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Hard work pays - farming is good business
The 1924/25 tobacco farming season was a resounding success for both the farmers and country. Growing tobacco is labour intensive but the rewards and profits far outweigh the moments when shoulders ar...Published: 07 May 2025 at 19:42hrs | 706 | by Tondo Murisa
First cries of newborn babies are sweet music to them
There I was under the "Mundoza tree", our 'poshto' at the watering hole, known by the trade name Mavende Bar and bottle store. Where partakers of the illicit drink talk about going-for-one-one, they m...Published: 26 Jan 2025 at 12:16hrs | 500 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The Health Centre is desperately in need of curtains
Curtains are for privacy, decor, cooling effect and giving the first impression of an institution or home. If curtains fail to provide none of the aforementioned then they are not worth hanging up. By...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 17:55hrs | 321 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
Zimbabwean cuisine is very diverse and varied just like its cultures and languages. The staple food is sadza, pap, that can also be called differently by minority tribes. Sadza features in most ...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 22:13hrs | 1 | by Tondo Chinehasha
His haircuts are turning heads
Toddlers, juveniles, teens, adults and octogenarians, they all flock to Alexio's Barbershop. Sometimes we even see stampedes during school recess as each learner hurries to be in front of the queue to...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 13:17hrs | 136 | by Tondo Chinehasha
Being with the people all the time.
When the Zanu-PF legislator for Mazowe North Constituency Hon. Cde Tsungi Makumbe heard that there was a confirmed cholera case at Chinehasha Health Centre in Chiweshe, he quickly mobilised medicines ...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 23:11hrs | 28 | by Thomas Murisa
Fighting cholera begins with you
Clean potable water is a precious commodity that should be availed to all without hindrance. In fact, water is life especially these days when the nation is under siege from a deadly cholera onslaught...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 22:36hrs | 1 | by Tondo Chinehasha
Lilstock Dam at Chinehasha, the new tourist destination in Chiweshe.
Development starts with good roads, especially the modern macadamised passageways. The investor intent on turning Lilstock Dam shores at Chinehasha in Chiweshe into a sort-after holiday resort has wel...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 22:21hrs | 35 | by Thomas Murisa
E-passport Offices at Concession are a pleasure to visit
Visiting government offices for whatever reason is usually viewed and weighed with disdain by many for fear of delays and poor service delivery. After procrastinating for over two weeks, me an...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:36hrs | 69 | by Thomas Murisa
This is our school, let peace abide here
'My school', our school, Chinehasha Primary School in Chiweshe, Mash Central needs help. Some of the teachers houses are a tragedy in waiting. Huge cracks so big peeping Toms can have a field day. ...Published: 16 May 2023 at 17:31hrs | | by Mutanda Wachingama
The Mundoza tree has become an oracle
The two trees stand side by side as if nature's siblings, one a Casternabar and the other a 'Mutohwe'. One is domesticated and the other wild but they are both fruit trees. Their combined cano...Published: 08 May 2022 at 15:35hrs | 13 | by Mutanda Wachingama
The clarion call is - back to the fields.
The Second Republic, a new Genesis, a new dawn. This year the Pfumvunza programme is an inputs galore. No household shall retire to bed on empty bellies. The whole of Zimbabwe wanna be a one g...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:19hrs | 14 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Goats now biting people
Believe it or not, but it's the gospel truth. As an eye witness, a primary school pupil was today, the 5th of instant bitten by a goat. Yes, a she goat that looks normal in every aspect expect the wei...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:55hrs | 14 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Who knows the Brain Fruit?
