At around 2 pm, I paid an excuse to leave for Dembo to visit the late wife grandmother. I learnt from a certain man from Dembo that that the grandmother was sick and had nothing to do in terms of food and few basic needs. I found her with granddaughter eating cucumber with salt and pepper added.
Monthly Archive for March, 2009
It was very sympathetic when I heard from my friend Alfred that the form two student (girl) married a traditional doctor who came to Nedi village to reveal those people who were suspected to bar rain to fall on the surrounding villages. It was learnt that the doctor has already three wives and she was going to be the fourth wife to the traditional doctor. It was my concern that the beautiful young girl who was supposed to sit for JC exams this September has married man who has children elder than herself.
When I was coming from the hospital together with my wife just soon after cheering my daughter, Ndaona, we found one of the Kasinthula farm workers fell and slept on the road at around 11 am. He was so intoxicated that he was failing to stand and walk. “Do you this man who has slept there?” I asked my wife when we just crossed where the man slept. This man is one of the Kasinthula workers and he had his wages just yesterday, I expressed to my wife.
Alfred cried after 5-0 lost
It was around 6:30 pm, when Alfred and I just finished taking supper and flocked to my young brother Biece to watch on TV the match between Malawi and Ivory Coast. It was a great bomb to all of us just within 5 minutes Ivory Coast managed to score two goals. In the last 10 minutes Alfred got out of my young brother’s house and sat near the pit latrine where he was crying for Malawi’s loss. It was a big challenge.
In the morning Robert and I left for the work using one bicycle. When we got to the office, I proceeded to the hospital to cheer my daughter, Ndaona. I found her improving. I bought her juice and party snacks which she enjoyed.
Pay day
When I got back to the office, I was asked to assist accounts office to pay farm labours. Paying exercise started at around 2 pm. It started with casual labours and lastly the permanent ones. We knocked off at 5:35 pm.
Late in the evening, I received a call from my ex-wife that my daughter Ndaona was sick and there was a need of urgent means of transport to hospital. I cycled to meet my boss for assistance. He asked of the drivers to ferry us to hospital. She was admitted just soon after malarial test positive. I was back at home at around 2 am.
A nineteen year old boy who married two years ago planned to divorce his senior wife. The man had been starving since he married another wife. Many people in Chinangwa village tried to advise him that he is young to be a polygamous. He has two children with poor child spacing. He created some strategies in order to divorce the wife. Some elders advised him that they could separate because those two young children would starve.
Peterson, one of the Chinangwa based cane farmers came got me home to borrow 20 kgs of maize for he found nothing in his account. He failed to find some money in his account because he borrowed many farm inputs from the stores and was deducted. He assured me that he was going refund the borrowed maize within two days. This farmer used to starve every month end because he did not budget his advances.
It was very fortunate to Kasinthula Cane Growers for receiving a grant worth 2.55 million Euro. It was a great day that all cane farmers and those newly targeted farmers gathered in a large number with choir and drama plays. Paramount chief Lundu congratulated EU for the grant that it will promote the livelihood of rural and disadvantaged people in his area. It was a great day that never happen at Kasinthula. The EU representative appealed to all stakeholders to use the money effectively in all dimensions. The ceremony ended at around 3 pm.
In the morning, when I got to the work I was advised to participate those people who were involving in preparation. We built the tent and coloured the area with clothes printed about the ceremony. It was tough day. We knocked off at 4 pm.
Punished of pregnancy cheating
A junior wife to a certain polygamous from Eastern bank of Chikwawa district made Ambulance travel almost 25 km to ferry her to hospital for attempt labour. The senior wife went with her as her guardian. When she got off from the ambulance, she struggled as if she was about to deliver. Nurses welcomed her and accommodate her on maternal ward. She was asked to take all clothes for them to work properly and professionally. The woman did not admit that and was demanded by the team nurses to follow what she was ordered to do. It was really embarrassing when it was revealed that her pregnant like was just heap of several clothes tighten as if she was pregnant. Nurses enclosed her on a certain room as one of the punishment for the ambulance costs and disturbances on the hospital services.
Following the blast of transformer that supply Chinangwa village with electrical power on 5th December 2008 people had been complaining because it did not take time soon after blast. The restoration of the transformer is something very potential to Chinangwa village. Chinangwa people greatly appreciate the Fairtrade Premium for the funded sustainable developments.
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