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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections The tourism and hospitality industry was left at sixes and sevens this past week following a brazen public spat between its minister, Dr Walter Mzembi, and its authoritative regulator, Dr Karikoga Kaseke.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, then the Chipuriro Tribal Trust Lands under Rhodesia’s colonial rule.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, there is a village ode that says it is atypical for a drunken cock to forget the existence of a marauding hawk.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections In the village, the size of the snake is irrelevant to its capacity to kill but that fact is mostly ignored when one suddenly bumps into a snake. Again, in the village, the snake is so feared that it is never mentioned by its name at night; it is called a string, […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections BACK in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, these days walls do not only have ears, they now see. To our ancestors be the glory!
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, sometimes you have to play the role of a fool, to fool the fools, who think they are fooling you.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, best men are known to ring-fence their interests and defend them to the last stain of their blood. There, the best man is he who, against all odds, crafts a policy that underpins his interests and then structures […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Tourism Matrix The best candidate lost! It was a very bad experience by any imagination and I understand why so many armchair theorists blindly jumped onto it, from their positions far, far and wide away from the field of play, not even the ringside.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, real men sit in counsel discussing matters of State and governance, while those viewed less useful in contributions are sent goat skinning.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust, no amount of cosmetics can beautify a frog. What is bad and ugly remains so. Africa has been oppressed for far too long. Africa has over the years been clear that it needs a permanent seat in the United Nations […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, no sun sets without leaving behind its own piece of history. The sun is so crafty and inherently stubborn that between dawn and dusk of each day, history is written. On April 17, 1980 and under the silhouette […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk honey and dust or Guruve, thunder rumbled. A lightning bolt stabbed the air, cracking the sky into uncharacteristic pieces. Again and again the sky was violated and the earth echoed. Everything shook. Mountains almost moved.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, I had just arrived back from school. The primary school was far but routinely, boys of my age would go searching for cattle and goats in the afternoon, before subsequently closing them up for the night at sunset.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the moons of waiting for Independence were over. Zimbabwe had crawled out of the liberation eggshell and was beginning to find its firm footing. Happiness dawned on many taut village faces, once masks of apprehension. Smiles kissed, oiled and […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the drumbeat increased in tempo, crescendo and volume as we approached the fringes of the hosting village. There was a memorial ceremony for a man who had died two years earlier.
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