Many attendants at the just-ended Zim Achievers Awards in London on Saturday took umbrage at the British meals served there saying they rather preferred traditional Zimbabwe menus to the soft European sandwiches and related delicacies. Such concerns attracted a backlash from the ZAA’s Chief Executive of the function who responded with a diatribe prescribing the disgruntled to “go home and eat all the sadza they want”.
Among those who complained was one of the United Kingdom’s top medical experts, Dr Ted Nyatanga, a loyal fan of the Zim Achievers Awards function for several years, who forwarding his suggestions hinted that in future, the function could be improved through diverse African foods served on the menu.
“It would be great to have traditional foods because we are Zimbabweans. Why shouldn’t we have Zimbabwean dishes like sadza on the menu?,” he asked.
Some people also stated that attendants should have been given the opportunity to choose what they wanted to eat.
Another woman who preferred anonymity but only after emotionally offloading her discontent, protested, “If you’re catering for African people, you must be mindful of their eating habits and preferences. Kundipa mashizha inini, haazivi kuti ndiri Shumba here ini? – How can he feed me with tree leaves(vegetables). Doesn’t he know that I belong to the meat-loving lion totem?,” she stated.
“Because you are selling everything Zimbabwean to the British community, food should also be part of the package. The only aspect they tried best was the singing of the national anthem,” she added.
Another elderly woman sitting at the entrance also shouted saying sadza would have been better. “This is all dry roasted unflavoured plain chicken with a few drops of sauce on the side, half a strawberry and cream with a teaspoon of spinach, and we call it a special function? What a joke,” she protested.
“That’s why its prestigious”
The various requests however attracted equal heat from the ZAA boss, Conrad Mwanza who said that the function was a prestigious once in year do that came with classic foods to meet diverse community needs. Any person requiring sadza was free to dash home and have it.
“No you know how I will answer that (sic)Even on a national basis, we eat sadza at home. So you can have sadza at home and then come here and have something different once in a while.” He added:
“That’s why it’s prestigious. Some people say we have it at home. So I am saying look let’s do something different, you know; once in a year. Let’s appease ourselves to a service. If you want to have sadza go home and eat all you want. But once in a while let’s taste our host’s food”
Several hundreds of people thronged the ZAA annual function at the Gloucester Hotel in central London on Saturday and the function’s conference centre was swarmed with Zimbabweans from various walks of life. Others even came from as far as Zimbabwe, Madagascar, South Africa and the United States.
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Dai editor vepano vachibisa mamwe macontributions anongoita basa rekutukana nevamwe. This is why i rarely come to this site.
****= mud.hidh.i
Iiii sadza rakango zviomera. Vana Cde Naked kuto buda furo netsinga muhuro nekumdidi vachitaura nyaya yesadza ku Uk! Kuita sevachabuditsa tsete semufi.
Zwana wena mtakamahotsha, Greydonkey, look for other uneducated fools like yourself. I will not discuss chemistry with a village clown who talks in terms of pure rust, who googles and still thinks iron oxide has a component of rust, who uses high powered words whilst ignorant of their meaning, who thinks for iron to oxidize it has to be in water, who knows no difference between water and presense of water. If you knew the meaning of oxidation you wouldnt see reason to be trying to explain yourself silly like this.
You heard your chemistry in a fully packed Kombi from its driver and tout so find elsewhere to play nja.
Conrad is a Muppet,he is no business man. The fools are the ones who paid to attend. Now that you know, be wiser next time. Conrad please focus on ZAMBIA ACHIEVERS AWARDS, that’s where you roots are.
Conrad is not even Zimbabwean…Mwanza ????
Maida kupiwa mbeva nemandere here kuhingirandi
I attended this do and was disappointed by the quality (or lack thereof) of the the food. The chicken was dry and tasted like cardboard.
Fried Spinarch: it was a teaspoonful and was boiled NOT Fried
Mashed Potatoes: this was just a tablespoon.
Gravy: was bitter/ sour
Dessert: the dry strawberry was far from enchanting. The Passion fruit brulee did not taste like passionfruit/ granadilla
The portion was microscopic. I felt sorry for people who eat normal portions coz they were starved. Even judging from an English perspective the food was RUBBISH!
CONRAD, a buffet with different ethnic foods would have gone a long way in adding enjoyment. The lack of a vegetarian option was particularly galling.
I am not small like you, Jumpdonki, and nowhere did I even mention my qualifications. You are the one obsessing about it, but if only you knew the truth you would even be more envious and turn dark green like Nakedog’s sheet!
You are envious because you believe I know more than you about ammonia process, and evidently about a lot of other scientific principles as well, judging by the way you have advertised your ignorance, even transmitting your ignorance to a wider audience by copying and pasting, what were you thinking sihlama sikaNcube?
But guess what Jumpdonki, all is not lost, there is a place for semi-literate and envious fools like you on this planet, you are the bottom of the food chain, all your efforts are meant to ensure that those above you, like myself, reach greater heights, you place is right there at the bottom, and it seems the more effort you invest in trying to hoist yourself up by attempting to sound a bit learned, the deeper you sink. DONKEY lamaKaranga Jumpdonki!!!! Kikikikikikikikiki!!
