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Culture

TWUHRANTS THESTORYbyBennyBlow

IMAGES courtesy of The Monsoon Project
An artistic expression of governance, nation-building and

TIDEnational identity by a group of Capetonian based artists.
On the scale of one to weirdly the law of the land moulded our and tribe, for natives she said. This
wonderful, this could have possibly ancestors then, and shaped who we shaped us and still continues to
been one of the strangest things I are today. shape us.
had ever witnessed. But it got me
thinking too. “So how do you identify yourself “The baobabs know,” she said
We had gathered in the Henry as an individual or citizen in front referring to their time on this
Tayali gallery situated at the Lusaka, of the law?” she asked. She barely earth. The one in the black and
Showgrounds, and sat amongst the made any animated movements or white photo had been around for
sculptures, carvings and paintings even dramatically raised her voice, over 2000 years and had seen
the space housed. Some of the but her inflection carried the heavy the tide of time passing. They had
works of art had been moved around theme with ease. The lady analysed witnessed how different races were
to make room for our seating and how empires came to Africa and also marginalised, governed by one
the performance itself. other lands and brought their own imported European law, a ‘Civil law’.
systems and regimes with them, This law negated the fact that even
“I’m used to being amongst you, confusing the masses and displacing the races had so much more to
not so much all the way there,” the not only their settlements, but also them, speaking different languages
lady said pointing at the area she their identities. and often practicing different
would be performing in. The studio “So infact, it is always the law that religions.
lights dimmed and a black and institutionalises us, by enforcing “The only way out of these ‘grand’
white image of a colossal baobab group identities on us,” colonial narratives and these native
tree was thrown on the wall behind narratives is going to be to re-
the performance area. Dressed She said every empire had its imagine histories and to re-imagine
in a brown suit, the lady stepped colonies and every colony had its futures,”
into her realm and began to recite history, but actually there were
something. only two kinds of histories in the I had absorbed most of what she
empires: The grand narrative of had said and was still trying to wrap
“The baobabs know,” she said. My colonialism written in bold and in my head around the entire theme
interest was piqued. the frame of race; and its micro when she left the performance area
A steady and eerie African drumming histories written in small scripts and came back with a wig/mask of
carried through speakers and spread within the frame of tribe. Race and what looked like orange flowing
through the room like a fog. tribe identities are still prevalent hair wrapped around her own head
“Who ever would have thought... in the twenty first century. Because, (and face). As she spoke, images
that the securing of our futures, each effectively, we were told to check of her in the same performance
of us sitting in this room, was in the one box; race or tribe. art garb slid across the projected
domain of law making,” she said. She screen. Each photo depicted her in
was delving into the contentious These systems over simplified rich a nook of the baobab tree, a rock
subject of colonialism and how cultures into race, for non-natives formation or a strange location I
could not quite place.

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“Who ever would have thought...that
the securing of our futures, each of
us sitting in this room, was in the
domain of law making,” she said. She
was delving into the contentious
subject of colonialism and how the
law of the land moulded our ancestors
then, and shaped who we are today.”

She said the images were for people a dream, “a kind of imaginary world The Monsoon Project takes a three
to meditate on, so that the audience presented itself to me, which told person project team on a 6-week
could imagine many narratives and a very important part of my own touring venture encompassing
stories about ourselves that we’d history that I didn’t really know live art performances and cultural
never heard. about,” She met with archeologists research in Harare, Lusaka,
“Because we just had to tick two and pre-colonial writers to put it all Lubumbashi, Dar es Salaam,
boxes, one or the other. Not the together. Antananarivo and Maputo from 23rd
myriad of boxes and stars that Julia has worked as an architect, January - 15th March 2015.
are available to us. Our own ideas, a blacksmith, jazz musician, and The live art performance created
imagination and consciousness…” even as a diviner. Her range of and performed by Julia Raynham
occupations and experiences have (with photographs by Noncedo
She encouraged us all to take led her to place heavy emphasis on Gxekwa) is subtitled “what turns
time to find a way for all of us to spiritual aspects of our being and the tide?” and tracks trade, mobility,
talk to each other because this the quest to find a deeper meaning relationships and the arrival of
way, we’ll come to a threshold of in history and our lives. love in South East Africa, during an
understanding. We’ll realise that The subject matter wasn’t strange eclipse in euclidean space time. It
we’re not here based on cultural at all, but it was the medium is a combinant public address of
difference. “The laws can only through which it was delivered. remarks, gestures and statements,
be changed through a collective I’d never seen imagery and African which references specific historical
conscious...” instruments used to convey such transformations from indigenous
The lady’s name was Julia Raynham a powerful thought provoking state, to colonial state,to nationalist
and her act was titled, ‘What Turns performance with simple gestures state - proposing a future state of
the Tide’. She’s a performance artist and spoken word. When I told Julia fusion, in which the rights of nature
and a member of South Africa’s I’d never seen a performance like are enshrined in the constitution.
Resonance Bazaar. This particular hers before, she laughed and said,
piece was in collaboration with “neither have I.”
Noncedo Mathibela and Thobile
Ndenze. She said it came to her in

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PACK FOR A PURPOSE
SMALL SPACE. LITTLE
EFFORT. BIG IMPACT

STORY by Rachel Mupela | IMAGES courtesy of Pack for a Purpose

It’s not every day that a trip Soft toys delivered to Kasisi on the board of directors for 12 years.
abroad for a long awaited Children’s Home in Zambia As founder of Pack for a Purpose,
holiday crosses your mind as never looked back. She has visited 45 Rebecca believes that if you are part
an opportunity to be charitable. countries and all 7 continents. She was of a community, one is responsible
Holidays are meant to be privileged to have been named the for contributing in whatever way you
fun, long days full of idling, National Geographic Traveller of the can. So far the initiative has helped
sightseeing and fine dining, year for her efforts in 2014. deliver more than 28 tons of supplies
but one traveller and her She worked as a middle school to 425 community based projects in 60
husband did indeed see this teacher of European and non-western countries worldwide, dropping off bags
as such an opportunity. Upon cultures for 12 years and as an filled with shoes and toothbrushes for
learning of the extra luggage entrepreneur, manufacturing cufflinks orphanages in South Africa, to books
allowance they were entitled made from postage stamps from her in Brazil, clothing in Cambodia and
to by the airline they used to extensive travels.As a member of the schools in Ecuador receiving much
travel, Rebecca Rothney and International Affairs Council in Raleigh, needed educational supplies.
her husband Scott, decided NC, (now a part of International Focus)
to pack up the extra space for 26 years, Rebecca has hosted
in their suitcases with school dinners in her home over 450 visitors
supplies, including soccer balls from around the world and has served
to a school in Botswana near
where they were taking a safari
holiday.

