Opinion / Columnist
Tajamuka - Please drop the word 'Ses'jikile' from your name!
30 Aug 2016 at 16:43hrs | Views
If the siNdebele word 'ses'jikile' in Tajamuka's name is intended to wow and woo uMthwakazi into your 'movement', then as Tajamuka you could not have done a shoddier job of your thoughtless and politically naïve adventure. UMthwakazi is not in the business of political adventurism!
Tajamuka, please drop the siNdebele word 'ses'jikile' from your name immediately and continue your activities as you truly are, not as you pretend to be. We see miles of lies between your political rickets! You are Zanuist, Shonaist, and Gukurahundist in political soul through and through. So please openly operate so and leave uMthwakazi alone.
You lie on two dimensions. The first is political, and the second, ethical.
Starting with the political.
You see, it is no political coincidence that you have framed your name as 'Tajamuka/Ses'jikile', instead of 'Ses'jikile/Tajamuka'. And so if you also - shadowy outfits that call yourselves 'movements' for democracy - are feeding from Zanuism and Gukurahundism's political trough - you know the one that politically orders and grades the Shona and uMthwakazi as political superiority and political inferiority, respectively, then you haven't read well what Mugabe and Zanu-PF have now read so well. Go back from whence you all came and think afresh. But lizinuke amakhwapha!
UMthwakazi will not be tribally graded, tribally ordered, or tribally-layered by anyone, not by Zanu-PF, not by the MDC's oiled political (de)branding, and not by any excited new political or 'civil' outfit today.
UMthwakazi is not in 2016 excited about removing Mugabe and Zanu-PF in as much as uMthwakazi has never been excited about removing Mugabe and Zanu-PF from power for the past 36 years. What is sure about uMthwakazi - today as it was yesterday - is a determination to ensure that Mugabeism and Zanuism and their ACTIVE political tools of Shonaism and Gukurahundism are uprooted totally from what is today's Zimbabwe. We are talking the systematic removal of a political system, not the tinkering of its superficial, surface manifestations - whether these are human, institutional, bureaucratic or organizational.
So you are in no doubt what uMthwakazi is saying to you Tajamuka and others like you - and there are many of you out there in different political styles and colours - you are all part and parcel of Mugabeism and Shonaism and are everything that comes with those things. Stay there - please! As uMthwakazi we do not take away nor begrudge your right to be so, we only reject your translucent attempts to fool uMthwakazi this late in the political day.
We therefore despise your condescension and patronizing. All of what you are doing is Zanu. It is MDC, it is ZPF. And it is wrong. We reject all of it with the utter contempt it deserves!
You are not, Tajamuka, anything different from what we have seen since 1980. In fact, you are ALL of what we have seen since 1980: Mugabeism, Zanuism, Shonaism and Gukurahundism. As Mthwakazi we reject you as strongly and as unequivocally as we have rejected all of those things before.
The political joke is therefore on you, Tajamuka!
And to the second point - the ethical point.
Stop lying about uMthwakazi, Tajamuka! Stop it!
UMthwakazi has never been a rebel people, 'dissidents' or 'majamkees'!
UMthwakazi has not revolted, is not revolting, and kajikanga. UMthwakazi is engaged in and has ever been committed to a consistent, persistent, principled and continuous and uninterrupted revolution of freedom, liberation, liberty and independence for ALL peoples who occupy the county known today as Zimbabwe. It is not a revolution against, or a revolution that started with Mugabe and Zanu-PF. Rather, it is a continuing revolution that started with a quest for freedom - wherever you may choose to start that revolution from - and will end only with the achievement of freedom. Mugabe and Zanu-PF's Zimbabwe are just one of many political detours uMthwakazi and uMthwakazism have gone through, from Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia, UDI, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, GNU and others that may follow, on her long road to freedom.
UMthwakazi revolution is far bigger and far more powerful than the many political stops that that revolution will have to go past before the final political destination of freedom. And uMthwakazi revolution has nothing to do with tribe or ethnicity, but with Mthwakazism as a freedom ideal.
Political ideals and cultures are chiselled out in epochs - over time - never as event dramas, and it is easy for many and the undiscerning to lose sight of history's chunks of construction and reconstruction in temporal and spatial terms. But uMthwakazi revolution will not be stopped by, and is indifferent to, these temporary political blindnesses.
And that is why in spatial and temporal terms uMthwakazi was right yesterday and Tajamuka was wrong yesterday when Tajamuka cheered the Gukurahundi genocide, and that is why uMthwakazi is right today as uMthwakazi was right yesterday, and Tajamuka is wrong today as Tajamuka was wrong yesterday. Where Tajamuka today sees an end or a beginning, uMthwakazi sees a continuation.
