In 2008, the Bumbusi Ruins was listed in the World Monuments "Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites". Why? because of the threats posed to the sandstone walls by wild animals from the Hwange nature reserve.
After the publication of primary school textbooks written in Nambya in 2010, and their successful implementation, work is now underway for a secondary school series. Then Nambya Cultural Association has an active group of teachers and editors who have already done books for Form 1 and 2 and hope to have those for Forms 3…
by Vincent Gono in Hwange — Magazine Editor, Sunday News THE celebration of tribal and lingual diversity in the country can only be achieved through recognition of languages and preservation of cultural artefacts that tell the history of origin to avoid extinction of the so-called minority cultures and languages through academic association and general belittling.A…
by Fairness Moyana, for the Sunday News CALLS to complete the refurbishment of the Nambya Community Museum in Hwange which has been lying in ruins for seven years have intensified with the community calling on Government through its heritage arm, National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe to speed up the process. Speaking on the sidelines…
A ceremony to install the traditional custodian of the Shangano ruins will be held on August 31, to which the Nambya Cultural Association (NCA) and the Nambiya Development Organisation Trust (NDOT) invites the public. NCA Chairman Gabriel Ncube says this is an opportunity to know more about the Nambya customs and tradition. Shangano is one…
By Rutendo Mapfumo. The shattered windows stuffed with rotten cardboard boxes and Red Seal maize-meal plastic covers protect the precious Nambya historical artefacts in the Nambya Community Museum in Hwange. The ramshackle building’s doors are missing, leaving the rooms yawning to even uninvited guests – the troops of monkeys and baboons – that invade the…
The Nambya Cultural Association (NCA) / Development Organisation Trust (NDOT) conducted a training workshop for secondary school teachers in the Hwange district 28- 29 January 2013. The organisation raised its own resources that enabled it to plan and implement the training workshop at the Hwange Government Secondary School. Writers in Nambya were trained on how to produce…
The Nambya Cultural Association/Nambya Development Org Trust will be conducting a training workshop at Hwange Secondary School on 28-29 Jan 2013. The workshop will be facilitated by the Ministry of Education CDU. Objective: To capacitate writers in Nambya with skills in writing scripts for ZJC, ‘O’ and ‘A’level school text books. The organisation mobilised its…
by Rutendo Mapfumo — THE sky is yawningly cloudless and the atmosphere is stuffy. The temperatures are soaring at around 45 degrees Celsius. There is no other sound except the cicadas. At nightfall, lions roar and rumble endlessly within the village but attack neither villagers nor their livestock. Something is about to happen. Nambyan tribesmen…
by Rutendo Mapfumo — IN the wilderness in Hwange, hundreds of kilometres away from the cities, lives a tribe, not really secluded but certainly still equally not up-to-scratch with modern life. Although Christianity is slowly trickling in, the baNambya people remain glued to their traditional prayers, through an ancestral lineage at a sacred shrine called…
reprinted from YETT. — Ingrained in every language is a set of cultural values that embodies the society within which the language is spoken. Language is the carrier of the cultural heritage of societies thus the death of a language constitutes the total destruction of norms, values, attributes and beliefs of a people. Nambya Development…