This kind gesture has since grown and
a formal initiative was set up in 2009,
called ‘Pack for a Purpose’, a non-profit
aimed at helping other travellers
share in this rewarding experience
of bringing meaningful contributions
to the destinations they visit.The
initiative encourages travellers to
pack at least five pounds (2.27kg) of
supplies in their luggage to carry and
give to projects in their destinations.
Rebecca is the driving force as well as
chairperson of the organisation while
her husband is the secretary.
Rebecca has a lifelong passion for
sharing different cultures. Rebecca
first travelled overseas at age 11 and

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Sanctuary Sussi & Chuma Zambia Kakumbi Basic School, Zambia

The organization has more than 440 57
participating accommodations and
tour companies from around the
world, including some right here in
Zambia, listed on their website that
accept Pack for a Purpose items,
letting visitors donate right at their
front desks.The site also has a list of
supplies for donations on their website
provided directly by local community
based projects that receive these
supplies, enabling travellers to make
an informed decision and to carry the
supplies that are most needed in those
communities.
Rothney cites her greatest reward
as being stories of how families,
couples and even businesses have
become involved in Pack for a
purpose. Such contributions are one
way of expressing appreciation for
the experiences and hospitality they
enjoyed in those lands, there is a
need everywhere and generosity are
universal, the little things really do
make a big difference.
For more information, or to find
out how you can help, visit
www.packforapurpose.org

ZAMBIA CABIN CREW PROFILES

SHARON TANYA MICHELLE Greek Mythology. She has a passion
MBAZIMA for fashion, shoes, travelling and
CABIN CREW enjoys destinations with beautiful
PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO ocean and beach views. Sharon
THE MD admits she has an unorthodox
fondness for fast cars.
Has over a year’s flying experience
with ratings on:
• B737-500
• J41/32
She spends her spare time painting,
listening to music (she has over
780 songs in her phone alone),
running and reading especially

Sharon

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JAMIE HILLARY CHAKABA
SENIOR CABIN CREW

Has over 5 years flying experience
with ratings on:
• B737-200/500
• Embraer 120
• J41/32

Jamie Jamie holds both a ZCAA and SACAA Botswin
Pharles license. She is a diverse individual
who can easily blend into any
environment; Jamie has been working
in the reservations department for
the last 6 months, that’s what she
loves about the diverse working
environment at Proflight.

Jamie has been married to a loving BOTSWIN PATEL
husband for 4 years and is a proud SENIOR CABIN CREW
mother of two boys. She describes
herself as being creative, a people Has over 10 years flying experience
person who enjoys laughing. She is with ratings on:
a beautician and artist in her spare • 737-200
time. Jamie is currently studying • Beech 1900C/D
banking and finance. • Embraer 120
• J41/32
PHARLES CHITAMFYA ANGEL Botswin holds both a ZCAA and
VUMO SACAA license. He has worked for
CABIN CONTROLLER various companies including Zambian
Airways and Airwaves Zambia. He was
Has over 4500 flying hours with motivated to join the aviation industry
ratings on: by his Uncle.
• Beech 1900
• 737-200/400 When he is not flying Botswin
• J41/32 preaches at his church. He is a part
Pharles is a fun life loving person who time real estate consultant who
enjoys romance and adventure. She enjoys a good game of soccer; he
has exquisite taste in the fine things supports our Chipolopolo boys as well
in life; she is a beautician as well as a as Chelsea.
fashion designer. She loves to explore
all aspects of life and most of all
loves her job, challenges and all.
In her spare time Pharles is a real
estate agent. She speaks several
languages including minimal French.

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Culinary

Fig and Halloumi

SpiAcNesDSpandex
STORY by Mwanabibi Sikamo
IMAGES courtesy of Tom Perkins
Cycling and cookery; no this isn’t some newfound way of generating electricity for the kitchen; it’s the
premise behind Spices and Spandex, part travel log, part recipe book with breathtaking photography.
The author takes us on a culinary, cycling journey through Europe and all the way down to Cape Town.
As if the process of travelling on a budget and relying on the generosity of strangers for shelter as
well as recipes wasn’t a novel enough experience, Tom Perkins then decided to publish using the very
modern method of crowd sourcing. We spoke to the author about how he managed to think up such a
brilliant way to have fun and get paid at the end of it all.
Fish and Chips

Jordan

Sudan

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Tell us about the inception of the idea. Camp fire in the White Desert
Was it always the plan to combine Tom Perkins
cycling with a cookbook or is this
something that came about as a result
of your travels?
Quite where the exact idea of the
journey came from is still a fuzzy
memory. My best mate and I were
sitting in our local pub in Cape
Town, wondering what was next
for both of us. I made a throwaway
comment. It struck a cord and
gained momentum. It initially
sounded absurd; why don’t we
just get on a couple of bikes, strap
some questionably unnecessary and
overweight objects to the frames
and cycle south until there is no
more land? Chance, circumstance,
and serendipity would surely
take over from then on. But from
where to where? Why not a cross-
continental adventure from one
local pub to another?
It sounded simple enough, barring
one slight logistical complication:
one pub lay in a tiny rural village
in Southern England, the other in
the leafy suburbs of Africa’s most
southerly metropolis. In between
lay numerous mountain ranges
and deserts; extreme climates and
inhospitable terrains; the Arab
Spring in full force; twenty-five
border posts and the infuriating
inevitability of bureaucratic
complications; and over 20,000km
of road littered with unexpected
adventure and opportunity.

I’ve always been passionate about Italy- Beef Carpaccio
food, photography and design
and so prior to us setting off I
also developed my own personal
ambition. To immerse myself in as
many food cultures along the way.
To be amazed at the richness of
national cuisines and be proved
ever ignorant because of my pre-
conceptions. I wanted to document
recipes, culinary traditions, and
social memes. To tell stories. To
meet characters. To learn lessons
from complete strangers. To use
food as the lens through which to
try and understand communities
and societies in greater clarity.
And then my goal was to share the
privilege I’d been afforded - to self-
publish a travel-cooked based on
the experience.

