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2 The Standard June 8 to 14 2014 

News 

Moyo’s world 

crumbles 

President Mugabe has ordered an investigation 

into the appointment of editors at Zimpapers 

bY eVeRsOn MusHaVa/HeRbeRt MOYO 

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe 

yesterday piled 

more misery on Media, 

Information and Broadcasting 

Services minister, 

Professor Jonathan Moyo as 

it emerged that he had ordered 

an investigation into how editors 

perceived to be anti-Zanu PF 

had been appointed to head State 

newspapers. 

Moyo appointed three new editors 

at Zimpapers. Mduduzi 

Mathuthu, who was editor for 

New Zimbabwe, a United Kingdom-based 

online publication was 

appointed Chronicle editor. Edmund 

Kudzayi was appointed to 

head The Sunday Mail, replacing 

Brezhnev Malaba who had also 

been appointed by the same minister 

to the Chronicle years back. 

Moyo also appointed Caesar Zvayi 

to replace Innocent Gore at The 

Herald. 

But yesterday, Zanu PF spokesperson 

Rugare Gumbo said 

Mugabe had ordered an audit into 

the appointments. 

“What I know is that the President 

said the appointments 

should be investigated. He never 

said the editors should be withdrawn,” 

Gumbo told The Standard 

yesterday. 

Sources said during last 

Wednesday’s politburo meeting, 

Mugabe initially ordered the dismissal 

of the editors appointed by 

Moyo claiming they were sourced 

from institutions that were advocating 

for “regime change.” 

Speaking at the burial of Zanu 

PF Politburo member, Nathan 

Shamuyarira at the National Heroes 

Acre in Harare, Mugabe hinted 

about an impending crackdown 

on what he described as 

“party weevils” that were destroying 

the ruling party from within. 

Mugabe on Friday had accused 

Moyo of using the media to fan 

divisions in the party during 

the funeral wake of Shamuyarira. 

He also attacked Moyo for appointing 

editors at State-owned 

newspapers accused of peddling 

the regime change agenda and 

being sympathetic to the opposition 

MDC. 

Mugabe yesterday said Zanu PF 

was infested with “zvipfukuto” (a 

Shona word for weevils ) that were 

bent on destroying the party from 

within and vowed to flush them 

out. 

“Even in Zanu PF, we have 

the weevils. But should we keep 

them? No. Even our youth are already 

infested with the weevils,” 

Mugabe said. 

During this tirade by Mugabe, 

Moyo sat among other cabinet 

ministers, flanked by Environment 

minister Saviour Kasukuwere 

and Gender minister Oppah 

Muchinguri, who was heard explaining 

that a weevil is a pest 

that attacks the maize crop. 

Mugabe said the media should 

spell out the country’s values, not 

to sell out. 

“The objectives of the liberation 

struggle were never in question 

in regard to those who lie at the 

National Heroes’ Acre. Nathan, 

you all know now the leadership 

that he gave us. I talked yesterday 

about his own direction which 

was people-oriented,” he said. 

“It is not your own little ideas 

about how you can beat so and 

so like you are playing a soccer 

match. If you want to play soccer, 

why don’t you join Dynamos 

or Highlanders? We are telling 

people we must be one, we must 

be united in agriculture and in 

mining. We must organise our 

people to take advantage of these 

resources. Your publicity in newspapers 

should go in that direction.” 

Mugabe said Zanu PF should 

concentrate on fighting foreigners 

rather than fighting within itself. 

“Let the people know what they 

must do for themselves, encourage 

people to be organised and do 

not plant seeds to divide the people. 

Do not make anyone in the 

party a political enemy, you may 

differ with the person but do not 

attack him in the paper, that is destructive 

ideology,” he said. 

“Progress has to be made, we 

are fighting the outsiders. Zimbabwe 

will never be a colony 

again. There should be morality. 

Our principles should be directed 

against foreigners.” 

Mugabe, who spoke while looking 

directly across to the tent his 

ministers occupied, described 

Shamuyarira as a humble figure 

despite being very educated. He 

said this was in contrast to other 

people who always claimed 

to know everything, something 

which goes against teachings in 

philosophy that one can never 

know all reality but just a part of 

it. 

“If you think you know everything. 

If you are educated that 

way, I say damn you. You are not 

educated, you are ignorant. Education 

makes you humble. 

“No matter how educated you 

are, it is a damn fool who says I 

know everything. You can’t be a 

person, who says I know everything, 

what I don’t know is not 

knowledge,” Mugabe said. 

Since he assumed the new portfolio, 

Moyo went on a charm offensive, 

visiting media houses in the 

country and engaging stakeholders 

in the previously polarised industry. 

He started cleaning the rot at 

ZBC which was saddled in debts 

running into millions of dollars, 

amid allegations of corruption 

and mismanagement which saw 

workers going for seven months 

without salaries. 

He dissolved the Cuthbert Dubeled 

ZBC board and suspended 

Happison Muchechetere as chief 

executive officer. Moyo went on 

to create the Information and Media 

Panel of Inquiry (Impi), mandated 

with examining professional 

standards and ethics in the media 

fraternity. Critics in Zanu PF 

allege Moyo was using the Geoff 

Nyarota-chaired Impi to raise his 

profile. 

Moyo also came out in support 

of journalists when police 

banned a World Press Freedom 

Day march on May 3 and has condemned 

the criminalisation of 

journalism. 

Vapositori snub Shamuyarira burial 

bY eVeRsOn MusHaVa/HebeRt MOYO 

LOCAL apostolic sects popularly known as Vapositori 

yesterday snubbed the burial of Zanu 

PF politburo member and former Cabinet 

minister Nathan Shamuyarira at the national 

Heroes’ Acre in Harare. Only a handful of 

them turned up to listen to President Robert 

Mugabe officiating at the event. 

Usually, the Vapositori, who are well-known 

for their support of Mugabe’s Zanu PF party 

would pack State funerals, turning their section 

of the national shrine into a sea of white 

with their religious attire. 

The Standard could not immediately establish 

whether the poor attendance from the 

men of the cloth yesterday was a show of solidarity 

with fellow sect members who are currently 

locked up in prison for assaulting police 

officers in Harare last week, or whether it was 

out of fear of arrest. 

The bays at the national shrine that had become 

traditionally theirs were yesterday empty. 

Over 30 members of the Johanne Masowe 

weChishanu apostolic sect led by one Madzibaba 

Ishmael Mufani have been arrested over 

the assault and injury of anti-riot police officers, 

journalists and officials from the Apostolic 

mother body at a shrine in Harare’s Budiriro 

2 high-density suburb. 

They were denied bail by Harare provincial 

magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe and are currently 

trying to secure freedom at the High 

Court. 

On May 30, Ndanga went to Madzibaba Ishmael’s 

Budiriro shrine in the company of 

26 police officers to announce the ban of the 

church for alleged abuse of girls by the male 

sect members. 

The abuses included denial of education for 

the girl child and marrying them off at a tender 

age. It was also alleged that fathers tested 

their daughters’ virginity by inserting their 

President Robert Mugabe addresses the crowd that gathered at the National Heroes 

Acre for the burial of Nathan Shamuyarira yesterday. Picture: Aaron Ufumeli 

fingers into the girls’ private parts. 

ZBC journalists Relax Mafurutu and Tichaona 

Meza, nine police officers and ACCZ member 

Langton Muchena sustained serious injuries. 

Zanu PF youths in the company of the police 

and ACCZ members later demolished Madzibaba 

Ishmael’s shrine. 

Police are still hunting down Madzibaba Ishmael, 

who is still at large. 

MDC-T officials were also conspicuous by 

their absence at the funeral with only the party’s 

acting guardian’s council president Sekai 

Holland gracing the event as she usually does. 

Party leader Morgan Tsvangirai has repeatedly 

snubbed the burial of heroes. 

He has often accused Zanu PF of bias in the 

selection of heroes. Yesterday Mugabe scoffed 

at the MDC- T and once again described party 

members as zvitototo (rejects) who do not deserve 

to be honoured because they had done 

nothing to the country except selling out.

Local News 

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Cold Storage Company in sorry state 

Since the ban of beef 

exports in 2007, CSC 

has been on a financial 

free fall 

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT 

The Cold Storage Company’s 

(CSC) Bulawayo abattoir 

is now in a state of 

ruin as the beleaguered 

company is failing to maintain it. 

The huge factory premises in 

Belmont industrial area is now surrounded 

by overgrown grass, making 

the place hardly visible from 

outside. Save for the main gate and 

the entrance to the chief executive 

officer Ngoni Chinogaramombe’s 

office, the whole yard now resembles 

an untilled field, having not 

seen any sort of maintenance for 

many years. 

There are huge trees and shrubs 

that are threatening to shoot through 

the roof of the factory buildings of 

what was once the leading meat supplier 

in Zimbabwe and abroad. 

The precast periphery wall has 

virtually collapsed. Workers spoken 

to on condition of anonymity 

said working conditions at this 

meat company continued to deteriorate 

by the day. 

“The company has virtually 

failed to maintain the premises and 

it’s sad. The grass has not been cut 

for a long time and if there happened 

to be a fire outbreak, there 

is going to be a disaster here,” said 

one worker. 

The workers also said hygienic 

conditions had deteriorated over 

the years. “The conditions are no 

longer fit for an abattoir which is 

supposed to maintain the highest 

hygienic standards,” said another 

worker. 

CSC used to play a leading role 

in the processing and marketing 

of Zimbabwe’s beef since its inception 

in 1937. 

However, it has fallen on hard 

times since 2000 owing to a myriad 

of challenges, that include difficulty 

in raising adequate working 

capital, cattle disease outbreaks, 

decline in the commercial 

herd, huge foreign debt, high 

staff turnover and an aged transport 

fleet. 

CSC last exported beef in 2007 

because of serious uncontrolled 

outbreaks of foot and mouth diseases. 

The European Union (EU) stopped 

importing beef from the country after 

it failed to meet the international 

standards required when exporting 

beef. 

Since the ban of beef exports, 

CSC has been on a financial free 

fall. The state of the CSC’s Bulawayo 

factory provides a glimpse 

into the extent of the company’s 

decline as other abattoirs such as 

Chinhoyi face similar challenges. 

It is reported that the company 

is facing debts of up to US$22 million 

owed to different creditors 

and has a salary backlog amounting 

to US$2,1 million. The company 

is operating at 7% capacity utilisation 

and has a skeletal workforce 

of about 500 workers compared to 

1 500 in 1999. 

According a recent report, the 

Overgrown grass and shrubs shield a billboard at the Cold Storage Company in Bulawayo. 

CSC is left with only 600 cattle at its 

nine farms across the country. The 

report attributed the decline to the 

parastatal’s mismanagement, corruption 

and lack of innovation to 

compete with private meat suppliers. 

This comes at a time when parastatals 

have been on the spotlight 

due to numerous allegations of 

graft. There have been reports of 

some executives earning “obscene 

salaries” running up to as much as 

half a million dollars a month. 

The company’s fortunes were set 

to improve when Zimbabwe and 

Botswana signed a Memorandum 

of Understanding to have the CSC 

slaughter the latter’s cattle, but it 

bungled the deal after failing to pay 

for the delivered cattle. 

Chinogaramombe and board 

chairman Professor Lindela Ndlovu 

could not be reached for comment. 

Economist Eric Bloch said there 

was need to privatise the parastatal 

and get fresh capital injection and 

save the company from further collapse. 

“What I really think should be 

done is privatisation where some 

partners can come in with capital 

so that CSC can fully equip itself 

and have access to technical expertise 

and remove the further risk of 

the company falling down again,” 

said the economist. 

A fortnight ago the workers demonstrated 

in Bulawayo demanding 

outstanding salaries. 

The workers said they last received 

their full salaries in 2009 

and each worker is owed around 

US$10 000 in unpaid salaries. 

Ex-Gwanda mayor told he is not Zimbabwean 

Lionel De-Necker 

BY OUR STAFF 

Former Gwanda mayor Lionel 

De-Necker got the 

shock of his life on Friday after 

he was told that his business 

does not comply with the 

provisions of the Indigenisation 

and Economic Empowerment 

Act. 

The law compels foreign 

owned businesses to cede majority 

shareholding to locals. 

The National Indigenisation 

and Economic Empowerment 

Board (NIEEB)’s classification 

of De-Necker’s business 

as non-compliant seems 

to suggest that they do not 

view him as an indigenous 

Zimbabwean. 

De-Necker yesterday took 

to Twitter to express his dismay 

at the development and 

vowed to fight it. 

“Today I received papers 

from NIEEB about Reserved 

Sector Compliance Status Notice. 

They say it’s reserved for 

Zimbabweans,” he tweeted. 

“I refuse to run out of my 

country Zimbabwe and town 

Gwanda. I refuse to be intimidated 

too.” 

Efforts to get De-Necker to 

elaborate on his claims were 

fruitless last night. He is a 

former MDC councillor in 

the Matabeleland South capital. 

The government last year 

vowed to press ahead with 

controversial plans to ban 

foreigners from owning bakeries, 

barber shops, estate 

agencies and a host of other 

businesses. 

Foreigners were given a 

January 2014 deadline to 

comply with the regulations 

put in place in 2010. 

Last month NIEEB temporarily 

closed down popular 

Golden Fast Food outlets in 

Bulawayo claiming it did not 

comply with the controversial 

law. 

However, the owner of the 

business, Paul Evans said 

he was an indigenous Zimbabwean 

who should not 

be subjected to the requirements 

of that law. 

President Robert Mugabe 

recently indicated that the 

government was willing to 

relax the Indigenisation regulations.


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Coltart warns Govt over teachers 

Teachers are the most important facet of the 

education sector and government should be 

able to look into their concerns 

By Edgar gwEshE 

Former education 

minister, David Coltart 

says government 

should treat the issue 

of teachers’ salaries as 

a matter of urgency or risk plunging 

the education sector into turmoil. 

In an interview, Coltart said 

that government’s failure to address 

the issue of teachers’ salaries 

and working conditions was 

killing morale among the teaching 

staff. 

He warned that the situation 

could get out of control if government 

did not take steps to address 

teachers’ concerns. 

“If you have committed teachers, 

then you have a strong education 

system. Teachers make 

the difference and if we do not 

address teachers’ concerns then 

the education sector will be under 

threat,” said Coltart. 

“Teachers are the most important 

facet of any education sector 

and government should be able to 

look into their concerns.” 

The Progressive Teachers Union 

of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has 

since sought audience with President 

robert mugabe following 

government’s failure to improve 

their salaries and working conditions. 

The PTUZ has also hinted on 

embarking on a job action in the 

event that their concerns are not 

addressed. The union also took a 

swipe at education minister, Lazarus 

Dokora for failing teachers 

and bringing disastrous policies 

to the education sector. 

Salaries for Zimbabwean teachers 

are below the country’s Poverty 

Datum Line (PDL) which is currently 

pegged at around US$560. 

Neighbouring countries such 

as Botswana have since offered lucrative 

salaries for Zimbabwean 

teachers willing to work in their 

country, a development that could 

lead to further brain drain in the 

education sector. 

Said Coltart: “I am concerned 

about the declining morale among 

teachers in the country. It has to 

be noted that before we talk of the 

success of the education sector, 

we have to make sure that teachers’ 

concerns are addressed but 

the current situation is very worrisome 

and poses a major threat.” 

The former education minister 

was not convinced government 

would be able to carry forward 

with programmes introduced during 

his tenure that were meant to 

improve the education sector. 

“We identified that teachers’ 

conditions of service were poor 

and morale was very low. I secured 

US$23 million from the Global education 

Project for teacher retraining 

which was meant to be 

implemented starting this year,” 

he said. 

“one of the goals that we had set 

was a review of the curriculum 

but I do not see much on the curriculum 

review programme and I remain 

concerned about the declining 

morale among teachers.” 

Former Education minister David Coltart 

‘Land baron’ Mabamba 

nearly beaten up 

Frederick Mabamba at the house he wanted to renovate in Zengeza last week 

By Edgar gwEshE 

FIreD Zanu (PF) Chitungwiza 

councillor for Ward 

25 and alleged land baron, 

Frederick mabamba has been 

sucked in a house ownership 

wrangle in the town. 

He was mobbed and nearly beaten 

up last week by angry Zengeza 

residents who accused him of using 

unorthodox means to snatch a 

housing stand in the suburb. 

The property belonged to the late 

Algina Biri whose children were 

evicted after her death in 2005. 

mabamba’s confrontation with 

the residents came after he visited 

the contested property to inspect 

renovation work currently taking 

place there. 

He had brought building material 

with him, a development 

that led residents to suspect that 

he was behind plans to snatch the 

house from its former owner. 

Angry residents reportedly demanded 

an explanation from mabamba 

and started hurling insults 

at him before ordering him 

to leave. 

mabamba reportedly left in a 

huff and was ordered to carry his 

building material with him. 

“He was lucky that some elderly 

people restrained the youths 

who wanted to attack him. They 

blamed him for being insensitive 

to the plight of the poor residents,” 

said an eye witness. 

mabamba was fired by Local Government 

minister Ignatious Chombo 

last week, over allegations of 

corruptly acquiring vast tracts of 

land in the dormitory town and illegally 

allocating them to residents. 

He denied the allegations. 

Contacted for comment, mabamba 

refuted allegations that 

he had an interest in the house, 

saying he had merely been contracted 

to renovate the house by 

the owners. 

“If you look at council papers, you 

will not find my name there so how 

can people claim that I have an interest 

in that property? I do not have 

any interest in that house and I only 

went there with the building material 

just because I was given a contract 

by the owner and I was only 

fulfilling that contract,” he said. 

He however would not reveal 

the owners of the house who contracted 

him. 

Biri’s son, Damuson Phiri alleges 

in papers filed with the Chitungwiza 

magistrate Court that 

one rudo Kodobola got ownership 

of the house after she fraudulently 

obtained a default judgement 

against his late mother. 

“Kodobola applied for an order 

to compel transfer of ownership 

of Stand No. 654/34 Gokoro road, 

Zengeza 1 against my deceased 

mother under the pretext that 

she bought the same from my late 

mother sometime in 2001,” reads 

Phiri’s application. 

“The said Kodobola then served 

the above mentioned application 

on No. 327 Unit G Seke, Chitungwiza 

when my mother neither 

stayed there nor was the property 

in question situated there. Furthermore, 

the said application was 

made in 2007 when my mother had 

died in 2005 hence naturally my 

late mother defaulted and a default 

judgement was entered against 

her on october 6 2007.” 

Kodobola is alleged to have sold 

the house to one Tarisai mandizvidza 

sometime in 2008. 

Phiri said in an interview that 

since mandizvidza took over ownership 

of the house, her tenants 

have been occupying the place.

Local News 


‘Electoral legislation will 

consolidate Zanu PF rule’ 

By Moses Mugugunyeki 

Fast-tracking of the Electoral 

Amendment Bill is 

an attempt by Zanu PF to 

imbed undemocratic tenets, 

ahead of the next elections in 

2018, analysts have said. 

They said if President Robert 

Mugabe was indeed serious about 

having democracy in the country, 

he should not assent to the Bill 

which now awaits his signature before 

it becomes law. 

Parliament recently passed the 

Electoral Amendment Bill without 

taking into consideration the input 

from the public and key stakeholders 

as provided in Section 41 

(a) and (b) of the constitution and 

Orders No. 159 and No. 160 of Parliament’s 

Standing Rules. 

MDC-T’s resistance in Parliament 

failed to stop Zanu PF from 

pushing the Electoral Amendment 

Bill. 

Analysts warned that the Bill 

could prove to be a weapon for 

Zanu PF to thwart opposition in 

future elections. 

Political analyst Ernest Mudzengi 

said Mugabe wants to consolidate 

his grip on the country 

through new autocratic laws calculated 

to keep him in power. 

“The basic tenet of any democratic 

process is consultation. 

There should be wide consultation 

with ordinary citizens, stakeholders 

and civil society before coming 

up with such a Bill,” Mudzengi 

said. 

“This law does not promote 

transparency in the conduct of 

elections and it will benefit Zanu 

PF only.” 

The Jessie Majome-led parliamentary 

committee gathered public 

views countrywide before the 

Electoral Amendment Bill was tabled 

before Parliament. However, 

Zanu PF legislators who are the 

majority in the August House ignored 

the critical views from the 

public and key stakeholders. 

Majome said the general sentiments 

from the public were that 

they wanted a piece of legislation 

that promotes free and fair elections. 

“From the public gatherings we 

had, most people wanted an Electoral 

Act that guarantees fair and 

free elections. They also wanted to 

have any election body that is independent 

and have access to the voters’ 

roll,” said Majome. 

She said Zimbabweans squandered 

any opportunity to align the 

Electoral Act to the new constitution. 

“Christmas comes once in a 

year and this was the only opportunity 

that we had to align this law 

to the new constitution.” 

The Zimbabwe Election Support 

Network (ZESN) also raised concern 

over the manner in which the 

Bill was stampeded, saying it was 

“against the spirit of democratic 

policy making processes”. 

“None of the written and oral 

submissions that ZESN and other 

civil society organisations made 

were considered,” said ZESN National 

Director Rindai Chipfunde- 

Vava. 

She said Parliament should respect 

and promote the spirit of the 

new constitution. 

“ZESN would have hoped that 

the alignment of the electoral 

law to the new constitution would 

have exhausted problematic electoral 

issues past and present that 

have been raised by stakeholders 

throughout the years.” 

Dzimbabwe Chimbga of the Zimbabwe 

Lawyers for Human Rights 

(ZLHR) said the the electoral law 

left a lot to be desired. 

“There were no amendments 

that were done to the electoral law 

to align it with the new constitution. 

Ignoring people’s views as 

provided in Section 141 (a) and (b) 

will only promote cosmetic law reform 

that will perpetuate the occurrence 

of elections that will continue 

to be contested in the country,” 

he said. 

However, Chimbga feels Mugabe 

might be compelled not to assent 

the Bill like he did with the Non- 

Governmental Organisations 

(NGO) Bill. He said this could be 

done through engagement and advocacy. 

“President Mugabe might consider 

not signing the Bill into law, 

just like he did with the NGO Bill,” 

said Chimbga. “Individuals who 

feel affected can also engage with 

the President over the issue and 

this might put him under pressure 

not to sign the Bill.” 

ZESN expressed concern over 

the provision of the new electoral 

law which does not give ZEC the 

full responsibility of the voter’s 

registration and maintenance of 

the voters’ roll. 

Zanu PF’s multi-pronged strategy 

was to silence dissent includes 

restricting diaspora voters and limiting 

access to voter education for 

the visually impaired and the deaf. 

Jessie Majome... She led a Parliamentary committee to gather public views before the 

Electoral Amendment Bill was tabled before Parliament 

President Robert Mugabe signed Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Bill into law in May last year while former Prime Minister Morgan 

Tsvangirai looked on. (File picture) 

Gorden Moyo returns to work 

Gorden Moyo 

By ouR sTAFF 

MDC-T’s Bulawayo provincial 

chairperson Gorden Moyo 

will return to work this week after 

a sabbatical amid revelations 

he could leave the crisis ridden 

party by Friday. 

Moyo took a sabbatical in mid- 

March at about the same time festering 

divisions in the MDC-T over 

party leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s 

continued leadership were 

reaching boiling point. 

The Makokoba MP has been 

accused of trying to avoid openly 

backing Tsvangirai and being 

linked to Tendai Biti’s renewal 

faction. 

However, Tsvangirai foiled 

an attempt by Bulawayo province 

to oust Moyo during his absence. 

Insiders yesterday said Moyo 

was frustrated by the MDC-T 

infighting to the extent that he 

was on the verge of quitting politics. 

The sources also revealed that 

the problems dogging MDC- 

T’s Bulawayo province were far 

from over. 

The widening divisions were 

more pronounced yesterday 

when organising secretary Albert 

Mhlanga chaired a meeting 

to announce Moyo’s return while 

MDC-T deputy president Thokozani 

Khupe summoned Bulawayo 

based legislators to her 

homestead in Bubi district. 

Acting provincial chairperson 

Dorcas Sibanda, a staunch 

Khupe ally, did not attend the 

meeting as she was in Bubi. 

Mhlanga was with his deputy 

Tshepiso Ngwenya who is 

tipped to take over as organising 

secretary as Mhlanga is 

likely to take over from Moyo if 

he steps down either on Thursday 

or Friday. 

“Moyo is coming back on 

Thursday or Friday to address 

all the issues that were being 

raised during his absence,” the 

source said. “He is likely to make 

a big announcement that will 

shake the MDC-T. 

“Moyo is basically fed up with 

the circus in the MDC-T and has 

been working on an exit strategy. 

“He is not joining Biti’s Renewal 

Team as has been speculated.” 

The source said Mhlanga tried 

not to pre-empt Moyo’s announcement 

as he only told executive 

members that their questions 

would be answered either soon. 

Both Moyo and Mhlanga were 

not reachable for comment yesterday. 

Acting MDC-T spokesperson 

Swithern Chirowodza, who was 

told to stop commenting on party 

issues by Sibanda last week, 

confirmed there was a meeting 

yesterday but said it an internal 

one. 

He refused to comment on the 

issues that were discussed. 

Jostling for Moyo’s seat has already 

started with Mhlanga seen 

as the front runner. 

Khupe, who could not be 

reached for comment is reportedly 

pushing for Bulawayo deputy 

mayor Gift Banda. 

Banda was reportedly at the 

MDC-T offices yesterday but it 

was not clear if he had attended 

the meeting. 

Mhlanga and Khupe are said 

to be battling for the control of 

the province.

6 The StandardJune 8 to 14 2014 

News 

Apostolic 

women 

cowed by 

doctrine 

The issue has been 

politicised with people 

debating whether Ndanga’s 

council has the mandate to 

handle such matters as 

abuse of women and 

children 

Vapostori attack police at their shrine in Budiriro 2 in Harare. (file picture) 

PHYLLIS MBANJE AND MOSES MATENGA 

FEMALE members of the Johanne 

Masowe yeChishanu led 

by one Madzibaba Ishmael Mufani 

clap their hands, go through 

the motions and they can even 

produce award-winning drama on genderbased 

violence. But deep inside they keep 

frightening secrets. 

The placid expressions on their faces 

hide their harrowing tales and years of silent 

suffering that have helped in creating 

their own prison. The smiles on their faces 

are not a true reflection of their lives. For 

years they have been told that a woman’s 

place is behind her male counterpart and 

that even the Bible supports this stance. 

Their husbands carry out virginity tests 

on their daughters by inserting their fingers 

into the innocent girls’ private parts. 

But the women have remained silent. Their 

fear of violence or being ostracised by 

the only community they know consumes 

them so much that any outsider who makes 

attempts to “liberate” them is branded the 

devil’s advocate. 

They are “happy” in their sad and sorry 

existence and allow themselves to be dominated 

by the doctrine of their church. Any 

woman who wants to question the dictates 

of the church is said to be filled with the 

vile spirit of the “dark one” and should be 

exorcised before she contaminates others. 

“Contrary to what people think, these 

people are very intelligent and when we 

hold awareness meetings with them, they 

participate and actually condone human 

ACCZ president Johannes Ndanga 

rights abuse perpetrated against them — 

but behind closed doors the girl child suffers,” 

said the director of Women Action 

Group (WAG), Edna Masiyiwa. 

Masiyiwa said the female apostolic members 

have guarded their secrets so much 

that despite the numerous meetings highlighting 

issues like domestic violence and 

children’s rights, they still manage to hide 

the atrocious deeds away from the public 

glare. 

The sordid happenings in the church 

were however brought into the public domain 

two weeks ago when some of the 

members beat up anti-riot police at a 

shrine in Budiriro 2. 

Over 30 members of the sect have since 

appeared in court facing assault charges 

after the incident and are currently in police 

custody. 

The actual reasons for the banning of the 

Madzibaba Ishmael church may however, 

sadly be overshadowed by the drama surrounding 

the bashing of police in anti-riot 

gear by sect-members armed with sticks. 

The issue of the wanton abuse of women 

and children appears to have paled in the 

shadow of this drama. 

“Sadly, as police seek their revenge and 

as people cheer Madzibaba on, the real issues 

will be lost,” said one social media 

commentator. 

No police report has been made on the 

matter of abuse and yet children were allegedly 

being denied their right to education 

and health by the church. The sect 

leaders demanded that women who were 

not virgins when they got married compensate 

their husbands by finding virgin girls 

for them. 

“The multi-sectoral meeting we had with 

the police, Musasa Project [an NGO focused 

on gender equality] and the ministries of 

Primary and Secondary Education and 

Sport, Arts and Culture last Wednesday, resolved 

that the church be banned without 

delay as more than 400 children were not 

going to school because of the rules of the 

cult,” Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe 

(ACCZ) president Johannes Ndanga 

said. 

Givemore Mahara, a social commentator 

said of the ongoing debate: “The debate 

has ceased to be about the rights of the 

children and women now. It has become 

politicised with people debating whether 

Ndanga’s council is fit to handle such matters 

or whether the police were supposed to 

be involved.” 

“In the process, fundamental issues will 

be lost but the bottom line is that although 

there is freedom of worship, it should not 

infringe on other freedoms like health, education 

and others,” Mahara said. 

Gunmen take students 

hostage at Iraq university 

South Africa President Jacob Zuma 

Zuma in hospital 

SOuTH Africa’s President 

Jacob Zuma was admitted 

to hospital for tests yesterday, 

the presidency said. 

“Yesterday President 

Zuma was advised to rest 

following a demanding 

election and transition 

programme to the new administration,” 

his spokesman 

Mac Maharaj said in a 

statement. 

“Doctors are satisfied 

with his condition.” 

Zuma was on Friday also 

ordered by the ANC’s national 

executive committee 

(NEC) to take a break from 

his duty. 

The party would not say 

how long his break would 

last. —Sapa 

GuNMEN occupied a university 

in Iraq’s western 

province of Anbar yesterday, 

taking hundreds of students 

and their professors 

hostage on campus, security 

sources said. 

After fighting their way 

past guards overnight, the 

gunmen broke into Anbar 

university in the provincial 

capital Ramadi, parts 

of which have been held 

by anti-government tribal 

groups and insurgents 

since the start of the year. 

The attack on the university 

is the third brazen 

offensive in as many days 

by militants who have regained 

ground and momentum 

in Iraq over the past 

year and this week overran 

districts in two other cities. 

Security forces surrounded 

the university in Ramadi 

yesterday and exchanged 

fire with the militants, who 

had planted bombs behind 

them and were patrolling 

the rooftops with sniper rifles. 

Sources in Ramadi hospital 

said they had received 

the bodies of two people, 

one of them a student and 

the other a policeman. 

A professor trapped inside 

the physics department 

said some staff who 

live outside Ramadi had 

been spending the night at 

the university because it 

was the exam period. 

“We heard intense gunfire 

at about 4am. We 

thought it was the security 

forces coming to protect 

us but were surprised to 

see they were gunmen,” he 

told Reuters via telephone. 

“They forced us to go inside 

the rooms and now we cannot 

leave”. 

He was later able to escape 

along with 15 colleagues 

and pupils. “I 

brought some of my students’ 

exam papers in a nylon 

bag and, wearing my tie 

and suit, jumped the fence 

and am outside now,” he 

said. 

The identity of the assailants 

was not clear, but Ramadi 

is one of two cities in 

Anbar that were overrun at 

the start of the year by tribal 

and Sunni insurgents, including 

the Islamic State in 

Iraq and the Levant (Isil). 

Security forces control 

central Ramadi, where the 

city council and other government 

offices are located, 

but the suburbs and 

outlying areas have shifted 

back and forth between of 

hit and run attacks by militants. 

—Reuters

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Female prisoners’ dignity restored 

BY OUR STAFF 

Police abuse 

us: Sex workers 

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT 

SEX workers in Bulawayo have accused police 

officers of physical and verbal abuse 

upon arrest. 

Speaking at an Abammeli Lawyers for 

Human Rights workshop in the city on 

Friday, sex workers accused the police of 

insulting them and asking for sexual favours, 

as well as forcing them to do various 

chores at the police station while in 

custody. 

“Some members of the police usually 

ask for sex whilst holding us in the cells. 

If we refuse to sleep with them they verbally 

attack us by calling us names such as 

whores or prostitutes,” said a sex worker 

who only identified herself as Maziat. 

The Constitution states that any arrested 

person must be treated humanely with 

respect for their inherent dignity. 

Another participant, identified as Karen, 

said they were made to clean police 

holding cells and other infrastructure at 

the police stations where they would be 

held. 

The programmes coordinator of Abammeli, 

Tineyi Mukwewa said the actions of 

the police were not in tandem with the Bill 

of Rights, especially the provisions that 

speak about the right to human dignity. 

“Sex workers have rights and the police 

need to treat them as humanely as possible. 

They should not be degraded by any 

person or authority,” said Mukwewa. 

The act of selling or buying sex is not 

criminalised in Zimbabwe but the police 

have a tendency of carrying out various 

sting operations against women patronising 

bars and night clubs as well as those walking 

the streets at night accusing them of contravening 

Section 8 of the Criminal Law (Codification 

and Reform Law) Act, Chapter 9:23 

(loitering for the purpose of prostitution). 

LAST week’s landmark Supreme 

Court ruling compelling authorities 

to allow female prisoners to 

keep their undergarments upon incarceration 

will help restore some dignity 

to women inmates whose rights were being 

violated by being denied basic necessities. 

The ruling was a result of efforts by the 

pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise 

(Woza) since 2011. 

While detained at Harare Central remand 

prison, some female members of 

Woza came face-to-face with the grim reality 

of prison life which they later described 

as inhumane and degrading. 

Not only were they stripped of their undergarments, 

but they were also made to 

walk on top of human excreta as there were 

no ablution facilities for them to use. 

“We ended up smuggling in plastic papers 

that we used as shoes because people 

were just doing their toilet business everywhere 

because there were no toilets,” said 

Jenni Williams, co-director of Woza. 

The experience haunted the women long 

after they had left the prison cells. 

“It was horrible. All of us were crammed 

in a single cell which was not only filthy, but 

had a hole overflowing with faecal matter. 

People ended up just squatting and relieving 

themselves anywhere in the room,” she said. 

What was most degrading was that all of 

them did not have any undergarments, including 

those who were menstruating. 

Horrified by the conditions, Woza leaders 

petitioned the court through the Zimbabwe 

Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) demanding 

that government ensure that the 

holding cells met basic hygienic conditions. 

“The flushing toilets should be cordoned 

off from the main cell to ensure privacy. 

The holding cells at Harare Central Police 

Station should be cleaned daily with soap 

and detergents, and a good standard of hygiene 

should be maintained in the police 

holding cells,” reads the application. 

Following the rulings authorities are now 

required to provide clean water, mattresses, 

blankets and toilet paper to detainees at Harare 

Central prison. The women are also to 

keep their undergarments, a move which 

will restore one’s dignity. 

“We are pleased with the ruling because 

we did it for the ordinary woman on the 

streets and justice has been served,” said 

Williams. 

She however said the only challenge was 

that women now needed to stand up and 

point out to the police that there is now a 

provision that protects them. 

Zimbabwean women, like most women in 

developing countries, are largely docile and 

because of societal expectations and limited 

access to resources, will not speak out or 

stand up to authority, especially men. 

Countrywide the situation is basically 

the same and in 2005 Supreme Court Chief 

Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku ruled that police 

cells at Matapi and Highlands police 

stations were “degrading and inhumane 

and unfit for holding criminal suspects.” 

Because of their biological nature, women 

are hardest hit when they are placed under 

conditions that do not have basic hygienic 

necessities including sanitary wear. 

There have been several calls for the government 

to supply female prisoners with sanitary 

wear which is currently a scarce commodity 

at prisons and yet the market is flooded with 

cheaper versions which cost no more than a 

dollar. 

Last year a report released by Research 

and Advocacy Unit (RAU) and Zimbabwe 

Women Lawyers’ Association revealed that 

female prisoners continued to recycle sanitary 

wear and slept on dirty, lice-infested 

For the past 22 years, the Zimbabwe Women 

Lawyers Association has always noted with 

disturbing concern that there is violence and the 

abuse of the rights of women and children within the 

“sects” of the “Vapostori” church. Whilst the 

allegations would for the most years go unreported 

and have in most circumstances seemed hard to 

investigate from the position of an NGO, it is 

disturbing to note that indeed the allegations are true. 

