EDITORIAL
Welcome,
welcome to our 93rd newsletter and we hope you are reading and writing.
We are in our own season of gratitude and like we said in our post before this
newsletter, your patience has been motivating & valuable. We are glad of life and we would
like to make the best out of it. We owe you (our membership, our friends, our
supporters, our readers) and we are cocksure we will not let you down. Time
alone, time will tell. WIN is bringing the concept of the serialised novel to you and we start with Nomsa Ngwenya's Ndebele novel. We also are expecting to publish our own two small poetry magazines featuring our Whatsapp group members before the
end of the year and hopefully it is going to be possible for us to this year hold our Writers’
End of Year Get-Together at whatever scale. We will keep you posted. Please
enjoy!
ENTER AUTHORPAD PUBLISHING
(Report by Win-Zimbabwe)
As
the local book industry reels under the scourge of book piracy, various attempts
are being made by concerned stakeholders (law enforcement agents, writers,
publishers, and copyright organisations) to curb this onslaught.
Authorpad
Publishing, a local online publishing house under the leadership of Founder
& CEO McMilton Chikwenengere, has joined in the fight against piracy. Chikwenengere
and team hope to win the fight on behalf of authors through its concept of digital
publishing.
In
its latest October 2015 newsletter, Authorpad Publishing said in order to stamp
down piracy, its digital publishing services ensure that the author’s work
cannot be downloaded or is not ‘downloadable’ and therefore an author’s full royalties
are guaranteed.
Thus AuthorPad
acknowledges, “Piracy has become a huge problem in Zimbabwe and Africa at large
hence authors are not enjoying the benefits of their creative God-given
talents. Materials are being sold on street corners, reproduced by means of
photocopying at the expense of author’s royalties. Authors have no control over
the market because they cannot keep track of materials being sold and
distributed. In addition to that, authors have limited rights over their
materials therefore they cannot be fully marketed locally and internationally.”
It further argues, “Books being
produced in Africa meet international standards but they are lacking exposure
on the global market. Materials that make it to sites like Amazon have little
opportunity of be-coming the best sellers. Moreover the reading culture has
deteriorated immensely over the past years. Materials being published have
little chance of being read.”
Among other objectives, the new online
publishing house aims to promote an author’s online presence through creating
authors’ forums, pages, profiles so that the authors can connect and share with
their followers.
Today, Tuesday, October 20, 2015, Authorpad Publishing is holding a free
writers’ workshop at the Chitungwiza Publicity Centre in Chitungwiza. The
workshop, starting from 9am to 12pm, is expected to discuss the topics ‘Writing
in the Digital Age’ and ‘Being an Author with Impact’.
Formed
last year, AuthorPad is “an online publishing website which is a niche that
will help Africans to easily write, publish, distribute and sell
e-books/audio-books to the world”. The company also describes its mandate as “a platform for established and upcoming
African authors to reach out to the world with their unique works, giving the
world a new taste of writing, themes, settings, characters, plots and general
genres, at the same time providing readers with affordable, high quality,
informing, entertaining, educating eBooks and printed books with a unique
African savor”.
For more details, authors can contact Joselene
Tsekwende, a consultant at AuthorPad Publishing, on her email joselene@authorpad.co
CONGRATULATIONS TO MUCHURI
WIN-Zimbabwe is thrilled to hear that Tinashe
Muchuri, also known as Mutumwapavi in poetry circles, has won the Best Student
Award (Intensive Class) at the Christian College of Southern Africa (CCOSA). He
was presented with the prize at the 2015 CCOSA graduation ceremony held over
the weekend in Harare.
Muchuri is one of the pioneering columnists for the
WIN award-winning blog; if you remember well, Muchuri added glamour to our
blog’s WIN Newsletter when he responded to call for a columnist and he came up with the column ‘The Regular Writer’ in
2012.
The following year (2013), Muchuri, writing from the
popular Parade Magazine sable, won the Best Arts and Entertainment Journalist
of the Year Award for 2012-2013 at the National Journalism and Media Awards (NJAMA).
This major award proved the man is made of it!
