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‘Moyo deceiving people’<br />
One of India’s most colourful and<br />
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has been sentenced to jail for<br />
four years on corruption charges in a<br />
case that has lasted for 18 years.<br />
<strong>The</strong> chief minister of the southern<br />
state of Tamil nadu was found guilty<br />
of amassing wealth of more than<br />
US$10m which was unaccounted for.<br />
—BBC<br />
LIberIa’S chief medical officer has<br />
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days, after one of her assistants died<br />
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bernice Dahn, a deputy health<br />
minister, said she had no symptoms<br />
but wanted to take every precaution.<br />
<strong>The</strong> World Health Organisation<br />
(WHO) says more than 3 000 people<br />
have died from ebola in West africa.<br />
Liberia has been the worst hit by<br />
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deaths — 150 in the last two days<br />
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bY PAiDAMoYo MUZUlU<br />
ZANU PF spokesman Rugare<br />
Gumbo yesterday<br />
warned party supporters<br />
and officials against<br />
being “misled” by Information,<br />
Media and Broadcasting<br />
Services minister, Jonathan Moyo.<br />
Gumbo said he was the only<br />
competent person to articulate<br />
the party position regarding the<br />
vacant Manicaland senatorial<br />
seat which had been earmarked<br />
for former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe<br />
(RBZ) governor, Gideon<br />
Gono.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Zanu PF politburo is this<br />
week expected to decide what<br />
course of action to take after the<br />
Justice Rita Makarau-led Zimbabwe<br />
Electoral Commission (ZEC)<br />
turned down Gono’s nomination<br />
to fill the vacant senatorial seat<br />
citing non-compliance with the<br />
Electoral Act.<br />
Gono last week claimed that his<br />
recent disqualification by ZEC to<br />
stand as Manicaland senator was<br />
engineered by his political detractors<br />
as part of the ongoing faction<br />
fights rocking the ruling Zanu PF<br />
party.<br />
He said his detractors threw<br />
spanners along his way after he<br />
had followed all the necessary procedures.<br />
In response, Moyo wrote<br />
a stinging statement saying Gono<br />
was desperate to become a senator<br />
and was pointing at factionalism<br />
in the party when the legal<br />
position was clear that he did not<br />
qualify.<br />
“This explains why he has become<br />
so emotional and reckless<br />
about his comments to the point<br />
of displaying his ignorance of the<br />
law in public,” Moyo said.<br />
“It is preposterous and objectionable<br />
in the extreme for Dr<br />
Gono to claim that he is “remaining<br />
out of all factions except that<br />
of and led by the President. President<br />
Mugabe does not have and<br />
does not lead a faction. <strong>The</strong> President<br />
leads Zanu-PF, the Government<br />
and the nation of Zimbabwe.”<br />
But Gumbo said he was the sole<br />
spokesperson for Zanu PF.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> only spokesman of the<br />
party is myself. I haven’t said anything<br />
about Gono and the politburo<br />
will sit to decide the way<br />
forward. Media should not read<br />
much into the minister’s statement,”<br />
Gumbo said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> politburo will be seized<br />
with the matter at its next meeting<br />
and map the way forward and that<br />
is the position as of now.”<br />
Asked if Moyo and others as<br />
well as the party’s legal department<br />
headed by Justice minister,<br />
Emmerson Mnangagwa had offered<br />
any dissenting views during<br />
the politburo meeting that decided<br />
Gono was to be the party’s<br />
nominee, Gumbo refused to comment.<br />
“We don’t discuss matters or deliberations<br />
of the politburo with<br />
the media and for that reason, I<br />
will not speak on what happened<br />
behind closed doors,” he said.<br />
Mnangagwa, who is linked to a<br />
faction that is competing against<br />
another one reportedly loyal to<br />
vice-president Joice Mujuru in<br />
the race to succeed President Robert<br />
Mugabe, is the secretary for legal<br />
affairs.<br />
It could not be established if<br />
Mnangagwa’s department had<br />
noted the technical flaws of the<br />
nomination before they were spelt<br />
out by Makarau. Mnangagwa’s<br />
deputy in Zanu PF is another legal<br />
guru and former Attorney-General,<br />
Patrick Chinamasa.<br />
Zim economy on<br />
the mend: Moyo<br />
bY obeY MAnAYiTi<br />
INFORMATION, Media and<br />
Broadcasting Services minister<br />
Jonathan Moyo on Friday<br />
shocked members of the<br />
Institute of Chartered Secretaries<br />
and Administrators (ICSA)<br />
attending a meeting in Nyanga<br />
when he said it was a myth that<br />
the country was facing serious<br />
economic problems.<br />
Moyo said contrary to belief,<br />
the economic situation in<br />
the country has remarkably improved<br />
since the dissolution of<br />
the inclusive government last<br />
year.<br />
ICSA Zimbabwe president<br />
Richard Summers had noted that<br />
the country was facing serious<br />
economic challenges.<br />
Over the past months the country<br />
has been grappling with a<br />
serious liquidity crunch while<br />
thousands of workers have lost<br />
their jobs as several companies<br />
either closed shop or downsized<br />
as the economy continued on a<br />
free fall.<br />
However, in his keynote address<br />
in Nyanga at an ICSA meeting,<br />
Moyo said it was not true<br />
that Zimbabwe is in serious economic<br />
trouble.<br />
He said what was only needed<br />
was harnessing the intellectual<br />
capacity of Zimbabweans and<br />
turn it into positive thinking<br />
that can turn around the economy.<br />
“Let’s tell each other ruthless<br />
truths, brutal truths,” he<br />
said. “Mr Summers announcing<br />
that we are in dire strains<br />
and me saying we are not,”<br />
Moyo said.<br />
“We have shared responsibilities<br />
that we have not exercised<br />
or dealt with by working<br />
together. One of the things<br />
that we have not been doing as a<br />
country in the past is engaging<br />
each other through meaningful<br />
dialogue about real things and<br />
coming up with a shared solution.”<br />
He said people have to understand<br />
that Zimbabwe was deeply<br />
polarised.<br />
“Divided not just in political<br />
terms but basically in terms<br />
of how we see ourselves in relation<br />
to each other as Zimbabweans<br />
and accept that sharing<br />
one destiny is not just a political<br />
matter but a pre-requisite,”<br />
Moyo said.<br />
He said Zimbabwe had been<br />
misunderstood as a country in<br />
dire constraints and as such, it<br />
had been viewed as unstable and<br />
Gideon Gono<br />
While Gumbo could not give a<br />
specific date, it is widely expected<br />
that the politburo could meet as<br />
early as Wednesday this week.<br />
Gono yesterday said he had no<br />
comment to make about the issue.<br />
Zanu PF secretary of administration<br />
Didymus Mutasa was also<br />
not immediately available for comment.<br />
But he was recently quoted<br />
saying the ruling party would<br />
push for the amending of the law<br />
to accommodate Gono since the<br />
politburo had made its decision.<br />
Gono is believed to be in Mujuru’s<br />
faction, along with Mutasa<br />
and Gumbo. He however denied it,<br />
insisting he belonged to Mugabe’s<br />
faction. On the other hand, Moyo<br />
is seen as the brains in the Mnangagwa<br />
camp.<br />
Political analyst Ibbo Mandaza<br />
said Moyo’s statement could be<br />
read along factional lines because<br />
a legal position had been pronounced<br />
by Makarau.<br />
that had also affected some international<br />
investors.<br />
Moyo challenged the country to<br />
transform its intellectual excellence<br />
by producing tangible results.<br />
“I believe what is not clear is<br />
the extent to which as a country<br />
we are able to deploy our technical<br />
and professional skills. Zimbabweans<br />
have the highest literacy<br />
rate in Africa but there<br />
has been nothing to show for it<br />
if you look at our practices,” he<br />
said.<br />
Moyo however lashed out at<br />
news Zimbabwe Broadcasting<br />
“Moyo is capitalising on Makarau’s<br />
statement and trying to use<br />
it to score political points on an issue<br />
which is clearly legal and this<br />
is where factionalism comes into<br />
context,” Mandaza said.<br />
Mugabe returned home yesterday<br />
from New York where he was<br />
attending the 69th session of the<br />
UN General Assembly and made<br />
an impassioned plea for discipline<br />
among the Zanu PF bigwigs. He<br />
said party officials were divided<br />
and openly clashing ahead of the<br />
party’s elective congress set for<br />
December.<br />
Mugabe told hundreds of Zanu<br />
PF supporters at Harare International<br />
Airport on arrival from<br />
New York that party leaders<br />
should end their fights as the congress<br />
beckons.<br />
He warned that Zanu PF leaders<br />
who were putting the party’s<br />
name into disrepute would be disciplined.<br />
An abandoned factory in Harare’s Workington industrial area... Moyo says the economy<br />
is improving.<br />
Corporation (ZBC) anchors, saying<br />
there was nothing to prove<br />
that they passed even Ordinary<br />
Level from the way they conducted<br />
their work.<br />
He said there was clear evidence<br />
that Zimbabwe is building<br />
a new economy as evidenced<br />
by recent deals signed<br />
between the country and China<br />
and Russia.<br />
Moyo said there has been serious<br />
hardwork by the Zanu PF government<br />
since it took over from<br />
the inclusive government and<br />
election promises would be fulfilled<br />
in due course.
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Grace’s PhD: UZ reduced to a butt of jokes<br />
by PHILLLIP CHIDAVAENZI<br />
THE controversy surrounding<br />
First Lady<br />
Grace Mugabe’s Doctor<br />
of Philosophy degree<br />
from the University of<br />
Zimbabwe (UZ) early this month<br />
has reduced the former prestigious<br />
institution to a butt of crude<br />
jokes on social media.<br />
“You just phone. <strong>The</strong>re is no<br />
problem. You just phone UZ and<br />
request them to confer you with a<br />
degree. You tell them I am coming<br />
there. You just say, ‘it’s Amai…. I<br />
am coming there…, give me a doctorate<br />
in philosophy. I will be there<br />
tomorrow at 12. Prepare a gown<br />
for me’,” goes a joke which has<br />
gone viral on WhatsApp.<br />
<strong>The</strong> joke started circulating after<br />
Vice-President Joice Mujuru and<br />
the First Lady were capped by President<br />
Robert Mugabe (90) early this<br />
month.<br />
Former Finance minister Tendai<br />
Biti, a Law graduate from the<br />
once esteemed university, was the<br />
first to take a dig at the UZ.<br />
“I want to state publicly that<br />
I will never ever have a PhD for<br />
obvious reasons. You know what<br />
happened,” Biti told a recent<br />
meeting discussing the economic<br />
crisis bedevilling the country, attracting<br />
roars of laughter.<br />
Many people took to social<br />
networks like WhatsApp, Facebook<br />
and Twitter where they<br />
either added PhD after their<br />
names or posted that they were<br />
now planning to work towards a<br />
PhD because it was now easy to<br />
acquire.<br />
Award–winning author and academic<br />
Chenjerai Hove, who has<br />
been living in self-imposed exile<br />
in Norway for many years, also<br />
questioned how Grace ended up<br />
bagging the PhD without a traceable<br />
record.<br />
“Maybe they have been offered<br />
honorary degrees, who knows? If<br />
they are PhD degrees which have<br />
been studied for, then at some<br />
point they must have defended the<br />
theses publicly in some hall in the<br />
university,” Hove said.<br />
He observed that the latest developments<br />
at the university were<br />
likely to dent its reputation as a<br />
university of note.<br />
“I worked hard to get my UZ degree<br />
and if it is so easy for some<br />
people to just arrive and get a<br />
PhD the following morning, I feel<br />
ashamed of my old university. It<br />
is a disgrace that a reputable university<br />
which has produced so<br />
many academics of high standing<br />
can do this to us,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> turn of events has also<br />
seen analysts questioning the<br />
credibility of the incumbent<br />
Vice-Chancellor Levi Nyagura —<br />
who seems to have presided over<br />
the plummeting of standards at<br />
university — and condemned<br />
himself to live in the shadow of<br />
his predecessors Gordon Chavunduka<br />
(late), Walter Kamba<br />
(late) and Graham Hill.<br />
Unlike Nyagura, these esteemed<br />
vice-chancellors never exceeded<br />
two terms at the helm of<br />
the university. During their time<br />
the university produced graduates<br />
with skills that were in demand<br />
all over the world, making<br />
Zimbabwe an exporter of exceptional<br />
skilled labour.<br />
First Lady Grace Mugabe<br />
Although the UZ has remained<br />
tight-lipped over the award to<br />
Grace, several stakeholders have<br />
called for investigations into how<br />
she landed the revered qualification.<br />
<strong>The</strong> institution’s public relations<br />
officer Dennis Rwafa did<br />
not respond to questions e-mailed<br />
to him two weeks ago but an official<br />
from his office last week said<br />
the university was going to issue<br />
a statement on the matter in due<br />
course.<br />
“We are going to publish a statement,<br />
but I don’t know the exact<br />
date [of publication] at the moment,”<br />
said the official.<br />
A professor at the UZ who spoke<br />
on condition of anonymity told<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> last week that the<br />
latest turn of events was likely<br />
to have a negative impact on the<br />
credibility of the university.<br />
“Obviously, this is going to have<br />
an impact on how the UZ is ranked<br />
because the rankings are done in<br />
terms of the research output and<br />
teaching processes,” he said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> international community<br />
is watching and they will begin to<br />
ask a lot of questions as to what<br />
is happening, but this will depend<br />
also on how the university is going<br />
to respond.”<br />
While the UZ is ranked first<br />
among the country’s 12 universities,<br />
it was pegged at number 91 in<br />
top 100 African rankings for 2013,<br />
according to 4International Colleges<br />
and Universities’ website,<br />
www.4icu.org.<br />
<strong>The</strong> UZ follows the British system<br />
for PhDs, which requires a<br />
student to do extensive research<br />
on a single project, under the<br />
guidance and supervision of an<br />
academic who is an expert in the<br />
field. A dissertation of about 100<br />
000 words must be presented at<br />
the end of three years of an academic<br />
period.<br />
Mnangagwa<br />
speaks on<br />
demos<br />
by VENERANDA LANgA<br />
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary<br />
Affairs minister,<br />
Emmerson Mnangagwa<br />
[pictured right] has said<br />
demonstrations are permissible<br />
if they are done with<br />
the blessings of the police.<br />
Mnangagwa was on<br />
Wednesday asked by Buhera<br />
West MP Oliver Mandipaka<br />
(Zanu PF) to explain before<br />
Parliament whether street<br />
protests were permissible<br />
by law.<br />
“We are alive to the<br />
fact that demonstrations<br />
sometimes start peacefully<br />
and end up violent, but<br />
I want to have clarity<br />
on the management of<br />
demonstrations in the<br />
country,” Mandipaka, a former<br />
police spokesperson<br />
said.<br />
MDC-T leader Morgan<br />
Tsvangirai, last week announced<br />
he was going to<br />
lead street protests to force<br />
the ruling Zanu PF government<br />
to address the country’s<br />
economic crisis.<br />
On Tuesday, United Families<br />
International Church<br />
leader, Emmanuel Makandiwa<br />
prophesied bloodshed<br />
could take place in<br />
Zimbabwe. Some people, especially<br />
in Zanu PF, linked<br />
the prophecy to the planned<br />
protests, but others said<br />
this had to do with possible<br />
bloody succession fights in<br />
the ruling party.<br />
According to Mnangagwa,<br />
it was imperative for<br />
organisers to inform the<br />
police of the number of<br />
demonstrators they would<br />
be expecting. He said this<br />
would enable the police to<br />
know from the onset if they<br />
had the manpower to control<br />
the crowd.<br />
“If in the opinion of the<br />
police the demonstration<br />
is proper and would not<br />
violate peace, they will<br />
allow it,” he said.<br />
“If they think that<br />
there are possibilities of<br />
the breach of peace, they<br />
will inform organisers of<br />
the demonstration about<br />
those reasons and for those<br />
organisers to attend to<br />
those concerns before they<br />
can proceed to hold such<br />
demonstrations.”<br />
Chapter 4, part 2 of the<br />
new constitution stipulates<br />
that every person has the<br />
right to demonstrate and to<br />
present petitions, but these<br />
rights must be exercised<br />
peacefully.<br />
In the past opposition legislators<br />
have tried to amend<br />
provisions in the Public Order<br />
and Security Act, which<br />
compelled that would-be<br />
demonstrators should seek<br />
permission to demonstrate<br />
from the police, but these<br />
were quashed.<br />
Meanwhile, Mnangagwa<br />
told Senate on Thursday<br />
that calls to behead rapists<br />
were not proper in a civilised<br />
society.<br />
He said Cabinet had<br />
made recommendations<br />
that there should be amendments<br />
to the country’s laws<br />
to ensure there were stiff<br />
and deterrent sentences for<br />
rape offences.<br />
Mnangagwa was responding<br />
to a question by senator<br />
chief Enos Musarurwa who<br />
wanted to know government<br />
position on sentencing<br />
of perpetrators of rape<br />
cases.<br />
Early this year First Lady,<br />
Grace Mugabe suggested<br />
the beheading of rapists as<br />
a deterrent measure.<br />
“Our laws are weak and<br />
they need to be strengthened.<br />
But I do not agree that<br />
the heads of rapists should<br />
be cut, but they should be incarcerated<br />
for many years,<br />
and even given life sentences,<br />
but not to cut off their<br />
heads,” Mnangagwa said.<br />
“We are also seeking<br />
guidance from specialist<br />
psychologists. People<br />
ask us why the sentencing<br />
seems to be very light and<br />
they are saying the sentencing<br />
should be tightened.<br />
“For us to give a death<br />
sentence — it is impossible.<br />
Some are saying the<br />
problem is that the perpetrators<br />
are given bail and<br />
they go back to their homes.<br />
We are also looking into<br />
that issue. At Cabinet level,<br />
we were advised to make<br />
amendments here and there<br />
to tighten the sentencing.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> minister urged MPs<br />
to conscientise people, and<br />
work with chiefs, headmen<br />
and religious leaders to ensure<br />
people desist from<br />
rape.<br />
No sex at Zanu PF<br />
congress — Paradza<br />
by bLEssED MHLANgA/ FELuNA NLEyA<br />
KADOMA — Zanu PF Mashonaland West Secretary<br />
for Administration Kindness Paradza has said party<br />
delegates do not indulge in sex while attending party<br />
conferences and congresses as they will be seized with<br />
serious national issues.<br />
“We don’t have sex at congress . . . no no no there<br />
is nothing like that, we will be discussing serious national<br />
issues which are turned into national strategic<br />
documents,” said Paradza to journalists at a National<br />
Aids Council (NAC) workshop in Kadoma.<br />
At a Zanu PF conference held in Gweru two years<br />
ago, commercial sex workers reportedly recorded<br />
brisk business with some flocking from places like<br />
Kwekwe to satisfy demand among delegates who had<br />
come to the city.<br />
Paradza, who was responding to questions on whether<br />
his party had an HIV and Aids policy in view of the<br />
fact that most politicians were known to indulge in<br />
casual sex, said Zanu PF was leading the fight against<br />
the pandemic.<br />
“We do have an Aids policy in our party which is led<br />
by our Secretary for Health Dr David Parirenyatwa<br />
and this has also become a national policy because our<br />
secretary is also the Minister of Health . . . that notion<br />
that we go to congress to have sex is wrong,” he said.<br />
NAC spokesperson Medelin Dube said Zanu PF had<br />
also taken time to invite her organisation during its<br />
gatherings to give delegates HIV and Aids education<br />
and offer other services which included counselling<br />
and testing.<br />
“We have been invited during Zanu PF conferences<br />
and congresses to offer services which include counselling<br />
and testing and the response has been encouraging<br />
as delegates take time in between sessions to<br />
visit us and get tested,” she said.<br />
Paradza also spoke against sexual abuse in newsrooms<br />
saying journalists were being subjected to carpet<br />
interviews before being offered jobs in a market<br />
where employment was scarce.<br />
“You also need to look out for yourselves because we<br />
know that sexual abuse is rampant in the newsrooms<br />
and this exposes you to HIV,” he said.
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Residents cry foul over load-shedding<br />
MOST households have<br />
now resorted to alternative<br />
sources of energy such as<br />
gas, firewood and paraffin<br />
for cooking<br />
BY VICTORIA MTOMBA<br />
SEVERE power cuts that have<br />
rocked the country for the past<br />
three weeks will further put a<br />
strain on already struggling consumers<br />
and industries.<br />
Most residential areas are going for<br />
more than 10 hours without power, exceeding<br />
the normal load-shedding schedule.<br />
Home industries such as Siya-so in Mbare<br />
are some of the hardest hit resulting in<br />
traders losing thousands of dollars’ worth<br />
of business every day.<br />
Harare Resident Trust director Precious<br />
Shumba said numerous complaints have<br />
been raised by residents outraged by the<br />
never-ending power cuts.<br />
“Load-shedding has become a nightmare<br />
across suburbs and it’s now for more than<br />
nine hours per day. In some suburbs power<br />
goes as early as 5am and comes back at<br />
around 9pm,” Shumba said.<br />
He said Zesa and the Minister of Energy,<br />
Dzikamai Mavhaire should publicly explain<br />
the latest power crisis to avoid speculation<br />
among citizens.<br />
Most households have now resorted to<br />
more expensive alternative sources of energy<br />
such as gas, firewood and paraffin for<br />
cooking.<br />
Combined Harare Residents Association<br />
(CHRA) advocacy and information co-ordinator<br />
Tendai Muchada said power cuts<br />
have increased the burden on residents as<br />
they have to improvise and resort to other<br />
sources of energy.<br />
“Some appliances are being damaged<br />
due to the power cuts and many domestic<br />
chores are disrupted due to these power<br />
cuts. Zesa has not notified us on the loadshedding<br />
that has been going on,” Muchada<br />
said.<br />
Energy expert Martin Manhuwa said<br />
there was need to support Independent<br />
Power Projects to mitigate power shortages<br />
using other sources such as solar.<br />
“We have a lot of sunshine. Power cuts<br />
are disruptive to general events and do not<br />
reflect a sign of good customer care,” he<br />
said.<br />
A Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries<br />
(CZI) official said the organisation<br />
would this week meet with the Zimbabwe<br />
Energy Regulatory Authority to discuss<br />
the issue of load-shedding.<br />
“We have received complaints but they<br />
are not as many as they used to be in the<br />
past. We are meeting with Zera next [this]<br />
week to discuss the issue of power cuts,”<br />
the official said.<br />
Many companies, according to the business<br />
lobby group, invested in standby generators<br />
which were expensive to run but allowed<br />
them to continue production.<br />
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and<br />
Distribution Company managing director<br />
Julian Chinembiri told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> on<br />
Friday that the current power cuts were<br />
meant to provide more electricity to farmers.<br />
“We have diverted power to wheat farmers<br />
and the season [winter wheat] ends<br />
mid-October. We are giving the farmers<br />
close to 200 megawatts and we have also<br />
increased the power we give Sable Chemicals<br />
to 60 megawatts from 40 megawatts,”<br />
he said.<br />
Sable Chemicals requires 115 megawatts<br />
per hour to run its plant at 100% capacity<br />
but the company was receiving 40 megawatts<br />
that was adequate for four units. Sable<br />
Chemicals has been failing to service<br />
its debt to Zesa due to various challenges<br />
that it has been facing.<br />
Chinembiri added that one of the six<br />
units at Kariba was under care and maintenance.<br />
“Each generator at Kariba produces 133<br />
megawatts so the one that is under care<br />
and maintenance has resulted in a loss of<br />
power of 133 megawatts to the grid. We hope<br />
by October 4 2014 it will be working,” he said.<br />
Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers’ Union<br />
president Wonder Chabikwa confirmed that<br />
this was the first time the power utility had<br />
prioritised wheat production.<br />
“We have been receiving power 100% every<br />
day. We expect our yields to be four tonnes per<br />
hectare,” he said.<br />
Chabikwa said the farmers were starting<br />
to harvest the wheat that they planted in May.<br />
Zimbabwe produces 1 200 megawatts of<br />
power against a demand of 2 200 megawatts<br />
per day. <strong>The</strong> country supplements the power<br />
deficit with imports from other countries in<br />
the region.<br />
Zimbabwe has not been able to invest in<br />
new power generation for over 20 years,<br />
which has resulted in more demand for power<br />
compared to the supply side which has<br />
been on a downward trend.<br />
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Money drives<br />
universities’<br />
enrolment<br />
By EvErson Mushava<br />
<strong>The</strong> ever-increasing number<br />
of students enrolled<br />
at the country’s universities<br />
and the spiralling<br />
cost of education all but<br />
confirms the commercialisation<br />
of education, analysts have said.<br />
At least 30 000 graduates are<br />
churned out from Zimbabwe universities<br />
and tertiary colleges every<br />
year.<br />
But unlike before the turn of<br />
the century when university education<br />
in Zimbabwe was a preserve<br />
of the academically gifted,<br />
commercialisation of education<br />
has hit Zimbabwe’s institutions<br />
of higher learning. Nowadays,<br />
money, rather than academic<br />
brilliance, is driving enrolments<br />
up.<br />
Chancellor of Zimbabwe State<br />
universities, President Robert<br />
Mugabe is annually capping thousands<br />
of graduands. Most of them<br />
cannot be absorbed into the formal<br />
job market as the country’s<br />
underperforming economy continues<br />
to witness more company<br />
closures.<br />
Zimbabwe now has about 10<br />
State universities and several other<br />
government-run technical colleges.<br />
While the drive in previous<br />
years was to produce students<br />
with unparalleled knowledge, the<br />
pattern seems to have shifted to<br />
accomodate those who can pay<br />
fees. With fees pegged between<br />
US$600 and US$900 a semester,<br />
some universities are making<br />
a killing as they continue to increase<br />
their enrolments with students<br />
with low pass rates.<br />
While in the past enrolments<br />
were influenced by available places,<br />
now some universities are enrolling<br />
more students than their<br />
facilities and human resources<br />
can manage in order to raise cash<br />
to meet the costs of running the<br />
institutions.<br />
One student at MSU who refused<br />
to be named for security<br />
reasons said: “When I enrolled,<br />
they were not particular about my<br />
qualifications. <strong>The</strong>y asked me if I<br />
had the money to pay and when<br />
my answer was in the affirmative,<br />
they gave me a form to fill in and<br />
pay the fees.”<br />
He added: “It is all about money.<br />
Even facilities are not enough for<br />
the number of students the university<br />
enrols.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> university runs conventional<br />
and parallel programmes.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y are particular about<br />
points for conventional students,<br />
not parallel, but at the<br />
end, most of the parallel students<br />
will end up in the conventional<br />
classes, which means<br />
there is no cut off points. <strong>The</strong><br />
entry requirement is therefore<br />
your ability to pay fees,” said<br />
another student.<br />
Due to appalling conditions<br />
such as unavailability of inadequate<br />
accommodation at the campus,<br />
most students, particularly<br />
female students, end up raising<br />
money through unortho-<br />
Graduates celebrate at the recent University of Zimbabwe graduation ceremony... Thousands find it difficult to get employment in<br />
Zimbabwe. (File picture)<br />
dox means in order to make ends<br />
meet.<br />
Students at the Midlands State<br />
University (MSU) continue to face<br />
accommodation problems, as the<br />
institution is unable to house its<br />
growing population.<br />
With an enrolment of close to<br />
18 298 students, MSU can accommodate<br />
less than half of its students,<br />
and in order to cut costs,<br />
most would be forced to co-habit,<br />
with either other students or nonstudents<br />
as a survival technique,<br />
exposing them to risk of contracting<br />
STI and HIV.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are reports that at MSU<br />
over eight students are forced<br />
to share a single room in Gweru<br />
suburbs such as Senga and Nehosho.<br />
A lecturer who spoke to <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Standard</strong> on condition of anonymity<br />
said: “Mass enrolments<br />
compromises quality of education.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is an increased number<br />
of students without corresponding<br />
infrastructure. <strong>The</strong><br />
student-lecturer ratio will be too<br />
high.”<br />
Great Zimbabwe University in<br />
Masvingo has taken notes from<br />
MSU. Its enrolment figures have<br />
reportedly increased in the last<br />
few years, with some students residing<br />
in Mashava.<br />
A GZU student, who preferred<br />
to be identified only as Tinashe,<br />
said the conditions at GZU were<br />
declining as the increasing enrolment<br />
was not corresponding<br />
with the existing infrastructure.<br />
Both MSU and GZU authorities<br />
could not be reached for comment.<br />
A professor with one of the<br />
leading universities who refused<br />
to be named for professional<br />
reasons, said universities<br />
needed to look at their capacity<br />
in terms of lecture rooms,<br />
human resources, accommodation,<br />
library, and various other<br />
factors and come up with enrolments<br />
corresponding with the<br />
facilities.<br />
“It becomes a problem if universities<br />
enroll more than their<br />
capacity,” he said.<br />
He said the University of Zimbabwe<br />
was still observing the<br />
cut-off points due to the great<br />
demand for places. However,<br />
other universities are said to<br />
be enrolling students with only<br />
two points.<br />
In the face of dwindling government<br />
support, he said, universities<br />
have to devise methods<br />
of raising money, but enrolling<br />
beyond capacity should not be<br />
tolerated.<br />
A female lecturer, who also<br />
preferred anonymity for professional<br />
reasons, blasted commercialisation<br />
of education,<br />
saying it defeated the purpose<br />
of helping students as most of<br />
them exposed to harsh conditions,<br />
could contract diseases<br />
and die a few years after graduating.<br />
“We should not create problems<br />
in an attempt to solve others,”<br />
she said. “Universities<br />
should enroll within their capacities.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have been reports that<br />
there was high HIV prevalence<br />
among MSU students due to economic<br />
hardships and an unconducive<br />
environment.<br />
Guramatunhu: Specialist with passion for art<br />
By WELLInGTon ZIMBoWa<br />
Being a renowned eye specialist<br />
can be enough to wean one from<br />
their culture and traditions.<br />
Famed for his charity medical outreach<br />
programmes through the Eyes<br />
for Africa project, little is known about<br />
Solomon Guramatunhu’s passion for<br />
the art world.<br />
Sculptures, portraits, carvings,<br />
paintings, music and books are the<br />
man’s treasured possessions.<br />
And the glaring cosmopolitan aura<br />
is certain as his artwork is a rich blend<br />
of various cultures with collections<br />
not only from the mother continent<br />
but other foreign places such as Australia,<br />
Shanghai, Bali, Vietnam, South<br />
America, as well as the Carribean.<br />
But the obvious bias to Zimbabwean<br />
tradition cannot be missed. His<br />
garden, immaculately decorated with<br />
sculptures, boldly explores traditional<br />
aspects such as spirituality and ubuntu.<br />
“I believe that if others appreciate<br />
and invest in our art better than us, we<br />
run the risk of being educated but not<br />
enlightened,” he says.<br />
“Most of my artwork collection is<br />
from first generation sculptors like<br />
Nicholas Mukomberanwa, Henry Munyaradzi,<br />
Bernard Matemera and the<br />
Takawira brothers. It’s unfortunate<br />
that most of them are now late with the<br />
exception of Sylvester Mubayi whom I<br />
visited in Chitungwiza and the youngest<br />
of the Takawira brothers,” he said.<br />
At the entrance is Nicholas Mukomberanwa’s<br />
Lovers on a huge rough<br />
stone and according to Guramatunhu,<br />
“the couple have just been to the top of<br />
the mountain. Now they are in a very<br />
intimate embrace”.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, there is Dominic Benhura’s<br />
Dancer, who is in a dancing-like stance<br />
with both arms stretched out in opposite<br />
directions who is there to welcome<br />
his visitors, as well as wave them goodbye.<br />
Benard Matemera’s Spiritual Lady<br />
which Guramatunhu found in Guruve<br />
while lying in rubble, is a huge “female”<br />
sculpture that looks lost in meditation.<br />
“She is very spiritual, I pass through<br />
every morning and thank her for looking<br />
over me during the night!” explained<br />
the eye specialist.<br />
But it is Benhura’s larger than life<br />
handiworks — convincingly electrifying<br />
the whole garden — that dominate<br />
his collections in the vast picturesque<br />
garden, with the Feeling Good Lady<br />
“sure to make anyone who gets close to<br />
her feel good.”<br />
Another impressive icon is the Mother<br />
and Child facing the entrance “as if<br />
to ward off the evil forces.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> gallery inside the house also<br />
contains many paintings from local<br />
and foreign artists.<br />
<strong>The</strong> former Alliance Francaise president,<br />
who besides English and Shona<br />
also speaks French, Portuguese and<br />
Ndebele — a helping factor in conversing<br />
with his varied assortment of patients<br />
is the National Art Gallery’s<br />
chairperson.<br />
He is determined to give his all in<br />
promoting and appreciating art by<br />
Zimbabweans.<br />
“I am very fortunate to work with<br />
amazing people like Doreen Sibanda,<br />
director of the National Gallery,<br />
Raphael Chikukwa, the curator, and<br />
all staff as well as a dynamic team of<br />
board members for Friends of the Gallery<br />
and architect, Richard Beattie,”<br />
said Guramatunhu.<br />
Following a donation from the Norwegian<br />
embassy, challenges such as<br />
the perennial leakages will soon end<br />
as the gallery is on the verge of completing<br />
some major facelifts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> eye specialist, who was the<br />
founding chairperson of a post- graduate<br />
medical course at the University of<br />
Zimbabwe, is also passionate in reaching<br />
out to the corporate world, schools<br />
and colleges.<br />
“We recently held a corporate dinner<br />
in a bid to unlock financial support<br />
for art development and support to artistes<br />
and we are also having numerous<br />
outreach programmes for schoolchildren,”<br />
he said<br />
How does he cool off given his obvious<br />
tight schedule?<br />
“I dance ballroom and latino for an<br />
hour everyday and I also have a special<br />
interest in dressage horse riding,” he<br />
said.<br />
Solomon Guramatunhu poses with one of the many pieces of art found<br />
in his garden. Picture: Wallace Mawire
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014 7<br />
Zim debt: Obstacle to economic recovery<br />
BY PAIDAMOYO MUZULU<br />
Zimbabwe has two options to turnaround<br />
the declining economy<br />
saddled by huge foreign debt —<br />
looking for foreign direct investment<br />
(FDI) or domestic resource<br />
mobilisation, analysts have said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> country is saddled with a US$10 billion<br />
debt and needs up to US$27 billion to<br />
implement Zanu PF government’s ambitious<br />
economic blueprint — Zim Asset.<br />
But, economists believe the current government<br />
cannot be trusted to make a good<br />
choice considering its history.<br />
Labour and Economic Development Research<br />
Institute of Zimbabwe (Ledriz)<br />
economist Prosper Chitambara is convinced<br />
that the two choices open to the government<br />
presently cannot be pursued as a<br />
result of the perceptions from both domestic<br />
and foreign investors on President Robert<br />
Mugabe and his Cabinet.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> government has showed lack of<br />
concern for private sector considering<br />
that all the said mega deals signed recently<br />
with China and Russia had no involvement<br />
of the private sector which should<br />
ordinarily in a developmental state partner<br />
the government on such projects,” Chitambara<br />
said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> government’s credibility among<br />
the ordinary people and investing public<br />
is very low considering its track record on<br />
dealing with private property like when it<br />
expropriated private citizens’ foreign currency<br />
accounts and is still to complete reimbursing<br />
nearly a decade later.”<br />
International Monetary Fund (IMF)<br />
head of mission to Zimbabwe, Diminique<br />
Fanizza last week told the government that<br />
it had to improve its political capital and<br />
pay or restructure its debts if it was to receive<br />
fresh loans from multilateral financial<br />
institutions.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> IMF decision to give money is entirely<br />
mired in politics. <strong>The</strong> major shareholder<br />
decides who gets money and who<br />
doesn’t. <strong>The</strong> ambitious development objectives<br />
set in the Zim Asset strategy cannot<br />
be achieved without the support of the international<br />
community,” Fanizza said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> United States is the major shareholder<br />
in the three biggest multilateral institutions<br />
that fund developmental projections<br />
in Africa — IMF, World Bank and Africa<br />
Development Bank (AfDB).<br />
Among them, the banks have over US$75<br />
billion set aside for projects in Africa, but<br />
Zimbabwe cannot access these funds as it<br />
is under sanctions from the US.<br />
Not only do these banks deny funds, other<br />
international financiers take their cue<br />
from them before they release funding to<br />
any borrower.<br />
Former Finance minister and opposition<br />
lawmaker Tendai Biti said it was important<br />
that the country re-engages the<br />
West and settle its debts to save the collapsing<br />
economy.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are lots of funds which we could<br />
access from the multilateral institutions if<br />
we re-engage United States and settle our<br />
arrears with the IMF,” Biti said.<br />
Biti’s MDC Renewal Team has been calling<br />
for an all stakeholders’ conference that<br />
encompasses political parties, civil society,<br />
business and labour to deal with the deteriorating<br />
economy.<br />
Renewal Team on Friday said Zanu PF<br />
should concede that it has failed to turn<br />
around the country’s economic fortunes<br />
and therefore should accept the setting up<br />
of a transitional authority.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> biggest problem with Zanu PF government<br />
is its propensity to spend, consume,<br />
without investing in capital projects.<br />
A large chunk of the budget is spent<br />
on salaries and foreign travel and subsistence.”<br />
Chitambara concurred, that there was<br />
need to have an all stakeholders’ conference<br />
to deal decisively with the question<br />
of the economy.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> government policies are anti-business<br />
and it is important that there should<br />
be social dialogue between government<br />
and private sector as part of confidence<br />
building,” Chitambara said.<br />
On the other hand, analysts said the domestic<br />
mobilisation of resources means<br />
the government should adopt a number of<br />
structural adjustments in the manner in<br />
which it conducts its business.<br />
“Domestic resource mobilisation means<br />
reforming the State-owned enterprises and<br />
restructuring the size of the government<br />
which is spending more money on consumption<br />
than capital expenditure,” Chitambara<br />
said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 82 State-owned enterprises are generally<br />
loss-making entities despite the fact<br />
that some of them are monopolies.<br />
In the last 15 years, the government has<br />
been attempting to commercialise or privatise<br />
some of the parastatals without success.<br />
Among the companies that had been<br />
listed for commercialisation are Air Zimbabwe,<br />
AgriBank, Arda, NetOne, Cold Storage<br />
Commission and TelOne.<br />
Whichever model the State adopts between<br />
foreign direct investment and domestic<br />
resource mobilisation, Chitambara<br />
argues, the government still needs to decisively<br />
deal with the debt question.<br />
International Monetary Fund (IMF) head of mission to Zimbabwe, Diminique Fanizza<br />
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their hearty congratulations to the Commissioner General, Mr Gershem T. Pasi, for being<br />
elected to lead the Council of the continental tax body – the African Tax Administration<br />
Forum (ATAF).<br />
Your election to chair the Council of the African Tax Administration Forum is a clear testimony<br />
of the confidence that the African continent has in your astute and visionary leadership.<br />
We are confident that you will achieve your goal of facilitating the working together of<br />
African tax administrations in order to realise mutual objectives in the area of taxation.<br />
You make us proud!<br />
Amhlophe! Congratulations! Makorokoto!<br />
Paying taxes and duties on time and in full builds and dignifies Zimbabwe…
8 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Local News<br />
Mayor refuses<br />
ride in the<br />
gravy train<br />
By BLESSED MHLANGA<br />
HOW many people, upon<br />
landing a lucrative<br />
job, would turn down<br />
a brand new US$68<br />
000 Double Cab Toyota<br />
D4D offered by the employer?<br />
Probably none.<br />
<strong>The</strong> majority of us would welcome<br />
such a top-of-the-range vehicle,<br />
which would naturally earn<br />
us a few glances from curious admirers,<br />
but for Matenda Madzoke,<br />
the mayor of Kwekwe, the vehicle<br />
was a sheer waste of ratepayers’<br />
money.<br />
In a rare show of humility, Madzoke<br />
refused to accept the official<br />
mayoral vehicle and instead opted<br />
to have the money, which had already<br />
been paid to acquire it, purchase<br />
two refuse collection trucks.<br />
Council had already deposited<br />
US$30 000 with Croco Motors<br />
and was awaiting delivery of the<br />
brand new wheels, but the city<br />
could not persuade him to ride in<br />
wheels that mark one’s status in<br />
the society.<br />
Madzoke would have been allowed<br />
to own it as part of his<br />
package after five years of service<br />
at the helm of Kwekwe City Council,<br />
like what happened with his<br />
predecessors.<br />
“I am no better than anyone<br />
in this great city and therefore<br />
should not pamper myself with<br />
the money earned by the sweat<br />
of Kwekwe residents when refuse<br />
is piling in their homes, potholes<br />
are opening up everywhere and<br />
the city is struggling to pay workers,”<br />
said Madzoke.<br />
Elected councillor on a Zanu<br />
PF ticket, Madzoke stands out in<br />
his party for refusing to be pampered<br />
using hard-pressed ratepayers’<br />
money at the expense of service<br />
delivery in a country where<br />
political players are known for<br />
their penchant for expensive cars<br />
and luxury.<br />
United Nations Development Programme<br />
Kwekwe mayor Matenda Madzoke. Picture: Nehanda Radio<br />
A reverend at Christ Apostolic<br />
Church Worldwide Revelation,<br />
Madzoke, who owns his own fleet<br />
of cars but sometimes chooses to<br />
ride to his office and around town<br />
on a bicycle, said teachings from<br />
his church were also instrumental<br />
in the decision not to accept<br />
the car.<br />
“I can say the teachings from<br />
my church were influential in the<br />
decision I made, apart from the<br />
fact that I am not a politician but<br />
a civic leader who has a heart to<br />
serve the people ahead of my own<br />
interests.<br />
“Our church has unique teaching<br />
because we are taught to serve<br />
the people first before we take<br />
care of our own interests and you<br />
Empowered lives.<br />
Resilient Nations<br />
would agree with me that getting<br />
myself a top-of-the-range vehicle<br />
at this time would be against this<br />
teaching,” he said.<br />
Madzoke has also clashed with<br />
council management who have<br />
been looking to spend nearly<br />
US$200 000 on luxury vehicles for<br />
top management.<br />
An initial attempt to purchase a<br />
US$120 000 worth Toyota Prado for<br />
the Town Clerk Emanuel Musara<br />
had to be shelved after a tender<br />
for its purchase had already been<br />
flighted. Now Musara is pushing<br />
to get a US$68 000 Chevrolet, while<br />
the other four mangers are also in<br />
the hunt.<br />
Council has refused to endorse<br />
a resolution for the purchase of<br />
the vehicles, saying they are too<br />
expensive for the cash-strapped<br />
local authority which is now owed<br />
US$20 million by government and<br />
ratepayers.<br />
“You will see that the nation is<br />
facing serious economic challenges<br />
and Kwekwe is not an exception<br />
and it will be insensitive for us to<br />
dole out such huge amounts of<br />
money on management when we<br />
are failing to provide the basic service<br />
delivery for the ratepayers,”<br />
said Madzoke.<br />
Despite leading a council with<br />
seven Zanu PF councillors and<br />
an equal number from the MDC-<br />
T, Madzoke has won the support<br />
of MDC-T councillors who believe<br />
he is miles ahead of former mayors.<br />
“He allows debate to flow<br />
smoothly and when he sits in the<br />
mayor’s chair, you won’t know<br />
if he his Zanu PF or MDC. Madzoke<br />
has managed to keep us focused<br />
on the growth of Kwekwe<br />
and its people instead of getting<br />
involved in petty political fights,”<br />
said MDC-T councillor Weston<br />
Masiya.<br />
<strong>The</strong> mayor said his job is made<br />
easier because he is not a politician<br />
but just a civic leader whose<br />
main role is to facilitate development<br />
of Kwekwe on behalf of its<br />
owners.<br />
“I am grateful that the councillors<br />
easily bought my vision, it<br />
might be true that we were sponsored<br />
by our political parties into<br />
office but we are here to serve the<br />
people, not parties. Kwekwe is our<br />
subject, it is not owned by councillors<br />
or their political parties<br />
but by residents, some who don’t<br />
even care about the political parties<br />
that gave birth to us and they<br />
should be protected and served,”<br />
he said.<br />
Married to Clara Madzoke née<br />
Green since 1990, the couple is<br />
blessed with 12 children, four boys<br />
and eight girls. Madzoke, who still<br />
looks youthful, says he might not<br />
be running for office again.<br />
“I think I will just have to do my<br />
best now and leave it for others<br />
to take their place in the development<br />
of this town,” he said.<br />
Madzoke may quit the mayoral<br />
office when his terms expires,<br />
but he will surely go down in history<br />
as the mayor who stood his<br />
ground against looting of the few<br />
resources available in the city and<br />
for striving to make council accountable<br />
to the ratepayers.<br />
Madzoke, an electrical engineer<br />
by profession, owns and runs one<br />
of Kwekwe’s leading electrical<br />
companies called Birdale Electrical<br />
Services and is also involved<br />
in farming.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>se two businesses are the<br />
ones which ensure I manage to<br />
take care of my family and therefore<br />
I don’t look at council to earn<br />
a living,” he said.<br />
When he is not riding his bicycle,<br />
Madzoke goes around in a<br />
double cab Isuzu KB280D while<br />
his other posh cars are normally<br />
used by his wife.<br />
“I believe I should treat my wife<br />
like a queen, she is the pillar of<br />
my strength and most of the times<br />
she takes a leading role to ensure I<br />
dispatch my civic duties effectively.<br />
She is gifted.”<br />
As his parting shot, Madzoke<br />
told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> that he had realised<br />
that children in most council<br />
schools in Kwekwe were suffering<br />
from hunger and some<br />
were fainting during class.<br />
“I am going to have a meeting<br />
with farmers in this city so that<br />
we can feed these children, the situation<br />
is pathetic and my hope is<br />
that as farmers, we will be able<br />
to help ensure they get porridge<br />
when they come to school in the<br />
morning,” he said.<br />
Matenda Madzoke . . . refused to take delivery of an expensive car
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014 9
10 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Comment & Analysis<br />
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR<br />
Stop the rot at<br />
State universities<br />
SOMETHING patently wrong is happening at our State<br />
universities where students are being enrolled en<br />
masse.<br />
As reported elsewhere in this publication, the universities<br />
have transformed themselves into income generating entities<br />
that rake in millions of dollars through mass enrollment.<br />
Because their primary concern now is raising money to<br />
pay lecturers and fund their administration costs in the face<br />
of limited treasury support, university authorities are no<br />
longer focused on offering quality education.<br />
<strong>The</strong> disturbing trend is most pronounced at the Midlands<br />
State University where thousands of students have been enrolled<br />
in recent years, without any regard to student-staff<br />
ratios.<br />
To worsen matters, the university’s infrastructure is inadequate,<br />
and students have to seek accommodation in Gweru’s<br />
high-density suburbs where they get exposed to all kinds of<br />
vice.<br />
Great Zimbabwe is fast catching up, and its various learning<br />
centres are sprouting everywhere in the small town<br />
of Masvingo. <strong>The</strong> university has even spread its wings to<br />
Mashava, 40 kilometres away, where female students are being<br />
sexually abused by amakorokoza [illegal gold panners].<br />
While universities are hard-pressed to raise their own<br />
money, we condemn the increasing commercialisation of education<br />
at State institutions.<br />
University authorities are now working round the clock to<br />
devise short courses and programmes offered in conventional<br />
and parallel studies that can attract as many students as<br />
possible. <strong>The</strong>y are not concerned with the education standards<br />
and welfare of the students.<br />
While lecturers and administration staff smile all the<br />
way to the bank, it is sadly the students who part with large<br />
sums of money, who will be disadvantaged. Armed with<br />
half-backed qualifications, their chances of making it in<br />
life would be diminished. Others who may have indulged in<br />
prostitution at college, may have their lives ruined by HIV.<br />
We urge the Ministry of Higher Education to rein in offending<br />
universities. Student to staff ratios should be probed,<br />
and universities should be stopped from enrolling beyond<br />
their capacity.<br />
Time to overhaul<br />
the energy sector<br />
No shortcuts to a doctorate<br />
Dzikamai Mavhaire<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is an increase in loadshedding<br />
outside the published<br />
schedule and it seems<br />
the power utility, Zesa is failing to<br />
properly manage power distribution.<br />
Massive power cuts in highdensity<br />
communities are hurting<br />
families. Communities are going<br />
for prolonged hours without power.<br />
Power cuts are done as early as<br />
4am only to be restored around<br />
11pm daily.<br />
Perishable foods in refrigerators<br />
have gone bad. Some families<br />
have generators, but not<br />
everyone can afford to purchase<br />
them or power them with fuel,<br />
household power generation is<br />
expensive.<br />
Last week Zesa said power<br />
outages were caused by the fact<br />
that the power utility company<br />
was diverting power to winter<br />
wheat farming. Really? It seems<br />
we are in the summer cropping<br />
season but it boggles the mind<br />
when Zesa gives such a flimsy<br />
excuse.<br />
We have in the past heard Zesa<br />
attributing massive load-shedding<br />
to maintenance works at either<br />
Kariba or Hwange. Yes, Zesa<br />
does not have the capacity to generate<br />
power to serve the whole<br />
country but I just feel this massive<br />
load-shedding is not the panacea<br />
to the problems.<br />
Zesa needs an overhaul. Zimbabwe<br />
is suffering because of incompetent<br />
people that are leading<br />
critical institutions such as<br />
Zesa and the energy sector. <strong>The</strong><br />
minister in charge, Dzikamai Mavhaire<br />
has shown his ineptitude<br />
and must go.<br />
When President Robert Mugabe<br />
At the University of Zimbabwe,<br />
it is like this: you have<br />
to have an honours degree<br />
which entitles you to enrol first<br />
for an MPhil degree which, if<br />
you do well in the first year, can<br />
be upgraded to a Doctor of Philosophy<br />
and it takes not less than<br />
three years to get the DPhil. It<br />
is not correct to say that anyone<br />
with a good first degree can proceed<br />
to a PhD.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rules are simple: the dissertation<br />
has to be defended publicly,<br />
and the candidate has to<br />
have the dissertation bound into<br />
a book, deposited with the library<br />
of the UZ as well as the faculty,<br />
with a clear indication of<br />
who the supervisor was, and who<br />
the external supervisors were.<br />
Please don’t let our university go<br />
cracks his whip on incompetent<br />
ministers, he must start with Mavhaire<br />
and all the board members<br />
he appointed to lead the energy<br />
sector.<br />
Let <strong>The</strong>re Be Light, Chitungwiza<br />
to the dogs.<br />
I worked hard to get my UZ degree,<br />
and if it so easy for some people<br />
to just arrive and get a PhD the<br />
following morning, I feel ashamed<br />
of my old university.<br />
It is a disgrace that a reputable<br />
university which has produced so<br />
many academics of high standing<br />
can do this to us.<br />
Chenjerai Hove<br />
NRZ revival a mammoth task<br />
Accommodation for Great Zimbabwe University students in Mashava (file picture)<br />
Responding to the story NRZ: Cellphones<br />
replace signals (<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong><br />
September 21 to 27 2014)<br />
Blackman Curse says: <strong>The</strong><br />
biggest problem is not getting<br />
financing, no, it’s what you do<br />
with the money! How does an<br />
operating (not a war-zone) railway<br />
dilapidate to such a level?<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no point in borrowing<br />
US$700 million and waste it a<br />
few years down the line. What<br />
we need first is to get rid of the<br />
people (present government)<br />
who put the national railway in<br />
such a sorry state before borrowing<br />
more money to waste!<br />
Anything and everything with<br />
[Robert] Mugabe and Zanu PF<br />
is going the same way — to ruins.<br />
Truth writes: I agree 110%.<br />
<strong>The</strong> turnaround strategy applicable<br />
to Zimbabwe is that of<br />
changing its entire management<br />
wHERE TO<br />
wRITE TO uS<br />
Write to us at editor@standard.co.zw or<br />
to Letters, PO Box BE1165, Belvedere,<br />
Harare, or SMS to 0772 472 500.<br />
Letters should be short and to the point. <strong>The</strong>y must carry<br />
the writer’s name and address, even if a nom de plume is<br />
used. Letters published in other papers are less likely to<br />
be used in ours.<br />
i.e the government. It’s no use<br />
borrowing money. Zimbabwe is<br />
said to be US$10bn indebted already<br />
and borrowing for the<br />
NRZ is merely adding debt yet<br />
the money won’t be used in the<br />
appropriate manner.<br />
Coup deGrace argues: <strong>The</strong> other<br />
problem with most politicians<br />
is that they have no clue how to<br />
run companies and worrisomely,<br />
their ministries! Some ministers<br />
only think about the percentages<br />
they get on every business<br />
deal (for example; 10% of<br />
the US$700 million = US$70 million)<br />
that’s what they see. Tell me<br />
any ministry that has had a successful<br />
project? Every project is<br />
mired in corruption. Do you remember<br />
the Zesa/YTL Malaysia<br />
project of yesteryear? Mugabe<br />
wanted that project so much but<br />
what was the end product? <strong>The</strong><br />
Hwange Power Station collapsed<br />
from generating an average of<br />
800MW to less than 300MW on<br />
average. Until and unless we remove<br />
these grey-haired, old politicians;<br />
we are on a one-way bus<br />
to the ruins!<br />
Timber Bricks says: With this<br />
type of stone age and corrupt<br />
horses it will take us 100 years to<br />
see meaningful development in<br />
Zimbabwe.
