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‘Moyo deceiving people’ 

One of India’s most colourful and 

controversial politicians, Jayaram Jayalalitha, 

has been sentenced to jail for 

four years on corruption charges in a 

case that has lasted for 18 years. 

The chief minister of the southern 

state of Tamil nadu was found guilty 

of amassing wealth of more than 

US$10m which was unaccounted for. 

—BBC 

LIberIa’S chief medical officer has 

put herself under quarantine for 21 

days, after one of her assistants died 

from the deadly ebola virus. 

bernice Dahn, a deputy health 

minister, said she had no symptoms 

but wanted to take every precaution. 

The World Health Organisation 

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have died from ebola in West africa. 

Liberia has been the worst hit by 

the disease, accounting for 1 830 

deaths — 150 in the last two days 

alone. —BBC 

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bY PAiDAMoYo MUZUlU 

ZANU PF spokesman Rugare 

Gumbo yesterday 

warned party supporters 

and officials against 

being “misled” by Information, 

Media and Broadcasting 

Services minister, Jonathan Moyo. 

Gumbo said he was the only 

competent person to articulate 

the party position regarding the 

vacant Manicaland senatorial 

seat which had been earmarked 

for former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe 

(RBZ) governor, Gideon 

Gono. 

The Zanu PF politburo is this 

week expected to decide what 

course of action to take after the 

Justice Rita Makarau-led Zimbabwe 

Electoral Commission (ZEC) 

turned down Gono’s nomination 

to fill the vacant senatorial seat 

citing non-compliance with the 

Electoral Act. 

Gono last week claimed that his 

recent disqualification by ZEC to 

stand as Manicaland senator was 

engineered by his political detractors 

as part of the ongoing faction 

fights rocking the ruling Zanu PF 

party. 

He said his detractors threw 

spanners along his way after he 

had followed all the necessary procedures. 

In response, Moyo wrote 

a stinging statement saying Gono 

was desperate to become a senator 

and was pointing at factionalism 

in the party when the legal 

position was clear that he did not 

qualify. 

“This explains why he has become 

so emotional and reckless 

about his comments to the point 

of displaying his ignorance of the 

law in public,” Moyo said. 

“It is preposterous and objectionable 

in the extreme for Dr 

Gono to claim that he is “remaining 

out of all factions except that 

of and led by the President. President 

Mugabe does not have and 

does not lead a faction. The President 

leads Zanu-PF, the Government 

and the nation of Zimbabwe.” 

But Gumbo said he was the sole 

spokesperson for Zanu PF. 

“The only spokesman of the 

party is myself. I haven’t said anything 

about Gono and the politburo 

will sit to decide the way 

forward. Media should not read 

much into the minister’s statement,” 

Gumbo said. 

“The politburo will be seized 

with the matter at its next meeting 

and map the way forward and that 

is the position as of now.” 

Asked if Moyo and others as 

well as the party’s legal department 

headed by Justice minister, 

Emmerson Mnangagwa had offered 

any dissenting views during 

the politburo meeting that decided 

Gono was to be the party’s 

nominee, Gumbo refused to comment. 

“We don’t discuss matters or deliberations 

of the politburo with 

the media and for that reason, I 

will not speak on what happened 

behind closed doors,” he said. 

Mnangagwa, who is linked to a 

faction that is competing against 

another one reportedly loyal to 

vice-president Joice Mujuru in 

the race to succeed President Robert 

Mugabe, is the secretary for legal 

affairs. 

It could not be established if 

Mnangagwa’s department had 

noted the technical flaws of the 

nomination before they were spelt 

out by Makarau. Mnangagwa’s 

deputy in Zanu PF is another legal 

guru and former Attorney-General, 

Patrick Chinamasa. 

Zim economy on 

the mend: Moyo 

bY obeY MAnAYiTi 

INFORMATION, Media and 

Broadcasting Services minister 

Jonathan Moyo on Friday 

shocked members of the 

Institute of Chartered Secretaries 

and Administrators (ICSA) 

attending a meeting in Nyanga 

when he said it was a myth that 

the country was facing serious 

economic problems. 

Moyo said contrary to belief, 

the economic situation in 

the country has remarkably improved 

since the dissolution of 

the inclusive government last 

year. 

ICSA Zimbabwe president 

Richard Summers had noted that 

the country was facing serious 

economic challenges. 

Over the past months the country 

has been grappling with a 

serious liquidity crunch while 

thousands of workers have lost 

their jobs as several companies 

either closed shop or downsized 

as the economy continued on a 

free fall. 

However, in his keynote address 

in Nyanga at an ICSA meeting, 

Moyo said it was not true 

that Zimbabwe is in serious economic 

trouble. 

He said what was only needed 

was harnessing the intellectual 

capacity of Zimbabweans and 

turn it into positive thinking 

that can turn around the economy. 

“Let’s tell each other ruthless 

truths, brutal truths,” he 

said. “Mr Summers announcing 

that we are in dire strains 

and me saying we are not,” 

Moyo said. 

“We have shared responsibilities 

that we have not exercised 

or dealt with by working 

together. One of the things 

that we have not been doing as a 

country in the past is engaging 

each other through meaningful 

dialogue about real things and 

coming up with a shared solution.” 

He said people have to understand 

that Zimbabwe was deeply 

polarised. 

“Divided not just in political 

terms but basically in terms 

of how we see ourselves in relation 

to each other as Zimbabweans 

and accept that sharing 

one destiny is not just a political 

matter but a pre-requisite,” 

Moyo said. 

He said Zimbabwe had been 

misunderstood as a country in 

dire constraints and as such, it 

had been viewed as unstable and 

Gideon Gono 

While Gumbo could not give a 

specific date, it is widely expected 

that the politburo could meet as 

early as Wednesday this week. 

Gono yesterday said he had no 

comment to make about the issue. 

Zanu PF secretary of administration 

Didymus Mutasa was also 

not immediately available for comment. 

But he was recently quoted 

saying the ruling party would 

push for the amending of the law 

to accommodate Gono since the 

politburo had made its decision. 

Gono is believed to be in Mujuru’s 

faction, along with Mutasa 

and Gumbo. He however denied it, 

insisting he belonged to Mugabe’s 

faction. On the other hand, Moyo 

is seen as the brains in the Mnangagwa 

camp. 

Political analyst Ibbo Mandaza 

said Moyo’s statement could be 

read along factional lines because 

a legal position had been pronounced 

by Makarau. 

that had also affected some international 

investors. 

Moyo challenged the country to 

transform its intellectual excellence 

by producing tangible results. 

“I believe what is not clear is 

the extent to which as a country 

we are able to deploy our technical 

and professional skills. Zimbabweans 

have the highest literacy 

rate in Africa but there 

has been nothing to show for it 

if you look at our practices,” he 

said. 

Moyo however lashed out at 

news Zimbabwe Broadcasting 

“Moyo is capitalising on Makarau’s 

statement and trying to use 

it to score political points on an issue 

which is clearly legal and this 

is where factionalism comes into 

context,” Mandaza said. 

Mugabe returned home yesterday 

from New York where he was 

attending the 69th session of the 

UN General Assembly and made 

an impassioned plea for discipline 

among the Zanu PF bigwigs. He 

said party officials were divided 

and openly clashing ahead of the 

party’s elective congress set for 

December. 

Mugabe told hundreds of Zanu 

PF supporters at Harare International 

Airport on arrival from 

New York that party leaders 

should end their fights as the congress 

beckons. 

He warned that Zanu PF leaders 

who were putting the party’s 

name into disrepute would be disciplined. 

An abandoned factory in Harare’s Workington industrial area... Moyo says the economy 

is improving. 

Corporation (ZBC) anchors, saying 

there was nothing to prove 

that they passed even Ordinary 

Level from the way they conducted 

their work. 

He said there was clear evidence 

that Zimbabwe is building 

a new economy as evidenced 

by recent deals signed 

between the country and China 

and Russia. 

Moyo said there has been serious 

hardwork by the Zanu PF government 

since it took over from 

the inclusive government and 

election promises would be fulfilled 

in due course.

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Local News 

Grace’s PhD: UZ reduced to a butt of jokes 

by PHILLLIP CHIDAVAENZI 

THE controversy surrounding 

First Lady 

Grace Mugabe’s Doctor 

of Philosophy degree 

from the University of 

Zimbabwe (UZ) early this month 

has reduced the former prestigious 

institution to a butt of crude 

jokes on social media. 

“You just phone. There is no 

problem. You just phone UZ and 

request them to confer you with a 

degree. You tell them I am coming 

there. You just say, ‘it’s Amai…. I 

am coming there…, give me a doctorate 

in philosophy. I will be there 

tomorrow at 12. Prepare a gown 

for me’,” goes a joke which has 

gone viral on WhatsApp. 

The joke started circulating after 

Vice-President Joice Mujuru and 

the First Lady were capped by President 

Robert Mugabe (90) early this 

month. 

Former Finance minister Tendai 

Biti, a Law graduate from the 

once esteemed university, was the 

first to take a dig at the UZ. 

“I want to state publicly that 

I will never ever have a PhD for 

obvious reasons. You know what 

happened,” Biti told a recent 

meeting discussing the economic 

crisis bedevilling the country, attracting 

roars of laughter. 

Many people took to social 

networks like WhatsApp, Facebook 

and Twitter where they 

either added PhD after their 

names or posted that they were 

now planning to work towards a 

PhD because it was now easy to 

acquire. 

Award–winning author and academic 

Chenjerai Hove, who has 

been living in self-imposed exile 

in Norway for many years, also 

questioned how Grace ended up 

bagging the PhD without a traceable 

record. 

“Maybe they have been offered 

honorary degrees, who knows? If 

they are PhD degrees which have 

been studied for, then at some 

point they must have defended the 

theses publicly in some hall in the 

university,” Hove said. 

He observed that the latest developments 

at the university were 

likely to dent its reputation as a 

university of note. 

“I worked hard to get my UZ degree 

and if it is so easy for some 

people to just arrive and get a 

PhD the following morning, I feel 

ashamed of my old university. It 

is a disgrace that a reputable university 

which has produced so 

many academics of high standing 

can do this to us,” he said. 

The turn of events has also 

seen analysts questioning the 

credibility of the incumbent 

Vice-Chancellor Levi Nyagura — 

who seems to have presided over 

the plummeting of standards at 

university — and condemned 

himself to live in the shadow of 

his predecessors Gordon Chavunduka 

(late), Walter Kamba 

(late) and Graham Hill. 

Unlike Nyagura, these esteemed 

vice-chancellors never exceeded 

two terms at the helm of 

the university. During their time 

the university produced graduates 

with skills that were in demand 

all over the world, making 

Zimbabwe an exporter of exceptional 

skilled labour. 

First Lady Grace Mugabe 

Although the UZ has remained 

tight-lipped over the award to 

Grace, several stakeholders have 

called for investigations into how 

she landed the revered qualification. 

The institution’s public relations 

officer Dennis Rwafa did 

not respond to questions e-mailed 

to him two weeks ago but an official 

from his office last week said 

the university was going to issue 

a statement on the matter in due 

course. 

“We are going to publish a statement, 

but I don’t know the exact 

date [of publication] at the moment,” 

said the official. 

A professor at the UZ who spoke 

on condition of anonymity told 

The Standard last week that the 

latest turn of events was likely 

to have a negative impact on the 

credibility of the university. 

“Obviously, this is going to have 

an impact on how the UZ is ranked 

because the rankings are done in 

terms of the research output and 

teaching processes,” he said. 

“The international community 

is watching and they will begin to 

ask a lot of questions as to what 

is happening, but this will depend 

also on how the university is going 

to respond.” 

While the UZ is ranked first 

among the country’s 12 universities, 

it was pegged at number 91 in 

top 100 African rankings for 2013, 

according to 4International Colleges 

and Universities’ website, 

www.4icu.org. 

The UZ follows the British system 

for PhDs, which requires a 

student to do extensive research 

on a single project, under the 

guidance and supervision of an 

academic who is an expert in the 

field. A dissertation of about 100 

000 words must be presented at 

the end of three years of an academic 

period. 

Mnangagwa 

speaks on 

demos 

by VENERANDA LANgA 

JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary 

Affairs minister, 

Emmerson Mnangagwa 

[pictured right] has said 

demonstrations are permissible 

if they are done with 

the blessings of the police. 

Mnangagwa was on 

Wednesday asked by Buhera 

West MP Oliver Mandipaka 

(Zanu PF) to explain before 

Parliament whether street 

protests were permissible 

by law. 

“We are alive to the 

fact that demonstrations 

sometimes start peacefully 

and end up violent, but 

I want to have clarity 

on the management of 

demonstrations in the 

country,” Mandipaka, a former 

police spokesperson 

said. 

MDC-T leader Morgan 

Tsvangirai, last week announced 

he was going to 

lead street protests to force 

the ruling Zanu PF government 

to address the country’s 

economic crisis. 

On Tuesday, United Families 

International Church 

leader, Emmanuel Makandiwa 

prophesied bloodshed 

could take place in 

Zimbabwe. Some people, especially 

in Zanu PF, linked 

the prophecy to the planned 

protests, but others said 

this had to do with possible 

bloody succession fights in 

the ruling party. 

According to Mnangagwa, 

it was imperative for 

organisers to inform the 

police of the number of 

demonstrators they would 

be expecting. He said this 

would enable the police to 

know from the onset if they 

had the manpower to control 

the crowd. 

“If in the opinion of the 

police the demonstration 

is proper and would not 

violate peace, they will 

allow it,” he said. 

“If they think that 

there are possibilities of 

the breach of peace, they 

will inform organisers of 

the demonstration about 

those reasons and for those 

organisers to attend to 

those concerns before they 

can proceed to hold such 

demonstrations.” 

Chapter 4, part 2 of the 

new constitution stipulates 

that every person has the 

right to demonstrate and to 

present petitions, but these 

rights must be exercised 

peacefully. 

In the past opposition legislators 

have tried to amend 

provisions in the Public Order 

and Security Act, which 

compelled that would-be 

demonstrators should seek 

permission to demonstrate 

from the police, but these 

were quashed. 

Meanwhile, Mnangagwa 

told Senate on Thursday 

that calls to behead rapists 

were not proper in a civilised 

society. 

He said Cabinet had 

made recommendations 

that there should be amendments 

to the country’s laws 

to ensure there were stiff 

and deterrent sentences for 

rape offences. 

Mnangagwa was responding 

to a question by senator 

chief Enos Musarurwa who 

wanted to know government 

position on sentencing 

of perpetrators of rape 

cases. 

Early this year First Lady, 

Grace Mugabe suggested 

the beheading of rapists as 

a deterrent measure. 

“Our laws are weak and 

they need to be strengthened. 

But I do not agree that 

the heads of rapists should 

be cut, but they should be incarcerated 

for many years, 

and even given life sentences, 

but not to cut off their 

heads,” Mnangagwa said. 

“We are also seeking 

guidance from specialist 

psychologists. People 

ask us why the sentencing 

seems to be very light and 

they are saying the sentencing 

should be tightened. 

“For us to give a death 

sentence — it is impossible. 

Some are saying the 

problem is that the perpetrators 

are given bail and 

they go back to their homes. 

We are also looking into 

that issue. At Cabinet level, 

we were advised to make 

amendments here and there 

to tighten the sentencing.” 

The minister urged MPs 

to conscientise people, and 

work with chiefs, headmen 

and religious leaders to ensure 

people desist from 

rape. 

No sex at Zanu PF 

congress — Paradza 

by bLEssED MHLANgA/ FELuNA NLEyA 

KADOMA — Zanu PF Mashonaland West Secretary 

for Administration Kindness Paradza has said party 

delegates do not indulge in sex while attending party 

conferences and congresses as they will be seized with 

serious national issues. 

“We don’t have sex at congress . . . no no no there 

is nothing like that, we will be discussing serious national 

issues which are turned into national strategic 

documents,” said Paradza to journalists at a National 

Aids Council (NAC) workshop in Kadoma. 

At a Zanu PF conference held in Gweru two years 

ago, commercial sex workers reportedly recorded 

brisk business with some flocking from places like 

Kwekwe to satisfy demand among delegates who had 

come to the city. 

Paradza, who was responding to questions on whether 

his party had an HIV and Aids policy in view of the 

fact that most politicians were known to indulge in 

casual sex, said Zanu PF was leading the fight against 

the pandemic. 

“We do have an Aids policy in our party which is led 

by our Secretary for Health Dr David Parirenyatwa 

and this has also become a national policy because our 

secretary is also the Minister of Health . . . that notion 

that we go to congress to have sex is wrong,” he said. 

NAC spokesperson Medelin Dube said Zanu PF had 

also taken time to invite her organisation during its 

gatherings to give delegates HIV and Aids education 

and offer other services which included counselling 

and testing. 

“We have been invited during Zanu PF conferences 

and congresses to offer services which include counselling 

and testing and the response has been encouraging 

as delegates take time in between sessions to 

visit us and get tested,” she said. 

Paradza also spoke against sexual abuse in newsrooms 

saying journalists were being subjected to carpet 

interviews before being offered jobs in a market 

where employment was scarce. 

“You also need to look out for yourselves because we 

know that sexual abuse is rampant in the newsrooms 

and this exposes you to HIV,” he said.

Local News 


Residents cry foul over load-shedding 

MOST households have 

now resorted to alternative 

sources of energy such as 

gas, firewood and paraffin 

for cooking 

BY VICTORIA MTOMBA 

SEVERE power cuts that have 

rocked the country for the past 

three weeks will further put a 

strain on already struggling consumers 

and industries. 

Most residential areas are going for 

more than 10 hours without power, exceeding 

the normal load-shedding schedule. 

Home industries such as Siya-so in Mbare 

are some of the hardest hit resulting in 

traders losing thousands of dollars’ worth 

of business every day. 

Harare Resident Trust director Precious 

Shumba said numerous complaints have 

been raised by residents outraged by the 

never-ending power cuts. 

“Load-shedding has become a nightmare 

across suburbs and it’s now for more than 

nine hours per day. In some suburbs power 

goes as early as 5am and comes back at 

around 9pm,” Shumba said. 

He said Zesa and the Minister of Energy, 

Dzikamai Mavhaire should publicly explain 

the latest power crisis to avoid speculation 

among citizens. 

Most households have now resorted to 

more expensive alternative sources of energy 

such as gas, firewood and paraffin for 

cooking. 

Combined Harare Residents Association 

(CHRA) advocacy and information co-ordinator 

Tendai Muchada said power cuts 

have increased the burden on residents as 

they have to improvise and resort to other 

sources of energy. 

“Some appliances are being damaged 

due to the power cuts and many domestic 

chores are disrupted due to these power 

cuts. Zesa has not notified us on the loadshedding 

that has been going on,” Muchada 

said. 

Energy expert Martin Manhuwa said 

there was need to support Independent 

Power Projects to mitigate power shortages 

using other sources such as solar. 

“We have a lot of sunshine. Power cuts 

are disruptive to general events and do not 

reflect a sign of good customer care,” he 

said. 

A Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries 

(CZI) official said the organisation 

would this week meet with the Zimbabwe 

Energy Regulatory Authority to discuss 

the issue of load-shedding. 

“We have received complaints but they 

are not as many as they used to be in the 

past. We are meeting with Zera next [this] 

week to discuss the issue of power cuts,” 

the official said. 

Many companies, according to the business 

lobby group, invested in standby generators 

which were expensive to run but allowed 

them to continue production. 

Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and 

Distribution Company managing director 

Julian Chinembiri told The Standard on 

Friday that the current power cuts were 

meant to provide more electricity to farmers. 

“We have diverted power to wheat farmers 

and the season [winter wheat] ends 

mid-October. We are giving the farmers 

close to 200 megawatts and we have also 

increased the power we give Sable Chemicals 

to 60 megawatts from 40 megawatts,” 

he said. 

Sable Chemicals requires 115 megawatts 

per hour to run its plant at 100% capacity 

but the company was receiving 40 megawatts 

that was adequate for four units. Sable 

Chemicals has been failing to service 

its debt to Zesa due to various challenges 

that it has been facing. 

Chinembiri added that one of the six 

units at Kariba was under care and maintenance. 

“Each generator at Kariba produces 133 

megawatts so the one that is under care 

and maintenance has resulted in a loss of 

power of 133 megawatts to the grid. We hope 

by October 4 2014 it will be working,” he said. 

Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers’ Union 

president Wonder Chabikwa confirmed that 

this was the first time the power utility had 

prioritised wheat production. 

“We have been receiving power 100% every 

day. We expect our yields to be four tonnes per 

hectare,” he said. 

Chabikwa said the farmers were starting 

to harvest the wheat that they planted in May. 

Zimbabwe produces 1 200 megawatts of 

power against a demand of 2 200 megawatts 

per day. The country supplements the power 

deficit with imports from other countries in 

the region. 

Zimbabwe has not been able to invest in 

new power generation for over 20 years, 

which has resulted in more demand for power 

compared to the supply side which has 

been on a downward trend. 

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Local News 

Money drives 

universities’ 

enrolment 

By EvErson Mushava 

The ever-increasing number 

of students enrolled 

at the country’s universities 

and the spiralling 

cost of education all but 

confirms the commercialisation 

of education, analysts have said. 

At least 30 000 graduates are 

churned out from Zimbabwe universities 

and tertiary colleges every 

year. 

But unlike before the turn of 

the century when university education 

in Zimbabwe was a preserve 

of the academically gifted, 

commercialisation of education 

has hit Zimbabwe’s institutions 

of higher learning. Nowadays, 

money, rather than academic 

brilliance, is driving enrolments 

up. 

Chancellor of Zimbabwe State 

universities, President Robert 

Mugabe is annually capping thousands 

of graduands. Most of them 

cannot be absorbed into the formal 

job market as the country’s 

underperforming economy continues 

to witness more company 

closures. 

Zimbabwe now has about 10 

State universities and several other 

government-run technical colleges. 

While the drive in previous 

years was to produce students 

with unparalleled knowledge, the 

pattern seems to have shifted to 

accomodate those who can pay 

fees. With fees pegged between 

US$600 and US$900 a semester, 

some universities are making 

a killing as they continue to increase 

their enrolments with students 

with low pass rates. 

While in the past enrolments 

were influenced by available places, 

now some universities are enrolling 

more students than their 

facilities and human resources 

can manage in order to raise cash 

to meet the costs of running the 

institutions. 

One student at MSU who refused 

to be named for security 

reasons said: “When I enrolled, 

they were not particular about my 

qualifications. They asked me if I 

had the money to pay and when 

my answer was in the affirmative, 

they gave me a form to fill in and 

pay the fees.” 

He added: “It is all about money. 

Even facilities are not enough for 

the number of students the university 

enrols.” 

The university runs conventional 

and parallel programmes. 

“They are particular about 

points for conventional students, 

not parallel, but at the 

end, most of the parallel students 

will end up in the conventional 

classes, which means 

there is no cut off points. The 

entry requirement is therefore 

your ability to pay fees,” said 

another student. 

Due to appalling conditions 

such as unavailability of inadequate 

accommodation at the campus, 

most students, particularly 

female students, end up raising 

money through unortho- 

Graduates celebrate at the recent University of Zimbabwe graduation ceremony... Thousands find it difficult to get employment in 

Zimbabwe. (File picture) 

dox means in order to make ends 

meet. 

Students at the Midlands State 

University (MSU) continue to face 

accommodation problems, as the 

institution is unable to house its 

growing population. 

With an enrolment of close to 

18 298 students, MSU can accommodate 

less than half of its students, 

and in order to cut costs, 

most would be forced to co-habit, 

with either other students or nonstudents 

as a survival technique, 

exposing them to risk of contracting 

STI and HIV. 

There are reports that at MSU 

over eight students are forced 

to share a single room in Gweru 

suburbs such as Senga and Nehosho. 

A lecturer who spoke to The 

Standard on condition of anonymity 

said: “Mass enrolments 

compromises quality of education. 

There is an increased number 

of students without corresponding 

infrastructure. The 

student-lecturer ratio will be too 

high.” 

Great Zimbabwe University in 

Masvingo has taken notes from 

MSU. Its enrolment figures have 

reportedly increased in the last 

few years, with some students residing 

in Mashava. 

A GZU student, who preferred 

to be identified only as Tinashe, 

said the conditions at GZU were 

declining as the increasing enrolment 

was not corresponding 

with the existing infrastructure. 

Both MSU and GZU authorities 

could not be reached for comment. 

A professor with one of the 

leading universities who refused 

to be named for professional 

reasons, said universities 

needed to look at their capacity 

in terms of lecture rooms, 

human resources, accommodation, 

library, and various other 

factors and come up with enrolments 

corresponding with the 

facilities. 

“It becomes a problem if universities 

enroll more than their 

capacity,” he said. 

He said the University of Zimbabwe 

was still observing the 

cut-off points due to the great 

demand for places. However, 

other universities are said to 

be enrolling students with only 

two points. 

In the face of dwindling government 

support, he said, universities 

have to devise methods 

of raising money, but enrolling 

beyond capacity should not be 

tolerated. 

A female lecturer, who also 

preferred anonymity for professional 

reasons, blasted commercialisation 

of education, 

saying it defeated the purpose 

of helping students as most of 

them exposed to harsh conditions, 

could contract diseases 

and die a few years after graduating. 

“We should not create problems 

in an attempt to solve others,” 

she said. “Universities 

should enroll within their capacities.” 

There have been reports that 

there was high HIV prevalence 

among MSU students due to economic 

hardships and an unconducive 

environment. 

Guramatunhu: Specialist with passion for art 

By WELLInGTon ZIMBoWa 

Being a renowned eye specialist 

can be enough to wean one from 

their culture and traditions. 

Famed for his charity medical outreach 

programmes through the Eyes 

for Africa project, little is known about 

Solomon Guramatunhu’s passion for 

the art world. 

Sculptures, portraits, carvings, 

paintings, music and books are the 

man’s treasured possessions. 

And the glaring cosmopolitan aura 

is certain as his artwork is a rich blend 

of various cultures with collections 

not only from the mother continent 

but other foreign places such as Australia, 

Shanghai, Bali, Vietnam, South 

America, as well as the Carribean. 

But the obvious bias to Zimbabwean 

tradition cannot be missed. His 

garden, immaculately decorated with 

sculptures, boldly explores traditional 

aspects such as spirituality and ubuntu. 

“I believe that if others appreciate 

and invest in our art better than us, we 

run the risk of being educated but not 

enlightened,” he says. 

“Most of my artwork collection is 

from first generation sculptors like 

Nicholas Mukomberanwa, Henry Munyaradzi, 

Bernard Matemera and the 

Takawira brothers. It’s unfortunate 

that most of them are now late with the 

exception of Sylvester Mubayi whom I 

visited in Chitungwiza and the youngest 

of the Takawira brothers,” he said. 

At the entrance is Nicholas Mukomberanwa’s 

Lovers on a huge rough 

stone and according to Guramatunhu, 

“the couple have just been to the top of 

the mountain. Now they are in a very 

intimate embrace”. 

Then, there is Dominic Benhura’s 

Dancer, who is in a dancing-like stance 

with both arms stretched out in opposite 

directions who is there to welcome 

his visitors, as well as wave them goodbye. 

Benard Matemera’s Spiritual Lady 

which Guramatunhu found in Guruve 

while lying in rubble, is a huge “female” 

sculpture that looks lost in meditation. 

“She is very spiritual, I pass through 

every morning and thank her for looking 

over me during the night!” explained 

the eye specialist. 

But it is Benhura’s larger than life 

handiworks — convincingly electrifying 

the whole garden — that dominate 

his collections in the vast picturesque 

garden, with the Feeling Good Lady 

“sure to make anyone who gets close to 

her feel good.” 

Another impressive icon is the Mother 

and Child facing the entrance “as if 

to ward off the evil forces.” 

The gallery inside the house also 

contains many paintings from local 

and foreign artists. 

The former Alliance Francaise president, 

who besides English and Shona 

also speaks French, Portuguese and 

Ndebele — a helping factor in conversing 

with his varied assortment of patients 

is the National Art Gallery’s 

chairperson. 

He is determined to give his all in 

promoting and appreciating art by 

Zimbabweans. 

“I am very fortunate to work with 

amazing people like Doreen Sibanda, 

director of the National Gallery, 

Raphael Chikukwa, the curator, and 

all staff as well as a dynamic team of 

board members for Friends of the Gallery 

and architect, Richard Beattie,” 

said Guramatunhu. 

Following a donation from the Norwegian 

embassy, challenges such as 

the perennial leakages will soon end 

as the gallery is on the verge of completing 

some major facelifts. 

The eye specialist, who was the 

founding chairperson of a post- graduate 

medical course at the University of 

Zimbabwe, is also passionate in reaching 

out to the corporate world, schools 

and colleges. 

“We recently held a corporate dinner 

in a bid to unlock financial support 

for art development and support to artistes 

and we are also having numerous 

outreach programmes for schoolchildren,” 

he said 

How does he cool off given his obvious 

tight schedule? 

“I dance ballroom and latino for an 

hour everyday and I also have a special 

interest in dressage horse riding,” he 

said. 

Solomon Guramatunhu poses with one of the many pieces of art found 

in his garden. Picture: Wallace Mawire

Local News 


Zim debt: Obstacle to economic recovery 

BY PAIDAMOYO MUZULU 

Zimbabwe has two options to turnaround 

the declining economy 

saddled by huge foreign debt — 

looking for foreign direct investment 

(FDI) or domestic resource 

mobilisation, analysts have said. 

The country is saddled with a US$10 billion 

debt and needs up to US$27 billion to 

implement Zanu PF government’s ambitious 

economic blueprint — Zim Asset. 

But, economists believe the current government 

cannot be trusted to make a good 

choice considering its history. 

Labour and Economic Development Research 

Institute of Zimbabwe (Ledriz) 

economist Prosper Chitambara is convinced 

that the two choices open to the government 

presently cannot be pursued as a 

result of the perceptions from both domestic 

and foreign investors on President Robert 

Mugabe and his Cabinet. 

“The government has showed lack of 

concern for private sector considering 

that all the said mega deals signed recently 

with China and Russia had no involvement 

of the private sector which should 

ordinarily in a developmental state partner 

the government on such projects,” Chitambara 

said. 

“The government’s credibility among 

the ordinary people and investing public 

is very low considering its track record on 

dealing with private property like when it 

expropriated private citizens’ foreign currency 

accounts and is still to complete reimbursing 

nearly a decade later.” 

International Monetary Fund (IMF) 

head of mission to Zimbabwe, Diminique 

Fanizza last week told the government that 

it had to improve its political capital and 

pay or restructure its debts if it was to receive 

fresh loans from multilateral financial 

institutions. 

“The IMF decision to give money is entirely 

mired in politics. The major shareholder 

decides who gets money and who 

doesn’t. The ambitious development objectives 

set in the Zim Asset strategy cannot 

be achieved without the support of the international 

community,” Fanizza said. 

The United States is the major shareholder 

in the three biggest multilateral institutions 

that fund developmental projections 

in Africa — IMF, World Bank and Africa 

Development Bank (AfDB). 

Among them, the banks have over US$75 

billion set aside for projects in Africa, but 

Zimbabwe cannot access these funds as it 

is under sanctions from the US. 

Not only do these banks deny funds, other 

international financiers take their cue 

from them before they release funding to 

any borrower. 

Former Finance minister and opposition 

lawmaker Tendai Biti said it was important 

that the country re-engages the 

West and settle its debts to save the collapsing 

economy. 

“There are lots of funds which we could 

access from the multilateral institutions if 

we re-engage United States and settle our 

arrears with the IMF,” Biti said. 

Biti’s MDC Renewal Team has been calling 

for an all stakeholders’ conference that 

encompasses political parties, civil society, 

business and labour to deal with the deteriorating 

economy. 

Renewal Team on Friday said Zanu PF 

should concede that it has failed to turn 

around the country’s economic fortunes 

and therefore should accept the setting up 

of a transitional authority. 

“The biggest problem with Zanu PF government 

is its propensity to spend, consume, 

without investing in capital projects. 

A large chunk of the budget is spent 

on salaries and foreign travel and subsistence.” 

Chitambara concurred, that there was 

need to have an all stakeholders’ conference 

to deal decisively with the question 

of the economy. 

“The government policies are anti-business 

and it is important that there should 

be social dialogue between government 

and private sector as part of confidence 

building,” Chitambara said. 

On the other hand, analysts said the domestic 

mobilisation of resources means 

the government should adopt a number of 

structural adjustments in the manner in 

which it conducts its business. 

“Domestic resource mobilisation means 

reforming the State-owned enterprises and 

restructuring the size of the government 

which is spending more money on consumption 

than capital expenditure,” Chitambara 

said. 

The 82 State-owned enterprises are generally 

loss-making entities despite the fact 

that some of them are monopolies. 

In the last 15 years, the government has 

been attempting to commercialise or privatise 

some of the parastatals without success. 

Among the companies that had been 

listed for commercialisation are Air Zimbabwe, 

AgriBank, Arda, NetOne, Cold Storage 

Commission and TelOne. 

Whichever model the State adopts between 

foreign direct investment and domestic 

resource mobilisation, Chitambara 

argues, the government still needs to decisively 

deal with the debt question. 

International Monetary Fund (IMF) head of mission to Zimbabwe, Diminique Fanizza 

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Local News 

Mayor refuses 

ride in the 

gravy train 

By BLESSED MHLANGA 

HOW many people, upon 

landing a lucrative 

job, would turn down 

a brand new US$68 

000 Double Cab Toyota 

D4D offered by the employer? 

Probably none. 

The majority of us would welcome 

such a top-of-the-range vehicle, 

which would naturally earn 

us a few glances from curious admirers, 

but for Matenda Madzoke, 

the mayor of Kwekwe, the vehicle 

was a sheer waste of ratepayers’ 

money. 

In a rare show of humility, Madzoke 

refused to accept the official 

mayoral vehicle and instead opted 

to have the money, which had already 

been paid to acquire it, purchase 

two refuse collection trucks. 

Council had already deposited 

US$30 000 with Croco Motors 

and was awaiting delivery of the 

brand new wheels, but the city 

could not persuade him to ride in 

wheels that mark one’s status in 

the society. 

Madzoke would have been allowed 

to own it as part of his 

package after five years of service 

at the helm of Kwekwe City Council, 

like what happened with his 

predecessors. 

“I am no better than anyone 

in this great city and therefore 

should not pamper myself with 

the money earned by the sweat 

of Kwekwe residents when refuse 

is piling in their homes, potholes 

are opening up everywhere and 

the city is struggling to pay workers,” 

said Madzoke. 

Elected councillor on a Zanu 

PF ticket, Madzoke stands out in 

his party for refusing to be pampered 

using hard-pressed ratepayers’ 

money at the expense of service 

delivery in a country where 

political players are known for 

their penchant for expensive cars 

and luxury. 

United Nations Development Programme 

Kwekwe mayor Matenda Madzoke. Picture: Nehanda Radio 

A reverend at Christ Apostolic 

Church Worldwide Revelation, 

Madzoke, who owns his own fleet 

of cars but sometimes chooses to 

ride to his office and around town 

on a bicycle, said teachings from 

his church were also instrumental 

in the decision not to accept 

the car. 

“I can say the teachings from 

my church were influential in the 

decision I made, apart from the 

fact that I am not a politician but 

a civic leader who has a heart to 

serve the people ahead of my own 

interests. 

“Our church has unique teaching 

because we are taught to serve 

the people first before we take 

care of our own interests and you 

Empowered lives. 

Resilient Nations 

would agree with me that getting 

myself a top-of-the-range vehicle 

at this time would be against this 

teaching,” he said. 

Madzoke has also clashed with 

council management who have 

been looking to spend nearly 

US$200 000 on luxury vehicles for 

top management. 

An initial attempt to purchase a 

US$120 000 worth Toyota Prado for 

the Town Clerk Emanuel Musara 

had to be shelved after a tender 

for its purchase had already been 

flighted. Now Musara is pushing 

to get a US$68 000 Chevrolet, while 

the other four mangers are also in 

the hunt. 

Council has refused to endorse 

a resolution for the purchase of 

the vehicles, saying they are too 

expensive for the cash-strapped 

local authority which is now owed 

US$20 million by government and 

ratepayers. 

“You will see that the nation is 

facing serious economic challenges 

and Kwekwe is not an exception 

and it will be insensitive for us to 

dole out such huge amounts of 

money on management when we 

are failing to provide the basic service 

delivery for the ratepayers,” 

said Madzoke. 

Despite leading a council with 

seven Zanu PF councillors and 

an equal number from the MDC- 

T, Madzoke has won the support 

of MDC-T councillors who believe 

he is miles ahead of former mayors. 

