I was about to wake up to clean the home compound. Still on I heard people as if they were rushing a thief. A couple of minutes I heard the voice “we had caught it”. When I got off the house while on my short trousers, I saw five men carried that antelope. Ten meters away from my house they skinned that antelope. Many people who going for their jobs respectively delayed with an aim sharing the meat. Every body seemed to have share over that meat because they understood that it was their luck for the wild and clever animal disclosed itself to the Chinangwa people.
It was funny when the concerned ones who benefited were only three out of five. The other two struggled for the front leg to share. Instead of proportional sharing a certain woman seized about 2kg of that meat rushed to her house. Some men tried to run after her but she was not caught.
My neighbour who was one of the concerned ones took one full leg and rushed. It was really fun when Alfred and I were just watching. Some young boys had blood stained on their clothes because they assisted much assuming that they might get a share. Normally when wild animal has been killed by the community the sharing is totally disproportional and requires only tough and strong people to over power others. If you are weak you are always a looser.
Killing wild animals in Malawi is illegal and many people respect the surrounding Nation Parks and other Game Reserves. The government does sensitize surrounding communities to care the environment and their habitats. For instance at that morning others could be arrested if Wild life officers witnessed what happened.
Most of the villagers are so superstitious. They suspect that antelope of belonging to a person. There is a belief that a person can possess wild animals like crocodiles, hyenas, snakes and many more for magic purposes. Some elder people who witnessed the skinning of that antelope said that it was not God creative animal, but a man’s creation. Some said that the wild antelope could not be caught by people anyhow by antelope is one of the clever and run at high There were two men who failed to report for the work because they wanted to share that antelope meat. Buying meat as relish is very expensive for rural based people in Malawi. A person can buy meat as relish may be once a month and it depends the financial stratus. After watching what was going on I asked my wife to prepare breakfast for me to take. I took bath and then boiled bananas taken as breakfast. speed at long distance without showing tiredness.
A man stole his father inlaw’s bicycle
My friend’s young brother but married with three children left Chinangwa village and is basing at Ngabu his wife’s home village. This man is also one of the Kasinthula farmers. The wife fled home because he was used to bull and batter her whenever is drunk. He sold all kitchen utensils and even the preserved food for the family. His brother had been advising him but still he doesn’t change. When he decided to follow his wife he stole his only father’s bicycle. While basing within his parent inlaws’ compound he did not bother but steal the father inlaw’s bicycle. It was so shame when his father inlaw
came at Chinangwa village to meet his father and discuss about the issue. He was not found when he heard of his father inlaw’s arrival within the village. When he stole that bicycle he came back at Chinangwa to hide.
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