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Just a heads up to those contemplating coming to the UK via the nurse aid route,be aware that the entry level salary at circa £21 K to £24K per annum is barely enough to cover your monthly living costs more so in London. The rentals,transport costs,energy bills ,graze etc will wipe you out the day you get paid. We used to call it BSAP (Broke Soon After Pay) in Arcadia and Kong! The only way one can “make it” is when there are two pay cheques coming into the household every month.

TODAY IN HISTORY. MARCH 1981.

The Zimbabwe Conference on Reconstruction and
Development (Zimcord) was held in Salisbury from March 23-27, 1981.

Thirty-one nations and twenty-six international agencies pledged about $1.45 billion in economic aid to be
disbursed over a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… The United States government, through the Agency for International Development, pledged $225 million. USAID has just begun to set up a mechanism for the distribution of those funds.

There was an unwritten law that made it difficult for the whites from Portugal,Italy,South Africa and Germany to live in the Northern suburbs,confining them to Hatfield,Cranborne and Braeside. “Pure” Rhodesians called these whites,”PWs” , “Poor Whites”. 😆 Rhodesians of South African descent,mainly from the Afrikaaner “tribe” dominated the Harare suburb of Hatfield,while the Rhodesians of Portuguese descent took root in Cranborne. Italian & Greek Rhodies surprisingly “sneaked” onto the “other side” of the railway line,and lived

1. THROWBACK RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) 1971. The black youth aged between 15-19 in 1971 were awake to the realities of life under an oppressive government. Listen to the focused youth from St. Ignatius School speak. Vasiyana ne the Zim Dance Horo generation of today! Focused! The Smith regime’s brutal police force raided St.Ignatius School with guns,tear gas and dogs,arrested and detained 18 school kids! That was e situ in 1971 ! What has changed in 2022?

Factoid. In the e early 90s my company was contracted by @ZetdcOfficial to install prepayment meters in Luveve,Mpopoma ,& Makokoba among others. That’s when I fell in love with the beautiful @CityofBulawayo ! Lived in Skies for a while,oh that’s where I met my missus😎 Skies has this ka Awe about it! Peeps in Skies,at least the ones I met back then were laidback,friendly & kind too! At the time I used to present a show dubbed “Crunch Time” on Radio 3 as a part timer DJ. I’d prefer to leave site e Thursday b4 my Friday show to travel..

With e cost of living in e UK skyrocketing w gas & electricity bills set to hit an average £600/m combined,I urge all my fellow Zimboz here to tighten their belts & reduce or stop remittances to ungrateful relloz back home. DON’T SET YOURSELF ON FIRE TO KEEP OTHERS WARM! Say NO! Before you know it ,it’s time to retire and you’ll look around you and ask yourself “What have I achieved for myself after toiling in this foreign land for the best part of my life”? Those who you have been ‘keeping warm by setting yourself on fire’ all these years will be the