Comment & Analysis<br />
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FEEDBACK<br />
IT was refreshing to hear Finance minister<br />
Patrick Chinamasa talking about<br />
looking for Foreign Direct Investment<br />
from the West. <strong>The</strong> knowledgeable<br />
among us have always spoken against<br />
Zanu PF’s fixation with the East, but with<br />
no tangible results. In business, friendship<br />
comes last, profit-seeking companies<br />
will demand respect for private<br />
property and proper business practice.<br />
Time to widen the net and rescue this<br />
faltering economy. We have been a suffering<br />
nation for far too long.<br />
DICKSon, Zibwowa<br />
I would like to thank the Harare City<br />
Council for decongesting the Copacabana<br />
bus terminus. It is the one I use<br />
and before the introduction of the<br />
holding bay, it was very difficult to<br />
navigate for adults, let alone schoolchildren.<br />
Street urchins grabbed gold<br />
accessories in the milieu and disappeared<br />
in the crowds. Previously, one<br />
was drowned in the sea of people and<br />
touts' voices, but now one can see<br />
clearly where they are going. I hope<br />
this relief extends to other city termini.<br />
Council must now remove the illegal<br />
foreign currency dealers; sometimes<br />
the way they accost women is<br />
quite disrespectful. Why not get them<br />
to open bureau de change?<br />
WaDZanaI, Malbereign<br />
OPINION<br />
Toxic media laws, taxes — Harmful to knowledge<br />
guest opinion<br />
BY CHRIS MHIKE<br />
KNOWLEDGE is at the core of meaningful,<br />
dignified and sustainable existence<br />
for any sane human being. Resultantly,<br />
the Right to Know is now widely accepted —<br />
globally and at home, as a fundamental human<br />
right. That right has also now come to be accepted<br />
as a critical cornerstone to the flourishing<br />
of democracy in any modern society.<br />
Today, as Zimbabwe joins the world in commemorating<br />
the International Right to Know<br />
Day, too huge a part of the population continues<br />
to exist under a lamentable knowledgegap<br />
in various critical areas. For instance,<br />
few Zimbabweans know fully about how proceeds<br />
from diamond sales are allocated. This is<br />
therefore a good time for reflection on the allimportant<br />
right to know.<br />
Commemoration of the International Right<br />
to Know Day began on September 28 2002,<br />
when Freedom of Information (FOI) organisations<br />
from around the world congregated in<br />
Sofia, Bulgaria and created the FOI Advocates<br />
Network, a global coalition working together<br />
to promote the Right of Access to Information;<br />
and the benefits of open, transparent, and accountable<br />
governments.<br />
<strong>The</strong> right essentially relates to policies and<br />
laws that make governmental (and quasi-governmental)<br />
records and other information,<br />
available to persons who request access to the<br />
same. <strong>The</strong> sought-for-information is ordinarily<br />
availed either directly to the requestor, or<br />
indirectly by way of publication or broadcasting<br />
on the various media platforms of contemporary<br />
mass communication. Freedom of expression<br />
and press freedom, and access to information,<br />
are therefore central to the fulfilment<br />
of the right to know.<br />
While the Constitution of Zimbabwe does<br />
not explicitly pronounce the right to know as<br />
one of the known Fundamental Rights, this<br />
right can justly be derived from a number of<br />
important sections. Sections 61 and 62 of the<br />
Constitution are particularly pertinent, providing<br />
as they do, for Freedom of Expression<br />
and Freedom of the Media; and Access to Information,<br />
respectively.<br />
Further, in setting out the Founding Values<br />
and Principles of Zimbabwe, the Constitution<br />
recognises the inherent dignity and worth<br />
(both of these values linked to knowledge) of<br />
each human being. Also acknowledged as constitutionally<br />
important, are good governance,<br />
multi-party democratic political system; then<br />
transparency, justice, accountability and responsiveness.<br />
Should these values and principles,<br />
as read with sections 61 and 62, be respected<br />
by government, agents of government<br />
and by non-governmental individuals and institutions,<br />
then the Access to Information and<br />
right to know agenda would immensely burgeon.<br />
Incidentally, in terms of the Liturgical<br />
Guide of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, today<br />
also happens to be Social Communications<br />
Sunday — that is to say a day for reflection on<br />
the utility of the various forms of the media<br />
in spreading the Gospel. Since this discussion<br />
is neither a sermon nor a theological treatise,<br />
the matter at hand is confined only to issues<br />
arising out of the general definition of “Social<br />
Communication.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> term “social communication” is used to<br />
refer to the transmission of content between<br />
sender and receiver, using the media and various<br />
forms of modern technology, and by means<br />
of agents unable to be quantified, in the social<br />
aspects of society. It is a process and an action<br />
at the same time. That process-and-action therefore<br />
yields the effective flow of information, resulting<br />
in the enhancement of knowledge, for<br />
social communication participants. That is to<br />
say, social communication aims in part, to sustain<br />
and develop knowledgeable beings.<br />
Given the vital importance of the media to<br />
the four subject important areas, that is: the<br />
right to know, freedom of expression, access<br />
to information, and social communication; it<br />
follows therefore, that without a free or fully<br />
developed press and Information Communication<br />
Technology (ICT) configuration, citizens<br />
and visitors alike, are left starving for information<br />
and knowledge, and for freedom.<br />
Thirty-four years after independence, Zimbabwe<br />
still lags behind badly, regionally and<br />
internationally; in the areas of media structure<br />
and infrastructure. That is particularly<br />
so in the broadcasting, and ICT sectors. For example,<br />
the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation<br />
(ZBC) continues today to monopolise the<br />
airwaves, as did the colonial regime’s Rhodesian<br />
Broadcasting Corporation (RBC).<br />
That monopolistic broadcasting configuration<br />
contrasts negatively with the situation<br />
prevailing in many other parts of Africa and<br />
beyond, where the “liberalisation of the airwaves”<br />
has been on the roll-out since the early<br />
1990s.<br />
While Zimbabwe’s mobile phone penetration<br />
and literacy rates (at about 106% and<br />
91% respectively) are impressive; the quality,<br />
cost and speeds of internet and voice services<br />
remain disappointing, and out of sync<br />
with trends in most liberal jurisdictions. And<br />
while Zimbabwe imposes today, punitive taxes<br />
on airtime purchases and mobile handsets<br />
importation, rates in other countries are tumbling.<br />
For US$1 a caller in the United States of<br />
America can make voice calls to any number<br />
on any network for the whole day, for as long<br />
as the call destination is within the States. In<br />
Zimbabwe, a dollar will give you only a few<br />
minutes.<br />
A whole range of functions on Blackberry,<br />
iPhone and other smart communication gadgets<br />
disappear once one lands at Harare/ Bulawayo<br />
International Airports, or on arrival at<br />
other Zimbabwean ports of entry; that being<br />
the result of poor ICT infrastructure.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Access to Information and Protection of<br />
Privacy Act (Aippa), the statute that should enable<br />
citizens to access government-held information,<br />
and therefore to enhance the citizen’s<br />
opportunities for the enjoyment of the right to<br />
know remains ultra vires (that is, inconsistent<br />
with) the constitution on various levels, hence<br />
the degradation of: the right to know, freedom<br />
of expression, access to information, and social<br />
communication dimensions of Zimbabwe’s<br />
legislative and policy framework.<br />
For as long as Aippa, the Official Secrets<br />
Act, the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform)<br />
Act, the Broadcasting Services Act and<br />
other pieces of toxic legislation remain in<br />
force and effect — misaligned to the constitution;<br />
and for as long as policy inconsistencies<br />
in the areas under review persist, Zimbabwe<br />
will continue to wallow in poverty, particularly<br />
in the right to know, and social communications<br />
departments.<br />
Why not act on that?<br />
• Chris Mhike is a lawyer practising in Harare.<br />
He writes here in his personal capacity<br />
Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire owes this<br />
nation a convincing explanation as to<br />
why we are having long blackouts.<br />
Disappointed<br />
Our online readers respond to the story<br />
Tsvangirai to lead demos from the front<br />
(<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 21 to 27 2014)<br />
Tik tak says; Thumbs up to [Morgan] Tsvangirai.<br />
I will definitely join the demos<br />
if you are at the forefront.<br />
L Makombe responds; When you have<br />
nothing to offer, this is what you do,<br />
back to the destructive ZCTU days when<br />
the stayaways destroyed the same industries<br />
and jobs we are now crying<br />
for. Who in his right senses would join<br />
Morgan[when Tendai] Biti and company<br />
left because of his lack of clear thinking?<br />
Shame on you, Tik tak.<br />
Zanutovuyoko writes; Chitima cheshanduko<br />
hachisi kuzomiswa chero nani<br />
zvake. [Nobody can stop change] Let<br />
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to violently break the demos do so at<br />
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Comment & Analysis / Opinion<br />
Mid-term fiscal<br />
proposals an act<br />
of tax barbarism<br />
sundayopinion<br />
BY BRIAN SEDZE<br />
Unemployment is high in Zimbabwe. Tax reforms must encourage the setting up of business at growth points to curb rural urban migration.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fundamental flaw and<br />
evil of government’s latest<br />
fiscal pronouncements is<br />
the fact that some men are<br />
forced to pay to support ideals<br />
diametrically opposed to their<br />
own.<br />
This is a profound violation of<br />
an individual’s integrity and conscience.<br />
We certainly do not agree<br />
with the aggravated tax assault,<br />
insult and barbarism that the<br />
government must tax its citizens<br />
until their very last cent as long<br />
as there is a fiscal deficit. It is viciously<br />
wrong to increase the tax<br />
burden on the already choked taxpayers<br />
through proposed increases<br />
in the quantum of tax or new<br />
taxes on fuel, employee benefits,<br />
meat, detergents, data and voice<br />
transmissions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> government, through its<br />
fiscal authorities, must be reminded<br />
that money is a private<br />
property that also deserves protection<br />
from arbitrary expropriations<br />
from government, just like<br />
cars, houses and business enterprises.<br />
We may have to agree with Ayn<br />
Rands’ idea that a man has a right<br />
to the fruits of his labour and that<br />
it is viciously wrong to take money<br />
from rational economic people for<br />
the support of ideals they are absolutely<br />
opposed to; such an intrusion<br />
by force is a violation of individuals’<br />
rights. John Locke proposes<br />
that a man has rights to own property<br />
and that property includes the<br />
output of his person, and in fact,<br />
his personage itself:<br />
“Though the earth, and all inferior<br />
creatures, be common to all men,<br />
yet every man has a property in his<br />
own person: this nobody has any<br />
right to but himself. <strong>The</strong> labour of<br />
his body, and the work of his hands,<br />
we may say, is properly his. Whatsoever<br />
then he removes out of the<br />
state that nature hath provided, and<br />
left it in, he hath mixed his labour<br />
with, and joined to it something<br />
that is his own, and thereby makes<br />
it his property. It being by him removed<br />
from the common state nature<br />
hath placed it in, it hath by<br />
this labour something annexed to<br />
it, that excludes the common right<br />
of other men: for this labour being<br />
the unquestionable property of the<br />
labourer, no man but he can have a<br />
right to what that is once joined to,<br />
at least where there is enough, and<br />
as good, left in common for others.”<br />
In theoretical terms as deduced<br />
from Socrates to Hobbes the “moral<br />
imperative” is the idea that the existence<br />
of a sovereign state rests on<br />
its ability to guarantee the best interests<br />
of its own citizens. It is certainly<br />
not in the best interest of the<br />
citizens of this “sovereign state”<br />
to have policies that so far have<br />
caused the acceleration of deindustrialisation,<br />
informalisation of<br />
the economy, structural regression,<br />
bloated civil service, ghost workers,<br />
ill corporate governance in state<br />
enterprises and parastatals, avoidable<br />
and unnecessary government<br />
expenditure and this thing of budgeting<br />
money that is not available<br />
and will never be available.<br />
What this country requires is not<br />
to increase the tax burden on its<br />
people but to increase the tax base.<br />
<strong>The</strong> increase in the quantum of tax<br />
is an incursion to an individual’s<br />
own right and to his own person.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ideas I propose hereunder<br />
are driven at increasing the tax<br />
base rather than placing an inordinate<br />
tax burden on the dwindling<br />
and ill-paid tax base of the existing<br />
taxpayers. <strong>The</strong> will to initiate and<br />
deploy is what is critical. <strong>The</strong> solutions<br />
I propose here are fundamental<br />
but remain basic:<br />
• <strong>The</strong> government must ease<br />
the bureaucracy and red tape of<br />
setting and doing business in order<br />
to attract and retain investment.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no need to reinvent the<br />
wheel as Rwanda, Ghana and Botswana<br />
amongst other countries are<br />
highly rated in that respect. We can<br />
certainly learn on how they travelled<br />
that path. In strategic innovation,<br />
it’s an imperative to copy, leapfrog<br />
and improve inventions.<br />
• Opaque investment policies<br />
must be discarded and replaced<br />
with clear and consistent investorfriendly<br />
policies. As a start, government<br />
ministries must sing from the<br />
same hymn book.<br />
• Engage the diaspora for investment<br />
by easing the investment methodologies<br />
and develop platforms<br />
to access the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange,<br />
alternative stock exchanges,<br />
their political inclusivity and ease of<br />
setting and doing business.<br />
• Improve investment inclusivity<br />
and democratise economic participation<br />
by setting an alternative<br />
stock exchange for small and medium<br />
enterprises.<br />
• Comprehensive labour law reform<br />
that recognises that common<br />
goodwill be satisfied by enabling<br />
each individual to be as successful<br />
as is possible and that success will<br />
filter to others through jobs and opportunities<br />
of the individual. <strong>The</strong><br />
present labour laws are inhibitive<br />
to corporate success, restructuring<br />
and reorganisations.<br />
• Privatisation and commercialisation<br />
of state enterprises and<br />
parastatals most of them no longer<br />
fitting the definition of “strategic<br />
to state interest”. In any case most<br />
are not dispensing the strategic intention<br />
of the state.<br />
• Tax reform to reduce the cost<br />
and ease of doing business. Tax reform<br />
will ideally include setting<br />
up of special economic free zones<br />
in strategic towns and cities outside<br />
Harare like Bulawayo, Mutare,<br />
Victoria Falls and Beitbridge. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
must encourage the setting up of<br />
business at growth points to curb<br />
rural to urban migration that causes<br />
infrastructure stress on municipalities<br />
and city councils.<br />
• Initiate and adopt a comprehensive<br />
corporate governance<br />
framework for listed firms, alternative<br />
exchange listed firms, state<br />
enterprises, parastatals and public<br />
interest firms. <strong>The</strong> “comply or explain”<br />
corporate governance framework<br />
will inspire confidence to potential<br />
investors that the firms are<br />
being directed and controlled in a<br />
transparent and accountable manner,<br />
especially when twinned with<br />
appointment of independent, nonaligned<br />
and competent directors<br />
as the majority on the respective<br />
boards.<br />
• Encourage self-sufficiency<br />
in rural households through their<br />
economic inclusion in co-operatives,<br />
micro banking institutions,<br />
micro and small enterprises and redeployment<br />
of competent and motivated<br />
agriculture technical extension<br />
workers.<br />
• Improve financial inclusivity<br />
in banks, insurance, building societies<br />
and micro financial institutes.<br />
• Encourage domestic, regional<br />
and international tourism through<br />
inclusivity in product offering. For<br />
instance, a holiday package for every<br />
civil servant will reduce dependency<br />
on other markets.<br />
• To neither look east nor<br />
west but to look at the world as the<br />
source of investment and tourism.<br />
Relentless engagement is required.<br />
In theoretical terms, the idea of<br />
“sovereignty” from the time of Socrates<br />
to that of Hobbes has always<br />
necessitated a moral imperative on<br />
the entity exercising it. This “moral<br />
imperative” is the idea that the<br />
existence of a sovereign state rests<br />
on its ability to guarantee the best<br />
interests of its own.<br />
Just like Benjamin Franklin said,<br />
in truth justice will not be served<br />
until those who are unaffected are<br />
as outraged as those who are and<br />
as Samuel Adams postulates, that it<br />
doesn’t take the majority to prevail<br />
but rather an irate, tireless minority<br />
keen on setting the bushfires of<br />
freedom on the minds of men.<br />
If a state no longer acts in the<br />
best interests of its citizens, is it not<br />
legitimate to think that it no longer<br />
can perform its moral imperative<br />
and should cease to exist or be replaced<br />
with a state that can?<br />
Why calls for demonstrations will not be heeded<br />
Unfortunately, the calls for<br />
the suffering people of Zimbabwe<br />
to come together to<br />
march in protest to the mismanagement<br />
of the country will come<br />
to naught.<br />
It will be a complete flop because<br />
the bulk of those people<br />
that have a gripe about the haphazard<br />
manner in which the<br />
country is being run, will not<br />
come out into the streets to join<br />
in the march. Not because they<br />
do not want to, but because they<br />
are very much privy to the manner<br />
in which the ruling party responds<br />
to dissent. <strong>The</strong>y would<br />
rather silently suffer under the<br />
leadership of Zanu PF, than risk<br />
their lives.<br />
Only recently, a group of youths<br />
that had taken to the streets to call<br />
for the Zanu PF-led government<br />
to make good on its promise in its<br />
2013 election manifesto to provide<br />
2,2 million jobs were given a thorough<br />
beating, and a journalist<br />
that was there to cover the event<br />
was not spared.<br />
Using maximum force to thwart<br />
any opposition is probably one of<br />
the main reasons why Zanu PF is<br />
still in power, and it doesn’t look<br />
like it is a tactic they will be doing<br />
away with anytime soon, seeing<br />
as it has so far served them so<br />
well.<br />
<strong>The</strong> violent manner in which<br />
Zanu PF has chosen to deal with<br />
the opposition has earned Zimbabwe<br />
a place among the world’s<br />
most repressive states. While the<br />
ruling Zanu PF continuously dismisses<br />
human rights abuses as<br />
“the work of our detractors” and<br />
an attempt at regime change,<br />
those of us who have witnessed<br />
the party’s brutality know better.<br />
It is no secret that Zimbabwe’s<br />
armed forces are at the beck and<br />
call of the ruling party and will<br />
not hesitate to undertake any assigned<br />
task, no matter how gruesome,<br />
just as long as it helps extend<br />
Zanu PF’s hegemony.<br />
sunday<br />
view<br />
BY CHIPO MASARA<br />
In the past, whenever there was<br />
any sort of demonstration, people<br />
fell at the mercy of the ruthless<br />
armed forces and ended up either<br />
badly injured or behind bars.<br />
In most cases, after all the trouble<br />
they would have gone through, the<br />
demonstrations failed to achieve<br />
the desired effect as more often<br />
than not, nothing improved.<br />
That is the reason why the MDC<br />
president Morgan Tsvangirai’s<br />
calls for mass demonstrations to<br />
push the government to act on<br />
improving the general population’s<br />
welfare will not be heeded<br />
by many.<br />
Yes, the people are suffering and<br />
are waiting for the government<br />
to put in place responsible policies<br />
that will bring in foreign direct<br />
investment and with it jobs<br />
for many. Many jobless graduates<br />
want nothing more than to<br />
see the years of hard work they<br />
put in at school being handsomely<br />
rewarded. People want to see<br />
service delivery improving and<br />
money collected at tollgates going<br />
towards fixing the roads. <strong>The</strong><br />
list of things Zimbabweans wish<br />
for is endless.<br />
Considering all this, it may, to<br />
someone reading this, only make<br />
sense that Zimbabweans take to<br />
the streets and protest the incessant<br />
mismanagement of the country.<br />
But then they will not!<br />
Some may call it cowardly, but<br />
I call it wise. I for one will not be<br />
one of those few that will take to<br />
the streets because I know how<br />
the story would end if I did. I<br />
know that even before we would<br />
have started marching (peaceful<br />
as it may be), police details would<br />
descend on us in their numbers,<br />
baton sticks in hands!<br />
<strong>The</strong> fact that it is Tsvangirai<br />
that plans to be at the forefront<br />
does nothing but makes it<br />
worse as it will make it all seem<br />
like an MDC project — and we<br />
all know how the President Robert<br />
Mugabe-led government has<br />
responded to Tsvangirai and his<br />
party in the past.<br />
In 2007 Tsvangirai, other opposition<br />
officials and civic leaders<br />
were thoroughly bashed when<br />
they tried to organise a peace rally<br />
in Highfield, Harare. Seven<br />
years later and President Mugabe<br />
is still at the throne, with Tsvangirai<br />
now a pale shadow of his former<br />
self.<br />
Just like Libya’s Muammar al-<br />
Gaddafi and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad,<br />
I see President Mugabe fighting<br />
opposition to the bitter end<br />
and anyone that dares take him on<br />
better be equal to the task, otherwise<br />
the guaranteed attack by the<br />
armed forces will in the end, all be<br />
for nothing.
Opinion<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014 13<br />
Civil society<br />
should shake off<br />
Western stigma<br />
justicematters<br />
BY DZIKAMAI BERE & PROSPER MAGUCHU<br />
<strong>The</strong> NewsDay of September<br />
20 2014 on the Readers’<br />
Feedback carried a<br />
contribution by a reader<br />
who lamented that human<br />
rights are now a neo-colonial<br />
tool.<br />
His conclusion was that the human<br />
rights topic has become an instrument<br />
to effect regime change.<br />
This reminded us of the address<br />
delivered by then Justice minister<br />
Patrick Chinamasa before the<br />
United Nations Human Rights<br />
Council on October 10 2011 in Geneva.<br />
He told delegates that Zimbabwe<br />
has more than 2 500 NGOs<br />
who are paid to throw stones. <strong>The</strong><br />
minister lamented that these organisations<br />
were responsible for<br />
spreading falsehoods about Zimbabwe.<br />
In as much as the philosophy associated<br />
with the above comments<br />
may be defective, it perhaps reveals<br />
a very real stigma about Zimbabwe’s<br />
human rights movement.<br />
As we are part of this movement,<br />
we have an obligation to address<br />
this stigma. It is not possible to be<br />
exhaustive here but we will highlight<br />
a few issues.<br />
Firstly, we must point out that<br />
the regime change agenda is not<br />
unlawful. In fact, it is very legitimate<br />
for a people that have suffered<br />
gross injustice to seek a major shift<br />
towards a more accountable leadership<br />
and a more just society. It is the<br />
right of a people in any democracy.<br />
Secondly, the concept of human<br />
rights is very organic to the African<br />
people. Many people do believe<br />
in human rights not because they<br />
follow blindly to what the Europeans<br />
or NGOs say. <strong>The</strong>re are a number<br />
of traditional practices that<br />
show indigenous African abhorrence<br />
for the violation of human<br />
dignity. It is insulting to assume<br />
that Africans are blind to repression<br />
and that each time they speak<br />
out against authoritarianism, then<br />
Europeans must be pushing them.<br />
It’s very sad that African leadership<br />
is refusing to be accountable<br />
and has become addicted to blaming<br />
the West for their failures. This<br />
trend seems to be catching up even<br />
in the opposition.<br />
Having clarified this, we must<br />
however acknowledge that as human<br />
rights activists, we do carry<br />
the stigma that we are tools of the<br />
West. <strong>The</strong>re are reasons for that<br />
and we probably need to do more<br />
than just deny it.<br />
Some of the reasons why this<br />
stigma seems to stick include our<br />
failure to make the human rights<br />
agenda organic. Despite the availability<br />
of many African and domestic<br />
tools for the advancement<br />
of a legitimate human rights agenda,<br />
we are ready to first reach for<br />
Western tools and mechanisms.<br />
Many times we ignore local innovative<br />
mechanisms that can<br />
achieve the same agenda. <strong>The</strong> reason<br />
for this is probably over-intellectualisation<br />
of the human rights<br />
discourse. We have too many Western<br />
educated experts who probably<br />
feel they would not have done<br />
justice to the human rights agenda<br />
if they do not throw in some international<br />
covenant. This is not<br />
to say international standards are<br />
irrelevant but where local mechanisms<br />
exists, it can assist to begin<br />
from “home” and then widen the<br />
strategy and even prove that the<br />
local strategies do meet the international<br />
standards. Many cases,<br />
human rights strategists pitch this<br />
discussion at a much higher level<br />
and then neglect to connect the<br />
dots to the very basics of human<br />
rights needs. <strong>The</strong> basic question —<br />
how does this translate to the basic<br />
needs of the ordinary people in the<br />
countryside?<br />
<strong>The</strong> other reason related to the<br />
above is the funding dynamics<br />
of human rights work. Because<br />
of the failure to make the human<br />
rights agenda organic, we then<br />
fail as a society in making human<br />
rights work attractive to local<br />
funding partners. We many times<br />
get irritated when we are walking<br />
down the street and a beggar<br />
comes to ask for money. And yet in<br />
the streets of London we meet volunteers<br />
for the Red Cross begging<br />
for money to help people in conflict<br />
zones. Our failure to attract local<br />
funding for the human rights agenda<br />
has created the big donor syndrome,<br />
where the major funders<br />
for the human rights agenda are<br />
Western countries. Ordinary citizens<br />
feel no obligation to contribute<br />
to this agenda. This makes it<br />
difficult to make the human rights<br />
agenda organic, dismantle the stigma<br />
and make the local population<br />
responsible for their future.<br />
Lastly for this discussion, there<br />
is need to attend to the current civil<br />
society governance and accountability<br />
systems. If we have to make<br />
people believe in the work that we<br />
do as defenders of human rights,<br />
our own systems must reflect in<br />
equal measure what we demand<br />
of the government. <strong>The</strong>re is a major<br />
process that civil society must<br />
initiate: a review of the civil society<br />
governance structure. Current<br />
structures limit the human rights<br />
agenda to only certain professions<br />
and maybe what we may call hardcore<br />
activists. A quick sampling<br />
of persons that sit in the boards<br />
of most organisations doing human<br />
rights work shows that there<br />
is a core class that is present in almost<br />
every board. This may compromise<br />
the effectiveness of the<br />
boards. But more importantly, it<br />
creates an exclusive movement.<br />
<strong>The</strong> movement must be more inclusive,<br />
reaching out to other sectors<br />
like business and industry.<br />
This will help demystify and destigmatise<br />
human rights. Human<br />
rights work will benefit from diversity.<br />
Civil society organisations reject<br />
over-regulation by the State<br />
in order to protect their independ-<br />
Zimbabwe lawyers and human rights activists march in Harare on International Human Rights Day in 2009... Most people think<br />
human rights is a preserve for a certain group, while the ruling elite believes it is a tool of the enemy.<br />
ence. We agree. <strong>The</strong>re is however<br />
a need to strengthen advocacy<br />
structures because certainly the<br />
message is not getting to where we<br />
wish. <strong>The</strong> business sector does not<br />
think it has an obligation to work<br />
with human rights organisations.<br />
Ordinary people think it’s a career<br />
for a certain group, while the ruling<br />
elite believes it is a tool of the<br />
enemy.<br />
It is not easy for human rights<br />
organisations to regain the trust<br />
of the people. It will certainly not<br />
happen overnight. It also does not<br />
help to say those who think we are<br />
puppets must go to hell. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />
a duty to respond. Not with just<br />
press statements castigating such<br />
accusers. A just response calls for<br />
increased civil society accountability<br />
to the local constituency<br />
and informed research into and<br />
use of many local mechanisms<br />
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Unless we speak human<br />
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Opinion<br />
Tsvangirai, MDC:<br />
Deepening<br />
democracy<br />
right of reply<br />
BY LUKE TAMBORINYOKA<br />
Before its conclusion on<br />
Friday September 19<br />
2014, which conclusion<br />
confounded skeptics and<br />
naysayers inside and<br />
outside the party, the constitutional<br />
review exercise of the MDC had<br />
been a subject of frenzied debate<br />
and media speculation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> speculation provided media<br />
fodder, with some saying Morgan<br />
Tsvangirai was becoming a dictator<br />
who would centralise all power<br />
in his office and appoint leaders<br />
in the party.<br />
It is this convenient and false<br />
media speculation about the process<br />
that led to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> (September<br />
21 to 27 2014) editorial entitled,<br />
Absolute power for Tsvangirai<br />
was ill-advised.<br />
It was self-fulfilling prophecy<br />
for the media to speculate that the<br />
MDC had ever considered giving<br />
Tsvangirai absolute power.<br />
Constitutional review has been<br />
the business of every one of our<br />
previous congresses as it is only<br />
congress that has the power to<br />
amend the MDC constitution. After<br />
15 years in existence, guided<br />
by history and experience, it is always<br />
important to look at the constitution<br />
and to look at those areas<br />
that needed review in order to<br />
cut bureaucracy, remove vagueness<br />
and increase accountability.<br />
As such, there is nothing criminal<br />
or mischievous about a constitutional<br />
review exercise ahead of a<br />
congress.<br />
In any case, when the media began<br />
speculating that this exercise,<br />
which we have always done ahead<br />
of every congress, was meant to<br />
arrogate too much power on Tsvangirai,<br />
his office had issued a<br />
statement clarifying his position<br />
on the matter.<br />
“Zimbabwe has had a bad experience<br />
of dictatorships and the<br />
abuse of Constitutions. <strong>The</strong> MDC<br />
and President Morgan Tsvangirai<br />
pledge to the people of this country<br />
that the exercise will be a truly<br />
objective process; a process that<br />
will not be abused to constitutionally<br />
anoint a tin-pot dictator in<br />
the MDC leadership, as has been<br />
wrongly peddled by others,” the<br />
statement said.<br />
“As the current leader of a democratic<br />
party, president Tsvangirai<br />
will not allow the process to degenerate<br />
into the creation of allpowerful<br />
individuals, especially<br />
in the Presidency. Zimbabwe has<br />
sad stories to tell on the abuse of<br />
the powers of an executive President<br />
to the extent that we have<br />
learnt it to be a monumental vice<br />
that cannot be mimicked, even in<br />
a party constitution.<br />
“We pledge to safeguard the<br />
democratic credentials of the<br />
MDC and to ensure that every office<br />
bearer, including and especially<br />
the party Presidency, or any<br />
Morgan Tsvangirai<br />
other office for that matter, is vaccinated<br />
from the whims of individuals.<br />
President Tsvangirai has<br />
spent half his life fighting all-powerful<br />
individuals and he certainly<br />
will not be a cheerleader to the<br />
creation of dictators.<br />
“One dictator in a country is<br />
enough, in the name of a President,<br />
First Secretary of the party<br />
and Commander-In-Chief of<br />
the armed forces and chancellor<br />
of all State universities. Contrary<br />
to mischievous press reports, the<br />
MDC as a democratic party has<br />
no intention whatsoever to mimic<br />
and parrot such arrant nonsense.”<br />
And indeed, the outcome of last<br />
week’s national executive and national<br />
council meetings vindicated<br />
the above position of the party<br />
president that this was always going<br />
to be an objective process.<br />
With Tsvangirai in charge, all<br />
fears of dictatorship and an allpowerful<br />
leader are grossly misplaced.<br />
If anything, I have sat in meetings<br />
where the president has been<br />
accused of being too lenient, too<br />
tolerant and too magnanimous.<br />
I have heard him respond that<br />
magnanimity and tolerance are<br />
not signs of weakness but of<br />
strength.<br />
I sat through the 11-and-half<br />
hours of intense debate in the national<br />
executive on September 18<br />
2014, a meeting that only ended<br />
just before midnight.<br />
For me, the robust debate and<br />
the diverse opinions in that meeting<br />
showed that our democracy<br />
was not only widening but deepening<br />
as well.<br />
Even after the national council<br />
meeting the following day, I saw<br />
people who had held diverse opinions<br />
in the meeting hugging and<br />
laughing together.<br />
It was a sign of a maturing democratic<br />
party where all those who<br />
differed had the party at heart,<br />
even in the diversity of their opinions.<br />
But in the end, one collective position<br />
had to emerge and it was a<br />
position that reinforced the democratic<br />
tenets of this great people’s<br />
party.<br />
And now our congress is in full<br />
swing, with the party structures<br />
exercising their right to elect a<br />
president and the team that the<br />
president will work with.<br />
That has always been the democratic<br />
culture of this great party;<br />
that leaders come from the people<br />
and I know for a fact that at no<br />
point did Tsvangirai ever consider<br />
becoming the dictator that he has<br />
fought for half of his adult life.<br />
If there was anyone who had<br />
thought of arrogating too much<br />
power to this man, as you insinuated<br />
in your editorial, then those<br />
people do not know this man well<br />
enough.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tsvangirai people know and<br />
have fallen in love with is a man of<br />
courage and a democrat.<br />
That man and the party he leads<br />
are not about to change. If anything,<br />
judging by the way he handled<br />
the two meetings 10 days ago,<br />
he is deepening and widening the<br />
democratic culture in the MDC.<br />
• Luke Tamborinyoka doubles<br />
up as spokesperson to MDC<br />
leader Morgan Tsvangirai and<br />
the Director of Information in<br />
the party.<br />
Mugabe surrounded by bootlickers<br />
By Moses Mugugunyeki<br />
ZIMBABWE economy has once<br />
again collapsed due to a combination<br />
of factors among them,<br />
economic mismanagement and<br />
bad governance.<br />
It looks as if the centre is failing<br />
to hold for President Robert<br />
Mugabe’s government. Zanu<br />
PF seems to be more occupied<br />
with the succession battles rather<br />
than paying attention to the<br />
economy.<br />
During the past couple of<br />
months, thousands of jobs have<br />
been lost after a number of companies<br />
closed. Some companies<br />
have attributed their demise<br />
to the collapse of the economy<br />
while others have been pushed<br />
out by some unfriendly policies<br />
like the Indigenisation and Empowerment<br />
policy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> policy gives Zimbabweans<br />
the right to take over and control<br />
foreign owned companies. It<br />
compels these companies to sell<br />
51% stakes to locals.<br />
However, it looks as if bootlicking<br />
has taken centre stage within<br />
Zanu PF and government. Today,<br />
bootlicking is misconstrued<br />
as patriotism. While patriotism<br />
is all about one’s devotion to his<br />
or her country, in Zanu PF, patriotism<br />
is the love for “your” President.<br />
Everyone in the ruling party<br />
is singing for their own supper.<br />
It is now politics of the stomach.<br />
President Mugabe has become a<br />
god of some sort and no one in<br />
Zanu PF dares to challenge his<br />
authority.<br />
We have in the past heard some<br />
ministers referring to the President<br />
as “Cremora” the “Biblical<br />
Moses” or “Angel Gabriel”<br />
and most recent “Digital Warrior”<br />
while some have even signed<br />
their mails to him as “Obedient<br />
Son”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> very same ministers who<br />
lead the bootlicking crusade are<br />
the ones whose ministries were<br />
found wanting in the previous<br />
Cabinet. Webster Shamu who is<br />
renowned for his “Cremora” and<br />
“Digital Warrior” mantra was at<br />
the helm of the Ministry of Media,<br />
Information and Publicity<br />
when the Zimbabwe Broadcasting<br />
Corporation (ZBC) was crumbling.<br />
Zimbabwe’s mining sector also<br />
suffered while Obert Mpofu, the<br />
“Obedient Son” was the minister<br />
of Mines and Mining Development.<br />
<strong>The</strong> country failed to account<br />
for all the diamonds mined<br />
at Chiadzwa.<br />
Most ministers and government<br />
officials have also developed<br />
a knack for bootlicking.<br />
This was evidenced by the rush<br />
in endorsing President Mugabe’s<br />
wife — Grace — as the new Zanu<br />
PF Women’s League Secretary<br />
and recent congratulatory messages<br />
after she “graduated” with<br />
a doctorate degree from the University<br />
of Zimbabwe.<br />
Last week, President Mugabe<br />
led an estimated 100-member delegation<br />
to the United Nations<br />
General Assembly in New York.<br />
Among the bloated delegation<br />
were well-known “bootlickers”<br />
who were only in New York to<br />
pursue their personal agendas.<br />
Zimbabwe is bleeding and the<br />
ordinary person is finding it difficult<br />
to make ends meet, but the<br />
government has the temerity of<br />
sending such a delegation for the<br />
UN General Assembly.<br />
A myriad of people surrounding<br />
Mugabe have turned out to<br />
President Robert Mugabe<br />
be praise singers and the majority<br />
are after nothing but to protect<br />
their own interests. Some<br />
of these people are known to be<br />
corrupt and have failed to serve<br />
the country in various capacities<br />
but they hide behind Mugabe’s<br />
name.<br />
Zimbabwe no longer needs such<br />
calibre of politicians. It needs<br />
men and women who can work towards<br />
building the country.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no more room for<br />
praise singers; we need politicians<br />
who can debate policies<br />
of social agenda such as health,<br />
economy and education among<br />
others.
