the poor.”
The reason being,
I just need to
challenge
them that
they can
make it
in life
regardless
of
“
The day I will stop dreaming is the same day I will start dying…
where they came from, their current situation
and whatever they regard as limitations since
I was once there.”
What he enjoys the most about what he
does is the liberty he gets from it all. “Of all
the people on earth, an artist is the most independent
personality who has every right to
challenge any authority and become a voice
for the voiceless. I love that about being an artist.”
His first poetry book, Marry My Language
which consists of 30 poems, is evidence of
how liberal and generous he is with the use
of words to deliver symbolic and meaningful
words to readers.
A strongly cultured individual who lives a
principled life, Tendai confirms that he is particular
about what he does. “I am particular
about what I do, how I do it, what
to say and what not to say, whom to
keep and whom to de- lete in my life
page. I have man-
aged to master
fear, which is the most suicidal
perception to delay dreams.
It is evident as he speaks that
confidence
is his middle name,
as he is not afraid of challenges
or
unknown territory.
“I am one personality
w h o
can approach and
knock
on any door no
matter how big.
And I don’t take no
for an answer - whenever
I need something I
should get it because I am
not a candidate of failure.”
Outlaying the principles
that rule his daily life, Maduwa
explained how he has certain
boundaries with individuals whom
he deems unhealthy to his pursuit
of success. “I am very selective, if I
accommodate you, when you break
the boundary I can easily and smartly
brush you off. But I have much patience
with those people that are segregated by
the society.”
Describing his thorny journey to success as
not having been easy, he explains how he is
still far from achieving success and as such
is always anticipating challenges. “But one
thing for sure is that challenges are not there
to destroy or change our focus, but they are
designed to strengthen us and pave a better
way to our success. Remember the more the
challenges the greater the potential one has,
so I use every ugly experience for my best. I
have faced a whole lot of challenges in my life
that involves at one point staying in the streets
after I lost my parents and dropping out of
school.
But the worst challenge that I ever faced
was to deal with my healing moment. Because
of my troubled background, I ended up lacking
trust in everyone since I had been denied
the gift of love. So for me to deal with that and
start to trust people again, it took me many
years.” The talented speaker explains further
how this protective shell he had built around
himself eventually resulted in him losing people
who were worthy of keeping. “Even up
until today, I am not vulnerable, I am very difficult
to convince.”
Tendai’s day revolves around the gym,
office, shoots and performances, sometimes
travelling and ends with him rehearsing and
researching on more poetry until typically
around 2am. The humble yet very confident
man who likes peace and quiet as opposed to
noisy environments often helps out young
people through his group, Success Caravan
wherein he engages in one on one sessions
with people who present their problems and
challenges, for which he offers advice and ideas
to help them find solutions.
Citing his greatest achievement as being
his Kenyan fiancée, Chebet Joan, the bachelor
says he hopes to have a family of his own one
day, whom he will dedicate more time than
he does his biological family right now. “I
have many sisters and brothers, cousins and
so on. I lost my mother when I was 9 months
and my father died when I was 10 years old. To
be quite honest I don’t have time for myself,
talk less of my family. But I appreciate that my
family members accept that Tendai is a busy
young man.”
The ever pursuant and high achieving
warm character who dislikes being taken advantage
of and people using his background
against him, is already onto his next project,
a motivational book called Nuggets of Success
which he hopes to launch this November.
Referring to his personal life, he talks of it
being his biggest inspiration. “Growing up
as an orphan when no one believes in you,
you only have you yourself and you. A devout
Christian, he also appreciates the role God
has played in his previously downtrodden
life, “That is why you can’t take me out of the
prayer room.”
“My role models are my long time mentor
Ben Sibenke aka Shereni from Studio 263
who identified my talent and mentored me
since the age of 12, and Rabison Shumba for
inspiration and sometimes financial backup
to push my ideal dream.” Tendai gives special
mention to his elder sister Dadirai Maduwa-
Karowa, who took responsibility of him and
his siblings’ lives since the demise of their
mother. “I can only imagine how difficult
it was for her looking after a family of six
children when she was only a teenager - she
helped me immensely to become the person I
am today.
Expressing how he dislikes pretentious
and attention seeking people, he emphasizes
how people should be less selfish and more
considerate of the next person. In that vein,
he adds, “Do not expect Tendai to perform at
your event or festival for peanuts, because he
has bills just like anybody else!”
As a parting shot, Maduwa, in
typical poetic fashion, quotes his
daily motto, “ The day I will stop
dreaming is the same day I will
start dying,
because I am seeing beyond the
horizon, since life is a race that
needs to be run
I dream big and I live funny!”
“

8 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / WHEELS
September 7 to 13 2014
Striking and sleek
Hyundai iX35
Fact Jeke
Agile, well proportioned, an outdoors
enthusiast, easily combining
ruggedness with style….sounds like
the type every woman dreams of
taking along for the right, right?
This car is ready to take you places.
It loves the idea of going on safari or
zipping through city streets…and it
can do both with ease, stylishly and
comfortably. In this issue I want you
to experience a compact CUV which
is both bold and beautiful. If you are
striking and dynamic with a serious
dose of attitude like me …..ha ha ha
then chances are this could be your
perfect match. Im drooling over the
Hyundai iX35.
The dynamic Hyundai iX35 combines
beauty with efficiency, from it
sleek exterior styling to the state of
the art drive trains. Breaking new
ground in the Crossover Utility Vehicle
(CUV) segment of the market,
Hyundai iX35 is available in six variants.
Of the six four are powered by
the sophisticated new Theta-II petrol
engines in either 2.0 or 2.4 litre
capacities, and two feature a 2.0 litre
R-type turbo diesel. I would opt for
the petrol one since availability of
cleaner diesel is currently IFFY!!
Drive train options include four
wheel drive versions of the R-type
turbodiesel and 2.4 litre petrol engine,
while the 2.0 litre petrol engine
is matched to a five speed manual or
six speed automatic gearbox. Luxurious
features include a spacious
interior, steering wheel mounted
audio remote controls, a multimedia
interface, full function driving
computer and auto arming central
locking.
All but the entry level model
come with black leather upholstery,
dual zone climate control, electric
folding mirrors, and cruise control
with switch gear on the steering
wheel.
Inside the styling and functionality
evidence is more of an CUV
member with semi-command seating
positions and 40/20/40 split rear
seating which fold and a large tailgate
allows access to the load area
as in conventional CUV, hatchback
or estate manner. Space in the front
is first class even for tall passengers.
The boot offers a very good amount
of space and the rear seat backs lie
at a slight angle when they are folded.
The equipment levels are good
with all the usual must have ‘premium’
brand items from automatic
air conditioning, ambient lighting,
electrically operated windows and
heated door mirrors, fast-thaw front
windscreen, multi-function buttons
in the steering wheel, multi-speaker
sound system and a good security
functions.
The great thing about CUV is
just how well it drives on the road
under most conditions. The drive
grip in the dry or wet is immense.
The suspension is firm and the ride
can be manageable on poorer road
surfaces. So looking at our ever deteriorating
road, handling will not
be a big issue in this vehicle.
Its perfect for the business executive
to take a drive to work every
day or for that stay at home mum
who has to ferry the three kids to
school every day. There is enough
space to fit grocery shopping, and
your team of 9 year old hockey players
and their kits after practice.
There will still be enough room to
swing by dads office and give him a
ride if his classy Mercedes has gone
in to major service. Personally when
driving this car I thought of my girlfriends
and the road trips we take,
space in the car is always an issue
if you are an adventurer and if you
are female. We always carry clothes
which we may never wear so we
take quite a number of bags. If you
are like that then welcome to piece
of mind….this CUV will carry half
your closet with ease…ha ha ha.
Safety features include upgraded
breaking with ABS and EBD.
What we all love to know if fuel
consumption looking at the fact
that fuel here in Zimbabwe is on
the rise. At a $1.50 you don’t want
to be behaving and buying guzzlers
like Americans who pay $0.81 per
litre in some states. You need to be
clever because it becomes unnecessarily
expensive to move from point
A – B. in the Hyndai iX35, you are
guaranteed maximum fuel efficiency
and the ratings vary depending
on which engine capacity variation
you have chosen. Word of advise,
this is not a speedster but a multipurpose
practical vehicle for day to
day use.
For more information on all that
makes this vehicle a winner also
warranty and service plans, you can
check with a Hyundai D e a l e r
near you. For those in Bulawayo,
Hyundai Clover Leaf will assist
with pricing and availability.
Till next week, stay alive, keep
warm and as always God bless you.
Email me on missjeke@gmail.com
or via Facebook: Torque with Fact
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10 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / TRENDS
September 7 to 13 2014
Master Bedrooms
A Master bedroom
should be your
sanctuary and
exude style and
class. It’s a personal
statement
Noma Ndlovu
There will always be a place where you want to go to for a little peace and
quiet. Why not make that your master beadroom? Master bedrooms have
evolved with time and if designed and decorated with purpose in mind they
are stunning rooms of beauty. They can reflect a sense of peace, tranquility,
calmness , style and elegance. When deciding on your master bedroom, remember
that anything is possible but functionality is key. You need to enjoy
your space. Whether it’s a new build or a renovation, always have a clear
form of ambience that you want to create as this will be the brief you give
to your designer or stylist. If it’s a DIY, have a plan and remember it’s best
to consult so you understand the level of difficulty involved in your project.
1. Colour
The first thing you need to do is to choose your colour scheme for the walls.
This sets the tone for all else that will be in this bedroom. You can use shades
of the same colour, dark colours or contrast colours, create feature walls using
contrasting colours and wall paper. Natural and nuetral colours always
work best as they let in a lot of light and can literally match with any colour
linen. For instance you can have shades of white or oatmeal on your walls
and then have six sets of linen and accessories that are any colour you want.
2. The bed, the headboard and the side tables
It’s the main attraction, so make it the best investment the bedroom. Choose
a good solid bed with a mattress that supports your back. Match it with a
solid head board that can also support your back when you sit up and read
or watch TV. Side tables with drawers are my favourate as they are multipurpose.
You can use them as tables for your bedside lamps, books and décor
items at the same time as storeage units. They are all statement pieces
and should be chosen wisely.
Bespoke headboards and solid beds make a classic combination.
3. Linen
Linen maketh a bed so they say. Good linen and a good bed will give you a
good night sleep. I always recommend crisp 100% cotton for sheets or duvet
covers, microfibre or down duvet inners and pillows. Spoil your self, you
only live once. If you chose pale colours for your walls, splash on rich colours
for your linen. Try and aim for at least 300 thread count for your linen.
Bed covers and throw overs can be any luxurious fabric like silk, fax fur and
linen, its all in your style statement.
4. Footstools, Ottoman, Recliner and chairs
In a master bedroom there should be sitting options other than the bed.
This adds purpose, function and style to the room. Place your chairs not
too close to the bed so that you avoid the temptation of throwing things on
them and thus cluttering your room. The functionality of the chairs is that
they give you a resting space when you want to be in your bedroom but are
not ready to sleep.
