Is it cart pusher loaded with goods or the goods are loaded on hand cart

I AM writing this piece from a cosy Airbnb room in Southwest London.

The window of the room faces an aircraft path, and there are planes every two or so minutes proceeding to land at the Heathrow airport.

Plane spotters would certainly have a field day identifying and counting the planes.

I left home with bunch of newspapers, which I read now and then, whenever there is some free time.

Today, I thought I should look at the photographs appearing in the Custodian of 29th August.

There are many of them, colourful and beautiful.

On page seven, is a picture of an obviously energetic young man, purveying his wares.

The picture is accompanied by a caption reading as follows: “A cart pusher loaded with goods looking for customers in Kondoa yesterday”.

From the picture, the man is pushing the cart, but sometimes these carts are pulled.

It is what one calls non-motorised transport.

Instead of a “cart pusher”, I would go for a “hand cart operator”.

“A cart pusher loaded with goods” means, it is the person pushing the cart who is loaded with the goods, which is not the case.

It is the cart that is loaded with an assortment of goods.

A re-write of the caption is well in order, and the following is proposed: “A hand cart loaded with goods is pushed by its operator, looking for customers in Kondoa, yesterday”.

On the front page, is a photograph showing Her Excellency, the President doing something special.

Let us read the caption: “President Samia Suluhu Hassan presents an award to Asha Izina, the board of trustee acting chairperson at the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute (JKCI), in recognition of JKCI’s exceptional economic and social contributions to the country for ‘fiscal 2023/2024’.

The President was officiating at a board chairmen and CEOs of business oriented public institutions in Arusha, yesterday”.

This caption has some words missing; needs to capitalise some and needs word-rearrangement, to make it easy for the reader to understand what Her Excellency was doing.

For example, you do not say: “fiscal 2023/2024”.

You say “fiscal year 2023/2024”.

Fiscal year means the government financial year, running from 1st July to 30th June, here in Tanzania.

The person getting an award is certainly an acting board chairman, but we are not of which organisation’s board she is acting as chairman.

We are even not told where the activity took place.

We should also be told that the President was officiating at a meeting of board chairmen and CEOs.

Let us re-write the caption: “President Samia Suluhu Hassan presents an award to Asha Izina, the Acting Chairperson of the Board of Trust of the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute (JKCI), at the Institute’s premises, in recognition of JKCI’s exceptional economic and social contributions to the country for ‘the fiscal year 2023/2024’.

The President was officiating at ‘a meeting of’ Board Chairmen and CEOs of business-oriented public institutions in Arusha, yesterday”.

On page 6 of the same paper is a photograph showing four ladies in a jubilant mood.

What does the correspondent/photographer tell us about this photo?

Here is the caption: “Dodoma Regional Commissioner Rosemary Senyamule (2nd R) and Kondoa DC Fatma Nyangasa (2nd L) cut a ribbon to inaugurate the 7th Gender Festival, a three-day event taking place ‘in the district’, organised by the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TNGP).

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Left is TNGP board chairperson Gemma Akilimali and right is Lilian Liundi, the ‘network’s’ executive director”.

You will note that in the above caption, we are not told the district in which the festival is taking place.

Also, a noun “network” is used, though it is not the appropriate one.

Finally, some nouns need to be capitalised, and a number of punctuation marks would also be in order.

Here is a re-write: “Dodoma Regional Commissioner Rosemary Senyamule (2nd R), and Kondoa District Commissioner, Fatma Nyangasa (2nd L) cut a ribbon to inaugurate the 7th Gender Festival, a three-day event taking place ‘in Kondoa District’, organised by the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TNGP).

Left is TNGP Board Chairperson, Gemma Akilimali, and, right, is Lilian Liundi, the ‘Programme’s’ Executive Director”.

Till next week, enjoy your weekend!