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Kenyan Chapati

South African Potjie we would end up that evening. This “Haloo Sirs and Sirs,” he began. “My
In the book you place great emphasis makes you somewhat more exposed name is Nelson, you look lost and I
on the hospitality of various people and vulnerable – but also free to am here very much to help”.
that you met along the way. The follow little tangents that often end Nelson led us down to one of the
style is very rustic and you say that up in the most incredible meetings school’s classrooms and proudly
you deliberately concentrated on the with people and communities that presented us with our bedroom for
backstreets. Did you have a clear idea in turn notice this vulnerability and the evening. “Here, here, move the
of how this trip would pan out at the consequently just want to offer help table and chairs. It’s okay, class only
outset or was it revelatory? What is and generosity. starts at eight. You have no rush.”
one of your favourite anecdotes about This sense of extraordinary We were given a bucket and told
meeting and being taken in by a hospitality was so apparent in to wash thoroughly. Nelson then
stranger? one of my very favourite chance scampered off, singing as he went. “I
The whole trip was completely meetings we had whilst in Southern must tell my wife we have visitors.
revelatory and I guess this was Malawi. It was fast approaching We must prepare.”
accentuated by our own approach sunset and for once we were Half an hour later and we were
to planning and detail. We really carrying no food and, as usual, had sitting on patchwork sofas and
valued being as flexible and no plan of where we were going chairs around the low table in
spontaneous as possible – this to rest our heads. To our right lay Nelson’s living room.
only opened up opportunities and a well-travelled dirt path leading “I am sorry Sirs, I am a very poor
experiences for us. This is not to say to the unknown. With little other man but this I have for us all,” at
that our way was correct – but most option, we decided to chance our which Nelson placed an enormous
importantly it worked so well and luck and see what we might find bowl of nsima, the staple Malawian
felt so comfortable for us. We woke at the end. After some time, we maize meal eaten ubiquitously, in
up every morning, and 99% of the began to see signs of a community. the middle of the table. Alongside
time we would have no idea where A small cluster of houses. Then a he place a small bowl of relish,
church. A well. Children kicking a ndiwo, a very simple tomato
football. A primary school. And then and onion mix, which acted as a
came the primary school teacher. lubricant to help wash down the
What a revelation this turned out starchy nsima. The meal couldn’t
to be. Nelson strode forward, arm have been any simpler. Three basic
outstretched and grinning brightly. ingredients and nothing more.
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volumes about both Nelson the
man, and the state of Malawian
society at large. I asked Nelson if
we might be able to have some salt
to add to the meal. At this his face
dropped somewhat apologetically.
“Ah Sirs, I am so sorry, but we have
no salt. We have no more money
for salt this month. The price has
become very big.”

It was a very telling realisation. Here
was a man that could not afford to
buy a bag of salt, which for many of
us is the most basic of commodities,
for his family, but he was still
willing to invite a group of outwards
affluent strangers into his home and
share what he did have. For us, this
experience was indicative of the
general sentiment felt throughout
the entirety of this wonderful
country and the continent at large.

You travelled through Europe and Crayfish Curry
then across Africa. What are the most Switzerland Lake, Geneva
striking differences between travelling
on the two continents?
There were huge and very
conspicuous differences every
time we crossed a border – be it
geographical, religion, climate,
social composition or level of basic
education – and so to identify the
differences between continents as
a whole is an enormous task. Each
individual country had its own
nuances, own way of operating
and thus we had to change the
way that we went about our daily
business and the way in which
we interacted with locals. This
was one of the real joys of the
whole journey – the diversity and
differentiation that was constantly
evolving as we went from country to
country. Having said that; you could
certainly find some commonalities
within certain regions that gave a
sense of continuity and progress
to the journey. This was often most
apparent in the food cultures and
the ingredients that were readily
available in the markets and bazars
we passed through. However there
certainly was one reassurance we
could rely on – that irrespective of
country or continent there was an
overriding sentiment that seemed

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Injera - Ethiopia

to transcend every difference – the way that they attempt to bring tried to run a successful campaign
that people the world over are their dream projects to life. For me, from scratch. Seeing as Kickstarter
inherently good, persistently curious I had a very particular, and I guess has a time constraint on all their
and invariably want to help at any dogmatic, vision of how I wanted my campaigns, this last one came down
opportunity they can. We found that book to look and feel. to the final few hours – it was a
the automatic was to give and to little nervy to say the least.
welcome – the manual to do both in I had been conceptualising
greater measure. every fine detail for so long that The recipes in the book are very
self-publishing allowed me the wholesome, hearty meals for sharing.
The Kickstarter campaign fed into this indulgence of being able to stay as How did you go about collecting
notion of the general benevolence of true to that vision as possible. If you them?
human beings carried through from are very certain of what you want The whole book is very much a
the journey. Why did you decide to use to achieve then self-publishing and magpie production – drawing
this particular platform to publish? Is crowd funding strongly promotes influences and inspiration from a
it a method that you would use again this. It’s also a very important number of difference sources. The
to raise funds for publishing, what are quality to have in any potentially goal was always to gather and
some of the benefits and pitfalls in successful project – a strong and collate from whatever inspired us
your experience? clear direction – as crowd funding and from whatever we happened
Yeah, I think with the production relies on you being able to instil a to stumble upon. Many of the
of the book there definitely was strong sense of confidence in any dishes are attached to a host of
a strong desire to try and further potential backer. People will only the wonderful characters that
develop this sense of community invest if they firstly believe in the aided and abetted along our
and benevolence. The whole success inherent value of the product, and journey – the favourite dishes of
of the journey was underpinned by secondly if they believe that you as their childhoods, the dishes they
the utter goodness and kindness an individual have the necessary feed to their families, the dishes
of complete strangers – so it credential and drive to bring your that sustain them and bring them
seemed like a natural progression. dream to fruition. joy. Other recipes are inspired by
Kickstarter – and any other crowd I would certainly use the platform national dishes, regional delicacies
funding platform for that matter again for future projects – however or street food offerings. And then
– is an incredibly powerful and I would definitely try to raise the some are my own creations drawn
accessible medium that let allows profile of the project some time from a selection of the amazing
people to be very pro-active about before I launched. With this last fresh produce, spices and techniques
one I went in very much cold and found in the areas we passed
through.

