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IMF team coming
to Zimbabwe
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Morgan Tsvangirai
regains lost mojo
SEA OF RED . . .
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A huge crowd turned out for the MDC-T’s 15 th anniversary celebrations at Mucheke Stadium yesterday. See full story on page 2. Picture: Tatenda Chitagu
Grace Mugabe’s PhD: Academics speak
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Tsvangirai regains mojo
Egypt has a key role to play in countering
Islamic State militants in Iraq
and Syria, US Secretary of State John
Kerry said on a visit to Cairo. He said
Egypt could “publicly renounce” IS
ideology, reaffirming US support for
Egypt’s battle against Sinai militants.
Foreign fighters crossing Sinai en
route for Syria are advising local militants
there, US officials say. Kerry is on
the last leg of his Middle East tour as
he tries to form a broad coalition to
tackle IS militants.—BBC
Ukrainian government troops say
they have repelled an attack by pro-
Russian rebels on Donetsk airport. All
morning yesterday gunfire was heard
from the area, controlled by government
forces despite rebel victories
in the rest of the eastern city. Correspondents
say the fresh violence is
a big challenge to a fragile ceasefire
agreed on September 5. Meanwhile,
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
has accused Russia of wanting
to “eliminate” his country. — BBC
Also AvAilAblE on
bY TATEndA ChiTAgU
MASVINGO — MDC-T
president and former
prime minister,
Morgan Tsvangirai
yesterday
pulled a bumper crowd of over
15 000 in Masvingo.
Mucheke Stadium was full to
the rafters as thousands of MDC-
T supporters converged to celebrate
the party’s 15 th anniversary.
The celebrations came a few
months after the party was rocked
by a new split led by Tsvangirai’s
former secretary-general Tendai
Biti who has now formed the MDC
Renewal Team.
But the split did not deter the
MDC-T supporters from painting
Masvingo red since Friday as thousands
in their party regalia and
holding posters walked or drove
through the streets.
Throughout the day, there was
joyful singing and dancing at
Mucheke Stadium as supporters,
who had travelled from different
parts of Masvingo province and
beyond, patiently waited to be addressed
by the MDC-T president.
Tsvangirai, who was in apparent
fighting mood, was accompanied
by his top officials including
vice-president Thokozani Khupe,
party chairman, Lovemore Moyo
and organising secretary, Nelson
Chamisa.
He called on his supporters to
take President Robert Mugabe
and Zanu PF head-on by embarking
on crippling nationwide mass
street protests to demand an end
to the deteriorating economic situation
in the country.
He said Zimbabweans had to
break from the cocoon of fear enveloping
them and confront the
situation or risk suffering forever
at the hands of Mugabe and his
party.
The country is facing an economic
crisis characterised by
a crumbling industry, liquidity
crunch, unemployment and
widespread poverty among other
woes.
Tsvangirai said Zimbabweans
had suffered for too long at the
hands of Mugabe and could no
longer afford to remain docile.
“The time has come to say ‘we
cannot continue to be docile in
this abyss. We are too docile as
Zimbabweans, yet everyone has a
right to public expression of disgruntlement,
not to keep on complaining
in your house without
doing anything about it,” he said.
“The constitution allows demos,
yet the police arrest people.
But if they will take us to jail, we
will fill up those jails. I am waiting
for a day when workers, the
youths, vendors, business, in fact,
everyone, get into the streets and
protest. That will be the day when
Zimbabweans wake up from their
slumber.”
He said the road towards his
party attaining 15 years had been
very bumpy, having lost several
elections at the hands of Mugabe
in polls which he said were rigged.
“It has not been an easy road.
We lost some colleagues along the
way at the hands of the same dictatorship
which we are fighting.
The MDC is a mixture of joy and
tears today. We refused to run and
decided to fight,” the former premier
said.
Turning to the state of the party,
Tsvangirai blasted the MDC
Renewal grouping for being over
ambitious and impatient.
“Pane vamwe vanovhima vane
munyu muhomwe. Vamwe voti
zvandinonokera [there are those
that go hunting with salt in their
pockets and others that say the
struggle is taking too long],” he
said.
“Such people will never survive
in the MDC when they have unbridled
ambition and are interested
in looking for positions.”
Tsvangirai said the MDC was
celebrating its 15 years when the
country was going through debilitating
economic hardships. But
he re-affirmed the party’s commitment
to unseat Mugabe and
Zanu PF.
“We are celebrating 15 years on
a sad note because the country is
on the edge. The country is not
like what it was when we formed
the MDC.
“The situation has continued to
deteriorate, but we remain determined
to achieve the objective of
freeing this country,” he said.
Grace’s PhD: Academics speak
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FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe defied
all odds when she graduated with
the Doctor of Philosophy degree
(PhD) at the University of Zimbabwe
on Friday.
News of her feat was received
with surprise, even shock, by many
who marvelled at how quickly she
had worked on it and graduated.
President Robert Mugabe who
reportedly has seven degrees, and
a host of long serving lecturers at
the UZ do not hold PhDs whose attainment
is no mean achievement.
Some have questioned Grace’s
achievement considering that reports
show that she completed her
first degree in Chinese Language
barely three years ago in 2011.
Grace was part of the 3 274
graduands who were capped by
Mugabe, who is the Chancellor of
the University of Zimbabwe (UZ).
She graduated with a Doctor of
Philosophy (PhD) degree in the
Faculty of Social Studies. Grace
was capped along with Vice-President
Joice Mujuru, who also graduated
with a PhD under the Faculty
of Commerce.
But Mujuru already had a Masters
degree in Strategic Management
attained with Chinhoyi University
of Technology.
It was not clear when Grace registered
for her PhD with UZ, but
a few months ago, it was reported
that she had registered for a doctorate
with the institution and a
well-known UZ sociology professor
was her supervisor.
Grace got her first degree
through distance learning with
the People’s University of China.
It could not be established if she
completed the requisite post-graduate
degree course to enable her
to register for a PhD.
The Standard yesterday asked
academics and administrators
from different universities the
process required to complete a
PhD and the requisite entry qualifications.
UZ lecturer Professor Greg Linnington
said a doctorate involved
President Robert Mugabe, who is also the Chancellor of all universities in Zimbabwe, caps his wife Grace on Friday
writing a thesis and often would
take several years for one to finish
their research.
“A doctorate involves writing a
thesis, after having a research question
prepared, write a proposal and
then write the thesis where one
needs to research on, critique it then
it can be marked, but that could take
a few years,” Linnington said.
“It however varies with individuals
to complete. Some just do a
thesis while others might do one
with some course work, but usually
it’s a minimum of three years.”
He said one needs to have an undergraduate
or a Master’s degree
but said that also varied from university
to university.
Another lecturer and university
administrator who refused to be
named said one would need a good
Master’s degree in order to enrol
for a doctorate.
“One would need to make various
presentations of each phase
during the studies. One also needs
to publish their work in a renowned
academic journal,” he said.
“The process of research until
writing the final thesis takes between
three and seven years and
for one to pass and be awarded a
PhD, they have to make a significant
contribution to the body of
knowledge.”
He said at most universities, a
PhD was an academic apprenticeship
which proved that one is an
academic expert in that area of
study.
“At most universities that are
worth their salt, the supervisor
for any student must be a Professor
with many years’ experience
and the final thesis the student
writes must be passed by at least
two external independent examiners,”
said the university administrator.
Another professor said for one
to embark on a doctorate, they
would need a supervisor and one
needs to suggest a topic which
would then be passed.
“Qualifications usually needed
are a good first degree, a Masters’
degree and then they write a proposal
which will go through the
university,” he said.
“After that, one has to do their
research which is usually between
them and their supervisor.
And the minimum for one to
attain a doctorate is three years.
One will have to be an exceptionally
brilliant student to finish it in
less than three years.”
He also said the thesis is then
passed by at least two examiners
in which one of those should be
an external examiner.
In 2001, The Standard reported
that Grace had dismally failed
most of the examinations she had
written for a University of London
Bachelor of Arts (English) degree.

News
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 3
Zhuwao wants to be ‘govt advisor’
BY PAIDAMOYO MUZULU
Steenkamp family
object verdict
THE parents of Reeva Steenkamp say “justice
was not served” after South African athlete
Oscar Pistorius was acquitted of murdering
their daughter.
June and Barry Steenkamp told of their
“disbelief ” that the court had believed Pistorius’s
version of events.
Judge Thokozile Masipa found him guilty of
the lesser charge of culpable homicide, saying
the state had failed to prove he intended to kill.
Pistorius has been allowed bail ahead of
sentencing on October 13.
Judge Masipa said the athlete had acted
“negligently” when he shot his girlfriend
through a toilet door, but in the “belief that
there was an intruder”.
The Paralympic sprinter had strenuously denied
murdering Steenkamp after a row on Valentine’s
Day last year, saying he shot her by mistake.
But in the interview with NBC, June Steenkamp
said: “This verdict is not justice for Reeva,
just want the truth. He shot through the door
and I can’t believe that they believe it was an
accident.”— BBC
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s nephew
Patrick Zhuwao says he no longer has
ambition to seek public office but would
like to serve the nation through providing
“evidence-based research” to help
the government reach informed decisions.
Zhuwao made the claims in an interview with
The Standard as speculation swirls that the formation
of the Zhuwao Institute could be a subtle
way of reinventing his floundering political career.
“I am not interested in public office any longer. I
can serve Zimbabwe much better without the constraints
of public office,” Zhuwao said.
He said the country’s problems were compounded
by making decisions without the requisite evidence-based
research into solutions.
“Zimbabwe’s biggest challenge is that economic
decisions are made in the absence of thorough
economic considerations and this causes our
businesses to struggle because they fail to relate
to the socio-economic environment,” he said.
He stressed the need for the country to have
many think tanks to assist in providing new information
and advising policy makers.
“We need to have a proliferation of think tanks
and research institutions that will assist the
country to go towards evidence-based policy making,”
he said.
Zhuwao’s political star dimmed in 2013 when
he lost his Zvimba East parliamentary seat to his
distant relative and former Mugabe security aide
Francis Mukwangariwa in party primaries.
However, last month Zhuwao came back into
the public limelight just before the Zanu PF
Women’s League conference that endorsed Grace
Mugabe’s elevation to the politburo as the women’s
league boss when he claimed Zanu PF Harare
province wanted to banish the First Lady to
Zvimba.
Zhuwao was also part of the group of four
(Philip Chiyangwa, Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere
and himself) who were reportedly approached
to help source funding for the women’s
conference after the party had held a chaotic
youth conference a few days earlier.
Speculation then grew that Zhuwawo belonged
to the Mnangagwa faction that was allegedly behind
Grace’s entrance into politics from the top
— the politburo.
Zhuwao dismissed the allegations as spurious
and the work of people who could not read politics.
“Anybody who reads into that in that manner is
devoid of reason and an irreconcilable idiot. The
effort we contributed was from all members of
C
the women’s league, not a faction,” he said.
M
He added, “One of the big donors to the Women’s
League was Vice- President Mujuru and that Y
makes it totally nonsensical to read our gesture as
CM
factional, let alone assisting Mnangagwa.”
MY
Despite his denials, it is emerging that Zhuwao,
through his institute, could turn out to be the ultimate
guardian of Mugabe’s legacy in the party
CY
CMY
and country where he is strategically positioning
K
himself as the brains behind the throne.
“The institute will be giving research-based advice
to government departments and cabinet on
possible solutions to socio-economic problems,”
he said.
Zhuwao said he funded the institute and it would
soon be earning an income from its projects such
as offering Strategic Planning and Institutional
Development training to public institutions.
“We will be working with local authorities and
other public bodies and private companies on capacity
development as consultants,” he said.
Zhuwao argued his academic qualifications put
him in a good position to create a think tank and
help the development of the country socio-economically.
He holds five degrees which include BSc Computer
Systems Engineering, MBA in Information
Technology Management, BSc Hons Economics,
Masters in Management and Public and Development
Management and the MSc Economics that
he was awarded on Friday at the University of
Zimbabwe.
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Local News
‘Sekeramayi is wrong on generals’
By CHARLES LAITON
Defence minister
Sydney Sekeramayi’s
recent decision to review
upwards the retirement
age for military
generals and other serving
war veterans from 60 to 65 years,
is unconstitutional, Veritas, a local
lawyer grouping has said.
Just over a week ago, Sekeramayi
gazetted Statutory Instrument
134/2014 for non-commissioned
members and Statutory
Instrument 135/2014 for
other officers spelling out the
exception to the standard retirement
age for members of the
army and the air force.
The upward review of the retirement
age, which was done
with President Robert Mugabe’s
blessing, gave a new lease of
life to military generals, many
of whom are nearing the retirement
age of 60.
But Veritas, a local organisation
that analyses the work of
the Parliament and the Laws
of the country, said both statutory
instruments were invalid
because they were made by the
minister of Defence, instead of
the Defence forces commission.
“Whatever section 113 of the
Defence Act may say, the Minister
of Defence no longer has
the power to make regulations
for the conditions of service of
Defence force members,” Veritas
said.
“Section 218 of the constitution
makes that clear when it
provides for the Defence forces
Service commission, albeit
with the approval of the minister,
to make regulations to fix
and regulate conditions of service
of members of the Defence
forces, including their salaries,
allowances and other benefits.
“In addition, before fixing
those salaries, allowances and
other benefits, the commission
must get the approval of the
President, given on the recommendation
of the Minister of
finance and economic Development
and after consultation
with the Minister of Defence.”
The two statutory instruments
gazetted on September 5
this year, spell out an exception
to the standard retirement age
of 60 years for members of the
Army and Air force.
And, from now on the retirement
age for members who are
“war veterans” as defined in
the War Veterans Act, would be
65 years.
But chief Law Officer chris
Mutangadura yesterday told
The Standard that Veritas had
missed the point, given that
Sekeramayi simply exercised
delegated legislation.
“The minister did not provide
any conditions of service
in this particular instance. He
was simply exercising delegated
legislation and therefore
whatever he did, for as long as
it was within the four corners
of the enabling Act, it can never
be said to be non-compliant
with the constitution,” Mutangadura
said.
But Veritas said: “It is true
that section 113 of the Defence
Act still says on the printed
page that the Minister of Defence
may make regulations for
conditions of service, but that
merely reflects the different approach
under the previous constitution
from 1994 onwards.”
The nGO further said, as the
supreme law, the present constitution
overrode any conflicting
provisions in section 113 of
the Act.
“Paragraph 10 of the Sixth
Schedule to the constitution,
which deals with the continuation
of existing laws such as
the Defence Act, says that such
laws must be “construed in
conformity with” the constitution,”
Veritas said.
Sydney Sekeramayi
Cuba to send doctors to Ebola areas
Cuba is sending 165 health
workers to help tackle the ebola
outbreak in West Africa, officials
say.
Doctors, nurses and infection control
specialists will travel to Sierra
Leone in October and stay for six
months.
The announcement comes as the
World Health Organisation says
new cases in West Africa are increasing
faster than the capacity to
manage them.
More than 2 400 people have died
from the virus in recent months and
some 4 700 people have been infected.
The death toll remains highest in
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
World Health Organisation
(WHO) officials say the number of
people affected is likely to be much
greater than current estimates suggest.
In Liberia WHO experts say there
is not a single bed left to treat patients
with ebola.
But the world football association,
fifa, says it is joining forces with the
United nations to turn the country's
national stadium into a large-scale
ebola treatment unit.
Margaret chan, director of the
WHO, said: “If we are going to go to
war with ebola we need the resources
to fight.
“I am extremely grateful for the
generosity of the cuban government
and these health professionals
for doing their part to help us contain
the worst ebola outbreak ever
known.”
She added: “cuba is world-famous
for its ability to train outstanding
doctors and nurses and for its generosity
in helping fellow countries on
the route to progress.”
Through a global medical programme,
doctors have been deployed
to a range of countries, from
Algeria to South Africa.
And many consider this medical
help to be a central part of cuba’s
international relations.
One of cuba’s most extensive efforts
is an eye surgery programme
Cuba will send doctors, nurses and infection control specialists to Sierra Leone in October.
in Venezuela where thousands of
cataract operations have been performed.
Hundreds of cuban medical
workers were sent to Haiti during
the earthquake in 2010.
The country also trains thousands
of overseas medical students,
many of whom return to their home
nations to work. —BBC
Zanu PF bira fails to take off
By OUR STAFF
A bira (traditional religious
festival) meant to seek guidance
from “ancestral spirits”
on the country’s political
problems, and a solution to
the intensifying factional and
succession fights in Zanu Pf
failed to take place yesterday.
Only a small group of war
veterans and a few Zanu Pf
supporters descended at a
farm in Mazowe on friday
night to “welcome” a spirit
medium led by “Mbuya nehanda”
purportedly to deliver the
people of Zimbabwe from the
various difficulties they were
facing.
Zanu Pf sources said the
“spirit mediums” who organised
the bira were allegedly
working with war veterans in
Harare and some military bigwigs
linked to a faction in the
ruling party.
But an official yesterday
said the main ceremony was
cancelled when the media publicised
the event.
A police officer in plain
clothes from the Police Intelligence
Services (PIS) was present
at the event and had come
to relieve his colleague who
had spent the night at the ceremony.
When The Standard arrived
at the venue yesterday, there
were no dignitaries or military
leaders but a small group
of people jovially drinking
beer, eating and taking snuff.
One Murava Mpofu, a
spokesman for the event, insisted
that the ceremony was
not political. He said the event
was meant to bring together
Zimbabweans of diverse backgrounds
and celebrate the “arrival”
of Mbuya nehanda’s
spirit.
"We are not after any publicity.
Anyway, she [Mbuya nehanda]
will reveal herself to
President Robert Mugabe
the country spiritually,” he
said.
Mpofu said the spirit would
relieve the people of Zimbabwe
from the problems associated
with disease, hunger or
even war as the country had
been chosen to enjoy the blessings
bestowed on it.
Zanu Pf has been witnessing
serious internal squabbles
as factions position themselves
for the succession of
90-year-old President Robert
Mugabe who has been in power
for the past 34 years.
The factions have been
throwing dirt at each other in
the public.
One faction is reportedly
linked to Vice-President Joice
Mujuru while the other is said
to be loyal to Justice minister,
emmerson Mnangagwa.
The two however have persistently
denied leading factions
or harbouring presidential
ambitions.

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Local News
Insurance firms
take Zimra
to ConCourt
The impasse between the two organisations
has now spilled to the Constitutional Court
BY CHARLES LAITON
Daggers have been drawn
between the Tour Operators
Business Association
of Zimbabwe (Tobaz)
and the Zimbabwe
Revenue Authority (Zimra)
with the former accusing the latter
of creating a monopoly in the
issuance of insurance cover.
The impasse between the two
organisations has now spilled to
the Constitutional Court (Con-
Court) with Tobaz seeking to bar
Zimra from “unconstitutionally
operating as an insurance company”
while leaving its mandate of
collecting revenue.
Tobaz is an association of tour
operators in Zimbabwe who provide
a wide range of insurance
services in the country which include
arranging for motor vehicle
Delta, Dairibord
at loggerheads
over advertising
BY FELUNA NLEYA
insurance for foreign registered
vehicles entering the country.
In its application, under case
number CZ23/14, Tobaz cited Motor
Insurance Pool of Zimbabwe,
Zimra and the chairman of the
Insurance and Pensions Commission
as first, second and third respondents
respectively.
“The second respondent has
then proceeded to itself issue out
insurance cover on behalf of the
first respondent. It must be emphasised
that the first respondent
is an association of short term insurers
and is not itself an insurance
company and cannot therefore
offer insurance services,” Tobaz
said in its application.
“Zimra has declined to accept
insurance other than that issued
by itself as agent for the first respondent
in the issuance of TIPs.
It published a public notice which
It is a legal requirement that all foreign registered vehicles entering Zimbabwe be issued with a Temporary Import Permit (TIP).
advised that it could only issue insurance
cover for the purposes of
the issuance of TIPs.”
“The effect of the above is that
a monopoly has been created by
Zimra, ICZ and Ipec. No one else
can venture into insurance in
the area covered by the monopoly.
There is no legal authority
for this state of affairs. Zimra is
not a registered insurer. It cannot
lawfully issue insurance, even as
an agent of another,” Tobaz added.
Tobaz further said its members
had been barred from issuing insurance
policies or arranging for
the same for foreign registered vehicles
and that much business had
as a result, been lost.
The billboard at the centre of an advertising storm between Delta Beverages and Dairibord
Holdings. Picture: Aaron Ufumeli.
An advertising war has erupted
between two of the country’s
leading beverage manufacturers,
Delta Beverages and Dairibord
Holdings.
Delta Beverages recently erected a
billboard along Rekai Tangwena Road
next to Dairibord Holdings’ factory, advertising
Super Sip, a ready to drink
dairy beverage which was introduced
onto the local market late last year
to rival other existing dairy fruit flavoured
beverages by Dairibord.
The move by Delta Beverages to advertise
competing beverage products
in the vicinity of Dairibord Holdings’
premises has not gone down well with
the milk producer which manufactures
Cascade, a competing nutritious
dairy fruit mix.
“Obviously this is mischief,” Dairibord
Holdings’ spokesperson Emeldah
Shoko said. “Our loyal and valued consumers
know that Dairibord Holdings
products like Cascade, Nutriplus and
Yoghurt are genuine quality dairy based
offerings that contribute towards the
sustenance of good health and should
not be confused with imitations on the
market.”
“Dairibord Holdings has a heritage
of providing nutritious foods and beverages
to the nation and the region which
spans over half a century.”
However, Delta Beverages spokesperson
Alex Makamure defended the
beverages manufacturer’s move, saying
there was no unfair practice as
their advert was placed on a publicly
available space.
“Advertising sites come up at different
times as the space is limited,” Makamure
said.
“We lodged a request for sites and the
supplier had this particular one available.
There is nothing unfair in advertising
a product on publicly available
spaces.”
“We have signed a long-term contract
with the supplier for this site and
we will be rotating our brands as our
brand campaigns evolve.”
This is not the first time that competitors
have engaged in aggressive marketing
campaigns as local cigarette
manufacturer Savannah Tobacco erected
its billboard advertising its products
just at the doorstep of its competitor
British American Tobacco Zimbabwe
(BAT) along Simon Mazorodze road in
Harare.
“This has been an unnecessary
restriction of the applicants’
members’ right to carry on their
profession as brokers and providers
of insurance,” Tobaz said.
According to Tobaz, it is a legal
requirement that all foreign registered
vehicles entering Zimbabwe
be issued with a Temporary
Import Permit (TIP) and that one
of the legal requirements for the
issuance of such a TIP is that the
importer must have valid insurance
cover for the period of the
validity of the TIP.
“The applicant contends that
neither the first nor the second
respondents are registered as
providers of insurance in accordance
with the Insurance Act. This
BY CHRISTOpHER MAHOvE
BOgUS municipal police officers
are on the rampage
in Harare’s Central Business
District, extorting money
from unsuspecting street
vendors.
Harare Metropolitan Police
Chief Inspector, Rachel
Mawoyo, told a meeting of
vendors and council officials
in Harare on Thursday that
her office was aware that
there were bogus municipal
police who were confiscating
goods and extorting money
from vendors in the city.
She said council was on
the hunt for the suspects. Mawoyo
said those approached
by anyone claiming to be
from the municipal police
department should demand
identification before surrendering
their goods and money.
“We know that there are
bogus police officers on the
sprawl, some of them that
we know are former employees
who were dismissed
from work a long time ago.
We are looking for them and
we will get them arrested,”
she said.
Mawoyo said any vendor
approached by anyone they
suspected to be a bogus officer
should phone her office
immediately for assistance.
“If anyone approaches
you and you are not sure
about them, call our national
control centre and we will
deploy our officers immediately,”
she said.
is not denied by these respondents,
suffice to say that the Motor
Insurance Pool alleges that it
has been allowed by the minister
responsible for the administration
of the Road Traffic Act to issue
out insurance policies,” Tobaz
said.
“This need not detain us. Only
registered insurance providers
can issue motor vehicle insurance
cover under the Road Traffic
Act. To this end therefore, the
agreement is ultra vires the Insurance
Act and the Road Traffic
Act.”
Zimra is yet to file its response
and the matter has not been set
down for hearing. Tobaz is represented
by Advocate Lewis Uriri.
Bogus municipal police
on the rampage
The vendors had complained
during the meeting
that they were not finding
their confiscated goods
when they followed to the
municipal offices to pay
their fines.
They said some corrupt
officers were also confiscating
their goods and giving
them to their “runners” who
would then sell the items on
their behalf.
Mawoyo said municipal
officials who were engaged
in such acts risked being arrested
and losing their jobs.
“We do not send people out
there to come and steal from
you. It is unfortunate but we
don’t expect that kind of behaviour
from our officers, especially
women officers who
know the pains of looking after
families,” she said.
Mawoyo said confiscated
perishables were supposed
to be forwarded to the Zimbabwe
Republic Police Licensing
Department who
would either destroy or auction
them, adding that the
law on perishables did not allow
council to destroy what
would have been confiscated.
Vendors confirmed at the
Combined Harare Residents
Association (CHRA) organised
meeting that they knew
of Municipal police officers
who had multiple vending
stalls and enjoyed strategic
immunity from the police.
“This patrimonial system
has hit hard those that do
not have their own patrons to
protect them,” CHRA said.

Local News
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 7
Renewed hunt for gold in Penhalonga
Displaced from farms during the farm
invasions, hundreds of desperate and poor
people have ventured into illegal gold mining,
leaving a trail of environmental destruction
BY CLAYTON MASEKESA
THE dust road meanders
down to the Mutare River,
then breaks into a
dirt path. Red dust puffs
up as hundreds of fatigued,
barefoot illegal gold miners
march in single file, carrying
hoes, picks and shovels.
Women, schoolchildren, young
and old men wade across the river
to the eastern bank. There they
cut trees, overturn rocks, and
push the debri into Mutare River,
choking it with mud.
The disconnected sound of
hammers drowns out the rush of
the river.
Saungweme Mountains and
Mutare River close to Redwing
Mine have been besieged by the illegal
gold panners.
Pushed by endless poverty, desperate
illegal gold seekers have
begun a new wave of panning,
tearing down Zimbabwe’s countryside
in Penhalonga’s DTZ
Ozgeo Redwing Mine in search of
the precious stone.
They are leaving behind a trail
of destruction that includes devastated
fields and forests, mudchoked
rivers and mercury-tainted
water along the Mutare River.
Widespread hunger that has
wreaked havoc in the small mining
area has forced virtually everybody
regardless of gender or
age to join the gold rush following
the closure of the mine in March
this year.
Penhalonga has become synonymous
with gold panning where
gold seekers follow mining concessions
belonging to the gold
mining concern.
The Environment Management
Agency (EMA), closed sections of
the Russian-owned DTZ Ozgeo operations
along the Mutare River.
EMA stopped the company
from mining, ordering it to rehabilitate
land where it carried out
previous operations and to complete
an Environment Impact Assessment
(EIA).
Environment minister Saviour
Kasukuwere has said the government
will not entertain appeals by
the Russian gold miner to be allowed
to resume alluvial mining
operations at the mine.
The miner, a 60/40 joint venture
between Econendra of Russia and
the Development Trust of Zimbabwe,
in May this year appealed to
Parliament to lift a ban on alluvial
mining saying it would be forced
to dismiss its nearly 500 workers
following the closure of the mine.
“We are not backtracking on
our stance because DTZ has not
communicated with us. Even if
they do, it won’t be of any significance,”
Kasukuwere said.
He said the ministry was updating
legislation to include a ban on
riverbed mining practised by several
companies.
“We took a decision as government
that mining along riverbeds
will not be tolerated. The law will
prescribe the certain minimum
conditions that have to be met before
mining can go ahead as in the
case of DTZ,” Kasukuwere added.
However, like many of the young
unemployed youth, Privilege Kamusoko
(25) has joined the gold
rush, after hearing that Penhalonga
was “overflowing” with gold.
“All I am looking for is survival.
I want to survive and fend for
my family. I’m here because of
hunger, because there is nothing
for my family, no food for them,”
he said.
Kamusoko, who is one of many
Gwejas (illegal gold panners) said
in a “lucky” week, he can make
more than US$500 from selling
gold at US$40 per gramme, but
most of the money is used to buy
food.
The buyers come from in and
outside the country. They are seen
milling around the nearby business
centres in Chinyanjera and
Tsvingwe.
The two business centres have
become a hive of activity owing to
Illegal panners near Saungweme Mountain
the cash that is exchanging hands.
“There are many teenagers doing
this. If you come in the evening,
you’ll see the sheer number
of people mining here who
come back to their camps in the
mountains,” said Kenneth Madziwachando
from Tsvingwe in Penhalonga.
Displaced from farms during
the farm invasions, hundreds of
desperate and poor people have
ventured into illegal gold mining
in Penhalonga, leaving a trail of
environmental destruction of unprecedented
magnitude. Farmers,
environmentalists, and traditional
leaders are alarmed by the destruction.
Mutare River is fast filling with
silt, harming ecosystems as well
as farming, fishing, and drinking
water. The illegal miners cut and
burn wood indiscriminately to
fuel their makeshift camps.
The illegal panners use mercury
and cyanide to separate gold
from the ore, and then flush the
toxins into the same river.
A visit to some of the mining
fields in the area revealed that the
illegal panners arrive at the river
in the afternoon and during the
night in search of the precious
mineral.
“Before, there was a lot of gold
and few people panned for gold
because that time there was food
and people didn’t care about gold.
Right now, because there is hunger
all over, people have come
from all over to mine and are competing
to have the few pieces of
gold,” said Madziwachando.
Children have also joined in the
gold hunt and, like countless others,
are missing out on education.
They have traded the education
books for the pick and shovel and
are hoping for a golden ticket out
of poverty.
Manicaland police spokesperson
Assistant Inspector Luxson
Chananda said he was still to get
information on the new gold rush.
“As of now, I do not have complete
information on the invasion
of the mine by the gold panners.
We will do some investigations
and I will come back to you with
full information,” said Chananda.
Nevertheless, Chananda said,
the police have been urging people
to desist from illegal gold mining
as it has many dangers associated
with it.
The community’s hopes rest on
the establishment of mining laws
that promote investment and development.
“What we need are international
investors to come in and mine
for gold and benefit the community,”
said Chief Mutasa.
“We need the government to offer
licences to locals to do proper
mining by giving them claims.
This will provide some jobs to the
local community and some basic
services.”
According to police, an estimated
400 illegal gold panners are refusing
to vacate Mutare River
banks and Saungweme Mountain
in Penhalonga.
Villagers and residents in Penhalonga’s
Tsvingwe high-density
suburb said the illegal panners
were causing serious social problems
in the area such as drug and
alcohol abuse, prostitution and violence.
Unilever launches Geisha
Musha Mukadzi campaign
BY OUR STAFF
UNILEVER recently celebrated
the role of Zimbabwe’s mothers
through the launch of the Geisha
Musha Mukadzi campaign.
The campaign is a celebration
and acknowledgement of the
many women and mothers that
have achieved great things in
their different walks of life.
Speaking at the event, Unilever
marketing director Juliet
Ziswa said the company prided
itself with quality brands that
had added value to its consumers
and communities every day.
Unilever is the manufacturer
of household brands such as
Omo, Sunlight, Royco, Geisha,
Vaseline and Stork margarine.
“Through a research that we
did among our consumers, we
found out that mothers are not
only looking for real value and
benefit for the whole family, but
also natural products that are
mild and gentle and leave the
skin looking healthy and cared
for,” she said.
“We have gone and borrowed
from nature and developed a
new Geisha. The new Geisha is
sourced from nature. We have
used the pure and gentle goodness
of nature that leaves your
family’s skin looking healthy
and well cared for.”
Women’s Affairs, Gender and
Community Development minister
Oppah Muchinguri said
the ministry was working closely
with women in the country to
ensure that progress was made
in empowering the Zimbabwean
women.
“Since independence women
in the country have achieved
a 95% literacy rate which has
placed us a step further to
achieving gender equality. The
ministry has worked hard in realigning
legislation that affects
women in our society,” she said
in a speech read by her deputy
Abigail Damasane.
“We are therefore very excited
as a ministry when there
are businesses like Unilever
through Geisha, who take time
to acknowledge and celebrate
women that have made great impact
in their communities. Geisha
has become part of every
home, symbolisng a mother’s
love.”
Unilever marketing director Juliet Ziswa presents a Geisha hamper to Deputy Minister of
Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development Abigail Damasane at a branding
launch ceremony in Glen View recently.

