Homeboy chips in to help Highlanders coach transportation

A doctor of philosophy law student in the United Kingdom, who is also a Highlanders member, has pledged a BMW 3 series car for use by the high-flying Highlanders coach Kelvin Kaindu.

His gesture was in response to members' cries on a social network.

Twenty-six-year-old Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane responded to supporters cries on social network site, Facebook, who felt it was not good for the coach to travel using public transport to matches and training sessions.

"It's basically not a donation but I will be letting it be used on a yearly basis, some more people could come with more gestures and we could do big things together," said Mabalane from his base on Tuesday.

Highlanders secretary Andrew Tapela confirmed that they did have a discussion with Mabalane who promised to ship the car from the United Kingdom by August.

"At the moment we cannot give an official position as the club until all the paperwork between us and Mabalane has been finalised and besides I am yet to brief my colleagues in the executive about the development. It's a welcome development though," said Tapela.

Mabalane said barring any eventualities, the car could be in Zimbabwe as early as next month but the latest should be August.(He is also a home boy of mine from Luveve and and I am proud of him)www.ikho..

"All I want is for the club to guarantee me that the car will be well looked after, nothing else, because Highlanders is a big institution that cannot have its coach walking to work when even some of his players are driving," said Mabalane.

Moyo calls ANC leadership to Wake up over painting

WHAT on earth is going on in South Africa and what does it tell the rest of the continent about the state of the African in that country? Make no mistake about it, and this is quite sad, but the time has come for black Africans to understand and do something about the tragic fact that while South Africa’s de jure leadership is black, the de facto control of that country is a white minority which owns and runs the economy, the judiciary and the media, all which are racist to the core. The uncomfortable bottomline is that South Africa is a white-controlled black country and the dysfunctional consequences of this tragedy are yet to fully play out with very worrying signs everywhere that all hell is about to break loose. It is a shame that the white minority which has de facto control of South Africa is taking full advantage without let or hindrance of self-serving and false claims to human rights, governance and anti-corruption in the false name of international law not only to halt but also to reverse the gains that black South Africans made in 1994 when democracy was allegedly won or achieved in that troubled country. While this is bad enough, what is worse is that the same self-indulgent white minority whose numbers include die-hard racists who converged in South Africa from fallen white settler regimes in Rhodesia, Portuguese Mozambique and Angola and South West Africa (now Namibia) are using their new apartheid base through organisations such as Afriforum and the so-called Southern African Litigation Centre to reverse the gains of liberation throughout Southern Africa under the cover of phoney claims to human rights and good governance. So it is that as Africans at home and in the Diaspora celebrated the 2012 edition of Africa Day, there was utter mayhem triggered by the display in the vulgar name of art and corrupt freedom of expression at some racist gallery and the website of a racist newspaper of a pathetic painting of President Zuma with his genitals exposed styled as a spear. It is frankly staggering to imagine, let alone to think, that this mayhem unfolded as it is still unfolding in the one country whose black leadership never lose a moment to pretend that it should by entitlement lead the rest of Africa and that it has the solutions to all African problems ostensibly because its country has the biggest economy on the continent on the basis of which South Africa’s black leadership is seeking a permanent seat at the outdated and increasingly irrelevant UN’s Security Council and on the basis of which the same leadership is hoping, with customary Sadc support, its respected and quite able former minister of foreign affairs now in charge of home affairs — Nkosazana Zuma — should be elected at the forthcoming AU summit in Malawi in July as the continental body’s next chairperson to replace the widely unpopular Jean Ping whose treachery in favour of Europe — especially France — against Africa has mobilised critical votes against him beyond recovery. There’s no need to waste time belabouring the question whether the patently offensive and unAfrican phallic painting of President Zuma constitutes acceptable artistic expression or is defendable as freedom of expression. Those among us who have invoked artistic expression of freedom of expression to defend that painting are either racists who know exactly what they are saying against African leadership and the human dignity of Africans or are just Uncle Toms who do not know what they are saying in the vain hope of winning praise and acceptance from the very same white racists who are behind the offensive painting. The fact of the matter is that self-righteous whites in South Africa would be outraged beyond description if a painting of Helen Zille, the racist leader of the DA, were to be done by a black artist and depicted in the pose of the late celebrated American prostitute — Linda Lovelace — with Zille’s genitals fully exposed and captioned “Fight back like Deepthroat”. While pundits in South Africa who are clear victims of apartheid propaganda can continue fooling themselves about the offensive Zuma painting under a false discourse about artistic expression and freedom of expression, Africans around the world who celebrated Africa Day last Friday know only too well that the real issue in South Africa is about who controls what and therefore who shall govern on the basis of what they control. There’s an urgent need to unpack, understand and to do something about the tragedy that is unfolding in South Africa’s tragic governance whose implications are far-reaching for the African state. It is a common cause that the colonial state in Africa immediately reproduced itself through neo-colonialism through which Western imperialists took control of the economies of the newly independent states during decolonisation. The neo-colonial idea was that independence meant the Africans would control their politics while the commanding heights of the economy remained in the white hands of imperialists. While this neo-colonial façade appeared to be the case in countries that did not have white settler communities such as are found in the Southern African countries