18 April 2007

Tsumo - Shumo


Mutoro unorema wasvika.

"The load becomes heaviest when you are reaching (the goal)."

-- Shona Proverb
From Tsumo - Shumo by Mordikai A. Hamutyinei and Albert B. Plangger

Much like "It's darkest just before dawn."

Happy Birthday?

Today Zimbabwe celebrates 27 years of existence. Rhodesia became Southern Rhodesia which became the Republic of Rhodesia which became Rhodesia-Zimbabwe which became Zimbabwe on 18 April 1980.

Robert Mugabe became the first president of Zimbabwe, the breadbasket of Southern Africa and as the only president of Zimbabwe has transformed it into the basket case of Southern Africa over the past 27 years.

Cry for Zimbabwe!