Opinion / Columnist
This little girl Linda Masarira ship out of Mathebeleland!
16 Dec 2016 at 02:08hrs | Views
They both evidently hate the people of Mathebeleland with passion. They both know how to insult the people of Mathebeleland and unprovoked. Both Grace Mugabe and Linda Masarira can casually insult the people of Mathebeleland and they can allow themselves to indulge in any form of provocation or insult to the extent of urinating at us. This is what Linda Masarira has done to us the people of Mathebeleland: Today she opened her lower dress and urinated at us. We are that bit of second class people according to her.
Did the Chikurubi jail experience teach her to vomit her anger on the lower mortals in the Zimbabwe society hierarchy ladder: the Ndebele people? In hindsight, we wish she could have spent longer days and nights in that notorious Chikurubi prison ukuze azuze umqondo omutsha when she comes out! I am sure she will tell us she was quoted out of context, she never said that: blab bla bla! We gullible ones will accept because we are second class citizens in the first instance in Zimbabwe anywhere!
Chikurubi Prison gave her the green light to insult "us" at ease. Chikurubi gave her the epithet that she is better than any other mortal, Linda is unique; her uniqueness allows her to insult the lesser ones: the ones being the Ndebele communities, and when she starts insulting nobody should cough but freeze: Linda is speaking, she was in prison she now has the right to do what she thinks is right: even urinating to the Ndebele people: they are second class anywhere! Your Ndebele blood should never exonerate anybody to insult the "other". We resist it when Mphoko insults us too.
I have a short history with Ms. Linda Masarira that I would like to share with you right now. When I was told in July 2016 that there was a women's group occupying the Africa Square right in the centre of Harare, I was excited and got in contact with them at once. Within weeks Linda was incarcerated. I had hoped that I was going to communicate with the women's group to implement change by passive resistance, no going to the public to demonstrate because it was going to be fatal to many and violent to some if people demonstrated openly against a brutal and desperate regime like Zanu PF.
When I read about Linda's incarceration I was lost a frightened. I decided to do what I know best: net-working! I went to the amnesty international Bremen personally and put her case to the authorities to deal with her case. I waited for two weeks I saw no evidence of action regarding her imprisonment. I then decided to engage the German Government: wrote to the Federal Chancellor: Dr. Angel Merkel on her capacity as Chancellor and a woman as such if she could intervene by contacting the Harare government to release Ms. Masarira from a notorious prison: Chikurubi. I confess I did not have any response to my petition.
I went back to amnesty international and I pleaded with them to do something about Linda: a mother with five children: I said. The children need their mother, Linda is a single parent. They told me to contact London: I did. London office told me to contact South African office, I did. I was told as a matter of fact they were dealing with Linda's case that day I phoned them.
At home in Zimbabwe: Linda continued to be denied many bails for obvious reasons. I sat down and empathized with Linda, asked myself many questions, how was it going to be like if I was the one in those shoes of Linda, myself in Chikurubi Prison? I became scared and frightened. This made me dare the inevitable to write a letter to His Holiness the Pope Francis: I asked him if he could intervene in Linda Masarira's case that was beginning to be very desperate. I confess too that I never got any reaction from the Vatican.
Now to cut the long story short I waited for the miracle to happen just like all of us gullible people do. Linda was indeed released from prison. To cut the story short again after a week's long wait I phoned Linda and congratulated her from her release from prison. Here in Germany I contacted the amnesty international and the Ntombi-Langa Charity about Linda Masarira's realise. With those few friends that love Guinness Beer from Ireland, we went to Bremen Central Town, where those exquisite Irish pubs are found to celebrate Linda Masarira's realise from prison.