The ‘whistling’ poet is set to soon publish his
debut Shona novel titled Chibarabada
with a local publisher Bhabhu Books.
It’s congratulations indeed to one who blessed our
blog with the power of his gift. Keep rising our friend!
THE YOUTH PERSPECTIVE
With
Mimi Machakaire
Competitions: What purpose
do they serve?
First
of all we must ask ourselves what we mean when we talk about a competition. The
Oxford Dictionary describes it as an activity or condition of striving to gain
or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others.
It
is therefore safe to say that as youths we are always looking for ways to
expose our work, especially within the arts sector. Sometimes we get into
writing contests (no matter which country/state/city/continent is hosting the
contest) because it is about the experience not the prizes. Of course, winning
a prize would be amazing for most kids depending on what the competition is
offering. This means that the people hosting the competition will possibly give
them the opportunity to develop their career that much more through workshops
or offer them an opportunity to publish. It is plausible that they will be
given either contracts or contacts to people within the same industry who can
help further their career in the future.
Then
there are times when people don’t always give prizes or contracts or gifts. It
is just solely for the fun of being on stage or having your work displayed
somewhere. It is simply to give your talents a chance to outshine the others
and have your turn under that spotlight.
However
there are competitions to avoid such as those which ask for non-refundable
entry fees. The sad thing is that the competition organisers do not explain
what the entry fee is for. They will tell you that it is simply just to enter
your name and if you don’t hear from them within a certain amount of time it
means you have not been successful. It is never easy to know which competition
is legitimate and which one is not due to the complexity of the internet.
Better be careful from the beginning because you wouldn’t want to put all your
money into something that turns out to be a scam. I advise that you intensively
research the advertisements about writing contests because these alone speak
volumes. Not all writing contests that have an entry fee as a rule of
submission are scams though! Some are genuine ones, for instance, a writing
contest in your community could be engaged in fund-raising for its projects
which you are aware of.
All
over the world writing competitions flood online and print newspapers and magazines.
The ones you need to be careful of are usually posted online because they are
generally hard to verify. Keep an eye for the main subscribers or the sponsors
of the competitions because those could help you. Contact the sponsors whose
logos are on the ad or flyer in case someone could be using their trade name to
lure victims.
My
advice at the same time is that: be very wary when you are dealing with online
submissions. I can’t stress this enough.
Competitions
are a way to tell people that you are good at what you do and that reason alone
is reason enough to enter but at the same time just how much are you willing to
risk? That is the question you must always ask yourself before each submission.
(Mimi
Machakaire is the author of the novel ‘Princess Gangster’ (BookLove Publishers,
Gweru). She has since transferred to Lesotho, South Africa, where she is
studying Journalism.)
POETRY FROM INDIA
A tourist attraction in South India
Last
month WIN-Zimbabwe received a surprise present in the form of batch of poems
from a poet named Sunil Bairagi who lives in West Bengal in India. We are still
trying to communicate with Sunil to get his/her a proper biography and more
details. To thank our Indian friends and particularly Sunil for reading our
blog and also to celebrate the internet’s power of creating networks of people
from different continents, we hereby publish Sunil’s poem titled Facebook and the other one titled At Moonlit Night. Would it not be
culturally uplifting to one day in the future read about a ‘Zimbabwe-India’ poetry
collection? Hear this:
At
Moonlit Night
In the sky-
My heart is blooming.
The silver moon is rising.
Look,
The sight-
What a charm!
Lonely,
At moonlit night,
I am walking-
On the bank of river.
And above my head –
The silver shower is falling.
And the silver current of water is
flowing.
My mind is saying-
Look,
The sight-
What a charm!
Suddenly,
You came into my heart.
I went back to you.
You gave me love.
We felt each other.
Then,
As if-
The heart,
The nature are saying-
Look, you.
The silver flower of love is blooming.
And by the silver light,
It is bathing.
As if,
That is Amaranth.
That is blooming always.
It is true.
It is true.
Love is eternal true.
It is divine true.
As if,
It seems-
In the moonlit night,
The love of heaven has come down on the
world.