5. Flooring heated, plain, carpets, wooden, tiles
Floors matter. With so many styles available it is key you choose the most
durable and matching style. I prefer carpeted floors it’s so much easier to
put a heating system underneath. Imagine your feet landing on soft plush
warm carpet on a wintry day? Fabulous. Veneered wooden floors, Caeserstone
tiles all look good but be sure to have a rug by the bed to step on when
waking up.
6. Walk in Closet
Go all out, if space is not an issue. I recommend, a his and hers areas even
if it’s one closet. The closet space can be divided and arranged to suit your
needs. You can add on mirrors , ottomans and even a chair in the closet.
His & hers walk in closet - a must for any master bedroom
7. Ensuite Bathroom
Ensuite bathrooms have evolved from tiny box rooms with a small bath tub
to rooms with style. Think of deep soaks and and jet stream showers, aim to
have a porcelain bath tub and double sink plus a shower area. The bathroom
can link your walk in closet and the bed area. The décor should flow with the
entire room so that the serene atmosphere is carried through.
A devine ensuite bathroom to soak away the stress of the day.
8. Décor Elements
When you are choosing décor elements, choose pieces that have sentimental
value and are big on quality. Detail is very important but remember less
is more. As a standard, always have three sources of lighting in your bedroom
– overheard which is your main lighting, mood lighting achieved by
bedside tables or wall lights and direct light which you can be used for reading
and not necessarily brightening the whole room.
The list above above is not at all exhaustive, just a guideline that I use when
working with clients. As a designer and stylist, I have often advised that in
planning your home you should always have two important lists. The must
have and the nice to have list. These lists help you identify your absolutes,
define what your space is all about and ultimately help you finalise your
budget. Once this is in place you can easily communicate what your brief is
to your appointed designer or project manager. The good thing is that most
of these elments can be made to your specifications.
Your master bedroom should be a sanctuary, a place where you retreat to
after a hard day’s work. It therefore makes sense to ensure that it is relaxing
and comfortable. Regardless of your style, this is one room you need to
splurge on. Till then, live and love your home.
Credits: www.smh.com.au . www.houselogic.com Luxe Interior + Design.
House Beautiful
Noma Ndlovu is an Interior Designer & Property Stylist. Feedback on
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September 7 to 13 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN /INSPIRATION 11
HELLO SUNSHINE!
Spacework
late, Coffee & Cream
It is that time of the year again when we are
excited to celebrate the coming of spring
and spend some fun time in the sun. Today,
e this season we would by giving like to itshare a cosy some warm decor tips winter and interior. Don't be afraid to use your
make each ideas room on transforming reflect your your personality outdoor yard and into preferences . But keep it practical. This
r scheme is
an
inspired
outdoor living
by our
space
delectable
-- something
winter
more
indulgences - chocolate, coffee and
than arranging a set of chairs by your veranda.
Spring is indeed the perfect time to give
the outdoors a breezy makeover, and this even
hoose for your walls is probably one of the biggest decisions you have to make when
gets your home ready for all the summer fun
g as they are and the outdoor biggest parties. most That’s prominent why an outdoor feature in the room. Creamy hot chocolate
re wall colour kitchen for making is the best a statement idea for a focal in apoint living outside.
room. You can set off your living room
t this decadent colour
Cooking
making
outside
them
is a welcome
stand out.
change
If your lounge suite is brown don't panic.
from the usual routine, and it’s just as easy as
e your lifeline. to cook Keep in an things outdoor simple kitchen as and it is bring an indoor
one. and An outdoor art. Rich, kitchen tactile gives textures, you an op-
such as leather, sheepskin, suede and
interest to the space with highlights of
your accessories
sed to buildportunity up layers
to enjoy
of warmth
staying
and
outdoors
character.
not only
while eating but also while cooking meals or
over a family braai. So unavoidably, you will
idea is to want use space the colours to actually mixed dine or simply and not lounge. matched. For a less dramatic but equally
oose a wall to make a focal point in your living room. Go ahead and rescue those old
nd get them up the wall so you can enjoy them. Visit a professional frame shop to help
ght frame for each piece. Once framed group them together for impact on your wall. A
keep these prints black and white. When you photograph people in colour, you
ir outfits. But black and white captures the essence of a natural setting and goes past
hotograph the soul.
quite like snuggling up to a warm cup of coffee with a spew of sweet cream to cozy
days. Bring this same indulgence into the way you accessorize your space. Filled,
al or grouped, vases offer the perfect finishing touch for any room. Add mellow mood
oom by choosing your favourite glass vase, set a collection of cream candles into it
e with coffee beans. Then select other items in a similar colour from table runners to
e afraid to go for texture in fabrics. But avoid lots of pattern , as these tend to always
simplicity of the look.
und you, so don't neglect your bedroom as well. Use banding on cushions, pull out the
An outdoor kitchen works best near your
uffy bean bag for a wintry, cosy feel.
indoor one so it’s easy to carry food items back
and forth. If you prefer your outdoor kitchen
ggling into your home this week!
to be separated from your home, set it up in
the area of the yard that has the best view.
Outdoor grills, icemakers, and mini refrigerators
are popular appliances for outdoor kitchens.
Some require built-in installation; others
are freestanding and can be moved if needed.
And of course, stainless steel has been a perennial
choice of materials because of its longevity
outdoors.
If you’re serious about keeping an outdoor
living space, invest in products that are meant
for the outdoors. For your seating, you can’t
just toss any old sofa out on the veranda and
expect it to stay clean. Instead, go for weatherproof
furniture that can withstand rain, wind
and direct sunlight without fading, rotting or
easily ruined by any other type of weather
damage. Properly waterproofed wood or metal
benches can go for years in the rain without
sustaining damage.
Be bold with your colour choice for your
outdoor furniture and accessories. Earth tones
might look nice in your living room, but in the
outdoors they’ll shrink and blend in with the
surroundings. And although black tends to be
chic and stylish inside the home, black furniture
will become very hot in direct sunlight.
To complement the greens and browns of the
outdoors, you can add a splash of whimsy by
choosing bold, brightly coloured accessories.
For a touch of excitement, you might consider
swapping out those faded cushions on your
outdoor furniture for bold and colourful ones.
Bright blue, red and yellow bench chairs or a
pink picnic table might not sound like everyone’s
choice -- and indeed those colours might
be a bit overwhelming inside the home -- but
outside they’ll add an element of playfulness
and fun. Some other options for colourful accessories
could include a brightly patterned
hammock or Chinese paper lanterns.
Just because you’re decorating for a space
that’s outside of your home’s living room
doesn’t mean you have to forget the principles
behind dressing a social area. Just as you
set up a living room don’t position all of the
furniture against one wall by simply pushing
all of the furniture up against the house, so
that everyone is facing away from the house
when sitting down. Add an extra couch or set
of chairs that face the house, to allow of your
guests have a chance to talk to each other, play
cards or enjoy dinner in an outdoor space that
has the comfortable, intimate feeling of a living
room.
Lighting can accent the assets of your outdoor
space. As a general rule, lighting around
the outside of a house that is pointed upward
can dramatically accent the architecture of
the structure, while light pointed downward
will create a softer, cosier glow. For a softer
glow, you might consider adding lanterns or
torches into the mix.
Lastly, for the icing on the cake (that is
your outdoor lounge), purchase some plants
that make an impact.
References
Fuller, J and Boyer, M. 2008. Top 10 Ideas for Outdoor Living
Spaces. [O].
Available: http:// home.howstuffworks.com/5-ideas-for-outdoor-living-space.htm
Accessed on 2014/08/18
Kate. 2013. 56 Cool Outdoor Kitchen Designs. [O].
Available: http://www.digsdigs.com/56-cool-outdoor-kitchendesigns/#ixzz39VLI7I5p
Accessed on 2014/08/18
Madalene, L. 2014. Creating An Outdoor Kitchen. [O].
Available: http://www.laurieflower.com/creating-an-outdoorkitchen/
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Simmons, K. 2014. Turn Your Patio Into A Stylish Outdoor
Lounge. [O].
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Available: http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/outdoor-room-design-ideas
Accessed on 2014/08/18
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September 7 to 13 2014
Roses – The Follow up
Dylan Wilson Max
Round about this time if you pruned late
July or early August you will see your
roses should start budding. The key now
is to watch out for pests and diseases, in
particular aphids. These creatures not only attack
roses but a lot of your plants and bushes.
The aphid that attacks your roses is not necessarily
the same one attacking your duranta.
These creatures tend to stick to one plant, so
there are different aphids for different plants.
According to Wikipedia, like most insects
aphids have been around for millions of years.
This means that we are not going to get rid of
them any time soon. The reason for this species
success is attributed to their sexual reproduction
system. These terrors of the garden
are asexual – they basically are able to reproduce
themselves.
The rose aphid loves to feed on new buds,
making this a very sensitive time for roses.
There are a few conventional chemicals we
normally use lime sulphur. They are kind of
easy to detect. Your rose buds are normally
reddish brown to maroon in colour. If you
wake up one morning and find that they seem
slightly darker than normal you will know
that you have aphids. On closer inspection
you will see a collection of inanimate specs
on your buds, those are the creatures. Each
looks exactly like the other as they do not have
a male or a female instead the offspring are a
replica for their asexual parent.
Climate
There have been a few warm sunny days
and it is during this time your roses and most
of your plants are prone to pests and infection.
As you get to late spring and early summer
watch out for your fungal diseases like black
spot. The dreaded caterpillar and thunder
flies (they really have awesome names some
them!)
In keeping with good environmental practices
there are a few things one can do to naturally
keep aphids away from your roses.
1) Check your soil
Potassium is a very good way of balancing
your soil and protecting your plants from disease,
so look for rose feeds high in potassium.
2) Neem Oil
Several experts recommend this as a good organic
controller. Made from an extract of the
Neem Tree from India this very amazing oil
can also be used for cooking or as an insect repellant
amongst a whole range of other uses.
3) Appropriate planting
Plant ground covers or plants around your
rose bed that provide feed for aphid. A natural
enemy of the aphid is the lady bug. Providing
foliage for the lady bug will mean it will naturally
start on your aphids.
4) Organic Sprays
There are many options when you use sprays,
but in my reading the most common ingredients
are onion, garlic, vinegar and chilies. Mix
these up with water and hey presto. Green
soap with water I remember being quite common
from way back.
Ladies and gentleman I cannot say that I have
tried any of these save for the chili and garlic
with water. I had an ant problem with my jasmine,
sprayed the mixture and it worked.
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14 THE STANDARD STYLE / EATING OUT / MOJO’S STEAKHOUSE
Mojo’s
Brazilian Steakhouse
East Road, Avondale
Above: Mojo partners Mohammed Sami and Julie Webb.
Top-right: clockwise: Tapas platter; lemon tart with confit of oranges
and lemon-scented crème fraiche; salad starter; non-stop meat!
Bottom of page: You can eat outdoors at Mojo’s, which was one of the
most admired gardens in the capital when a Miss Haddow lived there with
her 80 cats in Edwardian days. Pictures by Dusty Miller
Dusty’s “What’s on Diary”
Contributions are welcome, to arrive in good time, bearing in mind
events in which readers of this page are interested.
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Sept 7(today) Air Show, Charles Prince Airport 8am-midnight.
