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2 ELEPHANTS ELECTROCUTED BY LIVE ELECTRIC ZESA LINES

2 ELEPHANTS ELECTROCUTED BY LIVE ELECTRIC ZESA LINES

Sadly, this week Kariba has had 2 Elephant deaths due to Zesa electricity lines sagging too low near the ground.

A Zesa pole holding electric cables had broken causing the wires to sag very close to the ground. (right on the crest of a small hill.)

The first ele walked straight into it and died under the sagging line. This could have happened about a week ago as it is infested with maggots.

Over this weekend another Ele walked into the wire in the same spot but stumbled backwards a few meters and died. This one was fresh enough for people to collect the meat.

Our Snare sweep Team have reported several poles in Kabuli area that are suspect / in a bad state of repair and about to fall down and cause the same dangerous problem as above.

This is a tourist spot AND an access point for bank fishermen. It is probable that the next pole up might just break when this one goes. Should a pole break, there could be another FATAL accident.

We hope, that after these two sad incidents, Zesa Kariba are able to replace the many poles around the area that are in such a bad state of repair.

For any donations, help offer, more info, or information on injured animals please contact below

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Phone numbers

Cavan Warran 0772 690 915 - KARIBA

Nick Grant 0772 607 214 - HARARE

Debbie Ottman Land Home 061 2342 Work 2764 Cell 0773 996 487- KARIBA

Sonya Mc Master Land Home 061 2488 Cell 0772 874 352 - KARIBA

2012 Afdis awards

Dear Members, the time has come again for you to make your nominations for the people you would wish to see rewarded in the 2012 Afdis awards. To this end we attach a copy of the nomination form which must be completed and returned to the office not later than Friday 4^th January 2013.

Shows to be considered for 2012 year are:

Boeing Boeing

Shout

Chapter Two

Hysterical History of the Trojan War

Move It

Eclipsed

The A - Z of Rock

Table Manners

Leading Ladies

Ipi N Tombi

The Way we Were

Julius Caesar

Hairspray

Peter Pan

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REPORT RECEIVED BY KARIBA INFO FROM A CONCERNED PARENT

REPORT RECEIVED BY KARIBA INFO FROM A CONCERNED PARENT:

This years end of O and A level houseboat trips will probably be the last for many boat owners.

We have received several reports of shockingly bad behaviour on a good percentage of the 30 odd houseboats that were out over the period 1-5 December.

Firstly the drunken state of many of these teenagers on arrival to Kariba and the quantities of booze placed on board for further drinking was mind boggling. How parents can allow kids so young to drink such large quantities of hard tack & other booze is just unbelievable.

There have been reports of kids jumping from the top of houseboats into the lake (in dangerous areas) and into splash pools, two houseboats had their main engine keys “stolen” by other kids – one of these houseboats had to hot wire their engine to get back to harbour. If they had had to start that boat in an emergency, can you imagine the disaster of having no keys.

There was damage to individual houseboats, such as large quantities of glasses being broken, equipment on board being messed up, furniture and fittings being damaged, etc.

These kids seem to be a law unto themselves. Many had no respect whatsoever for the crews who worked around the clock to ensure the safety of these very drunk teens. There was even an incident where one of the Captains left his boat due to abuse.

Remember that these kids are all from Zimbabwe’s so-called “prestigious” schools – what kind of a message does this bad behaviour send out when this sort of thing is going on, mostly in full view of parents who were on the boats to “keep an eye”.

It would seem also that a lot of the kids don’t have any respect for the houseboats themselves, crew, the environment and the wildlife – littering all over and there was a report of gun shots being fired at Antelope (boats were parked near a wildlife feeding station) – this turned out to be fire crackers. No one is saying that these kids can’t have fun but when it means being malicious to property or abusive to staff or others, then a line has to be drawn.

It must be noted though, that there were a lot of kids on boats that were very well behaved, no damage to the boats and no abuse of crew or others.

It just seems such a pity that, again, because of some badly behaved kids, others are again to bear the brunt and not get the chance to enjoy themselves on these boat trips which will most probably not take place again for the next lot of O and A level students because the boat owners have had enough.

Kariba and badly behaved childfren

These comments about the kids at Kariba over the past week are very disturbing and we, as a society, need to implement measures to change the mind set of kids worldwide. – Similar things happen in Australia every year at their “Schoolies” week after exams finish. The worrying thing for us it that these same kids will probably carry on with this drinking culture in Harare for the rest of the school holidays – hence our urgent need for them to start using taxis when socialising and prevent them taking the family car out to impress their mates / girlfriends etc – Mike G

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We were aboard a houseboat Monday and Tuesday. On arrival at Palm Bay we were greeted by a disgusting mess of floating bottles, chip packets, plastic bags and discarded fruit etc. Two St Johns College (Johannesburg) boys who were with us were astonished at this total disregard for the environment, including animals that might choke on the rubbish. The same boys filled two large black bin liners with the garbage immediately around the boat. The crew were appalled. Yesterday on our journey home, as we awaited the passing of a house boat down the Kariba road, we were surrounded by the sight of boys and girls some of whom were clearly not old enough to have been drinking legally, cavorting about in a feral manner dressed in the bare minimum of clothing and generally exuding a disgusting level of arrogance. None greeted us in the way we have come to know from Zim school kids. Sadly sparing the rod in our once great schools has evidently spoilt the child. The parents of these children will be ashamed at this disgusting behaviour and trust that Marineland and the houseboat owners who profit from these ventures will engage in responsible charter policy in future, including the banning supply of alcohol to minors and prosecuting those who purchase it on their behalf.

This nonsense needs to be nipped in the bud now. Can the culprits be named and shamed, so that the boats that were genuine and behaved are not held responsible. My son is on an O level boat and although is only back today I would like to think he was not a part of any of this.

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I note the comment below about the kids using fire crackers on Antelope Island. I was one of the parents on board one of those boats, luckily I was not present on the 4th of December as we left the party and travelled home that day. However, the second night (2nd Dec) we were in Palm Bay, and I was utterly disgusted with the amount of litter that the kids left not only on shore, but in the water the next morning. I personally got off the boat with my kids and crew members and started to collect the litter which I might add also consisted of several broken bottles. Sadly only a HANDFUL of kids from the surrounding boats came to help us, the rest had the attitude of "it's not my problem". I asked a couple of the boys to get on their tender boat and collect the rubbish out the water which we could not reach and they did, however they missed the plastic water bottles that had been blown further down by the wind. I would also like to add at this point, that both crew members and parents on ALL the other boats did nothing but watch us! Our last night we had in Nayodza, but left early morning to get back to harbour & travel back to Harare so did not see how much rubbish was left behind there, however during the early hours of the morning a group of young boys that were moored next to thought it incredibly funny to throw eggs at our boat. Not only did we, but our captain also had to shout at them to stop. The next morning that boat moved off early without any word of apology to us, without any repercussion to the boys on board!

It is such a privilege life style that we have here that we can afford to take our children on such an extreme party trip, but there are responsibilities that come with it too. Very sad to see that parents and children were not interested in looking after their heritage for the future generations to come!

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hope that the kids on those houseboats and the houseboat owners, were heavily fined for their actions. maybe they will think next time.