The allegations of violence and abuse of women and 

children's rights having been there for decades where 

confirmed by recent events which saw “more than six 

riot police officers, journalists and members of the 

Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) 

seriously injured after rowdy members of an apostolic 

sect attacked them with knobkerries and stones in 

Harare's Budiriro suburb” as reported by The Herald 

of 3 June 2014. The reported incident is said to have 

happened after “ACCZ executive president 

Archbishop Johannes Ndanga announced that the 

church led by Madzibaba Ishemael Mufani had been 

banned from operating in Zimbabwe because it was 

violating the country's laws and that of Christianity by 

denying over 400 children of school going age access 

to education, severe abuse of church congregants 

and their families or relatives”. It is now further 

reported that the members of the apostolic sect 

arrested have no identity documents which also 

means that their children might not have identity 

documents. 

It is important for every Zimbabwean to know that 

there is no church or religion above the provisions of 

the Constitution of Zimbabwe. The Constitution 

shuns any violence against all Zimbabwean citizens 

including women stating in section 52 that every 

person has the right to freedom from all forms of 

violence both in public and private sectors. Further, all 

the rights in the Constitution are also children's rights 

as such children have a right to education regardless 

Defending Women Defending Rights 

With support from 

Jenni Williams 

linen stained with blood and urine. 

There are also reports that the prisoners 

use old newspapers or tissues as sanitary 

wear, a situation which can expose them to 

infections of the womb. 

ON VIOLENCE AND THE ABUSE 

OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN WITHIN 

THE “VAPOSTORI SECT” ZWLA'S PRESS STATEMENT 

of the religious inclinations of their parents, they have 

the right to human dignity, to personal security and to 

privacy which includes the right not to have their 

bodies abused by testing their virginity. Children have 

the right not to be married or given into marriage, 

forcefully or willingly until they are 18 years of age. 

The Constitution particularly protects children in 

section 81 stating that children have the right to be 

provided a birth certificate, to be protected from 

maltreatment and abuse, to health, shelter and 

nutrition. The Constitution by giving children the right 

to family and parental care mandates the parent to 

ensure that every child enjoys his/her Constitutional 

rights. If the parent is incapable of protecting the child 

or is responsible for the abuse of the child's right on 

the basis of religion or otherwise, the parent is guilty 

of violating the child's right and must be investigated 

This will ensure that prosecutions are done because 

the child is entitled to adequate protection by the 

Courts in particular the High Court which is the upper 

guardian of the child. ZWLA therefore recommends 

the following: 

The state should take its role of protecting 

the rights of women and children and 

initiate an investigation of various actions of 

religious sects with the view to prosecuting 

those who are abusing women and 

children's rights 

We also urge the public to appreciate the 

gravity of the offences which might be 

detrimental to the development of the girl 

child and subsequent development of the 

nation. 

We also call upon all heads of Christian 

denominations to ensure that doctrines in 

their various denominations are subject to 

the rule of law and the provisions of the 

Constitution. 

For 24 hour response to Gender Based Violence, call ZWLA hotlines on 0782 900 900 and 0776 736 873


News 

Nathan Shamuyarira: A rare 

By Tangai Chipangura 

DepuTy eDiTor 

NathaN Shamuyarira, 

a well-respected 

— but 

equally loathed in 

some societal sections 

of Zimbabwe — Zanu PF 

political guru who died last 

Wednesday in harare, belonged 

to a very small and rare crop of 

politicians that has managed 

to live a clean and uncorrupted 

public life. 

Quiet and reserved as he was, 

his private life remained away 

from the media lenses, making 

it unavailable for scrutiny 

therefore. 

apart from his own few political 

“moments of madness” 

where his mouth may have run 

ahead of natural logic by recklessly 

saying there was no need 

to apologise for the Gukurahundi 

massacres, Shamuyarira 

managed to steer clear of controversy 

and political infamy 

all the 85 years of his life. 

he belonged to that rare crop 

of african politicians who 

strived to live exemplary public 

lives where, like the few of his 

moral peers like Maurice Nyagumbo, 

who found the slightest 

public besmirching of reputation 

and integrity was so 

shameful it was better to die. 

Nyagumbo took poison to end 

his life after he was implicated 

in the infamous Willogate scandal 

involving taking bribes to 

facilitate the acquisition of vehicles. 

Much later in 2001, then 

Education minister Edmund 

The late Nathan Shamuyarira 

Garwe resigned from his post 

and later also committed suicide 

after his child was implicated 

in an examination leakage 

scam. 

But, up till his death, Shamuyarira, 

who held several cabinet 

posts which he could have 

easily abused to get rich quick, 

was satisfied with the modest 

A man holds a placard at the burial of the late Nathan Shamuyarira at the National Heroes Acre yesterday 

life that he lived and managed 

to maintain a squeaky clean 

personality up to his grave. 

a good number of his peers 

from the independence war 

obituary 

era, who got into government 

as ministers along with him — 

are still in office one and a half 

decades after Shamuyarira realised 

the sense in calling it 

quits — have come to be known 

more for the filthy wealth they 

have corruptly amassed and 

their contribution to the death 

of the national economy, than 

anything else. 

his contribution to Zimbabwe 

during his tenure as minister 

can be testified by journalists 

that were around when he 

held the Information portfolio 

and also by the diplomatic position 

Zimbabwe sat on the international 

map during his time as 

Foreign affairs minister. 

authors Robert Cary Robert 

Cary and Diana Mitchell wrote 

quite illustratively about the 

late Shamuyarira in their Who’s 

Who book of biographies: African 

Nationalists Leaders in Rhodesia. 

Below are edited excerpts 

from the lengthy biography. 

• Nathan Shamuyarira was 

born in 1929, the son of an evangelist 

in the Methodist Church. 

• For eight years, he attended 

Waddilove Institute 

and qualified there as a primary 

school teacher. after leaving 

Waddilove he taught at various 

local schools, using his spare 

time to complete his secondary 

education by correspondence. 

• he then taught for a time 

at tegwani Secondary School 

near Plumtree. From 1950 until 

early 1953 he taught animal 

husbandry at Domboshawa. arriving 

in Salisbury on May 5 

1953 he obtained a job as a cub 

reporter with african Newspapers 

Ltd. he rose steadily in the 

company, becoming the first editor 

of the african Daily News 

in 1956. From July 1959 until 

September 1962 he was Editorin-Chief 

of african Newspapers 

Ltd, a post from which he 

resigned over various policy issues. 

In 1953 he joined the Inter- 

Racial association where his

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political crop, end of an era 

A youthful Shamuyarira. He was buried at the National Shrine yesterday 

sense of humour and balanced 

attitude towards the problems 

of a mixed society made a deep 

impression on the white members. 

• In 1956, in his capacity as 

a reporter, he attended the Capricorn 

Africa Society convention 

at Salima, Nyasaland (now 

Malawi). As a bright and personable 

journalist, opportunities 

to travel came his way on 

several occasions. In January 

1959 he was invited to take part 

in a six-week tour of Britain as 

a member of a group of Commonwealth 

journalists. In September 

of the following year he 

left Salisbury on a three-month 

tour of the United States. 

• In 1962 he was persuaded 

by Dr Tichafa Stephen Parirenyatwa 

to join Zapu which was at 

that time making a determined 

effort to recruit intellectual Africans 

into its ranks. Shamuyarira’s 

action was symptomatic 

of the mood of that era — the 

rus h to independence throughout 

Africa, coupled with the 

clearly impending demise of 

the Central African Federation, 

was making the inter-racial attempts 

of the 1950s seem outmoded 

and futile. 

In September 1962 Zapu was 

banned and Shamuyarira’s 

house was searched by the police. 

In the following month (although 

not an office-bearer in 

the movement) he was chosen 

by Joshua Nkomo to accompany 

him when he travelled to New 

York to appear as a petitioner 

before the United Nations. 

On his return to Southern 

Rhodesia Shamuyarira was given 

an appointment as Lecturer 

in Adult Education at the University 

College of Rhodesia and 

Nyasaland in Salisbury. During 

the months after his return 

from New York he had been 

steadily becoming more critical 

of the leadership of Joshua 

Nkomo and in July 1963 he 

joined forces with those who 

“denounced” him at the meeting 

of the executive in Dar-es- 

Salaam. 

He joined the break-away party, 

Zanu, on its foundation in 

August 1963 . . .Despite his academic 

duties, however, he maintained 

a close involvement in 

nationalist politics, being appointed 

Zanu Secretary for External 

Affairs in 1968. Two 

years later he was consulted 

by James Dambaza Chikerema 

on the chances of unifying the 

Zanu and Zapu elements in Lusaka 

within a single body. 

Shamuyarira welcomed this 

move and when Frolizi was 

formed, late in 1971, he became 

its Treasurer. This necessitated 

his resignation from the University 

of Dar-es-Salaam. In 

1973 Shamuyarira became dissatisfied 

with the way Frolizi 

was being run — in particular 

with the methods of Herbert 

Chitepo “who was not as democratic 

as I would have wished”. 

In mid-1973 he resigned as 

Treasurer and resumed his former 

post with the University of 

Dar-es-Salaam. Shamuyarira 

still supported the ideal of unity 

under the banner of an enlarged 

ANC. As a full-time academic 

he could not undertake 

a great deal of active work for 

the movement but his commitment 

to the “liberation of Zimbabwe” 

remained as strong as 

ever. 

Shamuyarira was very conscious 

of the fact that his involvement 

in the nationalist 

cause hampered his progress 

in an academic career. On the 

other hand, he felt that his experiences 

in East Africa gave 

him a close insight into the 

best way of “transforming a 

colonial society into a socialist 

one”. At the same time he was 

not dogmatic on the question 

of what kind of government 

should be introduced into Rhodesia. 

“There should be a referendum,” 

he said — but his own 

beliefs lay in the direction of 

a synthesis of the best of both 

capitalism and socialism. 

He was married to Dorothy 

Mandimika, a nursing sister 

who came originally from Mutare. 

There are no children from 

the marriage. 

US envoy urges 

Kabila to step aside 

Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila 

Kinshasa — The top US 

envoy to Africa’s Great 

Lakes region has called for 

Democratic Republic of Congo 

President Joseph Kabila to 

respect a constitutional term 

limit and step aside when the 

country organises polls in 

2016. 

Several African leaders 

have sought to extend their 

rule by amending their constitutions, 

and speculation is 

growing that Kabila may seek 

a third term despite a twoterm 

limit stipulated in Article 

220 of Congo’s national 

charter. 

The president, who came to 

power after the 2003 murder 

of his father President Laurent 

Kabila and won his first 

elected term in a 2006 election, 

has not revealed his intentions. 

Government officials 

deny he plans to alter the constitution. 

“Our strong advice is that 

there is a global election calendar 

with the presidential 

elections no later than the end 

of 2016, and [that there should 

be] no attempt to disregard 

the unamendable stipulation 

of article 220,” US special envoy 

Russ Feingold told a news 

conference in the capital Kinshasa. 

His comments echoed those 

of US Secretary of State John 

Kerry during a visit to Congo 

last month and came at the 

end of a regional tour with 

special envoys from the European 

Union, African Union 

and the United Nations. 

Last month Congo’s elections 

commission published 

details of local, municipal 

and urban elections which are 

due to take place in the second 

half of 2015, but a programme 

for a presidential vote is still 

pending. 

“The local elections are expensive 

but are not required 

by the constitution,” said 

Feingold. “Organising and financing 

these, but not the 

[presidential] elections, which 

are required by the constitution, 

is not a believable approach.” 

Feingold said holding elections 

was crucial for the continued 

development of Congo, 

a vast and disordered Central 

African nation where millions 

have been killed in various 

internal wars since the late 

1990s, but has seen strong 

growth in recent years, particularly 

in its mining sector. 

Kabila’s win in the 2011 presidential 

election came under 

heavy criticism following reports 

of ballot-stuffing and violent 

intimidation of political 

opponents. 

During his visit last month, 

Kerry pledged US$30 million 

in US aid to support elections 

as well as to finance recovery 

and reconstruction programs 

in Congo’s conflict-ridden east. 

But a US official said Washington 

reserved the right to withhold 

funds if the elections process 

was not transparent and 

credible. —Reuters 

Americans split on prisoner 

swap of Taliban for US soldier 

Washington — 

Americans are 

deeply divided over 

whether the Obama administration 

did the 

right thing by swapping 

five Taliban leaders 

to win the freedom 

of Afghanistan prisoner 

of war Bowe Bergdahl, 

according to a recent 

survey. 

Americans strongly 

agree the United States 

should make every effort 

to free prisoners 

of war like Bergdahl, 

an Army Sergeant who 

was captured in eastern 

Afghanistan in 2009. 

But they also think the 

prisoner swap deal set 

a dangerous precedent. 

The poll of 958 Americans 

interviewed online 

found that 44 percent 

disagreed with 

the statement that trading 

Taliban prisoners 

for Bergdahl was “the 

right thing to do,” with 

26% of them strongly 

disagreeing. 

Twenty-nine percent 

of those polled said 

they thought the prisoner 

swap was the right 

thing to do and 27% 

said they were not sure, 

the poll found. 

Bergdahl was handed 

over to US special operations 

forces in Afghanistan 

last Saturday after 

the Obama administration 

agreed to send 

five Taliban leaders 

held at Guantanamo 

prison to Qatar, where 

they must remain for a 

year. 

After an initial wave 

of euphoria over the release, 

the deal triggered 

a backlash among U.S. 

lawmakers angry because 

they were not given 

30 days’ notice before 

the transfer of the 

Guantanamo prisoners, 

as required by law. 

Some of Bergdahl’s former 

Army comrades 

said they believe he deserted 

his post. 

White House counsellor 

John Podesta 

told a Christian Science 

Monitor breakfast 

that President Barack 

Obama knew the prisoner 

swap would be a 

“controversial decision.” 

The president said 

he acted quickly because 

he was faced 

with a “delicate situation 

that required no 

publicity” and that he 

had no regrets about 

the action. —Reuters


Comment & Analysis 


Why is Cuthbert 

Dube still at Zifa? 

Since Cuthbert Dube assumed office in 2010, the Warriors 

have failed to go anywhere far in three Africa Cup of Nations 

(Afcon) editions as well as the World Cup. 

A record six coaches have taken charge of the Warriors in 

the past four years! How absurd. 

In Dube, Zimbabwe has a football leader clearly detached 

from the game, running affairs of Zifa from his home. 

In football, a leader has to be always on the ground to witness 

events firsthand and appreciate situations whether 

good or bad. That certainly cannot be said about Dube who 

does not attend matches that are played less than 10km away 

from his home. 

Dube was absent at the National Sports Stadium last week 

when the Warriors drew 2-2 with Tanzania to gracelessly fall 

out of the bid for Morocco 2015. He has not attended most 

football matches played in the past four years. 

But surprisingly, he had the energy to traverse the length 

and breadth of Zimbabwe during his campaign seeking reelection. 

He visited most of the country’s provinces to convince 

councillors that he is the Messiah of Zimbabwean football. 

The gullible councillors bought it and voted him for another 

term that has started with this national disaster: bowing 

out of the 2015 Afcon qualifier at the first hurdle. 

It appears all that mattered to Dube was retaining the Zifa 

presidency. While Zimbabwe is mourning failure to qualify 

for Afcon, Dube has suddenly found energy to travel to Brazil 

for this week’s 64 th Fifa Congress. 

Clearly, Zimbabwe needs a soccer president with football 

brains, not someone who wants to be in office for personal 

aggrandisement. 

Zambia Football Association president, Kalusha Bwalya (in black) was pictured training 

with the squad in US last week. 

Indigenisation 

levy uncalled for 

Utterances by the Minister of Youth, Indigenisation and 

Economic Empowerment, Francis Nhema to the effect 

that the few Zimbabweans that are formally employed, 

may soon have to pay more taxes in the form of an indigenisation 

levy, are frightful. 

The minister later said he was joking; but the mere fact 

that such an idea found its way into his head is worrying. 

Zimbabwean workers are among the most heavily taxed in 

the world and further burdening them with a levy to fund 

indigenisation projects that largely benefit a few politically 

connected individuals would be disastrous. 

Think about the plight of the majority of workers whose 

salaries remain below the poverty datum line. These can 

hardly survive and taking the little income they earn in a 

bid to “empower” other people “to create their own wealth” 

would be senseless. 

We urge Nhema and like-minded ministers to come up with 

concrete and sound policies, otherwise Zimbabwe would 

slide further into a economic cesspit. 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

Rein in rogue apostolic sects 

The exposé of the alleged 

abuse of women and children 

by the Johane Masowe 

weChishanu apostolic sect led by 

one Madzibaba Ishmael Mufani 

in Budiriro 2, is just but a tip of 

the iceberg. Men’s hiding behind 

religion to take advantage of the 

vulnerable children and women 

has been happening for a long 

time, in most cases going unabated. 

That these stick-wielding mapositori 

had the nerve to treat the 

widely feared police to a thorough 

beating, that left a number of people 

seriously injured, just goes to 

show how right these mapositori 

think they are. 

It shows they have been abusing 

women and children for so 

Govt should invest in 

soccer development 

Government should provide 

an enabling environment 

for the stimulation and promotion 

of grassroots soccer development 

in the country. 

Last week’s early elimination 

of the Warriors from the Africa 

Cup of Nations by Tanzania 

should be a wakeup call for the 

government, corporate world and 

the entire football fraternity. Zimbabwean 

football has gone to the 

dogs considering that we allowed 

ourselves to be beaten by a team 

like Tanzania which is regarded 

as minnows in African soccer. 

The new minister of Sports and 

Culture Andrew Langa gave a 

commitment to develop soccer and 

other sports after being sworn in 

as minister last year in September. 

Langa was present at the stadium 

when the circus unfolded and like 

the rest of us, he left the stadium 

with his tail between his legs. His 

press conference which he called a 

day after Zimbabwe kissed goodbye 

to the 2015 Afcon showcase, did 

little to address our football woes. 

What he said after the game 

showed that he is clueless and has 

nothing to offer. Why is it that government 

failed to support the Warriors 

before their trip to Tanzania, 

but sought to sponsor Warriors after 

they had progressed? Where 

was our government when Zifa 

and players clashed over the bonuses 

prior to last week’s debacle? 

We have often witnessed cases 

where government officials claim 

success whenever our sports 

teams or individuals triumph in 

their respective sports. The problem 

with our sports, especially 

soccer, is that our government is 

reluctant to invest in the development 

of the sport. Those in government 

are concerned with staying 

in power and protecting their 

spaces, neglecting the developmental 

aspects of their areas. 

It should be noted that grassroots 

soccer development is a strategic 

policy that should be included 

in programmes and activities 

under Langa’s ministry. Government 

through the Sports and Recreation 

Commission (SRC) and 

Zifa should readily support any 

initiative geared towards soccer 

development because of the high 

premium placed on football. 

long that in their minds, it is normal; 

and that is why they felt police 

or anyone’s interference was 

uncalled for. What is even more 

unfortunate is that the victims 

(women and children) might no 

longer be questioning the abuse 

they are subjected to as it is what 

they have been socialised to believe 

to be the correct order of 

things. It would require a lot of 

therapy to help the victims recover 

from the abuse. 

The truth is that there are 

more apostolic sects operating in 

the very same manner in Zimbabwe. 

Women and children are required 

to take certain roles that 

are meant to turn the men into 

some demi-gods, who use their 

Minister of Sport and Culture Andrew Langa 

Private individuals and corporate 

bodies need to support and 

collaborate with the government 

in the promotion of the growth of 

soccer in the country. 

Zimbabwe is luckily endowed 

wHERE TO 

wRITE TO uS 

Write to us at editor@standard.co.zw or 

to Letters, PO Box BE1165, Belvedere, 

Harare, or SMS to 0772 472 500. 

Letters should be short and to the point. They must carry 

the writer’s name and address, even if a nom de plume is 

used. Letters published in other papers are less likely to 

be used in ours. 

perceived authority to treat women 

and girl children as their subjects, 

to do with as they please. 

If such gross abuse of human 

rights can happen right in 

the capital city, can you imagine 

what the women and children 

that go to similarly operating apostolic 

sects in rural areas (most 

of which are already highly partriachal 

areas) have to contend 

with? I think it is time government 

reined in so-called churches 

that operate on doctrines that 

look to women and girl children 

as sex objects and a source of 

cheap labour. Civil society needs 

to start making as much noise 

about this as possible. 

CM, Mvurwi 

with abundant talent, which if 

properly harnessed, can put us 

on the right pedestal in Africa. 

With government and the corporate 

world’s assistance, Zimbabwe 

can extend her frontiers and 

become a super-power in no time 

in soccer. 

The way our team played last 

week was not inspiring at all and 

showed that we still have a long 

way to go. I don’t see any country 

of repute engaging the Warriors 

for a friendly match, more 

so, I don’t see any European country 

taking on board Zimbabwean 

players. 

Let’s wake up and smell the coffee. 

Soccer fan

Comment & Analysis 


SMS FEEDBACK 

THE Warriors now worry us, especially 

last Sunday’s ouster from 2015 Morocco 

Afcon. Danny Phiri and Willard Katsande 

were the scorers. Where were the 

anchormen and the strikers? We lacked 

concentration after conceding from a 

corner and centre circle. 

Lovemore Kashawo, Harare 

WITH South African Football Association 

(Safa) not renewing the contract of 

Gordon Igesund which ends on August 

30, I think Zifa should seek the services 

of Igesund. He is a good and tactical 

coach. Our wounded Warriors can benefit 

immensely! 

LK, Harare 

SUNDAY View by Walter Mzembi; See 

beyond costumes to appreciate creativity 

(The Standard June 1 to 7, 2014) 

refers. We were celebrating our diversity, 

not our nakedness. Should carnivals 

have age restrictions, as in no under 

21? They had done a good job by 

taking them to Airport Lounge, not to 

the streets. Let us respect our culture 

and costumes. We are not trying to fit in 

some other culture. We are Zimbabweans, 

not Brazilians. 

ANON 

OPINION 

A fish rots from the head 

ZRP needs new blood at the top 

FROM THE 

editor’s desk 

BY WALTER MARWIZI 

Mapostori on the run: Fear grips police 

station was the bold headline of The 

Standard last week. 

A large landscape picture depicting one 

Madzibaba Ishmael Mufani’s troops beating 

up a hapless policeman on the ground completed 

our front page that probably told more than 

a story of the violence with a thousand words. 

In a normal society, one would have expected 

people to express revulsion at the dastardly actions 

of the shadowy Apostolic sect who took 

the law into their own hands and meted instant 

justice as the Apostolic Christian Council 

of Zimbabwe sought to ban their church. 

But feedback sent to the editor showed that 

while readers did not condone the attack on 

journalists,there was no sympathy for the police 

whose crowd control techniques were seriously 

exposed by the rag-tag team of bearded 

mapostori. 

There was consensus that the sect, which 

is accused of violating women and children’s 

rights, among many other unacceptable things 

in this 21 st century, had done a good job when 

they assaulted the police at their shrine in 

Budiriro 2. 

On social networks, people went into overdrive 

as all kinds of puff pieces praising the 

sect emerged. 

For many, it turned out to be a week for rejoicing 

the sect’s exploits. But surely, how 

could that be the case in a society that largely 

shuns organised violence, I wondered. 

Upon reflecting on the numerous comments 

that landed on my desk, I then realised it’s not 

just the kombi drivers that hate the police: 

there is a very strong anti-police sentiment in 

Zimbabwe which, if left unchecked, could lead 

to worse things happening to the police one 

day. 

A police officer runs for dear life as Mapostori bay for 

his blood recently. 

Thirty-four years after independence, Zimbabweans 

hate with a passion the men and 

women donning the grey and blue uniform 

who are supposed to enforce law and order in 

the country. At the top of their hatred appears 

to be Police Commissioner General Augustine 

Chihuri whom they view as a Zanu PF apparatchik. 

By openly declaring his allegiance to Zanu 

PF, the Police Commissioner General is seen 

as partisan and his association with the party 

does little to inspire confidence in the millions 

of Zimbabweans who want to see an impartial 

police force. 

Chihuri did not help matters when he collapsed 

right in front of the Commander in 

Chief of the Armed Forces, President Robert 

Mugabe recently and offered a cock-and-bull 

story about “The right shoe was mixed up with 

the left one. The right shoe is a bit small and it 

is an old shoe so my toes were burning because 

of the tightness of the shoe and there was no 

circulation [of blood] in that leg that caused 

me to be dizzy and then fell down.” 

Hear, hear, oh hear. When a head of a police 

force can’t figure out how to wear his shoes 

properly, is it surprising that everything that 

can possibly go wrong in the ZRP has gone 

haywire? 

Under Chihuri’s watch, corruption and indiscipline 

have grown to gigantic proportions.Police 

brutality is the order of the day, 

with officers not showing any restraint when 

beating up and unjustly detaining critics of 

Zanu PF. 

Remember the injuries they inflicted on former 

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and 

NCA’s Lovemore Madhuku when they held a 

prayer meeting in Highfield in 2007. Remember 

the murder of Batanai Hadzidzi (may his 

soul rest in peace), a University of Zimbabwe 

student on the night of April 8 2001 when police 

sought to put down a demonstration at the 

campus. 

There are uncountable incidences where police 

forcefully broke up peaceful protests by 

students, the labour movement, political parties 

and even by members of Women of Zimbabwe 

Arise dishing out flowers on Valentine’s 

Day. 

Such brutality, which has restricted the democratic 

sphere in Zimbabwe, coupled with corruption, 

has not endeared the force with the 

public. It has bred deep antagonism and anger 

among the general populace to an extent that 

when the apostolic sect bludgeoned police in 

Budiriro, cheers rang out in many places. 

The Budiriro incident is a wake-up call for 

the police. It can’t be business as usual for police 

anymore. The nation is angry and wants 

to see a step change in the way police conduct 

their business. 

And can the stuttering Chihuri accomplish 

this task after presiding over the demise of the 

ZRP over the past years? I doubt it. 

Clearly, it’s time for the police chief to retire 

and to leave this important and challenging 

task to a new Commissioner General who can 

weed out corrupt and unprofessional characters 

in the force. Such action could be the catalyst 

for transforming the ZRP into a law abiding 

organisation that can be respected by the 

nation. 

MAY you, through your paper, educate 

us about the obligations that all apostolic 

churches have towards the Apostolic 

Christian Council of Zimbabwe 

(ACCZ), which bishop Johannes Ndanga 

heads. If joining ACCZ is not compulsory, 

then what’s Ndanga’s role in banning 

a grouping that is not affiliated to his 

organisation? As much as I don’t totally 

disagree with the teachings of some 

of these churches, I strongly believe that 

the state should be monitoring these 

churches. I stand to be corrected. 

ANON 

ON Africa Day (May 25), did Africa take 

a moment to think about the over 200 

missing girls beyond leaving it to Western 

countries to spearhead the search 

efforts. How far have we gone with our 

home-based solutions in Sudan in Sudan, 

DRC or Libya? Elsewhere, graders 

are being oiled, not to build dams 

or roads but to destroy homes. African 

governments are not a solution to our 

problems, but are a problem. African 

Union is a toothless bulldog completely 

useless to millions sinking deep into a 

perplexing quagmire of predicaments. 

Where are our Nigerian girls? 

Shanana 

POLICE should deploy the victim friendly 

unit to counsel female members of 

Ishmael Mufani’s apostolic sect. 

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Comment & Analysis / Opinion 

Zimbabwe 

suffers from 

leadership crisis 

sundayopinion 

BY PIUS WAKATAMA 

For any country to prosper 

in this modern age, 

it must be ruled by educated, 

democratic, upright 

and selfless men and women 

who venerate justice and human 

rights and whose sole goal is to attain 

the highest standard of living 

for the people. Alas, this is not the 

case in Zimbabwe. our country 

is being led by mostly semi-literate, 

corrupt and incompetent people 

whose only goal is self-aggrandisement. 

The result is that we 

are where we are. 

In most respects, rhodesia was 

far much better than present day 

Zimbabwe. To most, the words 

“freedom, national integrity and 

sovereignty” are meaningless slogans 

shouted by our political leaders 

at rallies. It is true, Zimbabweans 

are thankful to God for our 

hard-won freedom and independence. 

However, what this really 

means is that we are free from the 

colour-bar and that we are now 

ruling, or rather, misruling ourselves. 

This is the sum total of 

our liberation. otherwise, life in 

rhodesia was far better than life 

in Zimbabwe. one would need to 

write volumes to describe the difference 

in detail. We only rid ourselves 

of a white oppressor, only 

to replace him with a black one. 

Justice, human rights and the 

well-being of the people are nonexistent 

for most. 

At independence our economy, 

inherited from rhodesia, was 

strong and resilient, despite being 

under real international sanctions. 

rhodesians did not blame 

all their failures on sanctions 

and go “cap in hand” to all kinds 

of even queer foreign “friends”. 

They faced the truth, put on their 

thinking caps, rolled up their 

sleeves and went to work to build 

a strong economy. They lived and 

ate well — all of them. Today that 

economy is in tatters. It is slowly 

but surely giving up the ghost and 

only a few, at the top of the heap, 

live and eat well. The rest are suffering 

and living in serious apprehension 

about their future. 

Local and international pundits 

have tried their best to help our 

leaders with criticism, instruction 

and advice all to no avail. The unlucky 

ones were arrested or intimidated 

to such an extent that they 

had to flee for dear life and now 

live in the Diaspora. These include 

geniuses and real leaders, like the 

beloved musician Thomas Mapfumo 

who dared denounce corruption, 

and a host of other patriotic 

leaders in all spheres of life. Thousands 

of suffering Zimbabweans 

had to abandon home to seek a better 

life in other countries. 

In a rather rambling, disorganised 

and rather incoherent speech 

given at a meeting organised by 

the Zimbabwe Congress of Students 

Union, the Senior Minister 

of State, Ambassador Simon 

Khaya-Moyo urged Zimbabweans 

in the Diaspora to return home to 

participate in rebuilding the country’s 

economy. He said, “You go in 

Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo 

the Sadc region, it’s Zimbabweans 

who are running the economies 

of those countries and beyond. 

In Europe it’s you people who are 

there and can you imagine if we 

say come back all of you and let us 

now address all challenges. 

“This is going to be something 

else in this country and we shall 

be moving also in that direction to 

make sure that those in the Diaspora 

come back and make the situation 

attractive in the sense that 

they must feel that they have got a 

duty to contribute to our economic 

development. 

“So if you have got any relatives 

outside,” he rambled on, “please 

tell them to get ready to come 

home because we need them so 

that Zimbabwe can move ahead.” 

Ambassador Moyo then went 

on to platitudinise about pan-Africanism 

and getting rid of corruption. 

one wonders whether those 

were real students with intellect 

that he was talking to because if 

they were, they would have all 

walked out instead of clapping 

their hands at such unreasonable 

drivel. or, they would have asked 

him why those Zimbabweans left 

for the Diaspora in the first place 

and who destroyed the economy 

that he wants them to come home 

and rebuild. How will they survive 

when their former colleagues, who 

are now graduates, have to sell airtime 

and trinkets to survive in 

Zimbabwe? The ambassador conveniently 

fails to acknowledge 

that it is the party’s violence and 

skewed economic policies, born 

of greed, which drove millions of 

Zimbabweans into exile. 

our leaders have proven, beyond 

doubt, that they are not 

leadership material. They don’t 

have the qualifications required 

of true leaders. Many of them 

are uneducated and semi-literate. 

Minister Ignatious Chombo 

is worried about this. Late last 

year he said that the government 

would soon introduce minimal educational 

qualifications for councillors 

in both urban and rural areas, 

to enhance their literacy and 

competence. He said most councillors 

were failing to appreciate 

their mandate and authority because 

of low literacy levels. 

With this kind of admission 

from a Zanu PF minister of the 

government, can we blame sanctions 

for our sad predicament? 

The lack of rudimentary educational 

qualifications is not a local 

government problem only. It also 

applies to most, if not all, government 

departments. There are two 

typical examples. one is Member 

of Parliament, Joseph Chinotimba. 

He is a semi-literate former 

municipal policeman who can 

hardly speak English. The second 

one is MP for Hurungwe East, Sarah 

Mahoka. She is an illiterate 

Grade 2 dropout. She is also the 

party’s Women’s League chairperson 

for Mashonaland West province. 

Can such leaders meaningfully 

participate in the governance 

of a modern day state? No. 

They can only participate in a 

primitive, poverty-stricken country 

like Zimbabwe. 

There are indeed some well-educated 

government leaders in Zimbabwe. 

However, they fail the major 

test of real leadership. They 

don’t value justice. A friend of 

mine was remonstrating with a 

government minister. He said, 

“one day the people are going to 

take you people to court for your 

misdeeds.” 

The minister actually laughed 

and said, “The courts may belong 

to the people but the judges are 

ours.” 

Need one say more? our current 

leaders scoff at justice. The 

concept and meaning of the word 

does not exist in their minds and 

consciences. This is why Zimbabwe 

today is an impoverished pariah 

state whose children have 

run away to enrich foreign countries. 

Among them are real leaders 

who should be at the helm of 

the country today. 

Zimbabwe has the most educated 

and sophisticated people in Africa. 

Why is it then that it is led by people 

of such poor quality? The answer 

is, fear. If you, as a Zimbabwean citizen, 

aspire to high political office, 

your very life is at risk. Many have 

paid the price. Zimbabweans must 

pray to God to rid us of poor leaders 

and give us true leaders who 

will lead us to “Canaan”. 

What the psychomotor domain means, involves 

It all started with the psychologist 

Benjamin Bloom in 1956, 

who identified three domains 

used in educational and training 

activities: 

• Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge) 

• Affective: growth in feelings or 

emotional areas (Attitude) 

• Psychomotor: manual or physical 

skills (Skills). 

Each of these domains can 

be further divided into subdivisions, 

starting with the simple 

behaviours and escalating to the 

most complex. 

However, these divisions are 

not absolutes. There are other 

systems that have been devised 

and used in education/training. 

Bloom’s taxonomy is easy to understand 

and apply. 

Psychomotor objectives focus 

on physical and kinaesthetic 

skills characterised by progressive 

levels of observable behaviours 

that culminate in the mastery 

of a physical skill. 

These levels are summarised 

as: observation, Imitation, Practicing 

and Adaptation. These levels 

can easily be explained by how 

a child learns to stand and walk. 

You may have been wondering 

what minister Hungwe has been 

doing since his appointment? 

Well, here is what my department 

has been up to and has achieved 

so far. 

• Since my appointment in late 

August 2013, I was a lone soldier 

without staff till February when 

one director was seconded to my 

ministry followed by a personal 

assistant in March, then the second 

director in April and my own 

principal executive assistant coming 

in late May. The department is 

still seven members of staff short. 

• Not withstanding this challenge, 

the department went full 

steam ahead the moment one director 

and the PA was in place and 

put in place its mandate which 

sunday 

view 

BY JOSAYA HUNGWE 

has now been approved by the 

President His Excellency Cde r G 

Mugabe. 

• We have been mandated by the 

President to liaise with other 

stakeholders which include ministries 

in government and to coordinate 

a holistic approach to psychomotor 

based education. 

This education is not only vocational 

and technical but also includes 

life and entrepreneurial 

skills. our main responsibility is 

the creation of livelihoods for the 

unemployed masses in Zimbabwe. 

• We are now in the process of 

holding consultative meetings 

with key stakeholders such as 

the key ministries of education, 

youth, women and labour ministries 

as well as the captains of industry 

and commerce. 

Visits have also been made to 

other key institutions here in Bulawayo 

such as the Polytechnic, 

Hotel school, School of Mines and 

NUST. 

• I have also started visibility 

initiatives to inform Zimbabwe 

of our activities and this started 

with our exhibition at the Zimbabwe 

International Trade Fair. 

Those of you who tune in to 

Star FM may have listened to me 

being interviewed live; such programmes 

shall be planned with 

other stations in the near future. 

Periodic press releases and conferences 

shall be held from time to 

time as and when necessary. 

• My department is concerned 

with the unemployed people who 

can be given skills for self-reliance 

but have not been afforded 

the opportunities. 