“He allows debate to flow 

smoothly and when he sits in the 

mayor’s chair, you won’t know 

if he his Zanu PF or MDC. Madzoke 

has managed to keep us focused 

on the growth of Kwekwe 

and its people instead of getting 

involved in petty political fights,” 

said MDC-T councillor Weston 

Masiya. 

The mayor said his job is made 

easier because he is not a politician 

but just a civic leader whose 

main role is to facilitate development 

of Kwekwe on behalf of its 

owners. 

“I am grateful that the councillors 

easily bought my vision, it 

might be true that we were sponsored 

by our political parties into 

office but we are here to serve the 

people, not parties. Kwekwe is our 

subject, it is not owned by councillors 

or their political parties 

but by residents, some who don’t 

even care about the political parties 

that gave birth to us and they 

should be protected and served,” 

he said. 

Married to Clara Madzoke née 

Green since 1990, the couple is 

blessed with 12 children, four boys 

and eight girls. Madzoke, who still 

looks youthful, says he might not 

be running for office again. 

“I think I will just have to do my 

best now and leave it for others 

to take their place in the development 

of this town,” he said. 

Madzoke may quit the mayoral 

office when his terms expires, 

but he will surely go down in history 

as the mayor who stood his 

ground against looting of the few 

resources available in the city and 

for striving to make council accountable 

to the ratepayers. 

Madzoke, an electrical engineer 

by profession, owns and runs one 

of Kwekwe’s leading electrical 

companies called Birdale Electrical 

Services and is also involved 

in farming. 

“These two businesses are the 

ones which ensure I manage to 

take care of my family and therefore 

I don’t look at council to earn 

a living,” he said. 

When he is not riding his bicycle, 

Madzoke goes around in a 

double cab Isuzu KB280D while 

his other posh cars are normally 

used by his wife. 

“I believe I should treat my wife 

like a queen, she is the pillar of 

my strength and most of the times 

she takes a leading role to ensure I 

dispatch my civic duties effectively. 

She is gifted.” 

As his parting shot, Madzoke 

told The Standard that he had realised 

that children in most council 

schools in Kwekwe were suffering 

from hunger and some 

were fainting during class. 

“I am going to have a meeting 

with farmers in this city so that 

we can feed these children, the situation 

is pathetic and my hope is 

that as farmers, we will be able 

to help ensure they get porridge 

when they come to school in the 

morning,” he said. 

Matenda Madzoke . . . refused to take delivery of an expensive car

The Standard September 28 to October 4 2014 9


Comment & Analysis 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

Stop the rot at 

State universities 

SOMETHING patently wrong is happening at our State 

universities where students are being enrolled en 

masse. 

As reported elsewhere in this publication, the universities 

have transformed themselves into income generating entities 

that rake in millions of dollars through mass enrollment. 

Because their primary concern now is raising money to 

pay lecturers and fund their administration costs in the face 

of limited treasury support, university authorities are no 

longer focused on offering quality education. 

The disturbing trend is most pronounced at the Midlands 

State University where thousands of students have been enrolled 

in recent years, without any regard to student-staff 

ratios. 

To worsen matters, the university’s infrastructure is inadequate, 

and students have to seek accommodation in Gweru’s 

high-density suburbs where they get exposed to all kinds of 

vice. 

Great Zimbabwe is fast catching up, and its various learning 

centres are sprouting everywhere in the small town 

of Masvingo. The university has even spread its wings to 

Mashava, 40 kilometres away, where female students are being 

sexually abused by amakorokoza [illegal gold panners]. 

While universities are hard-pressed to raise their own 

money, we condemn the increasing commercialisation of education 

at State institutions. 

University authorities are now working round the clock to 

devise short courses and programmes offered in conventional 

and parallel studies that can attract as many students as 

possible. They are not concerned with the education standards 

and welfare of the students. 

While lecturers and administration staff smile all the 

way to the bank, it is sadly the students who part with large 

sums of money, who will be disadvantaged. Armed with 

half-backed qualifications, their chances of making it in 

life would be diminished. Others who may have indulged in 

prostitution at college, may have their lives ruined by HIV. 

We urge the Ministry of Higher Education to rein in offending 

universities. Student to staff ratios should be probed, 

and universities should be stopped from enrolling beyond 

their capacity. 

Time to overhaul 

the energy sector 

No shortcuts to a doctorate 

Dzikamai Mavhaire 

There is an increase in loadshedding 

outside the published 

schedule and it seems 

the power utility, Zesa is failing to 

properly manage power distribution. 

Massive power cuts in highdensity 

communities are hurting 

families. Communities are going 

for prolonged hours without power. 

Power cuts are done as early as 

4am only to be restored around 

11pm daily. 

Perishable foods in refrigerators 

have gone bad. Some families 

have generators, but not 

everyone can afford to purchase 

them or power them with fuel, 

household power generation is 

expensive. 

Last week Zesa said power 

outages were caused by the fact 

that the power utility company 

was diverting power to winter 

wheat farming. Really? It seems 

we are in the summer cropping 

season but it boggles the mind 

when Zesa gives such a flimsy 

excuse. 

We have in the past heard Zesa 

attributing massive load-shedding 

to maintenance works at either 

Kariba or Hwange. Yes, Zesa 

does not have the capacity to generate 

power to serve the whole 

country but I just feel this massive 

load-shedding is not the panacea 

to the problems. 

Zesa needs an overhaul. Zimbabwe 

is suffering because of incompetent 

people that are leading 

critical institutions such as 

Zesa and the energy sector. The 

minister in charge, Dzikamai Mavhaire 

has shown his ineptitude 

and must go. 

When President Robert Mugabe 

At the University of Zimbabwe, 

it is like this: you have 

to have an honours degree 

which entitles you to enrol first 

for an MPhil degree which, if 

you do well in the first year, can 

be upgraded to a Doctor of Philosophy 

and it takes not less than 

three years to get the DPhil. It 

is not correct to say that anyone 

with a good first degree can proceed 

to a PhD. 

The rules are simple: the dissertation 

has to be defended publicly, 

and the candidate has to 

have the dissertation bound into 

a book, deposited with the library 

of the UZ as well as the faculty, 

with a clear indication of 

who the supervisor was, and who 

the external supervisors were. 

Please don’t let our university go 

cracks his whip on incompetent 

ministers, he must start with Mavhaire 

and all the board members 

he appointed to lead the energy 

sector. 

Let There Be Light, Chitungwiza 

to the dogs. 

I worked hard to get my UZ degree, 

and if it so easy for some people 

to just arrive and get a PhD the 

following morning, I feel ashamed 

of my old university. 

It is a disgrace that a reputable 

university which has produced so 

many academics of high standing 

can do this to us. 

Chenjerai Hove 

NRZ revival a mammoth task 

Accommodation for Great Zimbabwe University students in Mashava (file picture) 

Responding to the story NRZ: Cellphones 

replace signals (The Standard 

September 21 to 27 2014) 

Blackman Curse says: The 

biggest problem is not getting 

financing, no, it’s what you do 

with the money! How does an 

operating (not a war-zone) railway 

dilapidate to such a level? 

There is no point in borrowing 

US$700 million and waste it a 

few years down the line. What 

we need first is to get rid of the 

people (present government) 

who put the national railway in 

such a sorry state before borrowing 

more money to waste! 

Anything and everything with 

[Robert] Mugabe and Zanu PF 

is going the same way — to ruins. 

Truth writes: I agree 110%. 

The turnaround strategy applicable 

to Zimbabwe is that of 

changing its entire management 

wHERE TO 

wRITE TO uS 

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

to Letters, PO Box BE1165, Belvedere, 

Harare, or SMS to 0772 472 500. 

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

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

used. Letters published in other papers are less likely to 

be used in ours. 

i.e the government. It’s no use 

borrowing money. Zimbabwe is 

said to be US$10bn indebted already 

and borrowing for the 

NRZ is merely adding debt yet 

the money won’t be used in the 

appropriate manner. 

Coup deGrace argues: The other 

problem with most politicians 

is that they have no clue how to 

run companies and worrisomely, 

their ministries! Some ministers 

only think about the percentages 

they get on every business 

deal (for example; 10% of 

the US$700 million = US$70 million) 

that’s what they see. Tell me 

any ministry that has had a successful 

project? Every project is 

mired in corruption. Do you remember 

the Zesa/YTL Malaysia 

project of yesteryear? Mugabe 

wanted that project so much but 

what was the end product? The 

Hwange Power Station collapsed 

from generating an average of 

800MW to less than 300MW on 

average. Until and unless we remove 

these grey-haired, old politicians; 

we are on a one-way bus 

to the ruins! 

Timber Bricks says: With this 

type of stone age and corrupt 

horses it will take us 100 years to 

see meaningful development in 

Zimbabwe.

Comment & Analysis 


SMS/ONLINE 

FEEDBACK 

IT was refreshing to hear Finance minister 

Patrick Chinamasa talking about 

looking for Foreign Direct Investment 

from the West. The knowledgeable 

among us have always spoken against 

Zanu PF’s fixation with the East, but with 

no tangible results. In business, friendship 

comes last, profit-seeking companies 

will demand respect for private 

property and proper business practice. 

Time to widen the net and rescue this 

faltering economy. We have been a suffering 

nation for far too long. 

DICKSon, Zibwowa 

I would like to thank the Harare City 

Council for decongesting the Copacabana 

bus terminus. It is the one I use 

and before the introduction of the 

holding bay, it was very difficult to 

navigate for adults, let alone schoolchildren. 

Street urchins grabbed gold 

accessories in the milieu and disappeared 

in the crowds. Previously, one 

was drowned in the sea of people and 

touts' voices, but now one can see 

clearly where they are going. I hope 

this relief extends to other city termini. 

Council must now remove the illegal 

foreign currency dealers; sometimes 

the way they accost women is 

quite disrespectful. Why not get them 

to open bureau de change? 

WaDZanaI, Malbereign 

OPINION 

Toxic media laws, taxes — Harmful to knowledge 

guest opinion 

BY CHRIS MHIKE 

KNOWLEDGE is at the core of meaningful, 

dignified and sustainable existence 

for any sane human being. Resultantly, 

the Right to Know is now widely accepted — 

globally and at home, as a fundamental human 

right. That right has also now come to be accepted 

as a critical cornerstone to the flourishing 

of democracy in any modern society. 

Today, as Zimbabwe joins the world in commemorating 

the International Right to Know 

Day, too huge a part of the population continues 

to exist under a lamentable knowledgegap 

in various critical areas. For instance, 

few Zimbabweans know fully about how proceeds 

from diamond sales are allocated. This is 

therefore a good time for reflection on the allimportant 

right to know. 

Commemoration of the International Right 

to Know Day began on September 28 2002, 

when Freedom of Information (FOI) organisations 

from around the world congregated in 

Sofia, Bulgaria and created the FOI Advocates 

Network, a global coalition working together 

to promote the Right of Access to Information; 

and the benefits of open, transparent, and accountable 

governments. 

The right essentially relates to policies and 

laws that make governmental (and quasi-governmental) 

records and other information, 

available to persons who request access to the 

same. The sought-for-information is ordinarily 

availed either directly to the requestor, or 

indirectly by way of publication or broadcasting 

on the various media platforms of contemporary 

mass communication. Freedom of expression 

and press freedom, and access to information, 

are therefore central to the fulfilment 

of the right to know. 

While the Constitution of Zimbabwe does 

not explicitly pronounce the right to know as 

one of the known Fundamental Rights, this 

right can justly be derived from a number of 

important sections. Sections 61 and 62 of the 

Constitution are particularly pertinent, providing 

as they do, for Freedom of Expression 

and Freedom of the Media; and Access to Information, 

respectively. 

Further, in setting out the Founding Values 

and Principles of Zimbabwe, the Constitution 

recognises the inherent dignity and worth 

(both of these values linked to knowledge) of 

each human being. Also acknowledged as constitutionally 

important, are good governance, 

multi-party democratic political system; then 

transparency, justice, accountability and responsiveness. 

Should these values and principles, 

as read with sections 61 and 62, be respected 

by government, agents of government 

and by non-governmental individuals and institutions, 

then the Access to Information and 

right to know agenda would immensely burgeon. 

Incidentally, in terms of the Liturgical 

Guide of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, today 

also happens to be Social Communications 

Sunday — that is to say a day for reflection on 

the utility of the various forms of the media 

in spreading the Gospel. Since this discussion 

is neither a sermon nor a theological treatise, 

the matter at hand is confined only to issues 

arising out of the general definition of “Social 

Communication.” 

The term “social communication” is used to 

refer to the transmission of content between 

sender and receiver, using the media and various 

forms of modern technology, and by means 

of agents unable to be quantified, in the social 

aspects of society. It is a process and an action 

at the same time. That process-and-action therefore 

yields the effective flow of information, resulting 

in the enhancement of knowledge, for 

social communication participants. That is to 

say, social communication aims in part, to sustain 

and develop knowledgeable beings. 

Given the vital importance of the media to 

the four subject important areas, that is: the 

right to know, freedom of expression, access 

to information, and social communication; it 

follows therefore, that without a free or fully 

developed press and Information Communication 

Technology (ICT) configuration, citizens 

and visitors alike, are left starving for information 

and knowledge, and for freedom. 

Thirty-four years after independence, Zimbabwe 

still lags behind badly, regionally and 

internationally; in the areas of media structure 

and infrastructure. That is particularly 

so in the broadcasting, and ICT sectors. For example, 

the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation 

(ZBC) continues today to monopolise the 

airwaves, as did the colonial regime’s Rhodesian 

Broadcasting Corporation (RBC). 

That monopolistic broadcasting configuration 

contrasts negatively with the situation 

prevailing in many other parts of Africa and 

beyond, where the “liberalisation of the airwaves” 

has been on the roll-out since the early 

1990s. 

While Zimbabwe’s mobile phone penetration 

and literacy rates (at about 106% and 

91% respectively) are impressive; the quality, 

cost and speeds of internet and voice services 

remain disappointing, and out of sync 

with trends in most liberal jurisdictions. And 

while Zimbabwe imposes today, punitive taxes 

on airtime purchases and mobile handsets 

importation, rates in other countries are tumbling. 

For US$1 a caller in the United States of 

America can make voice calls to any number 

on any network for the whole day, for as long 

as the call destination is within the States. In 

Zimbabwe, a dollar will give you only a few 

minutes. 

A whole range of functions on Blackberry, 

iPhone and other smart communication gadgets 

disappear once one lands at Harare/ Bulawayo 

International Airports, or on arrival at 

other Zimbabwean ports of entry; that being 

the result of poor ICT infrastructure. 

The Access to Information and Protection of 

Privacy Act (Aippa), the statute that should enable 

citizens to access government-held information, 

and therefore to enhance the citizen’s 

opportunities for the enjoyment of the right to 

know remains ultra vires (that is, inconsistent 

with) the constitution on various levels, hence 

the degradation of: the right to know, freedom 

of expression, access to information, and social 

communication dimensions of Zimbabwe’s 

legislative and policy framework. 

For as long as Aippa, the Official Secrets 

Act, the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) 

Act, the Broadcasting Services Act and 

other pieces of toxic legislation remain in 

force and effect — misaligned to the constitution; 

and for as long as policy inconsistencies 

in the areas under review persist, Zimbabwe 

will continue to wallow in poverty, particularly 

in the right to know, and social communications 

departments. 

Why not act on that? 

• Chris Mhike is a lawyer practising in Harare. 

He writes here in his personal capacity 

Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire owes this 

nation a convincing explanation as to 

why we are having long blackouts. 

Disappointed 

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Tsvangirai to lead demos from the front 

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Comment & Analysis / Opinion 

Mid-term fiscal 

proposals an act 

of tax barbarism 

sundayopinion 

BY BRIAN SEDZE 

Unemployment is high in Zimbabwe. Tax reforms must encourage the setting up of business at growth points to curb rural urban migration. 

The fundamental flaw and 

evil of government’s latest 

fiscal pronouncements is 

the fact that some men are 

forced to pay to support ideals 

diametrically opposed to their 

own. 

This is a profound violation of 

an individual’s integrity and conscience. 

We certainly do not agree 

with the aggravated tax assault, 

insult and barbarism that the 

government must tax its citizens 

until their very last cent as long 

as there is a fiscal deficit. It is viciously 

wrong to increase the tax 

burden on the already choked taxpayers 

through proposed increases 

in the quantum of tax or new 

taxes on fuel, employee benefits, 

meat, detergents, data and voice 

transmissions. 

The government, through its 

fiscal authorities, must be reminded 

that money is a private 

property that also deserves protection 

from arbitrary expropriations 

from government, just like 

cars, houses and business enterprises. 

We may have to agree with Ayn 

Rands’ idea that a man has a right 

to the fruits of his labour and that 

it is viciously wrong to take money 

from rational economic people for 

the support of ideals they are absolutely 

opposed to; such an intrusion 

by force is a violation of individuals’ 

rights. John Locke proposes 

that a man has rights to own property 

and that property includes the 

output of his person, and in fact, 

his personage itself: 

“Though the earth, and all inferior 

creatures, be common to all men, 

yet every man has a property in his 

own person: this nobody has any 

right to but himself. The labour of 

his body, and the work of his hands, 

we may say, is properly his. Whatsoever 

then he removes out of the 

state that nature hath provided, and 

left it in, he hath mixed his labour 

with, and joined to it something 

that is his own, and thereby makes 

it his property. It being by him removed 

from the common state nature 

hath placed it in, it hath by 

this labour something annexed to 

it, that excludes the common right 

of other men: for this labour being 

the unquestionable property of the 

labourer, no man but he can have a 

right to what that is once joined to, 

at least where there is enough, and 

as good, left in common for others.” 

In theoretical terms as deduced 

from Socrates to Hobbes the “moral 

imperative” is the idea that the existence 

of a sovereign state rests on 

its ability to guarantee the best interests 

of its own citizens. It is certainly 

not in the best interest of the 

citizens of this “sovereign state” 

to have policies that so far have 

caused the acceleration of deindustrialisation, 

informalisation of 

the economy, structural regression, 

bloated civil service, ghost workers, 

ill corporate governance in state 

enterprises and parastatals, avoidable 

and unnecessary government 

expenditure and this thing of budgeting 

money that is not available 

and will never be available. 

What this country requires is not 

to increase the tax burden on its 

people but to increase the tax base. 

The increase in the quantum of tax 

is an incursion to an individual’s 

own right and to his own person. 

The ideas I propose hereunder 

are driven at increasing the tax 

base rather than placing an inordinate 

tax burden on the dwindling 

and ill-paid tax base of the existing 

taxpayers. The will to initiate and 

deploy is what is critical. The solutions 

I propose here are fundamental 

but remain basic: 

• The government must ease 

the bureaucracy and red tape of 

setting and doing business in order 

to attract and retain investment. 

There is no need to reinvent the 

wheel as Rwanda, Ghana and Botswana 

amongst other countries are 

highly rated in that respect. We can 

certainly learn on how they travelled 

that path. In strategic innovation, 

it’s an imperative to copy, leapfrog 

and improve inventions. 

• Opaque investment policies 

must be discarded and replaced 

with clear and consistent investorfriendly 

policies. As a start, government 

ministries must sing from the 

same hymn book. 

• Engage the diaspora for investment 

by easing the investment methodologies 

and develop platforms 

to access the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, 

alternative stock exchanges, 

their political inclusivity and ease of 

setting and doing business. 

• Improve investment inclusivity 

and democratise economic participation 

by setting an alternative 

stock exchange for small and medium 

enterprises. 

• Comprehensive labour law reform 

that recognises that common 

goodwill be satisfied by enabling 

each individual to be as successful 

as is possible and that success will 

filter to others through jobs and opportunities 

of the individual. The 

present labour laws are inhibitive 

to corporate success, restructuring 

and reorganisations. 

• Privatisation and commercialisation 

of state enterprises and 

parastatals most of them no longer 

fitting the definition of “strategic 

to state interest”. In any case most 

are not dispensing the strategic intention 

of the state. 

• Tax reform to reduce the cost 

and ease of doing business. Tax reform 

will ideally include setting 

up of special economic free zones 

in strategic towns and cities outside 

Harare like Bulawayo, Mutare, 

Victoria Falls and Beitbridge. They 

must encourage the setting up of 

business at growth points to curb 

rural to urban migration that causes 

infrastructure stress on municipalities 

and city councils. 

• Initiate and adopt a comprehensive 

corporate governance 

framework for listed firms, alternative 

exchange listed firms, state 

enterprises, parastatals and public 

interest firms. The “comply or explain” 

corporate governance framework 

will inspire confidence to potential 

investors that the firms are 

being directed and controlled in a 

transparent and accountable manner, 

especially when twinned with 

appointment of independent, nonaligned 

and competent directors 

as the majority on the respective 

boards. 

• Encourage self-sufficiency 

in rural households through their 

economic inclusion in co-operatives, 

micro banking institutions, 

micro and small enterprises and redeployment 

of competent and motivated 

agriculture technical extension 

workers. 

• Improve financial inclusivity 

in banks, insurance, building societies 

and micro financial institutes. 

• Encourage domestic, regional 

and international tourism through 

inclusivity in product offering. For 

instance, a holiday package for every 

civil servant will reduce dependency 

on other markets. 

• To neither look east nor 

west but to look at the world as the 

source of investment and tourism. 

Relentless engagement is required. 

In theoretical terms, the idea of 

“sovereignty” from the time of Socrates 

to that of Hobbes has always 

necessitated a moral imperative on 

the entity exercising it. This “moral 

imperative” is the idea that the 

existence of a sovereign state rests 

on its ability to guarantee the best 

interests of its own. 

Just like Benjamin Franklin said, 

in truth justice will not be served 

until those who are unaffected are 

as outraged as those who are and 

as Samuel Adams postulates, that it 

doesn’t take the majority to prevail 

but rather an irate, tireless minority 

keen on setting the bushfires of 

freedom on the minds of men. 

If a state no longer acts in the 

best interests of its citizens, is it not 

legitimate to think that it no longer 

can perform its moral imperative 

and should cease to exist or be replaced 

with a state that can? 

Why calls for demonstrations will not be heeded 

Unfortunately, the calls for 

the suffering people of Zimbabwe 

to come together to 

march in protest to the mismanagement 

of the country will come 

to naught. 

It will be a complete flop because 

the bulk of those people 

that have a gripe about the haphazard 

manner in which the 

country is being run, will not 

come out into the streets to join 

in the march. Not because they 

do not want to, but because they 

are very much privy to the manner 

in which the ruling party responds 

to dissent. They would 

rather silently suffer under the 

leadership of Zanu PF, than risk 

their lives. 

Only recently, a group of youths 

that had taken to the streets to call 

for the Zanu PF-led government 

to make good on its promise in its 

2013 election manifesto to provide 

2,2 million jobs were given a thorough 

beating, and a journalist 

that was there to cover the event 

was not spared. 

Using maximum force to thwart 

any opposition is probably one of 

the main reasons why Zanu PF is 

still in power, and it doesn’t look 

like it is a tactic they will be doing 

away with anytime soon, seeing 

as it has so far served them so 

well. 

The violent manner in which 

Zanu PF has chosen to deal with 

the opposition has earned Zimbabwe 

a place among the world’s 

most repressive states. While the 

ruling Zanu PF continuously dismisses 

human rights abuses as 

“the work of our detractors” and 

an attempt at regime change, 

those of us who have witnessed 

the party’s brutality know better. 

It is no secret that Zimbabwe’s 

armed forces are at the beck and 

call of the ruling party and will 

not hesitate to undertake any assigned 

task, no matter how gruesome, 

just as long as it helps extend 

Zanu PF’s hegemony. 

sunday 

view 

BY CHIPO MASARA 

In the past, whenever there was 

any sort of demonstration, people 

fell at the mercy of the ruthless 

armed forces and ended up either 

badly injured or behind bars. 

In most cases, after all the trouble 

they would have gone through, the 

demonstrations failed to achieve 

the desired effect as more often 

than not, nothing improved. 

That is the reason why the MDC 

president Morgan Tsvangirai’s 

calls for mass demonstrations to 

push the government to act on 

improving the general population’s 

welfare will not be heeded 

by many. 

Yes, the people are suffering and 

are waiting for the government 

to put in place responsible policies 

that will bring in foreign direct 

investment and with it jobs 

for many. Many jobless graduates 

want nothing more than to 

see the years of hard work they 

put in at school being handsomely 

rewarded. People want to see 

service delivery improving and 

money collected at tollgates going 

towards fixing the roads. The 

list of things Zimbabweans wish 

for is endless. 

Considering all this, it may, to 

someone reading this, only make 

sense that Zimbabweans take to 

the streets and protest the incessant 

mismanagement of the country. 

But then they will not! 

Some may call it cowardly, but 

I call it wise. I for one will not be 

one of those few that will take to 

the streets because I know how 

the story would end if I did. I 

know that even before we would 

have started marching (peaceful 

as it may be), police details would 

descend on us in their numbers, 

baton sticks in hands! 

The fact that it is Tsvangirai 

that plans to be at the forefront 

does nothing but makes it 

worse as it will make it all seem 

like an MDC project — and we 

all know how the President Robert 

Mugabe-led government has 

responded to Tsvangirai and his 

party in the past. 

In 2007 Tsvangirai, other opposition 

officials and civic leaders 

were thoroughly bashed when 

they tried to organise a peace rally 

in Highfield, Harare. Seven 

years later and President Mugabe 

is still at the throne, with Tsvangirai 

now a pale shadow of his former 

self. 

Just like Libya’s Muammar al- 

Gaddafi and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, 

I see President Mugabe fighting 

opposition to the bitter end 

and anyone that dares take him on 

better be equal to the task, otherwise 

the guaranteed attack by the 

armed forces will in the end, all be 

for nothing.

Opinion 


Civil society 

should shake off 

Western stigma 

justicematters 

BY DZIKAMAI BERE & PROSPER MAGUCHU 

The NewsDay of September 

20 2014 on the Readers’ 

Feedback carried a 

contribution by a reader 

who lamented that human 

rights are now a neo-colonial 

tool. 

His conclusion was that the human 

rights topic has become an instrument 

to effect regime change. 

This reminded us of the address 

delivered by then Justice minister 

Patrick Chinamasa before the 

United Nations Human Rights 

Council on October 10 2011 in Geneva. 

He told delegates that Zimbabwe 

has more than 2 500 NGOs 

who are paid to throw stones. The 

minister lamented that these organisations 

were responsible for 

spreading falsehoods about Zimbabwe. 

In as much as the philosophy associated 

with the above comments 

may be defective, it perhaps reveals 

a very real stigma about Zimbabwe’s 

human rights movement. 

As we are part of this movement, 

we have an obligation to address 

this stigma. It is not possible to be 

exhaustive here but we will highlight 

a few issues. 

Firstly, we must point out that 

the regime change agenda is not 

unlawful. In fact, it is very legitimate 

for a people that have suffered 

gross injustice to seek a major shift 

towards a more accountable leadership 

and a more just society. It is the 

right of a people in any democracy. 

Secondly, the concept of human 

rights is very organic to the African 

people. Many people do believe 

in human rights not because they 

follow blindly to what the Europeans 

or NGOs say. There are a number 

of traditional practices that 

show indigenous African abhorrence 

for the violation of human 

dignity. It is insulting to assume 

that Africans are blind to repression 

and that each time they speak 

out against authoritarianism, then 

Europeans must be pushing them. 

It’s very sad that African leadership 

is refusing to be accountable 

and has become addicted to blaming 

the West for their failures. This 

trend seems to be catching up even 

in the opposition. 

Having clarified this, we must 

however acknowledge that as human 

rights activists, we do carry 

the stigma that we are tools of the 

West. There are reasons for that 

and we probably need to do more 

than just deny it. 

Some of the reasons why this 

stigma seems to stick include our 

failure to make the human rights 

agenda organic. Despite the availability 

of many African and domestic 

tools for the advancement 

of a legitimate human rights agenda, 

we are ready to first reach for 

Western tools and mechanisms. 

Many times we ignore local innovative 

mechanisms that can 

achieve the same agenda. The reason 

for this is probably over-intellectualisation 

of the human rights 

discourse. We have too many Western 

educated experts who probably 

feel they would not have done 

justice to the human rights agenda 

if they do not throw in some international 

covenant. This is not 

to say international standards are 

irrelevant but where local mechanisms 

exists, it can assist to begin 

from “home” and then widen the 

strategy and even prove that the 

local strategies do meet the international 

standards. Many cases, 

human rights strategists pitch this 

discussion at a much higher level 

and then neglect to connect the 

dots to the very basics of human 

rights needs. The basic question — 

how does this translate to the basic 

needs of the ordinary people in the 

countryside? 

The other reason related to the 

above is the funding dynamics 

of human rights work. Because 

of the failure to make the human 

rights agenda organic, we then 

fail as a society in making human 

rights work attractive to local 

funding partners. We many times 

get irritated when we are walking 

down the street and a beggar 

comes to ask for money. And yet in 

the streets of London we meet volunteers 

for the Red Cross begging 

for money to help people in conflict 

zones. Our failure to attract local 

funding for the human rights agenda 

has created the big donor syndrome, 

where the major funders 

for the human rights agenda are 

Western countries. Ordinary citizens 

feel no obligation to contribute 

to this agenda. This makes it 

difficult to make the human rights 

agenda organic, dismantle the stigma 

and make the local population 

responsible for their future. 

Lastly for this discussion, there 

is need to attend to the current civil 

society governance and accountability 

systems. If we have to make 

people believe in the work that we 

do as defenders of human rights, 

our own systems must reflect in 

equal measure what we demand 

of the government. There is a major 

process that civil society must 

initiate: a review of the civil society 

governance structure. Current 

structures limit the human rights 

agenda to only certain professions 

and maybe what we may call hardcore 

activists. A quick sampling 

of persons that sit in the boards 

of most organisations doing human 

rights work shows that there 

is a core class that is present in almost 

every board. This may compromise 

the effectiveness of the 

boards. But more importantly, it 

creates an exclusive movement. 

The movement must be more inclusive, 

reaching out to other sectors 

like business and industry. 

This will help demystify and destigmatise 

human rights. Human 

rights work will benefit from diversity. 

Civil society organisations reject 

over-regulation by the State 

in order to protect their independ- 

Zimbabwe lawyers and human rights activists march in Harare on International Human Rights Day in 2009... Most people think 

human rights is a preserve for a certain group, while the ruling elite believes it is a tool of the enemy. 

ence. We agree. There is however 

a need to strengthen advocacy 

structures because certainly the 

message is not getting to where we 

wish. The business sector does not 

think it has an obligation to work 

with human rights organisations. 

Ordinary people think it’s a career 

for a certain group, while the ruling 

elite believes it is a tool of the 

enemy. 

It is not easy for human rights 

organisations to regain the trust 

of the people. It will certainly not 

happen overnight. It also does not 

help to say those who think we are 

puppets must go to hell. There is 

a duty to respond. Not with just 

press statements castigating such 

accusers. A just response calls for 

increased civil society accountability 

to the local constituency 

and informed research into and 

use of many local mechanisms 

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Unless we speak human 

rights in their language, human 

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Opinion 

Tsvangirai, MDC: 

Deepening 

democracy 

right of reply 

BY LUKE TAMBORINYOKA 

Before its conclusion on 

Friday September 19 

2014, which conclusion 

confounded skeptics and 

naysayers inside and 

outside the party, the constitutional 

review exercise of the MDC had 

been a subject of frenzied debate 

and media speculation. 

The speculation provided media 

fodder, with some saying Morgan 

Tsvangirai was becoming a dictator 

who would centralise all power 

in his office and appoint leaders 

in the party. 

It is this convenient and false 

media speculation about the process 

that led to The Standard (September 

21 to 27 2014) editorial entitled, 

Absolute power for Tsvangirai 

was ill-advised. 

It was self-fulfilling prophecy 

for the media to speculate that the 

MDC had ever considered giving 

Tsvangirai absolute power. 

Constitutional review has been 

the business of every one of our 

previous congresses as it is only 

congress that has the power to 

amend the MDC constitution. After 

15 years in existence, guided 

by history and experience, it is always 

important to look at the constitution 

and to look at those areas 

that needed review in order to 

cut bureaucracy, remove vagueness 

and increase accountability. 

As such, there is nothing criminal 

or mischievous about a constitutional 

review exercise ahead of a 

congress. 

In any case, when the media began 

speculating that this exercise, 

which we have always done ahead 

of every congress, was meant to 

arrogate too much power on Tsvangirai, 

his office had issued a 

statement clarifying his position 

on the matter. 

“Zimbabwe has had a bad experience 

of dictatorships and the 

abuse of Constitutions. The MDC 

and President Morgan Tsvangirai 

pledge to the people of this country 

that the exercise will be a truly 

objective process; a process that 

will not be abused to constitutionally 

anoint a tin-pot dictator in 

the MDC leadership, as has been 

wrongly peddled by others,” the 

statement said. 

“As the current leader of a democratic 

party, president Tsvangirai 

will not allow the process to degenerate 

into the creation of allpowerful 

individuals, especially 

in the Presidency. Zimbabwe has 

sad stories to tell on the abuse of 

the powers of an executive President 

to the extent that we have 

learnt it to be a monumental vice 

that cannot be mimicked, even in 

a party constitution. 

“We pledge to safeguard the 

democratic credentials of the 

MDC and to ensure that every office 

bearer, including and especially 

the party Presidency, or any 

Morgan Tsvangirai 

other office for that matter, is vaccinated 

from the whims of individuals. 

President Tsvangirai has 

spent half his life fighting all-powerful 

individuals and he certainly 

will not be a cheerleader to the 

creation of dictators. 

“One dictator in a country is 

enough, in the name of a President, 

First Secretary of the party 

and Commander-In-Chief of 

the armed forces and chancellor 

of all State universities. Contrary 

to mischievous press reports, the 

MDC as a democratic party has 

no intention whatsoever to mimic 

and parrot such arrant nonsense.” 

And indeed, the outcome of last 

week’s national executive and national 

council meetings vindicated 

the above position of the party 

president that this was always going 

to be an objective process. 

With Tsvangirai in charge, all 

fears of dictatorship and an allpowerful 

leader are grossly misplaced. 

If anything, I have sat in meetings 

where the president has been 

accused of being too lenient, too 

tolerant and too magnanimous. 

I have heard him respond that 

magnanimity and tolerance are 

not signs of weakness but of 

strength. 

I sat through the 11-and-half 

hours of intense debate in the national 

executive on September 18 

2014, a meeting that only ended 

just before midnight. 

For me, the robust debate and 

the diverse opinions in that meeting 

showed that our democracy 

was not only widening but deepening 

as well. 

Even after the national council 

meeting the following day, I saw 

people who had held diverse opinions 

in the meeting hugging and 

laughing together. 

It was a sign of a maturing democratic 

party where all those who 

differed had the party at heart, 

even in the diversity of their opinions. 

But in the end, one collective position 

had to emerge and it was a 

position that reinforced the democratic 

tenets of this great people’s 

party. 

And now our congress is in full 

swing, with the party structures 

exercising their right to elect a 

president and the team that the 

president will work with. 

That has always been the democratic 

culture of this great party; 

that leaders come from the people 

and I know for a fact that at no 

point did Tsvangirai ever consider 

becoming the dictator that he has 

fought for half of his adult life. 

If there was anyone who had 

thought of arrogating too much 

power to this man, as you insinuated 

in your editorial, then those 

people do not know this man well 

enough. 

The Tsvangirai people know and 

have fallen in love with is a man of 

courage and a democrat. 

That man and the party he leads 

are not about to change. If anything, 

judging by the way he handled 

the two meetings 10 days ago, 

he is deepening and widening the 

democratic culture in the MDC. 

• Luke Tamborinyoka doubles 

up as spokesperson to MDC 

leader Morgan Tsvangirai and 

the Director of Information in 

the party. 

Mugabe surrounded by bootlickers 

By Moses Mugugunyeki 

ZIMBABWE economy has once 

again collapsed due to a combination 

of factors among them, 

economic mismanagement and 

bad governance. 

It looks as if the centre is failing 

to hold for President Robert 

Mugabe’s government. Zanu 

PF seems to be more occupied 

with the succession battles rather 

than paying attention to the 

economy. 

During the past couple of 

months, thousands of jobs have 

been lost after a number of companies 

closed. Some companies 

have attributed their demise 

to the collapse of the economy 

while others have been pushed 

out by some unfriendly policies 

like the Indigenisation and Empowerment 

policy. 

The policy gives Zimbabweans 

the right to take over and control 

foreign owned companies. It 

compels these companies to sell 

51% stakes to locals. 

However, it looks as if bootlicking 

has taken centre stage within 

Zanu PF and government. Today, 

bootlicking is misconstrued 

as patriotism. While patriotism 

is all about one’s devotion to his 

or her country, in Zanu PF, patriotism 

is the love for “your” President. 