Wild fruits are both exotic, tasty and in most cases packed with micro-nutrients and medicinal properties. Since they are not commercially grown, organic food is the most recommended for good health, ...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 17:25hrs | 2 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Villagers lose cattle to livestock diseases
Most communal farmers in Chiweshe have lost cattle to a plethora of livestock diseases that have ravaged the area. Mashiri, Musonza, Chinehasha and Chideu Villages bore the brunt of the devastating bo...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:08hrs | | by Tondo Murisa Chinehasha
Child marriages are evil
The story of the fourteen-year-old Marange 'girl wife' who passed on at a shrine whilst birthing made very sad reading. Adding salt to the wound and rubbing it in was the attempt to conc...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 07:06hrs | 4 | by Nomusa Garikai
Let the children learn and play
Who said puppies cannot bite? Deep cuts and 'weeping skin lacerations' have all been observed on victims of puppy bites 'Tumbwa'. These are cheap illicit alcoholic spirits packed in plastic bo...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:35hrs | 2 | by Tondo. Chinehasha
Sangomas are also looking for money
A trio of male adults left Zimbabwe for Mozambique in search of a Sangoma to give them a get-rich-quick voodoo panacea. A yesternight borne fire discussion had assured them in Nampula province...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
A man does not cry
The wave of cattle deaths is not relenting, farmers' tears have since stopped falling in acceptance to their glaring losses. Only the symptomatic bovine tears continue trickling down their fury cheeks...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 19:54hrs | 3 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Hand me down knowledge is drying up
Emotionally strong village elders are being quickly gathered to their ancestors, may be tell tale signs of the end times. Echoes from the corridors of time had very mature people guiding young...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:42hrs | 7 | by Tondo Murisa Chinehasha
Animals do not burn your houses, why burn theirs?
Scampering for safety, various creep crawlies and fauna can sense looming danger before we do. Turning around to scan the sprawling meadows and fields, smoke was billowing in the distance with ferocio...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Tondo Chinehasha
Farmers do not be a sitting duck to fraudsters
Harvest time is upon us, a time of plenty. Fraudsters are on the prowl looking for who to con, taking your agricultural produce without paying a dime for it. A colleague nearly lost a tonne of...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:11hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Bravo! It's back to school
The imminent reopening of schools is a great relief to parents and society at large who were now at wits end on what to do with the idle kids. It's difficult for most young minds to live innocently wh...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Tondo
Since when did Father Christmas come in February?
Conmen are at it again, reaping where they did not sow. Some Hararians and a sizeable number from 'Blues' are ruing the day they joined a get rich quick pyramid scheme where the investor was promised ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 18:11hrs | 2 | by Tondo
Bring back the reed basket
Some of our African identity paraphernalia, artifacts, customs and traditions continue to vanish right under our noses. Time gnawing at them slowly as we all pretend not to notice, do not forget its s...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 18:10hrs | 10 | by Tondo Murisa
Do something to save the rural herd
The rural herd is on a terrible decline, cattle succumbing to a plethora of both known and unknown livestock diseases. Most cattle pens are now nearly empty, with some now home to only two or ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Tondo
Sweet smelling Zumbani has stolen the limelight
This wild fruit 'Mbhambhara', it's in seasons as we speak. Looking much like the famed olives, milky like Amarula but with a distant blend of sweet/sour taste. The tree with little shiney leav...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:07hrs | 1 | by Tondo Murisa
Pfumvudza is what the doctor ordered
This-PFumvudza programme, where ever the idea came from is what the doctor ordered. The rains are falling abundantly adding to the success story of the project. Wherever you go countrywide, the maize ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:05hrs | | by Tondo Murisa
Kapenta fish are not juniors but mature fish
Kapenta in tomato soup, choose medium size kapenta since bigger size may have a compromised taste due to near maturity innards. Too small kapenta, the cooking motions and manouvres may get the...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:04hrs | 2 | by Tondo Murisa
Distance is not a barrier, really?