Greydonkey I did not embarrass myself but you. I wanted everybody to see how bogus you are. Why have you stopped talking about your imaginary qualifications? Now the only lie you will afford to tell is that are singer.
Greyhole how do you expect whyte cooks to prepare good sadza and rats for you? You think england is Mutare where you rape fellow dogs and make everyone speakshona?
I will pray for you Xolani
Xolani, please don’t be negative. You’re shamed of sadza in public but you breathe it. You hate to be known as a sadza eater because you nite love in London. You sound elitist and will never talk about sadza. Please check in with your Pastor. This is manifested self.hate. A true symptom of African ignorance when culture shocked with the west. So next your name is Xander from Xolani and you will soon be asking about the whereabouts of Zimbabwe in Africa. Thus is
How educated is Mwanza that he speaks so disrepectful f professionals like the HON Doctor?
Shame!
This Shona guy, or is it not a Nyasaland?, needs some coaching.
How educated is this goon that he speaks so disrepectful f professionals like the HON Doctor?
Shame!
Mr Dube, I hear your point but you’re fighting over food here- what is the REAL problem?? As for griefhuy your name is foreign what do you know about sadza? You can’t even come open and face the music, you’re a real fake in the best meaning of the word. Shame on you and your jealousy, in fact, you sound like the real editor of this article. Is this your revenge of some kind??
Xolani beware of self hate and inferiority complex. Think thru situations carefully. You sound like one of those people who eat sadza only at midnight for fear of being linked to your African roots. Get repentance sir.
I dont think a white chef was expected to cook sadza here. At a hotel when one books to hold a function they have the option to offer the client the opportunity to do their own catering. This is what this Mwanza guy should have requested. He sounds like an ass licker, anotya varungu, he thinks varungu are superior. Shame on him he is forgetting his roots. He needs someone to knock some sense into him.
Africans let’s not be JUDGE AND JURY to Zimbabwen Achievers Awards particular towards Mr Mwanza. The editor of this nonsensical article is an embarrassment to his African ancestors, nxa! How do you expect a white chef to cook good SADZA? Even if Mr Mwanza and his team had SADZA on saturday some of you were going to complain anyway (sadza is not cooked, etc) I see a deep level of jealousy, please show respect the whole event was EXCELLENT
Ki ki ki ki Gaydog, when l ate lobster while in Cape Town, that was not my first time neither will that be my last time. Tell this Gwari thing that l don’t have to be an MDC T crook to go to England and eat a lobster. I can eat for fun anything at anytime here at home. Tanzwa nekugocha everyday and jembi tichirikiya heavy.
I was there at function, I just came back this morning. I never heard anyone introduced himself as from Madagascar neither did I hear anyone complainining about food. Most guys were scared to speak shona. Yes, I heard those speaking broken English. If sadza was dished, no one will eat it
Zundu kugara mundove hanzi ndave mombe, nja yomuntu dont come back to Zimbabwe if u think sadza is not classic. A zimbabwean function should showcase Zim culture and food , Stop being silly. Dont come back to du…..zwi remunhu
Jumpkaka, you humiliate yourself in public by childishly copying and pasting discussion from another arena, where you have actually succeeded only in widening the display of your ignorance. Now you are a laughing stock and Cde Brigadier is right in undressing you and putting you in your place. Nxaaa stupid donkey!!
6kg brigadier Njayaramba try it spoilt brat and have embarrassment delivered to your door step. You beta come home and eat your sadza rather than embarrass my country in england. Cde Chinotimba has planted a lot of maize and is usually sympathetic to sellouts. Even Mcdonalds will not supply you with real sadza but something porridge like.
Blambi Diki bloody hypocrite!! You were boasting of eating shrimp and lobster at the Cape Town Mining Indaba a few weeks ago! Nhasi waakuti zvinofanana naTsvangirai, schupeti saka wakarutsa here pawakadya zvituta mututa izvozvo?
Harare (including other cities in Zimbo) has upmarket restaurants afforded by those vane mari muhomwe and who are in the “who-is-who” list in Zimbabwe, where they serve prawns and lobsters as top dishes.
The best escargot dish I have ever eaten was the one served at an upmarket restaurant(forgotten its name, was there three years ago) right inside Sam Levy village in Borrowdalew shopping centre, and wow, it was delicious.
Yes, I miss sadza nemuriwo wegreen, that’s my number 1 food, including mufushwa, BUT snails, shrimps, lobsters, prawns, oysters are a great treat for me and a delicacy! Including crab meat.
So Miki, remember one man’s food is another one’s poison. You are certainly not a better person in any dimension just because you do not eat seafood or you have no daily access to it.
What a host you had in Mwanza! How about “go back home and eat all the sadza you want”? The next thing is to look for a McDonalds nearby. Kikikikiki1
kikikikiki wangichaza Bla Miki, uzitshelile iziyelele kikiki!
