Professionals want to go back home

joe chihota • frowax@yahoo.com
Subject: when is the tide right?
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:11:58 • Dear rosemary prayers have been answered in Zimbabwe. You just havent looked good enough.True christians will know that GOD does not deliver mercedez benz & mansions.The problem with us is the way we want to be respected just because we come from the UK.All we have to do is invest in our own mines & farming.If you are scared of losing your money we can all as zimbabweans in uk agree to have an appointment with the Governor of the reserve bank.In this meeting we can discuss investment & security with everything on paper authenticated & assured by the reserve bank.I've seen success when under utilised farms were taken & handed to the university of zimbabwe.What they did was put soldiers to guard around the clock just outside chinhoyi town.Believe me it was beautiful site after one season! Thats when i realized that nothing is lost.We got stage fright when the white community left.Imagine if 100 people invest just £1000 each into one mine.If chinese people can do it we can! God is there & showing signs but we just dont seem to see the light.Women please encourage your men to be men & together we will make zimbabwe rise! If zimbabweans globally could unite today & invest in mining & agriculture...It would be a major turn around under just 6 months.If we stay abroad with our foriegn counterparts & criticize zimbabwe... believe it or not, the tide will never change!

n/a • n/a
Subject: Wait until the dust settles
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:36:16 • While I agree with Omugabe that colonialism taught us the dignity of labor to the extent that we look down upon, for example, vegetable vendors, I don't think the environment is conducive for business. Unless if you'r one of the corrupt black masters who own farmers and oil companies among other things in the country. T.G as I said earlier wait until the dust settles. VanaOmugabe a busy castigating whites when they are working in nursng homes in the UK. That's what hypocrites do.

wamambo • n/a
Subject: dziva is right
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:32:32 • T G, dziva is right do not worry about looking for a job instead focus on a viable business opportunity (there are plenty out there despite the myriad of challenges you will face and they will come in all shapes and sizes!!) however if it is a job that you want there are many engineering companies that require your vast experience indigenous and international.

Omugabe • Dziva@sanandresano.com
Subject: Look Inward & Look East for Self-development, Zim Patriots!
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:59:21 • T. G.

Gone are the days when Zimbabweans and Africans could only have the stifling mindset of becoming servants/slaves to masters!

It is unfortunate you've gotten the kind of colonialist mis-education, labour education, which is aimed at making 'students' eternal servants/slaves.

Think of returning to Zimbabwe to START YOUR OWN ENTERPRISE!

A good and effective education should cause one to AIM AT SELF-SUFFICIENCY!

Zimbabweans need to think in terms of SELF-SUFFICIENCY & SELF-RELIANCE!

Gone are the days when Zimbabweans could only be servants/slaves to corrupt masters!

n/a • n/a
Subject: n/a
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:08:28 • Hey T.G. there are engineering jobs in Zimbabwe. I'm told most of the engineers left for greener pastures. The majority are in South Africa. I'm not an engineer, I left Zimbabwe three years ago and I'm not even thinking of returning home soon. I would rather want my kids to grow up in an environment where they are not worried about political violence or starving. My advice: wait until the dust settles, although it's good to state planning now.

chegorero Chadzunda • ndougie@gmail.com
Subject: Professionals want to go back home
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:14:52 • Let me say for those who long to go back to the Zimbabwe of your birth, do not relent in your efforts. Do not even spare a moment to ready yourself so you can go and make a difference among your own people. After the euphoria of strutting the lands of the West it is interesting to note that we are all convinced that Zimbabwe has more to offer if we can come together - from Zambezi in the North, to Limpopo in the south, and from Chimanimani in the East to the coals of Hwange in the West, we can be a nation again. Zimbabwe can rise from the pains that we have suffered, we can refocus again, knowing that any hint of disunity among us will be seized upon by those who want to keep Africa in general, and Zimbabwe in particular on its knees.

