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FRENCH DICTIONARY NEEDED I am looking for a french Dictionary for my daughter who need it for her A 'level's. You can email me on sunshine@mweb.co.zw or call me on 011 419 342. Geraldine S.P.C.A. FAMILY FUN DAY AND SCRUFFTS DOG SHOW THIS SUNDAY MORNING AT THE HORSE ARENA Z.I.T.F. CAR BOOT SALE Dominican Convent PTA are holding a "CAR BOOT" sale on Saturday 28 June 10am to 2pm. Charges per "BOOT" will be $1000 - we can supply tables if needed. There will be food stalls for tea & lunch, games , jumping castles and lots of other craft and sale items available. So come & join us for a fun filled day with the family. Please contact any of the following: Alec Goosen - 42952 Tina Booth - 246605 Dave Lowe - 478061 Mike Marais - 477763 Debbie Montocchio - 243292 HOUSE AND SHOP PREMISES TO BUY OR RENT WANTED URGENTLY Shop premises either in town or in a house in Suburbs needed urgently - preferably to rent. Looking to buy a house or townhouse in Hillside, Burnside or Suburbs also quite urgent. Also am in need of a second hand fax machine. Please call Karen on 011 408 907 or 238272 (Bus) STAFF WANTED Looking for someone to work afternoons only doing general office work. Must be computer literate and Pastel knowledge would be a plus. Please call Jackie on 235197 (Bus) or 011 604 140 SPORTING MEMORABILIA NEEDED With so many people leaving, there must be books or items of sporting memorabilia, shirts, jerseys etc., which are no longer required or wanted and will be given away or sold. If there any people in this position, I would very much like to add them to my museum. The most recent addition being a Rhodesia Weightlifting Blazer from Neale Taylor Derrick Townshend PO Box 82 Bulawayo/10 Swanthorpe Close, Glencoe Bulawayo. Tel 288860 091 301427 Thanks and regards, Derrick. HOUSEHOLD OF FURNITURE FOR SALE All household goods including:
Tel. 211725 or cell 091245242 / 011616485 Should anyone require an attachment list of all other items for sale, please email-- coffie@netconnect.co.zw THE COLLECTION "The Collection Tonight 6pm ñ 9pm at casa alba" That's exactly how it appeared in the Bulawayo Sunday News on 21st August in 1969, Jock Cameron, Adrian King, Ronnie "Bungi " Robshaw, Colin Payne, Rudi Gouma and Bernie Browne played to 230 people in a room Which the Fire Chief had allowed for a maximum of 130! Beers were 1/3d, the place had to be cleared by 21:30 And the dance floor was packed for three hours. The Collection broke up in 1971 in Cape Town but Re-grouped to play a one nighter at OMís in June 1995. This time, it was a bigger band and as Bungi was In the UK, Mick Allard of the Short Circuit Guavas Stood in on drums, Jimmy Brandt played lead guitar And The Silhouettes Jack Thain completed the Singing line up. The folk who were there had a fantastic Time and insisted that the band come back And do it again. In December 2000 The Collection did return to OMís an Were joined by Martin Patrick of the Tallboys who jetted in from Oz to be there! With Zimbabwe a little out of reach at the moment, The next show will be in Durban On 16th August at the Thomas Moore College. True, the beers will cost more than 1/3d but Everyone you have not seen in ages will Be there and The Collection will still play Proud Mary, To Love Somebody, Knock On Wood, Hickory Hollers Tramp, My Back Pages, Ob-la-di Ob-la-da etc. etc. If you are coming and need tickets, accommodation etc. please contact:
COLLECTION REUNION DATE; 16th August 2003 VENUE; Thomas Moore College ñ Kloof COST OF TICKET; R 60.00 each (tables of 10) To book tickets please deposit monies into the following account; BANK; First National Bank ACCOUNT NAME; S L Borley No 2 account ACCOUNT NO; 62053519107 CODE; 221 526 Please fax deposit slip to 031 764 2788 CAR FOR SALE NISSAN LARGO SUPER SALOON Type of Body .................................Mini Bus Year first used as new..................1988 Upholstery .....................................blue / grey Accident damaged engine is OK chassis is not bent all electrics and air con working For more details contact mantontj@mweb.co.zw PIANO ACCORDION FOR SALE Contact Moira sunshine@gatorzw.com TOWN HOUSE WANTED Reliable tenant looking for Town House / 2 bedroom