Josaya Hungwe 

• This is an abridged speech 

by Josaya Hungwe, the Minister 

of State for Liaison on Psychomotor 

Activities, read at the 

graduation of Mutare Teachers 

College students from Mzilikazi 

Art and Craft Centre in Bulawayo 

on June 3.

Feature 


Widening gap 

between the 

haves and 

have-nots 

60% of Zimbabweans are living in abject 

poverty while the few that are employed earn 

below the poverty datum line, pegged at 

US$560 

Home of the affluent ... Borrowdale Brooke, one of the leafy suburbs in Harare. 

BY CHIPO MASARA 

and *temba 

are two black middle 

aged Zimbabwean 

*Innocent 

men. Both live in Zimbabwe’s 

capital city, Harare, and 

both are married and have children. 

But that is as far as the similarities 

between the two men go. 

What is startling is the stark contrast 

between the lifestyles the 

two lead. 

Innocent is a father of four children 

and makes very low-budget 

mattresses that he sells in Glen 

View 7, the high-density suburb 

he has been living in for more 

than a decade. While his business 

has seen some somewhat good 

days, it is presently depressed and 

the money he is making is hardly 

enough to cater for his growing 

family’s needs. to help, his wife 

sells vegetables on their street. 

But even after they combine 

their earnings, Innocent says 

the money is still too little to afford 

them a decent livelihood. He 

says his family has since learnt 

to make do with the little that is 

available. 

“What matters is that my family 

has a roof over their head, 

something to put in the stomach 

and that the children are attending 

school,” said Innocent. 

the accommodation that Innocent 

and his family share with 

three other families is far from decent. 

All four families are tenants 

paying monthly rentals to the 

landlord — a single young man 

who occupies a room there, whose 

parents that own the house have 

since migrated to their rural area. 

the classroom block styled house, 

does not look like it has had any 

maintenance work done on it for 

a long time, evidenced by the state 

of deterioration it has fallen into. 

Most of its windows are broken 

while the doors hang precariously 

on falling hinges. 

Innocent and his family occupy 

two of the seven rooms that make 

up the house: one room serving as 

the bedroom for him, his wife and 

their two-year-old child, while the 

second room serves as the kitchen, 

sitting room and bedroom for 

their older children. 

According to studies, poor 

housing conditions increase the 

risk of severe ill-health during 

childhood and early adulthood. 

children living in poor overcrowded 

conditions are more likely 

to have respiratory problems 

while the conditions are believed 

to also have an impact on their 

wellbeing throughout their lives. 

In overcrowded environments, 

child safety is also believed to be 

at great risk. 

But Innocent’s situation is not 

exactly peculiar. Millions of other 

Zimbabweans, the majority 

of whom are out of employment 

owing to the continued closure 

of companies, are living similar 

lives, or are worse off. 

the Zimstat Poverty, Income, 

consumption and expenditure 

Survey of 2011-2012 released last 

year, showed that over 60% of 

Zimbabweans are living in abject 

poverty while the few that are 

employed earn below the poverty 

datum line, currently pegged 

at US$560. Most ordinary Zimbabweans 

in urban areas are failing 

to make ends meet and are reportedly 

surviving on average on US$1 

per day. 

Meanwhile, on the other side of 

town, themba might have problems, 

but it does not look like 

money is one of them. He is employed 

as general manager of a local 

mining company that is doing 

well, judging from how well he is 

doing financially. 

Although themba’s main 

house accommodates only him, 

his wife and their two children, 

it is big enough to host a conference. 

the staff quarters look better 

than most houses in Harare’s 

high-density suburbs. the couple’s 

first born; a boy aged 19, is 

studying for a degree in Australia 

and comes home at the end of 

each semester, while the younger 

boy is a boarder at one of the private 

schools that only rich people 

can afford. 

themba drives a 2007 chevrolet 

trailblazer while his wife 

owns a slick and executive Mercedes 

Benz c-class. the toyota 

Yaris that they bought for their 

older son stays secured, waiting 

for his return. Sleeping next to 

the carport, and watching me as I 

admired the top-of-the-range cars, 

were two dogs that — owing to 

apparent over-feeding — did not 

look like they could run. 

themba is one of the few Zimbabweans 

that have managed to 

accumulate massive wealth even 

though the majority are in dire 

straits and are struggling to survive. 

nothing succinctly illustrates 

the widening gap between the 

haves and the have-nots more 

than does the difference between 

salaries of chief executives of 

The face of poverty... Some of the houses in Hatcliffe high-density suburb. PICTURES: Shepherd Tozvireva 

State bodies and those of the few 

people in the country that are 

“lucky” enough to be formally 

employed. 

cuthbert Dube, as chief executive 

officer for PSMAS, earned 

US$500 000, which translated to 

US$10 000 a day, while the lowest 

paid employee at the medical aid 

services provider took home barely 

US$300. 

ZBc chief executive officer 

Happison Muchechetere reportedly 

received US$27 000 per 

month while workers at the distressed 

State broadcaster went 

for months without pay. other 

companies whose top executives 

earned high salaries and allowances 

during a time the economy 

struggled included those from netone 

(US$37 050), DPc (US$36 359), 

IDBZ (US$35 446), RBZ (US$32 

943), nSSA (US$29 062) and Zera 

(US$28 403), among many others. 

“If you visit those that live in 

the leafy northern suburbs, 

they will not believe that 

there are poor people in 

Zimbabwe . . . 

In a Pastoral Letter to the nation, 

themed “Let justice roll 

down like water and righteousness 

like an ever flowing stream” 

(Amos 5:24), the Zimbabwe council 

of churches (Zcc) bemoaned 

the widening gap between the 

rich and the poor in Zimbabwe. 

“While we acknowledge the 

role of the State and civil society 

in promoting justice and peace 

in the land, as well as in providing 

for the needs of the citizens, 

we are extremely concerned with 

the glaring crisis of accountability 

and poor corporate governance 

which is manifest through: 

poor service delivery in both public 

and private sectors, corruption 

across all sectors of our society, 

obscene salaries earned by a few 

individuals in churches, private 

and State institutions,” said Zcc. 

“We are disturbed by the growing 

levels of poverty amidst the 

growing rate of loss of employment, 

the failure by the government 

to drive the economy toward 

the publicly declared Millenium 

Development Goals, the 

deflation crisis which has the capacity 

to lead to massive social 

suffering, the exploitation of natural 

resources which seems to 

be shrouded in secrecy and mystery, 

the lack of preparedness of 

the civil and State organs in dealing 

with natural disasters as has 

been the case at tokwe-Mukosi, 

tsholotsho and other affected 

areas where human life is under 

immense suffering because of 

floods.” 

John Robertson, an economist, 

blamed the government for the 

present state of affairs, citing 

greed and dishonesty by a few individuals 

for the suffering of millions. 

“this is a level of greed that is 

almost beyond belief. In the end, 

the poor are going to get increasingly 

angry at the few individuals 

that are making fortunes. those 

few hundreds will feel the anger of 

millions of people and soon, they 

might need to find somewhere to 

hide,” said Robertson. 

Japhet Moyo, secretary general 

of ZctU concurred, saying the 

country consisted of two groups: 

those that are very rich, and those 

that are very poor, a situation he 

said explained why those living in 

the leafy suburbs live comfortably 

and continue to acquire properties, 

while the majority of those in highdensity 

suburbs struggle to feed 

their families. 

“If you visit those that live in 

the leafy northern suburbs, they 

will not believe that there are 

poor people in Zimbabwe. 

“As Labour, when we embarked 

on a study two years ago, it revealed 

that the people that are earning obscene 

salaries comprise a very 

small number and those are the 

people that continue to accumulate 

more properties that people at the 

bottom cannot,” said Moyo. 

*Not real names


Feature/News 

Discipline, determination 

drive ZRP High School 

In the November 

2013 examinations, 

ZRP High School 

recorded a 95,58% 

pass rate 

By Wellington ZimBoWa 

Few schools in Zimbabwe 

can match the pass rates 

recorded by ZRP High 

School over the past few 

years. 

Situated on the outskirts of Harare’s 

Hatcliffe high-density suburb, 

with an intake of 700 students, 

ZRP High School, which 

first opened its doors in 2001, has 

now made it into the top three in 

the Zimbabwe School Examinations 

Council O’ Level results. 

It has also registered good pass 

rates at A’ Level. 

This year it posted a 95,58% 

pass rate to remain at third position 

for three years in a row. The 

ZRP High School entrance 

school only trails behind Midlands’s 

Anderson Secondary 

School (97,71%) and Matabeleland 

North’s John Tallach Secondary 

School, (96,15%), according to 

the education ministry. 

A recent trip to the school, the 

only high school run by the force, 

bared testimony to the driving 

spirit behind its success where order, 

discipline and sheer determination 

are ingrained in both the 

students and staff. 

It’s not about anti-riot police 

officers wielding baton sticks in 

classes. All the teachers, whether 

civilian or members of the force, 

elegantly dress in civilian clothes. 

“On joining the school after 

passing my interviews, I had a 

briefing with the Commissioner 

General [Augustine Chihuri] 

and was really moved by his passion 

for the development of the 

school,” said Johannes Chingonzo, 

the school head. 

“He talked about his vision for 

the school, his drive and what 

he personally wants to do for the 

school. I was moved by the fact 

that someone of a higher authority 

had such a passion for what 

I was trained to do. I took it as a 

personal challenge.” 

The seasoned educationist who 

broke records at Monte Cassino 

High in Macheke where he headed 

from 1987 to 2007, attributed ZRP 

High’s success to the police chief. 

He said his zeal to propel Zimbabwe 

forward through nurturing 

and moulding young minds 

into progressive and hardworking 

sons and daughters of the 

soil gave birth to a firm culture 

of hard work and self-determination. 

“If you go around and ask any 

pupil who they are, they will either 

tell you ‘I am proudly Zimbabwean’ 

or ‘I am Doctor or Engineer’ 

so and so. 

“Then one needs to research 

about the desired profession and 

start to act in accodance with it. 

“If one wishes to be a medical 

doctor then we would be expecting 

them to be helpful, polite and 

kind,” he said. 

The school offers 10 subjects at 

O’ Level and arts, commercials 

and sciences at A’ Level. Under 

the tight supervision of either the 

headmaster or teacher on duty, it’s 

Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri 

all business from 4am up to 10pm 

daily, from study time to classes 

and study time again. 

In line with its founding vision 

to produce globally competitive 

products, French classes are offered 

with plans to introduce Chinese 

lessons well underway. 

Each year, the head added, at 

least three students from the 

school win various scholarships 

to study outside Zimbabwe, including 

the American government-sponsored 

scholarships 

through the United States Embassy 

Education department. 

The school has also proven its 

mettle in extra-curricular activities 

as the institution has also 

scooped national and provincial 

honours in debate, public speaking, 

drama, chess and athletics. 

Being the 2013 National Debate 

on Climate Change winners, sponsored 

by the United Nations Development 

Programme (UNDP), 

ZRP High School is also vying to 

defend its title. 

Chingonzo added: “We are very 

serious on extra curricula activities 

as our aim is to produce progressive 

students. We seek to identify 

and nurture different talents 

in our students so that they can 

have something to offer the world 

as failure in class does not mean 

incapability all round.” 

The head also added that most 

of the food consumed at the school 

comes from the sweat of its own 

staff and agriculture students. 

Some of the farm produce such as 

tomatoes are sold commercially 

to farm produce distributors like 

Favco. 

But ZRP High School also has 

its own fair share of troubles. 

Although the school has a resourced 

computer library with internet 

connection for supervised 

research and computer lessons, 

there is no laboratory for A’ Level 

sciences, a factor that has forced 

its successful O’ Level science students 

to pursue studies elsewhere. 

Those remaining, usually average 

performers, are then left 

to improvise with the junior 

lab, which Chingonzo, himself a 

science teacher, says limits the 

scope and depth of experiments 

done. 

ZRP High school also has to 

contend with an improvised library 

although a proper library, 

recently completed, is set to open 

its doors soon. 

However, Chingonzo said Commissioner 

General Chihuri — the 

major individual school donor 

outside government — has vowed 

to deal with the problems. He is 

motivated by the school’s record 

performance. 

He said so stiff is competition 

for A’ Level places that only students 

with 5 A’s at O’ Level are admitted. 

Zoo worker in gorilla suit mistakenly shot during ‘escape drill’ 

vet shot a tranquiliser dart 

A at a zoo employee dressed as 

a gorilla after mistaking him for a 

primate. 

The 35-year-old zoo employee 

was recently shot at Loro Parque 

Zoo on the Spanish island of Tenerife. 

Staff at the zoo was taking part 

in a drill designed to ensure they 

had an emergency plan in place in 

case one of the gorillas escaped its 

enclosure. 

But the vet had not been informed 

of the training exercise, 

and fearing that there was a gorilla 

on the loose, he sprang into action. 

The vet fired the shot — designed 

for a 400lb gorilla — at the 

man and hit him in the leg. 

According to La Opinión de Tenerife 

newspaper, when the man 

was located he was in his underwear. 

He was taken to the University 

Hospital of the Canary Islands. 

The zoo said in a statement: 

“Last Monday, Loro Parque simulated 

the escape of an animal from 

its enclosure in the gorilla park. 

“As part of the simulation, 

which took place in the security 

zone of the area and was attended 

only by authorised personnel, 

they set off the emergency alarm. 

“Once they had carried out the 

various procedures, one keeper in 

the wild mammals team was accidentally 

struck by the medical 

tranquiliser that vets use in these 

instances. 

“As a result, emergency services 

were called and he was taken to 

Hospital Universitari de Canarias, 

where he was treated. 

“He recovered and is now in 

good health. 

“Loro Parque, like all zoos and 

animal parks, regularly carries 

out this kind of emergency drill. 

“The measure is designed to improve 

security, emergency procedures, 

and to train staff who work 

in these enclosures.” 

Tranquilliser darts are filled 

with a chemical that when injected, 

temporarily sedates an animal 

— they work within a matter of 

minutes. 

The tranquilliser can be a sedative, 

anesthetic, or paralytic agent 

— it is unclear what the dart was 

fired at the man contained. 

The National Police now have 

possession of the air gun, the sedative 

and have spoken to the vet. 

Zoos around the world carry out 

animal escape drills — and often 

they use a human dressed in a gorilla 

suit. 

—MailOnline 

The vet fired the shot at the man and hit him in the leg.

Feature 


How Cuba 

survived 

sanctions 

Cuba raises money through exporting skills 

generated through a vibrant educational 

system 

BY EVERSON MUSHAVA 

ZIMBABWE can learn 

from Cuba which survived 

for over half a 

Century under comprehensive 

sanctions from 

the most powerful countries in 

the world, the Latin American 

country’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe 

has said. 

Elio Savin Oliva said Cuba has 

managed to plan its economy and 

allocate national resources to key 

issues using a socialist approach to 

make sure that everyone benefits. 

He said, unlike capitalism that 

has created wealthy billionaires, 

Cuban Ambassador to Zimbabwe Elio Savin Oliva 

Cuba’s socialism introduced by 

retired president Fidel Castro has 

worked well for the Cubans who 

have managed to survive for more 

than half a Century without United 

States aid. 

“Cuba has a planned economy. 

It is not a market-driven economy. 

The government plans and allocates 

resources. We get loans from 

friendly countries but we don’t 

have access to financial support 

from monetary institutions,” Oliva 

told journalists a fortnight ago. 

“It is the unity of the people and 

confidence in the leadership that 

has taken us to where we are. So- 

Fidel Castro . . he made sure Cuban resources benefitted every citizen 

cialism has been working well for 

us, and we are in a process of improving 

it.” 

Zimbabwe, like Cuba, has been 

under US sanctions for over a decade 

due to “a deteriorating human 

rights record’ under President 

Robert Mugabe’s rule. 

The west says there are no sanctions 

on Zimbabwe but restrictive 

measures on President Mugabe 

and his close associates. 

Unlike Cuba, Zimbabwe has vast 

mineral resources which observers 

say in the absence of corruption 

could have helped the cashstrapped 

southern African country 

out of its economic quagmire. 

Oliva said the island of 11 million 

people, now under the leadership 

of Fidel’s young brother 

Raul, had survived through tourism, 

exporting of skills and nickel 

exports. 

“We don’t have millionaires in 

Cuba. We have managed to control 

corruption. We have managed 

to raise money through exporting 

skills generated through a vibrant 

educational system. 

The ambassador said education, 

from Grade One to doctorate 

level, was free while health was a 

human rights issue. 

“You can imagine the burden 

on government. Government 

should see to it that every pupil 

has a desk, books, teachers and 

so on. Through this, we have produced 

excess labour which we 

export to other countries. We offer 

scholarships to many people 

across the globe to learn in Cuba 

for free. The literacy rate in Cuba 

is 100%. We have helped other 

countries like Bolivia and Nigeria 

to improve in their literacy,” 

Oliva said. 

Cuba today has the highest doctor-to-patient 

ratio of one doctor 

to 137 patients, according to Oliva. 

“Every part of the country is 

accessed by doctors. Cuba has the 

lowest child mortality rate. The 

life expectancy is 70 years for men 

and 81 years for women. Even the 

death of a child is a State problem 

because a child will be looked after 

while it is still a pregnancy. 

“We have doctors in more than 

70 countries across the world. We 

have 11 000 doctors in Brazil alone 

and many more in other countries. 

The countries will pay for 

the doctors,” he said. 

Cuba has many doctors in Zimbabwe 

but Oliva said they were 

only helping a friend for free since 

the Zimbabwe government cannot 

afford to pay them. 

He said Zimbabwe could also 

learn a lot from the former Spanish 

colony in the areas of science 

and research, agriculture and 

tourism. 

China’s removal of mountains risks environment 

CHINA’S campaign to bulldoze 

mountains to create land to build 

on could cause extensive environmental 

problems, scientists say. 

Researchers from Chang’an 

University in China have warned 

that dozens of mountains have already 

been flattened — and this is 

causing air and water pollution, 

soil erosion and flooding. 

They say that this activity is 

happening on an unprecedented 

scale. 

They report their concerns in 

the journal Nature. 

The most concerning issue is 

the safety of constructing cities 

on the newly created land. 

Prof Peiyue Li, from Chang’an 

University’s School of Environmental 

Science and Engineering, 

said: “Because there have been 

no land creation projects like this 

before in the world, there are no 

guidelines.” 

China’s cities are expanding 

rapidly as its economy grows, and 

moving mountains is one way 

to supply more land for development. 

About one-fifth of the country’s 

population lives in mountainous 

areas. 

Around the country, in cities 

such as Chongqing, Shiyan, 

Yichang, Lanzhou and Yan’an, 

dozens of hilltops have been levelled. 

The soil and rock is then used to 

fill in valleys, and overall this has 

so far created hundreds of square 

kilometres of flat terrain. 

Prof Li said: “Mountainous cities 

such as Yan’an are mostly located 

in relatively flat valleys. 

“The valleys are narrow and 

limit the development of the cities 

— and huge population density 

is also a factor.” 

While mountain top removal is 

sometimes used by the mining industry, 

particularly in the US, researchers 

say the scale of this in 

China is unparalleled. 

They warn that turning hills 

into plains is throwing dust particles 

into the atmosphere, polluting 

waterways, causing landslides 

and flooding and endangering 

plants and animals. 

They add that the flattened land 

could also be unsuitable to build 

on. 

Prof Li explained: “The most 

concerning issue is the safety of 

constructing cities on the newly 

created land. 

“Yan’an, for example, is the 

largest project ever attempted on 

land that is composed of thick 

windblown silt. 

“Such soft soils can subside 

when wet, causing structural collapse 

and land subsidence. Building 

on such soils is quite dangerous 

and it would take a very long 

time for the ground base to become 

stable.” 

The scientists say that the Chinese 

government should work 

with national and international 

experts to fully assess the risks before 

they continue. 

We don’t have any experience 

with manipulations on this scale: 

It’s a large experiment.” 

Commenting on the issue, Prof 

Brian McGlynn, from Duke University 

in the US, told BBC Radio 

4’s Inside Science programme: “In 

the US and China, we’re moving 

ahead without much insight into 

what the result will be, especially 

when it comes to the water, the hydrology, 

the water quality implications. 

“The [comment] article focuses 

on the structural issues, the ability 

of the land to stabilise. In addition 

to that we’re massively changing 

the flow of water and material 

it comes into contact with. 

“We don’t have any experience 

with manipulations on this scale: 

It’s a large experiment.” 

Jan Zalasiewicz, from the University 

of Leicester, added: “We’re 

in new territory with these kinds 

of changes. 

“There are other projects as 

well, like the Palm Island in 

Dubai, which is moving billions 

of tonnes of materials in one 

place to another to create a new 

landscape. 

“And while humans have been 

doing that on a small to moderate 

scale for quite a long time, this is 

now exceeding the state of natural 

processes. — BBC


Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims five months on . . . 

Mounts of fresh soil mark new graves at Chingwizi camp 

Yet another burial . . . relatives pay their last respects to a colleague last week 

Residents receive food rations last week 

Women go about their business at Chingwizi transit camp 

Children play “house” to kill time at the camp 

A family transports belongings to the camp. PICTURES: Shepherd Tozvireva

Business 


June 8 to June 14 2014 • www.thestandard.co.zw 

NSSA TO PROCEED WITH MICROFINANCE PLANS/19 

Afreximbank 

throws lifeline 

to local banks 

The banking sector has been operating 

without an active interbank market under the 

multi-currency regime 

BY NDAMU SANDU 

The African Export-Import 

Bank’s (Afreximbank) 

guaranteed a US$100 million 

interbank facility 

will be operational by the end of 

next month, a senior executive 

said last week. 

Lawyers were already working 

on the terms and conditions, underlying 

financial instruments 

and trading activities in the secondary 

market. 

In March, Afreximbank came 

up with a US$100 million facility 

designed as a collateral swap 

whereby it will lend its securities 

to local banks in exchange for eligible 

collateral. This would help 

ease liquidity challenges facing 

the banking sector by unlocking 

idle surplus funds at some banks 

and thereby resuscitating interbank 

trading. 

The facility will be in the form 

of securities, the Afreximbank 

Trade Debt-backed Securities (Aftrades), 

which would be swapped 

for assets held by local banks. 

“We think that this should be up 

and running before end of July at 

the latest although the aim is to 

activate it earlier than that,” Gift 

Simwaka, Afreximbank’s regional 

manager for southern Africa 

told Standardbusiness last week. 

Simwaka said a substantial 

amount of work had gone into 

contemplating various scenarios 

under which the instrument 

would be traded, such as the case 

for an outright sale of an instrument 

permitting a third party 

Takura Chiumburu (with lab coat), Versapak quality assurance technician, and Timothy Mungate (machine setter) take a look at one of 

the plastic bottle making machines at the company factory along Lyton Road during a media and parliamentarians tour organised by 

the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries. The tour was meant to take media personnel and parliamentarians through a familiarisation 

exercise and have an appreciation of the operations of local industry. PICTURE: Aaron Ufumeli 

holder to hold such an instrument 

to maturity. 

“This is in contrast to the case 

of using the instrument as security 

for interbank placements, 

which was the only scenario originally 

contemplated. It is our belief 

that permitting for secondary 

traders to trade the instrument as 

they so wish will increase its market 

acceptance as a liquid financial 

instrument,” Simwaka said. 

“In parallel to drafting the governing 

terms and conditions for 

the facility, trading limits are being 

determined for would-be participating 

banks.” 

Simwaka said the process had 

been delayed by the “drafting of 

the unique terms and conditions 

aimed at ensuring that they are 

exhaustive and capable of ushering 

into the market an instrument 

with appropriate features to meet 

the purpose for which the facility 

has been designed”. 

“Otherwise we are actively 

working on the facility with an 

aim to implement it as soon as is 

practicable,” he said. 

Government and Afreximbank 

have been in constant touch on 

progress made towards the introduction 

of the facility. 

Last week central bank chief 

John Mangudya met Afreximbank’s 

president Jean-Louis 

Ekra during the bank’s annual 

meetings in Libreville, Gabon. 

The annual meetings ran from 

Tuesday and ended yesterday 

(Saturday). The introduction of 

the interbank facility is part of 

the ongoing reforms meant to improve 

the liquidity situation. 

The banking sector has been operating 

without an active interbank 

market under the multi-currency 

regime introduced in 2009 

due to the absence of acceptable 

collateral. 

This resulted in the market being 

segmented with some banks 

having huge surpluses while other 

banks had liquidity challenges. 

Under normal circumstances, 

liquidity would have moved from 

the surplus institutions to those 

experiencing shortages through 

the interbank market. 

Banks with excess liquidity 

were averse to lending to those experiencing 

shortages due to credit 

risk issues associated with those 

institutions. 

In a market report last month, 

AfrAsia Kingdom Bank said the 

success of the facility in unlocking 

the interbank market hinged 

on the ability of deficit banks (tier 

II banks) to raise the eligible collateral. 

“Most of the market players 

who need liquidity support do not 

have the required security, hence 

might lead to the slow take-up of 

the facility. What makes the situation 

worse is that most eligible assets 

from tier II banks are likely to 

be found in grade C and D which 

carries hair cut of 30% and 50% 

respectively,” it said. 

“The banks with assets in these 

classes will be forced to pump out 

more assets for a given amount of 

Aftrades. The cost is exorbitant 

and banks may even find it difficult 

to create assets using this facility.”

18 The Standard June 8 to June 14 2014 

Business 

Rwanda leaps as Zim stutters 

Under the leadership of Paul 

Kagame, Rwanda has managed 

to weed out corruption 


Twenty years ago, Rwanda was a sure candidate 

for the failed states’ club after the 

genocide that claimed a million lives 

of Tutsis and moderate Hutus inside a 

bloody 100 days. 

The perpetrators of that massacre were the Hutus 

in what was to become the darkest chapter in 

the East African country’s history. 

Though the scars of the genocide are still fresh, 

the country has moved mountains and has been 

one of the fastest growing economies on the continent, 

anchored on peace, security and national 

healing. 

Under the leadership of Paul Kagame, a handson 

President, Rwanda has managed to weed out 

corruption — the cancer of most African countries. 

“Traffic police officers are constantly changed 

to weed out corruption among traffic cops in most 

African countries,” a local, Joel Mugabe said. 

Good governance and investor-friendly policies 

have seen lenders stampeding to give Rwanda 

loans at a time Zimbabwe has been struggling 

to get loans due to the country’s over US$6 billion 

external debt. 

Rwanda’s debut Eurobond offer of US$400 million 

issued last year was oversubscribed by 8,5 

times. Its US$18,3 million local treasury bond issued 

in February with a three-year maturity recorded 

a subscription rate of over 140%. 

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) 

five-year US$22 million “Umganda” bond, its first 

President Paul Kagame joins residents in community projects. Picture: Rwandapedia 

ZIMBABWE LIVELIHOODS AND FOOD SECURITY PROGRAMME (LFSP) 

AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY AND NUTRITION COMPONENT (APN) 

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development banks to agribusiness firms, research institutes to academic institutions. Further and more detailed 

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productivity and increased incomes. Targeting smallholder men and women farmers, the LFSP will address 

constraints to productivity, market participation and the supply and demand of nutritious foods. Under the LFSP, 

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local currency bond issued on May 15, received 

bids worth more than twice that amount. 

“Umganda” is Rwanda’s day of community held 

every last Saturday of the month. During this day, 

citizens gather to do community work and it is estimated 

that the value of such work to the country’s 

development since 2007 is US$60 million. 

Finance and Economic Development minister 

Patrick Chinamasa, who was in Rwanda after the 

1994 genocide, said the country’s growth rate has 

been phenomenal. 

“I came here [Rwanda] in the 90s and Kigali was 

a village. Kigali is now a well-planned city and you 

don’t find slums,” he said. 

Chinamasa said Rwanda had achieved phenomenal 

growth anchored on discipline and an operating 

environment conducive to Foreign Direct Investment 

(FDI). 

“The lessons I have learnt is that let’s be clean 

and disciplined. Let’s fashion our policy framework 

conducive for FDI [inflows] while not forgetting 

to uplift our people,” Chinamasa said. 

Rwanda is security-conscious with heavily 

armed police and army officers maintaining a 

presence on the streets. To Rwandans, this has 

become a daily occurrence and they won’t bat an 

eyelid as long it doesn’t take the country back to 

the 1994 madness. 

Unlike Zimbabwe which has in the past come 

up with home-grown documents to grow the economy 

with little or no implementation, Rwanda’s 

programmes are followed to the letter. 

One such is the Agaciro Development Fund 

based on voluntary donations set up in which 

Rwandans contribute to the country’s development. 

The programme was launched in 2012 and 

the Rwandan government says it is now worth 

US$41 million. 

Rwanda’s journey has also been driven by discipline 

in the public service and parastatals. Performance 

contracts are signed at all levels of government 

to promote accountability and transparency 

in the public service. 

The Rwandan government did not sweep the 

1994 genocide under the carpet. It set up courts to 

try perpetrators as a way of promoting national 

healing. 

The Gacaca Courts have resolved 1,2 million 

cases at a cost of US$25 million. This, according 

to the Rwandan government, was an achievement 

considering that the International Criminal Tribunal 

for Rwanda tried 58 cases at a cost of over 

US$2 billion. 

As part of the homegrown solutions, Rwanda 

came up with a national dialogue council which 

meets once a year. Rwandans come together to debate 

national issues, local government or national 

unity. 

“This is key in ensuring Rwandans participate 

in policy making,” it said. 

Rwandan Finance minister Claver Gatete said 

the cooperation with AfDB has been central to the 

country’s economic recovery. 

“The bank [AfDB] has contributed to our structural 

transformation efforts, and supported important 

macroeconomic and business regulatory 

reforms,” he said. 

Chinamasa said like Rwanda, Zimbabwe enjoys 

political stability and has to leverage on that for 

economic development. 

“The turbulence of the past is behind us. We 

need economic growth of at least 8% for 10 years 

to make up for the lost time and this is urgent,” 

he said. 

Critics say Rwanda has managed to use the “victims” 

card to lure both donors and lenders. 

“So far it has worked. We don’t know for how 

long,” retorted a government critic.

Business 


NSSA to proceed with microfinance plans 


THE National Social 

Security Authority 

(NSSA) will proceed to 

set up a microfinance 

bank notwithstanding 

the cancellation of an operating 

licence of its banking subsidiary, 

a spokesperson has said. 

Last week the Reserve Bank of 

Zimbabwe (RBZ) announced the 

cancellation of Capital Bank’s 

operating licence on the grounds 

that its major shareholder, NSSA, 

was no longer willing to inject additional 

capital into the institution. 

NSSA has 84% in Capital and 

the remainder is owned by Patterson 

Timba and his partners. 

“NSSA is working with its parent 

ministry, the Ministry of Public 

Service, Labour and Social 

Welfare, and the Reserve Bank of 

Zimbabwe to obtain the necessary 

regulatory approval,” the spokesperson 

said. 

The spokesperson said appropriate 

notices would be issued in 

due course concerning payments 

to depositors and other creditors 

as per RBZ notice on the cancellation 

of Capital Bank’s licence. 

The move to surrender the licence 

comes after the realisation 

that Capital Bank needed huge 

capital outlay and had failed to 

turn around since NSSA moved in. 

A NSSA board resolution called 

for the winding up of Capital 

Bank and the authority was mandated 

to apply for a microfinance 

bank licence. 

Despite the rebranding exercise, 

Capital Bank had failed to gain 

market acceptance from its predecessor, 

ReNaissance Merchant 

Bank (RMB) that had slipped into 

curatorship. 

RMB was placed under curatorship 

in 2011 after an investigation 

by the central bank unearthed 

the abuse of depositors’ fund by 

founding shareholders. 

NSSA moved into the then RMB 

in 2012 in a US$24 million deal for 

84% shareholding. 

NSSA said at the time it was 

swooping in on RMB as a gateway 

to First Mutual Holdings Limited 

(formerly Afre Corporation). RMB 

had 33% shareholding in Afre. 

“What we have lost in Capital 

Bank, we have more than gained 

in Afre. Our intention was never 

in the bank, but Afre,” a board 

member said last year. 

First Mutual Holdings has interests 

in insurance, reinsurance 

and property investments, among 

others. 

Meanwhile, NSSA has gone for 

nine months with a board following 

the expiry of the term of office 

of the one led by Innocent Chagonda 

at the end of August last year. 

Chagonda was deputised by David 

Mutambara. Other members of 

the board were Kennias Shamuyarira, 

Cecilia Alexander, Chris 

Hokonya, James Matiza (general 

manager), Rosa Dube, Joseph 

Kanyekanye, David Govere, Ephanos 

Makiwa and M. Mukondami. 

NSSA has interest in banks, insurance 

and properties. It has 

26,6% in FBC Holdings, the parent 

company of FBC Bank, 37,9% 

shareholding in ZB Financial 

Holdings that wholly owns FBC 

Bank and 10% in CBZ Holdings. 

The authority also has a controlling 

shareholding in hospitality 

concern, Rainbow Tourism 

Group. 

James Matiza 

Finance 

costs weigh 

down 

Ariston 

BY VICTORIA MTOMBA 

ARISTON Holdings Limited’s profit after tax 

declined by more than half to US$984 353 in 

the six months ending March 31 2014 due to a 

48% jump in finance costs. 

In the same period last year, the company 

posted a profit after tax of US$2 million. 

In a statement accompanying the group’s 

results, Ariston said the borrowings for the 

group increased to US$14,1 million as a result 

of the rehabilitation programmes that 

the company undertook. 

Revenue for the group went up by 29% to 

US$8,6 million in the period under review. 

During the six-month period, Claremont 

Estate turnover of US$849 000 was 10% of 

group turnover, an increase of 12% compared 

to March 2013. An operating loss of 

US$606 000 was reported up from the US$365 

000 operating loss recorded in the same period 

last year. 

Kent Estates recorded an increase of 98% 

in turnover to US$631 000 compared to the 

previous period and contributed 7% to the 

group’s turnover. South Down reported a 

turnover of US$4,1 million representing 

a 48% of group turnover. South Down recorded 

an operating loss of US$300 000 compared 

to US$90 000 loss during the same period 

last year. 

The group said the macadamia harvest 

was slightly delayed by the persistent rains. 

But despite the late start production was in 

line with last year. 

“Early season sales have started with firmer 

prices than last year. Despite the erratic 

power supplies, tea production was 40% up 

last year. This trend is expected to continue 

into the second half of the year and we expect 

forecast production for the season.” 

“With half the export teas still to sell, we 

expect a modest recovery in international 

tea prices in the second half of the year. 

Traditionally winter accounts for the bulk of 

blended tea sales,” the group said. 

The group said restructuring at Favco was 

complete and the combination of cost management 

and improved marketing of the estates’ 

produce was now producing acceptable 

performance. 

“Favco turnover was US$2,996 million and 

contributed 35% to group turnover. An operating 

profit of US$0,049 million was recorded 

compared to a loss of US$0,265 million in 

March 2013,” the group said.

20 The Standard June 8 to June 15 2014 

Business 

Egyptian tycoon seeks stake in EFG Hermes 

Naguib Sawiris is one 

of Egypt’s highestprofile 

business 

tycoons 

Cairo — Egyptian billionaire 

Naguib Sawiris is 

backing a US$257 million 

bid for 20% of investment 

bank EFG Hermes, sources 

said, in what could be a sign of revived 

investor appetite in Egypt 

after more than three years of 

economic stagnation. 

EFG Hermes is one of the biggest 

investment banks in the Middle 

East and a deal to buy a major 

stake in it could indicate revived 

interest in Egypt’s equity market 

after years of depressed activity 

since the 2011 revolution. 

Sawiris is one of Egypt’s highest-profile 

business tycoons and 

his family owns the Orascom 

group of companies. He spent 

most of last year out of the country, 

but after last year’s ousting 

of Islamist President Mohamed 

Mursi he said he would spend in 

Egypt “like never before”. 

In a recent statement, investment 

bank Beltone Financial 

EFG Hermes regional headquarters in Cairo... Egyptian billionaire (inset) is backing a US$257 million bid for 20% of the bank. 

said it and a group of investors 

were seeking 20% of EFG Hermes 

for 1,84 billion Egyptian pounds 

(US$257,3 million), or 16 pounds 

per share, confirming what two 

sources familiar with the matter 

earlier said. 

