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BY PHilliP CHiDAvAenZi

Knives are out for Zanu PF secretary for admin-istration and Presiden-tial Affairs minister, Didymus Mutasa amid

reports that there is a plot to dis-lodge him from his position at the forthcoming December congress.

Sources said as Zanu PF fac-tional fights worsened ahead of the congress, Mutasa was largely being portrayed as a divisive and ineffective leader to dampen his chances of winning the position of national chairman or to get re-appointed by President Robert Mugabe as a member of the polit-buro.

Mutasa was on Friday alleged-ly booed and denounced at First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s rally in Mu-tare by Zanu PF youths bussed from Harare, resulting in near ugly clashes with youths from Manicaland.

A senior Zanu PF official said Mutasa, who is also the acting party finance boss, has been on the receiving end since August when Mugabe accused him and other bigwigs of failing to organ-ise the chaotic Women and Youth League conferences where dele-gates allegedly starved and had no transport.

“Mutasa was the workhorse in the [Vice-President Joice] Muju-ru faction. He has openly support-ed Mujuru’s ascendancy to the Presidency while dismissing the chances of [Justice minister, Em-merson] Mnangagwa rising to the top,” he said.

“Mutasa is now at his weakest point in Zanu PF politics because of the recent attacks and the en-

trance of the First Lady into pol-itics. There is now a serious lob-bying that he be replaced as secre-tary for administration at the con-gress in December.”

In April, Mutasa reportedly said Zanu PF officials trying to torpedo Mujuru in the race to suc-ceed Mugabe were literally day-dreaming.

Another Zanu PF official said the way Mutasa was treated at Grace’s rally by rowdy youths from Harare in his own strong-hold of Mutare was meant to em-barrass him in front of people who thought he was untouchable.

Mutasa is considered the “god-father” of Manicaland.

“Mutasa is unlikely to land the chairmanship post because of the Zapu factor. But neither is he like-ly to retain his position because there is serious lobbying that it ei-ther goes to Mnangagwa or Oppah Muchinguri, who relinquished her post in favour of the First Lady,” said the Zanu PF source.

But Harare Youth League Chairperson Godwin Gomwe who was fingered in the denigration of Mutasa told The Standard that the skirmishes that occurred in Mu-tare were unfortunate.

He said as youths, they still had respect for the party leadership in all the country’s provinces.

“What happened in Mutare was not an issue...We heard some youths calling out against Cde Mutasa but we respect him as a Politburo member appointed by the President. He is not a youth member so we have no say in whether or not he remains in the party’s leadership,” said Gomwe.

He also disputed claims that he hired bouncers to openly boo and

denounce Mutasa and Manica-land provincial chairman Ambas-sador John Mvundura.

Zanu PF deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs Kudzai Chipanga, who is reportedly linked to Mu-tasa and the Mujuru faction, said as the national youth leadership, they did not condone violence and indiscipline and encouraged their membership to respect the party hierarchy.

Mutasa yesterday refused to speak on the booing incident. But party spokesperson Rugare Gum-bo said he was yet to get a full re-port on the incident.

He said he would issue a state-ment once he had been fully ap-praised on what transpired.

“I haven’t gotten the full report from our Manicaland office, so I will wait for Collen Mutasa, the

head in the area, for a briefing, after which I will issue a state-ment,” said Gumbo.

Mutasa was reportedly heckled by the youths from Harare in a de-velopment that torched a fracas as youth from Manicaland led by provincial secretary for adminis-tration in the Youth League Shei-la Mutsenhu accused their Hara-re counterparts of insulting their “provincial godfather”.

Mutasa, who used to hold sway in the party’s structures in Man-icaland, has been slowly losing grip on the province. Last year several provincial bigwigs led by then Justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa and Muchinguri re-portedly wrote a petition accusing Mutasa of dictatorship and divid-ing the province. He denied the ac-cusations.

Justice minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa

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AN investigation by the Anti-Cor-ruption Trust (ACT) of Southern Africa has revealed that millions of dollars in potential revenue is being lost due to corruption by City of Kwekwe (CoK) officials and some unscrupulous police officers.

The investigation whose find-ings were presented to Kwekwe town clerk and ZRP officer com-manding Kwekwe district recent-ly, warned that corruption threat-ened the survival of Small and Me-dium Enterprises (SMEs) in Kwek-we and Redcliff.

Kwekwe mayor, Matenda Mad-zoke, who recently refused to ride in the gravy train by rejecting a top- of-the-range council vehicle among other luxuries, could not be reached for comment over the ex-plosive report.

ACT-Southern Africa alleged that unscrupulous ZRP and coun-cil officers were demanding bribes from motorists, shop owners and vendors.

The report said this damaged the trust between the people and the police and undermined the gov-ernment’s revenue collection ef-forts, cultivated impunity and ce-mented a culture of corruption.

“Many people consulted were bothered on who will be left to fight corruption when the law enforce-ment agents responsible for fight-ing it are also corrupt? Who shall

guard the guard?,” reads the re-port.

“This finding suggests a jaun-diced view of the police being ret-rogressive and reversing all the gains made towards economic em-powerment of the previously mar-ginalised Zimbabweans. These culprits who are enriching them-selves under the guise of maintain-ing law and order must surely be brought to book.”

ACT-Southern Africa said the investigation revealed that police could be pocketing a minimum of US$780 187 per annum from a sam-ple of 285 commuter omnibuses in Kwekwe and Redcliff alone.

In the same instance, treasury could be losing a minimum of US$2 million per year from 285 commut-er omnibuses.

“This excludes all the bribe mon-ey received by the police to allow Redcliff-bound commuter omni-buses to pick and drop passengers in the Central Business District,” said ACT-Southern Africa.

“It is this report’s considered opinion that urgent corrective ac-tion should be taken in order to rescue the situation. If US$2 mil-lion is being lost per annum in small cities such as Kwekwe and Redcliff, the loss being made coun-try-wide is huge.”

ACT-Southern Africa said the assessment picked serious gaps in the monitoring of ZRP traffic po-lice officers while on duty. It said

culprits took advantage of the lack of monitoring to exploit many op-portunities at their disposal to hide acts and proceeds of corruption.

“Police officers from the ZRP drive and park their own person-al vehicles at checkpoints. In Red-cliff and at ZimBeef or Carswell turn-off two police officers from ZRP were seen staging a check-point on their own,” said the re-port.

It said the controversial issue of spot-fines forced people to admit guilt when they were not to avoid being inconvenienced.

“The CoK police are paid mon-ey by shop owners operating with-out licences and vendors operating from undesignated points to allow them to continue operating hassle-free,” the report alleged.

“At some outlets selling food, liq-uor and beverages, these unprinci-pled CoK police officers enjoy free drinks and food.”

The report said SMEs that re-fused to pay bribes were often pun-

ished through a spate of exorbitant fines as had been demonstrated through two cases that were high-lighted.

In the first case, the CoK po-lice impounded a commuter om-nibus and only released it upon payment of US$270. In anoth-er case, the CoK refused and/or neglected issuing a shop licence in violation of the Shop Licenc-es Act, Chapter 14:17, which gave the City Police an opportunity to milk the SME of its hard-earned income.

“Many SMEs have been muscled out of business through the con-duct of the CoK,” said the investi-gation.

“More shocking is the fact that proceeds of corruption are being used for personal enrichment and the research team was hinted on massive accumulation of wealth by ZRP police officers who drive posh private motor vehicles, commuter omnibuses of their own, and other forms of wealth such as houses”.

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‘Mujuru ouster no answer to factionalism’

Local News4 The Standard October 12 to 18 2014

by PHILLIP CHIDAVAENZI

A possible elevation of First Lady Grace Mugabe or Oppah Muchinguri as the new vice-President at the forthcoming Zanu PF con-

gress will not decimate a faction linked to VP Joice Mujuru, nor resolve the deep-seated fights in the ruling party, analysts have warned.

Mujuru a few months ago ap-peared to have all but cleared most of the hurdles on her way to an eventual succession of Presi-

dent Robert Mugabe.Her faction trounced the rival

faction linked to Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa during last year’s provincial elections and its members dominated the powerful Zanu PF policy-making body, the politburo.

But the entrance of First Lady in the political arena has seen Mujuru’s star waning and she is no longer the unchallenged most senior woman leader in the coun-try.

Mujuru, who denies leading any faction, has increasingly come

under pressure and her group ap-pears to be in disarray with some of the key members increasingly under attack or on the defensive. These include the likes of Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa who was on Fri-day challenged in his own strong-hold in Mutare by youths bussed from Harare who allegedly booed and denounced him.

Zanu PF Mashonaland West chairman, Temba Mliswa, a strong backer of Mujuru was last week “suspended” in a vote of no confidence following weeks of clashes among the provincial ex-

ecutive members. The ruling par-ty’s chairman in Harare, Amos Midzi has also been on the de-fensive after reports that his pro-vincial executive was opposed to Grace’s political rise as Zanu PF Women’s League boss.

Former Reserve Bank of Zim-babwe governor Gideon Gono was blocked from becoming a senator in Manicaland after the Zimba-bwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) ruled that he was not registered in the province. The faction linked to Mnangagwa, which Information minister Jonathan Moyo was asso-ciated with, has also been given an edge through unrestrained access to the State media, which of late has been in overdrive in its cover-age of Grace’s whirlwind tour.

President Mugabe slammed members of the Mujuru faction in the wake of the Zanu PF women’s and youth conferences held in Au-gust where they were accused of vote-buying and failure to organ-ise the two events.

But the First Lady’s appearance in the political arena, reportedly en-gineered by the shrewd Mnangag-wa, seems to have thrown the most spanners into Mujuru’s works.

Mujuru herself is coming un-der veiled attacks from Grace in her speeches.

But analysts said while Muj-uru appeared to be on the back foot as Grace was the lady of the moment, it was unlikely that the VP’s grouping would be complete-ly decimated.

They said there were chanc-es that Mujuru’s faction would bounce back after the party’s De-cember elective congress.

University of Zimbabwe politi-cal scientist Eldred Masunungure told The Standard yesterday that it was too early to dismiss Mujuru as the battle had just begun.

He said the fact that President Mugabe had not publicly laid out the stature of his preferred candi-date meant the two factions would keep contending for the party’s leadership in a fierce tug-of-war.

Although the Mujuru faction did not have access to the media, unlike the Mnangagwa camp, they were not going to take the blows lying down, he said, and suggested that they were likely to spring a surprise at congress.

Masunungure said chances were high that the congress was not going to resolve the deep-running factionalism and only Mugabe had the key to unlock the political logjam.

“I don’t think that these are just pre-congress dynamics. The el-evation of Mnangagwa, Oppah Muchinguri or the First Lady to the position of Vice-President will not resolve the issue. It will

actually deepen the conflicts,” he said.

“It is wishful thinking to say the Mujuru faction will be deci-mated because the President him-self has not made it clear and not named publicly whom he wants to succeed him. People have not been given the chance to freely elect in good faith the candidate they want to succeed him.”

Masunungure said while Presi-dent Mugabe may not necessarily pinpoint whom he wants to take over from him, he could set out the profile of the ideal candidate.

He said since the Women’s As-sembly had already nominated Mugabe as their preferred candi-date, it was up to him to withdraw from the race.

Political commentator God-win Phiri however said the Mu-juru faction was in a tight spot as the First Lady has increasing-ly emerged as the “kingmaker” in the succession politics and who-ever desired to be in contention for the throne had to be in her good graces.

“The Mujuru faction will have to engage the First Lady but I don’t see that happening,” he said. “With the way things are happen-ing now, the camp that is on the road is the Muchinguri (Mnan-gagwa) camp. It is clear that the First Lady is in charge now.”

Grace, however, has publicly an-nounced her ambition to occupy a higher office following her nomi-nation to lead the Zanu PF Wom-en’s League.

She said she had been learning the ropes in President Mugabe’s shadow for many years.

“You would see me quiet, a young girl, what did you think I was doing? I was learning… I am seeing a higher post. If you are not serious, women will take over the party,” she told party support-ers during her tour.

It is clear that she is being sponsored by outgoing Women’s League boss Oppah Muchinguri and some senior officials linked to the Mnangagwa faction.

The First Lady has been increas-ingly flexing her muscle, tear-ing into politicians believed to be aligned to the Mujuru faction.

Political analyst Ibbo Mandaza however said the dynamics play-ing out in Zanu PF were much broader and deeper than just fac-tional fights, but the Mnangagwa faction would face an uphill strug-gle in trying to upstage her.

“Things are much more com-plex and dynamic, and I don’t see it in terms of factions,” he said. “By virtue of her position as Vice-President, Mujuru has a constitu-tional advantage, so how do you stop her?”

‘The Mujuru faction will have to engage the First Lady, but I don’t see that happening’

Vice-President Joice Mujuru

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The United Nations Country Team Message 12 October 2014

On the Occasion of International Days of the Girl Child and Rural Women With the adoption of a people centred Constitution last year, Zimbabwe started a new chapter in its commitment towards gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, with obligations to ensure that women and girls fully access their rights, entitlements and opportunities as citizens. As the world celebrates the International Days of the Girl Child and of Rural Women, Zimbabwe has a cause to celebrate. The Constitution has provided for an increased representation of women in the parliament from 18% to 35% - above the global average of 21%. It has also provided for the establishment of a Gender Commission to advocate for a better future for all the women and girls whose aspirations remain to be fulfilled.

The empowerment of girls and rural women is a national priority which the United Nations fully supports. In line with the principle and strategic goal of empowerment, the UN has supported: the Constitution making process; the development of a national Gender Based Violence Strategy; as well as advocacy for and provision of quality social services, including maternal health, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV & AIDS services.

However, there remains a cause for concern that calls for intensifying collaboration. Available data shows that rural women in Zimbabwe still carry the heaviest of burdens. According to the 2012 Census national report, 67% of the country’s population live in the rural areas, and approximately 52% of this rural population are women. These women and girls often have limited access to social services, economic opportunities, as well as information and decision-making platforms.

Rural women continue to provide the backbone for agriculture. The latest Agriculture and Livestock Survey shows that the majority of women land owners (45.2%) are in the communal sector. Nonetheless, the communal land sector cannot increase women’s access to economic opportunities as women often have secondary land use rights through their husbands.

Poverty, discrimination, entrenched social norms, values and attitudes are all co-conspirators in the disempowerment of girls, young women and women living in the rural areas. Everyone has to take a stand, if we are to knock down these challenges that render girls and women “victims” rather than as “co-drivers” of the nation’s political, economic and social transformation.

In this regard, the Government has set clear targets to be reached by 2020, in the Girls and Young Women’s Empowerment Framework. This Framework aims to achieve, among others, an increase in the percentage of girls and young women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services; an increase in the percentage of girls’ participation in decision making processes; achieve parity in all levels of education; and an increase in the rate of reporting incidents of violence against girls from 3% to 50% by 2020.

Success will depend on resolutely implementing this Empowerment Framework. It will equally depend on all of us, saying “Yes” to more education, comprehensive health services, access to resources and equal opportunities for women and girls, and on our increasing the volume on saying “No” to early marriages, early pregnancies, to all forms of violence, and to the general social acceptance of women and girls being left behind. For further information, please visit: www.zw.one.un.org; Twitter: twitter.com/UNZimbabwe; & Facebook Page: facebook.com/UnitedNationsZimbabwe

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Temba Mliswa says he is still the Chairman of the Zanu PF Masho-naland West province.

Mliswa told The Standard yes-terday the petition of a vote of no

confidence purportedly signed by the pro-vincial executive committee was not au-thentic.

Party spokesperson Rugare Gumbo also dismissed Mliswa’s ouster, arguing that the politburo had not reversed its decision on a moratorium on the suspension of party leaders until after the Zanu PF’s December congress.

Mashonaland West provincial secretary for administration Kindness Paradza was also targeted in the vote of no confidence.

“When you are in my position, you defi-nitely make a lot of enemies. It’s no secret that a lot of politburo members don’t like me, I guess I will never be forgiven for call-ing [name withheld] and crew gay gang-sters,” he said.

“We cannot have a situation where some members who don’t like me abuse the polit-buro to give themselves leverage over me, the party has a constitution.”

Mliswa’s remarks come in the wake of the deep factional fights that have rocked Zanu PF ahead of the December elective congress.

“What is the use of a petition? It is only there to address issues of concern and not to remove someone from office, it shows just how naïve they are,” he said.

“There are quite a number of party mem-bers in the province who said they did not sign the petition, how authentic then is the paper?”

Mliswa said it was incumbent upon Zanu PF members to respect people who would have been elected.

“It’s like a church with a priest who pass-es the word; congregants must also be will-ing to repent. How do you prove that I be-long to the Mujuru faction? Is she the Vice President of a faction or the nation?” asked Mliswa.

“She was elected at congress, we have to go with what the people say. [Emmerson] Mnangagwa is my cousin. Who wouldn’t want their cousin to be in the top echelons of power, but the will of the people will pre-vail and be respected.”

Mliswa said all the accusations and coun-ter accusations were all about congress.

“When it’s done, it’s back to business. Some of us are already working. I can’t sac-rifice my relationship with my uncle [Didy-mus Mutasa] over politics, I would be more than happy to forego my position to main-tain my relationship with my uncle,” he said.

“The key message to fellow politicians

I am still in charge: Mliswais don’t grab positions, because politically that creates tension with people who voted for that person.”

Mliswa said some Zanu PF leaders beat-en at elections have tried to provoke him but he maintained his cool.

He threw his weight behind First Lady Grace Mugabe as the new leader of the Women’s league describing her as a vi-brant, hardworking and honest person. Mliswa said he was not worried about the way the state media potrayed him.

“There is nothing like bad publicity, pub-licity is publicity. As long as you get my name right,” he said with regard to media reports about him.

“They can now write about the dogs and cats that I have,” he said.

Meanwhile, Paradza said the meeting that purported to topple him was unsanc-tioned and unconstitutional.

Paradza on Friday said the resolutions

made thereupon were null and void.He said Article 12:97 and 12:97 (1) of the

Zanu PF constitution stated that Provin-cial Executive Committee meetings were to be called for and presided over by the provincial chairman as the head of the political and administration department for the province. Alternatively, a meeting could be called for by request through the office of the secretary for administration to allow for fair notice, consultation and procedure.

Furthermore, Paradza said all corre-spondence came through his office but un-fortunately he learnt of the no confidence vote through the media.

Paradza said the “ghost” petition was wrought with deception and open to doubt as it comprised a list of largely fraudulent signatures.

“What boggles the mind is the false state-ments being disseminated concerning this

fraudulent grouping. The only attempts at this unconstitutional convention were made in Banket and Chinhoyi,” he said.

Temba Mliswa

YAOunDé — Cameroon’s president has said that 27 hostages, including 10 Chinese workers, held by suspected Boko Haram militants have been released.

Also freed was the wife of Cameroon’s Vice-Prime Minister Amadou Ali.

President Paul Biya said that the hostag-es, seized in May and July close to the nige-ria border, were safe.

Boko Haram is seeking to establish an Is-lamist state in nigeria but its fighters often cross the long and porous border with Cam-eroon.

Many nigerian civilians in border towns have fled to Cameroon to escape Boko Har-am attacks, which have been stepped up in recent months.

In July, Cameroon, nigeria, Chad and ni-ger agreed to form a 2 800-strong regional force to tackle Boko Haram militants.

Cameroon has reinforced its troops in its northern regions.

President Biya said in a statement on state radio: “The 27 hostages kidnapped on May 16 2014, at Waza and on July 27 2014, at Kolofata were given this night to Cameroo-nian authorities”. —BBC

Boko Haram hostages released in Cameroon

‘Grace roped in to stop Mujuru’Local News6 The Standard October 12 to 18 2014

By TaTenda ChiTagu

MASVINGO — Outgoing Zanu PF Women’s League chair-person, Oppah Muchinguri has revealed that First Lady Grace Mugabe’s ascendency

was a well thought-out and calculated plot to stop political rivals from gaining ground in the gruelling succession race in the rul-ing party.

Muchinguri all but confirmed specula-tion that Grace was nominated to be the Women’s League boss to scuttle Vice-Presi-dent Joice Mujuru’s presidential bid.

Speaking at Mucheke Stadium on Thurs-day where Grace addressed thousands as part of her “Thank You” rallies, Muchin-guri said it was not by accident that she quit her powerful post.

“Takakutambai tingoringo. Tikati Mai

Mugabe endaiko, isai ma brake pasuccession. Anenge abata moto anotsva,” [We devised a game plan for you. We sent Mai Mugabe to apply brakes to the succession. If you play with fire, you will get burnt] she said, in ap-parent reference to Mujuru’s faction.

Though she publicly denies leading a fac-tion, it is an open secret that there is a tus-sle between Mujuru and Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa’s factions. The fac-tions are trying to strategically position themselves for an eventual takeover in the event that Mugabe leaves office.

Muchinguri accused political rivals in the party of being hypocritical.

“Some people in the party lie that they want the President. We realised that struc-tures were being tampered with. We were slapped with sanctions, yet some people are busy plotting against Mugabe,” she said.

“Look yourself in the mirror, do not think

you can succeed Mugabe and take his seat. Never!”

Muchinguri also threatened to name and shame bigwigs who were allegedly plotting against Mugabe.

As if to confirm Muchinguri’s statement, Mnangagwa, who was at the rally, empha-sised in a slogan the need not only to sup-port Mugabe, but his wife as well.

“Pamberi na VaMugabe, namai vacho” he said twice with emphasis, to an applause from the crowd.

Grace also confirmed that she was now aiming for the Presidency while making a thinly veiled attack on officials still sup-porting Mujuru.

“If you harden your head, what if the per-son you are fighting for loses? What will you do? Where will you go? When it ends, some people will suffer strokes,” she said.

The First Lady threatened unspecified Zanu PF officials, warning they should not “play with fire lest they got burnt.”

“You only realise after something has be-fallen you and others say you brought this upon yourself,” she said.

Grace saved her strident attack for those angling to succeed her husband.

“Most people were being spoon-fed by my husband. He worked for them, yet to-day you hear them saying they want to rule the country. Are you able to rule? Leave us alone, you are revolting, you are not able to rule the country.”

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Guilt verdict for Mugabe lobbyistA lobbyist broke the law when he tried to use black Chicago politicians to end US sanctions against President Robert Mugabe, a federal jury decided Friday.

But it was apparently a close decision — jurors cleared C Gregory Turner of two other related counts of failing to register as a lobbyist.

It took them nearly three days of negoti-ating to break a deadlock on the final count before reaching a verdict that means Turn-er could face up to 20 years behind bars.

Turner, a 72-year-old former South Sider, was illegally working to end sanc-tions against Mugabe’s controversial rul-ing elite when he attempted to use poli-ticians, including US Rep. Danny Davis, to open up a back channel to President Barack Obama in 2008, the jury decided.

He showed little reaction to the verdict, but his attorney Michael Leonard put his arm on Turner’s back in a show of support.

Leonard later called the verdict “shock-ing” and a “disappointment,” adding that the long deliberations at the end of a two week-long trial showed the verdict was “razor thin.”

Turner had returned to Chicago from his home in Israel to stand trial, which in-itially promised to offer a major political sideshow. His lawyers attempted to de-pose Mugabe as a witness when he visit-ed New York late last month. And Leon-ard and his co-counsel James Tunick also made allegations of corruption against former US Senator Roland Burris and State Senator Donne Trotter.

But the expected high drama fizzled af-ter prosecutors dropped plans to call Bur-ris as a witness, and Turner’s lawyers later withdrew their allegations against Trotter, saying they had “no good faith basis” for them.

Instead, evidence in the case focused on hundreds of emails and phone calls be-tween Turner, Zimbabwean officials and the offices of Chicago politicians.

Mugabe’s regime — accused of us-ing political violence and vote-rigging to maintain power — had been the target of US sanctions for seven years. Turner and his co-defendant, Prince Asiel Ben Israel, in 2008 saw an opportunity to cash in on Obama’s election by lobbying on behalf of the Zimbabwean government, Assis-tant US Attorneys Barry Jonas and Geor-gia Alexakis told jurors during the trial. — Chicago Sun Times

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COurier service providers have called on the Postal and Telecom-munications regulatory Authori-ty of Zimbabwe (Potraz) to engage the police and Vehicle inspection Department to find a lasting solu-tion to delays caused at roadblocks which are negatively affecting business efficiency in their “time-sensitive” operations.

Speaking at World Postal Day com-memorations in Kadoma last week, commercial couriers representative, Desmond Mucheche said the sector faced numerous challenges, notably bottlenecks caused by third parties, chiefly the police and ViD officials.

“in our industry we occasionally face some challenges that affect our time-sensitive operations. Timeous delivery is out of the hands of the courier companies and delays are caused by third parties,” said Mu-cheche, who is Swift’s key account manager.

“it is in cases like these where the governing body, Potraz, can assist with various issues at hand, name-ly roadblocks, spot fines and ViD checks, to mention a few. Policing is important and companies do feel safer on the roads because of the po-lice presence, but they can cause pre-cious time delays.”

Speaking at the same event, Pres-idential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa (pictured) said government

was committed to promulgating and implementing legislation to level the playing field in the postal and couri-er sector.

Mutasa presented prizes to nation-al winners of the universal Postal union (uPu) 43rd edition interna-tional Letter Writing competition 2014.

ebenezer Pamaso of Amaveni High School in Kwekwe, Donald Top-ersu of St Patrick’s and Morebless-ing Katare of ZrP Tomlison came first, second and third respectively in the competition and walked away with cash prizes, shields and library materials for their schools.

The uPu, a specialised united Na-tions agency responsible for coordi-nating postal development activities worldwide, initiated the competition in 1971 which is open to pupils under 15 years to create an awareness of the existence of postal and courier services and foster friendship.

Couriers cry foul over police roadblocks

BY VeneRAndA LAnGA

GOVerNMeNT has been urged to make public, information on mining contracts it signed with several investors to remove speculation that some minerals are being signed off for a song.

Zimbabwe has over the years signed several multi-million dol-lar mining contracts with for-eign investors. The latest deal saw the country last month sign-ing a uS$3 billion platinum deal with russia amid reports that a secret arms deal was behind the arrangement.

The uS$750 million essar deal for the takeover of Ziscosteel was also mired in controversy amid squabbles between the partners over ownership of min-eral claims. The government this year eventually agreed to transfer 80% of the rights to in-dia’s essar, but operations at the now christened Newzimsteel are still to commence.

Zimbabwe environmental Law Association (Zela) director Mutuso Dhliwayo told members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and ener-gy recently that the Mines and Minerals Act should make pro-vision for access to information on contracts negotiated by gov-

ernment. “if information on mining

contracts negotiation is made public, people can actually help government with suggestions as they negotiate, and it is in line with the new constitution where access to information is very critical,” said Dhliwayo.

“Communities should also be given a chance to speak when contracts are negotiated and there is need for disclosure of ownership so that people know who the real beneficiaries are.”

Glen View North MP Fani Munengami (MDC-T) said gov-ernment had entered into bad contracts favouring multina-tional companies because of lack of information in terms of how much mineral resources the country had.

Another Zela director Sham-iso Mtisi said mining contracts entered into should clearly spell out the social responsibility pro-grammes and community obli-gations of investors, as well as employment opportunities for Zimbabweans.

“Some contracts may favour a foreign investor or nation in that they may provide for the pro-curement of certain goods and services from the country where the foreign investor comes from,

or where the financing institu-tion is resident,” he said.

“There is need for consulta-tion of local communities by mining companies prior to the contract.”

Mtisi said mining contracts required social impact assess-ments and action plans to ad-dress potential impact of min-ing operations, displacements, land rights and customs, provi-sion of housing, health facili-ties, sanitation and payment of compensation for any damage to crops, buildings and trees, as well as measures to conserve the environment.

‘Make information public on mining contracts’

Mines and Mining Development minister Walter Chidhakwa

Greenfuel poisoning environment: EMALocal News8 The Standard October 12 to 18 2014

By VENERANDA LANGA

Greenfuel is fighting off allegations that its Chisumbanje ethanol plant is threatening human, animal and

aquatic life due to heavy pollution of water sources.

environmental Management Agency (eMA) director general Mutsa Chasi about two weeks ago appeared before the Parliamenta-ry Portfolio Committee on Youth, Indigenisation and economic De-velopment saying the ethanol manufacturer was releasing toxic ethanol effluent into water sourc-es.

He said that the plant was op-erating illegally without an en-vironmental Impact Assessment certificate.

Chasi said land, human, ani-mal and aquatic life were severe-ly threatened to the extent that in 30 years’ time there would be to-tal extinction of plants and fish in the affected areas.

The Parliamentary Portfolio committee directed eMA to shut down Greenfuel or issue them with uS$5 000 daily fines for envi-ronmental breaches.

But, spokesperson for the eth-anol manufacturing company nicole Mollet, said Greenfuel had satisfied all requirements for an eIA certificate. She said the plant was unhappy with the hefty charges eMA required for the cer-tificate.

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“We would be happy to show you our licences and relevant in-voices issued by eMA to prove that the allegations that we are noncompliant are unfounded,” Mollet said.

“At the commencement of the project and in line with the legis-lative requirements of the envi-ronmental Management Act 20:27, Greenfuel approached the envi-ronmental Management Agen-

cy [eMA] for guidance towards fulfilling the requirements of an environmental Impact Assess-ment.”

She said the full environmen-tal Impact Assessment report was submitted to eMA on febru-ary 4 2011 and, in line with sec-tion 100(1) of the Act; the Direc-tor General of eMA had 60 days to consider the report and reach a decision.

“But eMA failed to respond and therefore the project was deemed approved in line with the Act,” Mollet said.

She said when working on their eIA plan, Greenfuel did extensive stakeholder consultative process-es at Middle Sabi and Chisumban-je aimed at exhaustively address-ing community concerns and the environmental and socio econom-ic impact of the project.

“The project and its environ-mental impact have therefore been accepted and deemed ap-proved by eMA,” Mollet said.

“However, what currently re-mains outstanding is a certificate which eMA has indicated will be made available at the full pay-ment of uS$866 250 which repre-sents the eIA review fees of 1,5% of the valuation of the project.”

She said Greenfuel and eMA had entered into a payment plan, of which they had already paid over uS$100 000 towards obtain-ing the certificate.

“It is very important to note the discrepancies between the charg-es in Zimbabwe versus elsewhere as they are not justified and rep-resent a huge deterrent to invest-ment into the country,” said Mol-let.

According to figures given by Mollet, eIAs for ethanol pro-jects in countries like Kenya cost uS$27 500, Zambia uS$68 750, Mo-zambique uS$38 500, South Afri-ca uS$1 525, and Botswana only uS$172.

“As a result of the eIA being in place, Greenfuel has been is-sued with all relevant and up to date eMA licences supporting its operations, and these include the effluent disposal, waste manage-ment and emissions licences,” she said.

But, Chasi told the committee that Greenfuel had failed to pur-

chase a bio-digester to control the highly acidic effluent they dis-charged into water sources say-ing they did not have money.

Mollet denied the allegations saying the effluent Green fuel discharged was not toxic.

“There is absolutely no effluent being discharged into any public rivers or waterways in Chisum-banje. The effluent being referred to is called vinasse and is a by-product of the distillation pro-cess,” she said.

“This water does not have any hazardous chemicals in it and is actually an excellent form of fer-tiliser which can be used in ani-mal feed. It is diluted with other irrigation water and used to irri-gate the sugarcane in the estates. nothing goes outside of the estate and a full water quality analysis is done on the diluted water be-fore any irrigation takes place.”

Mollet said the ethanol plant had serious economic benefits for the country as they currently em-ployed over 4 500 people, with a prospect of employing 36 500 Zim-babweans by 2020.

eMA spokesperson Steady Kangata could not give a precise answer as to whether the envi-ronmental regulator had start-ed charging Greenfuel the uS$5 000 daily fees for breach of envi-ronmental laws as ordered by the committee.

“Check with Greenfuel if our Mutare offices have started charg-ing them those daily fees,” he said.

“However, I can confirm that Greenfuel started the process of eIA certification but they did not finish it and we deem them as op-erating illegally to date as they do not have the certificate. It is cheaper for them to pollute than to get an eIA or equipment to re-duce pollutants.”

eMA’s charges for environmen-tal offences range from uS$20 to uS$5 000, and Kangata said peo-ple should now begin to take part in processes of environmental en-forcement to protect their envi-ronment.

“Companies are supposed to self-regulate and people should also monitor if companies are doing the right thing,” Kangata said.

Greenfuel plant in Chisumbanje . . . the company has been operating without an Environmental Impact Assessment certificate

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Mini-skirt march: A wasted opportunity

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FIRST LADY Grace Mugabe has undoubtedly been Zimba-bwe’s newsmaker over the past few weeks.

After being nominated Secretary for Zanu PF Women’s League, Grace has embarked on the so-called “Thank You” rallies where she is tearing apart her political opponents and projecting herself as the all-powerful Queen Mother who will conquer Zanu PF factionalism.

While it is her democratic right to tout herself as the moth-er of the nation, what is alarming is the way she has taken over ZBC TV’s bulletins.

Grace has become such a dominant figure on national tel-evision and radio, that her speeches are being replayed as if they are coming from some deity.

Over the past week, the ZBC TV has broadcast her long speeches without restraint during the main 8pm bulletin. When the bulletin ends at 9pm, the station runs special footage of her entire rallies in what amounts to an over-kill.

Morning bulletins are not spared. Stories about the First Lady’s Mutare rally took an entire 14 minutes of yesterday’s 7am news.

It’s difficult to understand why ZBC thinks that Zimbabwe-ans deserve to be watching Grace all the time on a station that is supposed to be serving the needs of diverse people with different political beliefs.

The way the public broadcaster has prioritised cover-age on Grace above everything else, proves to all and sun-dry that ZBC is being abused by officials championing the narrow interests of President Robert Mugabe and his family.

The station is being used to prop up Grace’s image ahead of the December congress as a potential succes-sor to President Mugabe. Other leaders who include Vice-President Joice Mujuru are being maligned left, right and centre without being given an opportunity to reply. It is really a shame that the state broadcaster, which sur-vives on public funds, is now a willing tool used to fight Zanu PF succession wars.

