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4 NewsDay saturday june 7, 2014 FEATURE Fr Oskar Wermter SJ Leaders are responsible for those whom they lead. The lives of the people are entrusted to them. The leaders must create conditions which allow people to make a living and stay alive. Of old, chiefs provided food for the people in times of need from a granary (zunde raMambo) for that purpose. In our day land, manpower, skills and expertise, as well as investment capital must be organised in such a way that the people use the land productively. Indigenisation and greater equity in the distribution of land and the means of production may be an excellent long-term goal. But if it does not provide work for the workless and give them food, at least in the short term, then the welfare of the people may demand a different strategy. The people and their welfare, their sheer survival, come first. They must not be sacrificed to an ideology, splendid in itself, but of little practical value in saving the people from economic ruin and starvation. Leaders with political responsibility must study these problems intensively and be engaged with industrialists, agricultural economists, trade unions and employers at all times. Alas, politicians care little about the real problems of the country. With a few laudable exceptions, most of the time they are busy fighting each other for top posts. The struggle for power and the acquisition of wealth occupy them much more than the worries of the people whom they represent. A true leader must care about the little people, the ordinary citizens in town and country. True leaders must be unselfish. They must make the worries of ordinary workers, and even more so of all who have no work, their very own. A leader is not one who “has made it”, at long last free from all NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of Section 153(2) of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15], that the Municipality of Chitungwiza is offering some premises for lease as summarised in the table below: Type of Premises Number 1. Crèches 13 2. Corner-shops 40 3. Shops 3 4. Butcheries 2 5. Offices 2 Interested persons may approach the Registry Office, Municipal Head Office, for bid documents available to them upon payment of a non-refundable fee of US $10,00. Proposals must be made on and in terms of the original bid. PLEASE NOTE: photocopied or any replica of the bid document shall not be accepted. Current occupiers/tenants with expired leases and applicants who had previously expressed interest are also required to apply in terms of this advertisement. Bid/offer documents, in sealed envelopes, clearly marked “Council Leased Properties” should be addressed to the undersigned and placed in the Town Clerk's Tender Box, Registry Office, Municipal Head Office on or before the closing th date, which will be Monday, 16 June 2014, at 10:30 hours; and immediately thereafter, the bids/offers will be opened. G. MAKUNDE TOWN CLERK Municipal Head Office Stand No. 6004 Industrial Drive, Zengeza CHITUNGWIZA NB: Distressed people caught in the middle A leader is one who does not see old widows and young single mothers sitting as vendors at street corners as a problem of policing and security, of law and order, but as a human problem financial worries, with a luxury car that takes him away from the people, not to them. Quite the opposite, true leaders must go out to the people and share the heavy PUBLIC NOTICE OFFER OF PREMISES FOR LEASE burden of their lives and carry it with them. In our Zimbabwean situation, unemployment, especially of the youth, must give them a real Council is not bound to accept the highest bid/offer and reserves the right to accept any bidder who meets the set conditions. headache. Old widows and young single mothers sitting as vendors at street corners are for them not a problem of policing and security, of law and order, but a human problem. They must feel in their hearts what life is like for self-employed women in the informal sector who have to send their children to school from the tiny income they get from selling vegetables or handicraft or even themselves at night. This hopeless situation drives many across the Limpopo to South Africa. Having escaped the crocodiles, they may fall into the hands of the maguma-guma, robbers and rapists. Some social workers of the church, eg nuns, try to help the shocked economic refugees. But that can only be First Aid. A priest friend from Tzaneen tells me that he has never seen Zimbabwean leaders seeing for themselves what happens to their own people stuck between their own country that has abandoned them, and their host country that does not want them. Surely our leaders know that it is two main causes the world over that drive people into exile: war and violence, and poverty and unemployment. Charity, though welcome in the midst of acute hunger and misery, cannot solve the problem. Our economy must be revived and factory gates must be reopened, workers must take up the tools once more and restart production. Ideological obstacles must be removed. The shouting of slogans in support of one’s own party at the forthcoming election must stop. The survival, not just of one’s own friends and clients, is at stake, but of the people as a whole, regardless of their political sympathies. For such magnanimity and humanity we need statesmen, not just party agents, mothers of the nation, not just female party propagandists. It seems our government does not bother about migrants; “good riddance” seems to be the feeling in the corridors of power, though combined with hoping that eventually the migrants will send remittances back to Zimbabwe. South Africa does not see distressed neighbours in them, not even potentially useful workers, but only troublesome vagrants. Should not the two countries come together and negotiate a solution? Would it not be in the long-term interest of both countries to relieve the suffering of their people, African brothers and sisters? Is this not the humanism a people proud of their heritage of unhu/ubuntu should have? Is this not the job of Sadc to bring the two together and assist them in rebuilding the Zimbabwean economy, the root cause of this migration? It must be in the interest also of South Africa to restore economic sanity north of the Limpopo (ignoring the current economic advantage for South African business which sells Zimbabwe what it cannot produce itself at the moment). The people must come first, and the economy must serve them.