Look,
The sight-
What a charm!
-Sunil Bairagi
Facebook
The biggest book-
Facebook
All over the world-
Facebook have many faces.
Wood faces
Metal faces
Fire faces
Water faces
Earth faces
Facebook have many faces.
Wood faces
Metal faces
Fire faces
Water faces
Earth faces
Many many faces
Many many books
Those have made Facebook.
The biggest book of the world is Facebook.
The mirror of the world is Facebook.
That is giving us
knowledge, amity, mercy,
unity, sympathy, empathy,
and the most, the most…
The mirror of the world is Facebook.
That is giving us
knowledge, amity, mercy,
unity, sympathy, empathy,
and the most, the most…
From continent to continent
The flow of Facebook is running on.
So we are floating in the ocean of joy
That has made us cosmopolitan
The flow of Facebook is running on.
So we are floating in the ocean of joy
That has made us cosmopolitan
lo! my friend,
The world is the worshipper of the Facebook
The Facebook is the pride of the world
at every moment
at the same time
uncountable readers,
uncountable viewers,
They are searching the Facebook.
You are living and lively.
Facebook -
You have got the benediction of God.
Facebook, Facebook,
You are the companion of the infinite.
The world is the worshipper of the Facebook
The Facebook is the pride of the world
at every moment
at the same time
uncountable readers,
uncountable viewers,
They are searching the Facebook.
You are living and lively.
Facebook -
You have got the benediction of God.
Facebook, Facebook,
You are the companion of the infinite.
-Sunil Bairagi
NEW POETRY ANTHOLOGIES PUBLISHED
(Report by WIN-Zimbabwe)
Our
desk this month received two new books showcasing young Zimbabwean poets who
have a dream to change society through poetry. The first is an anthology titled
Life (edited by Tatenda C Munyuki) which
is basically a collaboration of two rising female poets Catherine Magodo-Mutukwa (left insert)
and Awande Ngwenya (right insert) and the second one is titled Flowers of a Dry Season (co-edited by Brian Penny and Beaven
Tapureta). One
interesting thing about South Africa-based Catherine Magodo is that she is
prolific and that she declares she will never stop writing. The energy with
which she writes and publishes confirms it! She recently published a book
titled Silent Cries: The Violated Speak
which chronicles tales about young rape survivors. In the past, Magodo has
appeared in various poetry anthologies such as We Are One (2014, Diaspora Publishers). True, Zimbabwe needs such
spirited young female poets. What pearls await us in her latest poetry in the
collection Life?
Awande,
real name Sympathy Sibanda Mazuruse, is not new to poetry readers. In 2009, under her real name, she published a
poetry anthology of her own called Matters
of Life (Veriest Solutions International) and this newly released anthology Life certainly marks the return of the lyrical poet who is also
referred to as 'poetess extraordinaire’.
In the same spirit of determination as
her friend, Sympathy once said in 2009, that, “Nothing will stop me from
writing.” True to her word, today we are seeing the fruits of her pen.
Announcing the release of Life, Magodo told friends on Facebook
that “this particular compilation has to do with everything that is life, everything
that affects it and also makes it whole, the laughter, love, sharing, caring,
strife, struggles and loss all part of an everyday cycle”.
Flowers of a Dry Season feature a number of new poets and it was
recently published by Forteworx Press. This is Forteworx’s one of many books
published this year alone at very close intervals from their stable.
Previously, this emerging publishing company gave us anthologies Tsuro Ndisunge, Zviri Mugapu, and True Lies.
Here
is a brief description of the poetry in the latest Flowers of a Dry Season: “There is a new wave of poetry cascading
fast into the mainstream arena, a wave that had been blocked from reaching out.
Now that the arena seems to be accepting them, slowly the new poets are singing
on top of their voices, like flowers wrestling against the dry wind blowing
towards them. We are living in a stressful era, socio-culturally and
economically speaking. Many have lost their routes or roots. This poetry eases
the mind while challenging perceptions.” (Foreword)
Congratulations
to the poets shining in the two poetry anthologies. It is left to the readers
to taste what lies inside the books!
