Old School love letters

WHERE WERE YOU, WHEN SISTERS USED TO WRITE LETTERS WITH DICTIONARIES  

If you never received letters like these, you missed out big time.

 

Dear Sugar  
Time and ability plus double capacity has forced my pen to dance automatically on this benedicted sheet of paper. Why! this miraculous thing happened is because papie I love you spontaneously and as I stand horizontal to the wall and perpendicular to the ground I only think of you, since you are a fantastic and fabulous guy. papie please Stop haranguing with the feelings in my heart because I love you more than a snake loves rat. To me each day starts by thinking of you and ends by dreaming of you. Each time I see you my metabolism suddenly stops and my peristalsis goes in reverse gear My medular-oblangata also stops functioning.
Crazy crazy crazy you may say but this is true. If only you knew what is going on in my encephalon you would understand. That's why I need to see you face to face with you, soon. I think I have to pen-off hear because I still haven't finished studying electrolysis and polymerization. Catch you pa- later. Sleep tight and don't let those bed bugs ever bite you coz you are too sweet a thing for them.
Yourz Ever,
Sugar tapi tapi 


REPLY 
Dear Honie 
My Love, My Sugar, I was exasperated with pride to have received one from you, the lungs in my body flapped with joy when I have been reading your letter. Anyway by now you have reached the realisations to why I am jotting this small letter to you, yes it is to see if you are keeping with the sands of time.
How is everything on that other side of yours? Well here everything is just half lemon half sugar to make it Schweppes. How is your schooling? How are you pulling the wagons of life? I am just pulling the schooling thing like a donkey pulling a cart.

My honie, I am missing you very much right now, my heart is perambulating with every word that I write, if it was not for these oceans that decided to flow between us then I would get on the next bus to come and see you, but until then I know that I will not hesitate to put this blue blood on this paper and write to you. I remember that day lovie, that one sweet day as Maria Curry sanged it, you know that it is my favourites song honie, the one day that we were boarding the combies and you escorted me to my home, walking with you just brought sweet dreams to me for the rest of my life honie.

If words of love could ride a bicycle I would be competing against marry carrie. Anyways, I will not stop you from reading the books that give you life and education so I will stop here for today.
Please always writing to me because I am missing you like sugar misses tea. You can see my foto above

My dedications to you are:

Maria Curry - One Sweet Day.

Boys to Main - And of the Rod

Keep well my mop of my heart, Yours in flesh and in blood, Ruise Sugar Baby

P.S. STILL BEATING FOR YOU!!

Zimbabwe Student Union disappoint

Zimbabwe Congress of Student Union (ZICOSU)  held a press conference at Harare Polytechnic College on the 15th of June and it was aimed at advocating for the Zimbabwe Presidential elections to be held this year.
 The members of the union present were the vice president Cephas Matendere,Secretary general Tatenda Chakanyuka,Deputy secretary empoerment Onesimo Shoko,Organising Secretary Tichatora Mumbinjo,Committee member Tonderai Chidava and also another committee member Ishmael Nyengera.They urged the students to rally behind the holding of elections as soon as possible and they said that the Zimbabwean elections have to be an internal affair not affiliated by any other outsider or country and this was incompatible with the previous SADC meeting that said that elections should be held in the next 12 months after the making of a new constitution. They said that constitution or no constitution elections should be held as soon as possible because the (GNU) Government of National Unity has been long expired. They said that the students should shun political violence in the conduct of elections.
On the other hand the holding of elections this year cannot be done because of many reasons such as the lack of funding since the government did not budget any money money for elections this year because for elections to occur there has to be money present. There are also a lot of programs that the government have in the pipeline such as the increase of the civil servant's salaries,census to but a few and there can be no way another program can be added on that big load of the government. There is also no guarantee that there would be no bloodshed on these elections and as a mater of fact these elections might promise to be a more bloodier election than  the last ones.

There was also another issue that these so called students representers claim to be representing the students and yet the holding of elections this year does not serve the interests  of the students. There are more pressing issues that have to be looked at and the so called student representatives are putting all their energy in political issues than do their jobs. The press conference was not even relevant to the students who had expected much more better from the Union. There was also a statement that came from one of the Union members that they are in support of the president and the ruling party and that is what we all as students have to do,this statement thereby caused uproar in the conference because someone who represents a spectrum of students should not be politically affiliated because that does not serve the needs and wants of the whole students because all students are not of the same party and they should not be because they deserve freedom of expression and political party.

