It has been a bit difficult to process the Simon Pashoma Ncube scenario, the present circumstances that he find himself in.
He is said to have hit hard times, ostensibly because his former employer, ZBC, is holding onto his pension contributions, which by any measure should have been wiped out by either inflation or the currency switches over the years.
At the same time, with the internet with so much a photographic memory, it has since emerged that he was suspended from the national broadcaster for embezzlement, reportedly $20 000. Make those Benjamin’s, not your bond coins or notes.
Whether it was a systematic fraud, $500 at a time, or a once-off heist, that should have been enough dough to start a meaningful life. Not that I am extolling bad habits like fraud, but I am saying if, indeed, he stole that amount of money, he should have done something to change his life.
Either that or that his name was no small name, and during his peak, he should have looked at the after-life of broadcasting. Point being, he must have been a bit reckless with his life.
Which brings me to my point, that there are many Simon Pashoma Ncube’s in our midst, and they seem never to learn. Be it in sport, the arts, education, security forces, journalism, rather the varied aspects of modern life – there should be planning for tomorrow.
Makonese Zvenyika, Patrick Mukwamba, these are names that we have heard before and now Simon Pashoma Ncube.
We can’t keep on hiding the truth, a spade is not a shovel. People should organise their lives whilst they can. Period.