Beltone said it would take 1% 

of EFG Hermes, but did not say 

who the other investors were. The 

sources said they included Sawiris. 

Egypt’s Financial Supervisory 

Authority said in a statement an 

offer had been submitted to buy 

20% of EFG Hermes’s shares. It 

said an entity called New Egypt Investment 

Fund would buy 17,82%, 

while Beltone planned to acquire 

1,09% and Beltone Capital Holding 

would acquire another 1,09%. 

It did not say who was behind 

New Egypt Investment Fund but 

the two sources who confirmed 

Sawiris’s involvement in the deal 

said that the fund is affiliated 

with him. 

Sawiris declined to comment 

and a source at EFG Hermes said 

on condition of anonymity the 

firm had not received details of 

any offer. 

“No one spoke with us at 

Hermes to make an offer to buy 

... But we welcome any investor 

who has solvency such as Sawiris 

and wants to invest in Hermes 

with around US$250 million,” the 

source said. 

One source familiar with the 

matter said the 20% stake was 

not a final figure. “The numbers 

are still not confirmed but it is 

around 20%,” the source said, 

adding: “EFG always separates 

ownership from management so it 

will not have an effect on the way 

the company is run.” 

The sources said that the transaction 

would not involve the issuance 

of new shares. 

The government of Dubai 

owned 11% of EFG Hermes as of 

the end of March, making it the 

biggest shareholder, according to 

Thomson Reuters data. EFG has 

about 67% of its shares free floating, 

or readily tradeable. 

EFG Hermes had in 2012 agreed 

on a deal with Qatar’s QInvest to 

spin off part of its assets to create 

an investment bank with operations 

spanning the Middle East, 

Africa and Turkey. QInvest would 

have pumped in US$250 million 

for a 60% stake. —Reuters 

There is need to raise new 

generation of entrepreneurs 

sme’s 

chat 

with phillip chichoni 

Small opportunities are often 

the beginning of great enterprises. 

[Demosthenes] 

Recent reports about how 

the majority of youth 

fund borrowers failed to 

make repayments show 

a deep lack of true entrepreneurship 

among our young people today. 

Of course there are cases 

of youths who borrowed out of 

greed, with no intent of paying 

back, but I know many simply 

failed to build the businesses that 

they envisaged. 

Too many aspiring entrepreneurs 

underestimate what it really 

takes to build a business. My 

discussions with many youths regarding 

their business plans have 

shown that many of them have little 

idea of how the world of business 

works. No wonder you find 

many who apply for the youth 

loans want to do chicken projects. 

This is because that is the only 

business they have known closely, 

having seen their parents raising 

chickens in their front yards and 

selling them to the neighbours, 

relatives and church associates, 

mostly on credit. 

With very few straight and successful 

business owners available 

and willing to mentor the young 

people, where are they expected 

to learn proper business management 

skills? From the Chinese? 

Talk to any high school student 

and you will find an absence of 

the entrepreneurial spirit. They 

are planning to go to college, or 

even to some dubious Eastern 

European university just to earn 

a degree, without caring much 

about what they will do after graduating. 

Don’t be surprised to find 

out that the guy selling you airtime 

at the street corner is a holder 

of a degree. 

It is rare to hear a young person 

talking about starting a business. 

Contrast this with what Ashish 

Thakkar, the Ugandan billionaire 

who came to Zimbabwe recently, 

did. He left school when he was 15 

years old to start a business. He 

knew what he wanted in life, just 

like bill Gates and Steve Jobs, natural 

born entrepreneurs. 

Not everyone is a natural born 

entrepreneur. A Gallup poll a few 

years ago showed that only about 

one in a hundred thousand people 

are natural entrepreneurs. They 

know from an early age that building 

a business is their goal, rather 

than looking for a job as a career 

choice. This means the rest 

of us have to learn to be entrepreneurs. 

Young people should be encouraged 

to start learning entrepreneurship 

while still at school. 

This entails learning practical 

skills in addition to academic education. 

If one learns a practical subject 

or craft, they can employ that 

in real life and start a business. 

Nothing should stop young people 

from running micro business 

projects in their spare time. It 

gives them the opportunity to test 

business ideas and learn business 

management. 

I am surprised that the financiers 

of the youths projects funds 

just doled out cash without giving 

the beneficiaries any training 

in entrepreneurship and business 

management. Most of the people 

used business plans that they 

downloaded from the internet to 

apply for the loans. The financiers 

did a shoddy job of analysing the 

business plans without bothering 

to look at the applicants’ business 

skills set. That is quite irresponsible, 

especially knowing how it is 

way easier to spend money rather 

than to make it. 

I appreciate the initiative being 

taken by Wabaz (Women Alliance 

of Business Associations 

in Zimbabwe) in planning to provide 

mentorship to young women 

starting in business. This is a 

crucial element that young people 

need in order to build sustainable 

businesses. Experienced business 

people who have been though 

thick and thin can provide guidance 

and mentorship to young 

people, something that one can 

never learn from any college or 

read from any book. 

It is known that business is 

risky. Only one or two in 10 new 

ventures succeed to become real 

and profitable businesses. This 

means the average person will 

fail nine times before they create 

a successful business. It is therefore 

best to start as early as possible. 

The sooner one starts, the 

more time they have to fail and 

learn before they assume a lot of 

responsibilities associated with 

growing up. 

The economic environment has 

changed. The industrial age has 

passed. Big businesses are scaling 

down. Small, agile and highly 

innovative businesses are the 

drivers of the new economy. This 

is because they can quickly adapt 

to meet the needs of informed and 

highly selective customers. The 

Ashish Thakkar... He left school when he was 15 years old to start a business. 

days of Henry Ford’s “You can 

have it in any colour you want as 

long as it is black” are long gone. 

Customers now know what they 

want and the internet enables 

them to get it from anywhere in 

the world. 

These are exciting times for 

young entrepreneurs. Your business 

doesn’t have to be confined to 

this country only. You can do business 

all over the world via the internet. 

Just recently I flashed a 

message looking for a freelance 

graphic designer for one of my 

projects. Someone on the internet 

offered to do it for a very reasonable 

fee all the way in Mexico. So 

opportunities are clearly unlimited 

to get into entrepreneurship 

now. 

I encourage young people today 

to spend their time reading about 

business and entrepreneurship. 

Find your talent and use it to build 

a business. Learn a lot about business 

management. Don’t think of 

joining the job lines after school. 

Think, instead, of how you will 

create jobs for others. 

You will find more resources on 

entrepreneurship and business 

on my website http://smebusineslink.com. 

• Phillip Chichoni is a business 

development consultant who 

works with SMEs and entrepreneurs. 

You may contact him 

by email, chichonip@smebusinesslink.com. 

You can also visit 

http://smebusinesslink.com

Regional News 


‘Springs monster’ slits 

wrists after bail refusal 

The court heard 

graphic details of how 

the man allegedly 

imprisoned the 

children aged 

between two and 16 

Johannesburg — A South 

African man, who allegedly 

held his wife and children 

captive in their home 

for several years, slit his wrists after 

he was denied bail, police say. 

The businessman (36), who faces 

charges including attempted 

murder, allegedly tortured his relatives 

in the normally quiet community 

of Springs. 

It is reported that the case of the 

“Springs monster” has shocked 

South Africa’s “Springs monster“ slits wrists after bail refusal. 

and angered many South Africans. 

This is the second such case to 

have been uncovered this week. 

Another man was arrested and 

accused of chaining his children 

inside a hostel room in the township 

of Alexandra, north of Johannesburg. 

Outside court in Springs, local 

people protested, demanding that 

he should not be released on bail. 

The court denied his bail application, 

saying he may interfere 

with the investigation if not detained. 

Our correspondent says Springs, 

a largely conservative community, 

has been turned on its head, as it 

seem incomprehensible to many 

that the alleged atrocities happened 

and went undetected for so 

long. 

The police confirmed that the 

man was taken to a nearby hospital 

after he used a razor to slit 

his wrists moments after a magistrate 

turned down his bail plea. 

He has been placed under police 

guard. 

The man, whose name has been 

withheld to protect the identity of 

his family, allegedly kept his wife 

and five children locked inside for 

several years. 

Beeld newspaper reported that 

the children were shocked with 

electric wires and burnt with a 

blow torch. 

Police found the house full of 

chains, blow torches, ropes and 

pornographic DVDs at the house 

when the man was apprehended. 

The paper reported that the 

house was expensively furnished, 

but the children were often expected 

to sleep together on one 

dirty bed. 

The court heard graphic details 

of how the man allegedly imprisoned 

the children — aged between 

two and 16. 

The state presented two witnesses 

at the two-day bail application. 

Forensic expert Gerhard Labuschagne 

said he had a brief 

meeting with the accused last 

week after his arrest. 

He submitted that the accused 

had done things to his wife and 

children that were “tantamount 

to torture”. 

Neighbours have told local 

newspapers they did not even 

know of the children’s existence 

until they were found last Tuesday. 

The man was arrested after one 

of the children fled the house after 

his father allegedly threatened 

to kill him and alerted a neighbour. 

His 11-year-old son alleged that 

his father had strung him up by 

the wrists for two days using a 

rope. When asked to be set free, 

his father is said to have used teargas 

on him. 

Investigating officer Rudolf 

Jansen told the court: “There 

were live rats and rat droppings 

in the kitchen of the house.” 

Further charges, including 

one of rape, were expected to be 

brought against him after allegations 

that he had forcefully had 

sex with his wife. 

Other charges of statutory rape 

are under investigation after a 

medical report revealed that the 

16-year-old daughter was sexually 

active despite having never left 

the house. —BBC 

Climate change exposes grave of World War 2 Japanese soldiers 

Rising sea levels have disturbed 

the skeletons of soldiers 

killed on the Marshall Islands 

during World War Two. 

Speaking at UN climate talks 

in Bonn, the Island’s foreign minister 

said that high tides had exposed 

one grave with 26 dead. 

The minister said the bones 

were most likely those of Japanese 

troops. 

Driven by global warming, waters 

in this part of the Pacific 

have risen faster than the global 

average. 

With a high point just two metres 

above the waters, the Marshall 

Islands are one of the most 

vulnerable locations to changes in 

sea level. 

These last spring tides in February 

to April this year have caused 

not just inundation and flooding 

of communities but have also undermined 

regular land, so that 

even the dead are affected” 

The 29 atolls that make up the 

Marshall Islands are home to 

around 70 000 people. The corals 

that have formed the island chain 

are highly vulnerable to the surrounding 

seas. 

The waters are not just threatening 

to overwhelm their defences, 

they are eroding roads while 

the salt makes the land infertile. 

Now the waters are posing a 

new, macabre challenge. 

“These last spring tides in February 

to April this year have 

caused not just inundation and 

flooding of communities but have 

also undermined regular land, so 

that even the dead are affected,” 

said foreign minister Tony De 

Brum, speaking on the sidelines 

of the UN climate negotiations. 

“There are coffins and dead 

people being washed away from 

graves, it’s that serious.” 

He gave details of an island in 

his constituency where a mass 

grave with 26 bodies had been exposed. 

“We think they are Japanese 

soldiers, no broken bones, no indication 

of war, we think maybe suicide,” 

he said. 

The Islands were occupied by 

the Japanese during World War 

Two, until they were driven out by 

US forces. 

In the years that followed the 

Islands were subject to dozens of 

nuclear weapons tests. 

Now, according to their political 

leaders, they face an existential 

threat from global warming that 

is expanding the seas that surround 

them. 

According to a recent report 

from the UN Environment Programme, 

sea level is rising in the 

Pacific around the Marshall’s at a 

much higher rate than elsewhere 

in the world. The rate of rise between 

1993 and 2009 was 12mm per 

year, compared with the global average 

of 3,2mm. 

De Brum urged his fellow ministers 

attending these talks to 

“commit to commit” on the issue 

of curbing carbon emissions. 

The negotiators here are trying 

to develop a negotiating text that 

will form the basis of a new global 

treaty to be signed next year. 

Ministers are aiming to publish 

their commitments to cut carbon 

by the spring of 2015 at the latest, 

but they have still not agreed on 

what should be included in these 

so-called nationally determined 

contributions (NDCs). 

They have another opportunity 

to get it done, at a critical meeting 

in Peru in December. 

“The NDCs are a very key element 

in the negotiation,” said Manuel 

Pulgar-Vidal, who remains 

confident that a deal can be done. 

But everything, he says, needs to 

speed up. 

“People, I’m sure are recognising 

that Lima is the last opportunity, 

to have something strong 

to move towards Paris to have an 

agreement.” 

A continuing problem is the 

question of how much responsibility 

for cutting emissions 

should rest on the shoulders of 

the emerging economies. 

China, India and others are 

keen to stick to the UN formula 

of “common but differentiated 

responsibilities” meaning that 

the richer nations do most of the 

heavy lifting. 

But the developed countries 

want to change this to take account 

of economic development. 

A street in the Marshall Islands capital city Majuro. 

Graves sit along the coastline of the Marshall Islands. 

Speaking in Bonn, EU climate 

commissioner Connie Hedegaard 

said these talks cannot continue 

with an interpretation that reflects 

the last century and not this 

one. 

“We cannot continue with the 

old firewall thinking to be blunt. 

This is not a static thing. One 

country's fair share must also depend 

on where they are in terms 

of economic development.” 

Solving this issue will be key 

to any form of agreement that 

emerges from this process. —BBC


International News 

Egypt turns 

to Western 

economic 

advisors 

Officials forecast economic growth at just 3,2% 

in the fiscal year that begins July 1 

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi 

CAIRO/LONDON — 

Western advisers are 

drawing up plans for 

reshaping the Egyptian 

economy, sources 

said, with the apparent blessing 

of president-elect Abdel Fattah 

al-Sisi who so far has spoken only 

vaguely in public about reviving 

the state’s finances. 

The driving force behind the 

consulting project is the United 

Arab Emirates, which along with 

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait has 

showered Egypt with billions of 

dollars in aid since Sisi removed 

the Muslim Brotherhood from 

power last year, sources familiar 

with the exercise and businessmen 

said. 

If Egypt were to accept reforms 

proposed by US consultancy Strategy& 

and international invest- 

JERUSALEM — The prime 

minister and president of Israel 

both spoke with Abdel Fattah 

al-Sisi on Friday to congratulate 

him on his victory in Egyptian 

presidential elections and 

to stress the importance of bilateral 

ties. 

The separate phone calls 

came two days before Sisi was 

due to be installed in office following 

his comprehensive ballot-box 

win last month. 

Neither Prime Minister Benjamin 

Netanyahu nor President 

Shimon Peres spoke with 

the previous Egyptian head of 

state, the Muslim Brotherhood 

leader Mohamed Mursi, who 

was toppled from power last 

ment bank Lazard, this could be 

used as a basis for re-opening talks 

on a loan deal with the International 

Monetary Fund which ousted 

Islamist President Mohamed 

Mursi failed to seal, unwilling to 

impose unpopular reforms. 

Gulf allies opposed to the Muslim 

Brotherhood have extended a 

lifeline exceeding US$12 billion in 

cash and petroleum products to help 

Egypt stave off economic collapse. 

The hiring of Lazard and Strategy& 

— formerly called Booz & 

Company — suggests the Gulf 

states want to ensure aid is spent 

efficiently in a country where 

past leaders with military backgrounds 

have often mismanaged 

the economy. 

“UAE are involved in the process, 

as they are among the country’s 

lenders. Lending money is 

Israeli leaders congratulate Sisi 

not enough in itself. You also need 

to make sure the government has 

the means to identify what needs 

to change and execute it,” said 

one of the sources familiar with 

the situation. 

An IMF deal could help to inspire 

confidence among foreign 

investors who have been unnerved 

by three years of turmoil 

and a range of other problems 

ranging from costly energy subsidies 

to a lack of transparency in 

economic management. 

It’s unclear if Sisi, who stood 

down as military chief in March 

before winning a presidential 

election last month, has met the 

Western consulting companies. 

But advisers to the man who has 

been de facto leader of Egypt 

since Mursi’s fall have almost certainly 

been closely involved in the 

project, which has been underway 

year by Sisi following street protests. 

“Prime Minister Netanyahu 

noted to the Egyptian presidentelect 

the strategic importance 

of ties between the countries 

and in sustaining the peace accords 

between them,” the Israeli 

leader’s office said in a statement. 

Peres’s office said that at 

the end of their conversation: 

“President Sisi thanked President 

Peres for his warm words.” 

Egypt and Israel signed a historic 

peace treaty in 1979, an accord 

seen by the West as a cornerstone 

of regional stability in 

the Middle East. 

Although Mursi never threatened 

to renounce the treaty, Israeli 

officials were relieved to 

see an end to his Muslim Brotherhood 

rule and say that security 

along the shared border in 

the Sinai has improved markedly 

over the past year. 

“Israel is committed to maintain 

the peace treaty between Israel 

and Egypt and to strengthening 

the cooperation between 

our nations,” Peres’s office said. 

It was not immediately clear 

if any Israelis would be invited 

to Sisi’s inauguration. The new 

Israeli ambassador has not yet 

presented his diplomatic credentials 

in Cairo, meaning that 

he has not been handed an invitation, 

officials said. — Reuters 

for several months. 

The discussions are the strongest 

indication that Sisi may restructure 

an economy suffering 

from corruption, red tape, high 

unemployment and a widening 

budget deficit aggravated by the 

fuel subsidies that cost nearly 

US$19 billion a year. 

Officials forecast economic 

growth at just 3,2% in the fiscal 

year that begins July 1, well below 

levels needed to create enough 

jobs for a rapidly growing population 

and ease widespread poverty. 

The consultants have assigned 

sector teams to look at issues 

such as privatisations and other 

reforms, said the source. 

The toughest problem will be 

the energy subsidies. Raising fuel 

and electricity prices could provoke 

unrest in a country where 

street protests have helped to depose 

two leaders in three years. 

“This should be changed but 

that’s a political decision. Lazard 

and Booz can only make recommendations 

but in the end the government 

will decide,” said the source. 

Interim president Adly Mansour 

suggested in April that Egypt 

was open to resuming privatisation 

of state firms, a policy pursued 

by President Hosni Mubarak 

before his fall in 2011. 

Timing of the announcement 

of any reforms was “a political 

decision,” the source said, adding 

that it was not clear whether the 

government would announce anything 

before parliamentary elections 

expected later this year. 

A spokeswoman for Strategy&, 

which was acquired by Price Waterhouse 

Coopers in April, said 

she could not comment. A spokesman 

for Lazard also declined to 

comment. 

However, UAE minister of state 

Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, who handles 

aid to Cairo, said his country 

is “providing Egypt with technical 

support for the development 

of an economic recovery plan”. 

In a statement emailed to Reuters, 

he said the assistance the UAE 

had provided included work by 

“world-renowned consultancies”, 

without giving further details. 

The Gulf allies have indicated 

they will continue to support the 

new government, with Saudi Arabia 

hosting a donor conference 

shortly after Sisi takes office today. 

During his election campaign, 

Sisi did not spell out how he would 

steer Egypt’s economy. 

But businessmen who have met 

Sisi say his calls for “hard work” 

were a signal he was willing to consider 

the kind of austerity measures 

that past leaders have avoided. 

The project began well before Sisi’s 

election. “Booz has been working 

for the past seven months on a 

reform plan in collaboration with 

the Egyptian military,” said Tarek 

Zakaria Tawfik, deputy chairman 

of the Federation of Egyptian Industries 

(FEI), who said he talked 

with the consultants this year and 

met Sisi in May. 

Although Sisi won strong public 

support for removing Mursi, 

failure to revitalise the economy 

could quickly strip away his popularity 

and bring Egyptians back 

onto the streets. 

The military, which has a budget 

shielded from public oversight, 

has accrued a business empire 

ranging from bottled water to 

petrol stations. It is regarded as 

effective in implementing largescale 

projects such as those funded 

by the UAE since Mursi’s overthrow. 

An army spokesman was not 

immediately available for comment. 

— Reuters 

Nigerian newspapers accuse army of seizing copies 

YENAGOA Nigeria — Three 

Nigerian newspapers said 

the army seized parts 

of their Friday print-runs and 

stopped distribution vans across 

the country, with one accusing the 

military of a rare crackdown on 

the media. 

The Ministry of Defence said 

soldiers had searched a number 

of vehicles for unspecified sensitive 

material that it had heard was 

being transported with the newsprint, 

but insisted it had no intention 

of stopping the newspapers 

themselves. 

The Punch, a widely-read daily, 

reported on its website that distribution 

of its edition and other 

newspapers had been disrupted at 

Lagos airport and other hubs in 

moves “reminiscent of military 

dictatorship in the country”. 

Staff from The Nation and Leadership 

papers said some of their 

vans had also been halted without 

explanation. 

Nigeria came out of years of 

military dictatorship in 1999 and 

is now widely-admired for its outspoken 

free press, with columnists 

and cartoonists regularly lambasting 

leading figures, including 

President Goodluck Jonathan 

himself. 

The army has faced particularly 

harsh criticism for its handling 

of a mounting Islamist insurgency 

in the northeast and its efforts 

to free more than 200 schoolgirls 

abducted by Boko Haram militants. 

Earlier this week the Defence 

Ministry issued a statement denying 

local media reports that some 

of its senior officers had been 

court-martialed on charges of 

backing the rebels. 

Defence headquarters said the 

newspaper searches “followed intelligence 

report indicating movement 

of materials with grave security 

implications across the 

country using the channel of 

newsprint-related consignments,” 

without going into further details. 

The newspapers said on Friday 

they had been given no explanation 

for the stoppages. The Nation’s 

edition led on suggestions 

from an unnamed source that 

the government might be ready 

to free detained insurgents in exchange 

for the adducted girls. 

—Reuters



(Left) Sister Cristina sings with Kyle Minogue; (right) she shows some moves on stage 

with some dancers 

Singing nun wins The Voice final 

Sister Cristina attracted the attention of 

Whoopi Goldberg, the star of the comedy 

Sister Act 

A 

young nun who became 

an internet sensation after 

appearing on Italy’s 

version of The Voice, 

has won the finals of the TV talent 

contest. 

Sister Cristina Scuccia, wearing 

her nun’s habit and with a 

crucifix around her neck, thanked 

God for her victory. 

Her rendition of Alicia Keys’ 

ballad No One has already received 

more than 50 million hits 

on YouTube. 

The 25-year-old says she believes 

her songs express “the 

beauty of God”. 

“My presence here is not up 

to me, it’s thanks to the man upstairs!” 

she said after being declared 

the show’s winner. 

“I’m not here to start a career 

but because I want to impart a 

message.” 

Sister Cristina added that she 

was following Pope Francis’s calls 

for a Catholic Church that is closer 

to ordinary people. 

She then recited the Lord’s 

Prayer on stage. 

Speaking ahead of Thursday’s 

live final, she attributed her popularity 

to a “thirst for joy, for love, 

for a message that is beautiful and 

pure”. 

Sister Cristina, whose religious 

order is based in Milan, said she 

would happily go back to singing 

with children in chapel. 

She first impressed judges in a 

blind audition in the initial stages 

of the competition in March. 

When they discovered their surprising 

selection, she said: “I have 

a gift and I am giving it to you.” 

Her popularity has risen in Italy, 

a mainly Catholic country, as 

well as around the world. 

Her performances on the show 

have included a version of Cyndi 

Lauper’s Girls Just Want To Have 

Fun and Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A 

Prayer. 

She has even attracted the attention 

of Whoopi Goldberg, the 

star of the comedy Sister Act, who 

tweeted a link to one of her appearances, 

saying: “For when you 

want a taste of sister act!”—BBC 

United Nations Development Programme 

PROCUREMENT NOTICE 

Empowered lives. 

Resilient Nations 

Lupita Nyong’o 

Lupita to star 

in Americanah 

OSCAr-WInnInG actress Lupita 

nyong’o is to star in and produce 

an adaptation of nigerian author 

Chimamanda ngozi Adichie’s acclaimed 

novel Americanah. 

It will be made by Brad Pitt’s company 

Plan B, producers of 12 Years a 

Slave — which won nyong’o an Oscar 

in February. 

Americanah centres on two nigerians 

who fall in love, but find themselves 

separated by immigration issues. 

In a statement, nyong’o said it was 

an “honour to bring Adichie’s brilliant 

book to the screen”. 

Americanah, which follows lovers 

Ifemelu and Obinze, won the prestigious 

US national Book Critics Circle 

Award in 2013. 

It was selected as one of the 10 best 

books of the year by the New York 

Times Book Review, the BBC and 

Newsday. It was also on the shortlist 

for this week’s Baileys Prize for 

Women’s Fiction in the UK, but lost 

out to Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is A 

Half-Formed Thing. 

“Page after page I was struck by 

Ifemelu and Obinze’s stories, whose 

experiences as African immigrants 

are so specific and also so imminently 

relatable,” said nyong’o. 

“It is a thrilling challenge to tell a 

truly international story so full of 

love, humour and heart.” 

Adichie’s award-winning novels 

include Purple Hibiscus and Half 

of a Yellow Sun, which was recently 

made into a film starring Thandie 

newton and 12 Years a Slave star 

Chiwetel Ejiofor. 

nyong’o became an overnight star 

with her performance in 12 Years a 

Slave, winning this year’s best supporting 

actress Academy Award. 

Earlier this week, it was announced 

that she was to join the cast 

of the latest Star Wars film.— BBC



Poroshenko 

promises 

united Ukraine 

Kiev — Ukraine’s new 

president Petro Poroshenko 

said his country 

would never give up 

Crimea and would not compromise 

on its course towards closer 

ties with Europe, spelling out 

a combative and defiant message 

to Russia in his inaugural speech 

yesterday. 

The 48-year-old billionaire took 

the oath of office before parliament, 

buoyed by Western support 

but facing an immediate crisis in 

relations with Russia as a separatist 

uprising seethes in the east of 

his country. 

Russia annexed the Crimean 

peninsula in March, weeks after 

street protests ousted Poroshenko’s 

pro-Moscow predecessor, Viktor 

Yanukovich, in a move that 

has provoked the deepest crisis in 

relations with the West since the 

Cold War. 

“Citizens of Ukraine will never 

enjoy the beauty of peace unless 

we settle our relations with 

Russia. Russia occupied Crimea, 

which was, is, and will be Ukrainian 

soil,” Poroshenko said in a 

speech that drew a standing ovation. 

He had told this to Russia’s 

Vladimir Putin when the two met 

on Friday at a World War Two anniversary 

ceremony in France, he 

said. 

Poroshenko, who earned his fortune 

as a confectionery entrepreneur 

and is known locally as the 

“Chocolate King”, said he intended 

very soon to sign the economic 

part of an association agreement 

with the European Union, 

as a first step towards full membership. 

This idea is anathema to Moscow, 

which wants to keep Ukraine 

in its own post-Soviet sphere of 

influence. 

His voice swelling with emotion, 

Poroshenko stressed the need for 

a united Ukraine and the importance 

of ending the conflict that 

threatens to further split the country 

of 45 million people. He said it 

would not become a looser federalised 

state, as advocated by Russia. 

“There can be no trade-off about 

Crimea and about the European 

choice and about the governmental 

system. All other things can be 

negotiated and discussed at the negotiation 

table. Any attempts at internal 

or external enslavement of 

Ukraine will meet with resolute 

resistance,” Poroshenko said. 

Poroshenko, Ukraine’s fifth 

president since independence, 

won a landslide election on May 25 

after promising to bridge the eastwest 

divide that has split the country 

and thrust it into a battle for its 

survival. 

Ukrainians hope the election of 

Poroshenko, who is married with 

four children, will bring an end 

to the most tumultuous period in 

their post-Soviet history. 

More than 100 people were shot 

dead by police in Kiev by police in 

the street protests that eventually 

brought Yanukovich down and in 

the east, scores of people, including 

separatist fighters and government 

forces have been killed in 

fighting since April. 

The uprising in the east is not 

the only challenge facing Poroshenko, 

who inherits a country 

on the verge of bankruptcy, still 

dependent on Russia for natural 

gas and rated by watchdogs as one 

of the most corrupt and ill-governed 

states in Europe. 

The forceful speech by Poroshenko, 

who served as foreign 

minister and minister for economic 

development in previous administrations, 

drew an ovation from 

guests and VIPs who included 

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, 

US Vice-President Joe 

Biden and senior EU officials. 

Cheering crowds later greeted 

him on a walk in blazing sunshine 

on the square in front of Kiev’s 

St Sophia’s Cathedral, which was 

decked out with the blue and yellow 

national flags. 

Since Poroshenko’s election, 

government forces have stepped 

up their operations against the 

separatist rebels in eastern 

Ukraine who want to split with 

Kiev and become part of Russia. 

The rebels have fought back, 

turning parts of the Russianspeaking 

east into a war zone. On 

Friday they shot down a Ukrainian 

army plane and killed a member 

of the interior ministry’s 

Special Forces in the separatist 

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko reviews a guard of honour after the inauguration ceremony in Sophia Square in Kiev, Ukraine, 

yesterday. 

A woman votes in the just ended presidential election in the city of Krasnoarmeysk, which is located in the Donetsk region in eastern 

Ukraine. 

stronghold of Slaviansk. 

Poroshenko vowed to have no 

truck with “bandits” but urged 

pro-Moscow separatists to lay 

down their arms, offering a guarantee 

to provide a safe corridor for 

Russian fighters to go home. 

“Please, lay down the guns and 

I guarantee immunity to all those 

who don’t have bloodshed on their 

hands.” 

He spelled out, too, a conciliatory 

message to the people of 

the east. Switching to Russian 

from Ukrainian to address them, 

he said they had been duped by 

myths about Kiev leaders, stoked 

by Russian propaganda and the 

Yanukovich “clan”. He separately 

accused Yanukovich of “financing 

terrorists”. 

He promised to visit the east 

with guarantees of Russian-language 

rights and proposals for 

decentralization that would give 

their regions a bigger say in running 

their own affairs. 

But a jarring message from the 

eastern rebels, who have declared 

their own “people’s republics”, 

spelled out the scale of the separatist 

challenge facing him. 

—Reuters 

China to crack down on policy implementation 

Chinese premier Li Keqiang has expressed displeasure at the 

way local officials execute directives from the top and their 

inaction over the reform agenda 

Beijing — The Chinese government 

yesterday said it 

will deploy eight inspection 

teams across the country to 

investigate how regional governments 

are implementing 

19 central policies and will 

hold accountable those found 

wanting. 

The policies involved range 

widely, from economic development 

to housing and the environment. 

Policy transmission from Beijing 

downward has often been 

a problem in China, with laws 

and regulations sometimes ignored 

or selectively enforced or 

implemented. 

The State Council, China’s 

cabinet, said in a statement 

that despite progress in rolling 

out a string of reform initiatives 

under Premier Li Keqiang 

in the past year, many 

had not been carried out fully 

or delivered the expected results. 

“Responsibility for poor implementation 

of policy measures 

will be investigated, accountability 

will be serious, 

and there will be verbal admonishments, 

criticism or even administrative 

sanctions according 

to laws and regulations,” 

the government said in a directive 

on its website. 

The inspection would run 

from June 25 to July 5 and look 

into the implementation of 19 

policies launched by the State 

Council since July 2013. 

The inspectors would also be 

looking for officials who pass 

the buck, cause delays or are 

lazy, it said. 

“Those who are not willing to 

act for fear of making mistakes 

or who put off their work will 

be brought to book,” the official 

Xinhua news agency said. 

At the top of the list of the areas 

the inspection teams would 

be probing was progress in the 

elimination of administrative 

approvals, widely seen as necessary 

to streamline business 

and boost economic activity. 

Another would be how well 

governments were strengthening 

ecological and environmental 

protections. 

The central government is 

trying to shift away from the 

entrenched development model 

that drove China's economy 

for the past two decades in 

which air, water and soil quality 

were often sacrificed for 

GDP growth, and officials were 

evaluated based on economic 

indicators. 

The inspectors would also be 

checking progress on areas including 

construction of major 

water projects, investment policies 

for non-state companies, 

employment of college graduates, 

construction of affordable 

housing, and efforts to ensure 

that the financial services industry 

supports the real economy. 

—Reuters

Sport 


Drivers must 

solve issues 

— Mercedes 

Co-team boss Paddy Lowe says it is up to the 

drivers to resolve problems like the one that 

arose at the Monaco race. 

M 

ercedes say they are 

not going to get involved 

in any fall-out between 

their drivers Lewis Hamilton and 

Nico rosberg this season. 

co-team boss Paddy Lowe says 

it is up to the drivers to resolve 

problems like the one that arose 

at the Monaco race. 

“I’m not going to spend any 

time managing the relationships 

between the drivers in a direct 

manner,” Lowe said. 

“That’s something they really 

need to work out between themselves. 

It’s not a school playground.” 

The Mercedes team-mates had 

an argument in Monaco, where 

Hamilton believed rosberg deliberately 

left the track in qualifying 

to deny him the chance 

of claiming pole position for the 

race, which the German went on 

to win. 

Hamilton has since phoned rosberg 

to resolve the issue ahead of 

this weekend’s canadian Grand 

Prix. 

Lowe runs the technical and 

sporting sides of the Mercedes F1 

team, while Mercedes sports boss 

Toto Wolff looks after the business 

and political aspects. 

Lowe said: “The great thing is 

they’re both mature guys. 

At loggerheads . . . Lewis Hamilton (Left)and Nico Rosberg 

“They’re very competitive, 

which is why sometimes there 

is friction. They have had various 

conversations with each other 

over the last 10 days, unprompted 

by any of the management 

and have come back here in great 

shape. 

“The main point is what happens 

on the track. 

“There were various issues in 

Monaco that one might describe 

as relationship issues, but there 

were no team or technical issues.” 

Lowe said he and Wolff had always 

been clear with the drivers 

that they would be allowed to race 

freely this season. 

“Toto and I sat down with both 

drivers before Australia and laid 

out what we wanted if the car 

was in a position to win races, 

we wanted them both to have an 

equal chance and we weren’t going 

to control the race,” Lowe 

said. 

“It was very important they 

could race each other without instructions 

or commands to hold 

position because that is unsatisfactory. 

“We have a bit of paper with 

various strategies written down 

and that’s what we work to. You 

always have to have these rules of 

engagement between the two drivers. 

“A good example is qualifying. 

There is a very second-order difference 

in the order you may run 

in Q3. 

“I’s not always best to go last 

but it can be best to go last. You 

might decide it’s best to go first. 

“To make it fair we alternate 

who has the choice as to which order 

they want to run from race to 

race. That’s an example of a rule 

we have and then it’s very clear 

for each driver.” 

— BBCSport 

Justin Rose drawn 

with Phil Mickelson 

in US Open defence 

Sir Bradley Wiggins says he will not be competing in this year’s Tour de France 

Wiggins set to miss 2014 Tour de France 

sIr Bradley Wiggins says he will 

not be competing in this year’s 

Tour de France “as things stand”. 

The four-time Olympic gold 

medallist (34), won the Tour in 

2012 but was absent last year as 

fellow Brit and Team sky colleague 

chris Froome triumphed. 

Wiggins said: “The team is focused 

around chris Froome. 

“I am gutted. I feel I am in the 

form I was two years ago. Now if 

I want to go to the Tour again, the 

reality is that I might have to go 

elsewhere.” 

He added: “I also understand 

that cycling is a team sport and 

it is all about Team sky winning 

and chris is defending champion. 

“If he crashes [in next week’s 

criterium du dauphine warmup 

race] there’d still be a chance 

I could come into the team. As it 

stands, all being well, chris staying 

fit and healthy that’s the team 

that’ll roll out.” 

With his contract expiring this 

year, Wiggins said he is considering 

his future at Team sky, adding 

he had “spoken to a few people” as 

he explores his options. 

The London 2012 time trial gold 

medallist had planned to switch 

back to track cycling at the end 

of this season in a bid to compete 

for Great Britain at the 2016 Olympics 

in rio. 

But he said: “Having missed the 

Tour again this year, I wouldn’t 

like to leave it there. I’d love to go 

back at some point so there is the 

chance that I would go back to the 

Tour next year.” 

Wiggins has already won three 

Olympic gold medals on the track. 