8 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
Local News
Tuku and daughter Selmor in happier times. Picture: Shepherd Mutamba
‘Mtukudzi disowns daughter’
Selmor Mtukudzi . . . she is not on talking terms with her famous father
An upcoming book revealing
sensational secrets
of Zimbabwe’s
international music
legend Oliver Mtukudzi
sheds light on the musician’s
strained relationship with his
daughter, Selmor, also a singer.
Titled Tuku Backstage and set
to be published before the end of
the year, the book was written by
Tuku’s former publicist and journalist,
Shepherd Mutamba.
Extracts from a chapter “Daughters”
exclusively made available to
The Standard reveal how the relationship
between Tuku and his
daughters, Selmor and Sandra,
from his first marriage to Melody
Murape, had collapsed irretrievably
after Selmor (31) made sensational
accusations in the media,
in 2012, that the superstar was a
neglectful father. She said if Tuku
was supportive, she would have
been somewhere in life.
We publish the extracts below
where Selmor’s comments provoked
Tuku’s wrath in the explosive
book:
Selmor’s remarks devastated
Tuku, he did not see the comments
coming. He never envisaged his
daughter sharing, with the whole
world, her opinion of him.
I met many people who, after
reading Selmor’s story, thought
Tuku was just a pretentious father
who does not apply the same
family values that he espouses
in most of his own music. Others
viewed him as a greedy and
despicable father deserving public
humiliation and posted comments
on social networks supporting
Selmor. Others who actually
deify Tuku did not know what
to say about the man.
After his daughter’s remarks,
were splashed in the media, Tuku
stopped eating well, for several
days, sometimes skipping breakfast
and lunch altogether and surviving
only on one meal a day —
supper. His health took a serious
battering but he forced himself to
work and fulfill prior bookings for
shows.
Tuku has a history of intestinal
ulcers, that relapsed with serious
intensity, most likely triggered by
worry and the eating disorder. At
breakfast, in nyanga, (for a show)
Tuku did not finish just a single
egg and settled for a tiny glass
of fruit juice after Daisy (Tuku’s
wife) insisted that he took something
at least. That drink was all
he had and nothing at lunch. His
diabetic condition deteriorated.
His state of health required hospital
admission and weeks of rest
After reading Selmor’s
story, many people
thought Tuku was just
a pretentious father
who does not apply the
same family values
that he espouses in
most of his own music
from work to recuperate. His body
was frail, his face evidently emaciated.
He became skeletal like
the Auschwitz survivors. Everyone
seemed to annoy him. The relationship
with his daughter had
collapsed.
Below Tuku comments publicly,
for the first time, in the
book, on the state of relationship
with his daughters, particularly
Selmor:
“I have disowned her (Selmor)
because she is not my daughter.
If she was my daughter she would
not say such bad things about me.
none of what she says is true.
And what makes her say those
things now? If she had issues
with me she must have talked to
me as family and not having to go
to the press. I think she hates me
so badly she wishes that I die.
“I am hurt to the core of my
heart. I did my part as a parent and
sent her to school and supported
her musical career, even playing
with her in my own band and taking
her on tour overseas, not because
she was good but I wanted
to promote her career and inviting
her to many of my events to enable
her to work and earn a living.”
Tuku Backstage also reveals
the failed relationship between
Tuku and his first born daughter,
Sandra (35), who does not have
very kind words, in the book, for
the music icon who turns 62 next
week and set to release his 63 rd album
soon.

Local News
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 9
The making of Tuku Backstage
TUKU Backstage, to be published
before the end of the year, cross
pollinates several genres; biography,
criticism and photography
steeped in the music and life of
Oliver Mtukudzi, aka Tuku.
The book, also recollects some of the author’s
own memoirs from life and work experience.
“From where I stood as Tuku’s long-serving
publicist, the book inevitably finds itself
criticising the man and his character.
I frankly articulate my thoughts about
Tuku’s contradicting personality but I also
pay very special attention and tribute to
his honest music. I devoted many different
chapters to his art and creativity,” said Mutamba.
“People love Tuku’s music, especially
the different ways that the music touches
our hearts. But if fans have the opportunity
they would also love to read
about the inner personality behind the
great music. And so the book unravels
Tuku’s life and secrets, his failed first
marriage, relationships, the fights with
his wife Daisy and the squabbles with
his daughters, including the question of
the alleged love-child, a son called Selby
and a daughter born outside wedlock,
Sybil, for whom he eventually admitted
paternity.
“But the book also covers Tuku’s philanthropic
work and his humble beginnings
in life and in music, plus the evolution
of the music and its significance
and relevance in traditional and contemporary
cultures. I write about his
days, as a young boy, in the rural areas
where he was helped to shape some of
his perspectives about life and the melodies
that we now know as Tuku Music.
Over 20 chapters are devoted to Tuku’s
many different aspects of his music and
creativity.
“In other words, one gets, from the
book, a view of what is held back about
Tuku and discusses what is rarely conversed
about his great music. That is why
I titled the book, Tuku Backstage, because
it explores issues tucked away behind
the scenes and beyond what is ordinarily
known.”
“The book traverses through the 1970s,
1980s and 1990s to this day. People look at
Tuku for his music, they also look at him
for his moral and ethical values as an
icon. Does he personify his didactic music?
Does he have to? Tuku Backstage converses
with the man’s dreams, successes,
adversities but also his moral and ethical
challenges, the relevance of his music in
diverse cultures, education, politics, spiritualism
and social cohesion,” said Mutamba.
The book features 200 exclusive pictures
shot by the author, exploding with Tuku’s
untold emotion on and off stage and giving
readers a rare glimpse into his intensely
private life.
“Pictures are vital in the narrative of
Tuku’s music and life. In other words,
photography reinforces the book substantially.
What my pen missed, photography
captured far more accurately and
honestly than words. I photographed all
the pictures in the book in Zimbabwe and
away seeing things through my own eyes.
Photography stimulated my thoughts, complementing
the trajectory of my writing
with fulfilling perspective, relevance and
presentation. I attempted to use photography
to memorialise Tuku at the level of his
music.”
Mutamba said it was not easy writing
because some of the people, close to
Tuku’s early years and work and would
have reinforced the book, did not want to
talk. Some who spoke did not inspire the
author.
“But that did not stop the book because
Tuku himself said I should write. I spent
two years on research, interviews, photography
and of course listening to his
music day and night. Three years went
into drafting, writing, editing and production.”
Tuku on stage.
Picture: Shepherd
Mutamba
Shepherd Mutamba . . . authored Tuku Backstage

10 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
Comment & Analysis
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Leaders need wisdom
more than degrees
Tsvangirai, Pistorius: The
media’s ‘poster boys’
ZIMBABWEAN politicians now rank among the most
educated officials in Africa but their record in government
is appalling to say the least.
While their academic credentials may be impeccable, their
performance leaves one with an impression they lack common
sense and basic problem-solving skills needed to rescue
the country from an economic crisis.
Flashback to 2007. When a Cabinet full of people with doctorate
degrees was confronted with a fuel crisis, President Robert
Mugabe, who boasts of seven degrees, and his ministers with
Ph.Ds turned to Rotina Mavhunga, a Grade 11 drop out.
The self-styled spirit medium misled them into believing
that diesel could flow out of the rocks of Maningwa Mountain
near Chinhoyi.
Rotina’s aides simply bought the diesel from haulage
trucks passing near the mountain, put it into plastic containers
which she hid up some rocks and siphoned the fuel using
a pipe, making it flow over the rocks — and bingo, she had the
barefoot Cabinet ministers clapping their hands with glee!
They all swallowed the trickery hook, line and sinker and
Rotina was showered with expensive gifts.
After this embarrassing debacle, the same group of ministers
believed that by planting jatropha, Zimbabwe could also
banish her fuel problems for good. As a result, US$5 million
was wasted in constructing a bio-diesel plant that is now rotting
in Mt Hampden.
There are too many examples that show how our Ph.D holding
ministers can become clueless when confronted with national
problems.
In many cases, their conduct leaves one doubting if they
genuinely acquired their degrees, or if some fawning universities
just gave them titles for self-gratification.
It is against this background that Zimbabweans woke up
on Saturday to see pictures of Vice-President Joice Mujuru
and First Lady Grace Mugabe in full academic dress, having
graduated with doctorate degrees at the University of Zimbabwe.
Lazarus Dokora, the minister of Primary and Secondary
education also graduated with a doctorate. Ironically, Dokora
stands accused of harming Zimbabwe’s education system
through a raft of unpopular policies. Grace has ruffled
many feathers in her bid to be elevated to the Zanu PF politburo.
These officials might have sweated to get their doctorates,
but they need to do more to convince the nation that the degrees
will enhance their ability to positively contribute to
the social, political and economic sectors of the Zimbabwean
society.
There is one thread so strongly
similar about Morgan Tsvangirai
and Oscar Pistorius
which I thought I should share with
other readers. In their respective
countries, these two were underdogs
who triumphed over adversity
with varying degrees of success.
People tend to love underdogs.
Tsvangirai offers the story of
an uneducated man who rose
from being a mere mine worker
to lead a labour union, eventually
persuading university academics,
student leaders and civil society
leaders to form the first ever
credible post-independence opposition
party to challenge Robert
Mugabe’s grip on power.
Fifteen years down the line, Tsvangirai’s
endurance still makes
headline news having bagged the
Prime Ministerial post at one
time — right under the nose and
tutelage of his erstwhile political
foe Mugabe.
Pistorious comes across as a
double amputee who awed the
world with his speed using prosthetic
legs. We are told Pistorious
grew up as an amputee, who
through his late mother’s encouragement
and sheer hardwork, has
scaled the zenith of his adopted
sport to the pinnacle.
What makes these two guys interesting
to me is where they
stand today vis-à-vis their past
relationship with the media in
their respective countries and
even beyond their borders. They
have even charmed the likes of
BBC and CNN in the past. During
their rise to fame, the media
understandably fell for these underdogs
who had to endure strong
and often humiliating challenges.
Their backgrounds presented
a narrative of breathtaking
courage. Such characters obliviously
attract media attention not
by their own volition, but the circumstances
under which their energies
and willpower are tested.
Pistorious transformed man’s
understanding and perception towards
the “able-bodied”. The media
could not be blind to this.
How could Tsvangirai succeed
where struggle stalwarts like
Edgar Tekere and Joshua Nkomo
failed? Where even such consummate
lawyers like former Supreme
Court Judge Chief Justice
Enock Dumbutshena, had failed
with his Forum Party.
How could Pistorious win legal
battles to run and represent
Oscar Pistorius . . . he disappointed a
lot of people who viewed him as a role
model for the disabled.
MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai . . . he
has offered hope and disillusionment in
equal measure.
his country with prosthetic legs
at the Olympics, of all places and
even come back home with a gold
medal! Such facts surpass human
thinking and attract positive coverage
from the media. Even some
of their glaring goofs are left unscrutinised
for fear of embellishing
these adorable characters.
Both Tsvangirai and Pistorious
have had their human failings
exposed in the past. Tsvangirai’s
electoral loss has always been attributed
to Zanu PF chicanery.
The 2005 MDC split was attributed
to a “power-hungry” Welshman
Ncube who could not stomach being
led by an indecisive leader. Today,
the media face another challenge
of Tsvangirai exposing his
dictatorial tendencies given the
way Elton Mangoma’s renewal
call was handled by Tsvangirai,
with the subsequent expulsion of
other perceived anti-Tsvangirai
cadres.
The media finds itself in a dilemma.
How do they repackage
such a battered image of one who
offered so much hope against tyranny,
corruption, nepotism and
incompetence? How do we discard
such a horse in politics?
Equally, in South Africa and
elsewhere, the media finds it hard
to take that Pistorius has committed
such a dastardly act of killing
his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Both men seem to have fallen victim
to the underdog sense of moral
exception: they are right while
everybody else is wrong.
In some quarters, as the public
dramas have played out, both men
have forfeited their victim status.
In Zimbabwe, the public media will
have a field day over the Biti-Tsvangirai
battle. The private media and
most anti-Mugabeists in Zimbabwe
would be at pains to label the “daring”
Tsvangirai the catalyst to the
breaking up of a once formidable
1999 MDC. Public opinion about Tsvangirai
is divided.
There are many reasons why
some media houses remain loyal
to Tsvangirai ranging from atavistic
adherence to the anti-Mugabe
stance, to the fact that most Zimbabweans’
lives had improved
during the GNU era. Like I said,
there had not been, until now, a
credible black-led opposition in
Zimbabwe. A Tsvangirai-led MDC
has also sold newspapers. Few are
willing to bite the hand that feeds
them. For the many young teenage
girls in South Africa and other
disabled young people Pistorius
was the ultimate loverboy,
warrior and hero. These two men
have not only left the media in a
quagmire, but also thousands and
millions of sympathisers just cannot
understand why. The jury is
still out.
Odrix Mhiji, Chitungwiza
Help households to manage litter
DiDyMus Mutasa (with Jersey) claps hands in Maningwa hills where Rotina Mavhunga
played her tricks.
There are a lot of anti-littering
signs along roads. What has
given rise to these are the irreponsible
litter-bugs among us.
It is a fact that Harare City Council
cannot cope with the mountains
of litter that residents generate
on a daily basis. They have
always argued that they do not
have enough vehicles, manpower
and sometimes fuel to remove garbage
either from the city centre or
residential areas.
Dumping waste recklessly, just
like ignoring a veld fire, attracts
a fine, if not a jail erm. We need
the Environmental Management
Agency to educate people on ways
to manage litter. Litter should be
separated at household level with
plastics being sent for recycling.
It would help to have small composts
at each household where biodegradable
matter would be deposited
and later used in the garden.
I am angry with people who actually
drive in the night to go and
dump their domestic waste at
open spaces or on the shoulders
of the roads. They leave an assortment
of litter that includes used
diapers. Stray dogs rip them apart
and what we have is something
that one cannot look at twice. We
are an educated lot, but we lack
wisdom. Each one of us must be
an anti-litter police of sorts for a
cleaner environment.
Anti-littering
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Comment & Analysis
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 11
ONLINE FEEDBACK
OPINION
Dr Grace Mugabe: Now the sky is the limit!
the oracle
BY TANGAI CHIPANGURA
In his traditional interviews granted to
ZTV every February to mark his birthday,
President Mugabe this year said he was
sticking on to the leadership of his party and
therefore country because he was afraid his
party would disintegrate due to factional fissures
that have been growing deeper by the
day.
He also confirmed that, even at the age of
90, he did not want anyone to discuss his retirement
or succession because it was not yet
due — that he was still around and not going
anywhere!
Mugabe said: “But why should it [succession]
be discussed when it’s not due? Is it
due? Well, the leadership still exists that
runs the country. In other words, I am still
there. The people can discuss it if they want,
but the moment they start discussing it, they
are going into factions and then you find the
party dividing itself, and so why dividing,
why discuss it when it’s not due?
“When the day comes and I retire, that’s
sure, the day will come. What I don’t want
is, I don’t want to leave my party in tatters; I
want to leave it intact.”
With these words coming from his mouth,
little doubt remains that Mugabe entertains
the idea of being Life President — of dying
in office. The message he sends is that he has
the desire and ambition to stay in power and
his excuse is that the situation in Zanu PF
and Zimbabwe has become so bad it is only
him that can save the country.
Watching and listening to him speak — relating
how Americans and Europeans fear
and hide away from him each time they see
him, “because of the power that you have invested
in me” — you cannot doubt the man’s
strength and determination.
It is evident the President is brimming
with ambition to take the throne to the grave.
Of course, the excuses advanced for the
permanent occupancy of the throne are just
the typical platefuls of bull that we eat up
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe
from our politicians day in and day out.
Just as almost all those eagle-eyed politicians
would have us believe that none of
them harbour Presidential ambitions — that
they are all there for nothing but to be the
people’s servants — we know all that is lies
and that virtually all of them have keen ambition
to one day become President!
While in other countries political power
(inter or intra party) is exchanged after a few
years, politicians in Zanu PF all pretend that
they actually do not want the apex seat in
the party and country yet, behind the scenes
vicious fights amongst this cowardly lot rage
night and day.
They are all simply too cowardly to stand
up and challenge for the top post which each
of them long for.
But then again, Mugabe’s intimidating utterances
about there being “no vacancy” for
his post and about “succession debates not
due” do not help matters. Those men and
women whom Zanu PF renegade, the diminutive
firebrand Margret Dongo once described
as Mugabe’s wives, are then thrown
into dark corners of silence or into a bootlicking
frenzy.
Nonetheless Zanu PF politicians must
know that it is absurd for them to deny they
want power — such denials are just red meat
on the platter.
In any case, it would also be absurd for us
to believe their denials. After all, there is
virtually nothing wrong or criminal or disrespectful
or immoral about being an ambitious
politician.
What is interesting however is that, while
they may publicly castigate those “accused”
of seeking to grab the throne from Mugabe,
there are certain politicians whose inadvertent
speeches and or actions have betrayed
their presidential ambitions.
So, surrounded by fearful comrades, most
of whom have in fact been scrambling to
idolise him and make him an infallible demigod,
Mugabe is tempted to make himself Life
President, or to create a Mugabe dynasty in
Zimbabwe.
Already, the President has declared that
everyone, including the usually exempted
members of the presidium, is going to have
to fight for their positions at the coming December
congress. There are only two exceptions
— only two people that cannot be challenged
— Mugabe and his wife Grace.
Mugabe and his wife have conveniently
been endorsed in their positions of party
President and Women’s League Secretary.
But for the distant observer, it just does
not look exactly clean, innocent, moral, decent
or prissy that everybody but the leader
and his wife must face challenges for their
positions — that only the leader and his wife
must not be challenged!
In the circumstances, the possibility of the
creation of a Gu-Shung-Ho dynasty becomes
difficult to discount — given the overwhelming
authority of the President.
Now that the First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s
official title becomes: The First Lady, Comrade
Secretary for Women’s Affairs, Dr.
Grace Mugabe — the Sky is the Limit!
Feedback: tchipangura@standard.co.zw
RESPONDING to the opinion piece;
Zanu PF secrets: Mutsvangwa must tell
it all (The Standard September 6 to 13
2014) Mapingu writes: While I do agree
with Mutizwa on almost all issues he
raised, I only want to say, may be just a
single drop of truth for whatever purpose
its revealed, makes the ocean better
than one filled with lies. True, [Chris]
Mutsvangwa, like all Zanu PF officials is
not honest and patriotic by any measure,
hence his highly selective pronouncement
of truth. Most of us who
were of age during the struggle have
always known that Joice [Mujuru] never
downed any plane. It has all been a
figment of Zanu PF elite’s imagination
calculated to propel individuals to positions
they don’t deserve under the
guise of such past heroic expeditions.
The beauty of it is, since it now comes
from another Zanu PF cadre, then our
most abused youth might start realising
that most of the rubbish sold to them as
“History of the Struggle” is worse than
James Bond fiction. Immediately after
Mutsvangwa revealed this well-known
element of truth one young man who I
believe has always doubted me when I
said most of Zanu PF heroes, including
Joice, are Zanu PF manufactured heroes,
immediately phoned me and said “now
bro I believe you; all along I thought you
were bluffing”. All I am saying is, may be
it’s the beginning of the writing of a truthful
Zimbabwe struggle history. All along
it has been lies, lies, lies, lies. Zanu PF lies.
Col Shadow writes: “Never in a thousand
years” was what Smith said during
the struggle .Think like a revolutionary.
We fought and won the struggle.
What’s so amazing about differences in
the house? Don’t try to make a mountain
out of an anthill, it’s us Zanla /Zipra
and the patriotic Zimbabweans who liberated
this country. Mutsvangwa is justified.
Patriotism comes with pride and
costs that cannot be measured .Waivepi
iwewe? [where were you?]
No Lies says: The whole truth will surface
one day. The question is, will it be
of any good? Every time some information
comes up about where we came
from as a country we start realising that
we’ve been fed with lies all along. This
makes us question everything about
our so-called heroes and doubt their
decision -making as leaders, that’s why
we find ourselves in this current situation
where we are led by people who
got to their positions through lies and
they appoint their friends not on merit
but as a way to buy their silence. The big
question is: Who are our true heroes?
Do they exist? Who are our enemies?
Are our so-called heroes our enemies,
just in a different skin colour ?
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Comment & Analysis / Opinion
Building a political
career around
orphanage wrong
sundayopinion
BY CONELIA MABASA
Naturally, what people do
and how they carry themselves
around speak better
for them than having to use
words to build an identity.
Imagine if Oliver Mtukudzi
“Tuku” would take every opportunity
to tell us that he is a great
musician? That would take much
from his stature. It makes much
sense to let the music speak for
him. To get the guitars, drums
and other instruments spread the
message, to give his versatility a
chance to interact with the audience.
It is a skill to be able to leave
music reviewers to critique his
work, then to take lessons therefrom
without prejudice. Humanity
values humility.
Events in the political arena
have given us Grace Mugabe as
the incoming Women’s League
boss come the December Zanu
PF elective congress. She is taking
over from war cadre Oppah
Muchinguri who recently conceded
that her next political appointment
depends on Robert Mugabe.
She had to give way for amai,
so she says, because as women,
they felt they had to do something
for her to acknowledge the
good work she has done being the
pillar upon which the President
rests. Isn’t that as it should be for
husband and wife?
For years, people compared the
First Lady with Mugabe’s first
wife, Sally, who was a compassionate
woman. When Grace established
an orphanage in Mazowe,
I thought she was finally
going to exonerate herself from
the mean woman tag, extravagant
and worshipping on the altar
of opulence. She followed that
up by building a school in the
area to “educate the orphans”.
She has been on a spree to acquire
more and more land without
a care what happens to people
who used to occupy the surrounding
farms. She also plans to build
a hospital, a museum and a university
in the area.
What becomes repulsive at the
end of the day is that she has
turned that orphanage into a political
spring board. Instead of
leaving the philanthropic work
to do the talking for her, she has
turned Mazowe into some personal
political space.
Zanu PF women, youths and
now the chiefs are visiting her at
the orphanage to pronounce their
support and endorsement for the
position of the powerful women’s
league boss. It is given that she
will take over because she won’t
be contested at congress. The
stampede is just to curry favour
with her and the President.
Are we witnessing an abuse
of the under-privileged to further
powerful people’s ambitions?
Yes, she has given the children a
home and hope of a bright future,
but is she turning them into initiates
of Zanu PF’s partisan politics
by engulfing them with slogans
every now and then? It was
at Mazowe that she declared that
she is “strict but firm”, threatening
to pull bigger punches against
enemies and promising to rein in
those who dared stand in her way.
Grace Mugabe
Some orphans and care workers at Grace Mugabe’s Mazowe orphanage.
She used language so bad it
should not come out of a head of
state’s wife, so vicious it can’t be
said within children’s earshot; so
intimidating that it instils fear
when people need to feel confident
and safe in their own country.
The language is so telling of
dictatorial leadership on the way.
Why use the orphanage as a political
selling point? Where is the
compassion? Is she using it as
a tool to reach the hearts of the
electorate ahead of the congress?
A means to an end. A launch pad
for her political career.
Surely the insincerity of it
cannot escape us all.
Parents should not shoulder burden of education
The Rural Teachers Union
of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) is saddened
and stunned by the
stance taken by Primary and Secondary
Education minister Lazarus
Dokora of calling for the
reprimanding of the poor parents
who fail to raise tuition fees
for their children as was reported
in the media. It is disgusting that
Dokora unashamedly continues,
to call for legal action against poverty-stricken
parents yet it is the
duty and responsibility of the government
to fund education. Article
27 of the Zimbabwe constitution
clearly states that the government
should fund basic education,
hence calling for the arrest of “defaulting
parents” is unconstitutional.
The RTUZ urges the minister to
reconsider and withdraw his uninformed
and capitalistic stance
of lobbying for the privatisation
of education. RTUZ wishes to advise
the minister to stop being a
stumbling block but instead be
a building block that encourages
the government to exercise its
duty of funding education instead
of threatening the poor parents.
RTUZ would also want to urge
the government to prioritise the
education sector if the empowerment
mantra is supposed to be a reality
because education is the pragmatic
empowerment tool that can
capacitate citizens. That the government
only contributed a paltry
US$600 000 as compared to Unicef ’s
US$2,4million towards the Capacity
Development Programme, clearly
shows that the government is reluctant
to contribute towards education
yet millions are channeled
to the army and police as if we are
a country at war.
While the Capacity Development
Programme is a good initiative
by Unicef (and not by government
as reported in the media),
RTUZ urges those responsible
for the implementation of
the programme to ensure that the
programme is lopsided in favour
sunday
view
BY RTUZ
of rural teachers. This will lure
qualified personnel to teach in
rural areas, which in return will
boost pass rates.
RTUZ would also like to make
it clear that it supports government
on the idea of curriculum
review. However, the association
urges government to engage all
relevant stakeholders in the implementation
of this long overdue
curriculum review initiative. It
is also our hope that the curriculum
review will not be politicised,
but instead, the new curriculum
should be beneficial to the learners
in preparing them for life after
school. In other words, the curriculum
should not be tailor made
Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora
to suit hegemonic agendas of certain
individuals or political parties
as has been the case before.
Lastly, RTUZ hopes that the curriculum
review will be a panacea
for fashioning and producing
learners that will be effective in
community building as far as development
is concerned. Therefore,
it is important that whoever
will implement the programme be
non-partisan and well-informed;
otherwise the curriculum review
will end up being an ideological
tool of some egocentric and parochial
individuals for hammering
their propaganda into the heads
of our children.

Opinion
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 13
Unpacking NPRC’s mandate
justicematters
BY DZIKAMAI BERE & PROSPER MAGUCHU
Healing cannot happen without justice and
closure
The Parliament’s supreme
decision making
body, the Committee on
Standing Rules and Orders
will soon announce
the names of shortlisted candidates
for the commissioners to
the National Peace and Reconciliation
Commission (NPRC). Predictably,
there will be no surprises
but we cannot assure you that
there will be no disappointments.
Many actors have invested so
much energy and resources into
this process and it is important
that we keep watch. Stakeholders
must monitor both the process
and its substance.
One of the important things
to monitor and highlight will
be the calibre of the people who
will be appointed commissioners.
We do not wish to preempt
that so we will move to the next
equally significant aspect of the
process — the mandate of the
NPRC. In order to faithfully unpack
the mandate of the NPRC,
we need to understand whether
the NPRC is a truth commission
or not? The words of eric
Brahm (2009) are very instructive.
he posed the thorny question:
Why does it matter that the
truth commission label is used
in different ways?
For many, it matters little
whether or not the investigation
his or her government creates is
formally called a truth commission.
But as policy reform advocates,
we should care about the
meaning behind the label because
it helps us detect potential threats
against the commission.
For Zimbabwe, does it matter
that we are going to have a National
Peace and Reconciliation
and not something else? It is important
to answer this question
even before we read the text of
the constitution that tells us what
the NPRC will be in substance
through its mandate.
Independent Zimbabwe is
fraught with serious violation of
human rights such that as early
as 1997, many human rights
groups had started calling for a
Commission to investigate these
violations. Breaking the Silence,
Building True Peace: A report into
the disturbances in Matabeleland
and the Midlands (CCJP & LRF:
1997) was in response to these
calls for truth recovery that fell
on deaf ears and the failure by the
Chihambakwe Committee of Inquiry
to make its findings public.
In February 1999, the Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions called
for “a Truth and Reconciliation
Commission to deal with unresolved
aspects of our past that
hinder national integration.” (T.
F. Kondo: 2000)
In its 2008 election campaign,
the MDC promised a “Truth, Justice
and Reconciliation Commission.”
In 2010, we visited over
84 most violent constituencies
speaking to Zimbabweans about
what their preferences were on
transitional justice in Zimbabwe.
In almost every meeting, the people
spoke of a commission to deal
A handshake . . . past violent elections and other abuses demand reconciliation
with aspects of truth, justice and
reconciliation. In the same year,
the Law Society of Zimbabwe in
its model constitution proposed
a “Truth, Justice, Reconciliation
and Conflict Prevention Commission”
to investigate past abuses,
provide remedies for victims, and
prevent future conflicts.
These proposals were presented
to the Parliamentary Select Committee
(Copac) in its constitutional
reform consultation meetings.
Copac did not heed clear calls for
a “truth”, “justice” and “reconciliation”
commission. Instead,
it opted for a “national”, “peace”
and “reconciliation” commission.
This leads to a reasonable conclusion
that the powerful partners in
government were not comfortable
with a “truth, justice and reconciliation”
commission because
they feared it would seek to bring
to light the “forbidden truths” of
our past. These fears are not new
to Zimbabwe. Sri Lanka is a good
example where President Mahinda
Rajapaksa refused to appoint
a Truth and Reconciliation Commission
and settled for a Lessons
Learnt and Reconciliation Commission
(2010) which however produced
a damning report on how
he handled the war with the Tamil
Tigers.
here in Zimbabwe we do not
think we need to worry about the
label of our commission. This is
because while the name is vague
and seems to avoid elements of
justice and truth, the mandate, as
it is in the constitution, creates a
very powerful truth commission,
by any name.
The constitution sets out a very
broad mandate for the NPRC in
section 252 (a) which is to ensure
“post-conflict justice, healing and
reconciliation.” The term “postconflict”
is used loosely to refer
to “the period after violent conflicts”,
for no society ever goes
into post-conflict phase because
conflict is eternally part of the
human society.
This is powerfully expressed
in the words of Galtung (2004:2)
that “without a goal, life ceases
to exist. . . .Where there are
goals, there will also often be contradictions
[or conflicts] within
the same organism or between
them;… “There are human beings
without contradictions, they
Mahinda Rajapaksa . . . he refused to appoint a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, settling for a Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation
Commission
are called corpses,” the Chinese
say. Life, goal and contradiction
are inseparable. “Conflict prevention”,
preventing conflict, is
meaningless. But “violence prevention”,
preventing violence, is
extremely meaningful and beneficial.”
What we try to deal with is
not conflict, but violent conflict.
We seek to bring an end to violent
conflict, and build justice, healing
and reconciliation.
The constitution framers could
have ended the functions of the
NPRC with only section 252 (a)
— they would still have done a
splendid job. everything else that
comes from (b) to (j) was just overkill
and would most suitably belong
to the enabling Act, not a
constitution. however, others regard
this as a positive. Section 252
(a) which talks of ensuring post –
conflict justice, healing and reconciliation
brings into this NPRC
everything that Zimbabwe will
ever need in a commission after a
legacy of violence: Justice, healing
and Reconciliation. What are
listed thereafter are just tools and
steps for achieving these three
very important objectives!
Any commission that is serious
about achieving reconciliation
has also to realise that healing
is part of the reconciliation
process. healing however, cannot
happen without justice and
closure. At the same time, justice
and closure inevitably bring
into the equation the most urgent
need for truth seeking processes.
A genuine reconciliation process
will have to include all the aspects
of transitional justice that
Zimbabweans have called for in
this commission.
We therefore argue that the objectives
set out by the constitution
for the NPRC are comprehensive
enough. Our NPRC is indeed
a truth commission with a generously
broad mandate. A good Act
of parliament must now be crafted
to assist the upcoming commission
translate this mandate
into a reality. More importantly,
the effectiveness of the NPRC
will largely depend on the calibre
of the commissioners who will be
appointed for the task.
• Dzikamai Bere & Prosper Maguchu
write in their own personal
capacity. The views expressed
here are not the views of the organisations
they are associated
with. For feedback, please write
to: dzikamaibere@gmail.com

14 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
Regional News
Pistorius used
disability as
defence
athletes are not
people that focus
on their disabilities,”
Oscar pis-
“Paralympic
torius said as he prepared to compete
for South africa in the 2012
Olympics. “They focus on their
abilities.”
“i’m not disabled,” he said on
another occasion. “i just don’t
have any legs.” That’s perhaps
his most famous quote. He wasn’t
“overcoming” a disability. He was
defying it. He was “self-defining,”
as one scholar wrote.
For double-amputee athlete pistorius,
who was convicted Friday
of “culpable homicide” but found
not guilty of murder, transcending
disability was his trademark,
his claim to fame, fortune and
the attention of beautiful women
such as model reeva Steenkamp.
But for pistorius the defendant,
disability was something else: an
excuse. His lawyers constructed a
narrative that could explain why
he wasn’t negligent — at the very
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Oscar Pistorius . . . waiting for sentencing
least — when he heard a noise
coming from his bathroom and,
instead of calling police or security
guards in his gated community
or yelling out an open window, he
grabbed his 9mm pistol, walked
on his stumps 16 feet across the
room and fired four bullets into
the bathroom door of his pretoria
home, killing Steenkamp.
“calling security or calling for
help from the balcony probably
would have taken as much time
as it would have taken for him to
go to the bathroom and discharge
the four shots,” Judge Thokozile
masipa said Thursday, shortly
after saying she could not find
him guilty of murder, but perhaps
of negligence. Why didn’t he just
seek help?
The answers to that question
were critical to the outcome of
the trial. and the ones provided
by pistorius and his lawyers
came more clearly into focus as
the judge recounted them — and
they all were excuses, all tied to
disabilities of one form or the other,
or disadvantage. The most obvious
was pistorius’s lack of legs,
which made him feel helpless that
night without his prosthetics. But
others were his family circumstances
— their anxiety, and his,
about crime in South africa. His
lawyers even argued that anxiety
stemming from his disability was
responsible for his erratic testimony
in the trial.
Far from mastering his disability,
a defence psychiatrist suggested,
the disability came to master
him. The initial surgery to remove
his legs when he was 11
months old was a “traumatic assault”
that left him with an “anxiety
disorder.” pressure growing
up to pretend the disability
was not crippling further scarred
young Oscar.
as an adult, his lawyer Barry
roux told the court, his disability
produced a “slow burn effect….
The evidence is clear that
the effect of disability, vulnerability
and anxiety could be triggered
at any time, even after a relaxing
evening” with his girlfriend.
and then there was his mother’s
fear of crime. His father, the
psychiatrist told the court, left the
family when pistorius was young.
His mother developed such a fear
of intruders she kept a gun under
her bed. This made an indelible
impression on pistorius, who also
kept a gun under his bed.
pistorius’s defence tactic has
not gone unnoticed by people who
are disabled — and many don’t
like it.
“as a disabled person myself,
i’m still insulted by how roux,
presumably on instruction from
pistorius, continues to make absurd
claims about how he suffered
incessantly due to his handicap,
causing weird and massive
damage to his mental capacities,”
wrote michael Simpson in
Health24.
“Strange that Oscar used to
fight for the right of the disabled
to be treated on absolutely
equal terms to the able-bodied.
This must have been some kind
of sham, because now his lawyer
is insisting that this was never so,
that Oscar has been deeply and
permanently scarred by his handicap,
and absolutely must not be
treated as an equal, but as a profoundly
and eternally impaired
person.”
But of course it’s a legal defense
by a man potentially facing prison.
all of this was intended to explain
why he fired at the door instead
of doing something else,
and why he was not negligent in
doing so — and therefore guilty of
“culpable” homicide, the equivalent
of manslaughter.
The test of that — whether a
“reasonable” person in similar
circumstances would behave as
pistorius did — is subjective. a
judge in South africa’s legal system
must inevitably engage in
supposition. and while trying to
do so objectively, supposition inevitably
summons up not just law,
but personal experience.
The problem perhaps for pistorius
is this particular judge
knows something about being disadvantaged.
and she knows something
about crime-ridden neighbourhoods.
The Olympic athlete faces
charges of premeditated murder
in the Valentine’s Day 2013 shooting
of his girlfriend.
masipa (66), grew up poor and
black in the South african township
of Soweto under apartheid.
She was one of 10 children.
Five died in childhood. One was
stabbed to death at the age of 20.
masipa was jailed for participating
in an anti-government protest
during apartheid. She worked
delivering cups of tea to get
through school and was a crime
reporter before becoming only the
second black woman on the bench
in South africa.
as pistorius, who is from a
comfortable family and is now
wealthy, sobbed and vomited his
way through his trial — and as
he and his lawyers described his
deeply unfortunate circumstances
— she sat calmly taking notes,
her face giving no hint of what
she was thinking.
On Thursday, the world found
out. Neither disability nor disavantage
is a defence, she said. The
“defence says the accused’s disability
made him feel vulnerable,
which contributed to him arming
himself with a firearm,” she
said. “many people in South africa
have been victims of violent
crime, but they have not resorted
to sleeping with firearms under
their pillows.” many people have
disabilities too, she said, and they
don’t cower in fear about crime
and sleep with guns.
“if the accused had awoken in
the middle of the night and in
darkness saw a silhouette hovering
next to his bed, and had in a
panic shot at that figure, only to
find it was the deceased, his conduct
would have been understandable
and perhaps excusable,” she
said. “in such a case, he would not
have been expected to call security
first, as he would have been
faced with a real emergency.”
in this case, however, pistorius
“had enough time to assess
the situation and call for help.”
She was not convinced, she said,
that a “reasonable person” with
“the accused’s disability” would
have fired “four shots into the cubicle….
The accused knew that
there was a person behind the toilet
door. He chose to use a firearm
which was a lethal weapon. He
was competent in the use of firearms
as he had undergone some
training,” the judge said.
“Did the accused fail to take the
steps which he should reasonably
have taken to guard against the
consequence? yes,” said masipa.
“in the circumstances, it is clear
that his conduct was negligent.”
Friday, she acquitted pistorius
of murder, saying the government
had not proven that he intended to
kill her, but convicted him of “culpable”
homicide, killing Steenkamp
untentionally.
—Washington Post