PETINA GAPPAH’S TOP TEN
BOOKS ABOUT ZIMBABWE
Petina Gappah
Writer
Petina Gappah is an incredible and inspirational individual who freely voices whatever she
believes in. She is a lively woman!
Gappah
has just published her novel The Book of
Memory (Faber) and in Zimbabwe, the book is available from Weaver Press. In
2009, she won the Guardian First Book Prize for her collection of short stories
An Elegy for Easterly.
Last
week, we got interested when we read about Gappah’s top ten books ABOUT
Zimbabwe. We thought you too would be interested and can find out why Gappah
loves these ten books. Here is the link: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/14/petina-gappahs-top-10-books-about-zimbabwe
SERIALISED NOVEL
IZINYAWO ZAYIZOLO
Lulotshwe
nguTsitsi Nomsa
Ngwenya
Isahluko 1
UZanele Iemicabango esindayo, buyathonwa
UZanele
wazama ukulala ngomhlubulo lakho kwaba nzima, walala okwemizuzwana wabuya
wavuka wahlala ebambelele phansi. Emini wayedle inkobe zendlubu kwathi ntambama
wazidela edobini likamvundla waphinda wathi amasi phezulu. Isisu sakhe sasiwome
nka sesize simhlaba lasemhlubulweni. Enye ingqondo yakhe yayimtshela ukuba
usengumfazi wakoDube ngempela ikakhulu angehluleka ukuloba imihloliso yakhe
yogwalo lwesithupha esikolweni esiphezulu. Imicabango yayimtshela ukuba
okuseleyo yikutheza inkuni, agudule izindlu abophe inkomo ayelima koDube aze
akhokhobe. Wayephinde esabe ngalowo mcabango ngoba wawumemza aphuphe edidizela
khona koDube ngakibo kaSipho unina loyise bengasamvumeli ngitsho lokuthi
abavakatshele langa linye kodwa lokhu. Laye uSipho wayengabuye amgeqele amagula
uma esebona kunzima. Athini ke ngakho? Ukuthi uSipho lo wayemthanda
kwakungebuzwa loba nje yayiyimfihlo kubangane labentanga yakhe namhlanje
wayezibonela ukuba wazithandela isichitho, wayemele azibonele kambe ukuxwayiswa
okungaka! Kambe lwalulugqozi lwemfuqumfuqu ayezaluthini ke?
Wayedidana ingqondo uma ecabanga ngokujabula
kukamphathisikolo mhla wokuphuma kwempumelo zemihloliso yakhe yebanga lesine,
wayebanqobe bonke ummango weMaNdebeleni aseningizimu wesizwe sonke seZimbabwe.
Ababalisi bakhe bonke labo babejabule bemanzi, abanye baze bamthengela izipho
ezihambelana lokufunda kwakhe. Kwakuzikhanyela ngitsho lakubani ukuqhakazeka
kwekusasa lakhe. Wayethokozelelwa njalo loba ngubani esikolo lapho. Wayedlala
dlala umdlalo webhola lezandla uzwe igceke lonke limbiza, Za… thatha Za
ungadelelwa wena Zanele, uma ephethe ibhola. Wayephume labonkamisa ‘A’
abalitshumi ezifundweni zakhe zonke. Uyise wayephose wamhlabela inkomo
wasemiswa ngunina owathi abamyeke babone lapho ayezafika khona ngezifundo
zakhe. Unina wayemazi ukuba uzimisele kangakanani ngokuyafika eNyuvesithi
njengomnewabo labazawakhe. Usibanga sesine wayengasibali uZanele. Wayethe ebona
ngena isibanga sesithupha wazitshela ukuba ulwazi, lona olungumahlomisa
lwaselulunguze emnyango wekusasa lakhe. Isimo sasimlahla ke eze acabange ukuthi
babuyachitheka bugayiwe empilweni yakhe.
Imfihlo yakhe akula ngitsho owayeyazi ngakibo
ngitsho kanye logogo wakhe uMaNcube. Kwakumele abone icebo. USipho wayethe
engambona edlulela eduze lakoSibanda uSekaKhethiwe wayezambulala ngezandla.
