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Issue 76, 15 April 2022

Title: An epoch of despair Title: Graduates Title: Contemplation
Tafadzwa Lemuel Chiwanza Poet: Tashinga Ruth Ndindana Poet: Samuel Chuma

It rained all week - Graduates, luke warm hopes
rolling billows of raging waters Remember that day at the pavilion and unmilked opportunities
swept Sun into rivers, We waved our caps in the air taste of unsweetened dreams
for forty nights Our caps of knowledge and bitter expectations
an army of droplets rattled roofs, Remember when we curtseyed staring with mocking severity
shattered windows screamed As we were being capped from the muddy depths
and the waters mopped all sounds, Magraduate, of this day's cuppa
from their freezing tongues. Annointed marombe that I am fated to greet
new-borns cried silently Glorified broke niggas each unforgiving morning.
their tongues drowned in the rain Now flooding the streets half smoked existence
that vowed to cut them from umbilical cords, Ma ‘US’ Ma ‘Rands’ ne rate rinonaka pulled at now
fish and crabs crept into caves Zvichanaka is the new anthem with waning eagerness
plants drowned- Magraduates, drifts agonisingly away
and others grew old in crevices, ‘Takadya maBhi’ and won the race leaving a tar deposit
fishermen sew blankets from their nets, Now we play temple run of unremovable regrets
made fire from their boats, Day in, day out in my constricted heart
and bartered stories for dinner. Playing cats and dogs with the police yester-year's regalia
Illegal vendors, fending for a better life I wear with disdain
************************************ At dusk we all go home the victims' armour in battles past
Title: What else do you have to bring? Grateful for an extra dollar made that I know shall taste victory
Poet: Fungai Jayaguru Grateful we’re not huddled in a corner in battles to come.
In a cold cell at central
Don't bring apples to my table, bring ethics Grateful for freedom ************************************
and etiquette! You could be a billionaire’s bas- Freedom?
tard, Dripping billions whenever you roll cards, We are tied tight by a python Title: The Cell phone
You could be a world class dope man; The knot tightens on our lungs Poet: Sheikh Al Dirani
With sixty-pack muscles and sexy swag takes, With every single exhale
Your magazine features won't trick my trophy, We will squirm till the last breath Tool box of untruths
If your mind is empty then we got no deal, The lying machine
I crave depth, I love peace, I desire intense ************************************ Casket of living skeletons
wisdom! Kindness is how I define humanity, Pandora’s Box of blinding secrets
Responsibility is adulthood! Title: The sun is also a star? The wife’s don’t-touch,
How much do you know about the world out- Poet: Sir Octagon The husbands’ no-go-area
side yours? My names are many
The walls beyond that which you have seen? They said the vast Greenland was ripe, Like the Legion of dark daemons.
Emotional intelligence hits me hard-core, Ready for harvest! While the world pretends to sleep
Can you maintain your cool in the hit of a Alas, a bright blinding yellow inconvenience. Who can tell of the cyber-whispers?
flared fight? How big is your ego if I may ask? “The sun is also a Star", they said; Seducing a neighbour’s wife?
A humble man is my "hey babe" Sweating profusely, The deadly deals steeped in dark secre-
Deep conversations is what gets me drooling, As they watched the day slowly melt to ashes. cy?
Your investment skills strike me better than Tomorrow is another day! Insipid lies corroding the pillars of a city?
what you earn, Who can tell, yes who can tell
Your direction is definitely what signs me in, Of the viral venoms swallowing villages
Your television size matters not, your vision With scandalous wiki-leaks?
does! Of course you are the king of fashion; World Wide Web; War of wounding words
but how is your heart clothed? Short-gun of character assassination
Is there a place for God in your rich soul? Peddler of pornography
Can you save a stranger without a show? And perennial spring of obscenities;
How you treat others says a lot about your Hand grenade of gossip
sum being, I need you to love yourself first Network of Wi-Fi witchcraft
before you love me, Whose sorcery is in the sms
What money can't buy, that my heart can twice My casualties are many as tombstones in
call, Apart from an uninsured car and a flashy a public cemetery.
purse;
What exactly do you intend to bring to my
table?