Lunch: Alo, Alo, Arundel; Theo’s, 167, Enterprise Road; Adrienne’s, Belgravia;
Da Eros, Fishmonger and Great Wall, East Road; Sitar, Newlands; Palms, Bronte
Hotel; Willow Bean Cafe, Rolf Valley, English roast/pudding US$15. (BYOB, no
corkage.) Paula’s Place; Wild Geese, Teviotdale buffet/live music; City Bowling
Club, Harare Gardens (roast pork, apple sauce); Italian Club, Strathaven, Mukuvisi
Woodlands Coffee Shop; Centurion Pub & Grill, Harare Sports Club, Arti’s, New
Section, Borrowdale Village; Hellenics, Eastlea
Sept 8 Keep fit, Zumba Dancing, City Bowling Club, Harare Gardens. And every working
night except Fridays. 5:30pm-6:30pm.
Sept 9 7pm Line dancing City Bowling Club
Sept 10 Farmers’ market, Maasdorp Avenue, Belgravia (next to Bottom Drawer)
Sept 10-17 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” REPS Theatre 7pm. Matonee Saturday 2:30pm
Sept 11. Advertising & Publicity Club annual open quiz. Avondale Sports Club, 5;30 for
6pm. Details from Judy MacDonald empire@mweb.co.zw
(and every Thursday) Tapas night and music by Evicted, Amanzi Restaurant,
Chisipite
Sept 12-14 AEL Tiger Fishing Challenge, Eagle’s Rest Hotel, Siavonga, Zambia.
Sept 13 AGM City Bowling Club 1.30pm for 2
Sept 13/14 Zimbabwe Motor Show, Old Georgians.
Sept 14 Rhino Awareness Day.
Battle of Britain Sunday. Service Athol Evans Chapel. Royal Society of St George
Battle of Britain private picnic lunch
Sept 18 (and every other Thursday) fun pub quiz blue@2 Private Wine Bar, 2,
Sept 26
Sept 27
Aberdeen Rd, Avondale. Booking essential, Tel 0772 856 371
GGF&WAS lunch Fishmonger, East Rd. twelve-thirty for 1pm
Karaoke night, with Dave and Debbie, City Bowling Club, from dusk.
Supper available.
Greek night with Costa Nicolas, Hellenic Club, Eastlea.
Details Joanna 0772 390 960
Murder Mystery dinner 6:30pm, The Venue, Avondale. Tables of eight, US$75 p/p.
Details nancybenham@aol.com
Oct10-11-12 Zimbabwe 5’s Bowling Tournament City Bowling Club. Full bar and catering;
pig-on-a-spit Friday, music, raffles.
Oct 11-12 Zimbabwe Trout Fishing championships Nyanga.
To compete: mmatipano@zimparks.co.zw stay at Rhodes Nyanga Hotel.
Oct 22-25 53rd annual Kariba Invitation Tiger Fishing Tournament, Charara Eastern Basin
Oct 29-Nov 1. EatOut Zimbabwe Restaurant Week. Enjoy bargain 2 and 3 course meals at top
eateries in Harare and Bulawayo.
Dec 29-31 Jameson Victoria Falls Festival. Book now
Dusty Miller
WHENEVER I visit Mojo’s
in East Road, Avondale, I
wish I were far more of a
meat eater than is the case.
I usually tend to order fish, seafood
or white meats when eating out
(and in small portions), but at the
character-filled Mojo’s on Tuesday
lunchtime it was beef, game-meat,
pork and chicken in various presentations
which kept being piled on
my never empty plate.
Mojo’s is a churrascarria (Brazilian/Portuguese
for steak house);
churrasco is barbecue or braai but
with much more sophistication than
those labels hint.
Picture the world-famous Carnivore
Restaurant, outside Nairobi,
Kenya or Victoria Falls Safari
Lodge’s The Boma at its absolute
best, add a slab of class and élan
as found at some of the best West
End restaurants and you’re getting
somewhere.
Barbecue it may be, but the crisp
linen, sparkling crystal, expensive
china and general fixtures and
fittings (you could eat off the loo
floors!) speak of the best-run outlets
in Europe, Cape Town or Manhattan!
A splendidly unique eating experience
begins (maybe after a
pre-prandial dop at an amazingly
well-stocked cocktail bar) with
tapas.
Spanish for snacks, these change
weekly, but currently comprise: fish
cakes with cucumber relish, vegetarian
spring rolls in tempura batter,
chicken-spiced yoghurt, spicy
beef meat balls, yoghurt-spiced
chicken kebabs, beef samoosas, Hawaiaan
pizza swirls, salads and Brazilian
cheese bread with pleasant
dipping sauces.
There are two of each different
component and part-owner Egyptian
Mohammed Sami joined me in
nibbling at the starters. Soon after
surrendering on the tapas, grand
crisp golden potato wedges, savoury
rice and a Greek salad arrived to accompany
the main course.
Mojo’s is where Blossom Manor
and Haddow House were and was
the brainchild of Mohamed’s partner,
Julie Webb, a former Centenary
tobacco farm girl, who was general
manager of Imba Matomba/Gecko
Gardens/Arnaldo’s, before starting
on her own.
A qualified chef with a hospitality
degree from Bournemouth University,
UK, she’s also a former GM
of Leopard Rock in The Vumba and
worked in Holiday Inns here and at
the local Sheraton.
Mohamed was last general manager
at Harare Sheraton, before the
exasperated blue-chip international
hotel chain washed its hands of
Zimbabwe, packing in their local
franchise back in 2006 when the
“gold-leaf ” hotel became localised
and indigenised as Rainbow Towers
Hotel and Conference Centre.
Mojo’s isn’t a place to go if rushed.
My feeling is it’s more suited for a
leisurely supper than lunch, with
deadlines threatening menacingly,
but it’s a grand venue, eating al fresco
on a sunny Zimbabwean “spring”
afternoon. (An odd day with an Arctic
nip in the air, maximum 19C,
minimum 6C.)
Par-boiled then twice fried potato
wedges are probably the nicest
member of the “chip” family served
in Harare and go down well with a
carnivore’s dream! Skewers loaded
with wonderful meat: carved from a
full juicy dripping beef fillet joint,
seasoned with sea salt and garlic and
smelling wonderfully; then there’s
fire-roasted spicy beef boerewors
or chicken sausage; mouthwatering
ribs beautifully seasoned and slow
roasted, tender pork fillets encrusted
with parmesan and sizzling with
flavour, braised pork belly, chicken
breast, thigh and drumstick. The
splendidly juicy game-meat (venison)
was kudu cut from the buck’s
hind legs.
All these are slow-cooked on skewers
over charcoal to retain natural
juices, flavour and, texture.
The mains don’t all come together.
There’s a beer-mat sized card on
the table. Green side up, it says “Yes,
Please” in English and Portuguese
and “gaucho” waiters will swiftly
arrive and serve meat, by carving
it at the table from the huge stainless
steel skewers on which it was
cooked.
September 7 to 13 2014
Reverse it to red and “No Thank
You” and they’ll leave you alone until
you feel you can perhaps sample
a morsel more. There’s no limit to
the amount of meat you can eat, nor
how long you take to enjoy it.
There are some lovely grown-up
puddings: my lemon tart with confit
of oranges and lemon-scented
crème fraiche was exemplary. Others
included chocolate panna-cotta
with caramel and mango, Black
Forest ice-cream cake, Amaretto
parfait with caramel pecans, white
chocolate cheesecake with passion
fruit sauce, warm apple crumble
with Chantilly cream and Mojo’s
ice-cream sundae.
Tapas starters with bread, salads,
rice and “fries” and the eat-as-much
as you like/can churrasco and, pudding
costs $25 at supper and US$20
for lunch.
It’s a perfect place to take teenagers
with huge appetites. Eat indoors,
on the verandah or in the lovely gardens.
There’s a small conference
room and facilities for private receptions
and similar, with up to 300
covers. When I was there recently
a hire company was erecting a marquee
for a garden wedding with
about 500 pax.
They trade Monday to Saturday
lunch and supper. Fully licensed,
well-stocked cocktail bar available
for diners only.
Safe on-site parking; guarded additional
parking on verges on East
Road. Smoking/no smoking. Child
and handicapped friendly. Credit/
debit cards accepted.
Mojo’s, 10 East Rd, Avondale. Tel
705993/761639 mojos@zol.co.zw
Dusty Miller rating 4+ Stars.
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September 7 to 13 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK / WINE 15
A Summer WINE Welcome with Rosé
Lebbie Musavaya
“There is little else that says
summer to me like a lovely
dry French Rosé.” Sheri SauterMorano,
Master of Wine
Rosé wines are wines with a colour
that’s anywhere between red
and white, found in off dry, dry and
sweet. They are commonly made in
one of two ways:-
1. Brief contact, of skins with juice
from dark skinned grapes, ranging
from a couple of hours to a couple
of days. When the right colour is
achieved, the juice is drained and
then fermented.
2. A basic process which involves
blending in a small amount of
red wine into white wine to get a
‘pinkish’colour.
“A good rosé is fruity but with
some depth. It’s a wine where once
you have a glass you say to yourself
‘why not another?’ It’s a wine that
gives great pleasure.” Winemaker,
Alain Combard.
Provence, a region in the South
East of France is world famous for
their Rosés. Most countries have
their own distinct style/s of Rosé,
and are referred to as follows:
France Rosé
Spain Rosado (light pink) and
Clarette (light red)
Portugual Mateus and Lancers
Italy
Germany
though not too popular,
Rosato and Chiaretto
(darker rosés)
Weissherbst and in
Württemberg, Schiller
wein
South Africa Rosé and sever
al referred to as Blanc
de Noir (meaning only
made from red grapes).
A suitable wine for that new palate,
a Rosé, is easy drinking, mostly
affordable and readily available in
our local supermarkets and liquor
shops.
Full of freshness and alive with
subtle fruit flavours, Rosés are a
refreshing wine that makes my palate
look forward to summer. Mostly
characterised by low alcohol and
served chilled, it’s a perfect braai
partner and makes a fantastic drink
for that summer picnic.
With the temperatures getting
warmer, and a summer smile on
my lips, I find my mouth watering
as I briefly relived a Rosé tasting
a month or so ago in South Africa,
with fellow wine lovers looking
ahead in preparation for summer.
With over 20 different Rosés tasted,
a few memories have stuck with me,
waiting to be set free this summer.
Close to home and a household
wine name synonymous with Rosé
in Zimbabwe, a Robertson sweet
Rosé NV, had to be my first port of
call. It gave me the familiarity and
comfort of being back home and a
remembrance of all my wine friends
that love this deep pink wine full of
sweet berry flavours.
A Whalehaven Old Harbour
Pinotage Rosé 2013, followed next,
with a strawberry pink colour, this
dry, yet, lively wine was pleasantly
mouthfilling. A vibrant pale pink
Vondeling Rosé 2014 made from
Merlot grapes followed, the nose
reminding me of the various tropical
fruits on an island. With a palate
full of red berry flavours, I found it
enjoyable.
The floral aromas of a First
Sighting Shiraz Rosé 2013 followed
through on the palate with a crisp,
clean and dry finish, indeed, a refreshing
Rosé.
Spier’s Signature, a 2014 Chardonnay/Pinot
Noir did not disappoint.