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Satanists to hold black mass
The organisers will wear profane
costumes, use explicit language
and desecrate the fake host
A
devil-worshipping group hell-bent on
hosting a satanic black mass is planning
to go ahead with its controversial
ceremony this month, despite fervent
protests by residents of Oklahoma City
and a lawsuit from the Catholic Church.
The co-founder of Dakhma of Angra Mainyu
said that the religious and educational organisation
decided to hold the black mass in public but
it will be a “tamer” version than some traditional
satanic ceremonies by, for example, substituting
vinegar for acts involving urine to comply with
state health laws.
The upcoming event has generated controversy
because black masses mock Christianity and the
rituals that make up their services but organisers
see it as an integral part of their religion.
“One of the dictates of the church is not only to
educate the members but to educate the public,”
Dakhma of Angra Mainyu’s Adam Daniels said,
“and to debunk the Hollywood-projected image of
our beliefs.”
Daniels said all 88 tickets to the September 21
event — held at the theatre in the city’s civic centre
— have been sold. The parks and recreation department,
which rented the space to the group for
US$420, cited First Amendment protections in allowing
the group to meet in a public facility.
“Daniels must abide by our local ordinances,
our fire codes and all of our state laws,” Parks
and Recreation spokeswoman Jennifer Lindsey-
McClintock said. “No blood-letting of any kind
will be allowed.”
A US$17,50 ticket buys participants a frontrow
seat to the festivities, which include a performance
from the band God in a Machine and readings
that call for the renunciation of God. Male
participants and audience members are encouraged
to wear black, hooded, full-length robes, but
evening wear is also appropriate for spectators.
Anthony Briggman, an assistant professor
of theology at Emory University in Atlanta, explained
that the general motivating principles behind
satanic groups — including Dakhma of Angra
Mainyu — is to “parody” Roman Catholic liturgy
by “demonstrating their opposition to orthodox
Christian beliefs and practices.”
“The line between parody and mockery is a
fuzzy one and it is unclear to me on which side
of the line they usually fall,” he said of satanic
groups in general.
“The goal seems to be to acquire some of the
spiritual power [and] magic that they associate
with the Roman Catholic ritual of transubstantiation,
the transformation of the Eucharistic bread
and wine into the body and blood of Christ,” Briggman
said.
Co-founder Daniels said the September 21 ceremony
will take place before an altar-like table
where a woman in lingerie lies (another concession
to reflect the state’s nudity laws).
The culmination of the event comes when the
Dakhma of Angra Mainyu deacons and priest
stomp on the, in this case, unconsecrated host
and spit on it. Daniels said organisers will wear
profane costumes, use explicit language and desecrate
the fake host, which Catholics believe is a
form of the resurrected Christ.
Professor Briggman said that in other instances,
he has “heard the reports of ritualistic practices
of sex, blood-letting, and sacrifice . . . but it is
unclear to me how much these reports are hyperbole
designed to capture the attention of the press
and public.”
Daniels said the Oklahoma City ceremony will
wrap up with a Satanic exorcism intended to draw
the Holy Spirit from the follower’s body, which
contrasts with traditional exorcisms that are designed
to expel the devil from the individual.
“Our practices have gotten it to about 22 to 25
minutes,” Daniels said of the ritual.
Additional controversy has surrounded this
particular event because the Oklahoma City Archdiocese
filed a lawsuit against Daniels’ group after
media reports that he was in possession of a
consecrated host, a wafer that some Catholics believe
is literally the body of Christ.
The host in question has since been handed
over to the archdiocese and the legal action has
been stopped, but that has not put all of the Archbishop’s
concerns to rest.
“I remain concerned about the dark powers that
this satanic worship invites into our community
and the spiritual danger that this poses to all who
are involved in it, directly or indirectly,” Archbishop
Paul Coakley said in a statement.
The group is separate from The Satanic Temple,
a national group with similar beliefs that has
long fought with Oklahoma City officials about
the right to have a statue of the devil placed prominently
in the Oklahoma State Capitol.
Lucien Greaves, the leader of The Satanic Temple,
said Dakhma of Angra Mainyu may be timing
its black mass in order to coincide with the publicity
drummed up by The Satanic Temple’s legal
battle for the devil statue.
“I have a feeling that they’re rather inspired
by the attention that our activity has gotten,”
Greaves said, “but I don’t think there’s a particularly
higher concentration in Oklahoma than anywhere
else.” — ABC News
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16 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
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For 20 Years
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Our Priority
NSSA helps Chegutu, Shamva and
Norton ease housing shortages
oon after the inception of the national
pension scheme in 1994, the National
Social Security Authority (NSSA) began
working with several local authorities around
the country to help them improve housing
delivery.
The authority’s housing projects in Chegutu,
Shamva and Norton have helped ease the
housing shortages in these towns.
In Chegutu NSSA partnered the then
Founders Building Society in the construction
of 200 housing units on 300 square metre
stands. BHP Platinum employees were among
the first beneficiaries of the project.
Construction of the houses began in October
1998 and was completed in 2000.
In 1999 NSSA worked with the Chaminuka
Rural District Council in Shamva under a
partnership between itself, the council,
housing construction firm Instamac and the
Central African Building Society (CABS)
which saw 50 families acquire homes of their
own.
NSSA invested the money required for the
project in CABS permanent paid-up shares
(PUPS). CABS provided loans for Shamva
residents selected by Chaminuka Rural
District Council to enable them to purchase
the stands and houses. Many of those who
purchased houses and stands were
contributors to the NSSA national pension
scheme. The stands were sold at above cost but
below market prices.
Work on the project began in March 1999.
Four-roomed houses were built on 10 of the 50
stands in Wadzanai township. These were sold
to Shamva residents who were first on the
project waiting list. The rest of the stands were
sold to residents willing to build their own
houses.
Chaminuka Rural District Council Chief
Executive Officer Sydney Chiwara
commended NSSA for its efforts in ensuring
that its contributors had decent
accommodation. He said such efforts brought
relief to local authorities, most of which had
insufficient houses to meet the housing
demand.
“Such efforts by NSSA and its strategic
partners always come as a relief not only to
(national pension scheme) contributors but to
local authorities as well.
“As we know, access to decent shelter is a
basic human right and it is good that
contributors do not have to wait till retirement
to get a benefit from NSSA but the authority
actually ensures they get a benefit while they
are still working,” said Mr Chiwara.
Shamva Residents’ Association General
Secretary Fungai Musawo concurred with Mr
Chiwara, saying such public-private
partnerships in major critical projects were
important in ensuring that residents’
expectations from local authorities are
fulfilled.
He said while the association acknowledged
the role local authorities played in national
development, local councillors should be
reminded that service delivery should be their
major priority and should always be high on
their agenda in order for them to remain
relevant in their constituencies.
One of the beneficiaries of the Shamva
project, Cecilia Chirima, applauded NSSA for
diversifying its product portfolio through
provision of houses.
“As beneficiaries we applaud NSSA for their
housing development programmes as these
make contributors realise one of their lifetime
dreams of owning a house during their
working life,” said Mrs Chirima, a mother of
four who has already seen two of her children
complete secondary school while staying in
Wadzanai.
She urged other housing delivery players to
complement NSSA’s efforts by providing
more housing.
NSSA also facilitated the construction of
47 two-bedroomed houses in the Shasha area
of Norton. These houses were occupied by
members of a housing cooperative who were
also NSSA contributors. This project started
in 2000 and was completed in 2001.
Norton Town Council Deputy Housing
Director Tichaona Rambiyawo commended
NSSA for providing close to 50 families with
decent accommodation.
“Indeed the gesture will always be cherished
by the Norton Council as this has significantly
helped in reducing the housing shortage in
urban areas, which is actually a crisis the
council is facing,” he said.
A beneficiary of the Shasha Housing
Cooperative, who is also the cooperative’s
Vice-Chairman, Mr Francis Chitsinde, said
their dream of owning their own houses
seemed far-fetched when the original 26
cooperative members started making
contributions in 1996.
“From being mere members of the
cooperative, we are now landlords. I actually
look forward to retirement because I no longer
worry about having to pay rent now that I own
my own home,” Mr Chitsinde added.
Another of the beneficiaries of the
cooperative’s housing scheme, Ms Rudo
James, a mother of three daughters who are
now all grown up and living on their own,
says she is happy she does not need to burden
her children with money for rentals.
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Mr Chitsinde (left) and other
beneficiaries of the Shasha Cooperative
Ms Rudo James and her granddaughter
standing in front of her house
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housing beneficiaries at their home
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PolIcy revIew does not InsPIre conFIdence/18
IMF team
heads for
Zimbabwe
Patrick Chinamasa said government was
committed to continue implementing a
comprehensive reform programme of
policies to foster sustained and inclusive
economic growth
BY NDAMU SANDU
A
team from the International
Monetary
Fund (IMF) will be in
the country this week
for a review of its supervised
economic reform programme
on the country as Zimbabwe
pushes for a successor plan.
In June last year, the IMF agreed
to a Staff Monitored Programme
(SMP) on Zimbabwe after Harare
had pledged to undertake a raft of
reforms as it builds bridges with
the multilateral financial institution.
The SMP — an informal agreement
between country authorities
and the Fund staff to monitor
the implementation of the authorities’
economic programmes
— came after intensive lobbying
by the inclusive government as
part of its re-engagement with
the global lender.
The SMP focusses on putting
public finances on a sustainable
course, while protecting infrastructure
investment and priority
social spending, strengthening
public financial management, increasing
diamond revenue transparency,
reducing financial sector
vulnerabilities, and restructuring
the central bank.
In his mid-term fiscal policy review
last week, Finance and Economic
Development minister Patrick
Chinamasa said an IMF Review
Mission would be in the
country from September 17 to October
1.
“It will be important for Zimbabwe
to negotiate a successor SMP
after the expected successful conclusion
of the third review of the
existing SMP in September 2014,”
Chinamasa said.
“The successor SMP should
also relate to ZimAsset [the Zimbabwe
Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic
Transformation],
support a stronger policy framework
for the economy and build
on the achievements to date.”
Chinamasa said government
was committed to continue implementing
a comprehensive reform
programme of policies to foster
sustained and inclusive economic
growth, aimed at significantly
reducing poverty levels.
“This should be under-pinned
by fostering investment, especially
foreign direct investment and
increasing productivity,” he said.
The SMP was supposed to run
up to December 2013 but was extended
after Zimbabwe failed
to meet its targets saying it was
hampered by the electoral process
and the post-election transition.
Three out of five structural
benchmarks for the first review
Finance and Economic Development minister Patrick Chinamasa
were met. IMF said the new Income
Tax Bill was submitted
to Parliament in May 2013 and
passed in June.
IMF said the new framework
for contingency planning and
systemic risk management was
submitted to the RBZ Board and
approved in October 2013 and the
time-bound action plan by the
Public Service Commission on
measures to modernise human
resource management and payroll
systems was submitted to
the ministry of Finance and Economic
Development in December
last year.
IMF said the stock of verified
pre-2013 domestic arrears was finalised
in mid-December 2013.
Zimbabwe made public the total
stock of domestic arrears and
the strategy to clear it in the context
of the 2014 National Budget
Statement submitted to Parliament
in December 2013.
The country however did not
issue a statutory instrument establishing
a formula for diamond
dividends as envisaged under
the programme, but took broadly
equivalent measures to increase
diamond revenues and boost
transparency in the industry.
For the second SMP review, the
authorities met three of the six
revised quantitative targets.
Zimbabwe met the floors on the
stock of usable international reserves
and on Poverty Reduction
Growth Trust payments and the
continuous ceiling on the stock
of new non-concessional external
debt.
The target for the primary fiscal
balance on a cash basis was
missed by about 1,6% of GDP, due
to the weaker economic growth
and the associated tax revenues
weakness in Q4 of 2013.
IMF said one of the five structural
benchmarks for the second
review was met. It said the RBZ
(Debt Assumption Bill) was approved
by Cabinet in November
2013 and submitted to Parliament
in April 2014.
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18 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
Business
‘Policy review does
not inspire confidence’
BY OUR STAFF
Finance minister Patrick
Chinamasa’s midterm
fiscal policy review
and its associated measures
do not inspire confidence
for economic momentum
required for growth, analysts and
stakeholders have said.
Chinamasa proposed a raft of
measures to raise additional revenue
in the wake of declining revenue
from taxes and soaring expenditure.
The minister increased excise
duty on diesel and petrol to
US$0,30 and US$0,35 cents per litre
from US$0,25 cents and US$0,30
cents respectively with effect from
September 12.
He proposed to levy excise duty
of 5% on airtime for voice and
data, with effect from tomorrow
(Monday), and a 25% customs
duty on mobile handsets effective
October.
A research analyst said revenue
measures being put in place highlighted
the limited options government
was facing in generating
revenue.
“Such measures are short term
as they do not address the key
challenges in the economy. They
are also going to strain the general
populace further stifling aggregate
demand,” he said.
Chinamasa increased duty on
imported cars saying vehicle imports
accounted for 10% of the import
bill in the period January to
June.
This would see passenger motor
vehicles of engine capacity below
1 500cc — the favourite among the
hard pressed Zimbabweans — attracting
a duty of 40% from 25%
with effect from November 1.
The grey imports are more affordable
for locals compared to
locally assembled cars in the absence
of cheap financing from
banks.
Chinamasa said the local assembly
of motor vehicles benefitted
downstream industries, such
as paint, carpet material, glasses’,
tyres’ and batteries’ manufacturers,
among others.
“These industries have, however,
either closed or are operating
at very low capacity due to low
demand for goods and services
from local motor vehicle assembly
plants,” he said, adding that the
measure takes into account the
need to protect consumers from
unfair pricing and substandard
products.
But a survey by Standardbusiness
showed that the local car assemblers
have no capacity to meet
the demand. In addition, their
prices are beyond the reach of
many in a harsh economic environment.
Willowvale Mazda Motor
Industries stopped assembling
cars two years ago.
“You can’t say you are protecting
industry because we don’t
have industry to talk of. The economy
is dead,” former Finance
minister Tendai Biti said.
He said Zimbabweans were on
the rocks with company closures
yet Chinamasa was imposing a
tax burden to improve the fiscal
revenue.
“It is a measure that seeks to
draw water from a stone. Why tax
food stuffs, vehicles, handsets and
airtime which is the only form of
communication our people have?
It is the worst financial statement
I can remember,” Biti said.
The past president for the Confederation
of Zimbabwe Industries
Kumbirayi Katsande said the
minister was looking for revenue
raising measures in the wake of
shrinking consumer demand and
tax base.
“I think this is a desperate situation.
Government is not anywhere
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s mid term policy review will only impose a tax
burden that will impact on the population negatively. Graphic by Tapiwa Zivira
near what the existing recurrent
expenditures are. We need to look
at ways to reduce our costs as well;
that is critical,” he said.
Katsande said Chinamasa needed
to be supported in his efforts to
get foreign direct investment.
Economist John Robertson said
Chinamasa was wrong about the
economy growing as it will only
shrink further.
“The measures introduced will
reduce the amount of money people
can spend on other things.
Shops will record lower profits
and there will be fewer tax sources
from other sectors, there is no
net gain for government,” he said.
He said that the ease of doing
business in Zimbabwe is one of
the lowest in the world and the
new measures only worsened the
situation.
“Government still has to build
factories and the duty increases
targeting food and household
items are a start in the wrong
place. Most active farmers in Zimbabwe
are growing tobacco and
not food,” said Robertson.
Analyst Eric Bloch said government
still had a long way to go,
adding that the increases in duty
were inflationary.
“The increase in fuel for example
will increase the cost of transportation
of goods. This will affect
retail prices and impact on
the population negatively [in
terms of cost of living],” he said.
“Nothing was said about stimulating
investment, reinstatement
of export incentives or steps to inspire
investor confidence.”
A research analyst said the midterm
review highlighted the glaring
fact that growth in the economy
was slowing down as shown by
the downward revision of growth
projections.
“With soft commodity prices
and a struggling manufacturing
sector and lower funding, even in
the agriculture sector, we do not
see the 3,1% target being achievable,”
he said.
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Yet another scramble for Africa
Both the US and China
want a share of
resources from Africa
in the
money
with NESBERt RUwO
Turn back the hands of
time to 1876. Europe is
experiencing an economic,
social and military
revolution. King Leopold
II of Belgium has just read the report
that the mineral resources
in the Congo Basin (modern day
DrC) could provide a substantial
return for anyone willing to take
the risk and invest in the region.
Leopold wants his property in the
basin to be internationally recognised.
A European conference
thereafter (Berlin Conference
1884-85) laid down the rules for
the division of Africa. By 1914, all
African countries except for Ethiopia
and Liberia had been “split
and divided” among European
countries. The need for raw materials
and trade networks, among
other reasons, drove this “scramble
for Africa”. This was the then
scramble for Africa.
Fast forward to 2014. Africa has
attained political independence
and has been de-colonised. Economic
independence is yet to be
achieved in most countries. But
Africa is experiencing a rapid
rate of economic growth — supported
by urbanisation, reconstruction,
discovery of precious
resources (like gas) and industrialisation.
Only in 2000, The Economist
called it “the hopeless continent”
characterised by famine,
wars, corruption and political
instability and a decade later,
in 2011, the same publication saw
“Africa rising”.
Once again, Africa is attracting
increasing interest from the global
investment community driven
by surging demand for its resources.
The new interest is coming
from notably the resourcehungry
Bric countries, uS, as well
as Europe, who are all looking for
raw materials and markets for
their industries. The rapid urbanisation
and consumerisation in
Africa has instigated the demand
for modern goods and services
such as mobile telecoms, vehicles,
computing, entertainment gadgets
and banking services. Most of
these goods and services are supplied
by global businesses based
in Asia, Americas and Europe. African
Development Bank estimated
that there were 350 million Africans
in the middle income class
in 2010 and this number is growing
rapidly. This class of people
is driving the demand for modern
goods in Africa.
The modern scramble for Africa
is no longer military but mostly
an economic power game. This
is being achieved through infrastructure
investments (e.g. roads,
dams, and power stations), funding
at concessionary interest
rates, aid and grants, and preferential
trade agreements. Billions
of dollars in investments and aid
are coming into Africa.
Just as recent as August, Barack
Obama hosted a uS-Africa
Leaders’ Summit — a summit focused
on trade and investment
and on strengthening partnership
between Africa and the uS. The
uS’s annual trade with the continent
is estimated at about uS$85
billion while that of China stands
at uS$200 billion. It’s obvious that
the uS is playing catch-up in the
new scramble for Africa. China is
leading the pack given its insatiable
appetite for resources to support
its rapid economic growth.
The Bric countries are invested in
or have interests in countries like
Angola, DrC, Mozambique, nigeria,
South Africa and Sudan.
Given the potential within Africa,
international investors are always
scouting for the right investment
country destinations. At a
country-specific level, each country
must provide the right environment
to attract this global capital.
This includes the right policy
framework and supportive legal
and institutional frameworks.
South Africa, for example, with
its developed infrastructure, regulatory
and institutional framework,
sees itself as a “springboard
into Africa” for international
investors looking to invest
in the rest of Africa. Other African
countries are also offering attractive
propositions. Countries
like Kenya, Angola, Mozambique,
Ghana, and nigeria have become
Africa’s international investment
hotspots. It’s a “beauty contest”
to attract international investors.
As a country, where does Zimbabwe
stand in the contest for global
investments targeted towards Africa?
US President Barack Obama . . he hosted African leaders in Washington DC last month
King Leopold II of Belgium
The future for Africa
It is clear that Africa proffers
huge opportunities for investors.
McKinsey Global Institute (2010)
estimated that Africa owns 60%
of the world’s total amount of uncultivated
arable land, while the
World Bank (2012) indicated that
The modern scramble
for Africa is no
longer military but
an economic power
game
China president Xi Jinping
Africa needs annual investments
of at least uS$80 billion for infrastructure
given the deficiencies in
infrastructure development. Africa
also has massive untapped reserves
of minerals like platinum,
gold, oil, gas, copper etc, as well as
impressive tourist destinations.
Fifty percent of the continent’s
one billion people are under 24
years of age, making it the youngest
market in the world. Its population
is estimated to double
by 2050 while the middle income
class is expected to balloon. Over
50% of the population will be
living in cities by 2030. That is a
huge potential that gets international
investors drooling.
But the recent attention to Africa
may not solely be based on
a goal to improve the well-being
of Africans, but on the need by
the investor countries to secure
a supply of raw materials for the
industries and new markets for
their goods. Africa’s massive natural
resource base and its youngest
market status makes it a pretty
much untapped continent. It
is important that Africa benefit
from the extraction of its resources.
African policy makers must be
strategic when dealing with investor
countries, especially on resource
exploitation, environmental
issues, sustainable development,
and monopoly rights over
resources. The focus should be on
long-term sustainable economic
and social development than on
short-term gains.
• Nesbert Ruwo is Zimbabwean-born
investment banker
based in South Africa. He can
be contacted on: nesr@opportunvest.co.za

20 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
Business
Can local SMEs break the wave?
sme’s
chat
with phillip chichoni
“Change will not come if we wait
for some other person, or if we
wait for some other time. We are
the ones we have been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.’’
Barack Obama
Presenting the Old Mutual
interim report for the
half year ended June 30
2014, chief executive Jonas
Mushosho said the
group has taken a strategic decision
to grow CABS as it provides a
platform for future growth.
Mushosho said CABS is going
to be the key for entering the
new clusters of economic growth,
the informal sector and the SME
space. This is timely, as traditional
big firms have found the going
tough in a changing Zimbabwean
economy. The big firms are
bogged down by dilapidated machinery,
high operating costs, old
management styles and stiff competition
from low cost modernised
suppliers from South Africa
and the Far East, mainly China.
The truth is the country is going
through an economic transformation
phase. This is not
unique to Zimbabwe.
Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev
observed, in his book The
Major Economic Cycles (1925) that
the world economy goes through
cycles of prosperity and depression.
Kondratiev identified three
phases in the cycle, expansion,
stagnation and recession. Innovation
and technology launch new
industries. Every wave of innovation
lasts until the profits from
the new innovation or economic
sector fall to the level of the older
more traditional sectors. It is a
situation when the new technology,
which originally increased
a capacity to utilise new sources
from nature, reached its limits
and it is not possible to overcome
this limit without the application
of another new technology.
The technological cycles can be
labelled as follows:
• The Industrial Revolution
— 1771
• The Age of Steam And Railways
— 1829
• The Age of Steel and Heavy
Engineering — 1875
• The Age of Oil, Electricity,
the Automobile and Mass Production
— 1908
• The Age of Information
and Telecommunications — 1971
The Great Depression was a severe
worldwide economic downturn
in the 1930s which fitted into
the Kondratiev wave. Companies
closed, people lost jobs and general
populaces suffered in countries
both rich and poor. Cities around
the world were hit hard, especially
those dependent on heavy industry.
Renowned economist and the
founder of “modern management”
Peter F Drucker noticed
the disrupting of the Kondratiev
wave in the US. When smokestack
industries were collapsing in the
1970s, the United States was creating
jobs while the rest of the
world was losing jobs. Every expert
knew that it was a period of
no growth, stagnation or recession.
The old job creators were
retrenching. There were new job
creators in the USA, small and
medium sized businesses, most
of them new businesses which
didn’t even exist 20 years before.
It wasn’t hi-tech which was creating
the majority of new jobs. Entrepreneurship
disrupted the 60
year Kondratiev-wave cycle. Small
businesses began to rise at the expense
of big enterprises. Although
Western Europe was following the
Kondratiev-wave, the US and Japan
were doing something that
was upsetting the cycle. New small
enterprises were mushrooming,
creating employment and fuelling
economic growth.
Zimbabwe has been through
a decline since before independence,
with government controls
and incentives masking the lack
of growth. Come dollarisation
and we see the true picture. Small
scale tobacco farmers made a killing
in the past season, grossing
over US$600 million. At a price
of US$400 per tonne, a ten hectare
maize farmer with an average
yield of 10 tonnes per hectare
grossed US$40 000, or US$1 500 per
month assuming costs of 50%,
Vendors display their goods outside Mupedzanhamo market in Mbare. They are
trying to make a living and it is wrong to demand taxes from them as if they were
entreprenuers.
well above the poverty datum
minimum wage of US$550.
With enough serious entrepreneurial
farmers, this country will
break out of this wave, even though
it is not really Kondratiev. The key
is to run your small enterprise, be
it farming, manufacturing or another
form of value addition, like
a serious business. The majority of
informal traders targeted by Gershem
Pasi are not entrepreneurs.
They are just people trying to make
a living, buying goods for resale.
If, in their eagerness, they can be
tuned to add value, they can make
a difference to this country, all 2,8
million of them.
What they need is direction. The
GMB has been funded. I hear they
are paying cash of US$1 350 per
tonne of sugar beans, cash on delivery
and there are no supplies! What
is happening to all the young people?
Our students at the agric-colleges
need entrepreneurial vision and
business management skills. I’m
sure there are idle farms around for
them to practise what they learned
and then bit, by bit, they grow into
commercial farmers.
Resources are there in the soil.
Let’s wake up and sniff the soil.
No one is gonna give it to you. Go
out there and get it yourself.
Please read my article on the
Three Cogs to Success in Farming
at http://smebusinesslink.
com and don’t forget to share your
feedback.
• 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

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Recovered Ebola patient to return to Africa
The first British person to
contract Ebola in the current
outbreak in Africa is
to return to the country
where he was infected in
order to help others fight the disease.
William Pooley (pictured right)
was treated in London after being
flown out of Sierra Leone.
He has made a full recovery and,
having been discharged from hospital,
said he is to travel back within
“a few weeks”.
The 29-year-old said he was “impatient”
to return and that it was
likely he was now immune to the
deadly illness.
Pooley had been working as a
volunteer nurse in Sierra Leone,
which is one of the worst affected
countries, when he contracted the
virus.
Around half of the 3 000 people
infected in the current African outbreak,
which started in Guinea,
have died.
“I’m quite impatient to get back
doing what I know needs to be
done,” Pooley said.
“And I feel like I’ve left things undone,
having left prematurely. And I
know there’s a lot of work to do out
there, and we need to get out there
and do it.”
The nurse, from Eyke in Suffolk,
was treated in a special isolation
unit at the Royal Free Hospital,
where he was given the experimental
drug ZMapp.
“It’s massively safer for me. I
have immunity now to this strain
of Ebola,” Pooley said.
“We’re not sure how long that immunity
lasts or whether it’s 100%,
but it’s massively safer for me to
work there now than it was before.”
Pooley’s passport was incinerated
upon his evacuation from Sierra
Leone.
He said his new one was “in the
post” and that his family was supportive
of his plans to return to volunteer.
The volunteer nurse was flown
back to the UK by the RAF last
month.
He was in the earlier stages of
the disease — suffering from a high
temperature and uncontrollable
shakes — but he was not bleeding.
He has urged Prime Minister David
Cameron to “take global leadership”
in helping to improve hospital
resources in the affected parts
of Africa.
Estimates suggest up to 20 000
people will be infected during this
outbreak.
“It could go a few different ways,”
he said.
“If proper action starts now then
we could see more deaths in the
thousands, coming under control
within a matter of a few months.
If there’s a really concerted effort
now.
—BBC
Airline boss suggests
Malaysian MH17 tragedy
could have been avoided
The boss of Emirates said it would not have
flown over Ukraine if the knowledge that
high altitude missiles were there had been
passed on.
Sir Tim Clark said there was evidence missiles
had been on site for a number of weeks. Emirates
did not know that.
He said though that some carriers did appear to
know, but didn’t share information.
Sir Tim added it was likely that every airline
would have by-passed the danger zone if they had
known.
It’s widely believed that a missile downed Malaysian
flight MH17 on July 17, killing all 298 people
on board.
Planes had been cleared to fly in the area as long
as they stayed above a certain height, and a report
earlier this week highlighted the fact that three
other large passenger jets were in the same area
at roughly the same time as the Malaysian flight.
Sir Tim said: “There was evidence that these
missiles had been on site, in situ for a number of
weeks beforehand.
“Emirates did not know of that fact, and I don’t
think many others did. Had we known that, we
would probably have reacted in a manner that
would have seen a complete avoidance of Ukrainian
airspace, probably as an industry.
“We have a concern that that information was
known by certain stakeholders... and should have
been passed... at least to the industry, to the organisations
that regulate the industry.
“We understand now that certain carriers were
aware of that and had already taken avoidance action.”
British Airways was among several airlines
that had been avoiding Ukraine for weeks. But in a
recent BBC interview, the overall boss of the company,
Willie Walsh, said that decision was based
on information that was publicly available at the
time.
Sir Tim is calling for an information “clearing
house” to be set up, that can warn all airlines,
quickly, if there are any new threats in an area.
At the moment it’s down to each individual airline
to decide whether to travel over a war zone,
based on information from local air traffic control
and from their own government. And carriers
aren’t obliged to pass on the information to each
other.
Sir Tim, who is one of the most respected voices
in the industry, also says that a “Yes” vote for Scotland
would heighten the need for a new runway in
the south of England.
Although he made clear that he didn’t want to
get involved in the politics of the decision, he told
us: “Clearly, if they do become independent they
will develop their own civil aviation strategies,
they will probably develop Glasgow, Edinburgh
and Aberdeen. But therefore there is more impetus
required for the remaining parts of the UK to
develop their aviation strategy, to fill a gap.”
Like so many others in the business world, the
Emirates’ president says that doing nothing is not
an option, be it expansion at Heathrow, Gatwick,
or even at the mayor of London, Boris Johnson’s
preferred location, in the Thames Estuary.
—BBC
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Scottish independence: Implications for the Queen
Queen Elizabeth II
INVESTORS CONFERENCE
Theme:
Zimbabwe “Ripe for
Investment, poised for Growth”
BUCKINGHAM Palace has made
it clear that the Queen does not
wish to influence the Scottish
referendum, saying it is “a matter
for the people of Scotland”.
But would the Queen’s role north of the
border change if Scotland votes for independence?
The Royal Family’s links with Scotland
are well-known: Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire
is one of its most famous residences,
bought for Queen Victoria by
Prince Albert.
The Queen spends a week every year at
Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, the official
residence of the British monarch in
Scotland.
Prince Charles went to boarding school
in Scotland and is often seen sporting a
kilt.
The Royal Family also has Scottish titles
— Prince Charles carries the title
Duke of Rothesay, while the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge are referred to as
the Earl and Countess of Strathearn.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) through its South African Chapter invites the
entire business fraternity to its 2nd Investors Conference to be held from 2 - 5 October 2014, at the
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High profile speakers in Business and Government have been invited to speak on the following topics:
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emulate/avoid.
-The role of media in promoting investment.
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Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond
is keen to stress these associations, pointing
out that the union of the crowns predates
the union of the parliaments which
he wishes to end.
His government has always maintained
that the Queen would still be “Queen of
Scots” if the country votes “Yes” on September
18.
Earlier this week, he said the Queen
“would be proud” to be the monarch of an
independent Scotland.
However, not everyone in the “Yes”
camp agrees.
The Royal Family’s future in Scotland
has been questioned by pro-independence
campaigners such as chair of the “Yes”
Scotland campaign Dennis Canavan, who
has said he personally favours a referendum
on who should be the head of state.
“The sovereign’s constitutional impartiality
is an established principle of our
democracy and one which the Queen has
demonstrated throughout her reign.
“As such, the monarch is above politics
and those in political office have a duty to
ensure that this remains the case.
“Any suggestion that the Queen would
wish to influence the outcome of the current
referendum campaign is categorically
wrong.
“Her Majesty is firmly of the view that
this is a matter for the people of Scotland.”
Members of the Radical Independence
movement — a coalition of activists on
the left — would also like to enable Scotland
to become a republic if it wants to do
so.
Earlier this month, a YouGov poll suggested
54% of Scots favour keeping the
monarchy if Scotland votes “Yes”, compared
with 39% who would like to see it
scrapped. Among SNP voters, this narrows
to 46% compared with 39%, though
the survey had a smaller sample size.
Although these figures indicate the
monarchy still has more fans than it does
detractors, in the UK as a whole support
is higher, at 77%, and opposition is lower,
at 17%, according to Ipsos Mori’s latest
survey.
Even if Salmond gets his preference
and the Queen remains head of state in an
independent Scotland, her role would be
likely to change, according to director of
UCL’s Constitution Unit, Professor Robert
Hazell.
He says the Queen’s duties would “depend
on the role provided for head of state
in Scotland’s new written constitution”.
The Scottish government has specified
that under independence, the people of
Scotland would be sovereign, whereas at
present sovereignty rests with the Crown
in Parliament.
There is also the question of funding.
The White Paper says it would be “right
for an independent Scotland to continue
to contribute to the expenses of the monarchy
through taxes” but precise arrangements
would be decided in post-referendum
negotiations.
Holyrood Palace would presumably be
under particular scrutiny here, since unlike
Balmoral, it is partly funded by the
public purse and its conservation is carried
out by a Scottish government executive
agency, Historic Scotland.
Such a situation is not unprecedented.
The Queen’s responsibilities in Scotland
are “likely to be very similar to her role
she fills in the Commonwealth realms of
which she is head of state such as Australia
and New Zealand”, says Prof Hazell.
In most Commonwealth countries, the
Queen is regularly briefed through a governor-general
who acts as her representative.
So would a governor-general be introduced
in Scotland?
Constitutional historian Lord Hennessy
told BBC Radio 4’s The World at
One the idea has not been floated because
of Westminster’s insistence on not making
any contingency plans for Scottish independence.
“I’d be very surprised if in any cupboard
there was ‘what do we do about HM
Queen in the event of a Yes vote’,” he says.
—BBC

