Hello folks. My name is MaZwangendaba and I come from Bulawayo kontuthu ziyathunqa meaning the city that is ever smoking.
I remember my father, usually on Fridays after night shift from Dunlop, how he would buy us goodies. How he would buy beer together with his friends from Belmont industrial area( Merlin, Mornach, CSC, Dairiboard etc). Workers were happy as they would get their weekly salaries without fail. Families were still intact with nobody thinking of migration. Soul brothers, Lovemore Majaivana music blaring from the stereos. All sorts of meat barbequed. I feel like weeping as I reminisce about the good old days.
Today Belmont is a ghost town with abandoned factories. It no longer smokes. Residents don't have jobs no more. The youth either skip the country or drown their sorrows in illicit drugs and alcohol. Graduates are vendors. Most live from hands to mouth. It's a mess. ZANU PF destroyed a good thing.
@nustzim go go mzala Bridget Sibanda. Its like yesterday when we knocked the offices sifuna indawo ye Computer science. We are proud of you sisinyana. May God bless you