Its fruity aromas cleanly followed
through on the palate.
A voice inside me reminded me
of how one can’t get enough of these
‘pink’ ones as I moved towards a
DuToitskloofTunnel sweet Rosé NV,
full of a mix of ripe red berries and
plums on the nose, the fruity bouquet
followed through on the palate.
I reminisce at how this beautifully
coloured summer wine has
brought some sunshine into my life,
at how shopping for this wine puts a
smile on my face in anticipation of
opening it, sharing it and of course
enjoying it.
On that note, wine lovers, I am
lucky this time round, as I get a head
start to summer. With a Shiraz based
River Garden Rosé 2014 by Lourensford,
am headed for a braai and look
forward to taking a sip, and a second
one of course, of this refreshingly
beautiful wine.
As Mark Oldmansays, ‘Rosé is
a wine that entertains long before
it even passes your lips. Its comely
colours have infact been likened to
sunset in a glass………”.
What’s your summer bottle of Rosé
going to be?
Your choice, our summer, it’s a refreshing
toast to summertime…..
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FAMILY
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20 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / PARENTING / BACK TO SCHOOL
September 7 to 13 2014
It’s back
to school!
Prudence Muganiwah
SO how prepared are you for
the new school term, seeing
as the holidays are over and
by the time you are reading
this, Opening Day for third term
is a day away. You need to have a
checklist of stuff that has to be
taken care of before your little one
sets off to begin the new season at
school:
Stock up on groceries
This weekend is the time you have
to stock up on certain things you
know your child cannot do without
in their lunchboxes, and as part of
their meal times in the afternoons
when they get back from school.
Of course you will need to buy perishables
time and again, but there
are things that last long and can
be bought once in bulk, like rusks,
biscuits, fruit juices, and other
healthy snacks.
This will cut down on unnecessary
shopping trips on your part
and less compromising on your
child’s part as a result of the absence
of their favourite foods.
Make sure you have foodstuffs for
appropriate lunches – going back
and forth to the supermarket as the
term progresses is not very convenient.
Routine medical check-up
Before the school term, it would be
advisable and useful for you to take
your child to the paediatrician, and
maybe if possible the dentist and
optician.
It would be good to know if there
are any immediate medical issues
to be dealt with before the term
actually starts, rather than try to
get these done during the hectic
schedule of the school days. Renew
prescription glasses if need be, and
ensure all vaccinations for his/her
age have been obtained.
Contact details
Silly as this may sound, for the
much younger children you might
want to teach them to memorise
your mobile phone number. You
never know when it may come in
handy, - if, God forbid, they are to
fall in some sort of danger whilst
at school or before they get home,
at least they can ask someone to get
in touch with you. And this is over
and above you writing your phone
number and placing it somewhere
in their backpack or in one of their
notebooks.
Put order in the school bag
On Monday evening, (or Sunday,
for those that have kids who go to
boarding school this Monday), do
ensure that your child’s school bag
is in order. Have all exercise books
been labeled and covered? Have you
included all the stationery he/she
may need; i.e pens, pencils, highlighters,
sharpeners, colours etc?
Do remember though not to overweigh
the little one by filling it up
with unnecessary extras. Try and
make sure that heavier objects for
instance dictionaries are placed
in the central compartment of the
school bag, sharp objects, like stationary,
should be in a case and then
smaller supplies should fill up the
sides.
Do the tags
Last but not least, don’t forget to do
the school tags!! These are seemingly
insignificant but extremely
crucial if your child is to still have
that precious racket or his uniform
by the end of term! And ensure that
the tags are discreetly placed but
clearly marked.
Be as organized and as ready as
much as you can, it will go a long
way in improving your child and
you own busy days.
Bring it on, third term!!

September 7 to 13 2014
THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / EDUCATION 21
Homework:
How Can Parents Help?
Edson Chivandikwa
THE significance of the homework
exercise makes it crucial
that parents take a special interest.
Homework, as a form
of continuous assessment at school,
becomes more effective when parents
put in their weight. How can
parents help their children to do
homework?
Show an interest
Parents who show an interest in
their children’s schoolwork motivate
their children to work on
school tasks. Parents must ask their
children what homework they have
for the day and if they are facing
any difficulties with it.
Establish clear homework
routines
Parents should establish and insist
on the observance of homework
routines. Specific times must be set
aside in the home for homework and
rest. Following particular routines
does not only ensure that the homework
is done but it instils discipline
and good time management in the
child. The routines should include
incentives such as fun activities
given after homework.
Set a good example
Parents need to set an excellent example:
manage your time well, read
a book during your free time in the
house, take your child to the local
library one weekend and talk about
your exemplary homework experiences
as a student. Insisting that
your child manages her time when
you are always late will sound ridiculous.
Remove distractions
Parents must create a disturbancefree
environment for study. Distractions
such as television, noise from
visiting friends and the whining
mower outside must be removed. Allow
your child to work in a tranquil
environment.
Provide resources
Your child may only manage the
homework effectively if the requisite
resources or supplies are available.
She needs, among other resources,
a study desk, pens, pencils,
eraser and, depending on her level
of study, a laptop. Make sure your
child is not hungry!
Read through completed
assignments
Help your child edit her work (but
do not do it for her). Make suggestions
where necessary. This is also
an opportunity to involve siblings:
you could encourage your children
to peer-check each other’s work.
Shower praise
Edson Chivandikwa is a Social
Science Researcher and Writer
and can be reached at ekc@peterhouse.co.zw

22 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / HEALTH
September 7 to 13 2014
Demystifying Male Reproductive Related
Cancers (prostate and testicular cancers)
...continued from last week!
Lovemore Makurirofa (Cancer Association of Zimbabwe
Testicular cancer
LAST week we looked at one of the most common cancers
among black males in Zimbabwe (prostate cancer). We
emphasised the need for males to improve their health
seeking behaviour to enable early detection of prostate
cancer.
This week we will be sharing information on testicular cancer,
a male reproductive cancer which is increasingly becoming
common in Zimbabwe yet nobody is comfortable to openly
talk about it during their public gatherings. Testicular cancer
affects the testicles in the scrotum and is common in males between
15 and 30 years. It is now affecting more young men each
year. Not enough is known about what causes testicular cancer.
Cryptorchidism (undescended testicles) -- a condition, in
Cryptorchidism (undescended testicles) - a
condition, in which one or both testes fail to
descend normally, is the most significant risk
factor for testicular cancer.
The good news is that, if caught at an early
stage, testicular cancer has a cure rate as
high as 99%.
which one or both testes fail to descend normally, is the most
significant risk factor for testicular cancer. The risk factors of
testicular cancer include:
undescended testicles (Cryptorchidism)
abnormal testicles
abnormal levels of male hormones
if one testicle is affected, the other testicle may develop
cancer
Family history
Signs and Symptoms of Testicular Cancer
A hard pea-sized lump on the testicle
A feeling of heaviness in the testicle
Pain or discomfort in the testicles
Enlargement of testicle
A dull ache in the testicles
Sudden accumulation of fluid in the scrotum
Lower back pain
St Michael’s 24 Hour Accident Emergency &
Maternity Clinic (19709 Unit N Shopping Centre
Seke Chitungwiza) All times
Emergency numbers: 0774 125142, 0734 503518
It is important to see your doctor or to visit the nearest health
centre if you experience any of these symptoms
Testicular Cancer Screening (Testicular Self
Examination)
Screening refers to tests that are done to detect a disease or
diseases in individuals without showing any clinical sign or
symptoms of a disease. Although a lot of men take it for granted,
regular self-examination of one’s testicles is very critical
in the early detection of testicular cancer. Men are encouraged
to conduct regular testicular self-examination (TSE).
TSE is best performed either in the shower or after a warm
bath, when the scrotal skin is relaxed and involves the following
steps;
Firstly look in the mirror at your balls, get to know them
Know the size and shape of each testicle -- Remember we
are all different so get to know yours! Note that it is
common and normal for someone to have one larger
testicle than the other.
Hold the scrotum in the palms of your hands
Examine one testicle at a time. Use both hands to gently
roll each testicle (with slight pressure) between your
fingers
Place your thumbs over the top of your testicle and gently
roll
Examine groin area for any swelling
Conduct Testicular Self-Examination regularly (every
month). Any unusual changes in shape, size or texture
MUST warrant medical attention. REMEMBER early
detection increases cure rate.
When diagnosed with cancer, especially reproductive related
cancers, men are usually reluctant to seek treatment, with
the fear that treatment especially surgery and radiotherapy
results in sexual dysfunction. The risk related to treatment
for both prostate and testicular cancer is very minimal and
outweighs the risks of not receiving treatment. As noted earlier,
most male health challenges are imbedded in the sociocultural
environment where men are brought up.
Changing perceptions and dealing with prejudice becomes
imperative given this background. Men should demystify
these common reproductive health cancers and resultantly
modulate their health seeking behaviour so as to access early
cancer screening and treatment services.
The importance of cancer screening cannot be over emphasised
especially bearing in mind that about 80% of cancer patients
in Zimbabwe are being diagnosed very late (when the
cancer is at advanced stages). Remember, early cancer detection
and early commencement of appropriate treatment not
only increases the chance of treatment success but also reduces
the cost of treatment.
For More Information Contact:
The Cancer Association of Zimbabwe
60 Livingstone Harare (Cnr 6th Street and Livingstone Avenue)
Tel: 04 - 707444 / 705522 Fax: +263 4 707 482
Email: info@cancer.co.zw, Website: www.cancerzimbabwe.org
Facebook: The Cancer Association of Zimbabwe
“We are committed to cancer prevention and improving
the quality of life of patients, their families and
communities through timeous, cost effective and evidence
based interventions”

September 7 to 13 2014
THE STANDARD STYLE / MOTORING 23
Zimbabwe Motor Show 2013
in pictures
From the left Former Mayor Masunda, Mr. B. Kumalo Former (MIAZ President), Mr. D. Matanhire, Mr
Gabriel Ettlin, Mr. C. Varga, MS Lindsay Ehrich and Mrs. D. Ritson at the opening of the 2013 Edition
of the Motor Show
Zimbabwe
Motor Show
The fourth edition of the Zimbabwe Motor
Show will be held at its established
home Old Georgians sports club from the
12th to the 14th of September. The 12th
will be a traders’ day and the 13th and 14th
are both public days. The Zimbabwe Motor
Show is a non-profit Trust formed by members
of the Motor Industry Association of Zimbabwe
(MIAZ), and their principal activity is
to promote the motor industry in Zimbabwe
through, planning and coordinating the Zimbabwe
Motor Show, an exhibition event that is
held annually. The 2014 organising committee
is comprised of, Dzi Matanhire, Carl Varga,
Daph Ritson, Lindsay Ehrich, Saru Masoka,
Manfred Chaniwa, Dave Davies and Gabriel
Ettlin. There will be five different levels of exhibitors
the highest being the Platinum, then
Gold, Silver, Bronze and the Stall exhibitors.
Exhibitors will include major vehicle brands
distributors, new vehicle dealers, spares & accessories
dealers, Asset finance & insurance
institutions, repairs & maintenance service
providers, fuel & lubricants suppliers, trucks
& buses dealers and marine equipment suppliers.