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Switzerland Kenya
Spices in Turkey
You say that you will be going on
another culinary expedition. Have Turkish Barbeque
you got anything in the works at the
moment?
I am constantly looking at maps.
Constantly putting a pin at point
A and seeing where an interesting
point B might be. I love this sense
of immersive and slow travel –
getting right into the essence of
places. Learning from locals. Trying
to find the extraordinary in the very
ordinary. Constantly being amazed
at my own ignorance when my
misconceptions are wonderfully
exposed. Getting overwhelmed
by the actualities of live in many
misunderstood places.
I’m getting really excited about
the idea of trying to learn more
about the culinary cultures of the
former USSR states. In terms of a
geographical entity with such an
amazing history, current political
climate and beautiful, diverse food
cultures – from the Baltic states all
the way to the central Asian Stans
– it’s a place that I would love to
discover. The dream would be to
head to Moscow and try find an old
Ural motorbike and sidecar – do it
up a little and install a makeshift
kitchen unit in the sidecar and then
head off from there around the
former satellite states – picking us
knowledge, recipes and food related
stories as I go.

Proflight News

ZAMBIA NEWS

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Paying for air tickets just got easier thanks to a new Zoona is dedicated to making life easier for our
agreement unveiled this week between Proflight Zambia customers and helping communities thrive by making
and mobile money transfer company, Zoona. payments and other financial services accessible to all.
Travellers can book their Proflight tickets with the This new partnership with Proflight gives our customers
airline online, over the phone, by email or at a Proflight even more reason to keep using our services.” said
office. Payment can then be made at any one of Zoona’s Zoona’s Regional Managing Director, Lelemba Phiri.
500 outlets countrywide.
“It doesn’t get any easier to fly with Proflight,” said Zoona provides travellers with an SMS confirming their
Proflight Director of Government and Industry Affairs payment and the ticket will automatically be emailed
Captain Philip Lemba. “Paying for a seat on the plane is to the passenger with all their flight information to
now as simple as popping to the market to buy some any one of Proflight’s destinations: Lusaka, Ndola,
vegetables.” Livingstone, Mfuwe, Ndola, Solwezi, Kasama, Lubumbashi
Passengers will be given a reference number when they or Lilongwe.
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Proflight Zambia and South Africa Airways (SAA) “South Africa is an important hub for travellers in the
have signed an interline agreement that will enable region,” said Captain Philip Lemba, Proflight Director of
passengers to travel easily across the networks of both Government and Industry Affairs. “This agreement with
airlines with a single booking. SAA enables Proflight passengers to book seamlessly
Under the agreement, customers will be able to make from anywhere in Zambia to destinations across the SAA
joint Proflight Zambia-SAA bookings and will be network; and indeed overseas travellers can book and
issued with a single combined ticket. This will enable travel straight to their final destination within Zambia.”
seamless connections to and from Proflight’s domestic “Proflight will assist South African Airways with onward
destinations: Lusaka, Ndola, Livingstone, Mfuwe, Solwezi, connections from the airports SAA flies to in Zambia, i.e.
Kasama, Lower Zambezi, as well as its two international Lusaka, Ndola and Livingstone,” says Vincent Mupwaya,
routes, Lilongwe in Malawi and Lubumbashi in the SAA Country Manager Zambia
Democratic Republic of Congo.

It will enable Proflight customers to book flights to 57 Customers will enjoy a range of added benefits,
destinations within the SAA network, and for passengers including special fares on itineraries across the two
to travel more easily to provincial destinations airlines.
throughout Zambia.

The interline is expected to boost in-bound tourism to
Zambia, attract more business travellers, and make it
easier for Zambian travellers to explore destinations
internationally.

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If you’re even counting, the number The marketing, advertising,
of social media platforms, online and public relations industry
publications, newspapers (we now encompasses functions from the
have five dailies) and radio stations more methodological elements
… there is so much being said and of market research to the creative
very little being heard. This is why product or brand development,
business today cannot be as usual. promotion, media relations,
Creative agencies (PR, advertising stakeholder and reputation
and marketing teams) are at the management, public affairs, direct
heart of commerce in a way that marketing and sponsorship.
was previously unforeseen. While Yet with all this supposed liveliness
B2B (business to business) is largely of the industry, advertising
a strongpoint of both large and especially and public relations have
small businesses, there is enough always been at the epicenter of a
elbow room for the creative industry tug of war for budgets. At the heart
to support the bottom line of of this debate over which practice
commercial organizations. must receive bigger budgets is a
lack of understanding of the key
In the last few years, the creative differentiators between advertising
industry has benefitted from and public relations.
significant budgets by corporate We always share a story of the time
entities and this is as good a sign as a potential client called up our
any that confidence is high in public agency seeking public relations
relations, advertising and marketing services. After nearly an hour
in impacting profitability. Those sharing our credentials and an
within the creative industry will intricate PR strategy, the head of the
tell you that they do not see their organization raised his hand and
craft as purely for creative purposes. asked, “How much would you charge
There is an acute awareness and us to put up a billboard on Great
acceptance that biscuits will not East Road?”
sell themselves in the same way
a company’s reputation cannot
manage itself.

It takes deliberate, conscious efforts Public relations remains a relatively
to sell products as well as maintain new practice. Where advertising
the image of organizations. is clear cut about its objectives of

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Business

utilizing various media outlets to PR reiterates positive opinions
motivate people to buy products about products and services – be it
and services or change their with customers, regulators, service
attitudes, PR does not necessarily providers and the entire spectrum
transcend this but charts the of the stakeholder universe. Over
waters that may be too steep for the years, the practice in Zambia
advertising. has moved from getting a story
Modern day public relations goes into the news to providing a range
beyond the basics of ensuring of services including sponsorship,
that the media attends a press development of CSR initiatives as
conference or product launch. In its well as reputation management
simplest definition, the Chartered which all combine to ensure or at
Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) least develop a positive image for
notes PR as the discipline which an organization.
looks after reputation, with the
aim of earning understanding and To get a very simple breakdown of
support and influencing opinion and the roles that the creative industry
behavior. plays, think of any product and this
is what the respective practices say
In essence, it is the planned and about it:
sustained effort to establish and Advertising: “I’m the best product.”
maintain goodwill and mutual
understanding between an Marketing: “I’m a product.”
organization and its publics. Public Relations: “It’s a great
From the definition, it’s clear that PR product!” … as said by customers
helps organizations read between and consumers.
the lines by providing organizations
with today’s much needed aspects KPR Consulting is a Zambian public
of reputation management and relations firm.
stakeholder engagement – be it for
NGOs, corporate organizations and
non-profit entities.