I sincerely hoped that Linda after 2 or three weeks from prison, having recovered from the trauma of separation from her children, she was going to sit down and appreciate all those who worked hard for her release from prison, acknowledge at least the efforts I did to get her realised from prison even if I was not successful in her release whatsoever! I got nothing from her organisation and from her as a person. Linda contacted me after 4 weeks asking me if I could send money: to buy her a mobile phone, the other was damaged! There was no mention of my efforts in freeing her from her imprisonment whatsoever. As a mother, much older than Linda, I declined this charity politely and said NO. I am not made of Euros and Cents of German Federal Republic. I have ethics, values and principles at place. Linda was not born when I started my political life to reduce one to mere money giving rich auntie from Germany. Coming back to today's insults from our "little girl called Linda Masarira" We were still nursing our wounds from a video from some lunatic called Raymond exiled in South Africa. He said Verbatim: "Itai ma Small houses with Ndebele girls to stop Ndexit!" This is not only clumsy talk! Boy talk from the powder-cloak-rooms but wholly calculated to insult these "Mabvakure" Mandeere. Again the grand Plan of 1979 headed by Shamuyarira prescribed this too: Mathebeleland will be neutralised by giving them many Shona babies: was systematically carried during the Gugurahundi atrocities.
Now this youthful young man immediately makes another video apologising for his utterances, seeing the danger: 10 thousand South African Rand is hanging on his neck! Did he fear the repercation that forced him to swallow his most calculated video wording? You cannot joke with lives of people like that. The people of Mathebeleland are not a joke dear Raymond. However I do not believe in eliminating anybody for the insults he did to us but engage with those that rationally think about the "other side"
Mr. Tinomudaishe Chinyoka wrote an article on Nehanda Radio in reply to the video on Bulawayo 24: an article that pacified all of us who would have wanted to immediately give an equally volatile reply to his sad jokes. This man called Tino Chinyoka is a hero of our time; one of the nation builders. We shall be always grateful for those contributions he made at that point in time. He wrote two very powerful articles about tribalism in Zimbabwe within a week. With those articles dust settled but for a short time, we have Linda's utterances, insults to contend with today.
Somehow Linda thought it was not enough after that youthful video of Raymond from South Africa exile, she had to sound larger than thunder, tell us her piece of mind. Her experience at Zimbabwe Railways, whereby Ndebele people behaved in the way she perceived unindustrial cannot be blanket behaviour of all peoples of Mathebeleland. To paint all of us with one brush is just insolent but last. Her going to prison and all the experiences are not a ticket to insult the peoples of Mathebeleland. We do not excuse anyone anybody even if that person is from Mathebeleland to insult the global citizen with that reckless abandon, including Linda Masarira and Grace Mugabe.
You need to look at their demonstrations nowadays, there is not organisation whatsoever. When Mr. Jealousy Mawarire indicated to us all that these young pseudo revolutionaries are driven by donor funding: were given 100,000 US and they are tearing one another to take control of it; we again thought it was Zanu P propaganda that Mawarire is talking about. Patson Dzamara has packed his bag, he told us on media that he is quitting political activism. Let's ask ourselves one pertinent question, how do you quit a revolution if your brother: Itai Dzamara is still declared missing: we do not know where he is to this date, and his blood brother quits that very revolution he started! We do not hear of Pasto Ewan Mawarire either. The last time we heard of him he had given birth to a baby in USA. So pake patonaka ka. The people he left behind, his faithful followers are at the mercy of the notorious CIO who followed him right up to the court of Justice. Those vibrant songs and prayers from hundreds of supporters outside the court: He absconded left everybody else to dry!
The people of Mathebeleland are always on the receiving end, insulted by the Vice President Phekelezela Mphoko, insulted by SK Moyo, insulted by Khutshwekhaya Naison Moyo: he said the people of Mathebeleland ngo titisi, imidlwane, small dogs that buck randomly, complaining about nothing. He never got the VP presidency he craved for even after bootlicking that much! We have been insulted by the "first Lady Grace Mugabe, even the President has no kind words about the peoples of Mathebeleland, who go to South Africa to buy blankets and bicycles. VP Mnangagwa called us cockroaches! We now say enough of the insults, we want our dignity period! We want to tell this "little girl Linda" that she has to stop insulting the people of Mathebeleland at once. However if she positioning herself politically for the coming 2018 elections, she can be sure that she will never get a single vote from the whole of Mathebeleland as long as we live. We are going to fight this "little girl'" democratically and not by any threats on her life but electorally-democratically. She and her likes will never smell the vote from Mathebeleland. We shall de-campaign her openly. We are also going to tell the people of Mathebeleland why she can never have a vote from there.
