'Bombasa'!!!

'Super-Changwe' has arrived and spirits are high!! Today we start the decking on the jetty, so all things going to plan, we should finish it and be ready for the big party by the time my first school for the season leaves next friday.
I was a bit concerned yesterday though when the 'kapenta' kept phoning me from Chirundu in a state, telling me he was not happy. What on earth that meant I have no idea? But i think his problem was that the taxi to the pontoon was taking longer to leave than expected and he was terrified that I would get cross with him and just leave him there. You couldn't have seen a bigger grin on a circus clown than the one he was wearing when he arrived and saw me waiting on the boat.

Tuesday!!! And Intrepid Willy WalliT is once again here to brighten our week by regaling us with another magnificent tale of treachery. I thought we’d have this one just as a break from the satanic animals that have appeared previously….
Willy WalliT;)

Witchcraft allegations force two teachers to flee

TWO senior teachers in Mwinilunga in the North Western Province have taken refuge at the district education offices for fear of being lynched by angry villagers surrounding their respective schools for allegedly practicing witchcraft.One of the head teachers of Ikelenge escaped from his school fearing for his life after local people surrounded the school accusing him of allegedly having sex with other peoples’ wives using black magic.This was disclosed by Mwinilunga district administrator John Chidata when he presented a report during the provincial development coordinating committee (PDCC) held over the weekend at Changa Changa Motel in Solwezi.Mr Chidata further said that the local people in chief Ikelenge’s area had vowed to lynch the head teacher if he returned to the school.He said that when the head teacher was within the Ikelenge community local women used to sleep with more than five pieces of underwear including “bombasa” (tight-fitting trunks) to protect themselves from black magic sex by the said head teacher whom it was alleged had no courage to propose love to women.Mr Chidata further disclosed that the head teacher was first chased from a school in senior chief Kanongesha’s area over the same allegations.The PDCC members recommended retirement for the head teachers to save the local people from contracting HIV/AIDS since the Ikelenge head teachers allegedly had sex with other people’s wives without using condoms.