My entire adulthood was spent in and around Ha-rare (Salisbury) and what

I remember most are the old city council drinking holes (beer halls). I remember them with nos-talgia because most urban dwell-ers were affected by them wheth-er they were imbibers or not.

The city council beer halls were not only beer outlets, but they played many roles which affected the majority of us as we grew older. The beer halls were places where adults met for drinking sessions, they were also recreation centres where differ-ent people from different coun-tries in Africa met for tradition-al dance competitions. Beer halls also played the role of schools because in some places where there were no schools, beer halls became learning centres in the morning before transforming themselves into drinking places

for parents in the afternoons and evenings. Cinema shows were first held in beer halls before rec-reation halls were built for us by the city councils.

Beer halls were centres of hu-man transactions. Most African burial societies were formed and held their meetings in beer halls. Many current friendships, even marriages, were born in beer halls. The profits from the city council beer halls were ploughed back into communities where they were used by the city fathers to build schools, clinics, recrea-tion halls, sporting facilities, etc. Many jobs were created by the ex-istence of beer halls.

Initially, finances from beer out-lets and the organisation of the facilities countrywide were pro-fessionally managed. However, all these collapsed with city councils officials misappropriating funds and misusing the beer halls for

selfish reasons. Today, most beer halls around the country have been turned into dubious busi-ness enterprises.

My plea to Zimbabwe is to rein-state all the city council beer halls for the benefit of the people of this country. Let us have our old beer halls back so that the spir-it of togetherness is rekindled. There are millions of Zimbabwe-ans out there who remember the old city council beer halls but there have been numerous beer outlets all over the country and mine compound beer halls. All played an important role in the development of societies in our country.

May Delta Corporation help in the re-establishment and the run-ning of all beer halls since they have the experience and are a major stakeholder in the beverages busi-ness?

Mhlanga

Zimbabwe became independ-ent because Zanu PF broke away from Zapu. A tru-

ly new party should be formed from tired MDC to fight shifty Zanu PF. The millions of jobless school leavers will never have hope of being meaningfully em-ployed until they fight their own revolution. Economically satis-fied opposition parties will nev-er fight for them. We as young-sters, decades ago rose up and fought colonial rule until inde-

pendence. A new Zimbabwe will not be given to the youths on a silver platter because the cur-rent rulers have a lot to lose, so they will not willingly let go the reins of power.

The MDC has now lost the will to win the country for the masses because it is now badly infiltrated by enemies who are bent on weak-ening the party. Unless the MDC awakens from its inertia, Zimba-bwe is doomed forever.

KF

Youths need to initiate change

Patrons enjoy a game of pool. (file picture)

I read about the mini-skirt march in The Standard last week. It was not a surprise that it turned out

to be a big yawn and a huge disap-pointment even for the touts them-selves, the target of the march. Who worries about skimpy dress-ing when we are so pressed with day-to day challenges?

Most people are worried about where their next meal will come

from. Women are taking laundry to Mukuvisi river for lack of tap water and vending is more rele-vant to our lives than ever as peo-ple chase for the elusive dollar by the day.

Young girls are being raped and flimsy reasons are given by perpe-trators of rape when they stand in the dock. We need to be seri-ous and focus on bread and but-

ter issues. Why not march for im-proved service delivery; for wa-ter, for power or against rape. In Western countries, where they carry out these, they are well-fed. Be careful not to appear as petty when we need real women to ad-dress real issues.

Young women must dress de-cently.

Chikokoko, Jerera

First Lady Grace Mugabe


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l I would like to share some views about the role of a prophet, in response to a letter ti-tled Makandiwa should stick to church mat-

ters (The Standard October 5-11 2014). I am sure the writer of the letter cannot give us the job description of a prophet.

The office of the prophet is bigger than the office of a politician because a prophet is not voted into power. This is not the time to say leave politics to politicians because our every-day lives are governed by politicians and the decisions they make affect everyone, politi-cians or not.

When you read your Bible, you will notice prophets had a strong bearing in the running of the affairs of their countries. In fact, Isra-el was ruled by prophets up to the time they cried that they wanted a king [1 Samuel 8 vs 6]. The Israelites cried out to the Samuel, a prophet, to give them a king. He anointed Saul.

The same prophet anointed David to be the King after Saul had displeased the Lord. Re-member the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal. When Samaria was under siege from Ben-Hadad and the people started eating their own children the king vowed that he was go-ing to behead the Prophet Elisha. Why? The politician realised that without a prophetic word Samaria was going to continue suffer-ing.

In Zimbabwe God has spoken through his servant Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa. He gave you [the prophecy on bloodshed], what he had been given by the Lord. It is up to the people of this country to take heed or to go ahead with the “peaceful demos”.

The writer seems to be disappointed that the prophecy was not in line with what he had in mind. If Makandiwa had said “go ahead and demonstrate against the uncaring govern-ment”, would he have been accused of med-

dling in politics? Makandiwa is just a forerunner with the

message of what will happen when people engage in mass action. Whether Zanu PF tries to take advantage of the prophecy or whether the opposition tries to take advan-tage of the prophecy too is immaterial. The prophet said the seed was right but the tim-ing was not right. David waited for God’s time to take over from Saul even though he had Saul at his mercy many times. Zimba-bweans, why should we die? We have waited for a long time and l believe we can wait a lit-tle longer. Some of these people now agitat-ing for mass action were part of the govern-ment in the not too distant past, but what did they do?

The writer also had the temerity to say the

prophecy was stage-managed. What for? Can you put a price tag to the prophet? How much will you buy him for? What is it that Makandi-wa lacks in life?

What is bad about warning people on the results of mass action? The man of God said on June 17 the event seemed like it could not be pushed back. It was supposed to hap-pen in September but when he spoke again in September the thing had been pushed forward. The prophet saw a disaster and through prayer it was averted. Zimbabwe has two things that the devil does not like; our culture and the peace that is prevailing. They prophesied doom for us but here we are, still a peaceful country which has pre-served its marriage values and they hate us for this.

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A Senior Minister of State in the Presi-dent’s office was reported to have said Zimbabweans are a lazy lot. I beg to dif-fer, local people are among the most ed-ucated and industrious in the region. Communal farmers try, whether rains are good or not, to till the land for their families. The real problem is a lack of leadership. The corruption that he men-tions as being entrenched in this society happens at a different level altogether. It is the big guys who are letting down the majority. The big guys are the ones who took over farms and are farming grass. Instead of lauding the Chinese (who are not good employers locally) and the Cu-bans, why not root out corruption, then we can be a progressive nation?

Piwai, Dotito

I am hoping that soon somebody in the Women’s League or from the First La-dy’s office will find time to write speech-es for Dr Grace Mugabe as she goes on her meet-the-people rallies. Politics is a science and I am not sure the incoming women’s boss has learnt the ropes. In-stead of articulating her vision for wom-en, she speaks on end about baba this, baba that, literaly mourning on his be-half. The President can speak for himself and we all know that.

Observer

IN response to the story Ex-wife exposes Chiwenga (The Standard october 5-11 2014) Themba Nxumalo writes; Jocelyn, why don’t you invite your outfit Heritage Zimbabwe to fight for your cause. If I re-member well, that outfit had influential people as members. Very patriotic Zim-babweans who can resolve your issues. They can also rope in the new-found Herald analyst Dr (Charity) Manyeruke.

Stika comments; She was mean. What goes around comes around.

Sam Chiko reminds us; Jocelyn used to go around terrorising MDC and Daily News people, now she wants sympathy. She actually needs to be on trial for po-litical violence.

Mendeka says: True justice from God Almighty indeed and it makes all of us appreciate the Lord’s hand. This wom-an terrorised people as she claimed she wanted to taste the blood of a white-man when she was usurping a white owned farm. She followed [Morgan] Ts-vangirai as if she wanted to chuck him out of “her own land ” Zimbabwe. How the mighty have met the Almighty God! God shall reign no matter what situa-tions.

guest opinion BY PRINCE MOYO

UFIC founder Emmanuel Makandiwa


Comment & Analysis / Opinion

The Grace Mugabe ‘tsunami’ shakes Zanu PF

SOMEWHERE in the ob-scure annals of Shona folklore is a nugget of ancient wisdom which counsels against behav-

ing like a lunatic who has picked up a whistle. (Usaite sebenzi ra-nhonga pito) The logic is quite simple really. If an insane person acquires a whistle, (that thumb-sized instrument that emits a shrill high-pitched sound when blown) and somehow discovers he can create such a din that is likely to make him the centre of attrac-tion, there is no guessing what he or she will do with it.

The whistle, although designed to make the high-pitched sound, is certainly not your conventional musical instrument. Its uses are ordinarily limited to soccer ref-ereeing and prompting of other sporting activities. Outside these uses, the whistle is deafening and irritating, which is why in the hands of a mad person, it becomes a veritable nuisance.

Over the last few weeks, Zim-babweans have been subjected to irritating high-pitched nois-es, but these are not emanating from some lunatic who has found a whistle, although they are just as irritating. Irritating because out of all the deafening sound and fury, there is little merit or sub-stance to be gleaned. It seems the perpetrator of the noise suddenly found her capacity to make noise, no matter how discordant, once the doors to the murky whirlpool of Zanu PF politics were swung wide-open for her.

The whistle-blower (no pun in-tended) is none other than the

First Lady Grace Mugabe who has, of late, been behaving like the proverbial lunatic who has stum-bled upon a whistle. Ever since she was elevated to heir- appar-ent to the coveted Zanu PF Wom-en’s League chair, Mai Mugabe has been on a boisterous cam-paign blitz at which she has made all manner of astounding allega-tions, claims and accusations, ev-idently totally unconcerned about their validity, veracity or nation-al impact.

Perhaps the most bizarre of her claims is to suggest that her hus-band President Robert Mugabe is a man of God. “President Mugabe is a pastor; when he speaks, I think when you hear him speak, you can hear that he is ordained by God,” she said.

The fact that she makes this gratuitous claim while address-ing about 300 pastors and their wives who had been conscripted, I suspect, like many other foreign and local visitors to her children’s home in Mazowe, shows how she now believes by saying what ever she feels like, that somehow makes her statements unassail-able. “I think that he [Mugabe] is the only gift from God that Zimba-bwe has. He is the biggest gift that we have,” Grace said to applause from the church leaders.

Genuine God-fearing Chris-tians, traditionally humble and modest in their blandishments about faith, should be outraged by this blasphemous self-delusion. But then, these church leaders, es-pecially invited to partake of the hospitality of the famously char-itable Mazowe Orphanage, proba-

THREE years ago the United Nations declared October 11 as International Day of the

Girl following continued calls by several member states, non-gov-ernmental organisations and girls themselves that girls face double discrimination due to their gen-der and age, and are the most mar-ginalised and discriminated group across the globe. Children’s rights are often violated because they are young, young girls are further vio-lated because they are girls.

The day has been the highlight of Plan International’s campaign, “Because I am a Girl”, which aims to reach four million girls directly. The theme for this year is Empow-ering Adolescent girls; ending the cycle of violence.Special focus

Since the declaration of the day, there has been increased focus on

We must all fight for girls’ rights

sundayopinionBY DESMOND KUMBUKA

sunday viewBY PLAN

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bly felt “empowered”, to use con-temporary ZimAsset lexicon.

Then came what I thought takes the biscuit in delusional grand-standing. “My time has come to show people what I am made of,” Grace warned ominously, adding that she might have a “small fist”, but when it comes to fighting, “I will put stones inside it to enlarge it, or even put on gloves to make it bigger. Do not doubt my capa-bilities”. Readers will, no doubt have been reminded of a similar boast by President Mugabe when he claimed to have degrees in vio-lence — and the numerous times he has waved a gnarled fist at per-ceived enemies in his well-known angry gestures.

Grace, perhaps anxious to sal-vage her reputation following widespread doubts that her re-cently acquired PhD from the Uni-versity of Zimbabwe was legiti-mately deserved, has also unre-servedly lashed out her husband’s detractors: “In the afternoon, you

come to the President and tell him that you love him and support him, but before dawn you will be calling people to meet so that you plot for President Mugabe’s downfall and you think it is that easy treating an educated man like Mugabe like a child. Are you sure?” she said to cheers.

“We might be quiet, but we know of the people who are busy bribing people so that they get votes. I want to say stop it, stop it before congress because we have the information. My husband and I might be sitting quietly at our home, but we know you and one of these days I will confront you,” Grace said on one of her so-called meet-the-people rallies on Mon-day.

“You see people coming to Baba [Mugabe] saying to him that they want to go and hold victory cele-brations over the emphatic elec-toral victory . . . these are the same people who did not want these elections in the first place.

Even if you ask Mnangagwa, peo-ple did not want these elections,” she said.

Of course, for those who have followed closely Zanu PF’s murky succession politics, the mere mention of [Emmerson] Mnan-gagwa’s name came as no sur-prise and was more than reveal-ing about where her loyalties lie. The First Lady, who is set to lead the Zanu PF Women’s League af-ter the incumbent Oppah Muchin-guri, decided to make way for her, has reportedly severely divid-ed Zanu PF. Many Zanu PF stal-warts, whispers below the surface suggest, are dismayed at this un-restrained “loose canon” now un-leashed in their midst.

Indeed, on the evidence of her speeches so far, as one daily news-paper opined, Zanu PF has a mon-umental challenge remaining in-tact pre-and-post December con-gress in the wake of the Grace Mugabe “tsunami” now raging on the horizon.

girls’ rights worldwide and aware-ness of the issues that affect them. It is known that in many coun-tries girls are neglected, margin-alised, discriminated and violated because of their gender.

The Day of the Girl asks the world to make girls feel respect-ed, recognised and valued in the same way as boys. The day puts the spotlight momentarily on girls’ issues and emphasises that girls are braver than we think and like every child, they too have a vi-sion for their lives. Society should nurture both boys and girls and give them the space to unleash their potential.Let us all fight for girls’ rights

As we celebrate girls this year, let us bear in mind that although there is more talk about girls rights, attitudes on gender have changed little. There is still need

to address the many barriers to girls’ empowerment.

Visible and invisible forms of power over girls continue to gov-ern their lives and determine what girls can and cannot do. This in turn limits their ability to fully exploit opportunities and it per-petuates violation of their rights. Only when we start to challenge and change these realities of pow-er in our everyday lives can girls escape discrimination, violence and sexual harassment.

Pathways to power Since 2007, Plan does an annu-

al research called “State of the World’s Girls” which analyses the lived realities of girls around the world. This year’s report en-titled Pathways to Power: Creat-ing Sustainable Change for Adoles-cent Girls questions what will shift the unequal power relations that strengthen gender discrimination, injustice and inequality for girls.

The report indicates that girls themselves are more aware that gender inequality is embedded in the attitudes and structures of society and must be tackled with collective force. There is renewed energy among young people, par-ticularly young women, to joint-ly speak out about their situa-tions realising that a single per-son can’t change the world.

Furthermore, the report de-

tails that working locally with key power holders, identifying women leaders and active wom-en’s groups, supporting girls’ leadership, participation and ed-ucation is key in advancing girls’ rights. Such actions will give girls choice, freedom from violence, access to education, decent work and the ability to make decisions about their own lives.

Plan International is urging in-stitutions and individuals around the world to collectively fight to change attitudes on gender. We have come to understand that eve-ryone should change their atti-tudes and behaviours which per-petuate gender inequalities for girls to be empowered.

l Plan International Zimba-bwe opinion on International Day of the Girl

Dr Grace Mugabe

Opinion


Options for Zim’s long road to economic justice

justicemattersBY DZIKAMAI BERE & PROSPER MAGUCHU

The ongoing trial of Core Mining and Minerals (Private) Limited Direc-tor Lovemore Kurotwi has become a platform

for the pursuit for truth, justice and accountability.

Award-winning human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa is a star in the drama, playing the role that the media and civil society must be playing at a national level.

It is rare in Zimbabwe that a minister gets to be questioned on the way they manage public enter-prises. We thus find it interesting that we focus on the subject of cor-ruption at a grand scale and how we may try to broaden the fight for justice and accountability.

The impact of corruption on fundamental freedoms can be huge. The African Union esti-mates that over US$150 billion is lost annually through corrup-tion. This is about 25% of the continent’s GDP. An analysis of the key drivers of corruption in Zimbabwe reveals that govern-ment actors lead the pack. Trans-parency International in the lat-est report have exposed state in-stitutions for issuing sexually transmitted degrees (STD). It is a notorious fact that in order to get a passport in Zimbabwe you have to pay a lot of unofficial fees. It is the same with obtaining a driv-er’s licence. Corruption has be-come so institutionalised such that when companies do their an-nual budgets, they budget for cor-ruption under some fancy names like “clearing fees”.

The worst culprits in driving corruption are people known as “politically exposed person” [PEP], who are well-positioned po-litically — to loot with impunity. These are well connected to the ruling class such that they use these ties to loot with impunity. In Zimbabwe, just like in many oth-er plundered economies, the PEPs have become a very powerful group perpetuating grand corrup-tion, asset theft and money laun-dering at an international scale. When such looting happens for a long period of time, a kind of roy-al lineage is then formed and the PEPs pass on their priviledges to their children and their children’s children. If you work for any one of the big companies that benefit from PEPs, you probably have met some top government official fre-quenting the CEO or the MD’s of-fice and the reasons for such visits are not clear.

PEPs damage the victims’ coun-try’s investment climate and pros-pects for macroeconomic stabili-ty. They fuel capital flight, which impedes growth and poverty re-duction efforts, which heightens inequalities. We have had Presi-dent Robert Mugabe complaining about the activities of the PEPs in his Cabinet. According to Jus-tice Cleto R Villacorta of the Phil-ippines Regional Trial Court, the

damage by this kind of corrup-tion is long-lasting and more se-vere the longer a corrupt regime is in place. Corruption at that lev-el becomes what Johane Galtung would call a “deep culture.” It sinks its teeth deep into the heart of the system. It is believed that when corruption gets to this level, it creates a new ruling class out-side the visible ruling elite and these are the forces that will hold the ruling class in power at gun-point.

Sadly, it appears that Zimbabwe is in that state, at the ransom of PEPs.

But can there be justice for the PEPs? If hospitals are failing to provide services because resourc-es are being looted at a grand scale, how do we deal with that? These are grand economic crimes that violate people’s rights. One cannot just go to the police station and make a report. It requires a different strategy.

Which takes us to some propos-als in conclusion.

The media has a key role to play. It is difficult to deal with econom-ic crimes when there has been no political transition. Current tran-sitional justice mechanisms like the NPRC cannot deal with eco-nomic crimes of that magnitude. There is too much state involve-ment. There is space available for non-official truth recovery pro-cesses by the independent media and civil society actors with the help of international experts. An organisation like Transparency International with strong interna-tional backing is well-positioned to spearhead truth recovery of economic crimes at an unofficial level. The kind of truths that call for recovery are so complex but not irrecoverable. There is need to do a comprehensive investigation into past leaders of government enterprises, the movement of as-sets and the procurement process-es.

Secondly, Section 62 of the new constitution gives a very impor-tant avenue of pushing for dis-closure. It gives the right to every citizen to have access to informa-tion held by the state for purpos-es of public accountability. Trans-port and and Infrastructural De-velopment minister Obert Mpofu who explained the source of his wealth, has given us a glimpse of where to begin.

Finally, it is not impossible to sponsor a transparency law which forces public officers into disclo-sure. They may not tell the whole truth, but it will give civil society and media a stepping-stone. Sim-ple records like board minutes of a state enterprise can open a can of worms.

This information needs to be ar-chived in a way that is useful for possible prosecution of offend-ers and recovery of lost assets. When the environment then per-mits, such information may assist

future actors to recover ill-gotten wealth and adopt safeguards to ensure non-repetition.

For now, we admit that as far as Zimbabwe is concerned, it

will be a long road to economic justice.l Dzikamai Bere and Prosper Maguchu contribute to this col-umn in their personal capaci-

ty. The views contained here are not the views of the organisa-tions they are associated with. For feedback write to [email protected]

Obert Mpofu recently revealed how he acquired his wealth

The media should play a part in stamping out the brown-envelope culture

Marching against corruption on Anti-Corruption Day

International News14 The Standard October 12 to 18 2014

Thousands face massacre in Syrian town

THEME: “HAZ@70: BUILDING A CULTURE OF SERVICE EXCELLENCE”

The Hospitality Association of Zimbabwe is holding its Annual Congress from 29-31 October 2014 under

the theme: “HAZ@70: Building a culture of service excellence”, in Bulawayo. This is a special event as

the Association will be celebrating its 70 years of existence.

150 delegates who are industry captains and management executives are expected to attend this big

hospitality annual event. The Conference will deliberate on service excellence and contribution of

Tourism to the economy. There are various interesting speakers and presenters lined up with the

highlight of the Keynote Speaker from Singapore coming to benchmark and share their success story.

There will also be a Hospitality Fair running concurrently with the Congress where industry suppliers

showcase their products to the industry players present.

The highlight of the Conference is the Awards Dinner to be held at the last day where individuals or

organizations who have shown excellent service to the hospitality sector during the current year will

be awarded.

Topics to be discussed :-

- The Singapore story – how they have managed to turn around their tourism fortunes

- The 5 Billion dollar economy journey for tourism by 2018

- Unlocking value for regions through Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibition (MICE)

- Health and wellness

- Managing risk in building hospitality service culture

Please be advised that HAZ Offices Landline is 708872.You can also contact Violet Rukande, The

Administrator on 0712 631 858 or 0774 161 056 or email hazimsec@gmail, or [email protected]

or Cynthia Sapabwe, The Secretary on 0733 344 563 for further information or

any queries.

For accommodation, as usual, please make direct booking with the establishment of your choice in

Bulawayo.

[email protected]

2014 HOSPITATITY CONGRESS: 29 – OCTOBER – 31 OCTOBER 2014

Thousands of people will most likely be massacred if Kobani falls to Islam-ic State fighters, a UN en-voy has said, as militants

fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene.

UN envoy Staffan de Mistu-ra said Kobani could suffer the same fate as the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where 8 000 Muslims were murdered by Serbs in 1995, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, while UN peace-keepers failed to protect them.

“If this falls, the 700, plus per-haps the 12 000 people, apart from the fighters, will be most likely massacred,” de Mistura said. The United Nations believes 700 main-ly elderly civilians are trapped in the town itself and 12 000 have left the centre but not made it across the border into Turkey.

“Do you remember Srebrenica? We do. We never forgot and prob-ably we never forgave ourselves,” said de Mistura, the UN peace en-voy for Syria. “When there is an imminent threat to civilians, we cannot, we should not, be silent.”

The plight of mainly Kurdish Kobani has unleashed the worst street violence in years in Turkey, which has 15 million Kurds of its own.

Turkish Kurds have risen up since last week Tuesday against President Tayyip Erdogan’s gov-ernment, which they accuse of al-

lowing their kin to be slaughtered.At least 33 people have been

killed in three days of riots across the mainly Kurdish southeast, in-cluding two police officers shot dead in an apparent attempt to as-sassinate a police chief. The police chief was wounded.

Intense fighting between Islam-ic State fighters and outgunned Kurdish forces in the streets of Kobani could be heard from across the border. Warplanes roared overhead and the western edge of town was hit by an air strike, ap-parently by US-led coalition jets.

But even as the United States has increased its bombing of Is-lamic State targets in the area, it has acknowledged that its air sup-port is unlikely to be enough to save the city from falling.

“Our focus in Syria is in degrad-ing the capacity of (Islamic State) at its core to project power, to com-mand itself, to sustain itself, to re-source itself,” US Deputy Nation-al Security Adviser Tony Blinken said.

“The tragic reality is that in the course of doing that there are go-ing to be places like Kobani where we may or may not be able to be ef-fective.”

Blinken said Islamic State con-trolled about 40% of Kobani. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, gave a similar estimate and said fighters had seized a central ad-ministrative area, known as the “security quarter”.

Ocalan Iso, deputy head of the Kurdish forces defending the town, said Islamic State fight-ers were still shelling the centre,

which proved it had not yet fallen.“There are fierce clashes and

they are bombing the centre of Kobani from afar,” he said, esti-

mating the militants controlled 20% of the town. He called for more US-led air strikes.

—Reuters

Turkey opened its border last month to Syrian refugees after the town of Koban was surrounded by Islamic State fighters

New York — Stepped up efforts by the US to halt the spread of the Ebola virus started at New

York’s John F Kennedy Internation-al Airport yesterday, where teams armed with thermal guns and ques-tionnaires were screening travel-lers from West African countries hit hardest by the outbreak.

JFK Airport is the first of five US airports to start enhanced screening of US-bound travellers from Guin-ea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where most of the outbreak’s more than 4 000 deaths have occurred.

Nearly all of those travelling to the United States from those coun-tries arrive at JFK, Newark Liberty, Washington Dulles, Chicago O’Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta. The new procedures will begin at the oth-er four airports next week.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the airport screening is just one aspect of an overall strategy to fight the spread of Ebola.

“Because we want to protect the American public, we are taking a tiered approach,” said CDC spokes-man Jason McDonald.

But even before authorities start checking passengers for fevers, crit-ics questioned whether the screen-ings would prove effective at stop-ping travelers infected with the of-ten fatal Ebola virus from entering the country.

JFK is the US entry point for near-ly half of the roughly 150 travellers who arrive daily from the three West African countries, and those flights amount to about one-tenth of 1% of all international daily arrivals to the airport, McDonald said.

The Department of Homeland Se-curity’s Customs and Border Protec-tion (CBP) will conduct the screen-ings under CDC direction, McDon-ald said.

Using FDA-approved infrared tem-perature guns, the CBP staffers will check for elevated temperatures among passengers whose journeys began or included a stop in one of the three West African countries.

Screeners will also assess passen-gers for signs of potential illness and ask them to answer questions about their health and whether they may have come into contact with an Ebo-la patient. —Reuters

US intensifies Ebola screening at airports

JFK Airport... US yesterday started new procedures of screening Ebola at airports

International News


Malala — Idol to the world, outcast at home

th2014 marks the 7 edition of the Ideas Festival, a unique and amalgam platform established by Bulawayo Agenda in 2008 on the firm belief that “ideas run the world”.

Every year, the Ideas Festival facilitates the sharing of ideas among leaders and practitioners to confront the existing political, socio and economic challenges and find ways to mitigate such challenges.

This year's edition is being convened by Bulawayo Agenda in partnership with the Church and Civil Society Forum (CCSF) and National Association of

th stNGOs (NANGO) from 27 – 31 October 2014 under the theme “Transformative Ideas for a Better Society”.

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Islamabad — Malala Yousafzai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is hailed around the world as a champion of women’s rights who stood up brave-ly against the Taliban to defend her be-

liefs.But in her deeply conservative homeland,

many view her with suspicion as an out-cast or even as a Western creation aimed at damaging Pakistan’s image abroad.

Malala, now aged 17, became globally known in 2012 when Taliban gunmen al-most killed her for her passionate advocacy of women’s right to education.

She has since become a symbol of defi-ance in the fight against militants operat-ing in Pashtun tribal areas in northwest Pakistan — a region where women are ex-pected to keep their opinions to themselves and stay at home.

“The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born,” she told the United Nations last year.

“I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him,” she said in a speech which captivat-ed the world.

Malala has also won the European Un-ion’s human rights award and was one of the favourites to win the Nobel Prize last year.

Now based in Britain, she is unable to re-turn to her homeland because of Taliban threats to kill her and her family members. The current Taliban chief, Mullah Fazlull-ah, was the one who ordered the 2012 attack against her.

Yousafzai has enrolled in a school in Bir-mingham and become a global campaign-er for women’s right to education and other human rights issues, taking up issues such as the situation in Syria and Nigieria.

In her native Swat valley, however, many people view Malala, backed by a supportive family and a doting father who inspired her to keep up with her campaign, with a mix-ture of suspicion, fear and jealousy.

At the time of her Nobel nomination last year, social media sites were brimming with insulting messages. “We hate Malala Yousafzai, a CIA agent,” said one Facebook page.

She was a young student in the Swati town of Mingora in Pakistan’s northwest-ern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when she became interested in women’s rights.

At the time, the Taliban were in power in the strategic valley after they took control over the region and imposed strict Islam-ic rules, including their opposition to wom-

en’s education.She wrote an anonymous blog describing

her life under the Taliban who controlled the region. In October 2012, after the Tali-ban were pushed out of Swat by the Paki-stani army, she was shot in the head on her way to school by a Taliban gunman.

She survived after being airlifted to Brit-ain for treatment and recovered from her life-threatening wounds.

“The wise saying, ‘The pen is mighti-er than sword’ was true. The extremists are afraid of books and pens,” she told the United Nations.

“The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women. The power of the voice of women frightens them.”

—Reuters Pakistani girls at school... Malala Yousafzai has inspired other girls

Malala Yousafzai

Brazilian weave? No, it’s goat hairInternational News16 The Standard October 12 to 18 2014

By Sam Piranty

In China, hair extensions, wigs and weaves are big busi-ness. Buyers in hair salons and shopping malls are of-ten told they are getting real

human hair — but when you look closely, sometimes things are not as they seem.

In a tiny village in Hunan province, central China, a man dressed in a white vest and shorts rides around the dusty streets on a rusty bicycle, shouting and ring-ing his bell.

I stop him and ask what he’s up to. “I’m collecting hair,” he says. “When I ring my bell wom-en come out and I cut their hair. I make hair extensions.”

I ask him how much he pays women for their hair. “I offer them a good price, but I need to make a profit,” he says with a smile.

The streets of the village are covered in hair drying beneath the scorching sun. Some of the hair is definitely human hair, yet the number of shaven goats wan-dering the streets suggests other-wise.

After collecting the hair, he takes it to a small factory where 10 women weave it together into hair extensions.

Looking on, I can see that some of the hair being woven together is human and some of it definite-ly is not. He then sells it to larger factories where it is treated with

FES Youth Leadership Training The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Zimbabwe, a German non-profit making, public-interest institution for civic and political education, is offering leadership training for young adults. The training will target young leaders with proven political and socio-economic interests and abilities. Young adults from political parties, trade unions, youth organizations, and tertiary institutions are therefore particularly encouraged to apply.

The training shall provide young leaders from the full political spectrum of Zimbabwe with leadership skills and the opportunity for political networking. In a process that will run for about 8 months (1-2 weekends per month), participants will develop these skills in a group of about 20 co-participants.

FES will meet the cost of the actual training for the selected participants while any other associated costs will have to be borne by the participant.

Interested candidates should fulfill the following criteria:

1. Between 20-35 years of age2. Team player3. Proven political and social interests4. Ability for political analysis and knowledge of political developments in the country5. Be part of the programme throughout the whole training period6. Females are particularly encouraged to apply

Please send your CV, and a one page justification why you should participate in the training tothe following email address: [email protected]. The deadline for your application is Friday, 24 October, 2014.

chemicals before being sold to shops around the country.

I left Hunan wanting to see where the hair went next. So I vis-ited the megacity of Guangzhou. The city — formerly known as Canton — has always been one of China’s most important trading hubs and wealthiest cities.

Massive hotels and office blocks dominate the skyline close to the vast and murky brown Pearl Riv-er. The tops of the skyscrapers are hidden amid the thick palpa-ble pollution.

Beneath the smog is where I met Lily. She owns a shop sell-ing wigs and hair extensions in

Guangzhou’s enormous beauty exchange centre in an area known as Sanyuanli.

Here you can buy anything from nail polish and night cream to foot spas and foundation. The lower floor of the market howev-er is dedicated to hair — terrify-ing mannequins sport wigs and weaves of every colour the rain-bow has to offer.

Lily sits on a stool in her shop, bunching the recently delivered hair together into fringes, curls and metre-long straight exten-sions.

The hair is held together with labels which supposedly tell us their country of origin. Here, ap-parently, one can buy hair from Peru, India and Brazil.

There are no Chinese custom-ers here though — every buyer seems to be from Africa. nigeri-ans, Ghanaians, Congolese, South Africans, Angolans and Ugandans scour the impressive hall for the best-priced hair extensions avail-

able. They tell me they can triple their money when they get home.

Towards the end of a busy day I ask shop owner Lily how her busi-ness is doing. “It’s ok, we used to sell to Europe and America, but now nearly 100% of my clients are in Africa,” she says.

Lily shows me a list of the na-tionalities of the traders she sells to — of the 39 countries on the list, 37 are in Africa, reflecting the large African community in this city.

“It’s good business for me, but the problem is we pay more for the hair now, as living and pro-duction costs in China are high-er now.”

Lily then describes, how in or-der to make her business profit-able, she has to use fake scales when weighing out hair to cus-tomers and buy a mixture of hu-man hair and synthetic or goat hair to lower costs.

“We say it is Indian hair or Bra-zilian hair, but in fact it is nor-mally Chinese hair or even goat hair. They never realise. This is the only way we can keep things cheap,” she says, adding that her customers always drive a hard bargain.

Before we can finish our conver-sation Marie from Uganda comes in, demanding: “I want Brazilian hair, only Brazilian, give me your best quality and best price.”

The negotiation goes on for hours under the watchful eyes of the wig-wearing, angry-look-ing mannequins. As the sun sinks and the moon begins to rise over Guangzhou’s polluted skyline, Marie leaves empty-handed.

I run after her as she leaves the shop to ask if she knows that some of the hair isn’t human. “Of course I know. The Chinese think we’re stupid. I come all the way from Uganda and they think I don’t know hair,” she says.

Marie pauses and then lets out a huge, hearty laugh before com-ing close to whisper in my ear: “I laugh a lot when I go home and I know that the beautiful women of Kampala have goats on their heads.” — BBC News

Herders shave goats’ hair. Picture: phys.org

Hair processing factory in China

A display of hair pieces

The StandardBusinessOctober 12 to 18 2014 • www.thestandard.co.zw

Govt moves to tackle industry challenges

Zera engages towns on alternative energy sourcesBY OUR STAFF

The Zimbabwe Energy Reg-ulatory Authority (Zera) is working on securing Private

Public Partnerships (PPPs) for Mutare and Masvingo city coun-cil to enable them to start exploit-ing methane gas as an alternative energy source.

