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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 | 306 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Caught between a hard surface and a rock
This year has been very unfortunate for scholars, it's a year they will never want to remember. Caught between a hard surface and a rock, the students can not answer why it's happening to them. Corona...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | 230 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
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 | 117 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Sugar beans can give beef a run for its taste
The kitchen place is a very interesting culinary laboratory, it be makeshift, modern or rural set up. Sometimes food burning to cinder whilst both eyes and attention of the cook are on smartphone chat...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:01hrs | 1005 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Educating the girl child is educating the nation
Their figures mere silhouettes in the pre-dawn 'darkness', the trio always emerge from the east going to the west. Don't they say the three wisemen came from the East, no wonder these three young wome...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:01hrs | 322 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zimbabwe is our only home
Gogo Chapo moved up and down the whole night checking on her sons Enock and John who were recuperating at their respective homes after a thorough beating by the settler forces. The cat had com...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:18hrs | 1305 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The thief fell on his knees and cried
The thief groaned because of excruciating pain as the complainant blew the balloon, the stomach was bulging with air. The dump gold finger had tried to pull a fast one, pulling out someone's c...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:33hrs | 622 | by Tondo
She found favour in God's eyes
Archana was an orphan, a very unenviable status and circumstance especially when very young. It's the time children need their parents most, a time of bonding. Adults can be orphans too but th...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:32hrs | 125 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Herbal medicines now trending
By all pointers, humanity is looking for solutions and panacea to a plethora of health problems, especially noncommunicable ailments and conditions. Unfortunately the search seems a wild goose...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:58hrs | 82 | 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 | 32 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The mystic African kitchen hut
If it's not a grass thatched brick and mortar hut, it's not the traditional African kitchen. The African woman is incomplete without a round kitchen hut. Times gone, the floors would have a co...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1629 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Bullies are paper tigers
During my primary school education, I was unfortunate to sit next to a near zero IQ class mate. Very handsome but very ugly in mindset and mind output. Academically leading from the rear end, ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:11hrs | 240 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
We can not all go to OK
Prophets of doom taking their first bite of the proverbial humble pie, may be also taking a face cloth to remove egg from their murky faces, york, white and its all. Who ever thought the forex...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 863 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Some cheap goods can be very expensive
Sweet tongue trickster is a conman (confidence man) who can be a woman as well. They are very smart with words and can actually sell a fridge to an Eskimo whose igloo is made using ice blocks. ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 122 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
If you have two cloaks give one to the brother without
Peanut butter has been used since forever. In these times of high expenditure and little income, prodigality is a no no. Every cent counts and does so every acquisition, that what may wait let's go to...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:12hrs | 235 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
When life gives you lemons turn them into lemonade
In Zimbabwe if you hunt you are sure to find, if you look getting is certain. Why sit on your laurels and cry 'times are hard', in deed if you slumber times can be very hard, why not do something abou...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:10hrs | 2631 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The Tent of Meeting in the Book of Exodus was a marvel
Even from biblical times, the Tent of Meeting in the Book of Exodus was a spectacle, both in appearance and reverence. It was a place where Israelites, mere mortals, were in the presence of God, hence...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:03hrs | 773 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Matepatepa farming area needs good roads
Matepatepa farming area of Bindura is well known for tobacco and maize production, racking in the much needed forex and helping feed the nation. Places like Brutton, Lilstock and Chipa along t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:21hrs | 145 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa. Chiweshe.
Since when did funerals become hard hat areas?
People may have their differences, beliefs and preferences but chasing someone from a funeral is against African tenets, traditions and the much cherished Ubuntu. The good book teaches us to mourn wit...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:06hrs | 967 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
My true prophets stand up against Covid-19
We watched crutches being thrown away, demons being driven out of tormented souls, was this real or stage managed and choreographed acts of deception? Later day flamboyant 'prophets' mad...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:30hrs | 686 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Do not be a statistic, stay safe
The figures on Covid-19 infections continue to rise and as if not to be out done, so are the fatalities. The lackadaisical approach by some rural folk on precautions against the disease may see the pa...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:55hrs | 1114 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Coronavirus may not go away soon
Shouting, even repeatedly, breaks no bones. Covid-19 cases continue to rise in numbers especially among returnees. People of my colour express affection through handshakes and hugs, can we please shel...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:36hrs | 657 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Help the nurses so they can help the sick
In rural areas health centres painkillers are a very essential necessity for pain management and treatment. The majority of patients visiting clinics countrywide are those who would otherwise be just ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:34hrs | 226 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
All we can do for now is take precautions
The Coronavirus continues to wreck havoc across world populations with no signs of slowing down. Scientists the world over are busy in their labs trying to cross the T's and dot the I's ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:08hrs | 493 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mask up so you can live to tell the tale
This Covid-19 respects no man, knows no class neither does it select who to infect on political grounds. Not even totems or religious denominations can save one, everyone can contract the virus, only ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 322 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Escapees from quarantine centres are a danger to communities
People attending funerals should remain 50 - there goes the SI on efforts to contain Covid-19, being Africans, without enforcers, will this work? Despite knowing the dangers of unchecked proximity, ho...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 150 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Let's bring back the bread status of Zimbabwe