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Issue 76, 15 April 2022

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Issue 76, 15 April 2022 ‘The team will come together
and produce winning rugby’
ENOCK MUCHINJO
Zimbabwe coach Brendan Dawson addresses his players in Cape Town before the beginning of the Currie Cup First Division.
TONDERAI Chavhanga, Zimba-
bwe’s former national rugby team tition goes. I 100% agree that we Think of how well we did in the World Cup qualifiers) only should Zimbabwe have been given a
assistant coach, believes there is desperately need a few wins un- Victoria Cup in 2019, and this was we start panicking. The team will bye this week and will return on 23
no need to panic ahead of World der our belt. If history is anything after the SuperSport Challenge. come together and produce win- April with a tie against fellow Afri-
Cup qualifiers in July due to the to go by, I think we will be okay. If we struggle in France (at the ning rugby.” can national team Kenya in Ceres.
team’s slow start to the Currie Cup
in South Africa.

Although coach Brendan Daw-
son has fielded a young experien-
tial side in the opening two match-
es – losing heavily to European
national side Georgia 34-10 and
then 48-5 to Giffons – the win-
less streak has been worrying to
the teams’ fans, especially after the
Zimbabweans also failed to win
a single match in the SuperSport
Challenge in 2019 when the team
last played in a South African do-
mestic competition.

The Goshawks, Zimbabwe’s
name in the 2022 edition of
the Currie Cup First Division,
are based out in Cape Town for
the duration of the eight-match
tournament and received a visit
from former Springboks winger
Chavhanga, who lives in the city.

“I went for a quick visit,”
Chavhanga told The NewsHawks
this week. “It was good to the
boys.”

Chavhanga was Zimbabwe’s as-
sistant coach in 2019 in the Super-
Sport Challenge and later in the
four-nation Victoria Cup, won by
the Sables.

He left his post citing pressing
business commitments in South
Africa, but has kept a close rela-
tionship with the Zimbabwean
players and technical staff.

The former Stormers and Sharks
speedster expects Zimbabwe’s per-
formances to improve for the re-
mainder of the Currie Cup.

“Unfortunately the results ha-
ven’t been great, but I have been
told that scores are not a true re-
flection of the game,” he said.

“I think it’s important to high-
light that they are a young team
and most of the starters are not
yet involved. It’s a great learning
curve for the youngsters. These
sides that they are playing may
not be big teams but they are sides
that have been together for a long
time. I’m sure that we will see the
team getting better as the compe-

IT perhaps needed somebody like Nor- What Mapeza said, and Champions League, which is getting
man Mapeza for Zimbabwe to take also didn’t, or couldn’t say tougher and tougher each passing year.
stock as a footballing nation and reform, how opponents play their game? Why frustration also has something to do But then, week-in-week-out, whilst
once and for all, the way we play the should he care, honestly, given that with his own team, FC Platinum. Platinum have dominated the PSL over Perhaps this was what Mapeza came
game across the nation. good results for his team is all he needs Not that the former Galatasaray de- the past three seasons, they have had to short of saying this week, to say: “Our
to stay in his job in a sport where coach- fender is not face mediocre op- failure in Africa as Platinum is that
The well-respected former Zimba- es are sitting ducks of axe-wielding club happy with position who of- the other clubs in this country haven’t
bwe captain this week offered his typ- bosses? Platinum’s ap- tentimes make it helped us with good competition to
ically blunt opinion, this time on the proach to the HawkZone difficult to execute prepare ourselves for the tough chal-
standards of the domestic game in this Well, the easiest explanation is that game, neither a better organised lenge of the Champions League.”
country, which he labelled below par. Mapeza is a professional guy, a proud did he single side’s own struc-
man who cares so much for the integ- out any teams tured approach to Then, of course, you could also look
The source of this most frank and rity of the game in his homeland. Add as the culprits Enock the game. back at Zimbabwe’s performance at the
unflattering assessment of Zimbabwean that he does also care how Zimbabwean of the dull Because of this, Africa Cup of Nations finals in January
football, Norman Mapeza, is enough football is perceived or seen by outside football that Muchinjo Platinum have under Mapeza’s interim tutelage.
for us to take a hard look at ourselves lens, and that he feels for the long-suf- he condemned not locally been
and then, out of it, an overhaul of the fering fans who have to endure what he this week. tested sufficiently Mapeza was brave to include in his
system from grassroots right through to described as “route-one football” – de- In fact, at a level that the squad a big chunk of locally-based play-
the top-flight league, the PSL. void of any kind of structure, pattern or Mapeza praised his team, Platinum, for rest of the continent has moved on to. ers, some he had worked with before at
any deliberate intent to entertain spec- its attacking brand of football, a philos- Subsequently, the men from Zvishavane Platinum and some he only knew from
Mapeza clearly is not trying to make tators. ophy that has its roots deep at Mandava have consistently been found wanting the other clubs.
excuses for any pending failure with his Stadium. when they venture into Africa for the
team, FC Platinum. In fact, the Zvisha- But you could also get deeper with It is a story for another day, maybe an
vane miners could so easily clinch a the analysis and argue that Mapeza’s old story and an irrelevant one now long
fourth straight title this term if they after the first-round exit in Cameroon
manage to outfox at least three chasing fourth months ago.
clubs, something Mapeza’s side has be-
come accustomed to after shaking off its But the quality of some of these
nearly-men tag few seasons ago. players, how they have been wrongly
coached in the PSL going by what they
So what can drive a man in such a brought to the Warriors’ table at the Na-
very good space, a proven coach on the tions Cup, could also have influenced
domestic front, to vent frustration over Mapeza’s insightful but long-shared
view.

