Wednesday, May 29, 2013

ZANU PF was provoked by Gururahundi victims: MP claims





 Plumtree businessman and aspiring Mangwe constituency Zanu-PF MP Obedingwa Mguni has defended the Gukurahundi atrocities saying the victims provoked the massive killings, as they were not satisfied with the “fair” elections that put President Mugabe in power in 1980.

Gukurahundi was executed by North-Korean-trained Fifth Brigade and resulted in the killing of over 20 000 civilians.

The spate of violence ended after Zanu and Zapu reached a unity agreement on 22 December 1987, that merged the two parties to form one party, Zanu-PF.

Addressing Bulawayo journalists during a press club in Bulawayo, Mguni said Gukurahundi was prompted by people who were unhappy by the results of Zimbabwe’s first polls.

“The Gukurahundi issue did not just come from the air, there were some of our colleagues who were not satisfied about the outcome of the fair elections that were held and then they decided to take the law into their own hands which in any country is not allowed, so the Government was supposed to take action against them,” said Mguni.

He said some of the elements during that action were mischievous and did what they were not instructed to do.

“So I can not put a grudge on that thing and say I am going to build Zimbabwe, that war came and it is gone,” said Mguni.

He said he had witnessed a lot of deadly wars elsewhere and people could afford to forgive each other after that.

“Some of us have to forgive because it was a war,” said Mguni.

Government is yet to acknowledge Gukurahundi and compensate the families of the victims.

Makhosi Sibanda May 29, 2013

Peter Ndlovu denies joining ZANU PF







By Staff Reporter

We're footballers, not politicians, Peter Ndlovu 

CLAIMS in social media that former Zimbabwe international Peter Ndlovu has joined ZANU-PF are utter trash, The ZimDiaspora can reveal after speaking to close family members.

Social media networks, particularly those known tribal websites are buzzing with the story of Zimbabwe's most successful footballer, Peter Ndlovu - that he has joined ZANU-PF.

Contra to the veld fire-like claims, we can now reveal that the allegation is unfounded, bigotry and another attempt to soil the name of one of the finest footballers of our time.

Three family members, who are usually reliable and very close to the football hero, denied the claim that Peter has joined politics. They dismissed it as utter trash.

“This is not the first time our family member has been linked to ZANU-PF. In fact, in the past one of our brothers was approached but rejected. Our family philosophy is that we don’t do politics, instead, we do football,” a family source told The ZimDiaspora.

“As a family we have spoken to Peter about the allegations, he is equally worried and does not understand the source and intention. We are a family of footballers not politicians,” the source said.



Peter Ndlovu: Don't do politics

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

ZANU PF was formed by the CIA, Baba Jukwa speaks!


Let's not forget this Zimbabwe---Let's get rid of them to avoid such things and its repetition. Together as a united Zimbabwe we will achieve our goal. We all know our common enemy who are these evil old people and their more evil security officials. Let's get rid of them once and for all for a free Zimbabwe. Don't be intimidated anymore vote for the party of your choice. It's good news from African Union (AU).

They have set up an army structure which will guard against coups and those belligerent security officials refusing to hand over power to masses chosen presidents. Someone's wings are clipped now. Whatever these evil security officials say doesn't count now and moreover Zimbabwe we can't be defeated by less than 50 people while we more than 13 million. Let's unite and fight for what is rightful ours. When we strike I assure you we have mobilized with soldiers, intelligence personnel, prison warders and police... officials. They will fight from people's corner as they are also tired of enriching opportunists commanders who hijacked the liberation struggle agenda to benefit their families and large protruding stomachs.

Fear not anymore you have support of SADC, African Union and all middle ranked and junior security forces. Don't be brain washed for the country to attain its independence it was being helped by Britain, America who were fighting Smith regime after he declared independence from them also they were pushing capitalism agenda, Russia and China who pushed communism, CUBA on socialism and other states. So for my party to tell you that don't allow other nations to interfere in out internal issues to hell with that. Zimbabwe mobilize as many support as you can to remove evil people.
It's sad that my party Zanu does not reflect the truth. Deep down sorry to say and expose this, it was formed by C.I.A, Nyerere and Takawira as they were countering Zapu's communism. Let the truth be known, no time time to brain wash people.
Asijiki

Ndatenda
baba Jukwa
This article first appeared on face book, posted by the faceless ZANU PF official popularly known as Baba Jukwa!


Monday, May 27, 2013

Eight reasons why President Mugabe is wrong on Mandela !






 

One of Africa’s most popular liberation leaders, Mr Mugabe has clashed with the West over controversial policies that saw white-owned farms violently seized more than a decade ago.
In neighboring South Africa, where white land ownership is still a flash point, Mr Mugabe says former president Nelson Mandela was not hard enough.
He says former colonial master Britain — with whom he has had a fraught relationship over the land grabs — "will praise you only if you are doing things that please them".
"Mandela has gone a bit too far in doing good to the non black communities, really in some cases at the expense of (blacks)," Mr Mugabe says of his former South African counterpart.
"That’s being too saintly, too good, too much of a saint," the Sunday Independent newspaper quotes him saying in the documentary.

The above might be President Mugabe's opinion on former South African first black President and icon Nelson Mandela. Here is why its wrong and insensitive:

1)It is wrong to judge harsh and unfairly some body's way of leadership, who has a different style and conviction than you. He must let South Africans judge Mandela, even as Zimbabweans will judge him.
2) It is wrong to drag the ailing old man into Zimbabwe's political crisis and try to justify oneself by creating comparison of the two different situations.

3) It was him, President who refused to be compared to Nelson Mandela, few years ago, he  was asked to follow Mandela's model and retire. He said and I quote, "I am not Nelson Mandela. There is a Mandela way, and there is Mugabe way"

4) We all know that it was not until the opposition was about to take him out that he allowed the war vets to take over the white men's land that he had presided over for twenty years!

