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Chikasha's ADP, Gukurahundi and Genuine Change needed in Zimbabwe

27 Aug 2014 at 06:43hrs | Views

It is quite healthy for a Shona mouth in the form of Chikasha to kick off her ADP party by reminding Mugabe to publicly apologise for Gukurahundi killings. Let me be very quick to describe myself (this writer) as a Zapu member of Karanga origin. I have read the negative comments on internet websites criticising this new lady for talking about Gukurahundi with her guilty Shona mouth. I also believe the Shona are collaterally guilty for a sin that was carried out 30 years ago under their name. It is true that Germans are still carrying and accounting for the sins of Hitler that were carried under their names before the new generation was born. It is therefore a lesson that people must never allow a killer to maim people using their name. Mugabe killed to please the Shona and Chikasha, like the Germans is saying loudly, "NOT UNDER MY NAME!!"

Read the comments about Gukurahundi carefully on Internet, there are some people who did not kill and did not participate in Gukurahundi but will never see the heaven of God because of careless comments they write. These people are young and misled and they praise Gukurahundi for revenging the killing of the Shona by Mzilikazi in year 1830- 35. The God I know will not accept such mouths in his Kingdom because if he does, it means the Ndebele must also revenge for Gukurahundi which was carried out in 1983. If I read God well, he says, "Do not Revenge for Revenge is for me!"

Some ignonomous  caricatures will be eternally punished for the sins they did not commit but chose to praise. Some people were buried alive by Gukurahundi and in Shona we say, "seka hurema wafa/ hleka isilima usufile". This is so because you can't laugh at Gukurahundi victims who were buried alive before you see the form of your own death. Think of Manyika, Nkala, Tekere and especially Mujuru who died exactly in the same manner Gukurahundi victims died.

"God forgive me now if I have ever praised the death of anyone and glorified it!!!"

Chikasha, President of the newly formed ADP is however a brilliant woman, in my imagination, who is unique in many ways and has to get my support. Firstly she is a woman; unique for a Zimbabwean woman to form a political party. Secondly being Shona, she kicks her party's first step by demanding answers for a Ndebele generational open scar of Gukurahundi; unique for a Shona leader to begin a journey by showing concern about the Ndebele. Thirdly, she is probably the only Shona party leader to condemn Gukurahundi far from the election date while the likes of Tsvangirai and MDC are scheduled to speak about Gukurahundi in January 2018. After elections, Tsvangirai will forget pressing Mugabe into account about Gukurahundi but will call Ndebeles termites, especially to Welshman Ncube.

Chikasha is a three dimensional unique and germinating leader who deserves my assistance although I will remain in Joshua Nkomo's Zapu till the skies collapse.

I have a catalogue of advice to Chikasha and ADP; your party needs to be both vocal and visible in order to make inroads. If you look at Zimbabwean opposition politicians including my own party, they go into hibernation every time soon after elections and wake up very late claiming to have the people at heart. Look at these weaknesses and avoid being just as ordinary. I have already described you as unique and you must keep that tittle. Take a diligent note in that the President of the party has to be seen and heard by Zimbabweans on a daily basis. Do not be like our ordinary opposition leaders who are so quite that you won't even know what they are thinking of until there is a party split. Dedicate your mouth to speak more about real issues that many opposition party leaders are afraid to talk about beginning with Gukurahundi as you have already done. Remember the first step Mugabe took to destroy Zimbabwe was forming and using Gukurahundi against Zimbabweans. Go to every province and meet people, even a meeting with six right people goes a long way in getting your party accepted by the general public. Convert negative comments that you receive from critics into a positive tool to hone you into a fine, polished, unique, fair, open, genuine and tribe-free accomplished Zimbabwean leader. Uniqueness will reward you and your party! Do not fear to criticise Tsvangirai for hanging into a once promising organisation into a heap of divided manure it is today. Remind the Nation on a daily or weekly basis to open their eyes and memories and count how Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe slowly from 1961.

Take the Nation for a walk and chronologically read for us the destructive walk of Mugabe from 1961 until today. Read to the Nation regularly that Black Rhodesians of all tribes chose Joshua Nkomo in 1957 to lead Black people against state oppression. Show the Nation imaginatively how things were in 1957 and how the Police were used against the people then, and how a minority White tribe was made to prosper against all else and how today the Police are used against the people, and how the Zezuru tribe is cleared to prosper against all else in Mugabe's ideal Zimbabwe.