Cottage / Small House to Rent in Burnside, Ilanda, Suburbs - must be secure Please contact: Alison - 011 211 854 CHURCH SERVICE THIS SATURDAY PS There is an ecumenical service at Christ the King this coming Sat 28th June - the theme of which is ' Lord deliver us from evil.' Pass the word around as I do not intend to publicly advertise and will restrict the message to the email network. MUSIC BY MOONLIGHT Zimbabweans have a great capacity for kicking at the traces. When THINGS become impossible they do something a little bit crazy.... Some wonderful people, principal among them Julia Salnicki who is the Hyena Research lady in the Hwange National Park, decided that they should endeavour to bring people back to the Park where tourism has been sadly nonexistent for the last two years. So they organised a weekend that was something quite new and totally unexpected for a national park in Zimbabwe. A weekend of light classical music, beautiful Ndebele singing, and a little bit of drama, and invited the people of Bulawayo (and anywhere else in Zim) to attend. I am sure they did not expect the hugely overwhelming response and enthusiasm they got !! Goodness knows where people found fuel (there is very very little in the country), but they DID and arrived in droves and completely booked-out the Main Camp tourist facilities. On the Friday evening there was a little fun and games with the tiny tots and pre-teens from the Main Camp primary school who played marimbas, sang childish songs and danced enthusiastically - and very dustily, for us whilst we enjoyed a glass of wine or a beer (at HUGE cost to the consumers...), and then three members of the Bulawayo Philharmonic Orchestra played (violin, piano and cello) lovely music till bedtime. Bedtime was a pleasure in itself, no barking dogs, no barking TV with its endless bad news, no radios, no traffic noises - just hyena whooping and lions roaring and the occasional whickering of a zebra - delightful. Saturday saw those with a bit of fuel driving off into the park in the morning in the hopes of seeing wildlife - and very successful they were too. We all gathered at the Waterbuck's Head Restaurant at lunchtime, for more music by the Trio Conbrio (lively three !!) followed by the best event of the weekend - a conservation drama performed by 20 young men and one woman (all from the area) calling themselves INGONYAMA - the lions!! Briefly, their story was that of an old man, a village elder, who tells his grandson to go into the wild and learn about the animals so that he, in turn, could teach his contemporaries about conserving Zimbabwe's most precious heritage - its wildlife. The old man was brilliantly portrayed; the grandson and villagers seated around listening to him quietly imitated all the animals found in an African village - chickens, cockerels, goats, babies crying, women chattering, and the audience was enthralled. Then the young man went off into the bush, and now the very few props used came into play - two hessian sacks for the ears and two de-barked sticks for the tusks of an elephant, two bundles of grass on twigs and strings with tiny clumps of grass whizzed around on the end of sticks denoted the weaver birds building their nests. Six young men made up two giraffe by sitting on shoulders, and then had a giraffe tussle with necks intertwining and heads bashing. The youth squatted down and imitated baboons perfectly, including one with a baby (the smallest youth) on his back, and they groomed each other, fought over a scrap of food, and ran screaming from a leopard. Several lions padded across the stage (the restaurant patio) growling and snapping at each other, and so on and so on. The vocalisations were really brilliant, REALLY BRILLIANT. Saturday night was the star turn: stars being the operative word as it was one day away from full moon. At 7 p.m. we all drove in procession down to the huge teak viewing platform at Nyamandhlovu Pan (the place of the elephant) where tables and chairs had been set out in a huge circle at the back of the platform on the ground, with candle lamps at each table, glasses of wine and beautiful cheeses (all donated, and all such a HUGE treat to treat-starved Zimbabweans). We had brought our own picnic suppers