Getting rid of the name 'Zimbabwe' is a panacea!

What's in a name, you may ask rhetorically? Well, everything! And in the particular context of present-day Zimbabwe, totally everything! Get rid of that name and you have all but solved all the political problems that that wretched name brought in its wake!

The name 'Zimbabwe' is the fulcrum of Shonaism and Gukurahundism. It is where every political evil and behavioural outrage connected to Shonaism and Gukurahundi are coordinated, where they meet and are dispersed and dispatched. It where this false and manufactured a priori entitlement of the Shona to Zimbabwe - over and above uMthwakazi - begins and ends. The name 'Zimbabwe' is the factory and foundry of conspiracy and political slander, of lies, deceptions, and sub-State dirty activities, all aimed at building a Utopian Kingdom of Mashonaland under the guise of the Republic of Zimbabwe. An underworld of Mafia-like figures, full of smoke and false mirrors, strutting and tramping conspiratorially on everything good and right. And decent!

It is where Mbuya Nehanda (a necromancer) and Sekuru Kaguvi (another necromancer) - people who never threw even a twig at the emerging oppressor in the anti-colonial struggle - are elevated as hero and heroine over and above King Mzilikazi and King Lobengula and Ndebele impis who actually fought against White colonialists and Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi's own tribesmen (and tribesman), in both the First Matebele War and Second Matebele War (the second conveniently misnamed a rebellion). It is where history is 're-cooked' as political offal of a skunk. A false and falsified history that stinks and sinks its manufacturers to the abysmal political below of Gukurahundism and Shonaism. Villainous revisionism; historiographical plunder and shameful theft!

Without the name 'Zimbabwe', we probably would never have had Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa, and therefore, the Gukurahundi genocide. We probably would never today have had sponsored and paid 'columnists' - such as Nathaniel Manheru - aka George Charamba - who have spewed anti-Mthwakazi, anti-Ndebele vitriol in the service of Shonaism and Gukurahundism, for years, notwithstanding the recent and apparent conversion to decency and sobriety!
In short, the name 'Zimbabwe' is where lunacy
met barbarism to create a crazy idea called the Zimbabwe Project, in terms of which we got the Gukurahundi genocide and what presently operates as the Utopain Kingdom of Mashonaland under the guise of the 'Republic of Zimbabwe'.
It's where you get the party political architecture of Shona 'leaders' and Ndebele 'deputies', the Mugabes, the Tsvangirais, the Mujurus and the rest of them - all cultivated and presented as trophy symbols of Shona triumphalism over the Ndebele and uMthwakazi. A twisted world of dream of 'superiors' and 'inferiors', where 'Shona' equals 'national' (superior), and 'Ndebele' equals 'tribal' (inferior). It is not that it is comical to for someone to believe in all these 'lunaticals' that is remarkable, rather it is that someone (a Gukurahundist and Shonaist) can actually believe they can do so against uMthwakazi, that is. See how deep in the political cesspool they have had to fall in their attempts to assault uMthwakazi's history! With these, shaming them is the only way to help them against themselves - Gukurahundists and Shonaists!

In short, without the name 'Zimbabwe', we would certainly never have had this lie after lie after lie that has been told under Gukurahundist and Shonaist Zimbabwe, and this gargantuan lie, about this Zimbabwe State being a Shona State, by the Shona, for the Shona. The lies about the so-called 'Chimurengas', phantasmagorical inventions of volume and bombast, made - unashamedly - against the historiographies of Ndebele impis and Zapu and Zipra, all written by Mthwakazi's own enemies, and those of the Shona and Zanu and Zanla, written by their own 'friends'! Again, you need to shame and shame these - the Shonaists and Gukurahundists in order to help them against themselves.

All these lies perpetrated under a Shonaist and Gukurahundist Zimbabwe Project have run their full course and are unravelling, and it's time to stop. Until then, we, as Mthwakazians and other non-Mthwakazians, have no option but to now publicly express and say these truths - these previous unsayables - much to the discomfort and fidgeting of proponents of these crazy ideas and those that publicly pretend to despise them but privately and silently support them, or acquiescence in them. The stark choice for Shonaism and Gukurahundism is between a dignified and silent retreat from its mischievous misadventures of lies and tribal hatred, and a public rebuke and bare-all exposure of them as the political charlatans they have been for the past 37 years, an existence they owe only to force, not political legitimacy or persuasions. Despised villains and political miscreants in their vile handiwork of strangling and strangulating others. Both crafts that came with and are directly the outcomes of the name 'Zimbabwe'

Is this all and only about Mthwakazi politics - getting rid of the name 'Zimbabwe', I mean? No! And, yes!