Everyone in the ruling party 

is singing for their own supper. 

It is now politics of the stomach. 

President Mugabe has become a 

god of some sort and no one in 

Zanu PF dares to challenge his 

authority. 

We have in the past heard some 

ministers referring to the President 

as “Cremora” the “Biblical 

Moses” or “Angel Gabriel” 

and most recent “Digital Warrior” 

while some have even signed 

their mails to him as “Obedient 

Son”. 

The very same ministers who 

lead the bootlicking crusade are 

the ones whose ministries were 

found wanting in the previous 

Cabinet. Webster Shamu who is 

renowned for his “Cremora” and 

“Digital Warrior” mantra was at 

the helm of the Ministry of Media, 

Information and Publicity 

when the Zimbabwe Broadcasting 

Corporation (ZBC) was crumbling. 

Zimbabwe’s mining sector also 

suffered while Obert Mpofu, the 

“Obedient Son” was the minister 

of Mines and Mining Development. 

The country failed to account 

for all the diamonds mined 

at Chiadzwa. 

Most ministers and government 

officials have also developed 

a knack for bootlicking. 

This was evidenced by the rush 

in endorsing President Mugabe’s 

wife — Grace — as the new Zanu 

PF Women’s League Secretary 

and recent congratulatory messages 

after she “graduated” with 

a doctorate degree from the University 

of Zimbabwe. 

Last week, President Mugabe 

led an estimated 100-member delegation 

to the United Nations 

General Assembly in New York. 

Among the bloated delegation 

were well-known “bootlickers” 

who were only in New York to 

pursue their personal agendas. 

Zimbabwe is bleeding and the 

ordinary person is finding it difficult 

to make ends meet, but the 

government has the temerity of 

sending such a delegation for the 

UN General Assembly. 

A myriad of people surrounding 

Mugabe have turned out to 

President Robert Mugabe 

be praise singers and the majority 

are after nothing but to protect 

their own interests. Some 

of these people are known to be 

corrupt and have failed to serve 

the country in various capacities 

but they hide behind Mugabe’s 

name. 

Zimbabwe no longer needs such 

calibre of politicians. It needs 

men and women who can work towards 

building the country. 

There is no more room for 

praise singers; we need politicians 

who can debate policies 

of social agenda such as health, 

economy and education among 

others.



News 

Boko Haram ‘leader killed repeatedly’ 

Islamist insurgents have killed thousands of 

people, many of them civilians, since launching 

an uprising in 2009, and abducted hundreds of 

children 

ABUJA — Nigeria’s 

Boko Haram leader 

Abubakar Shekau, or 

a man claiming to be 

him, has been killed at 

least three times so far, according 

to the military, yet each time he 

apparently returns in the group’s 

numerous jihadist videos. 

Dead or alive, he appears to be 

fuelling violence which rights 

groups say is killing more people 

than at any time during Boko 

Haram’s five-year-old reign of terror 

in the north of the 175 millionstrong 

state. 

Officials say Shekau may be a 

name adopted by leaders of various 

wings of Boko Haram, raising 

the possibility the death of one 

may make others more amenable 

to negotiating an end to the fighting 

and release of 200 schoolgirls 

whose kidnap in April caused an 

international outcry. 

The last time the military said 

he was dead a year ago, a man 

looking similar to Shekau but 

slightly fatter continued to appear 

in videos issuing threats and 

taunting authorities. 

The Islamist insurgents have 

killed thousands of people, many 

of them civilians, since launching 

an uprising in 2009, and abducted 

hundreds of children in a tactic 

reminiscent of Ugandan rebel 

Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance 

Army in central Africa. 

Shekau’s face has often appeared 

on video claiming attacks. 

Now Nigeria’s military says 

this video imposter — real name 

Bashir Mohammed — has died in 

fighting in the town of Kondugu, 

prompting the question whether 

there is another Shekau lookalike 

ready to continue the fight in Africa’s 

top economy. 

An alternative possibility is 

that Shekau is not dead. 

“The Nigerian army has 

claimed on multiple occasions to 

have killed Shekau and it’s been 

disproved,” said Ben Payton, senior 

Africa analyst at UK-based 

risk consultancy Maplecroft. 

Shekau took over when Boko 

Haram’s founder and spiritual 

leader Mohammed Yusuf was 

killed in police custody in 2009. 

It is not possible to verify 

whether or not the videos are of 

the same person or more than 

Boko Haram insurgents . . . it is not known if their leader has been killed or not 

one, but the man in later videos 

that the military said was Bashir 

Mohammed had a plumper, 

rounder face, his nose was wider 

and his bridge less defined. 

His talk was even more bellicose 

and maniacal than the original 

Shekau, with statements vowing 

to kill all pagans and saying 

he was against the ideology of the 

whole world. 

The old Shekau was often quite 

sombre; the new one has a menacing 

laugh. And he only appeared 

after the alleged death of the real 

Shekau in August last year. 

“The name Shekau has become 

a brand name for the terrorists’ 

leader,” military spokesman Major-General 

Chris Olukolade said 

on Thursday, an acknowledgment 

that however many Shekaus they 

kill, the violence is unlikely to end. 

By contrast, the death of Angolan 

rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in 

battle in 2002 ended a quarter century 

of civil war in Angola. 

“Even if Shekau has been killed 

. . . Boko Haram is much bigger 

than one individual. It has multiple 

units that operate with a fair 

degree of autonomy,” said Payton. 

But if it is true that Nigerian 

forces have inflicted heavy casualties 

in the past few days on a faction 

of the militants, as Boko Haram 

sought to hold territory it declared 

to be an “Islamic state” two months 

back, the others might turn out to 

be slightly more moderate. 

The military said on Wednesday 

more than 130 Boko Haram Islamist 

fighters had surrendered, and 

a man posing as the group’s leader 

in numerous videos had been 

killed in clashes, although it often 

claims successes that are impossible 

to independently verify. 

“It’s very likely that there’s two 

or three Shekaus and the commanders 

of different factions decided 

to all use the name,” said Jacob 

Zenn, Boko Haram expert at 

the Jamestown Foundation. 

“Possibly, that leaves . . . an opportunity 

to capitalise on the 

death of this Shekau and start 

talks with various [other] members 

of Boko Haram.” 

— Reuters 

People demand the return of the abducted girls. Picture: Reuters 

One of the abducted 

girls freed — police 

ABUJA — One of more than 200 

schoolgirls abducted by Islamist 

Boko Haram rebels in the northeastern 

Nigerian village of Chibok 

was freed this week, police 

and a parent of some of the other 

missing girls said on Thursday. 

Boko Haram militants took the 

girls from a secondary school in 

the village near the Cameroon 

border in April, sparking a worldwide 

outcry, and have remained in 

captivity ever since. 

Nigerian President Goodluck 

Jonathan has been pilloried at 

home and abroad for his slow response 

to the kidnapping and for 

his inability to quell the violence 

by the Islamist militants. 

“She was found running in a 

village. She was in the bush for 

about four days. She’s still receiving 

medical attention,” said a parent, 

who has two girls still with 

the insurgents and who declined 

to be named. 

He added that she was now in 

the northeastern city of Yola. 

Police spokesman Emmanuel 

Ojukwu told reporters in Abuja 

that the 20-year-old woman was 

discovered on Wednesday, saying 

she had been “dropped off by suspected 

Boko Haram militants” at 

Mubi in Adamawa state, some 100 

km from Chibok. 

“Her condition is stable,” he 

said, without explaining why she 

might have been released. 

The Islamists offered last May a 

prisoner swap to release the girls, 

but the proposal was rejected by 

the government. 

A military operation in the 

northeast has so far failed to quell 

the rebellion and has triggered reprisal 

attacks that are increasingly 

targeting civilians, after they 

formed vigilante groups to try to 

help the government flush out the 

militants. 

Boko Haram has seized several 

towns in the last two months, 

although the military said on 

Wednesday it had pushed them 

back and that 135 fighters had surrendered 

this week. 

It also said Nigerian troops had 

killed a man posing as Boko Haram 

leader Abubakar Shekau in 

several videos, including one in 

which he threatened to sell the 

girls into slavery. The military 

said last year that Shekau himself 

might have been killed. 

Boko Haram gunmen carried 

away some 270 girls and women, 

aged from 13 to over 20, when they 

raided the Chibok school. More 

than 50 eventually escaped, but 

at least 200 remain in captivity, as 

do scores of other girls kidnapped 

previously. 

—Reuters

Business 


September 28 to October 4 2014 • www.thestandard.co.zw 

SHamU bemoanS lack of fixed line pHoneS/18 

US$35m fund 

to ward off 

water losses 

Nyakutsikwa said most water utilities do not 

have adequate monitoring systems for 

assessing losses 

BY MUSA DUBE 

The African Development 

Bank (AfDB) is administering 

a US$35 million 

fund earmarked for improving 

water distribution, 

billing and revenue collection 

in Zimbabwe. 

The “Non-Revenue Water” (NRW), 

which is the difference between the 

amount of water put into the distribution 

system and the amount of water 

billed to consumers — is reportedly 

averaging 50% in most cities 

and towns in the country. 

Speaking in Bulawayo last 

week, Water and Sanitation Engineer 

for the Zim Fund Project, 

Herbert Nyakutsikwa said one 

of the major challenges facing 

local authorities in the country 

was the large proportion of water 

lost in the distribution networks. 

Nyakutsikwa said a lot of 

treated water was currently being 

lost, leading to the water utilities 

losing a substantial amount 

of revenue. 

He said AfDB was administering 

a US$35 million fund earmarked 

for improving the water 

distribution management system 

in the country. 

“In support of this effort to reduce 

NRW, the AfDB is administering 

funding for the second 

phase of the Urgent Water Supply 

and Sanitation Rehabilitation 

Project (UWSSRP) with a total 

fund of US$ 35,99 million from 

multi donor trust fund [Zim-Fund] 

which has been running since 

2010,” said Nyakutsikwa. 

He said this phase was formulated 

to further the benefits and 

impacts of the first phase of the 

UWSSRP and include aspects not 

included in the first phase of the 

project. 

“The proposed second phase project 

is being implemented in Harare, 

Chitungwiza, Ruwa and Redcliff 

serving an estimated population 

of 1,9 million people. The project 

aims to protect public health 

through the improvement of service, 

preservation of physical assets, 

resuscitating capacity and 

improving financial sustainability 

of the water and sanitation service 

providers,” said the official. 

He said chronic water losses 

have been the hallmark of urban 

Zimbabwe’s water management 

over the decades, as witnessed 

by the many visible permanent 

and temporary leaks all over the 

towns and cities. 

“This may not have mattered 

much during an era of assumed 

plenty but the rapid growth of 

Zimbabwe’s cities has meant 

that there is much less water to 

go around now in the urban centres. 

Reducing these water losses 

is critical to efficient resource utilisation 

and water utility management, 

enhanced consumer satisfaction, 

and postponement of capital-intensive 

additions to capacity,” 

said Nyakutsikwa. 

He said most cities in the country 

were facing critical water 

Residents fetch water from a pool formed after a pipe burst in Kuwadzana... Most councils are losing a large proportion of water in 

their distribution networks. Picture: Aaron Ufumeli 

shortages. 

“Facing ever-increasing urban 

populations and expanding service 

areas, many water utilities 

continue to struggle with providing 

clean drinking water to 

their consumers. Common water 

supply problems in our cities 

and towns are related to the 

sources and use of raw water, intermittent 

supply, and the quality 

of tap water at the consumer’s 

end,” said Nyakutsikwa. 

He said most water utilities 

do not have adequate monitoring 

systems for assessing water 

losses. 

“The result is that data on NRW 

is usually not readily available. 

Even when data is available, it is 

not always reliable, as some poorly 

performing utilities may practise 

“window dressing” in an attempt 

to conceal the extent of 

their own inefficiency,” said Nyakutsikwa. 

He said there was need to improve 

the water infrastructure 

and reduce the water losses. 

“The desired reduction in NRW 

is to have it below 20%. However, 

the vast majority of local authorities 

are not engaging in serious 

and professional NRW management,” 

he said. 

He bemoaned the infrastructure, 

which in most cases still remains 

in a poor state, unable to 

provide adequate water to the 

population and posing a threat 

of the return of the dreaded water-borne 

diseases. 

Zimre Holdings suffers US$0,11m first-half loss 

BY VICTORIA MTOMBA 

ZIMRE Holdings Limited (ZHL) posted 

a loss after tax of US$113 627 for 

the six months ended June 2014 from 

a profit of US$2,4 million, weighed 

down by a loss recorded in its agricultural 

associate. 

In a statement accompanying 

the group’s financial statement, 

ZHL chairman Benjamin Kumalo 

said the economy has continued to 

operate at suboptimal levels, characterised 

by limited capital inflows, 

depressed demand, company 

closures, high cost of funds and 

underperforming exports. 

“The period under review has 

been very challenging and the 

group performance was adversely 

affected by the slowdown in 

economic growth. A loss after tax 

for the period to 30 June 2014 of 

US$0,11million was recorded compared 

to a profit of US$2,39 million 

in the same period last year. 

“The group’s share of the loss on 

its agro-industrial associate operation 

of US$1,01 million had a negative 

impact on the overall performance 

of the group,” said Kumalo. 

A Gross Premium Written of 

US$41,23 million was recorded 

and was in line with what was 

recorded same period last year 

while domestic operations contributions 

stood at 52% during the 

period under review compared to 

60% the same period last year. 

“An operating profit of US$1,66 

million was achieved compared 

to US$2,87 million in the same period. 

The 42% decline in operating 

profit was mainly attributed 

to an increase in claims during 

the period under review,” Kumalo 

said. 

He said comprehensive income 

declined to US$0,72 million in 

2014 from US$1,58 million in 2013, 

with the financial position growing 

to US$160,77 million in June 

2014 from US$155 million in December 

2013. 

He said the macroeconomic environment 

was expected to remain 

challenging for the rest of 

the year and the group will monitor 

developments in the domestic 

and regional markets. 

“Disposal of non-core investments 

is still in progress. The 

group has intensified efforts on 

capital raising in order to enhance 

underwriting capacity and 

liquidity across operations. Cost 

cutting measures are also being 

implemented with a view to enhance 

group profitability,” he 

said.


Business 

Shamu bemoans lack of fixed line phones 

TelOne has opened 

outlets at Kamfinsa, 

Pomona and 

Westgate shopping 

malls 

BY TARISAI MANDIZHA 

Less than a tenth of households 

in Chitungwiza are 

connected to TelOne, a 

cabinet minister said last 

week, urging the stateowned 

operator to step up connections. 

Speaking at the official opening 

of TelOne client’s services shop at 

Chitungwiza Town Centre, Minister 

of Information Communication 

Technology, Postal and Courier Services 

Webster Shamu said 7 024 out 

of 87 103 households were connected 

to TelOne saying the company 

should bridge the gap. 

“We need to move in further for 

fixed lines to be available in each 

and every household. We want to 

uplift the standards of living in 

Chitungwiza, the whole of Zimbabwe 

and the whole of Sadc,” Shamu 

said. 

TelOne managing director 

Chipo Mtasa said the statistics 

have challenged the company and 

“we are ready to do work in Chitungwiza”. 

Shamu said the world was gearing 

towards a digital future where 

everyone was communicating via 

their computer, laptop or smartphone. 

He said ICTs were playing an instrumental 

role in transforming 

lives and government identified 

the sector as one of the pillars of 

the economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe 

Agenda for Sustainable 

Socio-Economic Transformation 

(Zim Asset). 

He however, said the move by 

TelOne to open a one-stop-shop 

was welcome as residents would 

benefit immensely from “affordable, 

reliable and superfast services” 

on offer. 

The new centre offers the provision 

of client services, bill payment, 

enquiries, ADSL top ups, 

a wifi hotspot and internet café, 

agent services for prepaid electricity 

vouchers on behalf of Zesa 

and an agent of NetOne’s One 

Wallet services, along with their 

products and services. 

TelOne chairperson Charles 

Shamu said TelOne has plans to 

open more outlets throughout the 

year. To date, TelOne has opened 

outlets at shopping malls such as 

Kamfinsa, Pomona and Westgate 

in Harare, he said. 

“We conducted an extensive 

feasibility study to better understand 

the business and residential 

communication needs of Chitungwiza. 

The town centre is also 

fast becoming a hive of activity 

and this necessitated us to open 

this outlet for the Chitungwiza 

community,” said Charles Shamu. 

He added that TelOne have completed 

a broadband project for 500 

households which complements 

the already existing network of 

approximately 2 300 households. 

Webster Shamu 

‘Investing in water 

averts global disaster’ 

BY MUSA DUBE 

THE Zimbabwe International Trade Fair 

(ZITF) company launched its inaugural Water, 

Sanitation, Hygiene and Energy (WASH- 

EN) 2014 expo in Bulawayo with a call for investments 

in the water sector to avert an impending 

global disaster. 

ZITF Chairman Bekithemba Nkomo said 

the global population was growing and there 

was need to invest in the water sector and 

augment the changes in the population size. 

“As global populations continue to grow, 

the impact of water scarcity will soon be 

acutely felt in our natural environment,” 

said Nkomo. “This has the potential to significantly 

impact global health, severely 

challenge agricultural production, limit industrial 

growth and most importantly, become 

a cause of conflicts among communities 

and nations. 

“Consequently, the development of innovative 

water infrastructure and technology 

that optimise and address the interdependence 

of water and energy will become increasingly 

important.” 

He said the water and energy systems are 

connected in some obvious ways, along with 

many subtle links. 

“It is essential to understand how these 

critical resources are interlinked and how 

they impact on each other,” said Nkomo. 

Most cities in the country especially Harare 

and Bulawayo, are grappling with a critical 

water shortage where residents sometimes 

go for days without the precious liquid. 

“On the other hand, climate change and the 

need to manage diminishing fossil fuel reserves 

are, today, two of the biggest challenges 

facing the planet and it is widely accepted that 

we must act now to reduce energy consumption 

and substantially cut greenhouse gases, 

such as carbon dioxide.” 

He said they were impressed by the expo, 

held under the theme, Innovative Solutions for 

Sustainable Development, after it managed to 

attract about 30 exhibitors. 

“We are excited about the latest addition 

to our stable of brands. The aim of the event 

is to provide a relevant platform to showcase 

best practice and a forum to discuss topical issues 

in water, sanitation, hygiene and energy,” 

said Nkomo. 

“The theme is reflective of the fact that access 

to clean water, adequate sanitation and 

hygiene as well as sustainable management 

are a pre-requisite for growing economy”. 

The two-day WASHen expo attracted the 

business community, industry, civic society 

leaders and policy makers. 

The launch of the WASHen expo brings 

to six the number of sector specific exhibitions 

that the trade fair company organisers 

host. 

The sector specific exhibitions under the 

trade fair include Mine Entra, A’Sambeni 

Africa Bus Tourism, Travel Expo and Pak 

Print.

Business 


The battle of African giants 

in the 

money 

with NESBERt RUwO 

Nigeria surpassed South africa as the 

largest economy in africa when the Nigerian 

National Bureau of Statistics published 

the revised size of Nigerian economy 

to about N81 trillion following it’s rebasing of 

the country’s gross Domestic Product (gDP), using 

the expenditure approach between 2010-2013. 

according to the World Bank, Nigeria’s 2013 

gDP of US$522,6 billion exceeds South africa’s 

US$350,6 billion by close to 50%. The rebasing of 

Nigeria’s gDP ranks Nigeria as the 26 th largest 

economy in the world, and the largest economy in 

africa. in comparison, South africa sits at number 

28 globally and second in africa. Has the african 

giant, South africa, fallen or has the real african 

giant awoken? 

Nigerians are however no richer than they were 

before the rebasing of the gDP numbers. Most Nigerians 

are still living on less than US$1,25 a day despite 

vast natural resources such as oil, a situation 

called a “resource curse”. Nigeria has a population 

of over 170 million. This dwarfs Nigeria’s gDP 

per capita (i.e. gDP divided by total population) of 

US$3 010 when compared to US$6 618 of South africa. 

On a per capita basis, Nigeria is now ranked as 

129 in the world while South africa is at 89. 

What’s important on the new look of Nigerian 

economy is how it has developed over the period 

from 1990 when a gDP rebasing was last done. The 

economy is now more diversified. The service sector, 

which comprises transportation, iCT, arts and 

entertainment, financial and insurance services, 

real estate, public administration, education and 

health services, accounts for 51% of gDP while agriculture 

contributes 21% to gDP. Service industries 

are booming. But manufacturing sector lags 

behind — it contributes 9%. iCT’s contribution 

sits at 10,4%. although oil and gas industry contributes 

12,9% to gDP, much of this oil and gas is 

not refined in Nigeria as shown by 0,5% gDP contribution 

by the refining industry. 

The picture is different from the South african 

economy structure. That economy is driven by financial 

services (21,6%), manufacturing (15%), 

public sector (13,6%) and the transport sector 

(12,5%). South africa has one of the most developed 

and regulated financial sector in the world, 

and very well-developed infrastructure compared 

to none in africa. it’s stock exchange, Johannesburg 

Stock exchange, with over 385 listed companies, 

has a market capitalisation of just over US$1 

trillion. Nigeria Stock exchange trails behind 

with a market cap of US$81 billion and 223 listings. 

From an investor perspective, country competitiveness 

is an important consideration before investment. 

The World economic Forum (WeF) in its 

2014-15 global Competitiveness report defines competitiveness 

as the “set of institutions, policies, and 

factors that determine the level of productivity of a 

country. The productivity level drives the rate of return 

on investments in a country.” 

WeF identifies what it calls the pillars for competitiveness 

namely: institutions, infrastructure, 

macro-economic environment, health and primary 

education, higher education and training, 

goods market efficiency, labour market efficiency, 

financial market development, technological readiness, 

market size, business sophistication, and innovation. 

in order to assess competitiveness, the 

WeF divided the 144 nations it surveyed into one 

of three classifications, depending on their stage 

of development, namely factor-, efficiency-, and 

innovation-driven economies. 

a country’s competitiveness and economic development 

is highly correlated with its gross Domestic 

Product. all of the 10 most competitive countries 

had among the 25 highest gDPs per capita last year. 

Despite being the largest economy in africa, Nigeria’s 

ranking slipped from 120 (2013) to 127 (2014). 

The key challenges facing Nigeria include infrastructure 

deficits, policy instability, corruption, and 

institutional weaknesses. Nigeria is still considered 

a factor-driven economy as it is still competing based 

on its natural resources. it is yet to develop an efficient 

production process and manufacturing base. 

Sa was ranked 56, which is a drop from 53 in 

2013. although Sa has developed into an efficiency-driven 

economy, it has to deal with its restrictive 

labour practices, ensure that its workforce is 

adequately educated, and curb government bureaucracy 

and corruption. 

While South africa sees itself as the “spring 

board” for international investors to expand into 

the rest of africa, Nigeria has the largest economy 

in africa with a huge market to be exploited. 

Policy makers within the two countries have to 

continue to accelerate structural and institutional 

reforms to improve competitiveness. Nigeria has 

a lot more to do to improve its competitiveness. 

However, it is expected to remain the largest economy 

in africa for the foreseeable future. 

To put the above numbers into the Zimbabwean 

context: 

Zimbabwe has a gDP estimated at US$13 billion 

and gDP per capita of US$905. Zimbabwe 

Stock exchange has 61 listed companies with a total 

market capitalisation of US$6 billion, giving a 

market capitalisation to gDP multiple of 50%. The 

WeF consider Zimbabwe as a factor-driven economy 

and ranked it 124 out of 144 countries. 

• Nesbert Ruwo is an investment banker 

based in South Africa. He can be contacted on 

nesr@opportunvest.co.za 

South African mine workers march for higher pay (file picture) — Reuters


Business 

When a business plan goes off rail 

sme’s 

chat 

with phillip chichoni 

EvEryonE has a plan, till they get 

punched in the mouth. —Mike TysonMike 

Tyson (pictured 

right) is one of the 

best heavyweight 

boxing champions 

of all time. During 

his career, he was known for his ferocious 

and intimidating boxing 

styles. In one of his most famous 

fights, Tyson defeated skilled heavyweight 

champion Michael Spinks 

by a knockout in just 91 seconds. 

When asked recently about the 

origins of his famous quote mentioned 

above, Tyson said, “People 

were asking me [before a fight], 

what’s going to happen.” 

They were talking about his opponent’s 

style. “He is going to give 

you a lot of lateral movement. He 

is going to dance. He is going to do 

this, do that.” 

Tyson then replied, “Everybody 

has a plan until they get hit. Then, 

like a rat, they stop in fear and 

freeze.” 

The boxer’s quote applies far beyond 

the world of boxing. In business, 

when your plan is working 

there is little to worry about. However, 

wait until something goes 

wrong, as so many things are doing 

in our chaotic environment. 

Customers are cutting on spending, 

debtors are slow in paying and 

lack of liquidity is the talk of the 

town. Some are having it worse, 

with clients that owe them lots of 

money falling into bankruptcy or 

simply closing shop. 

Economic disasters have been 

happening for various reasons 

throughout the centuries. What is 

important to note is that those who 

survived were defined, not by the 

disaster, but by their reaction to it. 

A business strategic plan is 

not a fixed path to a destination. 

Rather, it is a dynamic set of tactics 

that you use to reach a defined 

goal. It must therefore be flexible 

in the face of unpredictable external 

circumstances. Since you cannot 

foresee tomorrow, you need to 

plan how you will react to various 

events that may happen. You need 

to have a strategic plan that takes 

into account worst case scenarios 

and how you will ride through 

them. 

Here are some insights to consider 

in your strategic planning: 

•Diversify your customer base. 

If you are too dependent on one or 

two customers for the bulk of your 

sales, you are putting your business 

at risk if they run into financial 

difficulties. This is a lesson 

that too many entrepreneurs are 

now learning the hard way. 

•Don’t neglect your best customers. 

While it’s important to ensure 

you have the right mix of customers, 

it’s also wise to treat your best 

customers with extra attention. By 

nurturing relationships with key 

customers and building their loyalty, 

entrepreneurs can grow along 

with them. It’s easy to make the 

mistake of being distracted by the 

most persistent or annoying customers. 

Your biggest customers 

are unlikely to be the “squeakiest 

wheel”. 

•Take a proactive approach to 

marketing. No product or service 

sells itself, especially not in a slow 

economy. Word-of-mouth marketing 

is not sufficient to grow a business. 

You need to define and promote 

your unique selling points. 

You should have a well-defined 

marketing strategy to push your 

business to potential customers. 

•Step back from the day-to-day 

to focus on strategic goals. While 

it can be easy to get lost in daily 

details and neglect your strategic 

plan, the consequences can lead to 

failure. It’s essential to keep your 

mission and values in mind as 

day-to-day operating decisions are 

made. Know what your strengths 

are, what you want to achieve and 

how you plan to get there. Keep 

your business plan documented, 

updated and shared. 

•Foster a positive attitude in 

your staff. Everyone within the organisation 

needs to be trained and 

coached to understand the company’s 

strategy and to proactively 

promote the business at every opportunity. 

When hiring, look for 

people with the right qualifications 

and also the right attitude. 

If you can’t change people’s attitudes, 

you may have to change the 

people. 

•Consistently monitor assets 

as well as profits. Most entrepreneurs 

are very focused on managing 

the bottom line by monitoring 

sales, gross margin and expenses, 

but they often ignore asset management, 

especially cash flow. For 

a better bottom line, keep an eye 

on asset and cash flow management 

to build net worth. Balance 

short-term and long-term needs 

with short and long-term sources 

of funds. If you foresee problems 

on the horizon, talk to your bankers 

early. Never surprise them 

with bad news. 

•Balance the entrepreneurial 

approach with sound analysis. 

Maintain the enthusiasm and 

spontaneity to react quickly, but do 

your homework and base decisions 

on facts, not just feelings. Watch 

market feedback and analyse the 

facts. Don’t stick with what works 

until it stops working. Be aware 

of the warning signs. Evolve and 

grow by optimising systems and 

installing best practices and latest 

technologies. 

So, when things go awry, do not 

panic or give up, think of the tactics 

in your strategic plan and act. 

Above all, always have a positive 

attitude as things are rarely as bad 

they look at first. 

• 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 

20 th 

BRAND MASTERS

Africa News 

The Standard Spetember 28 to October 4 2014 21 

No kisses, handshakes in Liberia 

FAMILIES and communities have been 

devastated by the deaths caused by West 

Africa’s Ebola outbreak. But the disease 

also has consequences for the region’s 

way of life, and in particular their traditional 

greetings. 

One of the things the people of West Africa are 

very good at is greeting each other. In most of the 

region’s countries it would be positively rude to 

exchange a passing, British-style “Hello, how are 

you?” and walk on. 

In West Africa the normal thing to do would be 

to stop, reach out one hand, or even two, shake 

warmly and then embrace. 

This is followed by much backslapping, more 

handshaking on points of agreement and even 

the odd high five. 

It’s what children do, it’s what men do, it’s what 

elderly ladies do. 

Well, not any more. Ebola is spread by contact 

with bodily fluids, so these days people shun contact 

with others — including handshakes. 

Of course, the worst impact of this disease has 

been on those who have contracted it, and their 

loved ones. But the end of shaking hands has affected 

everyone, everywhere in the region. 

The country that’s been worst affected by Ebola 

— with the most deaths — is Liberia. 

After President Barack Obama announced the 

US would be sending 3 000 troops to oversee the 

building of new treatment centres and help train 

medical staff in the country, Liberian President 

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf broadcasted a “Thankyou” 

speech to the US. She also told Liberians: 

“Ebola will not defeat us.” 

President Johnson Sirleaf had earlier said the 

disease was damaging Liberians’ way of life. One 

thing she was surely referring to was the unusual 

Liberian handshake. 

It’s been called the “Liberian finger snap”. If 

that sounds painful, it isn’t. But it is rather tricky 

to master. 

The finger snap involves clasping hands in the 

normal way. But then — as the hands are released 

— each partner clicks the fingers of the other. 

This produces two loud snapping sounds. 

It’s something of a point of honour to make the 

pair of snaps as strong — and therefore as loud — 

as possible. The louder the snaps, the greater the 

friendship. But not any more. 

I’ve visited Liberia many times, and I find it impossible 

to imagine the country without a soundscape 

of finger snaps. If I, as a foreigner, feel that 

way, I can’t begin to imagine how odd the lack of 

handshaking must feel for a Liberian. 

It’s the same across the whole region. In 

French-speaking parts of West Africa, the traditional 

greeting of three kisses on the cheek has 

stopped too. 

It’s as if this terrible disease, not content with 

killing thousands of people, wants to rip the beating 

heart out of a naturally friendly, and communally-minded, 

population. 

Something similarly shocking took place last 

weekend in Liberia’s neighbour, Sierra Leone 

which has been devastated by Ebola. 

In an effort to stop the spread of the disease, the 

authorities ordered a nationwide three-day lockdown. 

Everyone was supposed to stay in their 

homes while health workers mounted a nationwide 

door-to-door check to seek out anyone infected. 

The operation is fraught with difficulties and 

dangers. In the first place, it’s far from clear if Sierra 

Leone has enough qualified health professionals 

to visit every house and hut in the land. 

Or what they will do if they find potential patients 

— the treatment centres are already full to 

overflowing. 

The Sierra Leone government says the desperate 

situation requires desperate measures. But, 

even if the lockdown works, it’s another example 

of Ebola changing a country’s very way of life. 

Most of its population are very poor. Many work 

as street traders or day labourers. Very few people 

have large stocks of food in their cupboards, 

and only a minority have luxuries like fridges. So 

they simply have to go out every day to work and 

shop — otherwise their families will not get fed. 

Of course those worst affected by Ebola are 

the sick, the dying and their families. But everyone 

is being touched in other terribly important 

parts of their lives, however seemingly mundane 

— from the simple handshake to doing the shopping. 

The president of Liberia said in her speech: 

“We are fighting against Ebola. We will win.” 

If and when this happens, one of the most precious 

things West Africans get back will be the 

ability to shake hands again. 

— BBC News 

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International News 

Westgate attack 

haunts Kenyans 

Nairobi — A year on 

from the assault by Islamist 

militants on 

the Westgate shopping 

centre in Nairobi, Kenyans 

still have questions about the 

four-day siege and its aftermath. 

It was the worst attack on Kenyan 

soil since the 1998 US embassy 

bombing by al-Qaeda — leaving 

67 people dead and more than 200 

wounded. 

The military, police and spy 

agency have been battling to save 

face over the handling of the rescue 

operation. 

Here are five key issues that remain 

unresolved: 

1) Was the rescue bungled? 

Initially, the police and members 

of the public tried to repel 

the attack. 

As hours went by, the government 

sent in the military. Rivalry 

between the two forces started 

when a commander of the police 

elite squad was killed in friendly 

fire by the military. 

The changeover angered the 

police and they left in protest 

as the army took control of the 

building. 

A military commander involved 

in the operation, who spoke on 

condition of anonymity, said 

that is when things started to go 

wrong. 

“We entered the mall blindly 

with no guide, with no concept of 

anything. Command and control 

was not there,” he said. “The police 

felt they were undermined. 

The military thought the police 

didn’t want to give them enough 

information so everything went 

wrong.” 

2) Attackers — who were they and did 

they die? 

Somalia’s al-Qaeda affiliate, al- 

Shabab, said it had attacked the 

mall because Kenya sent troops to 

Somalia to bolster the UN-backed 

government. 

Kenya’s military spokesman 

named four of the gunmen as Abu 

Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, 

Khattab al-Kene and Umayr. 

“I confirm those are the names 

of the terrorists,” Major Emmanuel 

Chirchir tweeted at the time. 

All four were said to have 

crossed over the border from Somalia 

before the attack. 

It is thought the names given 

by the military may be noms de 

guerre as one of the gunmen was 

subsequently identified as Hassan 

Abdi Dhuhulow, a 23-year-old Norwegian 

citizen of Somali origin. 

Recovered remains of the alleged 

attackers are still undergoing 

forensic tests by the FBI. 

Kenya’s chief pathologist Johannes 

Oduor, who was part of 

the team initially examining 

them, says he was unable to confirm 

if the bodies were those of 

the attackers. 

“I am still waiting for the report,” 

he says. 

Ole Lenku says the report on forensic 

analysis samples may be 

able to answer these questions. 

“Until we get it we can’t give 

any concrete information on their 

identities to establish their names 

and nationalities.” 

3) What happened to the inquiry? 

President Uhuru Kenyatta 

promised to form a commission 

of inquiry to investigate the attack 

and any failings by security 

agencies. But to date nothing has 

Civilians flee from the Westgate Mall in Kenya last year 

happened. 

“We did promise, but parliament 

took up the process and did their 

best and came up with a report 

that actually necessitated a number 

of actions towards improving 

the country’s security,” Ole Lenku 

says. 

But no-one was sacked or held 

responsible as a result of the MPs’ 

report, released in March. 

Security analysts say a public 

inquiry into Westgate could have 

been embarrassing. 

The parliamentary investigation 

was a way of protecting the 

military, which had been criticised 

following allegations that 

soldiers looted shops in Westgate, 

they say. 

China must close suicide ‘loophole’ 

for corrupt officials — Academic 

President Xi Jinping 

Beijing — China must close 

the “judicial loophole” of suicide 

for corrupt officials in 

its ongoing battle against graft, a 

well-known scholar has said. 

President Xi Jinping has vowed 

to target high-flying “tigers” as 

well as lowly “flies” in an anti-corruption 

drive that has ensnared 

many high-ranking officials, including 

the powerful former domestic 

security chief, Zhou Yongkang, 

and Jiang Jiemin, once the 

top regulator of state-owned enterprises. 

In a commentary, Lin Zhe, a professor 

of anti-corruption studies 

at the ruling Communist Party’s 

Central Party School, said corrupt 

officials use suicide as a tool 

to evade punishment by the party’s 

anti-graft authorities. 

Corrupt officials who kill themselves 

can “preserve their titles 

and honour” as well as their illgotten 

gains, which remain in the 

hands of their families, she added. 

“Considering the astonishing 

sums of money an official can obtain 

through corruption, that’s a 

good deal for them and their families,” 

Lin said. 

Just 37% of officials who commit 

suicide actually suffer from 

psychological or other pressure, 

Lin said. 

Some officials may kill themselves 

to avoid becoming witnesses 

in bigger cases, she added, saying 

authorities in China must 

take measures to “close that loophole”. 

“It might be difficult to change 

the principles, such as ending 

prosecution against dead suspects, 

but at least disciplinary 

investigations should continue 

against them, and dig deep into 

their background,” she said. 

