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2025 Queens Mwaka, Loziba and Lozikheyi Award Speech
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Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed a great honor that you are gathered here today to honor the mother of our homeland’s human rights, Mama Patricia Tshabalala. Thank you everyone for coming to this prestigious Award.
Mama Patricia Tshabalala the reason that brings us here is that you are our citadel of inspiration, our beacon of hope and an embodiment of our Matebele spirit of resilience in the arena of advancing the human rights of our people and beyond.
Many of us will agree that you have done a lot and looked after the forsaken and forgotten under very testing and trying times, and yet you have never retreated in doing your hard and noble work!
As we speak today, you have 56 children that are under your care and guidance in life. This is no easy task.
These children look up to you as a mother, grandmother and as well a fountain of hope and a fortress of security for them. And you are excelling in this!
It is in this context Mama Patricia Tshabalala that we acknowledge you as a citadel of our hope, a beacon of our inspiration and an embodiment of our resilient and steeled Matebele spirit that keeps bobbing and weaving to survive for our posterity generations to come!
Many of us will agree that you have faced many grueling challenges in your noble human rights walk and yet you have remained an indefatigable defender of our human rights as a people.
Yours is no easy walk!
You have continued to be a Matebele voice that speaks against injustice without fear or favor!
As such, we pray that the mighty fortress of our guarding angels of Matebeleleand, our forebearers, led by His Royal Majesty King Mzilikazi Khumalo and Mambo, continue to inspire and guide you in the advancement and protection of our children’s fundamental rights and the rights of the people of Matebeleland and beyond.
Amazingly, you have done all this sterling work with an everyday glowing and a glorious smile against all odds!
You are truly made of sterner stuff!
Your work is remarkable. I therefore have the honor today to declare you our Matebeleland’s Rosa Parks.
As you would know, Rosa Parks stood up against all forms of human rights violations in America and emerged as one of the most important and prominent leaders of the Civil Rights Movements in that country. Closer home, you are our own glorious Queen Mwaka, our own glorious Queen Loziba and our own glorious Queen Lozikheyi.
These women were and remain icons of our homeland, the very foundational citadels of hope, resilience and inspiration in our motherland!
Therefore The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement is greatly pleased to honor you today with a Human Rights Award that represents the heroic spirits of these amazing and legendary women of Matebeleland, The prestigious Queens Mwaka, Loziba and Lozikeyi 4 Award for your outstanding and continuous contribution to Matebelelend’s Human Rights!
Mama Patricia Tshabalala, we are proud to say that you are the first lady to receive this Award from our Movement and a third person to receive an Award from the Movement after Moses Mzila’s General Lookout Award and Uloyiko’s General Mgandani Award in 2024.
You have done tremendous work, and you have made us proud.
You are a remarkable Matebele woman!
We thank you a million times over!
God bless you and your children!
Siyabonga!
Mama Patricia Tshabalala the reason that brings us here is that you are our citadel of inspiration, our beacon of hope and an embodiment of our Matebele spirit of resilience in the arena of advancing the human rights of our people and beyond.
Many of us will agree that you have done a lot and looked after the forsaken and forgotten under very testing and trying times, and yet you have never retreated in doing your hard and noble work!
As we speak today, you have 56 children that are under your care and guidance in life. This is no easy task.
These children look up to you as a mother, grandmother and as well a fountain of hope and a fortress of security for them. And you are excelling in this!
It is in this context Mama Patricia Tshabalala that we acknowledge you as a citadel of our hope, a beacon of our inspiration and an embodiment of our resilient and steeled Matebele spirit that keeps bobbing and weaving to survive for our posterity generations to come!
Many of us will agree that you have faced many grueling challenges in your noble human rights walk and yet you have remained an indefatigable defender of our human rights as a people.
Yours is no easy walk!
You have continued to be a Matebele voice that speaks against injustice without fear or favor!
As such, we pray that the mighty fortress of our guarding angels of Matebeleleand, our forebearers, led by His Royal Majesty King Mzilikazi Khumalo and Mambo, continue to inspire and guide you in the advancement and protection of our children’s fundamental rights and the rights of the people of Matebeleland and beyond.
Amazingly, you have done all this sterling work with an everyday glowing and a glorious smile against all odds!
You are truly made of sterner stuff!
Your work is remarkable. I therefore have the honor today to declare you our Matebeleland’s Rosa Parks.
As you would know, Rosa Parks stood up against all forms of human rights violations in America and emerged as one of the most important and prominent leaders of the Civil Rights Movements in that country. Closer home, you are our own glorious Queen Mwaka, our own glorious Queen Loziba and our own glorious Queen Lozikheyi.
These women were and remain icons of our homeland, the very foundational citadels of hope, resilience and inspiration in our motherland!
Therefore The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement is greatly pleased to honor you today with a Human Rights Award that represents the heroic spirits of these amazing and legendary women of Matebeleland, The prestigious Queens Mwaka, Loziba and Lozikeyi 4 Award for your outstanding and continuous contribution to Matebelelend’s Human Rights!
Mama Patricia Tshabalala, we are proud to say that you are the first lady to receive this Award from our Movement and a third person to receive an Award from the Movement after Moses Mzila’s General Lookout Award and Uloyiko’s General Mgandani Award in 2024.
You have done tremendous work, and you have made us proud.
You are a remarkable Matebele woman!
We thank you a million times over!
God bless you and your children!
Siyabonga!
Source - Thembani Dube, 1893 Executive Director
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