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Sangoma attack film maker, Zanu-PF officials
23 May 2013 at 04:46hrs | Views
NYANGA musician, Landmine Mangondoza's dream to capture the ongoing exhumation of skeletal remains of victims of the brutal Ian Smith regime on his new video ended up in tatters after chagrined spirit mediums gave him and two other Zanu-PF officials a through hiding.
Mangondoza, who is shooting a video for his song, Zvanetsa Tomutsa Magamba, was given a rude awakening when possessed ex-freedom fighters descended on his team, accusing them of mocking the fallen heroes by breaching cultural rites.
The spirit mediums were angered by the fact that the trio had brought "a coffin for experiments" when the exhumed bodies were lying in the open without caskets for their decent reburials.
The exhumation process started on February 3 and 115 bodies have been extracted from the shallow graves, courtesy of the Zimbabwe Fallen Heroes' Trust and the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe.
The exhumation and reburials follows a request by the traditional and political leadership in Makoni to have the place, known during the liberation war as the 'butcher' and also served as a Rhodesian Martial Court, where political prisoners were subjected to extra judicial killings, cleansed.
The spirit mediums insisted that some cultural rites must have been conducted before the video shooting.
The coffin was eventually confiscated.
The Fallen Heroes' Trust of Zimbabwe senior deputy exhumer, Anyway Chinyani, on Wednesday castigated the officials for violating cultural rites.
Chinyani accused the trio of lying that they had been given the green light by a senior politician.
Mangondoza, who is shooting a video for his song, Zvanetsa Tomutsa Magamba, was given a rude awakening when possessed ex-freedom fighters descended on his team, accusing them of mocking the fallen heroes by breaching cultural rites.
The spirit mediums were angered by the fact that the trio had brought "a coffin for experiments" when the exhumed bodies were lying in the open without caskets for their decent reburials.
The exhumation process started on February 3 and 115 bodies have been extracted from the shallow graves, courtesy of the Zimbabwe Fallen Heroes' Trust and the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe.
The exhumation and reburials follows a request by the traditional and political leadership in Makoni to have the place, known during the liberation war as the 'butcher' and also served as a Rhodesian Martial Court, where political prisoners were subjected to extra judicial killings, cleansed.
The spirit mediums insisted that some cultural rites must have been conducted before the video shooting.
The coffin was eventually confiscated.
The Fallen Heroes' Trust of Zimbabwe senior deputy exhumer, Anyway Chinyani, on Wednesday castigated the officials for violating cultural rites.
Chinyani accused the trio of lying that they had been given the green light by a senior politician.
Source - manicapost