Methane — whose main source is natural gas — is an odourless and colourless gas that occurs abundantly in nature and is the most simple form of hydrocar-bons.

Zimbabwe is currently experi-encing an acute power crisis char-acterised by massive load-shed-ding, a situation that has adverse-

ly affected all sectors of the econ-omy.

However, government is rapid-ly moving towards promoting new investments in renewable ener-gies in a bid to reduce power de-mand on the national grid.

Zera chief executive Gloria Ma-gombo told an energy stakehold-er’s meeting that she had meet-ings with the town clerks of the cities of Mutare and Masvingo.

“We believe that there is po-tential for them to use the meth-ane being flared into the atmos-phere now for them to produce their own power, especially for the pumping works and the sewer sys-tems,” she said.

Magombo said the main issue

of concern was financing as the city authorities did not have mon-ey to implement the projects.

“We would want to urge the cit-ies to try to partner with private sector investors so that they can come in to use that gas to generate power and sell power to consum-ers,” she said.

Magombo said Zera would be meeting officials from the minis-try of local government to push them to come up with some form of public-private partnerships.

“The potential is there, we be-lieve we need to harness that so that we are able to use the resourc-es we have,” said Magombo.

Turning to the issue of the least cost energy planning (best prac-

tices), Magombo said at a region-al level the Southern African Pow-er Pool (Sapp) identified the least cost project.

Sapp was established with the primary objective of providing a reliable and economical electrici-ty supply to member states, which include Zimbabwe.

Sapp, which is under the auspic-es of the Sadc region, aims to en-sure that the southern African re-gion is one of the choices for invest-ments by energy intensive users.

“However, there is still a lot of negotiation on those [least cost projects]; there is also the issue of the transmission network con-struction,” she said.

Magombo said one of the key

corridors for movement of pow-er would be the central corridor which is coming through Zimba-bwe and the question is how fund-ing will be secured for those addi-tional capacity requirements.

With regard to local entrepre-neurs, she said Zera was looking at engaging with those who are promoting the current liquid pro-pane stoves which unfortunately are being imported.

“We should look into the local-isation component. We want to start with at least a pilot project to see how effective they are and if they work effectively,” she said.

Magombo said in that way, it would become easier to promote local participation.

BY VICTORIA MTOMBA

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce is plan-ning to produce a com-prehensive report on the challenges faced by in-

dustry in its dealings with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), an official has said.

Speaking during a Confeder-ation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) manufacturing sector sur-vey launch last week, Industry and Commerce minister Mike Bimha said the report would look at how tax regulations were af-fecting the smooth operation of companies.

“We are supposed to produce a report on the issues that busi-ness is having with Zimra,” Bim-ha said.

An official from the ministry told Standardbusiness that a pro-posal had been made to form a committee to specifically look at problems faced by businesses at ports of entry.

“I do not know if it will be on a ministerial level,” said the offi-cial.

According to the CZI survey, the manufacturing sector was facing many challenges including Zim-ra related ones, notably heavy tax-es, as well as high fees and licence costs.

Zimra administers several tax-es that include corporate income tax, mineral royalties, Pay as You Earn and Withholding tax among others.

Corporate income tax is derived

from the sources within the coun-try. Corporate tax is currently at 25% since 2010 while 3% goes to-wards the Aids levy. Pay as you earn rates range from 0% on the low income brackets to 50% on the higher brackets. Employers are required to withhold tax from re-muneration paid to their employ-ees.

Speaking at the launch, Zimra representative Florence Jambwa said if business had tax issues, they should approach the revenue collector.

“I have noted that we have been cited as a barrier to business but if you have issues in terms of our inability to deliver, approach us,” she urged.

Royalties are collectable from all the minerals or mineral bear-ing products obtained from any mining locations and disposed by a miner or on his behalf. They are chargeable whether the dis-posal is made within or outside Zimbabwe. Withholding tax is deductible from all amounts pay-able to all who enter into con-tracts with the state or statuto-ry body, quasi government insti-tution and taxpayers registered with Zimra.

Early this year, Zimra commis-sioner general Gershem Pasi said the revenue collector was owed over US$500 million by compa-nies.

Many companies have had their bank accounts garnished by the revenue collector due to non-remittance of taxes.

Mike Bimha addressing delegates at the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) manufacturing sector survey launch on Friday

Chirundu Border Post... Trucks wait to be cleared at the border. Pictures: Aaron Ufumeli

Delta committeD to satisfyiNG DemaND/18


Business

Delta Beverages says it remains in a strong position to satisfy demand on the local market as its state-of-the-art brewing plant is adequately capacitat-ed.

Delta General Manager Lagers, Munyaradzi Nyandoro said the company had entered into a special agreement with power utility Zesa for a re-liable and constant electricity supply so as not to compromise on brewing processes and beer qual-ity.

“We already have two 800 HP generators which keep the plant at full throttle and these are suffi-cient to meet our supply needs,” he said.

Nyandoro took journalists through a tour of the plant last week Friday and explained the lager brewing processes.

Delta Corporation is a broad-based company with interests in beverages (manufacturing and distribution) and the Agro Industrial sectors. It is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and is one of the top quoted companies in terms of mar-ket capitalisation.

Nyandoro said all processes of beer distribution in the market were synchronised in order to in-crease efficiencies across the value chain.

Pretoria — South Africa recently said it had earmarked US$190 million over the next three years to improve housing and living

conditions in poor mining communities.The violent labour unrest that has shaken

South Africa’s mining industry, including a five-month platinum strike this year, has been blamed in part on the wretched social conditions found in overcrowded shantytowns around the shafts.

Jeff Radebe, the planning minister in South Africa’s presidency, told a media briefing that a government committee on distressed mining communities had identified 14 towns to focus on to improve housing.

This includes Rustenburg west of Johannes-burg, the scene of frequent violent labour con-flict in grim squatter camps erected near the world’s richest platinum reserves.

Mines minister Ngoako Ramathlodi said the government’s plan did not “replace the obliga-tions of the mining companies”, which are re-quired by law to meet a number of social com-mitments in the communities where they work.

The world’s top platinum producers Anglo American Platinum, Impala Platinum and Lon-min operate in South Africa, as well as Africa’s biggest bullion producer AngloGold Ashanti.

—Reuters

SA earmarks US$190m to improve distressed mining towns

South Africa’s Mines minister Ngoako Ramathlodi

A Delta Beverages employee monitors the cleaning process of empty bottles at the company’s Southerton plant on Friday. Picture: Aaron Ufumeli.

Delta committed to satisfying demandBY OUR STAFF


Business

Zim rushes to create sovereign fundin the

moneywith NESBERt RUwO

SOvereign Wealth Funds have been attracting a lot of attention in recent years as more countries establish funds and invest more capital in a wide range of assets.

At least US$6 trillion in assets are being held by these funds globally. But the ques-tion is, should every country set up their own and for what purpose? is there a ra-tionale to rush to join the bandwagon?

A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a fund owned by the state that is invested in vari-ous financial assets (such as shares, fixed income instruments, and properties). A SWF is a form of a national savings ac-count with a specific purpose(s), but main-ly for the benefit of its current and future citizens. The core purpose of a SWF is to in-vest a country’s excess income and to gen-erate wealth for its future generations with a view of long-term wealth and tax smooth-ening. A SWF is typically funded from a na-tional budgetary surplus.

it all started in the 1950s when the Ku-wait investment Authority fund was estab-lished to invest excess oil income. in addi-tion to other smaller funds, major funds — Abu Dhabi’s investment Authority, Singa-pore’s government investment Corporation and norway’s government Pension Fund — were established in 1976, 1981 and 1990 re-spectively. The rest is history — the size and number of SWFs has increased dramatical-ly. Currently, there are over 50 SWFs and the Sovereign Wealth Fund institute puts their value at US$6 831 trillion at end-September 2014.

SWF play an important macroeconom-ic role and are closely linked to the opera-tions of public finances (funding and with-drawals), monetary policy, and external ac-counts variations. Sovereign wealth funds are usually distinguished based on their stated policy objectives and consequent asset allocation. Though there are many SWFs with multiple objectives, under the iMF and the Santiago Principles classifica-tions, we can identify five types of SWFs, viz stabilisation SWF (e.g. Chile’s econom-ic and Social Stabilisation Fund), savings (e.g. russia’s national Wealth Fund), de-velopment (UAe Mubadala) and reserve in-vestment corporations (e.g. China invest-ment Corporation). Some funds serve a hy-brid of objectives, like stabilisation/sav-ings (Botswana Pula Fund), saving/pension reserve (Australia Future Fund), or stabili-sation/saving/development (Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna JSC). Santiago Principles are a set of international Working group of Sovereign Wealth Funds’ generally ac-cepted guidelines that govern governance, accountability arrangements and conduct of investment practices by SWFs.

African states have joined the frenzy in establishing their own funds and most of these funds are commodities-based as they are being established by resource-rich countries. given the wealth of natu-ral resources that African countries are en-dowed with, it makes sense that these coun-tries set-aside a portion of their surplus in-come arising from the extraction of their resources. 59,5% of global SWFs are funded by oil and gas revenues.

There were 15 African countries with SWFs, namely Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Chad, equatorial guinea, gabon, ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, nigeria, rwan-da, Sao Tome and Principe, South Sudan and Tanzania as of end of 2013. The old-est African SWF, the Pula Fund, was estab-lished in 1994 by Botswana to invest excess diamond revenues for the benefit of future generations. it currently has assets worth US$6,9 billion.

The largest African sovereign funds are the Algeria’s revenue regulation Fund and Libyan investment Authority with total as-sets of US$77 billion and US$66 billion re-spectively. Angola (Fundo Soberano de An-gola), nigeria (nigeria Sovereign invest-ment Authority), and ghana (Petroleum

Fund) set up their own sovereign wealth funds over the past three years, managing US$5 billion, US$1,4 billion, and US$75 mil-lion worth of assets respectively. The discov-eries of oil and gas around the continent is set to fuel the launch of several other funds. Mozambique and Tanzania are the most likely candidates. Zambia is said to be con-sidering setting up their own fund to stim-ulate investment in strategic non-mining industries and diversify its economy from copper mining.

in Zimbabwe, the senate on 23 September 2014, passed the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe Bill (H.B. 6A, 2013) that will see the establishment of a Zimbabwean SWF. The proposed SWF will be funded from up to a quarter of mining royalties in respect of gold, diamonds, coal, coal-bed methane gas, nickel, chrome, platinum and such oth-er mineral that may be specified, miner-al dividends and government grants. The

Zimbabwe fund will support fiscal or mac-roeconomic stabilisation, including long-term economic and social development ob-jectives, and smoothen national income of Zimbabwe during times of commodity fluc-tuations.

The key ingredients to a successful SWF include transparency and accounta-bility. Citizens, who are the ultimate ben-eficiaries, need to be appraised contin-uously before and after a SWF is set up. Public awareness and support is of par-amount importance. The other key con-sideration is that there is no need to rush into creating a fund if there are other critical and pressing demands that will require huge capital injections — these include investment in social and econom-ic infrastructure. My research shows that most countries that set up SWFs were in a budget surplus position. it does not make sense to create a SWF and fund

it by increasing the budget deficit. SWF should effectively be used to generate wealth for future generations, provide a buffer against external macroeconom-ic shocks and to support specific devel-opmental goals. Outside of these objec-tives, the motives for establishing a SWF become questionable. Countries estab-lishing new funds can learn from those that have managed successful funds e.g norway, which has assets close to US$900 billion. As exemplified by nigeria’s ex-perience with the excess Crude Account, it is not enough just to set money aside — there is need for SWF good governance and clear investment mandates. Adopt-ing Santiago principles is one way to achieve that.

l Nesbert Ruwo is an investment bank-er based in South Africa. He can be con-tacted on [email protected]

Business needs perfect planning20 The Standard October 12 to 18 2014

Business

Planning is a process of choos-ing among those many options. if we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

—Richard I Winwood

Last week I explained the importance of having a clear goal and a good value proposition if you want to develop an effec-

tive business plan. A goal is im-portant because it gives purpose to your business. Imagine Dyna-mos and Highlanders playing a football match in a field with no goal posts. Would players put in any effort when there can be no winner or loser? Or would sup-porters pay to watch a purpose-less game?

A value proposition is equally important as it makes your offer-ing stand out among hundreds of others from your competitors. You will not get far ahead with a me-too type of business, sharing the same cake with an ever-increas-ing number of contenders.

This article now looks at the other three components: a solu-tion to a real problem; a defined market; and a competitive busi-ness strategy.

What problem will your business solve?Every successful business solves

a problem that affects people. A grinding mill owner saves villagers the trouble of having to ground out grain using the torturous wooden mortar and pestle. He gets paid for saving people hard labour. Since he can only serve so many people his business will remain small and lo-cal. If he decides to get into large-scale milling, then he solves the problem of many people and makes more money.

Facebook has over a billion mem-bers worldwide. What problem does it solve? The people’s social need to communicate. Humans are social creatures; if they don’t com-municate with others, they suffer emotionally and physically as a result of loneliness. Besides, peo-ple don’t want to miss out on what their friends are doing. So instead of having to visit, call or text your friends physically, you can just get on Facebook and problem solved!

However, the real problem solved by Facebook — the one which presented it with a busi-ness opportunity worth its US$16 listing price — applies to market-ers. Mass advertising is becoming less effective as more and more media channels appear. However, social media platforms like Face-book provide a finely targeted au-dience to marketers at lower cost than traditional media. Above all, it reaches nearly every country in the world. So, the bigger the prob-lem and the more people it affects,

the more profitable the business opportunity.

Do you have a well-defined market segment?

Obviously, not everyone is going to want or need your product, so you need to define a specific seg-ment of the market that you will target. Your market must be de-fined by demographics, that is, it should group people according to age-range, economic and financial status, social status, habits, likes and such things that define a per-son. For example, if you are sell-ing top-of-the-line men suits, you could define your ideal custom-er as male, holding a mid to high- level management job or running his own business with an income above US$1 000 per month, plays golf, lives in the medium to low density residential area.

You will get a more accurate de-scription of your ideal client by conducting market research. You can start by taking down the demo-graphic details of people who ac-tually buy your product. Ask them the relevant questions that will give you a clear description of their de-mographic pattern. You will then know who to target and who not to target in your marketing.

Without a clearly defined mar-ket segment, you will likely waste your marketing budget advertising to the wrong people. You can also locate your store in the wrong area, where the most traffic consists of people with no interest or financial

ability to buy your product.

Put in place a competitive business strategy

A successful business is one with the capabilities to deliver products or services to customers seamless-ly. A good product will fail if cus-tomers have any kind of problem getting it and using it. So the first thing you need in your plan is a people strategy. Do you have compe-tent people for the type of product your want to produce and the ser-vice you want to offer? If not, make a plan of how you will get the skills you need. Sometimes you will need to recruit new people, other times you will need to provide training to your existing or less skilled per-sonnel.

The right machinery, equipment and premises are needed as well for the production process. Finally, the physical delivery of a product

to customers has to be efficient and cost-effective.

To complete your business plan, you need to put financial values to all the five components. Add the figures up so as to come up with the financial requirement to make your business plan work. Then you can proceed or make changes where necessary.

So, now is the time to work on your business plan for 2015. I hope you will find these tips useful. Please let me have your feedback; and don’t forget that there are more resourc-es at my website http://smebusiness-link.com.

l Phillip Chichoni is a con-sultant who helps SMEs and entrepreneurs start and build sustainable businesses. You may contact him via email: [email protected]. You can also visit: http://sme-businesslink.com

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How Belgian nuns spread EbolaPeTer Piot was a researcher at a lab in Antwerp when a pilot brought him a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had fallen mys-teriously ill in Zaire.

Professor Piot, as a young scientist in Antwerp, you were part of the team that discovered the Ebola virus in 1976. How did it happen?

I still remember exactly. One day in September, a pilot from Sa-bena Airlines brought us a shiny blue Thermos and a letter from a doctor in Kinshasa in what was then Zaire. In the Thermos, he wrote, there was a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had re-cently fallen ill from a mysteri-ous sickness in Yambuku, a re-mote village in the northern part of the country. He asked us to test the sample for yellow fever.

These days, Ebola may only be researched in high-security laboratories. How did you protect yourself back then?

We had no idea how dangerous the virus was. And there were no high-security labs in Belgium. We just wore our white lab coats and protective gloves. When we opened the Thermos, the ice in-side had largely melted and one of the vials had broken. Blood and glass shards were floating in the ice water. We fished the other, in-tact, test tube out of the slop and began examining the blood for pathogens, using the methods that were standard at the time.

But the yellow fever virus apparently had nothing to do with the nun's illness.

No. And the tests for Lassa fever and typhoid were also negative. What, then, could it be? Our hopes were dependent on being able to isolate the virus from the sam-ple. To do so, we injected it into mice and other lab animals. At first nothing happened for sever-al days. We thought that perhaps the pathogen had been damaged from insufficient refrigeration in the Thermos. But then one animal after the next began to die. We be-gan to realise that the sample con-tained something quite deadly.

But you continued?Other samples from the nun, who

had since died, arrived from Kin-shasa. When we were just about

able to begin examining the vi-rus under an electron microscope, the World Health Organisation in-structed us to send all of our sam-ples to a high-security lab in Eng-land. But my boss at the time want-ed to bring our work to conclusion no matter what. He grabbed a vial containing virus material to exam-ine it, but his hand was shaking and he dropped it on a colleague’s foot. The vial shattered. My only thought was: “Oh, shit!” We imme-diately disinfected everything, and luckily our colleague was wearing thick leather shoes. Nothing hap-pened to any of us.

In the end, you were finally able to create an image of the virus using the electron microscope.

Yes and our first thought was: “What the hell is that?” The virus that we had spent so much time searching for was very big, very long and worm-like. It had no sim-ilarities with yellow fever. Rather, it looked like the extremely dan-gerous Marburg virus which, like Ebola, causes a haemorrhagic fe-ver. In the 1960s the virus killed several laboratory workers in Marburg, Germany.

Were you afraid at that point?I knew almost nothing about the

Marburg virus at the time. When I tell my students about it today, they think I must come from the Stone Age. But I actually had to go to the library and look it up in an atlas of virology. It was the Amer-ican Centres for Disease Control which determined a short time later that it wasn’t the Marburg virus, but a related, unknown vi-rus. We had also learned in the meantime that hundreds of peo-ple had already succumbed to the virus in Yambuku and the area around it.

A few days later, you became one of the first scientists to fly to Zaire.

Yes. The nun who had died and her fellow sisters were all from Belgium. In Yambuku, which had been part of the Belgian Congo, they operated a small mission hospital. When the Belgian gov-ernment decided to send someone, I volunteered immediately. I was 27 and felt a bit like my childhood hero, Tintin. And, I have to admit,

I was intoxicated by the chance to track down something totally new.

Was there any room for fear, or at least worry?

Of course it was clear to us that we were dealing with one of the deadliest infectious diseases the world had ever seen – and we had no idea that it was transmitted via bodily fluids! It could also have been mosquitoes. We wore protec-tive suits and latex gloves and I even borrowed a pair of motorcy-cle goggles to cover my eyes. But in the jungle heat it was impossi-ble to use the gas masks that we bought in Kinshasa. Even so, the Ebola patients I treated were prob-ably just as shocked by my appear-ance as they were about their in-tense suffering. I took blood from around 10 of these patients. I was most worried about accidental-

ly poking myself with the needle and infecting myself that way.

But you apparently managed to avoid becoming infected.

Well, at some point I did actual-ly develop a high fever, a headache and diarrhoea ... similar to Ebola symptoms?

Exactly. I immediately thought: “Damn, this is it!” But then I tried to keep my cool. I knew the symp-toms I had could be from some-thing completely different and harmless. And it really would have been stupid to spend two weeks in the horrible isolation tent that had been set up for us sci-entists for the worst case. So I just stayed alone in my room and wait-ed. Of course, I didn’t get a wink of sleep, but luckily I began feel-ing better by the next day. It was just a gastrointestinal infection. Actually, that is the best thing that can happen in your life: you look death in the eye but survive. It changed my whole approach, my whole outlook on life at the time.

You were also the one who gave the virus its name. Why Ebola?

On that day our team sat togeth-er late into the night — we had also had a couple of drinks — dis-cussing the question. We definite-ly didn’t want to name the new pathogen “Yambuku virus”, be-cause that would have stigmatised the place forever. There was a map hanging on the wall and our Amer-ican team leader suggested look-ing for the nearest river and giving the virus its name. It was the Ebola river. So by around three or four in the morning we had found a name. But the map was small and inex-act. We only learned later that the nearest river was actually a differ-ent one. But Ebola is a nice name, isn’t it?

In the end, you discovered that the Belgian nuns had unwittingly spread the virus. How did that happen?

In their hospital they regularly gave pregnant women vitamin in-jections using unsterilised needles. By doing so, they infected many young women in Yambuku with

the virus. We told the nuns about the terrible mistake they had made, but looking back I would say that we were much too careful in our choice of words. Clinics that failed to observe this and other rules of hygiene functioned as catalysts in all additional Ebola outbreaks. They drastically sped up the spread of the virus or made the spread pos-sible in the first place. Even in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, hospitals unfortunately played this ignominious role in the beginning.

After Yambuku, you spent the next 30 years of your professional life devoted to combating Aids. But now Ebola has caught up to you again. American scientists fear that hundreds of thousands of people could ultimately become infected. Was such an epidemic to be expected?

No, not at all. On the contrary, I always thought that Ebola, in com-parison to Aids or malaria, didn’t present much of a problem be-cause the outbreaks were always brief and local. Around June it be-came clear to me that there was something fundamentally different about this outbreak.

Why did WHO react so late?On the one hand, it was because

their African regional office isn’t staffed with the most capable peo-ple but with political appointees. And the headquarters in Geneva suffered large budget cuts that had been agreed to by member states. The department for haemorrhag-ic fever and the one responsible for the management of epidemic emer-gencies were hit hard. But since August, WHO has regained a lead-ership role.

Have we completely lost control of the epidemic?

This isn’t just an epidemic any more. This is a humanitarian catas-trophe. We don’t just need care per-sonnel, but also logistics experts, trucks, jeeps and foodstuffs. Such an epidemic can destabilise entire regions. I can only hope that we will be able to get it under control. I re-ally never thought that it could get this bad. — theguardian.com

A girl is led to an ambulance after showing signs of Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, north of the Liberian capital, Monrovia. Peter Piot (inset), the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

People protest outside a hospital as Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visits the area after the Ebola outbreak

Why a Physics Nobel Prize has eluded women

International News22 The Standard October 12 to 18 2014

By Matt Petronzio

ThrOughOut her life, theoretical physicist Ma-ria goeppert Mayer was asked why girls should even bother studying

science. She often answered with a question of her own: “Do girls only have to learn how to read just to study cookbooks?”

the answer, of course, was no, and she proved as much when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963 for her “discov-eries concerning nuclear shell structure.” Little did Mayer know, however, that she wasn’t only the second female Nobel laureate in physics (after Marie Curie, in 1903), but she’d also be the last for more than 50 years — and count-ing.

the royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the recip-ients of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics tuesday: Isamu Akasa-ki, hiroshi Amano and Shuji Na-kamura. the three male scientists invented blue light-emitting di-

odes in the early 1990s, paving the way for the LED technology used in our computer and smartphone screens today.

the invention is groundbreak-ing, and the award much-de-served. But considering the in-vention is relatively recent, and considering a woman hasn’t won the Physics Prize in 51 years, the news makes you wonder: Why didn’t a woman receive the prize this year, and why hasn’t a wom-an won in so long?

there are several reasons: Women are drastically under-rep-resented in the field of physics it-self, the Nobel committee seems to have an age preference for old-er laureates, and the qualifica-tions seem to require equal parts luck and excellence.

“Predicting what the Nobel Committee will do is about as reli-able and easy as predicting the fu-ture by reading tea leaves,” Janet Conrad, professor of physics at MIt says. “there are just so many complicated factors that come in, and so many really great discover-

ies to recognise, that one can nev-er tell what they will do.”

According to the latest data from the American Institute of Physics, women represented only 14% of physics faculty overall in 2010 — just a 2% increase from 2006. the percentage of women receiving degrees in physics is higher, but still very much the mi-nority: “At the [full] professor lev-el, the percentage of women [in physics] is less than 10% in most countries, including the uS and uK,” Suchitra Sebastian, univer-sity lecturer in physics at the uni-versity of Cambridge, says.

She says that while there has been improvement over the years, it’s extremely, worryingly slow. this is mostly due to historical, cultural and sociological reasons.

“Cultural attitudes need to change, and all of us need to re-evaluate our subconscious as-sumptions about what makes a good scientist.

“Physics would be infinite-ly richer if the demographic of physicists was much more varied

and diverse than it currently is,” Sebastian says.

But there’s also, of course, the fact that the prize is awarded to scientists whose discoveries have stood the test of time. If you’re a theorist, your theory must be proven true, which knocks var-ious people out of the running. One example is helen Quinn, whose theory with roberto Peccei predicts a new particle called the axion. But the axion hasn’t been discovered yet, and therefore they can’t win the Nobel Prize.

“If you look at her generation, you’re looking for someone who is in their 60s or later, and there just weren’t that many women [in physics at that time],” says Lind-ley Winslow, assistant professor of physics at uCLA. “And we’re waiting for that discovery to be made. It’s always a waiting game with the Nobel Prize.”

Age is important to note. Con-rad says that more and more wom-en are entering the field of phys-ics, but as a result, they’re still of-ten younger than what the com-

mittee seems to prefer. According to the Nobel Prize website, the av-erage age of Nobel laureates has even increased since the 1950s.

If it seems like this is even fur-ther discrimination — ageism on top of sexism — it’s certainly a valid question. however, Conrad isn’t sure why the average age of the Nobel Prize winners has ris-en so much; she thinks there may be a backlog of big discoveries to honour.

Newer discoveries, and the younger scientists who made them, may simply be waiting in line.

the Nobel Foundation did not respond to requests for comment.

the committee has, however, made some exceptions in recog-nising younger people — Conrad cites astrophysicist Adam reiss as an example, who won alongside colleagues in cosmology in 2011, and was 41 at the time.

But the Nobel Prize in Phys-ics isn’t a lifetime achievement award — it honors a singular ac-complishment, which can be tricky for both men and women.

“Doing Nobel Prize-worthy re-search is a combination of doing excellent science and also getting lucky,” Conrad says. “Discover-ies can only happen at a certain place and time, and you have to be lucky to be there then. these women coming into the field are as excellent as the men, and I have every reason to think they will have equal luck. So, I think in the future you will start to see lots of women among the Nobel Prize winners. I am optimistic.”

So, who are the biggest female contenders for the lauded prize? Both Conrad and Winslow name atomic physicists Deborah Jin and Lene hau, as well as laser physicist Margaret Murnane — though they may be seen as too young.

But perhaps the most worthy is Vera rubin, who discovered the strongest evidence for dark matter thus far. Winslow thinks the omission of rubin may show a bias the Nobel committee has against astronomy. regardless, rubin’s discovery has definitely stood the test of time.

“Vera rubin meets all the ‘re-quirements,’ as I understand them, and she was born in 1928, so she more than matches their ap-parent age preference, too,” Con-rad says. “If they ever are to give it to her, they must do it quickly, and I had hoped for this year.”

For now, we all have to play the “waiting game” Winslow men-tioned, and hope that when it comes to the Nobel Prize, wom-en are given their due in physics soon. — Mashable

Marie Curie (left), was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1903. Maria Goeppert Mayer (right) was the second, and so far last, woman to win the prize, in 1963.

A graph showing the Nobel Prize Gender gap

Women are generally under-represented in the field of physics itself

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Nuclear workers kept in dark on hazard pay

HIRONO — Almost a year after Japan pledged to double haz-ard pay at the strick-en Fukushima nucle-

ar plant, workers are still in the dark about how much extra they are getting paid, if anything, for cleaning up the worst nuclear dis-aster since Chernobyl.

Under pressure to improve working conditions at Fukushi-ma after a series of radioactive water leaks last year, Tokyo Elec-tric Power Co (Tepco) President Naomi Hirose promised in No-vember to double the hazard pay the utility allocates to its subcon-tractors for plant workers. That would have increased the amount each worker at the nuclear facil-ity is supposed to earn to about US$180 a day in hazard pay.

Only one of the more than three dozen workers interviewed from July through September said he received the full hazard pay in-crease promised by Tepco. Some workers said they got nothing. In cases where payslips detailed a hazard allowance, the amounts ranged from US$36 to about US$90 a day — at best half of what Hiro-se promised.

In some instances, workers said they were told they would be paid a hazard bonus based on how much radiation they absorbed —

an incentive to take additional risks at a dangerous work site.

One worker said he was told he would get an additional US$45 per day every time he was in so-called “hot zones” near Reactors No. 1 and No. 2. Another worker was told he would receive an hourly rate that worked out to US$4 500 extra in hazard pay for being ex-posed to the radiation limit for Ja-pan’s nuclear workers over a five-year period. And a third work-er said he was told the payout for that same exposure would be US$36 000.

Assessing how much Fukushi-ma workers are being paid is com-plicated by Tepco’s insistence that pay is a private matter for its con-tractors. The power utility, which runs Fukushima and has been na-tionalised, sits at the top of a con-tracting pyramid that includes construction giants such as Taisei Corp. Tepco has declined to dis-close details of any of its legal agreements with its subcontrac-tors.

The top Tepco official at the plant conceded during a July press tour of the complex that he did not know how much of the in-crease in hazard pay was being disbursed. “When it comes to the pay rise, I don’t have an exact un-derstanding of how much money is getting directly to the workers,”

said Akira Ono, the Fukushima plant manager.

Tepco said in a statement that it instructs subcontractors to en-sure workers’ pay is included in all contracts and it also asks companies working at the plant to submit documentation for all the subcontractors they use. The power utility said it had recent-ly begun random checks of some of the smaller contractors to de-termine how much of the hazard pay is reaching workers. A worker who filled in a Tepco survey said in September that one of the ques-tions was directly related to haz-ard pay.

Tepco still relies on some 800 mostly small contractors to pro-vide workers for the cleanup af-ter the tsunami that swamped the plant on March 11 2011 sparked meltdowns at three reactors. Sub-contractors provide almost all of the 6 000 workers now employed at the plant. Tokyo Electric employs only about 250 on its own payroll at the facility.

The workforce at Fukushima has almost doubled over the past year, mostly as part of an effort to protect groundwater from be-ing contaminated and to store water that comes in contact with melted fuel in the reactor build-ings.

Some of the workers who ar-rived recently at the plant have been building bunkers to store highly radioactive sludge, which is a by-product of the process

whereby contaminated water is treated. Others are install-ing equipment to freeze a ring of earth around four reactors at Fukushima to keep water from reaching the melted cores, an un-precedented effort directed by Ka-jima Corp and expected to cost nearly US$300 million.

Kazumitsu Nawata, a profes-sor in the University of Tokyo’s department of technology who has researched conditions inside Fukushima, said that if workers do not receive pay that is commen-surate with the risks they are tak-ing, they will ultimately look else-where for employment. If more experienced workers leave for saf-er jobs in Tokyo where construc-tion projects are accelerating ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games, it will also increase the likelihood of accidents at the plant, Nawata said in an interview.

“Until now, we have relied heav-ily on the goodwill of workers. But it’s already been three years since the accident. This is no long-er sustainable,” he said.

Like other workers, Koji Sakurada learned about the haz-ard pay pledge soon after Tep-co president Hirose made his an-nouncement last November. News of the promised increase spread by word of mouth and text mes-sages at a crowded break room at the plant.

“I expected one of my [subcon-

tractor] employers to call a meet-ing to talk about a raise, but there was nothing,” Sakurada said. “They completely ignored Tepco’s announcement.”

By then, Sakurada (52), had al-ready spent a year and a half scanning buses and work vans for radiation as they left the plant. Wearing a protective suit and mask, he worked a nine-hour shift running a Geiger counter over the vehicles in a makeshift tent set up as a decontamination station. He was paid about US$9 an hour.

Sakurada was one of four Fuku-shima workers who last month filed a lawsuit seeking to hold Tepco responsible for conditions at the plant, even for workers it does not employ directly. It marks the first time Tepco has been sued for a failure to police the employ-ment practices of its subcontrac-tors.

The lawsuit, which was filed in a court in the city of Iwaki, about 60km south of the nuclear plant, seeks US$600 000 in unpaid wages. It also seeks to have Fukushima workers put on Tepco’s payroll or have the utility otherwise take re-sponsibility for their pay.

Tepco said it had not yet re-ceived Sakurada’s lawsuit. “If a suit has indeed been filed, we will check the demands and claims and make a sincere effort to deal with it,” the company said.

— Reuters

Workers were told they would be paid a hazard bonus based on the radiation they absorbed — an incentive to take additional risks at Fukushima

A man is screened for radiation

A man puts on protective clothing as he prepares to start work. Pictures: Reuters

Workers in protective suits wait to enter the emergency operation centre in Fukushima

What challenges do lesbian and bisexual women face in the health care system?


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Kevin Pietersen ‘settles scores & reopens wounds’

Kevin Pietersen’s book re-lease and its turbulent af-termath is the culmination

of a deeply unpleasant six months for english cricket.

Much of this could, and should, have been avoided if matters had been dealt with when Pietersen and england parted company in February.

But instead, we had the dread-ed confidentiality clause, which allowed the issue to lurk in the background all summer before this week’s stream of revelations.

Sadly, i don’t think the blood-letting is over yet. Graeme Swann has had his say in his newspaper column recently, but several of the other people who have been criticised in Pietersen’s book —such as Matt Prior, Andy Flower and Stuart Broad — might well be tempted to exercise their right of reply.

My view, having read the book and listened to Pietersen’s inter-views this week, is that the opin-ions on both sides of the debate will simply be entrenched further.

Those who consider him to be a misunderstood genius that eve-ryone was out to get will feel they are justified. And those who felt he wanted the world to revolve around him, that everything should be done on his own terms, will find plenty of material to back up that view, too.