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ALWYN MABEHLA out to KhupeperSport given his history at the
club he served with distinction
ON Tuesday, the curtain finally in his playing days. He did made
came down on Kaitano Tembo’s a mark, until his unceremonious
two-decade-long association departure this week.
with South African Premiership League glory, however, has
side SuperSport United. evaded SuperSport with their
Unofficial president calls for emergelast coming back in the 2009-10
The former Zimbabwe de- season whilst under the tutelage
fender joined Matsatsantsa as of Gavin Hunt.
a player back in 1999 up until The best that they managed
hanging his boots before rising outside the 2019 MTN Cup vic-
through the ranks to become the tory was a third-place finish in
head coach in 2018 – rescuing the 2011-12 season.
them from relegation to secure a Tembo’s best finish since he
top-eight finish. was appointed head coach was
fifth position last season.
Tembo’s crowning moment at The writing seemed to be on
SuperSport was when he led the the wall for him this season as
Pretoria club to MTN Cup glory results eluded him, with his
in the 2019 season. Waterloo coming recently after
SuperSport were dumped out
Be that as it may, the South of the Nedbank Cup by lowly
African Premiership is certainly Tshakuma Tsha Madzivhadila.
proving to be a hard-hat area for Before the axe had befallen
Zimbabwean coaches. Tembo, word had already start-
ed doing the rounds that he was
Former Orlando Pirates coach likely to be replaced by former
Roy Barreto remains the best ex- Bafana Bafana star forward Ben-
port among Zimbabwean coach- ni McCarthy. However, Tembo
es to have crossed the Limpopo. will walk away with his head
held high and will have every
Barreto won the league ti- reason to believe that he did all
tle with the Sea Robbers in the he could to help Matsatsantsa
2002-3 season. Among the lo- regain their status as a force in
cal coaches who have thrown South African football.
themselves in the deep end in He will surely not struggle to
Mzansi, no one has managed to find any suitors within South
achieve that feat. The likes of Ian Africa and elsewhere.
Gorowa, Sunday Chidzambwa, Could it be finally that he
Jairos Tapera, Bruce Grobbelaar, renews his bromance with the
Norman Mapeza and Joey Anti- coach-less Warriors?
pas have all had a crack in the The former Dynamos hard-
Supa Diski, without much suc- man has long been rumoured to
cess. be among those who have been
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Gorowa coached the likes of out a substantive coach since
Moroka Swallows, Ajax Cape Croatian Zdravko Logarušić was
Town and Mamelodi Sundowns, Kaitano Tembo. axed just before the Africa Cup
while Chidzambwa had disap-
pointing stints at Free State Stars an side Chicken Inn in 2015, he Legendary Warriors goalkeep- ic and Umtata Bush Bucks.  of Nations in Cameroon.
and Black Leopards. tried his luck at tge KwaZulu er Grobbelaar had equally un- Then Tembo, a tough-as-teak It could be a wonderful op-
Natal-based AmaZulu, but was fruitful stints with South African
Mapeza, after proving himself fired after a run of poor results. clubs Manning Rangers, Hellen- defender in his heyday, had a portunity for Tembo to step up
as a shrewd tactician on the lo- chance to prove his mettle at Su- and prove his mettle at interna-
cal scene, crossed the Limpopo tional level.
to join Chippa United but left
in a huff without laying down a
marker on South African foot-
ball.

As for Antipas, after winning
the league title with Zimbabwe-

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