5) Despite  him being hard on whites, millions of black people are still poor, may even more poorer than before.

6)It is in public records that  Mugabe has murdered, maimed, tortured his own black people, defending his position of power since 1980.

7) Zanu Pf, President Mugabe's party has brain washed him for many years, telling him that he is the only person capable of leading Zimbabwe. Something which is a big lie.

8) That up to about 1998, Zimbabwe was ruled party by Britain, despite having a black leader in the office!
 





 

Does Ndebele culture encourage giving praise where it is due?

 Below Peter Ndlovu  and the children. Despite what he was done for the country and his people Ndlovu is not always fully appreciated by his own people. This story is not about Peter!




Most of us live in between mixed culture, therefore we are bound to see things in cultural perspective. In every culture there are good things, and not so much good ones. After all culture is dynamic. For example, we might grow up in the same village or town, but as long as we grow up there in different times, we might experience different cultures. Culture is a way of life. It is not so much a religion even though , religion might have its own culture at times. While it is encouraged keep and preserve one's culture, it is not a bad thing to see good things in some other cultures if you can. Its  hard to discus this topic without mentioning the word tradition. It seems to me that tradition is  culture when it has gone by. Every nation, tribe and language must preserve these two things if possible.

There are a lot of things I admire in my culture. There are also many other things I admire here and there in other cultures. Of the things that my culture encourages is to give credit where it is due. It is also encouraged in Ndebele that if you see a good thing outside your territory or area, you may go and get it. Hence the famous saying, "Induku enhle iganyulawa ezizweni" Literally mean a good "club" can be found in other nations. (Normally refers  to  a young man finding a women) This does not mean that one should change his/her cultural values, it only means be open minded. I can imagine this came about as a realization, we lived/live among other cultures us. At no time in history did any civilization been on its own.

Growing in the Southern part of Zimbabwe known as Matabeleland, I would hear my grandmother admiring some things about other cultures around us. There were things we admired about AmaFengu, amaXhosa, amaShona,ama Nyasalandi, amaKalanga, amaVenda, abeSuthu, amaNazwa and so on. In my opinion having lived side by side with Shona people, One thing admired most about they cultures is the way they 'give thanks" In Zimbabwe I am living in the United States, right now far from Southern Africa's cultures. There are different cultures in America too. Some of them might not be very much pronounced, but still they are cultures. People bring their cultures, where ever they go, some do it better than others.
 
 One thing that I realized when I was growing up is the fact that, Ndebele culture, does not give praise easily. Part of it could be a wrong interpretation of the saying, "Umuntu ungambuki esizwa" Do not praise somebody when he / she is present. Or never tell somebody that they are doing something good in their own hearing. In Ndebele we condemn more than we can praise. I do not know that we do this consciously or not, but either way, we can easily see somebody's faults, more than what they do right. For example, if we are talking about somebody. One would say, so and so is doing well, and then the other person will say, Yes but did you hear what he did ten years ago? There is always a but, in everything. An average  Ndebele parent will not always praise his/son for good grades, until they start going down. You are doing below, what you did last term! Yet that last term , he did not praise you for your effort. We seem to be oblivious of the power of encouraging somebody from behind.
 
We probably have too higher expectations. Again another example, would be if Highlanders Football team is not top of the log standings, nobody is happy. We are only happy when it is on top. By the way its on top these days, so enjoy it while it last. Asifundeni ukubonga, okuhle kuyabonga  maNdebele! That is the only thing we can improve on! Its been said so much that we have a bring "our own down syndrome"  Let that never be said again.

Ezra Tshisa Sibanda reports violence in Lower Gweru

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Some youth thugs brutally attacked Teachers, School children and passersby at Shagari Primary School, Lower Gweru using axes, machetes, knives & bricks for no apparent reasons. 13 people injured and 2 in serious condition, a female teacher and a passerby who have been referred to Gweru General Hospital. These thugs recently terrorised people in Maboleni, Lower Gweru where they injured a number of people and caused extensive damage to the business shops. The most astonishing thing is the failure by police to bring these cowards to justice.

 On visiting the police post l discovered there are over 6 reports of violence perpetrated by the same thugs and yet no action taken. The sickening thing is the amount of time taken by police getting statements from victims instead of allowing them to get urgent medical attention. The clinics don't help any injured persons unless they have police report which has been proven to be a nightmare to get. Just dropped the terrified teachers back to school and they are really scared. (Sibanda who is running for a Member of Parliament in of the area, directly reported this on face book.)

Friday, May 24, 2013

A human rights lawyer and political activist look at Pan-African Dream!

 
 AU at 50: Has the Pan-African Dream Become a Nightmare?
By Daniel Molokele

"Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent. “(Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s founding President)


In January 1963 President Nkrumah wrote a letter to all the presidents of all independent states, proposing the Union of African States. (In May of that year the African leadership created the Organization of African Unity (OAU)).
He postulated that the economic and social well-being of Africa depended upon our ability to create a Pan-African Political union. President Nkrumah proposed the following fundamental points:
Common foreign policy and diplomacy... we need a process of political socialization that would "enable us to speak with one voice" in the fora of the world
Common continental planning for economic and industrial development...."building up a common market of a united Africa" that would bring about the material conditions we need to improve our collective quality of life in the global economy
Common currency a monetary zone and a central bank of issue...that we "need to orientate the economy of Africa and place it beyond the reach of foreign control" to be able to implement our social economy

Common defence system..."one over-all (land, sea and air) Defence Command for Africa" is needed to defend the social economy we create.
I normally regard myself as an eternal optimist. Indeed I have always found it easy to see almost everything I have come across in the most positive of all lights. Be that as it may, no matter how so much I try, I just cannot bring myself to freely invest in any form of optimism with regards to the future of my beloved motherland Africa.