Day Care Centre for Special needs individuals

The day care centre for special needs individuals is now  under planning and research in the residential area of Glen View 3 High-glen district Harare.A group of women who have children who lack fully developed capacity for learning have united to form a day care centre/vocational training  centre that takes care of the children who are under developed.The centre is called Tovimbanashe Centre(We Believe in God) and it was discovered early 2011.The main thrust for the day care centre is to cater and help those children who are under developed especially those who come from a poor background.They also hold workshops with other parents who have special children to help them in taking care of their children.
The first time i discovered of this group of women was when they visited at my school.Part of their day to day job is vist schools and offices networking and having discussions with people and introducing and letting the public know what they are all about.They also stage live on stage dramas that give a clear picture on what they are all about and were they are coming from.The dramas and acts help people recognize the difficulties and hardships being faced by the special needs individuals and the hardships also being faced by the parents especially the mother who is from a poor background in an African society.They have a lot of difficulties and problems they are facing and they stated some as not having the proper materials and resources  to carry out this endevour and task.They do not have a proper venue or office for this centre so they are using the old farm house that is delapdated.They also said that they have tried to appeal to the government and it seems as if that the the government is not in support of them and the only hope they have is the public.
They believe in teaching the children with love and care and not harshness and the with the rod and staff as in the African community.The other job they are doing is holding campaigns and calling upon other parents who have their children who are special to come out in the open and join heads with them and that these parents should not hide their children from the world but give the children the right and opportunity to learning.
They talked about the difficulties that are being faced by the women who give birth to these special children saying that most of the women are left by their husbands describing it as an abomination in the community.They also said that even if a family is intact it is only the mother who takes care of the child and other family members choose to neglect the child care and this gives the mothers mind unrest in thinking that when they die it means that the special child would remain behind and have no one to care for them.There is also another problem that when parents give birth to a special child they then build up  and they find it hard to try and have another child because they fear of the worst.In some cases doctors are not comforting and sympathetic  about situations like these.

Some of the group members identified themselves as Mrs Chitsva who is a voluntary worker and Mrs Florence Kabayadondo and they have called upon anyone who is willing to support them with anything or even mental support to contact them on these phone numbers +263 777 028 404 and the other contact number is +263 733 970 385.

The Shona Language

On the 24th of May a talk show about the Shona language was hosted by the talk show queen of Zimbabwe Mrs Rebecca Chisamba who is famously known for her talk show "Amai Chisamba Show".The main topic of the show was "The Shona language".The notable guests that were present were Mr Peter Banga who is a lecturer at Harare Polytechnic college,Dr Muidzo Mawesera who is a lecturer at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) who is also a writer in Shona and there was Dr Sekai Nzenza who is a newspaper columnist.There was also a very important visitor who is a veteran Shona book writer who has been writing for decades named Mr  Aaron Chiunduramoyo.There was also a  lot of guests who were from the examinations council and other Shona poets.
The topic was much of a big topic and the only enemy that was against people was time.A lot of people had a lot to say but only a few were privileged enough to say something.People expressed a lot of sympathy on the way the Shona language and culture is being eroded and diluted by other languages.The Shona language was said to be of late being over shadowed by the english language.The main reason why english is being chosen over Shona was that the Zimbabweans had spent a long time under western emperial rule and that the people are still under neo-colonialism.There is a lot to be done to free the people from colonialism and another speaker said that the struggle is still on to totally free the people.
Even in churches it is said that the preachers are preaching in the western language as if no one cannot understand the venecular.Jobs are also said to have been in search of people who are really good in the english language.There were also writers who write in the mother language who also said that their work is not being appreciated by the people while other western languages are selling like hot cakes.The local music that is in Shona is also not being appreciated as the international music that is being sung in the english language.There was also a teenage student who also mentioned that there is now a culture of speaking in english and that the english language is now the language that is considered the cool language to interact in.There is a  saying that says"english was made in Europe,developed in America and is being used in Africa".
There was one speaker who mentioned that the past is being lost and that is called past to dust.The past that was being mentioned was the culture of the black people and an example was made that the Chinese are developing because they respect their culture and language and it was said that Zimbabwe is not developing because there is no respect for culture and language and until Zimbabweans figure that out there will still be lost and under developed.To sum it all up the discussion was closed with strong words that said that "There was a fight for independence,now there is a fight for economy,the next will be the fight for language".

