Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Married men fought for secret lover

Two men who are workmates at Kasinthula Cane Growers met in one roof of the secret lover. One man learnt that the woman was inside with another secret lover. He did not knock, instead he turned back and persuaded and pledged someone to deal with the man who was inside. The two met outside that woman’s roof and started fighting over that woman. It just wonderful learnt that those two are married with children without considering HIV/ AIDs pandemic.

Paid exam fees

I left for Blantyre especially at school to process exams fees. At school I was given bank details to pay exams fees. I paid Mk37, 774.04. I was coming back home at 3 pm. I called my friend, Nkhwachi informing him that I paid exams fees.

Whole salary for exams fees

When I came home from the bank, I negotiated with my wife that we are going to starve because the salary plus borrowed money totaling Mk37, 774.04 was to be paid covering exams fee. She understood me.

Father sold a cow

My young brother, Wilson had been asking father to pay him a passport and transport cost for South Africa trip to seek jobs. Many young people left Malawi for South Africa to seek jobs. My father gave him access to sell one cow that he could use to cover the costs for the trip. He earned Mk45, 000.00 from the sale of the cow.

Cat ate three chicks

In the morning when my wife, Bertha was providing chicken with food, she just wondered that some chicks were missing. She informed me about that development. I woke up and tried to find the causative of the missing chicks. It was later discovered that a cat was the one damaging those three chicks.

Fever barred me

Friday, in the evening I communicated my fellow classmate that we could discuss some issues when we meet at school. Unfortunately, I failed to attend classes for I did feel not ok. It was around 3 am, when I started shivering as if I caught malaria. I failed to go to school.

Son broke four glass plates

My wife was preparing porridge for the son Elod Junior. After she cleansed plates, she was stirring the porridge forgetting that Junior was inside the house alone. She wondered when she heard amazing sound. She entered found the son while laughing with pieces of broken plates in his hands. His mother was very with broken plates.

Milling maize problems

After taking bath I was advised by my wife that there was a need of milling white maize for there was not enough for nsima in the noon. I had no money to cover the milling costs. I just told her that when coming back from the work she would go to the mill. At lunch our I did not go home for lunch for I understood myself that there was no food to take for there was no money for maize milling to obtain flour for nsima as our staple food.

Cold and showering

Early around 2 am, I heard a sound on my house’s roof. I noticed that it was raining. When I woke up, I felt cold and put on my jersey. When taking bath it was still raining. It kept showering as well cold up 4 pm.

 

Missed lunch

I started working in the morning reconciling invoices and Fairtrade income as well expenditure. I was advised to update the task before 1:30 pm. This made me remain in the office compiling the data. I as well had no money that I could send someone to buy any food for me. I had meal soon after knocking off at my house late in the afternoon.

Cane farmers meeting

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Kasinthula Cane farmers gathered at 8:40 for the meeting that Kasinthula management called for. The main agenda was to encourage farmers to work extra hard in their cane plots respectively.

 

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Struggled over the left over

Some farmers struggled for the left over drinks. They gathered behind the hall of the meeting. Women and some men were all after sharing the coke.

 

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Operations manager recruitment

Kasinthula Cane Growers recruited an operations manager to run fields work. Following his recruitment some new building are built. Kasinthula has got no enough buildings to be used as offices. The newly built offices are behind the stores, alongside the filling station.