of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia and especially South Africa whose white population numbers some astounding millions, the post-apartheid situation with regard to the balance of forces that have now emerged clearly show that there’s something new and dangerous about neo-colonialism which for want of a better term is best described as post-neo-colonialism. Whereas neo-colonialism sought to hijack the control of the economy from black independence, the essence of post-neo-colonialism that is best characterised by the tragedy that is unfolding in South Africa highlighted by the offensive Zuma painting is to hijack not only the economy from black independence but also to hijack the entire political landscape of black independence by controlling and subjugating the politics of black majority rule through the manipulative instruments of the judiciary, the media and the economy dominated under the guise of artistic expression, freedom of expression, human rights, good governance and anti-corruption driven by the very same white minority that was supposed to have been deposed by the independence struggle with the assistance of the so-called international community. The dynamics of the post-neo-colonial state are particularly pronounced in the Southern African countries that had entrenched white settler communities but they are not limited to these countries as the evidence of post-neo-colonial politics is now palpable, for example in Malawi where that country’s sovereignty is taking quite some battering following the as-yet-unexplained demise of President Bingu wa Mutharika under very controversial circumstances that are now the subject of an official inquiry ordered by President Joyce Banda. But back to the mayhem in South Africa caused by the offensive and totally unacceptable display of the phallic painting of President Zuma which injured his human dignity and that of all Africans, it was instructive to note that the South African state under its black leadership was left clueless about what to do. In the end the ANC resorted to court action whose consequence was not only to further embarrass President Zuma but also to confirm who, in fact, is in charge of Azania otherwise known as South Africa. In the first place the court obviously controlled by the white minority took its sweet time to set down the hearing of the matter which had been filed on an urgent basis. Then the court, presided over by white judges who had no difficulty showing their sympathy for the offending painter, Brett Murray, who hides his shocking racism under the silly claim that he is a satirical artist who used to be but is no longer a supporter of the ANC, made it clear that it did not understand how the painting could be said to be racist and that in any case banning it would be difficult because “the image is already out there on the internet”. Strangely but tellingly the same court did not have any qualms about ordering a belated international blackout of the footage showing the ANC lawyer — Gcina Malindi — in a sea of tears in response to some racist questioning by the presiding judge Claasen when the fact is that the court proceedings were being screened live and could not be blocked after the fact. It was telling that Judge Claasen found it easy well after the fact to black out a live broadcast of a black lawyer he cruelly made to weep with racist questioning in order to protect himself but he did not find it within him to interdict the offensive phallic painting of President Zuma because the judge was clearly part of the post-neo-colonial control of African politics by abusing the law to humiliate African leaders in the hope of breaking the African spirit for freedom with dignity. Africans following the latest court battle in South Africa over Zuma’s dehumanising painting have been comparing the case with that of the former president of ANC youth league, Julius Malema, whose singing of a liberation song “shoot the Boer” was said to be “incitement to murder” by a white judge, Leon Halgryn, who in a case brought before him by a racist NGO called Afriforum astonishingly ruled that “the publication and chanting of the words ‘dubula ibhunu’ prima facie satisfies the crime of incitement to murder”. The substance of the political message from Judge Halgryn in the Malema “dubula ibhunu’’ case is not different from that of Judge Claasen in the case of President Zuma’s offensive painting, save for the obvious double standard rooted in the new racism that clearly poses a serious, clear and present danger to South Africa’s so-called 1994 democracy which is not the same as independence. But where is all this coming from and where is it going? On May 29 1998, then South Africa’s Deputy President Thabo Mbeki made a seminal “two-nations speech” at the opening debate in Parliament in Cape Town entitled “Reconciliation and Nation Building” in which he said “we therefore make bold to say that South Africa is a country of two nations. One of these nations is white, relatively prosperous, regardless of gender or geographic dispersal. It has ready access to a developed economic, physical, educational, communication and other infrastructure. This enables it to argue that, except for the persistence of gender discrimination against women, all members of this nation have the possibility to exercise their rights to equal opportunity, the development opportunities to which the Constitution of ’93 committed our country. The second and larger nation of South Africa is black and poor, with the worst affected being women in the rural areas, the black rural population in general and the disabled. This nation lives under the conditions of a grossly under-developed economic, physical, educational, communication and other infrastructure. It has virtually no possibility to exercise what in reality amounts to a theoretical right to equal opportunity, with that right being equal within this black nation only to the extent that it is equally incapable of realisation. The reality of two nations, underwritten by the perpetuation of the racial, gender, and spatial disparities born of a very long period of colonial and apartheid white minority domination, constitutes the material base which reinforces the notion that, indeed, we are not one nation, but two nations. And neither are we becoming one nation. Consequently, also, the objective of national reconciliation is not being realised”. Nothing has better dramatised South Africa’s two nations than Brett Murray’s phallic painting of President Zuma and the reaction to it from South Africa’s white-controlled media, judiciary and business community run by white racists who apparently think their prejudices are equal to artistic expression and freedom of expression. God help South Africa. Professor Jonathan Moyo is MP for Tsholotsho North (Zanu PF