Wabalisa ngalokhu lakhuya waze wajumeka elokhu ehlezi, lakho okwangaphi izinja
zabuya zakhonkotha wavuka njalo. Lwametha uvalo ecabanga ukuthi uSipho wayethe
uzambona ngamabili, nangu loNonceba umzawakhe kambe wayengasoze amuzwe yini uma
evula isivalo. Kwakuzamele anyenye ukuze angakhathazeki esebona ethe nya.
Wathula walalelisisa, wezwa ilitshe lihlala phezu kwendlu yabo. Waphuma
kancanekancane wanyonyoba wayamthola ecathame ngemva kwesihlahla esikhulu
ababegigela kiso.
Bahamba benyenya besiyakatshana lomuzi kayise
ukuze bathole inkululeko yokukhuluma ezabo. Wayezimisele umtakaHadebe ngoSipho
lo kodwa uvalo njalo ayengalwazi luphinde lumtshaye uma ecabanga ngaye
langengxabangxoza ayekuyo. Baxoxaxoxa uZanele ebalisa ngezalukazi ezazizavukela
ukuthona utshwala bedakeni ngakibo. EsinguMaSikhosana sasingafihlelwa lutho
silamehlo angumtshina enjengaloyo ebona amathambo omuntu ngaphansi kwenyama
yakhe. USipho wamxwaya ukuthi engatshoni lezalukazi lezo adinge okokwenza
phandle komuzi, angathatha impahla ayezigeza kumbe ayetheza inkuni. Laye uSipho
wayengafuni zimhambele kubi, wayefisa kakhulu ukuba alobe imihloliso yakhe
ngoba intombi yakhe le yayilekhanda elivuthayo njalo ezimisele ngayo loba nje
yena labakibo bengohwayibhetshu. Wayemkhuthaza ngalokhu ayekufisa yena.
Lathi lisithi chatha emahlangeni akoHadebe
ayengemva komuzi intombi zayizolo seziqedisa ukuthona utshwala bedaka.
UMaSibindi, isalukazi esasiqine okwesambane sihlanganisa inhlama embizeni
yokucina eyayembelwe njengezinye phansi emsamo womkulu wotshwala. Imbiza zikaMaNcube
unina womlisa uHadebe zasezileminyaka emithathu zembelwe lapho. Utshwala bedaka
babuphekwa yizalukazi akade zalahla imbeleko, esezilezizukulwana. UMaMlotshwa
owayengumakhelwana wayefike kuqala ephelekezelwa ngumzukulu wakhe uZamani
awayephange wabuyela engutsheni njengoba kwasebusika nje. Kwalandela uMaDube
ehambisana loMaSibanda. Bona ababevelela entshonalanga phetsheya kwesifudlana
esasithatha inkukhu ngesikhathi zezulu, bucwadlana nje. UMaNdlovu
owayengudadewabo wepholisa lenduna wazofika ehaluzela isishweshwe ayesiqgokile
sinanyathiselwe yizinama. Umuzi wakhe wawunganeno kwentatshana zakoKwanike
ngezansi womuzi womlisa uHadebe lekhosikazi lakhe uMaMoyo unakaMoyawezwe.
UMaSikhosana wazofikela ekucineni phandle sokuthe nwe. Indlela yayigudla amanxiwa
akoSithwala lapho abasiki bebunda ababethi akudlulwa khona ebusuku kumbe
sokunqunda amehlo. Umuzi kaSithwala wawudilizwe yizakhamizi emva kokwala kwakhe
ukuthutha esexotshwe yinduna uHlomani Mlotshwa. Kwakukunengi okwakubaliswa
yilabo abazi konke okwenzakalayo ungeke wakulanda wakuqeda.
Zaqunga zagoqoza lezizalukazi zaze zacina
ngokusibekela imbiza zotshwala ngezingcebethu. Ngobuthupha bazo lezizalukazi
esasilexhegu nguMaMlotshwa, ixhegu laso uHlabangana wayelilunga lalabo
ababonisana lenduna endabeni ezisindayo ezifuna ubuchopho lonanzelela
ekwethuleni umlawulo wazo. UHlabangana lo wayesebenzisana loMahlangu kanye
loNxumalo abakuleso sigaba.