Of course, his version of events had to be given but, personally, i would like to have read much more about his great innings, the joy of playing and winning four Ashes series’ for england and be-coming number one in the world.

How did he prepare to face the

best bowlers of his time? And what about the development of his team-mates, such as Swann, James Anderson, Alastair Cook and ian Bell.

But that is not on offer. instead, it is a stream of unhappiness, sus-picion and accusations.

Pietersen seeks an ulterior mo-tive in everything, and usually succeeds in finding one. While i think he has reason to harbour suspicion of some team-mates — and they of him — after the sum-mer of 2012, he believes that peo-ple were out to get him from the start.

One example would be in 2008 in india, during Pietersen’s third Test match as captain. england had lost the previous match and Flower, who was assistant coach, asked his skipper if at any time he would like some help and ad-vice from a former international captain and batsman, he only had to ask it of him.

Somehow, Pietersen saw an ul-terior motive in this. He viewed it as “a corporate move: deputy CeO Flower has been designated to use a limited amount of empa-thy with a talented but troubled employee”. Actually, it sounds as if he was trying to help, Kevin.

After the “Textgate” affair in 2012, Pietersen probably had good reason to be wary. The recently-leaked briefing document of the eCB illustrates the level to which he was being monitored last win-ter. But the constant feeling of victimisation throughout his ca-reer is harder to justify.

He wanted his wife to come out on tour at a different time to eve-ryone else; he wanted to fly home

from the West indies for a few days to be with his family; he wanted to play an indian Premier League match in between two home Test matches.

He must have known deep down that the answer to all of these questions would be no, but he re-acted angrily to the inevitable re-buttals and his relationship with Andrew Strauss soured as a re-sult. “Right Straussy, if this is the way you want things to go...” he wrote of his captain after one such incident.

On the first page, Pietersen lik-ens himself to a soldier marching to a different step to the rest. But someone does have to get that col-umn of soldiers marching in step, and that someone is the coach.

That Flower managed to do so, culminating in the success he achieved, is therefore remarka-ble. But he will find no credit here. “i’m telling you, i know you are a dreadful coach not by how you won, but how you lost,” Pietersen wrote of Flower.

The parody Twitter account is clearly the thing that most dis-tressed Pietersen. initially he seemed happy to play along with it, until he suspected that one or more of his team-mates were in-volved — not in running the ac-count, as he has suggested, but in contributing information to it.

it seems as if this, and a gener-al unhappiness — “it’s tough being me” — is his justification for the

Kevin Pietersen (Left) pictured during happier times in the Ashes team

Matt Prior (left) comes in for extensive criticism in Pietersen’s book

texts he sent to the South Africans.That will not wash with his team-

mates and, judging by Strauss’s lapse behind the microphone this summer, he is clearly still deeply wounded by it. Those messages re-main Pietersen’s Achilles heel and that key incident is not clearly ex-plained.

i entirely agree with his com-ments about the bowlers attacking fielders for making mistakes, and have said so for more than a year. it is counter-productive and entirely unnecessary. no one means to mis-field, or drop a catch.

Pietersen alludes to a bully-ing culture in the dressing room from a clique containing the bowl-

ers and Prior. if so, that is entire-ly unhealthy and Pietersen is quite right to highlight it. But then to launch into such a brutal charac-ter assassination of Prior through-out the book is surely no better?

So scores are settled and wounds reopened. it has been that sort of summer.

Maybe when the dust finally set-tles on this book, Pietersen might consider another in which he ad-dresses all that is missing here. He might by then reflect more happi-ly on his outstanding career that brought such pleasure to so many, and how fortunate he was to have experienced it.

— BBCSport

On the first page, Pietersen likens himself to a soldier marching to a different step to the rest. But someone does have to get that column of soldiers marching in step, and that someone is the coach

Ghana World Cup row may inspire filmOne of the most controversial sto-ries from the 2014 World Cup is set for the big screen treatment.

in June, the Ghana team refused to train just days before their final group match against Portugal be-cause of a row over appearance fees.

Ghana’s government stepped in and sent more than US$3m in cash by plane to Brazil to pay the players.

Bugeater Films, a United States film production company, is aiming to turn the story into a Hollywood hit. They have hired screenwriter Darryl Wharton-Rigby to pen the movie.

Wharton-Rigby, a former staff writer for acclaimed US Tv series Homicide: Life on the Street, is writ-ing a thriller based on the incident.

“Football and the players needing the money is kind of the backdrop to the story,” Wharton-Rigby told the BBC World Service Sportshour programme.

“But it’s really about the journey of the guy who actually is entrust-ed to deliver the money and what happens if he doesn’t get it there in time.

“i actually want the guy who’s the hero of the story to be from Ghana. i think there should be a hero who is African telling the story.”

The Ghana players, including Christian Atsu, who is on loan at everton from Chelsea, AC Mi-lan’s Michael essien and Middles-brough’s Albert Adomah, received the money (US$100 000 each) the night before the game. it was recent-ly revealed that many of them kept the cash in the dressing room dur-ing the Portugal match.

“it’s very much truth stranger than fiction,” explained Wharton-Rigby.

“i saw footage of the police cars taking the money on the highway and you can just see that scene play-

ing out in your mind with someone like Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson as the guy having to save the day. You can see all kinds of mayhem hap-pening on the highway.”

“it’s 50-50 as to whether it will get made, we’re still at the early stages so we’re going to take it one step at a time. Hopefully we can write a great script and get some-

one who is attached to it. it’s a fas-cinating story and i think audi-ences internationally would really take to it.”

— BBCSport

Ghana national team during the 2014 World Cup


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‘No changes to 2015 Nations Cup’

Blatter ‘must go to restore credibility’

The organiser of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations says there are no changes to the dates or schedule despite a request from

hosts Morocco to postpone. Morocco’s government has writ-

ten to the Confederation of Afri-can Football (CAF) to delay the January 17 to February 8 event be-cause of the Ebola outbreak.

CAF said it will discuss the re-quest at the next meeting of its executive committee on Novem-ber 2.

And its president Issa Hayatou will meet Moroccan officials the next day.

More than 4 000 people have died in the Ebola epidemic that broke out in west Africa at the start of the year.

The Morocco health ministry made its plea on Friday in the wake of its decision “to avoid events which involve those coun-tries affected by the Ebola virus”.

Yesterday, CAF responded in a statement: “CAF has registered the request and wishes to state that there are no changes of the schedules of its competitions and events.

“It must be noted that since the first edition in 1957, the Afri-ca Cup of Nations has never wit-

nessed a deferral or a change in schedule.

“CAF has also been cautious since the commencement of the final round qualifiers of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations on the health risks posed by the Ebola vi-rus and has consistently applied precautionary principles, taking into account the recommenda-tions of the World Health Organ-isation and various medical ex-perts.”

In July, Seychelles cancelled and forfeited their Nations Cup qualifier home match against Si-erra Leone because of fears over the Ebola virus.

And CAF has placed an indefi-nite ban on Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea — the countries worst affected by the Ebola outbreak — from hosting matches in their own countries.

Sierra Leone and Guinea, the two nations involved in Nations Cup qualifying, have since played their “home” matches in DR Con-go and Morocco respectively.

For the upcoming double-head-ers, played this weekend and next Wednesday, Sierra Leone will play Cameroon twice in Yaounde while Guinea will host Ghana in Casa-blanca before travelling to Tamale for the away fixture. — BBCSport

CAF president Issa Hayatou will meet Moroccan officials in November over the request to have the 2015 Nations Cup postponed to February because of the Ebola outbreak.

In July, Seychelles cancelled and forfeited their Nations Cup qualifier home match against Sierra Leone because of fears over the Ebola virus

England manager Roy Hodgson in-sists he won’t let rising star Raheem Sterling (pictured right) suffer from

burnout on the road to Euro 2016.With England on cruise control by half-

time in Thursday’s 5-0 victory over San Marino, Hodgson was quick to substi-tute Sterling at the interval in a bid to keep one of his most prized assets fresh for today’s slightly more testing qualifier against Estonia in Tallinn.

Hodgson knows Sterling’s emergence over the last 12 months has been a major bonus as he tries to revitalise an England team that had grown old and often lethar-gic in recent years.

But the 19-year-old Liverpool midfield-er’s dazzling breakthrough campaign last season went into overtime with the World Cup and he has shown a few signs of suffering from both mental and physi-cal fatigue in recent weeks.

Sterling has scored only once in his last 10 appearances for club and country and, while his performance against San Marino was energetic enough, Hodgson had seen enough to know the teenager would be better off taking a break.

Asked if there was a chance Sterling could crumble under the weight of ex-pectations rapidly growing around him with England and back at Anfield, Hodg-son said: “He is not alone in that. A lot of players have found that in the past. [Wayne] Rooney, for example. We are con-scious of managing it.

“I don’t think it will need managing un-til he shows signs of suffering from it.

“When he shows signs of not being quite as sharp, not doing as well, trying too hard, that night be the moment we think we have to manage this and give

him a break.“But that is not the case at the moment

and I don’t think Liverpool need to worry. His first half [against San Marino] was a lively as he could have been.”

Although Sterling’s potent combina-tion of pace and poise have made him the most eye-catching of Hodgson’s new recruits, the victory against San Mari-no highlighted the potential of Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck and his club col-leagues Calum Chambers, Jack Wilshere and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

With Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge, who is out of the current qualifiers due to injury, also part of a youthful influx that forms the core of Hodgson’s squad, the coach admits he is fortunate to be in charge at a time when the future looks relatively bright.

“It’s something we talk about, attack-ing talent. Strangely, it has manifested it-self,” said Hodgson, whose side are top of Group E after winning their opening two matches.

“We didn’t know Sterling would turn out a year ago, the player he is today.

“We didn’t know Welbeck when he got his chance. We didn’t know Sturridge

when he got his chance.“I have been lucky enough to be there

when it happened and, I suppose, bright enough to realise that I don’t have to hang my hat on 30-year-olds and if these guys are that good, I can put them in the team.

“Looking forward this team is mostly 21 or 22. I am enjoying the moment where they gain experience and they are provid-ing a lot of things which give us a lot of satisfaction.”

Coached by Magnus Pehrsson, a 38-year-old Swede whose playing career included a brief spell in England with Bradford in 1996, Estonia started their qualifying campaign with a 1-0 win over Slovenia, but were beaten 1-0 by Lithua-nia on Thursday.

That defeat featured a red card for Ken Kallaste, which rules the left-back out of today’s clash as the hosts aim to stop England captain Rooney, whose penalty on Thursday took him to 42 international goals, moving closer to Bobby Charlton’s record of 49.

“It’s reachable and if I can get the goals to help me beat that record I would be de-lighted, but I’m focused on getting the wins,” Rooney said. —Supersport

Hodgson vows to save Sterling

FIFA’S credibility can-not be salvaged un-til Sepp Blatter leaves his role as president, according to a former member of the world governing body’s in-dependent governance committee.

Michael Hershman, an expert in transpar-ency, said: “For the good of the sport Sepp Blat-ter should leave and let new blood come in.

“It needs a change of leadership. Any time an organisation has gone through years and years of scandal and it has a credibility prob-lem, it’s always best for the leaders to change.”

Blatter (78), has been president since 1998, and last month de-clared his intention to run for re-election, de-spite promises his cur-rent fourth term would be his last, something Hershman described as “unfortunate”.

Speaking at the Qa-tar-backed Internation-al Sport Security con-ference, Hershman also called for commer-cial sponsors of Fifa to make a stand.

“I’m very disappoint-ed about the lack of in-tervention from exter-

nal stakeholders, in particular sponsors who from time to time issued press releases saying they expect Fifa to conduct itself with integrity.

“But in very few cas-es have they said ‘un-less you make the fol-lowing changes we’re going to walk away’, and until they do that there’s not going to be the kind of change that really needs to happen.”

“In general we’re reaching a point where people are getting so an-gry, so frustrated. We’re very close to the tipping point, almost past the tipping point.”

The IGC — a panel in-troduced by Blatter in 2011 — advises the or-ganisation on reforms after a series of finan-cial and vote-buying al-legations.

Fifa has no plans at present to publish a re-port by former US attor-ney Michael Garcia into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments. Her-shman called for it to be made public, with the names of some wit-nesses redacted to pro-tect them.

— BBCSport


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Egypt too strong for Botswana

FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Friday called for an end to the away goals winner rule in clashes with two matches.

Blatter said the rule favours clubs who play away in the second leg because extra time can give an extra opportunity to get a goal with double value.

“It is time to rethink the system,” Blatter said in a column for the Fifa publication The Week.

Away goals are notably used in the Champions League knockout stages and other European club competitions where it was introduced in 1965.

Where two sides are level after two legs, the team which has scored more goals away from home goes through.

“The idea dates back to a time when away games were often an adventure, involving journeys that could be long and arduous,” said the 78-year-old Fifa leader.

“As well-established as the rule is, it can be viewed critically today, because it favours the team playing away in the second leg.”

The system is no longer used in the semifinals of promotion play-offs in the English League.

US Major League Soccer and the Concacaf Cham-pions League in the Americas only count goals scored in the 90 minutes of regulation time.

“Football has progressed since the 1960s so the away goals rule may now be questioned,” said Blat-ter, who did not propose an alternative. — BBCSport

GOALS from Mohamed Elneny and Mohamed Salah powered Egypt to a 2-0 away win over Botswana in a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Friday night.

The Pharaohs, who lost their first two Group G qualifiers against Sen-egal and Tunisia last month, have put themselves on the board in the standings and hoped that the top two play to a draw when they met 24 hours later.

The Zebras, in contrast, have now suffered three straight defeats and look to be out of the running to ap-pear at the Afcon finals in Morocco next year.

After a goalless first half at the Na-tional Stadium in Gaborone, Egypt broke the deadlock 10 minutes into the second stanza when midfielder

Mohamed Elneny smashed a long-range shot into the top corner.

And just past the hour mark it was 2-0 to the North Africans, with Mohamed Salah shooting low into the net from the edge of the penal-ty area.

Such was the Pharaohs’ domi-nance of the match that they could have easily added to their advan-tage, but opted instead to take their foot off the pedal and cruise to full time.

The teams will meet again for the return match on Wednesday even-ing in Cairo.

In onother match, Lesotho and Angola settled for a point each when their 2015 CAF Africa Cup of Na-tions qualifier ended in a 0-0 draw at the Setsoto Stadium in Maseru on

Friday night.Both sides were in search of their

first win in Group C but neither were able to find the goal they need to grab maximum points.

The result leaves Likuena in third place with two points from three matches, while the Palancas Negras remain at the bottom of the table with just one point.

The chances were few and far be-tween in the first half but it was the visitors who had the better opportu-nities, although neither side were able to hit the target.

Arsenio Love Cabungula had a good chance in the 13th minute when he controlled a low cross in-side the box, but his effort was de-flected wide of the post.

Meanwhile, Senegal and Tuni-

sia failed to maintain their perfect starts in the 2015 Africa Cup of Na-tions qualifiers when they played to a 0-0 draw at the Stade Leopold Se-dar in Dakar on Friday night.

The Carthage Eagles had an op-portunity as early as the second minute when they were awarded a free kick just outside the penalty area on the right but Ali Maaloul saw his effort was saved by Bouna Coundoul.

Senegal did try to attack but they were unable to get their pass-es right in the final third as Tuni-sia stood strong in defence. The vis-itors threatened again on the half hour mark when the ball fell kind-ly for Ben Youssef Fakhreddine but his volleyed shot sailed wide of goal.

— SupersportGoal scorer . . . Mohamed Elneny

Blatter calls for end to away goals rule

‘Postpone Africa Cup of Nations for Ebola’ THE government of host country Morocco says the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations should be postponed be-cause of the Ebola epidemic.

The biennial competition is scheduled to be held between January 17 and February 8 2015.

The request to delay the event has been lodged with organisers Confederation of African Football (CAF).

More than 4 000 people have died in the Ebola ep-idemic that broke out in West Africa at the start of the year.

The Morocco health ministry made the plea in the wake of their decision “to avoid events which involve those countries affected by the Ebola virus.” — BBC-Sport

Fifa president Sepp Blatter


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Did English Premiership rule supreme?ThaT a paltry crowd turned

up to watch the OneWallet Cup final between Dynamos

and eventual winners Triangle has raised an interesting debate on whether soccer fans prefer to watch the English Premiership than they do their own domestic games.

For a cup final involving the most popular football team in the coun-try in the form of Dynamos to at-tract a crowd of less than 10 000, appears to show that our domes-tic game is no longer as popular as those days I was growing up in the dusty streets of Rimuka in Kado-ma.

Then, there was no live televi-sion screening of English Pre-miership matches. We used to watch EPL games while gath-ered at one place and through the window of someone’s house, on a small black and white television for that matter.

More importantly, those Eng-lish Premiership matches which were screened on Sundays at 6:45pm would have been played a week ago.

Those were also the days we used to watch Game of the Week on Wednesdays — a programme that featured a game that the Zim-babwe Broadcasting Corporation felt was the most interesting game of the week.

During those days, local soccer matches attracted huge crowds irrespective of who was playing. a game between small clubs like Rio Tinto and Ziscosteel was a sell out. Not mentioning the games between Dynamos against high-landers or CaPS United.

But events that took centre stage in the final of the OneWallet Cup final between Dynamos and Triangle at the National Sports Stadium last Sunday spoke vol-umes of how times have changed.

Less than 10 000 people were at the stadium to watch Dynamos play. Under normal circumstanc-es, Dynamos attract crowds of not less than 20 000 people even when they are playing Flame Lily or

Masvingo United.The reason why the game did

not attract a big crowd is simple — it was fixtured on the wrong day. It was a day when Manches-ter United, widely regarded as the most followed team in the world and in Zimbabwe, was playing Everton at Old Trafford.

The Manchester United game was to be followed by another pow-erful match pitting London rivals, top of table Chelsea and arsenal. So, fans chose to stay at home or to go to sports clubs to watch the Red Devils, the Gunners, and the Blues play instead of attending what turned out to be a low-key OneWallet Cup final.

I had a discussion with the for-mer chairman of the Sports Writ-ers association of Zimbabwe and now Herald Senior Sports Editor Robson Sharuko. he highlighted that the organisers of the cup fi-nal should have realised that the high-profile English Premiership matches were to be a counter at-traction to the OneWallet Cup fi-nal.

his opinion was that the final should have been played on Satur-day and more importantly, should have gone for a dollar for the cheapest seat instead of US$3. I, for one, do agree. The organisers of future football events should be wary of the power of the Barclays English Premiership when plan-ning events.Why hide player transfer fees?

Do our clubs have something to hide when it comes to transfer fees?

Rarely are we told how much a player has been sold for. For ex-ample; from highlanders to Dyna-mos or from CaPS United to Cha-pungu.

Yet, everywhere in the world, transfer fees are made public be-

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cause that is the only way a play-er’s value is calculated.

Even player salaries or wages are not a secret for we all know how much cash players earn in the Barclays English Premiership or in other parts of the world.

Yet in Zimbabwe, even some executive members of Dynamos Football Club do not know how much George Chigova was sold for when he joined South african side Supersport.

The Dynamos family deserves to know how much the club ben-efitted from Chigova. We are not saying we need to know what the money was used for, but just the player’s value.

apart from Chigova, Dynamos also sold Partson Jaure to Univer-sity of Pretoria.

What we know is that there was a stalemate over transfer fees. But how much were the South afri-cans offering and how much did Dynamos finally get ?

Chigova and Jaure are exam-ples of the many Zimbabwean players who have been trans-ferred to foreign lands, espe-cially to South africa — which has become a destination for most of our players. But nobody knows how much the players fetched for their clubs and for themselves.

We deserve to know how much the South africans felt Zim-babwe’s top goalscorer Tendai Ndoro was worth. Was the trans-fer fee worth the player’s exploits. Or was he sold for a penny?

how does Ndoro’s offer com-pare to what the South afri-can clubs themselves are offer-ing players from their home land whose transfer fees have not been made a secret at all?

What is ironic is the fact that we all know that Knowledge Musona

moved to Germany club hoffein-heim on a US$1,2 million deal. That is because he was moving from South africa to Germany, otherwise we would never have known of the transfer figure had he been moving from Zim-babwe.

Why is this the case in our foot-ball? are there dirty games being played along the transfer lines that may be exposed by revealing the transfer fees ?

Yes, it is the duty of journalists to inform football followers of the players’ transfer fees, but this in-formation should be made easily available.

In the case of Jaure, Dynamos should simply have come out in the open to reveal how much the amatuks were offering and what they themselves were demanding. Why hide the figures?

We need to know the value of our players. That is how we com-pare ourselves with the other foot-balling nations.

If our players are of low value, then we should not expect to qual-ify for the Nations Cup, worse still the World Cup.

l For views and comments, email: [email protected], or WhatsApp on 077 3 266 779.

Angel Di Maria celebrating his opening goal against Everton last Sunday. Manchester United paid £59,7 million to get him.

There are many things to do after football — ShereniBy MICHAEL KARIATI

ZIMBaBWE has had a lot of foot-ballers who have made fortunes plying their trade in Europe and other parts of the world.

Norman Mapeza built a man-sion in the leafy suburb of Glen Lorne in harare, Benjani Mwaru-wari acquired houses in the Unit-ed Kingdom, France and South af-rica, and of course, Edward Sad-omba has accumulated properties in all the four corners of the coun-try.

But never do we hear of any one of them venturing into business or any other money-spinning venture to complement the earnings accu-mulated from football.

Instead, they have been concen-trating on fighting for the same cake – that of landing the national team coach post or other positions in the Warriors set up.

It is a fact that most former foot-ballers who played their football in Zimbabwe have ended up des-titute. But should we expect the same fate for those plying their trade outside the country where the money is?

a football fan jokingly said one player who featured in the South african absa Premiership had nothing to show for his six-year stint in that country apart from the pictures he brought from his playing days.

What lesson is that for genera-tions to come?

This is the scenario that har-lington Shereni is determined to change and prove that retired foot-ballers can live without coaching or anything to do with football as there are other paths to take.

Shereni, who played for Dyna-mos before his departure for Swit-zerland and later France, says he

wants to show that footballers can be as good as any successful busi-nessman in the country. Shereni is weighing out a number of busi-ness options to invest in, but rules out involvement in football.

The former Zimbabwe interna-tional who also played for Stras-bourg and Nantes in France said he has already started laying down the foundation for his business venture which will be there for everyone to see in a few months’ time.

“I am out of football. I know it

will be difficult but that is my deci-sion. I am looking at certain busi-ness ventures to see which route I can take,” he said.

The former Dynamos defender rules out going into coaching or being a player manager or agent, adding that the only way he could help football is by linking young-sters who showed potential with his former coaches in Europe.

Should he succeed in his busi-ness venture, he would have laid down the foundation for most of Zimbabwean footballers who see

coaching as the only way to sur-vive after retiring from football.

Shereni says he would have loved a position within the Zimba-bwe Football association, but the name of the office has been soiled to an extent that very few people would love to be associated with it.

The defender, who was part of the Warriors squad for the 2004 africa Cup of Nations finals in Egypt, offered his views on why he thinks the Warriors have been per-ennial under-achievers on the in-ternational front.

To him, the war between the players and the national football controlling body, Zifa, was a major contributor.

“There are differences every day. The main problem is and has been money. Funds should be made available long before a game, and agreed upon long before the match is played,” said Shereni.

he dismissed the claim by Zifa that they were not getting gov-ernment support, saying govern-ments all over the world only came in to complement what the football associations would have raised from various sponsors.

“In other countries, there are sponsors for travel kits and accom-modation. But that is not happen-ing here.

“Something is wrong some-where. The sponsors are there but the approach is wrong,” said She-reni. Continued on Page 29

Harlington Shereni


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Fans’ unruly behaviour costs PSL clubs dearly

FROM PAGE 28However, Zimbabwe Football

Association chief executive of-ficer Jonathan Mashingaidze stood in defence of the football federation.

He says they have been to every company big and small but the re-sults have been the same.

“Zifa? No, no. Our name will be brought into the mud,” has been the general response from spon-sors, Mashingaidze said.

The Zifa supremo said the name of the association was brought into disrepute long before they came into office, adding that re-pairing it was becoming a big problem.

The former En Avant Guih-gamp defensive midfielder said

By Brian nkiwane

PREMIER Soccer League (PSL) clubs continue to lose large sums of money due

to the bad behaviour of their sup-porters while players go for months without getting their salaries, al-lowances and winning bonuses.

The prevailing situation has not gone down well with the powers that represent football supporters as well as the Footballers Union of Zimbabwe (FUZ) who represent players’ interests.

From the standing order offenc-es and fines report released by the PSL for the month of August, close to US$18 000 was raised from fines with top clubs Highlanders and Dy-namos once again losing the largest chunk, due to the bad behaviour of their fans.

Other offences include negligence by the clubs to abide by standing Fifa and Zifa statutes which have nothing to do with supporters’ be-haviour.

Standardsport caught up with Zifa Supporters liaison officer Simeone Jamanda whose position was a result of a directive from the world football governing body Fifa — to find out what PSL, working with clubs, can do to address the supporters’ behaviour to avoid a situation whereby clubs continue to lose large sums of money.

“I think this is an interesting top-ic that you have brought up. I for one have on many occasions after seeing the rate at which violence was rearing its ugly head in most of our matches, forwarded sugges-tions to PSL to have supporters ed-ucated on violence. As the football supreme body, PSL have to educate supporters on the dos and don’ts

and how they should behave when they get to match venues. Football is no longer a family sport as we used to know it. We used to take our families to match venue but now it has become a death trap,” Jaman-da said.

Jamanda challenged football sponsors to have supporters at heart, bearing in mind that match-es are nothing without followers.

“I think if I remember very well, when Delta Beverages launched their Chibuku Super Cup, Maxan Karombo asked fans to behave for the brand’s protection. He pleaded with fans to behave. But my problem is when these sponsors come, they set aside the entire package for priz-es and administration, forgetting to educate fans who make the game look beautiful with their following.”

Jamanda added that in the face of the 2017 Afcon bid, Zimbabwe-an football fans should behave to in-crease Zimbabwe’s chances of win-ning the bid to host the grand occa-sion.

“Honestly how are we going to win the bid to host such a big event when the media is always report-ing about violence at match venues. It’s high time Zifa, PSL and football supporters representatives sit down for a common cause for the good of the game. It’s disheartening to note that players go for months without salaries because some mischievous supporter came from somewhere to throw stones into the pitch and the club gets fined and instead of pay-ing players, the money goes towards the fine. It’s unfair because for play-ers, it is their own employment,” added Jamanda.

He took a swipe at PSL who last year had to garnish most of the clubs’ prize money for similar of-

fences.“Last year a number of clubs

went home empty-handed after PSL garnished their prize money. They should have players at heart as well.”

FUZ secretary general Paul Gun-dani echoed Jamanda’s sentiments; “As FUZ, we have been trying by all means as well to engage Zifa and PSL on these issues but to no joy. It’s high time Zifa, PSL, players and supporters sit down to come up with a workable relationship that will see all this being a thing of the past. It’s no longer safe to go to watch football matches. What we need to do is edu-cate supporters on how they should behave when they get to match ven-ues. It’s better for PSL to lose mon-ey investing in supporters’ educa-tion than for clubs to continue los-ing money through paying fines.

“PSL must ensure clubs have friendly marshals who will be able to calm down fans in case they would want to revolt or throw mis-siles. In addition to that, clubs should pay the police to maintain peace and order at the games. Po-lice should be looking at the terrac-es so that whoever is caught misbe-having or throwing missiles would be brought to book,” Gundani said.

PSL chief executive officer Ken-ny Ndebele said clubs as entities should be in a position to defend the actions by their fans.

“Clubs should make sure they abide by Fifa and Zifa statutes to avoid some of these small things which will cost them money. We

Disaster . . . CAPS United fans invade the field of play in protest baying for Taurai Mangwiro’s blood

PSL chief executive officer Kenny Ndebele

sat with the board of governors who are the ones who put in place these statutes. It was agreed for example on the issue of throwing missiles or pitch invasion, that the charges should be reduced by 50% from the previous year from US$8 000 to where it is now (US$4 000). These were the board or governors who are represent-atives from all the 16 clubs. The league is there only to enforce,” Ndebele said.

He however agreed that there was

need to educate football supporters on the dos and don’ts when they get to football match venues.

Zifa communications manager Xolisani Gwesela said Zifa was in full support of PSL.

“Clubs should be responsible for the actions of their fans. They should come up with policy frame-works that guide supporters. Look at continental levels, if club fans misbehave, CAF fines the clubs there and there. So it just has to be the pattern,” Gwesela said.

Shereni speaks on life after football

as long as the association did not put its house in order, Zimbabwe would not make the Nations Cup trip as happened in 2004 and 2006.

Even as the World Cup seems far beyond Zimbabwe’s reach, the Warriors have failed to qual-ify even for the Africa Cup of Na-tions since 2006 when weak foot-balling nations like Namibia and Botswana made it to the football showcase and more importantly, when neighbours Zambia won the competition itself.

But Mashingaidze says they have laid down a plan starting from the juniors to see to it that Zimbabwe qualifies for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals. That is if they do not win the right to host the tournament.

Eastern Region race enters home stretchBy nyamBira ChivaSa

THE Eastern Region Division One championship challenge has nar-rowed to a two horse race between log leaders Mutare City Rovers FC and Buffaloes Juniors FC as it en-ters home stretch.

It’s almost certain that the sole ticket to play in the topflight league will remain in Mutare as the battle now lies between the two clubs that are based in the border town.

If the ticket remains in Mutare, the move will see the town having two premiership clubs as they al-ready have army side Buffaloes, provided they survive the dreaded chop as they have been finding the going tough in the Castle Lager pre-miership.

Both teams kept their promotion battle alive after posting emphatic victories over the weekend.

Buffaloes Juniors beat ZRP Masv-ingo FC 2-0 at Mucheke last Sunday to maintain top spot.

The Mutare-based outfit has so far collected 55 points from 24 out-ings and is a point ahead of second placed Mutare City who narrowly edged Gaza Gunners 2-1 at their own backyard.

Out of the 24 outings, Buffaloes Juniors have managed to win 18 times, drew once and lost five.

Mutare City are a stone throw away with just a single point from the log leaders. On 54 points, the Mutare-based side has managed to win 16 times, drew six times and lost twice.

Eastern Stars are on third posi-tion with 47 points after handing Chivhu Star a thorough 4-0 beating.

Former premiership side Masv-ingo United who have been blow-ing hot and cold seem to be losing grip of the leading pact as they were dealt a blow by Renco Mine FC who had a spirited performance to force a 1-all draw. The results cast into doubt their chances of making a quick return to the topflight league

despite the league still having six matches to be played. They are on fourth position with 46 points, nine behind log leaders. Howev-er, they are still within a shouting distance.

Speaking to Standardsport, Mu-tare City Rovers FC secretary Soul Tomu paid tribute to Mutare City council that has been bankrolling the club.

“We have been enjoying a sound fi-nancial backing from the city of Mu-tare and other stakeholders, as well as individuals. Everyone has start-ed believing that promotion into the league is achievable,” Tomu said.

Weekend fixtures:FC Three Leaves vs Renco Mine FC Masvingo United vs Mutare Poly FC Mwenezana vs Tenax FCMutare City vs Surrey FCRuwa United vs Gaza Gunners FCGutu Fc vs Chivhu StarsEastern Stars vs ZRP Masvingo FCBlack Eagles vs Buffaloes Juniors

Jamanda challenged football sponsors to also have supporters at heart, bearing in mind that matches are nothing without followers


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Southern Rocks very much alive

By MunyaRadzi MadzokeRe

FOrmer franchise cricket side Southern rocks begins life as a Zimbabwe Crick-

et developmental project with the aim to identify and nurture talent as well as create a strong player base by the time Zimba-bwe Cricket (ZC) reviews the franchise positions.

The project is set to cover masv-ingo and matabeleland South, the relative provinces that make up the Southern rocks or the South-ern cricket region.

In an interview with Standard-sport, Southern rocks area man-ager emmanuel Dube revealed that Southern rocks is still alive but at a different capacity and may even bounce back stronger in three years’ time when the lo-cal cricket mother body reviews the franchise position.

“Southern rocks is still alive.What has been taken away from us is the franchise status which shall be reviewed in about three years time, according to Interna-tional Cricket Council (ICC) rec-ommendations on how Zimbabwe can improve its financial stand-ing.

“We are hoping that we will get back our franchise status if all goes well, but in the meantime we are doing developmental cricket and we have already started by introducing softball cricket in all primary schools here in masvin-go,” Dube said.

Acting on the advice from the ICC, ZC decided to reduce the number of franchises from five to four a few months ago in order to cut on costs and help improve the association’s financial stand-

During happier times . . .Southern Rocks celebrate their victory in the Pro40 Championship final

ing. Southern rocks was not the

worst franchise side in terms of achievement. The team had the fewest home-grown players such that most of their players were not from the representative re-gions, resulting in inflated logis-tical costs.

Top players in the mould of West Indies legend Brian Lara, former Kenya captain Steve Tiko-lo, englishman ryan Sidebottom, Sean Irvine, Chamu Chibhabha and Sikandar raza Butt among many others, donned the rocks’ maroon stripes.

Southern rocks’ immediate task is to capture cricket talent at grassroots level.

“Softball cricket, which targets grade three to five pupils in pri-mary schools, starts next week, our aim being to assemble strong Under-11 and Under-13 teams that will progress to represent their schools, the province, Naph com-petitions and feed into the South-ern rocks leagues,” Dube said.

“We have struggled over the years to put up a competitive league in our region because of the low numbers that we have at junior level and we want to cor-rect that and make sure we create a very strong local league,” add-ed Dube.

Dube also revealed plans to in-troduce competitive cricket in the three masvingo secondary schools in order to get enough numbers to play for the local clubs.

masvingo Sports Club, mutirik-wi, Hungwe, Scorpions, mucheke are the five masvingo-based clubs which will battle it out for top honours in the local league and

Southern Rocks is still alive and may even bounce back stronger in three years’ time when the local cricket mother body reviews the franchise position

from which the Southern rocks team for the national league will be chosen from.

