W.ell O.rganised M.E.N
These are the words of the provincial chairperson of the Matebeleland North chapter of the Zimbabwe Republic Police's new baby, the Women’s Network. She leads the Matebeleland North chapter of the ZRP Women’s Network and, under her leadership, the province has made tentative steps towards empowering the cause of the fairly skinned in the ZRP.
It is not much really, and they do not gloat about it in the province. To the women in Matebeleland North, small things do matter in life. In their own small way, they have made a small contribution to the development of the girl child in the mineral and tourism stalwart.
Their small tuck shop at the Eland Farm, 70km North of Bulawayo is a modest affair with small stock, like crates of beer, some groceries for the local populace. And the fairer sex in the province are sitting on a small golden handshake from the provincial fund – a $2000 loan, which they were forwarded to make their business venture, the only one in the area, a success.
The Network also had a small piece of land donated to them in Nyamandlovu by a well-wisher; and there they grew some sugar beans. Did I mention that they own a car? They do – a single cab Mitsubishi truck with which they can do whatever they want because it is theirs for the employ. The car actually took us from Bulawayo to the police headquarters in Hwange during our recent sorjourn in the province.
Besides, the women seem to have made their sopranos loud enough for their male counterparts to heed the message about female postings in the less friendly stations in the province. And that is to put it both literally and figuratively. There is Pandamatenga Police Station, with its vast lands and beautiful wild animals that are a marvel to the environment – with their only handicap being that they cannot marry human beings.
So to put it in the words of the ZRP Women Network national chair, Commissioner Nonkosi Ncube, “hope of netting a suitable life partner for newly graduated female officers is severely inhibited.”
Hwange Police Station has to fix its accommodation woes first before it can accommodate more recruits and the same is the case for Victoria Falls.
Yes, the modest police women in Matebeleland North have managed to tie some small strings together. For in their province, the motto is deeds, not words. Just like the late Ghanaian visionary Kwame Nkrumah said when he was at the helm of his country’s politics, “We neither look East nor West. We look forward.”
We chatted to Constable Sukoluhle Sibanda, who was manning the shop at the farm – and her clear, if controversial, interpretation of the acronym W.O.M.E.N said it all – it simply means “Well Organised MEN.”
It is not much really, and they do not gloat about it in the province. To the women in Matebeleland North, small things do matter in life. In their own small way, they have made a small contribution to the development of the girl child in the mineral and tourism stalwart.
Their small tuck shop at the Eland Farm, 70km North of Bulawayo is a modest affair with small stock, like crates of beer, some groceries for the local populace. And the fairer sex in the province are sitting on a small golden handshake from the provincial fund – a $2000 loan, which they were forwarded to make their business venture, the only one in the area, a success.
The Network also had a small piece of land donated to them in Nyamandlovu by a well-wisher; and there they grew some sugar beans. Did I mention that they own a car? They do – a single cab Mitsubishi truck with which they can do whatever they want because it is theirs for the employ. The car actually took us from Bulawayo to the police headquarters in Hwange during our recent sorjourn in the province.
Besides, the women seem to have made their sopranos loud enough for their male counterparts to heed the message about female postings in the less friendly stations in the province. And that is to put it both literally and figuratively. There is Pandamatenga Police Station, with its vast lands and beautiful wild animals that are a marvel to the environment – with their only handicap being that they cannot marry human beings.
So to put it in the words of the ZRP Women Network national chair, Commissioner Nonkosi Ncube, “hope of netting a suitable life partner for newly graduated female officers is severely inhibited.”
Hwange Police Station has to fix its accommodation woes first before it can accommodate more recruits and the same is the case for Victoria Falls.
Yes, the modest police women in Matebeleland North have managed to tie some small strings together. For in their province, the motto is deeds, not words. Just like the late Ghanaian visionary Kwame Nkrumah said when he was at the helm of his country’s politics, “We neither look East nor West. We look forward.”
We chatted to Constable Sukoluhle Sibanda, who was manning the shop at the farm – and her clear, if controversial, interpretation of the acronym W.O.M.E.N said it all – it simply means “Well Organised MEN.”
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