Cossa gives helping hand to Chegutu orphans community builders NewsDay saturday june 7, 2014 5 VENERANDA LANGA SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER AFRICAN culture has always regarded any child as everyone’s child, resulting in people taking responsibility over extended families, or even taking an interest in the lives of other people in their communities. Although some people are now reneging from this cultural practice and adopting foreign cultures where a person only takes responsibility for their family, a Chegutu family has instead decided to take responsibility of many orphans in their locality by forming a community-based organisation, Youth4Children.org, to feed and help orphaned children with different skills. The organisation was formed in 2013 by a Zimbabwean female based in South Africa, Sarah Cossa. She said it started as a family initiative when they took in four orphans, but later grew into a fully registered communitybased organisation in Pfupajena Township in Chegutu. Cossa, a professional counsellor and founding director of Youth4Children.org, said she was motivated to form the organisation many years ago before she moved to South Africa due to the suffering of many children which she witnessed in Chegutu. In 2013, she finally decided to form a fully-fledged community-based organisation and got Youth4children.org registered. “At that time, I never envisaged that I would end up forming a community-based organisation to feed more than 400 children since I did not even have the resources to do so,” Cossa said. “Our aim as a family was just to help children in our neighbourhood who did not have food, shelter and clothing, but we later discovered that there were many more children in Chegutu who needed help and we formed Youth4Children.org to feed them and train them in different life skills such as soccer.” As a Zimbabwean expatriate now working in South Africa, Cossa said the remaining members of her family were involved in ensuring the organisation moved on. Apart from members of her family getting a deep interest in the activities of Youth4Children.org, she said she managed to get some volunteers who are also helping in the feeding scheme for the children and in teaching the children to do different activities. “Our children now number above 400 and our boys have done well in soccer to the extent that they are now affiliated to the Under-13 soccer league,” she said. “The children were also able to participate in the 2014 Independence Day celebrations in Chegutu. “The girls are also involved in activities such as drummies and traditional dance.” Cossa said her organisation had been sustained by well-wishers who donated food and clothing for the children who did not have boarding facilities, but attended to be fed and to get involved in activities spearheaded by the organisation. “We continue looking for support from well wishers and we have managed to secure a place at a government school where our children do different activities like sports every Saturday. “Recently, the Municipality of Chegutu also allocated land to us for establishment of a community garden. We also receive weekly donations of bread from Koshen Bakery to feed our children,” she said. She said some of the items that were needed for the children included sanitary pads for girls, soccer kits for the boys and netball kits. “We have also approached our local [Chegutu West] MP Dexter Nduna [Zanu PF] to assist with the drilling of a borehole at the garden that we were offered by the municipality and to help us with the erection of a fence and a security guard at the garden,” she said. The legislator, Nduna, said the Youth- 4Children.org project was a good community initiative because it kept the children off the streets. “One should watch these children doing different activities and you will understand that it is necessary to have projects for underprivileged children so that they do not resort to criminal activities,” Nduna said. “I hope a lot of wellwishers will come up to support the project in Chegutu in cash and in kind.” The Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Mrs Justice Rita Makarau, Commissioners and Staff would like to express their heartfelt condolences to Mrs Easther Sekeramayi and the entire Sekeramayi family on the passing on of Mr Lovemore Chipunza Sekeramayi in Lesotho where he had gone to attend a meeting of Chief Elections Officers for Electoral Management Bodies in the SADC Region. Mr Sekeramayi was the Chief Elections Officer of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission from 2007 to date. Mourners are gathered at house number 31 Hindhead Avenue, Chisipite,Harare. Funeral Arrangements The body is expected to arrive from Lesotho on Friday 6 June 2014 The body will lie in state at his residence on Saturday 7 June 2014, at no. 31 Hindhead Avenue, Chisipite, Harare, A funeral service will be conducted at his residencee on Saturday 7 June 2014 at 1800hrs Burial will take place at Marowa Village in Chihota on Sunday 8 June 2014 at 1400hrs. May his soul rest in peace. CONDOLENCE MESSAGE (24 May 1947 – June 2014) ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL COMMISSION Some of the orphans who have benefited from Youth4Children.org’s programmes
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