 I don't know what tribe you are Mrs Chikasha but even if you were a currently state favoured  Zezuru, you are one unique one who does not want to prosper at the expense of all else. Even during the White Colonial Regime days, there were state favoured Whites who refused to be favoured by satan at the expense of others.  Go on and slowly teach the Nation how Mugabe was made by Chikerema to join politics in 1960 and how Nkomo trusted Mugabe and made him Zapu Secretary General.  Read out to the Nation how Mugabe learnt the politics of tribal divisions and numbers in Ghana in 1959 and how he imported that stencil into Zapu creating a 1963 Ndebele Shona division which was none existent in Nkomo's Zapu before Mugabe was employed.

On your slow walk with the Nation, point to us how tribe was used in Zanu against Ndabaningi Sithole for being a Ndau. Take us down to memory lane and remind us how President Mugabe finally took the full reigns of Zanu in 1977 and how the Karangas were blindly mis-treated in the Zezuru led Zanu. Give us numbers of how many Karangas villagers were killed by Zezuru Zanla operatives in Shurugwi, Gweru, Masvingo, Gutu in 1977-79 soon after Mugabe had taken the reigns. Point out how Josia Magama Tongogara wanted genuine unity with Zapu and how he died at the height of his effort. Use the true facts in history to make young and fooled Zimbabweans know how our generation was used in order for Mugabe to ruin, divide and impoverish us.

Help this Nation to revive it's memory and remember how our infrastructure was at Independence in 1980. Deal with small and big things like the smell of Zimbabwean bread in 1980 and its taste, quality, price and value. Revive our imagination on the wealth of Manufacturing and Engineering Industries all around our country in 1980 compared to what it is today. Make us remember the state of Railways, Air Zimbabwe, roads, cities, water and power supplies, agriculture and Educational Institutions. Gear the Nation to force Mugabe to account for what we have lost over all these years because of his incompetence and tribal hierarchy.

Stand with the Nation in revealing how Mugabe feared opposition posed by Joshua Nkomo and how Mugabe murdered poor civilians for politics. Do not fly or hoover above this issue but get down to it's microscopic details and tell Zimbabweans how Gukurahundi shoved AK 47 riffles in opposition women's privates and pressed the trigger. Give microscopic detail of how healthy men were buried alive for the sin of being Zapu. Show the actual terroristic nature of President Mugabe and stop hovering over microscopic details like Tsvangirai and the rest of timid opposition leaders. Remember you don't have to be made to prove that pregnant women had their bellies ripped off by Gukurahundi. All you have to do is to say what the witnesses have written. You were not there as much as Mugabe and Zanu were not there in year 1896 when Colonialists shot our leaders to steal our country.

Explain to the Nation why the Gukurahundi issue cannot be swept under the carpet and display the current effect of Gukurahundi giving examples of this writer who was born Zanu and victimised by Gukurahundi to the extent of losing a home and ending up in exile for the sin of being a Ndebele speaking Shona.  Talk about the difficulties of getting birth-certificates and IDs for marginalised regions of this country for the sin of not being Zezuru.

Move on with the Nation on a daily basis making yourself heard and hold our hands in a counsellor-tory manner. Remind us of our 1980 hope and expectation as a Nation, how we expected to live and own property side by side with our White countrymen who have the undisputed expertise we need most as a Nation. Remind us how we expected the Black leadership to remove any essence of tribe, nepotism, racist, sexist (Not Satanic Homosexual though), marginalisation, corruption or lawlessness. Remind us how we expected the Police, Public Service and Teachers in different regions to expertly speak the local language and in a manner that represents state dignity and courtesy. Revive our memory how we imagined the superiority of the Rule of Law and respect for private property and the security and trust of our financial systems. Remind us how we envisaged the Health sector and the sacrosancy of life. How we imagined the pension systems for our senior citizens as versus to what we it is today.

Say it louder than any opposition party that all we dreamed to happen to us as a reward for Independence did not happen to us but instead happened to Mugabe and his family and to his tribe.

Point out as explicitly as you can that Mr Mugabe's Blue Roof Mansion and its interior décor  is what every Zimbabwean dreamy of. Point to us clearly that a good leader is one who rewards his subjects first before he rewards himself because if he rewards himself first, he will lose taste of the real bad experience of suffrage that his people suffer.

Tell us that if Mr Mugabe has us in his heart as his people as he promised in 1977, he would be living in a shack in Mbare waiting for everyone in Zimbabwe to build a Blue Roof Mansion first. Mr Mugabe would be getting treated at Parerenyatwa hospital for all his ailments waiting for every Zimbabwean to get treated in best World hospitals before he can qualify.

There are so many true and real issues to talk about everyday to conscientise this Nation and get the Nation to stop trusting a useless institution of deceivers. This is the only way to get the support of the country.

