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Reflections Isdore Guvamombe Day after day of cloudless skies, the fierce sun sucks moisture from the landscape, baking the earth into a dusty grey, while the withered grass is left tinder dry and as brittle as straw. The sun-burnt savannah and Kalahari desert sand is left shimmering like a mirage on the
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Reflections Isdore Guvamombe BACK in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust, patience can cook a stone. There, fortune is like groundnut, you have to crack it open to enjoy the innards. In Chitsungo communal lands, a spitting distance from
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Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it is good, sometimes bad, and there’s nothing much one can do about it except try and read into its tapestries. There, sunshine can be delicious, rain
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections There is nothing like that in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve. This is a rare spectacle! Back in the village, rivers are sources of life and at times are life itself. Rivers are quiet. Numb, dump and silent. They don’t tell stories yet they know […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Wafting air atones for nothing other than the hair-raising timid smell of the wilderness, sending a flashing chill down the spine. Butterflies flirt in the mottled sunlight, while ordinary flies hover above dotted animal droppings, a stark declaration that they are part of the
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Isdore Guvamombe Tourism Matrix IT started as a pipe dream, then it became reality and today, Zimbabwe and its neighbour Zambia are on the brink of hosting the biggest event ever on the international tourism calendar – the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly. Today next week, the 20th session of the UNWTO General
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Reflections Isdore Guvamombe Dear Morgan Richard Tsvangirai Firstly, allow me, the son of a villager, to pass on greetings from the autochthons of the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve.
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Isdore Guvamombe Tourism Matrix THE countdown to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly slated for Victoria Falls from August 24-29 has gathered momentum, with Zimbabwe having overcome the elections hurdle. When President Mugabe proclaimed election dates for this year’s harmonised elections, the world tourism family
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Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, wisdom is wealth! In the village, one thing respected deeply about elders is the treasure of wisdom our ancestors have handed down to generation after generation. Respecting history and the accompanying vision is thus, sacrosanct.
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Back in the village, in the land of milk honey and dust, or Guruve, being a burglar with a cough and supplicating to God with a grudge in the heart are not productive, you will be caught.
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Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust, or Guruve, investing your trust in an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a big hole — soon you will realise you are no longer carrying anything.
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Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve when a dog barks at the moon, village elders say it is playing mock house —mahumbwe.
The moon will not stop rising and setting because the dog has barked loud, louder and loudest. -
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BACK in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, it is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise carry his house along with him wherever he goes. In the village,
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Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, if you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. In the village, elders do not discuss matters of state and governance on
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Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve the war still bears memories.
In 1978, the war had reached fever pitch. The winch gates of the struggle had been opened and
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