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TENNISIN ZAMBIA
STORY by Kapalu Mutenda My first experience on a tennis court was when I was in grade
IMAGE by Thinkstock five. A friend of mine lived near the local racquets club and
when his mother decided the Sega was too loud for her we
72 took a walk to the club. I lived in a high-density part of town
where the only court kids were expected to encounter was not
the kind made famous by Wimbledon.
It has been said that the reason football has such a wide
appeal is the ease with which one can find a playing area. So
long one has a round object to serve as a ball one can play
virtually anywhere. The playing surface doesn’t even need to be
totally flat. At times a bumpy surface even adds to the fun as it
makes the bounce of the ball almost impossible to predict.
The same, however, cannot be said of tennis. The height of the
Copperbelt’s prosperity was long past and infrastructure has
begun to get run down. The social facilities that were once the
pride of Chingola lay in tatters as the mine companies began
to look to what they considered more important things. An
amateur-sporting scene that had once feasted on generous
grants from the mines was left to scavenge for whatever scraps
came its way.
By the time I got to Nchanga Racquets Club the facilities were
a shadow of what we from the other side of the railway had
heard. The nets had definitely seen better days. The racquets
were hardly usable. And the tennis court had as many, if not
more, pot holes than the roads leading to it.
The game was practically impossible to play. When I did
manage to return the ball, the uneven surface ensured the ball
made more deflections than a politician at a Parliamentary
inquiry. I had heard much of the sport and grew up watching
Agassi and Sampras; so to say I was underwhelmed was an
understatement. If this was how tennis was played then tennis
was most assuredly not the sport for me.
Unfortunately that is a sentiment shared by a large number of
the people who have been exposed to tennis in Zambia. Most
playing facilities are inaccessible to the common Zambian.
And those that aren’t inaccessible are in such a dire state as to
render them so. People in this country simply don’t play tennis.
At least not the numbers of people that tennis authorities and
fans would like to see.
Though many steps have been taken globally to change the
perception that tennis is a middle class sport, the history of the
sport gives an indication why this view continues to be widely
held. Originally played in the halls of French royalty, tennis was
an indoor game played with the palm, hence the original name
je de paume or game of the hand. It consisted of striking a
small round ball against a wall or over a piece of rope. Around
1500 the palm had given way to the precursor to the modern
racquet, a wooden frame with sheep gut mesh. As time passed
the game evolved until 1877 when it became akin to what we
know today.

1877 was the first year that the especially strong during the period The local tennis greatly suffers from
Wimbledon tennis tournament was leading up to, and just following, a lack of credible heroes for kids to
held under a new set of codified Zambia’s independence campaign. look up to and aspire to be. While
rules. Lore has it that what would A time when the nationalistic one may be able to name a few
go on to be the oldest and most fervour was at an all time high. sports men and women who have
prestigious tennis tournament With tensions high at the time earned international recognition in
in the world started out as a such labels would see one viewed their respective disciplines this is
tournament held to raise money to as undermining the struggle. The not the case for tennis. While the
fix a broken roller at the then All remnants of such antipathy towards likes of Edgaf Kazembe, Lighton
England Croquet Club. tennis, amongst other sports, have Ndefwayi and Sidney Bwalya have
As the following of tennis in remained in some form or another earned moderate success on the
England and France and around to this day. And it has left a lasting local circuit in their day, tennis has
the world grew so too did the legacy on the face of Zambian sport. no Lottie Mwales or Samuel Matetes
desire to see its elite players Political expediency has further who can be said to have stepped on
compete at the same tournaments. exacerbated the problems facing to the biggest stage and left a mark.
In 1925 the world governing body the tennis fraternity in this country. And with a shining light to hold
designated four tournaments It is well known that in African up as an example for all the hours
‘majors’. These were the Australian politics when it comes to planning of practice in becomes difficult to
Open, the French Open, the short term planning is with the inspire young minds.
Wimbledon Championship and the end of the day in mind, medium And with such obstacles in view
US Open. These four tournaments term planning is with the end of what does the future hold for the
compromise the grand slam and the month in sight, and long term sport. With interest low and funding
would take the popularity of the planning is with the next election even lower is there any hope that
sport to new shores. in view. This partly explains why tennis can rise from its relative
As with other organised association so much emphasis is faced on domestic obscurity. The landscape
sports in Zambia, tennis was funding football. With football of local sport indicates that there
brought to the country by European so tightly ingrained in Zambian is room for growth. So few active
migrant workers who came to society some form of foundation tennis players can only mean there
exploit the country’s mineral wealth. always exists. As most children is ample soil on which to sow
This explains why the sport has have played football from early the seed. The popularity of tennis
failed to make any sort of impact childhood less need for investment globally has put its star firmly in
off the line of rail that extends in basic coaching is seen. This, with the mainstream. Names like Serena
from the old capital in Choma, to the large number of players around, Williams and Rafael Nadal are as
the Copperbelt through the current means that raw talent is easier to recognisable to most Zambians on
capital Lusaka. Many social clubs spot and to nurture. The return on social media as their counterparts
were founded to cater for the investments is seen as being more in athletics or boxing. I recall once
expatriate miners along this line of readily evident. The next great walking past a common room at the
rail. These social clubs were well hope is always around the corner, University of Zambia and thinking I
funded by the mines and were seen regardless whether such hope ever was missing a major football match,
as a necessary expenditure to keep becomes sight. With no credible only to find out that the packed
up levels of fitness and morale tennis foundation already set a room was on account of the men’s
among the settlers. significant input of resources in to Wimbledon final. Such interest may
And therein lies another great the sport would not bear fruit for a peak during grand slam finals but
hinderance. In Zambia at least, long time. This is at variance with is latent in many Zambians at other
tennis is also seen by many as not the mentality of many of our leaders times. If only it can be harnessed
just a sport for the well to do, but who prefer to spend rather than and directed from the armchair to
also a predominantly white sport. invest. And the years it would take the court.
While restrictions were put on to develop even one top class talent
membership of the social clubs, and would be deemed lost votes by the A FEW SIDEBARS;
funding for the things necessary to powers that be. Since 1925 only 2 men and 3 women have
play the sport not forthcoming to completed the singles grand slam in a
outsiders, the most popular sport As well as refusal to wait for any calendar year.
of football was readily accessible seeds planted to grow there is The term love meaning no points originated
to the masses. The effect of the also a genuine matter of limited from the French word l’oeuf meaning egg,
racial perceptions associated with resources. More equipment is because an egg resembles zero.
the sport ran deep. Such that even required to play tennis than During the Wimbledon Championship players
indigenous people who may have football, and the money to set up must be dressed in all white attire and
been interested in taking up the said equipment is many times just spectators can only eat strawberries and
sport would have been put off by not there. And with their scarcity cream.
possibly being labelled muzungu on the market, hiring dedicated After winning the inaugural Wimbledon
anikondes, a colloquial term for tennis coaches would be beyond the Championship Spencer Gore commented that
locals seeking acceptance by budgets of most schools and local he didn’t think the new game would catch on.
colonists, by their colleagues. Such community.
a sentiment would have been

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HMHealth EOABLITLHE
STORY by Mukumbi Kabesha | IMAGE by Thinkstock

With the advancement of technology and the advent of manner of things and so much more. Even young children
mobile Apps, the possibilities of what a mobile phone can throw around terms like ’bluetooth’, ‘download’ and ‘dot.
do for you are limitless. Gone are the days when ‘SMS’ com’ as part of their everyday language.
was one of the advertising features of a phone! Today
the mobile phone can be used to do so much more than Not to leave the all important ‘mother and child’ out,
just communicate. The phone can be used to translate a user friendly mobile application for antenatal and
languages, navigate, convert currencies, and calculate all postnatal care is just around the corner.

