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IT is disheartening that after trying to top up my Tapcard, via swipe, on 12 September, the transaction was not successful. However, money was deducted from my NMB account as if the transaction had sailed through. It has taken me four visits to NMB Southerton Branch customer service to get the issue rectified, but up to now there is no success. NMB, please bring back my money. — Very angry and disgruntled. A big shout out to Marvelous Nakamba and Marshall Munetsi for stamping their mark in the EPL and French top flight football respectively. Not forgetting all the other players who are also raising the country’s flag high on the international football stage. — Simba Mako, Harare.

It is unfortunate that the Mugabe family has decided to ditch the National Heroes Acre. These people might have their grudges with the current Government, but I think it is wrong to use Mugabe’s body against their ‘supposed’ enemies. RG Mugabe deserved to be buried with the dignity befitting a revolutionary war hero and not this. At least he finally gets to rest, rather than being tossed around all over the place. — Rob.

It is good to note that there is now closure in the handling of former President Robert Mugabe’s body. I think I am too deep rooted in Zimbabwean culture and felt the way the body was being handled had become wrong. Hatigari nechitunha mumba zvakadaro. Even the pictures circulating of Economic Freedom Fighter leader Julius Malema, when he visited blue roof mansion and had lunch, are disturb

ing. — Sekuru Mazango.

I don’t mean to be alarmist, but the cold spell that hit the country in the past week triggers fears in some of us. I have practiced subsistence farming for five decades and always relied on weather patterns to judge the success of our agriculture. With last week’s signs, we might not be having a normal season. Let us take advantage of the early rains. This means we should, by now, be 95 percent through with our farming preparations for the coming season. — Murimi Mukuru.