Make no mistake about my global perspective of things. I am as African as they come. I do love Africa with all my heart. I am a fully blown pan-African bone and marrow!
However, I cannot pretend that all is well in my beautiful continent. All is not well at all. Africa remains by large in a state of perpetual chaos. Everywhere one might go, be it north or south; east or west, anarchy and impunity remain as the general order of the day.
For so long viewed by the rest of the world as the 'dark continent, it seems Africa is still struggling to shake off its identification with a myriad of negative words such as war, epidemic, pandemic, disease, risk, hunger, famine, poverty, slums, unemployment, rape, torture, violence, coup, dictatorship, oppression, corruption, tribalism, nepotism, crisis, among others.
It is such a sad story to say the least!

All around there is an air of despair, alarm and despondency. It is evident that the majority of the people in Africa have lost hope and feel so betrayed by the unfulfilled promises of a better life for all. Faith in politicians or politics for that matter is at an all-time low. Trust in most public service institutions has reached its lowest ebb.
Yet this was not meant to be! This was not how the leaders of the liberation movements against the continent's European colonial hegemony dreamt about life in a futuristic post-colonial Africa.
Indeed, the advocates for an end to the colonial era envisaged a new free, peaceful and prosperous Africa that was meant to take its rightful seat on the front row of the global stage. They dreamt of an Africa that would have worldwide honor and respect; a new brave continent that would be worthy of all global acclaim and admiration.

And so it happens that as the African Union (AU) or as it was originally known, the Organization for African Unity (OAU) celebrates its 50 years of institutional existence; I cannot but help myself to shade some tears of sorrow for my motherland. I cannot but find myself crying for my beautiful Africa.
A cursory glance across the continent immediately justifies a call to mourning instead to that of celebration. Instead of beating the drums of jubilation, Africa needs to slow everything down and lapse into a period of self-reflection. Africa needs to take a serious and honest look as to have far it has travelled since 25th May 1963.

Indeed Africa should use the commemoration of the 50th anniversary as a time to reflect on its very many lost opportunities and invest in strategies that will assist in the continent to finally develop its full potential as an enviable global leader.
It is time there be serious attempts to reawaken the original idealism that was associated by the leadership generation of 1963. It is time for the emerging young leaders of the continent to challenge the current political elite and also to start laying their claim for a return to the original vision of the continent's original leadership.

What Africa desperately needs right now is the rise of a new breed of leaders who are home-grown but having a visionary aspiration that is of world class in nature!
The time has come for a complete paradigm shift in the way Africa is governed both from a political and socio-economic point of view. The change process must start now than later.
Otherwise if there is no change in the status quo, the situation will continue to worsen every year. The situation could be such that by the time that 25th May 2063 dawns, there might not even an AU to reach the century milestone. (This article first appeared on Daniel's face book page.)

• Daniel Molokele is a human rights lawyer who is based at Johannesburg in South Africa. Please do feel free to further engage him using Twitter @molokele or on Facebook at ‘daniel.molokele’ or to visit his personal website at www.danielmolokele.com

Who really is Baba Jukwa? Zimbabweans ask ?

Baba Jukwa, through his pulling power, has momentarily taken the focus off the country's battle between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, providing gossip, rumour-mongering and sleaze on other politicians.
It is now common to hear in offices, supermarkets and on public transport the question: "What is Baba Jukwa saying today?"
On his Face book page, Baba Jukwa describes himself simply: Concerned father, fighting nepotism and directly linking the community with its leaders, ­government, members of Parliament and ministers. His posts, however, do more than that, delving into the personal lives of Zanu-PF's top brass. Insiders in Zanu-PF said the party was alarmed by Baba Jukwa's posts and party hawks were afraid he could undo their election campaign.

"We are being vigilant and will not leave a stone unturned as we search for the traitor in our midst. He is a modern-day Judas Iscariot," said a Zanu-PF official.
"Meanwhile, I insist and repeat, let's all make sure that we are registered to vote so as to get rid of these evil old people from my party ... My party's aim is to frustrate first-time and born-free voters not to register to deliver a new Zimbabwe. Please make sure you check you registered your correctly spelt name, surname and identification number because the plan is to have a slight mistake which will make you turned away from casting your vote on the important day," wrote Baba Jukwa recently.
Jukwa's juicy revelations have revealed Zanu-PF's election strategies, with the internet provocateur exposing details of Zanu-PF politburo and Cabinet meetings.
Rape accusation
In past posts, Baba Jukwa has named a top party official accusing him of rape, claimed that the military had a hand in former military chief Solomon Mujuru's death in August 2011 and has published the names of state intelligence operatives.
He has also published the cellphone numbers of government ministers and party officials in an attempt to substantiate his allegations and urges his followers to bombard them with calls demanding answers for crimes, violations and nondelivery of services.

Mystery surrounds the identity of Baba Jukwa, with political commentators saying his activities are an extension of infighting within Zanu-PF over who will succeed Mugabe.
Asked for comment, Zanu-PF's director of information, Psychology Maziwisa, said Baba Jukwa is "a faceless, bloody liar who is unsuccessfully trying to distract the party's attention". "It's obviously a poorly planned MDC project meant partly to taint the image of our party but mostly to improve the electoral prospects of the MDC.
"But everybody knows the MDC is finished. Nothing can save them now; certainly not a Facebook page, they are well beyond redemption."
Jukwa's online presence also appears to have eclipsed that of Zimbabwe's political leaders, who have tried their hand at social media networks to garner supporters.