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Boko Haram ‘leader killed repeatedly’<br />
Islamist insurgents have killed thousands of<br />
people, many of them civilians, since launching<br />
an uprising in 2009, and abducted hundreds of<br />
children<br />
ABUJA — Nigeria’s<br />
Boko Haram leader<br />
Abubakar Shekau, or<br />
a man claiming to be<br />
him, has been killed at<br />
least three times so far, according<br />
to the military, yet each time he<br />
apparently returns in the group’s<br />
numerous jihadist videos.<br />
Dead or alive, he appears to be<br />
fuelling violence which rights<br />
groups say is killing more people<br />
than at any time during Boko<br />
Haram’s five-year-old reign of terror<br />
in the north of the 175 millionstrong<br />
state.<br />
Officials say Shekau may be a<br />
name adopted by leaders of various<br />
wings of Boko Haram, raising<br />
the possibility the death of one<br />
may make others more amenable<br />
to negotiating an end to the fighting<br />
and release of 200 schoolgirls<br />
whose kidnap in April caused an<br />
international outcry.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last time the military said<br />
he was dead a year ago, a man<br />
looking similar to Shekau but<br />
slightly fatter continued to appear<br />
in videos issuing threats and<br />
taunting authorities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Islamist insurgents have<br />
killed thousands of people, many<br />
of them civilians, since launching<br />
an uprising in 2009, and abducted<br />
hundreds of children in a tactic<br />
reminiscent of Ugandan rebel<br />
Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance<br />
Army in central Africa.<br />
Shekau’s face has often appeared<br />
on video claiming attacks.<br />
Now Nigeria’s military says<br />
this video imposter — real name<br />
Bashir Mohammed — has died in<br />
fighting in the town of Kondugu,<br />
prompting the question whether<br />
there is another Shekau lookalike<br />
ready to continue the fight in Africa’s<br />
top economy.<br />
An alternative possibility is<br />
that Shekau is not dead.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Nigerian army has<br />
claimed on multiple occasions to<br />
have killed Shekau and it’s been<br />
disproved,” said Ben Payton, senior<br />
Africa analyst at UK-based<br />
risk consultancy Maplecroft.<br />
Shekau took over when Boko<br />
Haram’s founder and spiritual<br />
leader Mohammed Yusuf was<br />
killed in police custody in 2009.<br />
It is not possible to verify<br />
whether or not the videos are of<br />
the same person or more than<br />
Boko Haram insurgents . . . it is not known if their leader has been killed or not<br />
one, but the man in later videos<br />
that the military said was Bashir<br />
Mohammed had a plumper,<br />
rounder face, his nose was wider<br />
and his bridge less defined.<br />
His talk was even more bellicose<br />
and maniacal than the original<br />
Shekau, with statements vowing<br />
to kill all pagans and saying<br />
he was against the ideology of the<br />
whole world.<br />
<strong>The</strong> old Shekau was often quite<br />
sombre; the new one has a menacing<br />
laugh. And he only appeared<br />
after the alleged death of the real<br />
Shekau in August last year.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> name Shekau has become<br />
a brand name for the terrorists’<br />
leader,” military spokesman Major-General<br />
Chris Olukolade said<br />
on Thursday, an acknowledgment<br />
that however many Shekaus they<br />
kill, the violence is unlikely to end.<br />
By contrast, the death of Angolan<br />
rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in<br />
battle in 2002 ended a quarter century<br />
of civil war in Angola.<br />
“Even if Shekau has been killed<br />
. . . Boko Haram is much bigger<br />
than one individual. It has multiple<br />
units that operate with a fair<br />
degree of autonomy,” said Payton.<br />
But if it is true that Nigerian<br />
forces have inflicted heavy casualties<br />
in the past few days on a faction<br />
of the militants, as Boko Haram<br />
sought to hold territory it declared<br />
to be an “Islamic state” two months<br />
back, the others might turn out to<br />
be slightly more moderate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> military said on Wednesday<br />
more than 130 Boko Haram Islamist<br />
fighters had surrendered, and<br />
a man posing as the group’s leader<br />
in numerous videos had been<br />
killed in clashes, although it often<br />
claims successes that are impossible<br />
to independently verify.<br />
“It’s very likely that there’s two<br />
or three Shekaus and the commanders<br />
of different factions decided<br />
to all use the name,” said Jacob<br />
Zenn, Boko Haram expert at<br />
the Jamestown Foundation.<br />
“Possibly, that leaves . . . an opportunity<br />
to capitalise on the<br />
death of this Shekau and start<br />
talks with various [other] members<br />
of Boko Haram.”<br />
— Reuters<br />
People demand the return of the abducted girls. Picture: Reuters<br />
One of the abducted<br />
girls freed — police<br />
ABUJA — One of more than 200<br />
schoolgirls abducted by Islamist<br />
Boko Haram rebels in the northeastern<br />
Nigerian village of Chibok<br />
was freed this week, police<br />
and a parent of some of the other<br />
missing girls said on Thursday.<br />
Boko Haram militants took the<br />
girls from a secondary school in<br />
the village near the Cameroon<br />
border in April, sparking a worldwide<br />
outcry, and have remained in<br />
captivity ever since.<br />
Nigerian President Goodluck<br />
Jonathan has been pilloried at<br />
home and abroad for his slow response<br />
to the kidnapping and for<br />
his inability to quell the violence<br />
by the Islamist militants.<br />
“She was found running in a<br />
village. She was in the bush for<br />
about four days. She’s still receiving<br />
medical attention,” said a parent,<br />
who has two girls still with<br />
the insurgents and who declined<br />
to be named.<br />
He added that she was now in<br />
the northeastern city of Yola.<br />
Police spokesman Emmanuel<br />
Ojukwu told reporters in Abuja<br />
that the 20-year-old woman was<br />
discovered on Wednesday, saying<br />
she had been “dropped off by suspected<br />
Boko Haram militants” at<br />
Mubi in Adamawa state, some 100<br />
km from Chibok.<br />
“Her condition is stable,” he<br />
said, without explaining why she<br />
might have been released.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Islamists offered last May a<br />
prisoner swap to release the girls,<br />
but the proposal was rejected by<br />
the government.<br />
A military operation in the<br />
northeast has so far failed to quell<br />
the rebellion and has triggered reprisal<br />
attacks that are increasingly<br />
targeting civilians, after they<br />
formed vigilante groups to try to<br />
help the government flush out the<br />
militants.<br />
Boko Haram has seized several<br />
towns in the last two months,<br />
although the military said on<br />
Wednesday it had pushed them<br />
back and that 135 fighters had surrendered<br />
this week.<br />
It also said Nigerian troops had<br />
killed a man posing as Boko Haram<br />
leader Abubakar Shekau in<br />
several videos, including one in<br />
which he threatened to sell the<br />
girls into slavery. <strong>The</strong> military<br />
said last year that Shekau himself<br />
might have been killed.<br />
Boko Haram gunmen carried<br />
away some 270 girls and women,<br />
aged from 13 to over 20, when they<br />
raided the Chibok school. More<br />
than 50 eventually escaped, but<br />
at least 200 remain in captivity, as<br />
do scores of other girls kidnapped<br />
previously.<br />
—Reuters
Business<br />
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September 28 to October 4 2014 • www.thestandard.co.zw<br />
SHamU bemoanS lack of fixed line pHoneS/18<br />
US$35m fund<br />
to ward off<br />
water losses<br />
Nyakutsikwa said most water utilities do not<br />
have adequate monitoring systems for<br />
assessing losses<br />
BY MUSA DUBE<br />
<strong>The</strong> African Development<br />
Bank (AfDB) is administering<br />
a US$35 million<br />
fund earmarked for improving<br />
water distribution,<br />
billing and revenue collection<br />
in Zimbabwe.<br />
<strong>The</strong> “Non-Revenue Water” (NRW),<br />
which is the difference between the<br />
amount of water put into the distribution<br />
system and the amount of water<br />
billed to consumers — is reportedly<br />
averaging 50% in most cities<br />
and towns in the country.<br />
Speaking in Bulawayo last<br />
week, Water and Sanitation Engineer<br />
for the Zim Fund Project,<br />
Herbert Nyakutsikwa said one<br />
of the major challenges facing<br />
local authorities in the country<br />
was the large proportion of water<br />
lost in the distribution networks.<br />
Nyakutsikwa said a lot of<br />
treated water was currently being<br />
lost, leading to the water utilities<br />
losing a substantial amount<br />
of revenue.<br />
He said AfDB was administering<br />
a US$35 million fund earmarked<br />
for improving the water<br />
distribution management system<br />
in the country.<br />
“In support of this effort to reduce<br />
NRW, the AfDB is administering<br />
funding for the second<br />
phase of the Urgent Water Supply<br />
and Sanitation Rehabilitation<br />
Project (UWSSRP) with a total<br />
fund of US$ 35,99 million from<br />
multi donor trust fund [Zim-Fund]<br />
which has been running since<br />
2010,” said Nyakutsikwa.<br />
He said this phase was formulated<br />
to further the benefits and<br />
impacts of the first phase of the<br />
UWSSRP and include aspects not<br />
included in the first phase of the<br />
project.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> proposed second phase project<br />
is being implemented in Harare,<br />
Chitungwiza, Ruwa and Redcliff<br />
serving an estimated population<br />
of 1,9 million people. <strong>The</strong> project<br />
aims to protect public health<br />
through the improvement of service,<br />
preservation of physical assets,<br />
resuscitating capacity and<br />
improving financial sustainability<br />
of the water and sanitation service<br />
providers,” said the official.<br />
He said chronic water losses<br />
have been the hallmark of urban<br />
Zimbabwe’s water management<br />
over the decades, as witnessed<br />
by the many visible permanent<br />
and temporary leaks all over the<br />
towns and cities.<br />
“This may not have mattered<br />
much during an era of assumed<br />
plenty but the rapid growth of<br />
Zimbabwe’s cities has meant<br />
that there is much less water to<br />
go around now in the urban centres.<br />
Reducing these water losses<br />
is critical to efficient resource utilisation<br />
and water utility management,<br />
enhanced consumer satisfaction,<br />
and postponement of capital-intensive<br />
additions to capacity,”<br />
said Nyakutsikwa.<br />
He said most cities in the country<br />
were facing critical water<br />
Residents fetch water from a pool formed after a pipe burst in Kuwadzana... Most councils are losing a large proportion of water in<br />
their distribution networks. Picture: Aaron Ufumeli<br />
shortages.<br />
“Facing ever-increasing urban<br />
populations and expanding service<br />
areas, many water utilities<br />
continue to struggle with providing<br />
clean drinking water to<br />
their consumers. Common water<br />
supply problems in our cities<br />
and towns are related to the<br />
sources and use of raw water, intermittent<br />
supply, and the quality<br />
of tap water at the consumer’s<br />
end,” said Nyakutsikwa.<br />
He said most water utilities<br />
do not have adequate monitoring<br />
systems for assessing water<br />
losses.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> result is that data on NRW<br />
is usually not readily available.<br />
Even when data is available, it is<br />
not always reliable, as some poorly<br />
performing utilities may practise<br />
“window dressing” in an attempt<br />
to conceal the extent of<br />
their own inefficiency,” said Nyakutsikwa.<br />
He said there was need to improve<br />
the water infrastructure<br />
and reduce the water losses.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> desired reduction in NRW<br />
is to have it below 20%. However,<br />
the vast majority of local authorities<br />
are not engaging in serious<br />
and professional NRW management,”<br />
he said.<br />
He bemoaned the infrastructure,<br />
which in most cases still remains<br />
in a poor state, unable to<br />
provide adequate water to the<br />
population and posing a threat<br />
of the return of the dreaded water-borne<br />
diseases.<br />
Zimre Holdings suffers US$0,11m first-half loss<br />
BY VICTORIA MTOMBA<br />
ZIMRE Holdings Limited (ZHL) posted<br />
a loss after tax of US$113 627 for<br />
the six months ended June 2014 from<br />
a profit of US$2,4 million, weighed<br />
down by a loss recorded in its agricultural<br />
associate.<br />
In a statement accompanying<br />
the group’s financial statement,<br />
ZHL chairman Benjamin Kumalo<br />
said the economy has continued to<br />
operate at suboptimal levels, characterised<br />
by limited capital inflows,<br />
depressed demand, company<br />
closures, high cost of funds and<br />
underperforming exports.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> period under review has<br />
been very challenging and the<br />
group performance was adversely<br />
affected by the slowdown in<br />
economic growth. A loss after tax<br />
for the period to 30 June 2014 of<br />
US$0,11million was recorded compared<br />
to a profit of US$2,39 million<br />
in the same period last year.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> group’s share of the loss on<br />
its agro-industrial associate operation<br />
of US$1,01 million had a negative<br />
impact on the overall performance<br />
of the group,” said Kumalo.<br />
A Gross Premium Written of<br />
US$41,23 million was recorded<br />
and was in line with what was<br />
recorded same period last year<br />
while domestic operations contributions<br />
stood at 52% during the<br />
period under review compared to<br />
60% the same period last year.<br />
“An operating profit of US$1,66<br />
million was achieved compared<br />
to US$2,87 million in the same period.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 42% decline in operating<br />
profit was mainly attributed<br />
to an increase in claims during<br />
the period under review,” Kumalo<br />
said.<br />
He said comprehensive income<br />
declined to US$0,72 million in<br />
2014 from US$1,58 million in 2013,<br />
with the financial position growing<br />
to US$160,77 million in June<br />
2014 from US$155 million in December<br />
2013.<br />
He said the macroeconomic environment<br />
was expected to remain<br />
challenging for the rest of<br />
the year and the group will monitor<br />
developments in the domestic<br />
and regional markets.<br />
“Disposal of non-core investments<br />
is still in progress. <strong>The</strong><br />
group has intensified efforts on<br />
capital raising in order to enhance<br />
underwriting capacity and<br />
liquidity across operations. Cost<br />
cutting measures are also being<br />
implemented with a view to enhance<br />
group profitability,” he<br />
said.
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Business<br />
Shamu bemoans lack of fixed line phones<br />
TelOne has opened<br />
outlets at Kamfinsa,<br />
Pomona and<br />
Westgate shopping<br />
malls<br />
BY TARISAI MANDIZHA<br />
Less than a tenth of households<br />
in Chitungwiza are<br />
connected to TelOne, a<br />
cabinet minister said last<br />
week, urging the stateowned<br />
operator to step up connections.<br />
Speaking at the official opening<br />
of TelOne client’s services shop at<br />
Chitungwiza Town Centre, Minister<br />
of Information Communication<br />
Technology, Postal and Courier Services<br />
Webster Shamu said 7 024 out<br />
of 87 103 households were connected<br />
to TelOne saying the company<br />
should bridge the gap.<br />
“We need to move in further for<br />
fixed lines to be available in each<br />
and every household. We want to<br />
uplift the standards of living in<br />
Chitungwiza, the whole of Zimbabwe<br />
and the whole of Sadc,” Shamu<br />
said.<br />
TelOne managing director<br />
Chipo Mtasa said the statistics<br />
have challenged the company and<br />
“we are ready to do work in Chitungwiza”.<br />
Shamu said the world was gearing<br />
towards a digital future where<br />
everyone was communicating via<br />
their computer, laptop or smartphone.<br />
He said ICTs were playing an instrumental<br />
role in transforming<br />
lives and government identified<br />
the sector as one of the pillars of<br />
the economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe<br />
Agenda for Sustainable<br />
Socio-Economic Transformation<br />
(Zim Asset).<br />
He however, said the move by<br />
TelOne to open a one-stop-shop<br />
was welcome as residents would<br />
benefit immensely from “affordable,<br />
reliable and superfast services”<br />
on offer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new centre offers the provision<br />
of client services, bill payment,<br />
enquiries, ADSL top ups,<br />
a wifi hotspot and internet café,<br />
agent services for prepaid electricity<br />
vouchers on behalf of Zesa<br />
and an agent of NetOne’s One<br />
Wallet services, along with their<br />
products and services.<br />
TelOne chairperson Charles<br />
Shamu said TelOne has plans to<br />
open more outlets throughout the<br />
year. To date, TelOne has opened<br />
outlets at shopping malls such as<br />
Kamfinsa, Pomona and Westgate<br />
in Harare, he said.<br />
“We conducted an extensive<br />
feasibility study to better understand<br />
the business and residential<br />
communication needs of Chitungwiza.<br />
<strong>The</strong> town centre is also<br />
fast becoming a hive of activity<br />
and this necessitated us to open<br />
this outlet for the Chitungwiza<br />
community,” said Charles Shamu.<br />
He added that TelOne have completed<br />
a broadband project for 500<br />
households which complements<br />
the already existing network of<br />
approximately 2 300 households.<br />
Webster Shamu<br />
‘Investing in water<br />
averts global disaster’<br />
BY MUSA DUBE<br />
THE Zimbabwe International Trade Fair<br />
(ZITF) company launched its inaugural Water,<br />
Sanitation, Hygiene and Energy (WASH-<br />
EN) 2014 expo in Bulawayo with a call for investments<br />
in the water sector to avert an impending<br />
global disaster.<br />
ZITF Chairman Bekithemba Nkomo said<br />
the global population was growing and there<br />
was need to invest in the water sector and<br />
augment the changes in the population size.<br />
“As global populations continue to grow,<br />
the impact of water scarcity will soon be<br />
acutely felt in our natural environment,”<br />
said Nkomo. “This has the potential to significantly<br />
impact global health, severely<br />
challenge agricultural production, limit industrial<br />
growth and most importantly, become<br />
a cause of conflicts among communities<br />
and nations.<br />
“Consequently, the development of innovative<br />
water infrastructure and technology<br />
that optimise and address the interdependence<br />
of water and energy will become increasingly<br />
important.”<br />
He said the water and energy systems are<br />
connected in some obvious ways, along with<br />
many subtle links.<br />
“It is essential to understand how these<br />
critical resources are interlinked and how<br />
they impact on each other,” said Nkomo.<br />
Most cities in the country especially Harare<br />
and Bulawayo, are grappling with a critical<br />
water shortage where residents sometimes<br />
go for days without the precious liquid.<br />
“On the other hand, climate change and the<br />
need to manage diminishing fossil fuel reserves<br />
are, today, two of the biggest challenges<br />
facing the planet and it is widely accepted that<br />
we must act now to reduce energy consumption<br />
and substantially cut greenhouse gases,<br />
such as carbon dioxide.”<br />
He said they were impressed by the expo,<br />
held under the theme, Innovative Solutions for<br />
Sustainable Development, after it managed to<br />
attract about 30 exhibitors.<br />
“We are excited about the latest addition<br />
to our stable of brands. <strong>The</strong> aim of the event<br />
is to provide a relevant platform to showcase<br />
best practice and a forum to discuss topical issues<br />
in water, sanitation, hygiene and energy,”<br />
said Nkomo.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> theme is reflective of the fact that access<br />
to clean water, adequate sanitation and<br />
hygiene as well as sustainable management<br />
are a pre-requisite for growing economy”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two-day WASHen expo attracted the<br />
business community, industry, civic society<br />
leaders and policy makers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> launch of the WASHen expo brings<br />
to six the number of sector specific exhibitions<br />
that the trade fair company organisers<br />
host.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sector specific exhibitions under the<br />
trade fair include Mine Entra, A’Sambeni<br />
Africa Bus Tourism, Travel Expo and Pak<br />
Print.
Business<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014 19<br />
<strong>The</strong> battle of African giants<br />
in the<br />
money<br />
with NESBERt RUwO<br />
Nigeria surpassed South africa as the<br />
largest economy in africa when the Nigerian<br />
National Bureau of Statistics published<br />
the revised size of Nigerian economy<br />
to about N81 trillion following it’s rebasing of<br />
the country’s gross Domestic Product (gDP), using<br />
the expenditure approach between 2010-2013.<br />
according to the World Bank, Nigeria’s 2013<br />
gDP of US$522,6 billion exceeds South africa’s<br />
US$350,6 billion by close to 50%. <strong>The</strong> rebasing of<br />
Nigeria’s gDP ranks Nigeria as the 26 th largest<br />
economy in the world, and the largest economy in<br />
africa. in comparison, South africa sits at number<br />
28 globally and second in africa. Has the african<br />
giant, South africa, fallen or has the real african<br />
giant awoken?<br />
Nigerians are however no richer than they were<br />
before the rebasing of the gDP numbers. Most Nigerians<br />
are still living on less than US$1,25 a day despite<br />
vast natural resources such as oil, a situation<br />
called a “resource curse”. Nigeria has a population<br />
of over 170 million. This dwarfs Nigeria’s gDP<br />
per capita (i.e. gDP divided by total population) of<br />
US$3 010 when compared to US$6 618 of South africa.<br />
On a per capita basis, Nigeria is now ranked as<br />
129 in the world while South africa is at 89.<br />
What’s important on the new look of Nigerian<br />
economy is how it has developed over the period<br />
from 1990 when a gDP rebasing was last done. <strong>The</strong><br />
economy is now more diversified. <strong>The</strong> service sector,<br />
which comprises transportation, iCT, arts and<br />
entertainment, financial and insurance services,<br />
real estate, public administration, education and<br />
health services, accounts for 51% of gDP while agriculture<br />
contributes 21% to gDP. Service industries<br />
are booming. But manufacturing sector lags<br />
behind — it contributes 9%. iCT’s contribution<br />
sits at 10,4%. although oil and gas industry contributes<br />
12,9% to gDP, much of this oil and gas is<br />
not refined in Nigeria as shown by 0,5% gDP contribution<br />
by the refining industry.<br />
<strong>The</strong> picture is different from the South african<br />
economy structure. That economy is driven by financial<br />
services (21,6%), manufacturing (15%),<br />
public sector (13,6%) and the transport sector<br />
(12,5%). South africa has one of the most developed<br />
and regulated financial sector in the world,<br />
and very well-developed infrastructure compared<br />
to none in africa. it’s stock exchange, Johannesburg<br />
Stock exchange, with over 385 listed companies,<br />
has a market capitalisation of just over US$1<br />
trillion. Nigeria Stock exchange trails behind<br />
with a market cap of US$81 billion and 223 listings.<br />
From an investor perspective, country competitiveness<br />
is an important consideration before investment.<br />
<strong>The</strong> World economic Forum (WeF) in its<br />
2014-15 global Competitiveness report defines competitiveness<br />
as the “set of institutions, policies, and<br />
factors that determine the level of productivity of a<br />
country. <strong>The</strong> productivity level drives the rate of return<br />
on investments in a country.”<br />
WeF identifies what it calls the pillars for competitiveness<br />
namely: institutions, infrastructure,<br />
macro-economic environment, health and primary<br />
education, higher education and training,<br />
goods market efficiency, labour market efficiency,<br />
financial market development, technological readiness,<br />
market size, business sophistication, and innovation.<br />
in order to assess competitiveness, the<br />
WeF divided the 144 nations it surveyed into one<br />
of three classifications, depending on their stage<br />
of development, namely factor-, efficiency-, and<br />
innovation-driven economies.<br />
a country’s competitiveness and economic development<br />
is highly correlated with its gross Domestic<br />
Product. all of the 10 most competitive countries<br />
had among the 25 highest gDPs per capita last year.<br />
Despite being the largest economy in africa, Nigeria’s<br />
ranking slipped from 120 (2013) to 127 (2014).<br />
<strong>The</strong> key challenges facing Nigeria include infrastructure<br />
deficits, policy instability, corruption, and<br />
institutional weaknesses. Nigeria is still considered<br />
a factor-driven economy as it is still competing based<br />
on its natural resources. it is yet to develop an efficient<br />
production process and manufacturing base.<br />
Sa was ranked 56, which is a drop from 53 in<br />
2013. although Sa has developed into an efficiency-driven<br />
economy, it has to deal with its restrictive<br />
labour practices, ensure that its workforce is<br />
adequately educated, and curb government bureaucracy<br />
and corruption.<br />
While South africa sees itself as the “spring<br />
board” for international investors to expand into<br />
the rest of africa, Nigeria has the largest economy<br />
in africa with a huge market to be exploited.<br />
Policy makers within the two countries have to<br />
continue to accelerate structural and institutional<br />
reforms to improve competitiveness. Nigeria has<br />
a lot more to do to improve its competitiveness.<br />
However, it is expected to remain the largest economy<br />
in africa for the foreseeable future.<br />
To put the above numbers into the Zimbabwean<br />
context:<br />
Zimbabwe has a gDP estimated at US$13 billion<br />
and gDP per capita of US$905. Zimbabwe<br />
Stock exchange has 61 listed companies with a total<br />
market capitalisation of US$6 billion, giving a<br />
market capitalisation to gDP multiple of 50%. <strong>The</strong><br />
WeF consider Zimbabwe as a factor-driven economy<br />
and ranked it 124 out of 144 countries.<br />
• Nesbert Ruwo is an investment banker<br />
based in South Africa. He can be contacted on<br />
nesr@opportunvest.co.za<br />
South African mine workers march for higher pay (file picture) — Reuters
20 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Business<br />
When a business plan goes off rail<br />
sme’s<br />
chat<br />
with phillip chichoni<br />
EvEryonE has a plan, till they get<br />
punched in the mouth. —Mike TysonMike<br />
Tyson (pictured<br />
right) is one of the<br />
best heavyweight<br />
boxing champions<br />
of all time. During<br />
his career, he was known for his ferocious<br />
and intimidating boxing<br />
styles. In one of his most famous<br />
fights, Tyson defeated skilled heavyweight<br />
champion Michael Spinks<br />
by a knockout in just 91 seconds.<br />
When asked recently about the<br />
origins of his famous quote mentioned<br />
above, Tyson said, “People<br />
were asking me [before a fight],<br />
what’s going to happen.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were talking about his opponent’s<br />
style. “He is going to give<br />
you a lot of lateral movement. He<br />
is going to dance. He is going to do<br />
this, do that.”<br />
Tyson then replied, “Everybody<br />
has a plan until they get hit. <strong>The</strong>n,<br />
like a rat, they stop in fear and<br />
freeze.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> boxer’s quote applies far beyond<br />
the world of boxing. In business,<br />
when your plan is working<br />
there is little to worry about. However,<br />
wait until something goes<br />
wrong, as so many things are doing<br />
in our chaotic environment.<br />
Customers are cutting on spending,<br />
debtors are slow in paying and<br />
lack of liquidity is the talk of the<br />
town. Some are having it worse,<br />
with clients that owe them lots of<br />
money falling into bankruptcy or<br />
simply closing shop.<br />
Economic disasters have been<br />
happening for various reasons<br />
throughout the centuries. What is<br />
important to note is that those who<br />
survived were defined, not by the<br />
disaster, but by their reaction to it.<br />
A business strategic plan is<br />
not a fixed path to a destination.<br />
Rather, it is a dynamic set of tactics<br />
that you use to reach a defined<br />
goal. It must therefore be flexible<br />
in the face of unpredictable external<br />
circumstances. Since you cannot<br />
foresee tomorrow, you need to<br />
plan how you will react to various<br />
events that may happen. You need<br />
to have a strategic plan that takes<br />
into account worst case scenarios<br />
and how you will ride through<br />
them.<br />
Here are some insights to consider<br />
in your strategic planning:<br />
•Diversify your customer base.<br />
If you are too dependent on one or<br />
two customers for the bulk of your<br />
sales, you are putting your business<br />
at risk if they run into financial<br />
difficulties. This is a lesson<br />
that too many entrepreneurs are<br />
now learning the hard way.<br />
•Don’t neglect your best customers.<br />
While it’s important to ensure<br />
you have the right mix of customers,<br />
it’s also wise to treat your best<br />
customers with extra attention. By<br />
nurturing relationships with key<br />
customers and building their loyalty,<br />
entrepreneurs can grow along<br />
with them. It’s easy to make the<br />
mistake of being distracted by the<br />
most persistent or annoying customers.<br />
Your biggest customers<br />
are unlikely to be the “squeakiest<br />
wheel”.<br />
•Take a proactive approach to<br />
marketing. No product or service<br />
sells itself, especially not in a slow<br />
economy. Word-of-mouth marketing<br />
is not sufficient to grow a business.<br />
You need to define and promote<br />
your unique selling points.<br />
You should have a well-defined<br />
marketing strategy to push your<br />
business to potential customers.<br />
•Step back from the day-to-day<br />
to focus on strategic goals. While<br />
it can be easy to get lost in daily<br />
details and neglect your strategic<br />
plan, the consequences can lead to<br />
failure. It’s essential to keep your<br />
mission and values in mind as<br />
day-to-day operating decisions are<br />
made. Know what your strengths<br />
are, what you want to achieve and<br />
how you plan to get there. Keep<br />
your business plan documented,<br />
updated and shared.<br />
•Foster a positive attitude in<br />
your staff. Everyone within the organisation<br />
needs to be trained and<br />
coached to understand the company’s<br />
strategy and to proactively<br />
promote the business at every opportunity.<br />
When hiring, look for<br />
people with the right qualifications<br />
and also the right attitude.<br />
If you can’t change people’s attitudes,<br />
you may have to change the<br />
people.<br />
•Consistently monitor assets<br />
as well as profits. Most entrepreneurs<br />
are very focused on managing<br />
the bottom line by monitoring<br />
sales, gross margin and expenses,<br />
but they often ignore asset management,<br />
especially cash flow. For<br />
a better bottom line, keep an eye<br />
on asset and cash flow management<br />
to build net worth. Balance<br />
short-term and long-term needs<br />
with short and long-term sources<br />
of funds. If you foresee problems<br />
on the horizon, talk to your bankers<br />
early. Never surprise them<br />
with bad news.<br />
•Balance the entrepreneurial<br />
approach with sound analysis.<br />
Maintain the enthusiasm and<br />
spontaneity to react quickly, but do<br />
your homework and base decisions<br />
on facts, not just feelings. Watch<br />
market feedback and analyse the<br />
facts. Don’t stick with what works<br />
until it stops working. Be aware<br />
of the warning signs. Evolve and<br />
grow by optimising systems and<br />
installing best practices and latest<br />
technologies.<br />
So, when things go awry, do not<br />
panic or give up, think of the tactics<br />
in your strategic plan and act.<br />
Above all, always have a positive<br />
attitude as things are rarely as bad<br />
they look at first.<br />
• Phillip Chichoni is a business<br />
development consultant who<br />
works with SMEs and entrepreneurs.<br />
You may contact him<br />
by email, chichonip@smebusinesslink.com.<br />
You can also visit<br />
http://smebusinesslink.com<br />
20 th<br />
BRAND MASTERS
Africa News<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> Spetember 28 to October 4 2014 21<br />
No kisses, handshakes in Liberia<br />
FAMILIES and communities have been<br />
devastated by the deaths caused by West<br />
Africa’s Ebola outbreak. But the disease<br />
also has consequences for the region’s<br />
way of life, and in particular their traditional<br />
greetings.<br />
One of the things the people of West Africa are<br />
very good at is greeting each other. In most of the<br />
region’s countries it would be positively rude to<br />
exchange a passing, British-style “Hello, how are<br />
you?” and walk on.<br />
In West Africa the normal thing to do would be<br />
to stop, reach out one hand, or even two, shake<br />
warmly and then embrace.<br />
This is followed by much backslapping, more<br />
handshaking on points of agreement and even<br />
the odd high five.<br />
It’s what children do, it’s what men do, it’s what<br />
elderly ladies do.<br />
Well, not any more. Ebola is spread by contact<br />
with bodily fluids, so these days people shun contact<br />
with others — including handshakes.<br />
Of course, the worst impact of this disease has<br />
been on those who have contracted it, and their<br />
loved ones. But the end of shaking hands has affected<br />
everyone, everywhere in the region.<br />
<strong>The</strong> country that’s been worst affected by Ebola<br />
— with the most deaths — is Liberia.<br />
After President Barack Obama announced the<br />
US would be sending 3 000 troops to oversee the<br />
building of new treatment centres and help train<br />
medical staff in the country, Liberian President<br />
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf broadcasted a “Thankyou”<br />
speech to the US. She also told Liberians:<br />
“Ebola will not defeat us.”<br />
President Johnson Sirleaf had earlier said the<br />
disease was damaging Liberians’ way of life. One<br />
thing she was surely referring to was the unusual<br />
Liberian handshake.<br />
It’s been called the “Liberian finger snap”. If<br />
that sounds painful, it isn’t. But it is rather tricky<br />
to master.<br />
<strong>The</strong> finger snap involves clasping hands in the<br />
normal way. But then — as the hands are released<br />
— each partner clicks the fingers of the other.<br />
This produces two loud snapping sounds.<br />
It’s something of a point of honour to make the<br />
pair of snaps as strong — and therefore as loud —<br />
as possible. <strong>The</strong> louder the snaps, the greater the<br />
friendship. But not any more.<br />
I’ve visited Liberia many times, and I find it impossible<br />
to imagine the country without a soundscape<br />
of finger snaps. If I, as a foreigner, feel that<br />
way, I can’t begin to imagine how odd the lack of<br />
handshaking must feel for a Liberian.<br />
It’s the same across the whole region. In<br />
French-speaking parts of West Africa, the traditional<br />
greeting of three kisses on the cheek has<br />
stopped too.<br />
It’s as if this terrible disease, not content with<br />
killing thousands of people, wants to rip the beating<br />
heart out of a naturally friendly, and communally-minded,<br />
population.<br />
Something similarly shocking took place last<br />
weekend in Liberia’s neighbour, Sierra Leone<br />
which has been devastated by Ebola.<br />
In an effort to stop the spread of the disease, the<br />
authorities ordered a nationwide three-day lockdown.<br />
Everyone was supposed to stay in their<br />
homes while health workers mounted a nationwide<br />
door-to-door check to seek out anyone infected.<br />
<strong>The</strong> operation is fraught with difficulties and<br />
dangers. In the first place, it’s far from clear if Sierra<br />
Leone has enough qualified health professionals<br />
to visit every house and hut in the land.<br />
Or what they will do if they find potential patients<br />
— the treatment centres are already full to<br />
overflowing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sierra Leone government says the desperate<br />
situation requires desperate measures. But,<br />
even if the lockdown works, it’s another example<br />
of Ebola changing a country’s very way of life.<br />
Most of its population are very poor. Many work<br />
as street traders or day labourers. Very few people<br />
have large stocks of food in their cupboards,<br />
and only a minority have luxuries like fridges. So<br />
they simply have to go out every day to work and<br />
shop — otherwise their families will not get fed.<br />
Of course those worst affected by Ebola are<br />
the sick, the dying and their families. But everyone<br />
is being touched in other terribly important<br />
parts of their lives, however seemingly mundane<br />
— from the simple handshake to doing the shopping.<br />
<strong>The</strong> president of Liberia said in her speech:<br />
“We are fighting against Ebola. We will win.”<br />
If and when this happens, one of the most precious<br />
things West Africans get back will be the<br />
ability to shake hands again.<br />
— BBC News<br />
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22 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
International News<br />
Westgate attack<br />
haunts Kenyans<br />
Nairobi — A year on<br />
from the assault by Islamist<br />
militants on<br />
the Westgate shopping<br />
centre in Nairobi, Kenyans<br />
still have questions about the<br />
four-day siege and its aftermath.<br />
It was the worst attack on Kenyan<br />
soil since the 1998 US embassy<br />
bombing by al-Qaeda — leaving<br />
67 people dead and more than 200<br />
wounded.<br />
<strong>The</strong> military, police and spy<br />
agency have been battling to save<br />
face over the handling of the rescue<br />
operation.<br />
Here are five key issues that remain<br />
unresolved:<br />
1) Was the rescue bungled?<br />
Initially, the police and members<br />
of the public tried to repel<br />
the attack.<br />
As hours went by, the government<br />
sent in the military. Rivalry<br />
between the two forces started<br />
when a commander of the police<br />
elite squad was killed in friendly<br />
fire by the military.<br />
<strong>The</strong> changeover angered the<br />
police and they left in protest<br />
as the army took control of the<br />
building.<br />
A military commander involved<br />
in the operation, who spoke on<br />
condition of anonymity, said<br />
that is when things started to go<br />
wrong.<br />
“We entered the mall blindly<br />
with no guide, with no concept of<br />
anything. Command and control<br />
was not there,” he said. “<strong>The</strong> police<br />
felt they were undermined.<br />
<strong>The</strong> military thought the police<br />
didn’t want to give them enough<br />
information so everything went<br />
wrong.”<br />
2) Attackers — who were they and did<br />
they die?<br />
Somalia’s al-Qaeda affiliate, al-<br />
Shabab, said it had attacked the<br />
mall because Kenya sent troops to<br />
Somalia to bolster the UN-backed<br />
government.<br />
Kenya’s military spokesman<br />
named four of the gunmen as Abu<br />
Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan,<br />
Khattab al-Kene and Umayr.<br />
“I confirm those are the names<br />
of the terrorists,” Major Emmanuel<br />
Chirchir tweeted at the time.<br />
All four were said to have<br />
crossed over the border from Somalia<br />
before the attack.<br />
It is thought the names given<br />
by the military may be noms de<br />
guerre as one of the gunmen was<br />
subsequently identified as Hassan<br />
Abdi Dhuhulow, a 23-year-old Norwegian<br />
citizen of Somali origin.<br />
Recovered remains of the alleged<br />
attackers are still undergoing<br />
forensic tests by the FBI.<br />
Kenya’s chief pathologist Johannes<br />
Oduor, who was part of<br />
the team initially examining<br />
them, says he was unable to confirm<br />
if the bodies were those of<br />
the attackers.<br />
“I am still waiting for the report,”<br />
he says.<br />
Ole Lenku says the report on forensic<br />
analysis samples may be<br />
able to answer these questions.<br />
“Until we get it we can’t give<br />
any concrete information on their<br />
identities to establish their names<br />
and nationalities.”<br />
3) What happened to the inquiry?<br />
President Uhuru Kenyatta<br />
promised to form a commission<br />
of inquiry to investigate the attack<br />
and any failings by security<br />
agencies. But to date nothing has<br />
Civilians flee from the Westgate Mall in Kenya last year<br />
happened.<br />
“We did promise, but parliament<br />
took up the process and did their<br />
best and came up with a report<br />
that actually necessitated a number<br />
of actions towards improving<br />
the country’s security,” Ole Lenku<br />
says.<br />
But no-one was sacked or held<br />
responsible as a result of the MPs’<br />
report, released in March.<br />
Security analysts say a public<br />
inquiry into Westgate could have<br />
been embarrassing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> parliamentary investigation<br />
was a way of protecting the<br />
military, which had been criticised<br />
following allegations that<br />
soldiers looted shops in Westgate,<br />
they say.<br />
China must close suicide ‘loophole’<br />
for corrupt officials — Academic<br />
President Xi Jinping<br />
Beijing — China must close<br />
the “judicial loophole” of suicide<br />
for corrupt officials in<br />
its ongoing battle against graft, a<br />
well-known scholar has said.<br />
President Xi Jinping has vowed<br />
to target high-flying “tigers” as<br />
well as lowly “flies” in an anti-corruption<br />
drive that has ensnared<br />
many high-ranking officials, including<br />
the powerful former domestic<br />
security chief, Zhou Yongkang,<br />
and Jiang Jiemin, once the<br />
top regulator of state-owned enterprises.<br />
In a commentary, Lin Zhe, a professor<br />
of anti-corruption studies<br />
at the ruling Communist Party’s<br />
Central Party School, said corrupt<br />
officials use suicide as a tool<br />
to evade punishment by the party’s<br />
anti-graft authorities.<br />
Corrupt officials who kill themselves<br />
can “preserve their titles<br />
and honour” as well as their illgotten<br />
gains, which remain in the<br />
hands of their families, she added.<br />
“Considering the astonishing<br />
sums of money an official can obtain<br />
through corruption, that’s a<br />
good deal for them and their families,”<br />
Lin said.<br />
Just 37% of officials who commit<br />
suicide actually suffer from<br />
psychological or other pressure,<br />
Lin said.<br />
Some officials may kill themselves<br />
to avoid becoming witnesses<br />
in bigger cases, she added, saying<br />
authorities in China must<br />
take measures to “close that loophole”.<br />
“It might be difficult to change<br />
the principles, such as ending<br />
prosecution against dead suspects,<br />
but at least disciplinary<br />
investigations should continue<br />
against them, and dig deep into<br />
their background,” she said.<br />
“Only when corrupt officials realise<br />
that committing suicide will<br />
no longer protect their illegal income<br />
