Thursday, 27 August 2009
Sunday, 2 August 2009
Political commitment vs National Interest
I have pondered how much I daily crave to be HOME!! I have been waiting for the dust to settle , but it appears the winds of disruption and political adultery keep swaying my heart to stay a little bit longer. I now wonder where I really belong. I have strong social links within this foreign land but equally feel that I belong somewhere...Home, my motherland, My heart weeps for my murderland !!! My heart weeps when I recieve summons , knells that sends shivers down my spine...all because I have spoken to the world at one time about my murderland. Welcome home my son , but here is what you need to tell the world, the world as I see it.
I have specially invited you so that I tell you what I want the world to know...Not what is real!!
Listen to the voice of propaganda...Reversing the real and upseting truth.
Which is greater, national interest or Political commitment.
All I know is that one of them is an adulterated mode of reality!
I have specially invited you so that I tell you what I want the world to know...Not what is real!!
Listen to the voice of propaganda...Reversing the real and upseting truth.
Which is greater, national interest or Political commitment.
All I know is that one of them is an adulterated mode of reality!
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-663-Vic%20Falls%20awakens%20for%20World%20Cup/news.aspx
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-663-Vic%20Falls%20awakens%20for%20World%20Cup/news.aspx
World Cup... The Zimbabwean Experience inspite of the vagarice of life over the past 2 decades!!!
World Cup... The Zimbabwean Experience inspite of the vagarice of life over the past 2 decades!!!
Sunday, 26 July 2009
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http://www.newzimbabwe.com/showbiz-406-Book+Review+A+Dark+Horizon/showbiz.aspx
Book Review: A Dark Horizon
08/06/2009 00:00:00
by Michael Chipato
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JANINE Dube has come a long way to establish herself as one of Zimbabwe’s finest emerging contemporary writers from the Diaspora.
If her latest work – A Dark Horizon -- is anything to go by, her future alongside some of Zimbabwe’s literary luminaries is secure.
Janine’s fiction is "very simple on the surface, but there's a depth; she uses the novel for a political and social end", said one reviewer on Amazon.
The 29-year-old says she draws her inspiration from the challenges that people from the developing world face. She permanently occupied with private concerns of how the outside world perceives Africa, and Zimbabwe in particular.
The negative view of Zimbabwe makes her sad, she says. And in her assigned role within the vast post-colonial discourse, she presents Zimbabwe as a place where life is normal too.
She treats current issues with artistic dexterity within the boundaries of contemporary discourse. The current political situation in Zimbabwe does not escape her watchful artistic eye.
Janine, who lives in the Welsh town of Newport, told New Zimbabwe.com that through the book, she hopes to “dispel some myths the world has about Africa and Zimbabwe”.
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She added: “It is a contemporary tale that raises issues that society may or may not be comfortable discussing openly … an accessibly-written tale that is also meant to entertain.”
The book’s hero is a woman called Rachel. After inheriting a struggling company, Rachel is tempted into marrying an older man who also happens to be one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen in the country.
She knows she faces an uphill struggle, but she relishes the challenge of reviving the ailing company.
Soon, she is facing more challenges in the form of his children, especially his son who is adamant that she is not suitable for his father. As she struggles to prove herself at work and at home, she is unaware of the meticulously planned plot to bring her already shaky world crushing down.
Janine is keen to use the broader national crisis to reveal its tentacles spreading to private enterprise and family life.
Though not strictly a feminist writer, she is firm in principle on the need for equality, fairness between genders and equal opportunities in all matters of life.
The most distressing inequality symptom in society that she projects is that for a woman to be recognised, she has to “prove herself” before accessing the male-dominated means of production.
Janine is passionate about African leaders and challenges them to demonstrate to the world that there is a lot that Africa offers.
She is scathing in her condemnation of the world media’s treatment of Africa – “a place of death, corruption, disease and dictators” – but also expresses sorrow that some Africans are feeding the negativity.