“Only when corrupt officials realise 

that committing suicide will 

no longer protect their illegal income 

will they give up the idea.” 

Zhou, who was a member of the 

Politburo Standing Committee — 

China’s apex of power — retired 

in 2012. —Reuters 

4) What about the looting? 

The military was accused of looting 

when CCTV footage emerged 

showing soldiers carrying bags 

out of the shopping centre. 

When merchants returned to 

Westgate they found most of their 

shops had been vandalised. 

Pictures circulating on social 

media revealed shelves, cash drawers 

and safes broken into. 

The government said the soldiers 

with carrier bags were helping 

themselves to water from a supermarket 

to quench their thirst 

during the operation. 

In October, two soldiers were 

named, charged and jailed for the 

looting. 

Victor Otieno and Victor Ashihundu 

were court-martialled but 

their sentences have not been 

made public. 

They were allegedly found in 

possession of mobile phones, cameras 

and battery chargers. 

5) What has happened with 

compensation? 

The government promised to 

pay compensation to survivors 

and help settle their medical bills. 

But those contacted by the BBC 

say this has not happened. 

“It’s been tough because I don’t 

have any income,” says Anne 

Moraa, a manager of a shop selling 

handbags in Westgate, who 

was trampled as she tried to escape. 

She had to pay her own hospital 

YANGON — Myanmar’s army released 

109 children from its military 

ranks last week in its single 

biggest discharge of child 

soldiers, but boys are still being 

illegally recruited from poor families, 

the United Nations said. 

Myanmar has for years been 

listed among countries where 

children have been recruited to 

fight — both by government forces 

and rebels. 

The military ran the country 

for 49 years and was condemned 

internationally for human rights 

abuses, including the use of child 

soldiers. 

Bertrand Bainvel, head of the 

UN Children’s Fund in Myanmar, 

said the military wants to professionalise 

its ranks and the presence 

of child soldiers may block 

military cooperation with countries 

that could provide assistance. 

A reformist, semi-civilian government 

that took over in 2011 

has been working with the United 

Nations to get children out of the 

military. It has released 472 services 

since June 2012 including last 

week’s discharge, which was the 

largest yet, according to the United 

Nations. 

“There is a commitment by the 

Tatmadaw to have this practice 

eradicated from its ranks,” said 

Bainvel, referring to the military 

by its traditional name. 

Bainvel said recruitment continues 

at a decreased rate and that 

most young recruits come from 

bills. She is continuing to pay for 

counselling as she is too traumatised 

to go into any shopping centre. 

“We have been waiting for the 

government to compensate [us] 

— I haven't seen anything yet,” 

Moraa says. 

“After Westgate many people 

went to hospital, the government 

didn’t follow them up. There is no 

support group for survivors.” 

A military officer injured by 

a grenade thrown by one of the 

militants says he is also waiting. 

The grenade killed two of his colleagues. 

“I have not been compensated. 

Neither have the families of those 

soldiers that died in the attack. I 

have not been told anything. Maybe 

it’s in the process and has not 

been communicated to us,” said 

the soldier, who is still receiving 

treatment for his injuries. 

Ole Lenku said he could not 

comment on these cases. 

“I know the concern has been 

raised but it involves a lot of variables,” 

he said. 

—BBC 

Myanmar army releases more child soldiers 

A child soldier from an ethnic armed 

group in Myanmar 

poor families seeking the income 

that a son in the army can provide. 

Recruiting most often takes 

place in the two largest cities, Yangon 

and Mandalay, and is often facilitated 

by civilian brokers who 

forge identification documents, 

making it difficult to determine 

how many child soldiers remain 

enlisted. 

“This is a big question and 

there’s no way to say for sure how 

many there are,” Bainvel said. 

The United Nations said seven 

ethnic minority guerrilla forces, 

which have fought or are still 

fighting the government, were 

also using child soldiers. 

—Reuters

International News 


US Secret Service caught napping 

By Tara McKelvey 

The recent break-in at 

the White house makes 

the US Secret Service 

look terrible. It also 

sheds light on an agency 

that operates largely behind the 

scenes. 

People in Washington have advice 

for those guarding the White 

house. 

Lock the door, said a US congressman, 

Mike Rogers, on CBS’s 

Face the Nation. 

Recently, a man later identified 

as Iraq War veteran Omar Gonzalez 

climbed a fence, ran more than 

60m (197ft) and made it through 

the North Portico door. 

One former Secret Service officer 

who asked not to be identified 

(“I’m a private person,” he says) 

is as puzzled as anyone about his 

former colleagues — and “how 

hapless they seemed”. 

he says he’s spent “many 

hours” standing at the North Portico 

door. he wonders how Gonzalez 

made it that far. 

“I’m at a loss to explain why somebody 

didn’t tackle him,” he says. 

Gonzalez was captured — once 

he got inside. he had a knife and 

800 rounds of ammunition in a 

car parked blocks away, according 

to authorities. 

Luckily no-one got hurt. Still the 

breach of security marked a new 

low — the first time an intruder 

had made it into the building. 

Uniformed officers guard the White House premises. Picture: Getty images 

Security has been beefed up 

over the past several days. Three 

white SUVs were parked near the 

North Portico door on Monday. In 

addition, visitors were screened 

more carefully than usual. Some 

were turned away. (I was, for a 

time, the result of a clerical error 

during my accreditation). 

One can hardly blame the officers 

for being extra-vigilant. 

The incident with the “wall 

jumper”, as Gonzalez is known at 

the White house, draws unwanted 

attention to the Secret Service — 

again. Over the past several years 

they have been caught in a series 

of sex scandals and drunken escapades. 

There are other problems, too. 

In recent years those who work 

at the Department of homeland 

Security, which oversees much 

of the Secret Service, have suffered 

from a high attrition rate. 

The Washington Post reports the 

workforce has “abysmal morale”. 

An internal review of the Secret 

Service is now underway 

— commissioned because of the 

break-in. The review will include 

“an assessment about whether or 

not additional staffing is needed”, 

White house press secretary Josh 

earnest told reporters. 

In addition, he says, the Secret 

Service has increased “training 

for officers who are essentially 

standing on the front lines of the 

White house”. 

People who work at the Secret 

Service defend their record, saying 

the agency handles security for big 

events such as the recent US Africa 

Leaders Summit, a gathering of 40 

African heads of state in Washington, 

and the United Nations General 

Assembly in New York. 

“You’re seeing a lot of successes 

and a lot of hard work,” says 

spokesman Brian Leary, “some of 

which is in the media and some of 

which is not.” 

Protecting the White house is a 

particularly hard assignment. 

One of those on the front line — 

a man with sandy-coloured hair 

who checks IDs — has a deep tan, 

except for splotches around his 

eyes, protected by Oakley-style 

sunglasses. he and other officers 

spend hours hunkered down in 

guardhouses or standing in the 

sun, watching the premises. 

One retired officer says, “Over 

a period of 20-something years it 

beats you down. I’ve got bad hearing, 

an aching back — it’s a tough 

job.” 

These officers try to make sure 

dangerous people are kept out — 

and guests are allowed in. The 

president entertains swanky visitors 

at home, many of whom need 

extra security. In addition, thousands 

of tourists walk through 

the front door. 

White house officials say 

they do not want to overwhelm 

the place with security. If officers 

were lined up on the lawn, it 

would look like a fortified US embassy 

rather than “the people’s 

house”, as earnest puts it, in the 

nation’s capital. 

Still some concessions have 

been made. The front door, says 

earnest, is now locked. 

— BBC News Magazine

24 The Standard September 28 to October 4 2014

Sport 


From World Cup 

to Namibian Cup: 

Six marathon 

penalty shootouts 

The length of Tuesday’s penalty shootout 

equals that of a 2011 Football League Trophy 

first-round tie between Dagenham & 

Redbridge and Leyton Orient 

Rickie Lambert regularly scored penalties when he played for Southampton, as above, but missed one in the FA Cup’s longest-ever 

shootout back in 2001 

LiverpOOL came out on 

top in a dramatic penalty 

shootout to beat Middlesbrough 

and progress to the fourth 

round of Capital One Cup on 

Tuesday night. 

Their 14-13 victory after a 2-2 

draw equalled an english record 

in professional football, but it still 

had some way to go to beat the 

longest on record. 

BBC Sport looks at six similarly 

dramatic, and lengthy, penalty 

shootouts. 

“I didn’t think a save would be made” 

The length of Tuesday’s penalty 

shootout equals that of a 2011 

Football League Trophy firstround 

tie between Dagenham & 

redbridge and Leyton Orient. 

On that occasion, 27 penalties 

were successfully converted before 

Orient defender Ben Chorley 

saw his second spot-kick saved by 

Dagenham keeper James Shea to 

hand the latter a 14-13 win. 

“it didn’t look like a save was 

going to be made. it’s our number 

one penalty-taker that’s missed 

the opportunity and probably the 

one you would put your money 

on,” said Orient manager russell 

Slade. 

Lambert’s penalty miss 

Liverpool striker rickie Lambert 

developed a reputation as a 

penalty specialist at previous club 

Southampton. 

However, back in 2001, he 

missed a spot-kick in what is still 

the longest shootout in FA Cup 

history. 

Fortunately for Lambert, it was 

not a decisive miss as the side he 

played for at the time, Macclesfield, 

went on to beat Forest Green 

11-10. 

His was the second penalty, but 

with Forest Green’s Alex Meechan 

also missing his side’s second 

spot-kick, both teams went on to 

successfully convert their penalties 

until Lee Glover converted after 

Kevin Langan missed to send 

Macclesfield through. 

England’s penalty woe (again) 

england being the losing side 

in a penalty shootout is nothing 

new in football, but their semi-final 

exit at the 2007 european Under-21 

Championship was particularly 

dramatic. 

Stuart pearce’s side were playing 

the Netherlands, and had led 

through Leroy Lita’s strike, before 

Maceo rigters scored an 89 th - 

minute equaliser for the Dutch. 

They ended extra-time with 

only nine fit players after all three 

substitutes were used — Nedum 

Onuoha was forced off and Steven 

Taylor played on, despite barely 

being able to walk because of a 

Anton Ferdinand missed England’s 13th penalty as they lost 13-12 to the Netherlands in the semi-final of the 2007 Euro U-21 

Championship 

knock. 

Somehow, they managed to 

keep going in a dramatic shootout 

that saw each side successfully 

convert 12 spot-kicks before Anton 

Ferdinand struck the bar with 

his second effort. 

On and on and on... 

in October 2013, players from 

Brockenhurst and Andover Town 

set a new record as they scored 29 

consecutive penalties in a shootout. 

The Hampshire Senior Cup 

match finished 0-0 after extra 

time, so went to spot-kicks. 

And after 29 successful attempts 

— a total confirmed by the Football 

Association as an english record 

— Andover’s Claudio Herbert 

missed. 

“i was excited but nervous,” 

said Herbert. “i never thought i’d 

have to take the 30 th penalty in a 

shootout. 

“i was just thinking ‘oh no, it’s 

going to be on Tv — i’m going to 

miss a penalty on Tv’. 

“i’ve been involved in penalty 

shoot-outs before, but nothing 

like this.” 

The longest of all 

The record for the longest penalty 

shootout came in 2005 when the 

Namibian Cup had to be settled by 

a record-breaking 48 spot-kicks. 

in that game, KK palace held 

their nerve to defeat the Civics 17- 

16 following a 2-2 draw in normal 

time. 

“We didn’t think it was a record 

but i am very proud,” Titus Kunamuene, 

head of competitions at 

the Namibian Football Association, 

told CNN in 2010. 

“But, really, at the end of the 

game everybody was more relieved 

than anything else.” 

Going the distance at the World Cup 

The first penalty shootout at a 

World Cup is also the equal longest 

in the tournament’s history. 

it came in 1982, when the semifinal 

shootout between West Germany 

and France went six rounds 

after the game had ended 3-3. 

Maxime Bossis saw his effort denied 

and Horst Hrubesch converted 

his penalty to give West Germany 

a 5-4 win in sudden death. 

Sweden beat romania by the 

same scoreline on penalties in the 

quarter-final of the 1994 World Cup. 

— BBCSport 

Alastair Cook decision a long-term risk 

THe selectors are taking a big 

risk by asking Alastair Cook to 

captain england in the Sri Lanka 

one-day tour and next year’s 

World Cup. 

National selector James Whitaker 

has given Cook his “100%” 

backing and praised his “fortitude” 

and “resilience” over a difficult 

summer, but those factors 

should have been irrelevant in 

their decision. 

The key considerations are 

whether Cook is the right man 

to captain the side in the World 

Cup and, crucially, whether he 

can withstand england’s crazy 

schedule and still be at the top of 

his game for the Ashes, which remains 

the key contest for most 

cricket fans. 

My preference would have been 

for Cook to be rested from the 

World Cup. This level of sport is 

extremely hard work and being 

captain brings all sorts of other 

pressures. 

After the disappointing one-day 

series against india, Cook will 

be under scrutiny from the very 

start of the Sri Lanka tour. 

There will be questions asked 

every match and if england are 

badly beaten that pressure will 

only intensify in the run-up to 

the World Cup. it would make for 

a very difficult build-up for Cook 

and the team, with lots of questions 

being asked. 

With Test series against West 

indies and New Zealand following 

straight after the World Cup, 

there is a real danger of Cook being 

mentally and physically exhausted 

by the time the Ashes 

come round next July, and that 

would be a huge shame for english 

cricket and its supporters. 

Cook, perhaps unsurprisingly, 

sees things differently. i spoke to 

him about 10 days ago and he absolutely 

assured me that he would 

be fine for the Ashes and beyond. 

He said leading england in the 

World Cup was the chance of a 

lifetime and pointed out that you 

are a long time retired. He knows 

he faces a huge task but he sees it 

as a massive challenge. 

He understands what we are 

saying but he doesn’t want to just 

stay at home this winter. He wants 

to go and win the World Cup for 

england for the first time — and 

Alastair Cook to captain England in the Sri Lanka one-day tour and next year’s World 

Cup 

you have to admire him for that. 

The decision has been taken 

now so all we can do as england 

supporters is wish him well and 

hope it all works out. 

Beyond Cook, the biggest talking 

points in the 16-man touring 

party are the recalls for James 

Taylor and ravi Bopara and the 

omission of Gary Ballance. 

The Taylor call makes perfect 

sense. He brings a lot of runs with 

him and a lot of experience from 

county cricket. He can innovate 

and has a good solid technique. 

He is small and powerful which 

is a hard combination to bowl at 

because you have to change your 

lengths. 

Bopara will have been surprised 

to have been left out in the 

one-day internationals against india. 

He has lots of international 

experience and gives them a useful 

bowling option on top of his 

batting. 

i’m a bit disappointed Ballance 

is not in the squad. He was one 

of the big success stories of england’s 

summer and really has 

something about him. He has a 

good tight defence but he can open 

up and go through the gears as he 

showed when he reached his first 

Test hundred with a six at Lord’s. 

As Whitaker was keen to stress, 

Ballance will still have a chance 

to force his way into the World 

Cup plans, and several members 

of the england performance programme 

will have similar aspirations. 

Nonetheless, england will be 

hoping that the Sri Lanka tour 

allows them to fine-tune their 

World Cup plans and get some 

morale-boosting wins under 

their belt. 

The Sri Lankans will have similar 

ideas and will be a fierce 

proposition on their own soil. 

For england to come home with a 

series win would be a significant 

achievement. — BBCSport


Sport 

My toughest decision ever — Grainger 

By September 23 2014 — the deadline 

enforced by GB Rowing if she wanted to 

attempt to qualify for Rio 2016 — the 

38-year-old had made up her mind, and 

reported for training 

When Katherine Grainger 

and Anna Watkins crossed 

the line to win gold at London 

2012, it provided one of the fairytale 

stories of the Games. 

The eternal bridesmaid with silver 

medals at each of the previous 

three Olympics, Grainger had finally 

hit the jackpot. 

She had finished what she started 

15 years before. She was an 

Olympic champion. 

So it was not entirely surprising 

that she took a break from the 

sport, using the time to finish her 

PhD in homicide, write a book, attend 

lavish awards ceremonies, 

take a holiday, and pursue a career 

as a presenter and analyst with 

BBC television. 

But during those two years away 

from rowing, the nagging question 

of whether she should return to the 

sport remained. Did she have the 

desire to try to do it all over again 

or was she happy with life after 

rowing? 

By Tuesday, September 23 2014 — 

the deadline enforced by GB Rowing 

if she wanted to attempt to 

qualify for Rio 2016 — the 38-yearold 

had made up her mind — and 

reported for training. 

When was a comeback on the 

cards? 

Last year, Grainger said she felt 

she and Watkins could go faster but 

the Glaswegian continued to keep 

her cards close to her chest with regards 

to her plans for the future. 

That decision was made harder, 

though, when in January Watkins 

said she would not compete at Rio 

and defend her title following the 

birth of her first child. 

“If Anna was back in a boat, it 

would have been an easy decision 

to make,” Grainger told BBC Sport, 

just moments after completing her 

first session in a single scull boat 

for more than two years at the GB 

Rowing hQ at Caversham. 

“I’ve agonised over this decision 

for a very long time. There was no 

one moment of ‘eureka’. 

“Some days, I would be driving 

and suddenly I would think ‘That’s 

me done, I’m never going to do rowing 

again. I’m ready for retirement. 

I’m prepared to walk away’. 

“Then 48 hours later, I’d be doing 

something else and suddenly think 

‘I want to go back, I can’t imagine 

why I wouldn’t’.” 

Then a year ago, she was involved 

in a women’s eight, made 

up of Watkins and GB Olympians 

from the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 

Games, most of whom had retired. 

Once a week, she would head out 

on the water again. “It was the only 

thing I did rowing-wise,” she said. 

“And it captured my love for it all 

over again. 

“It reminded me how lovely it is 

being with fellow rowers and how 

at a basic level, taking away the excitement 

of competing at an Olympics, 

rowing is a fantastic sport to 

be part of.” 

Watching her former team-mates 

compete in the World Championships 

in Amsterdam last month, 

where Grainger worked as an analyst 

for the BBC’s coverage, proved 

to be a key factor, too. 

She explained: “It made me realise 

what I was missing and that 

there was a hunger. There were 

some questions I couldn’t answer 

until I was back in a boat, which is 

why I am doing this.” 

What are the risks, fears and 

challenges of a return? 

Grainger has won a medal at 

each of the last four Olympics. 

That is an impressive record by any 

standards — and one that could be 

tainted if a comeback does not succeed. 

“I know how hard it is, this is 

not the easy option,” said Grainger. 

Watkins (left) told Grainger (right) in January she would not defend their Olympic title after the birth of her son 

“This is probably the toughest 

thing I’ve had to do in my career 

— to have a break and then come 

back. 

“I still have the same expectations 

I always had and that’s hard 

to live up to any day, never mind 

trying to do it after two years away. 

“There are risks — my health, my 

career, my well-being, my reputation, 

to name a few. But I have talked 

to a lot of people. They haven’t necessarily 

given me advice but rather 

their opinion. That way, I was able to 

make my mind up with plenty of information 

in front of me.” 

Among those she consulted was 

five-time Olympic champion Sir 

Steve Redgrave, Olympic champion 

Greg Searle — who spent a decade 

away from the sport before returning 

aged 38 to win bronze two years 

later in the men’s eight at London 

2012 — Watkins and former crewmate 

Cath Bishop. 

“They understood my dilemma,” 

she said. “And those conversations 

proved invaluable.” 

Why did you come back? 

Life in the two years away was 

good for Grainger. She was forging 

a career in television by working 

on the BBC’s rowing and Commonwealth 

Games coverage. 

In between that were opportunities 

to be a guest at celebrity events, 

write a book, pick up an honorary 

doctorate and just lead a normal 

life. 

“There’s a side to me which 

doesn’t understand why I want to 

come back, but there is an instinct 

that I do want it, and ultimately I 

followed that,” she said. 

“I’ll know very quickly if it isn’t 

for me. But if I never take those 

first few steps, I’ll always wonder 

‘What if ?’ To me that is harder than 

actually giving it a go.” 

GB Rowing has welcomed 

Grainger back to the team at a 

time when the women’s side of the 

squad is struggling. At the recent 

World Championships they won 

just one gold medal through helen 

Glover and heather Stanning, compared 

to the record-breaking three 

at London 2012. 

Grainger explained: “I had a chat 

with David [Tanner, GB performance 

director] and he said he was 

looking forward to it. 

“They are all aware of the challenge 

I will present and everyone 

is supportive of that — that’s a big 

thing for me.” 

What are the boat options and 

what is the goal? 

Realistically, Grainger has three 

boat combinations where she could 

slot in — the single, the quad and 

the double, in which she raced to 

victory in London. The single is arguably 

the toughest and most competitive 

boat class and although 

it would give Grainger more freedom 

in her training programme, 

it would be a tough challenge to 

take on just two years out from Rio, 

when she will be 40. 

The quad is a boat in which 

Grainger has twice achieved Olympic 

silver, but that second defeat, in 

Beijing, was tough to take as they 

were overhauled on the line by China. 

So, the boat brings with it some 

difficult memories. 

The double is one that two-time 

Olympic champion James Cracknell 

believes she will be perfect for 

if GB rowing chiefs are able to find 

a crew-mate to make a strong combination. 

“I have a lot of work to do,” said 

Grainger. “I have to get myself 

back to where I expect to be. Only 

then can I start asking who I want 

to row with because until I prove 

myself, no one is going to want to 

row with me.” 

The first glimpse of her progress 

will come on november 16 at the 

first GB winter trial of the season. 

“I’m not really making long-term 

plans,” she said. “A lot has to go well 

and fall into place. I have to get my 

fitness back, get my boat feel back 

and make sure I’m mentally where 

I want to be. 

“The end point would be going all 

the way through to Rio, but I’m not 

making a commitment to that one 

just yet.” 

— BBCSport 

Mourinho, Pellegrini: 

The latest great rivalry? 

MAnCheSTeR City’s meeting 

with Chelsea at etihad Stadium was 

a collision of the Premier League’s 

two current superpowers. 

The game ended with honours 

even between the two teams likely to 

be contesting the title when it reaches 

its decisive stage, and the 1-1 draw 

gave both City manager Manuel Pellegrini 

and Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho 

an indication as to how their 

seasons may unfold. 

Chelsea stay five points ahead of 

City and three points clear of second-placed 

Southampton — so what 

are the sub-plots that will accompany 

their fight for the title? 

The new Fergie v Wenger? 

Manchester City and Chelsea 

have the look of two clubs who will 

dominate the Premier League title 

race — and who will have a managerial 

rivalry to go along with it. 

Sir Alex Ferguson’s relationship 

with Arsenal manager Arsene 

Wenger in the “Pizzagate” years — 

which began when Ferguson was 

struck by flying foodstuffs hurled 

from Arsenal’s dressing room in 

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini (left) and Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho 

2004 — only truly thawed once the 

Gunners were no longer deemed a 

serious threat to Manchester United’s 

supremacy. 

And when Liverpool briefly 

emerged as a possible danger to 

United, what had started as a cordial 

relationship between Ferguson 

and Rafael Benitez degenerated 

swiftly, culminating in a famous 

monologue from the Spaniard bemoaning 

the Scot’s influence over 

officials and the game in general. 

Do we have the natural succession 

in the barely-concealed contempt 

between Manchester City’s 

Pellegrini and his Chelsea counterpart 

Mourinho? 

The relationship was already fractured 

from the days when Mourinho 

succeeded Pellegrini at Real Madrid 

and appeared to scoff at the fact that 

the Chilean then went to Malaga to 

rebuild the next phase of an excellent 

coaching career. 

And judging by their antics after 

Sunday’s draw at etihad Stadium, it 

is likely the pair will provide a running 

sub-plot to this season’s Premier 

League title battle. 

It was behaviour that did little 

credit to either man, who should 

have far more pressing issues to attend 

to as the season progresses. 

Mourinho performed his usual 

trick of getting the City’s manager’s 

name wrong with references to 

“Pellegrino”, while Pellegrini delivered 

a nonsensical barb about Chelsea 

playing like “a small team” — reviving 

memories of a Benitez insult 

aimed at everton after a goalless 

Merseyside derby at Anfield. 

The mischief of Mourinho is long 

in the making and is, according to 

his detractors, well-practised, but 

Pellegrini’s reputation is that of the 

measured, quiet man. 

Appearances can be deceptive, 

as those present when he lambasted 

the officials after last season’s 

Champions League loss at home 

to Barcelona, and after the recent 

draw at Arsenal, will testify. 

It is clear the Portuguese can 

get under his skin and you suspect 

Chelsea’s manager may take the opportunity 

to indulge himself further 

should the stresses of the title 

race increase. 

Lampard does Premier League a 

favour? 

Frank Lampard’s goal for Manchester 

City against the club he 

served with such distinction prevented 

Chelsea from opening up an 

eight-point gap over the Premier 

League champions, who are regarded 

as the team that will run them 

closest this season. 

The advantage may not have been 

a deal breaker in title terms but 

would certainly have established an 

imposing lead with arguably Chelsea’s 

toughest league fixture of the 

season out of the way, 

The Stamford Bridge club have 

still made an outstanding start, despite 

losing their 100% league record, 

and hold a three-point lead 

over Southampton. 

City are only five points behind 

and the suspicion remains that 

there is so much more to come from 

Pellegrini’s team, who also showed 

great spirit and resilience to come 

back from a goal behind following 

Pablo Zabaleta’s sending-off. 

As for Lampard, what a moment 

it was for the 36-year-old, who attained 

legendary status at Chelsea 

after becoming their all-time record 

scorer with 211 goals in 648 appearances 

before leaving and securing a 

move to new York City FC. 

The former england midfielder 

is on loan at City until January 

and demonstrated that plenty of his 

footballing faculties remain intact 

as he punished Chelsea for failing 

to track him into the area with five 

minutes left, a volley expertly slid 

beyond Thibaut Courtois providing 

the evidence. 

— BBCSport



Sport 

We want action, not promises 

The previous ministry, 

which also included 

education, arts and 

culture, had seen 

much of its budget 

channeled to 

educational needs, 

leaving little or 

nothing for sport 

There were huge celebrations 

in the sports family 

when it was announced 

that there would be a stand-alone 

Sports Ministry and honourable 

Andrew Langa was to head that 

ministry. 

From Zambezi to Limpopo, the 

talk in the streets, in bars and in 

homes was that sport was now 

going to receive the much-needed 

government financial support 

and the recognition it so deserved. 

The previous ministry, which 

also encompassed education, 

arts and culture, had seen much 

of its budget channelled to educational 

needs, leaving little or 

nothing for sport. 

The then Minister of education, 

Sport, Arts and Culture, 

senator David Coltart was 

straight to the point, saying 

sport was a luxury, making it 

clear that he would rather channel 

all his resources to education 

than to “entertainment”. 

But despite the huge expecta- 

insidesport 

with MICHAEL KARIATI 

Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Andrew Langa presenting the Sports Person of the 

Year award to rising tennis star Nicole Dzenga (left) on behalf of winner and tennis ace 

Cara Black. 

tions the new ministry created, 

nothing much has changed as 

sport continues to be second rated 

compared to other industries. 

Apart from the US$10 million 

that was all consumed by the 

Sport and recreation Commission, 

and a meagre US$80 000 forwarded 

to the Warriors during 

their participation at the Chan 

tournament in South Africa, 

there has been nothing to cheer 

about. 

The Zimbabwe National Boxing 

and Wrestling Control 

Board’s appeal for funds to set 

up a secretariat fell on deaf ears 

and the board has been using the 

home of vice-chairperson Lorraine 

Muringi for meetings. 

Worsening the situation is 

the fact that important documents 

have seen themselves in 

the boot of cars of board members 

while those who do not 

own vehicles have been moving 

around with them in their handbags. 

National teams continue to fail 

to travel for international engagements 

and the few who have 

managed to, have done so at the 

expense of a shoestring budget 

from the few companies that still 

associate themselves with sport 

as most now see no reason to get 

involved. 

What is disturbing is the fact 

that Minister Langa has taken to 

the same grandstanding, as did 

former minister Aeneas Chigwedere 

who in his speech at every 

sporting function always had 

a line that spoke about tax rebates 

to sport sponsors. But long 

after he left, nothing has come 

out of that. 

Langa has been preaching the 

same gospel of tax rebates to entice 

sponsors into sport, but one 

year down the line, the issue has 

not yet reached the doors of the 

cabinet. 

At the Annual National Sports 

Awards, the minister was bold 

enough to tell sporting associations 

that an audit was coming 

to all of them before funds could 

be allocated. 

The audit is still to be instituted 

and the money is still to percolate 

to those who need it. But 

the question is: Is the money 

there or will it ever be there? 

What we need from the minister 

is action, not promises. We 

need to see funds going to sporting 

associations for their developmental 

programmes and for 

the national teams to successfully 

participate internationally. 

The funds should be distributed 

to the associations according 

to their needs. Some sports, like 

cricket, do not need much as they 

receive funding from the International 

Cricket Council and from 

television rights. 

Yes, the Minister of Finance 

has the final say on who gets 

what. But it is the Sports Minister’s 

job to convince Patrick Chinamasa 

that sport, just like any 

other industry, deserves more. 

Yes, the Sports ministry is 

there, but it is only when the 

kick-boxing team, the taekwondo 

team, the basketball team or individual 

sportspersons start receiving 

funding from the government 

that we will take notice. 

So far, there has been nothing, 

and we are waiting for results. 

Zimbabwe’s Nations Cup bid 

September 30 marks the deadline 

for the submission of bids 

for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations 

to the Confederation of African 

Football. 

With two days to go, can the 

Zimbabwe Football Association 

tell us what our bid document 

is all about? We deserve to know 

what we are supporting. 

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WhatsApp on 077 3 266 779. 

Dynamos is a new 

phenomenon 

— Gumede 

DeMbare 

still to pay 

Eric Rosen 

By ouR STAff 

By BRIAn nKIWAnE 

AFTer taking charge of football administration 

at highlanders, veteran 

administrator Ndumiso “Yours 

Truly” Gumede left the club to join 

football administration at the highest 

level, Zifa, where he was in the 

board for more than 30 years. 

But after deciding not to seek reelection 

in the last Zifa elections, Gumede 

made a dramatic comeback to 

the club that gave him a grounding 

in football administration. 

his coming back has not been all 

that rosy. A monster called “Dynamos” 

which has dominated highlanders 

since 2006, the last time 

Bosso won the title under the guidance 

of Methembe Ndlovu, who is 

now director and coach at Bantu 

rovers awaited him. 

Standardsport hooked up with 

Gumede to try and find out what the 

club could be doing wrong that has 

allowed DeMbare to dominate them 

for the past eight years. 

From the look of things, highlanders 

lose the games even before 

getting into the field of play, prompting 

critics to suggest that Bosso 

needed to employ a psychologist. 

however, Gumede shot down suggestions 

that Bosso should employ 

a psychologist to deal with players’ 

mentality before such crucial 

games. 

“I am a psychologist myself. I 

studied psychology and sociology at 

the University of Zimbabwe where I 

finished in 1984. Are you telling me 

that because I am old then my qualification 

no longer works? What you 

are saying is true but remember 

we are second on the log table, four 

points behind DeMbare. It’s true 

we need someone to help our players 

mentally, but we cannot do that 

right now as we are bound to confuse 

our players. Maybe in the long 

run, preparing for next season we 

will have to consider that,” Gumede 

said. 

Gumede added that during his 

earlier spell at Bosso, the harare giants 

were far from being their closest 

rival. 

“To be honest with you, Dynamos 

is a new phenomenon to us. We have 

never been dominated by Dynamos 

like this in the past. We had better 

opponents that gave us a good run 

for our money and DeMbare was 

not anywhere near that,” said Gumede. 

he added; “Our biggest rivals 

were Zimbabwe Saints. At one point 

we had to play a Cup final match 

in harare but it was pitting highlanders 

and Zimbabwe Saints, both 

Highlanders Football Club Chief executive officer Ndumiso Gumede 

teams from Bulawayo because of 

the rivalry.” 

he however admitted that there 

are certain club rituals that players 

and coaches look down upon and 

might be contributing to some of 

the defeats. 

“We used to know that all team 

players including the technical 

team would not see a woman two 

days before a match until the match 

is played, ukuzila. This would force 

everybody to get into the match 

with that hunger which you will 

then vent on your opponent. But all 

this is gone.” 

Asked whether highlanders as a 

club had rituals that they do, Gumede 

dismissed any works of juju before 

adding that juju does not work 

in football. 

“If juju could work in football, 

countries like Nigeria and others 

could have won the World Cup so 

many times. In 1974, the then Zaire 

went to the World Cup with nine 

traditional healers (sangomas) who 

were only eating monkey meat but 

that did not even make a difference. 

Actually in their first match they 

were given a thorough beating by 

nine goals to no reply.” 

Gumede however admitted that 

they do believe in Christianity. 

“That is the reason why you see 

our players making a big circle 

just before kickoff to have a short 

prayer. Like what Dynamos do, 

they kneel down on the goal line 

to pray. I think you have seen that 

even our coach is an ardent Christian.” 

The heavily-built football administrator 

ended by warning DeMbare 

that this was just a passing 

phase. 

“This is just a passing phase. We 

will come for them. What we need 

is just to win one game and that 

will be over,” concluded Gumede. 

DYNAMOS Football Club and the 

Premier Soccer League (PSL) are 

still to settle a US$16 000 outstanding 

transfer fees for William Kupera 

to Motor Action owner eric 

rosen. 

The PSL represented by Mabwe 

and Partners at the magistrate 

courts on Thursday confirmed the 

court order and vowed to comply 

with the garnish order which they 

were handed last month. 

They made an assurance to pay 

rosen the outstanding transfer 

fees. 

PSL and DeMbare were given up 

to October 2 to make the payment. 

Dynamos acquired the services 

of Kupera back in 2009 from Motor 

Action during their time in the 

premiership. 

After making a part payment for 

the player, the then Farai Munetsi-led 

executive pledged to pay up 

the remaining transfer fees which 

they failed to do even after selling 

the player who featured only three 

times for the Glamour Boys to Kiglon. 

The transfers fees have since 

ballooned from US$8 000 to US$16 

000 as a result of accruing interests 

and legal fees. 

PSL have been dragged into the 

matter as they are the custodian of 

Dynamos FC.

Sport 


Zim can sneak 

into Super Eight 

— Mangongo 

With the World Cup still a good five months 

away, the national cricket team is already in 

camp preparing for the Bangladesh Tour where 

they will play three Test matches and five ODIs, 

while one eye is on the global showcase 

By MunyaradZi MadZokErE 

Zimbabwe cricket coach 

Stephen mangongo believes 

his team can cause a few upsets 

and sneak into the quarterfinals 

of the upcoming 2015 ODi 

cricket world Cup penciled for 

australia and New Zealand early 

next year. 

with the world Cup still a good 

five months away, the national 

cricket team is already in camp 

preparing for the bangladesh 

Tour where they will play three 

Test matches and five ODis, 

while one eye is on the global 

showcase. 

“i keep saying and i repeat that 

statistics don’t lie; we are number 

10 on the rankings and we 

have less than five months to put 

in hours of hard work if we are 

going to make an impression at 

the world Cup,” mangongo told 

Standardsport. 

“we want to do better than last 

time, we want to win a few games 

and make sure we don’t come 

home early. So our objective is to 

go there and be very competitive, 

surprise one or two big teams and 

‘sneak’ into the next round and i 

say ‘sneak’ because in reality we 

are well down the rankings,” he 

said. 

in his short tenure as national 

team gaffer, mangongo mas- 

terminded a famous three-wicket 

victory over world Cup hosts australia 

at Harare Sports Club last 

month, the first in 31 years despite 

the squad’s poor showing in 

the Tri-Series that also included 

neighbours South africa. 

“The win against australia was 

no fluke, it was a result of sheer 

hard work and it was very good 

for the players. Now they have 

confidence on their side, they believe 

they can beat anyone and 

hopefully we are going to have 

many more great moments in future,” 

he remarked. 

mangongo expressed satisfaction 

at the response of his players 

to his methods and work ethics, 

asserting that all the players 

ticked the boxes in the areas of 

hardworking, commitment and 

role playing. 

The former Takashinga and 

mountaineers trainer torched debate 

last month when he dropped 

leading batsman brendan Taylor 

from the team during an ODi 

Series against the Proteas in august 

and threatened to wield the 

axe on all underperforming senior 

players. 

He still contends that no-one is 

guaranteed a place in the team 

that will hoist the country’s flag 

in australia and New Zealand. 