will they give up the idea.”<br />
Zhou, who was a member of the<br />
Politburo Standing Committee —<br />
China’s apex of power — retired<br />
in 2012. —Reuters<br />
4) What about the looting?<br />
<strong>The</strong> military was accused of looting<br />
when CCTV footage emerged<br />
showing soldiers carrying bags<br />
out of the shopping centre.<br />
When merchants returned to<br />
Westgate they found most of their<br />
shops had been vandalised.<br />
Pictures circulating on social<br />
media revealed shelves, cash drawers<br />
and safes broken into.<br />
<strong>The</strong> government said the soldiers<br />
with carrier bags were helping<br />
themselves to water from a supermarket<br />
to quench their thirst<br />
during the operation.<br />
In October, two soldiers were<br />
named, charged and jailed for the<br />
looting.<br />
Victor Otieno and Victor Ashihundu<br />
were court-martialled but<br />
their sentences have not been<br />
made public.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were allegedly found in<br />
possession of mobile phones, cameras<br />
and battery chargers.<br />
5) What has happened with<br />
compensation?<br />
<strong>The</strong> government promised to<br />
pay compensation to survivors<br />
and help settle their medical bills.<br />
But those contacted by the BBC<br />
say this has not happened.<br />
“It’s been tough because I don’t<br />
have any income,” says Anne<br />
Moraa, a manager of a shop selling<br />
handbags in Westgate, who<br />
was trampled as she tried to escape.<br />
She had to pay her own hospital<br />
YANGON — Myanmar’s army released<br />
109 children from its military<br />
ranks last week in its single<br />
biggest discharge of child<br />
soldiers, but boys are still being<br />
illegally recruited from poor families,<br />
the United Nations said.<br />
Myanmar has for years been<br />
listed among countries where<br />
children have been recruited to<br />
fight — both by government forces<br />
and rebels.<br />
<strong>The</strong> military ran the country<br />
for 49 years and was condemned<br />
internationally for human rights<br />
abuses, including the use of child<br />
soldiers.<br />
Bertrand Bainvel, head of the<br />
UN Children’s Fund in Myanmar,<br />
said the military wants to professionalise<br />
its ranks and the presence<br />
of child soldiers may block<br />
military cooperation with countries<br />
that could provide assistance.<br />
A reformist, semi-civilian government<br />
that took over in 2011<br />
has been working with the United<br />
Nations to get children out of the<br />
military. It has released 472 services<br />
since June 2012 including last<br />
week’s discharge, which was the<br />
largest yet, according to the United<br />
Nations.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re is a commitment by the<br />
Tatmadaw to have this practice<br />
eradicated from its ranks,” said<br />
Bainvel, referring to the military<br />
by its traditional name.<br />
Bainvel said recruitment continues<br />
at a decreased rate and that<br />
most young recruits come from<br />
bills. She is continuing to pay for<br />
counselling as she is too traumatised<br />
to go into any shopping centre.<br />
“We have been waiting for the<br />
government to compensate [us]<br />
— I haven't seen anything yet,”<br />
Moraa says.<br />
“After Westgate many people<br />
went to hospital, the government<br />
didn’t follow them up. <strong>The</strong>re is no<br />
support group for survivors.”<br />
A military officer injured by<br />
a grenade thrown by one of the<br />
militants says he is also waiting.<br />
<strong>The</strong> grenade killed two of his colleagues.<br />
“I have not been compensated.<br />
Neither have the families of those<br />
soldiers that died in the attack. I<br />
have not been told anything. Maybe<br />
it’s in the process and has not<br />
been communicated to us,” said<br />
the soldier, who is still receiving<br />
treatment for his injuries.<br />
Ole Lenku said he could not<br />
comment on these cases.<br />
“I know the concern has been<br />
raised but it involves a lot of variables,”<br />
he said.<br />
—BBC<br />
Myanmar army releases more child soldiers<br />
A child soldier from an ethnic armed<br />
group in Myanmar<br />
poor families seeking the income<br />
that a son in the army can provide.<br />
Recruiting most often takes<br />
place in the two largest cities, Yangon<br />
and Mandalay, and is often facilitated<br />
by civilian brokers who<br />
forge identification documents,<br />
making it difficult to determine<br />
how many child soldiers remain<br />
enlisted.<br />
“This is a big question and<br />
there’s no way to say for sure how<br />
many there are,” Bainvel said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> United Nations said seven<br />
ethnic minority guerrilla forces,<br />
which have fought or are still<br />
fighting the government, were<br />
also using child soldiers.<br />
—Reuters
International News<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014 23<br />
US Secret Service caught napping<br />
By Tara McKelvey<br />
<strong>The</strong> recent break-in at<br />
the White house makes<br />
the US Secret Service<br />
look terrible. It also<br />
sheds light on an agency<br />
that operates largely behind the<br />
scenes.<br />
People in Washington have advice<br />
for those guarding the White<br />
house.<br />
Lock the door, said a US congressman,<br />
Mike Rogers, on CBS’s<br />
Face the Nation.<br />
Recently, a man later identified<br />
as Iraq War veteran Omar Gonzalez<br />
climbed a fence, ran more than<br />
60m (197ft) and made it through<br />
the North Portico door.<br />
One former Secret Service officer<br />
who asked not to be identified<br />
(“I’m a private person,” he says)<br />
is as puzzled as anyone about his<br />
former colleagues — and “how<br />
hapless they seemed”.<br />
he says he’s spent “many<br />
hours” standing at the North Portico<br />
door. he wonders how Gonzalez<br />
made it that far.<br />
“I’m at a loss to explain why somebody<br />
didn’t tackle him,” he says.<br />
Gonzalez was captured — once<br />
he got inside. he had a knife and<br />
800 rounds of ammunition in a<br />
car parked blocks away, according<br />
to authorities.<br />
Luckily no-one got hurt. Still the<br />
breach of security marked a new<br />
low — the first time an intruder<br />
had made it into the building.<br />
Uniformed officers guard the White House premises. Picture: Getty images<br />
Security has been beefed up<br />
over the past several days. Three<br />
white SUVs were parked near the<br />
North Portico door on Monday. In<br />
addition, visitors were screened<br />
more carefully than usual. Some<br />
were turned away. (I was, for a<br />
time, the result of a clerical error<br />
during my accreditation).<br />
One can hardly blame the officers<br />
for being extra-vigilant.<br />
<strong>The</strong> incident with the “wall<br />
jumper”, as Gonzalez is known at<br />
the White house, draws unwanted<br />
attention to the Secret Service —<br />
again. Over the past several years<br />
they have been caught in a series<br />
of sex scandals and drunken escapades.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are other problems, too.<br />
In recent years those who work<br />
at the Department of homeland<br />
Security, which oversees much<br />
of the Secret Service, have suffered<br />
from a high attrition rate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Washington Post reports the<br />
workforce has “abysmal morale”.<br />
An internal review of the Secret<br />
Service is now underway<br />
— commissioned because of the<br />
break-in. <strong>The</strong> review will include<br />
“an assessment about whether or<br />
not additional staffing is needed”,<br />
White house press secretary Josh<br />
earnest told reporters.<br />
In addition, he says, the Secret<br />
Service has increased “training<br />
for officers who are essentially<br />
standing on the front lines of the<br />
White house”.<br />
People who work at the Secret<br />
Service defend their record, saying<br />
the agency handles security for big<br />
events such as the recent US Africa<br />
Leaders Summit, a gathering of 40<br />
African heads of state in Washington,<br />
and the United Nations General<br />
Assembly in New York.<br />
“You’re seeing a lot of successes<br />
and a lot of hard work,” says<br />
spokesman Brian Leary, “some of<br />
which is in the media and some of<br />
which is not.”<br />
Protecting the White house is a<br />
particularly hard assignment.<br />
One of those on the front line —<br />
a man with sandy-coloured hair<br />
who checks IDs — has a deep tan,<br />
except for splotches around his<br />
eyes, protected by Oakley-style<br />
sunglasses. he and other officers<br />
spend hours hunkered down in<br />
guardhouses or standing in the<br />
sun, watching the premises.<br />
One retired officer says, “Over<br />
a period of 20-something years it<br />
beats you down. I’ve got bad hearing,<br />
an aching back — it’s a tough<br />
job.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>se officers try to make sure<br />
dangerous people are kept out —<br />
and guests are allowed in. <strong>The</strong><br />
president entertains swanky visitors<br />
at home, many of whom need<br />
extra security. In addition, thousands<br />
of tourists walk through<br />
the front door.<br />
White house officials say<br />
they do not want to overwhelm<br />
the place with security. If officers<br />
were lined up on the lawn, it<br />
would look like a fortified US embassy<br />
rather than “the people’s<br />
house”, as earnest puts it, in the<br />
nation’s capital.<br />
Still some concessions have<br />
been made. <strong>The</strong> front door, says<br />
earnest, is now locked.<br />
— BBC News Magazine
24 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014
Sport<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014 25<br />
From World Cup<br />
to Namibian Cup:<br />
Six marathon<br />
penalty shootouts<br />
<strong>The</strong> length of Tuesday’s penalty shootout<br />
equals that of a 2011 Football League Trophy<br />
first-round tie between Dagenham &<br />
Redbridge and Leyton Orient<br />
Rickie Lambert regularly scored penalties when he played for Southampton, as above, but missed one in the FA Cup’s longest-ever<br />
shootout back in 2001<br />
LiverpOOL came out on<br />
top in a dramatic penalty<br />
shootout to beat Middlesbrough<br />
and progress to the fourth<br />
round of Capital One Cup on<br />
Tuesday night.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir 14-13 victory after a 2-2<br />
draw equalled an english record<br />
in professional football, but it still<br />
had some way to go to beat the<br />
longest on record.<br />
BBC Sport looks at six similarly<br />
dramatic, and lengthy, penalty<br />
shootouts.<br />
“I didn’t think a save would be made”<br />
<strong>The</strong> length of Tuesday’s penalty<br />
shootout equals that of a 2011<br />
Football League Trophy firstround<br />
tie between Dagenham &<br />
redbridge and Leyton Orient.<br />
On that occasion, 27 penalties<br />
were successfully converted before<br />
Orient defender Ben Chorley<br />
saw his second spot-kick saved by<br />
Dagenham keeper James Shea to<br />
hand the latter a 14-13 win.<br />
“it didn’t look like a save was<br />
going to be made. it’s our number<br />
one penalty-taker that’s missed<br />
the opportunity and probably the<br />
one you would put your money<br />
on,” said Orient manager russell<br />
Slade.<br />
Lambert’s penalty miss<br />
Liverpool striker rickie Lambert<br />
developed a reputation as a<br />
penalty specialist at previous club<br />
Southampton.<br />
However, back in 2001, he<br />
missed a spot-kick in what is still<br />
the longest shootout in FA Cup<br />
history.<br />
Fortunately for Lambert, it was<br />
not a decisive miss as the side he<br />
played for at the time, Macclesfield,<br />
went on to beat Forest Green<br />
11-10.<br />
His was the second penalty, but<br />
with Forest Green’s Alex Meechan<br />
also missing his side’s second<br />
spot-kick, both teams went on to<br />
successfully convert their penalties<br />
until Lee Glover converted after<br />
Kevin Langan missed to send<br />
Macclesfield through.<br />
England’s penalty woe (again)<br />
england being the losing side<br />
in a penalty shootout is nothing<br />
new in football, but their semi-final<br />
exit at the 2007 european Under-21<br />
Championship was particularly<br />
dramatic.<br />
Stuart pearce’s side were playing<br />
the Netherlands, and had led<br />
through Leroy Lita’s strike, before<br />
Maceo rigters scored an 89 th -<br />
minute equaliser for the Dutch.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y ended extra-time with<br />
only nine fit players after all three<br />
substitutes were used — Nedum<br />
Onuoha was forced off and Steven<br />
Taylor played on, despite barely<br />
being able to walk because of a<br />
Anton Ferdinand missed England’s 13th penalty as they lost 13-12 to the Netherlands in the semi-final of the 2007 Euro U-21<br />
Championship<br />
knock.<br />
Somehow, they managed to<br />
keep going in a dramatic shootout<br />
that saw each side successfully<br />
convert 12 spot-kicks before Anton<br />
Ferdinand struck the bar with<br />
his second effort.<br />
On and on and on...<br />
in October 2013, players from<br />
Brockenhurst and Andover Town<br />
set a new record as they scored 29<br />
consecutive penalties in a shootout.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Hampshire Senior Cup<br />
match finished 0-0 after extra<br />
time, so went to spot-kicks.<br />
And after 29 successful attempts<br />
— a total confirmed by the Football<br />
Association as an english record<br />
— Andover’s Claudio Herbert<br />
missed.<br />
“i was excited but nervous,”<br />
said Herbert. “i never thought i’d<br />
have to take the 30 th penalty in a<br />
shootout.<br />
“i was just thinking ‘oh no, it’s<br />
going to be on Tv — i’m going to<br />
miss a penalty on Tv’.<br />
“i’ve been involved in penalty<br />
shoot-outs before, but nothing<br />
like this.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> longest of all<br />
<strong>The</strong> record for the longest penalty<br />
shootout came in 2005 when the<br />
Namibian Cup had to be settled by<br />
a record-breaking 48 spot-kicks.<br />
in that game, KK palace held<br />
their nerve to defeat the Civics 17-<br />
16 following a 2-2 draw in normal<br />
time.<br />
“We didn’t think it was a record<br />
but i am very proud,” Titus Kunamuene,<br />
head of competitions at<br />
the Namibian Football Association,<br />
told CNN in 2010.<br />
“But, really, at the end of the<br />
game everybody was more relieved<br />
than anything else.”<br />
Going the distance at the World Cup<br />
<strong>The</strong> first penalty shootout at a<br />
World Cup is also the equal longest<br />
in the tournament’s history.<br />
it came in 1982, when the semifinal<br />
shootout between West Germany<br />
and France went six rounds<br />
after the game had ended 3-3.<br />
Maxime Bossis saw his effort denied<br />
and Horst Hrubesch converted<br />
his penalty to give West Germany<br />
a 5-4 win in sudden death.<br />
Sweden beat romania by the<br />
same scoreline on penalties in the<br />
quarter-final of the 1994 World Cup.<br />
— BBCSport<br />
Alastair Cook decision a long-term risk<br />
THe selectors are taking a big<br />
risk by asking Alastair Cook to<br />
captain england in the Sri Lanka<br />
one-day tour and next year’s<br />
World Cup.<br />
National selector James Whitaker<br />
has given Cook his “100%”<br />
backing and praised his “fortitude”<br />
and “resilience” over a difficult<br />
summer, but those factors<br />
should have been irrelevant in<br />
their decision.<br />
<strong>The</strong> key considerations are<br />
whether Cook is the right man<br />
to captain the side in the World<br />
Cup and, crucially, whether he<br />
can withstand england’s crazy<br />
schedule and still be at the top of<br />
his game for the Ashes, which remains<br />
the key contest for most<br />
cricket fans.<br />
My preference would have been<br />
for Cook to be rested from the<br />
World Cup. This level of sport is<br />
extremely hard work and being<br />
captain brings all sorts of other<br />
pressures.<br />
After the disappointing one-day<br />
series against india, Cook will<br />
be under scrutiny from the very<br />
start of the Sri Lanka tour.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be questions asked<br />
every match and if england are<br />
badly beaten that pressure will<br />
only intensify in the run-up to<br />
the World Cup. it would make for<br />
a very difficult build-up for Cook<br />
and the team, with lots of questions<br />
being asked.<br />
With Test series against West<br />
indies and New Zealand following<br />
straight after the World Cup,<br />
there is a real danger of Cook being<br />
mentally and physically exhausted<br />
by the time the Ashes<br />
come round next July, and that<br />
would be a huge shame for english<br />
cricket and its supporters.<br />
Cook, perhaps unsurprisingly,<br />
sees things differently. i spoke to<br />
him about 10 days ago and he absolutely<br />
assured me that he would<br />
be fine for the Ashes and beyond.<br />
He said leading england in the<br />
World Cup was the chance of a<br />
lifetime and pointed out that you<br />
are a long time retired. He knows<br />
he faces a huge task but he sees it<br />
as a massive challenge.<br />
He understands what we are<br />
saying but he doesn’t want to just<br />
stay at home this winter. He wants<br />
to go and win the World Cup for<br />
england for the first time — and<br />
Alastair Cook to captain England in the Sri Lanka one-day tour and next year’s World<br />
Cup<br />
you have to admire him for that.<br />
<strong>The</strong> decision has been taken<br />
now so all we can do as england<br />
supporters is wish him well and<br />
hope it all works out.<br />
Beyond Cook, the biggest talking<br />
points in the 16-man touring<br />
party are the recalls for James<br />
Taylor and ravi Bopara and the<br />
omission of Gary Ballance.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Taylor call makes perfect<br />
sense. He brings a lot of runs with<br />
him and a lot of experience from<br />
county cricket. He can innovate<br />
and has a good solid technique.<br />
He is small and powerful which<br />
is a hard combination to bowl at<br />
because you have to change your<br />
lengths.<br />
Bopara will have been surprised<br />
to have been left out in the<br />
one-day internationals against india.<br />
He has lots of international<br />
experience and gives them a useful<br />
bowling option on top of his<br />
batting.<br />
i’m a bit disappointed Ballance<br />
is not in the squad. He was one<br />
of the big success stories of england’s<br />
summer and really has<br />
something about him. He has a<br />
good tight defence but he can open<br />
up and go through the gears as he<br />
showed when he reached his first<br />
Test hundred with a six at Lord’s.<br />
As Whitaker was keen to stress,<br />
Ballance will still have a chance<br />
to force his way into the World<br />
Cup plans, and several members<br />
of the england performance programme<br />
will have similar aspirations.<br />
Nonetheless, england will be<br />
hoping that the Sri Lanka tour<br />
allows them to fine-tune their<br />
World Cup plans and get some<br />
morale-boosting wins under<br />
their belt.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sri Lankans will have similar<br />
ideas and will be a fierce<br />
proposition on their own soil.<br />
For england to come home with a<br />
series win would be a significant<br />
achievement. — BBCSport
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Sport<br />
My toughest decision ever — Grainger<br />
By September 23 2014 — the deadline<br />
enforced by GB Rowing if she wanted to<br />
attempt to qualify for Rio 2016 — the<br />
38-year-old had made up her mind, and<br />
reported for training<br />
When Katherine Grainger<br />
and Anna Watkins crossed<br />
the line to win gold at London<br />
2012, it provided one of the fairytale<br />
stories of the Games.<br />
<strong>The</strong> eternal bridesmaid with silver<br />
medals at each of the previous<br />
three Olympics, Grainger had finally<br />
hit the jackpot.<br />
She had finished what she started<br />
15 years before. She was an<br />
Olympic champion.<br />
So it was not entirely surprising<br />
that she took a break from the<br />
sport, using the time to finish her<br />
PhD in homicide, write a book, attend<br />
lavish awards ceremonies,<br />
take a holiday, and pursue a career<br />
as a presenter and analyst with<br />
BBC television.<br />
But during those two years away<br />
from rowing, the nagging question<br />
of whether she should return to the<br />
sport remained. Did she have the<br />
desire to try to do it all over again<br />
or was she happy with life after<br />
rowing?<br />
By Tuesday, September 23 2014 —<br />
the deadline enforced by GB Rowing<br />
if she wanted to attempt to<br />
qualify for Rio 2016 — the 38-yearold<br />
had made up her mind — and<br />
reported for training.<br />
When was a comeback on the<br />
cards?<br />
Last year, Grainger said she felt<br />
she and Watkins could go faster but<br />
the Glaswegian continued to keep<br />
her cards close to her chest with regards<br />
to her plans for the future.<br />
That decision was made harder,<br />
though, when in January Watkins<br />
said she would not compete at Rio<br />
and defend her title following the<br />
birth of her first child.<br />
“If Anna was back in a boat, it<br />
would have been an easy decision<br />
to make,” Grainger told BBC Sport,<br />
just moments after completing her<br />
first session in a single scull boat<br />
for more than two years at the GB<br />
Rowing hQ at Caversham.<br />
“I’ve agonised over this decision<br />
for a very long time. <strong>The</strong>re was no<br />
one moment of ‘eureka’.<br />
“Some days, I would be driving<br />
and suddenly I would think ‘That’s<br />
me done, I’m never going to do rowing<br />
again. I’m ready for retirement.<br />
I’m prepared to walk away’.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>n 48 hours later, I’d be doing<br />
something else and suddenly think<br />
‘I want to go back, I can’t imagine<br />
why I wouldn’t’.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>n a year ago, she was involved<br />
in a women’s eight, made<br />
up of Watkins and GB Olympians<br />
from the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004<br />
Games, most of whom had retired.<br />
Once a week, she would head out<br />
on the water again. “It was the only<br />
thing I did rowing-wise,” she said.<br />
“And it captured my love for it all<br />
over again.<br />
“It reminded me how lovely it is<br />
being with fellow rowers and how<br />
at a basic level, taking away the excitement<br />
of competing at an Olympics,<br />
rowing is a fantastic sport to<br />
be part of.”<br />
Watching her former team-mates<br />
compete in the World Championships<br />
in Amsterdam last month,<br />
where Grainger worked as an analyst<br />
for the BBC’s coverage, proved<br />
to be a key factor, too.<br />
She explained: “It made me realise<br />
what I was missing and that<br />
there was a hunger. <strong>The</strong>re were<br />
some questions I couldn’t answer<br />
until I was back in a boat, which is<br />
why I am doing this.”<br />
What are the risks, fears and<br />
challenges of a return?<br />
Grainger has won a medal at<br />
each of the last four Olympics.<br />
That is an impressive record by any<br />
standards — and one that could be<br />
tainted if a comeback does not succeed.<br />
“I know how hard it is, this is<br />
not the easy option,” said Grainger.<br />
Watkins (left) told Grainger (right) in January she would not defend their Olympic title after the birth of her son<br />
“This is probably the toughest<br />
thing I’ve had to do in my career<br />
— to have a break and then come<br />
back.<br />
“I still have the same expectations<br />
I always had and that’s hard<br />
to live up to any day, never mind<br />
trying to do it after two years away.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are risks — my health, my<br />
career, my well-being, my reputation,<br />
to name a few. But I have talked<br />
to a lot of people. <strong>The</strong>y haven’t necessarily<br />
given me advice but rather<br />
their opinion. That way, I was able to<br />
make my mind up with plenty of information<br />
in front of me.”<br />
Among those she consulted was<br />
five-time Olympic champion Sir<br />
Steve Redgrave, Olympic champion<br />
Greg Searle — who spent a decade<br />
away from the sport before returning<br />
aged 38 to win bronze two years<br />
later in the men’s eight at London<br />
2012 — Watkins and former crewmate<br />
Cath Bishop.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y understood my dilemma,”<br />
she said. “And those conversations<br />
proved invaluable.”<br />
Why did you come back?<br />
Life in the two years away was<br />
good for Grainger. She was forging<br />
a career in television by working<br />
on the BBC’s rowing and Commonwealth<br />
Games coverage.<br />
In between that were opportunities<br />
to be a guest at celebrity events,<br />
write a book, pick up an honorary<br />
doctorate and just lead a normal<br />
life.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s a side to me which<br />
doesn’t understand why I want to<br />
come back, but there is an instinct<br />
that I do want it, and ultimately I<br />
followed that,” she said.<br />
“I’ll know very quickly if it isn’t<br />
for me. But if I never take those<br />
first few steps, I’ll always wonder<br />
‘What if ?’ To me that is harder than<br />
actually giving it a go.”<br />
GB Rowing has welcomed<br />
Grainger back to the team at a<br />
time when the women’s side of the<br />
squad is struggling. At the recent<br />
World Championships they won<br />
just one gold medal through helen<br />
Glover and heather Stanning, compared<br />
to the record-breaking three<br />
at London 2012.<br />
Grainger explained: “I had a chat<br />
with David [Tanner, GB performance<br />
director] and he said he was<br />
looking forward to it.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y are all aware of the challenge<br />
I will present and everyone<br />
is supportive of that — that’s a big<br />
thing for me.”<br />
What are the boat options and<br />
what is the goal?<br />
Realistically, Grainger has three<br />
boat combinations where she could<br />
slot in — the single, the quad and<br />
the double, in which she raced to<br />
victory in London. <strong>The</strong> single is arguably<br />
the toughest and most competitive<br />
boat class and although<br />
it would give Grainger more freedom<br />
in her training programme,<br />
it would be a tough challenge to<br />
take on just two years out from Rio,<br />
when she will be 40.<br />
<strong>The</strong> quad is a boat in which<br />
Grainger has twice achieved Olympic<br />
silver, but that second defeat, in<br />
Beijing, was tough to take as they<br />
were overhauled on the line by China.<br />
So, the boat brings with it some<br />
difficult memories.<br />
<strong>The</strong> double is one that two-time<br />
Olympic champion James Cracknell<br />
believes she will be perfect for<br />
if GB rowing chiefs are able to find<br />
a crew-mate to make a strong combination.<br />
“I have a lot of work to do,” said<br />
Grainger. “I have to get myself<br />
back to where I expect to be. Only<br />
then can I start asking who I want<br />
to row with because until I prove<br />
myself, no one is going to want to<br />
row with me.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> first glimpse of her progress<br />
will come on november 16 at the<br />
first GB winter trial of the season.<br />
“I’m not really making long-term<br />
plans,” she said. “A lot has to go well<br />
and fall into place. I have to get my<br />
fitness back, get my boat feel back<br />
and make sure I’m mentally where<br />
I want to be.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> end point would be going all<br />
the way through to Rio, but I’m not<br />
making a commitment to that one<br />
just yet.”<br />
— BBCSport<br />
Mourinho, Pellegrini:<br />
<strong>The</strong> latest great rivalry?<br />
MAnCheSTeR City’s meeting<br />
with Chelsea at etihad Stadium was<br />
a collision of the Premier League’s<br />
two current superpowers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> game ended with honours<br />
even between the two teams likely to<br />
be contesting the title when it reaches<br />
its decisive stage, and the 1-1 draw<br />
gave both City manager Manuel Pellegrini<br />
and Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho<br />
an indication as to how their<br />
seasons may unfold.<br />
Chelsea stay five points ahead of<br />
City and three points clear of second-placed<br />
Southampton — so what<br />
are the sub-plots that will accompany<br />
their fight for the title?<br />
<strong>The</strong> new Fergie v Wenger?<br />
Manchester City and Chelsea<br />
have the look of two clubs who will<br />
dominate the Premier League title<br />
race — and who will have a managerial<br />
rivalry to go along with it.<br />
Sir Alex Ferguson’s relationship<br />
with Arsenal manager Arsene<br />
Wenger in the “Pizzagate” years —<br />
which began when Ferguson was<br />
struck by flying foodstuffs hurled<br />
from Arsenal’s dressing room in<br />
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini (left) and Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho<br />
2004 — only truly thawed once the<br />
Gunners were no longer deemed a<br />
serious threat to Manchester United’s<br />
supremacy.<br />
And when Liverpool briefly<br />
emerged as a possible danger to<br />
United, what had started as a cordial<br />
relationship between Ferguson<br />
and Rafael Benitez degenerated<br />
swiftly, culminating in a famous<br />
monologue from the Spaniard bemoaning<br />
the Scot’s influence over<br />
officials and the game in general.<br />
Do we have the natural succession<br />
in the barely-concealed contempt<br />
between Manchester City’s<br />
Pellegrini and his Chelsea counterpart<br />
Mourinho?<br />
<strong>The</strong> relationship was already fractured<br />
from the days when Mourinho<br />
succeeded Pellegrini at Real Madrid<br />
and appeared to scoff at the fact that<br />
the Chilean then went to Malaga to<br />
rebuild the next phase of an excellent<br />
coaching career.<br />
And judging by their antics after<br />
Sunday’s draw at etihad Stadium, it<br />
is likely the pair will provide a running<br />
sub-plot to this season’s Premier<br />
League title battle.<br />
It was behaviour that did little<br />
credit to either man, who should<br />
have far more pressing issues to attend<br />
to as the season progresses.<br />
Mourinho performed his usual<br />
trick of getting the City’s manager’s<br />
name wrong with references to<br />
“Pellegrino”, while Pellegrini delivered<br />
a nonsensical barb about Chelsea<br />
playing like “a small team” — reviving<br />
memories of a Benitez insult<br />
aimed at everton after a goalless<br />
Merseyside derby at Anfield.<br />
<strong>The</strong> mischief of Mourinho is long<br />
in the making and is, according to<br />
his detractors, well-practised, but<br />
Pellegrini’s reputation is that of the<br />
measured, quiet man.<br />
Appearances can be deceptive,<br />
as those present when he lambasted<br />
the officials after last season’s<br />
Champions League loss at home<br />
to Barcelona, and after the recent<br />
draw at Arsenal, will testify.<br />
It is clear the Portuguese can<br />
get under his skin and you suspect<br />
Chelsea’s manager may take the opportunity<br />
to indulge himself further<br />
should the stresses of the title<br />
race increase.<br />
Lampard does Premier League a<br />
favour?<br />
Frank Lampard’s goal for Manchester<br />
City against the club he<br />
served with such distinction prevented<br />
Chelsea from opening up an<br />
eight-point gap over the Premier<br />
League champions, who are regarded<br />
as the team that will run them<br />
closest this season.<br />
<strong>The</strong> advantage may not have been<br />
a deal breaker in title terms but<br />
would certainly have established an<br />
imposing lead with arguably Chelsea’s<br />
toughest league fixture of the<br />
season out of the way,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Stamford Bridge club have<br />
still made an outstanding start, despite<br />
losing their 100% league record,<br />
and hold a three-point lead<br />
over Southampton.<br />
City are only five points behind<br />
and the suspicion remains that<br />
there is so much more to come from<br />
Pellegrini’s team, who also showed<br />
great spirit and resilience to come<br />
back from a goal behind following<br />
Pablo Zabaleta’s sending-off.<br />
As for Lampard, what a moment<br />
it was for the 36-year-old, who attained<br />
legendary status at Chelsea<br />
after becoming their all-time record<br />
scorer with 211 goals in 648 appearances<br />
before leaving and securing a<br />
move to new York City FC.<br />
<strong>The</strong> former england midfielder<br />
is on loan at City until January<br />
and demonstrated that plenty of his<br />
footballing faculties remain intact<br />
as he punished Chelsea for failing<br />
to track him into the area with five<br />
minutes left, a volley expertly slid<br />
beyond Thibaut Courtois providing<br />
the evidence.<br />
— BBCSport
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014 27
28 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Sport<br />
We want action, not promises<br />
<strong>The</strong> previous ministry,<br />
which also included<br />
education, arts and<br />
culture, had seen<br />
much of its budget<br />
channeled to<br />
educational needs,<br />
leaving little or<br />
nothing for sport<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were huge celebrations<br />
in the sports family<br />
when it was announced<br />
that there would be a stand-alone<br />
Sports Ministry and honourable<br />
Andrew Langa was to head that<br />
ministry.<br />
From Zambezi to Limpopo, the<br />
talk in the streets, in bars and in<br />
homes was that sport was now<br />
going to receive the much-needed<br />
government financial support<br />
and the recognition it so deserved.<br />
<strong>The</strong> previous ministry, which<br />
also encompassed education,<br />
arts and culture, had seen much<br />
of its budget channelled to educational<br />
needs, leaving little or<br />
nothing for sport.<br />
<strong>The</strong> then Minister of education,<br />
Sport, Arts and Culture,<br />
senator David Coltart was<br />
straight to the point, saying<br />
sport was a luxury, making it<br />
clear that he would rather channel<br />
all his resources to education<br />
than to “entertainment”.<br />
But despite the huge expecta-<br />
insidesport<br />
with MICHAEL KARIATI<br />
Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Andrew Langa presenting the Sports Person of the<br />
Year award to rising tennis star Nicole Dzenga (left) on behalf of winner and tennis ace<br />
Cara Black.<br />
tions the new ministry created,<br />
nothing much has changed as<br />
sport continues to be second rated<br />
compared to other industries.<br />
Apart from the US$10 million<br />
that was all consumed by the<br />
Sport and recreation Commission,<br />
and a meagre US$80 000 forwarded<br />
to the Warriors during<br />
their participation at the Chan<br />
tournament in South Africa,<br />
there has been nothing to cheer<br />
about.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Zimbabwe National Boxing<br />
and Wrestling Control<br />
Board’s appeal for funds to set<br />
up a secretariat fell on deaf ears<br />
and the board has been using the<br />
home of vice-chairperson Lorraine<br />
Muringi for meetings.<br />
Worsening the situation is<br />
the fact that important documents<br />
have seen themselves in<br />
the boot of cars of board members<br />
while those who do not<br />
own vehicles have been moving<br />
around with them in their handbags.<br />
National teams continue to fail<br />
to travel for international engagements<br />
and the few who have<br />
managed to, have done so at the<br />
expense of a shoestring budget<br />
from the few companies that still<br />
associate themselves with sport<br />
as most now see no reason to get<br />
involved.<br />
What is disturbing is the fact<br />
that Minister Langa has taken to<br />
the same grandstanding, as did<br />
former minister Aeneas Chigwedere<br />
who in his speech at every<br />
sporting function always had<br />
a line that spoke about tax rebates<br />
to sport sponsors. But long<br />
after he left, nothing has come<br />
out of that.<br />
Langa has been preaching the<br />
same gospel of tax rebates to entice<br />
sponsors into sport, but one<br />
year down the line, the issue has<br />
not yet reached the doors of the<br />
cabinet.<br />
At the Annual National Sports<br />
Awards, the minister was bold<br />
enough to tell sporting associations<br />
that an audit was coming<br />
to all of them before funds could<br />
be allocated.<br />
<strong>The</strong> audit is still to be instituted<br />
and the money is still to percolate<br />
to those who need it. But<br />
the question is: Is the money<br />
there or will it ever be there?<br />
What we need from the minister<br />
is action, not promises. We<br />
need to see funds going to sporting<br />
associations for their developmental<br />
programmes and for<br />
the national teams to successfully<br />
participate internationally.<br />
<strong>The</strong> funds should be distributed<br />
to the associations according<br />
to their needs. Some sports, like<br />
cricket, do not need much as they<br />
receive funding from the International<br />
Cricket Council and from<br />
television rights.<br />
Yes, the Minister of Finance<br />
has the final say on who gets<br />
what. But it is the Sports Minister’s<br />
job to convince Patrick Chinamasa<br />
that sport, just like any<br />
other industry, deserves more.<br />
Yes, the Sports ministry is<br />
there, but it is only when the<br />
kick-boxing team, the taekwondo<br />
team, the basketball team or individual<br />
sportspersons start receiving<br />
funding from the government<br />
that we will take notice.<br />
So far, there has been nothing,<br />
and we are waiting for results.<br />
Zimbabwe’s Nations Cup bid<br />
September 30 marks the deadline<br />
for the submission of bids<br />
for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations<br />
to the Confederation of African<br />
Football.<br />
With two days to go, can the<br />
Zimbabwe Football Association<br />
tell us what our bid document<br />
is all about? We deserve to know<br />
what we are supporting.<br />
• For views and comments,<br />
email: mkariati@gmail.com, or<br />
WhatsApp on 077 3 266 779.<br />
Dynamos is a new<br />
phenomenon<br />
— Gumede<br />
DeMbare<br />
still to pay<br />
Eric Rosen<br />
By ouR STAff<br />
By BRIAn nKIWAnE<br />
AFTer taking charge of football administration<br />
at highlanders, veteran<br />
administrator Ndumiso “Yours<br />
Truly” Gumede left the club to join<br />
football administration at the highest<br />
level, Zifa, where he was in the<br />
board for more than 30 years.<br />
But after deciding not to seek reelection<br />
in the last Zifa elections, Gumede<br />
made a dramatic comeback to<br />
the club that gave him a grounding<br />
in football administration.<br />
his coming back has not been all<br />
that rosy. A monster called “Dynamos”<br />
which has dominated highlanders<br />
since 2006, the last time<br />
Bosso won the title under the guidance<br />
of Methembe Ndlovu, who is<br />
now director and coach at Bantu<br />
rovers awaited him.<br />
<strong>Standard</strong>sport hooked up with<br />
Gumede to try and find out what the<br />
club could be doing wrong that has<br />
allowed DeMbare to dominate them<br />
for the past eight years.<br />
From the look of things, highlanders<br />
lose the games even before<br />
getting into the field of play, prompting<br />
critics to suggest that Bosso<br />
needed to employ a psychologist.<br />
however, Gumede shot down suggestions<br />
that Bosso should employ<br />
a psychologist to deal with players’<br />
mentality before such crucial<br />
games.<br />
“I am a psychologist myself. I<br />
studied psychology and sociology at<br />
the University of Zimbabwe where I<br />
finished in 1984. Are you telling me<br />
that because I am old then my qualification<br />
no longer works? What you<br />
are saying is true but remember<br />
we are second on the log table, four<br />
points behind DeMbare. It’s true<br />
we need someone to help our players<br />
mentally, but we cannot do that<br />
right now as we are bound to confuse<br />
our players. Maybe in the long<br />
run, preparing for next season we<br />
will have to consider that,” Gumede<br />
said.<br />
Gumede added that during his<br />
earlier spell at Bosso, the harare giants<br />
were far from being their closest<br />
rival.<br />
“To be honest with you, Dynamos<br />
is a new phenomenon to us. We have<br />
never been dominated by Dynamos<br />
like this in the past. We had better<br />
opponents that gave us a good run<br />
for our money and DeMbare was<br />
not anywhere near that,” said Gumede.<br />
he added; “Our biggest rivals<br />
were Zimbabwe Saints. At one point<br />
we had to play a Cup final match<br />
in harare but it was pitting highlanders<br />
and Zimbabwe Saints, both<br />
Highlanders Football Club Chief executive officer Ndumiso Gumede<br />
teams from Bulawayo because of<br />
the rivalry.”<br />
he however admitted that there<br />
are certain club rituals that players<br />
and coaches look down upon and<br />
might be contributing to some of<br />
the defeats.<br />
“We used to know that all team<br />
players including the technical<br />
team would not see a woman two<br />
days before a match until the match<br />
is played, ukuzila. This would force<br />
everybody to get into the match<br />
with that hunger which you will<br />
then vent on your opponent. But all<br />
this is gone.”<br />
Asked whether highlanders as a<br />
club had rituals that they do, Gumede<br />
dismissed any works of juju before<br />
adding that juju does not work<br />
in football.<br />
“If juju could work in football,<br />
countries like Nigeria and others<br />
could have won the World Cup so<br />
many times. In 1974, the then Zaire<br />
went to the World Cup with nine<br />
traditional healers (sangomas) who<br />
were only eating monkey meat but<br />
that did not even make a difference.<br />
Actually in their first match they<br />
were given a thorough beating by<br />
nine goals to no reply.”<br />
Gumede however admitted that<br />
they do believe in Christianity.<br />
“That is the reason why you see<br />
our players making a big circle<br />
just before kickoff to have a short<br />
prayer. Like what Dynamos do,<br />
they kneel down on the goal line<br />
to pray. I think you have seen that<br />
even our coach is an ardent Christian.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> heavily-built football administrator<br />
ended by warning DeMbare<br />
that this was just a passing<br />
phase.<br />
“This is just a passing phase. We<br />
will come for them. What we need<br />
is just to win one game and that<br />
will be over,” concluded Gumede.<br />
DYNAMOS Football Club and the<br />
Premier Soccer League (PSL) are<br />
still to settle a US$16 000 outstanding<br />
transfer fees for William Kupera<br />
to Motor Action owner eric<br />
rosen.<br />
<strong>The</strong> PSL represented by Mabwe<br />
and Partners at the magistrate<br />
courts on Thursday confirmed the<br />
court order and vowed to comply<br />
with the garnish order which they<br />
were handed last month.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y made an assurance to pay<br />
rosen the outstanding transfer<br />
fees.<br />
PSL and DeMbare were given up<br />
to October 2 to make the payment.<br />
Dynamos acquired the services<br />
of Kupera back in 2009 from Motor<br />
Action during their time in the<br />
premiership.<br />
After making a part payment for<br />
the player, the then Farai Munetsi-led<br />
executive pledged to pay up<br />
the remaining transfer fees which<br />
they failed to do even after selling<br />
the player who featured only three<br />
times for the Glamour Boys to Kiglon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> transfers fees have since<br />
ballooned from US$8 000 to US$16<br />
000 as a result of accruing interests<br />
and legal fees.<br />
PSL have been dragged into the<br />
matter as they are the custodian of<br />
Dynamos FC.