I will still ask till hoarse, where are the flamboyant know-it-all Johnny-come-too-late prosperity gospel Prophets when Covid-19 is cutting God's people down? The miracles galore has van...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:02hrs | 12 | by Tondo
Covid-19 has alienated families
All last rites protocol thrown to the wind, priority of priorities is burial of the deceased. This pandemic has alienated families, the family tree branches are no more a one entity. Our tap-root is o...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:01hrs | 2 | by Tondo
Not everyone who moves a car is a driver
Driving standards have dismally gone down and so has general courtesy. Today if you see a man opening the car door for a woman it's either the car is new or the door lock does not work. ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo
Charity begins at home
Charity begins at home. Indeed the First Lady Mai Mnangagwa is a mother to the nation and her Angel of Hope Foundation is a beacon of hope to many disadvantaged families. The schools feeding p...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Village soccer can be fun
Soccer extravaganza at Chinehasha Primary School grounds, who said rural soccer is not up to scratch? The boys showed great skills with such dexterity and fancy footwork that would shame a mountain go...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:56hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
When death visited the village
We were there, they were there, a very sad occurance in the village. One of our own, Agrippa Chinehasha had passed on and it was time for last rites and bidding him farewell. Who is safe, it's the ord...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:11hrs | 1 | by Tondo
We need Zupco buses in Chiwesh, Mashonaland Central
The frequency of kombi arrivals and departure in rural Chiweshe, Mash. Central are not amusing. This is one area where tobacco farming was 'born' and got 'raised' elsewhere. The communal farme...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
ZACC contact details are a public secret, use devolution funds wisely
Now that devolution funds are being disbursed, its not an opportunity for self-enrichment and scandals galore. That 'treasonous' me-only attitude must be done away with. There may be some shar...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:31hrs | 3 | by Thomas Murisa
Stop the stigmatization, vitiligo is not a disease
Years ago at some village in the communal lands a young girl slowly started 'turning white', from the arms up to the face. The rumour-mill worked overtime with some people labelling her a witc...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 21:08hrs | 3 | by Thomas Murisa
You can eat anything but do not make your brother fall
May those in the know tell us more or, may the enlightened in truth and spirit add more flesh to the bone? Keeping the Sabbath, is it for all humanity to observe or its a preserve for the Jews only by...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:08hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
NSSA pensioners are work veterans
Amon Taribho struggled to stand up as he rose to reach his medication for diabetes and hypertension, the sachet is kept on the top most shelf of his wardrobe, away from kids. The former machin...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:46hrs | 8 | by Tondorindo
Cyclone Idai, let's collect for a good cause
Faced with tragedy and extreme suffering in the wake of cyclone Idai, why are the later day 'prosperity gospel' prophets playing deaf and dumb? Their silence is very loud and the invisibility quite ap...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Thomas Murisa.
Ruya Dam in Chiweshe is lying idle
Indeed the heavens have not been very generous this season, most crops are now a sorry sight across the length and breath of our beautiful Zimbabwe. Livestock are now in bad state with some beyond rec...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 21:50hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
From the sweat of our brow we shall win
To the young and indeed restless political leader of the majority urban netizens, its not about anything but regime change. If its anything to do with the stratospheric prices of goods and ser...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 14:47hrs | 1 | by Tondorindo. Chinehasha
Social media, a blessing or curse?
Social media, its a free for all with gossipers, rumour mongers, 'tweemboz and netizens' all trying to bring out the supposedly scoop on breaking news. Despite the whispering from the sixth sens...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Tondorindo
Irrigation schemes are the answer to climate change
The New Dispensation is forging forward with developmental projects in rural Zimbabwe, forward ever backward never. At Chinehasha Village in Mashonaland Central plans for a massive irrigation ...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 13:40hrs | 4 | by Tondo Murisa
Peace begins with you
If the truth be told, those who grovelled for sanctions and clarion-called for 'bhora musango' are enemies of Zimbabwe. The illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe mean dire consequences for the laity. Those in...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 07:56hrs | 4 | by Tondo Murisa
Mapfumo is a 'coward' he ran away from Mugabe, Chinehasha - how naïve, fighting is NOT done
"Cowards die before death visits them, did he not run away from his shadow or was it a real crime that he absconded from? The guilty are afraid, always afraid. If indeed Mukanya is a human rights ...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 20:50hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bring back our geisha and jade soaps
Dear EditorA notable 'stock out' for geisha and jade bathing soaps is prevailing in some of our retail chain outlets. As of 28th of instant, TM Chadcombe and Spar Queensdale in Harare did not ...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 17:33hrs | | by Tondorindo Chinehasha
A tale of three vice presidents
The tragi-comedy in the main opposition party vis-Ã -vis succession is as sad as it is amusing. Coming at a time of mourning the demise of its leader, its both taboo and embarrassing. How can ...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 16:07hrs | 1 | by Tondorindo Chinehasha
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