Industry and Commerce Minister Welshman Ncube has 3 738 followers while Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has 1 719 followers.
However, their pulling power is minute compared with Baba Jukwa, who is made even more popular by his sign-off statement: Asijiki, ­ndinotenda, loosely translated as: "We are not turning back, thank you". Kasukuwere has 1 719 Facebook ­followers, and Ncube has 3 738.
This week, Baba Jukwa sought to spread his influence beyond Zimbabwe into South Africa by sending emails to some of the country's leading journalists. "Greetings to you all. May I take this opportunity to formally introduce the Facebook page Baba Jukwa. Can you all go and like it and spread the news. This story first appeared on BBC

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Are the cows coming home yet in Zimbabwe?

 
 
 
 
                                          What really was the problem:
 
                                        The rule of law or the old Constitution?
 
 
 
I would like to congratulate the nation of Zimbabwe on the  new Constitution Amhlophe/Makorokoto!  This morning President Mugabe signed the new document into law.  This is obviously no small achievement for a country that almost became ungovernable not to long ago. It would be too early for us to celebrate that the cows are finally coming home yet! If this is a step in the right direction, we are all grateful to the forces, that managed to turned this ship to the right direction. Many people died before seeing  this day. I want to believe that it is a step in the right direction. Time will tell.
 
I know a lot of people who prayed relentlessly that the nation of Zimbabwe would be healed. I do not know if this is the healing that we were praying for, but again. I do not doubt that this not less than a sign in the right direction. We will obviously never know why the process took more than thirteen years since the first referendum of year 2000. I hope politicians will understand that this is more important than their political positions and aspirations. This should be about the wishes of the people and not the other way round. I hear that there are a lot of good things in that new Constitution. I  did not read the entire document, I tried but it was too long  for me. I only read about two thirds of it. I know some people who did not even see the document.  Half a loaf is better than nothing on any day.  (Praising myself)
 
The biggest concern is that we might find ourselves in the same situation as long as the same people are still in the same positions. Its like putting new wine in old wine skins, they will not contain it. Elections are around the corner, that will be a standard of measure for this new Constitution. We pray  that Zimbabweans of all backgrounds, persuasions, color, creed male /female and tribe be treated the same. That nobody should be above the law. Only then will we celebrate as ordinary Zimbabweans. 
 
 
 

More Simple Ndebele / Zulu names for children!

Ntando - means "Will"  for Boys

Bhekinkosi- Bheki for short- this one is looking/look up to God" for boys

Sizwe- means nation "for boys" pronounced as "Cizwee"

Mqondisi - means director for Boys.

Siqondile - means "we are straight" I do not know why but its for girls

Lungile-  means "one who is well behaved" for girls

Thubelihle/Thuba in short- means good opportunity( I do not know why) but its both boys /girls

Mlungisi - means (one who fixes things, or make things right) for boys

Ayanda- means (Boys are increased) for boys

Andile - means Boys / girls are increased amajaha/ kumbe amantombazana for both

Methembe- means "Trust him, normally refer to God" for both boys/ girls

Lizwe- means "Country or world" for Boys

Jabulani- means "Be happy" In Ndebele (Zim) its for boys, while is Zulu, SA it can be for girls too

Lwazi- means "Knowledge" pronounced as Luwazi

Sizwile- means "we have heard" for both boys and girls!

Nkululeko- means " freedom" for boys

Dumile- means "one who is popular" Mostly for girls.

Mthokozisi -means "one who makes us happy" for boys

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Zim's award winning DJ Ezra Tshisa Sibanda finally unites with mom

 
 
 
One of Zimbabwe's popular former Z.B.C Disco jockey and upcoming politician Ezra Tshisa Sibanda finally meet his mom after many years of searching. Sibanda who is running for MP in Vungu Lower Gweru district for MDCT, could not contain his joy when he broke the news to his face book friends and fans worldwide. A lot of us where confused he first  made the announcement, since he announced it in English but had put in a hidden African way. Some fans/friends made it clear they did not understand what he intended to say. These are his own words taken directly form his face book status this afternoon.
"Are you all sure you have never heard of someone with 2 mothers? My biological mum passed on in 1997. When l was growing up she told me there was another mum of mine, a relative of hers who was in SA and shared the same name with her. When my mum was pregnant with me she visited her relatives in SA and my mum above who was a teenager by then had asked and pleaded to be given me as her child and they agreed to do so after my birth. My biological mum had promised to give her yours truly for adoption but lost all her contacts, (remember means of communication by then were letters) and she died still looking for her.
 
I continued looking for her not knowing she was still looking for me. After decades of searching, she discovered an old letter with my brother's old address in Gweru. She drove from South Africa looking for me in 2007 but couldn't find my brother as he had long moved away from that property. She returned back to Mzansi, never lost hope and 2 weeks ago she saw some Zimbabweans near Johannesburg and asked if they knew of a certain man called ....... not knowing that person is my brother. She was given the contacts and called my brother.
 
 She knew there was someone called Ezra Tshisa Sibanda but never suspected it was her son, never knew l once worked for ZBC and didn't know l was a popular someone. She drove all the way from South Africa to meet me and the rest of family members and now wants to take me to South Africa to live with her. Its too late mama but l love you so much. We have a lot of catching to do. l thank my Lord for this wonderful reunion and won't lose contact with her. I hope my real friends now understand the story, thank you and good night."

Zulu Royal family not happy about Snoop!

 

Snoop Lion upsets royal family

Snoop Lion upsets royal family
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U.S. artist Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Dogg) has upset the Zulu royal family in South Africa, the Daily Sun reports.

He wore a traditional isiZulu headband (umqhele in isiZulu) and the traditional leopard-skin print (isikhumba sengwe) during his performance at the MTV Africa All Stars KZN show at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday. But his outfit upset the royal family because it is supposed to be worn only by royalty.

The royal house spokesman, Prince Mbonisi Zulu, told Daily Sun: "Who honoured him? We want to do an investigation first before we can comment on the matter.

