Source: This isn’t happiness

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It’s heavy, that lightness. It’s crushing, that emptiness. – Margaret Atwood, The Tent

When you spend more than five years getting bashed from all sides with election campaign rhetoric it gets difficult to believe every word, which comes out a politician’s mouth. Politicians’ now use every occasion as an opportunity for electioneering. Forgive me for thinking the same on the recent announcement by our out-going Honorable Minister of Tourism who seized the occasion at the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) general assembly to show some love for Disneyland.

Just yesterday the President warned of a tit for tat with the West for imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe and today we wake up to hear promises of building Disneyland in Victoria Falls. This is just too comical. It’s hardly a month after the harmonized elections and urban dwellers are in a ‘fix’ as they have resorted to shallow wells as sources of water. Who would want to come to a cholera-ridden country? Neither would residents opt for a theme park over service delivery. As highlighted by the Minister yesterday, Mickey Mouse comes with a price tag of US$300 million and if this money can be put to service delivery before Mickey it will go a long way in fulfilling elections promises.

MISA-Zimbabwe in partnership with the Quill Club invites you to a press club discussion  to be held at the Ambassador hotel.

Venue: Quill Club (Ambassador Hotel)
Date: Thursday 29 August 2013
Time: 1800 – 1930hrs

Topic: Setting the service delivery agenda for the newly elected Harare council

Panelists:

• City of Harare Mayor elect, His Worship Obert Gutu
• Harare Residence Trust Director, Precious Shumba
• Representative from Combined Harare Residence Association (CHRA)

Chair: Stanley Kwenda (MISA-Zimbabwe Harare Advocacy Committee Chairperson)

Ms. Burns, he added, did not really believe that technical expertise was essential to creativity, partly because technology is continually changing. Another reason, Mr. O’Sullivan said with a laugh, was that “she really had zero technical aptitude.”

“To me, the computer is just another tool,” Ms. Burns once said. “It’s like a pen. You have to have a pen, and to know penmanship, but neither will write the book for you.”

Read the New York Times obituary; Red Burns, an educator who gained wide recognition for pushing for more creative uses of modern communications, helping to lead the movement for public access to cable television and starting a celebrated New York University program to foster Internet wizards.