Opinion / Columnist
Chigumbu Warikandwa should be shamboked to pulp for violating the rights of children!
11 Mar 2017 at 14:52hrs | Views
We should start with you Chigumbu Warikandwa, you must be threshed to pulp for violating the rights of children and women. Your ideas have no room in our civilized society. It is for this reason that our government has put a stop on violence against children. Should you be found meting those barbaric acts of violence towards our innocent children you will regret it, you will be shamboked and your buttocks will be swollen for weeks unable to sit down. You must be made to test your own poison. The poison is being the "ROD" that you worship.
Those paraphrases you are quoting from the bible are all stuff and nonsense! We abide by the law of the land first: the international laws found it fit to protect the children by enacting laws to protect the most vulnerable in our societies: the children. Zimbabwe found it correct to align itself with international conventions to protect children: Who are you Chigumbu Warikandwa! Who are you to think your limited mental processes exude national and international laws that protect children?
The government of Zimbabwe is upright for intervening into the rights of the children. Nobody will break that law: it is the law in Zimbabwe and internationally to treat children with great respect. Your prescription is long expired, it does not matter how much you wish this to came back it shall never happen. We shall continue to respect and uplift the right of children as codified in the international conventions. Chigumbu you can bark as much as you like: it is unlawful to beat/cane a child. We are satisfied with this law. As we always say, man/ is not wholly negative, this can be said about the government of Zimbabwe. There are some aspects of the government laws that get it right. This time round, as regards to the rights of children, the government of Zimbabwe is spot on. We welcome this law that will keep our offspring safe.
When the coming dispensation comes to power, we shall make sure that those who break the law: by violating the rights of children their punishment should be harsher to scare those who still dwell on backwards traditions of dealing with growing children. A child's welfare is not a joke in pubs and gatherings where you feel better by talking pit latrine manure politics about children.
Just his morning in Bulawayo24 a staff reporter wrote an article: "Man whips stepson to death: we were reading 6 hours ago. Below is the article:
MAN from Umguza who allegedly killed his four-year-old stepson has been referred to the High Court for trial. Khumbulani Sibanda (31) allegedly assaulted his stepson, whose name was not disclosed in court, and he died five days later at Mpilo Central Hospital. The minor had been left by himself at home and went to his uncle's homestead saying that he was afraid. State allegations are that Sibanda followed the boy later that evening and savagely whipped him. He was not asked to plead to a murder charge when he appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate Mr Tinashe Tashaya. Sibanda was remanded in custody to March 21 when he will appear at the High Court for commencement of trial. Prosecuting, Miss Leanne Nkomo told the court that on October 23, 2015, the minor went to his uncle's homestead saying that he had been left alone and was afraid. "Accused person went to the minor's uncle's homestead to look for him around 8PM. "Carrying an axe and whip, accused proceeded into a room where the minor was. "He whipped the minor several times all over the body. Accused then took the minor home," said Miss Nkomo. She said the on following morning the minor became seriously ill. "Three days later the minor was taken to Mpilo Hospital where he was admitted. The minor succumbed to the assault injuries two days later. Accused told investigating officers that one Thandazani had assaulted the minor. "The investigators found out that Thandazani was a fictitious character and Sibanda was arrested." Source Bulawayo24 on the 11th Match 2017
Almost at the same vein we are grappling with the utterances of some MDC-T MP who was prescribing virg*nity testing to our girls. This again is an open manipulation and violence against the right of a girl-child. The tradition is discriminatory and it entrenches gender inequality. If we were told that boys have to go for virg*nity testing we shall then want to know what markers will be used to test the virg*nity of a boy-child. Or is it some rhetoric that manipulates and undermines gender equality and gender parity? It is an illusion of gender equality to think one can test the virg*nity of the boy-child.
The tradition of virg*nity testing is wholly discriminatory: the methods used to test the virg*nity of the girls are not scientifically conclusive at all. You cannot prove virg*nity by innocence, muscle tone and firm buttocks, the presence of a hymen, this hymen is not present in all girls: Again this virg*nity testing is sending a wrong message to girls that your body is better than your intelligence: your bright-head! Not to mention how degrading the exercise is to those girls tested.
This virg*nity testing is seen as disproportionate responsibility of the girl-child and it perpetuates the myth that girls are the ones responsible for seducing men resulting in illicit sexual intercourse. This infringement, unlawful opening of her private body and the confirmation of her virgin status of a girl-child dis-empowers her and leaves her vulnerable to rape because of the virgin-cleanse myth, that men can cure HIV/AIDS by sleeping with virgins. Virginity testing serves to perpetuate patriarchy and dominance of women by those patriarchal settings in social institutions called homes. If found not being virgin can be fatal in some cases: honour killings, abuse, isolation, family shame and poor marriage prospects.