International News
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 23
2
1
Clockwise (1) the Apple smartwatch; (2) Owners of the smartwatch will be able to make payments via Apple
Pay; (3) the Watch is also being marketed as a must-have accessory
3
Does anyone need a smartwatch?
In his trademark black T-
shirt, blue jeans, and trainers,
Apple co-founder and
chief executive Steve Jobs
convinced consumers, time
and time again, that they desperately
desired a product for which
they had never previously felt a
need.
On Tuesday, his successor Tim
Cook took to the stage at an event
in California hoping to follow
suit, by unveiling a smartwatch
that Apple hopes will finally put a
wearable device on to the average
Joe’s wrist.
But does the Apple Watch do
enough to kick-start a hitherto
lacklustre market?
James McQuivey, an analyst at
the research firm Forrester who
has seen the iPhone and iPad
launches come and go, certainly
thinks so.
“I think it is very clearly one of
those moments,” he said.
“People know they need watches,
they know that they need
smartphones, and Apple has made
a combination of those things
that is better than each of them.”
However, he admits that there
is no “killer app” on the device.
Rather, the Apple Watch is a “collection
of benefits”, which will
appeal to those who already spend
an awful amount of time checking
their phones each day.
“This is not asking people who
are analogue to become digital,”
he explains.
“This is asking people who are
already digital to take it to the
next level.”
Indeed, Apple is not marketing
its watch at technophobes or novices.
For a start, the Watch works
only with an iPhone, and offers
little in terms of functionality
that cannot already be done by its
bigger sister.
Additionally, few of the Watch’s
integrated technologies are particularly
revolutionary. A heart
monitor might enable more accurate
health readings, but several
apps on the iPhone already offer
similar capabilities.
Its contactless payments facility
replicates what many in Europe
can already do with credit
and debit cards.
It may be the case that the device’s
user interface is its biggest
innovation — thanks to the “digital
crown” control that lets users
navigate around apps and the
introduction of a “force touch”
pressure-sensitive display.
Even so, some may find the device
rather more cumbersome
for sending messages or reading
texts than a quick glance at their
smartphone.
That’s partly why Angela McIntyre,
an analyst at research firm
Gartner, believes the jury is still
APPlE Watch Selected tech
bloggers, other journalists and
celebrities were invited to Apple’s
launch.
Of course, that didn’t prevent
a flood of instant feedback before
U2 had a chance to round
off the press conference. Below
is a selection of what appeared
online in the hours after the announcement.
Vogue: From a fashion point
of view, the external aesthetic
seemed neutral: neither superstylish
nor repellent. I would imagine
that geeks would love it
more than aesthetes. Yet smartphones
have already transformed
the fashion world in a
way we never imagined.
Apple spent much of the
launch highlighting the Watch’s
fitness-tracking facilities.
Gizmodo: Maybe the cleverest
part of the Apple Watch’s design
out on whether the Apple Watch
is another landmark moment for
the firm.
“It’s still wait-and-see,” she
says, adding that the smartwatch
is likely to mainly appeal to early
adopters, or those who already
own many Apple devices.
Additionally, she argues, the
US$349 (£216) price tag could provide
a stumbling block, and it may
take a significant drop in cost to
bring the Watch to the mass market.
Indeed, research by Forrester
shows that just one in four adults
in the US is considering spending
money on a wearable device in the
next year.
But McQuivey believes Apple
has carefully considered the price
point of the Watch.
is how you control it. Instead of
relying on multi-touch gestures
designed for bigger screens, the
Apple Watch leans on the use
of the “digital crown,” aka “the
spinny knob” aka that thing you
typically use to adjust the time...
Think clickwheel 2.0.
Wired: An intriguing feature
is the Maps app, which in addition
to offering directions also
takes advantage of the haptic
vibration system inside the device.
In practice, this allows Apple’s
Maps app to not only plot
a journey from your current location,
but guide you using different
types of vibrations on the
wrist.
Reactions to the smartwatch
The Verge: Apple left out
some key details about the product,
such as screen resolution,
processing capabilities, and
most importantly, expected battery
life.... It also doesn’t bode
well that the display is not always
on and only lights up when
you move your wrist or interact
with the watch.
Financial Times: What’s
the psychology behind showing
your audience a rapid-fire demo
of your most important new
product for years, then blasting
them senseless with a deafening
rock band? Maybe it’s to bludgeon
us all into submission.
Techcrunch: It seems spectacular,
worlds better than other
solutions. no doubt there are
countless other consumer companies
gearing up to announce
their Android Wear devices.
And now, instead of simply competing
with the round-faced
Moto 360, they have to announce
their device in the face of the
Apple Watch.
“That’s why they invested in
making it beautiful,” he argues.
“That’s why you’ve got someone
from Burberry now working
at Apple — they wanted people to
say ‘I’d spend that money even if
it wasn’t digital’.”
The Watch, he says, is primarily
a “digital lifestyle enabler”, not a
piece of revolutionary tech.
“I still don’t think people who
buy it and love it will see themselves
as watch wearers.”
“In fact, it might have made
sense not to call it a watch.”
Time — if you’ll excuse the pun
— may yet prove the Watch a more
universally coveted tool, but the
device’s pioneers could find themselves
left behind.
“Early adopters tend to get penalised,”
says Tim Stevens, editor-at-large
at the news site Cnet.
“They pay the most and get
technology that is most rudimentary,
while a newer product comes
along that is thinner, has a better
battery life and is usually cheaper.”
Those who rushed out to buy
the first-generation iPad, for example,
were left to ponder quite
how wise that decision was when
the device became slow and prone
to crashes, because of its relatively
meagre RAM memory.
Subsequent models of the
Watch may address some of the
drawbacks of the current device,
such as the reliance on the iPhone
to provide GPS tracking, the lack
of sleep tech or the limited health
functions.
Some commentators, including
McIntyre, have noted that despite
the “limited” functionality
of the Watch at present, Apple is
inviting third-party developers to
create apps for the device, which
could result in a flood of new features
by the time it goes on sale
next year.
She highlights starting one’s
car using a smartwatch or controlling
a house’s thermostats as
examples.
But Apple will also have to
watch out for the competition.
When the iPhone and iPad
launched, there were few who
could claim to have any device
that came close to them.
Today, not only are there several
competitors in the smartwatch
arena — including Google, Samsung
and Sony — but there are
also many other devices fighting
to become the wearable of choice,
such as smart glasses and smart
clothing.
And watches may not appeal to
the younger generation of Apple
enthusiasts, many of whom have
given up wearing a timepiece altogether.
The clock, as they say, is ticking.
—BBC

24 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
International News
Islamic State:
Can its savagery
be explained?
Since the sudden appearance
of the extremist
Sunni islamic State
(iS), the group has seized
headlines with a shocking
level of blood-letting and cruelty
— but can its savagery be explained,
asks Fawaz A Gerges.
islamic State has become synonymous
with viciousness — beheadings,
crucifixions, stonings,
massacres, burying victims alive
and religious and ethnic cleansing.
While such savagery might
seem senseless to the vast majority
of civilised human beings,
for iS it is a rational choice. it is
a conscious decision to terrorise
enemies and impress and co-opt
new recruits.
iS adheres to a doctrine of total
war without limits and constraints
— no such thing, for instance,
as arbitration or compromise
when it comes to settling
disputes with even Sunni islamist
rivals. Unlike its parent organisation,
al-Qaeda, iS pays no lip
service to theology to justify its
crimes.
The violence has its roots in
what can be identified as two earlier
waves, though the scale and
intensity of iS’s brutality far exceeds
either.
The first wave, led by disciples
of Sayyid Qutb — a radical egyptian
islamist regarded as the master
theoretician of modern jihadism
— targeted pro-Western secular
Arab regimes or what they
called the “near enemy”, and, on
balance, showed restraint in the
use of political violence .
Beginning with the assassination
of egyptian President Anwar
Sadat in 1980, this islamist insurgency
dissipated by the end of the
1990s. it had cost some 2 000 lives
and saw a large number of militants
head to Afghanistan to battle
a new global enemy — the Soviet
Union.
The Afghan jihad against the
Soviets gave birth to a second
wave, with a specific target — the
“far enemy”, or the United States
and, to a lesser extent, europe.
it was spearheaded by a wealthy
Saudi turned revolutionary, Osama
Bin Laden.
Hundreds of jihadists have joined IS
IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Some extremists are attracted to IS by its savage nature
Bin Laden went to great lengths
to rationalise al-Qaeda’s attack on
the US on September 11 2001, calling
it “defensive jihad”, or retaliation
against perceived US domination
of Muslim societies.
conscious of the importance of
winning hearts and minds, Bin
Laden sold his message to Muslims
and even Americans as selfdefence,
not aggression.
This kind of justification, however,
carries no weight with iS
leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
who cannot care less what the
world thinks of his blood-letting.
in fact, he and his cohorts revel
in displaying barbarity and coming
across as savage.
in contrast to the first two
waves, iS actually stresses violent
action over theology and theory,
and has produced no repertoire
of ideas to sustain and nourish its
social base. it is a killing machine
powered by blood and iron.
Going beyond Bin Laden’s doctrine
that “when people see a strong
horse and a weak horse, by nature
they will like the strong horse”, al-
Baghdadi’s “victory through terrorism”
signals to friends and foes
that iS is a winning horse. Get out
of the way or you will be crushed;
join our caravan and make history.
increasing evidence shows that
over the past few months, hundreds,
if not thousands, of diehard
former islamist enemies of
iS, such as the al-nusra Front and
the islamic Front, answered al-
Baghdadi’s call.
iS’s sophisticated outreach
campaign appeals to disaffected
and deluded young Sunnis worldwide
because it is seen as a powerful
vanguard that delivers victory
and salvation.
Far from abhorring the group’s
brutality, young recruits are attracted
by its shock-and-awe tactics
against the enemies of islam.
its exploits on the battlefield
— especially capturing huge
swathes of territory in Syria and
iraq, and establishing a caliphate
— resonate near and far. nothing
succeeds like success, and iS’s recent
military gains have brought
it a recruitment bonanza.
Muslim men living in Western
countries join iS and other extremist
groups because they feel
part of a greater mission — to resurrect
a lost idealised type of caliphate
and be part of a tight-knit
community with a potent identity.
initially, many young men from
London, Berlin and Paris and
elsewhere migrate to the lands of
jihad to defend persecuted co-religionists,
but they end up in the
clutches of iS, doing its evil deeds,
such as beheading innocent civilians.
The drivers behind iS’s unrestrained
extremism can be traced
to its origins with al-Qaeda in
iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
who was killed by the Americans
in 2006.
not unlike its predecessor, iS
is nourished on an anti-Shia diet
and visceral hatred of minorities
in general, portraying itself as
the spearhead of Sunni Arabs in
the fight against sectarian-based
regimes in Baghdad and Damascus.
Al-Zarqawi and al-Baghdadi
view Shias as infidels, a fifth column
in the heart of islam that
must be wiped out — a genocidal
worldview.
Following in the footsteps of
al-Zarqawi, al-Baghdadi ignored
repeated pleas by his mentor
Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of al-
Qaeda, and other top militants to
avoid indiscriminate killing of
Shia and, instead, to attack the
Shia-dominated and Alawite regimes
in iraq and Syria.
By exploiting the deepening
Sunni-Shia rift in iraq and the
sectarian civil war in Syria, al-
Baghdadi has built a powerful
base of support among rebellious
Sunnis and has blended his group
into local communities.
He also restructured his military
network and co-opted experienced
officers of Saddam
Hussein’s disbanded army who
turned iS into a professional sectarian
fighting force.
iS has so far consistently focused
on the Shia and not the “far
enemy”. The struggle against the
US and europe is distant, not a
priority; it has to await liberation
at home.
At the height of israeli bombings
of Gaza in August, militants
on social media criticised iS for
killing Muslims while doing nothing
to help the Palestinians.
iS retorted by saying the struggle
against the Shia takes priority
over everything else.
now that the US and europe
have joined the conflict against
iS, the group will use all its assets
in retaliation, including further
beheading of hostages. There
is also a growing likelihood that it
will attack soft diplomatic targets
in the Middle east.
While it might want to stage
a spectacular operation on the
American or european homeland,
it is doubtful that iS currently
has the capabilities to carry out
complex attacks like 9/11.
A few months ago, in response
to chatter by his followers, al-
Baghdadi acknowledged that his
organisation was not equipped to
attack the Americans at home.
He said though that he wished
the US would deploy boots on the
ground so that iS could directly
engage the Americans — and kill
them.
— BBC

Sport
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 25
Montezemolo
pays price
for Ferrari
breakdown
Luca Di Montezemolo (right) greeted Fernando Alonso with a hug at the recent Italian GP, but the pair do not get on
Despite having Fernando Alonso, the greatest
driver of the era, in one of their cars, the F1
team has been slipping backwards since the
last time they won a world title in 2008.
Luca Di Montezemolo is
an iconic figure in motorsport
and Italian public
life, for his many great achievements,
for his charisma, and for
the theatre with which he conducted
himself.
His problem was that in recent
years the play was not very good
and the acting had gone stale.
Di Montezemolo has done
great things with the road-car
side of Ferrari’s business. Their
current range is arguably the
best they have ever had, and the
company is poised to announce
record financial figures.
But Ferrari’s brand image
rests to a large degree on its involvement
in Formula 1, and
there the company is in serious
trouble.
Despite having Fernando
alonso, the greatest driver of
the era, in one of their cars, the
F1 team has been slipping backwards
since the last time they
won a world title in 2008.
alonso has carried the team
on his back, masking their
shortcomings with his incredible
commitment and consistency
and the sheer quality of his
performances.
Somehow, alonso came within
touching distance of two world
titles in 2010 and 2012, despite
the inferiority of Ferrari’s car.
But this year even he cannot
make their performance look acceptable.
Two podium finishes is all
they have to show for 13 races
of unstinting effort. Their worst
year since the dark days of the
early 1990s has brought things to
a head.
Di Montezemolo cannot escape
responsibility for this decline,
for all his success with Ferrari’s
road cars, or the reputation he
built up in organising the Italia
’90 World cup, and as team principal
in the 1970s rebuilding Ferrari
from another low into the
dominant force it became with
Niki Lauda from 1975-7.
The fact is, Di Montezemolo
had come to be seen as part of
the problem — as Fiat cEO Sergio
Marchionne, who will take
over as Ferrari president, hinted
on Wednesday.
“Our mutual desire to see Ferrari
achieve its true potential on
track has led to misunderstandings,”
Marchionne said of Di
Montezemolo in the wake of his
“resignation”.
When it became clear in recent
days and weeks that time was
running out for Di Montezemolo,
a source close to the team remarked
sardonically: “Finally,
Ferrari has a chance to sort itself
out.”
This year, it has all gone wrong
for Di Montezemolo.
after backing the new hybrid
regulations in F1 before the season
started, confident in the mistaken
belief they would enable
Ferrari to become competitive
again, he then criticised them
when Ferrari’s failings became
apparent.
He turned up at the Bahrain
Grand Prix to bemoan the new
“taxi-driving” F1, only for the
drivers to put on the best race in
years. But it was a race in which
Ferrari had only a bit part.
alonso and his team-mate
Kimi Raikkonen struggled to
hold on in the frantic battle for
the final podium position behind
the two Mercedes drivers. Time
and again, the Ferrari’s lack
of power was exposed, as Mercedes-engined
cars blasted past
the red ones on the straight.
In the Ferrari pit, an exasperated
Di Montezemolo glowered
at then team principal Stefano
Domenicali before throwing up
his arms and storming off before
the end of the race.
It is said that when he and Domenicali
got back to base in Maranello,
Di Montezemolo demanded
the head of the boss of
the engine department, Luca
Marmorini. Domenicali refused,
offering his own resignation instead.
With that, Ferrari lost the
chance to sign the architect of
Mercedes’ dominant power unit,
as Domenicali had been in advanced
talks with the German
company’s engine boss andy
cowell, who then got cold feet.
If cowell was put off by the
blame culture at Ferrari, he is
not the only one. at least two
other senior engineers from other
teams have decided against
joining this year for that very
reason. Marmorini went anyway,
sacked later in the summer.
Meanwhile, rumours that either
former Mercedes team principal
Ross Brawn, or their former
technical director Bob Bell,
could join the team continue to
rumble, as they have done all
year.
The impression is of a team
in chaos, just as it was in the
early 1990s before Brawn, Jean
Todt and Michael Schumacher
arrived, presaging a period of
dominance the like of which the
sport had never seen before.
There are signs of hope,
though. Domenicali’s replacement,
Marco Mattiacci, is quietly
making a good impression
Ferrari’s statistics under Luca Di Montezemolo
Michael Schumacher (left) won five consecutive world drivers’ championships during Luca Di Montezemolo’s 23-year tenure
among senior figures in F1 as a
man who means business and
looks like he can deliver.
Mattiacci, it is said, has decided
to back the team’s new technical
director James allison to
the hilt as the Englishman seeks
to sort out the mess of the engineering
department while inevitably
fighting the politics doing
so brings with it.
and Marchionne is a hardnosed
industrial manager who
gets things done.
But the big question is what effect
Di Montezemolo’s departure
will have on alonso.
The two-time world champion
was already considering his future
with the team.
He has a contract until 2016,
but McLaren are desperately trying
to persuade him to join them
in their new era with Honda engines,
and want him as soon as
they can get him, either next
year or, more likely, for 2016.
alonso spent an hour with
Di Montezemolo at Maranello
on Monday, presumably picking
over the bones of an Italian
Grand Prix that was even worse
for Ferrari than that of Bahrain.
But forget any claims you hear
that alonso has lost an ally in Di
Montezemolo.
In fact, they did not get on at
Sergio Marchionne, current Fiat CEO, will replace Di Montezemolo as Ferrari president
all — and that is putting it mildly.
all the hugs in the garage, the
urban handshakes in the paddock,
were for show — just like
Di Montezemolo’s trips to the
Monza pit wall to wave at the
fans, when in fact the grandstand
was half-empty and responded
hardly at all.
That scene, played out on Saturday
morning, seemed to be a
perfect metaphor for Di Montezemolo’s
fall.
He gave a defiant news conference,
even if what he said was
not exactly the denial it was presented
to be. But the writing was
on the wall. and four days later,
he is gone.
an era is over, an era in which
Ferrari dragged itself out of the
doldrums only to slip inexorably
back into them again.
For that, Di Montezemolo has
been held accountable. charismatic
and engaging figure
though he was, his time was up.
and he has left his successors
with an awful lot to do.
— BBCSport

26 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
Sport
Pooley — The accidental world champion
The 31-year-old broke the course record in
Switzerland, tackling the gruelling course
which consisted of a 10km run, 150km bike
ride and a further 30km run in a time of 6:47:27
“If you love something enough,
you can put up with a bit of suffering,”
is Emma Pooley’s sporting
philosophy.
Which goes a long way to explain
why, after retiring from professional
road cycling only last
month, she has already become a
world champion in her new sport
— long distance duathlon.
The 31-year-old broke the course
record in Switzerland, tackling
the gruelling course which consisted
of a 10km run, 150km bike
ride and a further 30km run in a
time of 6:47:27 — more than half
an hour ahead of the second place
finisher.
She told BBC Sport: “I have
been wanting to take part in the
Powerman World Championships
in Zofingen for many years.
“I love running as well as cycling
and the course was very
hilly which definitely suited me.
“But as a professional cyclist,
I could never do it, because it’s
only a couple of weeks before the
UCI World Championships and
that’s simply too short a time to
recover.
“So, when I retired from cycling
in August, I did have Zofingen
at the back of my mind as a
target.
“I thought it would be a good
test of my new challenge of trying
to race professional triathlon!
But I only had about a month
to do some hard run training after
the Commonwealth Games, so
I was concerned that I wouldn’t
survive the running.
“But I think that sometimes if
you love something enough, you
can put up with a bit of suffering!
I really love running — and actually
I think I run better off the
bike than fresh, relative to other
people.
“By the last descent into the
finish my legs were killing me,
downhills really damage the
muscles. But I knew I had a good
gap on the next competitor and so
there was not too much pressure,
which was definitely a relief !”
Pooley’s aim when she started
at Cambridge University almost
a decade ago was not to become a
professional sportswoman.
The engineering student only
started cycling at the age of 22 as
a bit of fun because an injury at
the time prevented her from long
distance running.
A surprise fourth place at the
National Championships set
Pooley off onto what ultimately
became a successful career on
her bike for nine years. She won
a time trial world title, national
titles, an Olympic medal, and
numerous professional races be-
Emma Pooley won the world duathlon title on her first attempt
fore bowing out at the Commonwealth
Games with two silver
medals to her name.
Although now concentrating
on duathlon and triathlon, Pooley
will remain on cycling’s world
governing body, the UCI’s women’s
commission where she works
to bridge the inequality gap between
men’s and women’s cycling.
Pooley, alongside world and
Olympic champion Marianne Vos,
Ironman champion Chrissie Wellington
and Kathryn Bertine, was
instrumental in lobbying for a
women’s Tour de france which led
to La Course being staged around
the streets of Paris in July.
“It’s a positive time for the
sport. I’m really happy to see it
improving. La Course is the start
of something great, and I hope it
will grow next year; I’d love to see
a longer women’s stage race in
france,” Pooley said.
And she is a big advocate of cycling
for fun and is an ambassador
for Breeze, which is a British
Cycling initiative to get more
women on bikes.
“The Breeze rides are a great
way for women to try out cycling
in a no-pressure, friendly environment,”
she said.
“Cycling can be a daunting
sport, especially when you’re new
to it — I can remember when I
started I didn’t know what kit to
wear, how to stay warm enough,
or that there are saddles out there
that can make cycling so much
less painful!
“Whether you want to cycle to
commute, for fun, for fitness, or to
get into racing — these rides are
a great way to get started and develop
a regular cycling routine.
It’s often easier to go out cycling
when you’re meeting others and
know you’ll have good company
for your ride!” — BBCSport
highest paid
African football
players of 2014
Samuel Eto’o (US$90 million) Didier Drogba (US$70 million) Yaya Touré (US$65 million)
Emmanuel Adebayor (US$27 million) Michael Essien (US$25 million) Kolo Touré (US$18 million)
1. Samuel Eto’o (US$90 million)
ThE wealthiest player on the continent,
and the recipient of four
African Player of the Year trophies,
this Cameroonian striker
is sheer wonderment.
When he played with Anzhi
Makhachkala from 2011 to 2013,
he was the richest African kicker
as well, earning about US$25 million
a year. he’s played for Real
Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan,
Chelsea, and as of August 2014
signed with Premier League side
Everton.
he started his own charity, fundacion
Privada Samuel Eto’o, in
Cameroon, providing citizens
with basic health care.
2. Didier Drogba (US$70 million)
ANOThER prominent member
of Côte d’Ivoire’s “Golden Generatio”,
this striker did not earn a
big move until he was transferred
at the age of 26 to Chelsea, where
he was paid US$170 000 a week.
he is the club’s fourth-highest
goal scorer ever, and was number
one scorer for foreign players on
the team.
he once played for Turkey’s Galatasaray
for about US$5,2 million
annually, combining those earnings
with some lucrative sponsorship
deals. But as of now, he is
back at Chelsea.
3. Yaya Touré (US$65 million)
ANOThER Ivorian sensation (it
runs in the family), this midfielder
for Manchester City has embossed
his name in football history.
formerly a Barcelona star, he
signed a five-year deal with Manchester
City to the tune of around
US$40 million. his combined
earnings for his all-star international
performances amount to
roughly $15 million annually.
4. Emmanuel Adebayor (US$27
million)
hE’S Togo’s top scorer of all time,
and the striker earned a reported
US$268 000 a week with Manchester
City. he has signed a loan deal
to play with Real Madrid, and now
kicks for Tottenham hotspur. he’s
known for quarreling with managers
and also donating lots of
money to charities.
5. Michael Essien (US$25 million)
hE used to be Africa’s wealthiest
soccer player with his 2005 transfer
from Lyon to Chelsea, a signing
that gained the Ghanaian midfielder
around US$40,5 million.
After eight years with the British
club, Essien signed onto AC Milan
in January of 2014 for a one-and-ahalf
year contract.
6. Kolo Touré ($18 million)
ThE Ivorian juggernaut central
defender has played for some of
England’s biggest clubs: Arsenal,
Manchester City, and now Liverpool,
where’s he’s on contract until
2015. Kolo has a money-raking
sponsorship deal with Adidas.
he’s the wealthy sibling of the
even wealthier footballer, Yaya
Touré, and the late player Ibrahim
Touré, who died in June at
age 28 following a battle with cancer.
7. John Obi Mikel (US$15 million)
hIS career started with the Norwegian
club Lyn Oslo, but this Nigerian
midfielder became famous
for his playing with Chelsea, despite
the infamously extended contract
embroilment between the
two clubs and Manchester United
which took place in 2005. Mikel
ended up with Chelsea, and will
play with them on a contract until
2017.
8. Frédéric Kanouté (US$12 million)
hE’S from Mali, and has played
with Lyon in france, West ham
in England, and Sevilla in Spain.
A devout Muslim, he purportedly
spent US$700 000 buying a mosque
which was about to be sold in
Spain. he is currently playing for
Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super
League.
9. Seydou Keita (US$10 million)
ThE Malian sensation returned to
Valencia at the beginning of 2014,
after a year with the Chinese Super
League, where he made US$16
million before tax with their Dalian
Aerbin football club. In June, he
signed a one-year contract with Serie
A club AS Roma.
10. Christopher Samba (US$8
million)
ThE great Congolese defender made
US$160 000 a week with the contract
he signed for Anzhi Makhachkala,
and he he earned the same amount
between shifts with Anzhi playing
for Queens Park Rangers. he now
plays for Dynamo Moscow.
— afkinsider.com

Sport
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 27
Arsenal, Manchester City share the spoils
Arsenal were denied
victory by Martin
Demichelis’s late equaliser
as they fought out
an entertaining draw
with Manchester City at Emirates
Stadium.
England striker Danny Welbeck
made his Arsenal debut after his
£16m move from Manchester United
— and should have celebrated
with a goal only to strike a post
when clean through early on.
Sergio Aguero made Arsenal
pay for that miss by putting City
ahead before half-time but goals
from Jack Wilshire and Alexis
Sanchez saw the Gunners in sight
of a memorable victory.
Their hopes were dashed when
poor marking at a corner allowed
Argentine defender Martin
Demicelis to beat Arsenal keeper
Wojciech Szczesny to earn a point
seven minutes from time.
In a frantic finish, Aleksandar
Kolarov hit the post for Manchester
City and Arsenal defender Laurent
Koscielny cleared against his
own post as the Premier League
champions threatened to snatch
the three points, which would
have been very cruel on Arsene
Wenger’s side.
Wenger will be frustrated at Arsenal’s
failure to close out the win
but he will have been delighted by
the spirit and quality shown by his
side.
Jack Wilshere was a driving force
in midfield while Welbeck, despite
missing his best opportunity, was
energetic and mobile enough in attack
to suggest he will offer Arsenal
a focal point and something different
as the season progresses.
Meanwhile, Diego Costa scored
his first Chelsea hat-trick as they
came from behind to beat Swansea
and maintain their 100% start to
the Premier League season.
Swansea took the lead as John
Terry turned a low cross into his
own net but Costa equalised just
before half-time.
Chelsea’s dominance was rewarded
when Costa converted a
Cesc Fabregas pass.
The Spain striker guided a low
Ramires shot past Lukasz Fabianski
and Loic Remy scored his first
Blues goal before Jonjo Shelvey’s
late consolation.
As Chelsea opened up a threepoint
gap at the top of the table,
summer signings Costa and Fabregas
offered further evidence of
the extra edge they have added to
a team that finished third last season.
Costa, who passed a late fitness
test on a hamstring injury suffered
on international duty with Spain,
departed to a standing ovation after
scoring his seventh goal in four
games for the Blues.
Fabregas now has six assists, a
tally only Eden Hazard exceeded in
the whole of Chelsea’s 2013-14 campaign.
Swansea had started the match
as the only other team in the league
with an unblemished record and
for much of the first half they were
the better side.
They carved out an early opening
as Wayne Routledge found
space in the area but could not control
his volley.
The Welsh team took a surprise
lead via a slick passing move. Ki
Sung-Yeung opened up the Chelsea
defence with a slide-rule pass and
left-back Neil Taylor’s low cross
was diverted by Terry into his own
net.
Yesterday’s results
Arsenal 2-2 Man City
Chelsea 4-2 Swansea
Crystal Palace 0-0 Burnley
Southampton 4-0 Newcastle
Stoke 0-1 Leicester
Sunderland
West Brom
2-2 Tottenham
0-2 Everton
—BBCSport
LVG accepts
challenge to finish
in top three
LoUIS van Gaal believes a top three Premier
League finish is a realistic aim for Manchester
United.
Battling a lengthy injury list now containing
Phil Jones, who is a doubt for England’s Euro
2016 qualifiers next month, United have struggled
so far.
Yet Van Gaal has no problem with the expectations
laid out to investors by executive vicechairman
Ed Woodward this week.
“I don’t think it is an unreasonable target,”
said the Dutchman.
“A club like Manchester United has to put
targets. I also put targets.
“But the top three, it is logical because Manchester
United wants to be in the Champions
League.”
With just two points and two goals from their
opening three Premier League games, in addition
to a shock Capital one Cup exit at League
one MK Dons, United will be seeking a first
win of the season in today’s old Trafford encounter
with Queens Park Rangers.
Summer arrivals Radamel Falcao, Marcos
Rojo, Daley Blind and Luke Shaw could all
make their debuts, with British record £59.7m
signing Angel di Maria set for his home bow.
However, there are nine players unavailable
for this afternoon’s game, including Jones who
picked up a hamstring injury on England duty
in Switzerland last week.
And the 22-year-old is now a doubt for the
matches against San Marino at Wembley on
october 9 and in Estonia three days later.
“Jones is maybe three weeks to a month,”
said Van Gaal.
The United boss knows that with over £150m
spent this summer and the table to climb, results
have to improve, no matter what the injury
situation.
“We have done very well in the transfer period,”
he said.
“In spite of us not playing in the Champions
League, players are coming to Manchester
United.
“That is a big plus. But we also have to produce
the results — and we have to start today
against Queens Park Rangers.” —BBCSport
Louis van Gaal

