"Never again"

It was at the height and climax of the struggle of apartheid when the leader of the new South Africa shouted "Never again shall one be oppressed by another". The man Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela having spent his life fighting for the freedom of the African people who for decades and years lived under oppression and segeregation. It seems tyo me that Africa now is worse than what it used to be at that moment. The songs of freedom Senzeni thina or Senzeni thina still tells the full story whenever I hear them from the movies or compact discs. They say never say never and the exemplary leader and visionary must not have thought this would happen soon if he ever thought it would in his lifetime

To this day the wounds of the past still hounts the black South Africa. I could not have written this one not till I saw the movie "My country" supposedly an old movie about the truth and reconciliation times in South Africa. Among the actors is Samuel Jackson a famous American actor and a renowned African American icon.There are times which I was a great writer and orator, this is one of them. I would write about the struggles and sorrows of people in Soweto, I would chronicle the liberation of Zimbabwe I would publish the Atrocities of Robert Mugabe regime in the early eighties I would put in details the suffering of people in Rwanda. The genocide that the world watched and ignored. I would write about the civil war in Liberia, Seira leone , the genocide or ethinic cleansing in Dufur region. This in just to mention a few.

The spirit that liberated Africa or rather the flame has died down. It seems to that in no time we have come back to where we began. After the remarkable freedom of South Africa our own neighbour we Zimbabweans have are suddenly suffering as well. Never again were the words of the freedom fighter and liberator Cde and father of South Africa Nelson Mandela. Indeed not one could have known or at least imagined this would happen in our own backyard. Earlier own I called the rise of ttrue and courageous leadership to arise. Tata,s generation has done its job for many decades. Our won generation must not keep quit, our own generation must not rest because the job is not yet finished. The struggle continues. we must take from where they left. We must never lose focus and never be detared.

The hour calls us to work. We need not to turn a blind eye to the suffering of our neighbours. In a parable our Lord Jesus us them "Whose your neighbour? He talks about a man who was headed to Jericho from Jerusalem and was mugged by thieves along the way. Among those who passed were a priest , and finally came a Samaritan and he rescued the man and offered him food and logging at his own expence. It is said that when good people keep silent evil rejoices. Too many good people are silent and Zimbabwe is on fire. South Africa itself knowing first hand must never pretend like its doing something when its not. I would like to suggest that the ANC needs a fresh breed of leaders with passion and vision for the people. I suggest that Zimbabwe needs couragious and uncorrupted young men and women to save the people and the country at large.

"Aluta continua" The struggle continues. Senzeni na? Southern Africa must wake up to face its challengies before its too late. We must be our brother,s keeper. We must be good neighbours. We must never let our brothers and sisters suffer under oppresion again. We must make a committement.