We shall never get tired in fighting for the rights of children in Zimbabwe. It is our national commitment to fight for their rights because the children are our future. Physical violence on children and this silly virg*nity testing on growing girls should be measure with the same set of decadent and backward ways to deal with children: Our theme this year is weather we women are bold enough for change: we shall work very hard to be that change we all want to see.
STOP VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN!
Those paraphrases you are quoting from the bible are all stuff and nonsense! We abide by the law of the land first: the international laws found it fit to protect the children by enacting laws to protect the most vulnerable in our societies: the children. Zimbabwe found it correct to align itself with international conventions to protect children: Who are you Chigumbu Warikandwa! Who are you to think your limited mental processes exude national and international laws that protect children?
The government of Zimbabwe is upright for intervening into the rights of the children. Nobody will break that law: it is the law in Zimbabwe and internationally to treat children with great respect. Your prescription is long expired, it does not matter how much you wish this to came back it shall never happen. We shall continue to respect and uplift the right of children as codified in the international conventions. Chigumbu you can bark as much as you like: it is unlawful to beat/cane a child. We are satisfied with this law. As we always say, man/ is not wholly negative, this can be said about the government of Zimbabwe. There are some aspects of the government laws that get it right. This time round, as regards to the rights of children, the government of Zimbabwe is spot on. We welcome this law that will keep our offspring safe.
When the coming dispensation comes to power, we shall make sure that those who break the law: by violating the rights of children their punishment should be harsher to scare those who still dwell on backwards traditions of dealing with growing children. A child's welfare is not a joke in pubs and gatherings where you feel better by talking pit latrine manure politics about children.
Just his morning in Bulawayo24 a staff reporter wrote an article: "Man whips stepson to death: we were reading 6 hours ago. Below is the article:
MAN from Umguza who allegedly killed his four-year-old stepson has been referred to the High Court for trial. Khumbulani Sibanda (31) allegedly assaulted his stepson, whose name was not disclosed in court, and he died five days later at Mpilo Central Hospital. The minor had been left by himself at home and went to his uncle's homestead saying that he was afraid. State allegations are that Sibanda followed the boy later that evening and savagely whipped him. He was not asked to plead to a murder charge when he appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate Mr Tinashe Tashaya. Sibanda was remanded in custody to March 21 when he will appear at the High Court for commencement of trial. Prosecuting, Miss Leanne Nkomo told the court that on October 23, 2015, the minor went to his uncle's homestead saying that he had been left alone and was afraid. "Accused person went to the minor's uncle's homestead to look for him around 8PM. "Carrying an axe and whip, accused proceeded into a room where the minor was. "He whipped the minor several times all over the body. Accused then took the minor home," said Miss Nkomo. She said the on following morning the minor became seriously ill. "Three days later the minor was taken to Mpilo Hospital where he was admitted. The minor succumbed to the assault injuries two days later. Accused told investigating officers that one Thandazani had assaulted the minor. "The investigators found out that Thandazani was a fictitious character and Sibanda was arrested." Source Bulawayo24 on the 11th Match 2017
Almost at the same vein we are grappling with the utterances of some MDC-T MP who was prescribing virg*nity testing to our girls. This again is an open manipulation and violence against the right of a girl-child. The tradition is discriminatory and it entrenches gender inequality. If we were told that boys have to go for virg*nity testing we shall then want to know what markers will be used to test the virg*nity of a boy-child. Or is it some rhetoric that manipulates and undermines gender equality and gender parity? It is an illusion of gender equality to think one can test the virg*nity of the boy-child.
The tradition of virg*nity testing is wholly discriminatory: the methods used to test the virg*nity of the girls are not scientifically conclusive at all. You cannot prove virg*nity by innocence, muscle tone and firm buttocks, the presence of a hymen, this hymen is not present in all girls: Again this virg*nity testing is sending a wrong message to girls that your body is better than your intelligence: your bright-head! Not to mention how degrading the exercise is to those girls tested.
This virg*nity testing is seen as disproportionate responsibility of the girl-child and it perpetuates the myth that girls are the ones responsible for seducing men resulting in illicit sexual intercourse. This infringement, unlawful opening of her private body and the confirmation of her virgin status of a girl-child dis-empowers her and leaves her vulnerable to rape because of the virgin-cleanse myth, that men can cure HIV/AIDS by sleeping with virgins. Virginity testing serves to perpetuate patriarchy and dominance of women by those patriarchal settings in social institutions called homes. If found not being virgin can be fatal in some cases: honour killings, abuse, isolation, family shame and poor marriage prospects.
We shall never get tired in fighting for the rights of children in Zimbabwe. It is our national commitment to fight for their rights because the children are our future. Physical violence on children and this silly virg*nity testing on growing girls should be measure with the same set of decadent and backward ways to deal with children: Our theme this year is weather we women are bold enough for change: we shall work very hard to be that change we all want to see.
STOP VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN!
Source - Nomazulu Thata
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