Opinion / Columnist
Matabeleland restorationists shut out of Zimbabwe national dialogue
07 Feb 2019 at 07:21hrs | Views
The latest violent crackdown on fuel protesters put Zimbabwe President, Mnangagwa in the category of tyrannous dictators and genocidists in Africa. The kind who would unleash the army to brutalise and kill innocent civilians at the slightest buzz of a fly.
His international reputation and image seriously bruised and bartered, with his tail in between his legs, he has been forced to crawl to the round table to negotiate with opposition partiThat is, after receiving fierce condemnation from the west for his murderous ways and gross abuse of human rights. The west is his favourite spot for begging and enticing investors so if they talk Mnangagwa shakes.
Apparently missing at the negotiation table are Matabeleland restorationist political organizations that Emmerson Mnangagwa deliberately excluded.
MLO expected the exclusion as we know that Matabeleland revolution puts the fear of God into Mnangagwa's heart. So the presence of MLO at the round table would have caused extreme discomfort for Matabele oppressors.
That makes the so called national negotiations, or whatever they call it, a shona supremacists only political affair. A bunch of tribalists who stand for the narrow interests of shona people and a few hungry Matabeles looking for the crumbs that fall from high tables.
MLO would like to make it abundantly clear that these selfish turncoats do not represent anyone's political interest in Matabeleland except that of their families and their own stomachs.
Whatever resolutions will be born out of the negotiations, will not be worth the ink we are using on this article.
They will not address standing political grievances of Matabeleland which are:
i) restoration of Matabeleland as an independent and sovereign state
ii) Matabeleland genocide compensation of US $ 100 billion.
iii) restoration of Matabele languages, identy culture and king.
iv) urgent revival of border post between Matabeleland and Zimbabwe known as the Jameson Line, and the high border wall, only to name a few in a long list.
The said shona supremacist affair will serve to legitimise Emmerson Mnangagwa as duely elected President of Zimbabwe and give him a begging bowl to run around the world asking for money.
Give him a mammoth task of reviving the economy, an assignment which he has already failed. Such is the culture of Zimbabwe, that is, to expect an old and dry orange tree to bear fruits. The interests of the shona people that are imposed on everyone as national are to resuscitate the economy that was destroyed by Mugabe and Mnangagwa's thieving Zanupf, maintain shona supremacism and institutionalised tribalism and see to it that Matabeles live as slaves drowning in permanent poverty.
After 38 years under shona oppressive rule, one thing Matabele people would not accept in the 21st century is to have shona supremacists and their puppets making political decisions for them.
As long as Matabele people suffer oppression at the hands of shona supremacists, Zimbabwe will never know peace. At MLO we treat shona supremacism with the same contempt and destain we treated white supremacism. If our fathers layed down their lives to fight and defeat white supremacism let all able bodied men and women of Matabeleland lay down their lives to fight and defeat shona supremacism.
Izenzo kungemazwi!
Israel Dube
MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
His international reputation and image seriously bruised and bartered, with his tail in between his legs, he has been forced to crawl to the round table to negotiate with opposition partiThat is, after receiving fierce condemnation from the west for his murderous ways and gross abuse of human rights. The west is his favourite spot for begging and enticing investors so if they talk Mnangagwa shakes.
Apparently missing at the negotiation table are Matabeleland restorationist political organizations that Emmerson Mnangagwa deliberately excluded.
MLO expected the exclusion as we know that Matabeleland revolution puts the fear of God into Mnangagwa's heart. So the presence of MLO at the round table would have caused extreme discomfort for Matabele oppressors.
That makes the so called national negotiations, or whatever they call it, a shona supremacists only political affair. A bunch of tribalists who stand for the narrow interests of shona people and a few hungry Matabeles looking for the crumbs that fall from high tables.
MLO would like to make it abundantly clear that these selfish turncoats do not represent anyone's political interest in Matabeleland except that of their families and their own stomachs.
Whatever resolutions will be born out of the negotiations, will not be worth the ink we are using on this article.
They will not address standing political grievances of Matabeleland which are:
i) restoration of Matabeleland as an independent and sovereign state
ii) Matabeleland genocide compensation of US $ 100 billion.
iv) urgent revival of border post between Matabeleland and Zimbabwe known as the Jameson Line, and the high border wall, only to name a few in a long list.
The said shona supremacist affair will serve to legitimise Emmerson Mnangagwa as duely elected President of Zimbabwe and give him a begging bowl to run around the world asking for money.
Give him a mammoth task of reviving the economy, an assignment which he has already failed. Such is the culture of Zimbabwe, that is, to expect an old and dry orange tree to bear fruits. The interests of the shona people that are imposed on everyone as national are to resuscitate the economy that was destroyed by Mugabe and Mnangagwa's thieving Zanupf, maintain shona supremacism and institutionalised tribalism and see to it that Matabeles live as slaves drowning in permanent poverty.
After 38 years under shona oppressive rule, one thing Matabele people would not accept in the 21st century is to have shona supremacists and their puppets making political decisions for them.
As long as Matabele people suffer oppression at the hands of shona supremacists, Zimbabwe will never know peace. At MLO we treat shona supremacism with the same contempt and destain we treated white supremacism. If our fathers layed down their lives to fight and defeat white supremacism let all able bodied men and women of Matabeleland lay down their lives to fight and defeat shona supremacism.
Izenzo kungemazwi!
Israel Dube
MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
Source - Israel Dube
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