28 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
Sport
Cry our beloved Kepekepe
The late great Shacky Tauro,
Joel Shambo, and Stanley
“Sinyo” Ndunduma
must be turning in their graves
over how the great CAPS United
Football Club — a team that they
built — has fallen from grace to
grass.
What is on parade today is no
longer the great CAPS United
team that was virtually invincible
in knockout tournaments to
the extent of being dubbed the
“Cup Kings”.
It is no longer the same side
that in 1996, with the inspirational
Alois Bunjira and Stewart
Murisa, swept all that stood before
them in the Premiership. It
is no longer the same team that
in 2004 and 2005 under the guidance
of Charles Mhlauri and parading
the likes of energy Murambadoro,
Joseph Kamwendo
and Cephas Chimedza, was simply
unstoppable.
The creative and attractive
short passing game is gone and
gone too are the individual skills
from the likes of Stanford “Stix”
Mtizwa, Joel “Jubilee” Shambo,
Stanely “Sinyo” Ndunduma,
Chimedza, and Bunjira that
brought pride to the Makepekepe
family.
In their place now is a CAPS
United that is so inept, so lacking
in creative and firepower to
an extent that it has written its
own piece of history following a
6-0 humiliation in the Zimbabwe
National Army Charity Cup final
at the hands of an FC Platinum
side which is itself struggling in
the Premiership.
Also gone is the sound management
style that was the envy of
the whole Premiership as Julius
Chifokoyo, and later Shepherd
Bwanya, and others before them
that guided the ship through plain
waters with no strikes or fights
over non-payment of bonuses.
In their place today is a breed
of leaders who cannot even raise
funds to enable a team to travel
to Bulawayo to fulfill a league
match against Bantu Rovers.
In Bwanya and Chifokoyo’s
place is a new type of leadership
that can have players wait in the
city centre until the middle of
the night on Christmas eve, only
to make them leave without attending
to their end of year payment
grievances.
In fact, the sight of their coach
a few days before the Bantu Rovers
debacle tells the story of the
real state of affairs at the Green
insidesport
with MICHAEL KARIATI
Machine.
I met Taurayi Mangwiro walking
down Chinhoyi Street with
his huge training bag, which
appeared too heavy for him,
strapped on his back.
I expect Mangwiro, coach of
the third biggest football team
in the country in terms of crowd
attendances, to be driving the
smallest of cars, a Toyota Fun
Cargo or even a Nissan March
— or being chauffeur driven to
his Mufakose home if he cannot
drive.
Yet, for his troubles, Mangwiro
has to go home in a crowded
commuter omnibus, riding along
with the same people who threaten
his life at stadiums. Sometimes,
it is said, he has to dig
deep into his own pocket for that
transport fare back home as the
club cannot afford to provide him
dignified transport.
That is now the life at the
Green Machine.
But to say that CAPS United
do not generate enough money
to sustain themselves would be
making a mockery of Zimbabwean
football. Their problems are
of their own making. They are a
good example of a football club
being run badly.
While we might try to turn a
blind eye to the chaos reigning
at the former Cup Kings, the major
problem at the club lies in its
management structure in which
the club president Twine Phiri
runs virtually everything.
While he might have done well as
chairman of the Premier Soccer
League, Phiri has let CAPS United
fans down.
Although from the outside,
CAPS United appear to have a
chief executive officer and an executive
that runs the day-to-day
affairs of the club, the truth is
that he is there to carry out duties
as instructed by the club
president.
Yes, Dynamos might be suffering
because their huge financial
pot has too many dirty hands digging
into it, but what of CAPS
United who are owned by one individual?
Any football follower will tell
you that a team with such prodigious
talent as Tafadzwa Dube,
hardlife Zvirekwi, Ronald Pfumbidzai,
Kennedy Bulaji, and Dominic
Chungwa, should be somewhere
better than where it is today.
But due to mismanagement,
misconceptions, and a self-inflicted
financial crisis, CAPS
United are in depths of despair.
If I was the Premier Soccer
League boss myself, I would employ
people with the know-how to
run a football team and then enjoy
my financial pickings from
the club.
But tell that to most Zimbabwean
football club owners, and all
you do is create enemies.
Are we a one day wonder?
On August 31, harare Sports
Club resembled a venue for a musical
show as Asians, Blacks, coloureds,
and whites were all united
as they beat their drums, sang
and danced with joy, celebrating
Zimbabwe’s historic three-wicket
win over the world’s top ranked
ODI team, Australia.
Although Zimbabweans are
entitled to reflect on that victory
with pride, there are fears
that the famous win will come
to pass as just a one day wonder,
should there be no other such
achievements in the immediate
future.
While Zimbabwe has not
played regularly against the top
ranked teams, they need more of
those victories each time we face
big teams for us to believe that
we can challenge the best in the
world.
Right now, we are living in
dreamland, believing we are good
enough when we have failed to
convincingly beat small teams on
a regular basis.
Defeat at the hands of associate
teams like Afghanistan who
came to Zimbabwe in July for
a Series that ended 2-2 and the
heartbreaking loss to Ireland
during the ICC World Twenty 20
in Bangladesh, quickly come to
mind.
One thing that is clear is that
the bridge between Zimbabwe
and the other Test playing nations
is widening while the gap
between the Chevrons and the
Associate teams is narrowing.
Zimbabwe is no longer in the
During happier times . . . CAPS United followers cheer their team
same league with the likes of India,
Australia, South Africa and
others, but is slipping down and
could soon join the likes of Afghanistan
and Ireland.
Zimbabwe Cricket’s financial
situation which saw them failing
to pay the team has not done
the sport any good as players
like Craig ervine, Kyle Jarvis,
Charles Coventry, and Graeme
Creemer have taken their talents
elsewhere.
Despite those challenges, Zimbabwe
have always found the
resolve to punch above their
weight, as shown by the win over
Australia. The Test win over Pakistan
in 2013 raised hopes for
the Zimbabwe fans who last saw
the Chevrons beating a top side
in 2011 when they stunned New
Zealand in an ODI.
With the Series against Australia
and South Africa now
done and gone, Zimbabwe will
now have to show the progress
they made in their tour of
Bangladesh. This will be Zimbabwe’s
last competitive Series
before the World Cup, to be cohosted
by Australia and New
Zealand.
As we brace for the World Cup
in which Zimbabwe is also in the
same group with India, South Africa,
the West Indies, Pakistan,
Ireland, and the UAe, one question
that needs to be answered is
whether we should continue to
rely on the same inconsistent old
guard that has failed to bring in
the required results.
It is high time experienced
players like elton Chigumbura
start to take a leaf from other
international players and perform
consistently for the national
side. having scored a match
winning 52 runs against Australia,
it was disappointing to
see Chigumbura go out cheaply
for 13 in the next game against
South Africa. The same should
be said of Brendan Taylor, Prosper
Utseya, Vusi Sibanda and
hamiltom Masakadza who at
one time was the youngest player
to score a Test century on his
debut.
Surely, given the international
exposure they have gained over
the years, it is high time these
senior players start winning
matches for Zimbabwe.
Should they continue to underperform,
the question that we
should start asking ourselves is:
are they good enough to sustain
realistic challenge or is it time to
give others a chance?
Between now and the World
Cup is the time for coach Steve
Mangongo to make sacrifices. he
has to pick the best team for the
World Cup — not based on association
or reputation, but on the
capability to deliver.
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Zifa struggle to
attract friendlies
for next month
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA
AFTeR missing the recent weeklong
international football period,
Zifa are still battling to find opponents
for the national Under-23
team in next month’s international
days.
The Warriors have however been
invited for a friendly match by Morocco
slated for November 16.
From October 9 to 15, 2015 Africa
Cup of Nations (Afcon) and Uefa
euro 2016 qualifiers would be underway,
presenting a warm-up opportunity
for the Young Warriors.
But Zimbabwe is still to find opponents
for this period after Zifa
stressed that they should never
miss an international match.
The Under-23s are currently the
country’s flagship following the
dissolution of their seniors after
a first round exit from the Afcon
qualifiers.
The 2016 Olympic Games to be
staged in Brazil have now become
Zifa’s top priority.
But with less than 30 days to go
before the next international days,
there is still no Under-23 team in
place and Olympic qualifiers are
set to begin early next year.
The current developments have
given the strongest indication that
the Under-23 project is headed for
another embarrassing campaign.
Zifa spokesperson Xolisani Gwesela
could not spell out next
month’s plans for the Under-23.
Instead, Gwesela laid blame on
Libya’s withdrawal from a friendly
match that had been scheduled
to take place last Wednesday in Morocco.
“There was no time to arrange
another friendly match after Libya
pulled out at the last minute. We
Zifa CEO Jonathan Mashingaidze
had no other option,” said Gwesela.
This is despite that no preparations
for that friendly had been
done even before the North Africans
announced their withdrawal.
To assert that Under-23 business
is at a standstill, supposed coach
Kalisto Pasuwa said a week before
the Libya friendly date that he
could not assemble a team because
he was yet to be formally appointed
by Zifa.
Apart from Zifa’s financial problems
to fulfill assignments, the
Warriors’ low standing has a bearing
on them attracting opponents
for the Under-23 team.
Another challenge at Zifa is their
struggle to raise money to fly in
overseas-based players.

Sport
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 29
Boxing control
board statutes
archaic
NatioNal Boxing Control Board shall not
“register any person as a boxer or a wrestler
who is not of the male sex.”
World Boxing Council International and All Africa welterweight champion Charles Manyuchi (centre).
By Michael Kariati
The Zimbabwe National
Boxing and Wrestling Control
Board is living in the
past with an archaic act that does
not recognise females as professional
boxers.
The law was enacted in 1956
and has not been amended
since then. Chapter 8 section
(11) of the Zimbabwe National
Boxing and Wrestling Act says
that the Zimbabwe National
Boxing Control Board shall not
“register any person as a boxer
or a wrestler who is not of the
male sex.”
Standardsport has a copy of
the act which does not in any way
refer to females in any of its contents
as outlined by the power of
registration.
“The board is empowered to issue
certificates of registration
authorising any person who has
been registered as a boxer or
wrestler to take part in tournaments
in the capacity in which
he has been so registered,” reads
the act.
The vice-president of the Zimbabwe
National Boxing and
Wrestling Control Board Lorraine
Muringi says they have
taken note of the anomaly and
have highlighted the issue with
the ministry of sport that it can
be tabled with the relevant parliamentary
committee for a
change of wording to include female
boxers.
“We have sought advice from
the ministry of sport on how best
we can handle the matter. The issue
will be forwarded to parliament,”
said Muringi.
A legal practitioner said although
the gender discrimination
aspect of the act has fallen
away due to the changes in the
constitution, amendment to the
act needed to be effected by parliament.
“There are certain things that
from the outset look very simple
and easy. But changing the wording
of the act to include female
boxers would need a parliamentary
sitting,” said the legal practitioner.
efforts to get clarification from
the chairman of the Parliamentary
Portfolio Committee on education,
Art, Sport, and Culture,
Themba Mliswa, were unsuccessful
as his mobile phone was constantly
not reachable.
Muringi said she was shocked
that the situation had been allowed
to continue like that 34
years after Zimbabwe was admitted
to international sport. She
said despite the act, they had con-
Current boxing board boss Paul Nenjerama
tinued to register female boxers
as they inherited the registration
process from the Richard hondo
led board that had been in office
from 1980 to 2012.
Although there have been limited
female boxing tournaments
in the country, fighters such as
Monalisa Sibanda and Patience
Masitara have become regular
fighters outside the country after
getting clearance from the boxing
controlling board.
In fact, Sibanda went to the extent
of challenging for the world
title but fell short after she was
knocked out in the sixth round
by Zambia’s esther Phiri after
she challenged the latter for her
World International Boxing Association
and World Boxing Organisation
light welterweight titles in
2012.
Although female boxers have
not been very successful on the
international scene, Zimbabwean
boxing in general has had its
fair share of success. Zimbabwe
has a World Boxing Council International
and All Africa welterweight
champion in the form of
Charles Manyuchi.
Gweru-based Langton “Schoolboy”
Tinago won three Commonwealth
titles at three different
weight divisions in the 80s and
was followed by Arifonso Zvenyika
who also won the Commonwealth
flyweight title in 1998.
Prior to that, Zimbabwe had
two All Africa champions in the
form of the late Proud “Kilimanjaro”
Chinembiri in the heavyweight
category and Stix McLoud
in the bantamweight division.
Pamushana High School launches soccer academy
By NyaMBira chivasa
PAMuShANA high School has
scored yet another first by launching
the first ever soccer academy
in Masvingo province.
The school is known for its academic
excellence as well as for excelling
in sporting activities.
The establishment of the soccer
academy came as a result of continued
calls by former students — some
of whom have become renowned
footballers — who believed coming
up with an academy was the only
way to tap and nurture raw talent
that is in abundance in the province.
“Coming up with a football academy
at the school is the way to go.
Funds realised from the academy
will be used to develop soccer at the
school, in the province and the entire
country,” said Gabriel Nyoni,
highlanders Football Club striker,
a former Pamushana high School
student.
Recently, Masvingo province
Youth Games select football team
won gold, beating Bulawayo province
at the 12th edition of the national
event held at Mucheke.
Team Masvingo was under the
It all started at Pamushana High School . . . Highlanders striker Gabriel Nyoni
guidance of Bernard Matenga of
Pamushana high School while former
Warriors gunslinger Agent
sawu guided the Bulawayo province
to the finals as well.
In a statement, the school lamented
that although they had moulded
a number of players into premiership
material and helped them secure
football careers, the school had
benefitted nothing in spite of investing
so much in developing talent.
“A number of families have benefitted
extremely as soon as their
Dream coming true . . . Johnson Madhuku
children moved to greener pastures
as they got development fees whenever
a player joined any club while
the school gets nothing from those
deals.
“The school continues to pump
out a lot in this regard to other upcoming
star players,” reads part of
the release.
however, the school has moved a
step further in fulfilling Pamushana
high School headmaster Johnson
Madhuku’s dream of building
a modern multi-purpose sporting
arena at the school. A begging bowl
is already in circulation to raise
funds for the project.
“It is our vision that any benefits,
should they come our way, should
assist the school in the development
of talent for other youths. We
also intend to build a stadium that
meets modern and acceptable football
standards. For all this to be
possible, we need money,” the statement
says.
The school envisages a situation
whereby they would join Division
One as a school and get promoted
into the Premier League.
The Reformed Church in Zimbabwe
establishment also envisaged
being twined with other schools,
soccer academies and clubs abroad
to further develop talent.
The academy is registered with
Zifa. Its establishment came after
realising that the school had
churned out quite a number of soccer
giants into the Zimbabwe Premier
League, the likes of Artwell
Mukandi, hasmania Ziso, Takudzwa
Mahori, Simba Sithole and Gabriel
Nyoni, to name just a few.

30 The Standard September 14 to 20 2014
Sport
Zenzo Moyo
adds voice
on strikers
“I think my social team where I link up with
Masawi and Siza Khoza is now attracting much
more interest than what Highlanders are
doing,”
By Brian nkiwane
By mid-season in the year
2000, Highlanders gunslinger
Zenzo Moyo had already
scored 22 goals before moving
abroad to join his new club Olympiakos
Nicosia in Cyprus.
The goals that the then pencil-slim
striker scored helped the
Bulawayo giants win the league
title with a two point cushion
ahead of the now defunct town rival
Amazulu.
Bosso had a big goal difference,
with all the credit going to Moyo,
who went on to be crowned Top
Goal Scorer of the season after
playing only half-way through the
season.
All the strikers that remained
playing in the league failed to beat
his 22 goal mark. It remains anybody’s
guess how many goals he
would have scored had he played
the entire season.
Bosso managed to score 73 goals
that season which had 20 clubs,
later reduced to 16 the following
season after six clubs, Black Aces,
D T Africa, Tongogara, Air Zim
Jets, Arcadia United and Hackney,
were relegated from the top
flight league.
However, Moyo does not buy the
idea that strikers used to score
more goals because there were
more teams in the league than
now. He has other views on how
local strikers have failed to emulate
yesteryear stars.
“I think football is dynamic just
like everything else. Just look at
every league, you will see that
coaches have become so defensive
that it has become really hard for
strikers to score goals. Even when
the coach knows very well that
his next opponent is a better side,
you will hear him say; ‘we better
lose 1-0’. This has killed the job of
strikers which is scoring goals,”
said Moyo.
“One thing that I have discovered
with strikers of today is
that they concentrate more on
entertaining the gallery than
scoring goals. Ask any player
in the league, they will tell you
I was not skillful at all. My job
was to score goals. An outright
striker does not have to be skillful.
I would not have time to dribble
as these boys do or exchange
passes in a range where I smell a
goal. We were not afraid of taking
chances at goal, pick a spot
and score. There was no time to
waste.”
He added, “The other motivating
factor during our time was
that most of us were bread winners.
So we knew very well that
each time we won, we would have
better allowances and then we
were able to make our families
smile at the end of the day. It was
because we were not employed.
That was our fulltime job so we
had to work hard to get reasonable
wages.”
Moyo also added his voice on
Highlanders legend Zenzo Moyo
Defenders, goalkeepers have became so good .. . Rodrick Mutuma
the bad patch that has been going
on at Highlanders.
“The problem is that most of
former Highlanders players want
to be coaches and no one wants
to take up football administration.
We can win the war in the
field but the club also needs former
players as administrators. I
think my social team where I link
up with Thabani Masawi and Siza
Khoza is now attracting much
more interest than what Highlanders
are doing,” joked the former
striker who is pursuing his
ambitions of being a Fifa registered
player agent.
He however dismissed any
plans of coming back to the club.
“As I have already said, I am
pursuing a career as a registered
player agent; the only time that
I might come back to assist is in
player transfers that is if they
would be in need of any favours
from me.”
Moyo helped Highlanders win
two titles before moving to Cyprus
to join Olympiakos Nicosia.
Moyo stayed with the club until
January 2005 when he moved
to Greece and joined Atromitos
Athen.
He was with the club until 2008
when he made a comeback to the
team that gave him fame before
ending his career to pursue other
avenues.
Mkhokheli Dube, former Highlanders
striker now with Chicken
Inn after seeing action in the
United States, said formations
that clubs have resorted to have
also contributed to the few goals
by strikers.
“In Europe, if a team decides
to use a lone striker, they will
have four creative midfielders
who can also get goals. Again,
if you stick to a formation that
needs a lone striker, he should
be of top quality. So you can’t
say strikers are not getting goals
while you use creative midfielders,”
he said.
Dynamos striker Rodrick “the
Prince” Mutuma who was Top
Goal scorer in 2011 having scored
only 14 goals, said football has developed.
“Defenders have become too
clever to trick these days, even
goalkeepers are coming up with
strings of brilliant saves which
could have easily gone in as goals
in most cases. So strikers have
to dig deeper into their bags of
tricks to continue scoring,” Mutuma
said.
Top goal scorers
1996 Alois Bunjira CAPS United 23
1999 Chewe Mulenga Railstars 24
2000 Zenzo Moyo Highlanders 22
2003 Sageby Sandaka Amazulu 17
2004 Leonard Tsipa CAPS United 18
2005 Edmore Mufema Motor Action 17
2006 Ralph Matema Highlanders 19
2007 Cuthbert Malajila 15
2008 Evans Chikwaikwai Njube Sundowns 23
2009 Nyasha Mushekwi CAPS United 21
2010 Norman Maroto Gunners FC 22
2011 Rodrick Mutuma Dynamos 14
2012 Nelson Mazivisa Shabanie Mine 18
2013 Tendai Ndoro Chicken Inn 18
Two new jockeys join the fray at Borrowdale
By Michael kariati
TWO new jockeys Marshall Bikausaru
and Lovemore Haruzivi
have joined the fray at Borrowdale
race course, the home
of Zimbabwean horse racing, increasing
the number of jockeys
battling for honours this season
to 39.
Bikausaru and Haruzivi are
among the four apprentices including
Norbert Takawira and
Stallone Sawere who have taken
to the course in a dangerous but
highly rewarding field that for
the past two years has been dominated
by Quinton Riddle and
Sherman Brown.
Mashonaland Turf Club spokesperson
Bertina Gurajena said
apart from the Borrowdale race
course, the jockeys at the Zimbabwe
Jockey Academy would
also be offered the opportunity to
race in South Africa where racing
takes place on a regular basis.
Racing at MTC comes after
every two weeks.
The appearance of new jockeys
at the Borrowdale race
course offers competition as the
same names Quinton Riddle,
Sherman Brown, Lance Pagel,
and Karl Zechner have been very
dominant in the past years with
the champion jockey title consecutively
changing hands between
Riddle and Brown.
Bikausaru and Haruzivi had
a feel of the Borrowdale race
course turf after Bikausaru rode
though without victory in some
races on the opening day of the
Zimbabwe horse racing season
on September 7.
Bikausaru rode in four races
saddling Rocket Runner, Atso’s
Girl, Felan and Stylish Runner
while Haruzivi had a feel of Purple
Turtle, and Veneficus, in two
of the seven races which were
carded for the day.
With the major races — the
Castle Tankard, the OK Grand
Challenge and the Republic Cup-
— coming later in the season,
it remains to be seen whether
these apprentices will be offered
the chance to ride in those highly
competitive Grade One and
Grade Two races.
Last year, an apprentice, Donovan
Dillon, rode Menacing
in the Grade One Castle Tankard
that attracted a strong field
of 17 horses and won by the filly
Equina which was ridden by
Zechner.
The coming in of Bikausaru
and Haruzivi also increases the
number of black jockeys at Borrowdale
race course. There is resistance
from the community to
take up horse riding as it is considered
dangerous.
Some of the jockeys, though,
like S’manga Khumalo, travel
all the way from South Africa
to compete at MTC. Khumalo,
a regular at Borrowdale race
course, last year won the Durban
July, the biggest horse racing
event in South Africa.
Riddle, the champion jockey
after riding 30 winners, was
placed second on 30 occasions
and rode 28 horses that came
in third place. He had 32 fourth
placed horses for a 13%winning
rate and 38%placing rate.
This is in comparison to Brown
who had a 14%winning rate but
fell out in the placings in which
he recorded only 31%to come second
in the jockeys standings.
With more jockeys at Borrowdale
race course, the race for
the champion jockey title this
season is likely to be highly competitive.
Racing will continue at Borrowdale
race course on September
21.
A horse leads the pact towards the finishing line at
Borrowdale Race Course.

Sport
The Standard September 14 to 20 2014 31
Harare City claim
Chiredzi scalp
Losing coach Gishon Ntini
beamoned some sloppy
defending for his team’s
loss
BY MUKUDZEI CHINGWERE IN ZVISHAVANE
Chiredzi FC…(1) 1
Harare City. . . (1) 2
HARARE City booked their
place into the semifinals of
the Chibuku Super Cup with
a spirited comeback to knock
out Chiredzi FC.
Osborne Mukuradare and Martin
Vengesai’s goals outweighed Sam Msimbu’s
effort to ensure Masimba Dinyero’s
charges’ progression into the semis.
Dinyero saluted his side for picking
themselves up to victory.
“I am happy with the performance of
the team and that we progressed. The attitude
of the players was wrong earlier on
as they were underrating the opponents
Zimbabwe’s
Afcon
challenge
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA
Tourism and Hospitality Industry
minister Walter
Mzembi (pictured right) has
said co-hosting the 2017 Afcon
gives Zimbabwe a better chance to
stage the biennial football tournament
than trying to go it alone.
Zifa are pushing to get hosting
rights after initial hosts and
strife-stricken Libya last month
withdrew due to the political upheavals.
The local football governing
body has been guaranteed support
in their hosting bid by the tourism
ministry as well as the Ministry
of Sport, Arts and Culture
and final approval now lies in the
hands of Cabinet.
Mzembi’s ministry has been the
most vocal in Zimbabwe’s case,
stressing that Afcon comes with
immense tourism opportunities.
Bid submissions close on September
30, after which the Confederations
of African Football
(CAF) will name the hosts next
April.
With only three years left before
the tournament is played,
Mzembi said joint-hosting would
increase Zimbabwe’s chances of
being granted the rights.
“We are very serious about
this issue. We should not do
nightmares, but do dreams,”
said Mzembi.
“We are going for a shared-hosting
programme. Right now we will
have to engage our neighbouring
countries on that to boost our
chances. This is a national project
where there has to be staunch input
from everyone. That is why we
are taking this issue to Cabinet.
“Look, South Africa is a new
but they later on played well,” he said.
Losing coach Gishon Ntini beamoned
some sloppy defending for his team’s loss.
“We made unnecessary mistakes for
the goals but we played well though. It
was not our day. We could have equalised
even in the dying stages of the game,”
said Ntini.
Msimbu breathed life into the match
when he headed in David Sengu’s freekick
for the opening goal after 29 minutes
of action.
Five minutes before the breather, Sengu
was on hand to create another goal.
But this time it was for the opponents’
equaliser when he fouled James Jam on
the edge of the box and from the resultant
freekick, Mukuradare fired home.
Barely a minute into the second half,
Francisco Zekumbawire flicked the ball
into the path of Vengesai whose low shot
sailed past Stephen Chimusoro in goal for
Chiredzi.
Nine minutes later, a well-positioned
Mukuradare failed to hit target when he
blasted over Zekumbawire’s cross.
Crispen Dickson denied Ntini’s outfit a
leveller right at the death when he cleared
Tawanda Muyendi’s effort from the goal
line.
country after the 2010 Fifa World
Cup. We really need this to put
our country into spotlight. Hosting
Afcon would leave legacy assets
like spruced-up stadiums,
roads, hotels and training facilities.”
However, no neighbouring
country has so far expressed interest
to host the tournament.
Zambia now boasts of two
world class stadiums but could be
having a lot on their plate as they
are set to host the 2017 African
Under-20 Championships.
It would be a mammoth task
for Zimbabwe to convince CAF it
could take the onus alone given
that the country has sub-standard
football infrastructure.
Harare and Bulawayo would
likely be the host cities in case of
a joint venture, but hotel accommodation
could be overwhelmed
by teams, multitudes of travelling
fans and service providers.
Massive refurbishment of roads,
efficient transport system and decongesting
Harare would be some
of the work that would need to be
done inside the next three years.
Zimbabwe were handed rights to
host the 200th edition of Afcon but
unpreparedness saw CAF moving
it to Ghana and Nigeria at the last
minute.
The country also lost the 2010 bid.
“You do not have to be ready to
host something,” said Mzembi.
“We were never ready to host UN-
WTO (2013 United Nations World
Tourism Organisation) general assembly
but when we were told that
Zim progress in Davis Cup
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA
it was coming to Zimbabwe, everyone
got up on their feet and it was a
success at the end of the day.
“There is so much need for national
commitment, willingness
and effort. We have to respond to
our own vision as Zimbabwe.”
The strongest candidacy has
so far emerged from East Africa
where Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda
and Uganda have declared interest.
Kenya is pushing for a Kenya,
Rwanda and Uganda joint-hosting
and the countries have already
contacted each other on the
opportunity.
Rwanda wants to stage it together
with Kenya and Tanzania.
Rwanda has an edge over Zimbabwe
with a track record of
hosting the 2009 African Youth
Championships as well as the
2011 African Under-17 Championship.
The 2016 Africa Nations Championships
will also take place in
Rwanda. Only Ethiopia from East
Africa has staged Afcon before
and they have done that thrice.
Mali, Ghana and Egypt have also
declared contention to welcome
the continent in 2017.
Zifa chief executive Jonathan
Mashingaidze was unavailable to
state their strategies to convince
CAF on the issue.
Hosting Afcon would afford
Zimbabwe automatic qualification
for the tournament.
The Warriors have graced the
tournament twice (2004, 2006) in
their history.
Triangle out to maintain
cup games momentum
BY KENNETH NYANGANI
TRIANGLE head coach Biggie
Zuze will be hoping to continue
with his side’s fairytale run in
the country’s knockout competitions
when they engage army side
Black Rhinos in the Chibuku Super
Cup last eight at Ascot tomorrow.
Triangle are currently in the finals
of the One Wallet Cup where
they are set to lock horns with Dynamos.
Despite being unfortunate in
playing all their cup matches
away from home, they have registered
impressive results.
For progressing into the last
eight of the Chibuku Super Cup,
they dispatched Hwange 5-3 on
penalty shoot-outs after the match
had ended 0-0 in regulation time.
They were in a devastating form
in their last match when they defeated
FC Platinum 2-0 at Gibbo
Biggie Zuze
Zimbabwe Davies Cup team
ZIMBABWE made a step towards
making a return to the
prestigious Davis Cup World
Group with a 2-0 win over
Namibia in an Africa Zone
Group III playoff semi-final
match at the Smash Tennis
Academy in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday.
The victory saw Zimbabwe
qualifying for the 2015 Euro/
Africa Zone Group II which
is two tiers below the elite
Group.
Benjamin Lock emphatically
beat 6-1, 6-0 Jacobus Serdyn,
while Takanyi Garanganga
overpowered Tuki Jacobs 6-2,
6-2.
With Zimbabwe carrying
an unassailable 2-0 lead, the
doubles match of Mark Fynn
and Lock against the Namibian
pair of Serdyn and Jacobs
was rendered unnecessary to
play.
Zimbabwe’s non-playing
captain Martin Dzuwa
praised the Zimbabwean team
following their performance.
“We performed well in all
our matches here,” said Dzuwa.
“All the matches were fine
for us and we did well considering
the tough group we
came from. Our main goal
was to qualify to the next
group and good for us it came
out that way.”
Yesterday’s heroics capped
a fine outing in Egypt which
started from Pool A with a 3-0
win over Congo, followed by
that pool’s victories over Madagascar
(2-1) and Nigeria (3-
0) also coming in convincing
fashion.
By qualifying to Euro/Africa
Zone Group II, Zimbabwe
will now be hosting and visiting
the likes of Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Finland,
Luxembourg and South Africa.
This group is likely to offer
the Zimbabweans the muchneeded
experience as the fight
to surge to the elite Group continues.
The win comes at a time
when Old Mutual has breathed
life into the team by pumping
in the much-needed financial
assistance whose sponsorship
results were displayed by the
team.
This Zimbabwean crop is
chasing to reach the World
Group played in by Zimbabwean
tennis legends Kevin Ullyett,
Byron, Wayne and Cara
Black.
The Zimbabwean team is expected
back home on Monday.
Stadium in their last league encounter.
Zuze told Standardsport that
his team was raring to go.
“Obviously, this is going to be a
tough match because we all need
to progress to the next stage of
the tournament. We are having a
good run in the Cup competitions
because everyone is putting an effort,”
he said.
“Another issue is that motivation
is high and that is the major
thing every player wants. We will
fight very hard to beat Rhinos.
They are a good side, so we should
be at our best.”
Triangle will bank on the likes
of strikers Richard Kawondera,
Nhamo Lameck and Tatenda
Tsuro.
Rhinos will however be no
push-overs with coach Jostein
Mathuthu appearing inspirational
since his mid-season takeover
of the technical bench.

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Dinyero elated
“I am happy with the performance
of the team and
that we progressed. The attitude
of the players was
wrong earlier on as they
were underrating the opponents
but they later on
played well.”
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CAPS United
crumble at
Mandava again
FROM MUKUDZEI CHINGWERE IN
ZVISHAVANE
FC Platinum… (1) 1
CAPS United 0
CAPS United defender
George Nyirenda beat
his side’s two goalkeepers
in as many weekends
after fooling Tafadzwa
Dube yesterday at Mandava
against similar opposition, to
hand FC Platinum passage into
the Chibuku Super Cup semifinals.
As CAPS tried to erase grim
memories of the previous weekend’s
ZNA Charity Shield 6-0 disgrace
by the same side in which
Nyirenda scored past his own
goalie Jorum Muchambo, the
centre back once again pounced
against his side and this time it
was the decider.
United showed intent to revenge
but the early goal was a big blow,
with coach Taurai Mangwiro attributing
the defeat to the Malawi
international’s error.
“We were just careless in the
manner we conceded that goal.
Today we started off well and we
looked more likely to win, but we
failed to avoid the goal. We only
had two scares, the goal and that
chance that hit the bar,” said Mangwiro.
With the victory, winning coach
Norman Mapeza sealed his arrival
at Mandava where he is slowly
establishing a fortress.
The former Galatasaray midfield
hardman commended his
charges for getting the better of
CAPS once again but admitted
that his opponents had done their
homework to make up for that
half a dozen goal harvest.
“I am happy we won the game
but today they did their homework
and history does not usually
repeat itself in football. It is still
too early to talk about winning
the Cup and even going to the final.
We will talk about that when
we get there,” he said.
It took 13 minutes for the hosts’
Zambian forward Obrey Chirwa
to present his credentials as the
biggest threat in the platinum
miners’ final third.
Under-pressure Nyirenda turned
Chirwa’s cross into his own net following
an intelligent solo run from
the centre line by the striker.
With the Zambian responsible
for Nyirenda’s howler, he threatened
to again torment CAPS like
he did in the 6-0 win in which he
grabbed a hat-trick.
Eight minutes later, pure platinum
play threatened to run over
their opponents but Tarisai Rukanda
was denied by the cross bar.
Chirwa then fired at goal but his
shot was scrambled away by a desperate
Dube following a brilliant
turn and shoot.
Five minutes before the breather,
CAPS nearly reduced arrears
but Gerald Phiri’s effort was
cleared on the goal line by Raphael
Muduviwa with Dynamos goalkeeper
target Petros Mhari in goal
a beaten man.
Ten minutes after the restart,
Pervington Zimunya fluffed another
chance for an equaliser
when he blew his effort over the
bar.
Mapeza’s charges survived a
few minutes of CAPS’ dominance
with Phiri and Leonard Fiyado
coming close.
Dube proved that he deserves
top billing when he ably repelled a
Elvis Moyo free kick late into the
CAPS United defender George Nyirenda challenges FC Platinum’s Benjamin Marere for the ball at Mandava Stadium yesterday.
Picture: Nelson Chekera.
game.
Chirwa’s injury-inspired substitution
reduced FC Platinum’s
attacking verve.
Mapeza seemed to be intent on
sitting back and protecting the
lead when he brought in Thabani
Kamusoko and Aaron Katebe to
protect the defense.
Kamusoko’s introduction proved
masterstroke as he combined well
with Simon Shoko to boss the midfield
where they starved CAPS of
clean supplies to their front runners.
Chibuku Super Cup: Kaindu faces stern test
BY MICHAEL MADYIRA
HIGHLANDERS coach Kelvin
Kaindu must be feeling relieved
that he is not facing Dynamos
this afternoon.
Bosso cross swords today with
How Mine in a Chibuku Super
Cup quarterfinal match at Hartsfield.
Still smarting from last weekend’s
4-1 demolition by Dynamos
in a TM Pick n Pay Challenge
Cup, Highlanders have something
to divert attention from
that embarrassment.
The defeat by Dynamos sparked
outrage from Bosso fans and
claimed the scalp of captain Innocent
Mapuranga who has since
been replaced by Ariel Sibanda.
It also led to a two-week suspension
of striker Njabulo Ncube
while fellow forward Charles
Sibanda and linkman Joel Ngodzo
are now sitting on final warnings
for indiscipline.
How Mine could therefore provide
relief for Kaindu. But a loss
to the gold miners could ring the
death knell on Kaindu’s reign as
Bosso coach.
“On the Dynamos loss, these
are the kind of results that are
there. What is important now
is how you focus on the next
match,” said Kaindu.
“A derby is tricky and especially
that this is a Cup game. There
has to be a winner and we hope
we will be the better side.”
Kaindu is not mourning the
absence of suspended Ncube
who is yet to score since his July
return to Bosso.
“Every player in our team
is important. There are others
who can come in for Njabulo and
it will be their opportunity to
claim their stake in the team,”
he said.
Pre-match tension has already
characterise the match with How
Mine being barred from training
at the match venue.
The goal miners’ coach Luke
Masomere says “cheap politics”
was at play to frustrate them
ahead of the game.
Masomere claims they were
denied entry into Hartsfield on
Tuesday before they trained on
the stadium’s B field.
He also said he agreed with
Highlanders that on Wednesday
they would train at the main arena
in the morning before Bosso
work-out in the afternoon but
they were again denied entry.
According to Masomere, the
same story occurred on Thursday
before they were completely
locked out on Friday when they
were not allowed to even train on
the B field.
“The stadium does not even
belong to Highlanders but we are
undeterred by the cheap politics.
It is actually confusion,” said
Masomere.
“Apart from all those frustrations,
we are ready for them. Morale
is high in our camp and we
are not under pressure.”
It would be Masomere’s third
game in charge after recording a
loss and a win so far.
The coach welcomes on his
side Menard Mupera from a
long-term injury while Timothy
January and Nhasha Mukumbi
are out injured together with
teenage goalkeeper Donovan
Bernard who has a huge grassburn
on his thigh.

