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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday THE elders used to say, “Ndakaziva haitungamiri.” The direct poor translation of this meaning is: “If only I had known the future, then, I would have made a different decision to the one I made.”
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday When our Mapositori relatives were leaving my house after a few days, they asked for the remaining two packets of sugar. Since I did not eat sugar anymore, I willingly and generously gave it to them, apologising that I had not thought about giving it to them before they
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday MY aunt, or Tete from Gutu and her Apostolic group of women friends clad in white robes were coming to stay for one night on their way to all-night prayers outside Harare last week.
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday “They served small plates of food at the wedding as if we are Europeans,” complained our neighbour Jemba after a trip to Harare to attend his niece Chiwoniso’s wedding.
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Dr Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday Welcome to a rainy Independence Day celebration reporting directly from our kitchen hut right here on the foothills of the Hwedza mountains along Save River. Thirty-five years ago, we were here, in this same place just after the liberation war. My mother’s beer was frothing and intoxicating, the elders were
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“Every time you read the news, you get to know that someone has been killed mercilessly,” said my cousin Reuben, moving away from the computer where he had been sitting and reading the news and catching up on e-mails for the last couple of hours. He went to the
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday THE WhatsApp message from my niece Shamiso said, “Hello Tete, it stopped raining here in Bocha on the 5th of February and then it has not rained ever since. There will be no harvest this year because of the drought. The cows were allowed to eat the drought
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday As Good Friday approaches, I am reminded of the suffering of Christ more than any other time during the year. And I feel guilty of sin. And yet, before knowing about Christ and his suffering on the cross, I did not feel as guilty of sins as I do now. In […]
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday Today, it is unusual to walk into a big house in Zimbabwe and not see a maid in uniform. There is also a standard design for a maid’s uniform. It must be long and the hem must fall below the knee. Always.
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Sekai Nzenza on Wednesday After eating a plateful of mazondo or slowly cooked ox trotters and a mountain of sadza, my cousin Reuben patted his stomach and said he needed to eat less meat. This daily eating of meat and more meat was unhealthy for him. As a result, his stomach was really getting big. No […]
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday “We are looking for food because our fields got burnt by the sun,” said the young mother sitting cross-legged in our village courtyard. She was accompanied by two others, one skinny tall man with a beard and another older woman. The three visitors had walked many miles from Buhera and beyond, places […]
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday The bira ceremony has gone from our village. The new churches continue to kill the kurova guva ceremony. I pray that we bring back the joy of dance, the sound of mbira and the singing that lifts and releases the soul.
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday “Haa, the chief has just died,” said my cousin Reuben looking on the Facebook page on his Iphone. I said nothing. “Did you not hear what I just said? I said, Chief, Mambo, is dead.” Then I casually replied, “Heya?” Meaning yes or Ok or possibly questioning what Reuben had just said. […]
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday My cousin Reuben was telling us a story. He said the previous week he was in Mutoko acting as a go-between or munyai during a marriage for a family friend called MaDube. This was not her real name, but a totem name that she got from her father when she was born […]
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Sekai Nzenza On Wednesday “I do not have a totem,” said the smart-looking student wearing a white T-shirt, white athletic shoes and carrying a grey back pack. “But I thought we all had totems,” said the other shorter student in a pink shirt.