Sport<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014 29<br />
Zim can sneak<br />
into Super Eight<br />
— Mangongo<br />
With the World Cup still a good five months<br />
away, the national cricket team is already in<br />
camp preparing for the Bangladesh Tour where<br />
they will play three Test matches and five ODIs,<br />
while one eye is on the global showcase<br />
By MunyaradZi MadZokErE<br />
Zimbabwe cricket coach<br />
Stephen mangongo believes<br />
his team can cause a few upsets<br />
and sneak into the quarterfinals<br />
of the upcoming 2015 ODi<br />
cricket world Cup penciled for<br />
australia and New Zealand early<br />
next year.<br />
with the world Cup still a good<br />
five months away, the national<br />
cricket team is already in camp<br />
preparing for the bangladesh<br />
Tour where they will play three<br />
Test matches and five ODis,<br />
while one eye is on the global<br />
showcase.<br />
“i keep saying and i repeat that<br />
statistics don’t lie; we are number<br />
10 on the rankings and we<br />
have less than five months to put<br />
in hours of hard work if we are<br />
going to make an impression at<br />
the world Cup,” mangongo told<br />
<strong>Standard</strong>sport.<br />
“we want to do better than last<br />
time, we want to win a few games<br />
and make sure we don’t come<br />
home early. So our objective is to<br />
go there and be very competitive,<br />
surprise one or two big teams and<br />
‘sneak’ into the next round and i<br />
say ‘sneak’ because in reality we<br />
are well down the rankings,” he<br />
said.<br />
in his short tenure as national<br />
team gaffer, mangongo mas-<br />
terminded a famous three-wicket<br />
victory over world Cup hosts australia<br />
at Harare Sports Club last<br />
month, the first in 31 years despite<br />
the squad’s poor showing in<br />
the Tri-Series that also included<br />
neighbours South africa.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> win against australia was<br />
no fluke, it was a result of sheer<br />
hard work and it was very good<br />
for the players. Now they have<br />
confidence on their side, they believe<br />
they can beat anyone and<br />
hopefully we are going to have<br />
many more great moments in future,”<br />
he remarked.<br />
mangongo expressed satisfaction<br />
at the response of his players<br />
to his methods and work ethics,<br />
asserting that all the players<br />
ticked the boxes in the areas of<br />
hardworking, commitment and<br />
role playing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> former Takashinga and<br />
mountaineers trainer torched debate<br />
last month when he dropped<br />
leading batsman brendan Taylor<br />
from the team during an ODi<br />
Series against the Proteas in august<br />
and threatened to wield the<br />
axe on all underperforming senior<br />
players.<br />
He still contends that no-one is<br />
guaranteed a place in the team<br />
that will hoist the country’s flag<br />
in australia and New Zealand.<br />
“at the moment i don’t have an<br />
idea of who will be going to the<br />
Celebrating the famous victory . . . Zimbabwe national cricket team players join hands with fans to celebrate their victory over<br />
Australia in Harare recently<br />
world Cup. we are still a long way<br />
and everybody playing professional<br />
cricket in this country has<br />
an equal opportunity of going,<br />
but basically the performances of<br />
each individual in the coming fixtures<br />
will determine who goes,”<br />
declared mangongo.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are, however, areas that<br />
the coach feels need urgent redress<br />
in order to improve the<br />
team’s condition in fine-tuning<br />
for the world Cup.<br />
“we admit that our top order<br />
batting is a problematic area because<br />
we always find ourselves<br />
three wickets down after 10 overs<br />
in many matches, which is not<br />
good at all. we are still looking<br />
for the right combinations and we<br />
will continue to look until we find<br />
[it],” he said.<br />
Players such as Hamilton<br />
masakadza, brendan Taylor,<br />
Tino mawoyo, Sikandar Raza<br />
butt, Vusi Sibanda, Richmond<br />
mutumbami, Regis Chakabva<br />
and Sean williams have been<br />
tried in the top order in the<br />
last two months, albeit with<br />
very limited success.<br />
mangongo also spoke of the<br />
need to have more ODi matches<br />
especially after the bangladesh<br />
Tour to ensure that his<br />
players have adequate match<br />
practice in the run up to the<br />
world Cup.<br />
Zimbabwe are in Pool b of the<br />
2015 Cricket world Cup alongside<br />
South africa, india, Pakistan,<br />
Believing in his team . . . Stephen Mangongo<br />
west indies, ireland and the United<br />
arab emirates.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y kick off their campaign<br />
against South africa on February<br />
15 2015 while their final<br />
group fixture is against india<br />
on march 14 and the top four<br />
teams will progress to the “Super<br />
eight”, quarterfinal stage of<br />
the competition.<br />
Dynamos to celebrate belated golden jubilee<br />
By MichaEl kariati<br />
DyNamOS have revealed they<br />
are going to celebrate a belated<br />
50 years of existence after failing<br />
to do so at the turn of their Golden<br />
Jubilee in 2013 due to the none<br />
availability of funds.<br />
<strong>The</strong> chairman of the club’s<br />
board of Directors, benard marriot<br />
Lusengo said it would not be<br />
proper to allow 50 years to just go<br />
by without remembering the good<br />
days they have gone through in<br />
the five decades.<br />
“we have achieved a lot in the<br />
past 50 years and the whole Dynamos<br />
family feels we need to go<br />
down memory lane. we are going<br />
to have a huge celebration day at<br />
the end of the season when there<br />
is no pressure,” said Lusengo.<br />
<strong>The</strong> chairman of the club’s<br />
marketing committee ignatius<br />
Pamire said they could not hold<br />
the celebrations during the qualifying<br />
year of 2013 as they did not<br />
have the funds.<br />
He revealed that with the little<br />
resources they had, it would<br />
have been unwise and unfair to<br />
do so when players were going for<br />
matches without receiving their<br />
Dynamos fan during a league match in Harare dressed in club’s regalia<br />
allowances or bonuses.<br />
“i hope the team will win the<br />
league championship as this will<br />
add glitter to the celebrations,”<br />
said Pamire, who at one time also<br />
served as club secretary before becoming<br />
chairman.<br />
at the moment, Dynamos lead<br />
the 16-team Castle Lager Premier<br />
Soccer League race with 43 points<br />
from 23 games, two ahead of second-placed<br />
ZPC Kariba, and four<br />
above bitter rivals Highlanders<br />
who host ZPC Kariba today.<br />
Should ZPC Kariba lose and<br />
Dynamos win against Shabanie<br />
mine, they will extend their lead<br />
at the top of the PSL tree.<br />
Pamire, who leads a fourmember<br />
team that also includes<br />
civil aviation consultant<br />
Lloyd Hunda, marketing executive<br />
Spencer manguwa, and car<br />
dealer enock Jokomo said the<br />
response from their financiers<br />
has been good, adding that they<br />
are still trying to tie one or two<br />
loose ends to ensure that everything<br />
is ready for the celebrations.<br />
Dynamos are without doubt<br />
the most successful team in<br />
Zimbabwean football. apart<br />
from the 21 league titles and<br />
countless knockout championships,<br />
the team has also been<br />
Zimbabwe and one of southern<br />
africa’s flag bearers in pan african<br />
football.<br />
in fact, they rank as the second<br />
most successful team from the<br />
southern african region, just behind<br />
Orlando Pirates of South africa.<br />
while Pirates won the then africa<br />
Cup of Club Championship<br />
title in 1995 and a CaF Champions<br />
League final place in 2012,<br />
Dynamos also reached the final<br />
of the Champions League in<br />
1998 and the semifinals 10 years<br />
later.<br />
That is not all.<strong>The</strong> Glamour<br />
boys, as they are affectionately<br />
known, went as far as the<br />
mini league stage of the CaF<br />
Champions League in 1999 and<br />
2010.<br />
Dynamos also produced arguably<br />
the greatest ever player to<br />
have graced Zimbabwean football<br />
stadiums in the form of<br />
George Shaya, a five-time Soccer<br />
Star of the year award winner.<br />
in Freddy mkwesha, who played<br />
in Portugal for 13 years, they also<br />
had the first Zimbabwean export<br />
to europe while the first player<br />
to ply his trade out of Zimbabwe<br />
also came from Dynamos in<br />
the form of Patrick Dzvene who<br />
in 1964 played for Ndola United in<br />
Zambia.<br />
Dynamos were formed in 1963<br />
when a group of players broke<br />
from the then white dominated<br />
Salisbury City and Salisbury<br />
United to form their own team<br />
with Sam Dauya as the first secretary<br />
of the club. Nercasio murambiwa<br />
who had heard of the<br />
Russian team Dynamo Kiev suggested<br />
that the team be called Dynamos,<br />
and in 1965 and 1966 won<br />
back to back titles.<br />
among that first group of players<br />
were the likes of marriot,<br />
Obediah Sarupinda, Dzvene, Jimmy<br />
Finch, Jairos banda, Richard<br />
Chiminya, Denver mahachi, Danny<br />
Thomas, Shacky Chitimbe,<br />
morrison Sifelani and Josia akende.
30 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Sport<br />
Maridzo steps into the ring<br />
Maridzo and Shipeh met way back in 2007<br />
with the Zimbabwean systematically losing out<br />
after throwing in the towel in the third round<br />
of a scheduled six round contest<br />
By Michael Kariati<br />
SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwe’s<br />
own former World Boxing Organisation<br />
(WBO), Africa Super<br />
Middleweight champion Tineyi<br />
Maridzo will on October 4 step<br />
into the ring to challenge Namibia’s<br />
Wilberforce Shipeho in<br />
an eight round non-title contest<br />
at the Katutura Sports Centre in<br />
Windhoek.<br />
Maridzo was stripped of the<br />
WBO Africa title after he failed<br />
to defend it due to the none availability<br />
of promoters in Zimbabwe<br />
and Shipeho now holds the<br />
title although the two are squaring<br />
up in a non-title light heavyweight<br />
fight.<br />
Maridzo and Shipeho met way<br />
back in 2007 with the Zimbabwean<br />
systematically losing out after<br />
throwing in the towel in the third<br />
round of a scheduled six-round<br />
contest.<br />
Ironically, Shipeho is at the moment<br />
in South Africa preparing<br />
for the bout although it will be<br />
held in his home country.<br />
Although Maridzo has an impressive<br />
record of 13 wins and<br />
four losses, the Namibian has<br />
an equally good history. On top<br />
of the WBO Africa title he holds,<br />
he has also made attempts at the<br />
World Boxing Council (WBC)’s<br />
International light heavyweight,<br />
as well as the WBO International<br />
championships.<br />
Although he did not succeed,<br />
the WBC and the WBO do not offer<br />
such title cracks to boxers<br />
who have not proved themselves.<br />
<strong>The</strong> secretary general of the<br />
Zimbabwe National Boxing and<br />
Wrestling Control Board, Gilbert<br />
Munetsi said they have cleared<br />
Maridzo to go and fight as his<br />
papers are in order. “We have<br />
looked at the contract and we are<br />
happy,” said Munetsi.<br />
Maridzo won the WBO Africa<br />
title after cutting down to size<br />
South Africa’s Michael Schultz<br />
in only 87 seconds. Some boxing<br />
fans that were going to watch the<br />
bout did not even get the opportunity<br />
as it was over before they<br />
could find their way into the venue.<br />
He defended the title against<br />
the same opponent the following<br />
year, knocking down Shultz in<br />
the third round.<br />
Former Zimbabwe and Africa<br />
Boxing Union heavyweight<br />
title holder Proud Kilimanjaro<br />
Chinembiri (the late) holds<br />
the record of the quickest win<br />
in Zimbabwe after knocking<br />
Tineyi Maridzo knocked Mikey Schultz out for the second time during Neo Africa’s <strong>The</strong> Rematch held at Wembley Stadium in<br />
Johannesburg<br />
out Ringo Star in 29 seconds at<br />
Mucheke Stadium in Masvingo.<br />
Maridzo, like most of Zimbabwe’s<br />
top boxers, is based outside<br />
the country as there are no promoters<br />
with funds to bankroll international<br />
fights.<br />
Promoter Stalin Mau Mau was<br />
Keshi still hopeful for afcon<br />
straight forward, saying he cannot<br />
afford to fork out US$10 000<br />
to stage a tournament when his<br />
children do not have school fees.<br />
As a result, Zimbabweans have<br />
not had the opportunity to watch<br />
World Boxing Council International<br />
welterweight champion<br />
Charles Manyuchi in their own<br />
backyard. Manyuchi is now based<br />
in Zambia where he fights under<br />
Oriental Boxing Promotions.<br />
Manyuchi has also fought in the<br />
Democratic Republic of Congo,<br />
South Africa, Namibia, Botswana<br />
and Burkina Faso.<br />
Punters smile to the bank<br />
AFRICAN champions Nigeria<br />
surprisingly failed to win any of<br />
their first two games of 2015 Africa<br />
Nations Cup (Afcon) qualifying.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Super eagles were<br />
shocked 2-3 at home by Congo on<br />
match day one and followed that<br />
up with a 0-0 draw against South<br />
Africa in Cape Town.<br />
<strong>The</strong> handwriting was clearly<br />
on the wall. Large sections of<br />
the ever-insatiable Nigeria fans<br />
promptly forgot the heroics of<br />
eagles’ head coach, Stephen Keshi<br />
at the 2013 Afcon where he led<br />
the team to the title.<br />
To them, the “Big Boss” had<br />
run out of ideas and it was time<br />
to show him the exit.<br />
Keshi, however, called for calm<br />
heads. With four more qualifying<br />
games, and two at home<br />
against Sudan and South Africa,<br />
the former Mali and Togo coach<br />
believes the feat of taking Nigeria<br />
to the 2015 Afcon in Morocco<br />
is still achievable.<br />
Nigeria’s next two qualifiers<br />
are a double header against Sudan<br />
— in October. On Friday,<br />
September 26, Keshi named a 23-<br />
man squad for the matches.<br />
He then sat down with the Super<br />
eagles to explain why he decided<br />
to hand Victor Moses a recall<br />
after the recent snub of the<br />
Stoke City man.<br />
Keshi also revealed how Fernabahce<br />
striker, emmanuel emenike<br />
angered his teammates shortly<br />
before Nigeria’s game against<br />
Congo on September 6.<br />
<strong>The</strong> “Big Boss” also attempted<br />
to clarify the reasons behind<br />
the call up of several new faces<br />
like China-based Aaron Samuel,<br />
Sunday emmanuel, who plays<br />
in Austria, Hope Akpan of english<br />
side Reading and Anyora<br />
Ugonna, who plies his trade in<br />
Norway.<br />
He also spoke about the frustrations<br />
of working as head<br />
coach of the African champions<br />
without a contract. — Supersport<br />
Papiss cisse makes Senegal return<br />
SeNeGAL coach Alain Giresse<br />
has unveiled his list of players<br />
to face Tunisia in the upcoming<br />
third and fourth rounds of the<br />
2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying<br />
group stage, with Papiss<br />
Cisse retuning to the fold.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Newcastle forward did<br />
not feature in the Teranga Lions’<br />
first two matches of the campaign<br />
won against egypt 2-0 and<br />
Botswana 2-0 due to poor form at<br />
his club, according to the French<br />
coach.<br />
West Ham’s Cheikhou Kouyate<br />
and Lamine Sane of Bordeaux<br />
surprisingly feature on the list despite<br />
their serious injury situations.<br />
Giresse did not give reasons<br />
for their inclusion.<br />
Senegal will host the eagles of<br />
Carthage in Dakar on October 10<br />
while the reverse fixture will take<br />
place in Monastir five days later.<br />
Both teams from Group G are<br />
on tie at six points, with Senegal<br />
leading on goal advantage.<br />
Squad<br />
Goalkeepers: Bouna Coundoul<br />
(ethnikos, Chypre), Lys Gomis<br />
(Trapani, Italy), Pape Demba Camara<br />
(Sochaux, France).<br />
Defenders: Kara Mbodj (Genk,<br />
Belgium), Pape Ndiaye Souare<br />
(Lille, France), Papy Djilobodji<br />
and Issa Cissokho (Nantes,<br />
France), Lamine Sane (Bordeaux,<br />
France), Zargo Toure (Le<br />
Havre, France), Cheikh Mbengue<br />
(Rennes, France).<br />
Midfielders: Alfred Ndiaye<br />
(Betis Sevilla, Spain) Idrissa Gana<br />
Gueye (Lille, France), Mohamed<br />
Diame (Hull City, england),<br />
Stephane Badji (Brann, Norway),<br />
Salif Sane (Hanover, Germany),<br />
Pape Kouly Diop (Levante, Spain),<br />
Cheikhou Kouyate (West Ham,<br />
england).<br />
Forwards: Sadio Mane (Southampton,<br />
england), Mame Birame<br />
Diouf (Stoke, england), Dame<br />
Ndoye (Lokomotiv, Russia), Moussa<br />
Sow (Fenerbahçe, Turkey), Papiss<br />
Demba Cisse (Newcastle,<br />
england), Demba Ba (Besiktas,<br />
Turkey). — Supersport<br />
By Michael Kariati<br />
THeRe were huge financial pickings<br />
for punters who placed their<br />
bets on the Merit Rated 60 Handicap<br />
at Borrowdale race course with<br />
the winning horse Queen Tara offering<br />
US$6,90 for every dollar<br />
placed for those who predicted she<br />
would win the race.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cornie Spies trained filly<br />
was offering even more in the<br />
swingers giving out US$10.10 for<br />
her combination with second<br />
placed expeditious and US$9 when<br />
paired with third placed Purple<br />
Turtle, another fielding from Spies.<br />
<strong>The</strong> combination of expeditious<br />
and Purple Turtle gave out US$9,90<br />
in what was the highest paying<br />
race in the seven races carded for<br />
the second running of the season.<br />
Unlike Queen Tara and Purple<br />
Turtle who are from the Spies stable,<br />
expeditious is from the yard of<br />
champion trainer Lisa Harris.<br />
All the three top-placed horses<br />
offered good odds as they were not<br />
among the favourites with Queen<br />
Tara offering a selling price of 7/1.<br />
expeditious was at 30/1 while Purple<br />
Turtle closed at 14/1<br />
You’re So In Vain from the Ghokan<br />
Terzi yard which finished<br />
fourth was the overwhelming favourite<br />
for the race after closing at<br />
28/10 having opened betting at 2/1.<br />
With the placings offering<br />
US$3,20 and US$3,60 for the second<br />
and third placed horses, the<br />
Trifecta was at US$603.30 and the<br />
Quartet for which was supposed to<br />
also include fourth placed You’re<br />
So In Vain giving out a staggering<br />
US$1 434,80 for a dollar.<br />
This means a punter who placed<br />
US$10 in the quartet went home<br />
with US$14 348. Winning tickets are<br />
paid for immediately after the race<br />
when the dividends have been declared.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other races paid out moderate<br />
figures as they were won by<br />
obvious candidates with Casey’s<br />
Dance who was at 28/10 and Gentle<br />
Brook who was at 1/1 taking first<br />
and second positions in the main<br />
feature race of the day, the Sable<br />
Flyers. <strong>The</strong>ir combination paid out<br />
only US$2,60 for a dollar.<br />
Three-year-old Sin Latigo who was<br />
at 4/1 took the Merit Rated Handicap,<br />
just ahead of Supa Dupa who at<br />
6/1 was among those tipped for the<br />
race. For the win Sin Latigo, another<br />
of the Spies horses, paid out US$4,80.<br />
Along with Supa Dupa in the swingers,<br />
the pair was down to US$4,40.<br />
Zimbabwe’s own Marumbala<br />
took the Merit Rated 80 Handicap<br />
followed by an 8/10 favoured On<br />
<strong>The</strong> Rock. <strong>The</strong> Graduation Plate<br />
was scooped by Alyson Wright’s<br />
Tallie Two who was 0,75 lens ahead<br />
of Iron Lady. <strong>The</strong> Maiden Plate for<br />
the sprinters which was run over 1<br />
100 metres belonged to Corne Offer<br />
who rode a 11/10 Will Pays to victory<br />
with a big gap of 6,00 lens ahead<br />
of Rawedge for what was the biggest<br />
distance win of the day.<br />
<strong>The</strong> punters, who fill betting<br />
houses to capacity with some of<br />
them flocking to Borrowdale race<br />
course for closer action, are hoping<br />
for increased dividends in all the<br />
races when the next running comes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next race meeting will be on<br />
Sunday October 5, and the nominations<br />
will be released by the Mashonaland<br />
Turf Club tomorrow after<br />
the trainers have declared their<br />
horses for the third running of the<br />
season.
Sport<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> September 28 to October 4 2014 31<br />
Highlanders<br />
in make-orbreak<br />
tie<br />
Today’s match is a do-or-die for Kelvin<br />
Kaindu’s men as another loss means they will<br />
no longer catch up with the leading pack of<br />
Dynamos and ZPC Kariba<br />
By Brian nkiwane<br />
THE Castle Lager Premier<br />
Soccer League (PSL) enters<br />
home stretch this weekend<br />
with two of the top three teams<br />
— Highlanders and ZPC Kariba<br />
— clashing this afternoon in Bulawayo,<br />
while log leaders Dynamos<br />
are in yet another tricky encounter<br />
with relegation-threatened<br />
Shabanie Mine at Rufaro.<br />
After today’s matches, it will get<br />
easier to predict where the championship<br />
will go, considering both<br />
matches involving the top three<br />
this afternoon have a bearing on<br />
the championship race.<br />
Attention will be at Hartsfield<br />
in Bulawayo where Highlanders<br />
welcome high-riding ZPC Kariba<br />
in a make-or-break encounter.<br />
Bosso will be looking to restoring<br />
their tattered pride following<br />
last week’s agonising 1-0 defeat to<br />
Harare City. <strong>The</strong> Bulawayo giants<br />
had been on top of the log for the<br />
better part of the season but were<br />
dislodged by old rivals Dynamos.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir loss to Harare City saw<br />
them trailing behind today’s opponents<br />
ZPC Kariba by two points.<br />
Kauya Katuruturu — as ZPC Kariba<br />
are affectionately known —<br />
have 41 points while Dynamos<br />
lead with 43 points.<br />
Today’s match is a do-or-die for<br />
Kelvin Kaindu’s men as another<br />
loss would mean falling further<br />
behind the leading pack of Dynamos<br />
and ZPC Kariba. A win however,<br />
would see them dethrone<br />
ZPC Kariba on second position<br />
and put them within championship<br />
reach.<br />
Meanwhile, victory for Kauya<br />
Katuruturu will throw Bosso out<br />
of the championship contest, thus<br />
narrowing the race to a two-team<br />
challenge.<br />
Bosso and ZPC Kariba pray that<br />
Shabanie Mine produce a Houdini<br />
act against Dynamos at Rufaro<br />
this afternoon so that they close<br />
the gap on the log leaders.<br />
Highlanders, who are trying<br />
Under pressure . . . Highlanders coach Kelvin Kaindu<br />
hard to win the championship<br />
which they last won in 2006 under<br />
the guidance of Methembe Ndlovu<br />
who is now director and coach<br />
at Bantu Rovers, are buoyed by<br />
the return from suspension of defender<br />
Dumisani “Fazo” Ndlovu<br />
and midfielder turned defender<br />
Simon Munawa who both missed<br />
the Harare City tie.<br />
Munawa is expected to resume<br />
his anchorman’s role together<br />
with Hillary Madzivanyika, while<br />
Fazo is expected to take over from<br />
former skipper Innocent Mapuranga<br />
and join Eric “Tsiba”<br />
Mudzingwa in the heart of defence.<br />
Kaindu said he was happy that<br />
Webster Chingodza, who seems<br />
to have solved his right back position<br />
headache that has been giving<br />
him sleepless nights, is back<br />
in training and will be available<br />
for selection.<br />
“All the players will be available<br />
for selection, including Njabulo<br />
Ncube. A lot has happened but<br />
we believe we are still within the<br />
range of the log leaders. Anything<br />
can happen in the remaining fixtures,”<br />
Kaindu said.<br />
ZPC Kariba, who are missing<br />
the services of playmaker Raphael<br />
Manuvire who was injured in<br />
a league match against Chapungu<br />
in June, will be out to collect maximum<br />
points and continue their<br />
fairytale in their maiden dance<br />
with top-flight football.<br />
Coach Saul Chaminuka said he<br />
will be without two of his first<br />
team players Obey Mwerahari<br />
and Tsepo Rathokoane, who are<br />
both injured.<br />
“We have been playing well so<br />
far, thus we hope to continue doing<br />
well. Highlanders are playing<br />
at home so they will be under<br />
pressure taking into consideration<br />
that they lost their last match<br />
against Harare City. So we might<br />
capitalise on that,” Chaminuka<br />
said.<br />
Dynamos team manager Richard<br />
Chihoro confirmed a clean<br />
health bill in his camp, adding<br />
that all their registered players<br />
were available for selection.<br />
“We are now on top and we have<br />
the chance of bagging the fourth<br />
staright title. What we need to do<br />
is win all our remaining fixtures<br />
then we know we are done,” Chihoro<br />
said.<br />
However, Shabanie Mine refused<br />
to be intimidated.<br />
Head coach Jairos Tapera<br />
said his boys were more than<br />
ready to face the Zimbabwean<br />
football champions but bemoaned<br />
the unavailability of<br />
Marvellous Dikinya, who will<br />
be out serving suspension as<br />
well as an injury to striker<br />
Tholani Ncube.<br />
He however added that he had<br />
told his boys to go into this match<br />
without thinking about relegation<br />
which is slowly knocking on<br />
their doors.<br />
“We have to do with what is in<br />
camp for now. Dynamos are a very<br />
big team and every coach would<br />
want to beat them. We respect<br />
them as one of the biggest clubs<br />
in the country, but we are going to<br />
give our best on Sunday [today],”<br />
Tapera said.<br />
“Surviving relegation is another<br />
issue, Sunday’s [today] match<br />
is another issue. In as much as we<br />
would want to survive, if we try<br />
and mix the two, then the players<br />
will approach this match with<br />
a negative mind. We need to win<br />
this so as to start talking about<br />
surviving”.<br />
How Mine, Chicken Inn draw<br />
By FOrTUne MBeLe<br />
How Mine. . . (1) 1<br />
Chicken Inn . . . (1) 1<br />
FC Platinum . . . (2) 2<br />
Buffaloes . . . (1)1<br />
HOW MINE COACH Luke Masomere<br />
is still confident the gold<br />
miners will survive relegation<br />
after picking up a point against<br />
Chicken Inn at Hartsfield yesterday.<br />
A well-taken penalty by Menard<br />
Mupera in the 24 th minute<br />
saved the day for How Mine<br />
as Chicken Inn had opened the<br />
floodgates as early as the 5 th<br />
minute with a header by defender<br />
Lawrence Mhlanga.<br />
How Mine remained on position<br />
11 with 29 points while the<br />
GameCocks dropped one rung<br />
down the ladder to position seven<br />
as they were dislodged by FC<br />
Platinum who came from behind<br />
to beat visiting Buffaloes<br />
2-1 at Mandava yesterday.<br />
Chicken Inn are now on 34<br />
points with six games remaining<br />
to put a lid on the 2014 Castle<br />
Lager Premier Soccer League<br />
season.<br />
Masomere said the game was<br />
a balanced affair which could<br />
have gone either way.<br />
“It was a balanced affair. We<br />
had our own chances and they<br />
had their own. I think the boys<br />
played very well. We are here to<br />
make sure we produce results<br />
in the next coming games and<br />
it’s encouraging that I am yet to<br />
lose in the league since joining<br />
How Mine.<br />
“How Mine is not relegation<br />
material and I am building a<br />
team that will be playing in<br />
the Premier League next year,”<br />
Masomere said.<br />
His counterpart Joey Antipas<br />
had this to say after the match:<br />
“It was a fair result but we<br />
should have walked away with<br />
the three points, but we can’t<br />
say no to a point. Our build-up<br />
play was very impressive but<br />
unfortunately we did not get the<br />
maximum points. What we hope<br />
for is a strong finish to the season<br />
and take the pressure off<br />
our backs,” Antipas said.<br />
Mhlanga rose above the How<br />
Mine defence with a beautiful<br />
header past goalkeeper Donovan<br />
Bernard in the 5 th minute<br />
before his goal was cancelled by<br />
Mupera with a spot kick after<br />
Heritein Masuku was hacked<br />
down inside the penalty box in<br />
a goalmouth scramble.<br />
Hwange referee Hardly Ndazi<br />
pointed to the spot and Mupera<br />
sent goalkeeper Elvis Chipezeze<br />
the wrong way.<br />
In Zvishavane, FC Platinum<br />
survived an early Buffaloes<br />
scare as they came from behind<br />
to win 2-1 at Mandava yesterday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> win took Norman Mapeza<br />
men’s points tally to 35, moving<br />
up the ladder to sixth position.<br />
Buffaloes were the first to<br />
hit the target through veteran<br />
striker Kastigu Juwakinyu in<br />
the 17 th minute.<br />
<strong>The</strong> platinum miners then responded<br />
through Wisdom Mutasa<br />
in the 34 th minute and it<br />
did not take Donald Ngoma two<br />
minutes to grab the winner in<br />
the 36 th minute.<br />
Meanwhile, the match between<br />
Chapungu and Chiredzi<br />
scheduled for Ascot stadium<br />
was abandoned yesterday after<br />
the visitors failed to produce licences.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chiredzi-based side arrived<br />
at the stadium 45 minutes<br />
after kickoff time.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y also failed to bring their<br />
playing kits and their coach<br />
Gishon Ntini was not part of<br />
the travelling entourage.<br />
Match Commissioner Japhet<br />
Mufiri confirmed that the<br />
match was cancelled.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> match has been abandoned.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y arrived late at the stadium<br />
and they did not bring<br />
their licences and kits,” said<br />
Mufiri.<br />
An unidentified person who<br />
was aboard the Chiredzi FC<br />
team bus confirmed that the<br />
licences and kits were in the<br />
same vehicle that was on its way<br />
to the stadium with coach Ntini.<br />
<strong>The</strong> troubled Lowveld-based<br />
side is believed to have deliberately<br />
connived to abandon the<br />
match as a protest for unfair upkeep<br />
by management.<br />
Zim golfers aim<br />
continental glory<br />
DanieL nHakaniSO in kiTwe, ZaMBia<br />
ZIMBABWE will be aiming to<br />
become the first country on<br />
the continent to lift the prestigious<br />
Africa Golf Confederation<br />
(AGC) Presidents Cup which<br />
tees off at Nkana Golf Club on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new continental amateur<br />
team golf tournament, which is<br />
the brainchild of current AGC<br />
boss Joe Malanji, who is deputised<br />
by former Zimbabwe Golf<br />
Association Obed Dube, will see<br />
11 African countries battling<br />
out for honours until Saturday.<br />
Zimbabwe is being represented<br />
by a strong four-member<br />
team led by team captain Tonderai<br />
Masunga. <strong>The</strong> other members<br />
are <strong>The</strong>mbelani Vundla,<br />
Visitor Mapwanya and national<br />
team debutant Robson Chinhoi.<br />
Roger Baylis, the veteran<br />
teaching professional, is the national<br />
team coach.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team arrived in Kitwe on<br />
Friday morning after a gruelling<br />
road journey that included<br />
a five-hour delay at the Chirundu<br />
border post.<br />
However, despite the taxing<br />
trip the four-member team has<br />
had enough time to recover and<br />
familiarise with the Nkana Golf<br />
Club course before the tournament<br />
begins.<br />
After a light chipping and putting<br />
session on Friday, the team<br />
went a gear up in their preparations<br />
yesterday with the players<br />
taking part in their first practice<br />
round at the hosting course.<br />
Masunga, who captains the<br />
national team for the first time<br />
after enjoying a successful season<br />
on the local circuit, said he<br />
was confident his charges would<br />
make the nation proud.<br />
“We are all happy to be representing<br />
our country. <strong>The</strong> guys<br />
are motivated and they all want<br />
to do well in this tournament.<br />
We arrived here early and this<br />
has given us enough time to prepare<br />
and hopefully come Tuesday<br />
we will play well,” Masunga<br />
said.<br />
With neighbours South Africa<br />
not taking part in the inaugural<br />
edition of the AGC Presidents<br />
Cup, Zimbabwe — who have in<br />
the past always come second to<br />
their southern neighbours —<br />
has a chance of bagging cup.<br />
Other countries expected to<br />
take part in the tournament are<br />
Namibia, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania,<br />
Kenya, Tunisia, Mauritius,<br />
Mozambique, Botswana<br />
and the hosts.
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Afcon bid<br />
Kaindu confident<br />
A lot has happened but<br />
we believe we are still<br />
within the range of the<br />
log leaders. Anything can<br />
happen in the remaining<br />
fixtures.”<br />
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CAPS win, move<br />
to second spot<br />
BY OUR STAFF<br />
divides<br />
Zifa board<br />
BY OUR STAFF<br />
A<br />
storm is brewing within<br />
the Zifa board over the<br />
current Afcon bid.<br />
Some board members,<br />
including Zifa vice-president<br />
Omega Sibanda, are accusing Zifa<br />
president Cuthbert Dube and Zifa<br />
chief executive officer Jonathan<br />
Mashingaidze of running the association<br />
as their own entity.<br />
In an email dated September<br />
22 sent to Mashingaidze, the Zifa<br />
vice-president ripped into Mashingaidze,<br />
accusing him of not<br />
respecting the existence of the<br />
board and the assembly.<br />
Read part of the letter, “It’s<br />
high time you start respecting the<br />
Board and the Assembly. I am reliably<br />
informed that you have already<br />
travelled to Zambia together<br />
with representatives from the<br />
Ministry of Tourism. You have<br />
appointed a bid committee of people<br />
whom we don’t know. Who are<br />
they, whose interest are they serving,<br />
who chose them and on what<br />
merit?”<br />
Sibanda also questioned how<br />
some of the people that involved<br />
in preparing the bid document<br />
found their way into the committee.<br />
Another board member who refused<br />
to be named for fear of victimisation<br />
said it was better for<br />
the other board members to resign<br />
and let the two run their own<br />
show.<br />
“We have been used to endorse<br />
some of the things by our socalled<br />
bosses but at the end of the<br />
day they do not recognise us. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
do most of the association’s business<br />
away from other board members<br />
but when things go wrong,<br />
they come back to the board for<br />
help.”<br />
Zifa communications manager<br />
Xolisani Gwesela was quick to defend<br />
the stance that both Mashingaidze<br />
and Dube took in terms of<br />
the 2017 Afcon bid.<br />
“At the moment, there is no bid<br />
committee in place. <strong>The</strong> committee<br />
will only be announced anytime<br />
from now when the minister<br />
of Sport, Arts and Culture Andrew<br />
Langa is back in the country.<br />
<strong>The</strong> board will comprise the<br />
chairman, his deputy and 10 committee<br />
members.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re will be sub-committees<br />
that will include security, transport,<br />
infrastructure and facilities,<br />
finance and administration, marketing<br />
and communication and<br />
the inter-ministerial co-ordination<br />
committee,” Gwesela said.<br />
However, documents made<br />
available to this publication suggest<br />
that there is no way the bid<br />
document could have been done<br />
without the involvement of people<br />
from the mentioned ministries.<br />
One of the documents from the<br />
Confederation of African Football<br />
(CAF) requires government<br />
guarantees signed by the President<br />
of the country, two guarantees<br />
from the Ministry of Home<br />
Affairs with one of them dealing<br />
with immigration issues and the<br />
other one on public security.<br />
Another guarantee document<br />
should come from the Ministry<br />
of Finance on taxation and foreign<br />
exchange issues. <strong>The</strong> Ministry<br />
of Media, Information and<br />
Man in charge . . . Zifa boss Cuthbert Dube<br />
Broadcasting Services also has to<br />
give surety to do with media and<br />
broadcasting issues.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fifth guarantee should<br />
come from the Ministry of Information<br />
and Communication<br />
Technology Postal and Courier<br />
Services which needs to give assurance<br />
that the country has sufficient<br />
ICT facilities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bid should also be accompanied<br />
by supporting letters from<br />
the Ministry of Health and Child<br />
Care to guarantee that the country<br />
has high health standards,<br />
while the Ministry of Sport, Arts<br />
and Culture should also guarantee<br />
that the country has enough<br />
sporting facilities. <strong>The</strong> Ministry<br />
of Tourism and Hospitality also<br />
has to guarantee that there are<br />
enough hotels to accommodate<br />
visitors during the hosting of<br />
such a mega event.<br />
Also obligatory is a supporting<br />
letter from the Ministry of Public<br />
Works outlining whether the<br />
country has enough sporting facilities<br />
to host the event, while the<br />
Ministry of Transport would also<br />
need to guarantee there would be<br />
an efficient transport system.<br />
Above all, the host cities should<br />
sign Host City Agreements to<br />
demonstrate their willingness<br />
to host the continental football<br />
showpiece.<br />
“In brief, what I am saying is<br />
the involvement of all these people<br />
from different ministries was<br />
above board. It’s actually a CAF<br />
prerogative. All the guarantees<br />
that we have talked about is (sic)<br />
the oil that drives the bidding machine,”<br />
Gwesela said.<br />
CAF clearly states that all these<br />
ministries should forward a representative<br />
in the bidding committee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bid document was supposed<br />
to be completed as of yesterday<br />
with Mashingaidze expected<br />
to travel to present the document<br />
at the CAF headquarters in<br />
Cairo, Egypt today.<br />
Meanwhile, six prominent<br />
sports personalities will be chosen<br />
to be bidding ambassadors<br />
during the course of the bidding<br />
process.<br />
Some of the names that quickly<br />
come to mind include Warriors<br />
legend Peter Ndlovu, the queen of<br />
the pool, Kirsty Coventry, golfer<br />
Nick Price and Benjani Mwaruwari,<br />
to mention just a few.<br />
Black Rhinos . . . (0) 0<br />
CAPS Utd . . . (1) 1<br />
IT doesn’t matter how, but CAPS<br />
United are in seventh heaven after<br />
labouring to a controversial 1-0 win<br />
over an unlucky Black Rhinos at<br />
Rimuka yesterday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> win took the Green Machine<br />
to second position on the log table,<br />
a point behind log leaders DeMbare<br />
who will be in action this afternoon.<br />
A contentious first-half injury<br />
time penalty, coolly converted by<br />
Moses Muchenje, was enough to<br />
earn CAPS United their first set of<br />
three points following consecutive<br />
frustrating nil all draws against<br />
Bantu Rovers and How Mine respectively.<br />
<strong>The</strong> victory effectively quelled<br />
dissenting voices that were baying<br />
for coach Taurai Mangwiro’s head.<br />
<strong>The</strong> match kicked in a frantic<br />
pace with CAPS United taking initiative<br />
as Tendai Samanja blazed a<br />
promising free kick into no man’s<br />
land after just three minutes.<br />
Soon it was Black Rhinos’ turn<br />
to strike with exciting winger Brian<br />
Muzondiwa going on a mazy<br />
run on the near side rounding his<br />
marker before releasing an exquisite<br />
square ball, only for Fredrick<br />
Marowa to poke the ball wide from<br />
eight yards out with Tafadzwa Dube<br />
in goals a beaten man.<br />
Black Rhinos, who were now dictating<br />
the pace, were unlucky not<br />
to be awarded a penalty in the 17 th<br />
minute when CAPS United captain<br />
Tapiwa Kumbuyani hacked down<br />
Muzondiwa seemingly in the box.<br />
Referee Munyaradzi Majoni, who<br />
had a bad day in office, awarded a<br />
free kick on the edge of the box.<br />
A minute into first-half injury<br />
time, Mangwiro’s men nosed ahead,<br />
albeit in controversial circumstances.<br />
A Rhinos defender cleanly tackled<br />
Ishmael Thundwa who then<br />
went to ground and to the fury of<br />
Rhinos players, Majoni pointed to<br />
the spot and Muchenje scored from<br />
the resultant spot kick.<br />
In the second half Jostein<br />
Mathuthu’s charges went all out<br />
to restore parity. Livewire substitute<br />
Lot Chiwunga thought he had<br />
gained a point for his team, only to<br />
be flagged offside in the 90 th minute.<br />
CAPS United hung on for maximum<br />
points.<br />
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Style<br />
SEpt 28 to oCt 4, 2014<br />
ISSUE 22<br />
Photography by Nick Beer<br />
Star profile<br />
Tracey Jane Bell<br />
Inside<br />
Michael Chiduku<br />
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2 THE STANDARD STYLE / CONTENTS<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong><br />
Style<br />
Contents<br />
P08<br />
Woman & Man<br />
3 Woman Profile<br />
Tracey Jayne Bell<br />
5 Motivation<br />
Tafadzwa<br />
7 Man Profile<br />
Michael Chiduku<br />
Home & Garden<br />
9 Home of the Week<br />
Enter our competition<br />
10 Trends<br />
Bath rooms & powder rooms<br />
12 Gardening<br />
Plaza paints<br />
Food & Drink<br />
14 Restaurant Guide<br />
Cafe Afrique<br />
15 Brandy<br />
Lebbie<br />
Family<br />
19 Family of the Week<br />
Mr & Mrs Rusike<br />
21 Education<br />
Cover to Cover winners<br />
P14<br />
24 Family Getaway<br />
Westgate Half marathon<br />
Arts<br />
26 Breaking New Ground<br />
Eyahra Mathazia<br />
28 Bookworm<br />
Taking writing to the young<br />
P07<br />
P09<br />
P19<br />
29 Arts<br />
Celeb news<br />
To advertise in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> Style magazine please phone (04) 773930-8 Patience Mutimutema pmutimutema@alphamedia.co.zw Grace Mushowo gmushowo@alphamedia.co.zw Michael Munaki mmunaki@alphamedia.co.zw
September 28 to October 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / PROFILE 3<br />
Star Profile:<br />
Tracey Jane Bell<br />
“<strong>The</strong> way you do ANYTHING is the way you do EVERYTHING”<br />
Prudence Muganiwah<br />
A<br />
former Miss Lux, Miss Archipelago,<br />
and Top Model, vivacious Tracey Jane<br />
Bell has been a leader in the modelling<br />
and fashion industry in Zimbabwe for<br />
many years.<br />
Now CEO of Brown Velvet Limited, she<br />
is actively involved in professional women’s<br />
empowerment programmes and she says her<br />
recent experience as Marketing Manager for<br />
the Daily Echo Newspaper and Manager at<br />
the Oxford Times in the United Kingdom have<br />
given her an insight<br />
into the evolving<br />
role of<br />
women<br />
in the<br />
workplace.<br />
Photography by Nick Beer<br />
Tracey is the co-founder and chairperson<br />
of the Good Shepherd Trust for Children in<br />
Zimbabwe, which runs a centre for abused<br />
children, as well as an Albino Foundation<br />
for marginalised children with albinism all<br />
around Zimbabwe. <strong>The</strong> philosophy her centre<br />
emphasizes on is the upholding of the rights<br />
of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) in<br />
Zimbabwe for basic education. It seeks to help<br />
children grow and develop safely into adulthood,<br />
regardless of their background, race,<br />
religious or political affiliation. “Whether<br />
the children’s neglect is social, psychological,<br />
educational or physical, we at <strong>The</strong> Good<br />
Shepherd Trust wish to make a difference in<br />
improving the life chances of the young people<br />
we assist. We invite others of like-mind to<br />
join us in this endeavour and help contribute<br />
to the wellbeing of others less fortunate than<br />
ourselves,” Tracey says.<br />
Tracey says given her activism, she hopes<br />
to make a difference in people’s lives and<br />
change mind sets. “Self-worth is a most notable<br />
and valued attribute, I seek to encourage<br />
us all to find this and hold onto it.”<br />
Brown Velvet Limited, and the Brown Velvet<br />
Awards, her brainchild, seek to empower,<br />
recognise and acknowledge the triumphs of<br />
the Zimbabwean mixed race community. It<br />
denotes a sense of togetherness and appreciation<br />
for people’s contribution to the betterment<br />
of their often minoritised society.<br />
As Brown Velvet has been growing and<br />
the acknowledgment of the awards are becoming<br />
more and more appreciated, Tracey<br />
realised this and for this year’s edition she<br />
worked tirelessly to revamp the Arcadia Community<br />
Centre, using her own finances and<br />
resources, and her home as the base of her<br />
activities. Distinguished and notable guests<br />
such as Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi and<br />
his wife Barbara, Justice Greenland,<br />
celebrity songstress Rozalla Miller<br />
and ex top ranking soccer and basketball<br />
players, top models, business<br />
people graced the occasion.<br />
A speech made by Aulora<br />
Stally at the Brown Velvet<br />
Awards earlier this year summarises<br />
who Tracey is. “This<br />
charming young woman, entrepreneur,<br />
mentor, mother, sister and friend,<br />
in my view, near embodies perfection. Not just<br />
her ravishing beauty, her magnetic presence,<br />
but her intellectual capability …But bigger<br />
than that is her heart – for it is one of gold.<br />
Within this woman lies something even greater,<br />
meaningful and truly beautiful – she oozes<br />
kindness, gentleness, confidence, and above<br />
all, that precious thing we all need -- LOVE.”<br />
Drawing her inspiration from Oprah Winfrey<br />
and Maya Angelou, Tracey says it has<br />
taken a great deal of soul-searching for her to<br />
arrive at the place she finds herself today, and<br />
the values she upholds as a result of her life’s<br />
experiences are integrity, respect for others,<br />
service, and recognition of achievement. “You<br />
see what you believe. You attract to yourself<br />
those experiences that match your existing<br />
belief system. What you create through your<br />
thoughts is a belief system, and that is ultimately<br />
what determines whether you live a<br />
successful life.”<br />
“One of my favourite quotes is ‘Build your<br />
own dreams, or someone else will hire you to<br />
build theirs.’ —Farrah Gray. I respect and am<br />
grateful for my life and the way it has turned<br />
out so I am passionate about everything I do!<br />
I most enjoy seeing the change I have had a<br />
hand in bringing about.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Zumba fitness and fine art painting<br />
fan, whose looks are absolutely amazing for<br />
someone who is a grandmother, believes in<br />
healthy eating and exercising. “My daughter<br />
teaches at a primary school in the UK and my<br />
son is a Lawyer currently studying for his<br />
Masters in Immigration Law in London, but<br />
the absolute sunray in my life every single day<br />
is my gorgeous grandson…” she says with a<br />
radiant smile.<br />
Tracey, an all-rounder who is also into<br />
event management and a former silver medalist<br />
at Zimbabwe Nationals, always carries her<br />
encouraging and ever determined spirit wherever<br />
she is, whatever she undertakes to do. “It<br />
takes courage to face the unknown. You need<br />
to know that whenever you choose courage<br />
over cowardice, you win! You expand who you<br />
are and then there can be no regrets. <strong>The</strong> way<br />
you do ANYTHING is the way you do EVERY-<br />
THING.”