This year will see an increase in the
Platinum exhibitors from thirteen (13) in
2013 to fourteen (14) namely : Freightliner
(Zimoco); BMW (Quest); Foton (Quest); Ford
(Dulys); Hyundai ( Automotive Distributor
Incorporated); Isuzu ( Autolworld) Chevrolet(
Autolworld); Landrover(Premier Auto);
Mazda ( Willowvale Mazda); Mercedes Benz
(Zimoco); Nissan(Nissan Dealers); Hino (Toyota
Zimbabwe); Toyota (Toyota Zimbabwe);
and Volkswagen (FCM Motors) . As is the
norm the Platinum exhibitors will take advantage
of this platform to launch new vehicles
on to the local market. The stands were very
impressive last year and one can only wonder
what the 2014 edition has in store; the exhibitors
and committee members have their work
cut out.
This year’s show sees an improvement in
security arrangements for the public and a
wide choice of public catering stalls to appeal
to different taste buds and adequate beverage
outlets to lubricate parched throats on location
with improved seating arrangements this
year. Entrance fee have remained at the 2012
levels of $5 per person for adults and $2 for
children under 12.There will be main stage
events on both days. The children’s entertainment
area will be complimentary and will
have jumping castles, water slides and zorbing
to mention a few. This year’s edition will be
bigger and better than the last year, with several
brands launching/ revealing new models.
The webpage has more details on the show
and a facebook page is filled with up-to date
details of the preparations and twitter handle
will keep you up to the minute updates of the
goings’s on.. Follow the Motor show on twitter
for up-to the minute updates on what to
expect! ZiFM will be partnering the ZMS as
the radio parter whilst ZBCTV will be the television
partner and AMH are the print media
partner . Autobusiness are the official magazine
for the 2014 edition.

24 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY /GETAWAY
Running Commentary
and the Badwater 135
Rosie Mitchell
I’M fully back into running having thankfully
bade the last vestiges of post-flu-flop
goodbye, run a good Kariba Half Marathon,
and last week, completed a ‘Progressive
Marathon’ with Run/Walk for Life. This
means that you run a full marathon over 5
days; 7, 8, 9 and 7 kays from Tuesday to Friday
respectively, then end with the longest run
in the series on Saturday with 12.2km in the
company of other progressive marathoners.
Run/Walk for Life is a very friendly franchise
organisation headed here by Mel Barnes and
this month celebrates its third anniversary in
Zimbabwe. It’s a great way to meet people and
get fit and is very welcoming to all. Quite a
number of people join to lose weight as well as
get fit, with observable success.
I capped this with the 16.2 km fourth run in
the Fuchs-Irvines sponsored Cross Country
Series with Harare Athletics Club, plus an
exciting run on the wild side at dusk and (unintentionally
but nonetheless enjoyably) into
darkness 13 kay with Sarah and Rob in Haka
Game Park –a wonderful place to take the family
for some game viewing and a picnic, and so
close to town, by Cleveland Dam.
Meantime, the Triathlon Season kicks off
on 14 September at Mount Pleasant Pool with
a ‘Bring a Buddy’ fun event offering short and
long mini triathlons either relay or individual,
and the date of the Old Mutual Vumba Mountain
Run has been finalised as 8 November.
The Europcar Twenty Miler (32km) race this
year takes place on 8 December. Registration
for next year’s Comrades Marathon opened on
1 September.
During our July trip through Death Valley
National Park in the Mojave Desert in indescribable
heat (we recorded 54°C!) we were
September 7 to 13 2014
flabbergasted to see on the horizon, a pedestrian,
pulling a trolley-load of water in cooler
boxes behind him! We just had to stop and find
out what he was doing, and why. He turned out
to be a well-known ultra-runner, and was not
the only human out there on foot that day, and
all day. Australian Grant Maughan, one of
those really serious endurance runners who
enters the most extreme races each year, some
exceeding 100 miles (160km!) last year came
second in the ‘Badwater 135’ which takes place
in Death Valley, at the hottest time of year!
This is probably the most taxing running
event in the world, starting at Badwater, the
lowest point in America and taking entrants
217 km up to an altitude of 2548 metres on
Mount Whitney, incorporating a total ascent
during its course of 4000 metres. The first official
Badwater 135 Ultramarathon was held
in 1987. Each runner must arrange their own
support crew and vehicle to provide water, ice,
food and first aid. There is a 48 hour cut off
time and the current record is 22 hours 51 minutes
for men and 26 hours 16 minutes for women.
It is rightly dubbed "the world's toughest
foot race".
When we met him, Maughan was doing the
‘Badwater 146’ (235km) route ‘for fun’! The additional
11 miles takes those attempting this
feat to the top of Mount Whitney at 4 421 metres,
the highest point in America, and making
the total ascent a staggering 5000 metres.
Meantime, the same day, renowned fellow Australian
Ultra Runner Lisa Smith-Batchen, was
out there in this indescribable blazing heat,
running the 146 route four times in a row, to
raise money for charity! Aged 54, she became
the first woman to complete this, the "Badwater
Quad", 584 miles (940km). It took her 15
days. Feats like this go to prove just what the
human body can be taught to adapt to, with
practice.
Grant Maughan spoke to us when
we met him in the desert heat of the
unprecedented temporary moratorium
on the Badwater 135 this year,
while National Parks assessed the
safety of this and several other extreme
sporting events held in Death
Valley National Park annually. This
caused much consternation for organisers
and competitors alike. An
alternate route, at least as tough,
outside the park was arranged, to
ensure the race’s tradition continued
in 2014, and Maughan went on
to finish second again, and only 3
weeks after we met him doing his
solo 146!
Some fun outings this month
Rhino AWAREness Day 14 Sept
THE Animal and Wildlife Area Research
and Rehabilitation (AWARE) Trust’s Rhino
AWAREness Day takes place next Sunday
14 September at Raintree from 10 am to 4
pm. Breaking news about his event is that
Tinashe Makura and his band, with a passion
for conservation and for rhinos in particular,
have come forward and offered their services
for free at this fun event which is being
held to raise money for AWARE’s rhino conservation
programmes.
Erick Mutizhe, one of AWARE’s Vets, and
a singer/songwriter, will also be performing
and has written and recorded his own conservation
song for AWARE. Another additional
attraction is a Charity Jump by Mashonaland
Skydiving Club.
Rhino AWAREness Day also offers good
food and wine, picnicking in a lovely setting,
entertainment for children, and a Fun Run
and Walk and Spinning Class sponsored by
Triton Gym. The Spin must be pre booked
at Triton.
Tickets for the day event include the run/
walk and are on sale at Borrowdale Spar and
Deli..cious and will be sold at the Air Show
today at the AWARE stand.
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream the
ballet 10 to 13 Sept
DANCE Trust of Zimbabwe
presents the ballet version
of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer
Night’s Dream’ at Reps
next week. A collaborative
production between National
Ballet and Tumbuka, this
show is a riot of laughs, action,
great music and energetic
movement which bring
this much loved story, currently
a set book for English
Literature, to life, and runs 10
to 13 September.
The audience is invited to
come dressed as a fairy to
stand a chance of winning a
prize!
A Night with
Chopin
12 Sept
TO immerse yourself in something classical,
Chisipite Senior School offers ‘A Night
with Chopin’ in their chapel on Friday 12
September, performed by Sekai Zengeza,
from 6 to 7 pm. Admission is free, donations
welcome, and you can request a song
by any composer to hear it on the night by
emailing Sekai at antbrentano@gmail.com.
KidzCan Murder
Mystery Dinner
27 Sept
A FUNDRAISER with a difference is being
held for KidzCan, the charity which assists
underprivileged children with cancer, on 27
September. ‘A Vintage Murder’ is a fun Murder
Mystery Dinner which includes a delicious
French style meal with wines in a beautiful
setting at The Venue, Avondale. You are invited
to the home of a wine connoisseur in
his French Chateau in 1937 only to find he has
been murdered in his own vat of wine. Who is
the murderer? Tables of 8 are available, and
once booked (0772 127 214, nancybenham@
aol.com) you will be given your character and
costume ideas.

THE STANDARD STYLE
ARTS & CULTURE
In this issue
of Arts & Culture
(1) Muchazondida Mkomo
(2) Dangerous Twins
(3) Breaking the silence
(4) Joan Rivers
2 3 4

26 THE STANDARD STYLE /COMMUNITY/ BREAKING NEW GROUND
September 7 to 13 2014
Dr Muchazondida
Mkono puts Zim
Tourism on world map
Patricia Mabviko-Musanhu
I
am convinced that every individual
has an obligation to give back to his or
her country at some point in their lives.
Those of us who have had the privilege
of getting a good education should continue
to find ways to apply the knowledge we have
gained towards the betterment of this country.
I believe that a country grows through
the combined efforts of its citizens playing a
positive role in their different spheres of influence.
Dr. muchazondida mkono is one such
individual. Raised by her grandmother in
mandava Township in Zvishavane, Dr. muchazondida
mkono, well known as mucha had
no idea that at the age of thirty four (34), she
would be making a global impact on behalf
of her country. However, this would be a challenging
journey marked by frustrations and
discouragements.
mucha undertook her secondary school
studies at Victoria High School in masvingo
and scored 15 points after studying mathematics,
Biology and Chemistry at “a” level. With
no exposure to career guidance, the idea of doing
business in the future appealed to her and
led her to take up a business degree at the National
University of Science and Technology.
“after a while I hated it. I just didn’t feel I
belonged there,” she said.
There is nothing more devastating to any
family than a brilliant student who seems to
have no direction.
“I had uncles in South africa who had done
very well. They got concerned about my situation
and asked me to go to South africa so they
could assist me.”
mucha was enrolled at the University of
Pretoria to study the same degree programme.
“I had a brief stint at this University and
with all the opportunities that were presented
to me I still didn’t like this degree.”
Frustrated and discouraged, mucha decided
to drop out of University again. This was
a very difficult time for her especially after
her uncles had tried to give her the best they
could.
“I realized that the issue wasn’t really about
degrees or universities. It was really about
me. I needed to figure out who I was and what
I wanted to do with my life,” she said.
mucha took some time to figure out what
she really enjoyed doing. after dropping out
of University twice, it was important that she
found direction first.
“I thought I liked travelling and decided I
was going to go back home and find a travel
related course or programme to do.”
Back home, she enrolled to study a Bachelor
of Commerce Degree in Tourism and
thoroughly enjoyed it. mucha excelled in her
studies and upon graduation was awarded a
Book Prize. She also received a scholarship to
take up a masters Degree programme at the
midland State University. Little did she know
that this programme as well as the teaching
position that she was offered at the University
would open up doors for her to leave the country.
“I travelled a lot as part of my studies and
enjoyed my research work”.
This motivated her to go further with her
studies and she began to apply to study a Doctoral
Degree abroad. “I also started writing
and publishing materials,” she said.
In 2011, mucha was awarded the International
Post Graduate Research Scholarship by
Southern Cross University and moved to australia
in February of the same year to begin
her Doctoral studies.
“I had fabulous supervisors who included
associate Professor Kevin markwell and Dr.
Erica Wilson. They were so supportive they
made my studies an absolute joy.”
