Opinion / Columnist
Mzilikazi II's triumphalism
16 Sep 2017 at 12:26hrs | Views
The suppressed public Coronation of King Mzilikazi the Second on the 12th September 2017 by the repressive regime of Robert Gabriel Mugabe is like the clamping down of the Chinese "89 Democracy Movement" in May 1989 or the crushing of the "Prague Spring" in August 1968.
The difference between 12th September 2017 and these two other events that occurred on these memorable dates in history is only that on the 12 September 2017, Robert Mugabe's foot soldiers did not open lethal fire.
The events could just as well have turned on bloody on this occasion. Robert Mugabe's foot soldiers were hell bent on preventing Mthwakazi people from enthroning there king publicly. They had brought all the hardware to do the dastardly deed. Somehow on this occasion murder was averted.
Brethren our country is under authoritarian occupation just as the West Bank Palestine is under occupation by a conquering army today. Robert Mugabe's foot soldiers are an occupying hostile force with a HQ in Bulawayo. Nothing happens there that escapes their eye.
We cannot bury our heads in the sand like ostriches, it is not possible to pretend otherwise. Our people are under siege.
Watching those accounts on VOA and other media sources hearing the lamentation of Mthwakazi senior citizens who had assembled outside Bulawayo Trade fair it was hard try and hold back one's tears. No, we cannot pretend any more, Zimbabwe is not a democracy but a dictatorship.
The people of Mthwakazi are not free to exercise their God given Human rights. On Tuesday when they tried to peacefully assembly, the heavy Jackboot of oppression was brought down very heavily on their necks. Mthwakazi needs her freedom.
"O' Pharaoh let my people go!" Fresh innocent blood was not spilled last Tuesday but our memories are still fresh of the atrociously of Gukurahundi.
Even when we were to forget, the perpetrators keep on reminding us. Remember when King Mzilikazi II (SRK) first called for that prayer of national forgiveness at Bulawayo Town Hall in 2016, the Zimbabwean government sent units of the Zimbabwean army to put a show of force in the western townships (high density suburbs) of Bulawayo. The message was clear then as it is now, toe the line and keep your head down. If you raise your head above the parapet it shall be shot clean off your shoulders.
Well, King Mzilikazi II seems not to be heeding the message from Big brother state to toe the line. He has dared to raise his head above the parapet despite the strange warnings about the flag from Zimbabwean government ministers Obedingwa Mguni (Deputy Home Affairs Minister) and Abednego Ncube (Minister of Rural Development, Promotion and National Culture and Heritage).
Not toeing any lines set for him by the Zimbabwean government ministers, King Mzilikazi II turned up early last Tuesday morning in front of the ZITF (Zimbabwe Trade Fair Venue) in Bulawayo ahead of thousands of his people who had come to see him assuming his throne.
He came to the Trade Fair venue to claim his inheritance and which is his throne and the people's freedom. The enemy was armed to the teeth with latest imported water cannon vehicles and an arsenal of anti-riot hardware. The king was armed only with a smile, animal shin attire and love for his people and his God in his heart. He came. He saw. He smiled. He won. He stole the hearts of many Mthwakazi people on Tuesday. He lit a revolution.
This is the story of our people. They are living under the sword. The oppressor is telling them daily to toe the line or else the Gukurahundi part 2 will be revisited on them again. This is no idle threat, ZANU has done it before the memory is still fresh. Strange enough when members of Parliament are asked to debate Gukurahundi and national heeling in Parliament, they refuse to do so claiming that "it is water under the bridge, yet their government constantly use the same still to beat down and force to submission people in Matebeleland every time the government want to have their way over Mthwakazi people.
Asisafuni bumbulu!
Only the remnant of Mthwakazi who are based abroad that is to say in the diaspora can help to save people under the oppressive thumb of Pharaoh in occupied Mthwakazi, by raising the alarm sound in the countries where the children of the Mthwakazi diaspora find themselves.