Sadly, clubs from outside masv-ingo cannot be part of the league due to lack of finances.

Dube established that there is a lot of cricket happening in Tri-angle where there are two clubs which engage each other regu-larly in two day games as well as schools competitions.

“What we are working with in masvingo are pilot programmes that we will introduce to oth-er areas in our region, such as Chiredzi, Triangle and matabele-land South. Coaching and umpir-ing clinics will be organised from now going forward to equip the teachers,” said Dube.

Clearly, for Southern rocks the memorable experiences of fran-chise cricket are still vivid, let alone the 2010-11 metbank Pro40 championship success and one hopes they will bounce back into franchise cricket stronger and better. Brian Lara had a stint with Masvingo franchise side Southern Rocks

Zim-bred horses impress at army handicap raceBy Michael kaRiati

IT was all smiles for Zimbabwe race goers after Zimbabwean-bred hors-es finished second and third in the Zimbabwe National Army Hand-icap and dished out huge finan-cial pickings for the punters who backed them all the way to the tilt.

Although coming from differ-ent stables, it was second and third place for Captain’s Tiger from the Alyson Wright yard and Forty One from the Lisa Harris stable, who strongly challenged South Africa’s equina for one of the early big rac-es of the season.

more importantly was the fact that the seven and four-year-old Zimbabwean horses rewarded their horde of followers with good financial spin offs as they paid out handsomely to those who believed in their ability.

Whoever partnered Captain’s Ti-ger and Forty One in the swingers got a cool US$77,40 from a dollar. equina and Captain’s Tiger gave out US$11,10 while equina and For-ty One paid out US$13,30. The trifec-ta of equina, Captain’s Tiger, and Forty One gushed out US$669,70 for every dollar placed.

Captain’s Tiger opened betting at 10/1 but offered more on closing by offering 14/1. But it was Forty One who was the highest paying of the placed horses by closing at 50/1 af-ter opening at 20/1. This means the bookmakers saw no chance in For-ty One to finish as the winner in the race.

The overwhelming favourite was obviously equina who opened at 2/1 and closed at 17/10. This was equina’s first running of the sea-son after a successful 2013/14 sea-son in which she gave memorable

times to trainer Amy Bronkhorst.The seven-year-old Captain’s Ti-

ger was born in Zimbabwe as the son of Century Stud of Austral-ia and Beautiful Life of Zimbabwe while four-year-old grey Forty One was born out of Gharir of Ireland and Sweet Alliance of Zimbabwe.

even more heartening was the fact that the two placed horses were the only Zimbabwean fieldings in the 12 horse race, finishing far ahead of nine South African horses and another one bred in Argentina.

But we need more of the young-er generation of Zimbabwean hors-es to be challenging for honours in-

stead of the seven-year- olds like Captain’s Tiger who are slowly get-ting out of the racing picture.

There are fewer Zimbabwean horses that race in Grade One and Grade Two races. Apart from Cap-tain’s Tiger and Forty One, the oth-er Zimbabwean horses that quali-fy to participate in such high-class races are Pleasant Valley and Final Fling which are not good enough compared to those coming from South Africa.

Grade One races, for which the Castle Tankard is the only one in Zimbabwe, are considered the high-est form of competition a horse can

take part in. South Africa’s most popular racing event — the Dur-ban July — falls in this category too. Jockey S’manga Khumalo who races in Zimbabwe won the Durban July last season.

The Zimbabwe National Army Charity Handicap is Grade Three race. The OK Grand Challenge and the republic Cup are the only grade Two races in Zimbabwe.

The next race meeting at Bor-rowdale race Course comes next Sunday. Unlike in South Africa where racing is on a regular basis, racing in Zimbabwe comes after a fortnight.

Usual winner . . . South Africa’s Equina came first in the Zimbabwe National Army Charity Race at Borrowdale race Course


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ZPC Kariba FC win to go top

By tatenda KunaKa

ZPC Kariba . . . 1Triangle . . .0

ZPC Kariba edged Trian-gle United 1-0 at Gwanzu-ra yesterday to go top of

the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League log tabe.

Kauya Katuruturu or Gwenya rekuchamhembe as they are well-known by their fans got their

goal in the 43rd minute through attacking midfielder Pride Tafirenyika.

An intended clearance in the 12th minute by substitute Jim-my Dzingai who had come in for Menson Nelson was deflected by Tafirenyika, giving Triangle goalkeeper Ronald Mudimu no chance.

ZPC Kariba is now on 47 points, one point above reigning cham-pions Dynamos who are away to

Buffaloes this afternoon.ZPC Kariba coach Saul Chami-

nuka was elated with the result but said his team was not chas-ing the coveted trophy despite being one of the title contenders.

“I am very excited my team won. As for the league title, we want to go all the way up to the last day.

“My target is a top four finish so that we will be able to play in the lucrative Mbada Diamonds Cup,’’ said Chaminuka.

Kauya Katuruturu was miss-ing the services of first choice goalkeeper Tendai Hove who is injured and in his place Tonde-rai Mateyaunga did great.

Triangle coach Biggy Zuze said they lost because of com-placency after winning the One Wallet Cup last weekend, beat-ing Dynamos against all odds.

“The game was tough and the result did not come as we expect-ed, I saw that my players were complacent because of the One Wallet Cup victory over Dyna-mos,” said Zuze.

With five games to go before the league ends, ZPC Kariba is one of the favourites to lift the trophy in their maiden season in the topflight league.

SubStitute Jimmy Dzingai who had come in for Menson Nelson in the 12th minute intended clearance was deflected by Tafirenyika giving Triangle goalkeeper Ronald Mudimu no chance

FC Platinum beat Harare CityBy Our StaFF

Harare City . . .0FC Platinum . . . (1) 2

TWO goals in each half were all FC Platinum needed to collect precious three points against Ha-rare City in a Castle Lager Pre-miership match at Rufaro yester-day.

The platinum miners scored through Walter Musona who had an easy assignment of directing a Raymond Sibanda goal-bound effort into the net off an Obrey Chirwa corner kick while second half substitute Donald Ngoma had another easy task of heading home another Chirwa chip.

The win saw the youthful Nor-man Mapeza-coached side re-main rooted on sixth position, but closed the gap on Hwange who are on fifth position. Both teams are now on 38 points with Hwange still to play How Mine this afternoon.

The match had started on a high tempo with FC Platinum outplaying their opponents in all departments. They had their first attempt at goal as early as the sec-ond minute when Wisdom Muta-sa shot straight into the hands

FC Platinum defender Gift Bello (in green) and Harare City frontrunner Martin Vengesayi tussle for possession in yesterday’s league match at Rufaro. Picture by Nelson Chekera

of Maxwell Nyamupangedengu from a free kick just outside the penalty box.

Before long, Nyamupangeden-gu was called to action again to deny Mutasa from a close range shot.

In the eighth minute, it was Musona’s chance to be denied by Nyamupangedengu after he got to the end of a Mutasa through ball.

After the three shots, FC Plati-num turned on the heat, display-ing some classy football in all de-partments, outplaying Harare City but they were only rewarded in the 27th minute after repeated efforts to break the Harare City defence marshalled by veteran defender David Kutyauripo.

FC Platinum forced a corner which was blocked by Kutyauripo but only as far as Sibanda, whose shot towards goal was directed in the far corner by Musona.

After the breather, Harare City coach Masimba Dinyero breathed life into his players as they came back a changed side.

The Sunshine City boys out-played their opponents and pushed for an equaliser which could not come.

Striker Osborne Mukuradare

came with the miss of the day when a low cross by Talent Cha-wapiwa eluded FC Platinum de-fenders before he coolly con-trolled it, only to shoot weakly at goal.

As they pushed for the equal-iser, they were caught napping in the 89th minute when FC Plat-inum surged ahead on a coun-ter attack, only for Chirwa — the provider of both the goals — to beat Nyamupangedengu with a chip that Ngoma headed home, much to the delight of FC plati-num travelling fans.

FC Platinum coach Mapeza said they had done themselves a favour by playing well in the first half and managing to with stand the heat in the second half.

“We had our own half where we played well and managed to defend well in the second half where Harare City dominated,” Mapeza said.

His opposite number Dinye-ro blamed his team for failing to make use of chances that came their way.

“We created our own chances but failed to score while FC Plati-num took theirs. We have to work hard in our next match,” Dinye-ro said.

We will survive — MathuthuFOrtune MBeLe

CHICKEN INN . . . (2) 3BLACK RHINOS . . . 0

A first half brace by Bhekimpi-lo “Barca” Ncube added to Black Rhinos’ woes as they suffered their third defeat in a row, losing to Chicken Inn at Hartsfield yes-terday as the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League relegation battles rage on.

The army side remained on po-sition 13 with 27 points but coach Jostein Mathuthu said he believes they will survive the chop in the last five matches as they head back home for Hwange in their next assignment.

Ncube got the first goal in the 29th minute, beating goalkeeper Samuel Mafukidze with his weak-er right foot after beating two de-fenders inside the penalty box.

He then connected a Clemence Matawu cross in the 38th minute with the unusual right foot again inside the box right under the nose of defender Bruce Homora.

Despite the defeat, Mathuthu says Black Rhinos will survive relega-tion, blaming the defeat on poor de-fending and lack of concentration by goalkeeper Mafukidze, who was pulled out for reigning goalkeeper of the year Herbert Rusawo.

“This puts us in a very difficult position. We need to work hard be-fore it gets too late. We are now liv-ing very dangerously and we need to address that as quickly as possi-ble. The relegation fight is intensify-ing but mark my words; we will sur-vive,” Mathuthu said.

After Hwange, Black Rhinos head to bottom-of-the-table Chiredzi be-fore Shabanie Mine, who are also not safe before finishing off with Chapungu and Bantu Rovers.

Chicken Inn remained on posi-tion seven with 37 points and ap-pear to be out of the woods be-fore their next tough assignment against city neighbours High-landers back at Hiartsfield.

Coach Joey Antipas said his boys were composed, which is good for the future and applauded Ncube for the two goals although they lapsed in the second half.

“It’s a welcome three points and it takes the pressure away from us but the struggle continues. Bheki is a workhorse and a quality play-er and he gives the team a good balance. This is good for the fu-ture,” Antipas said.

After Highlanders, Chicken Inn are at Hartsfields again against Triangle before hitting the road to Mandava for FC Platinum. They will end the season with Buffaloes and Harare City.

bantu Rovers beat ChiredziBy KennetH nyanGanI

CHIREDZI FC . . . (0)0BANTU ROVERs . . . (1)1

CHIReDZI FC coach Gishon Nti-ni said their chances of surviving relegation are now almost at zero after his side suffered a morale sapping 1-0 defeat against Bantu Rovers at Chishamiso yesterday.

The defeat meant that they re-mained at the foot of the log-standings with a mere 14 points from 25 matches.

If they win their last five matches, they will only go as far as 29 points. But it was a good story for the visiting Bulawayo side as the win bolstered their chances of remaining in the top-flight league.

Despite the win, they are still

occupying 15th position with 21 points with just five games re-maining before the season comes to an end.

Veteran striker Obadiah Taru-mbwa scored the all-important goal in the eighth minute from a close range after beating an off-side trap to beat the hosts shot-stopper Simon Kafitire.

Ntini said their chances of re-maining in the top-flight league are slim.

“We played well but we were very unfortunate. We failed to utilise on our chances. However, our chances of surviving relega-tion are fading with each passing week,” Ntini said.

Bantu Rovers assistant coach Mandla Mpofu said the result was vital since they are on a survival mission.

Man on a mission . . . ZPC Kariba coach Soul Chaminuka

SportThe Standard FC Platinum win“We had our own half where we played well and managed to defend well in the second half where Harare City dominated.”

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Bosso, CAPS clash in epic league battle

Dynamos sons Kalisto Pasuwa, Moses Chunga come face to face



Rivalry renewed . . . Highlanders defender Eric Mudzingwa (in black and white) tussles for possession with CAPS United’s Leonard Fiyado when the two giants met in the capital last year. The two will be infl uential in their teams’s push for the title in this afternoon’s encounter at the National Sports Stadium.

BY BRIAN NKIWANE

ON May 4 2014, Bulawayo giants Highlanders recorded their biggest Castle Lager Premiership win with a convincing 4-0 win against CAPS United at Barbourfields.

It was one of those matches that then assistant coach to Kelvin Kain-du Mark Mathe was in charge of.

Bosso scored through former CAPS United winger Rahman Kut-sanzira, making a return to his boy-hood club Bosso after a two-year stint with the Green Machine, Ozi-as Zibande, Kudakwashe Mahachi (who has since joined the great trek to South Africa) and Cleophas Dube who is at Witbank in South Africa as well.

After parting ways with Kaindu who has been in charge at Highland-ers for the past two seasons due to a string of poor results, Bosso man-agement promoted Mathe to the hot seat and he will take charge of High-landers’ remaining league and cup matches.

The disaster that struck on Sep-

THE disaster that struck on September 28, the loss to ZPC Kariba, added salt to a fresh wound as Bosso lost grip to the leading pack of Dynamos and ZPC Kariba, as well as being dislodged to fourth position by CAPS United

tember 28, the loss to ZPC Kariba, added salt to a fresh wound as Bosso lost grip to the leading pack of Dy-namos and ZPC Kariba, as well as being dislodged to fourth position by CAPS United.

Apparently, Mathe’s first match in charge as Highlanders head coach begins with a date against CAPS United at the National Sports Stadi-um this afternoon, a team he beat in the absence of Kaindu.

However, the tough-talking gaffer refused to read much into history and challenged his players to shift a gear up.

“History will always repeat itself yes, but not with football. We have been preparing well and the play-ers and the executive have been sup-portive. It does not need a prophet from heaven to tell us that we have not been playing well of late. Results speak for themselves. We will be foolish to read into the first league match where we beat CAPS United. They have been playing well, that’s the reason why they are on top of us now. Besides, they have good play-

ers and a good coach as well,” Mathe said.

He however, refused to surrender the championship race so early.

“I still believe we are still with-in reach of Dynamos, ZPC Kari-ba and CAPS United. If any of the three slip, then we are there. I still believe if we start collecting points we might as well still win the cham-pionship.”

Mathe bemoaned the absence of three of his first team players due to injuries.

“We will be without Njabulo Ncu-be who has an ankle injury, Webster Chingodza who has a toe injury as well as Kudzanai Machazane who has a painful neck.

CAPS United coach Taurai Man-gwiro warned Highlanders that they have to be at their best as the Green Machine have a record to protect go-ing into this afternoon’s match.

“I think we have prepared well

for this match. A lot of things have changed between then and now. Now that we have presented our-selves with a chance of winning the championship, there is need for us to be committed and to concen-trate. Even last year at this time, we were still within the championship range but we blew it up ourselves and it must not be the case this time around,” Mangwiro said.

Mangwiro added that CAPS Unit-ed need to grind results and stop re-lying on other teams results.

“Our biggest let down last year was relying on other teams. What we need to do this time around is to grind results for ourselves and move with the leading pact. Four points with six games remaining is not much.”

He added that the Green Machine will miss defender George Nyirenda through suspension but they have been boosted by the return of Ste-

phen Makatuka from suspension as well.

“Nyirenda will be missed because he has been fantastic for us. Howev-er, we have other players in the team that can replace him. We also wel-come back Gerald Phiri who missed the Black Rhinos tie.”

It remains to be seen whether Mathe will beat Mangwiro for the second time and take Bosso back to winning ways and put pressure on DeMbare, or whether they will be further forced down the log standing.

The zeal to play in the Mbada Di-amonds Cup, which is guaranteed by a top four finish, will also add flavour to all the remaining league matches.

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THE million dollar question that football fans have always asked is; who is the better coach between Kalisto “Marabhundu” Pasuwa and Moses “Bambo” Chunga.

I know most readers will be quick to give an answer, but let’s wait and allow the game this af-ternoon to provide the definitive answer.

The two Dynamos sons, Pasu-wa and Chunga come face to face when their teams clash in a Cas-tle Lager Premiership match at Sakubva.

When Chunga takes charge of a team against Dynamos at this stage of the league, many believe he does everything in his power to not derail that DeMbare train

which will be going towards the championship, but, it’s a tricky situation for Bambo this after-noon as a loss will further sink the army side into troubled wa-ters of relegation.

Chunga is expecting nothing short of victory, while on the other hand, Pasuwa also needs the three points to keep up with trailblazing ZPC Kariba and CAPS United who will be play-ing Bosso at the same time in the capital.

In the reverse fixture played in the capital early this year, DeM-bare were knocked down 1-0 cour-tesy of the side’s solitary strike by lethal goal poacher Roy “Apama” Mwenga. Buffaloes look set to re-peat the same feat against DeM-bare who they beat 3-2 the last

time they visited the border town.Themba Ndlovu, who moved

to the Glamour Boys from Buffa-loes at the beginning of the year, makes an emotional return to a venue where he was shown a red card with an hour still to be played in a match that was marred by poor officiating by Mutare-based referee Langton Chitsa.

Ndlovu — the only natural cen-tral defender at Dynamos — will be expected to keep Buffaloes strike-force led by experienced strikers Jacob Muzokomba and Kastigu Juwakinyu, at bay.

Statistics show that from the five league matches that the teams have played each other, DeMbare have the upper hand after posting three wins while Buffaloes won two.

Dynamos should punch above their weight if they entertain any hope of collecting maximum points at Sakubva against the well-oiled Chunga side.

On Friday, Chunga said he was treating the match just like any other match.

“l told my players that every match is very important and our major goal is to collect maximum points. As a coach, l don’t put im-portance on one game, l treat all matches equally. But we are ready to shine against the log-leaders,” Chunga said.

He added that they were under pressure to collect points in order to move away from relegation.

“The match is also important to us as we are fighting relegation so we should compete fiercely for

three points and l have also told my boys to work very hard if we entertain any hope of beating Dy-namos,” he added.

DeMbare are a wounded lot after they fell at the hands of relegation-haunted Triangle in the OneWal-let Cup and another loss to Chun-ga’s men will inflict more pain and cause more trouble as they target their fourth consecutive title.

The Glamour Boys will be with-out first choice goalkeeper Art-well Mukandi who is still recov-ering from a hip injury, Masim-ba Mambare, Devon Chafa and Fabrice Mbimba.

In Mukandi’s absence, Tatenda Mukuruva, who was between the post when DeMbare played Trian-gle in the NetOne One Wallet Cup final, will be thrown to the deep

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bounds as an actress and writer. Having started acting back in primary school, she describes her passion as, “telling stories by using the tools and skills that God equipped me with. Using my instrument (my-self) and my imagination and finding the best chocolate and the perfect cup of coffee out there!” After finishing off her high school in Aus-tralia as an exchange student, Ratidzo came back to Zimbabwe shortly and went back to Australia for university to study Film and TV, and Drama School thereafter. After some time in Melbourne, she re-located to Los Angeles a few years ago to pursue her growing acting ca-reer. Known for movies such as Happy Sundaes (2007), 10 Terrorists (2012), and Wicked Sci-ence (2004), Ratidzo says she looks up to her fellow Zimbabwean counterparts who have made it on the international scene such as Da-nai Gurira, Tongayi Chirisa and Rick Cosnett. “I love collaborating with other artists and directors or collaborating on new projects, such as my current Webseries #MOMS. As actors, we get to tell stories, give a voice to the voiceless, using our own experiences and interpretations. I get to explore and confront my insecurities and vulnerabilities in order to truthfully and organically give a voice to the voiceless. [Actors] inspire, empathize, and expose what is happening out there in the world, all the good, the bad and the ugly.” Ratidzo defines her moving to Los Angeles

as being her biggest feat thus far. “Even though I believed in my dream at a very young age, I still pinch myself that I have made it to Hollywood. Yes, even when I am stuck in the horrid LA traffic or coming out of a not so suc-cessful audition. The very idea, that I am here, getting incredible opportu-nities, meeting people I have grown up admiring, trying every day, is an achievement. I have already won. It’s been a long way from Zimba-bwe.” The gifted actress, who says acting has made her a better person, says she enjoys learning about her-self. “I am constantly evolving and growing so I keep meeting myself, learning to see people and myself as humans, flawed, but constantly doing their best.” Having set off on her ca-reer path at quite a young age, her success has come with its own fair share of challenges and hurdles. “I think leaving home at a young age to go to a foreign country, a whole different culture, all without see-ing my family for years was quite

challenging. Being focused on my dreams and goals, alone in a foreign country has been a beautiful challenge in my ca-reer.”

Although she has already featured in a lot of productions, Ratidzo says she finds it hard to pick her best performance thus far, and still feels that her best is yet to come out of her. “The most memorable project was whilst I was working back to back on two acting jobs. One was a kids TV Show called Wicked Science and the other a play at the Melbourne Theatre Company on a play called Cruel and Tender by Martin Crimp. The play was a beautiful chal-lenge, where I learnt a lot and grew up as an actress. I worked with some of Australia’s Top Actors, to name a few Catherine McClements (Water Rats, Rush) and Kym Gyngell (The Comedy Company, Col’n Carpenter, Secret Life of Us).” She describes the experience as a very educative one as she learnt a lot. “It most definitely felt like a boot camp, doing six-day performances, some twice a day for 3 months straight, whilst also filming my TV Show (for six months) with 5am call times and having to be on stage same day after filming all day at 8pm. It only highlighted how much I loved it, and I became hungry for more!” Through her church in LA, Ratidzo is in-volved in community projects and in her local neighbourhood she is a volunteer at a home-less shelter. Besides acting, Ratidzo has also worked in TV and Film Distribution as an In-ternational Sales Agent for many years, man-aging territories such as Africa, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and working closely with TV broadcasters, producers, inflight content buyers and sellers throughout Africa. She still works as a consultant for International Distri-bution. Ratidzo, a strong Christian who values integrity, accountability and being ethical, says love, makes the world go round. “These principles help shift any and every situation you can ever be faced with, especially when it comes to dealing with people who are so dif-ferent to you. My mother told me to always remember to be nice to people on the way up, because you may need them one day on your way down or in a different season. Most im-portantly, put God first in everything you do, and pray about everything, even if doesn’t make any sense now, but by trusting God, it will one day.” The young lady who does not have her own family yet, boasts of a very supportive family which comes in the form of her mother, who is her role model and her little brother. Ratidzo, who says she would love to come back home and produce content and collabo-rate with the many talented Zimbabwean Filmmakers, advises her fellow young peo-ple to trust their instincts and follow their dreams. “You have a story, and your voice de-serves to be heard. Most importantly, study, study, study. Dare to dream, to have a big vi-sion and sit back and enjoy. The good and the bad is all gold, it makes you more relatable and accessible!”

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October 12 to 18 20144 THE STANDARD STYLE / WOMAN / FASHION

Shamiso Catherine

In my work as a wedding planner, I repeat-edly get asked where I find the patience to deal with “bridezillas” and grooms with “split personalities”. I do not label them like that. I believe that one just needs to understand and appreciate the amount of pressure that comes with planning a wedding. No couple wants a wedding day disaster. Every bride wants her day to be perfect. I keep this in mind and it enables me to deal with the most challenging of couples. I met a lovely, somewhat easy-go-ing couple earlier this year, and in the begin-ning we worked very well together. But I must confess that at some stage in the process of planning their wedding I had a moment when I considered a permanent career change. So, I would like to put this seemingly random piece of advice on the table again. Hire a wed-ding planner and listen to them. They know what they are talking about. We had a great time discussing this cou-ple’s wedding vision, and when we were sure we understood each other, we began the ven-ue search. Now, before they made a financial commitment to the venue they finally settled on, we went through the venue’s terms and conditions again. Some venues insist on part-nering with certain service providers, in or-der to maintain a certain service level. Some venues will insist that you use only their in-house services such as tents, furniture, décor and catering. The venue that my couple had chosen was strict in terms of the package it provided. All décor services were in-house, from the tent, chairs, tables and linen, to the flower arrange-ments. The venue owned a fair amount of equipment, and in all fairness it wouldn’t have

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FASHION POLICE - Wash your face at night, sleeping with makeup can clog your pores and leave blemishes

THE WEDDING PLANNER

1, 2, 3 makeup!!

Choosing your wedding venue part II

Growing up I always used to hear that makeup was bad for my skin, and that if I wore makeup it would ruin my skin. The truth about makeup application is

that it requires a good skin care routine. Ne-glecting your skin whilst using makeup can cause premature aging and leave your skin feeling unhealthy and unhappy. The relation-ship you have with makeup is dependent on how you take care of your skin. Here are some quick ways to apply your makeup whilst tak-ing care of your skin;

STEP 1: Clean faceThe first step to makeup application is starting with a clean and refreshed face. Skin care is the most important element when using makeup. Cleanse first then moisture, this will help lock in your makeup once you begin.

STEP 2: ConcealThe next step is applying a concealer with a brush for even coverage. Using a smooth makeup brush for application, ensures that you do not leave patches of colour on your face. If you generally have good skin, a concealer is not always required; you can skip this step and go straight to the foundation.

STEP 3: BaseThere are different types of foundations out there from dif-ferent brands; these include pressed powder, loose powder and liquid form foundations. You can choose a foundation depending on your skin type and preference. STEP 4: EyesAt times we tend to forgo applying eye shadow, and may only choose to use eye shadow at night. When selecting an eye shadow colour, make sure it complements what you are wearing and try to stick to blending not more than two colours.

made sense for us to outsource the same items. So, after I was comfortable that my couple un-derstood and were happy with the terms and conditions, we made a financial commitment and secured the venue. A month later – and I am still trying to fig-ure out how we went off the rails -- the lovely bride called me to tell me that she had found an awesome deal from some random hiring company, for a marquee, some lovely chairs, tables, linen, and flowers, and that because the deal was such an excellent one, she had booked everything and paid in full. US$3 000 in total. And so our wedding nightmare began. I reminded her that the venue’s terms did not allow her to do what she had just done. To cut a long story short, after being attacked with a string of verbal abuse from my “lovely” cou-ple, and a few attempted negotiations with the random hiring company and the venue, I had to advise the couple to choose between the venue and the hiring company. They lost the money they had paid to the venue, and they had to find another venue that would accept their hiring company. It sounds a bit drastic, doesn’t it? But it is simple. Venues have terms and conditions and you must read them and make sure you agree with them before you commit. You can try to negotiate with them on some of the terms, but do this before you commit to the venue. Just be aware that some venues will not negotiate, and my advice to you is that if you are not happy with the terms, do not hire the venue.

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STEP 5: LipsLip Tip: The first step to longer lasting lip colour is exfo-liation. Get an old toothbrush (preferably one with soft brushes) and brush your lips in a circular motion for about one minute. Prepping your lips with exfoliation helps to remove dead skin and excess oil. Next apply a lip balm or a lip primer, this will help in locking in your lip colour. Lining your lips comes next; line your lips with a lip liner close to the lipstick colour that you are going to use. This ensures even colour and texture. Apply your lipstick with a lipstick brush, and then complete the look with a gloss.

Enhancing the way you look leaving you feeling flawless. Tariro Talent Marume finalist in Miss Earth Zimbabwe 2014, wears LANGA Natural Mineral Makeup from Zimbabwe.

My Accessory of the week – Natural Mineral Makeup by LANGA

Last week we discussed ‘first impressions count’ and guess what…. That goes for everyday! So let’s talk about make-up … Today beauty and make-up can be befuddling, let’s face it, with all the tips and tutorials found online and in magazines we can go a tad bit loopy. Keep in mind less is more. Ladies, we should never leave our house without some kind of make-up on! No excuses, it does not take more than 5-10 minutes to adorn our faces with some glow and gloss. Firstly, wash your face. Some of us feel that a quick rub of the eyes in the morning is enough tender loving care. Eyebrows frame and transform our face, so make sure you have them plucked, threaded or waxed by a professional. The eyes are the windows to our soul so why not enhance them by using a lengthening or thickening mascara. Do not opt for showgirl lashes thinking that you will look good in them, there is only one place for those and that is on stage. Add some rouge to those cheeks, it is amazing what colour can do, as women we are so lucky to be able to transform our deathly grey or pale complexion to a beautiful rosy or healthy glow. Last but not least, gloss! A full pout is essential to any look! Visit your nearest beauty store to know more. Transform those faces!

For more grooming tips be sure to pick up your copy of the Stand-ard next week, have an amazing weekend ladies and gents and make this week count!

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October 12 to 18 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / INSPIRATION 5

Cynthia Hakutangwi

Years ago, Stephen Covey introduced the Emotional Bank Account, a concept that is becoming more pertinent in this era of diminishing quality relationships.

Covey’s premise is that relationships are like bank accounts that begin with a zero balance. His advice is that we should never withdraw more than we deposit or seek to “get” before we give.When continuous deposits are made with an-other person through positive, healthy and quality conduct, a reserve is built up in our emotional bank account with that person. Lev-els of trust towards us increase as we exhibit more integrity, appreciation and understand-ing. On the other hand, insensitivity, insin-cere actions, and being overly critical depress our account because withdrawals are being made from it. As we engage in strategic thinking which implies planning a roadmap to a place of success and significance in our lives, a criti-cal area that we often overlook is that which pertains to the vitality of our immediate cir-cles of influence. It is very possible that the relationships that matter the most to us can be diminishing every day without us being conscious of the depletion taking place. As we near the close of yet another year, it is very important that we take time to introspect

and review how well we have been paying attention to our emotional bank accounts in-asmuch as we are conscious of the status of our deposits into our financial bank accounts. Whilst financial bank deposits can easily be tracked and accounted for, more conscious ef-fort is required as we account for the status of our emotional bank accounts. The Emotional Bank Account (EBA) is a metaphorical expres-sion of the amount of trust that has been built up in a relationship and relates to that feeling of safeness we have with another human be-ing. In the first instalment of this series on Strategic Thinking we established that the term “strategic” is derived from the Greek verb “stratego,” which means “to plan the destruction of one’s enemies through the ef-fective use of resources”. We also established that the life that every individual has is the greatest resource which has been availed to them. In this instalment we want to further explore yet another critical resource that is foundational in strategic planning. How con-sistent and deliberate are we in making de-posits into healthy, vital relationships? Where large reserves of trust are not sustained by continuous deposits, organisational cohesive-ness, families and marriages will deteriorate. If organisations, family members and part-

ners find themselves operating from a gener-ally defensive position, it may be a reflection that their emotional bank accounts are over-drawn. Relationships by their very nature are strategic instruments that can propel and accelerate our progress in ways that money alone could never achieve or match. As we pursue the creation of trans-generational wealth in our strategic plans, our goals and definitions of success would have a faulty premise if we overlook the depth of wealth that lies in our relationships. In the same way that we measure and account for every cent in our financial growth, we ought to also pay attention to every action and measure every word in our relational transactions. A Strate-gic Life Plan (SLP) which lacks an emphasis on how we plan to nourish and manage our personal, business and social relationships is at most not sustainable. Relationships should occupy a superior position which is clearly articulated in the vision, mission, strategy, goals and budget within our life plan. When we value relation-ships in our strategy we are less likely to fall into the temptation of “loving things and us-ing people” but rather we develop a culture of “loving people and using things” to reach our ultimate goals. When we have a wealthy

emotional bank account, there is stability to the extent that we can afford to have disagree-ments without immediately feeling the need to write off the relationship. Conflicts can be resolved when our account is not overdrawn. This requires thoughtfulness, kindness, loy-alty, openness, honesty and truly trying to un-derstand others. If you were to list the most important peo-ple in your life and look at those bank accounts today what would you find? Strategic thinking starts by paying attention to the little things. As the year ends and as we prepare for the festive break, what little things could you do to nourish and replenish those accounts? In our review of the year gone past, may we take time to diagnose and assess the depth of with-drawals in our relationships with our family members, employees, colleagues and strategic spheres of influence.

Cynthia is a Communications and Personal Development Consultant, a Life Coach, Author, and Strategist. She is the Managing Consult-ant of Wholeness Incorporated. Her published book titles include “The Whole You – Vital Keys for Balanced Living” and “Intelligent Conver-sations: A mindset shift towards a developed Africa.” E-mail: [email protected]

Strategic thinking: Planning ahead for 2015 and beyond (Part II)

The theme of my writs this year is the pursuance of dreams. The word of the wise speaks to the month of October be-ing a fulfilment of the year’s promise,

when the world invites a riot of colourful blossom that is dazzling to the eye and awak-ening to the senses. In the same way, let’s make it the month in which your goals set at the year’s onset come to life. This month in particular, I want to hone in on the tactical aspects of ambition. A lot of the times, we dream dreams that we never see through to reality, not because we are incapable, or even afraid of what we are capable of, but pre-cisely because we don’t take active steps that would otherwise enable us to convert ideas into tangibles. In all fairness, this is accept-able because sometimes that is the nature of us, human beings. We get comfortable in the status quo at times, and we postpone critical decisions to a later time at others. But the dreamer is always challenged to take active steps that steer away from the aspirational bigger strategic picture momentarily, albeit towards fruition. The word of the wise is that the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

1. Make your objectives Smart and Make a note

Smart objectives are specific. Your idea of what you want to achieve cannot be vague, but it must rather be precise. Smart objec-tives are measurable, which means that you must be able to quantify or even extrapolate outcomes progressively and quantitative-ly. Smart objectives are achievable, which means that you shoudln’t aspire to building the first spacecraft manufactured in Zim-babwe if you haven’t actively developed the necessary cutting-edge engineering skills. Smart objectives are realistic. How are you going to finance a new start-up without some capital or without an idea that can be mon-etised at the least? And finally, Smart objec-tives have to be time-driven. A Smart objec-tive could be something like: “I want to have registered my own law firm in Zimbabwe by January 2017 and in order to do so, I will work and save US$5 000 which will cater for the ini-tial administrative costs until then.” Most importantly, write down your objectives!