Coventry dedicates column to Peter Ndlovu

COVENTRY City has dedicated a column in their football club website on Peter Ndlovu, describing him as a legend.
The following is an extract from Coventry City website released today.
The summer of 1997 bid farewell to one of the most unique talents seen in recent years at Highfield Road. After 197 appearances and 41 goals over six seasons, City's 24 year-old Zimbabwean international, equally at home on the wing or up front, journeyed up the A45 to join Birmingham City.

Not many players score a league hat-trick at Anfield or weave through the Villa defence to slam home an unstoppable shot on their full home debut but Peter Ndlovu did just that.
A regular under Bobby Gould, Phil Neal and ‘Big Ron’ the ‘Bulawayo Bullet’ eventually fell out of favour with Atkinson and Gordon Strachan but not before he had entertained the terraces with his dancing feet and electric pace. On his fifth appearance he scored the winner at Highbury, three weeks later at Highfield Road one of his best ever strikes sank the Villa 1-0 before The Hawthorns witnessed him in his prime in the FA Cup: (forward to 1:45 mins)
Peter Ndlovu at his very best
On a scorching day at Selhurst Park (Wimbledon) in 1996 two goals from 'Nuddy' helped maintain City’s top flight status, a year after his treble against David James in front of the Kop. He may well have peaked that March 1995 night as knee injuries soon began to reduce his match time and hamper the pace which made him such a threat to opposition defenses.
Gordon Strachan explained the decision to sell Ndlovu in Rick Gekoski's 'Staying Up' written during season 1997/98. He thought Ndlovu needed a new challenge and had gone backwards at City, a fact demonstrated by just ten league starts in his final campaign. Birmingham, then in the second tier, signed him on a pay-as-you-play deal for four seasons before he moved to Sheffield United where he played until the summer of 2004.
City's first season post-Premiership saw the return of Ndlovu to Highfield Road. Midway through the second-half Blades' boss Neil Warnock substituted him which necessitated a jog from the Sky Blue Stand over to the dugouts. Sky Blues' supporters accompanied this with strains of "Walking along, singing a song, walking in an Ndlovu wonderland", a warm tribute acknowledged by the player who lit up Highfield Road and provided some great moments.
City supporters always deliver when a former favourite returns, 4-0 down at home to Watford and John Eustace still received warm applause as he was replaced, as has Dele Adebola on his frequent returns. Since 2001 the majority has been sold rather than submitted transfer requests so the goodwill is there. Craig Bellamy will remain our record signing for many years to come, there was such hope when he arrived, 12 months later few tears were shed upon his departure

Is Dabengwa walking in the footsteps of Joshua Nkomo?

