Reaping the fruits of Gukurahundi

The people of Mthwakazi  has said the reality of a five year presidency of Emerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF has been their shock.

Mthwakazi Republic Party said it is the reality that we have been accustomed to, for the past four decades.

"We have always insisted as MRP that this election had nothing to do with the people of Mthwakazi and Zimbabwe as a whole. It is now mission accomplished for the coup government. We are now in a fully blown military government. Let me stray back to the political context of Mthwakazi which is my primary concern. Tribalism today, has won its day. We witness today the season of harvest from the fruits of Gukurahundi atrocities and the 1979 grand plan," he said.

"There are hundreds of thousands of people from other regions who have been strategically positioned in Mthwakazi, as a long time investment to this victory by the government of Mnangangwa. Gukurahundi has been managed and maintained very carefully through the military element of ZANU PF. It has manifested in the form of deployment and employment, based on ethnicity, invasion of Matabeleland land, looting and domineering on economic opportunities and suppression of cultural liberties."

The party said it is very normal that nations, regions and tribes colonise each other when there is fertile ground for such. Gukurahundi has surely created fertile ground for such tribal oppression.

"Ordinarily, such an environmental is bound to attract political resistance, as evidenced by the MRP struggle and other Mthwakazi progressive forces. From a projected population of 1,5 million in Bulawayo, only 250 000 registered people decided the political and economic fate of the people of this city. As we speak today millions of Mthwakazi people have been pushed by Gukurahundi to abandon their motherland. If we consider that only people from Mashonaland regions are employed in government and private sector in Matabeleland, it is crystal clear that the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa also benefited immensely from the fruits of Gukurahundi. Chamisa and his cabal are a victim of their own making. We saw them gyrating explicitly in the streets of Harare in support of Mnangagwa during the coup in November and today they have legitimized the same man through a constitutional challenge on which they lied to have overwhelming primary evidence," said the party.

"Unless the people of Matabeleland recognize what they don't have, they will continue to wallow in poverty and ethnic marginalization. Only regional, communal, and societal power will free the people of Mthwakazi and reverse the results of Gukurahundi. It has come to our attention that the ZANU PF government of Emerson Mnangangwa want to use this victory to suppress justice for Gukurahundi victims. It is said that Prof Clever Nyathi has already been delegated to do that dirty work. Nyathi is rumoured to be buoyant about that program and is already hitting the ground running. We warn Nyathi that we will, through our sweat and blood, block such scandalous attempts by wayward appetite for money, to starve our people of justice."

The party said the time has come that we get prepared to lay our lives for the future of Mthwakazi generations.

"The shooting and killing of six by the military, is evidence of what is to come upon the people of Mthwakazi.  Gukurahundi has been legitimized and matured," said the party.

"We thank all those who were brave to vote for MRP. We are aware that you did not vote for a president or political party, but for freedom. We promise to defend your vote at all cost."