Overcoming the tide of tribalism

The former ANC President, Comrade OR, once said that the demon of racism has to be uprooted in its totality because it brutalizes entire peoples, destroy persons, warps the process of thought and injects into humanity, a foul air of tension, mutual antagonism and hatred including that it demeans and dehumanizes both victim and practitioner.

These words befit Zimbabwean situation, a fake united country infested with a demon of tribalism ever experienced on earth.

A country with generations that have accepted a politics that breeds divisions and conflicts and cynicism as a way of life.  

Re-building Zimbabwe into a non-tribal state requires more than just SPEECHES meloded and recited during the unveiling of the statue of Father Zimbabwe.

We must live it, feel it and pursue it in order to be counted within the column of progress.

By the way this is one of the many reasons why ZAPU served ZANU with divorce papers.  

Tribalism has been made an ideology in Zimbabwe for the past three decades and it seems sooner or later it will be one of the fields of study or major.

This policy of divide and marginalise according to tribal lines, has been artfully planned, systematically executed and thoughtfully institutionalised.

It has not been a mere collection of ideas but feelings, likes, dislikes, hopes, fears have been used to promote and establish it.

All forms of art have been the weapons used to advance this evil state.

The institutionalization of tribalism by the state, has left many Ndebele speaking people bitter about Shona speaking people.

To a Ndebele speaking person, Shona speaking people are to be blamed for all the misfortunes, marginalisation, pain and suffering that they have experienced since the dawn of independence.

The truth is, amongst the Shona speaking people are Zezurus; the Korekores; the Manicas etc, of which the majority have not subscribed to the policy of tribalism, ALTHOUGH they have benefited from it.

Zimbabweans from Mashonaland West, Masvingo and Manicaland have also seen severe under-development. Shona speaking people in these areas who were ZAPU members or sympathetic to ZAPU, suffered the same fate as Ndebeles from this government.

As Zimbabweans, time has come to accept that only ZANU PF cronies carried out the atrocies against the Ndebeles not Shona speaking people.  

Therefore the challenge facing us is the solution of the problem of tribal line thinking. We should be able to learn and know the destructive impact of the ideology and practice of tribalism.

We must intensify the struggle to eradicate tribalism for the creation of a non-tribal thinking society and the only REVOLUTIONAL MOVEMENT to champion this is ZAPU!

It did in the past and it is doing it now and will continue to do it.

ZAPU leaders came from all tribes and languages. Until such time we understand that a government voted into power in 1980 on questionable grounds, designed; implemented and institutionalised the idea of tribalism amongst our people; we will forever be bonded into captivity of tribalism.

This demon has brutalised and destroyed the nation. Living side by side as advocated by uNyongolo, has become a nightmare.

Yet some have courage to sing praises of what he stood for but fail to follow in his footsteps. Therefore let us uproot tribalism in its totality or it will exterminate us.