Joshua Marikopo

 Yesterday, a member of Tree for Harare group posted images of tree cutting along Central Avenue in Harare. Upon questioning the workers he got the reply that they were pruning the trees in preparation of the rainy season. But it was clearly not pruning, was butchering of these trees. They managed to fill a truckload with heavy branches. Seems like their appetite for wood is so unsatiable that they have to touch our jacarandas in bloom. Today I walked through Livingston Avenue and they football pitch on corner Livingstone and 7th Street is now being developed. On Enterprise Rd, right in front of our Scout's HQ there's now a car sale ans they are chopping trees as well. This is outrageous. We expect better from our city authorities and as a resident of Harare I am livid. The football pitch invaders may chop down those trees in Livingstone Ave, mind you, this avenue is one of the best jacaranda lined streets in Harare, with awesome views when the trees bloom purple. Why is the Ci...

 Been long friends!  At times the online world is some serious business that needs escaping every once in a while. But I was promted to come back and write about the rate at which people are cutting trees in the city. One day you find a place with a nice healthy shady tree, the next day it's all bare, a sad looking tree stump uglies the scene and makes the place feel destitute. I don't understand why Harare residents have been cutting trees in open space. For goodness sake its not like the trees are inside their properties. Is there some selfish motive to these actions. I'd like to think so. People cutting down fine trees so that they can use the wood to feed their fires to cook food for their big events. The apostolic sects are involved in these shenanigans. There's always heaps of fresh logs at their shrines. Where do they get the wood from? They chop down the very same trees on whose shade they shelter under! I wonder which God they pray to because they certainly lac...