This Jumpgay fool is a mental case.This is not a forum to discuss some o level chemistry you fool.If you have seen that you have failed dismally against Hon Greyhora in sensible debate and then fool yourself by thinking that you might be the only one who knows chemistry you are deceiving yourself for we might be forced to embarass you again on these subjects of Chemistry and Physics but we wont stoop to your level and join you in your foolish game.Dont display political Amphoterism by licking both Zanod and Green PF a;sses.
Idyai zviripo mhani makasiya jembi kuno mukamhanyira zvima GMO zvenyu, chikafu chenguruve chaicho saka laza fulo yawagilwa. Mr Editor, these people eats so many creatures you cannot imagine to be food. If one hears such names like prawns and lobsters, you would think its food coming from heaven but when you come face to face with a live lobster, oh my living God, you would think its Tsvangirai from a distance. No wonder why Gaygodzva, Mukagodzva, Dhlodog, Makwembeimbwa and Bhirigaydog’s mouths smells like a disused pit latrine.. Jembi kahwani
I attended as well and ended up not eating, I was served with chicken yet I am vegetarian they did not offfer vegetarian meals. My money went for nothing, I had to go out and buy food from mc donalds. Next time I will not go. The food they served was worth three pounds yet they charged sixty five pounds. Daylight robbery
From the Heading I had expected that guests fought for sadza – as expected after spending so much time without eating it. The fact that there was nothing at all is amazing and that silly Mwanza is making the situation worse. He has a neo-colonial mentality – calling English food classic – Why is sadza not classic?? Very silly fellow. Wandibhowa sitereki mhani – zidumbu rako.
Greygaydonkey wrote
Jumpdonki, arguing with you is like trying to impart logic to a madman confined to an asylum. Iron oxide is not rust. The rust is Iron (III) Hydroxide. And Iron Oxide is not “an agent to ignite a flame” rather it is a catalyst in the reaction. Do you know what a catalyst does sihlama? It offers a different reaction pathway to an otherwise thermodynamically infeasible reaction, speeding up the process but not altering the equilibrium. And the difference between combustible and explosive material has to do with the type of chemical bonding, one is covalent (combustible) and the other is mostly ionic (explosive). Combustible substances are decomposed molecule by molecule because, as the reaction front proceeds (due to oxygen advection/diffusion), whereas ionic bonds are activated as soon as there is enough energy and does not depend on oxygen migration in the reaction front. An explosion is a decomposition reaction, whereas combustion is a chemical reaction, dependent on oxygen penetration, no oxygen, no combustion.
IDIOT!!!!
Jumpdaki on Mon, 22nd Apr 2013 8:10 am Responded as follows
You are a very pathetic baboon now I call upon Shariyah to help you with “process jargon” Mr Zimeye chemical engineer. Greydog there are about more than a dozen iron oxides. The problem is that you think there is no difference between ions and iron. Are you are fireman or something Greydonkey? All you know is a bit of “flame science.”
Can the other MDC-T fools help their Greydog with elementary chemistry. The dog talks a lot but is clueless. Are you ok ekhanda wena nja? Have you ever heard of oxyhydroxides and do you know what iron 111 oxide is and what iron ferroxide is? Even a form 1 dropout knows that iron oxide is simply rust and are infact chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen nja! Why am I wasting my time educating a donkey that writes “I dont care care just because it is used to ohi! ohi! You are an ignoramous only good with at spellings like a grade seven drop out.
You are the most vocal forumist and yet the least educated contributor. Empty vessel.
I am sorry I have had to follow you Greydog to your hideout at the Sadza party where you truely specialise in so that readers may understand why I do not want to debate with you again. You are fake and a liar who expect sadza to follow him to england yet you left Zim because you could not afford sadza nja mgodo.
Mwanza, don’t forget those mthakathis who eat worms. In case you have Jumpdonki in attendance, make sure there are some dried maize cobs and green maize leaf, he likes that! I also hear some from the South like grasshoppers, cater for them too!
Nxa, this is utter rubbish, abantu abadala ababanga umsindo ngendaba nje ye papa! nxa.
Nxa! another bunch of mdc economic refugees trying to pretend to be English people,batai kamuNyasa ako kasingazivi tsika dzedu.
ko zvino bwidi iro rinonzi Conrad Mwanza iro ririkurasa muromo ndiyani akariisa panyanga ye ZAA???Kuita sema Zanu anotungamirirwa nerimwe bwidi rinonzi Matibili….Mwanza,Matibili exude bwidi incompetency that stinks to heaven.
Ahh nhai Conrad ko ndozvinoitwa here? You should welcome suggestions, be open to suggestions, thank people for suggestions and promise to take them into account in future? What is wrong with having a bit more maturity & less arrogance? Besides Sadza would actually be quite appropriate for such a Zim occasion. These guys have a good point… just what is the matter with you?
Are there any rats in Britain?
I was at this function. I paid a hundred quid in advance expecting dignified meals only to be served a sandwich and a cold drink.Fraud should not reach these daring heights. Nxa!