Instead of the standard three years, mucha
took two years to complete the programme.
Southern Cross University awarded her
The Chancellor’s medal, the highest honour
awarded to a student for demonstrating outstanding
academic excellence. Soon after
graduating, Dr. muchazondida mkono landed
herself a job at The University of Queensland
in australia as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
in January 2014.
“I would be no where without the opportunities
that my countries offered me in the area
of education. I do a lot of research and write
books on tourism. many of my publications
have been on Zimbabwean tourism for example
looking at the sustainability of tourism in
Zimbabwe or analyzing tourism experiences
in places such as the Victoria Falls,” she said.
In addition, Dr. mucha mkono has a keen
interest in researching on the ethics of tourism
as it affects Zimbabwe and other african
countries.
Patricia Mabviko Musanhu is a Company
Director/Producer at Black and White
Media Productions. She can be contacted at
pmabviko@gmail.com

September 7 to 13 2014
THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS 27
What’s booking at
The Spotlight
Harare’s central booking office
Reps Theatre Foyer, Belgravia Shopping Centre
Tel: (04) 308159 or 0771 357204
Open Mon-Fri 9am to 4pm, Sat 9am to 12 noon
On Reps Main Stage
Dance Trust of Zimbabwe (National Ballet and
Tumbuka)
present
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
A roller coaster ride of love and laughs brought
to life through dance, music and quirky characters to lift
your heart and warm your soul
Reps Theatre from 10 – 13th September at 6.30 p.m.
Matinee Saturday at 2.30 p.m
Tickets $10.00 for Adults with Pensioners and
Children $5.00
In Theatre Upstairs
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde
English set-book for 2014 and 2015
Reps Theatre Upstairs 17th – 20th and 24th – 27th
September at 7.00 p.m.
Matinees – Saturdays at 2.30 p.m.
Tickets $10.00 for Adults and $5.00 for Scholars
On Sale at The Spotlight
WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT, ZIMBABWE
Become a Wild Life Defender and join here
Collection of Membership Fees being undertaken by
Reps as a Community Service.
You are now able to pay these at the Spotlight between
9 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays
Also on sale:
latest copies of Ndeipi magazine
and
Jump Theatre, How to Make a Play
The essential handbook for everyone involved in drama
and theatre,
Written by Kevin Hanssen
Plus
InnSider Cards
New InnSider cards and renewals can be done at The
Spotlight for discounts at the Inns of Zimbabwe Group
We also sell airtime for
Econet – NetOne – Telecel
and
uMax
Collect from here the latest copies of community free
papers Harare News and Zimtrader
And don’t forget that Reps membership forms are also
available!
If you would like to sell tickets through
The Spotlight call the Reps office mornings
only 335850 for information
Promoter Zikhali dupes
dancehall twins?
Winstone Antonio
MUSICIAN Soul Jah Love’s
former manager and promoter
Courage Zikhali is
under fire from dancehall
chanters Whisper T and Cut Killer
– popularly known as the Dangerous
Twins – for failing to honour contractual
agreements.
The duo told Standardstyle that
Zikhali approached them following
their performance at a local club
and invited them to work with him,
but subsequently reneged on his
contractual obligations.
“Zikhali failed to respect our contractual
agreement and paid us only
US$6 for all the five performances
that we did under him,” said Cut
Killer.
“He made us sign a three-year
THE Wednesday Book café
film club screened the award
winning Two Villages Apart,
a local 2013 production whose
brain child is upcoming filmmaker
Donald Mabido.
The film won the best Zimbabwean
film at the recent ended International
Film Festival.
Two Villages Apart is a cricket
player James who is obligated
into an early retirement due to his
heart disease.
He returns to his village where
he finds his people at logger heads
with the next village because of
violent incidents that took place
towards the 2008 elections.
James decides to teach cricket
to his neighboring village, the
enemies of his home village after
contract and promised to give us our
copies once they had been stamped
by the police and that was all when
we last heard of the contract.”
Cut Killer added that Zikhali later
asked them to perform at fellow musician
Jiggaz’s birthday bash at a
club in the outskirts of Harare and
promised to pay them the following
day but started playing hide and
seek with them.
Their agreement, he said, entitled
them to get half the payment after
the performance and the balance
would be settled the following day
but he started giving excuses.
“We understood him and staged
more shows in Marondera and Harare
as we were promised to be paid
once off but we never received anything,”
Cut Killer said.
Zikhali however professed ignorance
of the issue and referred all
questions to his manager.
“I do not know those artistes. Can
you phone my manager Noel? He
is the one who deals with those issues.”
His manager was not reachable
until the time of print.
Zikhali is not new to such controversies
after he fell out with Soul
Jah Love in June and started throwing
all forms of dirty linen in public.
While Zikhali alleged that Soul
Jah Love abused drugs, the musician
countered by alleging that he
was duped, resulting in him being
stripped of his yellow Hummer and
rented home in Houghton Park.
While it remains to be seen how
this will pan out, Zikhali for now appears
to be following controversy; or
rather, controversy is tracking him.
Two Villages Apart Screened at Wednesday Book Café film Club
Kudzayi Zvinavashe
being turned down by his own villagers
who later take up the offer
and learn cricket with the other villagers
who have been their enemies
since the 2008 elections.
Reconciliation of the two villages
finally comes after a few hiccups
through the newly found love
of cricket and James finds love in
the midst of the madness and his
heart problem and dies two months
after the total reunion of the two
villages.
The film has a thrust of peace being
the main theme emphasizing the
need for people to live in harmony
and peace despite their difference in
political views.
“The film is set to show that people
can still live together in peace
and harmony despite their political
differences,” said Mabido who was
showered with compliments by attendants
at the film club as the attendants
were impressed with the
film which was brilliantly done
under a shoe string budget and
was his inaugural project after
film school.
Speaking on the sidelines of the
film club, Mabido said
“We are grateful to the Organ
of National Healing that came
in with funding which saw the
completion of the production
after we had repeated shooting
three times because of financial
challenges we were facing at the
time.”
“The plan of the distributing
the film was to screen it in the rural
areas as they were the most affected
by the 2008 elections but we
have not managed to secure funds
for distribution but we are hopeful
we will secure the funds.”

28 THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / BOOKWORM
September 7 to 13 2014
Breaking the
silence
through
storytelling
By Bookworm
DURING the just-ended International
Images Film Festival, a unique collection
of short stories, A Family
Portrait, was launched at the Tanzanian
club in Harare. The book is part of the
Breaking the Silence project initiated by
ICAPA Trust to bring healing and progress
to Zimbabwe through storytelling.
In 2012 the project collected true reports
of violence from all over Zimbabwe. In the
introduction to the book, Canadian writer
Madeleine Thien, explains that “it was inspired
by more than 60 true stories -- memories,
testaments, statements of witness, confessions,
questions, avowals and disavowals
-- which came to us by post and via collection
boxes left throughout Zimbabwe.”
After the collection of the stories from ordinary
Zimbabweans a workshop facilitated
by Thien a rising Canadian literary star
and internationally acclaimed Zimbabwean
writer Tsitsi Dangarembga and fellow Zimbabwean
writer Ignatius Mabasa brought
published and unpublished young Zimbabwean
writers together.
The aim of the workshop was to retell
the collected stories in compelling prose
that sheds insight into the human trauma
that both causes and results in the brutality
that has been so common in Zimbabwe. The
workshop also included survivors who were
anxious for the therapeutic process of telling
their own stories and the healing impact of
these stories on others.
The next step was to have the stories published
in a collection for use in communities,
schools and other institutions, and to tour the
country for readings. Zimbabwe underwent a
dark period when the political leadership unleashed
violence on the people to keep hold of
power. Many were maimed or killed during
the period and the government, ever in denial,
has provided no healing platform. In fact, it
has been business as usual for them.
In the 8os a North Korean trained militia
went on a rampage in the Matebeleland and
Midlands provinces killing as many as 20 000
people in a process now known as Gukurahundi.
Up to this day, it’s a subject, which is only
whispered about because the alleged masterminds
behind the purging occupy high offices
in the government. Except for a report by the
Legal Resources Foundation and the Catholic
Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe,
there have been no other major writings
around the subject. As such violence has been
normalised in the Zimbabwean body politic.
The writers featured in A Family Portrait
found commonality in each other. Dambudzo
Marechera once wrote, “The lives of small
men are like spiders’ webs; they are studded
with minute skeletons of greatness. In Family
Portraits, the six writers featured looked for
the minute details in individual lives, what
individuals were and what they might have
been. Thien further explains, “What we were
after was the fullness of humanity, no matter
how difficult it was to look upon it.”
A Family Portrait is not an easy read by any
stretch. Though the book may look small, the
subject matter is heavy. The writers perceived
a spiral that linked one act of violence to another,
acts that some believed not only inevitable
but necessary for justice. This spiral is
what the stories in the collection are determined
to trouble, and they trouble it by daring
to look at the world through the eyes of perpetrators,
by acknowledging that we are each
capable of any act.
The book is ground-breaking in that it
confronts the truths we do not often speak in
public because of our fear of the perceived
repercussions. Confessional literature is a
particularly appropriate mode of literary
discourse for a Zimbabwean society that is
struggling to carve out a new national identity
based not on political stripes, but on a
shared sense of humanity.
The book features six stories by Dangaremba,
Mabasa, Yandani Mlilo, Elizabeth
Muchemwa, Charmaine Mujeri and Karen
Mukwasi. Perhaps, with no doubt the most
powerful story in the collection is the title
story, Family Portrait, written by Mlilo. It
is a story of a woman who endures domestic
violence for the sake of her children but in
the end unchains herself from the oppressive
tyranny of her husband. The narrative
in Mlilo’s story is characteristic of the other
stories -- the characters may be in bad situations,
as both victims and perpetrators, but
they are not hopeless. They end up redeeming
each other.
It is a book that ought to be read by those
in positions of power so that they can face
and confront the horrors that took them up.
It is a book that every Zimbabwean ought to
read to see how we easily became enemies of
each in the name of politics.
Feedback: bhukuworm@gmail.com
JAMES BLUNT “MOON LANDING TOUR”
COMING TO HARARE – 17 th February 2015, HICC
GABRIEL Ettlin and Dave Davies
confirmed today that James
Blunt will be coming to Harare
for the very first time with his
Moon Landing Tour.
The concert is being presented by
Alpha Media and proudly brought to
you by Davies Events.
To secure your tickets, go online
to www.daviesevents.com/live today.
Fans can expect to hear James
perform his smash singles You’re
Beautiful, Goodbye My Lover, 1973
and his current hit Bonfire Heart as
well as a mix of well loved songs from
his previous albums and current
Moon Landing when he performs at
the HICC on 17 th February 2015 with
his full band.
The configuration of the venue
will be slightly different to past
shows, with the ground floor being
general admission for those wanting
to dance and party and the balconies
being seated and numbered for those
looking for a more distinguished
evening.
Ticket prices range from $30 to
$100 depending on the category you
select.
We all think we know about James
Blunt but for those who’ve been offplanet,
here’s a recap on the story so
far:
Five Grammy nominations, two
BRITS, two Ivor Novellos and a host
of MTV awards
Four number one singles, three
world tours with his six-piece band
and then the numbers spiral out of
control.