The Standard
Style
SEpt 7 to 13, 2014
ISSUE 20
Star profile
Gorden Taurai Nzira
Inside
Tapiwa Makwavarara
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September 14 to 20 2014
The Standard
Style
Contents
P08
Woman & Man
3 Woman Profile
Tapiwa Makwavarara
5 Motivation
Tafadzwa
7 Man Profile
Gorden Taurai Nzira
Home & Garden
9 Home of the Week
Enter our competition
10 Trends
Kitchens
12 Gardening
What was Noah thinking
Food & Drink
14 Restaurant Guide
Theo’s 167 Enterprise road
15 Is there a time for wine
Lebbie
Family
19 Family of the Week
Mr & Mrs Shonhai & Family
21 Education
Raising Your Self Esteem
P14
24 Family Getaway
Enjoying a mountain club hike
Arts
26 Breaking New Ground
African Couture
28 Bookworm
The useless book with useful lessons
P07
P09
P19
29 Arts
Celeb news
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September 14 to 20 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / PROFILE 3
Star Profile:
Jenny Wall
“I enjoy being a voice for the voiceless, give the animals a voice. . .”
Prudence Muganiwah
Her chosen career is far from the cliché, far
from what any typical girl would choose for
herself. But that is her passion, and each day
she wakes up with extra va-va-voom to attend
to the next dog, cat, horse, or cow, and make it
feel better.
Tapiwa Tatiana Makwavarara, a last
born child who comes from a family of three
girls is a veterinarian, and she loves her profession.
“I grew up in Harare, attended school
in Murewa and graduated with a Bachelor of
Veterinary Science degree from University of
Zimbabwe in 2008.”
Tashie, as she is otherwise affectionately
known, says being a veterinarian is one of
the most amazing professions as it is a broad
profession that covers a lot of disciplines. “I
enjoy being a voice for the voiceless, animals
are considered inferior to human beings but
they also have the same needs as we do and to
devote my life to protecting them makes a big
difference to me. Animals and humans are interlinked
in a lot more ways than we think.”
Besides animal health being her main
focus, Tashie gets to do a lot of extension
work in indigent communities educating
them on job creation and poverty alleviation
through agricultural development.
She also educates on how communities
can protect themselves and
their
animals
from some
of the
devastating
im
pacts diseases can have.
Her passion is women, and their development.
“The girl child goes through so many
hardships and is vulnerable to a lot of things.
I would love to help women and to encourage
them to know that they can be anything that
they want to be even when exposed to difficult
circumstances. Coming from a not so stable
childhood myself I experienced so many odds
but I stuck to what I believed in and pulled
myself out and up. I believe anyone can do the
same.”
Considering that Veterinary Medicine till
recently has been a male-dominated profession,
it is not only pleasantly surprising but
also inspiring that this never-say-die spirited
girl chose this seemingly challenging career.
Currently resident in South Africa, she talks
of how it has not been a bed of roses trying
to prove herself in her field. “Being black and
foreign does not make it easier. You have to go
through strong efforts to prove yourself capable
to do the job.”
Yet the young lady has not given up yet.
In fact, she continues to strive harder to make
a significant contribution to society through
various other projects she involves herself in.
“I have been involved in the Vets for Change
mass vaccination and sterilisation campaigns,
a German based NGO initiative. I have
also been involved in sterilisation campaigns
for the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals (SPCA) and Provincial Government
in the Northern Cape. I wish to launch similar
projects within my area. These campaigns are
aimed at reducing dog populations and rabies
transmission between domestic carnivores
and to humans.”
Her biggest achievement thus far has
been to be recognised in parts Limpopo Province
(South Africa), as an active participant
in the fight against Rabies and as an eloquent
speaker on disease awareness.
Tashie mentions that it has been a tough
road to walk alone, without the mentorship
of her mother, whom she lost in December
of 1999. “My mother is my role model though
long gone she left something inside of me
which was; to be the best that you can be in
any circumstance and to leave people better
than how you found them. Wonder how far I
have gone with that though . . .”
A typical day for the mother of one involves
a lot of regulatory, clinical and administrative
work as well as the daily demands
of motherhood – Tashie dotes on her son and
makes sure that in her free time she spends
quality time with him and travels a lot. With
regard to her family, she has this to say, “The
most I enjoy about family is the unconditional
love that comes with it; you can mess up
and still have the assurance that you are still
loved.”
It is not surprising though, that the animal
doctor who is a staunch Christian has
made it this far, as she is quite a woman of
principle. “I value self-respect and sticking to
what is right regardless of what the world has
conformed to in a nutshell it is all about integrity.
I also believe that Jesus Christ is alive
and try as hard as I can to live under biblical
principles.”
The positive minded, ever-determined Tashie
who detests arrogant and self-centred people,
says, “If God had the same attitude we would
have no freedom or we would have been wiped
off the face of the earth!”
In her time away from home, she says she
has grown so much as an individual ever since
she left the country, and most of it has to do
with values that she learnt back home. “When
the time is right I would like to share whatever
I have acquired here and make a difference in
my own community back in Zimbabwe.”
Tashie believes when she is ready, she
will come to resettle in Zimbabwe and make
a positive contribution in her field of interest.
“Zimbabwe is my home and will always be and
yes I would resettle if things are the way they
should be. I remember how things were and
right now they are not like that.”
Advising younger generations, the high
achieving individual says hard work, a positive
attitude and humility even in the face of
obstacles is the only way to success. “It takes
a lot of hard work to get from one place to another
and it doesn’t mean that when thing get
tough your destiny is failure.
It is no wonder that Tashie has managed
to attain what she has, given the motto she
lives by, “Humility will take you places where
education won’t.”
“I grew up in Harare,
attended school in
Murewa and graduated
with a Bachelor of
Veterinary Science degree
from University of
Zimbabwe in 2008.
“

4 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / FASHION
September 14 to 20 2014
Mother of the Bride
Shamiso Catherine Ruzvidzo
The mother of the bride is close to being the centre of attention
at her daughter’s wedding as her daughter, it is important
for her to stand out in a modern outfit that is elegant and wellfitted.
This season mint greens, pastels, rose pinks, neutrals and a
meadly of blues are ruling the bridal runways. Fabrics dominating
weddings remain the same, with lace in the forefront as the
fabric of choice. Styles are modern and fresh with sheer sleeves
a perfect option for women who want to stay cool in summer,
but keep their arms covered. The 1970s capes and capelets have
been readapted to create a modern, flawless feminine look for
the brides’s mother. Tiered skirts with layers of draped chiffions
are available in various palettes of colour. One thing resonantes
this season, the mother of the bride is sure to look feminine, romantic
and magestic on her daughter’s big day.
Shopping for the Mother of the Bride
pinks and a meadly of blues dominate weddings this season
Tiered skirts, sheer sleeves, 1970 capes and capelets are trending as this
season’s must have looks for the mother of the bride.
Facinators are a
perfect alternative
to wearing hats.
• Remember to keep the dress or skirt length over the knee or long. This is the best alternative, as you wouldn’t want to
steal your daughter’s shine wearing a dress or skirt that is way too short.
• Fitting is of the essence, make sure you have several fittings well in time. You wouldn’t want to be in the spotlight for a
poor fitting outfit.
• The mother of the bride can change outfits when her daughter changes outfits, there is no set rule that frowns upon this.
Just make sure you discuss this with the bride first.
• Hats never go out of style for weddings, pick a hat that matches your dress or bag. If hats are not your style, beautiful
facinators are on the market and are available all around Zimbabwe from boutiques or wedding stores. Facinators are
modern and come in beautiful styles and colours.
• Final tip - Yes the mother of the bride can match her outfit colour with the wedding party. Why should the wedding
party have all fun?
Image source: www2.mastoloni.com; http://www.bridalguide.com; http://www.dressempire.com ; pinterest.com
Rufaro Mushonga
THE WEDDING PLANNER
TRIMMING YOUR WEDDING BUDGET – PART ONE
A
number of years ago I had a consultation
session with a couple
who were planning their wedding
for the following year. We discussed
their wedding vision from beginning
to end, and they told me how much
money they would like to spend on their
wedding. They were also very specific
about the wedding venue they wanted.
I advised them that given the number of
guests they wanted to plan for, choosing
this venue would throw them way out of
pocket. I built a budget for them based
on their choice of venue, and sent it to
them. They insisted that they wanted
this venue, and were not impressed with
me at all when I recommended other options.
I assumed they did not want to
disclose their real budget to me for fear
of being ripped off. So I went ahead and
booked the venue.
Two months before the wedding, the
fun and games began. They ran short of
money, and of course they blamed me
for it. It was a nightmare for all parties
involved. As a couple, you know how
much money you are able to spend on
your wedding. If you are working with
a tight budget, here are three practical
tips on how to keep your budget down.
Get an expert to help you with
budgeting and planning
A wedding planner already has good
relationships with wedding service providers,
so hiring one will help you to
save money and stay within a specified
budget.
Choose your venue wisely
Avoid venues that insist on you using
upmarket caterers, decorators and
hiring companies. Venues that do not
require you to hire a tent may be less
costly – with the exception of hotels.
Some venues will offer you an affordable
all-inclusive package, so make sure
you consider such options
Watch your guest list
Reducing the number of guests you
would like to invite is the fastest way to
trim the budget. The costs that are numbers
driven have more impact on your
budget.
Get the budget in order, right from the
start, and you are halfway to having a
memorable wedding day without committing
“financial suicide.”
Rufaro Mushonga
rufmush@gmail.com
Photography by Tasha Creations

September 14 to 20 2014
THE STANDARD STYLE / INSPIRATION 5
Profile of the
Game-changers:
The real deal (Part 2)
Cynthia Hakutangwi
The Real Deal is an expression often used
to refer to someone or something that is
very good and has all the qualities that
people say they have. In the first part of
this series which profiles the attributes of
game-changers we challenged individuals to
pursue and discover their personal authentic
identity before they allow others to define
them. We briefly examined these three gamechanging
(GC) attributes:
GC1: Personal Leadership and Transfor
mation
GC2: Possessing the courage to be a
thought leader
GC3: The ability to think and see with a
relational lens
We established that there are major phenomena
profoundly altering the world’s landscape
on various interfaces which call for
game-changers who will not only adapt, but
possess the strength of character to change
the ways things are done. From the many definitions
that have been provided, we adopted
one from the business dictionary which describes
a game-changer as “a person or idea
that transforms the accepted rules, processes,
strategies and management of business
functions.” Our discussion however will not
be confined to business functions alone but
stretches it to cover various levels of organised
units ranging from families to organisations,
communities and ultimately nations.
This article will examine and reflect on the
next three GC attributes of game-changers.
GC Attribute Four: They make the best
out of breaking-point frustrations
Whilst many people fear the breaking
point because of its life-threatening nature,
there is a treasure that lies in this state of
affairs. Sometimes the course of our lives
cannot be changed until our situations reach
breaking point. Whilst being pro-active is a
plausible virtue that enables preventative effectiveness
and reduces risks within systems
and organisations, life sometimes may call for
us to allow the breaking point to be reached.
Until we “snap” sometimes our world order
may remain the same and we may continue
to get the same results in our traditional comfortable
environments. Snap in this instance
refers to tapping from our reserves beyond the
ordinary provision. The breaking point is generally
accepted as being the moment of greatest
strain at which someone or something
gives way. Too often, we fear reaching this
point because of the high levels of discomfort
and a strong fear of death. The paradox of
death is that it is so closely related to the ushering
of new life in the same way that whilst
a mother’s life is at stake, she gives birth to a
new life. My personal experiences with child
birth will forever remain magical moments
where I remember transitioning from one extreme
of deep anguish to another extreme of
pure bliss and elation at the arrival of a new
life through it all. Human psychology defines
the breaking point as “a moment of stress in
which a person breaks down or a situation becomes
critical.” It is very possible that when
we reach our end and surrender to another dimension
of engagement we may very well be
on our way to giving new definition to a completely
new way of doing things.
GC Attribute Five: They are not afraid to
initiate movement in stagnant situations
Very often when situations around us persistently
remain stagnant we can be tempted to
remain silent observers in the motionless state
of affairs and sometimes even dare the still
waters to begin to move themselves around
us. When the still and stagnant waters around
us do not move, it may be a sign that we need
to generate the requisite movement so that we
get a positive ripple effect that spreads far beyond
us. On the other extreme, we may even be
tempted to step out of the stagnant waters and
situations that we find ourselves in to pursue
other “seemingly active waters” to avoid being
the causative agents of movement. What
have you been sitting and watching for too
long in your life, just waiting for it to move?
Wisdom and discernment is required to help
us to establish the reasons why we may be located
and positioned in those stagnant waters
for that season. Maybe, just maybe, the very
same is waiting for you to start making moves
that will awaken the sleeping giants within
and around you. The traction starts with the
movements we initiate in the right direction
so that the potential of those things around us
is stirred to manifest and align with their destiny
as we align with our purpose.
GC Attribute Six: They are not led by frivolous
emotions
Game-changers are not led by frivolous emotions
but instead take time to meditate and
listen to sound wisdom. In their professionalism,
they choose to respond and not react to
provocations within and around them. It takes
great strength of character coupled with maturity
for an individual to value their brand
and not reduce themselves to react impulsively
to their own whims, challenges or careless
dysfunctions of others. In spite of all their
power to influence, game-changers remain
humble and modest as they build momentum
for even greater accomplishments. This protects
them from being dangerously exposed
and extinguished prematurely. Unbridled
pride and ego inevitably become a recipe for
the demise of any game-changer who cannot
keep their emotions in check.
Join us again in the next issue as we explore
and examine the next three game-changing
attributes.
Cynthia is a Communications and Personal
Development Consultant, a Life Coach,
Author, and Strategist. She is the Managing
Consultant of Wholeness Incorporated. “A
passionate and fervent motivational speaker
who speaks at seminars, workshops and conferences
provoking people and institutions to
challenge their comfort zones by imparting
vital knowledge and information which can
help them to live balanced lives and create
trans-generational solutions.”
E-mail: cynthia@wholenessincorporated.com
The art of building your castle in bits and pieces… [Part II]
Tafadzwa Zimunhu Taruvinga
The Caterpillar and the Butterfly
In the month of September, my focus is on
what it means to build up towards your life’s
purpose in bits and pieces. If you’ve even attempted
Accounting 101 not-so-impressively
like myself, you might remember “piecemeal
liquidation” in which a company is sold off
in small chunks, rather than in one sweeping
goal. Building the castle of your life’s
dreams, if it will be worth a Dollar, should
take time. In keeping with the old truth “all
good things take time” tiny ants toil daily, ferrying
pieces of bread and grains of soil in order
to build a home. Birds too build their nest
one strand at a time.
Chapter two of my book which I published in
June this year, “Serve Your Customers Excellentl,
Or Not At All!”, is entitled “The Caterpillar
and the Butterly”, and it tells what I
consider a rather interesting story as thus:
“I want to tell the story of the caterpillar and
the butterfly. I think it’s amazing. When a
caterpillar hatches from an egg, its life begins.
Unless it doesn’t go through the full metamorphosis
cycle for one reason or another, the caterpillar
feeds on leaves and grass, growing
longer and fatter, shedding its skin off gradually.
When it’s had quite enough to eat, the caterpillar
hangs upside down from a plant and
spins itself into a shiny chrysalis. It’s in that
chrysalis where, through further metamorphosis,
the caterpillar transforms itself into a butterfly.
Then, as the story goes, the butterfly flies
into the magnificent African sunset and lives
happily ever after.”
We learn a valuable lesson from the ants,
birds, caterpillars and butterflies of this
world. We learn that we too are capable of
building good things in the good time, and
that good time demands a special kind of patience
and delayed gratification. In a sense
then, the excerpt above is ample prescription
of how best we, like the caterpillar which
ends up as a butterfly, can build our castles in
bits and pieces. There are nine pieces which
matter in the piecemeal approach to building
one’s dreams, three of which we looked
at last week, three of which we will look at
today, and the last three in the last part of this
title next week.
4. The Shedding of Skin
Shedding off your skin comes in two forms.
Firstly, it challenges you to let go of your inhibitions.
Your inhibitions are those innate
unique characteristics which are not progressive.
This is important because you are,
in many instances, afraid of even embarking
on any journey before you actually do. It’s
a natural condition, sure, but it’s one which
you should get rid of right from the get go.
Marianne Williamson summed it up in the
famous quote which says “Our deepest fear is
not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure…”
What does this mean in practice? It means
that you should walk unchartered paths and
challenge yourself to get rid of your fears.
For instance, if the line of work to which
you aspire involves public speaking, but you
know that you are naturally an introvert,
take active steps to counter such inhibition.
Join a public speaking society in order to improve
your speaking skills. The second skin
to shed is your limitations, which are mostly
external, the likes of a lack of capital to start
a small business. Limit your limitations. If
a bank has not given you a loan to start your
business in 12 months, take a step back and
consider this. Should you now stop pursuing
the bank and start pursuing other alternate
sources of capital such as your savings or
small repayable loans from close friends or
relatives?
5. Turning Upside Down
Turning upside down comes in two forms
too. In the first part, it entails turning challenges
into opportunities, or making lemonade
out of sour lemons. The current harsh
economic climate especially requires you to
do this as much as is possible. Here’s a practicable
example. If catering has been your
income-earning passion for years and you’ve
concentrated on selling gourmet meals with
a higher average revenue of $5.00 per unit
sale all along, consider making 80% of your
menu a “sadza and (something)” variety with
an average return of $2.00 per unit sale, simply
because the market demands affordable
meals at lunch for five days a week, rather
than expensive gourmet meals for two days a
week on a weekend. See if you can transform
your service from being price-driven to being
volumes-driven. On the other hand, turning
upside down is about introspection and questioning
oneself whether to remain on the
path so far walked along or find a new path.
It’s about reinventing yourself. It’s about taking
a walk every morning and thinking about
what it is that you can do differently or in addition
to what you’ve been doing all along.
6. Spinning into a Shiny Chrysalis
Spinning into a shiny chrysalis is significantly
related to turning upside down. It’s about
reinventing oneself and it’s about introspection.
But it goes one step further. You would
shine the most if you brought out your good
qualities a lot more often than you would
your weaknesses. In the grander scheme of
life, this is about accentuating your strengths
and limiting your weaknesses. If you are a
people person for instance, network with people
from all walks of life. You never know
where it might lead.
In Part III next week, we will examine your
transition from caterpillar to butterfly, living
happily ever after and your flight into the African
sunset.
Tafadzwa Taruvinga is a trilingual Customer
Service Consultant and the first Zimbabwean
Member to sit on the Advisory Council of Customer
Value Creation International (CVCI).
He is the author of the 200-paged book “Serve
Your Customers EXCELLENTLY, Or Not At
All!” and he facilitates customer service training
workshops. Tafadzwa can be contacted on
e-mail at tafadzwazt@gmail.com and his profile
is available at www.customervaluecreation.org
> “About Us”.

6 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / GROOMING
September 14 to 20 2014
The return of The Gentleman!
Marshall Malikula
It’s a given, that you must always
put your best foot forward, your
grooming has to be top deck.
I can never stress this point
enough. On the contrary, you are
also as good as you carry yourself
in public. Every man has to back up
his good looks with good etiquette
in order to come up with a total
package. Impressions management
is an integral part of grooming and
acceptable social behaviour. Just
like on a first date, first impressions
are the lasting ones. It’s really
great, if you make a good one,
but really hard to reverse a negative
impact. Manners make a man.
Failure to adhere to good etiquette,
sorry to say, I will most likely label
you as a douchebag.
A man’s body is God‘s temple,
therefore should be treated with respect
it deserves. This has nothing
to do with whether you are metro,
retro or conservative man. In fact,
it has nothing to do with sexuality,
long gone were days when it was
acceptable for men to be mud hogs.
Treat your body with respect and
so will others. Treat others with
respect and they will return the favour
threefold. Maintain a healthy
lifestyle and high standards of
grooming.
Posture makes perfect, as does
the right body language. A gentleman
never sits with his legs spread.
There is no need to advertise. Sit
with legs crossed or close together.
Don’t stretch your feet out towards
another person. This is disrespectful
in any culture. When engaging
in conversation, try not to fidget.
Hold a position and keep eye contact
at all times. The people you
meet like to think that they are
worthy of your undivided attention.
Always listen intently, never
interrupt a conversation and NEV-
ER take a phone call or step away
during that conversation.
Table manners are ‘next to
Godliness’. A respectable man
never speaks with a mouth full,
doesn’t slurp and always makes
sure his face and table are stain
free. If you have a moustache, be
extra cautious with crumbs and
sauces, make use of available table
napkins. Don’t pick your teeth at
the table, if it’s unavoidable do so
by covering your mouth with the
other hand. If you not sure which
piece of cutlery to use, observe the
host and follow suit. Your cutlery
is always grouped on either side of
your plate, start with the most outward
working your way in.
When dining in a group, a gentleman
always comes prepared
with enough cash to settle the
whole bill. Of course, you are not
obliged to do so, but should the
need arise you can settle without
making a point of it. This prepares
you for split bills where one party
refuses to acknowledge the mysterious
appearance of caviar on the
bill. Never dispute at the table, you
can always strike later in private.
Chivalry is not dead, treat all
women with respect, and put that
woman first! Always open doors
and let any woman in first. Give
your seat up on the bus, not only for
hot chicks but any one of the fairer
sex. If you are still to tie the knot,
your prospective will look at how
you treat women around you to see
if you caring at all, so it pays being
the ultimate gentleman.
Last but not least a gentleman
dresses appropriately for events. I
have been to so many events, in our
bustling city and wondered, “I am I
the one on the wrong or somebody
did not just get the memo?” Before
going to any event, look at the invite
for clues and colour schemes,
consult with Google or even closer
to home, yours truly. My dad used
to tell me there is no excuse for ignorance,
same applies to all men
folk out there. Let’s all clean up our
acts, life will reward you for being
nice, whether it’s a job interview or
the hot chick you been eyeing, you
will not score till you behave.
Marshall Malikula is an Image
Consultant and stylist, get in touch
with him on marshmalikula@google.com
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September 14 to 20 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / PROFILE 7
Star Profile
Gorden Taurai Nzira
“
Strong, focused and ready to minister to the world….
“
Prudence Muganiwah
Gorden Taurai Nzira is a Zimbabwean
gospel singer, song writer as well as
music director/producer who was
born in Gwanda and raised in the
city of Bulawayo. Famed for his hit
songs Seiko and Usatani he is an
artist in the making, and not even the
long sabbatical he took from the music
industry has got him rusty – it’s as if
he has been singing and perfecting his
art the whole time.
“I am passionate about creating
music, whether I am singing, writing,
playing drums or directing. I believe music
is my ministry and it is through this
gift that I can be a blessing to the world. The
thing about a passion is that it controls you
most of the time.” Gorden confesses that there
are many times when he has foregone meals
so he can record himself on his phone
in a bid to remember a chorus that
would have popped up in his
creative and ever-busy artistic
mind. “I love what I
do such that a day in the
studio for me feels like
just an hour.”
To the hardworking
young man, who,
needless to say is
also a praise and
worship director
at his church,
creating music
has never been
a job. It is something
that he
loves so much
that it consumes
him and is quite
literally, part of
his life and being.
“I love making
something out
of almost nothing,
it’s a wonderful
feeling.
When a song
is given to
me through
the inspiration
of the
Holy Spirit,
I get it as a
complete
song. I hear
everything,
the rhythm,
bassline
and sometimes
even
the arrangement.
Now working
to put
that down
so that everyone
can
hear it is
amazing.”
And it is
crystal
clear that
the artist is
full of passion.
That being
said,
Gorden, who
is currently
based in South
Africa, says that his
chosen field is not entirely a
bed of roses as it comes with
its own fair share of buts, fame
being the biggest one. “Dealing
with fame has not been easy, especially given that I did a lot of
wrong footing earlier on in my career. I made some mistakes
and I felt like I needed a break from the lime light. The long
sabbatical I took from the music industry has helped mature.”
Married to Nandipha Siyanga and a father of two, a threeyear-
old girl called Mbalenhle and one-year-old boy called Nicanor,
Gorden is also quite your typical family man who loves
spending time with those he holds dear to the heart. “My kids
are both hyper-active so much that when they decide they want
to play with me I have to make sure I have my game on because
they don’t get tired, and as expected they get into a lot of mischief
during the games!” Gorden confesses that he is not big on
shopping and leaves that to his wife as he is a “really terrible
shopper.”
Gorden, who is also a great drummer, believes that the break
he took from music has enabled him to attain a greater understanding
of what it is to be a minister of the gospel. “God has
been good to me and I am back now strong, focused and ready to
minister to the world.”
Basing his career, vision and life mission on the word of
God, Gorden believes that mankind should all have love for one
another regardless of race, creed, gender or tribe. “The Lord
Jesus Christ gave it as a new commandment. He said “A new
commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I
have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall
all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to
another. —John 13:33-35.” According to him, love is a solution
to strife and conflicts, and he believes the endless conflict in the
world is caused by greed.
It is evident that he is a born artist as despite that he does
most of his music in the studio over the weekends as opposed
to every day, he still sings to perfection. The rest of his week
is typically characterised by office runs, meetings with clients
and studying.
On life achievements, Gorden, who says in another life he
would have done marketing or insurance, says, “besides marrying
the woman of my dreams, I would say I had the greatest
feeling of achievement when I released my first album Seiko in
2006. It had been a dream of mine since childhood.”
Besides building his own career, he is also currently a director
for a group called Yadah Praise and is working on building a
record label in Bulawayo for upcoming local artists. Asked if he
has any pet peeves, the ever smiling, easygoing guy who loves
his Zimbabwean food says, “I don’t like it when people eat in my
car, it just irritates me.”
Taking inspiration from Miles Monroe as a result of his
tireless motivational work, Pastor Dan Zimuwandeyi and Pastor
Eddie Chizeya, Gorden says he also has a lot of respect for
gospel music maestro, Pastor Gee Gwanzura whom he says is
always giving him advice regarding to his music.
Expressing his love for musical art and his wish for young
minds to explore their options and pursue their passions, Gorden
says, “I remember when I started off doing shows, I did lots
of free ones because I was doing it out of passion and that’s
how I met some of the people that helped me record my first
album. Your success is in your passion, follow that and you will
make it. Don’t compare yourself with anyone just do the best
you can.”

8 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / WHEELS
September 14 to 20 2014
The New Nissan Qashqai
THE ULTIMATE URBAN EXPERIENCE
Fact Jeke
The world's most popular compact crossover
now enters its second generation
with the introduction of the all new 2014
model. Witnessed firsthand last Friday
at the Nissan Clover Leaf showroom as it was
officially launched, one thing is for sure, creativity
is taking centre stage when it comes to
vehicle production.
The first generation model proved to be
overwhelmingly popular, achieving more
than two million sales worldwide since its
2007 launch. Now, the all-new, all-improved
Qashqai is set to continue this success in a
market segment which is unequivocally led by
Nissan. The new Nissan QASHQAI ultimately
personifies Nissan’s ‘Innovation that Excites'
ethos."
This is a compact crossover produced by
the Japanese car manufacturer Nissan since
December 2006. It replaced the off-road capable
body-on-frame Mistral/ Terrano as its
small SUV offering. Nissan named it after the
Qashqai semi-nomadic tribe living in mountainous
Southwestern Iran. It’s a compact
SUV suited for both urban driving and bundu
bashing. It has been built at Nissan's Nissan
Motor Manufacturing UK (NMUK) Sunderland,
Tyne and Wear in the last eight years. It
clearly has some English in its DNA.
It is the first model to be styled by Nissan Design
Europe in London, and was globally presented
at the 2006 Paris Motor Show marking
the beginning of its successful journey.
Since its facelift in 2010, the Qashqai has
sold over 200 000 annual units in Europe every
year, and the first generation has sold more
than 2 million units in world over during its
7.5 year production run. An award winner,
The New Qashqai was named Car-Of-The-Year
at What Car? Awards in London early this
year and has been the official vehicle for the
Cosafa Cup, increasing its brand visibility.
The Qashqai is a rival to such cars as the
Toyota RAV4, Hyundai iX35, BMW’s X1, and
the Honda CR-V. Its pricing is competitive as
well with the price under US$50 000.
The sub-Saharan African market offers
the 2014 Qashqai in five-model range supported
by three engine variants and two trim lines,
in a 1.2T, 1.5dci and 1.6dci variants. Nissan
South Africa is aiming for high sales as Africa
is rapidly becoming urbanised with hip young
people rapidly moving into business positions
as the continent’s rapid development accelerates.
It’s affordable, efficient, modern, trendy
and energetic in its execution, the new Nissan
Qashqai is not just a reworked original with
a renewed lease on life. Longer, wider, lighter
and redesigned from the ground up, features a
refreshing, trendy new design, state-of-the-art
technology and more.
This compact SUV spearheaded a revolution
and now it’s back in the year 2014. With
a more powerful, bold new design, the all-new
Nissan Qashqai is the agile urban crossover
created to take on the city – and more. It’s
packed with advanced, intuitive technology
and state-of-the-art connected services, its dynamic
ride and handling give you complete
control, always. Being in Harare, you can
take on the city and embark on an urban adventure.
The intensity of the all-new Nissan
Qashqai means you can take on the world in
style.
Taking a drive in this car you can experience
an explosion of innovation. It’s the intelligent
new urban triathlete with looks to
match. Razor sharp and more predatory than
ever, with a proudly provocative, aerodynamic
profile, the all-new Nissan Qashqai makes
a powerful statement wherever it goes: The
original crossover is back like never before
and you won’t be disappointed with its performance
and handling capabilities.
For the ones who struggle to reverse
without bumping into walls or other cars, it
comes fitted with four cameras that deliver a
panoramic exterior view to make reversing
and parking a real cinch. The bird’s eye view
lets you check out the lay of the land from
above, then opt for different dual views while
manoeuvring – once you experience it you’ll
never want to drive without it.
In this new model, you can avoid any
scratches. Whether you are in drive or reverse,
push the camera button to switch off the overhead
for a side view – it’s great for checking
how close you are to the curb. You are guaranteed
that those blind spots are covered. In reverse,
you see what’s directly behind and use
the overhead view to check for short objects
that may otherwise be hidden below your window.
Nissan’s chassis control functions deliver
responsive and engaging handling, while delivering
a smoother ride experience.
Till next week, keep it pumping and God bless
you.
Contact me via email on missjeke@gmail.com
InnovatIng
the road ahead
The Nissan LEAF is taking pride of place on the
Nissan Stand at the Zimbabwe Auto Show on
13-14 September.
The 100-percent electric Nissan LEAF
has globally soared in popularity and
sales. Now in its fifth year of global
production, and delighting more than
100,000 owners world-wide, the Nissan
LEAF is visiting Zimbabwe and taking a
bow at the Auto Show.
Your Nissan Dealers in Zimbabwe
will be manning the stand at the Auto
Show. Along with the LEAF, they will
be showcasing a selection of the local
Nissan range, including Nissan passenger
model ALMERA, extraordinary JUKE and
exciting NEW Qashqai, sturdy pickups
NP200 and NP300 HARDBODY, and the
highly capable yet luxurious PATROL. The
Nissan Team is looking forward to see you
at the show.
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10 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / TRENDS
September 14 to 20 2014
Kitchens
Simple kitchen
with elegant
floors and
splash of
colour.
Fabulous
Noma Ndlovu
Kitchens are the soul of the home. Gone are
the days where kitchens were the domain
of maids and mothers, where you only went
to get your food refill. Things have changed,
kitchens have become the crowning glory of a
home. The old formula to create a triangular
flow - fridge, sink and stove has been replaced
by a functionality that is user-friendly and interactive.
Kitchens have evolved to showcase personality
and style. I have often pointed out that
each room of the house is important but detail
and state of a room is what sets your property
apart from the rest should you decide to sell.
A kitchen is a good selling point, the classier
and modern the kitchen is the more value it
adds to your home.
Before you decide on the theme of your
kitchen, you need to be clear on whether you
are remodelling or renovating. Remodelling
is a completely new kitchen where you are
changing not only the fixtures but the floor
plan , space , appliances and all else. Renovating
is simply updating fixtures and fittings
and without changing the floor plan or removing
walls. Your wall colour will set the tone for
your kitchen.
Kitchen Must Haves
Sinks and Faucets. Kitchens have become
trendy in the last decade. Stainless steel kitchen
sinks have a new look. New material is
now being used in the design of sinks that can
match the colour of your floors, counter tops
or appliances. Sinks can now be under mount,
top mount or apron style, just depends on your
preferences.
Countertops. There are many options
when it comes to counter tops. You can use
granite, quartz, marble, concrete, wood, stainless
steel, laminate, solid surface, recycled
glass and tiles. I love granite countertops especially
the ones that glow in the dark. If budget
is not an issue I definitely recommend granite
for your countertops. It really does add value
to your home and it wears well. It holds heat
well and has the second hardness rating after
diamonds. Choose a countertop that is durable
and easy to maintain. Local kitchen designers
have a wide range of these counters to
help make your kitchen dream come true.
Cabinets and Back Wash. You can’t go
wrong with wood. Wood can be stained to suit
your colour choices to a certain extent. Wood
gives your kitchen a more rustic feel and ages
well. Wood laminate is a cheaper alternative
but does not age well. You can get creative
with your space. It does not mean that a small
space can’t have a stunning kitchen. In fact
small kitchens are the best to design as you
are working with fewer elements. Use sliding
drawers for lower cabinets and grooved sling
drawers for spices. Work with colour tones
and accents as these will help give an illusion
of space. Dark woods on white walls or white
woods against dark walls or light walls the
end result is always a stunning kitchen. Back
wash or back splash that’s the area between
your top cabinets and the counter tops. This
area needs to stand out and flow with the design.
Sitting Area. The kitchen being the soul
of the home, a sitting area is a must. Depending
on the size of your family you might need
to remodel your kitchen if space is an issue.
However sitting area does not necessarily
have to be in the kitchen per se as these days
open plan is the in thing and the kitchen spills
into the dining area. You can choose to have
a sliding glass door to separate the two areas
just to add a bit of mystery and pizazz to your
area. Choose light sitting which is durable and
blends well with your space.
Pantry and Scullery
In larger kitchens, these are generally over
flow rooms. These need not be dreary rooms
or spaces. If you are remodelling you can add
them to your floor plan as overflow rooms or
as part of the kitchen cabinetry. The scullery
can house your dishwashing machine, washer
and dryer.
Appliances, Lighting and Flooring
There is a plethora of appliance manufacturers
who provide a range of appliances that suit
any budget. You can select your appliances to
go with your colour scheme. If yellow is your
theme go with the flow and ensure cohesiveness
in your design that wows and welcomes
people into your space. Lighting in the kitchen
should not be limited to the one bright florescent
light that we all know. Have three sources
of lighting – the bright one for you to see what
you are cooking, the dim one for dining and
the general one for normal lighting. Flooring
should be practical as well; I love Caesarstone
tiles which can also be adapted to countertops.
High gloss wood, ceramic and stone tiles
should be your options. Stick to one colour for
your flooring, not only does this add flow to
your theme; it adds value and simple elegance
to your home.
Kitchens are now classified as contemporary,
eclectic, traditional, luxury, classic,
modern, bespoke, funky, coastal, the list goes
on. However what is most important is how
you define your kitchen space. These dream
kitchens are attainable, all you need is to decide
what you what, stablish your budget,
shop around and choose a reputable Interior
designer or a Specialist Kitchen Designer who
can match your ideas to form and functionality.
The good thing is we have talented Kitchen
Designers in Zimbabwe that you can work
with to create a beautiful bespoke kitchen that
suits your needs. Till then Keep Calm and
Love your Home.
Credits – SA home Owner – August 2014.
www.Interiordec.about.com www.ramseyinteriors.com
flickr.com. www.edmondsoninteriors.co.uk
Noma Ndlovu is an Interior Designer & Property
Stylist. Feedback on unaminkosi@yahoo.
co.uk or www.facebook.com/unamihomestyle
Sliding drawers for lower cabinets to minimize clutter an excellent way to maintain an elegant
kitchen
A double under mount sink with a high pressure shower faucet.
A built in storage area for your washing machines