“at the moment i don’t have an 

idea of who will be going to the 

Celebrating the famous victory . . . Zimbabwe national cricket team players join hands with fans to celebrate their victory over 

Australia in Harare recently 

world Cup. we are still a long way 

and everybody playing professional 

cricket in this country has 

an equal opportunity of going, 

but basically the performances of 

each individual in the coming fixtures 

will determine who goes,” 

declared mangongo. 

There are, however, areas that 

the coach feels need urgent redress 

in order to improve the 

team’s condition in fine-tuning 

for the world Cup. 

“we admit that our top order 

batting is a problematic area because 

we always find ourselves 

three wickets down after 10 overs 

in many matches, which is not 

good at all. we are still looking 

for the right combinations and we 

will continue to look until we find 

[it],” he said. 

Players such as Hamilton 

masakadza, brendan Taylor, 

Tino mawoyo, Sikandar Raza 

butt, Vusi Sibanda, Richmond 

mutumbami, Regis Chakabva 

and Sean williams have been 

tried in the top order in the 

last two months, albeit with 

very limited success. 

mangongo also spoke of the 

need to have more ODi matches 

especially after the bangladesh 

Tour to ensure that his 

players have adequate match 

practice in the run up to the 

world Cup. 

Zimbabwe are in Pool b of the 

2015 Cricket world Cup alongside 

South africa, india, Pakistan, 

Believing in his team . . . Stephen Mangongo 

west indies, ireland and the United 

arab emirates. 

They kick off their campaign 

against South africa on February 

15 2015 while their final 

group fixture is against india 

on march 14 and the top four 

teams will progress to the “Super 

eight”, quarterfinal stage of 

the competition. 

Dynamos to celebrate belated golden jubilee 

By MichaEl kariati 

DyNamOS have revealed they 

are going to celebrate a belated 

50 years of existence after failing 

to do so at the turn of their Golden 

Jubilee in 2013 due to the none 

availability of funds. 

The chairman of the club’s 

board of Directors, benard marriot 

Lusengo said it would not be 

proper to allow 50 years to just go 

by without remembering the good 

days they have gone through in 

the five decades. 

“we have achieved a lot in the 

past 50 years and the whole Dynamos 

family feels we need to go 

down memory lane. we are going 

to have a huge celebration day at 

the end of the season when there 

is no pressure,” said Lusengo. 

The chairman of the club’s 

marketing committee ignatius 

Pamire said they could not hold 

the celebrations during the qualifying 

year of 2013 as they did not 

have the funds. 

He revealed that with the little 

resources they had, it would 

have been unwise and unfair to 

do so when players were going for 

matches without receiving their 

Dynamos fan during a league match in Harare dressed in club’s regalia 

allowances or bonuses. 

“i hope the team will win the 

league championship as this will 

add glitter to the celebrations,” 

said Pamire, who at one time also 

served as club secretary before becoming 

chairman. 

at the moment, Dynamos lead 

the 16-team Castle Lager Premier 

Soccer League race with 43 points 

from 23 games, two ahead of second-placed 

ZPC Kariba, and four 

above bitter rivals Highlanders 

who host ZPC Kariba today. 

Should ZPC Kariba lose and 

Dynamos win against Shabanie 

mine, they will extend their lead 

at the top of the PSL tree. 

Pamire, who leads a fourmember 

team that also includes 

civil aviation consultant 

Lloyd Hunda, marketing executive 

Spencer manguwa, and car 

dealer enock Jokomo said the 

response from their financiers 

has been good, adding that they 

are still trying to tie one or two 

loose ends to ensure that everything 

is ready for the celebrations. 

Dynamos are without doubt 

the most successful team in 

Zimbabwean football. apart 

from the 21 league titles and 

countless knockout championships, 

the team has also been 

Zimbabwe and one of southern 

africa’s flag bearers in pan african 

football. 

in fact, they rank as the second 

most successful team from the 

southern african region, just behind 

Orlando Pirates of South africa. 

while Pirates won the then africa 

Cup of Club Championship 

title in 1995 and a CaF Champions 

League final place in 2012, 

Dynamos also reached the final 

of the Champions League in 

1998 and the semifinals 10 years 

later. 

That is not all.The Glamour 

boys, as they are affectionately 

known, went as far as the 

mini league stage of the CaF 

Champions League in 1999 and 

2010. 

Dynamos also produced arguably 

the greatest ever player to 

have graced Zimbabwean football 

stadiums in the form of 

George Shaya, a five-time Soccer 

Star of the year award winner. 

in Freddy mkwesha, who played 

in Portugal for 13 years, they also 

had the first Zimbabwean export 

to europe while the first player 

to ply his trade out of Zimbabwe 

also came from Dynamos in 

the form of Patrick Dzvene who 

in 1964 played for Ndola United in 

Zambia. 

Dynamos were formed in 1963 

when a group of players broke 

from the then white dominated 

Salisbury City and Salisbury 

United to form their own team 

with Sam Dauya as the first secretary 

of the club. Nercasio murambiwa 

who had heard of the 

Russian team Dynamo Kiev suggested 

that the team be called Dynamos, 

and in 1965 and 1966 won 

back to back titles. 

among that first group of players 

were the likes of marriot, 

Obediah Sarupinda, Dzvene, Jimmy 

Finch, Jairos banda, Richard 

Chiminya, Denver mahachi, Danny 

Thomas, Shacky Chitimbe, 

morrison Sifelani and Josia akende.


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Maridzo steps into the ring 

Maridzo and Shipeh met way back in 2007 

with the Zimbabwean systematically losing out 

after throwing in the towel in the third round 

of a scheduled six round contest 

By Michael Kariati 

SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwe’s 

own former World Boxing Organisation 

(WBO), Africa Super 

Middleweight champion Tineyi 

Maridzo will on October 4 step 

into the ring to challenge Namibia’s 

Wilberforce Shipeho in 

an eight round non-title contest 

at the Katutura Sports Centre in 

Windhoek. 

Maridzo was stripped of the 

WBO Africa title after he failed 

to defend it due to the none availability 

of promoters in Zimbabwe 

and Shipeho now holds the 

title although the two are squaring 

up in a non-title light heavyweight 

fight. 

Maridzo and Shipeho met way 

back in 2007 with the Zimbabwean 

systematically losing out after 

throwing in the towel in the third 

round of a scheduled six-round 

contest. 

Ironically, Shipeho is at the moment 

in South Africa preparing 

for the bout although it will be 

held in his home country. 

Although Maridzo has an impressive 

record of 13 wins and 

four losses, the Namibian has 

an equally good history. On top 

of the WBO Africa title he holds, 

he has also made attempts at the 

World Boxing Council (WBC)’s 

International light heavyweight, 

as well as the WBO International 

championships. 

Although he did not succeed, 

the WBC and the WBO do not offer 

such title cracks to boxers 

who have not proved themselves. 

The secretary general of the 

Zimbabwe National Boxing and 

Wrestling Control Board, Gilbert 

Munetsi said they have cleared 

Maridzo to go and fight as his 

papers are in order. “We have 

looked at the contract and we are 

happy,” said Munetsi. 

Maridzo won the WBO Africa 

title after cutting down to size 

South Africa’s Michael Schultz 

in only 87 seconds. Some boxing 

fans that were going to watch the 

bout did not even get the opportunity 

as it was over before they 

could find their way into the venue. 

He defended the title against 

the same opponent the following 

year, knocking down Shultz in 

the third round. 

Former Zimbabwe and Africa 

Boxing Union heavyweight 

title holder Proud Kilimanjaro 

Chinembiri (the late) holds 

the record of the quickest win 

in Zimbabwe after knocking 

Tineyi Maridzo knocked Mikey Schultz out for the second time during Neo Africa’s The Rematch held at Wembley Stadium in 

Johannesburg 

out Ringo Star in 29 seconds at 

Mucheke Stadium in Masvingo. 

Maridzo, like most of Zimbabwe’s 

top boxers, is based outside 

the country as there are no promoters 

with funds to bankroll international 

fights. 

Promoter Stalin Mau Mau was 

Keshi still hopeful for afcon 

straight forward, saying he cannot 

afford to fork out US$10 000 

to stage a tournament when his 

children do not have school fees. 

As a result, Zimbabweans have 

not had the opportunity to watch 

World Boxing Council International 

welterweight champion 

Charles Manyuchi in their own 

backyard. Manyuchi is now based 

in Zambia where he fights under 

Oriental Boxing Promotions. 

Manyuchi has also fought in the 

Democratic Republic of Congo, 

South Africa, Namibia, Botswana 

and Burkina Faso. 

Punters smile to the bank 

AFRICAN champions Nigeria 

surprisingly failed to win any of 

their first two games of 2015 Africa 

Nations Cup (Afcon) qualifying. 

The Super eagles were 

shocked 2-3 at home by Congo on 

match day one and followed that 

up with a 0-0 draw against South 

Africa in Cape Town. 

The handwriting was clearly 

on the wall. Large sections of 

the ever-insatiable Nigeria fans 

promptly forgot the heroics of 

eagles’ head coach, Stephen Keshi 

at the 2013 Afcon where he led 

the team to the title. 

To them, the “Big Boss” had 

run out of ideas and it was time 

to show him the exit. 

Keshi, however, called for calm 

heads. With four more qualifying 

games, and two at home 

against Sudan and South Africa, 

the former Mali and Togo coach 

believes the feat of taking Nigeria 

to the 2015 Afcon in Morocco 

is still achievable. 

Nigeria’s next two qualifiers 

are a double header against Sudan 

— in October. On Friday, 

September 26, Keshi named a 23- 

man squad for the matches. 

He then sat down with the Super 

eagles to explain why he decided 

to hand Victor Moses a recall 

after the recent snub of the 

Stoke City man. 

Keshi also revealed how Fernabahce 

striker, emmanuel emenike 

angered his teammates shortly 

before Nigeria’s game against 

Congo on September 6. 

The “Big Boss” also attempted 

to clarify the reasons behind 

the call up of several new faces 

like China-based Aaron Samuel, 

Sunday emmanuel, who plays 

in Austria, Hope Akpan of english 

side Reading and Anyora 

Ugonna, who plies his trade in 

Norway. 

He also spoke about the frustrations 

of working as head 

coach of the African champions 

without a contract. — Supersport 

Papiss cisse makes Senegal return 

SeNeGAL coach Alain Giresse 

has unveiled his list of players 

to face Tunisia in the upcoming 

third and fourth rounds of the 

2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying 

group stage, with Papiss 

Cisse retuning to the fold. 

The Newcastle forward did 

not feature in the Teranga Lions’ 

first two matches of the campaign 

won against egypt 2-0 and 

Botswana 2-0 due to poor form at 

his club, according to the French 

coach. 

West Ham’s Cheikhou Kouyate 

and Lamine Sane of Bordeaux 

surprisingly feature on the list despite 

their serious injury situations. 

Giresse did not give reasons 

for their inclusion. 

Senegal will host the eagles of 

Carthage in Dakar on October 10 

while the reverse fixture will take 

place in Monastir five days later. 

Both teams from Group G are 

on tie at six points, with Senegal 

leading on goal advantage. 

Squad 

Goalkeepers: Bouna Coundoul 

(ethnikos, Chypre), Lys Gomis 

(Trapani, Italy), Pape Demba Camara 

(Sochaux, France). 

Defenders: Kara Mbodj (Genk, 

Belgium), Pape Ndiaye Souare 

(Lille, France), Papy Djilobodji 

and Issa Cissokho (Nantes, 

France), Lamine Sane (Bordeaux, 

France), Zargo Toure (Le 

Havre, France), Cheikh Mbengue 

(Rennes, France). 

Midfielders: Alfred Ndiaye 

(Betis Sevilla, Spain) Idrissa Gana 

Gueye (Lille, France), Mohamed 

Diame (Hull City, england), 

Stephane Badji (Brann, Norway), 

Salif Sane (Hanover, Germany), 

Pape Kouly Diop (Levante, Spain), 

Cheikhou Kouyate (West Ham, 

england). 

Forwards: Sadio Mane (Southampton, 

england), Mame Birame 

Diouf (Stoke, england), Dame 

Ndoye (Lokomotiv, Russia), Moussa 

Sow (Fenerbahçe, Turkey), Papiss 

Demba Cisse (Newcastle, 

england), Demba Ba (Besiktas, 

Turkey). — Supersport 

By Michael Kariati 

THeRe were huge financial pickings 

for punters who placed their 

bets on the Merit Rated 60 Handicap 

at Borrowdale race course with 

the winning horse Queen Tara offering 

US$6,90 for every dollar 

placed for those who predicted she 

would win the race. 

The Cornie Spies trained filly 

was offering even more in the 

swingers giving out US$10.10 for 

her combination with second 

placed expeditious and US$9 when 

paired with third placed Purple 

Turtle, another fielding from Spies. 

The combination of expeditious 

and Purple Turtle gave out US$9,90 

in what was the highest paying 

race in the seven races carded for 

the second running of the season. 

Unlike Queen Tara and Purple 

Turtle who are from the Spies stable, 

expeditious is from the yard of 

champion trainer Lisa Harris. 

All the three top-placed horses 

offered good odds as they were not 

among the favourites with Queen 

Tara offering a selling price of 7/1. 

expeditious was at 30/1 while Purple 

Turtle closed at 14/1 

You’re So In Vain from the Ghokan 

Terzi yard which finished 

fourth was the overwhelming favourite 

for the race after closing at 

28/10 having opened betting at 2/1. 

With the placings offering 

US$3,20 and US$3,60 for the second 

and third placed horses, the 

Trifecta was at US$603.30 and the 

Quartet for which was supposed to 

also include fourth placed You’re 

So In Vain giving out a staggering 

US$1 434,80 for a dollar. 

This means a punter who placed 

US$10 in the quartet went home 

with US$14 348. Winning tickets are 

paid for immediately after the race 

when the dividends have been declared. 

The other races paid out moderate 

figures as they were won by 

obvious candidates with Casey’s 

Dance who was at 28/10 and Gentle 

Brook who was at 1/1 taking first 

and second positions in the main 

feature race of the day, the Sable 

Flyers. Their combination paid out 

only US$2,60 for a dollar. 

Three-year-old Sin Latigo who was 

at 4/1 took the Merit Rated Handicap, 

just ahead of Supa Dupa who at 

6/1 was among those tipped for the 

race. For the win Sin Latigo, another 

of the Spies horses, paid out US$4,80. 

Along with Supa Dupa in the swingers, 

the pair was down to US$4,40. 

Zimbabwe’s own Marumbala 

took the Merit Rated 80 Handicap 

followed by an 8/10 favoured On 

The Rock. The Graduation Plate 

was scooped by Alyson Wright’s 

Tallie Two who was 0,75 lens ahead 

of Iron Lady. The Maiden Plate for 

the sprinters which was run over 1 

100 metres belonged to Corne Offer 

who rode a 11/10 Will Pays to victory 

with a big gap of 6,00 lens ahead 

of Rawedge for what was the biggest 

distance win of the day. 

The punters, who fill betting 

houses to capacity with some of 

them flocking to Borrowdale race 

course for closer action, are hoping 

for increased dividends in all the 

races when the next running comes. 

The next race meeting will be on 

Sunday October 5, and the nominations 

will be released by the Mashonaland 

Turf Club tomorrow after 

the trainers have declared their 

horses for the third running of the 

season.

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Highlanders 

in make-orbreak 

tie 

Today’s match is a do-or-die for Kelvin 

Kaindu’s men as another loss means they will 

no longer catch up with the leading pack of 

Dynamos and ZPC Kariba 

By Brian nkiwane 

THE Castle Lager Premier 

Soccer League (PSL) enters 

home stretch this weekend 

with two of the top three teams 

— Highlanders and ZPC Kariba 

— clashing this afternoon in Bulawayo, 

while log leaders Dynamos 

are in yet another tricky encounter 

with relegation-threatened 

Shabanie Mine at Rufaro. 

After today’s matches, it will get 

easier to predict where the championship 

will go, considering both 

matches involving the top three 

this afternoon have a bearing on 

the championship race. 

Attention will be at Hartsfield 

in Bulawayo where Highlanders 

welcome high-riding ZPC Kariba 

in a make-or-break encounter. 

Bosso will be looking to restoring 

their tattered pride following 

last week’s agonising 1-0 defeat to 

Harare City. The Bulawayo giants 

had been on top of the log for the 

better part of the season but were 

dislodged by old rivals Dynamos. 

Their loss to Harare City saw 

them trailing behind today’s opponents 

ZPC Kariba by two points. 

Kauya Katuruturu — as ZPC Kariba 

are affectionately known — 

have 41 points while Dynamos 

lead with 43 points. 

Today’s match is a do-or-die for 

Kelvin Kaindu’s men as another 

loss would mean falling further 

behind the leading pack of Dynamos 

and ZPC Kariba. A win however, 

would see them dethrone 

ZPC Kariba on second position 

and put them within championship 

reach. 

Meanwhile, victory for Kauya 

Katuruturu will throw Bosso out 

of the championship contest, thus 

narrowing the race to a two-team 

challenge. 

Bosso and ZPC Kariba pray that 

Shabanie Mine produce a Houdini 

act against Dynamos at Rufaro 

this afternoon so that they close 

the gap on the log leaders. 

Highlanders, who are trying 

Under pressure . . . Highlanders coach Kelvin Kaindu 

hard to win the championship 

which they last won in 2006 under 

the guidance of Methembe Ndlovu 

who is now director and coach 

at Bantu Rovers, are buoyed by 

the return from suspension of defender 

Dumisani “Fazo” Ndlovu 

and midfielder turned defender 

Simon Munawa who both missed 

the Harare City tie. 

Munawa is expected to resume 

his anchorman’s role together 

with Hillary Madzivanyika, while 

Fazo is expected to take over from 

former skipper Innocent Mapuranga 

and join Eric “Tsiba” 

Mudzingwa in the heart of defence. 

Kaindu said he was happy that 

Webster Chingodza, who seems 

to have solved his right back position 

headache that has been giving 

him sleepless nights, is back 

in training and will be available 

for selection. 

“All the players will be available 

for selection, including Njabulo 

Ncube. A lot has happened but 

we believe we are still within the 

range of the log leaders. Anything 

can happen in the remaining fixtures,” 

Kaindu said. 

ZPC Kariba, who are missing 

the services of playmaker Raphael 

Manuvire who was injured in 

a league match against Chapungu 

in June, will be out to collect maximum 

points and continue their 

fairytale in their maiden dance 

with top-flight football. 

Coach Saul Chaminuka said he 

will be without two of his first 

team players Obey Mwerahari 

and Tsepo Rathokoane, who are 

both injured. 

“We have been playing well so 

far, thus we hope to continue doing 

well. Highlanders are playing 

at home so they will be under 

pressure taking into consideration 

that they lost their last match 

against Harare City. So we might 

capitalise on that,” Chaminuka 

said. 

Dynamos team manager Richard 

Chihoro confirmed a clean 

health bill in his camp, adding 

that all their registered players 

were available for selection. 

“We are now on top and we have 

the chance of bagging the fourth 

staright title. What we need to do 

is win all our remaining fixtures 

then we know we are done,” Chihoro 

said. 

However, Shabanie Mine refused 

to be intimidated. 

Head coach Jairos Tapera 

said his boys were more than 

ready to face the Zimbabwean 

football champions but bemoaned 

the unavailability of 

Marvellous Dikinya, who will 

be out serving suspension as 

well as an injury to striker 

Tholani Ncube. 

He however added that he had 

told his boys to go into this match 

without thinking about relegation 

which is slowly knocking on 

their doors. 

“We have to do with what is in 

camp for now. Dynamos are a very 

big team and every coach would 

want to beat them. We respect 

them as one of the biggest clubs 

in the country, but we are going to 

give our best on Sunday [today],” 

Tapera said. 

“Surviving relegation is another 

issue, Sunday’s [today] match 

is another issue. In as much as we 

would want to survive, if we try 

and mix the two, then the players 

will approach this match with 

a negative mind. We need to win 

this so as to start talking about 

surviving”. 

How Mine, Chicken Inn draw 

By FOrTUne MBeLe 

How Mine. . . (1) 1 

Chicken Inn . . . (1) 1 

FC Platinum . . . (2) 2 

Buffaloes . . . (1)1 

HOW MINE COACH Luke Masomere 

is still confident the gold 

miners will survive relegation 

after picking up a point against 

Chicken Inn at Hartsfield yesterday. 

A well-taken penalty by Menard 

Mupera in the 24 th minute 

saved the day for How Mine 

as Chicken Inn had opened the 

floodgates as early as the 5 th 

minute with a header by defender 

Lawrence Mhlanga. 

How Mine remained on position 

11 with 29 points while the 

GameCocks dropped one rung 

down the ladder to position seven 

as they were dislodged by FC 

Platinum who came from behind 

to beat visiting Buffaloes 

2-1 at Mandava yesterday. 

Chicken Inn are now on 34 

points with six games remaining 

to put a lid on the 2014 Castle 

Lager Premier Soccer League 

season. 

Masomere said the game was 

a balanced affair which could 

have gone either way. 

“It was a balanced affair. We 

had our own chances and they 

had their own. I think the boys 

played very well. We are here to 

make sure we produce results 

in the next coming games and 

it’s encouraging that I am yet to 

lose in the league since joining 

How Mine. 

“How Mine is not relegation 

material and I am building a 

team that will be playing in 

the Premier League next year,” 

Masomere said. 

His counterpart Joey Antipas 

had this to say after the match: 

“It was a fair result but we 

should have walked away with 

the three points, but we can’t 

say no to a point. Our build-up 

play was very impressive but 

unfortunately we did not get the 

maximum points. What we hope 

for is a strong finish to the season 

and take the pressure off 

our backs,” Antipas said. 

Mhlanga rose above the How 

Mine defence with a beautiful 

header past goalkeeper Donovan 

Bernard in the 5 th minute 

before his goal was cancelled by 

Mupera with a spot kick after 

Heritein Masuku was hacked 

down inside the penalty box in 

a goalmouth scramble. 

Hwange referee Hardly Ndazi 

pointed to the spot and Mupera 

sent goalkeeper Elvis Chipezeze 

the wrong way. 

In Zvishavane, FC Platinum 

survived an early Buffaloes 

scare as they came from behind 

to win 2-1 at Mandava yesterday. 

The win took Norman Mapeza 

men’s points tally to 35, moving 

up the ladder to sixth position. 

Buffaloes were the first to 

hit the target through veteran 

striker Kastigu Juwakinyu in 

the 17 th minute. 

The platinum miners then responded 

through Wisdom Mutasa 

in the 34 th minute and it 

did not take Donald Ngoma two 

minutes to grab the winner in 

the 36 th minute. 

Meanwhile, the match between 

Chapungu and Chiredzi 

scheduled for Ascot stadium 

was abandoned yesterday after 

the visitors failed to produce licences. 

The Chiredzi-based side arrived 

at the stadium 45 minutes 

after kickoff time. 

They also failed to bring their 

playing kits and their coach 

Gishon Ntini was not part of 

the travelling entourage. 

Match Commissioner Japhet 

Mufiri confirmed that the 

match was cancelled. 

“The match has been abandoned. 

“They arrived late at the stadium 

and they did not bring 

their licences and kits,” said 

Mufiri. 

An unidentified person who 

was aboard the Chiredzi FC 

team bus confirmed that the 

licences and kits were in the 

same vehicle that was on its way 

to the stadium with coach Ntini. 

The troubled Lowveld-based 

side is believed to have deliberately 

connived to abandon the 

match as a protest for unfair upkeep 

by management. 

Zim golfers aim 

continental glory 

DanieL nHakaniSO in kiTwe, ZaMBia 

ZIMBABWE will be aiming to 

become the first country on 

the continent to lift the prestigious 

Africa Golf Confederation 

(AGC) Presidents Cup which 

tees off at Nkana Golf Club on 

Tuesday. 

The new continental amateur 

team golf tournament, which is 

the brainchild of current AGC 

boss Joe Malanji, who is deputised 

by former Zimbabwe Golf 

Association Obed Dube, will see 

11 African countries battling 

out for honours until Saturday. 

Zimbabwe is being represented 

by a strong four-member 

team led by team captain Tonderai 

Masunga. The other members 

are Thembelani Vundla, 

Visitor Mapwanya and national 

team debutant Robson Chinhoi. 

Roger Baylis, the veteran 

teaching professional, is the national 

team coach. 

The team arrived in Kitwe on 

Friday morning after a gruelling 

road journey that included 

a five-hour delay at the Chirundu 

border post. 

However, despite the taxing 

trip the four-member team has 

had enough time to recover and 

familiarise with the Nkana Golf 

Club course before the tournament 

begins. 

After a light chipping and putting 

session on Friday, the team 

went a gear up in their preparations 

yesterday with the players 

taking part in their first practice 

round at the hosting course. 

Masunga, who captains the 

national team for the first time 

after enjoying a successful season 

on the local circuit, said he 

was confident his charges would 

make the nation proud. 

“We are all happy to be representing 

our country. The guys 

are motivated and they all want 

to do well in this tournament. 

We arrived here early and this 

has given us enough time to prepare 

and hopefully come Tuesday 

we will play well,” Masunga 

said. 

With neighbours South Africa 

not taking part in the inaugural 

edition of the AGC Presidents 

Cup, Zimbabwe — who have in 

the past always come second to 

their southern neighbours — 

has a chance of bagging cup. 

Other countries expected to 

take part in the tournament are 

Namibia, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, 

Kenya, Tunisia, Mauritius, 

Mozambique, Botswana 

and the hosts.


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Afcon bid 

Kaindu confident 

A lot has happened but 

we believe we are still 

within the range of the 

log leaders. Anything can 

happen in the remaining 

fixtures.” 

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CAPS win, move 

to second spot 

BY OUR STAFF 

divides 

Zifa board 

BY OUR STAFF 

A 

storm is brewing within 

the Zifa board over the 

current Afcon bid. 

Some board members, 

including Zifa vice-president 

Omega Sibanda, are accusing Zifa 

president Cuthbert Dube and Zifa 

chief executive officer Jonathan 

Mashingaidze of running the association 

as their own entity. 

In an email dated September 

22 sent to Mashingaidze, the Zifa 

vice-president ripped into Mashingaidze, 

accusing him of not 

respecting the existence of the 

board and the assembly. 

Read part of the letter, “It’s 

high time you start respecting the 

Board and the Assembly. I am reliably 

informed that you have already 

travelled to Zambia together 

with representatives from the 

Ministry of Tourism. You have 

appointed a bid committee of people 

whom we don’t know. Who are 

they, whose interest are they serving, 

who chose them and on what 

merit?” 

Sibanda also questioned how 

some of the people that involved 

in preparing the bid document 

found their way into the committee. 

Another board member who refused 

to be named for fear of victimisation 

said it was better for 

the other board members to resign 

and let the two run their own 

show. 

“We have been used to endorse 

some of the things by our socalled 

bosses but at the end of the 

day they do not recognise us. They 

do most of the association’s business 

away from other board members 

but when things go wrong, 

they come back to the board for 

help.” 

Zifa communications manager 

Xolisani Gwesela was quick to defend 

the stance that both Mashingaidze 

and Dube took in terms of 

the 2017 Afcon bid. 

“At the moment, there is no bid 

committee in place. The committee 

will only be announced anytime 

from now when the minister 

of Sport, Arts and Culture Andrew 

Langa is back in the country. 

The board will comprise the 

chairman, his deputy and 10 committee 

members. 

“There will be sub-committees 

that will include security, transport, 

infrastructure and facilities, 

finance and administration, marketing 

and communication and 

the inter-ministerial co-ordination 

committee,” Gwesela said. 

However, documents made 

available to this publication suggest 

that there is no way the bid 

document could have been done 

without the involvement of people 

from the mentioned ministries. 

One of the documents from the 

Confederation of African Football 

(CAF) requires government 

guarantees signed by the President 

of the country, two guarantees 

from the Ministry of Home 

Affairs with one of them dealing 

with immigration issues and the 

other one on public security. 

Another guarantee document 

should come from the Ministry 

of Finance on taxation and foreign 

exchange issues. The Ministry 

of Media, Information and 

Man in charge . . . Zifa boss Cuthbert Dube 

Broadcasting Services also has to 

give surety to do with media and 

broadcasting issues. 

The fifth guarantee should 

come from the Ministry of Information 

and Communication 

Technology Postal and Courier 

Services which needs to give assurance 

that the country has sufficient 

ICT facilities. 

The bid should also be accompanied 

by supporting letters from 

the Ministry of Health and Child 

Care to guarantee that the country 

has high health standards, 

while the Ministry of Sport, Arts 

and Culture should also guarantee 

that the country has enough 

sporting facilities. The Ministry 

of Tourism and Hospitality also 

has to guarantee that there are 

enough hotels to accommodate 

visitors during the hosting of 

such a mega event. 

Also obligatory is a supporting 

letter from the Ministry of Public 

Works outlining whether the 

country has enough sporting facilities 

to host the event, while the 

Ministry of Transport would also 

need to guarantee there would be 

an efficient transport system. 

Above all, the host cities should 

sign Host City Agreements to 

demonstrate their willingness 

to host the continental football 

showpiece. 

“In brief, what I am saying is 

the involvement of all these people 

from different ministries was 

above board. It’s actually a CAF 

prerogative. All the guarantees 

that we have talked about is (sic) 

the oil that drives the bidding machine,” 

Gwesela said. 

CAF clearly states that all these 

ministries should forward a representative 

in the bidding committee. 

The bid document was supposed 

to be completed as of yesterday 

with Mashingaidze expected 

to travel to present the document 

at the CAF headquarters in 

Cairo, Egypt today. 

Meanwhile, six prominent 

sports personalities will be chosen 

to be bidding ambassadors 

during the course of the bidding 

process. 

Some of the names that quickly 

come to mind include Warriors 

legend Peter Ndlovu, the queen of 

the pool, Kirsty Coventry, golfer 

Nick Price and Benjani Mwaruwari, 

to mention just a few. 

Black Rhinos . . . (0) 0 

CAPS Utd . . . (1) 1 

IT doesn’t matter how, but CAPS 

United are in seventh heaven after 

labouring to a controversial 1-0 win 

over an unlucky Black Rhinos at 

Rimuka yesterday. 

The win took the Green Machine 

to second position on the log table, 

a point behind log leaders DeMbare 

who will be in action this afternoon. 

A contentious first-half injury 

time penalty, coolly converted by 

Moses Muchenje, was enough to 

earn CAPS United their first set of 

three points following consecutive 

frustrating nil all draws against 

Bantu Rovers and How Mine respectively. 

The victory effectively quelled 

dissenting voices that were baying 

for coach Taurai Mangwiro’s head. 

The match kicked in a frantic 

pace with CAPS United taking initiative 

as Tendai Samanja blazed a 

promising free kick into no man’s 

land after just three minutes. 

Soon it was Black Rhinos’ turn 

to strike with exciting winger Brian 

Muzondiwa going on a mazy 

run on the near side rounding his 

marker before releasing an exquisite 

square ball, only for Fredrick 

Marowa to poke the ball wide from 

eight yards out with Tafadzwa Dube 

in goals a beaten man. 

Black Rhinos, who were now dictating 

the pace, were unlucky not 

to be awarded a penalty in the 17 th 

minute when CAPS United captain 

Tapiwa Kumbuyani hacked down 

Muzondiwa seemingly in the box. 

Referee Munyaradzi Majoni, who 

had a bad day in office, awarded a 

free kick on the edge of the box. 

A minute into first-half injury 

time, Mangwiro’s men nosed ahead, 

albeit in controversial circumstances. 

A Rhinos defender cleanly tackled 

Ishmael Thundwa who then 

went to ground and to the fury of 

Rhinos players, Majoni pointed to 

the spot and Muchenje scored from 

the resultant spot kick. 

In the second half Jostein 

Mathuthu’s charges went all out 

to restore parity. Livewire substitute 

Lot Chiwunga thought he had 

gained a point for his team, only to 

be flagged offside in the 90 th minute. 

CAPS United hung on for maximum 

points. 

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Style 

SEpt 28 to oCt 4, 2014 

ISSUE 22 

Photography by Nick Beer 

Star profile 

Tracey Jane Bell 

Inside 

Michael Chiduku 

style@standard.co.zw

2 THE STANDARD STYLE / CONTENTS 

September 28 to October 4 2014 


Style 

Contents 

P08 

Woman & Man 

3 Woman Profile 

Tracey Jayne Bell 

5 Motivation 

Tafadzwa 

7 Man Profile 


Home & Garden 

9 Home of the Week 

Enter our competition 

10 Trends 

Bath rooms & powder rooms 

12 Gardening 

Plaza paints 

Food & Drink 

14 Restaurant Guide 

Cafe Afrique 

15 Brandy 

Lebbie 

Family 

19 Family of the Week 

Mr & Mrs Rusike 

21 Education 

Cover to Cover winners 

P14 

24 Family Getaway 

Westgate Half marathon 

Arts 

26 Breaking New Ground 

Eyahra Mathazia 

28 Bookworm 

Taking writing to the young 

P07 

P09 

P19 

29 Arts 

Celeb news 

To advertise in The Standard Style magazine please phone (04) 773930-8 Patience Mutimutema pmutimutema@alphamedia.co.zw Grace Mushowo gmushowo@alphamedia.co.zw Michael Munaki mmunaki@alphamedia.co.zw

September 28 to October 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / PROFILE 3 

Star Profile: 

Tracey Jane Bell 

“The way you do ANYTHING is the way you do EVERYTHING” 

Prudence Muganiwah 

A 

former Miss Lux, Miss Archipelago, 

and Top Model, vivacious Tracey Jane 

Bell has been a leader in the modelling 

and fashion industry in Zimbabwe for 

many years. 

Now CEO of Brown Velvet Limited, she 

is actively involved in professional women’s 

empowerment programmes and she says her 

recent experience as Marketing Manager for 

the Daily Echo Newspaper and Manager at 

the Oxford Times in the United Kingdom have 

given her an insight 

into the evolving 

role of 

women 

in the 

workplace. 

Photography by Nick Beer 

Tracey is the co-founder and chairperson 

of the Good Shepherd Trust for Children in 

Zimbabwe, which runs a centre for abused 

children, as well as an Albino Foundation 

for marginalised children with albinism all 

around Zimbabwe. The philosophy her centre 

emphasizes on is the upholding of the rights 

of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) in 

Zimbabwe for basic education. It seeks to help 

children grow and develop safely into adulthood, 

regardless of their background, race, 

religious or political affiliation. “Whether 

the children’s neglect is social, psychological, 

educational or physical, we at The Good 

Shepherd Trust wish to make a difference in 

improving the life chances of the young people 

we assist. We invite others of like-mind to 

join us in this endeavour and help contribute 

to the wellbeing of others less fortunate than 

ourselves,” Tracey says. 

Tracey says given her activism, she hopes 

to make a difference in people’s lives and 

change mind sets. “Self-worth is a most notable 

and valued attribute, I seek to encourage 

us all to find this and hold onto it.” 

Brown Velvet Limited, and the Brown Velvet 

Awards, her brainchild, seek to empower, 

recognise and acknowledge the triumphs of 

the Zimbabwean mixed race community. It 

denotes a sense of togetherness and appreciation 

for people’s contribution to the betterment 

of their often minoritised society. 

As Brown Velvet has been growing and 

the acknowledgment of the awards are becoming 

more and more appreciated, Tracey 

realised this and for this year’s edition she 

worked tirelessly to revamp the Arcadia Community 

Centre, using her own finances and 

resources, and her home as the base of her 

activities. Distinguished and notable guests 

such as Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi and 

his wife Barbara, Justice Greenland, 

celebrity songstress Rozalla Miller 

and ex top ranking soccer and basketball 

players, top models, business 

people graced the occasion. 

A speech made by Aulora 

Stally at the Brown Velvet 

Awards earlier this year summarises 

who Tracey is. “This 

charming young woman, entrepreneur, 

mentor, mother, sister and friend, 

in my view, near embodies perfection. Not just 

her ravishing beauty, her magnetic presence, 

but her intellectual capability …But bigger 

than that is her heart – for it is one of gold. 

Within this woman lies something even greater, 

meaningful and truly beautiful – she oozes 

kindness, gentleness, confidence, and above 

all, that precious thing we all need -- LOVE.” 

Drawing her inspiration from Oprah Winfrey 

and Maya Angelou, Tracey says it has 

taken a great deal of soul-searching for her to 

arrive at the place she finds herself today, and 

the values she upholds as a result of her life’s 

experiences are integrity, respect for others, 

service, and recognition of achievement. “You 

see what you believe. You attract to yourself 

those experiences that match your existing 

belief system. What you create through your 

thoughts is a belief system, and that is ultimately 

what determines whether you live a 

successful life.” 