Tradition is prison with majority opinion, just because your ancestors did it doesn't mean its not incredibly flawed. Some great mind made that great observation, what brutal truth. Traditiona...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 19:36hrs | 2546 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Avoid domestic violence
Mother scaled the precast wall to seek refuge at our next door neighbour, eyes nearly popping out for the whizzing sound of a quarter brick that missed her head by inches. Father was seething ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:57hrs | 373 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
A skeletal cow 'knocking at the butcher's door'
They will stumble those who hurry, true to that saying, the tobacco farmers who rushed to the auction floors hoping to be the early birds catching the fattest worms are now regretting the decision. ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 2115 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The monied are as slippery as eels
Amid all the euphoria and jubilation celebrating this windfall, the Covid19 US$75 allowance awarded to civil servants, where does the NSSA pensioner stand? The government pensioner is also smi...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 21:05hrs | 1255 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Salt and witches are two sides of the same coin
This 'inflation' boy must be a wizard, reducing the value of my money when its physically present, whatever its gender inflation is a witch. Salt and witches are two sides of the same coin, they both ...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 21:03hrs | 1617 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Noncommunicable diseases are not relenting
The world is under siege from diseases and illnesses that are tormenting humanity left, right and centre. Hypertension and diabetes are leading the pack in the onslaught on God's people. Despi...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 21:03hrs | 483 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Fire is a good servant but a bad master
Season for veld fires, unpleasant and often tragic. Saw this caption in a bar of all the places, "They do not burn your home, do not burn theirs". Truth hurts, animals do not burn down our res...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 21:22hrs | 791 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The four canines lost race of the titans
The two boys could be high school students on this Covid-19 spawned 'holiday'. With four of 'man's best friends' for company, the duo passed through near my base as they scanned the tall savanna grass...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 15:20hrs | 429 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Some things are better left like that - Lobola
Some things are better left as they are, reforms on lobola (pride price) and rocking the traditional marriage arrangements and practice may not be in anyone's best interest. The country is grappling w...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:26hrs | 1567 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The traditional grasshopper dish is back
Now this is fascinating, scintillating and somewhat flabbergasting but above all, the taste is 'devilish good'. Pot roasted grasshoppers (mhashu/hwiza) with sadza, rice or just for a - salty c...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:44hrs | 618 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Spare a thought for the orphan this winter
Very soon some orphans, lonely widows and the neglected elderly will be shivering like reeds in flooded rivers because of the cold. It is that time of the year when those in better situations should s...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 152 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Where is our freedom of worship?
That known Christmas Holiday is no more, (voet-cookies) 'mafetikuku' in the winnowing basket and a steel kettle full of 'industrial boiler hot tea' may have disappeared for good. This virus and ...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:39hrs | 253 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Man and snakes are mortal enemies
Even those who had sickly wobbled for treatment found new energy jumping spring high to get out of danger's way. A long dangerously thick snake with a diamond shaped head had sort warmth near patients...Published: 24 May 2020 at 22:03hrs | 1573 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The new daughter-in-law
The free ranger chicken was dragged unceremoniously from the chicken run amid cries of despair from its kind at the irreversible pending demise of one of their own. Whilst we worry about Covid-19 the ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 22:02hrs | 1985 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
In Africa we have our ways of doing things
"What good can come out of Africa", they would say but God has got plans for everyone and every place. Tiny Madagascar has come up with a herbal concoction that is giving 'killer blows' to Coronavirus...Published: 24 May 2020 at 22:02hrs | 635 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
He knows the number of hairs in your head
The world health officials, gurus, and experts on viruses have disappointingly admitted that Coronavirus may not go away anytime soon. What does that mean for the world and especially for our beautifu...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:58hrs | 232 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Its better to build children than repair adults
The unsolicited 'long school holidays' as a result of the plague induced lockdown has availed our children with inexhaustible idle time. An idle mind is the devil's workshop. This has left the...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:58hrs | 232 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The fear of lightening is called astraphobia
Folklore and hearsay has it that some people from Manicaland could and still can 'even it out' with home made lightening. The fear of lightening is called astraphobia which is very prevalent i...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:57hrs | 119 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Africa and Africans are never short of ideas
The precautions against Covid-19 are getting more dramatic and bizarre. My toddler neighbour or neighbour's toddler daughter had an idea of Martian ingenuity and innovation of extraordinary dimension....Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:55hrs | 200 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The excitement is difficult to hide
The tobacco selling 'season' is upon us and with it, 'Dollars are in the air'. There is visible excitement in the village, even kids are now laughing louder than before as if aware that once the tobac...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:55hrs | 111 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Avoid unnecessary gatherings even when the coast is clear
Ceremonial gatherings are part and parcel of African culture and customs but now, faced with Coronavirus, we must be prepared to forego some of the ceremonies. Things like unveiling of the tom...Published: 04 May 2020 at 16:00hrs | 1401 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Lockdown - shwarma and fresh chips 'not reachable'
Not all Kombi crews are of uncouth traits when dealing with the travelling public, some are very humble, helpful and humane in their line of duty. The lockdown period is a time of reckoning an...Published: 04 May 2020 at 15:58hrs | 1641 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
We need a paradigm shift on how we conduct ourselves
The Spanish Flu of 1918 is alleged to have killed fifty million people having infected five hundred million and lasting two years. It swept across the world in three waves with the second wave...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 14:08hrs | 410 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
If its about mathematics let's meet at Chinehasha High School
Mathematics can be very annoying, unsettling and unrelenting. Maths as a subject has caused many wrinkles to many otherwise youthful high school students. A few resorting to bunking lessons to...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 14:07hrs | 498 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
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