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A fourth letter to all women in Zimbabwe in preparation for the grand boycott!
23 Feb 2015 at 17:21hrs | Views
International Women's Day
8th March 2015
"Passive resistance"
Dear Zimbabwe Women and Men of all ethnic societies,
The day of reckoning in getting nearer, are we prepared enough to take the beast by its horns? Are we still procrastinating weather we should go for freedom or stay in servitude? It is indeed a scary situation. Each time we are faced with such political decisions we are compelled to think about the war, the bush war of the seventies, to most of us, it is still fresh in our minds. Then the Gugurahundi of the early 1980s again scares the people of Mathebeleland and Midlands, the farm invasions, the Murambatsvina, the 2008 general elections, mavhotera papi, all those crimes against humanity perpetrated to its own citizens make us weak! They bore the physical and emotional wounds and sometimes they wish they should never be taken back to those dark days of our history. It is this fear that the regime and its machinery play on our minds.
The Zanu machinery tease us with our fear, hence they can utter anything as insulting as it comes to us: Mphoko's utterances of the recent past are evidence of this. Mphoko can afford to tell liars daylight without shame on his face. One wonders if he is indeed mentally challenged. Here is a person who has never visited his conscience in his entire life time as freedom fighter and/or CIO killing machinery. We have become feeble and we have been cowed to think we cannot do anything but succumb to the evil acts of the Zanu regime. We have not seen it yet dear citizens. This criminal cabal called Mugabe is so old that he does not really know how and who in the government is running it, it's no longer important for him anywhere. The people of Zimbabwe have never been his priorities from the word go: April 18th 1980. We shall be left with Mnangagwa on our plate when Mugabe dies or worst-case-scenario his wife Grace will be the next President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. I tell you dear citizens we can as well embrace ourselves for yet a second genocide, worse than what we already have experienced in the 1980s.
Now it is the fourth letter I have written to you asking you to bring change in Zimbabwe. I am sure questions are beginning to insist in your minds: who is Nomazulu Thata? In a nutshell, I was born in Makhokhoba, Bulawayo, a great-grand-daughter of the Khoy-Khoy & San populations, commonly known as Abatwa. The Stanley Square that we all know, there was a clinic nearby that was then rebuilt into a Makhokhoba beer hall. It was in, then a clinic, where I was born. Inkaba yami lies in those areas between Stanley Square and ST. Columbus Mission now called St. Columbus Secondary School. My body is here in Germany, but dear citizens, my heart is in Zimbabwe and there in Makhokhoba Township. I visualize the Township I was born in, almost every day and I wish I was part of the residents of this great Township. I wish I was there listening to their concerns and what challenges the residents are facing almost every day of their lives. To say that Makhokhoba Township, just like Mbare Township, has been long forgotten by the powers-that-be is a gross underestimate. At best I would have said the government of Zanu does not care about the sufferings of the people of Zimbabwe as a whole it did not matter what region one comes from. We are all in this mess together it does not matter which ethnic group you belong to now. It is for this reason that we can all engage in this "passive resistance" collectively to bring this regime down.
To know me further, I will introduce my books I have just published. The first one that is a biography now available at Amazon as eBook is called "No evil shall she fear" ASIN: BOOPEYAOC. I was battling with my conscience not even a month ago when I started asking myself very pertinent questions about the title of the book. My book is called "No evil shall she fear," what will the girl of five years who was sacrificed by her mother, going call her own book she will write later in her life? Let me take you back to this horrific incident that was in the "The independent" newspaper no long ago this month, dear fellow women:
" an incident of a five year old toddler who was sacrificed by her own mother for a train fare to travel to South Africa looking for those jobs. When the five year old girl started crying, shouting with pain, resulting from the penis penetration of the man, the mother, who was present in the hut where rape of a toddler took place, did not rescue her, she wanted the mission accomplished, she wanted that money. She waited there to see it to finish and demand the money she wanted from him"
My pertinent question again is, when this toddler grows up and she writes her own book, what title is she going to use to her book? My own experiences as a girl-child are not very far from what the experiences of these girls in Zimbabwe are going through today. Hence we wish for a social, political and economic paradigm shift regarding the plight of toddlers, girls, young women mothers and grandmothers. We are all victims of a violent and brutal patriarchal political system wholly embedded in almost all our societies in Zimbabwe. It irks one, just to imagine, just to visualize a man enjoying his sex on top of a toddler of five years, 15 minutes stand! Out of the realm of normal senses, a beast at best, barbaric but last! The mother to this girl-child, some satanic scrap heap! God please forgive me for these foul meditations!