“One of my favourite quotes is ‘Build your 

own dreams, or someone else will hire you to 

build theirs.’ —Farrah Gray. I respect and am 

grateful for my life and the way it has turned 

out so I am passionate about everything I do! 

I most enjoy seeing the change I have had a 

hand in bringing about.” 

The Zumba fitness and fine art painting 

fan, whose looks are absolutely amazing for 

someone who is a grandmother, believes in 

healthy eating and exercising. “My daughter 

teaches at a primary school in the UK and my 

son is a Lawyer currently studying for his 

Masters in Immigration Law in London, but 

the absolute sunray in my life every single day 

is my gorgeous grandson…” she says with a 

radiant smile. 

Tracey, an all-rounder who is also into 

event management and a former silver medalist 

at Zimbabwe Nationals, always carries her 

encouraging and ever determined spirit wherever 

she is, whatever she undertakes to do. “It 

takes courage to face the unknown. You need 

to know that whenever you choose courage 

over cowardice, you win! You expand who you 

are and then there can be no regrets. The way 

you do ANYTHING is the way you do EVERY- 

THING.”

4 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / FASHION 


Accessory Central 

Shamiso Catherine Ruzvidzo 

In addition to rising temperatures, summer brings with it a rising 

urge to shop and update our wardrobes for summer. Refreshing 

our entire wardrobe with summer dresses, shoes and bags is what 

we all desire to do, but an old outfit can easily be reinvented. Add 

accessories to make it appear new and fresh, don’t forget to keep 

in mind; 

A manicure can add a perfect touch to a few 

different summer sandals that have been sitting in your 

wardrobe for a while. Select a nail polish col our that is 

currently fresh and exciting for summer such as lime, orange 

or peach 

Do not wear too many rings on one hand, it’s unflattering 

Invest in a statement piece such as a new bag in a long 

lasting seasonal colour like black 

Make sure the accessories you purchase can easily be paired 

with other outfits 

FASHION POLICE 

Accessories to choose when restyling a simple black dress 

FASHION POLICE - Try not to over accessorise as this can be distracting and take 

away the essence of the outfit. If you choose to layer jewellery, make sure that you 

layer only one set of jewellery e.g. layers of pearl necklaces. 

Accessory of the week: Colourful head wraps are the perfect Summer Accessory 

Peach shoulder bag 

Simple aysmmetric black 

dress with a gold belt. 

Velvet Matte Lipstick 

Beaded Sandals 

Images sourced: makhosazane.co.za; pinterest.com; 

THE WEDDING PLANNER 

Get all the intricacies of your wedding right 

Rufaro Mushonga 

Hiring a wedding planner in Zimbabwe is still a concept 

that many of us cannot get our heads around. Some 

of us believe it is less costly and much easier to do it 

ourselves, or we rely on “free labour” from family and 

friends. Some will form a “wedding committee” and allocate 

each committee member a duty or a “department” to manage. 

Sometimes it works out, but generally, let’s be real here – as a 

couple, you can’t put 10 of your family members in one room 

and expect them to agree with you or ever reach a consensus. 

This is the reason why most wedding committee meetings take 

longer than three hours. 

I am not shooting down family involvement. But you as 

bride and groom, with the guidance of your wedding planner, 

should be the ones to decide how you would like to involve 

them. It’s your special day. 

On your wedding day, as a bride, how much control do you 

have when your groom is getting ready at a different location 

and you are not sure if he has even woken up yet? How much 

control do you have when you’re about to walk down the aisle 

-- does the DJ know your song? What do you do if he plays the 

wrong song? Do you just stand there, or do you signal him, or 

tell Dad to go and fix it because this is your moment and it has 

to be right? Who has the rings? Did someone bring the cake 

knife? Did anyone check where the marriage officer is? 

Have you heard about that wedding where the marriage 

officer said, “May we please have the rings?” And in that moment, 

the best man remembered where the rings were. At 

home! It may be acceptable to delay the ceremony before it 

starts, but what do you do when you are right in the middle 

of exchanging vows? How upset would you be as a bride? You 

don’t get that moment back. 

Your family and friends are all emotionally invested in 

your wedding day. They do want to help you, but they also want 

to celebrate with you. An independent professional – a wedding 

planner – is contractually obligated to ensure that you 

have the special day that you want. A wedding planner is all 

about details, because the “little” details can either make or 

break your special day. A wedding planner makes professional 

recommendations based on experience, and is always looking 

out for you and ensuring every little detail is in place. 

rufmush@gmail.com 

Photography by Providence Films and Sound 

Décor by Venue Umwinzii


THE STANDARD STYLE / INSPIRATION 5 

Game-changers: 

Re-engineering the 

fabric of society [Part IV] 

Cynthia Hakutangwi 

The fabric of any society pertains to its 

basic structure, way of life, relationships, 

and traditions. The moral fabric 

of society is that which underpins and 

girds its people’s shared standard of dignity. 

The business dictionary refers to social fabric 

as “the composite demographics of a defined 

area, which consists of its ethnic composition, 

wealth, education level, employment rate 

and regional values.” 

Game-changers respond to how the torn fabric 

of any society should not only be ideally 

restored but rather revitalised in tandem with 

values based progress. In general terms, reengineering 

is a process of rethinking or redesigning 

systems in both technical and behavioural 

terms. Re-engineering will inevitably 

impact on strategies, processes, structures, 

management systems as well as values and 

beliefs. The ultimate benefit of re-engineering 

lies in the tremendous improvements and efficiencies 

which subsequently result in measurable 

gains and profits across a wide spectrum. 

For an organisation, re-engineering entails 

the process of reviewing all the different levels 

of an organisation’s way of doing business 

and considering how to improve things. 

In general, re-engineering requires us to look 

closely at our strengths and weaknesses, ask 

difficult questions where necessary and make 

changes for the better. Game-changers are individuals 

who are committed to social engineering 

by continuously refining diminishing 

social values to re-align with changing strategies, 

technologies and societal demands. 

In the earlier parts of this series which 

profiles the attributes of game changers we 

challenged individuals to pursue and discover 

their authentic personal identity, to possess 

the strength of character to change the ways 

things are done, and to redefine the landscape. 

We examined these nine game-changing (GC) 

attributes: 

GC1: Personal Leadership and 

Transformation 

GC2: Possessing the courage to be a 

thought leader 

GC3: The ability to think and see with a 

Relational lens 

GC4: Making the best out of breakingpoint 

frustrations 

GC5: Boldness to initiate movement in 

stagnant situations 

GC6: Refusal to be led by frivolous 

emotions 

GC7: Game changers leave a legacy 

GC8: 

GC9: 

Game changers take initiative 

Game changers are willing to 

learn, unlearn and relearn 

In this last part of the series we shall conclude 

the conversation which profiles the gamechangers 

by looking at the last three attributes: 

GC10: Game-changers restore broken 

walls, hope and dignity 

Every society faces a unique, custom-made set 

of giants that challenge its social and moral 

fabric. Giants typify organised systems which 

are well designed to dominate and scatter societies. 

In most cases the call to restore the broken 

walls and scattered elements of society is 

rarely heeded to by a majority but rather by 

individuals who have the audacity to rise up 

and counter the challenge through critical 

thinking and boldness to rebuild in spite of 

the giants’ droning voices. Game-changers inspire 

hope in the people as they rebuild. 

GC11: Game-changers redesign new 

systems for the society to operate on 

The restoration of a moral campus requires 

more than just re-visiting the traditional ways 

of doing things but rather a more intelligent 

approach which can provide solutions in the 

long term. Game-changers may appear to upset 

existing arrangements in the short term 

but the benefits in the long term are beneficial. 

The design of new systems does not necessarily 

imply abolishing what has traditionally 

worked but however addresses “improved 

systematic thinking and doing” within a new 

paradigm. 

GC12: Game-changers are trail blazers 

and barrier breakers 

In their relentless pursuit, game-changers are 

never satisfied with the ordinary or mundane. 

They are committed to becoming the best at 

what they do so they can inspire others to 

see beyond the present. It is their ability to 

embrace open mindedness and fresh perspectives 

that spurs them on to break barriers and 

do what has never been done before. They 

choose to design their lives instead of taking 

what is given, beyond dreaming they take absolute 

action. 

As we wrap up this four part series which 

profiles the attributes of a game-changer, our 

hope is that you will make a decision to not 

just play the game but change the game. This 

is a call to “create, improve on, and innovate 

around best practices in order to find next 

practices.” By definition, a game-changer 

causes change. If nothing changes, if nothing 

is created, if nothing is improved, if nothing 

is transformed, then you don’t have a gamechanger. 

Cynthia is a Communications and Personal 

Development Consultant, a Life Coach, Author 

and Strategist. She is the Managing Consultant 

of Wholeness Incorporated. Her published 

book titles include: The Whole You – Vital Keys 

for Balanced Living and Intelligent Conversations: 

A mindset shift towards a developed Africa. 

E-mail: cynthia@wholenessincorporated. 

com 

A thought for six perishable possessions [Part I] 

Tafadzwa Zimunhu Taruvinga 

Sores on Your Feet 

Building up towards the castle of your greater 

purpose is never easy. Why should it be? 

Nor, like Ancient Rome, can the castle be 

built overnight. Along the path of your journey 

towards the discovery of yourself and 

that of your purpose, strewn along are the 

merx [commodities/merchandise] that may 

come across as worthy at first sight. Your 

journey, full of much ponder and deliberation 

as it should be, may have started off at 

a time when these things mattered, the merx. 

But time has passed by and the sores on your 

feet have beckoned better your ponder and 

deliberation, than have your possessions, the 

merx. The sores on your feet tell a story of 

how far along the treacherous path you have 

come. They remind you that your journey 

has only but begun and that it continues to be 

worthy. They affirm your conviction towards 

a grander purpose. All said and done the possessions 

that you once thought worthy pale 

apart in comparison. You, my friend, despite 

the visible merx, haven’t arrived. The journey 

has only but just begun. 

1. Money 

A cynical assertion in the face of a challenging 

economy. You will probably counter it 

and assert instead that without money, it’s 

impractical to prosper in modern society, let 

alone to just live. You would be right because, 

let’s face it; we all have bills to pay, and headaches 

to counter if the bills are not paid. You 

will also suggest passionately that money, the 

ultimate merx, is the denominator common 

to power, influence and choice. Maybe even 

happiness fits into that equation. You would 

be right because, for instance, some of the 

things that make us happier than the onset 

of a beautiful day or a fresh breeze, or even 

a fresh perspective, need to be financed. But 

for a moment consider “wealth”, as opposed 

to money, the merx. Money is contained as 

a miniscule part, maybe even as a tenth, of 

a wholesome kind of wealth. Consider this. 

Cynthia Hakutangwi often speaks fervently 

about the “wholesomeness” that’s derived 

from what she calls “relational thinking”. In 

other words, there is more wealth in creating 

sustainable and value-adding relationships 

than there is in sacrificing good relationships 

for money. The underlying principle is this: 

When you have begun your journey on your 

path to success, wealth should matter more 

than money does. If money still matters 

more, then, you, my friend, haven’t arrived. 

Your journey has only just begun. 

2. Looking the part 

Grooming experts will demonstrate, quite 

successfully too, how important it is to look 

good. They will say that looking good plays 

a key part to closing deals, that it plays part 

to attracting the “right” people towards you. 

They will even show you the empirical findings 

and percentages that render the cause of 

aesthetical appeal as worthy. The grooming 

experts would be right because we all like to, 

in the words of my younger contemporaries 

who are true to modern colloquialism, have 

some serious “swagger”. And we should. 

Then there’s what I call “looking the part”. 

Consider this: You’re a young and resourceful 

entrepreneur of the day in Zimbabwe 

with high standards of service delivery. You 

have a pretty average subcompact automobile 

in the bigger scheme of cars; call it the new 

Honda Ballade, in metallic black. A certain 

company X employs you on a weekend to pick 

and drop its foreign delegates between Harare 

International Airport and a luxury hotel 

Y in the city. 

The thing that makes you an “executive 

driver” here certainly isn’t your driver’s licence. 

Everyone has one of those. The thing 

that makes you an executive driver is that 

neat, black suit, maybe going with it even a 

sleek silky driver’s cap. You would look good 

for the part and the point is that it’s quite 

easy to look the part. The point then begs a 

critical question; do you also play the part as 

well as you look it? The underlying principle 

is this, when you have begun your journey on 

your path to success, looking the part should 

matter less than it does to play it. If looking 

the part still matters more but without a commitment 

to playing the part, then, you, my 

friend, haven’t arrived. Your journey has 

only just begun. 

3. Instant gratification 

I like to appreciate even certain types of music 

that I don’t particularly subscribe to. In a 

recent encounter, I asked my younger relative 

what he thought about a recent track which 

is performed by an equally young American 

artist, Justin Bieber. He laughed long hard 

at my ignorance and my seeming obsolescence, 

before he eventually quipped that the 

track was “old”. I was surprised because I’m 

quite certain that the track has been released 

for only but a few months. The conversation 

reminds me of how parts of modern society 

now embrace a handful of events preferably 

in fast-paced fashion. There’s a need in those 

parts of society to resolve events and issues 

exponentially and there’s a need to acquire 

money (as opposed to wealth) in the shortest 

time possible with the least amount of labour 

exerted. There’s an epidemic longing for instant 

gratification, something which is necessarily 

opposed to the journey towards one’s 

purpose, which takes time as it should. 

My thinking is that “golden oldies” by the 

likes of Oliver Mtukudzi, Nina Simone, 

ABBA, and a million others, were well-considered 

and they were well-crafted, all in 

good time to last a long time. Tuku’s track 

Ziwere has stood the test of time since the 

1970s precisely because it was created with a 

natural ability to become refined rather than 

obsolete through a good four decades to date. 

Perhaps my younger relative will tell me in 

30 years’ time that Bieber’s track would have 

accomplished the same. Perhaps. The underlying 

principle is this; we have living testimonies, 

the likes of Tuku, to the importance of 

time well-considered and things well-crafted. 

When you have begun your journey on your 

path to success, instant gratification should 

matter less than does things done in good 

time. If instant gratification still matters 

more, then, you, my friend, haven’t arrived. 

Your journey has only just begun. 

Tafadzwa Taruvinga is a Customer Service 

Consultant and the first author of a book on 

Customer Service Excellence in Zimbabwe, entitled, 

Serve Your Customers EXCELLENTLY, 

Or Not At All [2014]. He is also a Member of 

the Advisory Council of Customer Value Creation 

International 

e-mail: tafadzwazt@gmail.com 

profile available on: www.customervaluecreation.org/About-Us

6 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / GROOMING 


CANVAS OR LEATHER SNEAKERS 

Classic low cut, lace up converse shoes are timeless. Find one simple colour 

that goes with everything from jeans to tailored trousers. You can dress it 

up with a blazer or keep it totally easy with a pair of shorts to beat the summer 

heat. 

ACTIVE SHOES 

If you are going to get active you can pick a pair of b-ball shoes that don’t 

sacrifice fashion for function. When you are done playing games, leave the 

shoes in the changing room where they belong. These are hardly for gearing 

up, perhaps could only get away with these for outdoor activities only 

besides gym. 

My accessory of 

the week: Duffel Bag 

PENNY LOAFERS 

(Courtesy of google) 

Penny loafers are casual very casual, they can be worn with jeans, khakis, 

other casual trousers and with shorts. They can be worn with casual suits, 

although theoretically could be worn with casual suits. 

Just for kicks 

Marshall Malikula 

A man’s shoes are worth a “thousand 

words”. They say you can tell 

a whole lot about a guy’s status by 

merely looking at his kicks. I totally 

agree, it’s really easy to spot a scrub 

from a man making the paper. Beat 

down shoes scream broke back side 

brother. Exception only applies to 

vintage boots, Vans and brogues. 

Aging actually adds character and 

that broken in, distressed appeal 

to the former styles. In business 

settings, I highly recommend one 

wears clean and polished leather 

pairs. If you want to make a strong 

fashion statement, keep your outfit 

simple and let your shoes do the 

talking. To bring the bounce back to 

your step, it’s suggested that all men 

must own all or most of these styles; 

(Courtesy of TSB men) 

CAP TOE OXFORD 

These classic Oxfords are described 

as “quintessential,” no man should 

be found wanting. It is the most versatile 

pair of shoes any man can 

own. Oxford cap toes is a closed lace 

up shoe, with straight stitch cap. It 

is suitable for formal settings such 

as work, weddings and funerals. 

ESPADRILLES 

(Courtesy of espadrillesetc.com) 

Espadrilles originate in Catalona, Spain. These are canvas or cotton shoes 

with flexible sole, charaterised by jute rope stitching. 

(Courtesy of Styleforum) 

DRESS BOOTS 

(Courtesy of aldoshoes.com) 

These are equal parts dressy and 

rugged at the same time, making 

them a versatile choice to enhance 

just about any look, under just about 

any weather condition. Avoid anything 

that is overly round, chunky 

or outdoorsy. Instead, keep them 

sharp, lean and wear them with everything 

from slim suits to stacked 

denim. Monk shoes are regarded as 

the dressiest of all footwear; these 

are shoes with signature side buckle. 

BOAT/DECK SHOES 

Boat shoes were originally designed for sailing, however they have gradually 

evolved to fashionable outer wear. Most boat shoes have traditional white 

non-marking soles. They usually have a moccasin outlook. 

Marshall Malikula is a Stylist/ Image Consultant 

Email: marshmalikula@gmail.com

September 28 to October 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / PROFILE 7 

Star Profile 


“ 

Every second counts – today is the youngest you’ll ever be… 

“ 


Born 23 years ago, Michael 

Chiduku is a 

bright young man who 

is on the path to great 

things. A holder of a Bachelor’s 

Degree in Business 

and Marketing Management 

from Oxford Brookes University, 

Michael completed ‘O’ 

levels at Prince Edward School 

in Harare and proceeded to ‘A’ 

Level at St John’s College. 

“I am passionate about helping 

people realise the potential 

they possess and teaching them 

how they can harness it in order 

to make a positive impact in 

the world. Everybody 

dreams about what 

they aim to 

have, do 

or be 

in life. My passion is helping them realise 

their dreams.” 

The aspiring bright spark who was 

the Student Representative Council 

(SRC) President in university, recently 

launched an inspiring motivational 

book, Awakening Your Inner Greatness, 

which he says is a book that is deliberately 

set to inspire people to dream big 

dreams and chase after them. “I always 

say, ‘We live in a big world and a big 

world needs big dreamers.’” 

The young achiever is a leader in 

the making as evidenced by how he also 

founded Leaders of Tomorrow Society, 

a leadership club which he started in 

2011 at university. He also represented 

Zimbabwe in track and field athletics at 

the 2010 World Junior Championships in 

Canada. 

His book, which is now available at 

all Insignia bookstores nationwide, according 

to him, will help one get from 

where they are to where they are actually 

meant to be in life. “It’s a straightforward 

manual to success that is rooted 

on Biblical principles.” 

The book covers a plethora of topics, 

ranging from goal setting, mentorship, 

adapting to unexpected change 

and living with a positive mentality 

at all times. “I enjoy seeing 

the bright smile on people’s faces 

when they become aware of what 

they are truly capable of accomplishing 

in life.” 

Young as he is, understands 

how it is important 

for one to pick themselves up 

after a fall, as to him, these 

are only passing phases. He 

admits that one of the biggest 

challenges he has faced 

thus far is quitting itself. 

“As I embarked on 

the journey to write Awakening 

Your Inner Greatness, 

I had several “good 

excuses” to quit. One of 

the major excuses I could 

have entertained was the 

fact that I am a young 

person. I wondered how 

many people were willing 

to read a book written 

by a young author.” 

A staunch Christian, he 

quickly dismisses this 

negative thought and convinced 

himself that one’s 

age is not a reflection of one’s 

wisdom. “You are never too 

young to start working towards 

your dream. For a season, I felt 

so helpless and pessimistic about 

life. Seeing the smiles on these people’s 

faces is a reminder of the person 

I once was and it helps me to be 

grateful for who I am today. My sincere 

desire is for everybody to experience the 

joy I felt when I realised and tapped into 

my potential.” 

The aspirational writer is a firm 

believer in the principle of sowing and 

reaping, stating that the countless hours 

of hard work and dedication that one invests 

in whatever they set themselves to 

will soon pay off. “Some seeds germinate 

and grow faster than others but the principle 

still remains -- as much as there is 

a season to sow, you will have a season to 

reap. Zig Ziglar once said, “Success is a 

personal standard, reaching for the highest 

in us, becoming all that we can be.” 

He goes on to quote one of his favourite 

verses; 

“As iron sharpens iron, so one man 

sharpens another” – Proverbs 27:17. 

The humble young man, with a huge 

appetite for rice with peanut butter, encourages 

people to be authentic and to 

keep company that is good for them, as 

they greatly influence who they are likely 

to become in life. “We are all born as 

originals but many die as carbon copies 

of other individuals. Don’t waste time 

trying to run another person’s race, focus 

on your lane and you will be amazed 

by what awaits you at the finish line. Can 

you confidently say that your friends are 

positively contributing to your life’s ambitions?” 

The still single Michael, who spends 

most of his time off his 8-5 daily work 

routine composing songs, playing his 

guitar, watching and listening to self-development 

videos and audios, values his 

family a lot. “What I enjoy the most about 

my family is that we support one another. 

My parents have been great pillars of 

support in my career and they were typically 

my first role models.” He also holds 

in high regard his mentor, Douglas Mamvura, 

and Dr Shingi Munyeza, a Senior 

Pastor at his church (Faith Ministries). 

The self-confessed neat freak says 

he can’t stand disorder. “I am the kind 

of person who straightens up a tilted 

picture frame. I am also very time conscious. 

Every second counts – today is the 

youngest you’ll ever be.” 

“ 

As iron 

sharpens iron, 

so one man 

sharpens 

another 

– Proverbs 27:17. 

“

8 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / WHEELS 

Adventure beyond imagination 

-the all new Jeep Cherokee 

Fact Jeke 

The 2014 all new Jeep Cherokee recently 

launched by Zimoco in Zimbabwe is every 

adventurer’s dream. It is packed with all the 

latest innovative technology to make all that 

you dream possible on the road. With the festive 

season fast approaching, I’m sure many of 

you are wondering how you are going to tackle 

that road trip. All you need is a travel mate 

with capabilities beyond imagination; like 

the all new Jeep Cherokee. I was a little disappointed 

with the size of the vehicle outwardly, 

but I tell you once you are behind the wheel 

you realise that size doesn’t really matter, it’s 

the technique that’s important. 

This vehicle makes you meet every road 

and trail with strength of character that delivers 

ultimate all-weather confidence. So during 

the rainy season or the harsh cold winter or 

the worst of roads, you will still cruise with 

peace of mind. It’s been perfectly sized to perform 

with sophisticated, efficient skill, the 

all-new Jeep Cherokee goes far and wide with 

its legendary, available Jeep brand 4x4 DNA. 

Engineered to excel on all terrain, Cherokee 

invites the adventurer in you to get out and experience 

the best of all worlds. 

The Jeep Cherokee raises the bar with superior 

on-road ride, handling and fuel economy, 

best-in-class 4x4 capability and top-notch 

technology. This is for those who require both 

form and substance. Perfectly-sized to perform 

with sophisticated, efficient skill, the 

new Cherokee goes far and wide with its legendary 

Jeep brand DNA. 

Every sculpted inch of the new Cherokee 

has been thoughtfully designed to be efficient 

and capable. Go explore it in the detail, starting 

from the traditional seven-slot grille that 

stays true to its Jeep brand roots, with daring, 

sleek daytime running lights adding the next 

generation of safety and design distinction. 

Notice also, the new Command View dualpane 

sunroof that offers wide-open viewing, 

day or night. It includes a power sliding glass 

front panel and a fixed glass panel with power 

sunshade in the rear. 

The new Cherokee introduces a unique, 

fashionable style into the Jeep range. Just 

take a look at all the details and you will also 

discover a premium, well-crafted interior 

with an extensive use of soft-touch materials: 

a sophisticated blend of hand-sculpted fluid 

shapes, high-quality materials, innovative 

colour and material choices, precision craftsmanship, 

state-of-the-art technology and features. 

It’s a whole world of unique perfection 

waiting to be discovered. 

The New Cherokee takes legendary 4x4 

capability to the next level for those who desire 

the distinct advantages of an all-weather, 

all-terrain Jeep. It’s purposefully designed to 

adapt to your surroundings with in-born confidence, 

thanks to its legendary Jeep brand 

DNA, arriving at destinations others only 

dream of. The Selec-Terrain System, for example, 

allows you to choose the on and off-road 

setting for optimum performance to help you 

successfully navigate specific road conditions. 

Up to four customised settings are offered: 

Auto, Snow, Sport and Sand/Mud. 

The New Cherokee is the first SUV in the 

segment to feature a 9-speed automatic transmission. 

It’s all about driving, comfort and 

efficiency. Electronic Range Select supports a 

manual shifting capability that includes over 

40 individual shift maps for specific conditions 

to help maximize efficiency, performance and 

drivability. Thus, performance is attuned to 


nearly any driving demand, both on and offroad, 

and gear shifts are almost imperceptible 

on every terrain. 

The New Cherokee’s cabin allows you to 

command the road ahead from a very comfortable 

and informed vantage point. Cherokee’s 

advanced technology delivers data that can 

keep you on track, handing you the freedom to 

head out with confidence. With the UConnect 

system, you’re always connected, informed, 

entertained and more productive. You can 

connect your compatible media device, play 

CDs, or display your photos on your UConnect 

screen via the USB port, SD media card, or 

auxiliary port. This is how you advance your 

world, in a world that’s very advanced. 

Cherokee has 70 standard and available 

safety and security features and was awarded 

the prestigious Euro NCAP five-star rating. 

The new Jeep steering wheel puts a wide 

range of controls safely at your fingertips. 

With a strong foundation forged from 65% 

high-strength steel, engineers have added a 

full range of active and passive available features 

to deliver peace-of-mind wherever you 

go. 

The all-new Jeep Cherokee is available 

right now from Zimoco (pricing and finance 

options visit the showroom) with two engine 

and trim options, these being the 2.4L Longitude 

and the 3.2L Limited. Powertrains are as 

follows: 

Engine 2.4 I-4 3.2 V6 

Displacement (cu cm) 2360 3239 

Horsepower 130kW @ 6400 200 kW @ 6500 

Torque 229 Nm @ 3900 315 Nm @ 4300 

Email: missjeke@gmail.com 

Additional source: www.Jeep.com 

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10 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / TRENDS 


Bathrooms and Powder Rooms 

Minimalistic 

Modern 

bathrooms 

with a touch 

of elegance. 

Photo – Luxe Interiors + Design 

Noma Ndlovu 

I went to see a house that was up for sale the 

other day, all was going well until we came 

to the bathroom, and needless to say it went 

downhill from there. Bathrooms are dealbreakers 

in any property sale or rental even 

if the new owners or tenants are going to 

change it. First impressions count, you can 

close a “hanging” sale based on how attractive 

your bathroom is. A bathroom should not be 

neglected, it says a lot about you and your hygiene 

habits. There are so many ways you can 

fix your bathroom from simple DIY to grand 

designs. These days it’s all about expressing 

yourself and bathrooms can showcase your 

personality and style just as any room can. 

Tips to create a beautiful bathroom 

Space, fittings and finishes 

Nowadays bathrooms are spacious, affording 

you the luxury of a bathtub, a shower, a double 

sink and even space to sit. Whether it’s a 

large or a small space, the key is to create a 

flow that makes it user-friendly. 

Bathtubs and Sinks – with different types of fittings 

available your budget is the limit. You 

can go for any type that you want. There is the 

standard that we all know which is the alcove 

or perhaps a free standing or a drop in, a corner 

bath, or an under mount. Similarly materials 

used for bath tubs vary. There is porcelain 

coated metal bath tubs which are heavy and 

are difficult to clean once stained, metal – copper 

or brass, stainless steel for the industrial 

look, engineered wood, acrylic which is light, 

high gloss and non-staining, marble hard and 

cold or fibreglass. 

Showers – with a plethora of designs and styles 

out there curved glass enclosed showers give 

your bath room a softer and warmer glow minimising 

the jagged edges from the sharp edges 

of your bath vanities and windows. 

Walls – use tiles as they are easy to clean. You 

can still use paint specifically for bathrooms 

or also wall paper to create a calming or wow 

effect. 

with mid toned finishes like Caesarstone floor 

tiles, yellow wood flooring or Italian tiles. 

Plumbing - conceal all piping. If you love the 

industrial look go for copper or brass piping 

that can blend in with the taps and faucets in 

your sinks. 

The Powder Room 

This is a small “bathroom” with only a toilet 

and a sink. It is an essential addition to your 

home as you limit traffic to the main bathroom. 

It allows your guests to use the facilities 

without treading on your private space. It still 

needs to be treated with much design care as 

the rest of the house. In today’s competitive 

real estate market, a powder room is often an 

essential selling point. These have a positive 

effect on the value of the property. 

Bathrooms should be relaxing, light, airy and 

enjoyable. You should be able to enjoy scenic 

views from your bathroom window while 

bathing so long as no one sees you. Top it all 

up with luxurious towels, scented candles, 

foam baths, shower gels, bath oils whatever 

works for you. Enjoy. 

Fabulous bathrooms are no longer the domain 

of hotels or the rich and famous, we all can 

have our own slice of bathroom paradise in 

our homes. 

Standalone bathtubs create a sense of luxury Photo – ambiance 

interiors 

Brilliant White Walls and Large windows give your bathroom an edgy 

timeless look. Photo Credit – Luxe Interior + Design 

Windows – be bold. Replace the small old windows 

with large teak framed or stained aluminium 

framed sliding windows and doors. 

Light and Colour – lighter colours give a sense 

of calmness. You need to relax in your bathroom 

and come out refreshed. Dark colours 

drain energy unless they are contrasted with 

bright colours. I recommend Vanilla, Timeless 

or Brilliant white as a base and then offset 

Credits – www.Wisegeek.com, www.bathtubchoices.com, 

www.HouseBeautiful.com 

www. Luxe interiors + design 

Noma Ndlovu is an Interior Designer & Property 

Stylist. 

Feedback: unaminkosi@yahoo.co.uk. 

+263775 402 083 

Clever contrast of colour can create a warm and cosy “space” in a small 

bathroom. Photo - House Beautiful

September 28 to October 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN /INSPIRATION 11 

THE COLOURS OF SUMMER: PURPLE 

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shades will work much better by giving the 

feeling of ease. Light purple colour is a nice 

way to bring novelty and a tranquil feel into 

modern interior design. Medium and dark 

purple colour shades are excellent for creating 

a dramatic statement and explore new 

interior colour schemes for home decorating. 

Purple works well with white and all brown 

colour shades, pink and orange, yellow and 

green colours. Blue colour tones can be added 

to modern wallpaper or interior paint in light 

purple colour for creating calming and peaceful, 

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12 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / PLAZA PAINTS 


from the Astra and Plascon colour cards which are available 

in-store and where the friendly staff are always on hand to 

advice and provide guidance. 

The store is designed in such a way that it is a modern and 

concept store which includes a showroom area, paint mixing 

area, and a consultation area where the trained Advisors assist 

with your colour choices and schemes also providing you 

with tips on the latest trends that are also occurring outside 

the Country. 

Plaza Paints 

Plaza Paints is a retail paint business based within Karigamombe 

Arcade, a prime location of the CBD of Harare where 

the business was founded as a paint and sundries a retailer 

concentrating exclusively on the Astra and Plascon brand 

and is a modern concept store which besides its modern and 

exclusive outlook emphasizes on service, support and quality 

customer care. 

Company Ownership 

Plaza Paints is a privately owned business which is a standalone 

subsidiary within the Plaza Holdings Group of Companies. 

The Plaza Holdings Group of companies also includes 

Plaza Pharmacies, Plaza Distribution and Plaza Properties. 

KARIGAMOMBE CENTRE 

Company Locations and Facilities 

Plaza Paints is conveniently located within a prime location of 

the CBD of Harare. This store is located within Karigamombe 

Arcade, right within the heart of the central banking district 

and has good road connections to all surburbs via Samora- 

Machel Avenue thus giving it a good geographical reach. 

This recently opened Paint Shop is situated at Karigamombe 

Centre along K Nkurumah and with its window display is helping 

to transform the look and feel of the area with its modern 

feel which has been much commented on since its opening. 

The store is equipped with the latest digital tinting machine 

thereby offering customers a wide selection of colours which 

can be tinted at the click of a button. These colours are chosen 

The modern concept store is aimed at attracting the customer 

who is looking for an upmarket shopping experience within 

the CBD and one who is looking for quality service, guidance, 

advice when it comes to painting and decorating your homes 

and offices. 

Customer satisfaction is at the forefront of the business and 

they are making great efforts to put fun into painting and how 

the customer perceives this. 

Key Supplier Information 

Plaza Paints has made the bold decision to only stock two 

brands of paints which are Astra and the internationally renowned 

Plascon brands. 

Astra Paints is Zimbabwe’s leading paint company with two 

operating factories in Harare and Bulawayo. It enjoys 45 percent 

of the paint market and it also hold other operating subsidiary 

like Astra Chemicals, which markets and distributes a 

diversified range of chemical products to industry. 

African paint manufacturer, Kansai Paints – which owns 

Plascon, has partnered with the management and staff of Zimbabwean 

group Astra Industries. 

Today Plascon is the undisputed leader in both the decorative 

and industrial coatings market in southern Africa. Following 

its 2012 merger with the Japanese paint giant Kansai 

it continues to drive innovation and excellence in the retail, 

trade, industrial and furniture coatings markets in South and 

Southern Africa from three strategically placed manufacturing 

sites in Mobeni, KwaZulu-Natal; Luiperdsvlei in Krugersdorp; 

and Epping in Cape Town, South Africa. 

Products and Services 

NOW 

OPEN 

NEW 

PAINT 

SHOP 

IN TOWN 

Paints 

Plaza Paints provides paint products under the Astra& Plascon 

portfolio which are mainly divided into four main categories 

being decorative paints; industrial paints and coating; furniture 

paints and coating and automotive paints. 

Plaza Paints however decided to specialise within Decorative 

paints which is where its strong hold is. In sundries, 

accessories and other hardware, it carries a complete line of 

necessary paint items from brushes to dust sheets etc. 

OPENING 

SPECIALS 

Wallpapers 

Plaza paints is also proud to introduce a choice of high quality 

wallpapers for feature walls within living rooms, bedrooms, 

dining’s and also children’s bedrooms and playrooms. 

A selection of the wallpaper is available in-store and of note 

is the children’s cartoon featured wallpaper which has really 

taken off according to the Advisors there. 

Super Acrylic PVA 

$61.93 

Super Washable 

Satin 

$139.79 

Ceiling White 

$43.56 

for feature walls and Childrens bedrooms and Playrooms 

Wall and All 

$154.92 

Latest 

Double Velvet 

$152.08 

digital MACHINE 

Service and Support 

The businesses strategy hinges on providing excellent service 

and support which they identified as being essential to differentiate 

from the other players in the market. Thus you will 

find that this is a business that not only wants to sell customers 

paint but want to be known for it’s value add support and 

service thus Plaza Paints will offer 

• Free site visits for quotations and assessments 

• Provide referrals of Painters for those who have not 

identified Painters to work with yet 

• And other services tailored to individual projects and clients 

For more information visit Plaza Paints at Karigamombe Centre 

or visit their website on www.plaza-paints.com or contact 

them directly on +263 4 756 759 or cell +263 783 770 711


FOOD & DRINK 

1 

In this issue 

of Food & Drink 

(1,2) Café Afrique 

(3) Lebbie 

(4) Cooking with Rumbie 

2 3 4

14 THE STANDARD STYLE / EATING OUT / Café Afrique 


Café Afrique at Cresta Oasis, The Avenues 

Dusty Miller 

I’m not quite sure why, but for many 

years I never set foot inside Cresta 

Oasis hotel in The Avenues area of 

Harare, but I’ve eaten there three or 

four times this year. 

Nowadays, everything they put 

their hands to they do extremely 

well but, sadly, that wasn’t always 

the case. 

Dusty’s “What’s on Diary” 

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

events in which readers of this page are interested. 