Above revived Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa addressing a conference recently putting a hat similar to the one Dr Nkomo used to wear. One wonders if Dumiso Dabengwa is literally walking in Mdala's footsteps. The former Zipra intelligence supremo recently castigated the ZANU PF politburo for trying to go against the wishes of the people when it comes to the devolution of power in provinces. He left Zanu Pf about three years ago to after serving in that government in many ministerial positions and party ranks. The man who was once referred to as the black Russian by the Rhodesian government was arguable the most feared  military leader in the 70s leading to liberation of the country in 1980. After Independence he was arrested by the Robert Mugabe government and detained in prison after a catch of arms where allegedly discovered in a Zapu owned farm. He and the late Commander Lookout Masuku where were tortured severely in prison. As a result Masuku became very ill and eventually died not too long after his release in 1986.

In December 22 1987 the infamous Unity Accord was signed, merging the Joshua Nkomo lead PF ZAPU with ZANU PF and the later retained the the name. Dabengwa himself was not willing to join forces with ZAnu Pf, but did so in respect of his leader and commander in Chief Joshua Nkomo. Its then that he was given many roles over time  in the Mugabe controlled unity government. After faithfully serving the ruling party Dr Dabengwa soon decided to follow the wishes of his people in Matabeleland.   Many had told him that he was putting on the wrong jacket meaning the wrong party. The message was finally received when he lost elections in his own constituency in Nkulumane. It did not take long for people to see that the Unity accord was not fairly implemented. This left may former Zapu leaders in the cold. When Dr Joshua Nkomo died in July 1999 it was clear that unity accord was not going to last long.

1n 2009 him and his late sister inlaw Thenjiwe Lesabe left the ruling party to revive PF ZAPU. Lesabe died not too long after that. Zapu has significantly built its structures across the country but its not known how powerful it could be comes the election time. Had he remained in ZANU PF, Dabengwa could have been the second Vice President by now. This position is currently being enjoyed by John landa Nkomo also a former Zapu member, after  the death of Comrade Msika. Nkomo is said to be President Mugabe's blood cousin.

IBosso idla amalahle ase Wanki enkundleni yokuGela izinwele

Bulawayo
IBosso idla amalahle ase Wanki enkundleni yokuGela izinwele koNtuthuziyathunqa!
 Kubikwa iqembu laMahlolamyama litshonise izivakatshi zase Wanki ngefotsholo eyodwa. Izimba mgodi zasemayini wase Wanki edumileyo kwele Matebeland eseningizimu zibhajiwe zehluleka ukufotshola amalahle abezize lawo ukuwathunqisela emagumeni. Kuthiwa lezi zimbamgodi ziphembe ithuthu kuphela azize zayibona intuba yokugela inzwele B/F ebivikelwa ngabafana bakaMagebhula. Kubikwa lezi zimbagodi zisuke zalibala amgogolosi okubona emini (day goggles) njengoba phela zejayele ukusebenzela phansi emgodini ebusuku.

 Esinye iskhulumelie saleli  qembu ebesingafuni ukuziveza igama , sithe kuphambanisekile lapha bephakitsha la amangilazi. Uthi lowo onguye ophakitshe la amangilazi uzajeziswa kakhulu nxa befika emayini. Iqembu lika Mantengwane elikhokhelwa ngu Kelvin Kaindu liqhubeka lisidla ubhedu.  Isiyiviki yesibili liqonge phezulu kwamaqembu onke kumcintiswana we ncitshi jikelele. Kuvamile ukuthi nxa leli qembu selisenze nje amapolisa aqale ukulwisa abalandeli balo. Kungenzakala ukuthi bazame lokuxotsha umqeqetshi waleli qembu elizweni, bambisele kibo eZambia.