My second book that will be in the market in a week's time is called: "Sweet mother, let you no cry again." This book focuses mostly on the lives of women of my generation across Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia. I had the blessing of living in two societies in then Rhodesia, in Mathebeleland and also in Mashonaland, kwa Msengezi near Makwiro or Zvimba depending where you will be coming from. I am sure most women in Zimbabwe will identify themselves with this book somehow or other. These stories are all but true just the names and places got altered for confidentiality purposes. I hope it shall invoke discussion about many issues that are highlighted in the book. I wish to apologize in advance that the publishing at present is on eBook and not yet on paper, this is wholly temporal, as within six months of today it shall indeed be on paper as well. The moral messages that this carries, I leave all to your accurate judgment and discussions that may ignite inside Zimbabwe itself.
The fight for the rights of women in Zimbabwe started long back before I wrote the books. It was started by our own mothers. But all of us know what happened when we got our independence. Women were selectively given positions of power as a mere decoration, not out of conviction that women are equal to men. The writing of the books gave me enthusiasm and power to do more for myself and others. The fight for women's rights and freedom does not end by writing two books but will continue together hand in hand with other women, until women are equal to men and our toddlers and girls are protected by the law of the land from pedophiles in our midst. It was not funny to hear Mugabe telling his counterparts in Addis Ababa that women can never be equal to men just last month in year 2015, fifteen years after the new Millennium. Nkosazana Dr. Zuma was present as Secretary General of the African Union. What did she say when she heard all those Heads of States applauding at the orchestra of insanity, a nonagenarian denigrating women of Africa at the glare of the world press? I find Nkosazana guilty just by her silence! She let millions of women in Africa down. To be kind to her she left her polygamous Jacob Zuma as husband, credit to her, at some stage in her life she saw sense, what we should all do.
Fasting-: Please dear women let's not forget to pray for the better life coming, when we in the Diaspora shall pack our bags and come home to Zimbabwe forever. We dedicate this month of March to God our almighty, to hear us when we pray. We are giving up what we like most to be nearer to him when we give up what we love most: sex in our loving bedrooms for the better good. New life full of food securities, good schools for our children, jobs for your young men and women, clean water and sanitation, better housing, electricity at any time of the day, shopping at Haddon & Sly or Bourbadors or Greatermans until to our satisfaction., taking holidays to Victoria Falls and Hunyani River, visiting Chimanimani Mountains, maiwe! Maiwe! Yebo ke, Yebo ke! Zimbabwe is a rich country and it is not a dream to say all those goodies can belong to us if we give absolute sacrifice now and work hard to bring glory in our beloved country Zimbabwe. All our educated elite will come home and rebuild what has been destroyed by the wicked regime of Zanu PF.
Do not lose hope when you see them behaving the way they are doing. It is their last chance, their last supper, their last stand, we have seen it happening in other most despotic African countries, they were hunted and chased like rats, they had nowhere to hide. We just say to them: hokoyo! Mazofarisa manje! Lithabe ledlulisa amalawulo! Just two days ago they were celebrating the 91st birthday of the genocide architect, Robert Mugabe. Bootlickers fell on each other with shame praises. The two VPs competed on stage, who was going to heap praise better than the other? At some stage they danced to compete and Mugabe stared in disbelief at the not so young bones, shaking to please. This time round they fed on elephant meat, because chickens are no longer enough for them, chickens are their daily foods, they wanted something exotic to eat at Elephant & Castle hotel near Victoria Falls.
There is a purpose why God did it the way he did it. To give us Zanu government first and we suffer for 35 years under this oppressive yoke. We shall be united as one people regardless of tribe color, creed, religion, whatever orientation we all belong to. We shall learn to live together in harmony. We shall learn that Zimbabwe belongs to all of us who live in it. It is a blessing in disguise no less to have gone through what we have already seen. We shall leave Zimbabwe a safe place for all our children and children's children. They will thank us for this, forever. Please dear citizens, stuff up your food cupboards at the kitchen and wait for the 8th of March to come. Our men will assist us to make a total boycott and crush the regime once and for all. When the evil regime has gone the people will decide what government they want. We shall have peaceful elections that will be credible to the world village and we live happy ever after. Fasting yes, for the month of March!
Ndini Chirikadzi chenyu
Yimi Ugogo omncane
Yes we can!