He won the individual pursuit at 

Athens 2004 and both the individual 

and team pursuit at the Beijing 

Games in 2008. 

He and Froome are competing 

in different warm-up events 

ahead of the three-week Tour de 

France, which starts in Yorkshire 

on July 5. 

Froome (29), will start the weeklong 

criterium du dauphine, a 

race he won in 2013, on a sunday. 

Wiggins, who won the dauphine 

in 2011 and 2012 on his way to becoming 

the first British Tour de 

France champion, will race in 

the Tour of switzerland between 

June 14-22. 

Froome is part of an eightman 

team for the dauphine, with 

last year’s runner-up richie Porte, 

Vasil Kiryienka, david Lopez, 

Mikel Nieve, danny Pate, Geraint 

Thomas and Xabier Zandio completing 

the squad. 

“For the dynamic of the team, 

chris has a say, and we haven’t 

raced together all year,” said Wiggins. 

“When you’re in the heat of 

the moment, you need guys you 

can trust and who have been there 

for you.” 

Froome’s seven support riders 

for the dauphine are likely 

to form the bulk of the nine men 

who will make up Team sky’s 

Tour de France squad. 

However, Team sky boss sir 

dave Brailsford said he will use 

both races to pick his final line-up 

for the world’s most prestigious 

cycling race. — BBCSport 

eNGLANd’s Justin rose has 

been drawn to play with Phil 

Mickelson as he begins the defence 

of his Us Open title at Pinehurst 

on June 12. 

Open champion Mickelson finished 

joint second at Merion 12 

months ago in the only Major the 

American has not won. 

The pair will play with sheffield’s 

Us Amateur champion 

Matt Fitzpatrick. 

Irishman rory McIlroy tees off 

from the 10 th with 2010 winner and 

fellow Northern Irishman Graeme 

Mcdowell and 2012 champion 

Webb simpson. 

The Us Open provided McIlroy 

with his first Major title when he 

won at congressional in 2011. 

For the first time in four years, 

organisers avoided the temptation 

to put the top three players in the 

Justin Rose (left) has been drawn to play with Phil Mickelson 

world rankings together, a popular 

ploy that had generated plenty 

of hype and attracted huge galleries 

during previous Us Opens. 

While world number one Adam 

scott and third ranked Bubba 

Watson have been grouped together 

with 2011 Masters winner 

charl schwartzel, world number 

two swede Henrik stenson will 

play in the company of American 

Matt Kuchar and england’s Lee 

Westwood. 

spain’s sergio Garcia begins 

his bid for a first major title alongside 

Australia’s Jason day and 

American Brandt snedeker. 

Three of golf's youngest stars 

have also been drawn together, 

the grouping of Jordan spieth, 

Hideki Matsuyama and rickie 

Fowler having a combined age of 

just 67. — BBCSport


Sport 

Chelsea to sign Costa before World Cup 

Chelsea have met the 

buyout clause in the 

25-year-old’s contract 

but are understood to 

be frustrated at a lack 

of progress. 

Chelsea are keen to complete 

the £32m signing of atletico Madrid 

striker Diego Costa before 

the start of the World Cup next 

Thursday. 

Chelsea have met the buyout 

clause in the 25-year-old’s contract 

but are understood to be frustrated 

at a lack of progress. 

a club source said: “Chelsea 

look forward to entering into formal 

transfer documentation with 

atletico Madrid as soon as possible 

so that the player can concentrate 

on the World Cup.” 

Chelsea want to complete the 

deal over the weekend or very early 

next week, at the latest, to avoid 

the player facing distraction during 

the World Cup. 

The source added: “Chelsea 

have made an offer to atletico Madrid 

in compliance with the buyout 

terms in Diego Costa’s contract. 

“We have been advised that 

the player has invoked a buyout 

Diego Costa in action for his Spanish side against Chelsea in the Champions League recently 

clause and directed the club to accept 

Chelsea’s offer.” 

Costa scored 36 goals in 52 

games for atletico last season as 

they won their first la liga title 

since 1996 and reached the Champions 

league final. 

The Brazil-born forward is in 

spain’s World Cup squad and 

could feature in their opening 

game against the Netherlands on 

Friday June 13. 

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho 

said in May that the addition 

of a “killer” striker would be 

a key priority during the summer. 

The london club scored 71 

goals in the Premier league this 

season, 31 fewer than champions 

Manchester City, who finished 

four points ahead of them. 

Chelsea strikers samuel eto’o, 

Fernando Torres and Demba Ba 

contributed a total of 19 of those 

in the league, with 33-year-old 

eto’o, now a free agent, scoring 

nine of them. 

“We have to try to win as a team, 

to improve as a team, but also add 

the attacking player with that killer 

instinct,” Mourinho said last 

month. 

Mourinho will hope that Costa 

will go some way towards addressing 

that problem having enjoyed 

a prolific campaign with 

atletico. 

Costa scored 27 goals in la liga 

and only finished third behind 

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo 

(31) and Barcelona’s lionel Messi 

(28) on the list of top goalscorers. 

The striker also scored against 

Chelsea from the penalty spot in 

the semi-finals of the Champions 

league, one of his eight goals in 

the tournament, as atletico came 

from behind to win 3-1 at stamford 

Bridge. 

Costa was born and raised in 

Brazil and made two friendly appearances 

for them last year before 

he became a naturalised 

spaniard. 

— BBCSport 

Alex delighted 

by Milan move 

alex has expressed his delight 

at joining aC Milan from Paris 

saint-Germain. 

The 31-year-old Brazilian has 

penned a two-year contract with 

the Rossoneri. his previous deal 

with PsG was set to expire at the 

end of the month. 

“I am very pleased to be at Milan,” 

alex told his new club’s official 

website. “[Former Milan players] 

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago 

silva have spoken positively of 

this club. 

“I played for [ex-Milan coach 

Carlo] ancelotti at Chelsea and 

at PsG too, he is fantastic and almost 

like a father so I thank him 

for the good things he has said 

about me. 

“I want to start training hard to 

start the season in the best way. 

“I want to make sure that we 

have a good year and get Milan 

back into the Champions league. 

“I am really excited to wear the 

Milan shirt and I am ready to battle 

for the club and the team. Forza, 

Milan!” 

— Kickoff 

Long servant: Rio Ferdinand (with the ball) is set to leave United on a free transfer following 12 years at Old Trafford 

Ferdinand set to snub Villa 

asToN Villa have sounded out 

Rio Ferdinand over a possible 

move to Villa Park. 

however, the 35-year-old free 

agent is understood to be reluctant 

to make the move to the Midlands 

and is weighing up options 

in london where he has re-located 

his family, with QPR, Crystal Palace 

and West ham showing initial 

interest. 

Ferdinand was spotted in alderley 

edge in Cheshire on Friday 

enjoying some lunch and shopping. 

Villa signed Philippe senderos 

on Thursday to add experience to 

their squad but are looking at other 

bargain deals also. 

Ferdinand, who had considered 

retiring to take up more television 

work, is ready for one last 

crack at the Premier league after 

an inauspicious final season at old 

Trafford with Manchester United. 

Tottenham have also been credited 

with an interest and they 

would be Ferdinand’s preferred 

choice but Mauricio Pochettino is 

still weighing up his squad before 

making any decisions. 

Galtasaray and la Galaxy are 

also interested in Ferdinand. 

Meanwhile, Football league 

clubs have “no appetite” for Football 

association chairman Greg 

Dyke’s plan to set up a new tier for 

Premier league B teams. 

Dyke presented his proposals 

aimed at improving the future of 

the english game to club owners 

and executives. 

But Football league chief executive 

shaun harvey says it was not 

popular. 

“It’s fair to say there is no appetite 

among clubs for the use of B 

teams or strategic loan Partnerships 

in the football pyramid,” he 

said. 

Dyke warns that failure to adopt 

his plans to improve english football 

could lead to a bleak future for 

homegrown talent. 

at the heart of the Fa commission’s 

four-point plan is the creation 

of a new tier within the Football 

league to accommodate Premier 

league B teams. 

— Daiymail/BBCSport 

Isaacs hits out 

at Bidvest Wits 

BIDVesT Wits striker erwin Isaacs 

has hit out at the club’s decision to 

exercise the one-year option on his 

contract, which was set to expire 

this month. 

Isaacs has seen little game-time 

for Wits over the past two years, 

making just three starts and eight 

substitute appearances in the 

league in 2013/14. 

“I am not happy because they 

knew that I wanted to leave, that’s 

why they are doing this to me,” 

Isaacs tells KickOff.com. 

“They told my agent that I’m 

part of the coach’s plans, but so if 

I’m part of the plans I’ll play every 

game. last season I never played a 

lot of games, how can I be part of 

the plans if I’m not playing?” 

The former santos star says that 

when he returns to Johannesburg 

for pre-season training, he’s planning 

to have a meeting with coach 

Gavin hunt regarding a move away 

from the club. 

“When I get back to Johannesburg 

I’m going to speak to the coach 

and tell him that I’m not happy, and 

the club should let me go on loan or 

rather sell me,” he says. 

“I’m not going to stay there, I 

made up my mind a long time go. 

I want to play and I can’t sit another 

season on the bench, plus I can’t 

play Gavin style.” — Kickoff

Sport 


Germany’s 

Reus out of 

World Cup 

M 

arco reus has been 

ruled out of the World 

cup after suffering an ankle 

injury in Germany’s 6-1 friendly 

win over armenia. 

The Borussia Dortmund midfielder 

(25), sustained a partial 

tear on an ankle ligament and is 

expected to be out for six or seven 

weeks. 

“For him and for us this is extremely 

regrettable,” said Germany 

coach Joachim Low. 

Sampdoria defender Shkodran 

Mustafi has replaced reus in Germany’s 

squad. 

Miroslav Klose became Germany’s 

record goalscorer in a comfortable 

win against armenia. 

Klose (35), came off the bench to 

head in his 69 th international goal 

as Joachim Low’s side found some 

rampant form in the final 20 minutes. 

But reus, who was in tears as he 

left the pitch, picked up an ankle injury 

and will now not fly to Brazil. 

armenia were level with 20 minutes 

to go before Germany hit lethal 

form. 

a goalless first-half ended with 

Borussia Dortmund forward reus 

going over an ankle and being replaced 

by arsenal’s Lukas Podolski. 

Podolski made the opener for 

chelsea’s andre Schurrle early in 

the second half, Schurrle flicking 

in with a delightful backheel at the 

near post. 

arsenal’s record signing Mesut 

ozil hit a post after a lovely move 

but Germany were then embarrassed 

when substitute Kevin 

Grosskreutz gave away a penalty 

immediately after coming on, 

bringing down Dortmund teammate 

Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who 

scored from the spot. 

The upset was on but a flurry of 

four goals in 10 minutes killed armenia 

off. First Podolski ran on to 

ozil’s lovely pass and swept home 

left-footed, defender Benedikt 

Howedes scored at the second attempt 

and then crossed for Klose 

to head in and eclipse Gerd Muller’s 

long-standing national team 

record. 

Klose is the only out-and-out 

striker in the German squad and 

can become the leading scorer in 

World cup history with two goals 

in Brazil. 

another substitute, Mario Gotze, 

then helped himself to a late brace, 

firing in from another Podolski 

pass before burying the loose ball 

after good work from Grosskreutz. 

— BBCSport 

Down and out . . . Borussia Dortmund forward Marco Reus 

Capello has point to prove 

FaBio capello (pictured) has a 

point to prove as he leads russia 

to their first World cup appearance 

in 12 years. 

The russians did not qualify for 

South africa four years ago after 

losing a playoff to Slovenia, but 

the italian was there as England’s 

head coach. 

Having arrived full of hope, 

England and capello suffered a 

tournament to forget, the 67-yearold 

italian guiding his team to 

just one victory before bowing out 

4-1 to Germany in the last 16, their 

heaviest ever defeat in the finals. 

capello was criticised by the 

English media not only for the results 

and style of play, but also for 

the strict discipline he installed 

at the team’s training camp in 

rustenburg. 

The former italian international 

is a lover of fine art and in particular 

Wassily Kandinsky so it 

was fitting that his next job was 

to be in the land of the painter’s 

birth, russia. 

in his own way, capello has 

stamped his authority on the 

team and, at the same time, been 

well-received by the players, fans 

and media. 

He is thoroughly studious and 

this has certainly paid dividends 

with the russian team. a onceleaky 

defence has become almost 

watertight in the last 18 months 

as russia conceded only five goals 

in qualifying. 

at the same time, the team has 

not lost the attacking flair that 

Miroslav Klose became Germany’s record goalscorer in a comfortable win against Armenia. 

was evident under Dutchman 

Guus Hiddink as they scored 20 

goals en route to Brazil. 

Their 4-0 victory at the start of 

the campaign in Tel aviv against 

israel was perhaps their best performance 

since a 3-1 victory over 

the Netherlands in the quarterfinals 

of Euro 2008. 

“i am an optimist. i always try 

to think positively and always 

want more. i always want to reach 

a new level as much as it is possible 

and my players should also 

think in this way,” said capello. 

capello had many critics during 

his time in England, but that 

has not been repeated in russia. 

The former ac Milan and real 

Madrid boss spends considerable 

amounts of time in the country 

and has even been to ice hockey 

games in his free time. 

He signed a new contract to remain 

at the helm of the national 

side until after the 2018 World cup 

in russia. 

He inherited an ageing but talented 

squad from his predecessor, 

Dutchman Dick advocaat, when 

he took over in august 2012 and 

soon made changes. — Supersport 

Portugal needs 

more than Ronaldo 

to flourish — Bento 

PorTuGaL’S troubles in the 

World cup qualifiers have shown 

that they will need a lot more than 

an on-song cristiano ronaldo to 

mount a serious challenge in Brazil. 

although they can beat any team 

on their day, Portugal are prone 

to unexplained lapses and can be 

chronically wasteful in attack. 

Portugal reached Brazil in style 

with ronaldo netting all their goals 

over the two legs of a memorable 4-2 

aggregate playoff win over Sweden. 

But that performance masked a 

difficult qualification campaign in 

which they were held to unexpected 

draws by Northern ireland and 

israel and forced into the drama of 

a two-leg playoff after losing Group 

F’s top spot to russia. 

it could have been even worse had 

ronaldo not dug them out of a hole 

in the match away to Northern ireland, 

scoring a second-half hat-trick 

in a 4-2 win after they had trailed 2-1 

and been reduced to 10 men. 

“We certainly had an inconsistent 

campaign. if that wasn’t the case, 

we wouldn’t have had to contest a 

playoff,” said coach Paulo Bento. 

“Even though we lost one of the 

games against russia, we put in two 

good performances, but there were 

three other matches in which we 

didn’t play so well.” 

Worryingly for Portugal, ronaldo 

has suffered some nagging minor 

injuries in the run-up to the World 

cup and was rested for their friendly 

against Greece in Lisbon and Portugal’s 

training sessions after complaining 

of muscular pain in his left 

thigh. 

after years of basing their game 

around a playmaker, firstly rui costa 

and then Deco, Portugal have 

changed their style to try and get the 

best out of ronaldo. 

although they traditionally play 

a possession game, under Bento 

they have started to mix this with 

long passes into space for ronaldo 

and Nani to run on to. 

after ronaldo, midfielder Joao 

Moutinho has become the most influential 

player in the team. The Monaco 

player is part of a fluid threeman 

midfield triangle which dictates 

the pace, tirelessly recovering 

balls and delivering pinpoint passes. 

Joao Pereira and Fabio coentrao 

are two energetic fullbacks who like 

to burst forward and, in Pepe and 

Bruno alves, they have a fiery, intense 

pair of centre backs, sometimes 

too much so. — BBCSport


Sport 

Kamambo to introduce packages 

But for any chairman of a competitive league, 

leading an unbranded league is not good at all 

By Our Staff 

C 

ENTRAL Region boss Felton 

Kamambo has hinted 

that the league will soon 

introduce sponsorship packages 

in a move aimed at lessening the 

burden on clubs that are facing 

financial problems in running 

their day-to-day businesses. 

Kamambo took over the reins 

as chairman in the fourth Division 

One league which came into 

existence in 2010, early this year 

when he won the post uncontested. 

But for any chairman of a competitive 

league, leading an unbranded 

league is not an easy task. 

Since the inception of the 

league, it has never attracted 

sponsorship, which the soft-spoken 

football administrator said 

they were working flat out to address. 

Kamambo told Standardsport 

that their league started late this 

year because they were still trying 

to finalise a sponsorship deal 

with an international investor 

who kept them waiting. 

“Hope is not lost. Anytime from 

now we will announce our league 

sponsor. As a committee, we have 

discovered that if we wait for a 

sponsorship package that will 

brand the league only, we will not 

have done any good to ourselves 

and the clubs. We have therefore 

decided to introduce the sponsorships 

in packages,” Kamambo 

said. 

He added; “As we wait for our 

potential league sponsor, we went 

on to lure a few other investors to 

assist with sponsorship packages 

that include referees, security, 

awards, administration as well 

as the league’s knockout tournament. 

Everything is almost done, 

what is left is for us to make the 

announcements of sponsors of 

particular sponsorship packages.” 

Kamambo said as the board, 

they had seen it prudent to breakdown 

the sponsorship needs into 

packages so as to attract a number 

of investors. 

“The referees’ package will 

mean that clubs will no longer 

pay referees. Referees will now be 

paid by the office. This also helps 

in transparency, taking away issues 

to do with “referee buying” 

as clubs will not have a chance 

to talk to referees over any payment. 

The same applies to police 

and other security measures 

needed at match venues. 

“We have not been sitting on 

our laurels, we have been running 

around to make sure that as 

a region we have our own knockout 

tournament which we will 

announce soon. At the end of the 

season, we also want to reward 

our outstanding players, so we 

have introduced the awards sponsorship 

package which we hope 

will come as a refreshing development 

to clubs and players.” 

A member of the previous 

board in the region, Kamambo, 

who was fixtures secretary, 

admitted that they had failed 

in their maiden year but added 

there was still an opportunity to 

Central Region boss Felton Kamambo 

improve. 

“I think I used my time in the 

previous board as a learning 

curve. We need to meet certain 

requirements, including having 

our books audited which we 

failed to do in the previous years. 

We are going to have a stakeholders’ 

meeting with all our stakeholders 

where we are going to 

discuss some of these things 

which will help us move forward 

as a region.” 

Kamambo bemoaned the way 

Zimbabwe has been booted out of 

the 2015 Afcon qualifiers. 

“I think this is a wake-up call 

to us as a region. Next season, 

we will also pluck a leaf from 

the Premier Soccer League (PSL) 

and introduce quota system to cater 

for junior players as a way of 

promoting development.” 

“But I think this was a blessing 

in disguise; we have to go back 

to the drawing board and start 

rebuilding for the future. Who 

knows, maybe come 2017, we will 

be a force to reckon with in Africa.” 

Gerrard revels in 

England captaincy 

Fans jeer Brazil in friendly win 

BRAZIL survived a poor first half 

to beat Serbia 1-0 in a warm-up 

friendly on Friday, but their lacklustre 

display was not what the 

home fans expected just six days 

before the World Cup. 

The crowd were booing the 

home side when Fred got the 

only goal of the game in the 57 th 

minute, with the Fluminense forward 

chesting down a cross from 

the right and poking the ball 

home. 

It was a cruel blow to the Serbs, 

who had out-fought their more illustrious 

opponents and created 

the best chances, particularly in 

the first half. 

Brazil looked shaky in the air 

with Aleksandar Mitrovic putting 

a free header wide after 30 minutes 

and Milos Jujic hitting the post 

with a header midway through the 

second half. 

Hulk had the ball in the net for 

Brazil after 73 minutes but the goal 

was ruled out for offside, although 

TV replays showed the decision 

was harsh. Jo later brought out a 

fine finger-tipped save in the closing 

seconds. 

The friendly was Brazil’s last 

before they open the World Cup 

against Croatia at the Corinthians 

arena next week. Brazil are hosting 

the World Cup for the first time 

since 1950 and are in Group A with 

Cameroon, Mexico and Croatia. 

“It was a difficult game today, 

Serbia defended very well,” said 

Brazil playmaker Oscar. “The 

team is going to train, we are getting 

better little by little and we 

hope to be better against Croatia. 

— Supersport 

STEVEN Gerrard will captain England 

at a World Cup for the second 

time, but believes Brazil will be the 

first tournament he holds the role 

“for real” having not felt that previous 

manager Fabio Capello truly believed 

in him as skipper. 

Liverpool midfielder Gerrard captained 

England in South Africa four 

years ago but only after first choice 

Rio Ferdinand was injured and 

John Terry was stripped of the role 

due to the controversy surrounding 

him at the time. 

“Capello didn’t believe in me as 

his number one captain, Roy does. 

I don’t know what it was, I think 

he did believe in me as a player and 

our relationship was totally fine, I 

enjoyed working under him, but at 

the time when he had to pick a captain 

we had Rio Ferdinand here and 

John Terry as well,” Gerrard said 

on Friday. 

“Maybe he thought they were 

going to offer something different 

from me or maybe they were his 

preferred choice which was totally 

up to him. But for me now, I know 

that I’m Roy’s number one captain, 

which is a big confidence boost for 

me,” he said. 

While Gerrard enjoys having the 

full backing of his manager in his 

captaincy skills, he said the formal 

position doesn’t change his behaviour 

as a senior member of a youthful 

squad. 

“I’d have still behaved in the 

same way four years ago [as now]. 

If I wanted to go and put my arm 

around a player or show a bit of authority 

I’d do it in front of John. I’m 

sure he respected that. 

“Just because I’m the captain 

with the armband on I still want the 

likes of Frank Lampard and Wayne 

Rooney and Phil Jagielka to be leaders 

in there with me and backing 

me up and we do it together. But of 

course I’d rather be captain than 

vice-captain for sure,” he added. 

— Supersport

Sport 


Premier Auto 

Services golf 

day a success 

Gwata thanked Premier Auto Services for 

dedicating a day meant to give back to their 

clients and other service providers. 

BY OUR STAFF 

A 

four-ball alliance team 

comprising Zimbabwe 

Open committee chairman 

Livingstone Gwata scooped the 

top prize at the annual Premier 

Auto Services golf day at Royal 

Harare on Friday. 

Other members of the team 

were Caleb Tapfuma, Tsitsi Nhongo 

and Aulia Alfazema. 

Speaking after the awards presentation 

ceremony, Gwata expressed 

delight at the performance 

of his team which had two 

ladies and two gentlemen. 

He thanked Premier Auto Services 

for dedicating a day meant 

to give back to their clients and 

other service providers. 

“I would like to applaud Premier 

Auto Services for their 

good gesture. The organisation 

through their Croco Motors division 

has been in sport for a long 

time, having been a major partner 

in cricket and other disciplines. 

“All in all, it was a memorable 

fun filled day and I am extremely 

happy that my team won,” he 

The winning team . . . (From left) Livingstone Gwata, Caleb Tapfuma, Aulia Alfazema and Tsitsi Nhongo displaying golf bags that they 

were presented with as tokens of appreciation 

said. 

Individual winners on the day 

include John Musekiwa for his 

nearest to pin shot in hole two, 

while Tapfuma produced some 

magic for a nearest to pin on the 

three par signature hole 15. 

Longest drive bragging rights 

for the women category went to 

Alfazema (hole 8) and Caleb Mutabvuri 

(hole 18) in the men’s category. 

The golf day has been running 

since 2010 in honour of Premier 

Auto’s clients and other service 

providers. 

Axcil Jefferies 

sets bar for 

local kart racing 

BY Own CORReSPOndenT 

Ryan Cairns won the Male Professional Golfer of the year accolade 

Zim golf turns new page 

BY MUnYARAdzi MAdzOkeRe 

IT was a momentous occasion on 

Thursday evening as the Zimbabwe 

golf fraternity came together 

for the inaugural 2013 Zimbabwe 

Golf Awards at Chapman 

Golf Club. 

While it was difficult to begrudge 

the winners on the night, 

one cannot help but feel that the 

adjudicating committee was a 

bit “generous” as they tried to 

appease everybody they believed 

deserved special mention. 

As a result, there were justifiably 

six Lifetime Achievement 

awards for iconic individuals 

namely Rodger Baylis, Tesa 

Covell, John Kelly, Steve Matondo, 

Tim Price and Anderson 

Rusike. 

The trio of Brendon de Jonge, 

Tony Johnstone and Nick Price 

received recognition in the International 

Golf Ambassador 

award 2013 while there were also 

multiple winners in the Corporate 

Recognition as well as the 

Golf Achievement categories. 

Undoubtedly, the awards will 

have a positive influence on the 

Zimbabwe golf landscape. 

One of the unsung heroes of 

local golf and legendary coach 

Rodger Baylis shared his sentiments 

with Standardsport. 

“I think here in Zimbabwe we 

are lucky to have people who 

would and can sacrifice a lot to 

the sport without needing any 

recognition or an award in return, 

which is why golf has done 

extremely well over the years 

without this kind of recognition,” 

explained the Zimbabwe 

Golf team coach. 

“However, these awards will go 

a long way in stimulating a lot of 

interest in the sport’s competitiveness 

at every level. We have 

always needed the government 

of Zimbabwe to be involved and 

as you can see, the Honourable 

Deputy Minister Thabeta 

Kanengoni-Malinga was here,” 

he added. 

Baylis also took time to draw 

parallels between Zimbabwean 

and South African golf. 

“Look, it’s just a game of numbers, 

that is where the difference 

is, for every one golfer we have, 

South Africa has 60. We have fantastic 

golfers in this country and 

remember Scott Vincent went to 

South Africa and beat them in 

their backyard countless times, 

we are definitely on the right 

track,” he said. 

Ryan Cairns won the Male Professional 

Golfer of the year accolade 

alongside Roda Muridzo 

who was the best Female Professional. 

United States-based Scott Vincent 

was voted the best Amateur 

golfer while Yollander Mubaiwa 

scooped the ladies version. 

There were also awards for Stuart 

Krog, Thembelani Mvundhla, 

young Margaret Nyamukondiwa 

and Daniele Bekker, among others. 

In the media, NewsDay’s Daniel 

Nhakaniso emerged the best 

golf reporter in 2013. 

ZIMBABWE motor racing phenomenon, 

Axcil Jefferies was 

the most recurring name as a 

role model among young drivers 

at the national kart racing challenge 

held at Donnybrook Park 

last week. 

A product of local kart racing, 

Jefferies has already carved an 

indelible mark in Zimbabwe motor 

racing folklore by becoming 

the only second African ever to 

compete in the FIA Formula Two 

championship. 

It is no surprise if more local 

motor racing prodigies begin to 

follow in Jefferies’ footsteps. 

Harare Karting Club official 

Janie Telling spoke of the Zimbabwe 

Formula One dream chaser. 

“Axcil Jefferries is a very big 

influence to most of the kids 

here having been with the club 

in his formative years and he still 

loves this [Donnybrook] track, he 

comes to support each time he is 

in the country,” she said. 

True to Telling’s words, most 

of the winners of the day proclaimed 

aspiration to emulate or 

out-do Jefferies. 

Cameron Revolta (11) displayed 

amazing ability to win 

the Minirok class ahead of Zack 

Dufty and 12-year-old Bishopslea 

School girl Danika Hockey, revealed 

her aspiration. 

“I look up to Axcil [Jefferies] 

and I am always trying to get to his 

level and I’m really working hard 

to get there and I hope I will,” an 

Axcil Jefferies 

enthusiastic Revolta said. 

In the cadet class seven-year-old 

Luke Rosseau breezed to the top 

while brothers Samuel and David 

Mliswa finished second and third 

respectively. 

Humphery Mliswa, father to 

David and Samuel, said he had 

found that Axcil Jefferies was the 

reason why his sons took to kart 

racing, adding that he would push 

the lads to achieve the best of 

their abilities in motorsport. 

Brendan McConnell won the 

senior master class, relegating 

Ale Savo to second place with 

Maurizio Savo hot on his rear, in 

third. 

Calvin Mukandiona (11) was 

voted the driver of the day for his 

exploits in the Minirok category.

Sport 


Chapungu hand 

Green Machine 

thorough beating 

A brace by Rodwell Mhlanga and wonder goal 

from Gift Phiri ensured the rout 

by MUKUDZEI CHINGWERE 

Chapungu . . . (1) (3) 

CAPS United . . . (0) 

C 

HAPUNGU stripped off 

a disjointed CAPS United 

their dignity with a 3-0 

mauling in a Castle Lager premiership 

match at Ascot yesterday. 

A brace by Rodwell Mhlanga 

and a wonder goal from Gift Phiri 

ensured the rout. 

CAPS United coach Taurai 

Mangwiro blamed the off field 

shenanigans at the club for the 

loss, which led to an industrial action 

by the players before the visit 

to Gweru. 

“There are a lot of things 

happening behind the scenes 

which contributed to this loss. 

You have players like Hardlife 

Zvirekwi; he trained with us 

the whole week but pulled out 

of the team at the last minute, 

it disturbs preparations,” said 

Mangwiro. 

The winning coach John Nyikadzino 

was delighted with the 

good showing of his charges. 

“It’s a good result, in our last 

games we were not burying our 

chances but today we did so, we 

also wasted some chances and I 

think we could have won by half a 

dozen goals,” said Nyikadzino. 

The army side raced into an early 

lead with only three minutes 

played when Mhlanga got to the 

end of a Charles Mativenga cross. 

Nyikadzino introduced Farai 

Manase his most lethal weapon in 

the 67 th minute when CAPS were 

beginning to slowly come into the 

game and a minute later, Manase 

left CAPS United captain Tapiwa 

Kumbayani for dead before squaring 

the ball for Mhlanga, who had 

the easiest of task to tap home for 

his second of the afternoon. 

With seven minutes left on the 

clocks — Phiri received the ball 

outside the box and let go a thunderous 

shot which gave Jorum 

Muchambo no chance. 

Samaya’s strike wins it for Rhinos 

by MICHAEL MADyIRA IN KADOMA 

Black Rhinos . . . (0) 1 

Buffaloes . . . 0 

LINCoLN Samaraya struck with 

11 minutes remaining to separate 

Black Rhinos and visiting Buffaloes 

in a Castle Lager premiership 

match at Rimuka yesterday. 

on a drab afternoon where both 

sides lacked purpose, Rhinos recovered 

from missing a first-half 

penalty kick and bagged three 

points to end a five-match winless 

streak that included four loses 

and a draw. 

Arthur Tutani’s men had last 

won in April when they dismissed 

Chiredzi United 2-1 at home. 

“This victory is a big relief,” 

said Tutani. 

“It made me feel proud of my 

boys. They did not want me to go. We 

now just have to be consistent going 

forward and avoid relegation. Let me 

warn FC Platinum that we are coming 

to humiliate them in their own 

backyard in our next game.” 

The three points saw Rhinos displacing 

Triangle at 13 th spot, but 

they could stay there for just 24 

hours if the Lowveld side beat Dynamos 

today. 

Luke Masomere’s Buffaloes were 

replaced at position eight by Chapungu 

who trounced CAPS United. 

“I was not happy with the way 

my boys played,” said Masomere. 

“Their body language was negative 

and that has been the case 

since the Triangle game. We however 

created more chances than Rhinos. 

Also the referee [Darlington 

Shonhiwa] played a part with unfair 

decisions.” 

Rhinos probed first as early as 

the second minute when Jameson 

Mukombwe’s on-target long drive 

was desperately pushed out for a 

corner by Buffaloes goalkeeper 

Blessing Mwandimutsira. 

It took 19 minutes for the visitors 

to respond when Jeffery Takunda’s 

powerful header crushed against 

the upright post after Roy Mwenga 

had rounded Rhinos goalkeeper 

Jonathan Zvaita. 

Rhinos had a glorious chance to 

go ahead on the half hour mark 

when Liberty Chakoroma pulled 

Samaraya inside the box, but Brian 

Muzondiwa had his penalty saved 

by Mwandimutsira before Philip 

Marufu blasted wide the rebound. 

But Marufu picked himself up 

and led an attack that resulted in 

Samaraya’s goal amid a goal-mouth 

melee. 

How Mine, Harare City draw Aquina wins Ok 

Grand Challenge 

THANDIWE MOyO 

How Mine . . . 0 

Harare City . . . 0 

A 10-men Harare City got their 

their first point away from home in 

a goalless draw aganst How Mine 

in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer 

League encounter at Luveve yesterday. 

The draw takes the Sunshine 

Boys to seven points from 10 games 

while How Mine are on 18 points 

but they both remain at the same 

positions 15 and third respectively. 

Harare City head coach Bigboy 

Mawiwi said gaining a point away 

from home was positive for the 

team which has struggled since the 

start of the season, a sharp contrast 

to their performance last season. 

“We are no longer struggling. 

The fact that we were not winning 

was not because we were not playing 

well. We are going up. This is the 

first point away from home and it 

is a positive thing. I do not want to 

comment much about the referees. 

This is why our nation is not improving 

in football. We played well 

and created a few chances even if 

we were playing against the wind. 

We had control of the game until 

referee gave [James] Jam a red card. 

“The referee was not in a position 

to make that call. We lost control 

and we resorted to defending,” 

he said. 

Jam was given his marching orders 

in the 74 th minute after Masvingo-based 

referee Makonese Masakadza 

adjudged that he had crudely 

tackled Wonder Sithole. 

How Mine coach Philani “Beefy” 

Ncube said: “It is a point at home 

and as much as we would have 

wanted three points, there is nothing 

we can do. The break affected 

us but we hope to rise in the next 

game,”he said. 

by OUR STAff 

AqUINA followed up her Castle 

tinkered success by scooping the 

US$40 000 2014 ok Grand Challenge 

Trophy at Borrowdale Race Course 

yesterday. 

Ridden by Bulawayo-born and 

bred jockey Karl Zechner, Aquina 

beat a strong line-up of 17 horses 

that included favourite Coltrane, 

six-year-old Gelding, A King is Born 

and the Lisa Harris — trained Menacing 

among others. The top threeyear-old 

of the season so far, Lucky 

Sam conditioned by Lisa Harris, finished 

ahead of third placed Approval 

Rating to claim second place in 

the prestigious race. 

Perennial campaigner Captain’s 

Tiger rolled back the years to storm 

to a respectable fourth place. King 

Kahal was withdrawn just before 

the race as a late scratching for being 

intractable. 

Underfire . . . CAPS United coach Taurai Mangwiro 

Chiredzi FC, 

Hwange draw 

by KENNETH NyANGANI IN CHIREDZI 

Chiredzi . . . (1)1 

Hwange . . . (0)1 

PREMIERSHIP debutants Chiredzi 

Football Club failed to utilise 

home advantage once again as 

they were restricted to a one-all 

draw by visiting Hwange in a Castle 

Lager premiership match at 

Chishamiso yesterday. 

Chiredzi FC are yet to collect 

maximum points at home as their 

only win came in a 2-0 win over 

Bantu Rovers away in Bulawayo. 

Chiredzi scored through Trevor 

Ndlovu in the first half before 

Isaac Masame equalised for the 

visitors in the second stanza. 

The visitors overpowered 

their opponents in the first half 

but failed to utilise chances that 

came their way with forward 

Aleck Marime missing glaring 

chances. 

As early as the fourth minute, 

Rodwell Chinyengetere made fine 

exchange of passes with Evans 

Rusike, who released Marime inside 

the box but Chiredzi FC goalkeeper 

Steven Chimusoro was 

equal to the task, pushing the ball 

out for a corner. 

Three minutes later, Tafara 

Chese found Marime inside the 

box but blasted his effort over the 

cross bar from a position which 

was easier to score than to miss. 

Chinyengetere beat an offside 

trap in the 17th minute off 

a Phakamani Dube through pass 

but Chimusoro, who had a good 

day between the sticks for Chiredzi, 

made a fine save. 

The home side jerked their fans 

off their seats after a stunning 

free kick which missed the target. 

It was midfielder Ncube, who 

broke the deadlock with a welltaken 

raspy shot outside the box 

after receiving a fine pass from 

Tapiwa Depistara in the 33rd 

minute. 

The second half was a balanced 

affair but the visitors equalised 

in the 66 th minute through 

Masame. 