Why the future belongs to small media

It is interesting to realize that over a very short period of time the term media has been taken to another level. This is obviously due to the introduction of tool like Internet , cell phones, iPhone, iPhads. In short the electronic media has been transformed for ever. This applies to both radio and television. I do not think anybody would have predicted that unknown faces like Mark Zukerbag of face book and other social media owner would "rule the world". Anybody who rule the media world, automatically rules the world. He or she controls what we see and hear and get paid for it. We all saw how face book helped presidential candidates like Barack Obama win the election four years ago. We are living in a historic time of media transformation. Gone are the days of Newspapers and television as news makers.

One would be amazed to note that while we are living in an amazing period of time in as far as medium transformation is concerned there is still a large number of people that  still live in stone age media times. There is a lot to be done especially for many of our own brothers and sisters in the rural areas in Africa and Asia to mention the least. The gap in between is very huge. The availability and the accessibility of the Internet in most developed countries and cities saves a great source of both news and information within these civilized cultures. A lot of time is saved, a lot of money is saved and eventually a lot of lives are saved in the process.

We credit the great institutions of the world like Harvard University, Stanford and Georgetown for their  deliberate effort on continually trying to finding better ways of communication world wide. There are may other individuals and institutions that have embarked on this journey. It is easy for an average person to be overwhelmed by the availability of such imposing mediums yet lose sight of the fact that billions are not yet reached. In a way its  kind of like the Bible.  We that live in big cities of the world, can  get a bible  everywhere, be it schools hospitals and hotels. Yet its amazing that there to note that there are billions who have never seen a Bible at least in their own language. It is the same own communication technology. While there has been tremendous inventions bombarding the city folks, it goes without saying that the opposite is equally true.

The greatest challenge to us indigenous people is to translate the gospel of technology into our own languages. This is no different from everything else in the world. For example the other side of the world has the best road networking, another is far from that luxury. Two years back when I went back home, I was reminded of the harsh reality of basic necessities being in an undeveloped road net work system after a long time. Here in America there are hundreds roads and ways of getting from one city to another while back home In Zimbabwe, it would be only one way. So in short we have tall order as inhabitants of a developing world. Small and minority communities cannot be left out. We have to bridge the gap. In my language and culture we say "Umfula ugcaliswa yizifudlana". It is small lakes that makes a river.

That is where small mediums like my blog www.ikhonaindaba.blogspot.com comes into play. Ours is a dual mandate and responsibility to both educate and translate information thereby acting as a reference  of knowledge for future generations. Ours is a simple mission, not one to conquer the world, for the such has already been done!

Funda IsiNdebele

Ake sikhumbuzane ngesiNdebele! Wena usazi kanganani?

Namuhla ngikhethe ukuthi ngifake izaga ezinlutshwana sizichasise:
Inchazelo iyavama ukutshiyana kwesinye isikhathi kusiya ngesigaba lapho umuntu akukhulele khona.

1)"Ukuhamba kuzala induna"  kutsho ukuthi nxa uhambile ungathola amathuba amahle empilweni ongeke  uwathole lapho usekhaya.

2) "Ohambileyo ufile" kutsho ukuthi nxa uhambile awusabalelwa kuleyo ndawo, usubalelwa lapho owekhona.

3)"Uzawukhomba umuzi olotshwala" Kutsho ukuthi kwesinye iskhathi empilweni ungazithola ususe mumeni inzima okungadinga ukuthi uginye ukuzigqaja lobunguwe bakho!

4) "Zala bantu ziyebantwini akuna ntombi eyagana inyamazana" lapha lijaha eliyabe laliwe yintombi, liziduduza lithi ngoba lalowo intombi ezamgana ngumuntu lawe.

5) "Ukhomba ngophakathi" Lokhu kutsho ukuthi lomuntu okuthiwa ukhomba ngophakathi izinto zonke nje zimhambela kuhle empilweni.

6) "Udiwo lufuze imbiza" Kutsho umntwana kumbe ingane eyabe ifana loyise, ingabe ngezenzo kumbe isontsha lesimilo!