"The royal suit is only to be worn by King Goodwill Zwelithini or by someone who has been honoured by the royal house."

Maskandi legend Mfiliseni Magubane, once landed himself in trouble with the royal family for the same reason. He later had to apologise to the Zulu nation and the royal family for offending them.

MTV spokeswoman Alison Reid said: "MTV Base apologises if anyone was offended by Snoop wearing traditional Zulu garb on Saturday night.

"The outfit in question was a gift from a member of the Zulu royal family and a number of members of the royal family joined Snoop on stage.

"We believe that his homage to Zulu culture was received positively by all concerned, including the royal family."

Reid added that a representative of the Zulu royals who attended the event at Snoop’s invitation confirmed this.

She quoted the representative as saying: "We are happy to welcome Snoop Lion to KwaZulu-Natal. We take pride in our rich heritage and it gives us pride to share our culture and accord special guests genuine Zulu hospitality to share abroad and encourage other visitors to come to our beautiful province."

But Prince Zulu said that MTV should release the name of the person who gave Snoop Lion the royal outfit. - Daily Sun

Monday, May 20, 2013

Ikhonaindaba.blogspot.com celebrating six years this month

 
We are celebrating six years of blogging on line this month.Thank you all our readers for support.
Thank you for constructive criticism and corrections  as well as compliments.
Thank your for standing with us, in this journey.
Thank you for believing what we stand for.
Thank for laughing our jokes and stories.
Thank you all from the bottom
 of my heart!
 
 
Random pictures :
They say a picture speaks thousands of words!
    
 

Silandulo Dube rubishes "romours of Bosso Coup"




From Highlanders fan page on f/b

Some of these faceless and unidentifiable FB activists have decided to manufacture lies and highly deceitful theories about Highlanders since yesterday`s loss and these theories have gone viral on Facebook much to the delight of our rival camps. These lies pertain to the fact that KK`s job is not safe and that the Chairman has a vendetta against Him and that He wants to fire Him.

 The boring and tired lie goes on to link the appointment of Willard as a spy. Claims have been made that today the Executive will hold an urgent meeting. I find all this nonsensical lie and old fat boring theory out of taste. For a record; Kelvin Kaindu has a performance based contract at Highlanders, and I do not think that the Highlanders Executive can just wake up saying asisafuni from the blues when He is delivering according to expectations. Traditionally Highlanders hold regular Monday meetings and I don't think there is anything extra special in today`s meeting to make it urgent. I think Willard Khumalo also deserves to manage Highlanders like any other former Highlanders players who have managed the team before in that capacity.

 All Highlanders members know where and when to get formal feedback on these issues which are said to be so contentious. I am sure the mid season AGM is a month away and these people can table all these issues in this meeting. Facebook lies and deceits normally don't influence policies or decisions at Highlanders, its only in those meetings where people can highlight their issues and expect see some changes. FSD speaking on Highlanders fan page!

Bosso coup rumours leaks on facebook:

What  is going on @ Emagumeni?
 
 

 RAHMAN FOR BOSSO & KK FOR CHICKEN INN?

As we reported earlier in the morning and as reported also on HIGHLANDERS FC facebook page.
...
Peter Dube is not a happy man and seems determined to show the exit door to the technical bench led by Kelvin Kaindu. The chairman has long wanted Rahman to be coach and assisted by Willard Khumalo with the backing of the Bosso Legends, who have strategically placed themselves for control of the club from top to bottom.

Behind the scenes and with help from influential sports reporters (names withheld) were the platform that was used to reign in PD. His immediate task was removing KK and his team before start of season but News Day and The Standard spoilt the plot when they exposed the plot before being applied and they retreated. That's why they delayed in handing contracts to the assistants in a bid to frustrate KK.

What we don't realise is that we are dealing with very cunning and wise individuals who will always be diplomatic in approach and action so as to cover their backs. Losing games is part of the plot, believe it or not and until they achieve their goal, its a continuing process.

Back to our headline, Bosso executive is scheduled for a meeting tonight at club house and review yesterday's perfomance.

Part of the agenda is to issue a final notice to the coaches that should the fail to get 3points against Monoz during the week they are history and another option is to have a vote of no confidence passed against them.

Bosso vice chairman Mgcini Sibhalo Mpofu is seen as the voice of reason as he is a firm believer of professionalism but word is that he is slowly loosing grip.

We will have the facts after the meeting tonight and we will try if possible have a live coverage of the meeting and post what each individual says, we won't say how.

Meanwhile, our city neighbours and by no doubt the stable waters of Chicken Inn are rumoured to have got wind that, Bosso might part with KK and are readying to capture the humble man and have Mandla "Lulu" Mpofu deputise him.

By the way Mthulisi Maphosa and Rahman don't meet eye to eye, so what does this mean? Some of you will recall that, he once stated in an interview that, he doesn't expect Rush to call him for national team because they don't click. If indeed things go this way, will he follow his boss to Gamecocks, seeing that the Transfer window is about to open

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Book Reviewed ‘We Need New Names,’ by NoViolet Bulawayo

Books of The Times

A Child of Two Lands

Published: May 15, 2013   
“When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky,” NoViolet Bulawayo writes in her deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel. “They flee their own wretched land so their hunger may be pacified in foreign lands, their tears wiped away in strange lands, the wounds of their despair bandaged in faraway lands, their blistered prayers muttered in the darkness of queer lands.” They leave behind their mothers and fathers and “the bones of their ancestors in the earth” — they leave behind “everything that makes them who and what they are, leaving because it is no longer possible to stay.”
                               

WE NEED NEW NAMES

By NoViolet Bulawayo
296 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $25.
 