A Dark Horizon (320 pages) (2009) published by AuthorHouse (UK). You can buy it on AuthorHouse.com and Amazon. It will be available from WH Smith and other retailers soon
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Book Review: A Dark Horizon
08/06/2009 00:00:00
by Michael Chipato
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JANINE Dube has come a long way to establish herself as one of Zimbabwe’s finest emerging contemporary writers from the Diaspora.
If her latest work – A Dark Horizon -- is anything to go by, her future alongside some of Zimbabwe’s literary luminaries is secure.
Janine’s fiction is "very simple on the surface, but there's a depth; she uses the novel for a political and social end", said one reviewer on Amazon.
The 29-year-old says she draws her inspiration from the challenges that people from the developing world face. She permanently occupied with private concerns of how the outside world perceives Africa, and Zimbabwe in particular.
The negative view of Zimbabwe makes her sad, she says. And in her assigned role within the vast post-colonial discourse, she presents Zimbabwe as a place where life is normal too.
She treats current issues with artistic dexterity within the boundaries of contemporary discourse. The current political situation in Zimbabwe does not escape her watchful artistic eye.
Janine, who lives in the Welsh town of Newport, told New Zimbabwe.com that through the book, she hopes to “dispel some myths the world has about Africa and Zimbabwe”.
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She added: “It is a contemporary tale that raises issues that society may or may not be comfortable discussing openly … an accessibly-written tale that is also meant to entertain.”
The book’s hero is a woman called Rachel. After inheriting a struggling company, Rachel is tempted into marrying an older man who also happens to be one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen in the country.
She knows she faces an uphill struggle, but she relishes the challenge of reviving the ailing company.
Soon, she is facing more challenges in the form of his children, especially his son who is adamant that she is not suitable for his father. As she struggles to prove herself at work and at home, she is unaware of the meticulously planned plot to bring her already shaky world crushing down.
Janine is keen to use the broader national crisis to reveal its tentacles spreading to private enterprise and family life.
Though not strictly a feminist writer, she is firm in principle on the need for equality, fairness between genders and equal opportunities in all matters of life.
The most distressing inequality symptom in society that she projects is that for a woman to be recognised, she has to “prove herself” before accessing the male-dominated means of production.
Janine is passionate about African leaders and challenges them to demonstrate to the world that there is a lot that Africa offers.
She is scathing in her condemnation of the world media’s treatment of Africa – “a place of death, corruption, disease and dictators” – but also expresses sorrow that some Africans are feeding the negativity.
A Dark Horizon (320 pages) (2009) published by AuthorHouse (UK). You can buy it on AuthorHouse.com and Amazon. It will be available from WH Smith and other retailers soon
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Tsvangirai heads tourism campaign
By Michael Chipato
Posted to the web: 24/03/2009 23:36:05
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai arrived back home at noon Tuesday after a brief compassionate leave following the death of his wife in a road crash on March 6.
Tsvangirai and his family spent a week in South Africa’s port city of Durban as guests of the South African government.
The Prime Minister is set to begin work on Thursday with two major engagements. He will officially open a two day conference to map strategies for reviving the country’s tourism industry before chairing a Council of Ministers meeting.
Tsvangirai arrived home as prices started to fall after years of devastating inflation that left the national currency nearly worthless - a rare piece of good news for an economy that remains a shambles.
Prices of goods bought in U.S. dollars - Zimbabwe's new official currency - declined by 3 percent since January, the state statistical office said Tuesday.
Until the Zimbabwe dollar became virtually obsolete in recent weeks, Zimbabwe's last official inflation rate in the local currency was given as 231 million percent in August, by far the highest in the world.
Moffat Nyoni, head of the Central Statistical Office, said items priced at an average of $100 (euro73) in January cost $97 (euro71) this month.
No official annual U.S. dollar inflation figure was calculated, Nyoni told reporters. And the situation is complex, because dollars are not readily available. But some Zimbabweans get money from relatives or friends working abroad, and the government recently began paying civil servants in dollar vouchers.
Tsvangirai is expected to send a bullish message to the world that Zimbabwe is open for business and tourists at the opening of the tourism conference in Harare which will run under the theme "Deepening Partnerships for the Revival of the Tourism Economy."