“Zihamba njani imbiza zami zamanzi abondwayo
ntombi zami?” watsho uSikhwehle ejikela induku yakhe emnyango eceleni komkulu
kaMaNcube ehlala esitubhini eseyama isigodo esebambe uphahla lwendlu.
“Hawu mtaka Jiyane uvela ngaphi ekuseni
kangaka?” wabuza uMaSibanda egezisa inkezo embizeni ayayilesihluzo
esivuthukileyo.
“Yazi into zobutshapha angizifuni mina, ngifunga
uLobhengula wamawaba, yisihluzo bani esingathelela abantu umkhuhlane wofuba?
Watsho elabhula izandla ekhuluma njengomntwana ofundela ukukhuluma.
“Bela baba lobu buyahluzwa ngezihluzo
ezintsha uyaqeda nje namhlanje umkakho uMaNdlovu kade ezeluka” watsho
uMaSibanda ngelipholileyo.
“Hatshi ngamala kudala lowo umfazi ongakwazi
ukupheka idobi lenkelu ngizamthini?” wabuza ngombuzo ongadingi mpendulo.
“Hawu sengaliwa ngilapha nje, mtaka Gatsheni
buya phela namhlanje ngikuphekele isikhukhukazi esikekezayo!”
“Sikhwehle ulele ngaphi imbala yakho
ilomdlopha kangaka?” wabuza uMaNcube ephuma emkulwini ngenyovane bephathisane
isitsha loMaSikhosana esasilemithombo yokuvubela eyayimelele ukucholwa.
“Angithi awunginikezanga amanzi okugeza
ntombi yobukhalangeni manje uzabuyela kini kathe - kathesi nje”
“Ubezakunikeza engaphi umtakaMabuza owasala
ePhikwe wena ungekho ekhaya!”
“Akuthule we mfazi olomlomo ongagcwalelwa
ngumfula!”
“Sengoneni ngokubuza angithi ngifuna
ukukuthelela wona ugeze ngisapheka isitshwala esitshisayo!” wayigama indaba
emlonyeni kaMaSikhosana uMaNcube owayesesendlala isigcabha ayezachaya kiso
imithombo.
“Angigezi mina kusaqanda kangaka! Likhona idobi
likamvundla?”
“Lizavela ngaphi wena ungasazingeli, ngizakuphekela elembhida wentanga”
“Angidli mbhida mina!”
“Hamba uyezingela umnike umhwabha akuphekele!”
“Kahle we MaSikhosana uyingena ngaphi? Wena mfazi ndini uyadelela
amadoda hayikhona!”
“Alivikwa, hamba uyezingela uMaNcube uzakuphekela idobi likamvundla
olihalelayo” watsho uMaSibindi ephuma lezibi emnyango.
“Ngakuyala kudala wena awukwazi ukwenza amasi omcaba!”
“Uzakufa ungcwatshwe legundwane! Uyindoda bani oyala abafazi bonke
umhlaba unje!”
“Ha ha ha!
Ngizamthola. Ngilaye, ha ha ha!”
USikhwehle
Jiyane wayengumuntu nje okuthiwa ngabantu ngumuntu kaMlimu. Wayehlala lomfowabo
emakhele idumba phakathi komuzi wakhe. Into eyayiphambaniseke kuye akekho
ayengayiqamba. Wayeyindoda epheleleyo elamathambo ajiyileyo njalo eqinile,
wayedonsa njengembongolo emsebenzini, ezihlekela engagudli guma. Wayenatha
lamanye amadoda kodwa ekwazi ukubuyela ekhaya. Umkamfowabo wayekhathala ngaye
emnika konke akuswelayo ayesenelisa njalo ukumnika khona. Inkinga yakhe
yayingamanzi emzimbeni wakhe, kodwa kwakuthi mhla ecabangile ayezikhuhla esazikhuhla
esizibeni sikaSimphathe duze ledamu lakoMahlasela koBidi.