Chiredzi FC striker Kenneth 

Matogo had a chance to put the 

hosts in the front, but again blasted 

his effort over the bar with 

Hwange goalkeeper Takabva Mawaya 

a beaten man. 

Hwange head coach Nation 

Dube blamed the referee for the 

draw, saying that he was not happy 

with the level of officiating exhibited. 

“The referee was okay in the 

first half but in the second he was 

biased,” he said. 

Moses Chunga said he was happy 

with his side performance before 

adding that he needed more 

time to fine tune the squad. 

“The boys did well and it is very 

unfortunate that we didn’t win 

the match. We conceded a silly 

goal, we are going to regroup and l 

think in three weeks’ time we will 

improve,” he said.


StyleISSUE JUNE 8 TO 14, 2014 

6 

Star Profile 

Kudzai Sevenzo 

Artist 

Inside 

Jesse-Priestly 

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2 THE STANDARD STYLE / CONTENTS 

JUNE 8 TO 14 2014 

P07 P09 P15 P17 


Style 

Contents 

Woman & Man 

Home & Garden 

Food & Drink 

Family 

Arts 

3 Woman Profile 

Kudzai Sevenzo 

9 Home of the Week 

Enter our competition 

14 Eating Out 

Amanzi 

19 Family of the Week 

Chapfunga family 

25 Breaking New Ground 

Mazoe children 

5 Women Motivation 

Experiencing my Passion 

10 Trends 

Bathroom Trends 

15 Food Fest 

Diplomatic reception 

23 Mobile banking 

CBZ 

27 Bookworm 

The Smaller House 

7 Man Profile 

Jesse Priestly 

12 Gardening 

Low maintenance plants 

18 Drink 

KVW 

24 Family Getaway 

Imire 

28 World Cup 

Hyundai

June 8 to 14 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / PROFILE 3 

Star Profile 

Kudzai 

Sevenzo 

Kudzai Sevenzo was plunged into the limelight after she 

auditioned for Mnet’s reality TV show, Project Fame 

in which she was chosen as the sole representative 

for Zimbabwe. She made it to the penultimate round 

and shortly after, released her debut album, On a day like this. 

The debut album earned her a ZIMA nomination (Zimbabwe Music 

Awards). She received the “Best New Artist” award at the Celebration Music 

Awards as well as Nescafe’s “Most Inspiring Female of the year” award that 

year. 

Kudzai once again found herself on the world stage when she was chosen to be 

Zimbabwe’s anchor for Mnet’s TV magazine programme Studio 53. She had a 

chance to travel and report on the beautiful cuisine, art and culture of Africa. 

Her latest album which received rave reviews, is entitled, Child of Afrika. It has 12 

tracks. Kudzai also hosted a radio show for Zimbabwe’s first privately-owned radio 

station Zi-FM. The exciting breakfast show called “Get Lifted” was a favourite on Sunday 

mornings. 

An outstanding performer and artist Kudzai runs a top jazz band. She has performed at 

festivals and private functions in Southern Africa and Europe. Her passion is music and film. 

“I love music and film. People, life experiences - both good and not so good, my highs and lows 

with my relationship with God, that all inspires my creativity and passion.” 

One of her memorable experiences was having breakfast with the first female president of Africa, Ellen 

Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia during her stint on Studio 53. She got to “watch” Sirleaf on a normal day, 

interviewed her and followed her on the job. 

One of the highlights of her career includes an AMAA nomination (African Movie Academy Awards) for 

her lead role in Zimbabwe’s first chick flick, Playing Warriors. She was recently appointed as Proudly 

Zimbabwean Foundation’s Brand Ambassador. The foundation held the BIN-IT campaign, which has 

been successful in eliminating litter in Zimbabwe cities’ central business districts. She 

also speaks at various youth groups and press conferences on the danger of 

litter build-up in communities. 

Kudzai was also a spokesperson for Zim Cares for Life, an organisation 

that shelters teen pregnant girls that are destitute. 

An ambassador for KidzCan, Kudzai is involved with the 

trust that helps kids with cancer. 

Her music is a fusion of jazz and soul with a powerful influence 

of African rhythms. Her sultry voice and thoughtprovoking 

lyrics draw you in at every performance. Ella 

Fitzgerald is one of Kudzai’s all-time favourite jazz musicians. 

She has also worked with some of Africa’s finest 

artists including Oliver Mtukudzi, Judith Sephuma and 

Ringo Madlingozi. Currently Kudzai is working on a new 

film that will be produced this year. 

If she had not been a musician, Kudzai believes she would 

have been an interpreter or a translator, “I loved learning 

new languages,” she says.

4 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / FASHION 

June 8 to 14 2014

June 8 to 14 2014 

THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / INSPIRATION 5 

EXPERIENCING 

my 

PASSION 

CONTINUED PART 4 

EVENT Management is definitely not for the faint 

hearted. The characteristics that come to mind when 

I think about my line of work are: passionate; organised; 

patient; tolerant; understanding; enthusiastic; 

flexible – to mention just a few. An event manager needs 

to be cool, calm and collected. You have to have good people 

and communication skills in order to be effective. Time 

management is essential. The ability to think on your feet 

and manage a crisis without going into panic mode is critical. 

Events are all about creativity and attention to detail, 

and normally it’s the seemingly small but extremely significant 

details that are forgotten. I have also learnt, however, 

that no matter how long and detailed your checklist may 

be, there will always be situations you will find yourself in, 

that are neither on that checklist, nor are they found in any 

of your “Wedding Planning 101” books. 

There are so many details that I would never have considered, 

until I was faced with a situation that revealed a gap 

in my plans. Imagine a wedding ceremony procession. The 

groom and groomsmen walk down the aisle to the altar, followed 

by the bridesmaids and the flower girls. At that moment 

when the bride’s song starts playing she turns to me 

and says “Rufaro, where is my brother? He is supposed to 

be giving me away!” 

All eyes are on the bride, the groom is watching his bride 

standing at the back of the church, wondering why she is 

not walking down the aisle. And I had no idea where her 

brother was. I finally got hold of him on the phone, and he 

was 22kms away from the venue. So, I managed the crisis, 

but learnt that this is a significant detail that I needed to 

add to my checklist. 

My role as an event manager is to plan, advise, recommend, 

organise, coordinate, mediate, manage and control 

an event. I wear the bride and the groom’s hats – and very 

often, these are different hats. I also wear the family hat, 

because it is my personal belief that a wedding is a family 

event and they should not be side-lined, but final decisions 

should be made by the bride and the groom. When it comes 

to family, communication and mediation skills need to be at 

their best. An event manager has to see things from everyone’s 

perspective and have the ability to communicate well 

at all levels. 

Every event is a project. I research on “what’s hot, and 

what’s not” in order to create a unique event for my clients. 

One of the most challenging parts of event management is 

finding the right event vendors. The service providers that 

you choose to work with can either make you or break you. 

Every event manager needs to be well connected, and have 

an extensive network of reliable, professional event service 

providers. You also need to insist to your client that you only 

work with vendors who are tried and trusted. Many clients 

fail to understand why this is so important to an event manager. 

It takes one unprofessional service provider to destroy 

your good reputation. With a corporate event, you may get 

lucky and be given another chance to redeem yourself at 

their next event, but with a wedding – it’s a once in a lifetime 

event that cannot be re-done. 

Now, if you’ve been following my story, you will know that 

I have learnt many lessons from past experience. It’s one of 

the best and most stressful ways to learn how to be efficient. 

So when it comes to event vendors and their services, I will 

insist that my clients make their decisions within my recommendations. 

I insist on this before they hire me. I will give 

them at least 4 options to choose from, and each of these options 

are tried and trusted. 

If they refuse to work with my recommendations, I will not 

take them on as clients. This may sound unreasonable, but in 

this business, all eyes are on you at the event manager. Even 

if I did not endorse the company that is making the wedding 

cake, when that cake collapses on the wedding day, all 

eyes are on me. If I did not recommend the DJ, and he 

suddenly announces 5 minutes before the ceremony, that 

he doesn’t have the bride’s processional song, that bride 

will probably be upset with me for a very long time after 

her wedding even though she chose the DJ herself 

– and people tend to share their bad experiences much 

more than the good ones. Yes I have had to deal with a 

cake collapsing at a wedding. I have had an unpleasant 

experience with an MC who needed copious amounts of 

“Dutch” courage in order to direct an event. He kept taking 

short breaks, and we eventually realised that he was 

inebriated when he started to insult some of the guests, 

and even invited one of the waiters to give a speech. 

Then there was a new caterer I decided to try out – this 

company came highly recommended from a friend. So I 

set up a tasting dinner with the caterer and my client. 

The caterer arrived for the tasting dinner 2 hours late 

and forgot to bring some of the dishes he had prepared. 

The tasting dinner was at the bride’s home, her parents 

and the groom’s parents were in attendance. The food 

was a disaster. When my clients voiced their concerns, 

his excuse was that his mother normally does the cooking 

and she was currently on holiday. So I was guilty by 

association. If I had been the client I would have lost 

confidence in the event manager. 

As an event manager, you always have your clients’ 

best interests and desires at heart, but this should not be 

at the expense of your business. You have to have your 

professional boundaries, because your image is important. 

If a client is not willing to work with your terms 

and conditions, sometimes it is better to walk away if 

you feel that your image will be compromised. 

Most of an event manager’s business comes through 

referrals, so you would rather turn down a client to save 

your reputation. I am only as good as my last event. 

Rufaro Mushonga

6 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / FASHION 


June 8 to 14 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / PROFILE 7 

Star 

Profile: 

Jesse-Priestly Nengere 

Born Pride-Priestly Nengere in Harare on the 19th of April 1983, began singing at the age of four, and had written 

his first song by the time he was eight. His first public appearance was at age eleven when he started leading 

worship in ZAOGA FIF at a Glen View 7 Assembly which was attended in a garage. 

Jesse, whose albums include “I Can Hear Your Voice” (2003), “Be Encouraged” (2009), and “Totally Free” (2013), 

is an exceptional worship leader and artist who grew up in Glen View 7. The singer, songwriter, producer, and arranger 

all rolled into one has worked with legendary musical groups such as New Life Covenant Praise, Israel Houghton, 

Zimpraise and Call To Worship Africa. He has shared the stage with gospel greats such as Donnie Mcclurkin, Pastor 

Marvin.L. Winans, Lionel Peterson, and Kirk Franklin. 

Currently he is a Worship Leader at Jabula New Life Covenant Church Zimbabwe under Bishop Tudor Bismark, and 

a member of the Multi Grammy Award Winning Artist & Group Israel Houghton and New Breed [New Breed Africa]. 

The Standard Style caught up with him to get to know the talented young man a little more: 

1. Who is Jesse Priestly? Give us a brief background about yourself. 

I am a 31 year old young man who loves God. 

2. Please describe your passion? What inspires your passion? 

Music & Ministry. I love reaching out to people and affect lives with a good message, God’s word. 

3. What do you enjoy the most about what you do? Why gospel music? 

Being creative and expressing my gift for God’s glory, Gospel or Christian music because 

Jesus Christ loved me first. 

4. What is your most memorable show? 

Lagos, Nigeria The Experience 2012 

5. Any childhood memories that are close to your heart? 

Growing up in Glen View 7 with Mum & Dad, my brothers and sisters was fun, especially 

when the Ice Cream Man came Saturday’s & Sunday’s 1989. We had fun. 

6. Has the negative publicity about Zimbabwe affected your career? 

No it has not, It has made it better and much more appreciated. People who 

stand out in a time of turmoil become a beacon of hope of the nation and to 

the nations. 

7. You also sing with Israel Houghton? Tell us more about that. If you had not 

been a musician, what career would you have pursued? 

I am a member of Israel Houghton & New Breed Africa an extension of 

New Breed USA. I would be a Chef. 

8. What are some of the perceptions about the music industry that are not 

true? 

That you make it overnight and that you will last in the lime light 

forever. People are constantly looking for something new but it’s the 

relationships you establish on your way up and in your time of influence 

that will sustain you. 

9. Who in your opinion exemplifies excellence in the gospel music industry? 

Israel Houghton and I am not biased. 

10 Are you married? 

No I am not married but bells are ringing and it’s strictly by invite. 

11. Any professional or personal regrets? 

No regrets. There are certain things I have done that felt right at 

the time but they didn’t work. I got valuable lessons along the 

way both professional and personal. 

12. I’m informed that you have a new album coming out. What should 

your fans expect from the new album? 

Fireworks BOOOOM BOOOOOOM. #Totallyfree 

13. Do you sing any other music that is not gospel? 

Professionally big “NO.” Got a few personal favorites I sing for 

my love. 

14. Where would you like to see Zimbabwe in the next 5 years? 

Established, Facing forward & a 100% Godly nation.

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8 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / WHEELS 

Volkswagen Amarok 


A stylish workhorse 

Fact Jeke 

VW has up its game by introducing 

a new light commercial 

vehicle which came onto 

the market in 2010. Many of 

you have probably seen the pick up 

truck on the streets of Harare. 

It’s stylish and fit for the rough 

work too which is why I would really 

want to meet its designer Walter de 

Silva just to ask him how he managed 

that. 

I’ve driven trucks which have 

made me loose my lunch….why…because 

the handling and suspension 

on a truck is always so messed up 

that I shake half the drive…but not 

with the Amarok. The name sounds 

sexy too and I can assure you it 

drives well. I tell you this is no ordinary 

truck. The Amarok range consists 

of single cab and double cab, 

combined with either rear-wheel 

drive or 4motion four-wheel drive, 

and is powered by Turbocharged Direct 

Injection (TDI) diesel engines. 

VWCV considers the Toyota Hilux, 

Nissan Navara and Mitsubishi Triton 

to be Amarok competitors. 

Following its Launch in Argentina, 

the Amarok was a key support 

vehicle in the 2010 Dakar Rally with 

45 vehicles participating. German 

rocker, founder of the Scorpions, 

guitarist Rudolf Schenker, is a supporter 

of the Amarok and himself 

drove one during the 2010 Dakar 

Rally. So you see it’s a celebrity endosed 

vehicle. 

The Amarok is powered by a 

range of Turbocharged Direct Injec- 

tion (TDI) common rail diesel engines, 

and Fuel Stratified Injection 

(FSI) petrol engine. 

The engine range consists of two 

2.0L Turbocharged Direct Injection 

(TDI) common rail diesel engines 

which is taken from the Volkswagen_Transporter_(T5), 

it has been 

tuned for more torque but less power; 

the entry-level version produces 

90 kW which develops a maximum 

torque of 340 Nm from 2000 rpm. 

The top of the line bi-turbo version 

produces 120 kW which develops a 

maximum torque of 400 Nm from 

1500 rpm. 

Fuel consumption in a combined 

cycle format is as low as 7.6 L/100 

km on the rear wheel drive variant 

to 8.1 L/100 km on the 4Motion theoretically 

giving the Amarok a 1,000 

km range before filling up for fuel. 

The Amarok has three drive concepts: 

rear wheel drive, Shiftable 

4Motion and Permanent 4Motion. 

The Shiftable all wheel drive system 

can shift drive between the axles 

whereas the Permanent full time 

all wheel drive system distributes 

power through a Torque Sensing 

(Torsen) differential with a 40:60 ratio 

between the front and rear axles. 

It’s available in base version, 

Trendline and Highline. The base 

version comes equipped with 16- 

inch steel wheels, height-adjustable 

front seats, variable folding rear 

bench seats, locking glove box, cargo 

platform lighting, antenna integrated 

within wing mirrors, manual 

window regulators, manual door 

locking and manual wing mirror 

adjustment. The front bumper, wing 

mirrors and door handles come in 

black. 

The Trendline grade has over the 

base version electrically operated 

door locking, electric windows and 

wing mirror adjustment as well as 

a radio with a CD player, climate 

control (Climatic), multi-functional 

display, cruise control, front fog 

lights, 17-inch aluminium wheels. 

Also painted in the body colour are 

the front bumper, door handles and 

wing mirrors. 

The Highline grade has over 

the Trendline part chrome mirror 

housings, chrome strips on radiator 

grille and around the fog lights, 

chrome rear bumper bar 18-inch aluminium 

wheels, automatic climate 

control (Climatronic), leatherette/ 

leather fabric on the interior. 

The pickup’s active and passive 

safety systems and convenience features 

all match up to passenger car 

levels. Yet the Amarok is extremely 

rugged. In both concept and style, 

the Volkswagen Amarok is clearly 

influenced by the new Volkswagen 

Design DNA. This is reflected in its 

typical emphasis of horizontal lines, 

in the well-defined interplay of body 

surfaces and high precision of its 

workmanship. Specifically, one of its 

most prominent identifying features 

is the visual unit formed by the horizontal 

headlights and radiator grille 

and decorative trim accents. Extending 

back from the vehicle’s front 

face is a surface that develops over 

the fender contour to the side windows 

and encloses them in an arch. 

The cleanly sculpted curvatures of 

the pickup’s side body panels and 

engine hood give the Amarok the 

typical rugged look of a pickup. At 

the rear, the prominent Volkswagen 

logo catches the eye on the tailgate 

whose smooth surface still embodies 

a high level of excitement. It is 

framed by the pickup’s taillights 

whose distinctive signature is their 

characteristic night design. 

The truck’s exceptional interior 

dimensions make it the most spacious 

in its class. The vehicle’s 

finely tuned ergonomics are typical 

of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles 

and the Amarok. Easy entry, a 

generous seating layout and lots of 

headroom characterize the workspace 

behind the wheel. Ample legroom 

on the rear bench also makes 

the Amarok a full-fledged five-seater. 

When only two persons are aboard, 

the rear seat folds to increase interior 

cargo space. 

When pulling a trailer, the pickup 

can handle up to 2.8 metric tons of 

trailer load. 

What more can you ask for… 

starting from under $50 000.00, this 

could be yours. 

Till next week…be safe. God bless 

you. 

Contact me via email on missjeke@gmail.com 

or on facebook 

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10 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / TRENDS 

Bathroom 


interior 

2014 

design 

trends 

Geometric 

patterns 

Dark wood 

bathroom 

flooring 

Marble 

Shack style 

Lounging 

comfort 

Patterned bathroom floor tiles are 

all the rage for 2014. Look for fashionable 

geometric designs that have 

a retro flavour. Mix these new patterns 

with old-school elements for 

a super-stylish scheme: Choose an 

old-fashioned claw foot bath tub, 

vintage-style tongue-and-groove 

wall cladding and traditional accessories. 

This is a key 2014 trend for both 

bathrooms and kitchens - chic 

wood-effect porcelain tiles that 

give you all the warmth of wood, 

with the practical features of ceramic. 

Choose a realistic patterned 

design for your bathroom scheme 

and look for on-trend, large, rectangular 

tiles. For a really modern 

result, use the same tiles on your 

floor and walls, which gives a fluid, 

cladding-effect that’s practical as 

well as chic. 

It’s 2014’s hottest natural material, 

but real marble can be pricey, so 

shop for realistic digitally-printed 

marble tiles instead. The latest 

trend is for 1980s-style wall-to-wall 

marble, so more is more; Tile walls, 

floors and even your bath panel with 

chic marble-effect tiles. By using the 

same size and type of tiles on all 

surfaces, you can make a space feel 

much bigger, too, so this is a great 

trend to embrace if your bathroom 

is on the small side. 

Most of us don’t live in a beach hut 

or a surf shack, but it’s easy to bring 

this 2014 take on ‘coastal’ to your 

bathroom with a few clever decorating 

decisions. Clad walls with whitewashed 

wooden boards or tongueand-groove 

paneling and paint your 

floorboards white. Complete the 

look with white-painted shabbychic 

storage units and simple, white 

wicker accessories. A striped bath 

mat finishes this updated seaside 

theme. 

This 2014 bathroom trend is all 

about rounded corners and sleek, 

curvaceous details. Shop for a 

curved bath tub, a curved or circular 

mirror and include curved 

decorative details wherever possible. 

Bathroom basin cabinets 

are traditionally boxy, but 2014’s 

new curved designs not only look 

gorgeous - they’re practical, too, 

freeing up precious floor space. 

This is particularly useful if you 

have twin basins, as each user 

will have more elbow space when 

washing. 

Our bathrooms are evolving - 

they’re not just spaces where we 

wash - they’re also spa-like places 

to relax and unwind in. This 2014 

bathroom trend incorporates décor, 

furniture and accessories we 

might usually associate with living 

rooms or bedrooms and blends it 

with the bathroom for a really comfortable 

room that’s a pleasure to 

spend time in. Forget cold, clinical 

wash rooms - this look is all about 

colour and comfort. Incorporate an 

armchair, cushions, vases, books, 

moody (bathroom safe) lighting 

and fluffy rugs to create ‘hang out’ 

lounge bathroom. Avoid white and, 

instead, choose coloured cabinets 

for a strong decorating scheme - just 

as you would in any other room of 

the home. 

Curves 

and corned 

edges 

Monochrome glamour 

Bathrooms can be just as elegant as any other room in your home, with this 

stunning 2014 trend. Stick to the key colour combination: black and white, 

and add decorative details for a striking, glamorous effect - think, ornate, 

patterned wallpaper (suitable for bathrooms) and a glittering chandelier 

light fitting. Continue the high-end, chic look with smart shutters at the 

window and a statement feature wall in velvety black paint. - UKTV


THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / INSPIRATION 11 

Winter warmer: Chocolate, 

Coffee and Cream 

Treat your home this season by giving it a cosy warm winter interior. 

Don’t be afraid to use your imagination and make each room reflect 

your personality and preferences. Whilst keeping it practical. This 

week our colour scheme is inspired by our delectable winter indulgences 

- chocolate, coffee and cream. 

The finish you choose for your walls is probably one 

of the biggest decisions you have to make when you’re 

designing as they are the biggest most prominent 

feature in the room. 

Creamy hot chocolate is a great feature wall colour 

for making a statement in a living room. You can set 

off your living room furniture against this decadent 

colour making them stand out. 

If your lounge suite is brown don’t panic. Accessories 

are your lifeline. Keep things simple and bring interest 

to the space with highlights of colour through your 

accessories and art. 

Rich, tactile textures such as leather, sheepskin, suede 

and velvet, can be used to build up layers of warmth 

and character. 

Remember, the idea is to use the colours mixed 

and not matched. For a less dramatic but equally 

same effect, choose a wall to make a focal point 

in your living room. Go ahead and rescue those 

old family photos and get them up the wall so you 

can enjoy them. Visit a professional frame shop 

to help select out the right frame for each piece. 

Once framed group them together for impact on 

your wall. A great tip is to keep these prints black 

and white. When you photograph people in colour, 

you photograph their outfits. But black and white 

captures the essence of a natural setting and goes 

past the exterior to photograph the soul. 

Add mellow mood to your dining room by choosing 

your favourite glass vase, set a collection of cream 

candles into it and fill the base with coffee beans. 

Then select other items in a similar colour from 

table runners to flowers. Don’t be afraid to go for 

texture in fabrics. But avoid lots of pattern as these 

tend to always distract from the simplicity of the 

look. 

There’s nothing quite like snuggling up to a warm cup 

of coffee with a spew of sweet cream to cozy up those 

cold days. 

Bring this same indulgence into the way you accessorize 

your space. Filled, empty, individual or grouped, vases 

offer the perfect finishing touch for any room. 

Winter is all around you, so don’t neglect your bedroom as well. Use banding on cushions, pull 

out the throws, add a fluffy bean bag for a wintry, cosy feel. 

Enjoy snuggling into your home this week. 

Email: tracy@spacework.co.zw 

Cell: +263 772 277397

12 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / GARDENING 


Last week we discussed tips for creating a low 

maintenance garden. It was pointed out that if 

you have ever gardened at all, you know there is 

no such thing as a maintenance free garden. In 

this issue we discuss how to choose the actual low 

maintenance plants. Even fake flowers need to be dusted. 

Many people enjoy the work that goes into creating 

and maintaining a garden. However, if you are someone 

who prefers to cut back on some of the gardening 

chores, there are perennial plants that can definitely 

be considered low maintenance. Here are some tips for 

how to find them. 

How to 

choose low 

maintenance 

plants 

1. Is it suitable for your growing conditions? 

There are plenty of lists touting themselves as the easiest 

plants to grow, but the topic is more subjective than 

it might appear. Plant needs vary greatly and if your 

garden can’t provide for those needs, it will quickly 

become a high maintenance plant. So the first step to 

finding lower maintenance plants is to take inventory 

of the growing conditions in your yard. 

Sun exposure: The number of hours of sunlight is 

crucial information. Most plants are labelled as full 

sun, partial sun/shade or shade. A plant that needs 

full sun will not flower well and will be prone to weak 

growth and disease if it is planted in the shade. Shade 

loving plants will dry out and/or burn, if planted in 

full sun. 

To complicate matters a bit more, afternoon sun is 

stronger and hotter than morning sun. In areas that 

are prone to extreme heat or dryness, full sun plants 

often do better with a little afternoon shade. And 

the amount of sun exposure will change as the days 

lengthen and shorten, so a spring blooming plant that 

needs full sun will be fine planted under a deciduous 

tree that won’t leaf out until that spring bloomer has 

finished blooming. 

Drainage: The root system is a plants foundation 

and it is directly affected by the amount of water held 

in the soil. Water will collect in poorly draining sites 

and in heavy clay soil. Some plants like being a little 

soggy. Other plants will develop root rot, in standing 

water. Conversely, plants that need a lot of moisture, 

like ligularia and cardinal flower, will struggle to stay 

alive in dry, sandy soil. 

2. Is the plant itself low maintenance? 

Life Span: Plants only have to be expected to live three 

years, to be considered perennial. No plant will live 

forever, but for a lower maintenance garden, you will 

want to look for plants that live at least five years and 

preferably longer. Peonies and bleeding heart will be 

happy to grow for decades, while rose campion and 

many coreopsis varieties will start to disappear a little 

more each year. 

Actual Maintenance Required: All plants need 

some pruning and grooming to remain looking their 

best, but some need constant attention. Here are some 

features to check before selecting a prima dona for 

your garden: 

Deadheading - Many repeat blooming flowers will 

only rebloom if the faded flowers are removed, or 

deadheaded. If you can steel yourself to shear back 

your veronica and roses, you will get more blooms. 

Otherwise you would be better off looking for plants 

that shed their own flowers, like the newer daylilies, or 

plants that bloom once but for a long time, like astilbe. 

On a similar note, the leaves of some plants start to 

look tattered by mid-summer and need to be cleaned 

up. This is especially true of spring flowers, like lungwort 

and brunnera, but also applies to re-peat bloomers 

that need reinvigorating, like daylilies. 

Dividing - Most perennials will need division at 

some point in time, but there’s a big difference in the 

effort required to keep an ornamental grass divided 

every other year and dividing catmint every 8 - 10 

years. Plants with long tap roots do not like being disturbed, 

so if digging and dividing is something you 

dread, look for tap rooted plants like butterfly weed, 

bugbane and baptisia. 

Staking - If you have enough plants in your garden, 

they can effectively stake or support each other. 

But some plants really like to flop and look best with 

some type of staking. Tall plants, like dahlias and delphinium, 

can easily get knocked down with a strong 

wind or downpour. Putting the stakes in isn’t hard to 

do, but then you need to train and tie those plants to 

the stakes, as they grow taller. 

Problem prone - Avoiding plants that are known to 

be prone to disease or are bug magnets should be a no 

brainer, but we always think we’ll be able to stay ahead 

of the problem. How else to explain why so many people 

grow roses, even though black spot is a given? You 

don’t have to limit yourself to only plants that have 

been bred with disease resistance, but you should 

avoid plants that are known to do poorly in your area. 

Hot, humid summers mean that delphiniums will die a 

slow, lingering death before the season’s end. 

Behaviour problems - This is a nice way of saying 

invasive or aggressive grower. Unless you love a 

plant so much that you can never have enough of it, 

avoid plants that grow by underground runners, like 

New England asters, and plants that tend to self-seed 

thickly, like columbine. For some gardeners, this is a 

welcome feature. However it does not make for lower 

maintenance. 

Evaluating plants by these criteria will help lower 

the amount of work required to keep your garden looking 

great. --About.com


FOOD & DRINK 

1 

In this issue 

of Food & Drink 

(1,2) Amanzi 

(3) Italian National Day 

(4) KWV wines 

2 

3 4

14 THE STANDARD STYLE / EATING OUT / AMANZI 


Amanzi Restaurant at Highlands 

Dusty Miller 

Five-spice calamari with wasabi mayonnaise 

HARARE Restaurant Week ended yesterday! 

June 8 (today) Inter-schools golf competition, Country Club, Newlands 

Polo competition Carnival Cup, Thorn Pk, Mazowe Rd. 

Lunch: Alo, Alo, Arundel; Theo’s, 167, Enterprise Road; Adrienne’s, Belgravia; 

Da Eros, Fishmonger and Great Wall, East Road; Sitar, Newlands; Palms, 

Bronte Hotel; Willow Bean Cafe, Rolf Valley, English roast/pudding US$15. 

(BYOB, no corkage.) Paula’s Place; Wild Geese, Teviotdale buffet/live music; 

City Bowling Club, Harare Gardens (roast pork, apple sauce); Italian Club, 

Strathaven, Mukuvisi Woodlands Coffee Shop; Centurion Pub & Grill, Harare 

Sports Club, Arti’s, New Section, Borrowdale Village; Hellenics, Eastlea 

June 9 Keep fit, Zumba Dancing, City Bowling Club, Harare Gardens. And every 

working night except Fridays. 5:30pm-6:30pm. 

June 10 7pm Line dancing City Bowling Club 

June 11 Farmers’ market, Maasdorp Avenue, Belgravia (next to Bottom Drawer) 

June 11-15 

June 12 

June 13-14 



Vic Falls Mountain Bike Challenge 

(and every Thursday) Tapas night and music by Evicted, 

Amanzi Restaurant, Chisipite 

(and every other Thursday) fun pub quiz at blue@2 Private Wine Bar, 2, 

Aberdeen Rd, Avondale. Booking essential, Tel 0772 856 371 

Needlecraft exhibition, Greencroft Presbyterian Church Hall. 9-4pm 

Birdlife walk, Monovale Vlei, 7am. 

Book launch: “A Hippo Love Affair” Mukuvisi Woodlands 2:30-4:30 

Fathers’ Day (book a restaurant table NOW!) 

Spar family fun run 8am Old Georgians 

Royal Society of St George Battle of Waterloo lunch, Chapman Golf Club. 

Details djclarke@zol.co.zw 

June 17 (and every other Tuesday) Fun pub quiz, Theo’s, 167, Enterprise Rd 6:30 for 7 

Birdlife talk: Waterfowl Count (David Rockingham-Gill and Gonarezhou 

(Andy Fussell) Avondale Sports Club 5:30 





July 4 

July 5 

Dusty’s “What’s on Diary” 

Contributions are welcome, to arrive in good time, bearing in mind 

events in which readers of this page are interested. 

SMS 0733 401 347 or 0776 903 161; (e-mail dustym @zimind.co.zw) 

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Karaoke night with Dave and Debbie, City Bowling Club, Harare Gardens 

from 6:30pm. Supper available 

Candlelit bowls, Borrowdale Country Club, soup served. 

Art for Hope exhibition Queen of Hearts restaurant, 1, Hurworth Rd 

Highlands from 2pm 

Fun pub quiz REPS Bar 11:15 sharp 

Greendale Good Food & Wine Appreciation Society monthly lunch Alo, Alo, 

Arundel Village. Twelve-thirsty for 1pm! 

Fun pub quiz Borrowdale Country Club 6:30 

Christmas in July dinner, Borrowdale Country Club. 

Wedding Wow! 39, Argyle Rd, Avondale. 

Car boot sale, Borrowdale Country Club 

It wasn’t exactly the culinary event 

of the year, with little publicity 

other than posters outside the various 

eateries involved and a few annoying 

flyers lashed to lampposts, but 

I hear some restaurants picked up substantial 

extra volumes. 

I received invitation vouchers well into 

the week, but one was for a restaurant 

at which I had lunched the previous 

week and reviewed here last Sunday. 

Restaurateurs were supposed to knock 

together special two or three course 

menus for lunch and/or supper at 

US$10, US$15, US$20 or US$25, including 

drink. 

One of my invites was from beautiful 

Amanzi Restaurant at Highlands and 

as the last time I visited there was June 

6, 2013, it was well overdue for checking. 

I think Amanzi bent the rules, as there 

were no special two or three course 

meals available, instead they “pushed” 

their attractive, always tasty tapas 

menu. 

That’s what the new restaurant manager: 

blonde, bubbly Tessa Bristow, ex-Beit 

Bridge, she’s returned from running 

lodges on the Mozambique islands, 

said. That was in the absence 

of owner Andrew Mama. Andy 

played Rugby Union for Nigeria; 

his two sons play the professional 

13-man Rugby League code in the 

UK. He was on Mud Island cheering 

them on. 

Tessa was running the place and 

acting head chef was the likeable 

Jealous Marubva, from Nyamapanda, 

who has worked all his career 

at Amanzi. 

Tapas (“tapa” is the singular) 

are small platters (sometimes 

saucers) of tasty nibbles: ham, 

cheese, seafood, pickles, great 

breads, etc, originally served in 

Spanish bodegas and bars. An early 

Zimbabwean application of this 

fine gastronomic tradition comprised 

serving quarters of deepfried 

chicken and chips at nearby 

Chisipite! 

Amanzi’s on the right track, serving 

any combination of three tapas 

during The Week, but for what 

initially sounded a fairly eye-watering 

US$25 with a dop. 

But bearing in mind that my selection 

from the simple tapas menu 

was smoked salmon and fresh 

horseradish en croute, (three) 

grilled king prawns with a garlic 

and chili dip and loads of scrumptious 

five-spice calamari with wasabi 

(Japanese) mayonnaise and a 

generously filled glass of chilled 

Nederburg Lyric I don’t suppose 

Nigerian-born restaurateur Andy Mama and schoolgirl 

daughter Yasmin. 

that’s too harsh a price, these 

days, especially at somewhere as 

larney as Amanzi. 

Other canapés available on this 

perm-any-three-from-12 deal were 

a trio of dips: hummus, olive tapenade 

and guacamole, which, sadly, 

a friend described as “dreary” 

and a sushi platter with wasabi 

and pickled ginger, which would 

presumably fully open sinuses! 

Then there was a three soup taster: 

courgettes, Chiang Mai and 

chili pepper; carrot-and-peanut 

spring rolls with cucumber tzatsiki 

(this is definitely fusion food!); 

char-grilled chili beef tsire (from 

Northern Nigeria) skewers and 

Jamaican jerk chicken wings. 

A second prawn dish was tempura 

in a light soy sauce; there was 

spinach, coriander and feta samoosas 

with plum sauce for vegetarians 

and Lake Harvest (one of 

the sponsors) tilapia goujons with 

sticky ginger dressing. 

It was wonderful, sitting on the 

sunny stoep of this venerable 

Colonial-style former dwelling 

in the midst of rolling verdant 

lawns, huge trees, the eponymous 

tinkling water features (“Amanzi” 

means water in Ndebele), eating 

delicious morsels and sipping 

great wine. 

I did hear one or two of the unconverted 

around me quite loudly 

bemoaning a lack of chips, rice 

or sadza with their chosen trios 

and I admit to asking for a roll to 

go with the superbly flavoured, 

superbly cooked calamari, which 

I ate last, splattered in squeezed 

lemon juice. 

The Restaurant Week special 

menu allowed a choice of three 

tapas and a cocktail (Pina Colada 

etc) or a glass of imported wine 

for US$25. My voucher was worth 

US$20, but, thirsty, I relished a second 

glass of US$3 white wine with 

seafood, following it with cardamom 

crème brulee with fruit compote 

(US$7 from the a la carte pudding 

list: all sweets US$7-US$10) 

and filter coffee (US$2) leaving me 

a US$17 shortfall, which I thought 

good value for money at such a 

memorably great operation as 

Amanzi. 

Dusty Miller rating for Amanzi 

(based on a la carte fusion menu) 

Four-and-a-half-stars 

Amanzi Restaurant, 158, 

Enterprise Rd, Highlands. 

Tel: 497768/480883/0772 336 224. 