Nomazulu Thata is a political activist who resides in Germany. She is a senior member of the party Zunde: the Deputy National Chairperson. This call to boycott is a call to all women citizens of Zimbabwe of all political parties and non political oriented persons; it is therefore nowhere in conflict with her party Zunde position and aspirations. She can be contacted on: nonzwakazi.fezi@outlook.de
8th March 2015
"Passive resistance"
Dear Zimbabwe Women and Men of all ethnic societies,
The day of reckoning in getting nearer, are we prepared enough to take the beast by its horns? Are we still procrastinating weather we should go for freedom or stay in servitude? It is indeed a scary situation. Each time we are faced with such political decisions we are compelled to think about the war, the bush war of the seventies, to most of us, it is still fresh in our minds. Then the Gugurahundi of the early 1980s again scares the people of Mathebeleland and Midlands, the farm invasions, the Murambatsvina, the 2008 general elections, mavhotera papi, all those crimes against humanity perpetrated to its own citizens make us weak! They bore the physical and emotional wounds and sometimes they wish they should never be taken back to those dark days of our history. It is this fear that the regime and its machinery play on our minds.
The Zanu machinery tease us with our fear, hence they can utter anything as insulting as it comes to us: Mphoko's utterances of the recent past are evidence of this. Mphoko can afford to tell liars daylight without shame on his face. One wonders if he is indeed mentally challenged. Here is a person who has never visited his conscience in his entire life time as freedom fighter and/or CIO killing machinery. We have become feeble and we have been cowed to think we cannot do anything but succumb to the evil acts of the Zanu regime. We have not seen it yet dear citizens. This criminal cabal called Mugabe is so old that he does not really know how and who in the government is running it, it's no longer important for him anywhere. The people of Zimbabwe have never been his priorities from the word go: April 18th 1980. We shall be left with Mnangagwa on our plate when Mugabe dies or worst-case-scenario his wife Grace will be the next President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. I tell you dear citizens we can as well embrace ourselves for yet a second genocide, worse than what we already have experienced in the 1980s.
Now it is the fourth letter I have written to you asking you to bring change in Zimbabwe. I am sure questions are beginning to insist in your minds: who is Nomazulu Thata? In a nutshell, I was born in Makhokhoba, Bulawayo, a great-grand-daughter of the Khoy-Khoy & San populations, commonly known as Abatwa. The Stanley Square that we all know, there was a clinic nearby that was then rebuilt into a Makhokhoba beer hall. It was in, then a clinic, where I was born. Inkaba yami lies in those areas between Stanley Square and ST. Columbus Mission now called St. Columbus Secondary School. My body is here in Germany, but dear citizens, my heart is in Zimbabwe and there in Makhokhoba Township. I visualize the Township I was born in, almost every day and I wish I was part of the residents of this great Township. I wish I was there listening to their concerns and what challenges the residents are facing almost every day of their lives. To say that Makhokhoba Township, just like Mbare Township, has been long forgotten by the powers-that-be is a gross underestimate. At best I would have said the government of Zanu does not care about the sufferings of the people of Zimbabwe as a whole it did not matter what region one comes from. We are all in this mess together it does not matter which ethnic group you belong to now. It is for this reason that we can all engage in this "passive resistance" collectively to bring this regime down.
To know me further, I will introduce my books I have just published. The first one that is a biography now available at Amazon as eBook is called "No evil shall she fear" ASIN: BOOPEYAOC. I was battling with my conscience not even a month ago when I started asking myself very pertinent questions about the title of the book. My book is called "No evil shall she fear," what will the girl of five years who was sacrificed by her mother, going call her own book she will write later in her life? Let me take you back to this horrific incident that was in the "The independent" newspaper no long ago this month, dear fellow women:
" an incident of a five year old toddler who was sacrificed by her own mother for a train fare to travel to South Africa looking for those jobs. When the five year old girl started crying, shouting with pain, resulting from the penis penetration of the man, the mother, who was present in the hut where rape of a toddler took place, did not rescue her, she wanted the mission accomplished, she wanted that money. She waited there to see it to finish and demand the money she wanted from him"
My pertinent question again is, when this toddler grows up and she writes her own book, what title is she going to use to her book? My own experiences as a girl-child are not very far from what the experiences of these girls in Zimbabwe are going through today. Hence we wish for a social, political and economic paradigm shift regarding the plight of toddlers, girls, young women mothers and grandmothers. We are all victims of a violent and brutal patriarchal political system wholly embedded in almost all our societies in Zimbabwe. It irks one, just to imagine, just to visualize a man enjoying his sex on top of a toddler of five years, 15 minutes stand! Out of the realm of normal senses, a beast at best, barbaric but last! The mother to this girl-child, some satanic scrap heap! God please forgive me for these foul meditations!