7) 'Hamba juba lami bazokuchutha phambili" Ngesinye njalo isaga esitsho ukuthi lumuntu othi hamba juba lami, akathabanga kodwa uthi hamba bazokubona phambili. Ungani uyakhalala, kumbe ukunena.

 8) Ngitshiya mkhaza edibha kukhatshana" Ngumuntu odiniweyo ngomunye abesesithi, ngiyekele wena, amfananise lokhaza okutshwa kanye ngeviki edibha njenge nkomo.

uMthwakazi land grabbed and Njelele shrine desecrated

                                                 

 

    

About 300 suspected ex-Zanla combatants, who were recently blocked from invading the Njelele shrine for a cleansing ceremony, allegedly threatened to seize farms surrounding the shrine, including properties under the Matobo National Parks.

Matojeni Cultural Society chairman Albert Nyoni told NewsDay yesterday that former fighters made the threats after they met villagers and traditional leaders on May 5.

“War veterans led by one Noworeka Tensi threatened to come back and take some of the Matopos farms claiming there is a lot of land lying idle,” said Nyoni.

“But we also told them they must not dare do that. We advised the policemen who were present that if such a thing happens they must be prepared to bring trucks full of handcuffs to arrest us because we will not allow strangers to violate our peace.”

In February, over 600 suspected ex-Zanla combatants descended at Njelele where they allegedly conducted a ceremony to “appease the spirits of their colleagues who were killed during the war at Chimoio in Mozambique in 1977”. The group was travelling in a convoy of 16 buses and more than six cars.

Earlier on, the group had reportedly visited Mozambique, exhumed remains of their colleagues and took stones from the graves which they brought and left at the Njelele shrine.

In their latest visit, the war veterans told the cultural leaders and villagers that they were experiencing numerous mysterious deaths and the ancestral spirits had advised them to go and cleanse themselves at the shrine.

Thanks to Silas Nkala

Highlanders Bosso on the rampage!

                                                                    Bosso time now!

Bosso Tshilamoya on the rampage.  Some call it Mantengwane, some call its Amahlolanyama, while some call it ithimu yezwe lonke. Highlanders Football team is not only the country's oldest soccer club, but also the the most supported team of all time. Bosso have legions of supporters  in every corner of the country. Currently under the guidance of Zambian Kevin Kaindu, coach who is also a former Bosso player himself is flying high. They are unbeaten in six games and are showing no signs of slowing down any time soon. This is a relief to fans both in and outside the country who have longed waited for such a moment. My  friends  on face book went wild as the team dismissed Monomutapa three to nothing this afternoon at emagumeni securing the place as front runners for the league title, though  its still too early to tell. Babethi kayibulawe!

Speaking politics here.

(1) US President Barack Obama who is seeking a second term might have hurt the campaign by standing on the side of gays and lesbians. His Christan supporters have been left in the cold even as the issue is more about equality and financial benefits than marriage itself. These guys need to find other terms, the word marriage has bee brought to disrepute in the process.

(2) Zimbabwe's  Welshmen Ncube an MDC splinter opposition party leader and minister of Industry and Commerce who is the first person to be compared to the late Father Zimbabwe (Joshua Nkomo) will probably never lead Zim as long as the  military is supporting Zanu PF despite his qualifications.

(3) Zimbabwe  Prime minister Morgan Tswangirayi will never rule the country too, but will now survive as a career politician exploiting the benefits of the executive. (the same applies to Makoni  of Mavambo Kusile and Dabengwa of Zapu)

(4) South African ruling party ANC might have severely punished the lousy loud  mouthed, irresponsible and former ANC youth leader Julius Malema by expelling him, but  that will not solve the problems of poverty amongst the  millions black Africans Africans. They only needed a middle ground to bridge the gap of opinions and policies. Former president Thabo Mbeki might find himself having to forge a (Zim style GPA) equivalent power sharing document to that regard in South Africa next year this time around!

Kasuwerere  a young Zanu PF youth empowerment or indigenisation (what ever he is doing )stands a high chance of being Zimbabwe's next 2nd Vice president.