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

CUT OUT, KEEP, WATCH FOR NEXT UPDATE 

Sept 28(today) 

Aloe, Cactus & Succulent Society sale of rare plants and National Association of 

Garden Clubs’ horticultural show. National Botanic Gardens 9am-2pm 

Last day: Good Living lifestyle show Rainbow Towers Conference Centre 10am-5pm 

Lunch: Live band and lunch at Flat Dogs Diner, Msasa (new); Alo, Alo, Arundel; 

Amanzi, Highlands (new) 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 (NOTE kitchen closed today only) ; Italian Club, Strathaven, Mukuvisi 

Woodlands Coffee Shop; Centurion Pub & Grill, Harare Sports Club, Arti’s, New 

Section, Borrowdale Village; Hellenics, Eastlea 

Sept 28-29 Last two days Ram Slam Twenty/20 Cricket competition (schoolboys) St John’s 

College 

Sept 29 National Institute of Allied Arts, visual arts exhibition. Jubilee Hall, Hartmann 

House, 9am-4pm 

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

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

Sept 30 

Oct 1 

Oct 2 

Now with amiable roly-poly general 

manager Crispin Chimuvuri 

in charge of the hotel and Glenn 

Stutchbury chief exec of Cresta 

Hospitality everything seems bang 

on the money. 

I called there this week to check 

on a new venture, Cresta Oasis 

Apartments, which look a winner to 

7pm Line dancing City Bowling Club 

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

Curry night special, Adrienne’s Belgravia. All you can eat for US$12 (beef or chicken) 

supplement for lamb 

Irish Band at blue@2 Private Wine Bar, 2, Aberdeen Road, Avondale 

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

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

Avondale. Booking essential, Tel 0772 856 371 

Oct 3 Lilfordia School Golf Day. Chapman GC. Details nicky@pageproperties.co.zw 

Beach Party blue@2. Shorts not only allowed for a change, but actively encouraged. 

Oct 4 Mukuvisi Woodlands fund-raising run/walk for Passaportis family 

Car boot sale Borrowdale Country Club.AGM Borrowdale Country Club 

Oct 7 Fun pub quiz Theo’s, 167, Enterprise Road. No entry fee. Prizes, US$5 supper. 

Oct 10-11-12. Zimbabwe 5s Bowling Tournament City Bowling Club. Full bar and catering; pigon-a-spit 

Friday, music, entertainment, raffles. 

Oct 11 Gary Stanley entertains Borrowdale Country Club from 7pm. US$5 c/c 

Oct 11-12 Zimbabwe Trout Fishing championships Nyanga. 

To compete: mmatipano@zimparks.co.zw stay at Rhodes Nyanga Hotel. 

Oct 13 Open Restaurateurs’ Lunch (KWV wine tasting) Adrienne’s Restaurant, 

Belgravia. 12:30pm 

Oct 18 Royal Society of St George, Battle of Trafalgar Dinner Chapman GC 6:30 for 7. 

Formal. Tickets US$25. Contact Helen at djclarke@zol.co.zw 

Oct 22-25 53rd annual Kariba Invitation Tiger Fishing Tournament, Charara Eastern Basin 

(Neither StandardPlus nor Dusty Miller take responsibility for inaccuracies, 

postponements, cancellations. No charge for entry. 

Deadline 10am Tues prior to publication day.) 

me. Relatively long-term visitors to 

the capital can have serviced rooms 

adjoining the main hotel complex. 

The deal includes a fully (and nicely, 

comfortably) furnished apartment 

with either a double or twin beds, 

free Wi-Fi, 32” flat-screen TV monitor 

and DSTv bouquet; kitchenette 

with microwave and fridge; airconditioner, 

safe and housekeeping 

service for US$500 a week. 

That’s the same price for one or 

two people sharing and considering 

Zesa’s included (and there’s a standby 

generator), on site secure parking, 

security guards, and weekly 

re-supply of basic toiletries and tea 

and coffee packages this seems perfect 

for business travellers, migrating 

families, diplomatic and NGO 

visitors and project consultants. 

I’ve no doubt many of those relatively 

long-stay visitors will, like 

me, stroll across to the hotel proper 

and enjoy breakfast, lunch and/or 

supper either in Café Afrique or the 

adjoining pleasant gardens round 

the swimming pool. 

Candidly I’m not into road runner 

chicken or well-stewed economy 

beef with sadza and relish, but lots 

of my readers are and at Cresta Oasis 

these will set you back just US$3 

a heaped platter. 

The US$12 three-course special 

is tremendous value: soup of the 

day with lovely rolls and butter and 

help yourself to the savoury and 

then pudding buffet. Again, I don’t 

go a bundle on buffets (even bargain 

ones) but two of my colleagues were 

served soup and queued swiftly for 

their other two courses, to which 

they gave elated thumbs up. 

Soup-of-the-day whether on the special 

or a la carte menu was homemade 

farmhouse vegetable, which 

I found very pleasant, with half a 

Fillet steak, beautifully cooked and presented 

at just US$10. 

You can eat breakfast, lunch or supper around the inviting swimming 

pool at Cresta Oasis Hotel just a short walk from Harare’s CBD 

dozen different julienned veggies 

identifiable in a nicely flavoured 

rich broth thickened with corn 

flour. Bread rolls to go with this dish 

were exemplary and it cost US$4 

separately. 

Grand salads are available on 

the buffet, but plated main course 

garden salads, featuring smoked 

chicken breast and apricots, or 

marinated feta cheese and Kalamata 

olives with sweet ravigote sauce, 

or port wine-infused peaches with 

grilled bacon lardons and roasted 

“ndzungu” nuts are a reasonable 

US$5 a pop. 

Traditional sandwiches didn’t 

sound over traditional to me, with 

lemon chicken lettuce and mayo and 

rare roast beef with gherkins and 

tomato arguably the stars at US$5 a 

round. Steak rolls (using ultra-tender 

filet mignons), salad and chips 

are US$8 and oven-fresh pies (steak, 

chicken or vegetarian) again with 

chips and salad cost US$6. 

I rarely order red meat, but in 

the past have taken a highly successful 

gamble on a 180g (cooked weight 

I assume) deliciously tender fillet 

steak with chips (or rice, or sadza) 

at just US$10; also the same price for 

T-bone, rump or sirloin with a similar 

mass. 

On Tuesday I fancied “rendezvous” 

of Kariba bream and baby 

hake with chips and salads, also 

US$10. As the marine fish element 

was unavailable, mine came with 

just our local freshwater tilapia, 

shallow fried and coated in sesame 

seeds. Personally, I prefer chips 

crisper than these were, but they 

were perfectly edible and I left none! 

My companions attacked the pudding 

display with gusto and having 

heard several times from the lady 

that the profiteroles were quite 

possibly the finest baked since the 

cream filled choux pastry delicacy 

was created in France in 1604, I 

asked for one to go with superb fresh 

tropical fruit skewers served with 

ginger syrup; US$5 for three fruity 

kebabs. 

Award-winning chef Brian Ndlovu 

was head-hunted from Vic Falls 

Safari Lodge by Glenn Stutchbury 

to become Cresta’s group executive 

chef and this was always one of his 

trademark dishes. We ended with remarkably 

good filter coffee and a bill 

which was never going to bankrupt 

anyone. 

Café Afrique at Cresta Oasis, 

Nelson Mandela Avenue, Harare. 

Opens for breakfast and then meals 

as described above from 10am to 

9pm daily. Secure parking, smoking/non-smoking 

areas. Child and 

handicapped friendly. Eating indoors 

or out. Live entertainment 

most weekends. 

Dusty Miller rating (a la carte 

menu) 3,5 Stars. 

dustymiller46@gmail.com; www.dailymiller.co 

One of the new Cresta Oasis 

Apartments available by the 

week or longer 

Cresta Oasis executive chef Petronella Munyoro at the 

café Afrique buffet. All pictures by Dusty Miller

September 28 to october 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK / WINE 15 

make one litre of brandy. There are 

mainly two methods of distillation 

used in the making of brandy, Pot 

Still distillation, and Column Still 

distillation. Distillation results in 

the percentage of alcohol present in 

the liquid to be concerntrated, and 

repetition only results in further 

concentration of alcohol. South 

African brandy is made in Cognac 

style, after a town in the South West 

of France. Commercially, brandies 

are generally distilled twice, and 

matured in wooden casks for a minimum 

of three years. 

A number of years ago, The 

Meikles Grapevine wine tasting 

club hosted a Brandy tasting sponsored 

by KWV. It’s a tasting that I 

still relive, as it was a first for me in 

terms of “brandy tasting”. 

With my first tasting glass of 

brandy that evening, and my back 

to a number of people, I had one of 

those “think out loud” moments, in 

a room filled with not just people, 

but wine enthusiasts and “brandytasters”. 

“Brandy! Alright, but where’s 

the coke,” I exclaimed. That was 

enough to get attention from a middle 

aged gentleman, and thanks to 

him, a moment of embarrassment 

was turned into my first ever brandy-tasting. 

With my interest piqued, a year 

later, I attended a brandy-tasting 

in Johannesburg for South African 

brandy, Cognac (South west France) 

and Armagnac, which is in Gascony, 

in the South west of france. 

Now, I’ve got to mention here, that 

brandy-tasting slightly differs from 

wine-tasting. 

of accolades. With my “good company” 

in tow and an exciting yet 

serious group of Americans, we had 

an amazing tour of the distillery, 

confirming what’s in store, of “how 

brandy is distilled in a 19th century 

Cognac pot still and experience the 

fine art of brandy maturation”. 

It was a “journey through time”, 

which included an unexpected treat 

of a unique display of craftsmanship, 

of putting together a barrel. 

A tasting paired with dark chocolate 

and coffee brought on unexpected 

nods of enjoyment. My “good 

company” and I stole a glance at a 

bottle of blended brandy of Viceroy. 

It gave us one of those nostalgic 

feelings for Zimbabwe, as it’s a 

drink that graces a number of social 

events, some, we’ve been guests at. 

With Van Ryn’s range spanning 

5,10,12, 15 and 20 year olds and the 

AU.RA, a 30-year-old, I totally understood 

how various people from 

“all walks of life,” can all find their 

place when it comes to brandy matters. 

Slow, yet thought out, my brandy 

journey continues, whether it’s 

neat, on ice or with a mixer, I’ve got 

to agree, yes, it is an award-winning 

drink. 

What do you think “brandy lovers?” 

And to all wine lovers, how about a 

brandy? 

MyLifeAndWine@icloud.com 

Lebbie Musavaya 

Brandy-tasting 

Colour 

It’s important to look at the colour 

as it often tells of the age and blend, 

where a dark colour signifies a longer 

time in oak maturation, as well as 

the likelihood of it having a fuller 

and richer taste. 

Brandy - 

An ward-winning 

drink 

Swirling 

Brandy should not be swirled. The 

aromas of a brandy are concentrated 

and swirling will simply mean 

loss of flavours as the liquid is very 

volatile 

Nose 

It’s best to first float your nose above 

the glass and delicately nose the 

notes of the brandy, and slowly edge 

your nose closer to the rim, to experience 

the richer and multi-layered 

flavours. 

Taste 

Lebbie Musavaya 

“Claret is the liquor for boys; 

port for men; but he who aspires 

to be a hero must drink 

brandy” – Samuel Johnson 

I sometimes feel I take life too seriously....but 

then again, don’t we all 

at one point or another? I have always 

found great difficulty in sipping 

wine from a coffee mug, beer 

glass, or anything that’s not a wine 

glass. Having it out of a wine glass, 

is one of the smallest pleasures and 

satisfactions of life for me, and so 

I’ll stick to that. Having said that, I 

have found myself stuck in one circumstance 

too many, when a social 

invitation has been extended and 

with ease, a bottle of wine is on most 

occasions my drink of choice. I have 

though, found myself having to opt 

for another drink as the host, tells 

me with a smile, there are no wine 

glasses. And right there is where my 

brandy journey began, of brandy, 

ice and three dashes of something 

sweet. 

Brandy is the only drink, made 

from another alcoholic drink. 

Wine, in this case. A brandy is the 

condensed liquid from vapour, of 

fermented grape juice. In South Africa, 

wine used is from mostly, Colombar 

and Chenin Blanc grapes. 

About five litres of wine are used to 

Warm the brandy by placing your 

palms around the glass. It helps the 

brandy release flavours. Sip, and let 

the brandy linger and then swallow. 

Ideally, a good brandy will have a 

good integration of flavours. 

A trip to Capetown grew the brandy 

taster in me, as, a visit to Van Ryn’s 

Brandy Distillery, stood on top of 

the list. I immediately saw how their 

philosophy of “Excellence in Maturation” 

outright confirmed them as 

“the best in brandy making.” 

Van Ryn’s has won a number

16 THE STANDARD STYLE 


Traditional Maguru (Tripe) Stew 

Cooking with Rumbie 

Traditional Maguru 

(Tripe) Stew 

4 Servings 

Cooking time: 7 hours 45 minutes 

Maguru (tripe) are among Zimbabwe’s top favored 

traditional foods. They are one of those 

dishes that you may have fond or maybe not 

so fond childhood memories of. If that be the 

case, hopefully today we can create a new 

and better set of memories . I know maguru 

could be a dread for many people to prepare 

as they require a lot of time to cook which 

one may not have. So this recipe am presenting 

could possibly be a good way of preparing 

them although the highest level of precaution 

needs to be taken. Another advantage of preparing 

tripe the way am doing it here is that 

you avoid adding too much water to the tripe 

which may affect its taste in the end. Also, using 

this method you escape getting a swarm of 

flies in your kitchen or house as you prepare 

these (which is a common occurrence and 

hindrance to many). Finally, using this same 

method you get to save a bit of electricity too. 

Ok, let’s get started! 

Quick Instructions 

It’s important that you wash your maguru 

THOROUGHLY in warm water and trim off 

any excess fat so that in the end you will not 

have any fat emulsifying (kugwamba) both 

in the pot or in your plate when eating. This 

could be an annoying thing for some including 

myself. In this method we will be preparing 

the tripe overnight for the advantages we 

mentioned above. If your circumstances do 

not permit see if you can start the process in 

the early hours of the morning. Alternatively 

you can still use your slow cooker, if you have 

one, to achieve the same thing. 

1. As already mentioned wash your tripe 

in warm water and trim-off excess fat. 

Cut tripe into good size pieces and put 

into pot. Add water, salt, garlic, ginger 

and lemon slices. 

2. Partly cover and bring to the boil. Once 

it has boiled reduce heat to the lowest 

mark on your stove, cover pot completely 

and let it simmer overnight or for 7.5 

hours. 

3. After 7.5 hours the water is finished, add 

oil, spices, onion, tomatoes and stir. 

4. Add tomato sauce and stir once again. 

Give time for the tomatoes and onions to 

get done (2-5 min). 

5. When tomatoes are done, add soup 

powder and pour cold water directly onto 

the soup powder to avoid it lumping-up. 

Cover pot and let simmer for 5-10 minutes. 

Enjoy! 

Kitchen Hack #2: 

Adding lemon slices, garlic and 

ginger to your tripe as you cook 

it helps ward off flies as well as 

the not so pleasant aroma that 

sometimes comes about when 

preparing it! It also adds flavour. 

Ingredients 

• 500g maguru (tripe) 

• 1/2 onion (chopped) 

• 1 1/2 tomatoes (chopped) 

• 2 cloves garlic (minced) 

• 1 tsp fresh ginger (minced) 

• 3 lemon slices 

• 1 tbsp soup powder 

• 1 litre water 

• 1/2 tsp salt 

• 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 

• 2 tbsp tomato sauce 

• 1 tsp curry powder 

• Oil for frying 

Kitchen Hack #1: 

Slow cooking your meat, in this case 

tripe, helps to make it so tender and 

full of flavour as you don’t have to 

keep adding water which sometimes 

can affect the final taste of 

your dish. 

www.zimbokitchen.com

September 28 to October 4 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK 17


September 28 to October 4 2014


FAMILY 

Mr & Mrs Rusike 

“ 

Seek ye first the 

Kingdom of God, and 

all these things shall 

be added unto you.. 

“ 

Send us pictures of your family and a short caption of your values. Email your photos with the 

weekly code in the subject heading to style@standard.co.zw 

Specifications: JPEG minimum size 2MB Min. 300dpi 

Are we not like 

two volumes of one 

book? ~Marceline 

Desbordes 

-Valmore

20 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / PARENTING 


Cover to Cover in pictures 

Harare 

Bulawayo


THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / EDUCATION 21 

MEET THE WINNERS 

LILIAN MASITERA 

masiteral@yahoo.com 

0772 924 796 

Rise above, 

Take flight & 

Move on! 

Usave Saskam, 

verenga udzore pfungwa 

Cover to Cover: Providing a fertile ground for young imaginations 

The Cover–to–Cover Short Story Writing 

Competition, which started nine years ago 

and is co-ordinated by Alpha Media Holdings 

(AMH), publishers of NewsDay, Zimbabwe 

Independent, Standard and Southern Eye, 

ended with competition entrants from schools 

across the country winning various prizes after 

the stories they submitted came out best. 

The award ceremonies were held at Harare 

City Library and the Bulawayo Public Library. 

Since its inception in 2006, The Standard 

newspaper has been the organizer for the Cover 

to Cover Short Story Writing Competition, 

which was bankrolled by the Culture Fund 

and the Swedish Embassy. 

The competition is based on the concept of 

giving children a platform to tell their stories 

in their own words, to the whole country 

– thereby expressing their thought processes 

and letting their imagination run wild. 

The judges panel included renowned writer, 

poet and Editor Eresina Hwede who is also the 

Vice Chair of the Zimbabwe Writers Association 

(ZWA), poet and sub-editor Jerry Zondo, 

and creative writing consultant, teacher and 

writer Ethel Kabwato. Entries were based 

and judged on clarity, language, presentation, 

originality and creativity. 

The experts on the judges panel who have 

been reading and writing for years and thus 

have vast experience in the industry, made 

a general overall assessment that there is a 

clear distinction between the private, urban 

government, and the rural school and each 

story gave an insight into the daily lives of the 

children. 

The students from the affluent private schools, 

for instance, had skewed ideas of village life 

with some associating it with witchcraft and 

evil, while some wrote about Sam Levy and 

Arundel Villages! 

Winners emerged from schools in Harare, Bulawayo, 

Chitungwiza, Wedza and Marondera, 

and the overall winner was Pindile Malaba of 

Peterhouse Girls in Marondera, who was received 

a tablet, among other gifts. 

According to the competition editor, Tangai 

Chipangura, “Cover to Cover has managed 

to provide an exciting platform for children 

to express their divergent views of the world 

around them.” 

Chipangura, who is also Deputy Editor of The 

Standard, went on to say that the majority 

of the entries was evidence of the children’s 

good storytelling skills, although there was 

room for some of the submissions to improve. 

“The level of creativity and literary expression 

exuded in most of the submissions is 

absolutely amazing. The judges found making 

selection was no stroll in the park, confirming 

Zimbabwe has among its growing young 

children a lot of Charles Mungoshis, Dambudzo 

Marecheras, Tsitsi Dangarembgas, 

Cont Mhlangas, Wilson Katiyos and Shimmer 

Chinodyas waiting to be peeled out of their 

shells,” he said. 

With this in mind, the judges encourage students 

to expand their horizons and read more 

widely as the overwhelming amount of entries 

this time around goes to show how much 

talent is in the country, and how nurturing it 

will only spell success in the Zimbabwean literary 

world. 


First runner up 

Wendy Pedzesai Age 12 Female 

St. Patrick’s Primary School Grade 6-7 

Category 

Life in the Village 

When schools closed in December 2013, Tinashe’s parents 

told him that he was going to pens the holiday’s 

withhis grandmother, who lived in Matongo village, in 

Gokwe communal areas. 

The following morning, Tinashe boarded a Gokwe-bound bus. 

From Gokwe, he would board a commuter omnibus to complete 

the last part of his journey. The six hour journey from 

Bulawayo to Gokwe was a nightmare. The ancient bus swan in 

the sea of dust and dark exhaust smoke as it lumbered along 

the meandering dust road. The engine roared and screamed in 

protest as the driver changed gears. Loud spquesking sounds 

came from every corner of the bus. This raised fears amont the 

passengers, who were packed like sardines, that the bus would 

breakdown before they reached their destinations. 

The noise from the engine was deafening and no one could 

hear what the other was saying. The bus finally limped into 

Gokwe Centre when everyone has long lost hope of ever getting 

there. The bus made a u-turn into a crowded bus terminus and 

lurched to a sudden stop, in a cloud of dust. 

Tinashe arrived at Matongo village at sunset. His grandmother 

was very pleased to see him and she prepared a delicious meal 

for him consisting of sadza made from ground sorghum and 

dry mice in peanut butter. After the meal they sat around the 

fire and Tinashe asked his grandmother why she lived alone. 

“Where is grandpa? “he asked. 

Tears flooded the old woman’s eyes. She spat tobacco stained 

phlegm into the fire and she said, “VaChigumbura your grandfather 

left the village many years ago and never returned. 

Some people say he was killed by a lion near Zungunde, the 

sacred mountain, but his body was never found. 

Tinashe soon found out that life in the village was very different 

from city life. There was no electricity in the village and 

people used fire wood to cook. Tinashe’s grandmother woke 

him up at dawn every morning to fetch water from a borehole, 

which was ten kilometres away from the village. They spent the 

rest of the day in the fields tilling the land. At times Tinashe 

went into the forest with his new friends to gather firewood. 

His grandmother taught him how to hold an ox-drawn plough 

when tilling the land. She also taught him to fish and how to 

milk cows. One day Tinashe was gathering firewood near the 

sacred mountain when a voice told him to climb to the top of 

the mountain. He looked around but saw no one. This astonished 

him. Had he imagined the voice? Out of curiosity, he decided 

to climb the mountain. When he reached its summit, a 

thick mist suddenly enveloped the whole mountain. Tinashe 

could not find his way around and fear gripped him. 

He gropped around the mountain for two days, but still he 

could not find the foot path he had used in climbing the mountain. 

On the third day, Tinashe was sitting on a rock, counting 

his sorrows, when an old man with a walking stick in his hand 

suddenly appeared before him. Tinashe thought it was a ghost 

and herror held him hotage. “Do not be afraid I will not harm 

you. The spirit of chief Chigumbu has sent me to you. Your 

name is Tinashe and you live in Bulawayo, the city of Kings. 

Am I right?” the old man asked. 

Yes….Yes… I am Tinashe. But…But… who are you and .. and 

who told you my name sir?” Tinashe stuttered. The old man 

sat down. “I am your grandfather and I bring you glad tidings. 

When Chief Chigumbu, your great grandfather died, I forced 

myself onto the chietainship without consulting the spirits. 

This angered the sprits. They drove me away from the village 

and dumped me on this mountain. They told me that I was to 

wander on the mountain for many years until the heir to the 

throne was revealed. 

Today, the spirits appeared to me and told me that the heir was 

on the mountain. You are the heir to the chieftainship Tinashe, 

and you are to be crowned as Chief chigumbu the second when 

you finish school.” The old man said. 

All that moment the mist which covered the mountain dissipated. 

The old man took Tinashe’s hand and together, they went 

down to the village. Word soon spread around the village. Tinashe’s 

grandmother cried with joy and happiness when they 

arrived at the village. Word soon spread around that the ancestors 

had chosen a city boy to be the new chief. Hundreds of men 

and women trooped to Matongo village to greet the new chief. 

The school holidays were soon over and it was time for Tinashe 

to return to the city. Life in the village had been tough 

at first, but with the passage of time, Tinashe had adapted well 

to it. His heart ached with sadness when he bid farewell to his 

grandparents. He knew that he was going to miss them. However, 

he looked forward to the day when he would return to the 

village to claim the Chigumbu chieftainship.

22 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / HEALTH 


Breast Cancer: Think Pink /Pink Day 

elebrations C ctober O 014 2 

Lovemore Makurirofa (Cancer 

Association of Zimbabwe 

THE month of October is 

considered a breast cancer 

month worldwide. It is the 

month in which we commemorate 

the breast cancer survivors 

who have defied all odds and 

take responsibilities of their own 

health for their breast cancer to be 

detected and treated early and are 

now on the recovery path. During 

this month we encourage individuals 

to wear pink clothes and/or ribbons 

as a symbol of showing that 

they are aware of breast cancer. 

There is a general misconception 

among the people that the month of 

October is a cancer month. This is 

not true; October is a breast cancer 

month. As Cancer Association of 

Zimbabwe we believe that, despite 

having specific months, days and 

colours for commemorating different 

types of cancers, every month 

is a cancer month and every day is 

Theme: “Find it, Fight it and Win the Battle” 

cancer day, thus, we need to take 

responsibility of our own health on 

every day basis, by ensuring that we 

are not putting ourselves at risk of 

developing cancer and also by supporting 

those diagnosed of cancer. 

The Cancer Association of Zimbabwe 

will hold this year’s Pink 

Day commemoration on October 3 

at Africa Unit Square, Harare from 

12:00pm to 15:00pm and you are all 

invited to the event. We encourage 

you to wear pink on the day. Last 

year’s pink day commemorations 

were held under the theme “Early 

Detection and Treatment save 

Lives”. This year’s theme is “Find 

it, Fight it and Win the 

Battle” 

This theme encourages 

the people to “Find” 

out more about breast 

cancer so as to counteract 

the current widespread 

cancer myths 

and misconceptions and 

cancer stigma and discrimination. 

It encourages 

all of us (Cancer 

clients and those without 

cancer) to “Fight” 

breast cancer with all 

our united efforts and 

the available possible 

options. It is only through our 

united efforts that we will be able to 

“Win the Battle” against breast cancer 

in Zimbabwe. This year’s theme 

also encourages those diagnosed of 

breast cancer to keep on fighting 

and not lose hope despite the current 

challenges being experienced 

in the access and affordability of 

cancer management services in the 

country. 

Participate in this year’s “Think 

Pink/ Pink Day” commemorations 

by wearing Pink and donate at least 

a dollar, remember our united efforts 

will take us far in our fight 

against breast cancer. Register to 

participate as an individual, group, 

corporate, church or any other entity: 

Contact Linda and Hildry on 04 

707 444, 705522, info@cancer.co.zw, 

fundraising@cancer.co.zw 

For More Information Contact: 

The Cancer Association of 

Zimbabwe 

60 Livingstone Harare (Cnr 6th 

Street and Livingstone Avenue) 

Tel: 04 - 707444 / 705522 Fax: 

+263 4 707 482 

Email: info@cancer.co.zw, 

Website: www.cancerzimbabwe. 

2013 Pink Day held at the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe on the 4th of October 2013 

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“We are committed to cancer 

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the quality of life of patients, 

their families and communities 

through timeous, cost 

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ZUMBA is a dance fitness program 

created by Colombian dancer and 

choreographer Alberto “Beto” 

Perez. Zumba involves dance 

and aerobic elements. Zumba’s 

choreography incorporates hip-hop 

salsa samba merengue and mambo 

cumbia flamingo etc... 

You might want to know why Zumba 

is more popular than any other 

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‣ It blasts through between 500-1000 

calories per hour depending upon 

the intensity of the class this 

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calorie burning burning exercise. 

a further benefit of Zumba is that 

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‣ It’s so enjoyable that you don’t 

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People think Zumba is for 

ladies; NO it suits all. The friendly 

community atmosphere of a 

Zumba class also gives you the 

motivation to keep coming back. 

‣ The intensity of this class will 

keeps your pumping and your 

blood flowing this strengthens 

your heart, lungs and vascular 

system and allows them to pump 

a greateramount of oxygen 

around your body. this high 

intensity class structure 

stimulates the release of HGH 

human growth hormone a 

hormone which supports 

increased muscle growth and 

enhanced fat burning. 

‣ It also benefits you mentally. The 

fun filled party naturally melts 

away stress, boosts you mood 

and makes you feel happier. The 

best bit about is Zumba is that 

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THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / EDUCATION 23 

Edson Chivandikwa 

THOSE who went to school 

in Zimbabwe in the 70s and 

80s may have harrowing 

and graphic memories of 

their first few days at mission-run 

or government schools. Initiation 

was arguably relentlessly at its fever 

peak in those days. So much 

has changed since the 70s and 80s: 

trends in dress, lingo and culture 

have drastically transformed. But 

has the initiation tradition in our 

schools changed? Are new students 

no longer required to undergo the 

“initiation ceremony”, as it may be 

called? Sadly, the Zimbabwean print 

and electronic media continue to report 

sordid tales of the initiation of 

Nyasha Dhliwayo 

EVER felt that 24 hours just 

isn’t enough to stay ahead 

of deadlines at work, attend 

to family business and 

maintain passing grades at school? 

You are definitely not alone, as 

numerous students across the world 

juggle the demands of work, family 

and academic commitments. 

Loveness Nyanungo, a psychologist, 

says that effective time management 

and a strong support network 

will help you fit everything 

into 24 hours while retaining your 

sanity. 

“Time management is a very important 

skill that you should develop 

from an early age because, as you 

grow older, demands on your time 

will always multiply,” she says. 

Loveness advises tackling life in 

week-sized chunks. 

“You need to have balance in 

your life so if you plan for at least a 

week ahead you will find that work, 

school, church, social clubs and other 

activities will fit into your schedule,” 

she says. 

Plaxedes Tsoro, a professional 

Initiation of newcomers in schools: 

Worthwhile tradition or abuse? 

new students. 

ment, initiation fosters a sense of 

In response to the negative publicity 

following revelations of brutal another form of abuse masquerad- 

pride and common identity? Or is it 

initiation at Parktown Boys High, ing as a home-coming ceremony? 

Johannesburg, South Africa, in The proponents of initiation ardently 

agree that the practice builds 

2009, Alan Brown remarked that 

initiation in the school was not the character, swells confidence, fosters 

problem; in fact, he fervently articulated, 

authorities should focus on the behaviour of the new, sustains 

a bond with the old students, checks 

the real problem -- the dilapidation the school’s tradition, explains the 

of discipline in schools. Is it true school system and its values and 

that in a disciplined school environ- 

instils “house” spirit in the school. 

Beat the pressure 

administrator who is doing a Zimbabwe 

Institute of Management Higher 

Diploma in Business Administration 

at Speciss College, says that 

planning ahead allows her to balance 

her roles as a mother, employee 

and student. 

She believes in organising her life 

in year sized blocks. 

“I find balancing my life easy because 

at the beginning of each year 

I plan such that none of my tasks at 

home, work, church or school suffer,” 

says the mother of two teenagers. 

After every semester, when 

Plaxedes gets her exam results, she 

modifies her timetable so that she 

fits in lectures and studying periods 

determined by the demands of the 

courses she has registered for. 

This means that sometimes she 

may have to attend midweek church 

services fortnightly instead of weekly. 

“My family and work commitments 

have always been there so 

it’s simply a matter of fitting in my 

studies,” she says. 

Obvious Ruhwode, a technician at 

a regional haulage company who is 

also studying the Chartered Institute 

of Logistics and Transport (CILT) at 

Speciss College, says that balancing 

study and life commitments is rarely 

easy but still achievable. 

“If you are focussed and determined 

to better your life you create 

time,” he says. 

Obvious literally carves out time 

from his day as he after work he attends 

lectures, then studies into the 

wee hours of the morning. 

“Those few extra hours that I 

might use to relax, turn into study 

hours for me,” he says. 

Loveness advises seeking help 

whenever you feel that you are not 

coping with the work/school/personal 

life balance. 

“Sit down with a trusted lecturer, 

student counsellor or mentor to go 

through your syllabus and see how 

best you can approach your studies,” 

she says. 

Loveness says that approaching 

They also contend that it boosts 

“corporate” pride and clarifies the 

web of duties, responsibility and hierarchy. 

It is assumed to be a form of 

welcoming. 

Whilst initiation is believed by 

some to build character and “make 

a man”, it can be humiliating and 

unbearably painful to the poor child 

being initiated into the school. The 

initiated are usually isolated and 

sworn to silence before being made 

helpful colleagues at work can also 

help you find the most flexible yet 

productive ways of working. 

“It’s always a good idea to talk 

with colleagues who seem to have 

their act together and ask them how 

they do it,” the psychologist says. 

As a technician with a transnational 

haulage concern Obvious often 

travels within the region. 

In addition to this he lectures an 

Auto Electrics class at Speciss’ Technical 

Campus during weekends. 

Obvious says that he is able to remain 

effective at school and work 

through communicating with his 

superiors and colleagues to allow 

him to work during non-traditional 

working hours. 

“I realise that my job is important 

since it provides money for my fees, 

so when necessary I stay behind to 

to undergo a series of embarrassing 

experiences like being sent to 

the tuck shop without money and 

bring change or hide something and 

“look” for it for an hour before “finding” 

it. In some situations, the initiated 

are asked to do things that can 

harm them physically and emotionally. 

In the worst of circumstances, 

initiation can boarder on the sexual. 

The health of the poor boy (or girl) 

is jeopardised, thanks to the patriotic 

comrades of school tradition. 

At the end of the day, it is the 

health of the unfortunate boy or girl 

that matters; it is his social welfare 

that is of consequence. By letting 

initiation happen, we are creating 

a ferocious future generation whose 

socio-political ideology will annihilate 

the world. 

make sure my work is always up to 

date,” he says. 

Loveness say that though the family 

can provide much needed emotional 

support, it can also be a source 

of stress especially in circumstances 

where the family has had to sell assets 

such as cars or forego some “luxuries” 

in order to fund fees. 

“The pressure that comes from 

the sacrifices made by the family 

can create fear and result in stress 

within students,” she says. 

In such instances, Loveness recommends 

going to approachable family 

members for their assistance in diffusing 

any simmering resentment. 

“You can always go to members 

of the family who have shown you 

concern before so that they can act 

as the voice of reason and mediate 

any tensions,” she says. 

Loveness says that where human 

assistance isn’t available, students 

can read books or visit online student 

help sites that provide resources 

on ways of balancing life and academic 

demands. 

Being a student is demanding, but 

with proper planning and the support 

of colleagues and family it can be a 

thrilling and rewarding experience!

24 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY /GETAWAY 


Westgate Half Marathon 2014 - lovely event 

Rosie Mitchell 

Last year, I was sorry not to be able to enter 

the Westgate Half Marathon as I had 

an unavoidable clash. I was MC at the 

AWARE Trust Rhino AWAREness Day at 

Raintree – which was a wonderfully enjoyable 

occasion, as was this year’s edition – so I was 

very glad that these events didn’t clash for 

2014. This was the Third Westgate Half Marathon, 

sponsored by Old Mutual, and I was really 

excited to participate in the run, and all 

the fun, this year. Old Mutual is now the official 

sponsor of four major events on the local 

running calendar, and many others besides 

outside our country, very notably of course, 

the famous annual Old Mutual Two Oceans 

Marathon in Cape Town – so as a runner, I am 

a regular beneficiary of their generosity, in 

supporting healthy, active lifestyles and community 

initiatives like these. 

There were several outlets across the city 

at which to pre-register for this event and the 

system worked very smoothly. I was impressed 

by the sturdy stickers used as race numbers 

to stick onto your running shirt – doing away 

with the need to use safety pins. Registration 

was just US$5 for adults and US$1 for students, 

making this a very inclusive event affordable 

by most enthusiasts, and accordingly, well 

over 1 000 participants turned out on the day, 

which in itself created a very festive, vibrant 

atmosphere. 

Old Mutual has a number of reasons for 

having launched this event, amongst them, 

drawing people into this lovely shopping mall, 

still sadly under-utilised given the world class 

facilities and architecture, though things are 

definitely improving; creating an event which 

draws communities living in and near this 

area together to enjoy themselves exercising; 

and encouraging healthy, active lifestyles in 

people of all ages. Accordingly, there was a 

5km Fun Run, a 10km Open Race, and a Half 

Marathon (21.1km) which embraced and rewarded 

runners in all categories – Open (up 

to age 39), Veteran (40 to 49), Master (50 to 59) 

Grand Master (60 to 69), Wheelchair, and Secondary 

school students. Quite a number of 

teams turned out for the event from various 

running clubs and schools, and the wheelchair 

racing community was out in force as 

well. 

This race is also the country’s top one, 

in terms of prize money made available by 

sponsor Old Mutual in all categories mentioned, 

and a host of Zimbabwe’s top names 

in running came forward to compete for these 

prizes. Some really amazing times were recorded. 

The top ZRP and Prison Service runners 

were out in force and won a number of 

prestigious prizes, and with so many prizes to 

hand out, prize-giving was very festive. Prize 

money was given to winners using Textacash 

accounts, a recently launched product from 

CABS, part of the Old Mutual Group. Winners 

filled in the appropriate form to open an 

account and were handed their new Textacash 

account card with their prize money already 

loaded – a very neat way to achieve handing 

out a lot of cash, and into the bargain, creating 

awareness of this product, and rapidly 

opening quite a number of new accounts. 