2. Focus on Number One and Embrace the Solitude

Focusing on number one is about focusing on the self, rather than on what other peo-ple are doing or how they are going on about their goals and dreams. Your journey has to be that personal and it must be somewhat lonely. Regardless of the latter, you can take comfort in the personal conversations with-in. Those are precisely what will enable you to fine-tune the SMART objectives initially set. Don’t sweat what everyone else is doing or saying. They are on a quest different from yours. On the other hand, a focus on the indi-vidual dream should not be misconstrued as a selfish indulgence. Whatever your dream, it should be for the greater good and it should be in service to your fellow man. Consider this. Nelson Mandela spent almost three decades in prison. That time must have been quite lonesome for him, but in his mind, it would serve to emancipate an entire people.

3. Recognise Your Drawbacks and Act on Them

As long as we are human, we will have weak-nesses and we will fall short of the best ver-sion of ourselves occasionally. We are chal-lenged not to accept any such inadequacies, but rather to act on them. Acting on our in-adequacies and all other drawbacks is about converting them into positive outcomes that will be all-embracing to our purposeful jour-ney. Consider this. If your weakness is pro-crastination, force yourself to counter every urge by crossing something off your list of “to dos” in the immediate rather than later. Soon enough, procrastination will become an infrequent habit.

Tafadzwa Taruvinga is a Customer Service Con-sultant and the first author of a book on Customer Service Excellence in Zimbabwe, entitled “Serve Your Customers EXCELLENTLY, Or Not At All!”, pub-lished in June 2014. He is also a Member of the Ad-visory Council of Customer Value Creation Interna-tional (CVCI). Tafadzwa can be contacted on e-mail at [email protected] and his profile is avail-able on www.customervaluecreation.org/About-Us

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The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating...[Part I]

October 12 to 18 20146 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / GROOMING

Zororo Makamba

Gadget of the weekAfter stubbornly resisting for years, Apple

has finally joined the big-screen smart-phone movement with its two latest mod-els, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which

have finally started arriving in a few retail stores in Zimbabwe. But it hasn’t just expanded the screens. It has radically redesigned the iPhone, making it thinner and more curved, and has beefed up everything from the screen to the per-formance to the battery life and wireless speed. On a recent trip to South Africa I had a chance to test the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and I think it’s a ter-rific phone. In my view, it’s the best smartphone on the market, when you combine its hardware, all-new operating system and the Apple ecosys-tem whose doors it opens. (And that’s coming from die hard Android fan) That includes a new service called Apple Pay for buying goods in stores and online electronically via the phone; however this service will only be available in the United States…for now.

Price

The Finance Minister recently introduced a 25% tax on handsets so this phone won’t come cheap. Right now you can get the 16gb iPhone 6 for US$1 700, then the 128gb iPhone 6 plus for a whopping US$2 200.

Design

Recent iPhones have rounded corners, but they have flat edges and a screen that stops sharply at the phone body’s edge. The iPhone 6 is thinner, and has curved edges. The screen’s borders also curve slightly to meet the body, and the areas to

the top and bottom of the screen have been re-duced. The power switch has been moved from the top to the side, for easier access on the taller phone.

Battery

Battery life on phones depends heavily on how you use them. Right now my S5 can last about 11 hours, the iPhone 5s generally lasted from eight to 10 hours between charges. But during my weekend of testing the iPhone 6 did better, go-ing 14 or 15 hours. Most people will still have to charge it nightly, but won’t need to hunt for plugs during the day.

Camera

The rear camera on the iPhone 6 remains at eight megapixels, but has a new sensor that improves focus and face detection. In my tests, photos were sharper and brighter, especially in low light — than on my sister’s iPhone 5s. The front camera is also better, with a larger aperture and better sensor.

Apple has finally made the drastic changes that users were clamouring for. If you can afford the phone, I would recommend you buy it and enjoy what some experts have said is the “best smart-phone ever made”. Samsung, over to you.

Zororo Makamba is the host of the Telecel Chit Chat Show which airs every Thursday at 4.30 pm on ZiFM Stereo. The show keeps listeners informed about the latest trends in technology and looks at how they could be applied locally.

There comes a time in every man’s life, where one needs to pull all the stops to impress the Madame or business associates. Manners make a man and one should by all means avoid social embarrassment. There is nothing worse than someone with no sense of dining etiquette, whatsoever. Dinner is actually time to impress, one bad move could leave your reputation in tatters. It’s not a question of af-fluence or upbringing, as most people would like to put it. The world is not so kind to not knowing stuff, there is absolutely no excuse for ignorance. Now let me give you a taste on the art of dining. Time is of the essence, whoever coined “there is no hurry in Africa” was probably drunk. Always respond to an invitation within a week of receiving it. Be punctual, arrive on time or call if delayed. It is courteous to bring

a bottle of wine, flowers or choccies when in-vited for dinner at a house. When you arrive, wait to be shown your seat. The seats at the end of the table are usually reserved for the host and hostess. The gentleman must always pull sits for the ladies. As soon as you sit, un-fold your napkin and place it on your lap, do not tuck it in your collar. If you need to leave the table, leave the napkin on your chair to signal to the waiter that you will return. Note when leaving the table, excuse yourself with-out mentioning “toilet.” For ladies, “going to powder your nose” is more appropriate. This rule is universal, forks to the left and knives to the right. Depending on how many courses, there are usually several pieces of cutlery on your table, which can be confus-ing. Never start eating before a signal from the host to do so. The correct way is to start

with the cutlery outwards, working in wards as the dinner progresses. Once silverware is picked from the table, it never touches the ta-ble again. When you are not yet done cross the fork and knife diagonally or across your plate. Do not use your cutlery for hand gestures or pointing. Don’t stretch across the table cross-ing other guests to reach food, wine or condi-ments. Instead, ask guests sitting close to pass the item to you. Always pass dishes from left to right, and pass salt and pepper together, do not separate them. Keep your hands off the table before meal. Most people would be comfortable with this one, use your hands to break rolls and bread. Ensure you break bread into bite size chunks, never use knife to cut bread or rolls. Do not spread butter on a slice all at once. One should not use bread for dipping into soups

or mopping up sauces. If it is a buffet do not overload your plate, the fact that it is a buf-fet means there is enough food to go around. Picking your teeth or licking your fingers is very unattractive. The only exception is when you are eating poultry on the bone, in which case a finger bowl is provided. When drinking wine, hold the glass by stem to prevent chilled drinks from warming up. The number one sin of dinner table eti-quette is slurping and burping. Talking with one’s mouth full is not only unpleasant to watch but could also lead to choking, so defi-nitely not a good idea.

Marshall Malikula is an Image Consultant, Stylist get in touch on [email protected]

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The art of fine dining

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Prudence Muganiwah

Bright, ambitious and philanthropic best describe Zororo Makamba, a 24-year-old Michigan State University graduate who has been described in some circles as “the future of radio.” Having joined Telecel’s management development team, the young man’s input within the telecommunications giant has taken Telecel Zimbabwe back into the race to be Zimbabwe’s largest telecoms service provider. Also a well-known broadcaster on Zi-Fm Stereo, a popular radio station, where he hosts current affairs, youth and social programs, Zororo was the first to be men-tioned on Zimbabwe’s 30 under the age of

30, which he says was a huge honour to him. According to Emerging Ideas,

the list is based on interac-tions within the entre-

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have stood out from the rest. Zororo is a host for Impact, a very en-gaging current affairsprogramme on the station which deals with hot local topics as well as bread and butter issues, and Culture Talk, a programme that looks at cultural issues such as interracial mar-riages, sacred sites in Zimbabwe, cul-tural practices around marriage and a multitude of other topics.Born in a family of six, Zororo grew up and went to school in England and South Africa, before completing high school at St John’s College in Harare. After graduating with a Bachelors of Arts in Communication with a Sales Specialisa-tion from Michigan State University in America, he came back home to make his mark amongst his own, a feat which seems already bagged despite his young age. Currently the Public Relations, CSR & Sponsorship Exec at Telecel Zimba-bwe, Zororo plans to do a Masters In Film & Media Production in the near future. “In the next five years Zimbabwe will have many more thriving commercial and community radio services; viewers will be spoilt for options on local televi-sion and I believe we will see more con-vergence and interrogation between me-dia and telecoms.” The ever optimistic young man says, adding that by then he is confident that he will be creating, own-ing, producing and presenting his own content. A people passionate person, Zororo says his wish is to see Zimbabwean peo-ple support and uplift each other. “Noth-ing is too hard with God as long as you put him in the driving seat. I’m a strong believer of that. Human beings tend to complicate things. I go about being a good guy, I listen and I never forget to say, thank you. But at the same time I’m aware of my self-worth and I don’t allow people to take advantage of me.” Having been born of a father who also had a career in media, James Makamba, Zororo often gets asked if he chose that career path because of his fa-ther’s influence. “People often say ‘Oh, so you became a DJ to follow in your father’s steps, were you inspired to get into radio by your dad? I find it interest-ing that my father stopped being a DJ about 10 years before I was born which means I never ever heard him on ra-dio, which is usually what inspires or prompts you to follow in someone’s steps -- I’ve never even heard clips of his radio days! We definitely do in-herit a lot more from our parents/pre-decessors than just looks and names. Everything I’m passionate about, my Dad has done and been successful at it, so he is more of my mentor full of wisdom and advice.” It is evident that the well-spoken Zo-roro loves what he does – radio is not just work to him, it is his passion. “I get to do what I love. How many peo-ple do you know who can outright say that? I dreamt of being in media when

I was a little boy, when the remote con-trol and hairbrush was the microphone. And now I’m 24 and I get the opportunity to express myself whether I’m public speaking, presenting or coming up with an advertising campaign at work.” Although Zororo admits that multi-tasking is a difficult skill to master, he confesses that he cannot do without it. “If I’m not doing more than two things at a time I get ants in my pants. Studies have shown that trying to handle multi-

ple responsibilities often leads to inef-ficiency. However, there are some key principles to multitasking that one must always remember to ensure maximum productivity and effectiveness; namely discipline, commitment, scheduling and prioritising. I plan my radio shows a week in advance so that it doesn’t inter-fere with my work at Telecel.” His typical day is characterised by gym at 5.45 am for daily boxing workouts, and then work at Telecel where he will be reviewing a campaign, writing a press release for a new product or listening to sponsorships pitches. “In the evening I’m on radio, at home I catch up with my mom, work on my life coaching course and I prepare for the next day. I always find time for fun and I make sure to go out, meet with friends and I travel when I can. I’m not all work!” Zororo is currently working on being a certified life coach, and has just started working on a new concept for TV. Being the high achiever that he is, he is always working on multiple projects and says in the context of today’s harsh economic environment, he is grateful to hold two jobs. “But I’m never satisfied; I’m always looking for more boxes to tick.”Nafuna TV is currently working on a pro-ject directed by award-winning Director Enqore, Kushaya Zororo which profiles the radio personality, entrepreneur and philanthropist. A self-confessed big mommy’s boy, Zororo cites his mother as his best friend and the most supportive woman he knows. “All she ever wants from me is be humble, marry a Zimbabwean girl and go to church!” Unlike most of his youthful counter-parts, Zororo says he cannot stand lingo that young folk of today now perceive as “cool.” “Nothing frustrates me more than receiving unnecessarily shortened words on our WhatsApp platform at the radio station. “if u typ lyk ds I wnt rd ur cment n air![if you type like this I won’t read your comment on air]” The gentleman, who was once an avid runner before an injury, supports children at Tichakunda School, an or-phanage in Hatcliffe where he pays for stationery, uniforms and schools fees. “I am working with a sponsor so that in 2015 we can support more kids and send them to school. When every penny mat-ters, I choose to use some of my money to help others.” Instead of being typically overshad-owed by his father Dr James Makamba, the business mogul with diverse inter-ests in telecommunications, retail, min-ing and consultancy, Zororo is clearly focused making a name for himself. Advising his own generation, Zororo says, “Young people don’t expect hand-outs, if you are able to do something do it! And respect someone’s time -- that is something that we don’t cherish and of-ten take for granted in this country. If you think I’m going to wait on you to get something done, then you must be smok-ing!”

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October 12 to 18 20148 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / WHEELS

The Fiat 500 is hard to picture on African roads, (with its miniature frame on our usu-ally not up to scratch roads) but is an entirely different funkified experience. There is actu-ally a hint of sporty flair, in its small compact frame. Point is, it’s a spunky vehicle and will sure turn heads as you cruise on the streets of Harare. Fiat’s retro-inspired 500 have raised the stakes with the introduction of the country’s most affordable cabriolet. The Fiat 500c 1.2 undercuts the competition with a price tag of under US$30 000. Despite its affordability it remains surprisingly practical, reassuringly safe and alluringly exclusive. Powered by a 1.2 Euro 4-compliant motor, it develops 51 kW at 5 500rpm and produces 102 Nm of torque at 3 000rpm. Fiat has emerged as a leader in green manufacturing and the Fiat 500c 1.2 further re-affirms that position with its lowly CO2 emissions. Producing just 119g/km it attracts no Environmental Levy Taxes while its frugal fuel consumption makes it the perfect choice for zipping about town. Navigating through city traffic is a synch for the little runabout with an average fuel consumption of just 6.4l/100km. On the open road the figures drop even further with an average fuel consump-tion of only 4.3l/100km. So about 17 litres will get you from Harare to Bulawayo at ease. Designed to respect the most stringent standards, the Fiat 500c is one of the safest cars in its entire segment. All models, includ-ing the newly introduced 1.2 Cabriolet, come standard with seven airbags (two at the front,

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two curtain-bags, two sidebags and one to protect the knees) unheard of for this vehicle class. The Fiat 500 also adopts sophisticated technical solutions to guarantee that the driv-er is in complete control of the car at all times including ABS complete with EBD (Electronic Brake Distribution). Despite its attainable status, it is well-equipped with a host of comfort and conveni-ence features. Power steering, remote central locking, power windows, airconditioning, daytime running lights and “Follow me home” headlights are just some of the standard fea-tures on offer. It also boasts a radio/CD with MP3 player and Fiat’s acclaimed Blue&Me handsfree system, which features Bluetooth technology, voice recognition, steering-wheel mounted controls and a digital audio file play-er with USB port. And it doesn’t end there. With stylish 15” inch alloy wheels, chrome exterior door han-dles, body colour mirrors with electronic ad-justment, defrosting function and exterior temperature sensors the 500c 1.2 looks the part too. Another standout feature of the Cab-riolet is its exceptional climate and acoustic comfort. Thorough aerodynamic research open-air turbulence has been reduced to a minimum, allowing full enjoyment of the fresh air and the company of fellow passen-gers. Even rear passengers have received spe-cial attention, as proven by an air-flow speed of 7 m/s with the roof open. In addition, when the soft top is down, the spoiler is arranged so that the third brake light can always be seen. The double-layered roof fabric ensures

the best possible insulation from the outside and, along with the internal coverings of the pillars, completes a superb finish for the mechanisms controlling the opening and clos-ing of the roof. The automatic electric soft top can be controlled either by buttons near to the interior ceiling light or from a remote con-trol. In addition, the soft top can be operated throughout its horizontal travel (as far as the spoiler) at any speed. Vertical movement can be engaged at any speed under 60 km/h. The soft top is also easy to use: to open it, just press the button for at least half a second to trigger the movement that then continues automatically up to the spoiler (a midway point can of course be chosen by pressing the button again). Press the button again for at least half a second to fully open the roof. When using the remote control, the roof can be opened only as far as the spoiler. The same processes will close it; for safety reasons, the roof stops at around 25 cm from complete clo-sure (just press the button again to complete the movement).

When the boot is open, the soft top can only be closed (the opening function is de-ac-tivated). However, if the roof is fully open and the boot needs to be opened, when the boot is opened the soft top automatically moves to a midway point to avoid obstructing loading op-erations. In addition as per the other models in the Fiat 500 range, there are a number of options available to customise the 500c 1.2 into the model that reflects your personality. For girls out there you can make this the perfect fash-ion accessory. Enhancing the ownership prospect, the Fiat 500 1.2 Cabriolet, as with other premium products in the Fiat stable, has 30 000 km ser-vice intervals and enjoys full after-sales sup-port from Zimoco. It’s a super cute three-door hatch, perfectly suited to city traffic and the tight confines of urban living, itching to be enjoyed.

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Adventure loaded Fiat 500 Cabriolet

October 12 to 18 20148 THE STANDARD STYLE / MAN / WHEELS

The Fiat 500 is hard to picture on African roads, (with its miniature frame on our usu-ally not up to scratch roads) but is an entirely different funkified experience. There is actu-ally a hint of sporty flair, in its small compact frame. Point is, it’s a spunky vehicle and will sure turn heads as you cruise on the streets of Harare. Fiat’s retro-inspired 500 have raised the stakes with the introduction of the country’s most affordable cabriolet. The Fiat 500c 1.2 undercuts the competition with a price tag of under US$30 000. Despite its affordability it remains surprisingly practical, reassuringly safe and alluringly exclusive. Powered by a 1.2 Euro 4-compliant motor, it develops 51 kW at 5 500rpm and produces 102 Nm of torque at 3 000rpm. Fiat has emerged as a leader in green manufacturing and the Fiat 500c 1.2 further re-affirms that position with its lowly CO2 emissions. Producing just 119g/km it attracts no Environmental Levy Taxes while its frugal fuel consumption makes it the perfect choice for zipping about town. Navigating through city traffic is a synch for the little runabout with an average fuel consumption of just 6.4l/100km. On the open road the figures drop even further with an average fuel consump-tion of only 4.3l/100km. So about 17 litres will

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get you from Harare to Bulawayo at ease. Designed to respect the most stringent standards, the Fiat 500c is one of the safest cars in its entire segment. All models, includ-ing the newly introduced 1.2 Cabriolet, come standard with seven airbags (two at the front, two curtain-bags, two sidebags and one to protect the knees) unheard of for this vehicle class. The Fiat 500 also adopts sophisticated technical solutions to guarantee that the driv-er is in complete control of the car at all times including ABS complete with EBD (Electronic Brake Distribution). Despite its attainable status, it is well-equipped with a host of comfort and conveni-ence features. Power steering, remote central locking, power windows, airconditioning, daytime running lights and “Follow me home” headlights are just some of the standard fea-tures on offer. It also boasts a radio/CD with MP3 player and Fiat’s acclaimed Blue&Me handsfree system, which features Bluetooth technology, voice recognition, steering-wheel mounted controls and a digital audio file play-er with USB port. And it doesn’t end there. With stylish 15” inch alloy wheels, chrome exterior door han-dles, body colour mirrors with electronic ad-justment, defrosting function and exterior temperature sensors the 500c 1.2 looks the

part too. Another standout feature of the Cab-riolet is its exceptional climate and acoustic comfort. Thorough aerodynamic research open-air turbulence has been reduced to a minimum, allowing full enjoyment of the fresh air and the company of fellow passen-gers. Even rear passengers have received spe-cial attention, as proven by an air-flow speed of 7 m/s with the roof open. In addition, when the soft top is down, the spoiler is arranged so that the third brake light can always be seen. The double-layered roof fabric ensures the best possible insulation from the outside and, along with the internal coverings of the pillars, completes a superb finish for the mechanisms controlling the opening and clos-ing of the roof. The automatic electric soft top can be controlled either by buttons near to the interior ceiling light or from a remote con-trol. In addition, the soft top can be operated throughout its horizontal travel (as far as the spoiler) at any speed. Vertical movement can be engaged at any speed under 60 km/h. The soft top is also easy to use: to open it, just press the button for at least half a second to trigger the movement that then continues automatically up to the spoiler (a midway point can of course be chosen by pressing the button again). Press the button again for at least half a second to fully open the roof.

When using the remote control, the roof can be opened only as far as the spoiler. The same processes will close it; for safety reasons, the roof stops at around 25 cm from complete clo-sure (just press the button again to complete the movement). When the boot is open, the soft top can only be closed (the opening function is de-ac-tivated). However, if the roof is fully open and the boot needs to be opened, when the boot is opened the soft top automatically moves to a midway point to avoid obstructing loading op-erations. In addition as per the other models in the Fiat 500 range, there are a number of options available to customise the 500c 1.2 into the model that reflects your personality. For girls out there you can make this the perfect fash-ion accessory. Enhancing the ownership prospect, the Fiat 500 1.2 Cabriolet, as with other premium products in the Fiat stable, has 30 000 km ser-vice intervals and enjoys full after-sales sup-port from Zimoco. It’s a super cute three-door hatch, perfectly suited to city traffic and the tight confines of urban living, itching to be enjoyed.

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Adventure loaded Fiat 500 Cabriolet

Powertel, Zimbabwe’s Licensed Internet Ac-cess telecommunications operator recently consolidated their position in bringing value for money services within the telecommuni-cations sector and remains the most afford-able at 2cents per mb. The recently improved high speed broadband packages has seen an exciting experience in their mobile internet services. For a long time Powertel had their custom-ers on an unlimited service paying a fixed fee of $35 per month. The recent network optimi-zation, state of the art billing system, custom-er profiling and the desire to see unmatched customer satisfaction has seen the internet ac-cess giant introducing the usage based service for their mobile broadband. Most interesting is the fact that the services still remains the most affordable at 2cents compared to any operating telecommunications in Zimbabwe where they are charging between 6cents to 10cents per mb.

The structure of the service will see cus-tomers enjoying huge discounts with the more data they purchase. Our visit to Pow-ertel offices and outlets saw the team inter-viewing the customers with regards to the new service. There was positive response as most customers seemed excited with service improvement and moreso the affordability of the service compared to all other operators. Thomas Mutsamwiwa has this to say “I was enjoying huge downloads with Power-tel, enjoying many video’s and I thought the introduction of new packages will bring this to an end. Surprisingly, I am enjoying even better speeds and I have learnt that they still remains the most affordable in the market” Another customer who refused to be named expressed excitement with the intro-duction of huge discounts on data. As you purchase more data, customers are able to en-joy the lowest prices per meg to as little as less than 1cent. The introduction of prepaid usage

based service by Powertel is a welcome move in service management especially with the in-crease in demand for content which requires uninterrupted service. When contacted for comment PowerTel Commercial Director Mr Willard Nyagwande highlighted the company’s desire to retain customers through affordable services and quality of service.” Our main business thrust is to be with our customers to the future and this is achieved through uncompromised ser-vices and innovation. As you can see, there has never been a network that discounts you for purchasing more data but look Powertel is doing it” said Mr Nyagwande. Powertel is a wholly owned subsidiary of ZESA Holdings licensed with Class A Inter-net Access Provider. It has made huge invest-ments in Fibre network and the widest cover-age mobile broadband.

- Technomag. www.technomag.co.zw

Powertel defends their position as the most value for money network.TechnoMag

PowerTel Commercial Director Mr Willard Nyagwande

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In any home there will always be a focal area in which we display our ornaments, certifi-cates or show off our prized décor objects. In some places there are little pockets of areas where décor items like vases, wall hangings and statues are strategically placed to create a show-stopping effect. As long as you create a balance between your space and objects to create harmony, you might just be cluttering your home. The key thing is to think of your focal space in terms of zones and functionality. That way it need not be a nightmare. You can create a focal point or mini focal areas in your home to make it interesting, break the formal-ity and keep it clean, elegant, uncluttered and classy. Here are some ways to do it.

Walls

Keep your wall colour neutral or in shades of white to allow natural light to bounce off and give you added light. Use dark wood frames or seamless frames for your photographs. If you have a lot of family photographs that you want to hang on a wall, create a wall of fame by hanging them in a symmetrical manner ei-ther in the hall way or on an inter-leading wall or stair case. Add a pop of colour by hanging colourful artworks. Alternatively if you have bold taste – paint one wall a different colour

Mirrors

Mirrors are your home’s best friend. They are both functional and decorative. Size and shape

matters when it comes to mirrors. The shape of a mirror instantly “periods” your décor. Square mirrors denote modernism; Round mirrors say contemporary and oval mirrors are traditionalist. A beautifully crafted mir-ror frame elevates an ordinary mirror to a de-sirable work of art. Use mirrors to create an illusion of space and jazz up your room.

Lighting

Choose a fabulous pendant light with crystal and chrome finishing for an added glamour or a free standing lamp with a distinctively bold lampshade. In a neutral room you can use two or three smaller coloured pendant lights or ul-timately go for a chandelier.

Upholster an old sofa or arm chair.

This is a good way to update your seating with-out breaking the bank. Use strong chic cotton based upholstery strength fabric and contrast piping. Finish of with plump cushions one per one seater is enough. On a larger sofa or on a bed always group your cushions in twos for symmetry and balance in the room to mini-mize awkwardness and colour noise. Careful not to mix prints as this may look like clutter. If your upholstery is in prints use plain cush-ions and vice versa. Select cushion inners that have a microfiber filling as they hold their shape and last longer.

Get a rug

Shaggy rugs are the rage if you are looking for a cheaper alternative to soft plush statement rugs. Rugs should make a statement without you having to say a word. They transform the overall look, feel and take of a room. Ensure that the rugs, whether bold colour or neutral, flow with your colour scheme and pick up nu-ances from your upholstery, curtains, cush-ions and décor items. It should fit snugly in the room, not too small not too big.

Change your curtains

Just as you are always on point everyday fash-ion wise with your clothes, the same should be for your windows. Allow at least 15cm from the top of your window as distance from which to fix your curtain rods or pelmet. This “elon-gates” the room creating an illusion of space.

Soft flowing drapery lightens up a room. For added luxurious look let your curtains skim or gather just a bit on the flow.

Create a sitting area

If you have an area where you are not too sure what to do with it, create a sitting area if it is functionally possible to do so. This breaks the monotony of the area and brings warmth and excitement, making it a unique focal area.

Change your cookware

Spoil yourself and cook in exciting cookware. Colourful cookware and dinnerware improve your mood and ultimately your attitude to-wards cooking and your food choices. Go out-side your comfort zone and colour your world.I love these tips as they are easier to update and are non-permanent. They are great for styling a property which you are trying to sell or rent out. If you are renting property even better, you can stake your style without mak-ing permanent changes to some else’s prop-erty.

Credits: - Hudsons Furniture. Luxe Design + Décor. www.Popsugar.com www.alluringwin-dow.comNoma Ndlovu is an Interior Designer & Prop-erty Stylist. Feedback on [email protected]. www.facebook.com/unamihomestyle +263775402083

Neutral colours contrasted with dark trims always make a bold style statement.

Light drapes soften up a room.

Upholster your old chair and jazz it up with luxe fabric.

Focal Signature Points in your Home A Rug should connect to everything in your room

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SPACE SAVING IN YOUR BEDROOM

Chocolate, Coffee & CreamTreat your home this season by giving it a cosy warm winter interior. Don't be afraid to use yourimagination and make each room reflect your personality and preferences . But keep it practical. Thisweek our colour scheme is inspired by our delectable winter indulgences - chocolate, coffee andcream.

The finish you choose for your walls is probably one of the biggest decisions you have to make whenyou're designing as they are the biggest most prominent feature in the room. Creamy hot chocolateis a great feature wall colour for making a statement in a living room. You can set off your living roomfurniture against this decadent colour making them stand out. If your lounge suite is brown don't panic.Accessories are your lifeline. Keep things simple and bring interest to the space with highlights ofcolour through your accessories and art. Rich, tactile textures, such as leather, sheepskin, suede andvelvet, can be used to build up layers of warmth and character.

Remember, the idea is to use the colours mixed and not matched. For a less dramatic but equallysame effect , choose a wall to make a focal point in your living room. Go ahead and rescue those oldfamily photos and get them up the wall so you can enjoy them. Visit a professional frame shop to helpselect out the right frame for each piece. Once framed group them together for impact on your wall. Agreat tip is to keep these prints black and white. When you photograph people in colour, youphotograph their outfits. But black and white captures the essence of a natural setting and goes pastthe exterior to photograph the soul.

There’s nothing quite like snuggling up to a warm cup of coffee with a spew of sweet cream to cozyup those cold days. Bring this same indulgence into the way you accessorize your space. Filled,empty, individual or grouped, vases offer the perfect finishing touch for any room. Add mellow moodto your dining room by choosing your favourite glass vase, set a collection of cream candles into itand fill the base with coffee beans. Then select other items in a similar colour from table runners toflowers. Don’t be afraid to go for texture in fabrics. But avoid lots of pattern , as these tend to alwaysdistract from the simplicity of the look.

Winter is all around you, so don't neglect your bedroom as well. Use banding on cushions, pull out thethrows, add a fluffy bean bag for a wintry, cosy feel.

Enjoy snuggling into your home this week!

Spacework

Innovations in small space living have never been as in demand as they are now. Bed-rooms rarely come equipped with adequate storage. And without a home for all your

items, it’s too easy for your clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery, books and photos to become clutter. But, with a few clever and attractive storage solutions you can turn chaos into order and ultimately creating your sleeping space to become a place in which you can truly relax and unwind. There are several different approaches in creating an ingenious space saving bedroom for a home of modest proportions. The most straight-forward designs involve clever posi-tioning of the bed, and using the most of your wall and floor space. Furniture-wise, for a shared bedroom, es-pecially children, bunk beds make full use a room’s vertical space, and make better use of the floor space than a set of twin beds. If the bunk bed is not meant for sharing, the ‘bottom deck’ can be transformed into a study area or storage space [1]. If your bedroom has no cupboards space, select slender wardrobes to flank the bed for that built-in look [2]. You may prefer a multi-purpose wardrobe that can will provide a com-bo of hanging space and a chest of drawers. For your dresser area, consider your dresser stool having a footstool that opens up for stor-ing other trinkets you use daily. Under-bed storage is a no-brainer in a space limited bedroom, but you don’t have to set-tle for plastic containers that slide in among the dust bunnies. Consider a bed with built-in storage compartments [3]. This is a great smart solution to free your wall space up, hid-ing away any clutter and creates a neat appeal to your bedroom. Apart from the above, why not re-claim the unused space above your headboard? By using a bracketed shelf instead of a night-stand you will save more on your floor space, thus creating a sense of airiness in your bed-

room. The shelf mounted above the bed adds extra storage for items such as books or col-lectibles. A tip to keep though: if you’re a fan of reading in bed, make sure that the shelf is mounted above the height of your head when you’re sitting up [4]. It may be unfamiliar to our Zimbabwean culture, but a trendy and great space saving concept is hiding the bed itself. We can explore hiding beds under the floor, up on the ceiling, and even on walls! But more suitable to the lifestyle and architecture of most of our flats and homes will be having a bed that has a dual function of a sofa and a bed. In short, a sofa bed [5]. We’ve summarised ideas for you if your bed-room needs to opened up and feel less clut-tered. Consider these space saving ideas to create that extra space needed. 1. Raised bed to utilize the space underneath (bunk bed set up) 2. Pull-out bed and storage drawers 3. Overhead shelving4. Modular furniture that converts to a living and working space

So remember that any bedroom if designed smartly can serve as a space where you can sleep, work, sit and store things.

References

Fiyaa. 2014. 5 Amazing Space Saving Ideas for Small Bedrooms. [O].Available: http://www.amazinginteriordesign.com/5-amazing-space-saving-ideas-small-bedrooms/Accessed on 2014/09/24

Space Saving Bedroom Ideas. 2012. [O].Available: https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/better-homes-gardens/renovation/g/13539861/space-saving-bedroom-ideasAccessed on 2014/09/24

Space Saving Beds & Bedrooms. 2014. [O].Available: http://www.home-designing.com/2014/04/space-saving-beds-bedrooms Accessed on 2014/09/24 Email: [email protected] Cell: +263 772 277397

October 12 to 18 201412 THE STANDARD STYLE / HOME & GARDEN / GARDEN

The visual path from the street to your porch and home make an impression - good or bad. Use your front yard and porch to make a statement, help sell your

home, or most importantly, because you enjoy them yourself !

A Few Quick Front Yard Landscaping IdeasUse the landscaping to complement or mirror your home’s architecture as much as possible. This can extend from having everything sym-metrical to the asymmetrical depending on the style of your home.

Front yard landscaping should emphasize your driveway and sidewalks leading to the porch. They are located to give your family and your guests a direct view of the proper-ty. Walkways lead your guests directly to the front porch and front door.Maximize this area and the view from this vantage point with landscaping that is pleas-ing to the eye (and fragrant too)!

Add focal points along the way. No matter the distance to your porch, you can almost always add a focal point be it a sculpture, fountain, flag, etc. These also add a vertical dimension to your landscaping which helps blend plants

Front porch ideasand home together. A theme garden works great also. Be creative. It could be a chosen color garden - all white, red, etc., or plants with similar names.A rule of thumb is to ensure all of the plants you choose share the same soil, light, and wa-ter requirements.

Large expansions can be separated into differ-ent areas for different purposes. Use privacy landscaping complete with patio and seating to create a quite respite for reading or relax-ing.

An flowering arbor can give the illusion of entering into a different space. Fountains not only provide a focal point but also add the ele-ment of sound.We often forget the yard itself. A yard that is lush and full requires maintenance. Too much work and cost involved?

Landscape it so that you have a minimum of work with flower beds and other landscaping. This allows you to more easily maintain the remaining part of your yard to be the envy of all.