It is therefore politically mischievous of Tajamuka today to think that uMthwakazi can depart from this ideal today, ajike nje, to the volume and political howling of Tajamuka. Namhla - in 2016? Honestly?
UMthwakazi has no clue what those who say sebejamukile ukuthi sebejamukeni. And we don't want to know! Make ukujamuka lokho yours and yours alone, and not purport to incorporate uMthwakazi ekuhlanyeni kwenu.
UMthwakazi's political sobriety is tested and lived, and therefore firmly anchored in uMthwakaziness. It is not an overnight political itchiness! So, throw them all in, all those wood-winking words - poverty, hunger, joblessness, disease, tyranny, Gukurahundi, corruption, nepotism, democracy, disappearances, collapse, broken society, hatred, border-jumping et cetera. UMthwakazi has lived and experienced all of them alone and in all their lethal combinations for the past 36 years, and beyond. None will fool uMthwakazi today! UMthwakazi has no new pains, only old ones! You do!
So as uMthwakazi, we are angry about your lying about us about this tajamuka thing of yours.
UMthwakazi is not and has never been subsumed into, and is not automatically incorporable into anything Shona, whether via creative names or structuration practices of creating Ndebele deputies to any Shonaist political outfit, as is now a familiar template. Tajamuka, you too do not subsume uMthwakazi in your new political adventure; your discovery of 2016! For us, that is our pain and suffering of the last 200 or so years!
And uMthwakazi is uMthwakazi because she is uMthwakazi, not because of political friends, but in spite of them. Ukujamuka may also be against friends. And uMthwakazi isn't in that busniness!
In the fullness of time, as uMthwakazi, we are anxious to know the political linchpins behind this Tajamuka thing, for those political linchpins are there. And for all uMthwakazi knows, it may well turn out that those characters are people who have abused uMthwakazi most during their 'moment of madness' and who uMthwakazi might not wish to afford the political cover they so crave through these orchestrated lies to disguise their activities.
Inviting uMthwakazi to bring her house down together with theirs because they don't want to see uMthwakazi's standing. Hell, No!
Ukujamuka might also well turn out to have been a second 'moment of madness' unfolding, but checked on the nick of time! Ukuhlanya - ukujamuka - is always followed by many nights of 'long knives' - by friend against friend - to those who don't know, Lajamuka!
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Vuli Moyo <vuli.moyo@gmx.com
Tajamuka, please drop the siNdebele word 'ses'jikile' from your name immediately and continue your activities as you truly are, not as you pretend to be. We see miles of lies between your political rickets! You are Zanuist, Shonaist, and Gukurahundist in political soul through and through. So please openly operate so and leave uMthwakazi alone.
You lie on two dimensions. The first is political, and the second, ethical.
Starting with the political.
You see, it is no political coincidence that you have framed your name as 'Tajamuka/Ses'jikile', instead of 'Ses'jikile/Tajamuka'. And so if you also - shadowy outfits that call yourselves 'movements' for democracy - are feeding from Zanuism and Gukurahundism's political trough - you know the one that politically orders and grades the Shona and uMthwakazi as political superiority and political inferiority, respectively, then you haven't read well what Mugabe and Zanu-PF have now read so well. Go back from whence you all came and think afresh. But lizinuke amakhwapha!
UMthwakazi will not be tribally graded, tribally ordered, or tribally-layered by anyone, not by Zanu-PF, not by the MDC's oiled political (de)branding, and not by any excited new political or 'civil' outfit today.
UMthwakazi is not in 2016 excited about removing Mugabe and Zanu-PF in as much as uMthwakazi has never been excited about removing Mugabe and Zanu-PF from power for the past 36 years. What is sure about uMthwakazi - today as it was yesterday - is a determination to ensure that Mugabeism and Zanuism and their ACTIVE political tools of Shonaism and Gukurahundism are uprooted totally from what is today's Zimbabwe. We are talking the systematic removal of a political system, not the tinkering of its superficial, surface manifestations - whether these are human, institutional, bureaucratic or organizational.
So you are in no doubt what uMthwakazi is saying to you Tajamuka and others like you - and there are many of you out there in different political styles and colours - you are all part and parcel of Mugabeism and Shonaism and are everything that comes with those things. Stay there - please! As uMthwakazi we do not take away nor begrudge your right to be so, we only reject your translucent attempts to fool uMthwakazi this late in the political day.