I am tempted to believe that Linda would have found me useful to her if I sent her the money she wanted to buy a smart phone, but no reference whatsoever to the letters I wrote to world bodies: asking if they can assist in her release from notorious Chikurubi prison. You must stop that insolence of insulting Ndebele people unprovoked. Your stay in prison does not give you legitimacy to insult us. If your activism is insulting Ndebeles that you are just a package of nonsense, no less! I will pen off never again use #Tajamuka, #Sesijikile, #Hatichatya, because I am very disappointed with some of them pseudo young activists!!
Did the Chikurubi jail experience teach her to vomit her anger on the lower mortals in the Zimbabwe society hierarchy ladder: the Ndebele people? In hindsight, we wish she could have spent longer days and nights in that notorious Chikurubi prison ukuze azuze umqondo omutsha when she comes out! I am sure she will tell us she was quoted out of context, she never said that: blab bla bla! We gullible ones will accept because we are second class citizens in the first instance in Zimbabwe anywhere!
Chikurubi Prison gave her the green light to insult "us" at ease. Chikurubi gave her the epithet that she is better than any other mortal, Linda is unique; her uniqueness allows her to insult the lesser ones: the ones being the Ndebele communities, and when she starts insulting nobody should cough but freeze: Linda is speaking, she was in prison she now has the right to do what she thinks is right: even urinating to the Ndebele people: they are second class anywhere! Your Ndebele blood should never exonerate anybody to insult the "other". We resist it when Mphoko insults us too.
I have a short history with Ms. Linda Masarira that I would like to share with you right now. When I was told in July 2016 that there was a women's group occupying the Africa Square right in the centre of Harare, I was excited and got in contact with them at once. Within weeks Linda was incarcerated. I had hoped that I was going to communicate with the women's group to implement change by passive resistance, no going to the public to demonstrate because it was going to be fatal to many and violent to some if people demonstrated openly against a brutal and desperate regime like Zanu PF.
When I read about Linda's incarceration I was lost a frightened. I decided to do what I know best: net-working! I went to the amnesty international Bremen personally and put her case to the authorities to deal with her case. I waited for two weeks I saw no evidence of action regarding her imprisonment. I then decided to engage the German Government: wrote to the Federal Chancellor: Dr. Angel Merkel on her capacity as Chancellor and a woman as such if she could intervene by contacting the Harare government to release Ms. Masarira from a notorious prison: Chikurubi. I confess I did not have any response to my petition.
I went back to amnesty international and I pleaded with them to do something about Linda: a mother with five children: I said. The children need their mother, Linda is a single parent. They told me to contact London: I did. London office told me to contact South African office, I did. I was told as a matter of fact they were dealing with Linda's case that day I phoned them.
At home in Zimbabwe: Linda continued to be denied many bails for obvious reasons. I sat down and empathized with Linda, asked myself many questions, how was it going to be like if I was the one in those shoes of Linda, myself in Chikurubi Prison? I became scared and frightened. This made me dare the inevitable to write a letter to His Holiness the Pope Francis: I asked him if he could intervene in Linda Masarira's case that was beginning to be very desperate. I confess too that I never got any reaction from the Vatican.
Now to cut the long story short I waited for the miracle to happen just like all of us gullible people do. Linda was indeed released from prison. To cut the story short again after a week's long wait I phoned Linda and congratulated her from her release from prison. Here in Germany I contacted the amnesty international and the Ntombi-Langa Charity about Linda Masarira's realise. With those few friends that love Guinness Beer from Ireland, we went to Bremen Central Town, where those exquisite Irish pubs are found to celebrate Linda Masarira's realise from prison.
