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This and that with Mal'phosa: Ngayende ngabude! What?

Malema is very crafty, just like that red fox, neh? He has outsmarted everyone this time around. He can hide behind load shedding, rise in crime, Phalaphalagate etc as reasons he wants Ramaphosa gone. While this list might have contributed…

Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:34hrs | 4 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa: Zan'arcissists

We are in a forced relationship with a narcissistic government. They think they are the best. They think they are great and important. They think we can never survive without them. And they think we deserve them and they deserve us. These …

Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 16:05hrs | 5 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This & that with Mal'phosa: What a disaster

Do rich people always have to brag every chance they get? For instance, he owns a construction company and bullies everyone to agree that he works hard. We know who works hard, and for peanuts. It's all a disaster. Oh what a disaster!I hav…

Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 19:37hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu

This & that with Mal'phosa: Not necessarily doom and gloom

Hospitals are not just palaces of doom and gloom. It is not just arrivals and departures.. There is life besides just giving patients tender loving care. One of the main tasks of nurses is to write reports about their patients. This helps …

Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This & that with Mal'phosa: When the honeymoon is over

I was in a train the other day, which happened to be stationary for over an hour because of load shedding. Most of the passengers look restless; some were shouting their lungs out; others were mummering guardedly. Most are concernes with b…

Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 09:42hrs | 2 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This & that with Mal'phosa: Woman-made Disaster!

There has never been so much hype and hysteria around the prevalence of gender based violence, ninety percent of which, we are told, is committed by men. Like HIV, it has been called a pandemic, and like HIV, it resists all forms of treatm…

Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 22:01hrs | 2 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Yes No, maybe

Hey boys, how does it feel to have a girl say 'Yes' now and then 'No' after a day or two or after week? Remember how devastating it was or it is? I can think of three of my friends abazi hilelayo because of this humiliating childish girlis…

Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 11:10hrs | 2 | by Clerk ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Amen and Ei-men!

Am I the only one who has been getting messages from Jesus or his father - via face book of via Whatsapp? Am talking about those dreary threatening gory pictures of suffering humans with limbs cut off or bowels lolling out or heads flatten…

Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 14:09hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu

'I pray for South Africa to close its borders to all asylum seekers' - a response to Mal'phosa

Dear Editor Response to Mal,phosa's Home or Foreign Affairs. Hi Mr Ndhlovu, guess i find you well brother. I am an enthusiastic reader of Bulawayo24.com and an ardent follower of your articles, which I'll say used to be enlightening but yo…

Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 14:56hrs | 1 | by Matigari Muchaneta

This and that with Mal,phosa - Home or Foreign Affairs?

We have been in this queue for the past two hours and the night seems to be forever. I can feel the unbearable pressure from the call of nature but I, and no one, dare wonder away from the safety of the crowd; there are marauding mashona m…

Published: 04 Dec 2016 at 14:12hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - How The Mighty Have Fallen

  A friend sent me a picture of the once untouchable, formidable and all too powerful former speaker of parliament and former Zanu secretary for administration, and former Member of parliament for Makoni, and most ardent architect of …

Published: 23 Oct 2016 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Back From Heaven

Have you heard? It's a crime to call one pastor's name in Zimbabwe, that pastor who went to heaven and took photos and came back to earth within hours. Well, they say his name yinhlamba enkulu but no one has volunteered to tell me what it …

Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 17:19hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Abahlutshwa ngu Jesu

"Thulani bantwabami ngob'unyoko wabaleka; Musan'ungikhalela selilhuph'amaDlozi; musanukung'khalela selihluph'uJesu." This is an extract from one of the late Vusi Xmba songs. Here is a man who questioned a lot of things like Christiani…

Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 21:30hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - All Patriots, stand up!

What a game yesterday between two giants of football, Chicken Inn and Sundowns! It kept every lover of the game on the edge of their seats from start to finish. The attacking flair, the aggression, the organization and co-ordination of bot…

Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Long live the love letter

Four â€˜love' letters still stand out prominently from among the many I am lucky to have seen and read. Of course, one was written by me and it made me the laughing stock of the whole class if not the whole school. My brothers had just com…

Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 14:12hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that Mal'phosa - The Stars Are here, Great!

Picture this; a 15 year old boy just moved to Bulawayo with his parents. Just like his parents, he is a cheerful, humble, respectful, sociable, God fearing boy. He does not look very ambitious and seems to have accepted his fate as a son o…

Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 11:18hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa: Complications of the Season

Happy birthday Jesus; and Complications of the season, everybody. What is there to compliment in such a dreary and depressing year! Southern Africa is experiencing a drought that has made weather reporters typical bearers of bad tidings, a…

Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 11:31hrs | 3 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Take a leaf from Zuma

The unfortunate anarchy which has resulted in the butchery of citizens in Bujumbura brings forth a few pertinent questions which all high-light the monumental failure of the regional groupings like the SADC, AU, Ecowas and the United Natio…

Published: 27 Dec 2015 at 14:09hrs | 2 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - You fired, god!

If the Greek lord of the sky and rain had been a real person with a job and family to support, he'd have found himself searching for another job and being disowned because of negligence and ineptitude. I am sure the supreme ruler of the un…

Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 18:01hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Happy birthday, Zimbabwe

Happy birthday, Zimbabwe. You were born out so much blood, as if from some inevitable and necessary Caesarian section. And like old dark, ominous, stinking blood clots from a Caesarian section, your children lie scattered all over the plan…

Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 14:59hrs | 3 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Galo-Yephuka!

My grandfather wrestled my grandmother's love from her heart via 'galo-yephuka'. This is nothing like a gun to your head, a knife to your throat or a spear to your heart but the panic is just like that induced by these other dodgy methods …

Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 11:30hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - And seven more came tumbling after

The Granami just drowned seven more non-believers. It is like a road-traffic carnage during the festive season. And there is a fear that more, less equal comrades are definitely going to follow. The mishap reads like that nineties anti-aid…

Published: 26 Dec 2014 at 11:07hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Christmas; Is it still Ho Ho Ho?

Anyone who still believes in those big old men with long, white beard, red work-suits, and over-sized gum-boots who appear on TV at this time of the years every year, going 'Ho Ho Ho, it's Christmas at ok; and displaying wide generous but …

Published: 07 Dec 2014 at 11:37hrs | 2 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Not necessarily a prophet

Picture this: a visibly pregnant woman, almost term, sits on a cansi in front of a very hysterical man who is obviously in some 'trance' â€“ saying a lot of indecipherable speech. He is so emotionally absorbed in what occupies or possesses…

Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 13:15hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Proud to be black

What is the connection between the following terms; ilahle, Lobengula, nswintila, gutsi? These have been used to define the darkest blacks in our societies. These are terms also used to insult those perceived to be blacker than black, abam…

Published: 17 May 2014 at 16:14hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu

This and that with Mal'phosa - Ngeyethu!

Well, the verdict is out. The people of South Africa like Nkandla. The Nkandla that their President Jacob built. In his final rally at the FNB stadium, some say he was shouting "Nkandla!" and the multitudes shouted back, ""Ngeyethu!" "All …

Published: 11 May 2014 at 17:02hrs | 3 | by Clerk Ndlovu

This n that with Mal'phosa - A beginner's definition of political terms

A teacher friend of mine sent me this test outcome which was written by one of his Form Three pupils. Like Mtasa asked one day at a rally in Mahole, Filabusi; 'Botitsha, abantwana libafundisani?'Riot police - equivalent to oma beret - thes…

Published: 07 May 2014 at 15:10hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu

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