My second book that will be in the market in a week's time is called: "Sweet mother, let you no cry again." This book focuses mostly on the lives of women of my generation across Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia. I had the blessing of living in two societies in then Rhodesia, in Mathebeleland and also in Mashonaland, kwa Msengezi near Makwiro or Zvimba depending where you will be coming from. I am sure most women in Zimbabwe will identify themselves with this book somehow or other. These stories are all but true just the names and places got altered for confidentiality purposes. I hope it shall invoke discussion about many issues that are highlighted in the book. I wish to apologize in advance that the publishing at present is on eBook and not yet on paper, this is wholly temporal, as within six months of today it shall indeed be on paper as well. The moral messages that this carries, I leave all to your accurate judgment and discussions that may ignite inside Zimbabwe itself.
The fight for the rights of women in Zimbabwe started long back before I wrote the books. It was started by our own mothers. But all of us know what happened when we got our independence. Women were selectively given positions of power as a mere decoration, not out of conviction that women are equal to men. The writing of the books gave me enthusiasm and power to do more for myself and others. The fight for women's rights and freedom does not end by writing two books but will continue together hand in hand with other women, until women are equal to men and our toddlers and girls are protected by the law of the land from pedophiles in our midst. It was not funny to hear Mugabe telling his counterparts in Addis Ababa that women can never be equal to men just last month in year 2015, fifteen years after the new Millennium. Nkosazana Dr. Zuma was present as Secretary General of the African Union. What did she say when she heard all those Heads of States applauding at the orchestra of insanity, a nonagenarian denigrating women of Africa at the glare of the world press? I find Nkosazana guilty just by her silence! She let millions of women in Africa down. To be kind to her she left her polygamous Jacob Zuma as husband, credit to her, at some stage in her life she saw sense, what we should all do.
Fasting-: Please dear women let's not forget to pray for the better life coming, when we in the Diaspora shall pack our bags and come home to Zimbabwe forever. We dedicate this month of March to God our almighty, to hear us when we pray. We are giving up what we like most to be nearer to him when we give up what we love most: sex in our loving bedrooms for the better good. New life full of food securities, good schools for our children, jobs for your young men and women, clean water and sanitation, better housing, electricity at any time of the day, shopping at Haddon & Sly or Bourbadors or Greatermans until to our satisfaction., taking holidays to Victoria Falls and Hunyani River, visiting Chimanimani Mountains, maiwe! Maiwe! Yebo ke, Yebo ke! Zimbabwe is a rich country and it is not a dream to say all those goodies can belong to us if we give absolute sacrifice now and work hard to bring glory in our beloved country Zimbabwe. All our educated elite will come home and rebuild what has been destroyed by the wicked regime of Zanu PF.
Do not lose hope when you see them behaving the way they are doing. It is their last chance, their last supper, their last stand, we have seen it happening in other most despotic African countries, they were hunted and chased like rats, they had nowhere to hide. We just say to them: hokoyo! Mazofarisa manje! Lithabe ledlulisa amalawulo! Just two days ago they were celebrating the 91st birthday of the genocide architect, Robert Mugabe. Bootlickers fell on each other with shame praises. The two VPs competed on stage, who was going to heap praise better than the other? At some stage they danced to compete and Mugabe stared in disbelief at the not so young bones, shaking to please. This time round they fed on elephant meat, because chickens are no longer enough for them, chickens are their daily foods, they wanted something exotic to eat at Elephant & Castle hotel near Victoria Falls.
There is a purpose why God did it the way he did it. To give us Zanu government first and we suffer for 35 years under this oppressive yoke. We shall be united as one people regardless of tribe color, creed, religion, whatever orientation we all belong to. We shall learn to live together in harmony. We shall learn that Zimbabwe belongs to all of us who live in it. It is a blessing in disguise no less to have gone through what we have already seen. We shall leave Zimbabwe a safe place for all our children and children's children. They will thank us for this, forever. Please dear citizens, stuff up your food cupboards at the kitchen and wait for the 8th of March to come. Our men will assist us to make a total boycott and crush the regime once and for all. When the evil regime has gone the people will decide what government they want. We shall have peaceful elections that will be credible to the world village and we live happy ever after. Fasting yes, for the month of March!
Ndini Chirikadzi chenyu
Yimi Ugogo omncane
Yes we can!
Nomazulu Thata is a political activist who resides in Germany. She is a senior member of the party Zunde: the Deputy National Chairperson. This call to boycott is a call to all women citizens of Zimbabwe of all political parties and non political oriented persons; it is therefore nowhere in conflict with her party Zunde position and aspirations. She can be contacted on: nonzwakazi.fezi@outlook.de
Source - Nomazulu Thata
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