and drinks and coffee, and plenty of warm clothes. On arrival there were about 50 to 70 elephant present only metres away - quite unconcerned and doing ellie things like splashing, yelling at each other, flopping down into the muddy water for a bath, etc. etc. "Trio Conbrio" and "Ingonyama" provided two and a half hours of delightful entertainment; how absolutely stunning to have classical music interspersed with the lovely Ndebele male voices, and what a super way to take our minds off all the problems, political and economic, that are part of our everyday lives. The Provincial Warden was so enthusiastic about the response he had received that he promised to look into making it an annual event; we all hope he does! Isn't it wonderful that such an event could have been organised principally by people who are involved in wildlife research: Julia and her hyenas, Wendy and others from the Tawny Cat Research team; the French team who are studying impala; the Provincial Warden's lovely secretary Tsepa Nhare : generous professional people from Bulawayo who did the "technics" for the lighting and music; the youth of Dete and Main Camp, and others too numerous to mention. God bless them all! NOTICE OF NETCONNECT SERVICING HOURS Dear All, Just to let you know that NetConnect wishes to do some software upgrades and servicing of machinery over the coming weekend - 28 and 29 June 2003. This will mean we shall be turning machines off which will also mean NetConnect might not be recognised in the worldwide web for a short while. Please can you let your important friends, family and other mail respondents know this so that they do not panic if mail is returned to them as undeliverable. We shall do the work Saturday evening at about 6pm and work through Sunday. We have chosen the weekend and Saturday night to reduce impact upon our clients. Everything shall be returned to normal later Sunday night. If you find yourself with a problem Monday morning, just give Sheeba a buzz. All the best, WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT ZIMBABWE - For Environmental Awareness - Matabeleland Matters ñ May / June 2003 (Issue No. 28) Dear Members, we trust you all had a peaceful Easter, and those of you who managed to travel for the holiday, welcome back Unfortunately, the exorbitant new postal rates are now unaffordable for us, and we must use a private mail service starting with the next issue. As they cannot deliver to PO Boxes, if you do not have e-mail and would like home delivery of the Newsletter, please supply us with your street address. Otherwise, please pick up your copy at the WEZ shop. We hope members will understand and bear with us. DIARY OF EVENTS: As we are not advertising in the papers due to the high costs involved, all information pertaining to outings and socials can be obtained from Shelagh Adams on Byo 281544 after hours and on weekends, or via the Newsletter. Note: the social meetings will be held Thursdays at 7:30 PM at the Queens Club. 15th May: Mr. Viv Wilson gave an absorbing presentation on the Chipangali Research Programme in the Matobos, with particular reference to the ongoing leopard and cheetah programmes. Despite the very cold evening and fuel problems, 28 people thoroughly enjoyed the evening. He also discussed the International Duiker Survey in Africa, which he and Paddy and Kevin have been involved in since the late 1980s. Viv is asking for assistance from anyone willing to take part in the Matobo Survey. Those interested, please call Viv directly on Byo 286603 or on email at chipingali@internet.co.zw. Thanks Viv for giving up your valuable time. 24th May: Street Collection: Shelagh Adams would like to thank the Committee and all her collectors for a job well done. Thanks also to Island Hospice for the loan of collection tins. In all, 16 places were covered, and a total of $95735.59 was raised, which will be put towards our Education Fund. Will all members be on the lookout for tins suitable for collection (about 1 kg containers for fruit, wax etc with removable tops) and phone Shelagh, who will collect and prepare them for next year. 13th - 15th June: "Symphony Under the Stars", another weekend for promotion of Hwange N.P. will follow the successful one in May. Friday