Now this youthful young man immediately makes another video apologising for his utterances, seeing the danger: 10 thousand South African Rand is hanging on his neck! Did he fear the repercation that forced him to swallow his most calculated video wording? You cannot joke with lives of people like that. The people of Mathebeleland are not a joke dear Raymond. However I do not believe in eliminating anybody for the insults he did to us but engage with those that rationally think about the "other side"
Mr. Tinomudaishe Chinyoka wrote an article on Nehanda Radio in reply to the video on Bulawayo 24: an article that pacified all of us who would have wanted to immediately give an equally volatile reply to his sad jokes. This man called Tino Chinyoka is a hero of our time; one of the nation builders. We shall be always grateful for those contributions he made at that point in time. He wrote two very powerful articles about tribalism in Zimbabwe within a week. With those articles dust settled but for a short time, we have Linda's utterances, insults to contend with today.
Somehow Linda thought it was not enough after that youthful video of Raymond from South Africa exile, she had to sound larger than thunder, tell us her piece of mind. Her experience at Zimbabwe Railways, whereby Ndebele people behaved in the way she perceived unindustrial cannot be blanket behaviour of all peoples of Mathebeleland. To paint all of us with one brush is just insolent but last. Her going to prison and all the experiences are not a ticket to insult the peoples of Mathebeleland. We do not excuse anyone anybody even if that person is from Mathebeleland to insult the global citizen with that reckless abandon, including Linda Masarira and Grace Mugabe.
You need to look at their demonstrations nowadays, there is not organisation whatsoever. When Mr. Jealousy Mawarire indicated to us all that these young pseudo revolutionaries are driven by donor funding: were given 100,000 US and they are tearing one another to take control of it; we again thought it was Zanu P propaganda that Mawarire is talking about. Patson Dzamara has packed his bag, he told us on media that he is quitting political activism. Let's ask ourselves one pertinent question, how do you quit a revolution if your brother: Itai Dzamara is still declared missing: we do not know where he is to this date, and his blood brother quits that very revolution he started! We do not hear of Pasto Ewan Mawarire either. The last time we heard of him he had given birth to a baby in USA. So pake patonaka ka. The people he left behind, his faithful followers are at the mercy of the notorious CIO who followed him right up to the court of Justice. Those vibrant songs and prayers from hundreds of supporters outside the court: He absconded left everybody else to dry!
The people of Mathebeleland are always on the receiving end, insulted by the Vice President Phekelezela Mphoko, insulted by SK Moyo, insulted by Khutshwekhaya Naison Moyo: he said the people of Mathebeleland ngo titisi, imidlwane, small dogs that buck randomly, complaining about nothing. He never got the VP presidency he craved for even after bootlicking that much! We have been insulted by the "first Lady Grace Mugabe, even the President has no kind words about the peoples of Mathebeleland, who go to South Africa to buy blankets and bicycles. VP Mnangagwa called us cockroaches! We now say enough of the insults, we want our dignity period! We want to tell this "little girl Linda" that she has to stop insulting the people of Mathebeleland at once. However if she positioning herself politically for the coming 2018 elections, she can be sure that she will never get a single vote from the whole of Mathebeleland as long as we live. We are going to fight this "little girl'" democratically and not by any threats on her life but electorally-democratically. She and her likes will never smell the vote from Mathebeleland. We shall de-campaign her openly. We are also going to tell the people of Mathebeleland why she can never have a vote from there.
I am tempted to believe that Linda would have found me useful to her if I sent her the money she wanted to buy a smart phone, but no reference whatsoever to the letters I wrote to world bodies: asking if they can assist in her release from notorious Chikurubi prison. You must stop that insolence of insulting Ndebele people unprovoked. Your stay in prison does not give you legitimacy to insult us. If your activism is insulting Ndebeles that you are just a package of nonsense, no less! I will pen off never again use #Tajamuka, #Sesijikile, #Hatichatya, because I am very disappointed with some of them pseudo young activists!!
Source - Nomazulu Thata
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