- http://www.front-porch-ideas-and-more.com

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CUT OUT, KEEP, WATCH FOR NEXT UPDATEOct 12 (today) Last day Zimbabwe October 5s bowls tournament City Bowling Club, Harare Gardens.Food,drink,raffles,entertainment. LunchtimeconcertbyPhoenixandHarareMaleVoiceChoir,ChapmanGolfClub. LastdayZimbabweTroutFishingchampionshipsNyanga.Tocompete:mmati [email protected]. Lunch:Alo,Alo,Arundel;Amanzi,Highlands(new)Theo’s,167,EnterpriseRoad; Adrienne’s,Belgravia;DaEros,FishmongerandGreatWall,EastRoad;Sitar, Newlands;Palms,BronteHotel;WillowBeanCafe,RolfValley,Englishroast/pud dingUS$15.(BYOB,nocorkage.)Paula’sPlace;WildGeese,Teviotdalebuffet/live music;ItalianClub,Strathaven,MukuvisiWoodlandsCoffeeShop;CenturionPub &Grill,HarareSportsClub;Hellenics,Eastlea Oct 13 OpenRestaurateurs’Lunch(KWVwinetasting)Adrienne’sRestaurant,Belgravia. 12:30pm Keepfit,ZumbaDancing,CityBowlingClub,HarareGardens.Andeveryworking nightexceptFridays.5:30pm-6:30pm.Oct 14 7pm Line dancing City Bowling ClubOct 14-18thFestivalofIndiaspecialmenuMeiklesHotelOct 15 Farmers’market,MaasdorpAvenue,Belgravia(nexttoBottomDrawer) Currynightspecial,Adrienne’sBelgravia.AllyoucaneatforUS$12(beefor chicken)supplementforlamb FunpubquizAmanzi,Highlands.Oct 15-25 LesMiserables,theConcertREPSTheatreOct 16 (andeveryThursday)TapasnightandmusicbyEvicted,AmanziRestaurant (andeveryotherThursday)funpubquizblue@2PrivateWineBar,2,Aberdeen Rd,Avondale.Bookingessential,Tel0772856371Oct 18 RoyalSocietyofStGeorge,BattleofTrafalgarDinnerChapmanGC6:30for7. [email protected] 19 RepsfunpubquizMainbar11:15amsharpOct 21 7pmFunpubquizTheo’s,167,EnterpriseRoadOct 22-25 53rdannualKaribaInvitationTigerFishingTournament,ChararaEasternBasinOct 26 ArtExhibitionandsale,WingateParkGC9am-3pmOct 29-30-31.HospitalityAssociationofZimbabweannualcongressBulawayoRainbowHotel andeventsatmanyothervenues.Oct 29-Nov 8.Zol/EatOutZimbabweRestaurantWeek.Enjoybargain2and3coursemealsat topeateriesinHarareandBulawayoOct 31 FunpubquizBorrowdaleCountryClub.QuestionmasterTonyHavercroft. Halloween,lookforspecialeventsatmanyvenues.Nov 1 car boot sale, Borrowdale Country ClubNov 7-8 BorrowdaleCountryClub“TheBCCWorldNews”(revue)Dec 29-31JamesonVictoriaFallsFestival.Booknow!

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ESTATE agents reckon the three magic words in their calling are: “Location….Location…Location!”When writing about restaurants, this reviewer favours: “Manage-ment…Management…Manage-ment!” What else can explain the three previous eateries which occupied

the site from which Bojangles now operates eventually failing totally miserably, but the new bistro-bar operation certainly appearing to be almost a licence to print loot? Danny Marini, his wife, Voula, and all their cooks, chefs, waiters and bottle-washers moved, in April, lock, stock and ice-bucket from their

former highly-successful Leon-ardo’s Restaurant in the ultra-high rent Borrowdale Village, to the con-siderably less expensive Newlands. They moved into premises which most recently were the ini-tially promising but latterly lamen-table Butlers. Prior to that it was Trax and before that News Café, but there was about a three-year inter-regnum between Track Armour getting the order of the boot from landlords Innscor and Butlers and The Lounge (an upstairs operation: still vacant) starting trading. Danny is often described as the consummate restaurateur, moving heaven and earth to make sure his devoted customers always get the service, quality, quantity and value they have grown used to. Danny is locally born of Italian-German parents; Voula was also born in this country and is of Greek descent. Most of their recipes have origins in the Mediterranean re-gion. Bojangles is more of a laid-back bar and a bistro than the fairly up-market Leonardo’s Mediterranean Restaurant was, but still has much atmosphere and class. Danny offers his wonderful value-for-money two course set menus with choices at US$10 and, presum-ably as a result of that, AppleGees, next door, immediately slashed their own US$10 two-courses to US$8. Great, that’s what capitalism and competition’s all about and the punter wins! The options on the Tenner Spe-cials change fairly frequently but, last Tuesday; choices were soup-of-the-day, piri-piri chicken livers, or saganaki: crumbed-feta cheese deep-fried and served with chili jam, mini vol-au-vents filled with cream of mushroom and cream of chicken sauce. Soup-of-the-day was supposed to have been home-made cream of tomato but Danny told me they had a drop of his trademark minestrone left and I thoroughly enjoyed its vegetarian goodness, full of rich fla-vour, generously topped with grated Parmesan cheese and accompanied by Melba toast and butter. For mains, I went a la carte. Main course salads are US$6 (Greek) to US$10 (blue cheese and bacon), but I had a US$3 side salad, rich in juicy dinky cherry tomatoes, strips of colourful peppers and mixed leaves to go with a wonderful fettuc-cini marinara. The huger portion of al dente fresh home-made pasta was packed full of mussels, big prawns,

calamari, line fish all in a grand to-mato sauce and was great value at just US$15. Steak specialities are a toasted fillet steak ciabatta at US$10 or New York strip steak (sirloin) with fries or baked potatoes at US$15, pork chops are US$13, as is fish (hake) and chips, prawns US$20 and pastas US$9-US$15. All puddings are US$5 each and I enjoyed a creamy, decadently rich, custardy crème brulee with classi-cal caramelised sugar top.Bojangles is the sort of place you could just call in for a cup of excel-lent coffee (there are 66 variations on the menu, costing between US$2 and US$6 a pop), tea or a proper drink: excellent wine list, some great sounding cocktails, mainly featuring Grey Goose vodka, Bac-ardi “white” rum or Bombay Sap-phire gin at reasonable prices. Lo-cal beers are US$2 each or US$10 a “bucket” of six and imported labels from US$3. My friendly waiter asked if I wanted a coffee and, deep into a pa-perback novel, I grunted something about “filter coffee”. He was obvi-ously disappointed I hadn’t checked out the list of 66 Illy coffees on offer. And being a fully paid up member of the awkward squad, I asked for a hot drinking chocolate which went down well with the sweet course! Earlier I had sipped two glasses of the house white wine which (I think) was a Steenberg Sauvignon-Blanc.Currently Danny and Voula run Bojangles Monday-to-Saturdays 12 noon until 11pm, with last food or-ders at 9:30pm. Fully licensed, great bar, nice background music. Safe guarded parking. It is still very much under construc-tion. See previous reviews of this outlet, its predecessors; related sto-ries and additional photographs on my new personal blog/website: dai-lymiller.co.zwBojangles, Newlands Shopping Cen-tre (eastern side). Tel 0772 247 990. [email protected]@gmail.com

Bojangles

Danny and Voula Marini o� er mainly Mediter-ranean-style cooking in a relaxed bistro-bar environment

With blinds to foil penetrating sun, wind, rain…or whatever Bojangles thrives at Newlands. The former club-like operation The Lounge, on the � rst � oor, is still empty but entry and exit is via fairly scary � re-escape style staircase.

It never did well under its original management.

Minestrone soup is a popular speciality; Danny is half Italian.

Half a piri-piri chicken, seen here with sa� ron rice and salad, is usually available on the main course $10 special menu

Piri-piri chicken liversPasta marinara: fettuccini with seafood including prawns, mussels, calamari and line-� sh. All pictures by Dusty Miller

October 12 to 18 2014 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK / WINE 15

The new ‘wine’ on the block - Danai Food and WINEWine is similar to music in that it’s a purely experiential realm, and it’s a purely subjective practice. That’s sort of the fun-ny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criti-cism. At times, those are use-ful guides, but ultimately it’s all about how you react to that music or wine – Mike D

There’s no better place to be than a wine launch on a warm summer evening. It’s not only a time to get a sneak preview

of these wines before they’re made available to everyone else, but also an opportunity to taste some or all of these wines. The beauty of tast-ing a wine without having to actu-ally buy it, is that, you are able to discern those wines that you would love to buy, from those that you wouldn’t. The end result is, you’ll have acquainted yourself with new wines and when next you walk into a liquor store, it’s easier for you to head straight for the wine that you’ve fallen in love with. ‘My good company’ and I head-ed for the much talked about, “The

Venue.” I can understand why it per-fectly suited this wine launch. Rosé, Chardonnay, red wine and red grape juice, were awaiting guests for that “wine” welcome. A Rosé made for an easy choice, as I needed something refreshing, yet light to cool down this warm evening. Wine chatter and pleasantries filled the air. The wine was flowing, the snacks were complementing, a premonition of what lay ahead for this magnificent-ly put together evening. Recently established, Danai Food and Wine Distributors, led by co-founder Albert Nhau and his team, import and distribute a vari-ety of wines, olive oils and olives. The launch of the evening included the following wine farms:-• BottegaFamily,which includes Heritage Series, Idiom wines of character and Whalehaven• AnuraWines• DeMorgenzon• L’Avenir• Saronsburg• VredeEnLust• CapeClassics–JamJar A wine launch is like a bubble bath of any wine imaginable, the more you soak yourself, the more

pleasant the wine becomes. All guests were treated to a com-plementary wine-tasting tumbler and booklet on wines with a sen-tence or two, to tease the palate, I’m sure. Am still trying to figure out whether it’s stemmed glassware or tumblers that bring out a sophisti-cated look. Even though tumblersseem to be getting quite popular since their launch in the early 2000s, stemmed glasses seem to be the ones that steal the show. For tastings, in my opinion, stemmed glassware is easy to walk around with, easy to handle, and the feat of tasting es-pecially the swirling is made easier by the grasp of the stem. Candidly, diverting my thoughts to wine and with my tumbler in hand, it was time to taste. Daring to taste these wines dif-ferently,theBottegaFamilygotmyattention first, with their Idiom wines of character range. My sole aim on this particular evening was to taste “with borrowed palates”. My interesting mix of wine friends, have different palates, which I like to think, that, over the years, I have mastered. So, it was a launch of new wines for me to shop for each and every one of my friends. They

were indeed wines of character. A complex and rich Sangiovese 2010, and a well integrated, intrigue full Bordeaux Blend (Idiom’s flagship)in all respects, smoothly stood out. I singled out a Super Bianco 2009from the Heritage Series, an elegant easy drinking blend of Italian reds. A Whalehaven Merlot, with its firm yet delightful palate and the fruit driven Whalehaven Chardonnay, full of aromas that shouted “drink me,” was added to my list as I took a moment to think of my dear friends yet again. Anura wines pleasantly pre-sented themselves to me with a Sauvignon Blanc 2014 to give metheyoungzestyandfreshacidthatalways appeals to me on a warm day. The Anura Rosé had to comple-ment this beautiful collection for my friends for that palate that’s playful. WithDeMorgenzon,ithadtobetherich peppery Syrah with a seduc-tive touch to the palate that lured me into its wine web and a lightly wooded Chardonnay followed suit, for that light palate yet discerning taster. Thankfully, I had the right friend in mind. L’Avenir Single Block Cheninput me in a state of wine shock.

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Tropical flavours, full of gentleness stroked my palate. The Saronsburg Shiraz Rosé and Full circle wereworth adding to the collection for ‘that’ surprise. The Vrede En Lusttopped the evening with the award winningBoetErasmusandanArti-san Range Riesling full of citrus and delicious notes of honey. A second thought sent me picking another rosé, a deliciously fresh and fruity Vredeen lust, Jess.TheCapeClas-sics Jam Jar wines, a sweet whiteand sweet Shirazmade the perfectwine finale to my “friendship” col-lection. It was a splendid evening, filled with new experiences of wine and more wine. Take your palate on a journey of discovery, to of course, wine places. To that end wine lov-ers, when you take that next sip of a new wine, just remember, “There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.” –Robert Parker Danai’s wine selection can be foundinOKMartandselectedBonMarché supermarkets.

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October 12 to 18 201416 THE STANDARD STYLE / FOOD & DRINK / COOK & BAKE

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This here dish is typically enjoyed with steaming hot sadza or rice but the real deal is sadza nemuriwo (pap and leafy green veggies).

Gently simmering the chicken on medium-low heat has been known to be the healthi-est way to extract beneficial nutrients from the bones into your stew and meat!

Traditional road-runner chicken stew

Servings: 10-12Cooking Time: 1 hr 45 minThe free range chicken (huku yepamusha) which is commonly known as road-runner is a popular favourite among Zimbabweans. Back in the days, this would be slaughtered on special occasions such as Christmas or celebrations. It was nicely fried and stewed to the enjoyment of friends and family.Though it’s tougher than your usual broiler (high-breed) chicken, it’s a preferred choice as it does not have any chemicals injected into it and so forth which has become a ram-

pant problem now with chickens. Also, one of the trademarks of a road-runner chicken is its bones which are slightly tougher than the high-breed chickens. That aside, I prepared this for supper for my family and my girls just loved it, especially my 5-year-old daughter.

Ingredients

• 2kgfreerangechicken(road runner)• 960mlcoldwater• 1mediumonion• 3mediumtomatoes• 4wholeclovesgarlic• 2tbsptomatosouppowder• 1tspsalt• 2tbsptomatosauce• 1tsppaprika

QuickInstructions

1. Get your ingredients together and chop your onions and tomatoes.2. Cut your chicken, put it in the pot. Add water (400 ml) and salt.3. Close pot and bring to the boil until the water is finished (about 50 minutes, depending on how hot your stove is).4. Add whole garlic cloves and paprika. Fry the chicken until it is browned (about 15 minutes). Add more water (500 ml).5. Close pot once again and reduce heat. Let the chicken simmer gently until tender, cooked through and the water is finished (about 25 minutes).6. Fry the chicken for about a minute. Add the onions and tomatoes all at once and stir.7. Close the pot again to give the tomatoes and onions time to cook (about 5 minutes). Mix tomato soup powder with

water (60 ml) to make a smooth paste. Pour this into the pot together with 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce. Stir and let this simmer for another 5-10 minutes.8. Your road-runner chicken stew is ready!

It has been said that an event without a cake is just a meeting! My column here will be focus-ing on baking, offering you recipes to make an occasion that extra special! We will start off with the Madeira cake, a versatile cake which can be served warm or cold with custard or ice cream or simply on its own.

Moist Madeira Cake: by Cakes By Tamanda125gmargarine250mlcastorsugar2eggsGratedrindofalemon5mlvanillaessence500gcakeflour10gbakingpowder250mlmilk

Cream together margarine and sugar until pale and fluffy. (As a guide I always keep the margarine wrapper near me so I can compare the shade of the creamed mixture to the shade of the margarine in its original form.) Beat in the eggs, rind and vanilla essence lightly. Sift the flour and baking powder together and fold into the creamed mixture alternatively with the milk. (Another tip: divide your flour into 3 batches - this way you will be able to combine the ingredients quicker to avoid over beat-ing.) Pour into a well-greased 23cm loaf tin

at 150 degrees Celsius for at least 1 hour. (If you find after an hour that your cake requires more time, reduce your temperature to 1300C and check on progress every 20 minutes until done.)

Madeira is great as it keeps well and can be flavoured in many ways, add cherries and raisins for a fruity take or orange peel and es-sence for a nice citrus flavour.

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October 12 to 18 201420 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / PARENTING

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Are entrepreneurs born or made? With the ap-propriate education, can the average “Joe

Bloggs” be groomed into a savvy business person? Engineer Selby Nera, the Campus Director and over-seer of an Entrepreneurship programme at Speciss Tech-nical Campus, firmly believes businesspeople must receive formal training.

He says that the information age makes it necessary for any aspiring entrepreneur to gain sound knowledge about

how a profit-making business operates.“Some entrepreneurs are naturally talented, but the present cut-throat trading environment makes it neces-sary to get educated so that you can outmanoeuvre your competition,” he says.

Engineer Nera says that en-trepreneurs who place them-selves in a formal education system also stand to benefit from accessing research data and analysis that they can employ to avoid costly mis-takes.

“Rather than using trial and error, an education allows you as an entrepreneur to adopt business operating methods that have been tried and tested,” he says. He argues that detailed infor-mation such as that found in Marketing and Sales syllabi will also help businesspeople to benchmark themselves against leading businesses within their respective indus-tries.

Mafelile Saidi, the Director of Royal Business Consult

Trust, the implementing agency of the International Labour Organisation’s Zim-babwean Enterprise Devel-opment Programme, takes a somewhat different view.

“Entrepreneurs are born but their skills must be nur-tured,” she says.

Mafelile says that an edu-cation refines an entrepre-neur’s existing abilities.

She says that the key ingredi-ent to launching a successful business is identifying a pas-

sion, ascertaining whether it is marketable and then devel-oping a business plan around it.

“You don’t need any formal qualifications to be innova-tive!” she says.

Mafelile says that fledgling entrepreneurs should invest in establishing relationships with coaches or mentors who can “hand-hold” them.

“I believe in coaching as a coach can help you navigate challenges you had not envi-

sioned,” she says.

Much like the never-ending debate about whether the chicken or the egg came first, the “born entrepreneur” ver-sus the “developed entrepre-neur” debate shows no signs of abating.

Given the evidence, a com-bination of book smarts and street smarts might not be such a bad middle ground as knowledge can only take ex-isting abilities higher.

Book smarts or street smarts? Education and the entrepreneur

Many parents are stressing over the issue of disciplining their children, especially the rebellious teenagers. Many parents ask whether it is pos-sible to keep the child under complete control. How can parents discipline their chil-dren in a way that is helpful to the child? This article sug-gests ways of disciplining children.

Lead by example

Children are very impres-sionable and easily warm up to the environment around them. Parents need to create an environment where rules are observed: the parents themselves must carry them-selves about with decorum and refinement. Aggressive parents, it has been proven by research, breed aggressive children; parents whose own discipline is questionable groom ill-disciplined chil-dren. Parents should make sure that they deal positively

with matters pertaining to discipline and conflict in the home.

Provide a distraction

Some children misbehave because there are no fruitful alternatives to the undesir-able behaviour that they are engaging in. Why not offer the child an opportunity to do something else tantalis-ing in place of the act of misconduct? The alternative act must be as exciting or en-ticing as possible so that the child is not tempted to revert to the misdemeanour. RewardsAlthough some thinkers on discipline argue that giving rewards for good discipline can be counter-productive in some ways, research shows that rewards do in fact work. Parents should reward their children for good behaviour: it could be through simple praise or through tangible presents. It is easy to overlook

your child’s positive behav-iour and let the minor mis-deed eclipse the good. Parents can also give their children points for being good and these points are, with time, traded for rewards. An act of misbehaviour will lead to a drop in the number of points accrued.

Speak directly and sincerely

Parents need to speak plainly against the act of misde-meanour committed: criticise the misact and not the child. As they speak, parents must look at the child squarely and unapologetically in the face (but without a frown). Do not shout but speak firmly and fairly. Most importantly, you must remind your child of the logical consequences of their misbehaviour: they could hurt themselves or oth-ers or they could be expelled from school or fall pregnant.

Apply a variety of punishments

There is need to come up with a variety of corrective measures -- from the soft to the escalated for repeat mis-behaviours. Light offences must not attract severe pun-ishment; otherwise the disci-plinary procedure becomes ludicrous. However, guard against creating a different punishment for each offence. Various offences can be clas-sified together. Whichever disciplinary strat-egy a parent adopts, the gold-en rule is to be consistent, firm and fair. Parents need to avoid power struggles with their errant children who, at this age, strangely, may enjoy running battles with their parents. Encourage positive behaviour, talk positively and see your child’s glass of dis-cipline as half full not half empty.

Is it possible to discipline today’s child?Edson Chivandikwa

THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / EDUCATION 21October 12 to 18 2014

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When school closed in December 2013, we travelled to Mtoko communal lands to visit our grandparents. One morning we were jerked awake by a loud scream and a cry for help. Grandpa dashed out of the hut armed

with a knobkerrie. I quickly followed behind. Outside, we met my twin brother Terence. He was pop-eyed with fear. A chameleon is on my back! Please help me! He screamed, as he tore his shirt off and threw it on the ground. Grandpa and I broke into peals of laughter. “Now keep calm muzukuru!” a chameleon is a harmless creature and it will not harm you.” Grandpa said as he filled his pipe with tobacco. Terence was shaking like a reed caught in a torrent as we both watched the chameleon leave his shirt and move slowly away. “Sekuru, why can’t it move fast like other creatures?” I asked. Grandpa smiled, exposing his toothless tobacco stained gums. “I will tell you why, Tatenda, now sit down both of you,” Grandpa said as he sat on a stool. He inhaled deeply at his smoking pipe and told us his story. In ancient times Rwavhi, the great ancestor of the chame-leons, lived alone in a cave near the kingdom of the ants. King Svosve ruled the kingdom of the ants and lived in a huge ant hill. This was his palace. His subjects, the ants, were diligent and industrious creatures. They spent most of their time in the forest gathering food. They also collected grass, twigs and other materials which they used to build a wall around the pal-ace of the King. Rwavhi was a skillful hunter and could run faster than any

animal or insect. He had long, athlectic legs which exposed tre-mendous strength and agility. Whenever he went hunting in the forest, he always came back with a lot of meat. However, as time progressed, a severe drought visited the land and food became scarce. All the rivers, dams and streams dried. Many animals and insects died. Each time Rwavhi went out into the forest to hunt he came back empty handed. With the passage of time, he became very thin and weak because he had nothing to eat. The ants had a lot of food and hunger was unheard of in the kingdom. Rwavhi knew that if he did not get some food, he would soon die of hunger. So one night he sneaked in the kingdom of the ants and stole some food. The following morning some of the ants told their king what had happened. King Svosve called all his subjects togeth-er and said, “Rwavhi stole our food last night. If we do not stop him, he will come back again and finish all our food and we shall die of hunger. What should we do to the stop him?” some of the ants suggested that they wage war against Rwavhi. How-ever, the majority of the ants objected to this. They argued that Rwavhi was too powerful and would kill all of them. Finally, one small ant stood reverently before the king and said, “Your highness, the only way to stop Rwavhi is to trap him with poi-soned food. The poisoned food will kill him as once and he will never steal our food again.” All the ants supported this plan and they showered the small ant with cheered, praised and ad-miration for his brilliant plan. The ants set their trap and retired for the night, Rwavhi sneaked into the ants’ kingdom around midnight when all the ants were fast asleep. He ate all the poisoned food and returned to his cave. However, he did not die. Instead he vomited all the food and then fainted. When he regained consciousness the following morning, he felt very weak and his body ached with severe pain. He got up and tried to run, but he felt a sudden tightening of his leg muscles. This cramped his progress and forced him to move very slowly. “My dear grandchildren, the poison weakened Rwavhi and left with very little strength and energy. Chameleons move slowly because of the poisoned food that Rwavhi, their great ancestors, stole in the kingdom of the ants.” Grandpa conclud-ed as he filled his pipe with more tobacco.

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Anele Moyo Grade 6 -7Twin Rivers Primary School HarareMaleAge 12 Category

Kingdom of the ants

In my dream I was one of the worker ants in the Kingdom of the Ants. Our kingdom was located in a house in Belvedere. Living in the house was not easy, the humans who were all giants in com-parison to us, would want to destroy our kingdom and every single ant. As a worker ant my main duties were to look for food, protect the queen and the children ants. One day we were starving and had to travel all the way to the backyard in search for food. We suddenly realized that the cock from next door had jumped over the wall. It was red in colour and was not wasting time in attacking us. With a single peck it would pick up 2 ants and immediately go for more. We had to run for dear life. The cock turned its attention to me. It pecked at me but missed and broke my leg. I was shrieking with fear and hopping on one leg. The cock was closing in and I was sure that my life was at an end. As the cock was about to eat me I was shaken violently and heard a voice saying that I would be late for school. I woke up and sat up. Only to realize that it was my mother. I told myself that I was never going back to the kingdom of the ants. Since then I am kind to ants.

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Wwith a knobkerrie. I quickly followed behind. Outside, we met my twin brother Terence. He was pop-eyed with fear. A chameleon is on my back! Please help me! He screamed, as he tore his shirt off and threw it on the ground. Grandpa and I broke into peals of laughter. “Now keep calm muzukuru!” a chameleon is a harmless creature and it will not harm you.” Grandpa said as he filled his pipe with tobacco. Terence was shaking like a reed caught in a torrent as we both watched the chameleon leave his shirt and move slowly away. “Sekuru, why can’t it move fast like other creatures?” I asked. Grandpa smiled, exposing his toothless tobacco stained gums. “I will tell you why, Tatenda, now sit down both of you,” Grandpa said as he sat on a stool. He inhaled deeply at his smoking pipe and told us his story. In ancient times Rwavhi, the great ancestor of the chame-leons, lived alone in a cave near the kingdom of the ants. King Svosve ruled the kingdom of the ants and lived in a huge ant hill. This was his palace. His subjects, the ants, were diligent and industrious creatures. They spent most of their time in the forest gathering food. They also collected grass, twigs and other materials which they used to build a wall around the pal-ace of the King. Rwavhi was a skillful hunter and could run faster than any

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October 12 to 18 201422 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY / HEALTH

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If you haven’t tried it, you have at least no doubt seen fellow gym goers swivel their hips to Beyonce’s mu-sic in group fitness.Can you get your Zumba groove on with a baby on board? Of course!If you were a fan before you conceived, it is likely that you can continue Zumba when pregnant. How-ever there are a few things you need to take note of before you engage: Do check with your doctor first. For most mother-to be, exercise is healthy and beneficial, and doctors recommend continuing pregnancy workout routines. However, your ob-gyn may recommend skipping the Zumba routine in pregnancy in favour of some low-key alternatives instead. Do check with your Zumba instructor too. The teacher should be able to show modifications to your usual moves, especially those that involve a lot of bending and twisting; they will be hard to perform. If the instructor isn’t helpful, patient or encouraging try join another class. Do drink plenty of water before, during and after class, and wear comfortable clothes. Don’t overdo it! If you are failing to sing along to the music then you are dancing too vigorous

ly. If you are breathing so heavily in Zumba class that you can hardly harmonise, you are working too hard and depriving the baby of oxygen. Slow down. Do follow impact, especially as your pregnancy progresses. Keep one foot on the floor at all times (marching instead of jumping, stepping instead of leaping). This should be easier on your newly bulky body. Cutting on arm movements will also keep your heart rate lower. Do know the warning signs of overexertion: uterine contractions, dizziness, chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, vaginal bleeding or fluid leakage, and pain or swelling in tour calf muscle. If you experience any of these during a Zumba class, stop and call your health care professional.

Thank you again Zumba addicts see you in another edition next week! Classes at the Italian Club, first session is free and we are branching to Ridgeview as from the 1st of November 2014.

And remember, if you bring a copy of this Standard Style, you get a week of free sessions!+263 773 047 087 [email protected] Facebook page Zumba with Zorro

Ebola facts

with baby aboard!

Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) which belongs to a group of diseases referred to as “viral haemorrhagic fevers”

(VHF). Dengue fever, yellow fever, Lassa fever, and Marburg fever are other examples of VHFs. “Haemor-rhagic” means these diseases can involve bleeding, which can be one of their more alarming symptoms. The disease spreads from person to person, or to people from animals or bats. Symptoms can start within two days after someone’s exposed to the virus.

SUSPECTED CASE:

Any person, alive or dead, suffering or having suffered from a sudden onset of high fever and having had contact with a suspected, probable or confirmed Ebola case in at least one of the following ways:• has slept in the same household with a case• has had direct physical contact with the case (alive or dead) during the illness• has had direct physical contact with the (dead) case at the funeral• has touched his/her blood or body fluids during the illness• has touched his/her clothes or linens• has been breastfed by the patient (baby)

OR a dead or sick animal,

OR any person with sudden onset of high fever and at least three of the following symptoms:

• Headaches• Anorexia / loss of appetite• Lethargy• Aching muscles or joints• Breathing difficulties• Vomiting• Diarrhoea• Stomach pain• Difficulty swallowing• HiccupsProvided that this exposure has tak-en place less than 21 days before the identification as a contact by sur-veillance teams

EXPOSURE RISK LEVELS

High risk exposures: A high risk exposure includes any of the follow-ing:• Percutaneous (e.g., needle stick) or mucous membrane exposure to blood or body fluids of EVD patient• Direct skin contact with or exposure to blood or body fluids of an EVD patient without ap propriate personal protective equipment (PPE)• Processing blood or body fluids of a confirmed EVD patient without appropriate PPE or standard biosafety precautions• Direct contact with a dead body without appropriate PPE in a country where an EVD outbreak is occurring*Low** risk exposures: A low risk exposure includes any of the follow-ing:• Household contact with an EVD patient• Other close contact with EVD patients in health care facilities or community settings.

Having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD case while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment.• Brief interactions, such as walking by a person or moving through a hospital, do not constitute close contact

No known exposure

Having been in a country in which an EVD outbreak occurred within the past 21 days and having had no high or low risk exposures* As of 22 August, countries with EVD outbreaks are Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. There are also cases of EVD in Lagos and Port Har-

cort, Nigeria.** For purposes of monitoring and movement restrictions of persons with Ebola virus exposure, low risk is interpreted as some risk. High risk exposures include any of the following: • close face-to-face contact (e.g. within one metre) without appropriate personal protective equipment (including eye protection) with a probable or confirmed case who was coughing, vomiting, bleeding, or who had diarrhoea; or had un protected sexual contact with a case up to three months after recovery;• direct contact with any material

soiled by bodily fluids from a probable or confirmed case;• percutaneous injury (e.g. with needle) or mucosal exposure to bodily fluids, tissues or labora tory specimens of a probable or confirmed case;• participation in funeral rites with direct exposure to human remains in or from an affected area without appropriate personal protective equipment;• direct contact with bats, rodents, primates, living or dead, in or from affected areas, or bushmeat.

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THE STANDARD STYLE/ INVESTMENTS 23October 12 to 18 2014

October 12 to 18 201424 THE STANDARD STYLE / FAMILY /GETAWAY

Rosie Mitchell

The end of year madness has already begun - and the calendar is filling up fast! This has been a tough year for most, and stress levels are high. The economy is far from buoyant and many businesses are struggling along in survival mode. If you’re battling stress or depression or both as a result, think about getting involved in some of the great outdoor activities on offer. Our climate is amongst the best in the world, with sunshine and warmth most of the year, and accordingly we are thankfully able to spend a great deal of our time outdoors – if we choose to – and it can really pick your spirits up to go and do some-thing that is both social and energetic.

Mukuvisi Woodlands Run-Walk-Ride – now EVERY Sunday!The Sunday Run-Walk-Ride in this lovely Na-ture Reserve which provides ‘a touch of the wild in the heart of the city’ began as a now-and-again event. By popular demand, it then became a monthly event. More recently, it moved to being a fortnightly event, and as of this month, again in response to its popular-ity, it has become a weekly event! So if you’re looking for a great family outing combined with fresh air, exercise, game and bird spot-ting and sociability, pop along and try this out. This is a very flexible arrangement as you can start any time from 6.30 to 9.30 am and there are marked trails through the woodlands of various distances, so you won’t get lost. Dogs are allowed as long as they are secure-ly leashed throughout. The small fees you’ll pay for this pleasurable experience do add up to help sustain this wonderful city greenbelt so you’ll be doing your thing for the environ-ment, too! The pair of bushbuck who recently joined the Mukuvisi Woodlands family have settled in very well in their quiet boma, and are soon to be released to join the other game, and the most recent exciting news is that Mukuvisi is soon to take delivery of a donated male sable antelope!

The Old Mutual Vumba Mountain RunOld Mutual now sponsor four major running events annually in Zimbabwe and the Vumba Mountain Run on November 8, which offers distances of 5, 10 and 21 km, is a must if you live in the area, and a great draw card to visit the lovely Bvumba if you don’t! This will be the fourth edition and is for serious and fun runners alike - or walk the 5 or 10 kay route with the whole family. The atmosphere is fes-tive and the race routes are very scenic. The main race, the Half Marathon, starts in the Bunga Forest area and ends, with the run-ners and walkers of the other two distances, at the splendid Leopard Rock Hotel. Hotels in the Vumba and surrounds are filling up fast, so book yourself into Leopard Rock, Inn on the Vumba, White House Inn, National Parks lodges or campsite, or elsewhere, soon, and join in all the fun. Add a couple of days to explore the beautiful Bumba area; take a long walk through the magnificent Bunga Forest using the network of marked trails, visit the famous Tony’s Coffee Shop for the best coffee, tea and cake you’ll ever try, stroll around the Botanical Gardens, follow the trail up to Cas-tle Beacon for the magnificent view, or take a leisurely voyage of discovery by car around the winding mountain lanes and enjoy the scenery that way.

Sunungukai Camp – for a family breakaway in the bushSome friends of ours very recently tried out Sunungukai Camp and reported back with rave reviews of this lovely bush camp which is less than a three hour drive from Harare. Su-nungukai is the pioneering project of Wilder-ness Africa Trust run by long time conserva-tionist Iain Jarvis who also runs Hippo Pools Camp in the Umfurudzi Wilderness Area and Garura Camp just over the river from it in the communal area. The Sunungukai and Garura projects which are uplifting local people are assisted by the UK based Ambuya Foundation and currently, Ambuya’s Sally Plummer with Iain Jarvis are in talks with local leaders re-garding the further extension of this success-ful community based ecotourism area in the heart of beautiful, unspoilt communal areas, to attract even more visitors and provide more income for the friendly people living here. Su-nungukai is easy to find and when you book with Wilderness Africa Trust, you’ll receive detailed directions. You take Enterprise Road, turn off to Murehwa, go through it, then watch for the sign. The drive itself is very sce-nic, taking you through lovely mountainous scenery and pristine forest, especially as you near your destination. The Camp comprises fully equipped thatched rondavels with solar power, by the river, and abundant game and birds are easy to find. Enjoy spotting giraffe, wildebeest, impala, eland, zebra and more. You can either go walking with a guide, or un-accompanied, and fishing and canoeing is also available. Fridge, stove, bedding, mosquito nets, crockery, cutlery, hot water and friendly staff are all laid on. This is a place that re-ally lends itself to a relaxing family getaway in pristine bush. For more, Sunungukai has a good Facebook page.

Europcar 20 Miler The Europcar 20 Miler (32km), a historical lo-cal race that began in 1971, making it as old as Cape Town’s Two Ocean Marathon, is on 7 December and keen participants are training hard. A 16km + 16km relay is also offered, and this year, along with the generous prize money from Europcar, extra incentive has been added by South African Airways who have donated four air tickets to anywhere in South Africa as lucky draw prizes that those completing the individual 32km race in under five hours, stand a chance of winning.