The races started on the main road at 

Westgate Shopping Centre entrance and finished 

inside the shopping complex, with three 

finishing lanes for the three different races 

– all well-marked and flagged, as was the entire 

route, which showed me a whole new part 

of Harare, since Westgate and its surrounds 

are for us in Greendale, amongst the furthest 

flung suburbs – though I do love the shopping 

mall, and it is worth the trek now and again 

even from so far away. Particularly now that 

the Westgate cinemas are back in full swing, 

and offering 3D into the bargain, Westgate 

Shopping Centre is returning to being a popular 

suburban destination, no matter which 

side of town you’re on. 

I thoroughly enjoyed the Half Marathon 

route. This took the runners through lots of 

huge open spaces and farm lands, with lovely 

big blue Zimbabwean skies, as well as through 

suburban streets, and was one of the best 

marshalled races I’ve ever run. There were 

officially dressed Old Mutual marshals on 

literally every street corner and intersection, 

ensuring that runners always took the correct 

route. The 10km and Half Marathon shared 

some sections of their routes in common, so 

this was a very good plan, and in addition, literally 

every kilometre, there was a marker so 

we knew how far we’d run, and a water point 

every kay too. It is actually quite easy to go 

astray in a race, especially as one gets more 

tired as it progresses, and hence more focused 

on keeping going and less focused on the actual 

route! So a well-marked, well-marshalled, 

well-watered route is always much appreciated 

by the runners -- and this one gets top 

marks. It was also a particularly friendly 

race, and I enjoyed the social aspect as much 

as the route. My colleague Rosemary who ran 

the 10km race, reported likewise of her run. 

I’m definitely adding the Westgate Half to my 

not-to-be-missed annual races. It had a great 

vibe and a festive, celebratory ambience, and 

it is always amazing to rub shoulders with the 

country’s fastest runners. The T-shirts were 

also especially good – excellent design, and for 

once, my shirt actually fits! As a rather small 

runner, I so often end up drowning in my commemorative 

running shirts, but this one was 

very nicely tailored for the ladies and fits me 

perfectly. I was also delighted to win a prize – 

not so difficult in my category as Master Lady 

Runners are thin on the ground – but it does 

provide much encouragement to continue enjoying 

running, and a sense of achievement, 

and I was very pleased with my time, too. 

Next on the Old Mutual sponsored running 

calendar is the Vumba Mountain Run, on November 

8 -- a very tough but enjoyable and scenic 

21km race, plus 10 and 5 km fun runs – so 

diarise this now: A great excuse for a getaway 

in the Vumba! 

Feedback: rosie@wildimaginings.net.


ARTS & CULTURE 

1 

In this issue 

of Arts & Culture 

(1) Katrina 

(2) ZIMAA UK 

(3) Taking writing to the young 

(4) Amber Rose @ Wiz Khalifa 

2 3 4

26 THE STANDARD STYLE /COMMUNITY/ BREAKING NEW GROUND 


"Read and Discover 

Your World" says Katrina 

Patricia Mabviko-Musanhu 

EVERY parent desires the 

best for their children. 

The expectation is usually 

that their children 

will live to achieve bigger 

dreams than their own. What 

tends to be forgotten many 

a times is the responsibility 

that parents have to plant this 

“seed of greatness” into their 

children as early as possible 

if indeed they are to grow 

to produce “greatness”. In 

Children of Dreams, Lorilyn 

Roberts talks about the importance 

of committing time 

to children. 

“You must be committed to 

your children first. Otherwise, 

they will receive the 

leftovers,” she says. 

Katrina Wallace Karenga 

believes that her mother contributed 

to her becoming the 

avid reader that she is as well 

as discovering her passion for 

creative writing. 

“I studied sciences for my 

first degree and yet today I 

am in the creative sector and 

enjoying what I do,” she said 

with a brightening look on 

her face. 

Katrina works as a material 

development specialist 

for a regional Non-Governmental 

Organisation and 

her responsibilities include 

writing books as well as developing 

posters, pamphlets 

and training materials and 

manuals for different target 

groups. Her passion goes beyond 

just packaging stories 

and publishing information 

to encouraging children to 

read in her spare time. To this 

end, she is heavily involved 

with the Harare City Library 

where she works with children 

encouraging them to 

read so as to widen their understanding 

of the world they 

live in. 

“My mother would go to 

the library once or twice a 

week without fail and would 

take us with her although we 

were very young. Initially we 

used to just sit in the library 

and watch her read and take 

away more books to read at 

home.” 

It was through watching 

her mother that Katrina began 

to develop an interest in 

reading. 

“The books that my mother 

read gave her access to so 

many different experiences 

and an understanding of so 

many cultures. When she 

spoke to us or told us stories 

it was as if she had travelled 

around the world.” 

Katrina confessed that she 

wouldn’t be where she is today 

if it was not for the many 

books she has read since 

childhood. Reading different 

novels and fiction books ignited 

in her a love to tell stories 

as well as a passion to share 

information. Each story she 

read gave her an opportunity 

to reflect on her being and to 

understand herself better. 

“The more you read, the 

more you get to know more 

about yourself in view of the 

world you live in. You develop 

an ability to understand what 

is good and what is bad and 

are able to make an informed 

decision based on a wider understanding 

of the choices 

available,” she added. 

Katrina believes strongly 

that reading also gives one 

an opportunity to acquire 

critical thinking and problem 

solving skills. The notion that 

these skills are acquired only 

from reading academic books 

is not necessarily correct. 

She said that a person who is 

widely read is likely to perform 

better in an interview 

for example than someone 

who has only read to pass an 

examination. The one who 

is more widely read is likely 

to exude more confidence 

and display a better understanding 

of the multicultural 

society we live in and consequently 

show better human 

relations skills compared to 

the other. 

“I think that parents have 

an important role to play in 

as far as encouraging their 

children to read is concerned. 

I don’t believe that they necessarily 

have to be readers as 

is the case with my mother. 

Simply reading a story to a 

child on a regular basis is 

enough to ignite their imagination 

and this is a good place 

to start. Story telling creates 

enthusiasm for reading” she 

said. 

In addition, it is never too 

late for anyone to develop a 

culture of reading. If you 

struggle to read through one 

book from beginning to end, 

Katrina’s advice is to begin 

by reading stories that you 

enjoy the most. The more 

you read the more your interest 

grows. From here you can 

then begin to look for small 

books by authors who write 

on subjects you enjoy to read 

about and the rest will take 

care of itself ! 

Patricia Mabviko Musanhu 

is a Company Director/Producer 

at Black and 

White Media Productions. 

She can be contacted at 

pmabviko@gmail.com


THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS 27 

ZIMAA UK 2014 edition 

nominations drawing to 

a close 

Masimba Makasi - ZIMAA UK 

The Zimbabwe Music and Arts 

Awards UK (ZIMAA UK) return 

for the 4th year with a mission to 

further the Zimbabwean arts scene 

in the UK. This year’s event will 

be held at the Adams Park Conference 

Centre, High Wycombe on 29 

November 2014. The event includes 

a 3 course dinner and live entertainment 

as well as the awards show 

and after-party. Tickets have been 

released on general sale and organisers 

say they are in the process of 

assembling an exciting line up of 

artists. 

Adopting the national flower, 

the flame lily as their insignia, the 

PR officer for ZIMAA UK, Masimba 

Makasi said “The beauty and grace 

of the flame lily stands for all that 

is good about Zimbabwe. Its Latin 

name “Gloriosa Superba” which 

literary translates to “Glorious, Superb” 

represent the aspirations we 

have for Zimbabwean art to make 

its mark on the British and International 

scene in the same way West 

African arts have crossed into the 

mainstream. In fact, there is much 

more symbolism to the flame lily 

that fits into our ultimate objectives 

for this organisation and UK based 

Zimbabwean arts”. 

Since the awards’ inception in 

2011, following on from the ZimAwards 

in 2009 and 2010; ZIMAA UK 

has provided an unrivalled platform 

where all artists based in the 

United Kingdom can be nominated 

and stand a chance to win the award 

based on how many votes they get 

from members of the public. The 

process also includes all Zimbabwean 

artists who have toured the 

United Kingdom in the past calendar 

year. In addition, the votes and 

the acts will be elaborately reviewed 

by the judging panel made up of seasoned 

promoters and credible industry 

insiders with unbiased minds. 

Commenting on whether the 

exercise was not merely a popularity 

contest the organisers said, “We 

are constantly looking for ways to 

improve our voting and nominating 

systems to ensure that every 

nominee is deserving and that everyone 

has a fair chance of getting 

voted for. One such way is creating 

awareness of the event in the press 

and public domain to ensure every 

qualifying artist is nominated and 

voted for by those who believe they 

deserve to win. Another way is to 

invest in stricter voting systems 

which we have done.” Nominations 

are currently open until the 3rd of 

October, they will go through a review 

process to assess eligibility before 

voting starts. 

Previous winners include Shanky, 

Cynthia Mare, Jane Doka, Nox 

Guni and many others. The awards 

are not only limited to music but 

also honour art arts sectors life 

film, fashion, literature, promotions 

as well as broadcasting and the media. 

Other previous winners have 

included ZimOnline Radio, King Alfred 

and many others. 

The organiser would like to 

thank all their sponsors and are 

pleased to say that there are still opportunities 

to sponsor the event. 

For further information and to nominate, 

please visit the website www. 

zimaa.co.uk or write to info@zimaa. 

co.uk

28 THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / BOOKWORM 


L - R - Ethel Kabwato, Lawrence Hoba, Tinashe Mushakavanhu & Philani Nyoni 

Taking writing 

Lia Brazier of Hellenic Academy receives a book prize from Tinashe Mushakavanhu 

to the young 

By Bookworm 

Tino Mukura of Lilfordia receives a book prize from Lawrence Hoba 

I 

was recently part of a group of writers who 

facilitated creative writing workshops at 

Westridge High School in Harare. If there 

is anything I love doing, it is sharing my 

love and passion for books and writing with 

LILIAN MASITERA 

masiteral@yahoo.com 

0772 924 796 

Usave Saskam, 

verenga udzore pfungwa 

young people. The turnout was overwhelmingly 

good, never mind the fact that it was a 

Saturday. Hundred and fourteen students, 

ranging in age from 11 – 18, from 29 schools attended 

the workshop. 

Apart from providing the venue, 

Westridge High School, also kindly donated 

book prizes to the 20 best students who were 

selected after the prose and poetry sessions. 

The workshop attracted a broad spectrum 

of schools, including Rydings from Karoi, 

Cecil John Rhodes (CJR) from Gweru, Bryden 

School from Chegutu as well as Mufakose 

Mhuriimwe and other Harare and Marondera 

Schools. 

The workshop was the initiative of the 

National Institute of Allied Arts (NIAA), in 

association with the Meikles Foundation. 

The purpose of the workshop was to motivate 

and inspire budding writers by giving them 

a chance to interact with young experienced 

writers. 

Creative writing is important for children 

and teens as they learn to express themselves 

better. It not only provides them with a safe 

space to make sense of the human dynamics 

around them, but it teaches them writing at 

the highest level, going beyond lucidity into 

the realm of literary tension, and then further 

into humour, narrative complexity, abstraction, 

and metaphor. 

If young people are not learning to write 

while exploring personal narratives and short 

fiction, it is because our educators need more 

training -- or the specifics of the curriculum 

need further development. It is not because 

those forms of writing in themselves are of 

no use. 

Four Zimbabwean writers Lawrence Hoba, 

Ethel Kabwato, Philani Nyoni and Tinashe 

Mushakavanhu shared their experiences as 

published writers with the school children. 

The writers have been published in Zimbabwe 

and elsewhere. 

The writers worked in small groups giving 

the young students ideas on how to improve 

writing in both poetry and prose. Interestingly, 

most of the kids had intelligent 

questions to ask about writing and books. The 

feedback from teachers, who also participated 

in the workshop, was tremendous, as they all 

felt that they had learnt much from the writers, 

and had gained a fresh perspective on how 

to improve their teaching methods. 

Teachers who were present were actively 

encouraged to be part of the workshops. It’s 

a great opportunity for teachers to observe 

the writing process in action and be exposed 

to different teaching styles and writing activities. 

In this way, the workshop becomes an effective 

and “hands on” session for the teachers. 

The ability to write well is vitally important 

to do well in school or in any career, as 

many jobs require good writing and communication 

skills. Traditionally, little teaching of 

creative writing has been done in Zimbabwean 

schools, and even then, it often takes a back 

seat to other subjects. It is possible, though, 

to improve children’s creative writing skills 

through encouragement, supporting parent’s 

efforts at home. 

From the perspective of the writers, the 

experience was a good one, and it certainly 

opened the door to the idea of further interaction 

with the schools. “There seems to be a 

real hunger to know about the writing process. 

The thing is, all writers approach the process 

differently. I know that I work very differently 

to someone like Dambudzo Marechera, for example.” 

All the four writers agreed that the workshops 

needed to taken to schools around the 

country as a way of building a strong army 

of young writers and readers. In the past few 

years, less than five new creative fiction books 

are published in Zimbabwe revealing an anemic 

literary environment. 

According to the NIAA Literary Festival 

Director, and convener of the workshop, Beverley 

Abrahams, the workshop was a great 

success and the NIAA will consider holding 

more such workshops in the future. She expressed 

her gratitude to the Meikles Foundation 

for the generous sponsorship it provided 

and to Westridge High school for opening up 

their school for the event and sponsoring the 

book prizes. 

NIAA holds an annual literary festival 

and competition for school children across 

Zimbabwe which, this year, attracted over 

2 400 entries from 48 primary and 26 high 

schools around the country. Two students 

excelled during the workshop included Tino 

Mukura of Lilfordia School walked away with 

prizes in both prose and poetry as did Heidi 

Langton of Chisipite Senior School. 

The foundation of Zimbabwe’s literary 

future can only begin now. Tomorrow is too 

late. 

Feedback: bhukuworm@gmail.com


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It is only four days away now. All we can do is sit 

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As the momentum builds up and the countdown 

begins, excitement is all over Zimbabwe and Harare 

in particular, where the ZIMAs will be held at 

HICC. 

it is clearly going to be a red carpet event as the 

organizers have had overwhelming interest from 

local Fashion designers and retailers who would 

like to use the ZIMA platform to showcase their 

work. After a 7 year absence, ZIMA is back with 

a bang and is set to go beyond being a platform for 

musicians but for many other players across different 

sectors. 

A big make up brand, Signature Cosmetics will be 

coming on board as the official make up partner 

for the event. Their make-up artists bring a wealth 

of experience not just in make-up but also make 

up for television. They will work on all hosts and 

guest presenters as well all female nominees. 

The idea behind all this is to create a fantasy night 

of glitz and glamour that will dazzle audiences and 

show the nominees just how much they are appreciated 

and honored in the music and arts industry. 

However, it’s important to add that the glitz and 

the glamour will not end on the red carpet. According 

to a spokesperson from ZIMA, Farai Chapoterera, 

they have put together a show that will keep 

audiences captivated from beginning to end. “We 

have moved away for the traditional way of stage 

construction and set building to the use of led 

screens and light manipulation to create the perfect 

ambiance and allow for transition from one act 

to the next. We have also ensured that the quality 

of production in the main auditorium is the same 

for viewers at home, especially when it comes to 

sound. We are happy that we have partnered with 

the national broadcaster who have allowed us the 

use of their state of the art Out Side Broadcast 

(OB) van. We will have some of our technicians 

working in partnership with ZBC to ensure a high 

quality production,” she said. 

Amber Rose & Wiz Khalifa: Shocking Split 

Amber Rose reportedly filed for divorce from 

Wiz Khalifa, leaving fans of their union completely 

blindsided with heartache. 

Amber Rose & Wiz Khalifa Split — Fans 

React To Divorce On Twitter 

Amber, 27, and Wiz, 30, have only been married 

for a little more than year — they celebrated their 

one-year anniversary on July 8 — so it’s understandable 

why fans are so shocked over this split. 

Amber cited irreconcilable differences as the 

reason for the split, according to TMZ. The paperwork 

allegedly shows that Amber wants full legal 

and physical custody of their son, Sebastian, 1, but 

she will allow Wiz to have visitation rights. There’s 

no public reason for the split yet, but reports suggest 

Amber has been romantically involved with 

Nick Cannon, who is going through relationship 

troubles of his own with Mariah Carey. She even 

gushed about Nick in a recent interview. – Chris 

Rogers 

http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/09/24 

FOOD NETWORK (DStv 

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DStv September 

2014 Schedules 

Street Eats (Season 1): Food is one of the top reasons 

why people like to travel. The best place to find the 

most authentic local food scenes around the world 

is right on the streets! There is no better place to rub 

elbows with the locals and grab a bite that’s fast, inexpensive 

and translates the culture. In some countries, 

street food represents a melting pot of traditions. 

Street Eats travels to Latin America, Africa, The Middle 

East, Asia, the United States and Europe to bring this 

experience to viewers who may never get the chance to 

taste it for themselves. Tune in from 22 September and 

watch it on weekdays at 07:40 and 11:00 CAT. 

Recipes that Rock (Season 2): Alex James is bass player 

in the British rock band, Blur. He’s also a writer, farmer, 

father and cheesemaker. Chef Matt Stone has hip restaurants 

in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Matt has full 

sleeve tattoos, a skateboard and an attitude to match, 

he rocks too. In this series of Recipes That Rock, there’s 

fun and adventure in the Great Southern, searching 

out the best of the best foods that producers grow, 

harvest, hatch and catch. Series 2 opens with succulent 

oysters in Oyster Harbour, Albany, and a merry visit to 

the local whisky distillery. In later episodes, the inquisitive 

duo discover a unique way of farming chickens for 

eggs, learn about the worldwide delicacy Abalone, 

and close the series with a huge party celebrating all 

of the produce they’ve discovered and wonderful 

characters they’ve met in this magnificent part of 

the world. Watch from Sunday 8 September at 09:20 

and 13:55 CAT. 

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Breaking the Faith (Premiere): This series shares the 

story of eight young men and women who are trying 

to build a new life outside of the Mormon church. The 

young men, known as ‘lost boys’, are cast-out from 

their homes and not welcomed back, while the women 

are intent on escaping the controlling ways of the 

community – including arranged marriage and a life of 

complete submission – and are hoping for a better life 

on the outside. For this group, being faced with making 

life-altering choices in their effort to win their freedom 

comes with the fear of the consequences that may 

come for leaving the compound forever. From Tuesday 

16 September at 20:55 CAT. 

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (Premiere): After the 

rip-roaring success of the first series, Honey Boo Boo 

returns with her family for more mishaps, joviality and 

raucous redneck fun. In this series, birthday girl June’s 

spirits are sagging as she copes with an empty nest after 

Anna and Kaitlyn decide to move out. Finally, without 

Anna and Kaitlyn around, the family spends very 

little time together. Alana hopes the family’s love for 

food will reunite them - but just as with family game 

night and pottery painting, her efforts fall short. From 

Wednesday 24 September at 20:00 CAT. 

My Naked Secret (Premiere): Follow the personal stories 

of 10 more people as they begin to overcome the 

body issues that are ruining their lives. In each episode 

an individual with a medical condition or physical abnormality 

that is causing them great shame and untold 

misery embarks on a transformative and poignant journey 

in search of acceptance. They then begin treatment 

for their condition in a bid to finally have a body they 

love. But will this enable them to come to terms with 

their anxieties? Find out from Friday 26 September at 

20:55 CAT. 

Oprah Prime: Pharrell Williams: Oprah meets up with 

seven-time Grammy® winner Pharrell Williams, one of 

the most innovative and sought-after artists in the music 

industry today. On the heels of his number one hit 

“Happy,” a single off the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, 

for which he received an Oscar® nomination, Oprah 

and Pharrell discuss his critically acclaimed album G I 

R L and his rise to fame. Plus, Pharrell shares how his 

creative vision has propelled him to music stardom. 

They also discuss his recent marriage to Helen Lasichanh 

and fatherhood. Airs on Thursday 11 September 

at 20:00 CAT. 

Oprah’s Masterclass: Justin Timberlake: The brand new 

season kicks off with one of this generation’s most 

celebrated entertainers, multiple Grammy and Emmy 

award-winning musician and actor Justin Timberlake. 

Sharing never-before-told stories about his youth and 

his musical influences, Justin imparts his most valuable 

life lessons yet, including how to find your voice, how 

to break the mould and how to hold on to your ambition. 

Watch it on Thursday 25 September at 20:00 CAT. 

Oprah’s Masterclass: Oprah Winfrey (Part 1&2): In Part 

1 of an intimate conversation, Oprah opens up about 

her tumultuous childhood and adolescence and the 

lessons she still carries with her today. She tells littleknown 

stories about her early days in television, including 

how losing her hair helped her gain a new sense of 

self. What guides her and drives her to do her best? 

In Part 2, she reflects on her experience getting cast in 

The Color Purple and the cultural phenomenon of The 

Oprah Winfrey Show. She opens up about her private 

life, and what she feels her true calling was meant to 

be. Revealing and deeply personal, Oprah offers new 

insights on how we all can become masters of our lives. 

Watch it on Thursday 04 September at 20:55 CAT. 

Oprah’s Masterclass: Jay-Z: Candid, raw and real, Jay-Z 

charts his unlikely rise from the hard-knock life of the 

Brooklyn projects to worldwide superstardom and what 

he’s learned along the way. He reflects on his failures, 

the healing power of hip-hop and how he finally made 

peace with his father before he passed away. Plus, Jay-Z 

shares his personal revelations about integrity and why 

knowing your own truth is the foundation for everything 

great. Airs on Thursday 11 September at 20:55 CAT. 

Oprah’s Next Chapter: Cissy Houston: Oprah sits down 

with Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, for her 

first in-depth interview since her daughter’s passing. 

The superstar’s mother talks about raising a daughter 

whose voice became a national treasure, teaching Whitney 

about the music business, and her biggest regrets. 

Oprah also talks to Cissy about Whitney’s drug use, how 

she really felt about her daughter’s marriage to R&B 

singer Bobby Brown, and the true nature of Whitney’s 

relationship with her high school best friend, Robyn 

Crawford. Airs on Thursday 18 September at 20:00 CAT. 

DISNEY XD (DStv Channel 

303) 

Star Wars fans: Star Wars Rebels: In the run-up to this 

exciting event Disney is airing a series of shorts introducing 

a new character from the series each week so 

viewers can get to know them better. Get ready to meet 

Zeb, Ezra, Kanan and Hera on Saturdays throughout September. 

Star Wars Rebels animated shorts airs on Disney 

XD on Saturdays at 09:15 CAT. 

Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened: 

When the Genesect army attacks New Tork City 

while Ash is visiting, it’s up to Pokemon Mewtwo to 

protect them. Can he persuade the Genesect to spare 

New Tork? Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the 

Legend Awakened premieres on Sunday 7 September 

at 12:15 CAT. 

Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles – The Raid on 

Coruscant: In The Raid on Coruscant the Emperor uses 

information on the recovered Holocrons to launch devastating 

attacks on planets sympathetic to the Rebellion. 

Luke knows there’s only one solution: a daring raid on 

Coruscant to get the Holocrons back. In the end, Luke 

makes the boldest move of all destroying the Holocrons 

so the Emperor can no longer use them. But unknown 

to Luke, R2-D2 has saved one last Holocron - which just 

happens to “star” the young Anakin Skywalker. Star 

Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles – The Raid on Coruscant 

premieres on Saturday 13 September at 09:20 CAT. 

DISNEY CHANNEL (DStv 

Channel 304) 

Phineas and Ferb: Mission Star Wars: In exciting and entertaining 

epic animated adventure Phineas and Ferb: 

Mission Stars Wars Phineas and Ferb find themselves in 

the midst of a galactic rebellion and an epic struggle of 

good versus evil that tears the brothers apart and pits 

them against one another when Ferb goes to the Dark 

Side! Meanwhile, Stormtrooper Candace is hot on their 

trail and desperate to stop the boys from making matters 

worse, but her allegiance falls into question when 

Phineas saves her and she realizes that all Rebels are 

not bad. Disney Channel is proud to present Phineas 

& Ferb: Mission Star Wars on Sat 27 Sept at 10:40. It 

will be repeated on Sun 28 Sept at 15:00. May the Ferb 

be with you! 

Wolfblood (Season Two): September sees the return of 

hit series Wolfblood to Disney Channel, as season two 

launches. Wolfbloods have lived among humans for centuries, 

disguising their heightened senses and abilities; 

and doing their best to blend in. Maddy and her parents 

are the only wolfbloods in their area until one day a new 

boy starts at Maddy’s school. Maddy and Rhydian return 

for a second season of Wolfblood from Wednesday 24 

September at 18:30 CAT. 

Disney Princess Academy: In this brand new series of 

shorts, which air every Monday throughout September 

at 16:05, seven little girls learn core princess values, 

new skills and how to apply them. In each short, one 

little girl meets her fairy godmother mentor and learns 

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to become a Disney princess in that specific skill. Then she graduates 

and gets a princess badge and diploma. Princess Academy shorts 

premiere every Monday throughout September at 16:05 (before Violetta) 

and are repeated throughout the week. 

DISNEY JUNIOR (DStv Channel 

301) 

Pocahontas: This is the powerful and moving story of a Native American 

princess and her ill-fated love for an English sea captain. Set in 

1607, it tells of the beautiful, brave and compassionate daughter of 

Chief Powhatan who asks her forest friends (Meeko the raccoon, Flit 

the hummingbird and Grandmother Willow, a 400 year old spirit that 

resides in an ancient tree) for advice. It tells how her life changes 

when she meets John Smith, one of a party of sailors which has come 

to the New World searching for gold. Eventually they are forced to 

part, but their spirits remain entwined. This beautiful and moving story, 

enhanced by a superb soundtrack, make Disney’s 33rd animated 

feature film an unmissable gem. Vocal stars include Mel Gibson. It airs 

on Sunday 2 September at 10:30 CAT. 

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Sea Captain Mickey: There’s an exciting 

event on Disney Junior this month. When Professor Von Drake’s 

sonar-detecting machine discovers that there’s something big at the 

bottom of Mickey Lake, Mickey and the gang hop into the Clubhouse 

Submarine and set out to find the “Big Something”. It turns out to 

be a Giant Rubber Ducky that’s stuck on the bottom of the lake. But 

where did it come from? The gang set out to discover Ducky’s secret! 

Our special Sea Captain Mickey airs on Saturday 13 September at 

08:00 CAT. 

Sofia the First: From Monday 22 September at 09:00 CAT Disney Junior 

gives fans a chance to catch-up with all the specials featuring 

Princess-in-training Sofia the First, in the run-up to the launch of 

season two of the series. Season two premieres on Saturday 27 September 

at 09:00 CAT. In the first episode, The Enchanted Feast, Sofia 

must learn to trust her instincts, helped by legendary Disney Princess 

Snow White, when she suspects a visiting sorceress is not what she 

seems and has an ulterior motive. 

For more information on DStv channels, log onto www.dstv.com

30 THE STANDARD STYLE / ENVIRONMENT 


Corporates address 

environmental issues 

Michael Nott 

Frampol Africa is a computer and ISP 

company founded by Managing Director 

Neil Padmore in 2004. In 2008, to give 

thanks for four years of successful business 

operations, they planted four trees 

for the future. They realised that tree 

planting was so rewarding and such a 

relatively easy way to give back to the 

community that in 2009 they planted a 

further 32 trees and in 2010 they planted 

64 trees. To date they’ve planted around 

4 000 trees. 

In 2009 they formed Helping Zimbabwe 

as part of their corporate social responsibility 

programme. Helping Zimbabwe 

is a non-governmental organisation 

helping poor households to access education, 

food, health services, and safe water 

and most importantly, protecting and 

nurturing the environment. One of their 

key activities over the past decade has 

been to address environmental degradation 

through planting trees and cleaning 

up the Msasa industrial area. Driving 

out of town along the Mutare Road you’ll 

no doubt have noticed the indigenous 

trees they’ve planted on the centre isle as 

well as the indigenous fruit trees on the 

right hand side between the Total Service 

Station and the Nissan showroom. 

There are several ideas behind the 

planting of indigenous fruit trees in the 

area. The Msasa area, like most industrial 

areas in Zimbabwe, is very dusty 

and hot in the dry months and not very 

attractive or healthy environmentally. 

Most of the indigenous trees were cut 

down years ago when the area was first 

developed and the few existing trees that 

were planted, like gum trees and Jacarandas, 

are not really environmentally 

friendly. Indigenous trees are, by their 

nature, better suited to the environment 

and require less care in terms of water, 

fertilisers and pesticides, particularly 

in their early stages. Indigenous trees 

support insect, bird and animal life and 

can assist with issues like soil erosion, 

air pollution and the falling water table. 

Indigenous fruit is a great, sustainable 

source of natural nutrition. Padmore is 

delighted that now, five years after planting, 

he has observed school children 

picking and eating fruit on their way to 

and from school. The fruit provides minerals, 

vitamins and energy for school 

children that often go off to school with 

just a cup of sweet tea and a few slices of 

white bread in their stomachs. 

Helping Zimbabwe states that their 

core thematic concerns are “Environmental 

Protection, Livelihoods, Food 

Security, Child Protection and Health.” 

Growing, planting and nurturing indigenous 

fruit trees fulfil all these aims. 

To promote these ideals they’ve set a 

schools’ programme where children are 

taught how to plant trees and look after 

them for at least the first two years. 

They’re also taught about the cultural 

and nutritional value of indigenous 

fruit trees. With the rapid rural to urban 

migration taking place, many children 

don’t recognize or know about indigenous 

fruits, such as matohwe, matamba, 

hacha, mazhanje or mapfura, to name 

just a few, and this cultural knowledge 

could soon be lost. There is a growing 

acknowledgement of the value of indigenous 

foods in combating diseases like 

diabetes and hypertension which are becoming 

more prevalent in our society. 

Helping Zimbabwe’s partners include; 

City of Harare, JVS Projects, Nissan 

Clover Motors, Waste Away, Mr. Bristle 

and The Michael Project. 

Other Helping Zimbabwe projects include 

road cleanups and road patching, 

as well as planting around 1 000 indigenous 

trees at Wingate Golf Course to replace 

the exotic trees which are reaching 

the end of their lifespan. 

To find out more about Helping Zimbabwe 

call: 04 485 540/1 or visit their website: 

www.helpingzimbabwe.org 

IT’S SO EASY TO ‘GO GREEN’ 

Everyone can make a difference. Here are six easy ways to go green and 

some of them will save you money too! 

1. Wherever possible change to CFL or LED light bulbs. You’ll save 

energy and you’ll also find that they last a lot longer, so you’ll save 

money in the end too. 

2. If you can afford the initial outlay, change to a solar water heater. 

You’ll save yourself the hassle of having no hot water during ZESA 

cuts. Most generators can’t run an electric geyser, unless they’re very 

big and electric geysers waste money and electricity. After 

installation you’ll get hot water for free. 

3. Don’t be fooled by electrical items that tell you they’re ‘going to 

sleep’, like TVs, battery chargers and laptops. Even in sleep mode 

they still draw small amounts of power. Turn them off at the wall 

socket or unplug them. 

4. Take your own reusable canvas bag or basket when you go 

shopping for groceries. You really don’t need to carry all your 

shopping in plastic bags, most of which end up littering the streets 

or clogging up dumpsites. 

5. Start your own compost heap. You can add food waste, vegetable 

peelings, old newspapers, garden clippings, in fact just about 

anything bio-degradable. You’ll be surprised at how much you 

reduce your amount of household waste, and your garden will love 

the extra food. 

6. Consider using ‘green cleaners’. Our grandparents didn’t use harsh 

chemical cleaners in their homes. A mixture of lemon juice and 

baking powder will clean most household surfaces and it smells 

better too. Try using olive oil with a squeeze of lemon or a sprig of 

mint to clean and refresh wooden surfaces.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND 

DEBTORS AND TO ALL WHOM 

IT MAY CONCERN 

In the Estate of the late NORMAN 

DESMOND ATKINSON Of HARARE 

who died in Harare on the 13th 

JULY 2014. 

ALL persons having claims against 

the above named estate are 

required to lodge them in detail with 

the undersigned not later than the 

26th day of October 2014 and 

those indebted thereto are required 

to pay to the undersigned the 

amounts due by them within the 

same period, failing which legal 

proceedings will be taken for the 

recovery thereof. 

All persons having in their custody 

or possession any property 

belonging or relating to this estate 

are required to deliver the same 

forthwith to the undersigned. Tim 

Tanser Consultancy, 16 

Fleetwood Road, Alexandra Park, 

Harare 

REGIONAL, TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT CHAPTER 29:12 

Notice of an application for a Permit in terms of Section 26(3) of the Act. 

Notice is hereby given of an application to erect a second dwelling 

Stand 456 Borrowdale Township of Lot 4 of Lot 17C of Borrowdale 

Estate (4 Wheeldon Avenue, Borrowdale) Harare 

1. It is proposed to erect a second dwelling house on the 

quoted property which is situated in zone lA(i) 

(Residential Low Density) of the Operative City of 

Harare Combined North East Sections 1-4 Town 

Planning Scheme, wherein the proposed use requires 

the special consent of the Local Planning Authority. The 

property measures 4021 square meters both dwellings 

will utilize individual septic tanks and -soak aways. 

2. The permit, if granted will cancel condition 2 registered 

in the Title Deed of the property (Deed of Transfer No. 

7168/ 1988) which states:- 

"Not more than one dwelling together with the 

necessary outbuildings shall be erected on the said 

lot unless the consent of the Minister of Home Affairs 

is first had and obtained." 

3. In terms of the Act, the application is required to be 

advertised, and adjacent neighbours notified in writing 

before, being considered by the Local Planning 

Authority. 

The application, plans and any special conditions which the 

Authority is likely to impose in the event of this application being 

favourably considered may be inspected at the address below 

during normal office hours. 

Any person wishing to make objections or representations relating 

to the application may lodge them with the undersigned within one 

month of the date of insertion of this notice. 

HARARE CITY COUNCIL 

DIRECTOR OF WORKS 

EASTERN REGION SECTION 

ROOM 308D, THIRD FLOOR CLEVELAND HOUSE 

92 LEOPOLD TAKAWIRA STREET 

HARARE 

205763 

REGIONAL, TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT, CHAPTER 

29:12 REVISED EDITION 1996 

Notice of an application for a Permit in terms of Section 26(3) of the Act : 

Notice is hereby given of an application to carry out the following 

development on The Remainder of Lot 2 of Lot 15 of Rolf Valley Township of 

Lot B of Colne Valley of Reitfontein, (Rolf Valley) Harare. 

1. It is proposed to establish to establish 6 cluster houses on the 

above mentioned property which is situated in residential zone 1 A(i) of the 

operative City of iiarare Town Planning Scheme Combined East 1-4 wherein 

the proposed development requires special consent of the Local Planning 

Authority. 

2. The site for the proposed development measures 8 089m2 in 

extent and if the development is permitted, a resultant density of ±1800m2 

per dwelling unit on septic tank will be achieved. 

3. According to the Act, the application is supposed to be 

advertised and owners of adjacent properties notified in writing before 

being considered by the Local Authority. 

The application, plans and any special conditions which the Authority is 

likely to impose in the event of this application being favorably considered 

maybe inspected at the address below during normal office hours. 

Any person wishing to make objections or representations relating to the 

application must lodge them with the undersigned within one month of the 

date of the first insertion of this notice. 


DIRECTOR OF URBAN PLANNING SERVICES 

EASTERN REGION 

ROOM 307, THIRD FLOOR 

CLEVELAND HOUSE. 92 LEOPOLD TAKAWIRA STREET 

HARARE 

206005 

REGIONAL, TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT, 

(CHAPTER 29:12) 1996 REVISED EDITION 

Notice of an application for a Permit in terms of Section 26(3) of the Act : 

Notice is hereby given of an application to carry out the following 

development on Stand 218 Quinnington Township (Armthwaite Road) 

Harare 

1.It is proposed to establish four (4) cluster houses on the 

abovementioned stand which is situated in Densification Zone C of the 

operative City of Harare's Borrowdale Brooke Local Development Plan No. 

30 wherein the proposal requires the special consent of the Local 

Planning Authority. The property measures 7 832m2 in extent and the net 

density per dwelling unit will be 1958m2 on septic tanks. 

2.In terms of the Act the application is required to be advised in a 

newspaper circulating in the area and abutting neighbours notified in 

writing before being considered by the Local Planning Authority 

The application, plans and any special conditions which the Authority is 

likely to impose in the event of this application being favourably 

considered maybe inspected at the address below during normal office 

hours. 

Any person wishing to make objections or representations relating to the 

application must lodge them with the undersigned within one month of the 

date of the first insertion of this notice. 


DIRECTOR OF URBAN PLANNING SERVICES 

EASTERN REGION SECTION 

ROOM 308, THIRD FLOOR 

CLEVELAND HOUSE. 

92 LEOPOLD TAKAWIRA STREET 

HARARE 

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