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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, new projects are welcome if they are understood by the people and if they genuinely serve the purpose. There new projects that are not about how much monied you are or not. They must be profitable and serve […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve it was late winter when there was little much else to do than drinking binges and a hodgepodge of traditional ceremonies. This was the time when fields had long been harvested and cattle and goats were
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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.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, word had done the rounds again and again. It was powerful whispers and gossip. The whole country caught the fever. It sneezed!
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village. In the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve it is an inconsequential fallacy to expect honey from a fly, for, all you can expect is the fetid stuff. During the run-up to the 2013 elections, our ears were bombarded by the manifesto of some awkward and clueless MDC-T that […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve there is a proverb that says the past is history, the future is a mystery, but this moment is a gift and that is why it is called the present. Our present religious gift in Zimbabwe is the mushrooming of […]
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Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, there was peace, goodness and jollity. I bought coca-cola from the village shop atop a rock promontory and opened it. The spectacular hissing, sound was confirmation of the
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, issues about religion and religiosity, the art and the belief, occupy a very important space in socialisation. In the same vein, village elders, the ageless autochthons of wisdom and knowledge deal with issues of reality and perceptions of reality. […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Being Rhodesia, the white race was semi-god and you would challenge that race at your own peril
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections There is no better way of showing hollowness than trying to tell the world that you know when you know nothing.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, if you like, I locked up cattle in the kraal without much ado. I then tethered the goats under the silhouette sunset horizon.
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Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust, the ageless autochthons say the cleverest of all birds builds its nest from other birds’ feathers.
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, it was a bright April mid-morning, a few days after closing schools. Being almost harvest time, I set out to herd cattle, something that grandfather had been solely doing the whole school term except weekends. I drove the cattle towards Dande River,
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Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve — if you like — the war was never a stroll in the park. By October of the Year of the People’s Power, combatants from Zanla, the military wing of Zanu, had liberated a vast swathe of land in Matsvitsi communal
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, it is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir. There, village elders with cotton tuft hair, say there is no sweet or nice death. Early this year, this villager, the self-taught […]
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