We cannot continue to be enslaved the way generations past and present have had to endure. We cannot sacrifice real freedom for the affordability of a loaf of bread that hardly lasts 2 hrs in our tummies. Let the message be very clear to Bush and his friends - we stand ready to make Zimbabwe ours again, free of the half-backed ideas of democracy that are thrown at us with such careless miscalculation, we stand at the crucible of redefining the values that saw us take up arms to politically liberate ourselves when those who proclaim sanctions today could only watch from the sidelines when the then Rhodesia was a swath of concentration camps, women and children that are today's mantra for repression in Zimbabwe , in the eyes of our 'democratic West', were then slaughtered without remorse as if their lives were of no significance.

Let's join hands and work for the good of our beloved country. We triumphed under adversity then, and we will do it again now!

Mai Tee • n/a
Subject: I wanna go home!!
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:33:03 • I am with you TG. So many nights I lie awake thinking of home and yes if I had a viable business idea or if I knew I could get a good job, I would go home tomorrow. Even though I now have a very good job in my chosen profession, I would give it all up to go home.

Rosemary, I don't know what part of the UK you live in but you must be seriously having a laugh when you say that children are better off being brought up here! The kids here are taught to be rude and stupid! The schools may look better but they don't teach anything! You get kids of 10 who can't even spell basic words. Yet when it comes to swearing, smoking, sex, the kids here are tops!
Rosemary you strike me as one of those lost, superficial sistas who come here and are blinded by the lights, get over-excited by the fact that you can wear your mini-skirt as short as you want or your trousers as tight and low as you want and you think this equates with real freedom.
You have also been watching too much BBC propaganda. True, there are problems back home but if you watch closely its the same clips being played over and over again, if you are not observant you will think its new things happening everyday. You call your own people barbaric, what about the barbarism you see on the streets of UK every day, your kids can't even play on UK streets because some perverted British man will probably kidnap them and abuse them.
I do visit Zim every 9 months or so and I know that there is hope.

Nehoreka • jekanyika@googlemail.com
Subject: Me toooooooooooo
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:51:24 • lm also a pc engineer and network professional who wants to know how l can secure a job back home.

lf not, lm willing to work in neighbouring contries whilst trying to secure a job in zim

shirley • na
Subject: FOLLOW YOUR SPIRIT, MY SON
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:15:38 • TG: my (white) son wants to go home yesterday and get a job in NP&WL or Enviromental fields but as I pointed out to him:

If you are in Zimbabwe it is difficult to secure a decent job in London,

therefore,

If you are in the UK it is equally difficult to secure a decent job in Harare.

Our immediate family still live in Zimbabwe and said they will never leave - so my son, follow your gut instinct and go where your spirit leads you.

when we came here we thought the streets were paved with gold - not spit and dog poo and knife/gun wheeling yobs, least of all white bums!

At least we know that beneath the streets of Zimbabwe lies REAL gold -all we have to do is DIG FOR IT!

While Rosemary means well, her walk is and probably always will be quite different to yours - she is a woman for a start, and perhaps her spirit wants her to stay here? she is obviously not ready go to.

Life is made up of giving and taking on challenges to make us a better person - you not only have your engineering degree, but have obviously done your Degree in Life in the UK as well - i think you are equipped now to take on other challenges. My Ndebele friends have returned recently and have no regrets at all!

Its only when you get home will you realise you are a better person and much stronger than you were when you left. While you and your expertise may not be valued here in the Diaspora, both are extremely valuable to your own country.

You only have one life. Do not face your end with regrets.

Go well my son.

Rosemary • viprow@msn.com
Subject: Pressionals Want To Go Back Home
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:45:23 • Sir,

Unless you're not reading about what is happening on the ground, all I can say is wait, the tide is still too high right now. Depending on how old your children are, you really do not want to take them back there. They need to be able to stand up for themselves when our barbaric brothers and sisters tell them how to dress - no freedom of choice at the present moment.

See if you can offer consultative services to those on the ground in Zim. whilst you are waiting the tide out. God will finally free Zimbabweans, but now is not the time for you to uproot your family back home. Believe me, I visited there a year ago, things are not what you remember from a few yrs ago, you will be more fed up with the dilapidated buildings, than the cold and loneliness in the UK. Trust me there are very many of us who left and would love to go back. The Sun Will Shine Brighter again in lives of Zimbabwean children. Let us all rally around and raise funds to help the needy, form charities, whilst we're abroad and someday we will be able to go back and run those from home.