We therefore despise your condescension and patronizing. All of what you are doing is Zanu. It is MDC, it is ZPF. And it is wrong. We reject all of it with the utter contempt it deserves!
You are not, Tajamuka, anything different from what we have seen since 1980. In fact, you are ALL of what we have seen since 1980: Mugabeism, Zanuism, Shonaism and Gukurahundism. As Mthwakazi we reject you as strongly and as unequivocally as we have rejected all of those things before.
The political joke is therefore on you, Tajamuka!
And to the second point - the ethical point.
Stop lying about uMthwakazi, Tajamuka! Stop it!
UMthwakazi has never been a rebel people, 'dissidents' or 'majamkees'!
UMthwakazi has not revolted, is not revolting, and kajikanga. UMthwakazi is engaged in and has ever been committed to a consistent, persistent, principled and continuous and uninterrupted revolution of freedom, liberation, liberty and independence for ALL peoples who occupy the county known today as Zimbabwe. It is not a revolution against, or a revolution that started with Mugabe and Zanu-PF. Rather, it is a continuing revolution that started with a quest for freedom - wherever you may choose to start that revolution from - and will end only with the achievement of freedom. Mugabe and Zanu-PF's Zimbabwe are just one of many political detours uMthwakazi and uMthwakazism have gone through, from Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia, UDI, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, GNU and others that may follow, on her long road to freedom.
UMthwakazi revolution is far bigger and far more powerful than the many political stops that that revolution will have to go past before the final political destination of freedom. And uMthwakazi revolution has nothing to do with tribe or ethnicity, but with Mthwakazism as a freedom ideal.
Political ideals and cultures are chiselled out in epochs - over time - never as event dramas, and it is easy for many and the undiscerning to lose sight of history's chunks of construction and reconstruction in temporal and spatial terms. But uMthwakazi revolution will not be stopped by, and is indifferent to, these temporary political blindnesses.
And that is why in spatial and temporal terms uMthwakazi was right yesterday and Tajamuka was wrong yesterday when Tajamuka cheered the Gukurahundi genocide, and that is why uMthwakazi is right today as uMthwakazi was right yesterday, and Tajamuka is wrong today as Tajamuka was wrong yesterday. Where Tajamuka today sees an end or a beginning, uMthwakazi sees a continuation.
It is therefore politically mischievous of Tajamuka today to think that uMthwakazi can depart from this ideal today, ajike nje, to the volume and political howling of Tajamuka. Namhla - in 2016? Honestly?
UMthwakazi has no clue what those who say sebejamukile ukuthi sebejamukeni. And we don't want to know! Make ukujamuka lokho yours and yours alone, and not purport to incorporate uMthwakazi ekuhlanyeni kwenu.
UMthwakazi's political sobriety is tested and lived, and therefore firmly anchored in uMthwakaziness. It is not an overnight political itchiness! So, throw them all in, all those wood-winking words - poverty, hunger, joblessness, disease, tyranny, Gukurahundi, corruption, nepotism, democracy, disappearances, collapse, broken society, hatred, border-jumping et cetera. UMthwakazi has lived and experienced all of them alone and in all their lethal combinations for the past 36 years, and beyond. None will fool uMthwakazi today! UMthwakazi has no new pains, only old ones! You do!
So as uMthwakazi, we are angry about your lying about us about this tajamuka thing of yours.
UMthwakazi is not and has never been subsumed into, and is not automatically incorporable into anything Shona, whether via creative names or structuration practices of creating Ndebele deputies to any Shonaist political outfit, as is now a familiar template. Tajamuka, you too do not subsume uMthwakazi in your new political adventure; your discovery of 2016! For us, that is our pain and suffering of the last 200 or so years!
And uMthwakazi is uMthwakazi because she is uMthwakazi, not because of political friends, but in spite of them. Ukujamuka may also be against friends. And uMthwakazi isn't in that busniness!
In the fullness of time, as uMthwakazi, we are anxious to know the political linchpins behind this Tajamuka thing, for those political linchpins are there. And for all uMthwakazi knows, it may well turn out that those characters are people who have abused uMthwakazi most during their 'moment of madness' and who uMthwakazi might not wish to afford the political cover they so crave through these orchestrated lies to disguise their activities.
Inviting uMthwakazi to bring her house down together with theirs because they don't want to see uMthwakazi's standing. Hell, No!
Ukujamuka might also well turn out to have been a second 'moment of madness' unfolding, but checked on the nick of time! Ukuhlanya - ukujamuka - is always followed by many nights of 'long knives' - by friend against friend - to those who don't know, Lajamuka!
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Vuli Moyo <vuli.moyo@gmx.com
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