Me must tell the World that the people of Mthwakazi are in mortal danger. As we speak some people are being arrested back home. Some are having their phones confiscated and often stolen by state agents, computers are being stolen and information data stolen.
The Zimbabwean authorities wants to present to the outside world the image of a normal society, yet the reality is that our nation is under occupation and our people are living in danger whilst the resources of their land are being spirited away.
One of the differences we observed about those who attended the king's coronation and were prevented from seeing their king sitting on the throne was the large number of Mthwakazi senior citizens who attended the events.
We had not seen this before say in the King Mzilikazi I commemorations of Gadade commemorations before. The seniors where so determined to see their King enthroned, they were not deterred by the fear of violence. They were determined to see their king come what may. Most of them said out loud; we do not want to fight with anyone, we want what is ours we want our freedom!
In was also most encouraging to see the defiance of the youth as they sang songs like, "Linga ba bulali ababulala obaba..."
The people are ready for their long-awaited freedom.We need to voice their cries for freedom to the world, to the movers and the shakers of influence in the World corridors of power.
It is also clear that the greater part of our freedom battles will occur in the court room. We need to somehow find the key to meaningful resource mobilization.
I am reminded of how during the Anti-Apartheid struggle, the AAM (Anti-Apartheid Movement) voiced the cry for freedom in South Africa. Among those who heard the freedom cry was Prime Minister of Palme of Sweden. He committed his government to cover all the legal costs of the UDF (United Democratic Front) during the defiant campaign. People were being arrested as if by the dragnet and they were being bailed out and the SA Apartheid regime did not know what hit them. Image if we could achieve just a fraction of what the AAM managed, why that would be a Godsend!
I hear that an agenda has already been decided for this Sunday's meeting. Would it be possible to set a time and date to deliberate on the challenge coming on the heels of the suppressed Coronation of the 12 September 2017 Trade Fair Event. Right now, as we speak out adversaries are working full speed crafting a case against SRK. They are preparing a case to destroy his Restoration Movement.
Mthwakazi should get together and meet the critical assignment before her in various countries around the world.
Mayihlome ihlasele!
Inkosi yi nkosi Naboth
Abantu yithi!
Vuka Mthwakazi!
The difference between 12th September 2017 and these two other events that occurred on these memorable dates in history is only that on the 12 September 2017, Robert Mugabe's foot soldiers did not open lethal fire.
The events could just as well have turned on bloody on this occasion. Robert Mugabe's foot soldiers were hell bent on preventing Mthwakazi people from enthroning there king publicly. They had brought all the hardware to do the dastardly deed. Somehow on this occasion murder was averted.
Brethren our country is under authoritarian occupation just as the West Bank Palestine is under occupation by a conquering army today. Robert Mugabe's foot soldiers are an occupying hostile force with a HQ in Bulawayo. Nothing happens there that escapes their eye.
We cannot bury our heads in the sand like ostriches, it is not possible to pretend otherwise. Our people are under siege.
Watching those accounts on VOA and other media sources hearing the lamentation of Mthwakazi senior citizens who had assembled outside Bulawayo Trade fair it was hard try and hold back one's tears. No, we cannot pretend any more, Zimbabwe is not a democracy but a dictatorship.
The people of Mthwakazi are not free to exercise their God given Human rights. On Tuesday when they tried to peacefully assembly, the heavy Jackboot of oppression was brought down very heavily on their necks. Mthwakazi needs her freedom.
"O' Pharaoh let my people go!" Fresh innocent blood was not spilled last Tuesday but our memories are still fresh of the atrociously of Gukurahundi.
Even when we were to forget, the perpetrators keep on reminding us. Remember when King Mzilikazi II (SRK) first called for that prayer of national forgiveness at Bulawayo Town Hall in 2016, the Zimbabwean government sent units of the Zimbabwean army to put a show of force in the western townships (high density suburbs) of Bulawayo. The message was clear then as it is now, toe the line and keep your head down. If you raise your head above the parapet it shall be shot clean off your shoulders.