at 6.30pm you will be welcomed with traditional marimba music and lively dancing from the Main Camp school dance group and at 7pm an "icebreaker" has been organised at the Waterbucks Head Bar. On Saturday morning a two-hour morning walk has been organised for 8am; our resident ornithologist will lead a bird walk and experienced guides will take game walks. Or you may drive yourself into the Park. At lunchtime (12:30) back at Main Camp you may socialise and enjoy light classical music by Trio Conbrio at Waterbucks Head plus a special performance at 1pm by the very talented conservation drama group, Ingonyama. In the afternoon, explore the Park. Saturday evening is the highlight of the weekend and begins with a moonlight drive into the Park at 7pm to your theatre at Nyamandhlovu game-viewing platform (dress warmly). Informal seating with evocative lamplight has been arranged below the platform. Trio Conbrio will be playing a full hour of well-known light classical pieces including the beautiful Out of Africa theme. Bring your picnic dinner and while you eat and drink enjoy the music or take a walk up to the platform to watch the animals drinking. This is the first time that music has been played in the open under the moonlight in the Park. To add to the evening there will also be a special performance by the Ingonyama choir; a local choir who will perform traditional African songs and harmonies. The performance will end just after 9pm when we return to Main Camp through the Park. Sunday morning at 8am, Bird Watching and Game Viewing Walks are organised or you may view game in the park, perhaps a drive to the platform at Guvalala. Trio Conbrio will give a recital in front of the Waterbucks Head restaurant from 12:30. Contact Margie Pearce on Byo 75251 (B) 247009 (H) or Pam Birch on Byo 237049 for more information. 19th June: Branch A.G.M. 1900 for 1930 Hrs at the Queens Sports Club. URGENT ñ all members please attend this most important meeting, as we must have a quorum to transact business. The speaker will be Marion Valeix, a Master of Science Ecology student, attached to the French CIRAD Animal Production and Veterinary Medicine research team in HNP. CIRAD's study will attempt to evaluate the influence of an abundant megaherbivore, the African Elephant, on the structure and the composition of mesoherbivore communities in an African savanna ecosystem, as a basis for management of protected areas. As we are all aware of the habitat destruction in HNP due to elephants, this talk should be of immediate interest. 24th July: Pro ñ Am Quiz 1900 for 1930 Hrs at Queens Sports Club. As mentioned in previous issues, this very popular event has been revived. Please contact Laraine King on 09-880571 (Amtec Motors) if you would like to be part of the WEZ teams.(two are required). 9th - 12th August: National AGM at Sable Park in Kwekwe. Sable Park is an area in Kwekwe similar to Tshabalala, but which is run and funded by the Midlands branch of WEZ. Please support the National AGM, if not in person, then by contacting any of your Committee members who will be glad to put your views forward. 21st August: Greg Rasmussen will speak on the Painted Dog Research and Environmental Education Centre in the Dete area, which should be very informative and interesting. The venue is Queens Sports Club at 1900 for 1930 hrs. 12th - 14th September: HNP Promotions: Trees, grasses and other flora identification in the Main Camp area. Please contact Julia Salnicki on Dete 018-685 or 019-371/374 and ask for Tsepa or Mary. 18th September: Speaker and subject to be advised, but we hope to have a speaker on Raptors and / or Falconry. Please contact Clive Lewis at the shop (77309) or Shelagh Adams on 281544 after hours for further information. 20th September Regional Junior Schools Environmental Quiz to be held at Hillside Junior School, 0830 for 0900 hrs. Please come and support our future environmentalists. The Finals will be held in Harare on 25th October. 