A closer look at Zimbabwe's Unity day after 25yrs

 

 

 

 

 File picture, ZAPU commander Lookout Masuku and Solomon Mujuru walking side by side. I must assume that this picture was taken during the times of cease fire sometime in 1979 or there about.( Not real sure)

Most of the time we writers would love to be politically correct and not offend anyone who reads, so that we may have a huge following. I am not exempt to that , because a good writer must be approved by readers. The more readers you have the more accolades (merit) you get. One would be a fool to light a candle and put it under the bed. "Let your light shine before man" goes the famous bible saying.

I should have mention that both Masuku and Solomon Mujuru are deceased.  Masuku died after enduring detention in the hands of Zanu Pf sometime in 1986, I believe. Mujuru who would later became a army general  in the new and free Zimbabwe. He was arguable one of the richest Zimbabweans, not to mention that his wife is the first Vice President of the Republic. He tragically died last year in a mysterious fire, in his farm house. As for Masuku it was exactly the apposite. He was not even accorded a  national hero status. Him and Dumiso Dabengwa were detained by the Mugabe regime in a deliberate effort to crash Nkomo's Zapu, eliminate his supporters and create an everlasting one party state, where ZANU PF will rule for ever.

Thousand of villagers in Matabeleland and Midlands were maimed, butchered and killed in public, by the ZANU PF militia and national army unit known as the 5th Brigade. Joshua Nkomo would be forced to leave the country and seek refugee in London. A country he had spent his life trying to liberate himself and the people of Zimbabwe from. In Dec 22 1987 Nkomo's Zapu would sign a unity accord with Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF. This was meant to easy tensions and bring lasting peace and tranquility, fairness and development.

Twenty five years later, the country is more divided than ever.  Bulawayo is a ghost town far from the being the industrial  powerhouse that it used to be in the 60s. Matabeleland as a whole  is  legging behind as far as development is concerned. Ndebele people want to the region to break away from Zimbabwe, either as Mthwakazi. The only Matabeleland leaders in the govt are deputies or Vice post holders. Jorburg is now the capital of Matabeleland except that Harare  does the job of collect taxes. Bulawayo has no water. Did we ever knew anything about the so called synchronized flushing? This is just for starters. Even leaders of all major influential parties agree that Unity Accord did not benefit the whole country. Dumiso Dabengwa a senior FP Zapu official, and former  intelligence supremo lead a faction of some dissatisfied former PF Zapu fellow comrades out of the Unity Accord, to revive Zapu again about  three years ago.