4 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / FASHION<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Accessory Central<br />
Shamiso Catherine Ruzvidzo<br />
In addition to rising temperatures, summer brings with it a rising<br />
urge to shop and update our wardrobes for summer. Refreshing<br />
our entire wardrobe with summer dresses, shoes and bags is what<br />
we all desire to do, but an old outfit can easily be reinvented. Add<br />
accessories to make it appear new and fresh, don’t forget to keep<br />
in mind;<br />
A manicure can add a perfect touch to a few<br />
different summer sandals that have been sitting in your<br />
wardrobe for a while. Select a nail polish col our that is<br />
currently fresh and exciting for summer such as lime, orange<br />
or peach<br />
Do not wear too many rings on one hand, it’s unflattering<br />
Invest in a statement piece such as a new bag in a long<br />
lasting seasonal colour like black<br />
Make sure the accessories you purchase can easily be paired<br />
with other outfits<br />
FASHION POLICE<br />
Accessories to choose when restyling a simple black dress<br />
FASHION POLICE - Try not to over accessorise as this can be distracting and take<br />
away the essence of the outfit. If you choose to layer jewellery, make sure that you<br />
layer only one set of jewellery e.g. layers of pearl necklaces.<br />
Accessory of the week: Colourful head wraps are the perfect Summer Accessory<br />
Peach shoulder bag<br />
Simple aysmmetric black<br />
dress with a gold belt.<br />
Velvet Matte Lipstick<br />
Beaded Sandals<br />
Images sourced: makhosazane.co.za; pinterest.com;<br />
THE WEDDING PLANNER<br />
Get all the intricacies of your wedding right<br />
Rufaro Mushonga<br />
Hiring a wedding planner in Zimbabwe is still a concept<br />
that many of us cannot get our heads around. Some<br />
of us believe it is less costly and much easier to do it<br />
ourselves, or we rely on “free labour” from family and<br />
friends. Some will form a “wedding committee” and allocate<br />
each committee member a duty or a “department” to manage.<br />
Sometimes it works out, but generally, let’s be real here – as a<br />
couple, you can’t put 10 of your family members in one room<br />
and expect them to agree with you or ever reach a consensus.<br />
This is the reason why most wedding committee meetings take<br />
longer than three hours.<br />
I am not shooting down family involvement. But you as<br />
bride and groom, with the guidance of your wedding planner,<br />
should be the ones to decide how you would like to involve<br />
them. It’s your special day.<br />
On your wedding day, as a bride, how much control do you<br />
have when your groom is getting ready at a different location<br />
and you are not sure if he has even woken up yet? How much<br />
control do you have when you’re about to walk down the aisle<br />
-- does the DJ know your song? What do you do if he plays the<br />
wrong song? Do you just stand there, or do you signal him, or<br />
tell Dad to go and fix it because this is your moment and it has<br />
to be right? Who has the rings? Did someone bring the cake<br />
knife? Did anyone check where the marriage officer is?<br />
Have you heard about that wedding where the marriage<br />
officer said, “May we please have the rings?” And in that moment,<br />
the best man remembered where the rings were. At<br />
home! It may be acceptable to delay the ceremony before it<br />
starts, but what do you do when you are right in the middle<br />
of exchanging vows? How upset would you be as a bride? You<br />
don’t get that moment back.<br />
Your family and friends are all emotionally invested in<br />
your wedding day. <strong>The</strong>y do want to help you, but they also want<br />
to celebrate with you. An independent professional – a wedding<br />
planner – is contractually obligated to ensure that you<br />
have the special day that you want. A wedding planner is all<br />
about details, because the “little” details can either make or<br />
break your special day. A wedding planner makes professional<br />
recommendations based on experience, and is always looking<br />
out for you and ensuring every little detail is in place.<br />
rufmush@gmail.com<br />
Photography by Providence Films and Sound<br />
Décor by Venue Umwinzii
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
THE STANDARD STYLE / INSPIRATION 5<br />
Game-changers:<br />
Re-engineering the<br />
fabric of society [Part IV]<br />
Cynthia Hakutangwi<br />
<strong>The</strong> fabric of any society pertains to its<br />
basic structure, way of life, relationships,<br />
and traditions. <strong>The</strong> moral fabric<br />
of society is that which underpins and<br />
girds its people’s shared standard of dignity.<br />
<strong>The</strong> business dictionary refers to social fabric<br />
as “the composite demographics of a defined<br />
area, which consists of its ethnic composition,<br />
wealth, education level, employment rate<br />
and regional values.”<br />
Game-changers respond to how the torn fabric<br />
of any society should not only be ideally<br />
restored but rather revitalised in tandem with<br />
values based progress. In general terms, reengineering<br />
is a process of rethinking or redesigning<br />
systems in both technical and behavioural<br />
terms. Re-engineering will inevitably<br />
impact on strategies, processes, structures,<br />
management systems as well as values and<br />
beliefs. <strong>The</strong> ultimate benefit of re-engineering<br />
lies in the tremendous improvements and efficiencies<br />
which subsequently result in measurable<br />
gains and profits across a wide spectrum.<br />
For an organisation, re-engineering entails<br />
the process of reviewing all the different levels<br />
of an organisation’s way of doing business<br />
and considering how to improve things.<br />
In general, re-engineering requires us to look<br />
closely at our strengths and weaknesses, ask<br />
difficult questions where necessary and make<br />
changes for the better. Game-changers are individuals<br />
who are committed to social engineering<br />
by continuously refining diminishing<br />
social values to re-align with changing strategies,<br />
technologies and societal demands.<br />
In the earlier parts of this series which<br />
profiles the attributes of game changers we<br />
challenged individuals to pursue and discover<br />
their authentic personal identity, to possess<br />
the strength of character to change the ways<br />
things are done, and to redefine the landscape.<br />
We examined these nine game-changing (GC)<br />
attributes:<br />
GC1: Personal Leadership and<br />
Transformation<br />
GC2: Possessing the courage to be a<br />
thought leader<br />
GC3: <strong>The</strong> ability to think and see with a<br />
Relational lens<br />
GC4: Making the best out of breakingpoint<br />
frustrations<br />
GC5: Boldness to initiate movement in<br />
stagnant situations<br />
GC6: Refusal to be led by frivolous<br />
emotions<br />
GC7: Game changers leave a legacy<br />
GC8:<br />
GC9:<br />
Game changers take initiative<br />
Game changers are willing to<br />
learn, unlearn and relearn<br />
In this last part of the series we shall conclude<br />
the conversation which profiles the gamechangers<br />
by looking at the last three attributes:<br />
GC10: Game-changers restore broken<br />
walls, hope and dignity<br />
Every society faces a unique, custom-made set<br />
of giants that challenge its social and moral<br />
fabric. Giants typify organised systems which<br />
are well designed to dominate and scatter societies.<br />
In most cases the call to restore the broken<br />
walls and scattered elements of society is<br />
rarely heeded to by a majority but rather by<br />
individuals who have the audacity to rise up<br />
and counter the challenge through critical<br />
thinking and boldness to rebuild in spite of<br />
the giants’ droning voices. Game-changers inspire<br />
hope in the people as they rebuild.<br />
GC11: Game-changers redesign new<br />
systems for the society to operate on<br />
<strong>The</strong> restoration of a moral campus requires<br />
more than just re-visiting the traditional ways<br />
of doing things but rather a more intelligent<br />
approach which can provide solutions in the<br />
long term. Game-changers may appear to upset<br />
existing arrangements in the short term<br />
but the benefits in the long term are beneficial.<br />
<strong>The</strong> design of new systems does not necessarily<br />
imply abolishing what has traditionally<br />
worked but however addresses “improved<br />
systematic thinking and doing” within a new<br />
paradigm.<br />
GC12: Game-changers are trail blazers<br />
and barrier breakers<br />
In their relentless pursuit, game-changers are<br />
never satisfied with the ordinary or mundane.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are committed to becoming the best at<br />
what they do so they can inspire others to<br />
see beyond the present. It is their ability to<br />
embrace open mindedness and fresh perspectives<br />
that spurs them on to break barriers and<br />
do what has never been done before. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
choose to design their lives instead of taking<br />
what is given, beyond dreaming they take absolute<br />
action.<br />
As we wrap up this four part series which<br />
profiles the attributes of a game-changer, our<br />
hope is that you will make a decision to not<br />
just play the game but change the game. This<br />
is a call to “create, improve on, and innovate<br />
around best practices in order to find next<br />
practices.” By definition, a game-changer<br />
causes change. If nothing changes, if nothing<br />
is created, if nothing is improved, if nothing<br />
is transformed, then you don’t have a gamechanger.<br />
Cynthia is a Communications and Personal<br />
Development Consultant, a Life Coach, Author<br />
and Strategist. She is the Managing Consultant<br />
of Wholeness Incorporated. Her published<br />
book titles include: <strong>The</strong> Whole You – Vital Keys<br />
for Balanced Living and Intelligent Conversations:<br />
A mindset shift towards a developed Africa.<br />
E-mail: cynthia@wholenessincorporated.<br />
com<br />
A thought for six perishable possessions [Part I]<br />
Tafadzwa Zimunhu Taruvinga<br />
Sores on Your Feet<br />
Building up towards the castle of your greater<br />
purpose is never easy. Why should it be?<br />
Nor, like Ancient Rome, can the castle be<br />
built overnight. Along the path of your journey<br />
towards the discovery of yourself and<br />
that of your purpose, strewn along are the<br />
merx [commodities/merchandise] that may<br />
come across as worthy at first sight. Your<br />
journey, full of much ponder and deliberation<br />
as it should be, may have started off at<br />
a time when these things mattered, the merx.<br />
But time has passed by and the sores on your<br />
feet have beckoned better your ponder and<br />
deliberation, than have your possessions, the<br />
merx. <strong>The</strong> sores on your feet tell a story of<br />
how far along the treacherous path you have<br />
come. <strong>The</strong>y remind you that your journey<br />
has only but begun and that it continues to be<br />
worthy. <strong>The</strong>y affirm your conviction towards<br />
a grander purpose. All said and done the possessions<br />
that you once thought worthy pale<br />
apart in comparison. You, my friend, despite<br />
the visible merx, haven’t arrived. <strong>The</strong> journey<br />
has only but just begun.<br />
1. Money<br />
A cynical assertion in the face of a challenging<br />
economy. You will probably counter it<br />
and assert instead that without money, it’s<br />
impractical to prosper in modern society, let<br />
alone to just live. You would be right because,<br />
let’s face it; we all have bills to pay, and headaches<br />
to counter if the bills are not paid. You<br />
will also suggest passionately that money, the<br />
ultimate merx, is the denominator common<br />
to power, influence and choice. Maybe even<br />
happiness fits into that equation. You would<br />
be right because, for instance, some of the<br />
things that make us happier than the onset<br />
of a beautiful day or a fresh breeze, or even<br />
a fresh perspective, need to be financed. But<br />
for a moment consider “wealth”, as opposed<br />
to money, the merx. Money is contained as<br />
a miniscule part, maybe even as a tenth, of<br />
a wholesome kind of wealth. Consider this.<br />
Cynthia Hakutangwi often speaks fervently<br />
about the “wholesomeness” that’s derived<br />
from what she calls “relational thinking”. In<br />
other words, there is more wealth in creating<br />
sustainable and value-adding relationships<br />
than there is in sacrificing good relationships<br />
for money. <strong>The</strong> underlying principle is this:<br />
When you have begun your journey on your<br />
path to success, wealth should matter more<br />
than money does. If money still matters<br />
more, then, you, my friend, haven’t arrived.<br />
Your journey has only just begun.<br />
2. Looking the part<br />
Grooming experts will demonstrate, quite<br />
successfully too, how important it is to look<br />
good. <strong>The</strong>y will say that looking good plays<br />
a key part to closing deals, that it plays part<br />
to attracting the “right” people towards you.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y will even show you the empirical findings<br />
and percentages that render the cause of<br />
aesthetical appeal as worthy. <strong>The</strong> grooming<br />
experts would be right because we all like to,<br />
in the words of my younger contemporaries<br />
who are true to modern colloquialism, have<br />
some serious “swagger”. And we should.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n there’s what I call “looking the part”.<br />
Consider this: You’re a young and resourceful<br />
entrepreneur of the day in Zimbabwe<br />
with high standards of service delivery. You<br />
have a pretty average subcompact automobile<br />
in the bigger scheme of cars; call it the new<br />
Honda Ballade, in metallic black. A certain<br />
company X employs you on a weekend to pick<br />
and drop its foreign delegates between Harare<br />
International Airport and a luxury hotel<br />
Y in the city.<br />
<strong>The</strong> thing that makes you an “executive<br />
driver” here certainly isn’t your driver’s licence.<br />
Everyone has one of those. <strong>The</strong> thing<br />
that makes you an executive driver is that<br />
neat, black suit, maybe going with it even a<br />
sleek silky driver’s cap. You would look good<br />
for the part and the point is that it’s quite<br />
easy to look the part. <strong>The</strong> point then begs a<br />
critical question; do you also play the part as<br />
well as you look it? <strong>The</strong> underlying principle<br />
is this, when you have begun your journey on<br />
your path to success, looking the part should<br />
matter less than it does to play it. If looking<br />
the part still matters more but without a commitment<br />
to playing the part, then, you, my<br />
friend, haven’t arrived. Your journey has<br />
only just begun.<br />
3. Instant gratification<br />
I like to appreciate even certain types of music<br />
that I don’t particularly subscribe to. In a<br />
recent encounter, I asked my younger relative<br />
what he thought about a recent track which<br />
is performed by an equally young American<br />
artist, Justin Bieber. He laughed long hard<br />
at my ignorance and my seeming obsolescence,<br />
before he eventually quipped that the<br />
track was “old”. I was surprised because I’m<br />
quite certain that the track has been released<br />
for only but a few months. <strong>The</strong> conversation<br />
reminds me of how parts of modern society<br />
now embrace a handful of events preferably<br />
in fast-paced fashion. <strong>The</strong>re’s a need in those<br />
parts of society to resolve events and issues<br />
exponentially and there’s a need to acquire<br />
money (as opposed to wealth) in the shortest<br />
time possible with the least amount of labour<br />
exerted. <strong>The</strong>re’s an epidemic longing for instant<br />
gratification, something which is necessarily<br />
opposed to the journey towards one’s<br />
purpose, which takes time as it should.<br />
My thinking is that “golden oldies” by the<br />
likes of Oliver Mtukudzi, Nina Simone,<br />
ABBA, and a million others, were well-considered<br />
and they were well-crafted, all in<br />
good time to last a long time. Tuku’s track<br />
Ziwere has stood the test of time since the<br />
1970s precisely because it was created with a<br />
natural ability to become refined rather than<br />
obsolete through a good four decades to date.<br />
Perhaps my younger relative will tell me in<br />
30 years’ time that Bieber’s track would have<br />
accomplished the same. Perhaps. <strong>The</strong> underlying<br />
principle is this; we have living testimonies,<br />
the likes of Tuku, to the importance of<br />
time well-considered and things well-crafted.<br />
When you have begun your journey on your<br />
path to success, instant gratification should<br />
matter less than does things done in good<br />
time. If instant gratification still matters<br />
more, then, you, my friend, haven’t arrived.<br />
Your journey has only just begun.<br />
Tafadzwa Taruvinga is a Customer Service<br />
Consultant and the first author of a book on<br />
Customer Service Excellence in Zimbabwe, entitled,<br />
Serve Your Customers EXCELLENTLY,<br />
Or Not At All [2014]. He is also a Member of<br />
the Advisory Council of Customer Value Creation<br />
International<br />
e-mail: tafadzwazt@gmail.com<br />
profile available on: www.customervaluecreation.org/About-Us
6 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / GROOMING<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
CANVAS OR LEATHER SNEAKERS<br />
Classic low cut, lace up converse shoes are timeless. Find one simple colour<br />
that goes with everything from jeans to tailored trousers. You can dress it<br />
up with a blazer or keep it totally easy with a pair of shorts to beat the summer<br />
heat.<br />
ACTIVE SHOES<br />
If you are going to get active you can pick a pair of b-ball shoes that don’t<br />
sacrifice fashion for function. When you are done playing games, leave the<br />
shoes in the changing room where they belong. <strong>The</strong>se are hardly for gearing<br />
up, perhaps could only get away with these for outdoor activities only<br />
besides gym.<br />
My accessory of<br />
the week: Duffel Bag<br />
PENNY LOAFERS<br />
(Courtesy of google)<br />
Penny loafers are casual very casual, they can be worn with jeans, khakis,<br />
other casual trousers and with shorts. <strong>The</strong>y can be worn with casual suits,<br />
although theoretically could be worn with casual suits.<br />
Just for kicks<br />
Marshall Malikula<br />
A man’s shoes are worth a “thousand<br />
words”. <strong>The</strong>y say you can tell<br />
a whole lot about a guy’s status by<br />
merely looking at his kicks. I totally<br />
agree, it’s really easy to spot a scrub<br />
from a man making the paper. Beat<br />
down shoes scream broke back side<br />
brother. Exception only applies to<br />
vintage boots, Vans and brogues.<br />
Aging actually adds character and<br />
that broken in, distressed appeal<br />
to the former styles. In business<br />
settings, I highly recommend one<br />
wears clean and polished leather<br />
pairs. If you want to make a strong<br />
fashion statement, keep your outfit<br />
simple and let your shoes do the<br />
talking. To bring the bounce back to<br />
your step, it’s suggested that all men<br />
must own all or most of these styles;<br />
(Courtesy of TSB men)<br />
CAP TOE OXFORD<br />
<strong>The</strong>se classic Oxfords are described<br />
as “quintessential,” no man should<br />
be found wanting. It is the most versatile<br />
pair of shoes any man can<br />
own. Oxford cap toes is a closed lace<br />
up shoe, with straight stitch cap. It<br />
is suitable for formal settings such<br />
as work, weddings and funerals.<br />
ESPADRILLES<br />
(Courtesy of espadrillesetc.com)<br />
Espadrilles originate in Catalona, Spain. <strong>The</strong>se are canvas or cotton shoes<br />
with flexible sole, charaterised by jute rope stitching.<br />
(Courtesy of Styleforum)<br />
DRESS BOOTS<br />
(Courtesy of aldoshoes.com)<br />
<strong>The</strong>se are equal parts dressy and<br />
rugged at the same time, making<br />
them a versatile choice to enhance<br />
just about any look, under just about<br />
any weather condition. Avoid anything<br />
that is overly round, chunky<br />
or outdoorsy. Instead, keep them<br />
sharp, lean and wear them with everything<br />
from slim suits to stacked<br />
denim. Monk shoes are regarded as<br />
the dressiest of all footwear; these<br />
are shoes with signature side buckle.<br />
BOAT/DECK SHOES<br />
Boat shoes were originally designed for sailing, however they have gradually<br />
evolved to fashionable outer wear. Most boat shoes have traditional white<br />
non-marking soles. <strong>The</strong>y usually have a moccasin outlook.<br />
Marshall Malikula is a Stylist/ Image Consultant<br />
Email: marshmalikula@gmail.com
September 28 to October 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / PROFILE 7<br />
Star Profile<br />
Michael Chiduku<br />
“<br />
Every second counts – today is the youngest you’ll ever be…<br />
“<br />
Prudence Muganiwah<br />
Born 23 years ago, Michael<br />
Chiduku is a<br />
bright young man who<br />
is on the path to great<br />
things. A holder of a Bachelor’s<br />
Degree in Business<br />
and Marketing Management<br />
from Oxford Brookes University,<br />
Michael completed ‘O’<br />
levels at Prince Edward School<br />
in Harare and proceeded to ‘A’<br />
Level at St John’s College.<br />
“I am passionate about helping<br />
people realise the potential<br />
they possess and teaching them<br />
how they can harness it in order<br />
to make a positive impact in<br />
the world. Everybody<br />
dreams about what<br />
they aim to<br />
have, do<br />
or be<br />
in life. My passion is helping them realise<br />
their dreams.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> aspiring bright spark who was<br />
the Student Representative Council<br />
(SRC) President in university, recently<br />
launched an inspiring motivational<br />
book, Awakening Your Inner Greatness,<br />
which he says is a book that is deliberately<br />
set to inspire people to dream big<br />
dreams and chase after them. “I always<br />
say, ‘We live in a big world and a big<br />
world needs big dreamers.’”<br />
<strong>The</strong> young achiever is a leader in<br />
the making as evidenced by how he also<br />
founded Leaders of Tomorrow Society,<br />
a leadership club which he started in<br />
2011 at university. He also represented<br />
Zimbabwe in track and field athletics at<br />
the 2010 World Junior Championships in<br />
Canada.<br />
His book, which is now available at<br />
all Insignia bookstores nationwide, according<br />
to him, will help one get from<br />
where they are to where they are actually<br />
meant to be in life. “It’s a straightforward<br />
manual to success that is rooted<br />
on Biblical principles.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> book covers a plethora of topics,<br />
ranging from goal setting, mentorship,<br />
adapting to unexpected change<br />
and living with a positive mentality<br />
at all times. “I enjoy seeing<br />
the bright smile on people’s faces<br />
when they become aware of what<br />
they are truly capable of accomplishing<br />
in life.”<br />
Young as he is, understands<br />
how it is important<br />
for one to pick themselves up<br />
after a fall, as to him, these<br />
are only passing phases. He<br />
admits that one of the biggest<br />
challenges he has faced<br />
thus far is quitting itself.<br />
“As I embarked on<br />
the journey to write Awakening<br />
Your Inner Greatness,<br />
I had several “good<br />
excuses” to quit. One of<br />
the major excuses I could<br />
have entertained was the<br />
fact that I am a young<br />
person. I wondered how<br />
many people were willing<br />
to read a book written<br />
by a young author.”<br />
A staunch Christian, he<br />
quickly dismisses this<br />
negative thought and convinced<br />
himself that one’s<br />
age is not a reflection of one’s<br />
wisdom. “You are never too<br />
young to start working towards<br />
your dream. For a season, I felt<br />
so helpless and pessimistic about<br />
life. Seeing the smiles on these people’s<br />
faces is a reminder of the person<br />
I once was and it helps me to be<br />
grateful for who I am today. My sincere<br />
desire is for everybody to experience the<br />
joy I felt when I realised and tapped into<br />
my potential.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> aspirational writer is a firm<br />
believer in the principle of sowing and<br />
reaping, stating that the countless hours<br />
of hard work and dedication that one invests<br />
in whatever they set themselves to<br />
will soon pay off. “Some seeds germinate<br />
and grow faster than others but the principle<br />
still remains -- as much as there is<br />
a season to sow, you will have a season to<br />
reap. Zig Ziglar once said, “Success is a<br />
personal standard, reaching for the highest<br />
in us, becoming all that we can be.”<br />
He goes on to quote one of his favourite<br />
verses;<br />
“As iron sharpens iron, so one man<br />
sharpens another” – Proverbs 27:17.<br />
<strong>The</strong> humble young man, with a huge<br />
appetite for rice with peanut butter, encourages<br />
people to be authentic and to<br />
keep company that is good for them, as<br />
they greatly influence who they are likely<br />
to become in life. “We are all born as<br />
originals but many die as carbon copies<br />
of other individuals. Don’t waste time<br />
trying to run another person’s race, focus<br />
on your lane and you will be amazed<br />
by what awaits you at the finish line. Can<br />
you confidently say that your friends are<br />
positively contributing to your life’s ambitions?”<br />
<strong>The</strong> still single Michael, who spends<br />
most of his time off his 8-5 daily work<br />
routine composing songs, playing his<br />
guitar, watching and listening to self-development<br />
videos and audios, values his<br />
family a lot. “What I enjoy the most about<br />
my family is that we support one another.<br />
My parents have been great pillars of<br />
support in my career and they were typically<br />
my first role models.” He also holds<br />
in high regard his mentor, Douglas Mamvura,<br />
and Dr Shingi Munyeza, a Senior<br />
Pastor at his church (Faith Ministries).<br />
<strong>The</strong> self-confessed neat freak says<br />
he can’t stand disorder. “I am the kind<br />
of person who straightens up a tilted<br />
picture frame. I am also very time conscious.<br />
Every second counts – today is the<br />
youngest you’ll ever be.”<br />
“<br />
As iron<br />
sharpens iron,<br />
so one man<br />
sharpens<br />
another<br />
– Proverbs 27:17.<br />
“
8 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / WHEELS<br />
Adventure beyond imagination<br />
-the all new Jeep Cherokee<br />
Fact Jeke<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2014 all new Jeep Cherokee recently<br />
launched by Zimoco in Zimbabwe is every<br />
adventurer’s dream. It is packed with all the<br />
latest innovative technology to make all that<br />
you dream possible on the road. With the festive<br />
season fast approaching, I’m sure many of<br />
you are wondering how you are going to tackle<br />
that road trip. All you need is a travel mate<br />
with capabilities beyond imagination; like<br />
the all new Jeep Cherokee. I was a little disappointed<br />
with the size of the vehicle outwardly,<br />
but I tell you once you are behind the wheel<br />
you realise that size doesn’t really matter, it’s<br />
the technique that’s important.<br />
This vehicle makes you meet every road<br />
and trail with strength of character that delivers<br />
ultimate all-weather confidence. So during<br />
the rainy season or the harsh cold winter or<br />
the worst of roads, you will still cruise with<br />
peace of mind. It’s been perfectly sized to perform<br />
with sophisticated, efficient skill, the<br />
all-new Jeep Cherokee goes far and wide with<br />
its legendary, available Jeep brand 4x4 DNA.<br />
Engineered to excel on all terrain, Cherokee<br />
invites the adventurer in you to get out and experience<br />
the best of all worlds.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Jeep Cherokee raises the bar with superior<br />
on-road ride, handling and fuel economy,<br />
best-in-class 4x4 capability and top-notch<br />
technology. This is for those who require both<br />
form and substance. Perfectly-sized to perform<br />
with sophisticated, efficient skill, the<br />
new Cherokee goes far and wide with its legendary<br />
Jeep brand DNA.<br />
Every sculpted inch of the new Cherokee<br />
has been thoughtfully designed to be efficient<br />
and capable. Go explore it in the detail, starting<br />
from the traditional seven-slot grille that<br />
stays true to its Jeep brand roots, with daring,<br />
sleek daytime running lights adding the next<br />
generation of safety and design distinction.<br />
Notice also, the new Command View dualpane<br />
sunroof that offers wide-open viewing,<br />
day or night. It includes a power sliding glass<br />
front panel and a fixed glass panel with power<br />
sunshade in the rear.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new Cherokee introduces a unique,<br />
fashionable style into the Jeep range. Just<br />
take a look at all the details and you will also<br />
discover a premium, well-crafted interior<br />
with an extensive use of soft-touch materials:<br />
a sophisticated blend of hand-sculpted fluid<br />
shapes, high-quality materials, innovative<br />
colour and material choices, precision craftsmanship,<br />
state-of-the-art technology and features.<br />
It’s a whole world of unique perfection<br />
waiting to be discovered.<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Cherokee takes legendary 4x4<br />
capability to the next level for those who desire<br />
the distinct advantages of an all-weather,<br />
all-terrain Jeep. It’s purposefully designed to<br />
adapt to your surroundings with in-born confidence,<br />
thanks to its legendary Jeep brand<br />
DNA, arriving at destinations others only<br />
dream of. <strong>The</strong> Selec-Terrain System, for example,<br />
allows you to choose the on and off-road<br />
setting for optimum performance to help you<br />
successfully navigate specific road conditions.<br />
Up to four customised settings are offered:<br />
Auto, Snow, Sport and Sand/Mud.<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Cherokee is the first SUV in the<br />
segment to feature a 9-speed automatic transmission.<br />
It’s all about driving, comfort and<br />
efficiency. Electronic Range Select supports a<br />
manual shifting capability that includes over<br />
40 individual shift maps for specific conditions<br />
to help maximize efficiency, performance and<br />
drivability. Thus, performance is attuned to<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
nearly any driving demand, both on and offroad,<br />
and gear shifts are almost imperceptible<br />
on every terrain.<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Cherokee’s cabin allows you to<br />
command the road ahead from a very comfortable<br />
and informed vantage point. Cherokee’s<br />
advanced technology delivers data that can<br />
keep you on track, handing you the freedom to<br />
head out with confidence. With the UConnect<br />
system, you’re always connected, informed,<br />
entertained and more productive. You can<br />
connect your compatible media device, play<br />
CDs, or display your photos on your UConnect<br />
screen via the USB port, SD media card, or<br />
auxiliary port. This is how you advance your<br />
world, in a world that’s very advanced.<br />
Cherokee has 70 standard and available<br />
safety and security features and was awarded<br />
the prestigious Euro NCAP five-star rating.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new Jeep steering wheel puts a wide<br />
range of controls safely at your fingertips.<br />
With a strong foundation forged from 65%<br />
high-strength steel, engineers have added a<br />
full range of active and passive available features<br />
to deliver peace-of-mind wherever you<br />
go.<br />
<strong>The</strong> all-new Jeep Cherokee is available<br />
right now from Zimoco (pricing and finance<br />
options visit the showroom) with two engine<br />
and trim options, these being the 2.4L Longitude<br />
and the 3.2L Limited. Powertrains are as<br />
follows:<br />
Engine 2.4 I-4 3.2 V6<br />
Displacement (cu cm) 2360 3239<br />
Horsepower 130kW @ 6400 200 kW @ 6500<br />
Torque 229 Nm @ 3900 315 Nm @ 4300<br />
Email: missjeke@gmail.com<br />
Additional source: www.Jeep.com<br />
EVERY DAY A NEW ADVENTURE<br />
New 2014 Jeep Cherokee from $57 799 (including duty)<br />
<strong>The</strong> all-new Jeep Cherokee is as distinctive as it looks. With a commanding road<br />
presence, available four-wheel drive systems, exclusive rear axle disconnect and<br />
precision-crafted interior with premium materials and state-of-the-art technology.<br />
• Warranty 36 months or 100 000km • Finance available<br />
Terms & conditions apply. E&OE. Jeep is a registered trademark of Chrysler Group LLC.<br />
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10 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / TRENDS<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Bathrooms and Powder Rooms<br />
Minimalistic<br />
Modern<br />
bathrooms<br />
with a touch<br />
of elegance.<br />
Photo – Luxe Interiors + Design<br />
Noma Ndlovu<br />
I went to see a house that was up for sale the<br />
other day, all was going well until we came<br />
to the bathroom, and needless to say it went<br />
downhill from there. Bathrooms are dealbreakers<br />
in any property sale or rental even<br />
if the new owners or tenants are going to<br />
change it. First impressions count, you can<br />
close a “hanging” sale based on how attractive<br />
your bathroom is. A bathroom should not be<br />
neglected, it says a lot about you and your hygiene<br />
habits. <strong>The</strong>re are so many ways you can<br />
fix your bathroom from simple DIY to grand<br />
designs. <strong>The</strong>se days it’s all about expressing<br />
yourself and bathrooms can showcase your<br />
personality and style just as any room can.<br />
Tips to create a beautiful bathroom<br />
Space, fittings and finishes<br />
Nowadays bathrooms are spacious, affording<br />
you the luxury of a bathtub, a shower, a double<br />
sink and even space to sit. Whether it’s a<br />
large or a small space, the key is to create a<br />
flow that makes it user-friendly.<br />
Bathtubs and Sinks – with different types of fittings<br />
available your budget is the limit. You<br />
can go for any type that you want. <strong>The</strong>re is the<br />
standard that we all know which is the alcove<br />
or perhaps a free standing or a drop in, a corner<br />
bath, or an under mount. Similarly materials<br />
used for bath tubs vary. <strong>The</strong>re is porcelain<br />
coated metal bath tubs which are heavy and<br />
are difficult to clean once stained, metal – copper<br />
or brass, stainless steel for the industrial<br />
look, engineered wood, acrylic which is light,<br />
high gloss and non-staining, marble hard and<br />
cold or fibreglass.<br />
Showers – with a plethora of designs and styles<br />
out there curved glass enclosed showers give<br />
your bath room a softer and warmer glow minimising<br />
the jagged edges from the sharp edges<br />
of your bath vanities and windows.<br />
Walls – use tiles as they are easy to clean. You<br />
can still use paint specifically for bathrooms<br />
or also wall paper to create a calming or wow<br />
effect.<br />
with mid toned finishes like Caesarstone floor<br />
tiles, yellow wood flooring or Italian tiles.<br />
Plumbing - conceal all piping. If you love the<br />
industrial look go for copper or brass piping<br />
that can blend in with the taps and faucets in<br />
your sinks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Powder Room<br />
This is a small “bathroom” with only a toilet<br />
and a sink. It is an essential addition to your<br />
home as you limit traffic to the main bathroom.<br />
It allows your guests to use the facilities<br />
without treading on your private space. It still<br />
needs to be treated with much design care as<br />
the rest of the house. In today’s competitive<br />
real estate market, a powder room is often an<br />
essential selling point. <strong>The</strong>se have a positive<br />
effect on the value of the property.<br />
Bathrooms should be relaxing, light, airy and<br />
enjoyable. You should be able to enjoy scenic<br />
views from your bathroom window while<br />
bathing so long as no one sees you. Top it all<br />
up with luxurious towels, scented candles,<br />
foam baths, shower gels, bath oils whatever<br />
works for you. Enjoy.<br />
Fabulous bathrooms are no longer the domain<br />
of hotels or the rich and famous, we all can<br />
have our own slice of bathroom paradise in<br />
our homes.<br />
Standalone bathtubs create a sense of luxury Photo – ambiance<br />
interiors<br />
Brilliant White Walls and Large windows give your bathroom an edgy<br />
timeless look. Photo Credit – Luxe Interior + Design<br />
Windows – be bold. Replace the small old windows<br />
with large teak framed or stained aluminium<br />
framed sliding windows and doors.<br />
Light and Colour – lighter colours give a sense<br />
of calmness. You need to relax in your bathroom<br />
and come out refreshed. Dark colours<br />
drain energy unless they are contrasted with<br />
bright colours. I recommend Vanilla, Timeless<br />
or Brilliant white as a base and then offset<br />
Credits – www.Wisegeek.com, www.bathtubchoices.com,<br />
www.HouseBeautiful.com<br />
www. Luxe interiors + design<br />
Noma Ndlovu is an Interior Designer & Property<br />
Stylist.<br />
Feedback: unaminkosi@yahoo.co.uk.<br />
+263775 402 083<br />
Clever contrast of colour can create a warm and cosy “space” in a small<br />
bathroom. Photo - House Beautiful
September 28 to October 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN /INSPIRATION 11<br />
THE COLOURS OF SUMMER: PURPLE<br />
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browns, and greys are more frequent colour<br />
choices for being comfortable and easy to live<br />
with. That doesn’t make purple a bad choice.<br />
hoose for your walls is probably one of the biggest decisions you have to make when<br />
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shades will work much better by giving the<br />
feeling of ease. Light purple colour is a nice<br />
way to bring novelty and a tranquil feel into<br />
modern interior design. Medium and dark<br />
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a dramatic statement and explore new<br />
interior colour schemes for home decorating.<br />
Purple works well with white and all brown<br />
colour shades, pink and orange, yellow and<br />
green colours. Blue colour tones can be added<br />
to modern wallpaper or interior paint in light<br />
purple colour for creating calming and peaceful,<br />
elegant and sophisticated interior design<br />
and decor.<br />
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room, make sure that all your accessories differ<br />
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12 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / PLAZA PAINTS<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
from the Astra and Plascon colour cards which are available<br />
in-store and where the friendly staff are always on hand to<br />
advice and provide guidance.<br />
<strong>The</strong> store is designed in such a way that it is a modern and<br />
concept store which includes a showroom area, paint mixing<br />
area, and a consultation area where the trained Advisors assist<br />
with your colour choices and schemes also providing you<br />
with tips on the latest trends that are also occurring outside<br />
the Country.<br />
Plaza Paints<br />
Plaza Paints is a retail paint business based within Karigamombe<br />
Arcade, a prime location of the CBD of Harare where<br />
the business was founded as a paint and sundries a retailer<br />
concentrating exclusively on the Astra and Plascon brand<br />
and is a modern concept store which besides its modern and<br />
exclusive outlook emphasizes on service, support and quality<br />
customer care.<br />
Company Ownership<br />
Plaza Paints is a privately owned business which is a standalone<br />
subsidiary within the Plaza Holdings Group of Companies.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Plaza Holdings Group of companies also includes<br />
Plaza Pharmacies, Plaza Distribution and Plaza Properties.<br />
KARIGAMOMBE CENTRE<br />
Company Locations and Facilities<br />
Plaza Paints is conveniently located within a prime location of<br />
the CBD of Harare. This store is located within Karigamombe<br />
Arcade, right within the heart of the central banking district<br />
and has good road connections to all surburbs via Samora-<br />
Machel Avenue thus giving it a good geographical reach.<br />
This recently opened Paint Shop is situated at Karigamombe<br />
Centre along K Nkurumah and with its window display is helping<br />
to transform the look and feel of the area with its modern<br />
feel which has been much commented on since its opening.<br />
<strong>The</strong> store is equipped with the latest digital tinting machine<br />
thereby offering customers a wide selection of colours which<br />
can be tinted at the click of a button. <strong>The</strong>se colours are chosen<br />
<strong>The</strong> modern concept store is aimed at attracting the customer<br />
who is looking for an upmarket shopping experience within<br />
the CBD and one who is looking for quality service, guidance,<br />
advice when it comes to painting and decorating your homes<br />
and offices.<br />
Customer satisfaction is at the forefront of the business and<br />
they are making great efforts to put fun into painting and how<br />
the customer perceives this.<br />
Key Supplier Information<br />
Plaza Paints has made the bold decision to only stock two<br />
brands of paints which are Astra and the internationally renowned<br />
Plascon brands.<br />
Astra Paints is Zimbabwe’s leading paint company with two<br />
operating factories in Harare and Bulawayo. It enjoys 45 percent<br />
of the paint market and it also hold other operating subsidiary<br />
like Astra Chemicals, which markets and distributes a<br />
diversified range of chemical products to industry.<br />
African paint manufacturer, Kansai Paints – which owns<br />
Plascon, has partnered with the management and staff of Zimbabwean<br />
group Astra Industries.<br />
Today Plascon is the undisputed leader in both the decorative<br />
and industrial coatings market in southern Africa. Following<br />
its 2012 merger with the Japanese paint giant Kansai<br />
it continues to drive innovation and excellence in the retail,<br />
trade, industrial and furniture coatings markets in South and<br />
Southern Africa from three strategically placed manufacturing<br />
sites in Mobeni, KwaZulu-Natal; Luiperdsvlei in Krugersdorp;<br />
and Epping in Cape Town, South Africa.<br />
Products and Services<br />
NOW<br />
OPEN<br />
NEW<br />
PAINT<br />
SHOP<br />
IN TOWN<br />
Paints<br />
Plaza Paints provides paint products under the Astra& Plascon<br />
portfolio which are mainly divided into four main categories<br />
being decorative paints; industrial paints and coating; furniture<br />
paints and coating and automotive paints.<br />
Plaza Paints however decided to specialise within Decorative<br />
paints which is where its strong hold is. In sundries,<br />
accessories and other hardware, it carries a complete line of<br />
necessary paint items from brushes to dust sheets etc.<br />
OPENING<br />
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Wallpapers<br />
Plaza paints is also proud to introduce a choice of high quality<br />
wallpapers for feature walls within living rooms, bedrooms,<br />
dining’s and also children’s bedrooms and playrooms.<br />
A selection of the wallpaper is available in-store and of note<br />
is the children’s cartoon featured wallpaper which has really<br />
taken off according to the Advisors there.<br />
Super Acrylic PVA<br />
$61.93<br />
Super Washable<br />
Satin<br />
$139.79<br />
Ceiling White<br />
$43.56<br />
for feature walls and Childrens bedrooms and Playrooms<br />
Wall and All<br />
$154.92<br />
Latest<br />
Double Velvet<br />
$152.08<br />
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Service and Support<br />
<strong>The</strong> businesses strategy hinges on providing excellent service<br />
and support which they identified as being essential to differentiate<br />
from the other players in the market. Thus you will<br />
find that this is a business that not only wants to sell customers<br />
paint but want to be known for it’s value add support and<br />
service thus Plaza Paints will offer<br />
• Free site visits for quotations and assessments<br />
• Provide referrals of Painters for those who have not<br />
identified Painters to work with yet<br />
• And other services tailored to individual projects and clients<br />
For more information visit Plaza Paints at Karigamombe Centre<br />
or visit their website on www.plaza-paints.com or contact<br />
them directly on +263 4 756 759 or cell +263 783 770 711
THE STANDARD STYLE<br />
FOOD & DRINK<br />
1<br />
In this issue<br />
of Food & Drink<br />
(1,2) Café Afrique<br />
(3) Lebbie<br />
(4) Cooking with Rumbie<br />
2 3 4
14 THE STANDARD STYLE / EATING OUT / Café Afrique<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Café Afrique at Cresta Oasis, <strong>The</strong> Avenues<br />
Dusty Miller<br />
I’m not quite sure why, but for many<br />
years I never set foot inside Cresta<br />
Oasis hotel in <strong>The</strong> Avenues area of<br />
Harare, but I’ve eaten there three or<br />
four times this year.<br />
Nowadays, everything they put<br />
their hands to they do extremely<br />
well but, sadly, that wasn’t always<br />
the case.<br />
Dusty’s “What’s on Diary”<br />
Contributions are welcome, to arrive in good time, bearing in mind<br />
events in which readers of this page are interested.<br />
SMS 0733 401 347 or 0776 903 161; (e-mail dustym @zimind.co.zw)<br />
CUT OUT, KEEP, WATCH FOR NEXT UPDATE<br />
Sept 28(today)<br />
Aloe, Cactus & Succulent Society sale of rare plants and National Association of<br />