8th - 11th October: National Game Census at HNP. Promotional weekend. By now you have all received your Game Census Pan Allocation. We wish good game viewing to all participants. For the Promotional Weekend out in the park, please phone the contact people above for 12th ñ 14th September 16th November: (Sunday) Fuel crisis permitting, we hope to rerun the outing to Quiet Waters at Falcon College which was canceled in February. For updates please contact Clive at the shop or Shelagh Adams SHOP: Clive Lewis continues to get new stock in. Please help support the shop and stop in to see our nice selection of items. The Shop is located in TV Sales and Hire in Fife Street next to Picassos Art Gallery. HOUSE NEEDED We are looking for a house to rent in the following areas: Morningside, Hillside, Bradfield, Illanda or any where there abouts. There are 7 of us in all. Two adults, one domestic worker, 3 little dogs and 1 large dog. Rental : $40 000.00 neg. Require something secure. Can contact me at any of the numbers or e-mail address below. Sheila Welch S D WELCH BIG FEET! WANT COMFY SHOES???? I have a pair of brand-new English make ladies lace up shoes in two shades of beige. Really, really comfortable, but I have two pairs exactly the same! Size English 9 - yes nine!! (Cost R820.00 when I bought them - never worn!) Price: Z$75 000. o.n.c.o. Phone: Byo 244596† - or e-mail: peta@mweb.co.zw LOTTERY ASSISTANCE NEEDED Does anyone know how to apply for State Lottery Assistance? Barbara Carter autoexbyo@gatorzw.com RHODESIA WEBSITE The group currently has over 1500 members Worldwide. Its main purpose is to re-establish lost contacts along with some news and memories. Unlike other groups this is not chat based , messages are moderated then posted on to all members in a Monthly newsletter(sometimes bi-weekly) You e-mail address is kept private and you can unsubscribe at any time. RHODESIAWASSUPER YAHOO GROUP SPREAD THE WORD Join for free on the front page of http://www.Rhodesiawassuper.com This is for Rhodesians Globe wide! To re-establish lost contacts. Join and help with the Search, you never know who's looking for you. FOR SALE Borehole motor 3 hp 2.2kw 1430 rpm In good running order. For further details contact RHONA HAYES Phone 288831 after 6pm. FOR SALE White GOLF CL 1984 Sedan. Petrol. Good runner for around town. 2.5M Contact Mrs S. Clark 011-413-450 Hello from Diane in the UK Well, we've been here for four and a half years now and are living in 'Sunny' Southampton. We've met a lot of Zimbos over here, all displaced persons with a heart for home..... a heart for Africa..... Each one of us longs for the day when we can come home and help to rebuild our homeland, blacks and whites. To all of you back home, we think of you often and miss you, you are always in our prayers. It's strange you know, how the Zimbabwean community (even though they are spread worldwide) have stuck together.... We have made many new friends through a website called www.thebottomhalf.co.uk and met up with old ones too.. from Australia to Canada, Botswana, Malawi, New Zealand and so very many in the UK. How we pray for change.... God bless you and be with you always. POLIO SURVIVORS Polio survivors to contact me. I run a polio network in South Africa but for the whole of Africa and it just worries me that there are people in Zim who might have Post-Polio Syndrome and are not getting help. If you are a polio survivor and you could have Post-Polio Syndrome the sequel to polio then please write to Cilla Webster at PO Box 1155 Umkomaas 4170 South Africa for information and to be put on the mailing list. I do not charge people outside of South Africa because it is not worth their trying to exchange their currencies. Post-Polio Syndrome is a frightening and painful thing to live with and it is important that people learn what it is about and how to cope. CILIA GARDEN WORKER NEEDED Desperate for a garden worker - male or female. Must be able to communicate in English. A knowledge of pool-care would be an advantage. I live in Burnside. Reasonable wage plus fuel allowance plus access to solar cooker. Accommodation and some food provided. Phone 241396 Cell 091 237 457 e-mail barbaram@ecoweb.co.zw FALCON OLD BOYS Come and join us for a day of Hockey and Rugby on Saturday 28 June Lunch and cash bar available Sport followed by a braai and social. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD POOL YOUR FUEL, AND COME AND JOIN US. Contact Brigitte Randall for details : 088- 229/331/332/674 |