The government announced a short term economic revival strategy called STERP last week. It identifies tourism as a key sector.
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi said: "This conference seeks to realign stakeholders in the tourism industry to the STERP. Tourism is expected to provide a soft landing for the new economic blueprint.
"The industry needs significant investment. I believe that tourism and its minister is the public relations face of the country. The most attractive product we have is inclusivity and celebrating diversity.
"The country’s image has been under a barrage of cyberspace attack through negative publicity which includes travel warnings, yet we have very peaceful and co-existent destinations.”
Under STERP high-level teams will be dispatched to different countries to reflect a positive image and potential of the country, as well as removing the country risk perceptions entrenched in source markets and consequently lobby for the removal of travel warnings.
Zimbabwe is also keen to capitalise on next year’s Fifa World Cup – and Tsvangirai will emphasise the need for Zimbabwean companies to intensify programmes to promote soccer tourism.JOIN THE DEBATE ON THIS ARTICLE ON THE NEWZIMBABWE.COM FORUMSnews@newzimbabwe.com
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Posted to the web: 24/03/2009 23:36:05
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai arrived back home at noon Tuesday after a brief compassionate leave following the death of his wife in a road crash on March 6.
Tsvangirai and his family spent a week in South Africa’s port city of Durban as guests of the South African government.
The Prime Minister is set to begin work on Thursday with two major engagements. He will officially open a two day conference to map strategies for reviving the country’s tourism industry before chairing a Council of Ministers meeting.
Tsvangirai arrived home as prices started to fall after years of devastating inflation that left the national currency nearly worthless - a rare piece of good news for an economy that remains a shambles.
Prices of goods bought in U.S. dollars - Zimbabwe's new official currency - declined by 3 percent since January, the state statistical office said Tuesday.
Until the Zimbabwe dollar became virtually obsolete in recent weeks, Zimbabwe's last official inflation rate in the local currency was given as 231 million percent in August, by far the highest in the world.
Moffat Nyoni, head of the Central Statistical Office, said items priced at an average of $100 (euro73) in January cost $97 (euro71) this month.
No official annual U.S. dollar inflation figure was calculated, Nyoni told reporters. And the situation is complex, because dollars are not readily available. But some Zimbabweans get money from relatives or friends working abroad, and the government recently began paying civil servants in dollar vouchers.
Tsvangirai is expected to send a bullish message to the world that Zimbabwe is open for business and tourists at the opening of the tourism conference in Harare which will run under the theme "Deepening Partnerships for the Revival of the Tourism Economy."
The government announced a short term economic revival strategy called STERP last week. It identifies tourism as a key sector.
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi said: "This conference seeks to realign stakeholders in the tourism industry to the STERP. Tourism is expected to provide a soft landing for the new economic blueprint.
"The industry needs significant investment. I believe that tourism and its minister is the public relations face of the country. The most attractive product we have is inclusivity and celebrating diversity.
"The country’s image has been under a barrage of cyberspace attack through negative publicity which includes travel warnings, yet we have very peaceful and co-existent destinations.”
Under STERP high-level teams will be dispatched to different countries to reflect a positive image and potential of the country, as well as removing the country risk perceptions entrenched in source markets and consequently lobby for the removal of travel warnings.
Zimbabwe is also keen to capitalise on next year’s Fifa World Cup – and Tsvangirai will emphasise the need for Zimbabwean companies to intensify programmes to promote soccer tourism.JOIN THE DEBATE ON THIS ARTICLE ON THE NEWZIMBABWE.COM FORUMSnews@newzimbabwe.com
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About Me
- Michael Chipato
- Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
- Michael Chipato is a social and development scientist currently living in Birmingham.Over the years issues pertaining social inequalities, dictatorship, political oppression and gender disparities have been his research focus.As an artist, journalist and academic Michael's philosophy of life is greatly influenced by Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) ... a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). Senghor was the first African to sit as a member of the Académie française. He was also the founder of the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. Senghor created the concept of Négritude, an important intellectual movement that sought to assert and to valorize what they believed to be distinctive African characteristics, values, and aesthetics..He does not condone oppression and violence in any shape or form.
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