Garden Clubs’ horticultural show. National Botanic Gardens 9am-2pm<br />
Last day: Good Living lifestyle show Rainbow Towers Conference Centre 10am-5pm<br />
Lunch: Live band and lunch at Flat Dogs Diner, Msasa (new); Alo, Alo, Arundel;<br />
Amanzi, Highlands (new) <strong>The</strong>o’s, 167, Enterprise Road; Adrienne’s, Belgravia; Da<br />
Eros, Fishmonger and Great Wall, East Road; Sitar, Newlands; Palms, Bronte Hotel;<br />
Willow Bean Cafe, Rolf Valley, English roast/pudding US$15. (BYOB, no corkage.)<br />
Paula’s Place; Wild Geese, Teviotdale buffet/live music; City Bowling Club, Harare<br />
Gardens (NOTE kitchen closed today only) ; Italian Club, Strathaven, Mukuvisi<br />
Woodlands Coffee Shop; Centurion Pub & Grill, Harare Sports Club, Arti’s, New<br />
Section, Borrowdale Village; Hellenics, Eastlea<br />
Sept 28-29 Last two days Ram Slam Twenty/20 Cricket competition (schoolboys) St John’s<br />
College<br />
Sept 29 National Institute of Allied Arts, visual arts exhibition. Jubilee Hall, Hartmann<br />
House, 9am-4pm<br />
Keep fit, Zumba Dancing, City Bowling Club, Harare Gardens. And every working<br />
night except Fridays. 5:30pm-6:30pm.<br />
Sept 30<br />
Oct 1<br />
Oct 2<br />
Now with amiable roly-poly general<br />
manager Crispin Chimuvuri<br />
in charge of the hotel and Glenn<br />
Stutchbury chief exec of Cresta<br />
Hospitality everything seems bang<br />
on the money.<br />
I called there this week to check<br />
on a new venture, Cresta Oasis<br />
Apartments, which look a winner to<br />
7pm Line dancing City Bowling Club<br />
Farmers’ market, Maasdorp Avenue, Belgravia (next to Bottom Drawer)<br />
Curry night special, Adrienne’s Belgravia. All you can eat for US$12 (beef or chicken)<br />
supplement for lamb<br />
Irish Band at blue@2 Private Wine Bar, 2, Aberdeen Road, Avondale<br />
(and every Thursday) Tapas night and music by Evicted, Amanzi Restaurant<br />
(and every other Thursday) fun pub quiz blue@2 Private Wine Bar, 2, Aberdeen Rd,<br />
Avondale. Booking essential, Tel 0772 856 371<br />
Oct 3 Lilfordia School Golf Day. Chapman GC. Details nicky@pageproperties.co.zw<br />
Beach Party blue@2. Shorts not only allowed for a change, but actively encouraged.<br />
Oct 4 Mukuvisi Woodlands fund-raising run/walk for Passaportis family<br />
Car boot sale Borrowdale Country Club.AGM Borrowdale Country Club<br />
Oct 7 Fun pub quiz <strong>The</strong>o’s, 167, Enterprise Road. No entry fee. Prizes, US$5 supper.<br />
Oct 10-11-12. Zimbabwe 5s Bowling Tournament City Bowling Club. Full bar and catering; pigon-a-spit<br />
Friday, music, entertainment, raffles.<br />
Oct 11 Gary Stanley entertains Borrowdale Country Club from 7pm. US$5 c/c<br />
Oct 11-12 Zimbabwe Trout Fishing championships Nyanga.<br />
To compete: mmatipano@zimparks.co.zw stay at Rhodes Nyanga Hotel.<br />
Oct 13 Open Restaurateurs’ Lunch (KWV wine tasting) Adrienne’s Restaurant,<br />
Belgravia. 12:30pm<br />
Oct 18 Royal Society of St George, Battle of Trafalgar Dinner Chapman GC 6:30 for 7.<br />
Formal. Tickets US$25. Contact Helen at djclarke@zol.co.zw<br />
Oct 22-25 53rd annual Kariba Invitation Tiger Fishing Tournament, Charara Eastern Basin<br />
(Neither <strong>Standard</strong>Plus nor Dusty Miller take responsibility for inaccuracies,<br />
postponements, cancellations. No charge for entry.<br />
Deadline 10am Tues prior to publication day.)<br />
me. Relatively long-term visitors to<br />
the capital can have serviced rooms<br />
adjoining the main hotel complex.<br />
<strong>The</strong> deal includes a fully (and nicely,<br />
comfortably) furnished apartment<br />
with either a double or twin beds,<br />
free Wi-Fi, 32” flat-screen TV monitor<br />
and DSTv bouquet; kitchenette<br />
with microwave and fridge; airconditioner,<br />
safe and housekeeping<br />
service for US$500 a week.<br />
That’s the same price for one or<br />
two people sharing and considering<br />
Zesa’s included (and there’s a standby<br />
generator), on site secure parking,<br />
security guards, and weekly<br />
re-supply of basic toiletries and tea<br />
and coffee packages this seems perfect<br />
for business travellers, migrating<br />
families, diplomatic and NGO<br />
visitors and project consultants.<br />
I’ve no doubt many of those relatively<br />
long-stay visitors will, like<br />
me, stroll across to the hotel proper<br />
and enjoy breakfast, lunch and/or<br />
supper either in Café Afrique or the<br />
adjoining pleasant gardens round<br />
the swimming pool.<br />
Candidly I’m not into road runner<br />
chicken or well-stewed economy<br />
beef with sadza and relish, but lots<br />
of my readers are and at Cresta Oasis<br />
these will set you back just US$3<br />
a heaped platter.<br />
<strong>The</strong> US$12 three-course special<br />
is tremendous value: soup of the<br />
day with lovely rolls and butter and<br />
help yourself to the savoury and<br />
then pudding buffet. Again, I don’t<br />
go a bundle on buffets (even bargain<br />
ones) but two of my colleagues were<br />
served soup and queued swiftly for<br />
their other two courses, to which<br />
they gave elated thumbs up.<br />
Soup-of-the-day whether on the special<br />
or a la carte menu was homemade<br />
farmhouse vegetable, which<br />
I found very pleasant, with half a<br />
Fillet steak, beautifully cooked and presented<br />
at just US$10.<br />
You can eat breakfast, lunch or supper around the inviting swimming<br />
pool at Cresta Oasis Hotel just a short walk from Harare’s CBD<br />
dozen different julienned veggies<br />
identifiable in a nicely flavoured<br />
rich broth thickened with corn<br />
flour. Bread rolls to go with this dish<br />
were exemplary and it cost US$4<br />
separately.<br />
Grand salads are available on<br />
the buffet, but plated main course<br />
garden salads, featuring smoked<br />
chicken breast and apricots, or<br />
marinated feta cheese and Kalamata<br />
olives with sweet ravigote sauce,<br />
or port wine-infused peaches with<br />
grilled bacon lardons and roasted<br />
“ndzungu” nuts are a reasonable<br />
US$5 a pop.<br />
Traditional sandwiches didn’t<br />
sound over traditional to me, with<br />
lemon chicken lettuce and mayo and<br />
rare roast beef with gherkins and<br />
tomato arguably the stars at US$5 a<br />
round. Steak rolls (using ultra-tender<br />
filet mignons), salad and chips<br />
are US$8 and oven-fresh pies (steak,<br />
chicken or vegetarian) again with<br />
chips and salad cost US$6.<br />
I rarely order red meat, but in<br />
the past have taken a highly successful<br />
gamble on a 180g (cooked weight<br />
I assume) deliciously tender fillet<br />
steak with chips (or rice, or sadza)<br />
at just US$10; also the same price for<br />
T-bone, rump or sirloin with a similar<br />
mass.<br />
On Tuesday I fancied “rendezvous”<br />
of Kariba bream and baby<br />
hake with chips and salads, also<br />
US$10. As the marine fish element<br />
was unavailable, mine came with<br />
just our local freshwater tilapia,<br />
shallow fried and coated in sesame<br />
seeds. Personally, I prefer chips<br />
crisper than these were, but they<br />
were perfectly edible and I left none!<br />
My companions attacked the pudding<br />
display with gusto and having<br />
heard several times from the lady<br />
that the profiteroles were quite<br />
possibly the finest baked since the<br />
cream filled choux pastry delicacy<br />
was created in France in 1604, I<br />
asked for one to go with superb fresh<br />
tropical fruit skewers served with<br />
ginger syrup; US$5 for three fruity<br />
kebabs.<br />
Award-winning chef Brian Ndlovu<br />
was head-hunted from Vic Falls<br />
Safari Lodge by Glenn Stutchbury<br />
to become Cresta’s group executive<br />
chef and this was always one of his<br />
trademark dishes. We ended with remarkably<br />
good filter coffee and a bill<br />
which was never going to bankrupt<br />
anyone.<br />
Café Afrique at Cresta Oasis,<br />
Nelson Mandela Avenue, Harare.<br />
Opens for breakfast and then meals<br />
as described above from 10am to<br />
9pm daily. Secure parking, smoking/non-smoking<br />
areas. Child and<br />
handicapped friendly. Eating indoors<br />
or out. Live entertainment<br />
most weekends.<br />
Dusty Miller rating (a la carte<br />
menu) 3,5 Stars.<br />
dustymiller46@gmail.com; www.dailymiller.co<br />
One of the new Cresta Oasis<br />
Apartments available by the<br />
week or longer<br />
Cresta Oasis executive chef Petronella Munyoro at the<br />
café Afrique buffet. All pictures by Dusty Miller
September 28 to october 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK / WINE 15<br />
make one litre of brandy. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
mainly two methods of distillation<br />
used in the making of brandy, Pot<br />
Still distillation, and Column Still<br />
distillation. Distillation results in<br />
the percentage of alcohol present in<br />
the liquid to be concerntrated, and<br />
repetition only results in further<br />
concentration of alcohol. South<br />
African brandy is made in Cognac<br />
style, after a town in the South West<br />
of France. Commercially, brandies<br />
are generally distilled twice, and<br />
matured in wooden casks for a minimum<br />
of three years.<br />
A number of years ago, <strong>The</strong><br />
Meikles Grapevine wine tasting<br />
club hosted a Brandy tasting sponsored<br />
by KWV. It’s a tasting that I<br />
still relive, as it was a first for me in<br />
terms of “brandy tasting”.<br />
With my first tasting glass of<br />
brandy that evening, and my back<br />
to a number of people, I had one of<br />
those “think out loud” moments, in<br />
a room filled with not just people,<br />
but wine enthusiasts and “brandytasters”.<br />
“Brandy! Alright, but where’s<br />
the coke,” I exclaimed. That was<br />
enough to get attention from a middle<br />
aged gentleman, and thanks to<br />
him, a moment of embarrassment<br />
was turned into my first ever brandy-tasting.<br />
With my interest piqued, a year<br />
later, I attended a brandy-tasting<br />
in Johannesburg for South African<br />
brandy, Cognac (South west France)<br />
and Armagnac, which is in Gascony,<br />
in the South west of france.<br />
Now, I’ve got to mention here, that<br />
brandy-tasting slightly differs from<br />
wine-tasting.<br />
of accolades. With my “good company”<br />
in tow and an exciting yet<br />
serious group of Americans, we had<br />
an amazing tour of the distillery,<br />
confirming what’s in store, of “how<br />
brandy is distilled in a 19th century<br />
Cognac pot still and experience the<br />
fine art of brandy maturation”.<br />
It was a “journey through time”,<br />
which included an unexpected treat<br />
of a unique display of craftsmanship,<br />
of putting together a barrel.<br />
A tasting paired with dark chocolate<br />
and coffee brought on unexpected<br />
nods of enjoyment. My “good<br />
company” and I stole a glance at a<br />
bottle of blended brandy of Viceroy.<br />
It gave us one of those nostalgic<br />
feelings for Zimbabwe, as it’s a<br />
drink that graces a number of social<br />
events, some, we’ve been guests at.<br />
With Van Ryn’s range spanning<br />
5,10,12, 15 and 20 year olds and the<br />
AU.RA, a 30-year-old, I totally understood<br />
how various people from<br />
“all walks of life,” can all find their<br />
place when it comes to brandy matters.<br />
Slow, yet thought out, my brandy<br />
journey continues, whether it’s<br />
neat, on ice or with a mixer, I’ve got<br />
to agree, yes, it is an award-winning<br />
drink.<br />
What do you think “brandy lovers?”<br />
And to all wine lovers, how about a<br />
brandy?<br />
MyLifeAndWine@icloud.com<br />
Lebbie Musavaya<br />
Brandy-tasting<br />
Colour<br />
It’s important to look at the colour<br />
as it often tells of the age and blend,<br />
where a dark colour signifies a longer<br />
time in oak maturation, as well as<br />
the likelihood of it having a fuller<br />
and richer taste.<br />
Brandy -<br />
An ward-winning<br />
drink<br />
Swirling<br />
Brandy should not be swirled. <strong>The</strong><br />
aromas of a brandy are concentrated<br />
and swirling will simply mean<br />
loss of flavours as the liquid is very<br />
volatile<br />
Nose<br />
It’s best to first float your nose above<br />
the glass and delicately nose the<br />
notes of the brandy, and slowly edge<br />
your nose closer to the rim, to experience<br />
the richer and multi-layered<br />
flavours.<br />
Taste<br />
Lebbie Musavaya<br />
“Claret is the liquor for boys;<br />
port for men; but he who aspires<br />
to be a hero must drink<br />
brandy” – Samuel Johnson<br />
I sometimes feel I take life too seriously....but<br />
then again, don’t we all<br />
at one point or another? I have always<br />
found great difficulty in sipping<br />
wine from a coffee mug, beer<br />
glass, or anything that’s not a wine<br />
glass. Having it out of a wine glass,<br />
is one of the smallest pleasures and<br />
satisfactions of life for me, and so<br />
I’ll stick to that. Having said that, I<br />
have found myself stuck in one circumstance<br />
too many, when a social<br />
invitation has been extended and<br />
with ease, a bottle of wine is on most<br />
occasions my drink of choice. I have<br />
though, found myself having to opt<br />
for another drink as the host, tells<br />
me with a smile, there are no wine<br />
glasses. And right there is where my<br />
brandy journey began, of brandy,<br />
ice and three dashes of something<br />
sweet.<br />
Brandy is the only drink, made<br />
from another alcoholic drink.<br />
Wine, in this case. A brandy is the<br />
condensed liquid from vapour, of<br />
fermented grape juice. In South Africa,<br />
wine used is from mostly, Colombar<br />
and Chenin Blanc grapes.<br />
About five litres of wine are used to<br />
Warm the brandy by placing your<br />
palms around the glass. It helps the<br />
brandy release flavours. Sip, and let<br />
the brandy linger and then swallow.<br />
Ideally, a good brandy will have a<br />
good integration of flavours.<br />
A trip to Capetown grew the brandy<br />
taster in me, as, a visit to Van Ryn’s<br />
Brandy Distillery, stood on top of<br />
the list. I immediately saw how their<br />
philosophy of “Excellence in Maturation”<br />
outright confirmed them as<br />
“the best in brandy making.”<br />
Van Ryn’s has won a number
16 THE STANDARD STYLE<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Traditional Maguru (Tripe) Stew<br />
Cooking with Rumbie<br />
Traditional Maguru<br />
(Tripe) Stew<br />
4 Servings<br />
Cooking time: 7 hours 45 minutes<br />
Maguru (tripe) are among Zimbabwe’s top favored<br />
traditional foods. <strong>The</strong>y are one of those<br />
dishes that you may have fond or maybe not<br />
so fond childhood memories of. If that be the<br />
case, hopefully today we can create a new<br />
and better set of memories . I know maguru<br />
could be a dread for many people to prepare<br />
as they require a lot of time to cook which<br />
one may not have. So this recipe am presenting<br />
could possibly be a good way of preparing<br />
them although the highest level of precaution<br />
needs to be taken. Another advantage of preparing<br />
tripe the way am doing it here is that<br />
you avoid adding too much water to the tripe<br />
which may affect its taste in the end. Also, using<br />
this method you escape getting a swarm of<br />
flies in your kitchen or house as you prepare<br />
these (which is a common occurrence and<br />
hindrance to many). Finally, using this same<br />
method you get to save a bit of electricity too.<br />
Ok, let’s get started!<br />
Quick Instructions<br />
It’s important that you wash your maguru<br />
THOROUGHLY in warm water and trim off<br />
any excess fat so that in the end you will not<br />
have any fat emulsifying (kugwamba) both<br />
in the pot or in your plate when eating. This<br />
could be an annoying thing for some including<br />
myself. In this method we will be preparing<br />
the tripe overnight for the advantages we<br />
mentioned above. If your circumstances do<br />
not permit see if you can start the process in<br />
the early hours of the morning. Alternatively<br />
you can still use your slow cooker, if you have<br />
one, to achieve the same thing.<br />
1. As already mentioned wash your tripe<br />
in warm water and trim-off excess fat.<br />
Cut tripe into good size pieces and put<br />
into pot. Add water, salt, garlic, ginger<br />
and lemon slices.<br />
2. Partly cover and bring to the boil. Once<br />
it has boiled reduce heat to the lowest<br />
mark on your stove, cover pot completely<br />
and let it simmer overnight or for 7.5<br />
hours.<br />
3. After 7.5 hours the water is finished, add<br />
oil, spices, onion, tomatoes and stir.<br />
4. Add tomato sauce and stir once again.<br />
Give time for the tomatoes and onions to<br />
get done (2-5 min).<br />
5. When tomatoes are done, add soup<br />
powder and pour cold water directly onto<br />
the soup powder to avoid it lumping-up.<br />
Cover pot and let simmer for 5-10 minutes.<br />
Enjoy!<br />
Kitchen Hack #2:<br />
Adding lemon slices, garlic and<br />
ginger to your tripe as you cook<br />
it helps ward off flies as well as<br />
the not so pleasant aroma that<br />
sometimes comes about when<br />
preparing it! It also adds flavour.<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 500g maguru (tripe)<br />
• 1/2 onion (chopped)<br />
• 1 1/2 tomatoes (chopped)<br />
• 2 cloves garlic (minced)<br />
• 1 tsp fresh ginger (minced)<br />
• 3 lemon slices<br />
• 1 tbsp soup powder<br />
• 1 litre water<br />
• 1/2 tsp salt<br />
• 1/2 tsp ground black pepper<br />
• 2 tbsp tomato sauce<br />
• 1 tsp curry powder<br />
• Oil for frying<br />
Kitchen Hack #1:<br />
Slow cooking your meat, in this case<br />
tripe, helps to make it so tender and<br />
full of flavour as you don’t have to<br />
keep adding water which sometimes<br />
can affect the final taste of<br />
your dish.<br />
www.zimbokitchen.com
September 28 to October 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK 17
18 THE STANDARD STYLE<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014
THE STANDARD STYLE<br />
FAMILY<br />
Mr & Mrs Rusike<br />
“<br />
Seek ye first the<br />
Kingdom of God, and<br />
all these things shall<br />
be added unto you..<br />
“<br />
Send us pictures of your family and a short caption of your values. Email your photos with the<br />
weekly code in the subject heading to style@standard.co.zw<br />
Specifications: JPEG minimum size 2MB Min. 300dpi<br />
Are we not like<br />
two volumes of one<br />
book? ~Marceline<br />
Desbordes<br />
-Valmore
20 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / PARENTING<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Cover to Cover in pictures<br />
Harare<br />
Bulawayo
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / EDUCATION 21<br />
MEET THE WINNERS<br />
LILIAN MASITERA<br />
masiteral@yahoo.com<br />
0772 924 796<br />
Rise above,<br />
Take flight &<br />
Move on!<br />
Usave Saskam,<br />
verenga udzore pfungwa<br />
Cover to Cover: Providing a fertile ground for young imaginations<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cover–to–Cover Short Story Writing<br />
Competition, which started nine years ago<br />
and is co-ordinated by Alpha Media Holdings<br />
(AMH), publishers of NewsDay, Zimbabwe<br />
Independent, <strong>Standard</strong> and Southern Eye,<br />
ended with competition entrants from schools<br />
across the country winning various prizes after<br />
the stories they submitted came out best.<br />
<strong>The</strong> award ceremonies were held at Harare<br />
City Library and the Bulawayo Public Library.<br />
Since its inception in 2006, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong><br />
newspaper has been the organizer for the Cover<br />
to Cover Short Story Writing Competition,<br />
which was bankrolled by the Culture Fund<br />
and the Swedish Embassy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> competition is based on the concept of<br />
giving children a platform to tell their stories<br />
in their own words, to the whole country<br />
– thereby expressing their thought processes<br />
and letting their imagination run wild.<br />
<strong>The</strong> judges panel included renowned writer,<br />
poet and Editor Eresina Hwede who is also the<br />
Vice Chair of the Zimbabwe Writers Association<br />
(ZWA), poet and sub-editor Jerry Zondo,<br />
and creative writing consultant, teacher and<br />
writer Ethel Kabwato. Entries were based<br />
and judged on clarity, language, presentation,<br />
originality and creativity.<br />
<strong>The</strong> experts on the judges panel who have<br />
been reading and writing for years and thus<br />
have vast experience in the industry, made<br />
a general overall assessment that there is a<br />
clear distinction between the private, urban<br />
government, and the rural school and each<br />
story gave an insight into the daily lives of the<br />
children.<br />
<strong>The</strong> students from the affluent private schools,<br />
for instance, had skewed ideas of village life<br />
with some associating it with witchcraft and<br />
evil, while some wrote about Sam Levy and<br />
Arundel Villages!<br />
Winners emerged from schools in Harare, Bulawayo,<br />
Chitungwiza, Wedza and Marondera,<br />
and the overall winner was Pindile Malaba of<br />
Peterhouse Girls in Marondera, who was received<br />
a tablet, among other gifts.<br />
According to the competition editor, Tangai<br />
Chipangura, “Cover to Cover has managed<br />
to provide an exciting platform for children<br />
to express their divergent views of the world<br />
around them.”<br />
Chipangura, who is also Deputy Editor of <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Standard</strong>, went on to say that the majority<br />
of the entries was evidence of the children’s<br />
good storytelling skills, although there was<br />
room for some of the submissions to improve.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> level of creativity and literary expression<br />
exuded in most of the submissions is<br />
absolutely amazing. <strong>The</strong> judges found making<br />
selection was no stroll in the park, confirming<br />
Zimbabwe has among its growing young<br />
children a lot of Charles Mungoshis, Dambudzo<br />
Marecheras, Tsitsi Dangarembgas,<br />
Cont Mhlangas, Wilson Katiyos and Shimmer<br />
Chinodyas waiting to be peeled out of their<br />
shells,” he said.<br />
With this in mind, the judges encourage students<br />
to expand their horizons and read more<br />
widely as the overwhelming amount of entries<br />
this time around goes to show how much<br />
talent is in the country, and how nurturing it<br />
will only spell success in the Zimbabwean literary<br />
world.<br />
Prudence Muganiwah<br />
First runner up<br />
Wendy Pedzesai Age 12 Female<br />
St. Patrick’s Primary School Grade 6-7<br />
Category<br />
Life in the Village<br />
When schools closed in December 2013, Tinashe’s parents<br />
told him that he was going to pens the holiday’s<br />
withhis grandmother, who lived in Matongo village, in<br />
Gokwe communal areas.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following morning, Tinashe boarded a Gokwe-bound bus.<br />
From Gokwe, he would board a commuter omnibus to complete<br />
the last part of his journey. <strong>The</strong> six hour journey from<br />
Bulawayo to Gokwe was a nightmare. <strong>The</strong> ancient bus swan in<br />
the sea of dust and dark exhaust smoke as it lumbered along<br />
the meandering dust road. <strong>The</strong> engine roared and screamed in<br />
protest as the driver changed gears. Loud spquesking sounds<br />
came from every corner of the bus. This raised fears amont the<br />
passengers, who were packed like sardines, that the bus would<br />
breakdown before they reached their destinations.<br />
<strong>The</strong> noise from the engine was deafening and no one could<br />
hear what the other was saying. <strong>The</strong> bus finally limped into<br />
Gokwe Centre when everyone has long lost hope of ever getting<br />
there. <strong>The</strong> bus made a u-turn into a crowded bus terminus and<br />
lurched to a sudden stop, in a cloud of dust.<br />
Tinashe arrived at Matongo village at sunset. His grandmother<br />
was very pleased to see him and she prepared a delicious meal<br />
for him consisting of sadza made from ground sorghum and<br />
dry mice in peanut butter. After the meal they sat around the<br />
fire and Tinashe asked his grandmother why she lived alone.<br />
“Where is grandpa? “he asked.<br />
Tears flooded the old woman’s eyes. She spat tobacco stained<br />
phlegm into the fire and she said, “VaChigumbura your grandfather<br />
left the village many years ago and never returned.<br />
Some people say he was killed by a lion near Zungunde, the<br />
sacred mountain, but his body was never found.<br />
Tinashe soon found out that life in the village was very different<br />
from city life. <strong>The</strong>re was no electricity in the village and<br />
people used fire wood to cook. Tinashe’s grandmother woke<br />
him up at dawn every morning to fetch water from a borehole,<br />
which was ten kilometres away from the village. <strong>The</strong>y spent the<br />
rest of the day in the fields tilling the land. At times Tinashe<br />
went into the forest with his new friends to gather firewood.<br />
His grandmother taught him how to hold an ox-drawn plough<br />
when tilling the land. She also taught him to fish and how to<br />
milk cows. One day Tinashe was gathering firewood near the<br />
sacred mountain when a voice told him to climb to the top of<br />
the mountain. He looked around but saw no one. This astonished<br />
him. Had he imagined the voice? Out of curiosity, he decided<br />
to climb the mountain. When he reached its summit, a<br />
thick mist suddenly enveloped the whole mountain. Tinashe<br />
could not find his way around and fear gripped him.<br />
He gropped around the mountain for two days, but still he<br />
could not find the foot path he had used in climbing the mountain.<br />
On the third day, Tinashe was sitting on a rock, counting<br />
his sorrows, when an old man with a walking stick in his hand<br />
suddenly appeared before him. Tinashe thought it was a ghost<br />
and herror held him hotage. “Do not be afraid I will not harm<br />
you. <strong>The</strong> spirit of chief Chigumbu has sent me to you. Your<br />
name is Tinashe and you live in Bulawayo, the city of Kings.<br />
Am I right?” the old man asked.<br />
Yes….Yes… I am Tinashe. But…But… who are you and .. and<br />
who told you my name sir?” Tinashe stuttered. <strong>The</strong> old man<br />
sat down. “I am your grandfather and I bring you glad tidings.<br />
When Chief Chigumbu, your great grandfather died, I forced<br />
myself onto the chietainship without consulting the spirits.<br />
This angered the sprits. <strong>The</strong>y drove me away from the village<br />
and dumped me on this mountain. <strong>The</strong>y told me that I was to<br />
wander on the mountain for many years until the heir to the<br />
throne was revealed.<br />
Today, the spirits appeared to me and told me that the heir was<br />
on the mountain. You are the heir to the chieftainship Tinashe,<br />
and you are to be crowned as Chief chigumbu the second when<br />
you finish school.” <strong>The</strong> old man said.<br />
All that moment the mist which covered the mountain dissipated.<br />
<strong>The</strong> old man took Tinashe’s hand and together, they went<br />
down to the village. Word soon spread around the village. Tinashe’s<br />
grandmother cried with joy and happiness when they<br />
arrived at the village. Word soon spread around that the ancestors<br />
had chosen a city boy to be the new chief. Hundreds of men<br />
and women trooped to Matongo village to greet the new chief.<br />
<strong>The</strong> school holidays were soon over and it was time for Tinashe<br />
to return to the city. Life in the village had been tough<br />
at first, but with the passage of time, Tinashe had adapted well<br />
to it. His heart ached with sadness when he bid farewell to his<br />
grandparents. He knew that he was going to miss them. However,<br />
he looked forward to the day when he would return to the<br />
village to claim the Chigumbu chieftainship.
22 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / HEALTH<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Breast Cancer: Think Pink /Pink Day<br />
elebrations C ctober O 014 2<br />
Lovemore Makurirofa (Cancer<br />
Association of Zimbabwe<br />
THE month of October is<br />
considered a breast cancer<br />
month worldwide. It is the<br />
month in which we commemorate<br />
the breast cancer survivors<br />
who have defied all odds and<br />
take responsibilities of their own<br />
health for their breast cancer to be<br />
detected and treated early and are<br />
now on the recovery path. During<br />
this month we encourage individuals<br />
to wear pink clothes and/or ribbons<br />
as a symbol of showing that<br />
they are aware of breast cancer.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a general misconception<br />
among the people that the month of<br />
October is a cancer month. This is<br />
not true; October is a breast cancer<br />
month. As Cancer Association of<br />
Zimbabwe we believe that, despite<br />
having specific months, days and<br />
colours for commemorating different<br />
types of cancers, every month<br />
is a cancer month and every day is<br />
<strong>The</strong>me: “Find it, Fight it and Win the Battle”<br />
cancer day, thus, we need to take<br />
responsibility of our own health on<br />
every day basis, by ensuring that we<br />
are not putting ourselves at risk of<br />
developing cancer and also by supporting<br />
those diagnosed of cancer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cancer Association of Zimbabwe<br />
will hold this year’s Pink<br />
Day commemoration on October 3<br />
at Africa Unit Square, Harare from<br />
12:00pm to 15:00pm and you are all<br />
invited to the event. We encourage<br />
you to wear pink on the day. Last<br />
year’s pink day commemorations<br />
were held under the theme “Early<br />
Detection and Treatment save<br />
Lives”. This year’s theme is “Find<br />
it, Fight it and Win the<br />
Battle”<br />
This theme encourages<br />
the people to “Find”<br />
out more about breast<br />
cancer so as to counteract<br />
the current widespread<br />
cancer myths<br />
and misconceptions and<br />
cancer stigma and discrimination.<br />
It encourages<br />
all of us (Cancer<br />
clients and those without<br />
cancer) to “Fight”<br />
breast cancer with all<br />
our united efforts and<br />
the available possible<br />
options. It is only through our<br />
united efforts that we will be able to<br />
“Win the Battle” against breast cancer<br />
in Zimbabwe. This year’s theme<br />
also encourages those diagnosed of<br />
breast cancer to keep on fighting<br />
and not lose hope despite the current<br />
challenges being experienced<br />
in the access and affordability of<br />
cancer management services in the<br />
country.<br />
Participate in this year’s “Think<br />
Pink/ Pink Day” commemorations<br />
by wearing Pink and donate at least<br />
a dollar, remember our united efforts<br />
will take us far in our fight<br />
against breast cancer. Register to<br />
participate as an individual, group,<br />
corporate, church or any other entity:<br />
Contact Linda and Hildry on 04<br />
707 444, 705522, info@cancer.co.zw,<br />
fundraising@cancer.co.zw<br />
For More Information Contact:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cancer Association of<br />
Zimbabwe<br />
60 Livingstone Harare (Cnr 6th<br />
Street and Livingstone Avenue)<br />
Tel: 04 - 707444 / 705522 Fax:<br />
+263 4 707 482<br />
Email: info@cancer.co.zw,<br />
Website: www.cancerzimbabwe.<br />
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THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / EDUCATION 23<br />
Edson Chivandikwa<br />
THOSE who went to school<br />
in Zimbabwe in the 70s and<br />
80s may have harrowing<br />
and graphic memories of<br />
their first few days at mission-run<br />
or government schools. Initiation<br />
was arguably relentlessly at its fever<br />
peak in those days. So much<br />
has changed since the 70s and 80s:<br />
trends in dress, lingo and culture<br />
have drastically transformed. But<br />
has the initiation tradition in our<br />
schools changed? Are new students<br />
no longer required to undergo the<br />
“initiation ceremony”, as it may be<br />
called? Sadly, the Zimbabwean print<br />
and electronic media continue to report<br />
sordid tales of the initiation of<br />
Nyasha Dhliwayo<br />
EVER felt that 24 hours just<br />
isn’t enough to stay ahead<br />
of deadlines at work, attend<br />
to family business and<br />
maintain passing grades at school?<br />
You are definitely not alone, as<br />
numerous students across the world<br />
juggle the demands of work, family<br />
and academic commitments.<br />
Loveness Nyanungo, a psychologist,<br />
says that effective time management<br />
and a strong support network<br />
will help you fit everything<br />
into 24 hours while retaining your<br />
sanity.<br />
“Time management is a very important<br />
skill that you should develop<br />
from an early age because, as you<br />
grow older, demands on your time<br />
will always multiply,” she says.<br />
Loveness advises tackling life in<br />
week-sized chunks.<br />
“You need to have balance in<br />
your life so if you plan for at least a<br />
week ahead you will find that work,<br />
school, church, social clubs and other<br />
activities will fit into your schedule,”<br />
she says.<br />
Plaxedes Tsoro, a professional<br />
Initiation of newcomers in schools:<br />
Worthwhile tradition or abuse?<br />
new students.<br />
ment, initiation fosters a sense of<br />
In response to the negative publicity<br />
following revelations of brutal another form of abuse masquerad-<br />
pride and common identity? Or is it<br />
initiation at Parktown Boys High, ing as a home-coming ceremony?<br />
Johannesburg, South Africa, in <strong>The</strong> proponents of initiation ardently<br />
agree that the practice builds<br />
2009, Alan Brown remarked that<br />
initiation in the school was not the character, swells confidence, fosters<br />
problem; in fact, he fervently articulated,<br />
authorities should focus on the behaviour of the new, sustains<br />
a bond with the old students, checks<br />
the real problem -- the dilapidation the school’s tradition, explains the<br />
of discipline in schools. Is it true school system and its values and<br />
that in a disciplined school environ-<br />
instils “house” spirit in the school.<br />
Beat the pressure<br />
administrator who is doing a Zimbabwe<br />
Institute of Management Higher<br />
Diploma in Business Administration<br />
at Speciss College, says that<br />
planning ahead allows her to balance<br />
her roles as a mother, employee<br />
and student.<br />
She believes in organising her life<br />
in year sized blocks.<br />
“I find balancing my life easy because<br />
at the beginning of each year<br />
I plan such that none of my tasks at<br />
home, work, church or school suffer,”<br />
says the mother of two teenagers.<br />
After every semester, when<br />
Plaxedes gets her exam results, she<br />
modifies her timetable so that she<br />
fits in lectures and studying periods<br />
determined by the demands of the<br />
courses she has registered for.<br />
This means that sometimes she<br />
may have to attend midweek church<br />
services fortnightly instead of weekly.<br />
“My family and work commitments<br />
have always been there so<br />
it’s simply a matter of fitting in my<br />
studies,” she says.<br />
Obvious Ruhwode, a technician at<br />
a regional haulage company who is<br />
also studying the Chartered Institute<br />
of Logistics and Transport (CILT) at<br />
Speciss College, says that balancing<br />
study and life commitments is rarely<br />
easy but still achievable.<br />
“If you are focussed and determined<br />
to better your life you create<br />
time,” he says.<br />
Obvious literally carves out time<br />
from his day as he after work he attends<br />
lectures, then studies into the<br />
wee hours of the morning.<br />
“Those few extra hours that I<br />
might use to relax, turn into study<br />
hours for me,” he says.<br />
Loveness advises seeking help<br />
whenever you feel that you are not<br />
coping with the work/school/personal<br />
life balance.<br />
“Sit down with a trusted lecturer,<br />
student counsellor or mentor to go<br />
through your syllabus and see how<br />
best you can approach your studies,”<br />
she says.<br />
Loveness says that approaching<br />
<strong>The</strong>y also contend that it boosts<br />
“corporate” pride and clarifies the<br />
web of duties, responsibility and hierarchy.<br />
It is assumed to be a form of<br />
welcoming.<br />
Whilst initiation is believed by<br />
some to build character and “make<br />
a man”, it can be humiliating and<br />
unbearably painful to the poor child<br />
being initiated into the school. <strong>The</strong><br />
initiated are usually isolated and<br />
sworn to silence before being made<br />
helpful colleagues at work can also<br />
help you find the most flexible yet<br />
productive ways of working.<br />
“It’s always a good idea to talk<br />
with colleagues who seem to have<br />
their act together and ask them how<br />
they do it,” the psychologist says.<br />
As a technician with a transnational<br />
haulage concern Obvious often<br />
travels within the region.<br />
In addition to this he lectures an<br />
Auto Electrics class at Speciss’ Technical<br />
Campus during weekends.<br />
Obvious says that he is able to remain<br />
effective at school and work<br />
through communicating with his<br />
superiors and colleagues to allow<br />
him to work during non-traditional<br />
working hours.<br />
“I realise that my job is important<br />
since it provides money for my fees,<br />
so when necessary I stay behind to<br />
to undergo a series of embarrassing<br />
experiences like being sent to<br />
the tuck shop without money and<br />
bring change or hide something and<br />
“look” for it for an hour before “finding”<br />
it. In some situations, the initiated<br />
are asked to do things that can<br />
harm them physically and emotionally.<br />
In the worst of circumstances,<br />
initiation can boarder on the sexual.<br />
<strong>The</strong> health of the poor boy (or girl)<br />
is jeopardised, thanks to the patriotic<br />
comrades of school tradition.<br />
At the end of the day, it is the<br />
health of the unfortunate boy or girl<br />
that matters; it is his social welfare<br />
that is of consequence. By letting<br />
initiation happen, we are creating<br />
a ferocious future generation whose<br />
socio-political ideology will annihilate<br />
the world.<br />
make sure my work is always up to<br />
date,” he says.<br />
Loveness say that though the family<br />
can provide much needed emotional<br />
support, it can also be a source<br />
of stress especially in circumstances<br />
where the family has had to sell assets<br />
such as cars or forego some “luxuries”<br />
in order to fund fees.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> pressure that comes from<br />
the sacrifices made by the family<br />
can create fear and result in stress<br />
within students,” she says.<br />
In such instances, Loveness recommends<br />
going to approachable family<br />
members for their assistance in diffusing<br />
any simmering resentment.<br />
“You can always go to members<br />
of the family who have shown you<br />
concern before so that they can act<br />
as the voice of reason and mediate<br />
any tensions,” she says.<br />
Loveness says that where human<br />
assistance isn’t available, students<br />
can read books or visit online student<br />
help sites that provide resources<br />
on ways of balancing life and academic<br />
demands.<br />
Being a student is demanding, but<br />
with proper planning and the support<br />
of colleagues and family it can be a<br />
thrilling and rewarding experience!
24 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY /GETAWAY<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Westgate Half Marathon 2014 - lovely event<br />
Rosie Mitchell<br />
Last year, I was sorry not to be able to enter<br />
the Westgate Half Marathon as I had<br />
an unavoidable clash. I was MC at the<br />
AWARE Trust Rhino AWAREness Day at<br />
Raintree – which was a wonderfully enjoyable<br />
occasion, as was this year’s edition – so I was<br />
very glad that these events didn’t clash for<br />
2014. This was the Third Westgate Half Marathon,<br />
sponsored by Old Mutual, and I was really<br />
excited to participate in the run, and all<br />
the fun, this year. Old Mutual is now the official<br />
sponsor of four major events on the local<br />
running calendar, and many others besides<br />
outside our country, very notably of course,<br />
the famous annual Old Mutual Two Oceans<br />
Marathon in Cape Town – so as a runner, I am<br />
a regular beneficiary of their generosity, in<br />
supporting healthy, active lifestyles and community<br />
initiatives like these.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were several outlets across the city<br />
at which to pre-register for this event and the<br />
system worked very smoothly. I was impressed<br />
by the sturdy stickers used as race numbers<br />
to stick onto your running shirt – doing away<br />
with the need to use safety pins. Registration<br />
was just US$5 for adults and US$1 for students,<br />
making this a very inclusive event affordable<br />
by most enthusiasts, and accordingly, well<br />
over 1 000 participants turned out on the day,<br />
which in itself created a very festive, vibrant<br />
atmosphere.<br />
Old Mutual has a number of reasons for<br />
having launched this event, amongst them,<br />
drawing people into this lovely shopping mall,<br />
still sadly under-utilised given the world class<br />
facilities and architecture, though things are<br />
definitely improving; creating an event which<br />
draws communities living in and near this<br />
area together to enjoy themselves exercising;<br />
and encouraging healthy, active lifestyles in<br />
people of all ages. Accordingly, there was a<br />
5km Fun Run, a 10km Open Race, and a Half<br />
Marathon (21.1km) which embraced and rewarded<br />
runners in all categories – Open (up<br />
to age 39), Veteran (40 to 49), Master (50 to 59)<br />
Grand Master (60 to 69), Wheelchair, and Secondary<br />
school students. Quite a number of<br />
teams turned out for the event from various<br />
running clubs and schools, and the wheelchair<br />
racing community was out in force as<br />
well.<br />
This race is also the country’s top one,<br />
in terms of prize money made available by<br />
sponsor Old Mutual in all categories mentioned,<br />
and a host of Zimbabwe’s top names<br />
in running came forward to compete for these<br />
prizes. Some really amazing times were recorded.<br />
<strong>The</strong> top ZRP and Prison Service runners<br />
were out in force and won a number of<br />
prestigious prizes, and with so many prizes to<br />
hand out, prize-giving was very festive. Prize<br />
money was given to winners using Textacash<br />
accounts, a recently launched product from<br />
CABS, part of the Old Mutual Group. Winners<br />
filled in the appropriate form to open an<br />
account and were handed their new Textacash<br />
account card with their prize money already<br />
loaded – a very neat way to achieve handing<br />
out a lot of cash, and into the bargain, creating<br />
awareness of this product, and rapidly<br />
opening quite a number of new accounts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> races started on the main road at<br />
Westgate Shopping Centre entrance and finished<br />
inside the shopping complex, with three<br />
finishing lanes for the three different races<br />
– all well-marked and flagged, as was the entire<br />
route, which showed me a whole new part<br />
of Harare, since Westgate and its surrounds<br />
are for us in Greendale, amongst the furthest<br />
flung suburbs – though I do love the shopping<br />
mall, and it is worth the trek now and again<br />
even from so far away. Particularly now that<br />
the Westgate cinemas are back in full swing,<br />
and offering 3D into the bargain, Westgate<br />
Shopping Centre is returning to being a popular<br />
suburban destination, no matter which<br />
side of town you’re on.<br />
I thoroughly enjoyed the Half Marathon<br />
route. This took the runners through lots of<br />
huge open spaces and farm lands, with lovely<br />
big blue Zimbabwean skies, as well as through<br />
suburban streets, and was one of the best<br />
marshalled races I’ve ever run. <strong>The</strong>re were<br />
officially dressed Old Mutual marshals on<br />
literally every street corner and intersection,<br />
ensuring that runners always took the correct<br />
route. <strong>The</strong> 10km and Half Marathon shared<br />
some sections of their routes in common, so<br />
this was a very good plan, and in addition, literally<br />
every kilometre, there was a marker so<br />
we knew how far we’d run, and a water point<br />
every kay too. It is actually quite easy to go<br />
astray in a race, especially as one gets more<br />
tired as it progresses, and hence more focused<br />
on keeping going and less focused on the actual<br />
route! So a well-marked, well-marshalled,<br />
well-watered route is always much appreciated<br />
by the runners -- and this one gets top<br />
marks. It was also a particularly friendly<br />
race, and I enjoyed the social aspect as much<br />
as the route. My colleague Rosemary who ran<br />
the 10km race, reported likewise of her run.<br />
I’m definitely adding the Westgate Half to my<br />
not-to-be-missed annual races. It had a great<br />
vibe and a festive, celebratory ambience, and<br />
it is always amazing to rub shoulders with the<br />
country’s fastest runners. <strong>The</strong> T-shirts were<br />
also especially good – excellent design, and for<br />
once, my shirt actually fits! As a rather small<br />
runner, I so often end up drowning in my commemorative<br />
running shirts, but this one was<br />
very nicely tailored for the ladies and fits me<br />
perfectly. I was also delighted to win a prize –<br />
not so difficult in my category as Master Lady<br />
Runners are thin on the ground – but it does<br />
provide much encouragement to continue enjoying<br />
running, and a sense of achievement,<br />
and I was very pleased with my time, too.<br />
Next on the Old Mutual sponsored running<br />
calendar is the Vumba Mountain Run, on November<br />
8 -- a very tough but enjoyable and scenic<br />
21km race, plus 10 and 5 km fun runs – so<br />
diarise this now: A great excuse for a getaway<br />
in the Vumba!<br />
Feedback: rosie@wildimaginings.net.