“Ngihlangene loMaNtini ejikweni lakoNkiwane
ehamba ehlabela ingoma elosizi esesula lenyembezi”
Zama izalukazi zalalela indaba ethelela
ukukhathala eyayisiza lomngane wabo. Ebona lokho waqhubeka ngelomuntu
ozilwelayo, esesukume wathi jiliba.
“Ngithe uma ngimkhulumisa ngibona engangizwa
lami ngathula ngamyekela wadlula”
“Kungabe kutheni koSibanda bantu, wahlupheka lumtwana
ngendoda engelakhanda!”
“Hayi MaSibindi ungabotshonjalo usuzwe ngobani ukuba ngumkakhe odale
usizi, mhlawumbe ufelwe ngabakibo!” satsho esinguMaSibanda sibeka iqhaga
esasiliphethe phansi. Kwakusobala ukuba
silwela isihlobo saso segazi uKhulumani Sibanda umka MaNtini.
“Kalakhanda umtwana womnewenu loba nje umlwela akulandaba lizathi
lisiyatshona kuzabe kuzwakele obekukhalisa umtakaNtini” watsho uMaMlotshwa
engena lesitsha esasilemithombo endlini. UMaSibindi welekelela wathi;
“UmfokaSibanda uzasenzela okunye lapha ezweni likaMlotshwa, umkhuba
wakhe lo wokuzenza inyanganyana uzamdalela okunye ngelinye ilanga”
“Asazi uma kukhona kuzazwakala” wagcizelela uMaNcube edobha umthanyelo
kadodlana.
“Abasiki bebunda bazasazisa” watsho uSikhwehle ngokungakhathali.
Umuzi womlisa uHadede wawuthe qekelele wodwana emqansweni wesifudlana
esansingemva kwawo uSabathombe. Emva kwawo kwakulesivande lapho unina ayeselima
khona. Esendlani sokudla kwakuliganga lamadlelo enkomo utsholobele uze uyebamba
umhlaba wenduna uBidi. Ngesokunxele kwakuyinsimu yakibo eyayisingumlimela,
belima ndawonye labafowabo. Phambi komuzi kwakulesihlahlakazi esikhulu sombondo
lapho uMaMoyo ayegigela khona kuthi laye uHadebe abazele imiphini yamahloka
lezancele lokunye okunjalo. Phambi kwaso kwakumi isiza siyakhiwe
ngamahlahla. Esandleni sokudla
sesiza kwakulezibaya zenkomo, ezembuzi kanye lesamazinyane, amathole ayelala
esibayeni sembuzi. Bucwadlana phambi komuzi kaHadebe kwakulesinye isifudlana
esasithatha amatsiyane esasingalabizo phetsheya kwaso kulemizana engambalwa. TO BE CONTINUED...
(This novel will be published by Radiant
Publishing House which is run by celebrated writer Barbara Nkala. You can
further enjoy Nomsa Ngwenya’s deliberations on her website www.tsitsinomsa.co.zw.)
POETRY/NHETEMBO
Did you know that veteran journalist Ray
Mawerera (pictured above) gets poetical when the inspiration spurs him on? He recently surprised writers when he posted a poem on the
newly created ZWA Whatsapp platform. Here is the poem:
Nokuti Hapana
Mumwe anoti: Dai
wadai
Mumwe oti: sei
wadaro?
Uya oti:
mafungiro anguwo kuti zvakangonakawo
Kuti dai wadai.
Mumwe oti: sei
wadaro?
Uya oti: ndinoona
sekunge uri kuita nziramasanga
Mumwe oti: sei
wadaro?
Uya oti: aah,
hatingaivhiyi pakadai
Mumwe oti: sei
wadaro?
Uya oti: handei
kuseri tinovhiirako
Mumwe oti: Bva
handei hedu
Vamwe voti: hiya,
madarirei-zve!
Vaya voti: hapana
hedu...
Wanikwe angwadzwa
hapana, nokuti hapana
Na Ray Mawerera
(Thanks to ZWA for digging up the talent everywhere!)
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