Patricia Wall/The New York Times

The place they are leaving, in this case, is Zimbabwe, that African nation brutalized by more than 30 years of malignity and neglect under the autocratic rule of Robert Mugabe — a country reeling, as the journalist Peter Godwin noted in his powerful 2011 book “The Fear” from unemployment, hunger, inflation, AIDS and the government’s torture and violent intimidation of all political opposition. The place many of them are hoping to flee to is the United States — the destination of the novel’s young narrator, Darling, who will begin a new life there with her aunt.
Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative. It is the voice, early on, of a child — observant, skeptical and hardhearted in the way children can be. She pinches a sick baby she does not want to hold in church so that he will cry and she can hand him back to his mother, and she is coldly standoffish when her long-absent father returns home from South Africa, having become sick with AIDS.
      
Darling processes the misfortunes of Zimbabwe and its politics through the eyes of a child — talk of elections and hopes of change are something grown-ups engage in; she and her friends are more concerned with filling their empty stomachs with stolen guavas and inventing games to pass the time. School belongs to the time Before — before the police came and bulldozed their houses, before they were all forced to move into tin shacks, before their fathers lost their jobs and life changed.
Using her gift for pictorial language, Ms. Bulawayo gives us snapshots of Zimbabwe that have the indelible color and intensity of a folk art painting: “men huddled like sheep and playing draughts under the lone jacaranda,” the blooming purple flowers almost make them “look beautiful in the shade without their shirts on,” sitting there, “crouched forward like tigers”; the women doing their best to look pretty, wearing “a bangle made from rusty, twisted wire,” a “flower tucked behind an ear,” “earrings made from colorful seeds,” “bright patches of cloth sewn onto a skirt.”
There is desperation here, however. As it becomes clear that elections have failed to bring about any kind of change, as men leave home in search of work and families fracture, young and old alike dream of escape — to America or Europe, or failing that, South Africa, or maybe Dubai or Botswana, someplace where “at least life is better” than in this “terrible place of hunger and things falling apart.”
Thanks to her Aunt Fostalina, who lives in “Destroyedmichygen” (Detroit, Michigan), Darling does make it to the United States. At first she is surprised by the astonishing variety and plenitude of food, by the wealth of everyday choices (“Do you prefer this or that? Are you sure? — as if I have become a real person”) and by the silent mystery of snow: it’s like “we’re in the crazy parts of the Bible, there where God is busy punishing people for their sins and is making them miserable with all the weather.”
Once she is a teenager, she quickly adopts the habits of friends from school, even if she doesn’t exactly care for them — listening to Rihanna, trying on armfuls of clothing at the mall (and leaving them in huge messy piles in the dressing room) and watching pornography online. She acquires an American accent, gets A’s in school (“because school is so easy in America even a donkey would pass”) but resists her aunt’s efforts to goad her into pursuing a career in medicine.
Darling promises her mother that she will come home for a visit soon, even though she knows she won’t because she doesn’t have the proper paperwork to return to America again. She misses the friends she grew up with, but at the same time feels estranged from them. One of them, Chipo, tells her on a Skype call that she can’t refer to Zimbabwe as her country anymore, since she treated it as a burning house and ran away from it instead of trying to put out the flames: “Darling, my dear, you left the house burning and you have the guts to tell me, in that stupid accent that you were not even born with, that doesn’t even suit you, that this is your country?"
      
Ms. Bulawayo gives us a sense of Darling’s new life in staccato takes that show us both her immersion in and her alienation from American culture. We come to understand how stranded she often feels, uprooted from all the traditions and beliefs she grew up with, and at the same time detached from the hectic life of easy gratification in America. We hear her anger at white liberals who speak patronizingly about the troubles of “Africa,” lumping together all the countries on that continent as though they were interchangeable parts of one big mess. And we come to understand the bittersweet emotions involved in the choice that many immigrants make to give their children names that will “make them belong in America.”
      
At one point, in an effort to make Darling’s experiences broadly representative, Ms. Bulawayo writes an entire chapter using the plural pronoun “we” — speaking of the move to America, and the bitterness so many immigrants feel, as they are forced to take menial jobs or find their hopes frustrated:
“When we got to America we took our dreams, looked at them tenderly as if they were newly born children, and put them away; we would not be pursuing them. We would never be the things we had wanted to be: doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers. No school for us, even though our visas were school visas. We knew we did not have the money for school to begin with, but we had applied for school visas because that was the only way out.”
      
Such generalizations are the one misstep in this otherwise stunning novel. Not only because they try to project one point of view onto the experiences of a wide and varied group of immigrants, but also because they are not always true. For instance, the remarkably talented author of this book, the novel’s jacket tells us, was “born and raised in Zimbabwe,” and moved to the United States, where she earned an M.F.A. from Cornell and is now a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford — which sounds very much like a dream achieved By .

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Cultural Group declares holiday for the late Dr Joshua Nkomo!




Matojeni Cultural Society "Isifiso Sikazulu" has openly declared the 1st of July, without government's consent, a public holiday in honour of Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo who died on July 1 1999.
The society propose to name the holiday "Joshua Nkomo and Liberators' Day".

This comes after non response to written requests to relevant authorities to consider making the day a public holiday.
Matojeni Cultural Society was officially formed on January 2 in 2012 with the core objective of encouraging people to revert to their traditional and cultural ways of life as Africans, particularly as Zimbabwean.
Last year, The chairman for the Joshua Nkomo Commemorations committee, Albert Nyoni, wrote a letter to government seeking that Main Street be named after the late national hero and another letter to the co-Minister of Home Affairs Kembo Mohadi seeking that 1 July be declared a public holiday in the Matabeleland region but he did not get any response from the government.
Matojeni Culture Society in collaboration with Joshua Nkomo National Foundation, formed a JoshuaNkomo Commemorations committee in 2012.
The committee organised culture-driven commemorations for the life and death of Nkomo separate from the usual government-organised galas for the late legend.
Nyoni, who is also chairing Matojeni Cultural Society, said the organised culture-driven commemorations are meant to portray and uphold the life and legacy of "Our Icon Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo".
Last year the Matojeni Cultural Society called on government to speed up the erection of the late vice-President Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's statue in Bulawayo and the renaming of the city's Main Street after him.
Members of the cultural group put portraits of the late nationalist at the pillar meant for the installation of the statue as a way of advertising the Joshua Nkomo memorial celebrations which took place at the historic Stanley Square.

