Before delving into this week’s details, Yours Truly would like to sincerely apologise for having gone into some form of hibernation without notice much to the chagrin of travelling and touring enthusiasts.
However, the sabbatical was rather cut short following an outcry from followers of this column who accused Yours Truly of being a “saboteur” of some sort.
Their main gripe was continued deterioration and dereliction of Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road whose anathema status was beginning a cause especially within the country’s travelling and touring industry.
Numerous articles have in the past been written about this particular highway with a clarion call for urgent action in terms of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
One of the major topical issues was a photograph where three tourists appeared to be “relaxing” on what seemed to be a huge pothole along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road.
This viral image jostled everyone into action from calibrated denials to phantom and imaginary site contractors.
More on this in forthcoming Travelling and Touring installments.
Yours Truly had a peek to the-soon-to-be commissioned Nambya Community Museum that is situated a stone throw away from Hwange town.
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Kudos to whoever was responsible for collection, organisation, display and projection as the whole edifice is self explanatory on BaNambya tribe.
BaNambya originated from Rozvi empire and migrated from Great Zimbabwe ruins in Masvingo.
Their migration was around the 1730s and finally settled in what is known today as Hwange.
All this information is found and also pictorially displayed at this museum which Yours Truly remains optimistic of being handy and fully utilised by local educational institutions.
Stay tuned as we once again to continue to delve more on this and other related issues.
Yours Truly has in the past written extensively on how the Ng’onzi and Mapeta chieftainship slid into oblivion during the colonial era.
These two BaTonga royal houses were situated within Hwange district and titbits are that plans are now at an advanced stage for their revival and restoration.
The restoration might result in realignment of some traditional boundaries as part of efforts to bring the much talked about issue to final closure.
Some of the topical subjects to be tackled in forthcoming columns include revisiting of Lemba migration from Yemen into Africa more than 2000 years ago.
As readers might be aware that this tribe was also extensively covered by Yours Truly as they considered themselves to be descendants of biblical Jews who were persecuted by King Nebuchadnezzar around 650BC.
The cauldron type of situation currently happening within the Middle East where armed hostilities might be a cause for concern for the Lemba communities found in southern Africa.
These are some of the issues which Yours Truly is going to bring to the fore in the next instalments as we unpack views from local Lemba community.
Could it be the prophesised Battle of Armageddon?
Till we meet again in the next column.
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