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1/12 : Whenever I see posts from people frowning down on food posts, airport posts et cetera, I wonder if people are so privileged that they don& #39;t realise dining in a fine restaurant is an achievement for many?
2/12: We post our food platters because we know it will inspire children and youth of where we come from. I take a picture and post a cappuccino because growing up, I didn& #39;t even know that thing even existed; we only knew oily chips (what do the privileged call chips?).
3/12 : I shared a @British_Airways flight with the late Morgan Tsvangirai and you have to be out of your damn mind if you think I wasn& #39;t going to capture evidence of that! I grew in a township without a secondary school - it& #39;s now there...
4/12 : If I went back to where I did my primary school, I only have to mention that I have been on an airplane to capture their undivided attention. Education wasn& #39;t rated in my part of the hood, so some of us who only had to offer brains were considered useless.
5/12 : Going up to podium to collect academic prizes was routine for me and I wonder if those who ululated were being sincere. I went to boarding school for my high school and my friends had to go to town for High School (remember we didn& #39;t have a secondary school in our area).
6/12 : I remember when I came back home after my first term at boarding school, my stepfather asked me what sport played. I said Hockey, he laughed so hard, I quit the sport the following term.
7/12 : I remember when I went for my entrance test at St Augustine High School (kwaTsambe), I aced the oral part of the test. I told the story of how me, my brother and our friends went fishing. We would fish in rivers and small dams in the bush.
8/12 : As we were fishing, two men approached us and said they were police officers (I pronounced police the way I had learnt how to pronounce it on TV). We fled. They were not police officers, but obhinya: Local businessmen used human body parts to enhance their businesses.
9/12 : I was the weakest link; everyone feared I was going to be caught, but I leapt over every obstacle. One of my brother& #39;s friends fell into a pond and we met up with him hours later. His story was wild!
10/12 : The telling of that story to the interviewing panel was the beginning of my entry into the land of the privileged. Throughout High School I played catchup to kids from better backgrounds. I read every novel in the library. I even read novel during study periods.
11/12 : I used thinking instead of remembering. The maths teacher always wondered how I arrived at answers. When I became a teacher, I discouraged my students cramming facts, figures and formulae. I steered them towards thinking. It had worked for me when odds were against me.
12/12 : I understand when someone posts a picture of chicken and chips on their WhatsApp status: Contrary to popular belief, we don& #39;t have the same 24 hours. What we have achieved had the IMPOSSIBLE stamp on it when growing up and it would be a shame not to celebrate.