September 14 to 20 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN /INSPIRATION 11
THE COLOURS OF SUMMER: ORANGE AND BLUE
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late, Coffee & Cream
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stock it with the hottest summer
trends, it is also the perfect time to
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winter indulgences - chocolate, coffee and
and rebirth. Now is the time to let your house
be engulfed in vivacious colours and bold patterns.
In the upcoming weeks we will share
some decor ideas to help give your interiors a
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Not to worry if you think orange isn’t for you.
It comes in many shades and tints. So be sure
to pick a tone that you love and one that makes
you happy .Think about the mood you want to
create, pick the tone of orange you love and
then you’ll know what other colours to use
to complete your colour scheme. Orange is a
good pick for the season. It is about fun, joy,
and playfulness. It encourages social interaction
in a fun, conversational way. So go for an
Inspired by gorgeous sunsets, orange and
blue colour schemes can include all light and
dark neutral colours and other colour shades
that appear at sunset, like rich blue colour
shades, green colours, light and deep purple
colour tones, yellow and red colours, pink and
all in between. As a combination these two colours
will create a balanced dramatic mood. Be
How to Use Orange and Blue Color Schemes
for Modern Interior Design and Decor. [Sa].
Sheppard, S. 2012. Colour Psychology: Using
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12 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / GARDEN
September 14 to 20 2014
What was
Noah thinking?
Dylan Wilson Max
The story of Noah and the Ark is one of my
favourites; the dove at the end with the olive
branch is a true testament to faith. However
with hindsight, there are some little crawlings
for which gardeners blame Noah. He gave
them a free ride!
Maybe what Noah needed was a couple
of “touts” calling the shots – maybe we need
another flood so that this time we can get it
right! I touched on aphids and thunder flies
last week, this week we want to touch on the
other general pests and diseases that made it
onto the ark “without paying their 5 Rand.”
Plants are resilient wise more advanced than
humans. You can chop their head, dry them
out and abuse them in ways that would drive
any human being to the grave, but you find
they still revive and in some cases come back
much stronger than before.
Fungi is to plants what kryptonite is to
Superman. Fungi is definitely the “uber”
bad guy in a Superhero flick. They have the
ability to actually over time form a protective
shield around themselves thus ensuring
that the job of destroying your garden is done
in a peaceful environment. They also spread
themselves around quite efficiently producing
large numbers of spores by using mediums
like wind, rainwater and animals to further
ensure that their life is replicated efficiently.
One of the signs of fungi is powdery mildew,
this can form on roses, lilacs, zinnias, grapes
etc... When you see a white powdery substance
on your plants without explanation, know that
the enemy is at work.
There are remedies for fungi. There are
“salad dressing” options I mentioned, however
it would be best to consult your favourite
agrochemical supplier and look for fungicidal
chemicals. A fungus can turn a lush palm tree
into a sick looking mess in a matter of months
and they do their most work during our windy
months. Fungi, not really Noah’s fault ….but
the jury is still out on this one!
Army worms and other caterpillars are getting
ready for the summer. Be on the look-out
for these, especially wedding venue owners
near farms. Remember what happens around
you will start happening to you when we speak
of pests and diseases.
Snails and slugs can also prove to be a
problem, especially with your more succulent
stemmed plants. The pests love the good stuff,
mainly all the nutrients located at the base of
the plant upwards from the roots.
In all the above cases prevention is always better
than cure. This cold spell might be useful
in delaying attacks; however it will get warmer,
be on the look-out for black pots, powdery
mildew and caterpillars. Treat them early and
save yourself the hassle in the future.
Till Next Week …Go with God…As they say
Papua New Guinea
Come and join us for a
wonderful day out at The
Annual Garden Show on
13th-14th September.
Come and get some ideas for your own garden by looking at the
exciting garden designsthat our nurseries and landscapers are
putting together.
Bring a piece of a plant you’d like identified or come and ask
questions about your garden at our experts Q&A Panel and listen
to a variety of other interesting talks and demonstrations
(all free).
The tea garden will be serving delicious teas and lunches,
with gluten and dairy-free options available.
For the kids there will be a fantastic Kid’s Zone (enclosed, shaded,
bottled water available, no water slides) and African Themes
Pottery will be there with a “Kiddies Corner” where your children
can paint and decorate their own piece of pottery.
Get Inspired! Get Gardening!

THE STANDARD STYLE
FOOD & DRINK
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of Food & Drink
(1,2) Theo’s 167 Enterprise road
(3) Lebbie
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14 THE STANDARD STYLE / EATING OUT / THEO’S 167 ENTERPRISE ROAD
September 14 to 20 2014
Breakfast at Theo’s/167, Enterprise Road, Lewisam.
Dusty Miller
Main picture: “Lolly” Nel, co-owner of 167
wither her son, Theo.
I
woke early on Wednesday, realising
I’d nothing to fill the then
yawning centimeters of this column.
It meant breakfast then or actually
going for a lunch I’d planned
thrice but on each occasion a flurry
of e-mails and/or minor panic at
the Word Factory kept me chained
Dusty’s “What’s on Diary”
Contributions are welcome, to arrive in good time, bearing in mind
events in which readers of this page are interested.
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CUT OUT, KEEP, WATCH FOR NEXT UPDATE
Sept 14 (today)Rhino Awareness Day.
Battle of Britain Sunday Service Athol Evans Chapel.
REPS fun pub quiz (music…Spot the Tine!) with Tony Palmer. Main bar 11:15
sharp. Royal Society of St George Battle of Britain private picnic lunch
Royal Navy Officers’ Association of Southern Africa Battle of Britain lunch Harare
ClubLast day Zimbabwe Motor Show, Old Georgians
Last day AEL Tiger Fishing Challenge, Eagle’s Rest Hotel, Siavonga, Zambia.
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 brrf, Yorkshire pud etc); Italian Club, Strathaven, Mu
kuvisi Woodlands Coffee Shop; Centurion Pub & Grill, Harare Sports Club, Arti’s,
New Section, Borrowdale Village; Hellenics, Eastlea
Sept 15 Keep fit, Zumba Dancing, City Bowling Club, Harare Gardens. And every working
night except Fridays. 5:30pm-6:30pm.To Sept 17 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
REPS Theatre 7pm. Matinee Saturday 2:30pm
Sept 16 7pm Line dancing City Bowling ClubSept 17 Farmers’ market, Maasdorp Avenue,
Belgravia (next to Bottom Drawer)
Sept 17-20 and 24-27 The Importance of Being Earnest REPS 7;30pm and matinee Saturday
at 2:30
Sept 18 (and every Thursday) Tapas night and music by Evicted, Amanzi Restaurant,
Chisipite. (and every other Thursday) fun pub quiz blue@2 Private Wine Bar, 2,
Aberdeen Rd, Avondale. Booking essential, Tel 0772 856 371
Sept 26.
Sept 27
to the work station… or, at a pinch,
supper that evening, writing early
Thursday.
Given the state of Harare’s
roads and drivers ranging between
selfish and suicidal, I tend to rarely
“do” evening meals out these days.
I have, however, attended evening
fun pub quizzes in the bar at
GGF&WAS lunch Fishmonger, East Rd. twelve-thirty for 1pm
Karaoke night, with Dave and Debbie, City Bowling Club, from dusk. Supper
available.
Greek night with Costa Nicolas, Hellenic Club, Eastlea. Details Joanna 0772 390
960 Murder Mystery dinner 6:30pm, The Venue, Avondale. Tables of eight,
US$75 p/p. Details nancybenham@aol.comOct10-11-12. Zimbabwe 5s Bowling
Tournament City Bowling Club. Full bar and catering; pig-on-a-spit Friday, music,
raffles.
Oct 11-12 Zimbabwe Trout Fishing championships Nyanga. To compete: mmatipano@zim
parks.co.zw stay at Rhodes Nyanga Hotel.
Oct 22-25 53rd annual Kariba Invitation Tiger Fishing Tournament, Charara Eastern Basin
Oct 29-Nov 8. EatOut Zimbabwe Restaurant Week. Enjoy bargain 2 and 3 course meals at
top eateries in Harare and Bulawayo.
Dec 29-31 Jameson Victoria Falls Festival. Book now!
(Neither StandardPlus nor Dusty Miller take responsibility for inaccuracies,
postponements, cancellations. No charge for entry.
Deadline 10am Tues prior to publication day.)
“167” (Enterprise Road) and it was
in that direction I drove to break my
fast on a rather warm spring day. In
fact sitting on the stoep at 167 awaiting
their splendid “full English
breakfast”: of the sort which few
Poms have enjoyed since the days of
King Edward VII, was at one stage
uncomfortable in full sun.
I dipped into a Cold War spy
thriller, people-watched (the “people”
all seemed to be regulars and
largely knew one another) and
gawped at comical silky bantams
quartering the pretty gardens by a
swimming pool needing some TLC
for the odd grub. I always think
there’s something therapeutic about
watching poultry scratch, squabble
and indulge in lightning-fast fornication.
167 is the enjoyable little eatery
at 167 Enterprise Road, also known
as Theo’s House of Coffees and (by
many, still) The Stables. (There was
a livery stable there a generation
back.) It sits where Lewisam meets,
Chisipite, Colne Valley and Rietfontein.
Incidentally did you know
Lewisam isn’t a misspelling of
London suburb Lewisham, as often
claimed?
Sam Lewis, a colourful Jewish
Pioneer of this country, began an
early woodlot and timber-yard just
off the road to Enterprise Valley’s
once highly productive farms… today’s
Lewisam, (his name almost
reversed, geddit?)
Now the plush, leafy suburb is
largely populated by diplomats on
“hardship” postings to Ha-ha-harare
(Africa’s fun capital!)
Theo’s is a splendid little family
outlet. I like al fresco eating when
the weather’s right (about 350 days a
year in this “hardship” post in Sunshine
City!) The gardens and stoep
are always inviting.
There’s maybe three hectares
of rolling real estate fringed with
venerable trees; several arty-crafty
shops and boutiques are dotted
around the property and then a little
oasis of manicured green lawn,
lovely roses, pool with brand new
slides and early Colonial-style
dwelling, which is now a daytime
eatery. What I assume was the original
farmstead is a bar (at nights)
often with live entertainment, a fun
pub quiz every fortnight and great
value US$5 suppers.
Matronly part-owner “Lolly”
Nel (a former van der Merwe, from
Lupane) is, sadly, rather poorly at
the moment. Previously she told me
there were many bijoux businesses
operating on what was until fairly
recently a small-holding, including
a used vehicle dealership, run by
her son, the eponymous Theo, and
stunning garden centre.
The Nels owned the (then) hugely
popular Hot Springs Resort at
Chimanimani, but had a torrid (and
horrid) time with so-called war-vets,
who thought they could just walk in
and “liberate” it. Last time I called
it had been “given” to Chimanimani
Rural District Council, notwithstanding
the fact the RDC had made
a total dog’s breakfast of running
Chimanimani. It was operated by
a “committee” of councilors and
functionaries all wanting pay, freebies
and perks.
Their manager was loading
crates of empties onto a chicken bus
going to Mutate for him to return
many hours later with (hopefully)
“fulls”. It was, of course, a committee
which designed the camel when
they wanted a cow!
Theo’s lists several breakfasts
and, enjoying them, you can vicariously
tour the world! I liked
the sound of an Irish one: two Irish
potato cakes topped with creamy
scrambled egg and tea or coffee at
$7; full English is US$13, American
breakfast, US12 or American pancakes
US$8 and French toast $4!
I chose the full English job: two
sunshine-yolked soft poached eggs,
a stack of excellent bacon, nice
pork sausage, maningi mushrooms,
grilled (ox heart?) tomato, a mountain
of golden chips and brinjal
with two slices of toast, butter and
lovely thick shred piquant marmalade
with TWO pots of hot, thirstquenching
tea and biscotti: a very
filling, satisfactory US$13 artery
clogging greasefest, as good as you’d
have been served in a Pommie transport
“caff ” 50 years ago (for fivebob!):
that’s praise indeed!
To offset that, they serve grand
healthy salads; bacon and blue
cheese is one of seven nice-sounding
toasties which come with chips
and a side salad or you can have it
in baked potatoes (or crepe.) In the
past, I’ve had a huge tasty baked
floury potato stuffed with a splendid
creamy chicken and mushroom
filling (now US$9), with substantial
side salad for late lunch.
They open 8am-5pm weekdays, from
9am at weekends. Telephone: 443720
or 0772 881 877.
Theo’s House of Coffees, 167,
Enterprise Road (opposite Lewisam
Motors). Dusty Miller rating threeand-a-half
stars.
dustymiller46@gmail.com;
www.dailymiller.co
Theo Nel
Full English breakfast in the
sunshine
Mushroom-filled baked potato
with salad
A US$5 spaghetti Bolognaise as
served at night in the bar. These
are especially popular at the pub
quizzes.
All pictures by Dusty Miller

September 14 to 20 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK / WINE 15
Lebbie Musavaya
“It is well to remember that
there are five reasons for
drinking: the arrival of a
friend; one’s present or future
thirst; the excellence of the
wine; or any other reason.”
~Latin Proverb
Over the years, I have often found myself questioning my
inner self as to what reason I had for opening a bottle
of wine. This, I found, was more so, during spontaneous
acts.
Without actually spelling it out, I found that I didn’t need a reason
to open a bottle of wine. Can the old adage “anytime is tea
time”, be applied and interpreted as “anytime is wine time”?
I’d love to hear your thoughts on that, wine lovers.
Earlier on this year, a visit to the Cape Winelands saw me
tasting wine from as early as 10am right through to 5pm and,
through all that, still looked forward to having dinner with
wine. A visit to Europe, in particular, Portugal, Spain, France
and Italy, reminded me of a common culture of a glass of wine
with lunch. The wine enthusiast in me easily embraced and
adopted this culture with ease and enjoyment.
In May of this year, an acquaintance dropped by on a
Thursday evening to say hello. The wine collector in me came
in handy once again, as I took out a Barefoot, white Zinfandel
to say ‘hello’ over, a tasteful and delightful light wine, pink in
colour and a flavourful of fruit. The ‘hello’ had to be extended,
just to finish the bottle of wine.
One of my favourites, a versatile grape variety, a Riesling,
(Nederburg Riesling Reserve), came in handy at a last minute
invitation to a lunch time braai. With its easygoing character,
freshness and crisp acidity, it paired perfectly. Although, a not
so common grape variety with the crowd invited, the Riesling
lived up to unexpected standards and I’ve got to say, there’ll
be more Riesling drinkers somewhere out there, at their next
Is there
a time
for
Wine?
gathering.
A month ago, a childhood friend in all aspects, Lorraine,
called me up at about 7:30pm to share a KWV Magnum Roodeberg
2008. This is a blend of mainly Cabernet Sauvignon,
Shiraz, Merlot and other varietals in small percentages. With
its medium body, it was an instant hit on its own, with rich
berry aromas that followed fruitily on the palate, balanced and
smooth tannins. Afraid that it may have reached its full potential,
we had nothing to worry about as the Magnum (1.5litres)
was far from a disappointment. It was amazing how we managed
to compress all our childhood years to current ‘us’ all in
1,5 litres. With no idea where the wine had gone, but just the
tick tock of the clock to alert us to 1:30am, we called it an evening.
An awesome evening filled with nostalgia and wine to help
us sail through it.
Yes, “Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer
tensions and more tolerance”. -- Benjamin Franklin
On more occasions than one, I have stumbled and even fallen
over because of life’s challenges. A bottle of wine, especially a
“bubbly” has helped me zone in on my feelings and pleasantly
reflect on events. Looking into a glass of ‘bubbly’, surprisingly
has always brought pleasant memories, so even though I had
initially started with a mind full of challenge, through it all
plus the bottle of ‘bubbly’, I walk away satisfactorily with,
though mixed feelings, and most of them, of a pleasant nature.
Two weekends ago, my in-laws, gogo and sekuru Musavaya
celebrated their Golden anniversary (50 years) in the institute
of marriage. This was a definite celebration. The Golden toast
was cemented with a Graham Beck Brut NV, which lived up to
its standards as ‘an all round crowd pleaser and extremely versatile
bubbly’, which proved popular amongst the evolved palate
with its creamy limey palate and freshness. The Graham
Beck Bliss Demi-Sec NV, pleased the sweeter palate with its delightful
sweet nose of honey and butterscotch, which followed
through on the palate.
Wine lovers, the various reasons for having a glass of wine
will definitely exceed the 101 mark. Make everyday an occasion.
Make ‘wine time’, YOUR time. I have my bottle of Idiom
Viognier 2012 chilled and ready for my wine time. Care to join
me?
MyLifeAndWine@icloud.com

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THE STANDARD STYLE
FAMILY
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present, and future.
~Gail Lumet Buckley

20 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / PARENTING / BACK TO SCHOOL
September 14 to 20 2014
It’s the back to school blues again, isn’t it?
Prudence Muganiwah
And if you are a parent to one or
two young ones, or three, you are
bound to have gone through one
hell of a time this past week! What
with the packing off to boarding
school, replacing uniforms that had
become too small, standing in bank
queues to pay fees, getting the little
princesses’ hair done and so on. And
this was obviously over and above
the usual work routines, church and
community engagements, caring for
elderly parents, and the list goes on.
As the new school term settles in,
there are a lot of practical tips that
may help ease your day just a little
more, dear parent:
Carpool – Organize one with
your friends or other parents from your
area. That half-hour you do not make a
morning or afternoon school run will
save you in terms of time, and allow
you to get your other tasks done earlier.
Sleep routines – Your little
one/s was understandably now used
to the holiday routine where probably
they woke up around 9 and started
off their day playing games with
their pet, friends, siblings or watching
their daily dose of cartoons. The
transition to the school days routine
will not be easy as they now need to
wake up at least 3 hours earlier. You
will have to make sure the mornings
are less hectic by being more
organized the night before – pack
lunchboxes, aid your son or daughter
in doing their homework And
checking it, make sure all shoes are
polished and uniforms are ready.
More lunch ideas - Be creative
with the lunchboxes. Think out of
the box, literally! Always strive to
come up with quicker ideas on how
to fill your child’s stomach – BUT
without compromising their health.
Give them lunch money as opposed
to a packed lunch at least once a
week, to help on the variety as well
as keep the fun! Involve your kids as
well in the packing of their meals –
you are helping them become more
self-sufficient as well as ensuring
you actually pack what they like –
I know one kid who would always
come back with all his sandwiches
and the mum had no clue what was
wrong, sometimes even yelling at
him. Only to discover that all the
poor little one could not stand was
the butter mum used as a base on all
her sandwiches.
Hopefully with these seemingly
insignificant tips, your days will
be made easier, your kids’ more fun
and consequently this coming week
will be better.
Prudence Muganiwah
THIrd term is upon us, and the
Ordinary and Advanced level candidates
in your home are probably
besides themselves as panic mode
sets in and nerves are all over the
place. Of course they are wondering
if they have done enough in terms
of studying, research and mentally
preparing themselves for the exams
that they are due to write in a few
weeks. Exams that will determine
their next step in terms of education
– exams that will determine
their fate. And naturally, you are
probably increasingly concerned
too, as the days draw nearer. Is there
anything that can be done now? But
of course!
• Form study groups – your
teen’s teachers may have already
done this, but it may be beneficial
for your child to be part of a study
group so that they share ideas, exchange
notes and books, and help
each other understand their studies
better. It may even be a Whatsapp
group where helpful links are
shared.
• Go over notes – this is the oldest
and safest way to keep all that data
locked up in your teen’s brain. Encourage
them to try to read as they
go, after a day at school, they should
go over everything they wrote so it
sticks. And they should not just flip
pages, but make sure they understand
and grasp concepts otherwise
they are just looking at words and
passing time!
• Start the syllabus over – now
this is not to say your child will
need to do everything from scratch,
there is simply no time! But in their
spare time, they can start from the
very first chapter of all the recommended
text books, and go over the
basic, main topics just to refresh
their minds and have an overview
of the whole course.
• Seek extra help – whilst going
over what they have learned by
themselves is a good way to brace up
for exams, it is also crucial that your
teen seeks their teacher or tutor’s
help and guidance where needed.
They may be grey in some areas,
or doubtful of certain concepts –
daily attempts should be made to
just try and clear these as the term
progresses so that when exam time
comes, both you and your teen don’t
regret not having asked.

September 14 to 20 2014
THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / EDUCATION 21
Raising Your
Self Esteem
Edson Chivandikwa
Self-esteem is a significant aspect of one’s wholeness.
Teenage years are a period of the development
of a self-concept and identity formation.
Low self-esteem can cause a lot of complications
in these determinative years and even prolong into
adulthood. Self-esteem refers to the evaluation of
oneself; it is about how one feels valued, accepted and
loved by those around him or her. It is not a fixed identity
but can transform as situations change.
Causes of low self-esteem
Low self-evaluation can be a product of criticism or
ridicule by parents, siblings, friends, peers or authority
figures. On the other hand, it can emanate from
self-criticism and self-inflicted degradation. Belittling
oneself, especially in comparison with others can
erode one’s self-image. Setting unrealistic expectations
for ourselves can also have an abrasion effect on
our self-esteem if we fail to meet those expectations.
Sometimes we want to achieve unrealistic feats when
we clearly do not have the requisite qualities to match
those exploits.
Consequences of low self-esteem
Those who suffer from low esteem usually feel upset
about themselves and others, depending on who they
blame for the situation. In most cases, one’s self-care
declines and thinking narrows and focuses on the
negative.
What can be done to restore self-esteem?
First one needs to identify the triggers to low self-esteem.
These triggers may be situational (for example
the presence or absence of some people). Those who
suffer from low self-esteem need to adjust their selfimage,
especially when their expectations of themselves
are too high and unrealistic. Most significantly
they need to know themselves and their potentialities
and peg their targets realistically.
A common problem with low self-esteem people is that
they unnecessarily compare themselves with others.
This should be avoided since it is self-defeating. Instead
of comparing oneself with others, one should
concentrate on self-care: good health excellent appearance
and a healthy mind and self-assertiveness. Low
self-esteem people should use the assertive “I” to express
what you feel, think, want and see. They must
not allow themselves to be abused or demeaned; they
should boldly say no.
Remember: self-esteem is learnt within social situations;
it is not inherited. You can transform it!
Motivational
for new term
As the new term starts, whether you’re a student, a teacher or a parent. you
may need some motivation to get off to a good start:
1. “Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too
busy later.” - Dana Stewart Scott
2. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world.” - Nelson Mandela
3. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to
acquire it.” - Albert Einstein
4. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” - Victor Hugo
5. “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” - Ray LeBlond
6. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you
educate a generation.” - Brigham Young
7. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -
Sydney J. Harris
8. “Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
9. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time
to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.” - Oscar Wilde
10. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ
from the dead.” - Aristotle
11. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a
lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you
a lesson.” - Tom Bodett
12. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the
people who prepare for it today.” - Malcolm X
13. “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” - Edmund
Burke
14. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
- W.B. Yeats
15. “School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.” - Jim Benton
16. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school
like I did.” - Yogi Berra
17. “What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem,
support, and friendship.” - Terry Tempest Williams
18. “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him
how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” -- Confucius
19. “In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive
purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?”
- John Irving
20. “Just don’t take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”
- Woody Allen
www.latintimes.com/back-school-quotes-20-motivational-sayings

22 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / HEALTH
September 14 to 20 2014
9 Practical Ways To
Lose Weight This Summer
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We’ve all heard the advice: if we want to
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more. It seems simple enough, but it’s a
largely useless proposition without a plan.
What I’ve found to be effective (and what
I’ve written about in several books) is the
5:2 approach to intermittent fasting. This requires
calories to be slashed to a quarter of
the usual intake (that’s about 500 calories for
a woman, 600 for a man) just two days a week.
The other five days, you eat normally.
Do this, and you can expect to see changes
on the scales, and, crucially, significant benefits
to your health, including lowering the
risk of a number of age-related diseases.
So what realistic, daily steps can you make
right now to take you from hopeful words
to guaranteed action? Below are my top 9
weight-loss tips; try some, or all, of these for
six weeks and you may well find that you’ve
gone down a size, but — far more importantly
— you’ll have started to modify your appetite
and your attitude to food.
1. Take an “alcoholiday”
One of the smartest, swiftest routes to weight
loss is to cut out (or cut back on) alcohol. Sadly,
alcohol is chemically similar to sugar, so
drinking it will set off the same insulin resistance
that can promote weight gain. Your
glass of Chardonnay or your Mojito contains
plenty of calories, but very little nutritional
benefit — so, for six weeks, aim to give it (and
your liver) a break. Think of it as an “alcoholiday.”
And if you must drink? Try a white
wine spritzer; make every second drink water;
and watch the mixers. (OJ will double
the calorie count of a vodka shot.)
2. Choose your carbs with care
Highly refined carbohydrates — the processed
white carbs that are the basis of so
many meals and snacks — will spike bloodsugar
levels and encourage the pancreas to
produce insulin, which both facilitates the
accumulation of fat, and then guards against
its depletion. Swap fast-release, refined
carbs for slow-burning, unrefined ones: jumbo
oats, brown basmati rice, stone-ground
wholemeal bread. Small change, big impact.
3. Fight the 50/50s
We humans crave energy-dense fat-sugar
combinations, but, according to neuroscientist
Professor Paul Kenny at the Scripps Research
Institute in Florida, food with a 50:50
fat:sugar ratio interferes with our mechanisms
of self-regulation; there’s simply no
OFF switch, as there would be when consuming
either macronutrient alone. While this
particular ratio doesn’t happen in nature, it
does occur in plenty of the treats we’ve come
to know and love: cheesecake, donuts, fudge
brownies… So strike the 50:50s off your
shopping list — just for a while — and make
a bid for freedom.
4. Cruise the Med
It may be a shorthand way to say “axe the junk,”
but the good people of the Mediterranean know
a thing or two about healthy eating. For a sixweek
period, take a leaf from our Italian cousins
and move towards a diet rich in vegetables,
whole-grains, fruit, nuts, olive oil, lean protein
and low-fat dairy. Bellissima!
5. Stick with soup
Soup, according to research from Penn State
University, is a great appetite suppressant because
it consists of a hunger-busting combination
of liquids and solids; eat it before a meal
and you can lower your overall calorie intake
by up to 20% compared to a meal without soup.
Alternatively, swap your daily lunchtime sandwich
for a veg-based soup … you’ll lower your
carb and calorie intake, while increasing your
veg quota.
6. Implement the Rule of Three-Quarters
It’s a simple, almost obvious, idea, but a great
way to put good diet sense into practice: just fill
your plate with veg at the expense of meat and
carbs – a 75:25 ratio would be ideal. The idea is
to make meat a treat, and give carbs a supporting
role – making the veg star performers. For
plenty of great veggie 5:2 meals, have a look at
The Fast Diet Recipe Book and Fast Cook, or
check out the recipes at our website.
7. Go on portion patrol
It’s easy to think that the portion we are served
is the amount we actually want, or need, or can
manage — even though portion sizes in restaurants
and food outlets have rocketed in the
last two decades. We tend to eat 92% of the food
we serve ourselves — so serve a little less. We
also tend to go on eating until the plate is done.
Again, pay attention. Downsize. A smaller
plate? Why not?
8. Junk the juice
Fruit juice is a higher sugar, lower-nutrient
version of its source — and it contains less
fiber, too. Besides, plenty of the nutritional
goodies in fruit are concentrated in the skins,
which tend to be lost in juicing. If you want
apple juice, eat the apple, and have a glass of
water with it. (It’s important to stay hydrated
when on the 5:2.)
9. Change your coffee order
While coffee itself is no bad thing, the dairy
and sugar that often go into it can be real calorie
traps. For the next six weeks, swap your usual
latte for black coffee, green tea, herb tea. You
may well find that after six weeks, the milky,
frothy lattes you once adored have lost their allure…
this is the ‘brain retrain’ you’re after: a
change of mind to change your shape.
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24 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY /GETAWAY
September 14 to 20 2014
Enjoying a Mountain Club hike
Rosie Mitchell
A couple of times a year, I lead a walk for the
Mountain Club. If you’d like to get out and
about into scenic areas over the weekends,
meet some new people, and get or keep fit, this
is the club for you. It’s often the first port of
call for people from overseas who arrive in
Zimbabwe to live and work for a while, either
in the diplomatic service or for an NGO, and
don’t know quite where to start exploring
our beautiful country. Soon, with energetic
Mountain Clubbers, they are off out into the
bush every weekend, to experience some new
and lovely place that’s close enough to town
to make it possible as a day or afternoon hike.
The Mountain Club also organises some extended
several day hikes out of town, and even
out of Zimbabwe. Their members are very
friendly and they have a social evening every
Wednesday as well, and also offer rock climbing,
including for beginners, in Haka Park by
Cleveland Dam. The club has a several decade
history and an enthusiastic membership and
annual subscriptions are tiny, so think about
joining, for a whole new lease of life, a new social
circle and some fun adventures exploring
beautiful places on foot over weekends!
In late August, I took a friendly and thoroughly
cosmopolitan group of Mountain
Clubbers and their friends, out for an afternoon
hike in the Chishawasha area. From
Canadians to Americans, Germans to French,
some visiting, some here for a couple of years,
some resident, and of course, Zimbabweans,
this was an interesting bunch of people. Lots
of long conversations took place en route and
good times were had by all. When I lead these
hikes, I like to show the participants places
very close to the city that they might not know
about, that are quiet and scenic and away
from the “madding crowd” yet easily accessible.
They are areas I’ve mostly discovered via
solitary exploring on the run, since I took up
running a decade ago. I much prefer running
in the bush to running on suburban roads, because
there is no traffic, I often see interesting
birds and wildlife, it’s quiet, and I really enjoy
the varied scenery. It’s surprising what pretty,
wild places there are to explore, very close to
the suburbs, you just have to go and look for
them. Some, I tracked down by going on Google
Earth, and simply looking for open spaces,
and the nearest suburban roads via which I
could access these.
At a run, I went on a “recce” of my
planned route a couple of days before the club
hike, into the rolling hills and rocky outcrops
of Chishawasha communal land, with just a
10-minute drive to the starting point, work-
ing out roughly where I’d lead everyone. On
the day, however, detours proved necessary.
Sadly, a raging fire was racing its way through
the exact area I’d planned to take them. It’s
always distressing to witness the careless,
wide- ranging environmental degradation and
destruction caused by these fires, started both
carelessly and deliberately, and each year in
the “fire season” I cannot help but be angered
and saddened by this. Such fires rage through
wetlands and greenbelts and peri-urban open
spaces across our towns and cities, as well as
through game parks and rural areas all across
the country, causing untold ecological damage.
As there was a fair amount of wind, the
fire spread far and wide during the course of
our hike, wreaking havoc on the landscape,
and no doubt, on the small unseen wildlife
within it.
Nonetheless, we had a very enjoyable, social
time on the hike, and managed to avoid
the fire and thoroughly enjoy the scenic
Chishawasha landscape, so close to the city.
To find out more about Mountain Club, email
lorraine@zimbiz.net.
Haka Game Park
Another very enjoyable place to walk, run,
mountain bike, picnic, game spot and enjoy
with the family very close to town, is Haka
Game Park, where the animals are breeding
very well and the landscape is looking lovely.
I took my nieces Carly and Jaime and nephew
Jayden on a bush adventure in Haka last
weekend, for the first time in ages, and we had
a wonderful time.
Haka is adjacent to Cleveland Dam and
recreational area, in itself a very popular
place for family outings over weekends, and I
was happy to see lots of groups relaxing, picnicking
and enjoying this pretty place. You
can hire canoes by the Dam and actually canoe
into the Game Park and see it from the
water, and there are lots of good picnic sites at
Cleveland.
The Game Park itself offers varied landscapes,
from woodland to wetland to kopje to
open plain, and you can easily spend a full day
hiking around it. Equally, there is an excellent
network of well-maintained roads if you
prefer to do a game drive instead, and several
really good developed picnic sites. At the
entrance gate you can buy firewood and cool
drinks and for gardening enthusiasts and
those interested in re-afforestation, Haka also
runs a good nursery.
Game to be spotted at Haka includes wildebeest,
eland, zebra, giraffe, impala, duiker,
bush pig, civet, genet, jackal, various mongooses,
and a wide diversity of birds, trees,
plants, and more.
We had a very enjoyable walk and rockclimb
– there are lots of rocks and kopjes and
in fact, some San rock paintings in Haka also.
So if looking for somewhere to take the family
for a weekend outing, consider Cleveland Dam
and Haka Game Park. Turn left into the Cleveland
entrance just after the recently opened
TM hypermarket on Mutare Road. The Haka
sign and entrance gate are un-missable, and
for Cleveland itself, simply continue beyond
there.
Rhino AWAREness Day today at Raintree
Today is AWARE Trust’s Rhino AWAREness
day at Raintree, from 10 am to 4pm. You can
buy tickets on the gate and there is lots of entertainment
and activity for the whole family
throughout the day, including a fun run and
walk, in the morning, skydivers, live music,
food and drink on sale, and you can take your
own picnic too.