The group also rejected North Korean made statue rekindled bad memories of what happened in Midlands and Matabeleland region when the Korean trained Fifth Brigade army unleashed the Gukurahundi massacres in the early 1980s. (Paul Ndou)

A theological question: Does God help those who help themselves?

I paused a question to my friends on this topic
 
How true is this common saying, "God help those who help themselves"

 
I will tell you that this was probably the most debated subject, I ever posted.

  • Melusi Mkhwanazi Not true at all
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    Dauda Tunkara I think it's open for interpretation. Literally I think it's not true because God help people during times when they think not of him. But if you think about in another light God's favor comes more to people that are wanting and asking and putting themselves in positions to receive it. For eg you can't be in your house n expect God to get you a job.
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    Dumani Ndlovu Its not true but that does not mean we should not work and expect God to provide. We have to be industrious and work very had to suceed in life.
  • Lobengula Ikasi Elihle If you help yourself through prayer God will certainly help you.
  • Nkosilathi Ndiweni Hm i thnk its true he hels those who help thmselves. Lion atack u fight 'n pray sam tme he wil gve u powa not u knel down 'n pray u ar gne. U are sick u dnt tke medication u expect miracles u ar gne. Be fair 2 God pple not tempt hm plz.
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  • Mnqobi B Sibanda It is a man's saying and not inspired by The HOLY SPIRIT coz its not found in The BIBLE.

  • Brighton Ncube No one will ever help themselves. Whenever people think they are helping themselves its actually God enabling them. As human beings we tend to think that we are in control and our ego overrides us to the extent that we think we are the be all and the end all. When something good happens we claim we were lucky instead if claiming a blessing sometimes we claim it was a coincident. Did you know that a coincidence is a miracle that God performs but he does not claim responsibility. I can go on and in but in short we are too frail and weak to be of any use to ourselves. Its only God in charge on earth.
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    Nomathemba Moyo May be we need to understand the context and why abadala were saying that. It is not in the bible for sure
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    Zwelibanzi Nkomo The Bible teaches the opposite. Jer 17:5 (NIV) This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD."
    God helps the helpless! Isaiah 25:4 declares, "For You have been a defense for the helpless, a defense for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat..." Romans 5:6 tells us, "For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly."
    This saying is usually attributed to Ben Franklin, quoted in Poor Richard's Almanac in 1757. In actuality, it originated from Algernon Sydney in 1698 in an article titled Discourses Concerning Government.
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    Victor Mkhumbulo Ncube Biblical wrong,might be logicaly fitting in certain scenarios and one's stand point.usualy pple who like this statement would be wanting to reject God's ways and guidance.
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    Mandla Mkwananzi So would you reject such advise bcoz its not biblical?
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    Patrick Siziba as long as is in line with Gods ways take it
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    Mandla Mkwananzi Some of you are walking bibles, l tell you.
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    Zwelibanzi Nkomo Spare the rod, spoil the child
    Here is another famous saying, "Spare the rod, spoil the child," cannot be found anywhere in the Bible. The saying, however, should not be considered invalid , there are verses that have a similar idea

  • Proverbs 13:24
    He who withholds his rod hates his son,
    But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

    Proverbs 22:15
    Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
    The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.

    Proverbs 23:13-14
    Do not hold back discipline from the child,
    Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
    You shall strike him with the rod
    And rescue his soul from Sheol.

    Proverbs 29:15
    The rod and reproof give wisdom,
    But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.
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    BaFengu Majoni Nice topic mkhaya.
    @Zwelibanzi Nkomo, I like the way you look at the topic, i would have thought as well looking more at the background of the whole phrase, and for the person to say it what would have happened, i equally agree with most of you that this is not found in the christian bible, which in this case i will assume most of the contributors in to this topic so far are, i was also tempted to say the same, however lets not end there, while i was also perplexed with my mouth ajar, i have said these words in the past, though never knew of it origins, I took time however to further look into this how did it come to be said so, to dig a little bit deeper, and see if we can come out with something meaningful out of this,
    tell you my fellow country man, i came across this:

    Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 13 Surah Raad verse 11: Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people until they change it themselves.
    So when we closely look at this above verse of course from a different religion from ours, something like that do exist, Lets not forget though as we look at this, lets remind our selves the world we are living in, multicultural religion which is made up of different beliefs


  • BaFengu Majoni @zwelibanzi my fellow brother in christ, greetings to you,
    when we quote these verse with the regard to the use of the rod as a disciplinary measure, what are we saying here, i will take it this is the way our elderly, and schools long time are ago must have interpreted it, as pick up the stick, umkharabhe kakhulu, yikho ukuthi aze afunde, noma ngiyabe ngilamastresses ami, ngizawakhuphela kubo abantwana esikolo, kumbe ngekhaya noma kuye unkosikazi etc.
    I have got a feeling that this verse did not exactly mean that, we people decided it that way, because when we look at it closely disciplining someone is not about picking the rod and inflict some pain on another individual 's flesh, but we can equally discipline someone, which can be equally effective but without lifting up a rod to someone.
    For are main examples which we main list, but i wouldn't like to be long.