No, because - because even if you subscribe to Zimbabweanist politics, you still have to get back to the beginning and remove a practice where matters of State are privatized and made to belong to a privileged few, in this case, the Zezuru, as Themba Mliswa rightly publicly said recently. In other words, you need to recover the state from what South Africans have rather creatively termed - 'State Capture'.

And, yes, getting rid of the name 'Zimbabwe' is also about Mthwakazi politics. That must go without saying. Names or descriptions such as the 'United Kingdom of Matebeleland', 'Kingdom of Matebeleland', 'Mthwakazi Republic' or Republic of Mthwakazi' are all descriptions of political expatiation expunging the name 'Zimbabwe' from the political DNA of Mthwakazi, even as a failed experiment of the past.

But the name 'Zimbabwe' is not wrong as a name because it couldn't or shouldn't have been. It is wrong as a name for what we now all know it has stood for and done: failure! We have all lived through 'Zimbabwe's failure as an experiment of a State. And every chance given and being given to 'Zimbabwe' just begets more failure and invites more ruin, daily! A true testament to a name plucked from the air by 'who knows who' and which - unsurprisingly - became the political home of choice of all manner of thugs, common criminals, murderers, thieves, arsonists, extortionists, money-chasers (of all kinds, 'learned' and unlearned), angry tribalists and 'clanvoyants', nocremancers, male and female prostitutes, and other similarly vices that others nations of the world left behind centuries ago. Zimbabwe - as this favourite name of its ignoble lot - deliberately and knowingly left homes and civilization and chose to return to the trees and swing in the foliage of barbarism as 'honour'. And even today, this Zimbabwe is hurtling precipitously down that direction, not this direction.

It is the Zimbabwe of the Mugabes and Mnangagwas of our time, where to this day, their names wreak as heartless and merciless harbingers of a State that failed and a nationhood that was merciless and playfully chopped up. The unparallel and criss-crossing universe of Mugabeism and Mnangagwaism: political home of murder, pillage; disappearances; Gukurahundi; assassinations; thuggery; Murambatsvina; forced migrations; super-hyper inflation; tribal hatred; want; immorality; corruption; primitive accumulation; looting; pomposity; aggressive politicking; and many bad things that have left this 'Zimbabwe' something to be undone, dug out, burnt and scattered as political ash in some modern-day Patmos.

Even Ian Smith for all his faults - and they were many - never touched that core: the 'nation': nationhood. He built it through economic power. Yet when Mugabe and Mnangagwa came, they saw it fun and funny to play with tinder boxes in the paraffin pool of nation-ness and nationhood, and with this sponsored arrogance and frightening untidiness.
 
All of this is what uMthwakazi and Zimbabwe need to deconstruct, and to do so, you need to target the fulcrum of that ruin: the name 'Zimbabwe', and therefore everything 'Zimbabwe' has ever stood for and represented. With that, you have buried Mugabeism and Mnangagwaism, Gukurahundism and Shonaism!

There is nothing new about a name change in the polity of what is now called 'Zimbabwe'. The name 'Zimbabwe' comes as probably the fifth name by which this never-to-be State has been known.

The name 'Zimbabwe' belongs to a murky political past. The mystery of 'Zimbabwe's origins as a name must therefore be politically buried with the bones of those who made it such a political undesirable that it deserves to be buried with them. Nobody ever needed this 'Zimbabwe'. 
Without a shadow of political doubt, getting rid of the name 'Zimbabwe' is a panacea that will see people's creative energies rekindled and the twin evils of Mugabeism and Mngangagwaism buried together with all their skeletons of Gukurahundism, Shonaism, Murambatsvina and other dirty and unpleasant things Mugabeism and Mnangagwaism have done in their wake.

And don't tell me nobody wants that - even Shonaists, Gukurahundists, Mugabeists and Mnangagwaists. Unless the latter are prepared to be permanently on the run and looking over their shoulders!