The brainchild of Finger Tip and beyond. It can be accessed by together and provide a much
Technologies, Mobile-health mobile users via short code SMS. needed support team for mum to be.
is a safe motherhood mobile Upon registration, the registrant And there’s more!
application that was born out of receives various tips and alerts by Once the bundle of joy arrives,
the need to address the various SMS according to the stage of the postnatal care begins. Alerts for all
challenges associated with pregnancy or the age of the child under 5 clinic visits are sent. That
accessing healthcare, particularly as the case may be. The scope way all the immunisations will be
in rural areas. Its main aim is to of information disseminated is given at the correct time and the
provide relevant health education comprehensive. child’s growth will be monitored.
to all expectant mothers and their Reminders are sent for all scheduled Tips on feeding the infant are also
families, particularly those to whom antenatal clinic visits. For users part of the package. Family planning
such information can’t be easily that are living with HIV, important and birth spacing advice complete
accessed. Appropriate information information on how to help prevent this exciting new App.
may be hard to come by with many the baby from contracting HIV will This may sound unrealistic or
women unable to access safe be sent as well as any medications farfetched in rural areas but,
maternal health care for various to be taken for both mother and illiteracy does not necessary
reasons. baby. Important nutritional tips preclude the use of M-health
The ratio of health centres and and advice, malaria prevention and because the text messages can be
health practitioners to patients is danger signs in pregnancy are also read aloud to the mother. These text
very high and the maternal and included in the app. messages will not only be available
infant mortality rate is alarming. All these topics are covered at in English but in all seven official
To the Zambian government’s routine antenatal clinic visits but local languages of Zambia.
credit however, many strides have the advantage of M-health is that What sets apart The Mother and
been made towards achieving since the information is received via Child App is the fact that it can be
Millennium Development Goals 4 text it can be saved and referred to used in the absence of internet. It is
and 5 which are to ‘Reduce Child as need arises. an SMS based application that can
Mortality’ and ‘Improve Maternal The ‘hands on’ Dad need no longer be accessed using a short code as
Health’ respectively, through be a spectator and will be happy opposed to web-based Apps that
increased human resource and the to receive stage by stage updates need to be downloaded.
establishment of more health posts. on the development of the baby Talks with cooperating partners are
It remains to be said that there is and will know how best to support still underway to ensure that this
still a lot to be done. his partner. Older siblings and service is available at no cost to the
Mobile health can be basically grandparents too can be part of user. Airtel Zambia is the mobile
described as the use of a cell phone the exciting journey and can play service provider currently offering
to access health information. The an active role in preparing for Mobile health. The only requirement
package takes the mother through baby. The whole family is brought is mobile network coverage.
the stages of pregnancy to delivery

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Finger Tip Technologies’ Mwila
Mwando was quick to state that
Mobile Health is designed to run
complementary to traditional and
conventional health practice and is
not intended in any way to replace
it. The two systems should run
together side by side. Nothing can
replace the physical consultation
of a health practitioner. Medical
consultation should be promptly
sought as soon as anything amiss is
noticed.
Currently running efficiently in
Tanzania the M-health Application
should be officially launched and
underway by June 2015.

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ONOPAEHRATIONHistory
The historical story of rescuing the animals
when Kariba Dam was made in the 1950’s

STORY by Rachel Mupela | Archived Images

The year is 1958 and the final construction
is going on, on then, the world’s largest
dam. It was quite a feat of brilliant
concrete engineering at that time, standing
at 128m and 579 metres long, the colossal
dam wall took four years to build and cost
a whopping $135,000,000. The dam was
an initiative of the Federation between
North and Southern Rhodesia and
Nyasaland, now Zambia, Zimbabwe and
Malawi respectively.

The building of the dam was not without
challenges. The name Kariba means trap,
historically, there was a rock which thrust
out of the swirling water at the entrance to
the gorge. Legend has it that a great river
god, named Nyami Nyami, lived in that
rock, and caused anyone who ventured
too close to be sucked down into the
depths of the river forever. The spirit had
been angered during the building of the
dam as it separated him from his wife, the
spirit brought death onto the construction
worker’s camp and massive flooding. The
rock and water are now trapped well under
120m of water, hence the name Kariba. The
spirit is said to be waiting patiently for a
chance to destroy the dam and be reunited
with his love.

The propagators of this legend, the Tonga
people that resided in the valley where
this dam was being built, were forced to
resettle as the waters of the river they
lived alongside began to rise and back up
behind the dam wall. The pooling of this
water created what is now known as Lake
Kariba, one of the world’s largest manmade
lakes, holding more than 180 billion

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tonnes of water. The people were safe
but the plight of the animals became
very visible indeed as the water
continued to rise and the islands they
were marooned on grew ever smaller
and so operation Noah was born.

Rhodesia’s chief game ranger, Rupert
Fothergill, was tasked with rescuing
the wildlife in the gorge. Over the
next few years, Rupert and his team
worked tirelessly to rescue the
stranded animals and move them
to Matusadona National Park in
Southern Rhodesia. Another ranger,
Tad Edelman headed another team in
Northern Rhodesia. The teams worked
under very rigorous conditions, living
in basic bush camps, travelling by row
boat and using simple equipment
such as ropes, nets, sacks, boxes and
dart guns.

Tony Bruce, a volunteer on Ted’s team Ear tagging rhino
during the operation recalls one
touching moment during the rescue.
‘One evening, after a long day, we
were sitting in a circle around the
campfire. That day on one of the
afternoon clearings we’d snagged too
many antelope to transport as quickly
as desired, and by the time we got to
the last batch, one female bushbuck
(on release from the boat) simply
sank beneath the water and had to be
rescued. We brought her back into the
boat, wrapped her in blankets and as
the light was fading returned to camp.
We laid the bushbuck under a tree and
forgot it was there.