Sales of over 17 million albums
and 20 million singles worldwide.
Over 250 million plays on Spotify
and an astonishing 257 million views
on YouTube.
Moon Landing is the fourth album
by James Blunt. It’s an album about
dreams, longing, first love.
About getting back to basics and
rediscovering the power of music to
communicate emotion directly and
honestly, without too much polish or
complication.

September 7 to 13 2014
THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / CELEB NEWS 29
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Joan Rivers, pioneering comedian and entertainer,
dies aged 81
The comedian Joan Rivers, whose mastery of
the acid one-liner never wavered in a career that
spanned five decades and many more cosmetic procedures,
died on Thursday, aged 81.
“It is with great sadness that I announce the
death of my mother, Joan Rivers,” her daughter,
Melissa Rivers, said in a statement. “She passed
peacefully at 1.17pm surrounded by family and
close friends.”
Rivers suffered a cardiac arrest during throat
surgery on her vocal cords at an outpatient clinic
in New York on 28 August. She was rushed to
Mount Sinai hospital on the Upper East Side, and
was moved from its intensive care unit into a private
room on Wednesday. She never regained consciousness.
In the almost 50 years since she burst onto the
scene on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,
Rivers ascended to the pinnacle of American
showbusiness – even as she skewered its excesses
with her scathing wit.
A workaholic, Rivers had been hosting an online
weekly talk show called In Bed with Joan,
and had just filmed a special award-show episode
of E!’s Fashion Police before being taken ill. She
was frequently performing live stand-up, and had
finished the fourth season of Joan & Melissa: Joan
Knows Best, the reality show in which she starred
with her daughter.
“If there’s a secret to being a comedian, it’s just
loving what you do,” Rivers said in 2012. “It’s my
drug of choice. I don’t need real drugs. I don’t need
liquor. It’s the joy that I get performing. That’s my
rush. I get it nowhere else.”
Rivers never made a secret of the surgical
procedures that significantly altered her looks.
Instead, they became a source of material for her
act. “I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die
they’ll donate my body to Tupperware,” she once
said.
Melissa Rivers travelled to New York from Los
Angeles with her son Cooper after her mother fell
ill. “Cooper and I have found ourselves humbled
by the outpouring of love, support and prayers we
have received from around the world. They have
been heard and appreciated,” she said in a statement.
“My mother’s greatest joy in life was to make
people laugh. Although that’s difficult to do right
now, I know her final wish would be that we return
to laughing soon.”
The New York city department of health is investigating
the circumstances that led to the cardiac
arrest suffered by Rivers last Thursday. She
was undergoing a minor throat procedure at Yorkville
Endoscopy, which was established in 2013
and describes itself as a “state-of-the-art” facility.
The health department investigation is said to be
routine.
Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Rivers worked the
New York comedy scene alongside Richard Pryor,
Bill Cosby, George Carlin and Woody Allen. Her big
break came with an appearance on The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1965, where she
quickly became an audience favourite. Live on air
after her first appearance, Carson said: “You’re
gonna be a star,” and he became her close friend
and mentor. She went on to appear on a galaxy of
other TV shows, including The Carol Burnett Show
and The Ed Sullivan Show, as well as performing
live in New York and Las Vegas, and recording several
comedy albums.
At the same time, she was also a prolific humour
writer; she wrote the films The Girl Most
Likely To... and Rabbit Test. In 1974 she released
Having a Baby Can Be A Scream, the first of 12
books including the best-selling The Life and Hard
Times of Heidi Abramowitz.
In 1983, she became the first female comedian
to perform at New York’s Carnegie Hall, where she
was billed as a “semi-legend”. One of her most ontarget
jokes, a student reviewer for the Columbia
Daily Spectator reported earnestly, was a description
of Mick Jagger as a man whose “child-bearing
lips can French-kiss a moose”.
In 1986, the newly created Fox network offered
her her own late-night vehicle, The Late Show Starring
Joan Rivers – a competitor to Carson’s show,
broadcast at the same time. He famously never forgave
her, and banned her from appearing on The
Tonight Show – an edict that stayed in effect long
after his death. She did not appear on the show
again until March this year, when when the rift
was healed by its current host, Jimmy Fallon.
A wildly energetic performer, as comfortable
on stage as on screen, Rivers was still playing to
huge, packed auditoriums such as London’s Albert
Hall as recently as 2012, where, at the age of 79, she
performed for 11 nights to sellout crowds and rapt
applause.
“What pleasure you feel when you’ve kept people
happy for an hour and a half,” she wrote in an
article in the Hollywood Reporter in 2012, after the
Albert Hall run had finished. “They’ve forgotten
their troubles. It’s great. There’s nothing like it in
the world. When everybody’s laughing, it’s a party.
And then you get a check at the end. That’s very
nice.”
She recently moved to California to be closer
to her family, a move that, like many other parts of
Rivers’ life, was chronicled on Joan & Melissa. Her
brusque humour frequently targeted celebrities,
as well as herself. Her no-holds-barred attitude
would also push the line. Perhaps her most controversial
comments were among her most recent:
earlier this month, the celebrity news website TMZ
released footage in which she apparently celebrated
the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza.
Told that nearly 2,000 Gazans had been killed in
the conflict, she shot up her arms and said: “When
you declare war, you declare war. They started it.
We now don’t count who’s dead. You’re dead. You
deserve to be dead. You started it. You started it.
Don’t you dare make me feel sad about that.” She
later claimed the media had taken the tirade out of
context.
In her later career, Rivers became known for
hosting live shows that chronicled the red-carpet
arrivals of celebrities to awards ceremonies. The
first of them was in 1994 for the E! Entertainment
Network, and she quickly became an institution at
the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, and the
Grammys. The scourge of celebrities, Rivers could
bring anyone crashing to earth with a slingshot
put-down.
“For decades, Joan has made people laugh,
shattered glass ceilings, and revolutionised comedy,”
the E! network said in a statement. “She was
unapologetic and fiercely dedicated to entertaining
all of us, and has left an indelible mark on the
people that worked with her – and on her legions of
fans.”
- http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/04/
FOOD NETWORK (DStv
Channel 175)
DStv September
2014 Schedules
Street Eats (Season 1): Food is one of the top reasons
why people like to travel. The best place to find the
most authentic local food scenes around the world
is right on the streets! There is no better place to rub
elbows with the locals and grab a bite that’s fast, inexpensive
and translates the culture. In some countries,
street food represents a melting pot of traditions.
Street Eats travels to Latin America, Africa, The Middle
East, Asia, the United States and Europe to bring this
experience to viewers who may never get the chance to
taste it for themselves. Tune in from 22 September and
watch it on weekdays at 07:40 and 11:00 CAT.
Recipes that Rock (Season 2): Alex James is bass player
in the British rock band, Blur. He’s also a writer, farmer,
father and cheesemaker. Chef Matt Stone has hip restaurants
in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Matt has full
sleeve tattoos, a skateboard and an attitude to match,
he rocks too. In this series of Recipes That Rock, there’s
fun and adventure in the Great Southern, searching
out the best of the best foods that producers grow,
harvest, hatch and catch. Series 2 opens with succulent
oysters in Oyster Harbour, Albany, and a merry visit to
the local whisky distillery. In later episodes, the inquisitive
duo discover a unique way of farming chickens for
eggs, learn about the worldwide delicacy Abalone,
and close the series with a huge party celebrating all
of the produce they’ve discovered and wonderful
characters they’ve met in this magnificent part of
the world. Watch from Sunday 8 September at 09:20
and 13:55 CAT.
TLC ENTERTAINMENT
(DStv Channel 172)
Breaking the Faith (Premiere): This series shares the
story of eight young men and women who are trying
to build a new life outside of the Mormon church. The
young men, known as ‘lost boys’, are cast-out from
their homes and not welcomed back, while the women
are intent on escaping the controlling ways of the
community – including arranged marriage and a life of
complete submission – and are hoping for a better life
on the outside. For this group, being faced with making
life-altering choices in their effort to win their freedom
comes with the fear of the consequences that may
come for leaving the compound forever. From Tuesday
16 September at 20:55 CAT.
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (Premiere): After the
rip-roaring success of the first series, Honey Boo Boo
returns with her family for more mishaps, joviality and
raucous redneck fun. In this series, birthday girl June’s
spirits are sagging as she copes with an empty nest after
Anna and Kaitlyn decide to move out. Finally, without
Anna and Kaitlyn around, the family spends very
little time together. Alana hopes the family’s love for
food will reunite them - but just as with family game
night and pottery painting, her efforts fall short. From
Wednesday 24 September at 20:00 CAT.
My Naked Secret (Premiere): Follow the personal stories
of 10 more people as they begin to overcome the
body issues that are ruining their lives. In each episode
an individual with a medical condition or physical abnormality
that is causing them great shame and untold
misery embarks on a transformative and poignant journey
in search of acceptance. They then begin treatment
for their condition in a bid to finally have a body they
love. But will this enable them to come to terms with
their anxieties? Find out from Friday 26 September at
20:55 CAT.
Oprah Prime: Pharrell Williams: Oprah meets up with
seven-time Grammy® winner Pharrell Williams, one of
the most innovative and sought-after artists in the music
industry today. On the heels of his number one hit
“Happy,” a single off the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack,
for which he received an Oscar® nomination, Oprah
and Pharrell discuss his critically acclaimed album G I
R L and his rise to fame. Plus, Pharrell shares how his
creative vision has propelled him to music stardom.
They also discuss his recent marriage to Helen Lasichanh
and fatherhood. Airs on Thursday 11 September
at 20:00 CAT.
Oprah’s Masterclass: Justin Timberlake: The brand new
season kicks off with one of this generation’s most
celebrated entertainers, multiple Grammy and Emmy
award-winning musician and actor Justin Timberlake.
Sharing never-before-told stories about his youth and
his musical influences, Justin imparts his most valuable
life lessons yet, including how to find your voice, how
to break the mould and how to hold on to your ambition.
Watch it on Thursday 25 September at 20:00 CAT.
Oprah’s Masterclass: Oprah Winfrey (Part 1&2): In Part
1 of an intimate conversation, Oprah opens up about
her tumultuous childhood and adolescence and the
lessons she still carries with her today. She tells littleknown
stories about her early days in television, including
how losing her hair helped her gain a new sense of
self. What guides her and drives her to do her best?
In Part 2, she reflects on her experience getting cast in
The Color Purple and the cultural phenomenon of The
Oprah Winfrey Show. She opens up about her private
life, and what she feels her true calling was meant to
be. Revealing and deeply personal, Oprah offers new
insights on how we all can become masters of our lives.
Watch it on Thursday 04 September at 20:55 CAT.
Oprah’s Masterclass: Jay-Z: Candid, raw and real, Jay-Z
charts his unlikely rise from the hard-knock life of the
Brooklyn projects to worldwide superstardom and what
he’s learned along the way. He reflects on his failures,
the healing power of hip-hop and how he finally made
peace with his father before he passed away. Plus, Jay-Z
shares his personal revelations about integrity and why
knowing your own truth is the foundation for everything
great. Airs on Thursday 11 September at 20:55 CAT.