‘Les Misérables’ (‘Les Mis’) comes to HarareThis amazing musical, set during the harrow-ing days of the protracted French Revolution which ultimately led to modern democracy in France, was first launched in 1985 in London – since when, it has taken the world by storm and continues to be performed to this day in cities across the globe. Based on Victor Hugo’s novel by the same name, it depicts the dark and sombre lives of the poor, and the yearning for better times which drives their revolution-ary spirit. The music is legendary and I could not resist auditioning for this Reps show and am hugely enjoying the intensive rehearsals, with opening night just a few days away. It is presented at Reps as part concert part show, and promises a night of really stirring music and entertainment - don’t miss it.

Inns of Zimbabwe is an Eastern Highlands treasure trove - the sparkling fresh air and spectacular scenery of the Eastern High-lands – matched by the variety and quality

of activities make a visit to this area an unfor-gettable experience reminiscent of the Scot-tish Highlands. Inns of Zimbabwe is positioned to pro-vide a base for all travellers to the highlands, which straddle the country’s border with Mo-zambique and have three distinct ranges, each with their own set of features and attractions: Nyanga in the north, the Bvumba in the cen-tre and the Chimanimanis to the south. The group has two well-established and popular Inns in the Nyanga area: Pine Tree Inn, nestled in a wooded valley surrounded by craggy mountain peaks, and the award win-ning Inn On Rupurara, which stretches out along a mountainside with views across to mountains and valleys and has its own game park on a sprawling estate. Just outside the city of Mutare, in the centre of the highlands, is Inn On The Vumba, which provides easy ac-cess in to the Bvumba range and to a series of

visitor attractions in and around Mutare. All three inns are popular with holiday-makers and business travellers and the em-phasis in all the inns is on personalised ser-vice and home comforts, as well as modern amenities and facilities such as Wi-Fi (not available at Pine Tree Inn) and satellite televi-sion. Small conferences can be hosted at each

In and around Zimbabweof the Inns. The Eastern Highlands has a superb va-riety of attractions, from mountain climbing to fishing and from historical and cultural tours to sporting activities such as golf. Wo-ven throughout the area are rivers, lakes, waterfalls, ancient ruins, forests and tea and timber estates, all close to main roads and all

of which can be easily reached from the three Inns of Zimbabwe operations.

Visit www.innsofzimbabwe.co.zw and follow the inns on Facebook.

- Stan Higgins of Aquarius Publications and Inns of Zimbabwe

Stan Higgins of Aquarius

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THE STANDARD STYLE

ARTS & CULTURE

(1) Sharon Hook (2) Togara (3) Mariah & Nick

In this issue of Arts & Culture

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26 THE STANDARD STYLE /COMMUNITY/ BREAKING NEW GROUND

Patricia Mabviko-Musanhu

October 12 to 18 2014

Choosing a career is not always the easiest of things to do. Many people find it difficult to choose a career that will best

express who they are. Some people are fortunate enough to discover their passion earlier on in life. How-ever, one’s passion does not always translate into a career that is finan-cially rewarding. Those who are fortunate or unfortunate enough to discover their passion, more often than not face a real dilemma; wheth-er to follow their passion or choose to pursue a professional career. Kundisai Mtero had known that she wanted to take up sciences as a career. At the same time, she had displayed amazing talent in music from an early age. By the time she was in high school, Kundisai was very involved musically. She had been taught to read music, she sang in the choir and could play the pi-ano and guitar. Would she follow her passion in music or would she give this up to take up a career in the sciences? What complicates this

decision making process even more is the involvement of parents who, more often than not, will discourage a child from pursuing a passion that does not offer any guarantees of a regular income. “My father was an educationist and he was very strict. Everyone in the family knew that there was no option to getting a good educa-tion,” said Kundisai. With all his strictness, Kundisai’s father could see that his daughter had an excep-tional gift in music. Instead of “kill-ing” this gift, he decided to encour-age her to nurture it and bought a piano for her to play at home. This was on the understanding that mu-sic would not stand in the way of her education. Kundisai continued to do music throughout her school-ing life and when she completed her “A” levels, she was offered a place at London City University to study Optometry. She continued to pursue music during her five year training. When she completed her studies in 1982, Kundisai returned to newly

independent Zimbabwe and became the country’s first Black Optom-etrist. She was offered job as an op-tometrist in the private sector and volunteered in her spare time, to work in the then Ministry of Health becoming the first optometrist to work in government. “I never gave up my music and soon enrolled at the Zimbabwe Col-lege of Music to continue with my piano improvisation as well as to learn more about music”. After working as an optometrist for in the public sector for 7 years, Kundisai decided to go into private practice. Around about the same time, she joined a group of female musicians and became part of a multiracial quintet that sang a cappella. She began to grow in her love for vocal singing and voice production. When some of the ladies from the group re-located out of the country, Kundisai formed African Voice in February 1999, a five member female a cappel-la quintet which is still going strong today. Kundisai is the Founder and

Musical Director of the group. “We receive invitations to sing at weddings, corporate functions and many other events,” she said. Kundisai never gave up her career as an Optometrist either. Her day’s work is divided in such a way that she works in the mornings as an Op-tometrist and does music in the af-ternoons. Her love for choral music has driven her to work extensively with schools where she is helping to develop musical talent in young people. She is the Director of Cho-ral Music at St George’s College and also works on a weekly basis with choirs at the Dominican Convent and Chisipite High Schools. In or-der to widen the scope of her reach to young people, Kundisai formed a choir of sixty young people consist-ing of students from high and low density areas. Her choir, which is called Zimspiration won a trophy in April 2014 after competing for the first time in the open category of an annual music competition EISTEDDFOD which features an in-

ternational adjudicator. “I love choral music. Music has helped to define who I am. I also love the fact that I can share it with other people, especially the young people. The energy and zeal with which I practice Optometry defi-nitely comes from music. Music

feeds my soul and allows me to be the best Optometrist that I can be!” she added. It is possible I suppose to fol-low your passion on one hand and pursue a professional career at the same time. Kundisai Mtero didn’t really have to sacrifice one for the other. Perhaps the next time you have a dilemma concerning your passion and a career just remember that sometimes, no choice is needed! Patricia Mabviko Musanhu is a Company Director/Producer at Black and White Media Productions. She can be contacted at [email protected]

Kundisai Mtero, An Optometrist with a soulful heart!

THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS 27October 12 to 18 2014

The all-singing, all-danc-ing 9th edition of Big Brother Africa kicked off on DStv on Sunday, 5

October as the 26 housemates showed off their talents to the continent – giving millions of viewers a glimpse into what makes them Hotshots. Viewers met the house-mates who will be compet-ing for the USD300 000 prize over the next 63 days, one-by-one, as they showcased their talents, live on stage, in one-minute slots. The studio audience scored each perfor-mance with a mark out of 100, and right at the end of the

show, Big Brother called the excited housemates together and revealed the reason – the housemate who scored the highest would be named as Head of House and would be the only housemate not up for eviction next Sunday. Tanza-nia’s Laveda led a Top 6 that included Sabina, M’am Bea, Lilian, Arthur and Zimba-bwe’s JJ, meaning she is the only one not in danger of go-ing home next week. The house seems to be full of musicians and sing-ers, with Kenya’s Sabina and Rwanda’s Arthur break-ing the mould with comedy

routines, Ghana’s M’am Bea showcasing her fashion de-sign talents and Laveda pick-ing up top marks with her saxophone solo. Not to be out-done by the housemates, pre-senter IK kicked things off with a cabaret-style singing performance of his own – and the show only got hotter from there. The housemates’ perfor-mances showed their talent– and some other continental superstars also got to show-case their own swagger. Keep-ing the musical theme going were Emmy Gee, AB Crazy & DJ Dimplez with their smash

hit Rands and Nairas, South African hip-hop sensation Cassper Nyovest with Doc Shebeleza and Nigeria’s own BET Award winner Davido with Skelewu. IK promised viewers a host of twists and turns in true Big Brother style, revealing one up-front: during a new Saturday night task, viewers will get the chance to vote to award one housemate with immunity from being nomi-nated each week! With the news sinking in that all but one of their num-ber are in danger of heading home next week, the house-

mates set about getting to know each other over snacks and drinks laid on by Biggie – and with a first dip in the jacuzzi. Daily Highlights Shows are broadcast Monday-Friday on AfricaMagic Showcase at 20:00 CAT, on Maisha Magic at 20:30 CAT and on AfricaMa-gic Family and AfricaMagic World at 21:30 CAT. The Satur-day Highlights Show, which showcases all the best mo-ments from the entire week, is broadcast at 21:00 CAT on AfricaMagic Showcase in South Africa, 20:00 CAT on AfricaMagic Showcase for

the rest of the continent, at 19:30 CAT on Maisha Magic, at 21:00 on AfricaMagic Fam-ily and 21:30 on AfricaMagic World. If 24/7 TV isn’t enough for you, stay in touch with Big Brother Hotshots on social media. Follow Big Brother Hotshots on Twitter @big-broafrica, on Instagram @bigbro_africa and on face-book.com/bigbrotherafrica. Big Brother Hotshots is pro-duced by Endemol South Af-rica

BIG BROTHER HOTSHOTS 26 housemates, 63 days, usd300 000 – This is big brother!

“Comrade Brickhill” as he was often referred to as, lost the battle to cancer on Oc-tober 3 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Born in 1958 and raised in Harare during the period in which the lib-eration war was intensifying, Paul refused to serve in the Rhodesian army and escaped from Zimbabwe to join the liberation struggle in 1976. His fearlessness towards the achievement of a revolu-tion was showcased when he joined ZAPU while in exile and subsequently joined his brother Jeremy working as a volunteer in ZIPRA. Always an advocate for the promotion of the arts and cul-ture, Paul embarked on his life-long career soon after in-dependence by founding the country’s first progressive bookshop – Grassroots Books and its sister publishing company, Anvil Press. Paul,

elected Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association in 1991, worked tirelessly with his first wife, Pat to develop Zimbabwean publishing and book-selling. For the following decade, Paul served on the Board of the Zimbabwean Internation-al Book and was amongst the team which co-founded the African Publishers Network (APNET) and the Pan-Afri-can Booksellers Association. Paul was also a musi-cian, establishing bands in the 1980’s such as Luck Street Blues and the famed Solidar-ity Band, which featured young musicians who even-tually became the Bhundu Boys. He played the saxo-phone all over the country, mostly in the poorer working class township pubs. 1997 saw Paul further devel-oping Grassroots Books into a multi-dimensional artistic

idea which covered all as-pects of art such as music, theatre, film, literature, po-etry, art and craft, and con-sequently the world famous Book Café was launched. The Book Café has over the years nurtured and pro-moted arts and culture under Brickhill’s leadership; host-ing shows and launching bud-ding artists. The venue be-came a much-loved platform saluted by artists from all over. It boasts of the National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) for ‘Outstanding Achieve-ment in Arts Service’ award-ed in 2013 by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe. The brains behind it, Paul, also received a NAMA Award for “service to the arts” and in 2012 he was awarded a Prince Klaus Award by the Government of the Netherlands in recogni-tion of his role in establish-

ing the Book Café and his own life-long commitment to promoting the arts.In 2012 the Book Café became a laureate of the prestigious 2011 Prince Claus Awards for “its exemplary support of culture and development in Zimbabwe, for the diversity, quality and wide reaching impact of its activities, for stimulating creativity and fostering aspiring young tal-ent, and for its tenacity and commitment in upholding freedom of expression in a difficult context.” Survived by his brother, fellow war veteran Jeremy, his first wife Pat and his sec-ond wife Jennifer, as well as four children; Thomas, Liam, Amy and Declan, Paul was indeed a much loved soul who touched so many people’s lives from different angles. - Prudence Muganiwah/ Calabash media

Fare thee well, Paul Brickhill

28 THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / BOOKWORM October 12 to 18 2014

By Bookworm

Poet Togara Muzanenhamo has been visiting the UK where he has launched his new collection Gumig-uru. His first collection Spirit Brides was published to acclaim in 2006 and he represented Zimbabwe at the Po-etry Parnassus in London during the 2012 Olympics. The cycle of poems in his latest book are framed through the natural and agricultural land-scapes of Zimbabwe is both an elegy for the poet’s father and a hymn to the veldt, farms and villages, and the people whose lives are interwoven with the season. Here is an excerpt of his one on one with BookWorm.

You are a man of many worlds – born in Zambia, grew up Zimba-bwe and studied in Europe. Have these experiences impacted the way you relate with the world and how you write poetry?

A certain feeling of alienation has been with me from an early age. I was first aware of this sense when I attended primary school after my parents moved back to Zimbabwe from Zambia. Because of numerous differences, including language, I found that I was not really part of the crowd – and seemed, by circum-stance rather than choice, to stand on the fringes, watching, looking – simply being a spectator; trying to study people in order to fit in. This sense of alienation, and in some terms – isolation, became accentu-ated when I moved to Europe. Fortu-nately by the age of 17 – the act of observation had become one of fas-cination, and to be introduced to a whole new spectrum of cultures and ideas was something I enjoyed and found rewarding. The new sounds of languages, the new ways of saying things that I had grown accustomed to being packaged in a particular way – were introduced in a way that made me think about the use of lan-guage. It was at university that the rigid templates of language that I had grown up with were stripped – and what was “language heard”, was also “language seen” and “language felt”, and what was verbally said or unsaid was equally loud as that that was acted or suppressed. It fascinat-ed me that though we were in terms all speaking the same language – there were many interpretations to what was being said.

What kind of subjects does your poetry deal with?

Time, beings and locations occupy my mind constantly. And I find, how-ever I think about it – everything is

constantly on a journey – arriving, leaving or being in transit at a des-tination. From the world we live in, to the outer universes, to our own private thoughts – ceaseless jour-neys are underway. It is through such journeys that we as people are able to capture events, physical or emotional, and attempt to transform them into some form of permanency through art. So anything that I expe-rience, or have an understanding to experience, becomes subject matter for my poetry.

For a poet, the environment is everything. You grew up on a farm. Does the farm environment or nature inspire you?

Growing up on a farm certainly of-fered a great space for the mind to wander and explore. My thoughts were, and still are, able to lose them-selves in the natural world much more freely than in an industrial-ised setting. There were also lessons learned from the farm. From nature: birdlife and insect life were impor-tant in childhood – portraying inter-actions between parties and commu-nities. I learnt about life and death watching how plants and animals behaved in order to survive. My first real senses of guilt and powerless-ness arose when I considered the fate of certain livestock after they were selected for the slaughterhouse. The value of hard work and the under-estimated value of the workingman were, and still are, blatantly dis-played in farm life. What nature gave was a fundamental learning towards living things. What farm life gave was the economics of human beings, animals and the land.

Ok, which poets do you read and who would you say has been the most influential poetic figure in your life?

I will read any book of poetry pre-sented to me. The first poets (writ-ing in English) to touch me in a significant way were the standard greats like Charles Simic, Seamus Heaney, Louise Glück, Les Murray. When I got to Manchester a whole new world of poetry was opened to me – and I tried to read as much as I could – and found more and more po-ets I admired and/or related to – too many to list. But I also feel there are other poets who have influenced me – the poets of painting, music, prose, sculpture... Magritte, Boulez, Bar-tok, Strindberg, Muňoz... I can’t say any one writer or artist has been the most influential. I guess it’s a combi-nation of everything.

What is your view of the perfor-mance poetry now so popular in a variety of forms in Zimbabwe?

I enjoy performance poetry and envy the performers’ direct interac-tion with the audience. It certainly is the rock-n-roll of literature. Per-formance poetry engages a collec-tive audience with the energy and emergency that a page in a book cannot. But having said that, the printed text will always offer that almost religious intimacy deep in the mind when the reader reads; it’s something performance poetry very rarely gives. Neither one of the disci-plines is more superior in my mind to the other – it’s a matter of taste on the day.

Spirit Brides, your debut collec-tion, was received with much critical acclaim and went on to be shortlisted for some big interna-tional prizes. What is the collec-tion all about?

Memories and dreams make up most of the poems in the Spirit Brides. Recollections of childhood, loved ones, places... and throughout the collection, the physical world is infiltrated by the knowledge of death – that dark spectre constantly hang-ing in the corner of our thoughts. And with memories and dreams – the collection also explores the nature of human journeys – emo-tional, intellectual and physical. The title poem, Spirit Brides, illustrates best how the poems of the collec-tion weave through the entire book. The poem begins with an invitation to a dance in a seaside village hall, the dance transforming into a dance with the dead on a pond’s surface, the poem ending with the dancers back in the hall dancing to the mu-sic of love, life and time – music of dreams, memories, and journeys.

Did travel influence the range of issues in the book?

The geography of the collection is vast, from Brazil to Zimbabwe, Iceland to Egypt, Sweden to the Scot-tish Hebrides, plus various other locations. The poems were very lib-erating to write; the constraints of being confined to one location were never really an aspect to compiling the book – as the work itself should show and hopefully give the reader that sense of travel without knowing where next they will land.

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Togara’s October poetry - hymns to the veldt

THE STANDARD STYLE / ARTS / CELEB NEWS 29October 12 to 18 2014

DStv September 2014 Schedules

This Week’s Highlights

FOOD NETWORK (DStv Channel 175)Street Eats (Season 1): Food is one of the top reasons why people like to travel. The best place to find the most authentic local food scenes around the world is right on the streets! There is no better place to rub elbows with the locals and grab a bite that’s fast, inex-pensive and translates the culture. In some countries, street food represents a melting pot of traditions. Street Eats travels to Latin America, Africa, The Middle East, Asia, the United States and Europe to bring this experience to viewers who may never get the chance to taste it for themselves. Tune in from 22 September and watch it on weekdays at 07:40 and 11:00 CAT.

Recipes that Rock (Season 2): Alex James is bass player in the British rock band, Blur. He’s also a writer, farmer, father and cheesemaker. Chef Matt Stone has hip res-taurants in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Matt has full sleeve tattoos, a skateboard and an attitude to match, he rocks too. In this series of Recipes That Rock, there’s fun and adventure in the Great Southern, searching out the best of the best foods that producers grow, harvest, hatch and catch. Series 2 opens with succulent oysters in Oyster Harbour, Albany, and a merry visit to the local whisky distillery. In later episodes, the inquisi-tive duo discover a unique way of farming chickens for eggs, learn about the worldwide delicacy Abalone, and close the series with a huge party celebrating all of the produce they’ve discovered and wonderful characters they’ve met in this magnificent part of the world. Watch from Sunday 8 September at 09:20 and 13:55 CAT.

TLC ENTERTAINMENT (DStv Channel 172)Breaking the Faith (Premiere): This series shares the story of eight young men and women who are trying to build a new life outside of the Mormon church. The young men, known as ‘lost boys’, are cast-out from their homes and not welcomed back, while the women are intent on escaping the controlling ways of the community – including arranged marriage and a life of complete submission – and are hoping for a better life on the outside. For this group, being faced with making life-altering choices in their effort to win their freedom comes with the fear of the consequences that may come for leaving the compound forever. From Tuesday 16 September at 20:55 CAT.

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (Premiere): After the rip-roaring success of the first series, Honey Boo Boo returns with her family for more mishaps, joviality and raucous redneck fun. In this series, birthday girl June’s spirits are sagging as she copes with an empty nest af-ter Anna and Kaitlyn decide to move out. Finally, with-out Anna and Kaitlyn around, the family spends very little time together. Alana hopes the family’s love for food will reunite them - but just as with family game night and pottery painting, her efforts fall short. From Wednesday 24 September at 20:00 CAT.

My Naked Secret (Premiere): Follow the personal sto-ries of 10 more people as they begin to overcome the body issues that are ruining their lives. In each episode an individual with a medical condition or physical ab-normality that is causing them great shame and untold misery embarks on a transformative and poignant jour-ney in search of acceptance. They then begin treatment for their condition in a bid to finally have a body they love. But will this enable them to come to terms with their anxieties? Find out from Friday 26 September at 20:55 CAT.

Oprah Prime: Pharrell Williams: Oprah meets up with seven-time Grammy® winner Pharrell Williams, one of the most innovative and sought-after artists in the mu-sic industry today. On the heels of his number one hit “Happy,” a single off the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, for which he received an Oscar® nomination, Oprah and Pharrell discuss his critically acclaimed album G I R L and his rise to fame. Plus, Pharrell shares how his creative vision has propelled him to music stardom. They also discuss his recent marriage to Helen Lasi-chanh and fatherhood. Airs on Thursday 11 September at 20:00 CAT.

Oprah’s Masterclass: Justin Timberlake: The brand new season kicks off with one of this generation’s most celebrated entertainers, multiple Grammy and Emmy award-winning musician and actor Justin Timberlake. Sharing never-before-told stories about his youth and his musical influences, Justin imparts his most valuable life lessons yet, including how to find your voice, how to break the mould and how to hold on to your ambi-tion. Watch it on Thursday 25 September at 20:00 CAT.

Oprah’s Masterclass: Oprah Winfrey (Part 1&2): In Part 1 of an intimate conversation, Oprah opens up about

her tumultuous childhood and adolescence and the lessons she still carries with her today. She tells little-known stories about her early days in television, includ-ing how losing her hair helped her gain a new sense of self. What guides her and drives her to do her best? In Part 2, she reflects on her experience getting cast in The Color Purple and the cultural phenomenon of The Oprah Winfrey Show. She opens up about her private life, and what she feels her true calling was meant to be. Revealing and deeply personal, Oprah offers new insights on how we all can become masters of our lives. Watch it on Thursday 04 September at 20:55 CAT.

Oprah’s Masterclass: Jay-Z: Candid, raw and real, Jay-Z charts his unlikely rise from the hard-knock life of the Brooklyn projects to worldwide superstardom and what he’s learned along the way. He reflects on his failures, the healing power of hip-hop and how he finally made peace with his father before he passed away. Plus, Jay-Z shares his personal revelations about integrity and why knowing your own truth is the foundation for everything great. Airs on Thursday 11 September at 20:55 CAT.

Oprah’s Next Chapter: Cissy Houston: Oprah sits down with Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, for her first in-depth interview since her daughter’s passing. The superstar’s mother talks about raising a daughter whose voice became a national treasure, teaching Whit-ney about the music business, and her biggest regrets. Oprah also talks to Cissy about Whitney’s drug use, how she really felt about her daughter’s marriage to R&B singer Bobby Brown, and the true nature of Whitney’s relationship with her high school best friend, Robyn Crawford. Airs on Thursday 18 September at 20:00 CAT.

DISNEY XD (DStv Channel 303)Star Wars fans: Star Wars Rebels: In the run-up to this exciting event Disney is airing a series of shorts intro-ducing a new character from the series each week so viewers can get to know them better. Get ready to meet Zeb, Ezra, Kanan and Hera on Saturdays throughout Sep-tember. Star Wars Rebels animated shorts airs on Disney XD on Saturdays at 09:15 CAT.

Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awak-ened: When the Genesect army attacks New Tork City while Ash is visiting, it’s up to Pokemon Mewtwo to protect them. Can he persuade the Genesect to spare New Tork? Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened premieres on Sunday 7 September at 12:15 CAT.

Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles – The Raid on Coruscant: In The Raid on Coruscant the Emperor uses information on the recovered Holocrons to launch dev-astating attacks on planets sympathetic to the Rebellion. Luke knows there’s only one solution: a daring raid on Coruscant to get the Holocrons back. In the end, Luke makes the boldest move of all destroying the Holocrons so the Emperor can no longer use them. But unknown to Luke, R2-D2 has saved one last Holocron - which just happens to “star” the young Anakin Skywalker. Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles – The Raid on Corus-cant premieres on Saturday 13 September at 09:20 CAT.

DISNEY CHANNEL (DStv Channel 304)Phineas and Ferb: Mission Star Wars: In exciting and en-tertaining epic animated adventure Phineas and Ferb: Mission Stars Wars Phineas and Ferb find themselves in the midst of a galactic rebellion and an epic struggle of good versus evil that tears the brothers apart and pits them against one another when Ferb goes to the Dark Side! Meanwhile, Stormtrooper Candace is hot on their trail and desperate to stop the boys from making mat-ters worse, but her allegiance falls into question when Phineas saves her and she realizes that all Rebels are not bad. Disney Channel is proud to present Phineas & Ferb: Mission Star Wars on Sat 27 Sept at 10:40. It will be repeated on Sun 28 Sept at 15:00. May the Ferb be with you!

Wolfblood (Season Two): September sees the return of hit series Wolfblood to Disney Channel, as season two launches. Wolfbloods have lived among humans for cen-turies, disguising their heightened senses and abilities; and doing their best to blend in. Maddy and her parents are the only wolfbloods in their area until one day a new boy starts at Maddy’s school. Maddy and Rhydian return for a second season of Wolfblood from Wednesday 24 September at 18:30 CAT.

Disney Princess Academy: In this brand new series of shorts, which air every Monday throughout September at 16:05, seven little girls learn core princess values, new skills and how to apply them. In each short, one little girl meets her fairy godmother mentor and learns

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DISNEY JUNIOR (DStv Channel 301)Pocahontas: This is the powerful and moving story of a Native Ameri-can princess and her ill-fated love for an English sea captain. Set in 1607, it tells of the beautiful, brave and compassionate daughter of Chief Powhatan who asks her forest friends (Meeko the raccoon, Flit the hummingbird and Grandmother Willow, a 400 year old spirit that resides in an ancient tree) for advice. It tells how her life changes when she meets John Smith, one of a party of sailors which has come to the New World searching for gold. Eventually they are forced to part, but their spirits remain entwined. This beautiful and moving sto-ry, enhanced by a superb soundtrack, make Disney’s 33rd animated feature film an unmissable gem. Vocal stars include Mel Gibson. It airs on Sunday 2 September at 10:30 CAT.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Sea Captain Mickey: There’s an exciting event on Disney Junior this month. When Professor Von Drake’s sonar-detecting machine discovers that there’s something big at the bottom of Mickey Lake, Mickey and the gang hop into the Clubhouse Submarine and set out to find the “Big Something”. It turns out to be a Giant Rubber Ducky that’s stuck on the bottom of the lake. But where did it come from? The gang set out to discover Ducky’s secret! Our special Sea Captain Mickey airs on Saturday 13 September at 08:00 CAT.

Sofia the First: From Monday 22 September at 09:00 CAT Disney Ju-nior gives fans a chance to catch-up with all the specials featuring Princess-in-training Sofia the First, in the run-up to the launch of season two of the series. Season two premieres on Saturday 27 Sep-tember at 09:00 CAT. In the first episode, The Enchanted Feast, Sofia must learn to trust her instincts, helped by legendary Disney Princess Snow White, when she suspects a visiting sorceress is not what she seems and has an ulterior motive.

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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have kept pretty tight lipped regarding their relationship, are they heading for divorce? Are they separated? Will they get back together? Who knows! Responding to all the rumours, Nick Cannon has taken to Twitter to set the record straight. In a series of almost 20 tweets, he wrote: “I have personally been absent from social media for the past few months for obvi-ous reasons but I feel the need to finally speak up...“During this challenging time for me and my fam-ily it saddens me that the media can be such evil bottom feeders...Because my family & I haven’t been forthcoming with personal information, peo-ple are quick to paint negative pictures and spread rumours. “For the record I NEVER have, nor will I make a statement regarding my marriage. “So whatever your favorite gossip outlet is re-porting has been created within their own imagi-nation. “At this difficult time I would ask all civi-lized people to please respect my family and this process...” The 33-year-old TV host, continued: “Because my family & I haven’t been forthcoming with per-sonal information, people are quick to paint nega-tive pictures and spread rumours. What infuriates me most is to hear people slander at MariahCarey. I will forever be in debted to her for blessing me with our children... “I will always love her unconditionally for this and so much more. @MariahCarey is an amazing Mother and I trust her wholeheartedly. So to see false reports in the media stating otherwise is ab-surd! While I would like to remain silent I can no longer allow this to happen. I love @MariahCarey and that will never change!!!” The star also rubbished rumours that he had been unfaithful to the Hero singer and said that if the media wants to portray him as a bad guy “that’s fine”, adding: “But it is unfair to drag in-nocent people into the equation...” He continued: “Others have lives, families, and careers and for the media to slander them is down right evil and illegal. “I apologize to anyone who’s gotten caught up in this unwarranted drama.”Nick then added: “Don’t worry about my life, wor-ry about why you’re worried about my life! “And fi-nally, “Trouble in Paradise” is the dumbest phrase I’ve ever heard! I would never say that sh!t Reports are flying around that Nick has been dating 23-year-old beauty Jasmin Sanders since July, even though he and Mariah are technically

still married. Apparently Nick is already taking care of Jasmin financially and, to make matters worse for Mariah, at a recent event, he and Jasmin could “barely keep their hands off each other”. And according to an Us Weekly source, “Nick is going to file for divorce. He hung in there way longer than anybody could have expected. I would like to say she is horribly upset, but she lives in a fantasy world.” The source added that Mariah was often suspi-cious of what her hubby was up to when he was travelling for work. “She always suspected that he when he was working that he was somehow out there cheating,” the source said. “And she’d be home alone, calling Nick 100 times a day. It got to be too much. And he was always faithful.” Mariah was also unimpressed with Nick’s boasting on a radio show that he’d slept with loads of famous stars, including Nicole Scherzinger, Christina Milian and Kim Kardashian. According to the source (gosh, we love this source - they know it all!): “Mariah and Nick had a major blowout about him talking about Kim. Mariah hates Kim because Nick really cared about her.” Trouble has been brewing not only due to Nick’s suspected philandering, but also the mas-sive reversal in the pair’s careers. When the couple met in 2008, Mariah was undoubtedly the more suc-cessful star, but now with Nick’s range of technol-ogy brands and clothing lines, he is the wealthier of the two. According to a source, “Everyone told Mariah she was crazy to marry a younger guy, but he is working, like, 12 gigs now and is worth close to $70 million. He’s the breadwinner” - while Mariah has been “overspending and draining her fortune.” Ap-parently Mariah spends $46,000 a year on spa geta-ways for her eight dogs, and travels everywhere with six people just to see to her beauty needs. Nick is apparently fed up of working extra hard to keep up with her huge spending. Mariah is now focusing on her new tour and reportedly “pretending the break-up isn’t happen-ing... like with everything, she is in her own world. And now Nick is seeing there’s a new world for him out there.” We hate to say it, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a road to recovery for these two...

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The city was abuzz last week as the ApiExpo Africa took place at the HICC from October

6-11. Apart from a number of local organisations, there were representatives from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Mauritius as well as Italy and China and other countries. The theme of the expo was ‘Bee-keeping for economic empowerment in Africa’. On show were prod-ucts like beeswax – used for making candles and polishes – pharmaceutical and beauty products and of course hon-ey. There were also exhibits of various different types of hives, protective clothing and other equipment related to bee-keeping, like smokers, brushes and machinery for separating honey from the waxy combs, some relatively simple and some quite tech-nologically advanced. There were also conferences and educational and training pro-grammes promoting the com-

mercial side of bee-keeping. Bee-keeping or apiculture has been around for thou-sands of years, in fact jars of honey were found in the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt. In Europe and North America there are serious concerns about the rapidly declining numbers of bees, due to sev-eral factors like damage to their environment and the in-creasing use of pesticides and fertilisers. The drop in bee numbers is seriously threat-ening food production. (See avaas.org before the bees are gone) Fortunately in Africa our bee populations are still relatively healthy but many people still see bees as pests that should be removed or eradicated. One of the aims of the expo was to address people’s fear of bees and to promote bee-keeping as an in-come generating practice. Setting up as a small scale bee-keeper is relatively sim-ple and inexpensive and the honey, the wax, the propolis

(the protective wall at the entrance to the hive known for its antibiotic and antivi-ral properties) and the Royal Jelly (used for health and beauty products) can all help to generate income for poorer communities. Cottage indus-tries that produce candles and polishes from the wax or related beauty and health products stand to benefit. There’s also the prospect of a sort of “trickle down” effect where producers of bee-keep-ing requisites, packaging and label manufactures, advertis-ers, marketers and exporters can benefit. One of the advan-tages of bee-keeping is that it doesn’t compete with other types of agricultural produc-tion for resources like land or water. As well as rewarding us with all these useful prod-ucts the bees also provide – free of charge – the service of pollinating our fruit and vegetable crops. To start off you’ll need a place for your bees to live and

work, a hive. There were sev-eral types of hives on show at the expo. There was the tra-ditional log or bark hive, not recommended as the yield is not as high as other types of hives and it can be more difficult to control the bees. There was the Greek basket top bar hive which produces better quality honey but is not very durable and the roof, usually made of thatch, needs regular replacement. The Kenya top bar hive seemed to be the most popular as it is fairly cheap and simple to make, easy to use and pro-duces better yields. The best hive though is the Langstroth frame hive which is more ex-pensive and needs some ex-pertise to get it working well. Apart the hive itself you’ll need a smoker to calm the bees down when harvesting the combs, some protective clothing, a hive tool to lift up the bars, a brush to get the bees off the comb and a sharp knife to remove the combs.

To find out more contact Agritex Head Office, Ngun-gunyana Building, No. 1 Bor-rowdale Road, 794381-3, or the Mashonaland Beekeepers’ Association, Rene Fischer, [email protected], 0712 611 253

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1. As part of a weight control programme substitute honey for sugar in your tea or coffee or in baking.2. Honey is a great remedy for hangovers. A couple of tablespoons of honey will help to speed up your body’s metabolism of alcohol because it contains fructose.3. For minor cuts, scrapes and burns spread a little honey on them – honey is a natural antiseptic.4. For a sore throat or a cough, a cup of hot tea with a spoon of honey and a

dash of lemon juice will work wonders. It tastes good too.5. Use honey to make fruit preserves. Mix one part honey to 10 parts of boiling water, cover the fruit with liquid and store in a sealed jar.6. Honey makes a great moisturiser for dry skin and damaged hair. Rub it onto elbows, knees, cracked feet or even on your lips. Let it soak in for about half an hour and rinse off. Add a teaspoon of honey to your normal shampoo for shiny conditioned hair.

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The Standard - 12 October 2014

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