Now as we sat drinking our coffee A hare is rescued
getting ready to turn in for the night, Driving an elephant to main land
the bushbuck staggered to her feet.
In the guttering light of the campfire
and pressure lamps hung on trees,
we watched in silence as she walked,
unsteadily at first then more surely,
around the ring of sitting game
rangers. She made three turns around
the circle, moving slowly and without
fear with the grace of only great
ballet dancers or beautiful animals
have. Finally she turned into the
darkness and disappeared from view.
Tad Edelman, the chief game ranger
and an unsentimental man, let out a
long breath, making us all realise that
we too had been holding ours. “She
was thanking us – my God—she was
thanking us,” he said, unbelievingly.’

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TRAVEL APPS FOR THE SAVVY
AFRICAN TRAILBLAZER STORY by Rachel Mupela

Anyone who has traveled the length and breadth of Africa knows that in some areas one has to have the navigation skills
akin to a hawk. Thankfully technology has made it easier and some nifty apps have been developed to equip travelers
with quick and efficient access, to info, tools and tips on how to take the great trek across Africa.

Snap Speed will need this app for when you are it is a great resource and will help you
The best thing about thousands of miles in the middle of learn the mammals of the terrain as
this app is that it is no where. It is available on tablets, you traverse the open savannah. The
free. Snapspeed is phablets and phones but works well app is not free and but is definitely
powerful, easy to use on a dedicated Garmin GPS Unit. worth the investment. Available on
and free, available iStore and Google Play.
on Google Play. It Sasol eBirds of
allows you to take Southern Africa eSnakes of Southern
pix like a pro with adjustment and For the pseudo Africa
effect controls (brightness, contrast, ornithologists, this For those with a
saturation, white is the go-to app. taste for the more
balance, vignetting and cropping, to Sasol has created a dangerous kind of
name a few). This makes images look wonderful app for animals then you
so professional. The app can import those who love to will like this kind of
images from a tablet and ones taken go bird-watching but do not actually app. The eSnakes of Southern Africa
on a professional camera as well so know what the bird actually is. The app is adapted from Johan Marais’
there is no need to limit oneself. It Sasol eBirds of Southern Africa app guidebook on South Africa’s 151
wouldn’t be recommended to use for is the digital go-to guide for learners indigenous snakes. For those with a
actual professional work but it makes a and serious birders, it has detailed more adventurous spirit might want
great traveling companion. illustrations and descriptions in of to go out and look for it but it may be
PocketEarth birds of southern Africa. The app wise not to look to hard. The benefit
How many times have includes 950 species (with audio calls is that you can identify one when you
you been up and for more than 630). It also has a smart come across it, even if you don’t look
down highways, or search function and an easy-to-use for it. There are distribution maps
even more complex, tick-list add to its appeal. It comes and photographs, diagrams show size
on off-road tracks at a price though and is available on and activity patterns, and it includes
with no signs and Google Play, iTunes and all the usual thorough descriptions and suggestions
no idea where you app download stores. for frequently confused species. It
are, well Pocket Earth is the answer. also has a price tag but well worth
Pocket Atlas downloads interactive eGuide to Mammals it. Available on both Google Play and
maps to your mobile device using the of Southern Africa iSTore.
PocketEarth app, turning your mobile Everyone comes
into an world atlas of GPS enabled to Africa for the Skyscanner
maps and the best part is that you can mammals but Flying has become
get it even when you are off line. And probably most don’t one of the most
if you have signal you can even access know what they frequent modes of
Wikipedia articles and travel guides. are, except maybe travel in Africa and
It’s perfect and it is for free. for the big five – the lion, buffalo, it is important to get
elephant, rhino and the leopard. The the best available
Tracks4Africa eGuide to Mammals of Southern offers. Sometimes
Made for the rough and tumble of the Africa app is perfect because it adds this is not the easiest to navigate and
un-navigated terrains of the African to your knowledge a comprehensive you will need considerable skill to
landscape Tracks4Africa is the regional list of information on 350 species of compare flights, schedules and costs.
leader in fine-resolution, high-quality mammals that occur in Southern Africa. The Skyscanner app should be the
GPS navigation apps. Overlanders will It also includes distribution maps, first place you check for cheap flights,
find this a worthy companion as it size comparisons to humans, spoor wherever you’re flying. With more than
an indispensible, be forewarned, you drawings and photographs of skulls. 20 million downloads and a four-
It can be a complicated tool to use, but and-a-half star rating, this free app
searches hundreds of scheduled and