THE STANDARD STYLE<br />
ARTS & CULTURE<br />
1<br />
In this issue<br />
of Arts & Culture<br />
(1) Katrina<br />
(2) ZIMAA UK<br />
(3) Taking writing to the young<br />
(4) Amber Rose @ Wiz Khalifa<br />
2 3 4
26 THE STANDARD STYLE /COMMUNITY/ BREAKING NEW GROUND<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
"Read and Discover<br />
Your World" says Katrina<br />
Patricia Mabviko-Musanhu<br />
EVERY parent desires the<br />
best for their children.<br />
<strong>The</strong> expectation is usually<br />
that their children<br />
will live to achieve bigger<br />
dreams than their own. What<br />
tends to be forgotten many<br />
a times is the responsibility<br />
that parents have to plant this<br />
“seed of greatness” into their<br />
children as early as possible<br />
if indeed they are to grow<br />
to produce “greatness”. In<br />
Children of Dreams, Lorilyn<br />
Roberts talks about the importance<br />
of committing time<br />
to children.<br />
“You must be committed to<br />
your children first. Otherwise,<br />
they will receive the<br />
leftovers,” she says.<br />
Katrina Wallace Karenga<br />
believes that her mother contributed<br />
to her becoming the<br />
avid reader that she is as well<br />
as discovering her passion for<br />
creative writing.<br />
“I studied sciences for my<br />
first degree and yet today I<br />
am in the creative sector and<br />
enjoying what I do,” she said<br />
with a brightening look on<br />
her face.<br />
Katrina works as a material<br />
development specialist<br />
for a regional Non-Governmental<br />
Organisation and<br />
her responsibilities include<br />
writing books as well as developing<br />
posters, pamphlets<br />
and training materials and<br />
manuals for different target<br />
groups. Her passion goes beyond<br />
just packaging stories<br />
and publishing information<br />
to encouraging children to<br />
read in her spare time. To this<br />
end, she is heavily involved<br />
with the Harare City Library<br />
where she works with children<br />
encouraging them to<br />
read so as to widen their understanding<br />
of the world they<br />
live in.<br />
“My mother would go to<br />
the library once or twice a<br />
week without fail and would<br />
take us with her although we<br />
were very young. Initially we<br />
used to just sit in the library<br />
and watch her read and take<br />
away more books to read at<br />
home.”<br />
It was through watching<br />
her mother that Katrina began<br />
to develop an interest in<br />
reading.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> books that my mother<br />
read gave her access to so<br />
many different experiences<br />
and an understanding of so<br />
many cultures. When she<br />
spoke to us or told us stories<br />
it was as if she had travelled<br />
around the world.”<br />
Katrina confessed that she<br />
wouldn’t be where she is today<br />
if it was not for the many<br />
books she has read since<br />
childhood. Reading different<br />
novels and fiction books ignited<br />
in her a love to tell stories<br />
as well as a passion to share<br />
information. Each story she<br />
read gave her an opportunity<br />
to reflect on her being and to<br />
understand herself better.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> more you read, the<br />
more you get to know more<br />
about yourself in view of the<br />
world you live in. You develop<br />
an ability to understand what<br />
is good and what is bad and<br />
are able to make an informed<br />
decision based on a wider understanding<br />
of the choices<br />
available,” she added.<br />
Katrina believes strongly<br />
that reading also gives one<br />
an opportunity to acquire<br />
critical thinking and problem<br />
solving skills. <strong>The</strong> notion that<br />
these skills are acquired only<br />
from reading academic books<br />
is not necessarily correct.<br />
She said that a person who is<br />
widely read is likely to perform<br />
better in an interview<br />
for example than someone<br />
who has only read to pass an<br />
examination. <strong>The</strong> one who<br />
is more widely read is likely<br />
to exude more confidence<br />
and display a better understanding<br />
of the multicultural<br />
society we live in and consequently<br />
show better human<br />
relations skills compared to<br />
the other.<br />
“I think that parents have<br />
an important role to play in<br />
as far as encouraging their<br />
children to read is concerned.<br />
I don’t believe that they necessarily<br />
have to be readers as<br />
is the case with my mother.<br />
Simply reading a story to a<br />
child on a regular basis is<br />
enough to ignite their imagination<br />
and this is a good place<br />
to start. Story telling creates<br />
enthusiasm for reading” she<br />
said.<br />
In addition, it is never too<br />
late for anyone to develop a<br />
culture of reading. If you<br />
struggle to read through one<br />
book from beginning to end,<br />
Katrina’s advice is to begin<br />
by reading stories that you<br />
enjoy the most. <strong>The</strong> more<br />
you read the more your interest<br />
grows. From here you can<br />
then begin to look for small<br />
books by authors who write<br />
on subjects you enjoy to read<br />
about and the rest will take<br />
care of itself !<br />
Patricia Mabviko Musanhu<br />
is a Company Director/Producer<br />
at Black and<br />
White Media Productions.<br />
She can be contacted at<br />
pmabviko@gmail.com
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS 27<br />
ZIMAA UK 2014 edition<br />
nominations drawing to<br />
a close<br />
Masimba Makasi - ZIMAA UK<br />
<strong>The</strong> Zimbabwe Music and Arts<br />
Awards UK (ZIMAA UK) return<br />
for the 4th year with a mission to<br />
further the Zimbabwean arts scene<br />
in the UK. This year’s event will<br />
be held at the Adams Park Conference<br />
Centre, High Wycombe on 29<br />
November 2014. <strong>The</strong> event includes<br />
a 3 course dinner and live entertainment<br />
as well as the awards show<br />
and after-party. Tickets have been<br />
released on general sale and organisers<br />
say they are in the process of<br />
assembling an exciting line up of<br />
artists.<br />
Adopting the national flower,<br />
the flame lily as their insignia, the<br />
PR officer for ZIMAA UK, Masimba<br />
Makasi said “<strong>The</strong> beauty and grace<br />
of the flame lily stands for all that<br />
is good about Zimbabwe. Its Latin<br />
name “Gloriosa Superba” which<br />
literary translates to “Glorious, Superb”<br />
represent the aspirations we<br />
have for Zimbabwean art to make<br />
its mark on the British and International<br />
scene in the same way West<br />
African arts have crossed into the<br />
mainstream. In fact, there is much<br />
more symbolism to the flame lily<br />
that fits into our ultimate objectives<br />
for this organisation and UK based<br />
Zimbabwean arts”.<br />
Since the awards’ inception in<br />
2011, following on from the ZimAwards<br />
in 2009 and 2010; ZIMAA UK<br />
has provided an unrivalled platform<br />
where all artists based in the<br />
United Kingdom can be nominated<br />
and stand a chance to win the award<br />
based on how many votes they get<br />
from members of the public. <strong>The</strong><br />
process also includes all Zimbabwean<br />
artists who have toured the<br />
United Kingdom in the past calendar<br />
year. In addition, the votes and<br />
the acts will be elaborately reviewed<br />
by the judging panel made up of seasoned<br />
promoters and credible industry<br />
insiders with unbiased minds.<br />
Commenting on whether the<br />
exercise was not merely a popularity<br />
contest the organisers said, “We<br />
are constantly looking for ways to<br />
improve our voting and nominating<br />
systems to ensure that every<br />
nominee is deserving and that everyone<br />
has a fair chance of getting<br />
voted for. One such way is creating<br />
awareness of the event in the press<br />
and public domain to ensure every<br />
qualifying artist is nominated and<br />
voted for by those who believe they<br />
deserve to win. Another way is to<br />
invest in stricter voting systems<br />
which we have done.” Nominations<br />
are currently open until the 3rd of<br />
October, they will go through a review<br />
process to assess eligibility before<br />
voting starts.<br />
Previous winners include Shanky,<br />
Cynthia Mare, Jane Doka, Nox<br />
Guni and many others. <strong>The</strong> awards<br />
are not only limited to music but<br />
also honour art arts sectors life<br />
film, fashion, literature, promotions<br />
as well as broadcasting and the media.<br />
Other previous winners have<br />
included ZimOnline Radio, King Alfred<br />
and many others.<br />
<strong>The</strong> organiser would like to<br />
thank all their sponsors and are<br />
pleased to say that there are still opportunities<br />
to sponsor the event.<br />
For further information and to nominate,<br />
please visit the website www.<br />
zimaa.co.uk or write to info@zimaa.<br />
co.uk
28 THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / BOOKWORM<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
L - R - Ethel Kabwato, Lawrence Hoba, Tinashe Mushakavanhu & Philani Nyoni<br />
Taking writing<br />
Lia Brazier of Hellenic Academy receives a book prize from Tinashe Mushakavanhu<br />
to the young<br />
By Bookworm<br />
Tino Mukura of Lilfordia receives a book prize from Lawrence Hoba<br />
I<br />
was recently part of a group of writers who<br />
facilitated creative writing workshops at<br />
Westridge High School in Harare. If there<br />
is anything I love doing, it is sharing my<br />
love and passion for books and writing with<br />
LILIAN MASITERA<br />
masiteral@yahoo.com<br />
0772 924 796<br />
Usave Saskam,<br />
verenga udzore pfungwa<br />
young people. <strong>The</strong> turnout was overwhelmingly<br />
good, never mind the fact that it was a<br />
Saturday. Hundred and fourteen students,<br />
ranging in age from 11 – 18, from 29 schools attended<br />
the workshop.<br />
Apart from providing the venue,<br />
Westridge High School, also kindly donated<br />
book prizes to the 20 best students who were<br />
selected after the prose and poetry sessions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> workshop attracted a broad spectrum<br />
of schools, including Rydings from Karoi,<br />
Cecil John Rhodes (CJR) from Gweru, Bryden<br />
School from Chegutu as well as Mufakose<br />
Mhuriimwe and other Harare and Marondera<br />
Schools.<br />
<strong>The</strong> workshop was the initiative of the<br />
National Institute of Allied Arts (NIAA), in<br />
association with the Meikles Foundation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> purpose of the workshop was to motivate<br />
and inspire budding writers by giving them<br />
a chance to interact with young experienced<br />
writers.<br />
Creative writing is important for children<br />
and teens as they learn to express themselves<br />
better. It not only provides them with a safe<br />
space to make sense of the human dynamics<br />
around them, but it teaches them writing at<br />
the highest level, going beyond lucidity into<br />
the realm of literary tension, and then further<br />
into humour, narrative complexity, abstraction,<br />
and metaphor.<br />
If young people are not learning to write<br />
while exploring personal narratives and short<br />
fiction, it is because our educators need more<br />
training -- or the specifics of the curriculum<br />
need further development. It is not because<br />
those forms of writing in themselves are of<br />
no use.<br />
Four Zimbabwean writers Lawrence Hoba,<br />
Ethel Kabwato, Philani Nyoni and Tinashe<br />
Mushakavanhu shared their experiences as<br />
published writers with the school children.<br />
<strong>The</strong> writers have been published in Zimbabwe<br />
and elsewhere.<br />
<strong>The</strong> writers worked in small groups giving<br />
the young students ideas on how to improve<br />
writing in both poetry and prose. Interestingly,<br />
most of the kids had intelligent<br />
questions to ask about writing and books. <strong>The</strong><br />
feedback from teachers, who also participated<br />
in the workshop, was tremendous, as they all<br />
felt that they had learnt much from the writers,<br />
and had gained a fresh perspective on how<br />
to improve their teaching methods.<br />
Teachers who were present were actively<br />
encouraged to be part of the workshops. It’s<br />
a great opportunity for teachers to observe<br />
the writing process in action and be exposed<br />
to different teaching styles and writing activities.<br />
In this way, the workshop becomes an effective<br />
and “hands on” session for the teachers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ability to write well is vitally important<br />
to do well in school or in any career, as<br />
many jobs require good writing and communication<br />
skills. Traditionally, little teaching of<br />
creative writing has been done in Zimbabwean<br />
schools, and even then, it often takes a back<br />
seat to other subjects. It is possible, though,<br />
to improve children’s creative writing skills<br />
through encouragement, supporting parent’s<br />
efforts at home.<br />
From the perspective of the writers, the<br />
experience was a good one, and it certainly<br />
opened the door to the idea of further interaction<br />
with the schools. “<strong>The</strong>re seems to be a<br />
real hunger to know about the writing process.<br />
<strong>The</strong> thing is, all writers approach the process<br />
differently. I know that I work very differently<br />
to someone like Dambudzo Marechera, for example.”<br />
All the four writers agreed that the workshops<br />
needed to taken to schools around the<br />
country as a way of building a strong army<br />
of young writers and readers. In the past few<br />
years, less than five new creative fiction books<br />
are published in Zimbabwe revealing an anemic<br />
literary environment.<br />
According to the NIAA Literary Festival<br />
Director, and convener of the workshop, Beverley<br />
Abrahams, the workshop was a great<br />
success and the NIAA will consider holding<br />
more such workshops in the future. She expressed<br />
her gratitude to the Meikles Foundation<br />
for the generous sponsorship it provided<br />
and to Westridge High school for opening up<br />
their school for the event and sponsoring the<br />
book prizes.<br />
NIAA holds an annual literary festival<br />
and competition for school children across<br />
Zimbabwe which, this year, attracted over<br />
2 400 entries from 48 primary and 26 high<br />
schools around the country. Two students<br />
excelled during the workshop included Tino<br />
Mukura of Lilfordia School walked away with<br />
prizes in both prose and poetry as did Heidi<br />
Langton of Chisipite Senior School.<br />
<strong>The</strong> foundation of Zimbabwe’s literary<br />
future can only begin now. Tomorrow is too<br />
late.<br />
Feedback: bhukuworm@gmail.com
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
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back and wait.<br />
As the momentum builds up and the countdown<br />
begins, excitement is all over Zimbabwe and Harare<br />
in particular, where the ZIMAs will be held at<br />
HICC.<br />
it is clearly going to be a red carpet event as the<br />
organizers have had overwhelming interest from<br />
local Fashion designers and retailers who would<br />
like to use the ZIMA platform to showcase their<br />
work. After a 7 year absence, ZIMA is back with<br />
a bang and is set to go beyond being a platform for<br />
musicians but for many other players across different<br />
sectors.<br />
A big make up brand, Signature Cosmetics will be<br />
coming on board as the official make up partner<br />
for the event. <strong>The</strong>ir make-up artists bring a wealth<br />
of experience not just in make-up but also make<br />
up for television. <strong>The</strong>y will work on all hosts and<br />
guest presenters as well all female nominees.<br />
<strong>The</strong> idea behind all this is to create a fantasy night<br />
of glitz and glamour that will dazzle audiences and<br />
show the nominees just how much they are appreciated<br />
and honored in the music and arts industry.<br />
However, it’s important to add that the glitz and<br />
the glamour will not end on the red carpet. According<br />
to a spokesperson from ZIMA, Farai Chapoterera,<br />
they have put together a show that will keep<br />
audiences captivated from beginning to end. “We<br />
have moved away for the traditional way of stage<br />
construction and set building to the use of led<br />
screens and light manipulation to create the perfect<br />
ambiance and allow for transition from one act<br />
to the next. We have also ensured that the quality<br />
of production in the main auditorium is the same<br />
for viewers at home, especially when it comes to<br />
sound. We are happy that we have partnered with<br />
the national broadcaster who have allowed us the<br />
use of their state of the art Out Side Broadcast<br />
(OB) van. We will have some of our technicians<br />
working in partnership with ZBC to ensure a high<br />
quality production,” she said.<br />
Amber Rose & Wiz Khalifa: Shocking Split<br />
Amber Rose reportedly filed for divorce from<br />
Wiz Khalifa, leaving fans of their union completely<br />
blindsided with heartache.<br />
Amber Rose & Wiz Khalifa Split — Fans<br />
React To Divorce On Twitter<br />
Amber, 27, and Wiz, 30, have only been married<br />
for a little more than year — they celebrated their<br />
one-year anniversary on July 8 — so it’s understandable<br />
why fans are so shocked over this split.<br />
Amber cited irreconcilable differences as the<br />
reason for the split, according to TMZ. <strong>The</strong> paperwork<br />
allegedly shows that Amber wants full legal<br />
and physical custody of their son, Sebastian, 1, but<br />
she will allow Wiz to have visitation rights. <strong>The</strong>re’s<br />
no public reason for the split yet, but reports suggest<br />
Amber has been romantically involved with<br />
Nick Cannon, who is going through relationship<br />
troubles of his own with Mariah Carey. She even<br />
gushed about Nick in a recent interview. – Chris<br />
Rogers<br />
http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/09/24<br />
FOOD NETWORK (DStv<br />
Channel 175)<br />
DStv September<br />
2014 Schedules<br />
Street Eats (Season 1): Food is one of the top reasons<br />
why people like to travel. <strong>The</strong> best place to find the<br />
most authentic local food scenes around the world<br />
is right on the streets! <strong>The</strong>re is no better place to rub<br />
elbows with the locals and grab a bite that’s fast, inexpensive<br />
and translates the culture. In some countries,<br />
street food represents a melting pot of traditions.<br />
Street Eats travels to Latin America, Africa, <strong>The</strong> Middle<br />
East, Asia, the United States and Europe to bring this<br />
experience to viewers who may never get the chance to<br />
taste it for themselves. Tune in from 22 September and<br />
watch it on weekdays at 07:40 and 11:00 CAT.<br />
Recipes that Rock (Season 2): Alex James is bass player<br />
in the British rock band, Blur. He’s also a writer, farmer,<br />
father and cheesemaker. Chef Matt Stone has hip restaurants<br />
in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Matt has full<br />
sleeve tattoos, a skateboard and an attitude to match,<br />
he rocks too. In this series of Recipes That Rock, there’s<br />
fun and adventure in the Great Southern, searching<br />
out the best of the best foods that producers grow,<br />
harvest, hatch and catch. Series 2 opens with succulent<br />
oysters in Oyster Harbour, Albany, and a merry visit to<br />
the local whisky distillery. In later episodes, the inquisitive<br />
duo discover a unique way of farming chickens for<br />
eggs, learn about the worldwide delicacy Abalone,<br />
and close the series with a huge party celebrating all<br />
of the produce they’ve discovered and wonderful<br />
characters they’ve met in this magnificent part of<br />
the world. Watch from Sunday 8 September at 09:20<br />
and 13:55 CAT.<br />
TLC ENTERTAINMENT<br />
(DStv Channel 172)<br />
Breaking the Faith (Premiere): This series shares the<br />
story of eight young men and women who are trying<br />
to build a new life outside of the Mormon church. <strong>The</strong><br />
young men, known as ‘lost boys’, are cast-out from<br />
their homes and not welcomed back, while the women<br />
are intent on escaping the controlling ways of the<br />
community – including arranged marriage and a life of<br />
complete submission – and are hoping for a better life<br />
on the outside. For this group, being faced with making<br />
life-altering choices in their effort to win their freedom<br />
comes with the fear of the consequences that may<br />
come for leaving the compound forever. From Tuesday<br />
16 September at 20:55 CAT.<br />
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (Premiere): After the<br />
rip-roaring success of the first series, Honey Boo Boo<br />
returns with her family for more mishaps, joviality and<br />
raucous redneck fun. In this series, birthday girl June’s<br />
spirits are sagging as she copes with an empty nest after<br />
Anna and Kaitlyn decide to move out. Finally, without<br />
Anna and Kaitlyn around, the family spends very<br />
little time together. Alana hopes the family’s love for<br />
food will reunite them - but just as with family game<br />
night and pottery painting, her efforts fall short. From<br />
Wednesday 24 September at 20:00 CAT.<br />
My Naked Secret (Premiere): Follow the personal stories<br />
of 10 more people as they begin to overcome the<br />
body issues that are ruining their lives. In each episode<br />
an individual with a medical condition or physical abnormality<br />
that is causing them great shame and untold<br />
misery embarks on a transformative and poignant journey<br />
in search of acceptance. <strong>The</strong>y then begin treatment<br />
for their condition in a bid to finally have a body they<br />
love. But will this enable them to come to terms with<br />
their anxieties? Find out from Friday 26 September at<br />
20:55 CAT.<br />
Oprah Prime: Pharrell Williams: Oprah meets up with<br />
seven-time Grammy® winner Pharrell Williams, one of<br />
the most innovative and sought-after artists in the music<br />
industry today. On the heels of his number one hit<br />
“Happy,” a single off the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack,<br />
for which he received an Oscar® nomination, Oprah<br />
and Pharrell discuss his critically acclaimed album G I<br />
R L and his rise to fame. Plus, Pharrell shares how his<br />
creative vision has propelled him to music stardom.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y also discuss his recent marriage to Helen Lasichanh<br />
and fatherhood. Airs on Thursday 11 September<br />
at 20:00 CAT.<br />
Oprah’s Masterclass: Justin Timberlake: <strong>The</strong> brand new<br />
season kicks off with one of this generation’s most<br />
celebrated entertainers, multiple Grammy and Emmy<br />
award-winning musician and actor Justin Timberlake.<br />
Sharing never-before-told stories about his youth and<br />
his musical influences, Justin imparts his most valuable<br />
life lessons yet, including how to find your voice, how<br />
to break the mould and how to hold on to your ambition.<br />
Watch it on Thursday 25 September at 20:00 CAT.<br />
Oprah’s Masterclass: Oprah Winfrey (Part 1&2): In Part<br />
1 of an intimate conversation, Oprah opens up about<br />
her tumultuous childhood and adolescence and the<br />
lessons she still carries with her today. She tells littleknown<br />
stories about her early days in television, including<br />
how losing her hair helped her gain a new sense of<br />
self. What guides her and drives her to do her best?<br />
In Part 2, she reflects on her experience getting cast in<br />
<strong>The</strong> Color Purple and the cultural phenomenon of <strong>The</strong><br />
Oprah Winfrey Show. She opens up about her private<br />
life, and what she feels her true calling was meant to<br />
be. Revealing and deeply personal, Oprah offers new<br />
insights on how we all can become masters of our lives.<br />
Watch it on Thursday 04 September at 20:55 CAT.<br />
Oprah’s Masterclass: Jay-Z: Candid, raw and real, Jay-Z<br />
charts his unlikely rise from the hard-knock life of the<br />
Brooklyn projects to worldwide superstardom and what<br />
he’s learned along the way. He reflects on his failures,<br />
the healing power of hip-hop and how he finally made<br />
peace with his father before he passed away. Plus, Jay-Z<br />
shares his personal revelations about integrity and why<br />
knowing your own truth is the foundation for everything<br />
great. Airs on Thursday 11 September at 20:55 CAT.<br />
Oprah’s Next Chapter: Cissy Houston: Oprah sits down<br />
with Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, for her<br />
first in-depth interview since her daughter’s passing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> superstar’s mother talks about raising a daughter<br />
whose voice became a national treasure, teaching Whitney<br />
about the music business, and her biggest regrets.<br />
Oprah also talks to Cissy about Whitney’s drug use, how<br />
she really felt about her daughter’s marriage to R&B<br />
singer Bobby Brown, and the true nature of Whitney’s<br />
relationship with her high school best friend, Robyn<br />
Crawford. Airs on Thursday 18 September at 20:00 CAT.<br />
DISNEY XD (DStv Channel<br />
303)<br />
Star Wars fans: Star Wars Rebels: In the run-up to this<br />
exciting event Disney is airing a series of shorts introducing<br />
a new character from the series each week so<br />
viewers can get to know them better. Get ready to meet<br />
Zeb, Ezra, Kanan and Hera on Saturdays throughout September.<br />
Star Wars Rebels animated shorts airs on Disney<br />
XD on Saturdays at 09:15 CAT.<br />
Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened:<br />
When the Genesect army attacks New Tork City<br />
while Ash is visiting, it’s up to Pokemon Mewtwo to<br />
protect them. Can he persuade the Genesect to spare<br />
New Tork? Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the<br />
Legend Awakened premieres on Sunday 7 September<br />
at 12:15 CAT.<br />
Star Wars: <strong>The</strong> New Yoda Chronicles – <strong>The</strong> Raid on<br />
Coruscant: In <strong>The</strong> Raid on Coruscant the Emperor uses<br />
information on the recovered Holocrons to launch devastating<br />
attacks on planets sympathetic to the Rebellion.<br />
Luke knows there’s only one solution: a daring raid on<br />
Coruscant to get the Holocrons back. In the end, Luke<br />
makes the boldest move of all destroying the Holocrons<br />
so the Emperor can no longer use them. But unknown<br />
to Luke, R2-D2 has saved one last Holocron - which just<br />
happens to “star” the young Anakin Skywalker. Star<br />
Wars: <strong>The</strong> New Yoda Chronicles – <strong>The</strong> Raid on Coruscant<br />
premieres on Saturday 13 September at 09:20 CAT.<br />
DISNEY CHANNEL (DStv<br />
Channel 304)<br />
Phineas and Ferb: Mission Star Wars: In exciting and entertaining<br />
epic animated adventure Phineas and Ferb:<br />
Mission Stars Wars Phineas and Ferb find themselves in<br />
the midst of a galactic rebellion and an epic struggle of<br />
good versus evil that tears the brothers apart and pits<br />
them against one another when Ferb goes to the Dark<br />
Side! Meanwhile, Stormtrooper Candace is hot on their<br />
trail and desperate to stop the boys from making matters<br />
worse, but her allegiance falls into question when<br />
Phineas saves her and she realizes that all Rebels are<br />
not bad. Disney Channel is proud to present Phineas<br />
& Ferb: Mission Star Wars on Sat 27 Sept at 10:40. It<br />
will be repeated on Sun 28 Sept at 15:00. May the Ferb<br />
be with you!<br />
Wolfblood (Season Two): September sees the return of<br />
hit series Wolfblood to Disney Channel, as season two<br />
launches. Wolfbloods have lived among humans for centuries,<br />
disguising their heightened senses and abilities;<br />
and doing their best to blend in. Maddy and her parents<br />
are the only wolfbloods in their area until one day a new<br />
boy starts at Maddy’s school. Maddy and Rhydian return<br />
for a second season of Wolfblood from Wednesday 24<br />
September at 18:30 CAT.<br />
Disney Princess Academy: In this brand new series of<br />
shorts, which air every Monday throughout September<br />
at 16:05, seven little girls learn core princess values,<br />
new skills and how to apply them. In each short, one<br />
little girl meets her fairy godmother mentor and learns<br />
This Week’s<br />
Highlights<br />
to become a Disney princess in that specific skill. <strong>The</strong>n she graduates<br />
and gets a princess badge and diploma. Princess Academy shorts<br />
premiere every Monday throughout September at 16:05 (before Violetta)<br />
and are repeated throughout the week.<br />
DISNEY JUNIOR (DStv Channel<br />
301)<br />
Pocahontas: This is the powerful and moving story of a Native American<br />
princess and her ill-fated love for an English sea captain. Set in<br />
1607, it tells of the beautiful, brave and compassionate daughter of<br />
Chief Powhatan who asks her forest friends (Meeko the raccoon, Flit<br />
the hummingbird and Grandmother Willow, a 400 year old spirit that<br />
resides in an ancient tree) for advice. It tells how her life changes<br />
when she meets John Smith, one of a party of sailors which has come<br />
to the New World searching for gold. Eventually they are forced to<br />
part, but their spirits remain entwined. This beautiful and moving story,<br />
enhanced by a superb soundtrack, make Disney’s 33rd animated<br />
feature film an unmissable gem. Vocal stars include Mel Gibson. It airs<br />
on Sunday 2 September at 10:30 CAT.<br />
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Sea Captain Mickey: <strong>The</strong>re’s an exciting<br />
event on Disney Junior this month. When Professor Von Drake’s<br />
sonar-detecting machine discovers that there’s something big at the<br />
bottom of Mickey Lake, Mickey and the gang hop into the Clubhouse<br />
Submarine and set out to find the “Big Something”. It turns out to<br />
be a Giant Rubber Ducky that’s stuck on the bottom of the lake. But<br />
where did it come from? <strong>The</strong> gang set out to discover Ducky’s secret!<br />
Our special Sea Captain Mickey airs on Saturday 13 September at<br />
08:00 CAT.<br />
Sofia the First: From Monday 22 September at 09:00 CAT Disney Junior<br />
gives fans a chance to catch-up with all the specials featuring<br />
Princess-in-training Sofia the First, in the run-up to the launch of<br />
season two of the series. Season two premieres on Saturday 27 September<br />
at 09:00 CAT. In the first episode, <strong>The</strong> Enchanted Feast, Sofia<br />
must learn to trust her instincts, helped by legendary Disney Princess<br />
Snow White, when she suspects a visiting sorceress is not what she<br />
seems and has an ulterior motive.<br />
For more information on DStv channels, log onto www.dstv.com
30 THE STANDARD STYLE / ENVIRONMENT<br />
September 28 to October 4 2014<br />
Corporates address<br />
environmental issues<br />
Michael Nott<br />
Frampol Africa is a computer and ISP<br />
company founded by Managing Director<br />
Neil Padmore in 2004. In 2008, to give<br />
thanks for four years of successful business<br />
operations, they planted four trees<br />
for the future. <strong>The</strong>y realised that tree<br />
planting was so rewarding and such a<br />
relatively easy way to give back to the<br />
community that in 2009 they planted a<br />
further 32 trees and in 2010 they planted<br />
64 trees. To date they’ve planted around<br />
4 000 trees.<br />
In 2009 they formed Helping Zimbabwe<br />
as part of their corporate social responsibility<br />
programme. Helping Zimbabwe<br />
is a non-governmental organisation<br />
helping poor households to access education,<br />
food, health services, and safe water<br />
and most importantly, protecting and<br />
nurturing the environment. One of their<br />
key activities over the past decade has<br />
been to address environmental degradation<br />
through planting trees and cleaning<br />
up the Msasa industrial area. Driving<br />
out of town along the Mutare Road you’ll<br />
no doubt have noticed the indigenous<br />
trees they’ve planted on the centre isle as<br />
well as the indigenous fruit trees on the<br />
right hand side between the Total Service<br />
Station and the Nissan showroom.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are several ideas behind the<br />
planting of indigenous fruit trees in the<br />
area. <strong>The</strong> Msasa area, like most industrial<br />
areas in Zimbabwe, is very dusty<br />
and hot in the dry months and not very<br />
attractive or healthy environmentally.<br />
Most of the indigenous trees were cut<br />
down years ago when the area was first<br />
developed and the few existing trees that<br />
were planted, like gum trees and Jacarandas,<br />
are not really environmentally<br />
friendly. Indigenous trees are, by their<br />
nature, better suited to the environment<br />
and require less care in terms of water,<br />
fertilisers and pesticides, particularly<br />
in their early stages. Indigenous trees<br />
support insect, bird and animal life and<br />
can assist with issues like soil erosion,<br />
air pollution and the falling water table.<br />
Indigenous fruit is a great, sustainable<br />
source of natural nutrition. Padmore is<br />
delighted that now, five years after planting,<br />
he has observed school children<br />
picking and eating fruit on their way to<br />
and from school. <strong>The</strong> fruit provides minerals,<br />
vitamins and energy for school<br />
children that often go off to school with<br />
just a cup of sweet tea and a few slices of<br />
white bread in their stomachs.<br />
Helping Zimbabwe states that their<br />
core thematic concerns are “Environmental<br />
Protection, Livelihoods, Food<br />
Security, Child Protection and Health.”<br />
Growing, planting and nurturing indigenous<br />
fruit trees fulfil all these aims.<br />
To promote these ideals they’ve set a<br />
schools’ programme where children are<br />
taught how to plant trees and look after<br />
them for at least the first two years.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’re also taught about the cultural<br />
and nutritional value of indigenous<br />
fruit trees. With the rapid rural to urban<br />
migration taking place, many children<br />
don’t recognize or know about indigenous<br />
fruits, such as matohwe, matamba,<br />
hacha, mazhanje or mapfura, to name<br />
just a few, and this cultural knowledge<br />
could soon be lost. <strong>The</strong>re is a growing<br />
acknowledgement of the value of indigenous<br />
foods in combating diseases like<br />
diabetes and hypertension which are becoming<br />
more prevalent in our society.<br />
Helping Zimbabwe’s partners include;<br />
City of Harare, JVS Projects, Nissan<br />
Clover Motors, Waste Away, Mr. Bristle<br />
and <strong>The</strong> Michael Project.<br />
Other Helping Zimbabwe projects include<br />
road cleanups and road patching,<br />
as well as planting around 1 000 indigenous<br />
trees at Wingate Golf Course to replace<br />
the exotic trees which are reaching<br />
the end of their lifespan.<br />
To find out more about Helping Zimbabwe<br />
call: 04 485 540/1 or visit their website:<br />
www.helpingzimbabwe.org<br />
IT’S SO EASY TO ‘GO GREEN’<br />
Everyone can make a difference. Here are six easy ways to go green and<br />
some of them will save you money too!<br />
1. Wherever possible change to CFL or LED light bulbs. You’ll save<br />
energy and you’ll also find that they last a lot longer, so you’ll save<br />
money in the end too.<br />
2. If you can afford the initial outlay, change to a solar water heater.<br />
You’ll save yourself the hassle of having no hot water during ZESA<br />
cuts. Most generators can’t run an electric geyser, unless they’re very<br />
big and electric geysers waste money and electricity. After<br />
installation you’ll get hot water for free.<br />
3. Don’t be fooled by electrical items that tell you they’re ‘going to<br />
sleep’, like TVs, battery chargers and laptops. Even in sleep mode<br />
they still draw small amounts of power. Turn them off at the wall<br />
socket or unplug them.<br />
4. Take your own reusable canvas bag or basket when you go<br />
shopping for groceries. You really don’t need to carry all your<br />
shopping in plastic bags, most of which end up littering the streets<br />
or clogging up dumpsites.<br />
5. Start your own compost heap. You can add food waste, vegetable<br />
peelings, old newspapers, garden clippings, in fact just about<br />
anything bio-degradable. You’ll be surprised at how much you<br />
reduce your amount of household waste, and your garden will love<br />
the extra food.<br />
6. Consider using ‘green cleaners’. Our grandparents didn’t use harsh<br />
chemical cleaners in their homes. A mixture of lemon juice and<br />
baking powder will clean most household surfaces and it smells<br />
better too. Try using olive oil with a squeeze of lemon or a sprig of<br />
mint to clean and refresh wooden surfaces.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND<br />
DEBTORS AND TO ALL WHOM<br />
IT MAY CONCERN<br />
In the Estate of the late NORMAN<br />
DESMOND ATKINSON Of HARARE<br />
who died in Harare on the 13th<br />
JULY 2014.<br />
ALL persons having claims against<br />
the above named estate are<br />
required to lodge them in detail with<br />
the undersigned not later than the<br />
26th day of October 2014 and<br />
those indebted thereto are required<br />
to pay to the undersigned the<br />
amounts due by them within the<br />
same period, failing which legal<br />
proceedings will be taken for the<br />
recovery thereof.<br />
All persons having in their custody<br />
or possession any property<br />
belonging or relating to this estate<br />
are required to deliver the same<br />
forthwith to the undersigned. Tim<br />
Tanser Consultancy, 16<br />
Fleetwood Road, Alexandra Park,<br />
Harare<br />
REGIONAL, TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT CHAPTER 29:12<br />
Notice of an application for a Permit in terms of Section 26(3) of the Act.<br />
Notice is hereby given of an application to erect a second dwelling<br />
Stand 456 Borrowdale Township of Lot 4 of Lot 17C of Borrowdale<br />
Estate (4 Wheeldon Avenue, Borrowdale) Harare<br />
1. It is proposed to erect a second dwelling house on the<br />
quoted property which is situated in zone lA(i)<br />
(Residential Low Density) of the Operative City of<br />
Harare Combined North East Sections 1-4 Town<br />
Planning Scheme, wherein the proposed use requires<br />
the special consent of the Local Planning Authority. <strong>The</strong><br />
property measures 4021 square meters both dwellings<br />
will utilize individual septic tanks and -soak aways.<br />
2. <strong>The</strong> permit, if granted will cancel condition 2 registered<br />
in the Title Deed of the property (Deed of Transfer No.<br />
7168/ 1988) which states:-<br />
"Not more than one dwelling together with the<br />
necessary outbuildings shall be erected on the said<br />
lot unless the consent of the Minister of Home Affairs<br />
is first had and obtained."<br />
3. In terms of the Act, the application is required to be<br />
advertised, and adjacent neighbours notified in writing<br />
before, being considered by the Local Planning<br />
Authority.<br />
<strong>The</strong> application, plans and any special conditions which the<br />
Authority is likely to impose in the event of this application being<br />
favourably considered may be inspected at the address below<br />
during normal office hours.<br />
Any person wishing to make objections or representations relating<br />
to the application may lodge them with the undersigned within one<br />
month of the date of insertion of this notice.<br />
HARARE CITY COUNCIL<br />
DIRECTOR OF WORKS<br />
EASTERN REGION SECTION<br />
ROOM 308D, THIRD FLOOR CLEVELAND HOUSE<br />
92 LEOPOLD TAKAWIRA STREET<br />
HARARE<br />
205763<br />
REGIONAL, TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT, CHAPTER<br />
29:12 REVISED EDITION 1996<br />
Notice of an application for a Permit in terms of Section 26(3) of the Act :<br />
Notice is hereby given of an application to carry out the following<br />
development on <strong>The</strong> Remainder of Lot 2 of Lot 15 of Rolf Valley Township of<br />
Lot B of Colne Valley of Reitfontein, (Rolf Valley) Harare.<br />
1. It is proposed to establish to establish 6 cluster houses on the<br />
above mentioned property which is situated in residential zone 1 A(i) of the<br />
operative City of iiarare Town Planning Scheme Combined East 1-4 wherein<br />
the proposed development requires special consent of the Local Planning<br />
Authority.<br />
2. <strong>The</strong> site for the proposed development measures 8 089m2 in<br />
extent and if the development is permitted, a resultant density of ±1800m2<br />
per dwelling unit on septic tank will be achieved.<br />
3. According to the Act, the application is supposed to be<br />
advertised and owners of adjacent properties notified in writing before<br />
being considered by the Local Authority.<br />
<strong>The</strong> application, plans and any special conditions which the Authority is<br />
likely to impose in the event of this application being favorably considered<br />
maybe inspected at the address below during normal office hours.<br />
Any person wishing to make objections or representations relating to the<br />
application must lodge them with the undersigned within one month of the<br />
date of the first insertion of this notice.<br />
HARARE CITY COUNCIL<br />
DIRECTOR OF URBAN PLANNING SERVICES<br />
EASTERN REGION<br />
ROOM 307, THIRD FLOOR<br />
CLEVELAND HOUSE. 92 LEOPOLD TAKAWIRA STREET<br />
HARARE<br />
206005<br />
REGIONAL, TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT,<br />
(CHAPTER 29:12) 1996 REVISED EDITION<br />
Notice of an application for a Permit in terms of Section 26(3) of the Act :<br />
Notice is hereby given of an application to carry out the following<br />
development on Stand 218 Quinnington Township (Armthwaite Road)<br />
Harare<br />
1.It is proposed to establish four (4) cluster houses on the<br />
abovementioned stand which is situated in Densification Zone C of the<br />
operative City of Harare's Borrowdale Brooke Local Development Plan No.<br />
30 wherein the proposal requires the special consent of the Local<br />
Planning Authority. <strong>The</strong> property measures 7 832m2 in extent and the net<br />
density per dwelling unit will be 1958m2 on septic tanks.<br />
2.In terms of the Act the application is required to be advised in a<br />
newspaper circulating in the area and abutting neighbours notified in<br />
writing before being considered by the Local Planning Authority<br />
<strong>The</strong> application, plans and any special conditions which the Authority is<br />
likely to impose in the event of this application being favourably<br />
considered maybe inspected at the address below during normal office<br />
hours.<br />
Any person wishing to make objections or representations relating to the<br />
application must lodge them with the undersigned within one month of the<br />
date of the first insertion of this notice.<br />
HARARE CITY COUNCIL<br />
DIRECTOR OF URBAN PLANNING SERVICES<br />
EASTERN REGION SECTION<br />
ROOM 308, THIRD FLOOR<br />
CLEVELAND HOUSE.<br />
92 LEOPOLD TAKAWIRA STREET<br />
HARARE<br />
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