THE STANDARD STYLE
ARTS & CULTURE
In this issue
of Arts & Culture
(1) African Couture
(2) Melgin Tafirenyka
(3) The useless book with usefull lessons
(4) Joan Rivers
2 3 4

26 THE STANDARD STYLE /COMMUNITY/ BREAKING NEW GROUND
September 14 to 20 2014
African Couture
brings out the
best in Tendayi
Patricia Mabviko-Musanhu
Confidence is a very important quality
to have as an individual. Many people
struggle to find confidence and yet it
seems to be the simplest of things that
lies somewhere within each one of us. The
Merriam Webster Online Dictionary defines
confidence as “a feeling or belief that you can
do something well or succeed at something”.
My extrapolation of this is that it is a feeling
that comes from within and is deeply rooted
in one’s ability to accept who they are as well
as what they can do and express it without
fear or shame. Alongside this, I believe is the
ability to acknowledge and accept the context
within which one exists regardless of how different
or how “demeaning” that context may
be viewed by outsiders. Peter T. McIntyre once
said; “Confidence comes not from always being
right but from not fearing to be wrong”.
Tendayi Matanga spent most of her life
as a house wife because of her desire to give
most of her time to raising her three children.
This decision left her with very little room to
pursue any personal development skills or to
further her education. Today, she is the proud
owner of a business that makes unique and
elegant African Couture. She makes outfits
that are uniquely African and very suitable
for the executive office, for weddings as well
as for your “glitz and glamour” events! Her
business, which is just over a year old, is growing
steadily as the demand from both her local
and global clientele continues to increase.
“I have a keen interest in fashion and I have always
been very good at sewing. From the time
I was in school this is one subject I excelled in
year after year,” she said. A year ago, she received
encouragement from a friend in the Diaspora
to sew some African outfits. As a result
of having spent so many years at home, she
initially doubted her ability and capacity to do
it. Tendayi’s eldest child is now at University.
“When you have spent so many years at home,
you almost stop believing that you can do anything
else,” she said. After further encouragement
Tendayi spent a bit more time thinking
about who she was and what she could do and
remembered more vividly her outstanding
gift in sewing. She overlooked everything else
and reached out to do what she knew she did
very well. She made her first outfit for this
friend in 2013. The design came out so well
that she received a number of requests from
people in the Diaspora who had seen it. In order
to respond adequately to her clientele in
the Diaspora, she set up a face book page to
exhibit her African Couture.
This experience has proved to Tendayi
that confidence does not come from what one
has acquired but rather from what one is able
to do. From her initial thoughts on starting
a business, she presumed that there were
many factors which were not in her favour.
One of these was her lack of experience and
knowledge in managing and growing a business.
If it were not for her decision to believe
in herself, this was enough to convince her to
give up the idea of starting a business. Today,
with one employee and well as another sewing
room under renovation, she is working hard
to satisfy the ever growing demand for her African
Couture.
Tendayi is also grateful for having acquired
useful business skills from raising
children. “Raising children is not an easy job
and many a times it is looked down upon as
having no benefits as far as skills development
is concerned. Today, I am thanking God
for the patience I developed over the years as
it is allowing me to spend as much time as is
necessary to modify a design to a client’s satisfaction.
I will work on an outfit until I see a smile
on my client’s face. That’s when I stop making
adjustments. My client does not leave my office
until he or she is happy,” she added.
Patricia Mabviko Musanhu is a Company Director/Producer
at Black and White Media Productions.
She can be contacted at pmabviko@
gmail.com

September 14 to 20 2014
THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS 27
Melgin Tafirenyka
up for an award
Silence Charumbira
South Africa based film-maker
Melgin Tafirenyka has been
nominated for the Zimbabwe
Achievers Awards South African
chapter in the personality-ofthe-year
category.
Tafirenyika told The Standard on
Friday that he was humbled by the
nomination after years of work.
“Seeing myself being nominated in
this category to me is not just a nomination,
but a dream come true,”
said Tafirenyika.
“It was not easy to be nominated because
there were judges who were
there to look at the profile and see if
you really deserve to be nominated
and that I made it I feel elated.”
He will be battling it out for the
award with Leeroy Gopal of the Yellow
Card fame.
Tafirenyika is currently riding high
after the success of a video he features
in.
The video by Nigerian singer Simi
is currently doing well on the chats
and on social network You Tube,
where just after two weeks, it has a
steady 13 000 hits.
In the video, he plays the role of a
hunky police detective chasing elusive
robbers.
One night he literally bumps into a
beautiful woman whom he asks for
her contact number.
In the investigation one of the leads
is a little paper that the thieves leave
as a way of identifying themselves
and it so happens that it is the same
paper on which woman writes her
number.
The filmmaker said he is already
working on his third film titled, My
first boyfriend, although he refused
to get into the details of that movie.
Tafirenyika’s first movie was l will
marry myself which is showing on
DStv’s Mzansi Magic while the second
one, Sour Milk, was supposed to
have been launched this month before
the producer decided to enter it
for various film festivals around the
world before release.
BIG BROTHER HOUSE HAS
BEEN FOUND AND OFFICIAL
LAUNCH DATE REVEALED
M-Net and Endemol SA are delighted to
confirm that a new Big Brother house
has been found in Johannesburg,
South Africa following the devastating
fire that demolished the original house
on 2 September. The search was concluded
after exploring all possible options
both locally and internationally,
for a suitable venue to produce the 9th
season of Africa’s biggest reality show.
M-Net and Endemol SA are pleased to
announce that Big Brother Hotshots
will officially launch on Sunday 5 October
at 7pm. As they countdown to the
launch, fans across the continent can
look forward to some pleasant surprises
in true Biggie fashion.
The producers wish to thank fans
far and wide for all the patience and
continuous support over the past few
days.
For more information, follow the action
in the lead-up to the Premiere on
social media by following @BigBroAfrica,
liking facebook.com/BigBrotherAfrica
or go to the official website at
www.bigbrotherafrica.com

28 THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / BOOKWORM
September14 to 20 2014
By Bookworm
I
HAVE known Memory Chirere for many
years – as a mentor, writer and colleague. He
is one of a few versatile local writers who
can maneuver between English and Shona
easily. When news filtered through that he had
a collection of Shona poetry coming, I eagerly
anticipated its release. Perhaps, it was because
his previous groundbreaking collection
of short-short stories Tudiki-diki tickled me
so much that I could not wait to see what he
had done with the Shona language this time.
His new book is oddly titled, Bhuku Risina
Basa nekuti rakanyorwa masikati (The useless
book because it was written in the afternoon).
The unusual title for the book was
inspired by the fact that the poems were written
in between chores. For a man who is a full
time university teacher, Chirere, had to sneak
in poetry lines during breaks. This is a characteristic
of the new Zimbabwean writer.
In fact, the temperament of the creative
writer in contemporary Zimbabwe evolves
out of a preoccupation with concrete, practical
matters, and a tendency to rush and hurry,
thus demanding that its literature be terse
and to the point. And, since most writers gaining
prominence today work other jobs and do
not depend on writing alone, they only write
when they have the time and space and this
could be one major reason why for Chirere the
gestation period was long.
The book is a journey that spans over two
decades of life experiences. In an interview
with Beavan Tapureta, Chirere explained that
the book “… is a way of putting together so
many things that I have said to myself and
others for the past 20 years so that they do not
get lost.”
While many young writers now feel that there
is more honour in writing in English than
their mother tongue, Chirere is one of a handful
of writers celebrating the beauty of their
language and the beauty of the philosophy
their own language. In an almost show-off like
manner, there is a way in which Chirere’s exuberant
dance in the rhythm of his language is
infectious. Reading Bhuku Risina Basa is like
a dance in the rain.
Instead of merely using the Shona language
as a cultural relic, he uses the language
to interrogate many issues. In their breadth
of perspective and depth of scrutiny, the 70
The useless
book with
useful lessons
poems in the book strike a balance between
private sentiments and public themes to a
point where some of them render individual
feelings as public sentiments.
Chirere skillfully bridges the gap between
the living poem and its written counterpart. If
you know the man, as you flip from one page
to the other, it is easy to imagine him reading
it. Some of these poems were recited to live audiences
as part of real events. That probably
largely accounts for the easy flowing rhythm
to have an immediate appeal to the reader.
The only other Shona poet who gives me goose
bumps when I read his work is the inimitable
Chirikure Chirikure. His collection, Hakurarwi,
is a particular favourite.
Perhaps due to colonial influences and
limitations Shona literature has always been
seen to be didactic and moralistic. But with
Chirere, he tears away the old script and
writes a new kind of poetry that has humour
and message infused in a clever way. Good poems
should be able to lift the reader out of the
ordinary and give glimpses of a more illuminating
reality. This is where the contradiction
in Chirere comes out. Though he insists that
his book is useless, it is a combo of delicious
poetry. He does not give too much or too little,
but just enough. Chirere thinks deeply about
both his message and method.
If Bhuku Risina Basa is the future of
Shona poetry, then Zimbabwe is truly blessed.
Reading a lot of tepid poetry floated around by
“wanna be writers” we face the danger of failing
to develop or consolidate a clear tradition
of written Shona poetry because it appears
that the current crop of Shona poets does not
read one another, or those who came before.
Chirere uses his mastery of English in the
book to his benefit. Most of his poetry clearly
shows that his influence by English. He has a
tendency to use the mode of writing of English
using regular lines and rhyming schemes,
which is not found in traditional Shona poetry.
Traditional poetry doesn’t use that kind
of meter or beat but depends on repetition,
which is the basic unit of Shona poetry. Shona
poetry typically uses a lot of repetition and a
lot of imagery.
The subjects of the book are as varied and
rich, private and public. Because the book
grew with the writer, it is a journey full of
nostalgia and retrospect and forward looking.
If there is anything Chirere has always ably
done, it is to make his readers laugh out loud
at themselves and the world around them. He
is a genius of humour.
The preface to Bhuku Risina Basa was
written by another Shona writer and Chirere’s
publisher at Bhabhu Books, Ignatius
Mabasa. It is not easy to translate but must be
best read in the language it is written in. In
short, he says, “nhetembo (dzaChirere) dzinofamba
nemakumbo dzichibva pamakadzirongedza,
dzichienda kunogara pamaifunga
kuti hapagarwe kana kusvikwa nenhetembo.”
[the poems defy the stereotypes to rest in places
people thought were unreachable]
Chirere is a genius and Bhuku Risina
Basa is a manifestation. Don’t be fooled by the
title, it’s a book worth rekindling your love affair
with Shona.
Feedback: bhukuworm@gmail.com
LILIAN MASITERA
masiteral@yahoo.com 0772 924 796
Usave Saskam,
verenga udzore pfungwa

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Joan Rivers’ funeral
Joan Rivers’ funeral was held Sunday morning
at Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East side of
New York City, and the tribute was one fit for a
legend. Howard Stern delivered the eulogy and
it was attended by everyone from Hugh Jackman to
Diane Sawyer. Rivers died last week at 81.
The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus sang “Hey
Big Spender” and Audra McDonald performed a
rendition of “Smile” in tribute to the comedian. A
program for the funeral featured three of Rivers’
most famous comedic lines—”Can we talk?”, ‘’Who
are you wearing?”, and “Because I’m a funny person.”—the
AP reports.
The funeral was attended by people in fashion,
entertainment, and media alike. From the AP:
A legion of notables turned out to remember Rivers,
who died Thursday at 81: comedians Kathy
Griffin, Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg;
colleague and friend Kelly Osbourne; Sarah Jessica
Parker and Matthew Broderick; and celebrity
doctor Mehmet Oz.
Theater stars Bernadette Peters, Alan Cumming
and Tommy Tune were there. Record producer
Clive Davis was, too. Fashion designers Carolina
Herrera and Michael Kors were in attendance.
Stars from TV such as Barbara Walters, Geraldo
Rivera, Diane Sawyer, Kathie Lee, Hoda Kotb and
Andy Cohen. Late night band leader Paul Shaffer.
And moguls Barry Diller, Donald Trump and Steve
Forbes.
Rivers’s own funeral wishes, which she enumerated
in her memoir I Hate Everyone . . . Starting
With Me, were printed in the funeral program book
and included such memorable requests as “Meryl
Streep crying, in five different accents.”
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Street Eats travels to Latin America, Africa, The Middle
East, Asia, the United States and Europe to bring this
experience to viewers who may never get the chance to
taste it for themselves. Tune in from 22 September and
watch it on weekdays at 07:40 and 11:00 CAT.
Recipes that Rock (Season 2): Alex James is bass player
in the British rock band, Blur. He’s also a writer, farmer,
father and cheesemaker. Chef Matt Stone has hip restaurants
in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Matt has full
sleeve tattoos, a skateboard and an attitude to match,
he rocks too. In this series of Recipes That Rock, there’s
fun and adventure in the Great Southern, searching
out the best of the best foods that producers grow,
harvest, hatch and catch. Series 2 opens with succulent
oysters in Oyster Harbour, Albany, and a merry visit to
the local whisky distillery. In later episodes, the inquisitive
duo discover a unique way of farming chickens for
eggs, learn about the worldwide delicacy Abalone,
and close the series with a huge party celebrating all
of the produce they’ve discovered and wonderful
characters they’ve met in this magnificent part of
the world. Watch from Sunday 8 September at 09:20
and 13:55 CAT.
TLC ENTERTAINMENT
(DStv Channel 172)
Breaking the Faith (Premiere): This series shares the
story of eight young men and women who are trying
to build a new life outside of the Mormon church. The
young men, known as ‘lost boys’, are cast-out from
their homes and not welcomed back, while the women
are intent on escaping the controlling ways of the
community – including arranged marriage and a life of
complete submission – and are hoping for a better life
on the outside. For this group, being faced with making
life-altering choices in their effort to win their freedom
comes with the fear of the consequences that may
come for leaving the compound forever. From Tuesday
16 September at 20:55 CAT.
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (Premiere): After the
rip-roaring success of the first series, Honey Boo Boo
returns with her family for more mishaps, joviality and
raucous redneck fun. In this series, birthday girl June’s
spirits are sagging as she copes with an empty nest after
Anna and Kaitlyn decide to move out. Finally, without
Anna and Kaitlyn around, the family spends very
little time together. Alana hopes the family’s love for
food will reunite them - but just as with family game
night and pottery painting, her efforts fall short. From
Wednesday 24 September at 20:00 CAT.
My Naked Secret (Premiere): Follow the personal stories
of 10 more people as they begin to overcome the
body issues that are ruining their lives. In each episode
an individual with a medical condition or physical abnormality
that is causing them great shame and untold
misery embarks on a transformative and poignant journey
in search of acceptance. They then begin treatment
for their condition in a bid to finally have a body they
love. But will this enable them to come to terms with
their anxieties? Find out from Friday 26 September at
20:55 CAT.
Oprah Prime: Pharrell Williams: Oprah meets up with
seven-time Grammy® winner Pharrell Williams, one of
the most innovative and sought-after artists in the music
industry today. On the heels of his number one hit
“Happy,” a single off the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack,
for which he received an Oscar® nomination, Oprah
and Pharrell discuss his critically acclaimed album G I
R L and his rise to fame. Plus, Pharrell shares how his
creative vision has propelled him to music stardom.
They also discuss his recent marriage to Helen Lasichanh
and fatherhood. Airs on Thursday 11 September
at 20:00 CAT.
Oprah’s Masterclass: Justin Timberlake: The brand new
season kicks off with one of this generation’s most
celebrated entertainers, multiple Grammy and Emmy
award-winning musician and actor Justin Timberlake.
Sharing never-before-told stories about his youth and
his musical influences, Justin imparts his most valuable
life lessons yet, including how to find your voice, how
to break the mould and how to hold on to your ambition.
Watch it on Thursday 25 September at 20:00 CAT.
Oprah’s Masterclass: Oprah Winfrey (Part 1&2): In Part
1 of an intimate conversation, Oprah opens up about
her tumultuous childhood and adolescence and the
lessons she still carries with her today. She tells littleknown
stories about her early days in television, including
how losing her hair helped her gain a new sense of
self. What guides her and drives her to do her best?
In Part 2, she reflects on her experience getting cast in
The Color Purple and the cultural phenomenon of The
Oprah Winfrey Show. She opens up about her private
life, and what she feels her true calling was meant to
be. Revealing and deeply personal, Oprah offers new
insights on how we all can become masters of our lives.
Watch it on Thursday 04 September at 20:55 CAT.
Oprah’s Masterclass: Jay-Z: Candid, raw and real, Jay-Z
charts his unlikely rise from the hard-knock life of the
Brooklyn projects to worldwide superstardom and what
he’s learned along the way. He reflects on his failures,
the healing power of hip-hop and how he finally made
peace with his father before he passed away. Plus, Jay-Z
shares his personal revelations about integrity and why
knowing your own truth is the foundation for everything
great. Airs on Thursday 11 September at 20:55 CAT.
Oprah’s Next Chapter: Cissy Houston: Oprah sits down
with Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, for her
first in-depth interview since her daughter’s passing.
The superstar’s mother talks about raising a daughter
whose voice became a national treasure, teaching Whitney
about the music business, and her biggest regrets.
Oprah also talks to Cissy about Whitney’s drug use, how
she really felt about her daughter’s marriage to R&B
singer Bobby Brown, and the true nature of Whitney’s
relationship with her high school best friend, Robyn
Crawford. Airs on Thursday 18 September at 20:00 CAT.
DISNEY XD (DStv Channel
303)
Star Wars fans: Star Wars Rebels: In the run-up to this
exciting event Disney is airing a series of shorts introducing
a new character from the series each week so
viewers can get to know them better. Get ready to meet
Zeb, Ezra, Kanan and Hera on Saturdays throughout September.
Star Wars Rebels animated shorts airs on Disney
XD on Saturdays at 09:15 CAT.
Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened:
When the Genesect army attacks New Tork City
while Ash is visiting, it’s up to Pokemon Mewtwo to
protect them. Can he persuade the Genesect to spare
New Tork? Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the
Legend Awakened premieres on Sunday 7 September
at 12:15 CAT.
Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles – The Raid on
Coruscant: In The Raid on Coruscant the Emperor uses
information on the recovered Holocrons to launch devastating
attacks on planets sympathetic to the Rebellion.
Luke knows there’s only one solution: a daring raid on
Coruscant to get the Holocrons back. In the end, Luke
makes the boldest move of all destroying the Holocrons
so the Emperor can no longer use them. But unknown
to Luke, R2-D2 has saved one last Holocron - which just
happens to “star” the young Anakin Skywalker. Star
Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles – The Raid on Coruscant
premieres on Saturday 13 September at 09:20 CAT.
DISNEY CHANNEL (DStv
Channel 304)
Phineas and Ferb: Mission Star Wars: In exciting and entertaining
epic animated adventure Phineas and Ferb:
Mission Stars Wars Phineas and Ferb find themselves in
the midst of a galactic rebellion and an epic struggle of
good versus evil that tears the brothers apart and pits
them against one another when Ferb goes to the Dark
Side! Meanwhile, Stormtrooper Candace is hot on their
trail and desperate to stop the boys from making matters
worse, but her allegiance falls into question when
Phineas saves her and she realizes that all Rebels are
not bad. Disney Channel is proud to present Phineas
& Ferb: Mission Star Wars on Sat 27 Sept at 10:40. It
will be repeated on Sun 28 Sept at 15:00. May the Ferb
be with you!
Wolfblood (Season Two): September sees the return of
hit series Wolfblood to Disney Channel, as season two
launches. Wolfbloods have lived among humans for centuries,
disguising their heightened senses and abilities;
and doing their best to blend in. Maddy and her parents
are the only wolfbloods in their area until one day a new
boy starts at Maddy’s school. Maddy and Rhydian return
for a second season of Wolfblood from Wednesday 24
September at 18:30 CAT.
Disney Princess Academy: In this brand new series of
shorts, which air every Monday throughout September
at 16:05, seven little girls learn core princess values,
new skills and how to apply them. In each short, one
little girl meets her fairy godmother mentor and learns
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Highlights
to become a Disney princess in that specific skill. Then she graduates
and gets a princess badge and diploma. Princess Academy shorts
premiere every Monday throughout September at 16:05 (before Violetta)
and are repeated throughout the week.
DISNEY JUNIOR (DStv Channel
301)
Pocahontas: This is the powerful and moving story of a Native American
princess and her ill-fated love for an English sea captain. Set in
1607, it tells of the beautiful, brave and compassionate daughter of
Chief Powhatan who asks her forest friends (Meeko the raccoon, Flit
the hummingbird and Grandmother Willow, a 400 year old spirit that
resides in an ancient tree) for advice. It tells how her life changes
when she meets John Smith, one of a party of sailors which has come
to the New World searching for gold. Eventually they are forced to
part, but their spirits remain entwined. This beautiful and moving story,
enhanced by a superb soundtrack, make Disney’s 33rd animated
feature film an unmissable gem. Vocal stars include Mel Gibson. It airs
on Sunday 2 September at 10:30 CAT.
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Sea Captain Mickey: There’s an exciting
event on Disney Junior this month. When Professor Von Drake’s
sonar-detecting machine discovers that there’s something big at the
bottom of Mickey Lake, Mickey and the gang hop into the Clubhouse
Submarine and set out to find the “Big Something”. It turns out to
be a Giant Rubber Ducky that’s stuck on the bottom of the lake. But
where did it come from? The gang set out to discover Ducky’s secret!
Our special Sea Captain Mickey airs on Saturday 13 September at
08:00 CAT.
Sofia the First: From Monday 22 September at 09:00 CAT Disney Junior
gives fans a chance to catch-up with all the specials featuring
Princess-in-training Sofia the First, in the run-up to the launch of
season two of the series. Season two premieres on Saturday 27 September
at 09:00 CAT. In the first episode, The Enchanted Feast, Sofia
must learn to trust her instincts, helped by legendary Disney Princess
Snow White, when she suspects a visiting sorceress is not what she
seems and has an ulterior motive.
For more information on DStv channels, log onto www.dstv.com

30 THE STANDARD STYLE / ENVIRONMENT
September 14 to 20 2014
Turning trash
into cash
Part 2
Michael Nott
If you’ve ever taken your rubbish to the Pomona
dumpsite you’ll no doubt have seen
just how huge the problem of solid waste
management is in Harare. It’s not even a
proper landfill site, which to be environmentally
acceptable should be lined with non-porous
material to prevent hazardous pollution
leaching into our already threatened ground
water supplies. Late last year a fire broke out
at the dumpsite which claimed at least one
life and generated a fog of poisonous smoke
which engulfed the surrounding suburbs for
days. The Environmental Management Agency,
(EMA) has for years been lobbying the City
of Harare to create a properly engineered and
maintained landfill site. At a well planned
landfill site no refuse should be left uncovered
overnight. Every day a layer of soil at
least 15cms thick should be compacted on top
to prevent foul odours, air pollution, reduce
the risks of uncontrolled fires and discourage
rats and other rodents. Although there are
plans under consideration to construct a new
landfill site near Mount Hampden, it could be
several years before it begins to operate properly.
And to exacerbate the already dire situation,
for some years the City of Harare was
not collecting household or industrial waste
on a regular basis. This was due to severely
limited resources, financial restraints and,
in some instances, simply poor management.
Fortunately there has been some progress
lately as more resources have become available
and proper planning has improved.
The absence of appropriate waste manage-
ment policies lead to residents, and some unscrupulous
industries, dumping their waste
wherever they could. The City began to be
swamped by piles of illegally dumped waste,
blocking up storm water drains, filling up
shopping centres and creating eyesores and
health hazards with serious environmental
effects. Some concerned and responsible
citizens began taking matters into their own
hands. Organisations like Environment Africa
and Miracle Missions, in partnership
with City of Harare, embarked on massive
clean-up initiatives in shopping centres and
public spaces, along roadsides and waterways.
These clean-ups are still ongoing and have
made a huge contribution towards dealing
with the waste problem. Together with school
programmes and other community based
initiatives to educate people about waste management
it seems there is a brighter, cleaner,
healthier future ahead for the City.
One positive outcome from the problem of
waste management has been that some enterprising
individuals and businesses have begun
to look at trash in a new light. Companies
like Plastix Incorporated and Petrecozim –
mentioned in last week’s article – have had the
foresight to see the potential in trash. Through
their plastic recycling endeavours not only
are they helping to take waste out of the environment,
they are creating employment and
generating income. Zimbabwe National Waste
Paper (part of Art Corporation) has been collecting
paper waste for quite a few years now
for processing to create recycled paper, tissue
and cardboard. The Can Man, in conjunction
with the Lion’s Club of Gwebi, has been collecting
and compacting tin cans which are
exported for recycling for cash. Other community
based organisations like Shingirai Trust,
Lynde Francis Foundation and the Zee Bags
Project encourage artists and crafters to use
recycled materials to create useful, beautiful
articles, which most importantly can be sold
to generate income.
Helen’s Refuse Collection Services is another
example of resourceful Zimbabweans
creating viable businesses from the challenges
presented by waste management. The company
was officially registered last year as part of
the ‘Go Green Harare’ project. The idea for the
company came to Helen Davidson in the years
when City of Harare’s waste collection schedule
was erratic or in some cases non-existent.
They provide (in parallel with the City’s waste
collection services) a collection service for individual
households, schools, embassies and
businesses. When you join up you can decide
how often you want your rubbish to be collected
– weekly, monthly or twice monthly. For
individual households it’s as little as US$5 per
collection – for bigger corporates rates vary,
although the prices are still very competitive
when you consider that it costs around US$240
for a waste skip to be collected.
They’ll give you four colour coded bags
free – green for plastic, blue for cans, red for
glass and yellow for paper. These are all recyclable
– you can continue to use the normal
black bags for non-recyclables to be collected
by the council. (Other household waste like
vegetable peels or spoiled food should be composted.)
Once your bag is full and it’s been
collected, they’ll give you a replacement bag.
Some households will find that they’ll fill up
a plastic bag every week but it might take two
weeks or more to fill up the glass bag or the
can bag. Homeowners have found that by sorting
their rubbish they end up with only one
bag or half a bag per week of non-recyclables
which end up at Pomona, whereas in the past
they had five bags of waste. Once your bags
have been collected they’re taken to their depot
in Tynwald where the rubbish is sorted
again. Plastic, for example, is sorted into High
Density, Low Density, PET, etc. Helen’s Refuse
Collection Services then acts as an intermediary
between house holders and recycling
companies. Once the waste has been sorted
it’s then sold on to the appropriate businesses
as raw materials for further production and
manufacturing. Some of the plastic, for example,
is sent to Plastix Incorporated to be remade
into more colour coded bags or vehicle
litter bags. At the moment Helen is stockpiling
tons of glass for recycling in the hope that
Zimglass will soon be able to process it all.
Glass is one of the few products that can be
recycled infinitely to create more glass products,
so perhaps there’s an opportunity there
for some enterprising entrepreneur to start
up a glass processing industry?
For more information email: helendzim@
gmail.com or gogreenharare@gmail.com
WildLeaks saves precious lives
The slaughter of wildlife for the
benefit of international markets
is on the increase worldwide.
Poaching of many endangered species
has reached a crisis point globally,
leaving them wondering what
to do next to try and tackle the trend
and save their threatened natural
heritage.
The past decade has seen a
surge in illegal wildlife trade and
Zimbabwe has not come off lightly,
elephants, rhino, pangolin just to
name a few are seriously vulnerable.
A new force in this fight against
these poaching atrocities has been
recently formed and it is called
WildLeaks, an anonymous platform
where concerned citizens can
become heroes and share information
that will help authorities clamp
down on these criminal activities.
Its creator is Andrea Crosta, a
security consultant and executive
director of the Elephant Action
League. Since its inception Wild-
Leaks has already assisted in
o elephant poaching in Africa and
illicit ivory trading in Hong
Kong;
o killing of Sumatran tigers, of
which there are just 400 left in
the wild;
o illegal lion and leopard hunting
in South Africa;
o chimpanzee trafficking in
Liberia;
o illegal fishing activities in
Alaska, including alleged mafia
involvement;
o importing of illegal African
wildlife products into the US;
o illegal logging in Mexico,
Malawi and Siberia.
The main aim of the WildLeaks
website which has been in operation
for over six months is to target the
kingpins of wildlife crime. It gives
whistle-blowers the opportunity and
the power to put a stop to the desecration,
safe in the knowledge that
the information they have shared
cannot be linked back to them.
For security reasons WildLeaks
has no contact numbers or addresses.
Citizens with information about
wildlife crimes and the individuals
behind it can submit everything, including
pictures and videos, through
the secure WildLeaks website that
is based on the ‘Tor’ Technology to
protect individuals who submit the
information. Alternatively information
can also be sent and submitted
via encrypted PGP email.
The illicit international wildlife
trade is worth $10-20bn a year
according to Interpol. Only drugs,
people and arms trafficking earn
more for criminals and the corruption
and violence accompanying
wildlife crime takes a heavy toll on
local communities. The illegal trade
of wildlife is global, but Africa is a
prime source, with an abundance
of species. There are a few countries
in Africa namely; Kenya, Tanzania,
Mozambique, South Africa
and a few countries in Central and
Western Africa, that have benefitted
from the work that WildLeaks is
doing, these countries have realised
that the WildLeaks platform is assisting
in filling an essential information
gap.
“We had our first tip within 24
hours and the response has been
beyond our wildest imagination,”
said Crosta, the pervasive corruption
means that whistle-blowers
frequently fear that contacting local
law enforcement could put their
lives in danger. “You can’t, for example,
export containers full of ivory
from Mombasa without bribing
people left, right and centre,” Crosta
said. “We definitely feel we are filling
a gap, a three-month trial period
has yielded 24 serious tip-offs so
far.” WildLeaks doesn’t just wait for
tip-offs though; it is also a proactive
organisation having started three
investigations on its own recently.
WildLeaks takes every tip-off
seriously; each one is anaylsed by a
small team made up of legal and security
experts who are specialists in
both conservation and international
trade. They determine whether to
follow-up on the information provided.
“Investigations of wildlife
crime can be slow and painstaking”,
said Crosta, “but it can be achieved
with the help of local communities
who want to protect their heritage”.
WildLeaks offers everyone and anyone
in a community an opportunity
to save lives and put an end to the illegal
trade of wildlife.

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and landscaping, Phone:781626,
775671, 0772 325 478 whatsapp
506 Security
FIRENAGE
ENGINEERING
Manufacturers & Distributors:
Window & Door Frames
Sliding Gates
Water Tank Stands
Wrought Ironworks
Security Screens
Steel Structures
General Welding
Phone: 0773 130352
0777 721911/ 0716 590905
Email:
firenage.sales@gmail.com
205034
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION & HARDWARE
91B MUTARE RD MSASA
SPECIAL OFFER
CEMENT
PC15 $12.75 Masonry $10.00
RHINO PRODUCTS
RHINOBOARDS..................................$11.75
RHINOCORNICE.................................$6.00
RHINOSET..........................................$10.25
RHINOBOND......................................$10.25
COVEBOND........................................$17.50
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Call: 447 763/4
Livingstone: 0736 165 745, 08644 101859
Tinashe 0782 794 518
Christian 0772 338 803
S H E L T E R I N C O R P O R A T E D ( P V T ) L T D
T / A
Developers of Rockview Park
NOW SELLING ADELAIDE PARK HIGH TO MEDIUM
DENSITY RESIDENTIAL STANDS
Measuring 200m², 300m², 400m² & 600m²
Priced from $8,600.00
Deposits from $1,700
Instalments over 36 months
Servicing in progress
Contact us at
75 Sam Nujoma Street/Cnr Livingstone Avenue Harare
Switchboard: +263 4 774455; 748121; 748023
Mobile phone (sales): 0772 638 191; 073 3 258 356
Email: sales@shelter.co.zw Web: www.shelter.co.zw
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