Child and handicapped friendly, 

but not the sort of place I’d take 

a lightie! Fully licensed, nice bar, 

great garden setting, live music 

some evenings, fun pub quizzes 

each Wednesday night. Plenty of 

safe parking. Booking advised. 

Opens lunch and supper Mondayto-Saturday. 

Grilled king prawns with a chili and garlic dip 

(Neither StandardPlus nor Dusty Miller take responsibility for inaccuracies, 

postponements, cancellations. No charge for entry. 

Deadline 10am Tues prior to publication day.) 

Cardamom crème brulee with fruit compote 

Smoked salmon and fresh horseradish

June 8 to 14 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE /DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION 15 

Italian 

National Day 

at Greendale 

Dusty Miller 

Mrs Roberto Abodi, deputy head of mission at the Italian Embassy, made the welcoming speech on Monday as Enrico De Agostini 

(far right) hadn’t, then, presented his credentials. He did so 

FEW places in the world will have had a nicer 

afternoon to celebrate the Italian National Day 

(Festa della Repubblica) on Monday than that 

experienced at the Italian Embassy in Greendale, 

Harare. (Other than perhaps in Rome itself !) 

The day was pleasantly warm with golden sun in a 

cloudless cornflower blue sky; men were smart, women 

sleek and sophisticated; conversation stimulating; 

there was the lovely aroma of expensive cosmetic fragrances 

in the air, competing with the perfume of the 

Embassy’s well-maintained colourful gardens. 

Other scents included those from a whole juicy roasted 

suckling pig, fresh off the spit and Italian cheeses, 

hams salads and pastas. For the first time in many 

years Italian wine (rather than South Africa) was 

served at this annual glittering reception, a “must attend” 

event among the cognoscenti. 

We toasted the 68th anniversary of the founding of 

the Italian Republic, soon after the end of World War 

II and the defeat of Fascism. By democratic vote the 

Italian people narrowly chose to depose the Royal 

Family (House of Savoy) and become a constitutional 

republic. 

We toasted that historic (sad for many) day with elegant 

flutes of Fantinel Prosecco Spumante (what 

used to be often called Italian champagne) and crisp 

elegant extra dry Minini Soave white wine. The red 

wine was a robust Minini Casa Vinicola Bardolino. 

Zest Hospitality Training and Event staff did the 

magnificent catering and ran the well-stocked bars 

(info@zesttraining co.zw) and there was a splendid 

sufficiency of efficient, polite waitrous in the marquee 

and throughout the landscaped grounds. 

As my new friend Enrico De Agostini was still the 

Ambassador-designate of Italy (having not then presented 

his credentials to President Mugabe), protocol 

dictated that the deputy head of mission, Mrs Roberto 

Abodi hosted the event. At the playing of the Italian 

and Zimbabwean national anthems she was on 

the podium flanked by an officer of the Carabinieri 

(para-military police) taking the salute in the unit’s 

distinctive full dress uniform dating back to the 18th 

century. Enrico stood close by, his wife Mrs Susie 

Russell De Agostini was in the audience. 

The New Ambassador is a fun-loving foodie and wine 

connoisseur and recently cooked a Venetian-themed 

dinner enjoyed by gourmets at Meikles Hotel’s la 

Fontaine Restaurant. In late June this will be followed 

by a dinner celebrating the cuisine of Rome at 

the same venue. 

dustym@zimind.co.zw dustymiller46@gmail.com 

Diplomatic receptions bring together a cross section of the community. Here Former Harare 

Mayor, Much Masunda is flanked by economist John Robertson (left of the picture) and George 

Thomson, who owns Cape Wines (Pvt) Ltd in Msasa. 

The Italian defence attaché is an officer in the para-military police regiment, the Carabinieri, 

but the Embassy declined to give his name or rank for “security reasons”. The unit’s full dress 

uniform dates back to the 18th century, but they also wear modern camouflage and boast a 

parachute and airborne division

16 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD AND DRINK 



THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD AND DRINK 17

18 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK / WINE 


Raise a glass… 

With KWV red wines! 

Story and pictures by Dusty Miller 

IN discussing KWV’s sauvignonblanc 

range of wines last week, 

I didn’t mean to imply they can 

ONLY be enjoyed with white 

meats, fish, and salad or as a spritzer 

cocktail. 

Nowadays you drink what you 

like, paired with whichever food is 

on the table. So when we get down 

to serving suggestions with this 

week’s KWV cabernet-sauvignon 

(red wines), you can certainly add 

fish, salads, or white meats to the 

list, if that suits your palate; only 

last night (Tuesday) I came across 

friends thoroughly enjoying shiraz 

mixed with Stoney ginger beer as a 

spritzer. The Portuguese in Mozambique 

used to drink a 50:50 mixture 

of cheap (and rough) red wine and 

Coca-Cola, called Catemba; my late 

father-in-law liked it. 

Nothing rough about KWV’s range 

of Cape wines and spirits and we’ll 

look at cabernet-sauvignons and a 

rather larney blend. 

KWV’s entry level cab-sauv is the 

Classic Collection: the winter preceding 

2012’s vintage saw much lower 

than average rainfall in the Western 

Cape. That trend continued into 

the summer, leaving un-irrigated 

growing areas challenged, ultimately 

resulting in yield reductions of 

up to 50%. Irrigated vineyards fared 

better but also showed signs of lower 

soil moisture by way of reduced berry 

size and bunch mass. 

A cooler ripening season with 

even temperatures lead to steady, 

measured ripening of fruit; overall 

smaller berry size and lower yields 

promised great concentration, good 

quality and intense colour in 2012 

vintage wines, which are on the 

shelves here in Zimbabwe. 

KWV Classic Collection cab-sauv 

exudes rich aromas of cassis, dark 

berries and Christmas cake, along 

with nuances of dried herbs and 

cedar-y oak. The palate shows lovely 

structure, juiciness and flavours of 

red fruit and spices. The wine was 

oak matured for eight to 10 months. 

It can be enjoyed now or cellared 

about two-and-a-half years from vintage. 

Serving suggestions: ideal with 

grilled meats, casserole dishes, and 

barbeques or on its own. 

Wine analysis: 13,66 alcohol; pH: 

3,47; total acidity: 5,81 g/l; residual 

sugar 4,76 g/l. 

Expect to pay: recommended retail 

price according to Glen Lorne 

Cellars is US$12,70; between about 

US$20 and about US$33 in restaurants 

and hotels. 

The more prestigious KWV Reserve 

Collection KWV is made from 

fruit of vineyards throughout the 

Western Cape, mainly Stellenbosch 

(34%), Darling (18%) and Wellington 

(15%). 

After two days of cold maceration, 

enhancing colour and fruit flavours, 

the juice was inoculated with a combination 

of specially selected yeast 

strains; alcoholic fermentation lasted 

approximately a week. 

During thi s time, each tank was 

subjected to a meticulously calculated 

pump-over schedule. Only after 

numerous tastings by the winemaking 

team to ensure achievement 

of perfect balance and structure the 

wine was pressed off the skins, then 

racked to barrel where it underwent 

malolactic fermentation, then 

racked from the lees and returned to 

barrel for further maturation. 

This layered and complex cabsauv 

has hints of chocolate, dried 

herbs, dark berries and subtle cassis 

on the nose. Truly rich, it is concentrated 

and generous with a full bodied 

tannin structure and lingering 

finish. 

Wine spent 14-16 months in barrel. 

A 40% portion of the blend was aged 

in new barrels, the rest in secondand 

third-fill barrels. Wood used 

comprised 95% French and five percent 

American oak. 

It can be enjoyed on its own or 

paired with stews, braised ribs, 

grilled beef or ostrich steaks; also 

mild-flavoured cheese. Drink now 

or cellar for up to six or eight years 

from vintage. 

Wine analysis: alcohol 14,39%; pH 

3,55; total acidity 5,89 g/l; residual 

sugar 2,96 g/l. 

Expect to pay: Glen Lorne Cellars 

quotes US$25,30 as rrp; from about 

US$33 to US$75 at the restaurant table. 

Moving to the top-of-the-range 

KWV The Mentors Orchestra blend 

of 2011: it’s from the coastal region 

and comprises 42% cabernet-sauvignon, 

25% merlot, 16% petit verdot, 

13% cabernet-franc and 4% malbec 

grapes. 

The Western Cape’s 2011 harvest 

was warmer and dryer than normal, 

resulting in lower yields, smaller 

bunches and consequently riper flavours. 

Seasonal conditions produced 

sound, fully ripe, healthy grapes 

with resultant wines rich, soft and 

generous in flavour. 

Each selected vineyard was nurtured 

to perfection. Uneven, ripened 

grape bunches were removed and 

only the best bunches selected during 

harvest. The vineyards or parcels 

from blocks were chosen as each 

has some unique characteristic. Sixto-eight 

tonnes per hectare were harvested. 

Bunches were hand-picked 

and sorted in the small KWV 

The Mentors cellar, ensuring 

only the best of each varietal 

went into the blend. 

After fermentation, only 

the most promising 

wines of each varietal 

were chosen to 

mature further in 

barrel. After 12 

months of maturation, 

the best 

wines were chosen 

to mature for another 

period. 

This wine is about 

the selection of the 

best-of-the best. The wine 

was matured in barrel for 

about 18 months 

of which 70% was 

first-fill. Total production 

of this 

rather exclusive 

wine was only 15 

400 bottles; it was 

bottled in January 

2013. 

A classicallystyled 

Bordeaux 

blend, it has a 

touch of new world 

fruit flavours: 

layered savoury, 

eucalyptus, red 

berry and violet 

aromas. The palate 

is well-structured 

with sweet fruit 

flavours and a lingering, 

smooth finish. 

It can be enjoyed now on 

its own or with a variety 

of juicy and flavoursome 

red meat dishes or cellared 

for up to six 

years. 

Alcohol 14,4%; 

pH 3,39; total 

acidity 5,83 g/l; 

residual sugar 

2,7g/l. 

Expect to pay in 

Zimbabwe: around 

US$27,45 at bottle stores 

and supermarkets, probably 

from about US$35-US$85 

subject to the individual restaurant’s 

overheads and mark-up 

policy. 

Dusty Miller recently visited the 

Western Cape as a guest of KWV 

wines and spirits, flying through 

Johannesburg on BA operated by 

Comair. KWV and Bols agents in 

Zimbabwe are Cape Wine (Pvt) 

Ltd, 3, Borgward Road, Msasa. 

Tel 04-446946-7. 

Typical scenes in the rolling wine-lands of the Western Cape; the Manor House at 

Laborie, Paarl where I stayed for part of the tour (Laborie is owned and operated by 

KWV); architectural detail from KWV’s head office at La Concordia, Paarl; Hermann 

Kirschbaum, head winemaker at Buitenwerwachting Vineyards in Constantia, 

Cape Town at a blind tasting between his products and KWV’s.


FAMILY 

Chapfunga family 

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There is no doubt that it is 

around the family and the 

home that all the greatest 

virtues, the most dominating 

virtues of humans, are created, 

strengthened and maintained. 

Sir Winston Churchill

20 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / TEEN ZONE 


Parenting teenagers 

SUMMARY & PRACTICAL TIPS 

SUMMARY & PRACTICAL TIPS 

PART 2 

A 

few week ago, I spoke of how raising 

teens is a trying time which challenges 

almost every parent, and the 

consequential need for you as parents 

to be well informed and advised as 

to how to handle this tricky phase in the 

growth of your children. 

Understanding adolescence and all it involves 

was emphasised as key to a strong 

relationship between you and your kids, 

Band tips on how to handle them was given. 

These included giving them responsibility 

over their lives, acknowledging the 

changes in their development, engaging 

with your teenager, nding the correct level 

they are at, making regular time together, 

maintaining your role as a parent and 

most importantly, communicating with 

your child. 

Give them responsibility over their lives: 

Teenagers have entered a potentially exciting 

time of their life – with many new horizons 

opening up and personal choices to make – but 

it can also be frightening and confusing and 

may make them feel insecure. Remember, they 

are becoming young adults and as such should 

expect to take responsibility for their actions. 

Being responsible for setting their own alarms 

and waking up on their own is one good example. 

Stop treating them like you would a baby. 

One of the most difficult things about parenting 

teenagers is knowing when to allow 

them to make their own mistakes and when 

it is necessary to step in to avoid disaster. Let 

them wake up late and be late for school one 

morning, and see if they will ever repeat the 

same mistake again. Chances are, they won’t. 

When setting rules and boundaries try to involve 

your teenager in recognising the consequences 

of overstepping them. 

Acknowledge and embrace the change 

and development 

Young people may be juggling many pressures 

and at the same time they will be experimenting 

with relationships, behaviour, tastes and 

lifestyles. Often this is a time of increasing 

pressures at school and college, when decisions 

need to be made about work, careers or 

training. All of this can make teenagers anxious 

and stressed. Your duty here as a parent 

is to understand the changes that are happening 

in your child’s body and mind. Also chip in 

to explain what is happening to them so that 

they get your perspective. During puberty 

many changes happen to a teenager’s body. 

It grows rapidly in height and weight, sexual 

organs develop and the body’s production of 

sexual hormones soars. These changes affect 

teenagers’ behaviour and attitude, and can 

lead to wild mood swings. While this is normal, 

it can be very confusing and sometimes 

even frightening for both you and your teenager, 

thus it is essential for you to be ready when 

the time comes. 

Engage with your teenager 

Adolescence is a time when many young people 

are idealistic. Because of this they often 

find themselves impatient and at odds with 

the adult world. They also tend to believe that 

they have all the answers while most adults 

have none. While this can be very irritating, 

it will work better if you join in the discussion 

and explore each other’s beliefs rather than ignore 

the teenager or put their ideas down. It’s 

all part of finding out who they are and what 

they believe. 

How are teenagers portrayed in our current 

society? The media and commercial world 

strongly influence all of us; many of us will 

in turn be influenced by common views of 

young people and youth culture which portray 

teenagers in a negative light. Young people on 

the other hand may feel that society judges 

all teenagers to be ‘trouble’ – a judgment that 

they often feel is unfair. As a parent you will 

have to take account of the wider social pressures 

that impact on your teenager and realise 

that these will influence all of your views. 

Remember the things that teenagers typically 

say they need; acceptance, responsibility, respect, 

privacy, not to be stereotyped, and most 

importantly, to be listened to. Be patient and 

listen to your teenager’s views – most of all be 

encouraging and show that you care unconditionally. 

Communication 

Like in any other relationship, communication 

with your teenager is vital for a successful 

relationship between the two of you to be 

maintained. This is not always an easy task. 

However, if you talk with and listen to teenagers, 

they will at least know that you are interested 

in them and in what they have to say, as 

opposed to using the top-down approach with 

them. 

This can be very important if they want 

to talk about something that is difficult for 

them, perhaps to ask for help with a health 

or relationship issue, or to tell you that they 

are being bullied. Don’t assume that your son 

or daughter knows how you are feeling – you 

need to explain your feelings to them. This is 

especially important given that in most previous 

generations, parenting in the Zimbabwean 

context was mainly through a top-down 

approach wherein instructions were given 

and obeyed. However, times have changed and 

the importance of mutual communication has 

been acknowledged and encouraged. 

Finding the right level 

There are a number of seemingly small things 

that as a parent you can do to make all the difference 

in your child’s life. You can try: 

• Talking to your child’s teacher about 

their reading and how you can improve it 

at home. They will have probably some 

great ideas and be keen to help. 

• Asking your local library whether they 

run workshops or if they lend our tapes 

and CDs so your child can enjoy learning 

using more modern trends 

• Talking to other parents about what 

books their children find useful and 

swap ideas about what they’ve found 

works for them 

Make a regular time together 

Creating a regular “special time” can help 

you and your teenager form a bond and consequently 

a stronger relationship with each other. 

Do not stick to your own ideas and routine 

as a paret, but try to incorporate their ideas as 

well on how to spend leisure time. Many teenagers 

complain that time with their families is 

boring as they are always forced to either like 

what their parents like, or what the youngest 

children in the family like. Do not sideline 

your teenager, he/she is your child too and deserves 

an opinion on how you spend time as a 

family. Go for the movie, for ice cream, swimming, 

play video game with them, get your 

hair done together and so on as opposed to 

family braais, church activities you like or the 

fun parks your youngest child likes. Fit your 

teenager in. 

Maintain your role 

Most importantly, don’t try to be ‘cool’ and 

your teen’s best friend – you’ll embarrass 

yourself and them. It’s OK to be a ‘fogey’; 

that’s what they see you as anyway – but do it 

with humour. Laugh at yourself. ” 

What makes a good parent? Some of the 

things teenagers say about what makes a 

‘good parent’ include: 

• “someone who listens” 

• “someone you can talk to” 

• “someone who can talk to young people 

and other parents about setting limits” 

• “patience” 

• “someone who can compromise with the 

child and give reasons for setting limits” 

Simply put, your children are saying 

all they need in order to understand 

you more is; 

COMMUNICATION, 

COMMUNICATION, 

COMMUNICATION

June 8 to14 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / EDUCATION 21 

The vitality 

of Education 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GIVEN the ever changing 

and developing society 

we find ourselves 

in, the importance of 

equipping one with an education 

is inevitable. Education is the basis 

of knowing how to differentiate right 

from wrong, white from black, light 

from dark, hot from cold and generally the 

different aspects of life as a whole. 

And it goes without saying that without this knowledge, 

one runs the risk of being everybody else’s fool. 

It is a common occurrence that the classes of society 

who have not had the privilege of attaining a basic 

education are bullied into submission by the usually 

selfish educated, who have a tendency of using the 

naivety and illiteracy of the former in their favour. 

Time without number we hear of semi-literate 

widows getting a rude awakening upon their spouses’ 

deaths because unbeknown to them, their marriage 

was out of community of property. Farmers 

who sign wrong papers which approve of someone 

else benefitting or taking all their land or harvest, 

artists signing contracts that bind them to arrangements 

that shortchange them, and the list goes on. 

It is amazing how times have changed from eras 

wherein Grade Seven was the ultimate qualification 

everyone had to have, and then came ZJC, then Ordinary 

and Advanced Level Certificates, a basic degree 

and now we belong to a world where it seems only 

people with multiple degrees are worth mentioning. 

It seems that in the new world, one’s reputation and 

social image is more dependent on their educational 

qualifications than their creed, religion, or marital 

status. 

In times past within our country and beyond, a 

woman’s ultimate worth for instance, was measured 

by whether or not she was married and how many 

children she managed to “give” to her husband’s 

family. But there seems to be a paradigm shift now as 

people are becoming more enlightened and now generally 

care more about what they have achieved in as 

far as education is concerned. 

Whilst it is appreciated that some individuals may 

not possess academic abilities or passion for it, it is 

paramount for one to have at least basic education in 

order to understand how the country works on a certain 

curriculum; for instance banking procedures, 

how contracts work, common and international laws, 

day to day conversations, interaction in social gatherings 

as well as general etiquette. 

So whilst one may be a musician whose only care in 

the world is singing or playing the piano, ideally they 

still need a basic knowledge of the system they find 

themselves in as well as rights and duties expected of 

them. This has the consequent result of one being able 

to become a full member of society as they are then 

able to participate actively in all areas that directly 

concern 

them. 

Further 

to 

that, education 

almost 

always guarantees 

one a certain degree of 

independence as you are then able to 

rely on your own instincts, worldviews and mentality 

and therefore have a broader outlook towards life and 

your career as opposed to your husband’s parents or 

friends’ opinions. It is good to be at least basically 

knowledgeable, open minded, and updated; i.e have a 

rough idea of what is going on around you as you are 

able to participate better in general discussion. 

This will go a long way in your being able to identify 

what makes you a person, what makes you unique, 

what career path is best for you as you will then be 

able to weigh options, and generally what course 

your life should take. 

Conclusively, education plays such a fundamental 

role in our society that it has gradually become almost 

a crucial element for the civilization of human 

society worldwide. Fortunately most governments 

are putting concerted efforts in ensuring that basic 

education is accessible to everyone especially the 

poor and the disadvantaged. 

It has been realized that education does not only 

assist in developing healthy surroundings but it also 

generates an advance community as everything we 

create or do today is based on the knowledge that has 

been acquired through education. One just has to 

think of how basic cellphones, computers, cars and 

so on have become in order to understand that the 

more developed society is becoming, the more necessary 

education is for everyone all across the different 

classes. 

- Prudence Muganiwah

22 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / HEALTH 


Selina Zigomo 

Adults 

It used to be that, between diabetes and 

hypertension, you would hedge your bets 

against getting one. Suffering from one of 

these diseases seemed a sign of old age and 

was divided between sexes. More men would 

suffer from hypertension and the women would 

be diabetic. It was a post middle age trade-off 

for not succumbing to a premature death. 

Yet, over the last two decades, diabetes and 

high blood pressure conditions have been 

known to commonly occur together and the 

combination is more dangerous than either 

disease by itself. they are now referred to as 

the “deadly twins”. Both diseases have grave effects 

on organs and other parts of the body such 

as your eyes, kidneys, blood vessels and heart, 

which over time can be life-threatening. Furthermore, 

as instances are increasing among 

adults, so it is with our children and teens. 

Young adults are also falling prey due to unhealthy 

lifestyles or increased levels of stress. 

In May 2012, the United Nations released a 

report highlighting that the number of people 

diagnosed with hypertension and diabetes all 

over the world was increasing at an alarming 

rate. Director-General of the World Health Organisation 

(WHO), Margaret Chan was cited as 

saying, “In some African countries, as much as 

The Deadly Twins 

half the adult population has high blood 

pressure.” However, most of these remain 

undiagnosed, even though many of these 

cases could be treated with low-cost medications, 

which would significantly reduce 

the risk of death. 

the reasons why these conditions occur 

at the same time is because diabetes 

and hypertension share similar risk fac- 

tors. High cholesterol, salt, fat and sugar 

diets compounded by inactive lifestyles 

create a predisposition to both conditions. 

Similarly, as risk factors are shared so is 

the likelihood that if an individual suffers 

from one condition they will eventually 

develop the other if the two are not diagnosed 

at the same time. though the actual 

diseases have nothing in common, people 

who engage in lifestyles that predispose them to diabetes 

also tend to follow patterns that put them at risk 

for high blood pressure. 

Diabetes and hypertension are also self-reinforcing. 

the impact on your body from diabetic conditions 

can lead to high blood pressure itself. Consider 

that patients suffering from diabetes already have 

high sugar content in their bodies. One of the many 

consequences of high sugar content is that it causes 

damage to blood vessels, which puts a strain on the 

kidneys ultimately increasing blood pressure in the 

body. Elevated blood pressure can also affect the 

secretion of insulin in the body’s pancreas, resulting 

in higher sugar levels. In this way, the two reinforce 

each other, although the medical processes are 

far more complex in their descriptions. Adopting a 

healthy lifestyle is critical to preventing and treating 

high blood pressure, which in turn reduces your risk 

for heart disease, kidney disease and stroke. the five 

critical areas you should manage are weight, diet, 

salt intake, alcohol consumption and exercise. Not 

only can diet and exercise lower high blood pressure, 

but it can also make your blood pressure medications 

work better. 

Children 

Just as the risks of getting the deadly twins 

conditions are increasing, we must not forget our 

children and how their lifestyles are changing and 

can affect their susceptibility to the two. We can no 

longer afford to just treat hypertension and diabetes, 

but now we must aggressively prevent them. 

Often, the largest cause of childhood diabetes is 

related to genetics as children rarely suffer from diabetes 

due to their lifestyle’s risk factors. Moreover, 

much of the early discussion around childhood diabetes 

was focused on the lesser known type of diabetes 

linked to genetics in part. 

When we now consider hypertension in children, 

this disease has normally been associated with age 

and has not been common in children without preexisting 

medical problems. However, the number of 

children with high blood pressure continues to rise. 

this is largely a result of the explosion in childhood 

obesity, which directly increases the risk of high 

blood pressure and of other diseases, like diabetes. 

However, as more children reduce levels of activity 

in their lifestyles -- shorter break times at school, 

less emphasis on sports and highly sugar processed 

diets, they are at higher risk. Every parent therefore 

should be paying attention to two particular aspects 

regarding their child’s development and growth during 

their health check- ups. 

Firstly, parents should check their child’s body 

mass index when dramatic increases in weight gain 

occur. this helps to highlight any difficulties your 

child’s organs or body may be having in breaking 

down and processing sugars and fats. Secondly, you 

should be looking at what your child eats at school 

and home, especially when you are not around. As we 

already know with adults, a chief determinant of attracting 

hypertension is lifestyle, in particular diet 

and activity. 

However, high blood pressure in children is different 

from high blood pressure in adults. It follows different 

diagnosis guidelines, has different treatment 

options, and different measures of treatment success. 

And while teenagers are typically seen to have the 

same indications of high blood pressure as adults, 

they too are at risk in particular ways related to their 

hormones and lifestyles. the hormonal changes of 

adolescence change some of the dynamics that affect 

high blood pressure risk. Consult your family doctor 

for a more comprehensive understanding in cases of 

early puberty. However, the most common risks will 

be related to genetics or lifestyle. 

the idea is that children should outlive their parents. 

As our lifestyles change, we need to pay attention 

to how these changes affect our children’s health 

and therefore futures. Where we have diseases such 

as hypertension and diabetes that cause chronic conditions 

in our organs, the longevity of the next generation 

is severely under threat. Also as we get older it 

can be extremely difficult to make lifestyle changes, 

so why not start them young?

June 8 to 14 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / INSURANCE 23 

Mobile banking applications: 

the way of the future 

Faced with increasing challenges, the banking industry 

has been under considerable pressure to 

improve customer experience and reduce operating 

costs. They have responded to the market challenge 

by moving to a client-centric model by introducing 

innovative technologies to cater to the customer ranging 

from ATMs to SMS Banking etc. 

With more and more smartphones coming in the market 

and applications having gained widespread acceptance, 

banks have quickly jumped on to the bandwagon and 

launched their own mobile banking applications. Today 

Zimbabwean banks are using mobile banking as a 

channel to carry out financial transactions such as fund 

transfer, balance inquiry and bill payment. By leveraging 

the power of mobile, they have succeeded in greatly 

enhancing user experience as well as reducing their operating 

costs. 

From the customer’s perspective, mobile banking has offered 

them efficient use of time, real-time tracking and 

control, convenience and ease of use. However, mobile 

banking as with any other technology has brought its 

own set of challenges to both banks and subscribers 

alike. With increasing security breaches, and information 

theft, banks may be mandated to use double authentication 

like one-time password and encryption algorithms 

to ensure that fraud is kept to a minimum. 

From the customers’ perspective too, it is doubly important 

that they are aware of the possibility of fraud and 

take adequate safeguards. Mobile banking is much more 

secure than internet banking due to reduced malware 

in mobile operating systems and lower risk of viruses. 

However, it is important for customers to know and safeguard 

the basics – not using public WiFi or non-secured 

connectivity, not opening phishing emails, being familiar 

with your own banks look and feel and of course ensuring 

that the phone is not stolen will ensure that there 

is minimal risk of fraud. 

In the times to come, banks will move away from using 

mobile banking as a tool to cut operational costs but try 

and leverage the social element of the mobile phone. Besides 

the basic services that exist today, banks will look 

to provide customised user experiences, shopping and 

additional value-added services. Consumers will use 

social networking features to accessing information on 

new products and share their opinions on a real time basis 

using chat or video. Retail banks will no longer adopt 

a one-size-fits-all approach but offer personalised VAS 

services such as shopping, bill payments, discounts, etc. 

These VAS services would be personalised based on data 

obtained from the mobile like location, nature of device 

used and customers’ online behavior. 

The mobile phone will be the primary touch point between 

the customer and financial institutions. By 

improving security and leveraging the consumer’s inherent 

trust in banks and other financial institutions, 

banks can now use the mobile to not just stay relevant to 

the customer but also forge a deeper and longer lasting 

relationship.

24 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY /GETAWAY 


Imire – great 

place to take 

the family 

Rosie Mitchell 

IMIRE is two hours’ drive from Harare and caters 

for day visitors as well as offering pretty lodges 

and food at reasonable rates for those wishing to 

enjoy it longer. A wildlife conservancy providing 

sanctuary and release for many rescued wild 

animals, it is home to a range of wildlife species including 

rhino (very heavily protected, especially following 

the tragic poaching of some precious Imire 

rhino a few years ago), buffalo, elephant, kudu, zebra, 

giraffe, kudu, impala and many more. Imire runs a 

world renowned and very important black rhino 

breeding programme, in an effort to help this highly 

endangered species survive the ever-intensifying onslaught 

from poaching for horn believed erroneously 

in China and Vietnam to have medicinal value. In 

reality it has none! Imire lays on lots of activities 

for visitors and this is a great place to take the family 

for a long weekend, especially if you have visitors 

from overseas with limited time to see our wonderful 

wildlife. 

Feedback: rosie@wildimaginings.net


THE STANDARD STYLE /COMMUNITY/ BREAKING NEW GROUND 25 

Children in Mazoe take 

control of their destiny 

Patricia Mabviko-Musanhu 

THE Oxford dictionaries.com defines development 

as a “certified state of growth or advancement; 

a new and advanced product or idea or an event 

constituting a new stage in a changing situation”. 

Many a times when we talk development with reference 

to communities for example, we are usually referring to 

change which is to be brought about through ideas prescribed 

by a “learned” or “knowledgeable” individual 

or group of individuals. By virtue of their knowledge 

or learned status, the individual or individuals seem 

in most cases to display an unfair advantage to singlehandedly 

dictate or prescribe that change. Whereas it is 

necessary for one to be knowledgeable in order to effect 

meaningful change in any situation, it is equally important 

to involve and co opt ideas of the recipients of that 

change who are on the ground and are in many cases 

not learned. 

Mazoe district in Zimbabwe is a success story of how 

some development agents have teamed up with children, 

their targeted recipients of change, and are depending 

on the children’s meaningful involvement and participation 

to bring about change. This is because the development 

agents appreciate that there can be no effective 

programming for children that does not hear from the 

children themselves and involve them. Like many communities 

in Zimbabwe, Mazoe district is facing challenges 

of abuse and violation of children rights. Instead of 

waiting for adults to do something about it, children in 

Mazoe have decided to take action. They have taken up 

the responsibility of finding out what is happening to 

other children in their community and consequently 

feed this information to organizations which in turn 

take appropriate action based on this information. As 

a result, development agents have set up structured 

groupings of children in Mazoe who are working with 

formalized local government structures. 

One of these structured groupings is in the form of a 

Child Advisory Committee which is working in collaboration 

with community based organizations. It is led 

by chairperson Viola Maredza who is a 13 year old high 

school student. The board has 20 members consisting of 

both boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 15 years 

old. They alert the community based organizations on 

the various child abuse that they come across in the 

community. Because they bring first hand information 

of what is happening on the ground, they are also advising 

implementing organizations on the areas of focus 

as far as programming on children’s rights in Mazoe is 

concerned. 

One of the major successes of these structured 

children’s groupings in Mazoe has been a noticeable 

increase in the number of child centred gender based 

violence cases which are now being reported. 

Some examples include the story of a 13 year old 

girl who had suddenly dropped out of school. 

The committee members noticed this and visited 

her to find out why she had abandoned 

school. The girl consequently revealed 

to her peers that she had been sexually 

abused by her sister’s husband. The committee 

members reported this case which 

has since been taken up by an organization 

that protects children and will go 

through all due process until the child 

has been safe guarded and restored. In 

their day to day surveying in the community 

the committee members also 

came across another 13 year old girl 

who was living in a shack with a 1 

year old child. She had no means of 

sustaining neither herself nor the 

child. Upon further investigations, 

they found out that she had been 

impregnated by a 17 year old boy 

who had then run away. The child 

led committee has since taken up the 

case to relevant organizations and 

both the girl and the child are receiving 

health and psychosocial support. 

There is yet another case of early child 

marriage where a child who should have 

been proceeding to form 1 was married 

off to an old man for economic reasons. 

The committee has also taken up this issue 

with the relevant child protection organization. 

These are just three of many cases 

which have been reported. In all three cases 

the committee members are hopeful that once 

the matters have been dealt with adequately, 

their peers will be afforded an opportunity to continue 

with their schooling with assistance from the 

child protection organization they are working with. 

The Mazoe story is an example of how development 

agents can work with communities effectively to bring 

about meaningful change. The children who are involved 

in the programme are not only helping to bring 

positive change to their communities. They are also being 

empowered to know their rights and are benefiting 

from a leadership and skills training course that they 

receive before they launch out into the c ommunities. 

Viola Maredza Chairperson Child Advisory Committee Mazoe

26 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY /ARTS 


Church plays 

mbira to heal 

Wellington Zimbowa 

WHEN gospel music sensation, 

Fungisai Zvakavapano- 

Mashavave started playing 

the traditional mbira instrument, 

tongues went wagging especially 

within the Christian community. 

How could she “contaminate” her 

appealing gospel message with a perceived 

“pagan instrument”, which is 

widely associated with traditional rites 

like mabira? 

But whoever thought the instrument 

highly associated with traditional beliefs 

of “kupira zvevadzimu” [communicating 

with the dead] could be adopted 

by a Christian church? 

An apostolic church -- Baba Vedu 

Varikudenga Apostolic Church, not 

only dishes out sweet melodies through 

strumming the traditional instrument, 

but they use it in healing sessions. 

“We use mbira as a therapy at our 

church services where we summon all 

the sick to the front and they sit down 

while we play the instrument. 

“After the first session, the sick then 

receive prayers and thereafter we then 

conduct another mbira healing session 

where those who are healed show by 

standing up, dancing and making their 

way out as a way of acknowledging the 

healing powers of the mbira instrument. 

“Ndedze kuderedza marwadzo then 

munhu ozonamatirwa (The mbira is for 

alleviating or lessening the pain before 

they receive prayers),” said the founder 

of the church, Archbishop Gladmore 

Konono who is a mbira player himself. 

But the church doctrine does not forbid 

its members from seeking medical 

assistance from health institutions like 

hospitals and clinics in extreme cases 

of illness, while small illnesses such as 

general body pain like headaches and 

stomach aches are treated their way. 

Traditionally mbira was used to 

channel communication with the ancestral 

spirits, but the church which 

wears white robes, views it as an instrument 

that also has its place in the Bible, 

where they argue that it was played by 

icons such as David to please God. 

The soft-spoken Konono said he only 

embraced Christian doctrines following 

a divine revelation he received in 

2006 to start his own church and also 

adopt the mbira as an integral instrument 

of worship. 

“There is nothing wrong with playing 

mbira. It is not identified by any 

tribal names as it is just God’s instrument 

and the scriptures rightly support 

our position,” said Konono. 

His church does not allow any polygamous 

relationships. 

The church is also heavily involved 

in singing where the unique apostolic 

church’s obsession with traditional instruments 

can never be missed. 

In 2009, they announced their arrival 

on the music scene with their debut 

album Mutumwa Wemasimba which 

had mbira instruments while the video 

came out in 2010. 

Toitamba Nani? was to follow in 2011 

while their latest offering, Moses Pagungwa 

is currently doing well on the 

airwaves. 

The five-track album is in the 

form of social commentary pleading 

for divine intervention in people’s 

day-to-day lives while also advocating 

for social harmony. 

Kumbirai Kuna Baba is an appeal 

to God to save Zimbabwe, 

while Fambai Zvakanaka calls for 

co-existence in society in this journey 

of life. 

The songs on the albums have 

various lead voices with Damson 

Jaricha who was once with the Vabati 

VaJehovha outfit and Godfrey 

Zvenyika featuring prominently. 

Another sure gem, Tichazoonana 

seeks to instill hope among 

Christians that after this life on 

earth, joy awaits them in Heaven. 

Interestingly, while Konono has 

not had any music training, he 

is the one who acts as a producer 

for all the music from his church 

group. 

Upon listening to the songs, 

before recording he advises on 

the tunes to take, including how 

instruments and audio are to be 

fused or whether it is mbira or marimba 

playing. 

The church which is predominantly 

found in rural areas, also 

performed at the Harare International 

Carnival recently after the 

Zimbabwe Tourism Authority was 

impressed by their unique fusion 

of gospel music with traditional 

instruments. 