Oprah’s Next Chapter: Cissy Houston: Oprah sits down
with Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, for her
first in-depth interview since her daughter’s passing.
The superstar’s mother talks about raising a daughter
whose voice became a national treasure, teaching Whitney
about the music business, and her biggest regrets.
Oprah also talks to Cissy about Whitney’s drug use, how
she really felt about her daughter’s marriage to R&B
singer Bobby Brown, and the true nature of Whitney’s
relationship with her high school best friend, Robyn
Crawford. Airs on Thursday 18 September at 20:00 CAT.
DISNEY XD (DStv Channel
303)
Star Wars fans: Star Wars Rebels: In the run-up to this
exciting event Disney is airing a series of shorts introducing
a new character from the series each week so
viewers can get to know them better. Get ready to meet
Zeb, Ezra, Kanan and Hera on Saturdays throughout September.
Star Wars Rebels animated shorts airs on Disney
XD on Saturdays at 09:15 CAT.
Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened:
When the Genesect army attacks New Tork City
while Ash is visiting, it’s up to Pokemon Mewtwo to
protect them. Can he persuade the Genesect to spare
New Tork? Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the
Legend Awakened premieres on Sunday 7 September
at 12:15 CAT.
Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles – The Raid on
Coruscant: In The Raid on Coruscant the Emperor uses
information on the recovered Holocrons to launch devastating
attacks on planets sympathetic to the Rebellion.
Luke knows there’s only one solution: a daring raid on
Coruscant to get the Holocrons back. In the end, Luke
makes the boldest move of all destroying the Holocrons
so the Emperor can no longer use them. But unknown
to Luke, R2-D2 has saved one last Holocron - which just
happens to “star” the young Anakin Skywalker. Star
Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles – The Raid on Coruscant
premieres on Saturday 13 September at 09:20 CAT.
DISNEY CHANNEL (DStv
Channel 304)
Phineas and Ferb: Mission Star Wars: In exciting and entertaining
epic animated adventure Phineas and Ferb:
Mission Stars Wars Phineas and Ferb find themselves in
the midst of a galactic rebellion and an epic struggle of
good versus evil that tears the brothers apart and pits
them against one another when Ferb goes to the Dark
Side! Meanwhile, Stormtrooper Candace is hot on their
trail and desperate to stop the boys from making matters
worse, but her allegiance falls into question when
Phineas saves her and she realizes that all Rebels are
not bad. Disney Channel is proud to present Phineas
& Ferb: Mission Star Wars on Sat 27 Sept at 10:40. It
will be repeated on Sun 28 Sept at 15:00. May the Ferb
be with you!
Wolfblood (Season Two): September sees the return of
hit series Wolfblood to Disney Channel, as season two
launches. Wolfbloods have lived among humans for centuries,
disguising their heightened senses and abilities;
and doing their best to blend in. Maddy and her parents
are the only wolfbloods in their area until one day a new
boy starts at Maddy’s school. Maddy and Rhydian return
for a second season of Wolfblood from Wednesday 24
September at 18:30 CAT.
Disney Princess Academy: In this brand new series of
shorts, which air every Monday throughout September
at 16:05, seven little girls learn core princess values,
new skills and how to apply them. In each short, one
little girl meets her fairy godmother mentor and learns
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to become a Disney princess in that specific skill. Then she graduates
and gets a princess badge and diploma. Princess Academy shorts
premiere every Monday throughout September at 16:05 (before Violetta)
and are repeated throughout the week.
DISNEY JUNIOR (DStv Channel
301)
Pocahontas: This is the powerful and moving story of a Native American
princess and her ill-fated love for an English sea captain. Set in
1607, it tells of the beautiful, brave and compassionate daughter of
Chief Powhatan who asks her forest friends (Meeko the raccoon, Flit
the hummingbird and Grandmother Willow, a 400 year old spirit that
resides in an ancient tree) for advice. It tells how her life changes
when she meets John Smith, one of a party of sailors which has come
to the New World searching for gold. Eventually they are forced to
part, but their spirits remain entwined. This beautiful and moving story,
enhanced by a superb soundtrack, make Disney’s 33rd animated
feature film an unmissable gem. Vocal stars include Mel Gibson. It airs
on Sunday 2 September at 10:30 CAT.
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Sea Captain Mickey: There’s an exciting
event on Disney Junior this month. When Professor Von Drake’s
sonar-detecting machine discovers that there’s something big at the
bottom of Mickey Lake, Mickey and the gang hop into the Clubhouse
Submarine and set out to find the “Big Something”. It turns out to
be a Giant Rubber Ducky that’s stuck on the bottom of the lake. But
where did it come from? The gang set out to discover Ducky’s secret!
Our special Sea Captain Mickey airs on Saturday 13 September at
08:00 CAT.
Sofia the First: From Monday 22 September at 09:00 CAT Disney Junior
gives fans a chance to catch-up with all the specials featuring
Princess-in-training Sofia the First, in the run-up to the launch of
season two of the series. Season two premieres on Saturday 27 September
at 09:00 CAT. In the first episode, The Enchanted Feast, Sofia
must learn to trust her instincts, helped by legendary Disney Princess
Snow White, when she suspects a visiting sorceress is not what she
seems and has an ulterior motive.
For more information on DStv channels, log onto www.dstv.com

30 THE STANDARD STYLE / ENVIRONMENT
September 7 to 13 2014
Turning trash into cash
Michael Nott
PLASTIC is everywhere in our cities,
and its presence is increasing rapidly
in even the most remote rural areas.
Just about everything we buy from the
grocery shop comes in plastic containers or
plastic wrappers – and then it’s packed into
plastic bags to carry home. Bread comes in a
plastic wrapper, sugar in a plastic bag, water
and cold drinks in plastic bottles, even fruit,
vegetables, meat and chicken come wrapped
in plastic. Medicines come in plastic bottles
as do shampoos, beauty products and washing
up liquids. Every day there’s more and more
plastic ending up as litter on our streets or filling
up the dumpsites.
Plastic is not immediately bio-degradable
meaning that your litter is going to be around
for a very long time. Estimates vary from between
450 to 1 000 years for plastic to break
down, depending on the type of plastic and
the conditions. According to www.postconsumers.com,
“Bottles made with Polyethylene
Terephthalate (PET or PETE) will never biodegrade”.
Some plastic can be broken down by
prolonged exposure to sunlight – called photo
degradation, but buried in landfill sites most
plastic doesn’t see the light of day. Even when
it does break down, it doesn’t rot like paper or
other plant based waste, it just breaks up into
smaller and smaller particles which end up in
the soil or water, and in the guts of the animals
we eat.
Health regulations in nearly every country
in the world insist that only “virgin” plastic
may be used for packaging food and drinks for
human consumption, meaning that old bottles
can’t just be washed out and refilled. Burning
plastic is definitely not an option. Not only is
it illegal it’s incredibly dangerous to health
and harmful to the environment. When plastics
are burned, they give off a whole array of
different noxious chemicals, including carbon
monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and dioxins. In
an enclosed space, hydrogen cyanide can kill
within a few minutes and dioxins disrupt human
hormones, cause cancer and accumulate
in our fat cells, so mothers can pass this poison
on directly to their babies.
The problem of plastic waste seems to be
most serious in our high-density suburbs
where plastic litters the streets, clogs up
storm water drains or ends up in huge illegal
dumps. There are several probable reasons for
this. People in the high-density areas tend to
buy more plastic – a plastic bottle of Cascade
is cheaper than a tin of fizzy cold drink or a
drink in a glass bottle, for example. Cooking
oil in a plastic bottle tends to be more affordable
than olive oil in a glass bottle. There’s less
of a sense of ownership or responsibility for
the immediate environment in the townships
than in the low-density suburbs, maybe because
no matter how long they’ve lived there
many residents feel that they’re only there
temporarily. There are also different cultures
with different priorities – if you’re worrying
about what to feed the family tonight the
problem of litter seems less important. Also
there’s very little emphasis on environmental
health issues in our education system, and
this needs to be addressed urgently, not just in
schools but in social clubs, church groups and
communities.
Mary and Munyaradzi Wazara have been
working for years to come up with workable
solutions to this problem. They are the owners
of Plastix Incorporated which specialises
in plastic recycling. One of their goals is to
make communities aware of the fact that
there’s cash to be made from trash and in so
doing they’ve managed to turn an enormous
environmental problem into something positive.
Initially Plastix Inc was buying imported
recycled plastic pellets to make into recycled
products like bin liners, plastic sheeting, carrier
bags and planting pockets. Importing
plastic waste seemed absurd when we had
such a serious problem with plastic waste
right on our doorsteps. They started encouraging
waste harvesters to bring in unsorted
litter to their company to be reused, and paying
a reasonable amount for the raw material.
This provided some employment opportunities,
not only for the harvesters but also for
people to sort the plastic into different grades
(like HDPE – high density polyethylene, LDPE
– low density polyethylene and PET) and to
clean it and prepare it for processing.
One of their projects has been in Sunningdale,
where Mary has worked with the local
councillors and community leaders. Households
are given yellow bags for all recyclable
waste (unsorted), as well as the black bags
from the City for the municipal collection. One
immediate result is that the amount of waste
for the council to collect has been reduced by
about three quarters. Community members
collect the recyclable waste a couple of times
a week and transport by pushcart to collection
points. Here it’s weighed and, most importantly,
it’s paid for. Some of the money goes to the
waste collectors and the sorters and the rest
goes back into the community to spend it as
they wish. Other recycling companies for both
plastic and paper are thus assured a constant
supply of material for recycling. The community
is almost litter-free and the residents are
becoming aware of the fact that trash does
have some value. They are also less likely to
throw waste out on the street or into illegal
dumpsites. Another of Mary’s innovative projects
is the vehicle litter bags to encourage motorists
and passengers to put their litter into
the bag for proper disposal later, rather than
chucking rubbish out the window. These are
now supposed to be mandatory in all kombis.
She’s also involved in schools awareness programmes
and has donated 200 books on environmental
issues to schools in Sunningdale.
Another exciting development on the recycling
scene has been the recent establishment
of Petrecozim, a company dedicated to
recycling PET plastic. Some of the founders
of the company include Delta Beverages, Coca-Cola
Central Africa, Schweppes Zimbabwe,
Mega Pak Zimbabwe, Pet Packaging, Lyons
Maid, Dairibord Zimbabwe, Tanganda Tea
Company, Nestle Zimbabwe and Mutare Bottling
Company. The setting up of the factory
required enormous capital outlay but already
the country has begun reaping the benefits.
Petrecozim buys PET bottles, sorts them into
different colours, removes the labels, closures
and other contaminants and then reduces the
plastic to flakes which can be easily recycled
mostly into polyester fibre. The company has
the capacity to produce 500kgs per hour, which
is a huge quantity of plastic bottles removed
from our streets and dump sites. The flakes
are then sold to industrialised countries
where it is given “a second life”.
The plus side is not just job creation and
income generating, the health and environmental
benefits to our communities and our
country is invaluable.
For more information contact: Mary Wazara:
sales@plastixinc.com or Mr Masuka:
tmasuka@petreco.co.zw

32 THE STANDARD STYLE
September 7 to 13 2014