Miracle on Sunday

There are a lot of ways in which the police find out information in-order to close a case or find out about any crime.The traditional way of finding out information in the neighborhood was through snitches,tip off's,grapevine,gossip,investigation to name but a few.The most important thing about incriminating evidence is that it has to be reliable or from the horses mouth through a testimony.
This then comes to the unveiling of the new way to find out information which is from a church testimony.In Old Cannan,Highfield on Sunday the 6th of May an older woman went to the pulpit to tell the whole church what the good Lord had done for her (name of church and woman withheld).She said the local Water Supply Council Authority  had visited her homestead and they had shut down her water supply leaving her residence dry of water because of failing to pay up her bills at time.She said that she knelt down to pray and after a good few minutes of prayer a miracle happened,water abruptly started gushing out the water-tapes.Once again the good Lord had provided for the needy,the thirsty had been parched of their thirst.In the meanwhile in the congregation there was a council officer who works for the local Water Supply Council Authority (name withheld) who then felt the urge to investigate this miracle and he did that the first thing on the following Monday morning.When he reached the miracle scene,he figured out that the miracle did not happen the way it was said to have.He figured out that it was the hand of the lady that had miraculously took a pinchers and miraculously un-tightened the tapes that the Council had  tightened and then there we have our miracle.This meant that the lady had illegally re-opened her water supply.By  this act she had to be detained into police custody to wait for further trial and lawful action. 
Why did she even turn it into a testimony?    

Zimbabwe Daily News Conference Meeting

On the 2nd of March 2012 Daily News hosted a conference that invited high profile political guests.The notable guests who were also speakers were Dr Simba Makoni who is the Mavambo project president (political party),Mr Goodson Nguni Zanu PF activist (political RULING party),Prof John Makumbe who is a political analyst turned MDC supporter (political party) and Prof Lovemore Madhuku who is a political analyst.
The topic of the conference was Media Freedom,Democracy and Development and each of the guest speakers were expected to  say what they thought of the media in Zimbabwe.First up on the panel was Dr Simba Makoni and he said that freedom and development is a state of mind and one has to be developed and free in mind for one to be actually free.He said that the development of a country  is also the development of media meaning the development of the media is also the development of a country.He said that there are many laws that are hindering the progress of media such as Aippa (Access to information privacy act) and for one to understand media in Zimbabwe one has to understand law first.He also said that it is a pity that here in Zimbabwe we have had 32yrs of independence but the laws that are operating in Zimbabwe are were formed in Rhodesia by minority rule.I give Dr Simba Makoni credit for this presentation because it was on point and no addition or subtractions were needed.
Mr Goodson Nguni then followed and though his speach was not that long he brought up very interesting points.He said that the media always has to have two sides of the story and not rely on only one side of the story.He brought up many political scandals that involve the Prime Minister and he said that media has to expose all those scandals.He said that a lot of facts are not being said in the media yet they have to be addressed.He said that the media has to first investigate on any news before feeding people ill-information.Though  Mr Goodson Nguni's presentation started well he did not say anything that was on the agenda.It seemed as if he had his own agenda to address.
Prof John Makumbe then followed and he said that the role of the media is to expose Tyranny and dictatorship.He said that the media has to express the people's demands  and when there is a bad situation the media's job is to show the people that there is an ulternative for all the suffering.Analysing his speech also one can come to the conclusion that he did not even address the agenda but had his own agenda to address.He was very emotional and it seemed as if he was trying to use the podium to address a certain person and not the agenda.(i used to like him when he was still an analyst).
Prof Lovemore Madhuku was the last speaker and he was very on point and he was trying not to be political as possible.He said that the Zimbabwean media exegerates its influence by trying to brainwash people.He said that media is a platform of expression and freedom and the media should not take basis on political parties but on political views.
After all has been said and done,all these political figures and analysts can never agree but they agreed on one thing and that is the media in Zimbabwe is not free,democratic and developed.