Opinion / Columnist
What does GGVJ seek to achieve?
09 Jul 2014 at 17:52hrs | Views
Following a shameful political knockout in the July 2013 plebiscites, some people such as MDC-N deputy secretary general, Moses Mzila Ndlovu are doing anything in a desperate attempt to resurrect their political fortunes.
Ndlovu and a few misguided elements in the so-called Gukukurahundi Genocide Victims for Justice (GGVJ), based in South Africa are planning to hold a Gukukurahundi Genocide Memorial Day on 14 August in that country. They accuse government of neglecting the victims of the political disturbances in Matebeleland region. They want government to document the disturbances as a way of acknowledging it.
They also want to engage the international community over the issue which they believe was never fairly dealt with since the historic unity of 1987.
In this era, Ndlovu and his GGVJ still think they can fleece the donor community through the unfortunate events that the protagonists have already acknowledged it was time of political madness. GGVJ intends to mobilise R50 000 for the event. Already the motive of this event has nothing to do with the perceived victims but rather to fatten the pockets of Ndlovu and his cronies who are victims of hard times.
If by any luck they get that money, a post-mortem of the event would obviously reveal that the organisers have pocketed some of the donations. If they were concerned about the victims, surely they would channel the mobilised funds to them. What is it that GGVJ has done for the victims to show their sincerity?
It's strange that this bunch of con artists shed crocodile tears on the so-called Gukurahundi victims when some of them participated in the butchering of thousands of innocent children and refugees in Mozambique during the struggle for freedom. Ndlovu and his gang never voiced concern over this unjust butchering despite that the Rhodies still have the guts today, to celebrate how they killed the innocent people. To make matters worse, some of Ndlovu's colleagues like Jacqueline Zwambila have the nerve to bless such evil gatherings.
President Mugabe and Father Zimbabwe, Joshua Nkomo told Zimbabweans to let bygones be bygones. The people that GGVJ purport to fight for are more concerned about bread and butter issues. A child who was born during that time is now between 30 and 32 years old. Surely, for these men and women, the issue of Gukukurahundi becomes secondary. If they are sane enough, issues to do with the economy becomes upper most on their priority list. Ndlovu and his gang must try their luck in areas of concern for these people.
GGVJ must not cause racial disunity. They must look for other honesty means of survival. We cannot eternally complain about past mistakes. What if the nation goes in the same mode of ever complaining about what Smith did for us? Definitely the nation will not go anywhere. Whether we complain or not, that will not change the situation.
GGVJ and the so called Mtwakazi are just criminal elements bend on disturbing the tribal tranquillity we enjoy in Zimbabwe. People must not be used in the self-aggrandising projects of political has-beens.
Source - John Sigauke
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