Opinion / Columnist
Dr Mujuru must not take our tolerance for stupidity
20 Sep 2016 at 17:17hrs | Views
Recent reports doing rounds to the effect that Dr Joyce Mujuru intends to visit the Gukurahundi mass graves in a tour are not only surprising but scares the days lights out of the predominantly Ndebele victims and all sane people who understand and value peoples different cultures.
In as much as we may understand that Dr Mujuru is fighting for her political life, we are shocked to hear her insinuate that she intends to tour the graves of our 20 000 plus relatives who perished at the hands of the Zimbabwean government, which Dr Mujuru was part of.
What surprises us more is the fact that even when the genocide started in 1982 and ended in 1987, Dr Mujuru never at any given time opened her mouth to condemn it. Even as Gukurahundi continued from 1987 to date, albeit in another form,Mujuru was dead silent about it.
Here is the shocker. When Mugabe went on his maiden trip as Prime Minister, to North Korea where and when the deal to train the Fifth Brigade was done, Dr Mujuru was part of the delegation. By virtue of that, she became highly complicit in Gukurahundi and, according to our culture, her hands today drip with the blood of our people who were massacred by the Fifth Brigade.
It is also hypocritical of Dr Mujuru to shed crocodile tears over Gukurahundi today especially when her husband was commander of the army and he never lifted a finger to stop the killings. Neither did Gen Mujuru denounce or condemn the genocide, even in the inner most of his heart.
Back to our culture as amaNdebele, we are anxious to know how much Dr Mujuru know and understand as our culture, bearing in mind that she's from the Kore Kore people whose cultural beliefs and practices are totally different from ours.
How does she intend to visit open mass graves of the predominantly Ndebele people who lost their lives under the most humiliating manner at the hands of predominantly Shona Fifth Brigade? How does she intend to appease the grieving spirits of these people?
Who is accompanying Dr Mujuru to these graves? Is it a state visit? Have the graves been declared tourist sites or monuments that every jack and Jill can visit them? Whoever is accompanying Dr Mujuru needs to appraise the Mthwakazi Nation in what capacity and whose authority they will be doing that. Have the traditional leaders been informed about the pending visit? What have they got to say about it? What are the people saying about it? By people we mean all affected people of Matabeleland and Midlands, not supporters of ZimPF.
We would like to advise Dr Mujuru to exercise caution especially when handling sensitive matters such as Gukurahundi. This is about people's lives and emotions.
The learned Dr Mujuru must also remember that her government refuse to apologise for the genocide, and we are sceptical as to the real purpose of her visit. A normal thinking person will think she's on a fact finding mission to ascertain whether or not the graves exist. How does somebody deny responsibility of a murder and the next day they visit the grave of the murdered?
Food for thought.
Dr Mujuru is only articulating the ZANU PF position and opinion about the people of Matabeleland. She's lending her voice to Mnangagwa's calls to destroy the evidence by conducting illegal reburials. She is not talking about rehabilitation and reconciliation, which can only come after admission of culpability and apologising.
We wish to point out that Dr Mujuru is no different from her colleagues in ZANU PF. Her fight is only against Mugabe for leadership of ZANU PF. Just like everyone else in ZANU PF, Dr Mujuru has no moral standing talking about Gukurahundi before admitting and apologising. The people are not stupid Dr Mujuru, we are just tolerant.
Ackim Gasela Mhlanga
Acting Secretary for information and Publicity
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP).
In as much as we may understand that Dr Mujuru is fighting for her political life, we are shocked to hear her insinuate that she intends to tour the graves of our 20 000 plus relatives who perished at the hands of the Zimbabwean government, which Dr Mujuru was part of.
What surprises us more is the fact that even when the genocide started in 1982 and ended in 1987, Dr Mujuru never at any given time opened her mouth to condemn it. Even as Gukurahundi continued from 1987 to date, albeit in another form,Mujuru was dead silent about it.
Here is the shocker. When Mugabe went on his maiden trip as Prime Minister, to North Korea where and when the deal to train the Fifth Brigade was done, Dr Mujuru was part of the delegation. By virtue of that, she became highly complicit in Gukurahundi and, according to our culture, her hands today drip with the blood of our people who were massacred by the Fifth Brigade.
It is also hypocritical of Dr Mujuru to shed crocodile tears over Gukurahundi today especially when her husband was commander of the army and he never lifted a finger to stop the killings. Neither did Gen Mujuru denounce or condemn the genocide, even in the inner most of his heart.
Back to our culture as amaNdebele, we are anxious to know how much Dr Mujuru know and understand as our culture, bearing in mind that she's from the Kore Kore people whose cultural beliefs and practices are totally different from ours.
How does she intend to visit open mass graves of the predominantly Ndebele people who lost their lives under the most humiliating manner at the hands of predominantly Shona Fifth Brigade? How does she intend to appease the grieving spirits of these people?
Who is accompanying Dr Mujuru to these graves? Is it a state visit? Have the graves been declared tourist sites or monuments that every jack and Jill can visit them? Whoever is accompanying Dr Mujuru needs to appraise the Mthwakazi Nation in what capacity and whose authority they will be doing that. Have the traditional leaders been informed about the pending visit? What have they got to say about it? What are the people saying about it? By people we mean all affected people of Matabeleland and Midlands, not supporters of ZimPF.
We would like to advise Dr Mujuru to exercise caution especially when handling sensitive matters such as Gukurahundi. This is about people's lives and emotions.
The learned Dr Mujuru must also remember that her government refuse to apologise for the genocide, and we are sceptical as to the real purpose of her visit. A normal thinking person will think she's on a fact finding mission to ascertain whether or not the graves exist. How does somebody deny responsibility of a murder and the next day they visit the grave of the murdered?
Food for thought.
Dr Mujuru is only articulating the ZANU PF position and opinion about the people of Matabeleland. She's lending her voice to Mnangagwa's calls to destroy the evidence by conducting illegal reburials. She is not talking about rehabilitation and reconciliation, which can only come after admission of culpability and apologising.
We wish to point out that Dr Mujuru is no different from her colleagues in ZANU PF. Her fight is only against Mugabe for leadership of ZANU PF. Just like everyone else in ZANU PF, Dr Mujuru has no moral standing talking about Gukurahundi before admitting and apologising. The people are not stupid Dr Mujuru, we are just tolerant.
Ackim Gasela Mhlanga
Acting Secretary for information and Publicity
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP).
Source - Ackim Gasela Mhlanga
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