Archbishop Gladmore Konono 

Masimba Edenga celebrate 

UMC’s long road to salvation 

Wellington Zimbowa 

MASIMBA Edenga 

-- a recognised music 

group within 

the United Method- 

Mist Church has released an album 

titled, 

Ebenezer, tracing the 

church’s history in Zimbabwe. 

The album comes ahead of 

a mega conference this August 

where 30 000 congregants are 

expected to converge for a threeday 

conference at the National 

Sports Stadium. 

Going with the Biblical mean- 

ing of Ebenezer [God has taken 

us this far], the 12-track album 

which starts by a universal call 

to the August conference while 

narrating UMC’s establishment 

in Zimbabwe, resonates well 

with all other Christians, as 

messages of hope, steadfastness 

in Christian work and need for 

peaceful co-existence take centre 

stage. 

“We are celebrating 117 years 

of missionary work in Zimbabwe 

where we have managed to 

make an impact in society. 

“Preaching the word of God 

and getting people to know God 

is in itself an achievement but 

we have gone beyond that, mak- 

ing a mark in education and 

health-care provision together 

with other social services delivery,” 

said Super Takodza, one of 

the band leaders. 

He also revealed that the 

album is set to be promoted 

around the country while the 

group will also tour South Africa 

and Botswana as their album 

is a vehicle to promote the 

upcoming conference. 

“We are happy that this is a 

great milestone for the church 

since it came to Zimbabwe from 

South Africa some 117 years ago. 

So with this album we are saying, 

this is the long road that 

God has taken us through and it 

is actually a celebration of this 

milestone. 

“We are going to use the same 

platform to market one of new 

albums, Jehovha Samasimba, 

said Misheck Mukumire. 

Delegates to the conference 

are expected from the two countries 

to be toured as well as Zambia 

and the United Kingdom. 

Sure favourites on the album 

– which is already receiving 

good airplay on most of the 

country’s leading radio stations 

-- are Mwari Baba Mune Nyasha, 

which gives glory to God for his 

abundant love for mankind. 

Fambai Majoni is a call to 

Christians not to wither in the 

face of hardships which, though 

inevitable, should not be distruction 

in a Christian’s call to 

spread the word of God. 

The motivational lyrics are 

richly-laced with a perfect blend 

of traditional instruments, including 

the drum. 

Led by Bishop Eben Nhiwatiwa, 

the UMC is one of the oldest 

churches in the country with 

its stronghold being in Mutare, 

home to renowned Africa University, 

which is its affiliate. 

The album Ebenezer came 

about after the church’s Zimbabwe 

Episcopal Area commissioned 

Masimba to record it 

ahead of the church conference. 

“It is our role as musicians 

to spread the word of God and 

we are urging all Zimbabweans 

to come and join in the celebrations 

from August 15 to 17,” said 

one the group leaders, Stanley 

Gombakomba. 

The group rose to fame in early 

2000 with their platinum albums, 

Mazambara Volume 1 and 

2, stealing the hearts of many. 

They have performed at numerous 

state functions including national 

galas.

JUNE 8 TO 14, 2014 

THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / BOOKWORM 27 

By Bookworm 

ONE of the success blogging stories 

in Zimbabwe has to be The Smaller- 

House. It’s a serialized fictional story 

of a young Small House written by an 

anonymous writer with the pen name Lynda. 

While the blog indulges the common Zimbabwean 

male fantasy that women enjoy being 

smallhouses, the series tries to add some heft 

by padding the story with the complications 

of Lynda’s double life. Lynda painstakingly 

explains the rules of her unique experience as 

she goes along. The Smaller House is not an 

exposé, and it doesn’t look very deeply into the 

small house phenomenon but its worth a read. 

Bookworm managed to do an email Q&A with 

the writer. 

Where did the inspiration to start this blog 

come from? 

The Smaller House is a peephole into some 

of the deeper issues around the Small House 

phenomenon from an angle, not mainly of a 

social account, but especially from the viewpoint 

of an individual. It’s the opportunity at 

this rare angle that inspires the story focused 

on compelling the audience to take a second 

look that inspired the blog. 

Is the choice of being “the other woman” a 

liberative act? 

In the story, Lynda walks into her situation 

innocently. Once in, she is imprisoned by emotions 

and especially, the need for ‘comfort’ 

that even after she finds out that she is bedding 

a married man, she stays in. By the time 

she gets to her second, her conscience is in 

the wrong place altogether. Many young girls 

seem to fall into the same trap. There is always 

a clear motivation behind entertaining a married 

man – be it a cry for intimacy or a ploy to 

get material favours. Sex is usually secondary. 

However, it graduates to attachment and this 

is the place where many cannot back out of. 

At the start, the narrator seems like an ambitious 

young woman from a good background 

The Small House in fiction 

and in a pursuit of a degree at a South African 

university with a good future laid out for her. 

What happened? 

Lynda’s focus is overridden by her misplaced 

priorities. Coming from an overprotective 

background, she desires to experience 

‘freedom’ for the very first time and in the college 

environment, she loses her footing. From 

there, it’s one bad turn after the other – either 

made for her, or influenced by someone else. 

In the story, Lynda speaks about the schooling 

in South Africa and how it separates her 

from her family and God. It’s a perspective 

consciously shared. 

Marriage as a social institution has lost its 

sanctity. Divorce rate is on the increase. There 

are a lot of dysfunctional families with at least 

one of the parents playing truant. Who is to 

blame – smallhouses, the cheating men or the 

wives at home? 

The complexity of trying to figure out who 

is to blame for the increase in divorce rates 

is one that leaves the question unanswered 

almost all the time. Sometimes it’s the husbands, 

sometimes it’s the wives, sometimes 

it’s the third parties. Justifiably, each case 

should be looked at in isolation. However, considering 

that at some point, there lies a point 

of decision, men find themselves choosing 

to get out of the matrimonial confines to bed 

other women and that’s condemnable. As the 

party who took a vow of fidelity, it’s inexcusable 

that they find themselves opting outside 

the marriage setup. 

Lynda describes her relationship with one 

of the men as ‘a surge of excitement backed 

by the thrill of adventure.’ Does this statement 

summarise the smallhouse experience? 

That statement summarizes just one of the 

dimensions of being a small house. Lynda 

comes from a well to do background and she 

has everything she needs. Money is not an object 

(as is the second pillar of the small house 

phenomenon); instead, she is out to find intimacy 

and companionship. So, for a girl in her 

situation, that is the case. It’s an adventure 

she finds great thrill and satisfaction in. For a 

girl out to make money, it’s perhaps bound to 

be something along the lines of ‘A lucrative affair 

with sensual fringe benefits). Lynda’s life 

challenges a very prevalent stereotype, which 

holds that women becomes small houses just 

to benefit materially. But in this case its a 

story of a rich girl who just wants someone to 

love her. 

techZim commends your use ‘of alternative 

media.’ Who is your target readership? And do 

you think you are glorifying the ‘smallhouse’ 

experience? 

The target readership for The Smaller 

House is pretty much anyone from the age of 

18; that reservation on age stemming from the 

fact that there are some graphic sex scenes in 

the story. When I started to write the story, one 

of the greatest fears I had was that I would 

somehow paint a positive light on the small 

house experience and even in a way glorify 

them. It remains my biggest hope that I did 

neither and in many ways, one of the strongest 

morals of the story is maintaining sexual 

purity, through the many consequences coming 

out of sexual immorality. 

Another reviewer says, ‘Smallhouse is using 

social media to challenge perceptions towards 

the other woman which mainstream media 

has never really tried to examine.’ What are 

these issues? 

Primarily, The Smaller House challenges 

the assumption that the girls who fall into 

situations similar to Lynda’s are wholly to 

blame for their circumstances. Mainstream 

media never explores the issues in detail; it’s 

generally hold opinions fingering that ‘small 

houses’ are never victims, and especially, that 

all they want is monetary gain – both notions 

which are outright false. Add to that, it sheds 

light to the alternative view I discussed earlier 

about this story challenging existing stereotypes. 

You mention on your Facebook page that a 

US filmmaker has since expressed interest in 

making a smallerhouse feature film. What is 

the state of these negotiations? 

The talks are in infancy because of the various 

issues which come under consideration 

when planning such a production. It’s not 

anything we are going to rush into, but there 

is great energy about telling the story. We are 

even exploring the practicality of making it a 

film or turning it into many parts as a series 

or web show, especially considering the complexity 

of the plot. 

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28 THE STANDARD STYLE / SUPPLEMENT/WORLDCUP 


Soccer Tourism in Bra- 

Hyundai Kicks Off 2014 FIFA World 

Cup Brazil by providing vehicles 

for ground transportation 

With just one week to go before the first kick off, 

Hyundai Motor Company, Official Partner of the 2014 

FIFA World Cup Brazil, delivered over one thousand 

vehicles for the ground transportation of the 

world’s biggest sporting event in Brazil. The branding 

decorations of the 32 buses that will transport the 

teams of the qualified nations were also unveiled. 

Hyundai held an official handover ceremony for the 

cars at Arena de Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to 

deliver the branded team buses and the 1,021 sedans 

and vans. The vehicles will ensure the smooth operation 

of the global event, transporting FIFA officials, 

national teams, members of the organizing committee, 

referees and media representatives throughout 

the tournament. 

William Lee, President of Hyundai Motor Brasil 

(HMB), commented: “We are proud to partner with 

FIFA for this exciting football event, while we believe 

that our football engagement has been playing a vital 

role in connecting global customers to our brand. In 

particular, we will do our best to make the 2014 FIFA 

World Cup Brazil one of the most spectacular FIFA 

World Cup’s in history.” 

“A flawless transport operation is critical to the success 

of the FIFA World Cup”, said FIFA’s Secretary 

General Jérôme Valcke. “We are delighted to have 

the support of our Partner, Hyundai, who’s provision 

of the fleet of vehicles ensures that all event 

participants and crucially, the teams, travel in style 

and comfort.” 

The 32 team buses are vibrantly decorated with national 

team colors, flags and the winning slogans of 

the ‘Be There With Hyundai’ competition, a unique 

global initiative run by Hyundai that encouraged 

participation from fans all around the world. Furthermore, 

each bus will be escorted by a speciallydecorated 

Grand Santa Fe, Hyundai’s leading SUV 

model, as part of the company’s exclusive sponsorship 

privileges. 

In addition to the delivery of cars, Hyundai will operate 

a complete Service Team at all World Cup Stadiums 

and FIFA facilities to ensure the best service 

support and assistance to drivers and fleet of cars 

during the entire event. Prior to the delivery, over 

1,000 drivers were trained to become familiar with 

each model, as well as learn about maintenance, safe 

driving techniques and routes. 

Since Hyundai Motor signed the agreement in 1999 to 

sponsor FIFA competitions including the 2002 FIFA 

World Cup Korea/Japan, the company has successfully 

served as the official partner of 2002, 2006, 2010 

FIFA World Cups as well as many other FIFA tournaments. 

In 2010, the company 

extended its strategic 

sponsorship agreement with 

FIFA to cover the 2018 and 2022 

FIFA World Cups. Through 

its successful sponsorship of 

international football, Hyundai 

Motor has significantly boosted 

brand awareness and brand image. 

Web:www.hyundaiglobalnews.com 

Hyundai’s official 2014 FIFA 

World Cup Brazil vehicle 

handover ceremony at the 

Arena de Sao Paulo, Sao 

Paulo, Brazil.


THE STANDARD STYLE / SUPPLEMENT/WORLDCUP 29 

Soccer-loving tourists in the marvelous city 

For the keen tourist who plans to holiday in 

2014, there is no doubt that Brazil is the place 

to be this year. Thanks to the FIFA World Cup, 

tourism is increasingly becoming a major industry 

in the country with the main natural 

draw-cards being the Amazon Jungle, the Amazon 

River, the various rainforests, extensive 

beaches and bays that line the coast, as well as 

the endless unique and fascinating plant and 

animal species found therein. 

Two of the most popular destinations in 

Brazil are Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, which 

offer tourists a peek into the complex heritage 

and natural spectacle of Brazil as the country 

boasts of a unique cultural integrity coupled 

with its absolute beauty. The former, nicknamed 

“the Marvelous City” is considered 

a main tourist destination and is renowned 

for its beaches, annual carnival celebration, 

landmarks such as the statue of Christ the Redeemer, 

historic and modern architecture and 

various museums. As a result of this, Brazil 

has become commended worldwide for its ever-increasing 

attention and emphasis on ecotourism. 

Needless to say, local service providers 

have become aware of the need to promote 

it as they directly benefit from tourists. 

Approximately 3,7 million people are expected 

to find their way to Brazil during the 

2014 FIFA World Cup, and it is estimated that 

the average tourist will attend at least four 

World Cup matches and thus spend a significant 

amount of money during their stay. Already 

shops and merchandisers have begun 

stocking up on World Cup memorabilia such 

as key chains, flags, caps, T-shirts, balls, 

drums, vuvuzelas, mugs and ties. Whilst 1,9 

million of the 3,7 million people expected to 

be in the country during the World Cup are 

those estimated to actually attend World Cup 

matches and FIFA Fan Fests, the other 1,8 million 

estimated visitors will most probably be 

there mainly to enjoy festivities linked to the 

event. 

However, inasmuch as it is presumed 

that the World Cup will do wonders for Brazil’s 

tourism sector, there remains some anger, 

widespread demonstrations and protests 

from Brazil locals against Federation Internationale 

de Football Association (FIFA) who 

feel too much public money is being spent on 

the World Cup while the majority of nationals 

live in squalor. There is a general feeling 

that the football body is taking money out of 

Brazil more than it is bringing in. Having sold 

over 3,3 million tickets -- the highest ever -- for 

FIFA, the tournament is already a financial 

success. 

One is inclined to wonder whether the 

2014 World Cup and the Rio Olympics -- events 

which are at face value a window of opportunity 

for promoting local tourism -- are events 

which actually have any positive effect at all 

for Brazil. This is because there are a number 

of deterring factors that have made it difficult 

for the average tourist to choose Brazil as a 

destination. These include the exorbitant expense 

of travelling to and within Brazil, the 

on-going perception that Brazil is a dangerous 

country with cases of killings for human 

body parts, as well as the general lack of accurate 

and easily available information online 

in English and other languages to travellers. 

This consequently leaves visitors unsure 

about places of interest, events, locations and 

directions thereto. 

Furthermore, it may be the case that most 

visitors will be on very expensive packages 

and won’t be doing much of anything else in 

between the matches except staying where 

they are. This is because while they may be 

keen on touring local culture, they may be put 

off by the apparent expense of flights and accommodation. 

Amid all the protests in Brazil over the 

misuse and misdirection of funds to the World 

Cup as opposed to real issues affecting the locals 

such as public health, there seems to be 

an immediate need to change the image and 

reputation of Brazil. They need to realign 

tourism efforts more towards the needs of the 

independent traveller so as to have a sustainable 

tourism industry throughout the whole 

country and not just for the duration of the 

major soccer event. 

- The Economic Times, Forbes.com

30 THE STANDARD STYLE / SUPPLEMENT/WORLDCUP 


Who 

holds hope 

for Africa? 

So it’s that time in the football 

world again; all across 

nations the 2014 FIFA World 

Cup which will commence 

on June 12, is all that is on football 

fans’ lips. The international men's 

football tournament which will take 

place in Brazil from June 12 to July 

13 2014, will see a total of 64 matches 

being played in 12 cities across the 

country. This is after the national 

teams of 31 countries went through 

qualification competitions that commenced 

in June 2011 to participate 

with the host nation Brazil in the final 

tournament. With the standardbearers 

for African football Ghana, 

the ever-competitive Cameroon, Nigeria, 

Ivory Coast and Algeria, the 

continent has a considerable number 

of reputable teams representing 

it. 

Various predictions are already 

doing the rounds as football fever 

grips nation after nation, but the 

million dollar question on Africa’s 

lips is; who holds the hope for Africa? 

Although The Black Stars, as 

the Ghana national football team is 

popularly known, failed to qualify 

for the senior FIFA World Cup until 

2006, they have scooped the title of 

FIFA Most Improved Team of the 

Year Award and won the Africa Cup 

of Nations four times. In the last 

Fifa World Cup in 2010 which was 

held in South Africa, they were only 

the third African team to reach the 

World Cup quarter-finals. Its main 

footballing rivalry is with the Super 

Eagles; the Nigerian national 

football team – both are generally 

regarded as the two most successful 

teams on the African continent. 

After the Super Eagles’ coach 

Stephen Keshi’s announcement of 

the final line-up which comprises of 

experienced names such as Vincent 

Enyeama, Austin Ejide, Joseph Yobo 

and Elderson Echiejile who were 

part of the squad to South Africa 

2010, it is no wonder then, that most 

fans will bet their last dollars on 

either of these two African giants. 

The Africa Cup of Nations champions 

will be making their fifth 

appearance at the world football's 

key showpiece and are in the same 

group with Argentina, Iran and Bosnia. 

Cameroon, which has qualified 

for the World Cup seven times before 

and boasts of four Africa Cup 

of Nations titles, is another strong 

contender in the world’s biggest soccer 

tournament, although in recent 

years they have failed to live up to 

the reputation of their predecessors 

such as Roger Milla. With coach 

Volker Finke and arguably its best 

player in Samuel Eto'o, Cameroon 

remain a competitive force although 

team captain Eto'o's best days are 

well behind him. 

Algeria, which played against 

Burkina Faso in the compulsory 

African section playoffs, had great 

chances of missing out on the 2014 

World Cup. For the Fennec Foxes, as 

they are commonly referred to as, 

this tournament will mark their second 

appearance at the World Cup. It 

is a good thing that the current lineup 

announced by their coach Vahid 

Hililhodzic, is a much improved one 

from the one that played in South Africa 

in 2010, owing to Hilihodzic’s inclusion 

of promising young players 

especially in attacking areas as well 

as the defensive positions. However, 

this team is still a work in progress 

and have little in terms of big game 

experience within their ranks, thus 

it may be apt to predict that they are 

likely to struggle in Brazil having 

had a poor showing at the African 

Nations Cup. 

Ivory Coast is yet another African 

team which will be battling for a 

title at the World Cup, with much of 

the world’s expectation lying on the 

shoulders of former Chelsea superstar 

Didier Drogba, being the country’s 

all-time record goal scorer, 

as well as talented players such as 

Manchester City’s Yaya Touré, and 

ex-Arsenal winger Gervinho. With 

its baggage of unfinished business 

at the FIFA World Cup having been 

dumped out at the group stage on 

the two occasions they have qualified, 

Ivory Coast also has on its back 

defeats to Argentina and Netherlands 

in their opening two fixtures, 

which subsequently spelled the end 

of their debut tournament. In 2010 

they were unfortunate to be drawn 

alongside two heavyweights; Brazil 

and Portugal. However, things 

should be significantly easier for 

the team this time around as they 

have been placed in the same group 

as Colombia, Greece and Japan, 

teams which pose a much less threat 

than their two previous World Cup 

group mates. 

It is most probable that these 

football legendary teams are working 

flat out in each of their countries 

to be as fit and ready as they 

can be, come June the 12th. With 

each one having its own strengths 

against a bunch of weaknesses and 

shortcomings, only time will tell 

who will bring back pride to the African 

continent. 

– The Economic Times 

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Chapungu hand 

Green Machine 

thorough beating 

A brace by Rodwell Mhlanga and wonder goal 

from Gift Phiri ensured the rout 

by MUKUDZEI CHINGWERE 

Chapungu . . . (1) (3) 

CAPS United . . . (0) 

CHAPUNGU stripped off 

a disjointed CAPS United 

their dignity with a 3-0 

mauling in a Castle Lager premiership 

match at Ascot yesterday. 

A brace by Rodwell Mhlanga 

and a wonder goal from Gift Phiri 

ensured the rout. 

CAPS United coach Taurai 

Mangwiro blamed the off field 

shenanigans at the club for the 

loss, which led to an industrial action 

by the players before the visit 

to Gweru. 

“There are a lot of things 

happening behind the scenes 

which contributed to this loss. 

You have players like Hardlife 

Zvirekwi; he trained with us 

the whole week but pulled out 

of the team at the last minute, 

it disturbs preparations,” said 

Mangwiro. 

The winning coach John Nyikadzino 

was delighted with the 

good showing of his charges. 

“It’s a good result, in our last 

games we were not burying our 

chances but today we did so, we 

also wasted some chances and I 

think we could have won by half a 

dozen goals,” said Nyikadzino. 

The army side raced into an early 

lead with only three minutes 

played when Mhlanga got to the 

end of a Charles Mativenga cross. 

Nyikadzino introduced Farai 

Manase his most lethal weapon in 

the 67 th minute when CAPS were 

beginning to slowly come into the 

game and a minute later, Manase 

left CAPS United captain Tapiwa 

Kumbayani for dead before squaring 

the ball for Mhlanga, who had 

the easiest of task to tap home for 

his second of the afternoon. 

With seven minutes left on the 

clocks — Phiri received the ball 

outside the box and let go a thunderous 

shot which gave Jorum 

Muchambo no chance. 

Samaya’s strike wins it for Rhinos 

by MICHAEL MADyIRA IN KADOMA 

Black Rhinos . . . (0) 1 

Buffaloes . . . 0 

LINCoLN Samaraya struck with 

11 minutes remaining to separate 

Black Rhinos and visiting Buffaloes 

in a Castle Lager premiership 

match at Rimuka yesterday. 

on a drab afternoon where both 

sides lacked purpose, Rhinos recovered 

from missing a first-half 

penalty kick and bagged three 

points to end a five-match winless 

streak that included four loses 

and a draw. 

Arthur Tutani’s men had last 

won in April when they dismissed 

Chiredzi United 2-1 at home. 

“This victory is a big relief,” 

said Tutani. 

“It made me feel proud of my 

boys. They did not want me to go. We 

now just have to be consistent going 

forward and avoid relegation. Let me 

warn FC Platinum that we are coming 

to humiliate them in their own 

backyard in our next game.” 

The three points saw Rhinos displacing 

Triangle at 13 th spot, but 

they could stay there for just 24 

hours if the Lowveld side beat Dynamos 

today. 

Luke Masomere’s Buffaloes were 

replaced at position eight by Chapungu 

who trounced CAPS United. 

“I was not happy with the way 

my boys played,” said Masomere. 

“Their body language was negative 

and that has been the case 

since the Triangle game. We however 

created more chances than Rhinos. 

Also the referee [Darlington 

Shonhiwa] played a part with unfair 

decisions.” 

Rhinos probed first as early as 

the second minute when Jameson 

Mukombwe’s on-target long drive 

was desperately pushed out for a 

corner by Buffaloes goalkeeper 

Blessing Mwandimutsira. 

It took 19 minutes for the visitors 

to respond when Jeffery Takunda’s 

powerful header crushed against 

the upright post after Roy Mwenga 

had rounded Rhinos goalkeeper 

Jonathan Zvaita. 

Rhinos had a glorious chance to 

go ahead on the half hour mark 

when Liberty Chakoroma pulled 

Samaraya inside the box, but Brian 

Muzondiwa had his penalty saved 

by Mwandimutsira before Philip 

Marufu blasted wide the rebound. 

But Marufu picked himself up 

and led an attack that resulted in 

Samaraya’s goal amid a goal-mouth 

melee. 

How Mine, Harare City draw Aquina wins Ok 

Grand Challenge 

THANDIWE MOyO 

How Mine . . . 0 

Harare City . . . 0 

A 10-men Harare City got their 

their first point away from home in 

a goalless draw aganst How Mine 

in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer 

League encounter at Luveve yesterday. 

The draw takes the Sunshine 

Boys to seven points from 10 games 

while How Mine are on 18 points 

but they both remain at the same 

positions 15 and third respectively. 

Harare City head coach Bigboy 

Mawiwi said gaining a point away 

from home was positive for the 

team which has struggled since the 

start of the season, a sharp contrast 

to their performance last season. 

“We are no longer struggling. 

The fact that we were not winning 

was not because we were not playing 

well. We are going up. This is the 

first point away from home and it 

is a positive thing. I do not want to 

comment much about the referees. 

This is why our nation is not improving 

in football. We played well 

and created a few chances even if 

we were playing against the wind. 

We had control of the game until 

referee gave [James] Jam a red card. 

“The referee was not in a position 

to make that call. We lost control 

and we resorted to defending,” 

he said. 

Jam was given his marching orders 

in the 74 th minute after Masvingo-based 

referee Makonese Masakadza 

adjudged that he had crudely 

tackled Wonder Sithole. 

How Mine coach Philani “Beefy” 

Ncube said: “It is a point at home 

and as much as we would have 

wanted three points, there is nothing 

we can do. The break affected 

us but we hope to rise in the next 

game,”he said. 

by OUR STAff 

AqUINA followed up her Castle 

tinkered success by scooping the 

US$40 000 2014 ok Grand Challenge 

Trophy at Borrowdale Race Course 

yesterday. 

Ridden by Bulawayo-born and 

bred jockey Karl Zechner, Aquina 

beat a strong line-up of 17 horses 

that included favourite Coltrane, 

six-year-old Gelding, A King is Born 

and the Lisa Harris — trained Menacing 

among others. The top threeyear-old 

of the season so far, Lucky 

Sam conditioned by Lisa Harris, finished 

ahead of third placed Approval 

Rating to claim second place in 

the prestigious race. 

Perennial campaigner Captain’s 

Tiger rolled back the years to storm 

to a respectable fourth place. King 

Kahal was withdrawn just before 

the race as a late scratching for being 

intractable. 

Underfire . . . CAPS United coach Taurai Mangwiro 

Chiredzi FC, 

Hwange draw 

by KENNETH NyANGANI IN CHIREDZI 

Chiredzi . . . (1)1 

Hwange . . . (0)1 

PREMIERSHIP debutants Chiredzi 

Football Club failed to utilise 

home advantage once again as 

they were restricted to a one-all 

draw by visiting Hwange in a Castle 

Lager premiership match at 

Chishamiso yesterday. 

Chiredzi FC are yet to collect 

maximum points at home as their 

only win came in a 2-0 win over 

Bantu Rovers away in Bulawayo. 

Chiredzi scored through Trevor 

Ndlovu in the first half before 

Isaac Masame equalised for the 

visitors in the second stanza. 

The visitors overpowered 

their opponents in the first half 

but failed to utilise chances that 

came their way with forward 

Aleck Marime missing glaring 

chances. 

As early as the fourth minute, 

Rodwell Chinyengetere made fine 

exchange of passes with Evans 

Rusike, who released Marime inside 

the box but Chiredzi FC goalkeeper 

Steven Chimusoro was 

equal to the task, pushing the ball 

out for a corner. 

Three minutes later, Tafara 

Chese found Marime inside the 

box but blasted his effort over the 

cross bar from a position which 

was easier to score than to miss. 

Chinyengetere beat an offside 

trap in the 17th minute off 

a Phakamani Dube through pass 

but Chimusoro, who had a good 

day between the sticks for Chiredzi, 

made a fine save. 

The home side jerked their fans 

off their seats after a stunning 

free kick which missed the target. 

It was midfielder Ncube, who 

broke the deadlock with a welltaken 

raspy shot outside the box 

after receiving a fine pass from 

Tapiwa Depistara in the 33rd 

minute. 

The second half was a balanced 

affair but the visitors equalised 

in the 66 th minute through 

Masame. 

Chiredzi FC striker Kenneth 

Matogo had a chance to put the 

hosts in the front, but again blasted 

his effort over the bar with 

Hwange goalkeeper Takabva Mawaya 

a beaten man. 

Hwange head coach Nation 

Dube blamed the referee for the 

draw, saying that he was not happy 

with the level of officiating exhibited. 

“The referee was okay in the 

first half but in the second he was 

biased,” he said. 

Moses Chunga said he was happy 

with his side performance before 

adding that he needed more 

time to fine tune the squad. 

“The boys did well and it is very 

unfortunate that we didn’t win 

the match. We conceded a silly 

goal, we are going to regroup and l 

think in three weeks’ time we will 

improve,” he said.

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CAPS trounced 

“You have players like 

Hardlife Zvirekwi. He 

trained with us the whole 

week, but pulled out of the 

team at the last minute, it 

disturbs preparations.” 

Time up for Gorowa? 

Page 31 

Mahachi boost 

for Highlanders 

HIS future as Warriors 

coach now lies in the 

hands of an eightmember 

High 

Performance Technical 

Team led by Warriors 

legend and Zifa board 

member John Phiri 

BY BRIAN NKIWANE 

WARRIORS coach Ian Gorowa’s 

future continues to be 

bogged down by uncertainty 

as Zifa has shelved negotiations 

to formalise his employment. 

His future as Warriors coach now 

lies in the hands of an eight-member 

High Performance Technical 

Team led by Warriors legend and 

Zifa board member John Phiri. 

The other members of the committee 

include Charles Sibanda, 

Cosmas Zulu, Beki Nyoni, Gibson 

Homela, Misheck Chidzambwa, 

Mike Ngore and the new Zifa technical 

director Takaendesa Jongwe. 

According to sources within 

Zifa, Gorowa was last year given a 

chance to take up the Warriors job 

permanently on a contract with 

about US$5 000 monthly salary but 

took time to sign the contract. 

Some sources said Gorowa wanted 

to see how he was going to perform 

first in the two matches that 

he was in charge of recently where 

he failed to beat Tanzania to progress 

to the next stage of the Africa 

Cup of Nations qualifiers. 

“If he had won, he could have 

used the results to bargain for 

more money in his contract, but 

things did not go as anticipated,” 

said the source. 

Gorowa got the shock of his life 

last week after he was told that negotiations 

had been shelved and 

DeMbare to overcome home ground ghost 

BY MICHAEL MADYIRA 

Warriors coach Ian Gorowa conducting a Warriors training session at Gwanzura recently. 

he was required to submit a detailed 

report on the two matches 

against Tanzania to the technical 

committee. 

Gorowa had met Zifa to finalise 

on the deal after the disaster. 

Zifa chief executive officer Jonathan 

Mashingaidze said the board 

had since appointed the committee 

which was now responsible for recommending 

coaches for national 

teams. 

“Zifa board has since appointed a 

High Performance Technical Committee 

which is now responsible 

for recommendations. The committee 

will recommend coaches 

to all national teams including 

the senior national team headed 

by Gorowa. As for his contract, 

Zifa president [Cuthbert Dube] is 

the best person to address that,” 

Mashingaidze said. 

He added: “Gorowa is expected 

to submit his report this week so 

that the technical committee can 

also look at it and make recommendations.” 

Mashingaidze said all national 

teams would have new technical 

structures as soon as the committee 

starts work. 

DYNAMOS have not been feeling 

at home at the National Sports 

Stadium in this year’s Premier 

Soccer League campaign. 

The giant stadium has become 

a fertile hunting ground for visiting 

teams with ZPC Kariba 

and Buffaloes emerging with 

shocking wins from there. 

The only two wins Dynamos 

have recorded on home soil include 

capitalising on Harare 

City’s lethargic form to seal a 

3-1 victory, as well as a last gasp 

win over FC Platinum, scrapped 

from a poor showing. 

Struggling Triangle visit 

them this afternoon and pose 

another home humiliation that 

could further dent DeMbare’s title 

defence 

No team has ever won over the 

other with their two meetings 

last season ending in draws. 

Team manager Richard Chihoro 

is aware of the potential 

upset. 

“This league has no small 

team,” said Chihoro. 

“Last week Chiredzi United 

taught us that when we visited 

them in our last game. Every 

team is good so we know we can 

fall. We have not been that good 

at home so there is just need 

for a change in attitude. But we 

have good chances of winning 

on Sunday [today]. 

Dynamos are still hit by injuries 

with Devon Chafa, Anesu 

Gondo, Tafadzwa Rusike, 

Masimba Mambare and Tawanda 

Muparati not yet fit. 

“Those who are there will 

play. We have a large pool of 

players to select from and we 

have been like that so far this 

season,” said Chihoro. 

Dynamos have so far dropped 

11 points this term which has 

put them in danger of denying 

them a fourth successive league 

title. But Triangle, who are 

three points from the bottom, 

are not buying into that. 

Biggie Zuze arrived at the National 

Sports Stadium with his 

men who lost 2-1 to CAPS United 

in their last visit at that venue. 

“Dynamos could have been 

struggling at home but we do 

not have to read into that,” said 

Zuze. “Every game has a new 

“We are going to have new structures 

at all our national teams. 

Changes are coming and people 

should be ready.” 

In 2012, then Warriors coach 

Rahman Gumbo was asked to submit 

a report after a dismal show 

and he went on to lose his job. It remains 

to be seen whether Gorowa 

is going to be spared the chop. 

Dube’s mobile phone went unanswered 

yesterday. Mashingaidze 

said Dube was preparing to 

leave for the Fifa World Cup 2014 

official opening in Brazil this 

week. 

strategy and teams change. We 

have our own game plan which 

we think will help us do well. 

Anything can happen. My players 

know that we are not in a 

safe position and playing Dynamos 

is quite a challenge for 

them. I have been psyching 

them not to be intimidated by 

Dynamos’ vocal fans.” 

Veteran midfielder Courage 

Denias has a long-term injury 

that will see him only return to 

action towards the end of the 

season. 

He was injured early last 

month in the 5-1 home mauling 

by ZPC Kariba. 

David Sengu, Jimmy Tigere 

and captain Chasten Ndondonga 

are doubtful of the Harare 

trip. 

BY FORTUNE MBELE 

MAMELODI SUNDOWNS-bound 

Highlanders attacking midfielder 

Kuda Mahachi is now fit and will be 

part of the squad that takes on FC 

Platinum in the Castle Lager Premier 

Soccer League match at Barbourfields 

this afternoon as the Bulawayo 

giants seek to maintain their 

stranglehold at the top of the log 

standings. 

Mahachi sustained an ankle injury 

while training with Sundowns 

who were on tour in Namibia and 

missed the Warriors Africa Cup of 

Nations (Afcon) qualifier against 

Tanzania last Sunday. 

There had been wide speculation 

that the dribbling wizard could be 

out until he joins the Brazilians for 

the Absa Premier Soccer League 

pre-season. 

However, Bosso head coach Kelvin 

Kaindu yesterday said Mahachi 

is now fit and we will be part of the 

team today. 

Kaindu’s main worry is Peter 

“Rio” Moyo, who also suffered an 

ankle injury in Highlanders’ last 

league match against Buffaloes 

at Sakubva and also missed the 

Warriors tie, Rahman Kutsanzira 

and right-back Simon Munwa, 

who the coach said have minor injuries. 

“Mthulisi [Maphosa], Rio and 

Rahman are out while goalkeeper 

Njabulo [Nyoni] and Munawa 

have minor injuries. We will miss 

them but that gives an opportunity 

to other players. Gabriel [Nyoni] 

is improving and I didn’t mention 

Kuda amongst the injured players, 

which means he will be in. Kaindu 

said he is expecting a tough encounter 

against FC Platinum, who have 

not beaten Bosso in a league match 

since coming into top flight football 

in 2011. 

“It’s a tight game if you look at the 

team that we are playing against. 

They are a good side but the better 

team of the day will win. 

It is quite interesting this year as 

the season is competitive. The competition 

is really tough, Kaindu said. 

Bosso have in camp Charles 

Sibanda, who notched a brace in the 

3-1 win over Buffaloes and the inform 

Ozias Zibande while Welcome 

Ndiweni, Valentine Ndaba, Felix 

Chindungwe and Khumbulani Banda 

could replace the injured players. 

FC Platinum troop into Bulawayo 

with 12 points from three wins and 

three draws and the men to watch 

from the Zvishavane-based side are 

Allan Gahadzikwa, Mitchelle Katsvairo, 

Marshall Mudehwe,Thabani 

Kamusoko, former Bosso striker 

Njabulo “Tshiki” Ncube, Nelson 

Maziwisa, Tarisai Rukanda, Donald 

Mgoma and defender Qadr Amin. 

During the week, head coach 

Lloyd Mutasa said today’s is one of 

their toughest matches. 

“This is one of the toughest encounters. 

Bosso are one of the best 

teams in the league. They have done 

well so far and we have so much respect 

for them. But we want to be 

able to stand up and be counted. 

“It will be a tough match, but the 

better team of the day will be victorious. 

Anything is possible,” Mutasa 

said.

The Standard 8 June 2014

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