Then finally, Mrs Chikasha and ADP, you have to be very intelligent, sensitive and creative in knitting up the officials of your party. DO NOT CREATE TOKEN LEADERS, ZIMBABWEANS ARE INTELLIGENT THEY WILL SEE THAT! Stop electing your deputy president to be Karanga if you are Karanga or Zezuru if you are Zezuru. Get unique and keep that tittle. If you are Zezuru, make sure your deputy is Tonga and your Secretary General Ndebele. Don't overshadow your deputy to become influenceless like Thokozani Khuphe or John Nkomo. Give them enough power to sometimes override your decisions you are not God who knows it all.

Make your spokesperson English and finance-man Karanga. Your organising secretary must be Venda and foreign affairs Manyika. Secretary for education Ndau and secretary for culture Suthu. Your Industry ministry must be headed by a man of San origin.   

Avoid the temptation of tribe. Africa is dead, poor and weak because of the temptation of tribe.

Be unique!

Teach yourself and accept that you can't be both Ndebele and Shona by birth but you can live a rewarding life which does not judge countryman by virtue of tribe. It is not your fault that you are born Chikasha but it is your fault if your Chikasha birthright becomes an obstacle to a Khumalo birthright!!! Teach the Nation by example to live and let live. No single Zimbabwean must be systematically barred from opportunity because he is not of your birth-tribe as it is in Bulawayo since 1982.

Zimbabwe needs an ideal leader. An Ideal Zimbabwean leader cannot be an ordinary opportunistic person trying luck. It can only be an ordinary person working hard daily to become UNIQUELY FAIR and remove SELF.

 By the year that the people of  Ndebele origin begin to kiss and love you for your fair and proven groundwork as a Shona woman, they will permanently hold on to you and build a pillar with their Gukurahundi scarred bodies for you to stand upon so high that the whole of Zimbabwe will see and kiss you for being UNIQUE AND FAIR.

It is impossible for you to become a great party tomorrow by the mare online good words you have said. It is very possible for your name to be known all over the World by 2016 if you visit 100 homes in Tsholotsho, sleeping and talking to survivors of Gukurahundi. It will make you a number one Zimbabwean  leader in 2016 if you start from next week to visit and sleep in the 100 houses of victims of Broken Promises in Zaka, Chivi, Marondera, Chipinge, Khezi, Masvingo, Nkai, Lupane and Plumtree. No Zimbabwean opposition politician will match your uniqueness if you visit and hold talks with White displaced farmers and promise them smaller plots of land on which to rightfully exercise their birthright as was promised by Nkomo in 1979. Nkomo never said cease White farms and cease their birthright, he said reduce the mad size of their land and teach them to live side by side with blacks in respect and in harmony guaranteed by state. Which other country in the World is without Whites like Zimbabwe or rather which other country in the World is without Blacks? Why are we, Zimbabweans, forced to take an extreme revengative stance against people that we know very well developed our country to greatest heights in just 20 years from year 1894?

Why should we be forced to pretend that our patriotism is all to do with foolish revenge of flushing out Whites and their undisputed expertise?  Why since Independence have we not built our own Aeroplanes or just a single mobile phone device or a gramophone since we are obsessed with patriotism and old dreams?

Mrs Chikasha and your Party, get UNIQUE, do not bring the talk show that everyone has brought in Zimbabwe. Seek advice and have the wisdom to select correct advice from trillions of volumes of contradicting advices that are knitted by people with hidden motives.

I wish your party goodluck. I write at the strength and fairness of Joshua Nkomo's Zapu which, from the beginning of time in 1957, guided and advised all Zimbabweans political parties into greater heights. Zapu is the mother, root and seed of democracy in Zimbabwe and I wish Zimbabweans had given us opportunity in 1980 to show the World how a fair and credible Unique Black-led party operates. In Zapu, we refused to drive Zimbabwe into the suicide it is today at the temptation of tribal hierarchy. Our leader Joshua Nkomo was not even a Ndebele, he was a Kalanga. Only Mr Mugabe called him a Ndebele and Mr Mugabe comes from far away in tribes that do not fully understand the science of diversity. Zapu inherited diversity from Mzilikazi who formed a Ndebele Nation out of diverse tribes in southern Africa including the Karanga, Rozvi and Kalanga. We upheld diversity since year 1830 and unfortunately the science of diversity has never had access in Zvimba thus why it is hard for the President to genuinely master tribal diversity. He was a mistake from the start in 1977 and thus why we are now in this sorry state.

Joshua Nkomo's Zapu and Zanu under Tongogara, a Karanga Graduate and Product of the Science of Mzilikazis Divesity would have propelled Zimbabwe to much greater heights.

Source - Ryton Dzimiri
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