  • Zwelibanzi Nkomo BaFengu Majonioung children often do foolish and dangerous things because they don't understand the consequences. Wisdom and common sense are not just transferable through observing that is by being a good example only. A child learns wisdom consciously; the rod stands for all foams of discipline or training. Parents must discipline children to make them learn the difference between right and wrong. The greatest responsibility God gives parents is to nature and to guide children. Lack of discipline put the love of parents in question because it shows lack of concern for the character development of children. While all this is done it is vital to remember that your efforts only cannot make your child wises but can encourage them to seek God’s wisdom above everything else. God also corrects us prov.3v11&12
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    Zwelibanzi Nkomo @BaFengu Majoni Akesikhangele ngesintu mntakababa ngoba lona elithi ROD liyethusa.

    Izaga13v 24 Lowo ongasebenzisi uswazi
    uyayizonda indodana yakhe,
    kodwa lowo oyithandayo
    unqinekela ukuyiqondisa.

    Izaga 22 v 15 Ubuthutha bubotshelwe
    enhliziyweni yomntwana,
    kodwa uswazi lokuqondisa
    luzabuxotshela khatshana.

    Izaga23v13&14 Ungayekeli ukumlaya
    umntwana;
    ukumtshaya ngoswazi
    akuyikumbulala.
    Mjezise ngoswazi ukuze
    uphephise umphefumulo wakhe
    ekufeni.

  • BaFengu Majoni Ayi baba ithi ngiphefumule kancane mani, njalo ngizathanda sicace phela lapha,
    Mina nawe siyavumelana entweni ezinengi kulokhu esikhuluma ngakho ikakhulu ekutheni sikhona kangaka isidingo sokuthi umntwana kumele alaywe akwenzela ukuthi akhule elembeko, njalo ngizathanda ukubana sivumelane futhi ukuthi kanti isaga sona sivele siyini, ngani ngoba nxa sithi siyakhangelisisa lapha thina esikhuluma ngakho yisaga, okunjengokuthi mina nxa ngithi imbuzi igudla iguma, angitsho mina ngezinye indlela ukuthi mina imbuzi ibonakale inqwetha emagumeni hayi ngitsho ukuthi ngezinye indlela,uyabona undoda lo uyazekelisa enkulumeni yakhe, akathandi ukuthi ayithi bhadla indaba, hee uyabona into enjanga leyo.
    Caca uswazi lapha wena olutshiwoyo lapha yiloluyana esiluphundla esihlahleni, besesibuya sikarabhe ngalo abantwana, inoma lapha thina sithi: umntwana imbeko uyayidinga, we have identified a behaviour which needs to corrected, so in correcting that behaviour are you literally saying thatha uswazi ukarabhe, pick up the stick/rod and physical hit the child with it or are we saying uswazi in this case does not necessarily mean physical contact with the stick or anything along those lines, but here usawzi represent the process of disciplining the individual in question, with or without inflicting physical pain on the flesh. Because some of us disciplining the children we are even the worst, children in question are even better than us in terms of behaviour in the society.
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    Zwelibanzi Nkomo uswazi lona oluzwisa ubuhlungu enyameni kanye lokuyala kokubili kuhamba kubambene kunjengamanzi lobumazi kuyelapha. Kodwa ngiyavumelana lawe ukuthi esikhathini esiphila kuso abadala bedlula labantwana ekuhambeni mazombezombe kodwa nxa i order yobhalo ilandelwe kuhle iyasebenza .
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    Mandla Mkwananzi This is topic was no doubt debated. Its always hard to judge the extent of words. The major problem with the above topic is that, when you say God helps those who helps themselves, most people somehow misinterpret it to mean that you are "trying to help God" In what ever capacity you define or interpret "God" it is not logic or at least feasible to help God. Make no mistake about that, unless your/our view of "God is man made" I must also be clear that I appreciate the theological and scriptural based comments and arguments.
    They save as basis of our Christian beliefs and are fundamental since "we cannot" interpret God without or apart from scriptures. I personal avoid much too scriptures. In the same sentence, I must also mention that, the creation itself testifies about the existence and the magnitude works of God. Coming back to my point, I must say that we as humans must apply what we can with our physical power and might.                                                                                                              
    This is not to despise prayer and faith, by no means. In the beginning we see God entrusting Adam with the garden of Eden. Well before the fall and we are living after the fall, but thank God for Christ Jesus, who has redeemed us from the curse. Read Apostle Paul's letters at the beginnings. (Not preaching here obviously. Some Sunday school teacher and some even some preachers could be hammering me this Sunday somewhere for preaching face book heresy) What I get from this saying is that one must put effort towards a desired goal. Its not a scripture saying, but a human one which acknowledges that "God is eager to make you successful you are putting an effort.
    The Bible talks many time about "a sower" Our Lord Jesus give a parable about a sower. Point is we are suppose to saw to reap. Ahab in the old testament tried to reap where he did not sow. We all know happened. Last month I posted something about leapers who dared to died trying, my brother Melusi Mkhwananzi like that post. Thank you all for Contributions Zwe Nkomo and Bafengu Majoni, my former Sizane mates, I am proud of you. Both of you should be my advisors when I save as a Sobhuku one day.
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    Jennifer Frances Armstrong ape helps those who help themselves
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    Zwelibanzi Nkomo Hmmmmmmmmm ape? in what sense is it used here

  • Zi Max Gumbo A simply question and we all run to the bible.. it doesn't mean all sentences that have God or Jesus in them should only be from the bible. Abangasi ma Christians sibaxotsha kalula. We kind of think uJesus uzofikela eChurch kuphela.

  • Zi Max Gumbo Mina I think the saying is true. it means get up and work ...you reap what you sow... do not let life happen to you, you should happen to life

  • Mandla Mkwananzi J F Armstrong is an atheist, I believe.

  • Joseph Qobo Mayisa it is not taken from the bible but has an element of truth depending on how you interpret it. Most miracles in the bible are preceded by people acting on faith or going to the Lord for help so perhaps this is a way of saying faith without works is dead