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low-cost airlines, and the international
airlines. A handy bar graph displays
the cheapest flights at a glance and
searches can be saved or shared with
friends. When you’re ready to book, the
app will transfer you to the appropriate
booking site. The best bit is its free on
all platforms.
JetLag Genie
And finally, for the
long haul traveler
that dreads the
inevitability of jetlag
this app is perfect.
JetLag Genie is a
simple, intuitive app designed to help
you overcome jet lag in as short a time
as possible. Add your travel details and
the times you’re usually in and out of
bed, and the app will give you a seven-
day plan (starting the day before you
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Everything around you of late is about the sticking into it. This was then switched on have aura to start with? WCL – Of course
‘modern day hippie’ who resides within and the water started changing color. After it does, don’t you worry the machine will
us. We have this insatiable hunger for a while it looked as if instead of putting read everything. DM – Wow! No Way! How
anything new age. Someone has to say my feet into it I had actually taken a dump does it actually work? WCL – Have you
sugar free or organic or health or reduced in it! The whole idea is that the machine heard of quantum physics? DM – Wow!
chemicals or no added preservatives will suck out all the toxins from your body No Way! This machine (same old banging
or new fitness ‘in’ thing or marathon or through the nerve endings beneath your laptop) works on quantum physics is it?
charity run or mile walk or improved feat. This is nothing but paid for bollocks! WCL – Absolutely! DM – Wow! No Way!
formula or scientifically proven or wrinkle I mean I got suckered into this as well but Let us pause for a bit. With my engineering
removal or fat removal or come and get I feel stupid. The water actually looked so background and insane amounts of
conned and the first thing we do is stock mucky at the end of it that I was convinced interest in technology and science, I
and pile up as if there is no tomorrow. that I was only made of $&%^. If all that always end up reading a lot online and
This is because of how busy we have water and the stuff in it came out of my watching many scientific documentaries.
become with our own technology infested, body then there is no way I would have I have read and watched a lot about
fast food eating, traffic jamming and even been alive. I did do my research quantum physics and the only thing that
extremely social lives. This results in guilt into this and found out that it is that the anyone has been able to explain about it
and aspiration as while growing up we all electrodes ionize the water and depending including legends like Stephen Hawking
imagined life to be a lot more different on the dissolved salts you get different (google him and if you did not know who
and vibrant rather than the monotonous colors and this is being sold in Zambia as he is then shame on you) is that they have
packed routine it is. The solution is that what has a terminology of cleansing your no idea how it works but do have strong
we are always wasting money on many mind, body and maybe even soul. mathematical proof that it has to exist
things which is nothing but either a This wasn’t even the best part. We all to make sense to the functioning of this
marketing gimmick or a blatant lie which just look at uniform and immediately world. Amazingly though, there is a health
technically is fraud. Amazingly though look obedient and suck in anything the center (or maybe many more, I only went
because it is something that we want and person in the uniform says. This place has to one) in Lusaka, Zambia, which has an
hence more of these things pop up in the got young ladies in white doctor coats old laptop and they have cracked quantum
market instead of getting police caution. and a very generous smile. And for some physics to read into someone’s life! WCL is
Go and attempt fraud in today’s Zambia reason I always think that they are highly indeed a genius.
and before you know you will be counting qualified brain surgeons. Being born to a So after lying down for almost half an
cars looking out of your cell within central doctor I have always had a lot of respect hour and nothing happening and even not
police. for the white coat. Today’s world though it feeling anything happening through the
Unfortunately though I am saying all is heavily misused. After removing all the electrodes I asked WCL who was sitting
this I am the kind of idiot who can never filth from me and giving me a new lease opposite watching the banger laptop
practice what I think I am preaching. I am of life I was to go through what was called screen with much intrigue as to how much
a big sucker for all this and I love trying life blood analysis. In between the two I longer on a Sunday do I have to just faff
something new all the time. I must have was meant to do the colon cleansing and around. She said it would be an hour more.
tried every single possible contraption I cannot even get into that. The ban from I was really losing my mind and asked
in the market around the world to quit my editor still remains and she somehow her to speed up. So, of course, this being
smoking. Amazingly enough I did give up thinks that ass is not a funny topic at all. quantum physics, she sped the process
smoking but that was only because one Little does she know ;-) up to 5 minutes and then said while I got
day I just gave up smoking. Unfortunately I was taken into a room for my life ready to leave she would go and print my
after all the money and time and effort blood analysis. I had some great metal results. I kid you not, she actually came
wastage I realized that everything is a anticipatory visualization and I was back with like 16 pages and then said it’s
temporary fix and the only real solution is completely wrong. It was nothing but a all complicated and quantumy so I won’t
to change yourself ground up. There is no bed with 4 lengthy electrodes lying on understand anything but should only look
short cuts and I speak by experience on it. I am very inquisitive about anything at the last page where there are a couple
many fronts. with wires (do have a vague engineering of points about my life. There was indeed
I was drawn to a center in Lusaka (still no background) and hence questioned the – 1) I am an introvert and 2) I am an
names) where I went to kind of detoxify white coat lady. The conversation is as extremely serious personality. I am amazed
my body (you can’t even begin to imagine follows, WCL – White Coat Lady and DM – that it did not have 3 more points on there
what my body has gone through over the Dooderman. – 3) I am an idiot for having blown money
decades). It was a program where I had DM – Wow! No Way! What does this on this crap, 4) I am going to punch WCL in
a specific and special intake of food for machine exactly do? WCL – This does an the face and 5) I will there after set fire to
a whole week which was actually quite analysis of your life. DM – Wow! No way! that place and also the rain maybe to keep
amazing. I mean a week of no rubbish Is it like an astrologer or something? How Adele happy!
going into my body was a great thing. does it do that? WCL – The 4 electrodes Dooderonomy will resume later, until then,
Unfortunately it is always accompanied will be connected to your hands and feet goodbye.
by a lot more fringe programs which is and then the system (just an old banger
the real money fleecing. One of the first of a laptop) will automatically read into
processes I went through (don’t remember your life and its aura. DM – Wow! No way!
the name) involved me putting my leg into You are scaring me now! Does my life even
a tub of warm water with an electrode

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CROSSWORD & ROSETTA Medium

Rose_0002_M1

ROSETTA 1 5

A Rosetta is made up of a 234
centre coloured hexagon 76
encircled by 6 white hexagons.
Example

To complete the puzzle, fill in all 7 Rosettas

with each number between 1 and 7 in no

Down particular order while also ensuring that :
1. Tree (5)
2. Licit (5) 1. No number is repeated in a horizontal row
3. Extreme (7) 2. Each number from 1 to 7 are represented in
5. Desert plants (5)
6. Building (7) the 7 grey coloured hexagon cells.
7. Freedom from vanity or conceit (7)
8. Rear part of a ship (5)
13. Prominent (7)

14. Soft or indulgent (7)
16. Avert (7)
17. Combine (5)
19. Laud (5)
21. Spear (5)
22. Sews (5)

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43.. ESxhtrreiemke(6(7)) 1. Tree (5)
59. DEelasbeortrpaltaentcse(r5e)mony (7) SOLUTIONS
2. Licit (5)

3. Extreme (7)

16.0B. uYiloduinngg(s7t)er (5) 5. Desert plants (5)

17.1F. rPeleaduodmit f(r5o)m vanity or conceit (76) . Building (7)
18.2R. eDarriepdargt roafpaessh(ip7)(5)
1133.. PCroommifnoernt t(6(7)) 7. Freedom from vanity or conceit (7)
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13. Prominent (7)
19. Laud (5) 14. Soft or indulgent (7)
21. Spear (5) 16. Avert (7)
22. Sews (5) 17. Combine (5)
19. Laud (5)
21. Spear (5)

22. Sews (5)

 
Across
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4. Shriek (6) Across
9. Elaborate ceremony (7) 1. Tune (6)
10. Youngster (5)
11. Plaudit (5) 4. Shriek (6)
12. Dried grapes (7) 9. Elaborate ceremony (7)
13. Comfort (6) 10. Youngster (5)
15. Slapstick (6) 11. Plaudit (5)

18. Lamp (7) 12. Dried grapes (7)

13. Comfort (6)

15. Slapstick (6)

18. Lamp (7)

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