Well, King Mzilikazi II seems not to be heeding the message from Big brother state to toe the line. He has dared to raise his head above the parapet despite the strange warnings about the flag from Zimbabwean government ministers Obedingwa Mguni (Deputy Home Affairs Minister) and Abednego Ncube (Minister of Rural Development, Promotion and National Culture and Heritage).
Not toeing any lines set for him by the Zimbabwean government ministers, King Mzilikazi II turned up early last Tuesday morning in front of the ZITF (Zimbabwe Trade Fair Venue) in Bulawayo ahead of thousands of his people who had come to see him assuming his throne.
He came to the Trade Fair venue to claim his inheritance and which is his throne and the people's freedom. The enemy was armed to the teeth with latest imported water cannon vehicles and an arsenal of anti-riot hardware. The king was armed only with a smile, animal shin attire and love for his people and his God in his heart. He came. He saw. He smiled. He won. He stole the hearts of many Mthwakazi people on Tuesday. He lit a revolution.
This is the story of our people. They are living under the sword. The oppressor is telling them daily to toe the line or else the Gukurahundi part 2 will be revisited on them again. This is no idle threat, ZANU has done it before the memory is still fresh. Strange enough when members of Parliament are asked to debate Gukurahundi and national heeling in Parliament, they refuse to do so claiming that "it is water under the bridge, yet their government constantly use the same still to beat down and force to submission people in Matebeleland every time the government want to have their way over Mthwakazi people.
Only the remnant of Mthwakazi who are based abroad that is to say in the diaspora can help to save people under the oppressive thumb of Pharaoh in occupied Mthwakazi, by raising the alarm sound in the countries where the children of the Mthwakazi diaspora find themselves.
Me must tell the World that the people of Mthwakazi are in mortal danger. As we speak some people are being arrested back home. Some are having their phones confiscated and often stolen by state agents, computers are being stolen and information data stolen.
The Zimbabwean authorities wants to present to the outside world the image of a normal society, yet the reality is that our nation is under occupation and our people are living in danger whilst the resources of their land are being spirited away.
One of the differences we observed about those who attended the king's coronation and were prevented from seeing their king sitting on the throne was the large number of Mthwakazi senior citizens who attended the events.
We had not seen this before say in the King Mzilikazi I commemorations of Gadade commemorations before. The seniors where so determined to see their King enthroned, they were not deterred by the fear of violence. They were determined to see their king come what may. Most of them said out loud; we do not want to fight with anyone, we want what is ours we want our freedom!
In was also most encouraging to see the defiance of the youth as they sang songs like, "Linga ba bulali ababulala obaba..."
The people are ready for their long-awaited freedom.We need to voice their cries for freedom to the world, to the movers and the shakers of influence in the World corridors of power.
It is also clear that the greater part of our freedom battles will occur in the court room. We need to somehow find the key to meaningful resource mobilization.
I am reminded of how during the Anti-Apartheid struggle, the AAM (Anti-Apartheid Movement) voiced the cry for freedom in South Africa. Among those who heard the freedom cry was Prime Minister of Palme of Sweden. He committed his government to cover all the legal costs of the UDF (United Democratic Front) during the defiant campaign. People were being arrested as if by the dragnet and they were being bailed out and the SA Apartheid regime did not know what hit them. Image if we could achieve just a fraction of what the AAM managed, why that would be a Godsend!
I hear that an agenda has already been decided for this Sunday's meeting. Would it be possible to set a time and date to deliberate on the challenge coming on the heels of the suppressed Coronation of the 12 September 2017 Trade Fair Event. Right now, as we speak out adversaries are working full speed crafting a case against SRK. They are preparing a case to destroy his Restoration Movement.
Mthwakazi should get together and meet the critical assignment before her in various countries around the world.
Mayihlome ihlasele!
Inkosi yi nkosi Naboth
Abantu yithi!
Vuka Mthwakazi!
Source - umthwakazireview.com
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