If anything at all comes out of the Zimbabwe re run "election" it will show the fact that the
people in this country have Guts.....
There are so many people who have fought for justice and democracy for so long against
the most amazing odds.
History will tell its tale, one day !
History will tell of the quiet folk who day by day work solidly, lovingly, steadfastly towards
what is right, what is just, what is good and what will undoubtedly come about one day.
My favourite human rights campaigner was called a "Pathological Optimist" the other day
and what an honour it has been to know this Man and his very Special Family.
Day after day, month after month, year after year, he and so many like him work towards
a Zimbabwe that will serve all of its people fairly. A Zimbabwe that will return to it's
rightful place of being "The Bread Basket of Africa"
No one will go short, everyone will be fed and clothed and have schooling, security, and
health care.
How well we remember from 1980 when the number of schools in Zimbabwe leapt from a
few hundred to a few thousand, and the clinics leapt from a handful to a whole heap more.
There was hope, vibrancy, peace and goodwill amongst all men in our beloved country.
Our children sang with one voice, there was no thought of colour race or creed.
Surely with this might of prayer, this plethora of strength and passion, this vortex of good
solid caring people, we can reach these dizzy heights again ?
That Bright Red Bus must have brought such hope to the hearts of the people who
managed to see it before it was seized. How I wanted to hug that giant smiling brave
man who has risked so much for our country and our people,
Zimbabwe has seen many heroes, lost many lives, broken many hearts and yet time and
time again we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start all over again (as the song
goes)
We salute you all your brave men and women who have been fighting for freedom for so
long. Now is not the time to mention names but chronicles are being written of your
valour, your sacrifices, your love for freedom and liberty and for your fellow man.
God please will you look after them in the days ahead
FELDMAN - DAPHNE, dearly beloved mother and grandmother, passed away on 11
June 2008. The celebration of her life will be held on 16 June 2008 at 10am
at Our Lady of Lourdes, Kumalo followed by interment at Athlone Cemetery.
Fondly remembered by all.
To Julie Mercuri and kids,just learned of the passing away of Eugino,came as quite a
shock.
Heads up,keep smiling,our thought are with you at this time,
Darryl and Grant, ex coaches Bulawayo Gymnastics Academy ( bdleith@yahoo. co.uk )
Mitchley Charles Walter
Passed away peacefully but suddenly after a massive heart attack at home in Coronation.
He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him. Although he is gone he will never
be forgotten. We will all miss his hearty laugh and jokes. May he rest in peace safe in the
arms of Jesus. Our thoughts and sympathy to his Family Jeanette, Margaret and Grant, their
spouses and his grand children.
From The Van den berg Family and Every one who loved and knew him at Verity Amm
Center and Coronation Cottages
Flee Helma
Passed away peacefully at coronation cottages. May she rest in peace.
Our Beautiful country is reaching the pinnacle of its problems and we are virtually
exhausted to the point where we all have to focus on digging deeper than ever. We are
emotionally and psychologically battered and drained and we have become fragile in these
respects. It is rather like a treacherous climb up a steep mountain, the slopes littered with
crevices, ravines and vertical cliffs. Like any adventurer, we commit to the challenge and
yearn for what is beyond that mountain top. Rather like explorers, it is often not visible,
but we believe it is there, beckoning.
Zimbabweans are in search of a long lasting dream, a dream that will fulfill our existing
expectations and something that, despite the trauma, is becoming more and more
realistic. That dream is about reaching the summit and standing, looking into the distance
towards a land of hope, freedom, prosperity and happiness where we all belong, we all
deserve and what we all want for our children. When we, sapped by the long climb, drop
our gaze and look down the slope towards the objective, the realisation will hit us that
there is work still to be done to reach that Promised Land now visible in the distance, the
path before us even less negotiable. However, our energy levels will rise, our enthusiasm,
our determination to get to our destination fueled by the tantalising vision set before us.
We then ask why the struggle, why the hemorrhaging of our treasured land, why the
suffering, the genocide, the torture and killing? Why not just give up and turn our backs on
our countrymen and those less fortunate than ourselves? Just like Nazi Germany, this
brutal period in our history is building a new set of values, values that have emerged out
of every negative experience and every failure to uphold decent human principles, values
that appreciate responsible authority and build respect for our fellow man and our
country. In Germany there will never be a government lead by the Nazis ever again firstly,
because of the experience of the people of the previous generation but, secondly, because
a system was put in place that would never allow it to happen again. This system is
protected and defended by those very ideals that came about from the Nazi experience.
In Zimbabwe we must take the positives out of recent history because these have built a
set of new principles that will never allow us to let our country and our people be
destroyed by a ruthless and greedy authority ever again. Likewise, when we have our
democracy, we will dramatically contrast the experience with that of the reckless and
ruthless rule which we have endured. It will be so striking that we will all hold on to what
democracy will deliver us in terms of a life and future we all justly deserve. The people of
this country will cherish and guard something special that will never be allowed to be
violated again. Right now, our society is more constitutionally imprisoned and restricted
than Hitler's Germany.
This struggle is about bringing about a new nation almost free of divisive legacies in which
our children can be safe and secure.
This new order will not be imposed from a far off land but will be born out of the African
experience and psyche, tailor-made to protect these precious fundamentals forever. With
this in place, Zimbabweans will have confidence in their future and we will shine in Africa
and the world, as we all know we will. We will prosper, bring our families back together
and the whole country will become a revelation as has never been seen before. Once
again we will be proud to call ourselves Zimbabweans and have faith restored in a future
for our children in the land of their birth. We will herald our national heroes on the sports
field, in Commerce and Industry, the Arts and Culture. We will do this together as a
unified and proud nation of all tribes and ethnicities bound together by a true and deep
sense of patriotism borne out of this bitter and protracted struggle. After all we have
suffered, we have learnt what is truly precious to us. We will restore what has been
destroyed and look forward to the challenge with real fervour invigorated by our desire to
succeed, fueled by the fact that we have claimed back our country and scored a dramatic
victory over evil. We will break the cycle of disappointment that has afflicted Africa in the
past.
We will be focused in looking forward and not backwards because, what we have brought
from history, will help us prepare our future and there will be no time to peer through this
rear vision mirror small and narrow, but forwards through a large and wide windscreen
revealing the excitement set before us.
To give up now will be to dishonour the massive sacrifices of everyone, those that have
died, those that built our nation and those who are continuing the fight for freedom right
now.
Simon Spooner
Bulawayo
10 June 2008
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the
old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had
learned in seven years. --Mark Twain
Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for
our neighbors what we desire for ourselves. --Muhammad
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