Letter from America: Mountview Primary: A school with a big heart!

📅 Published: August 18, 2025

📰 Source: thestandard

Curated by AllZimNews.com

That part of Zimbabwe is a land filled with myth and legends, men 10-feet tall and goblins in partnership with hyenas that visit villages to scare little boys and girls who curse their parents.

Nationalist Edgar Tekere, in his biography said as he, Chief Tangwena and Robert Mugabe traversed the mountains into Mozambique, “spiritual lions” (mhondoro) made their presence felt as they rustled the grass beside their path to freedom.

A few years ago, in Saunyama chieftainship, in the village of Bande, an evil man died and was buried.

No one said anything good about that man.

That same night, people in the village swore that his friends, a troop of hyenas (considered messengers of the devil) dug his body up from the grave and took it to their master.

My assistant, Angie Mikiri, while showing off her physical prowess, found herself chasing a flame lily, until she realised she had strayed from the mountain climbers she was leading and that flame lilies do not flower in the winter.

This where, 6000 feet above sea-level, Major Herbert MacIllwaine perched the Troutberg Inn in 1947, lit a fire in its lobby whose fire has never been put out.

A lonely fisherman, who had set up a campfire by the Tsanga River conservatory, swore to me, a trout jumped into his frying pan before he could count to 10.

If you have never been to the Nyangani (meaning cow’s horn) range, you should rightly be locked up.

But we found angels too in this mystic range.

Right in the middle of the devastating inflation, in 2012, armed only with love and faith Richard Saziya and John Sanders bought a lumber cutting machine from China for U$19 000.

Surrounded by carefully managed pine forests around the Tsanga River, they started on a business journey, which has taken them beyond their imagination.