Demon of tribalism shadow follows Zimbabweans even out of the country!

Tribalism has started rearing its ugly head among Zimbabweans living in South Africa.

Although there are yet to be physical confrontation, the social media has witnessed shameful spats among country who are seeking a better life in the rainbow nation.

The Ndebeles accuse the Shonas of hounding them out of the country and then running it down as they are “clueless”.

The also claim Shonas stereotype them as uneducated while in actual fact the Ndebele have a meek, keen interest to learn.

A huge chunk of the estimated 3 million Zimbabweans in South Africa are Ndebele speaking.

According to Zimbabwe Community in South Africa chairperson Nqabutho Mabhena,” Tribalism is a reality in our society, the regime in Zimbabwe failed to deal with this question post-independence and it remains unresolved. The split of the liberation movement in 1963 is both ideological and tribal; we have not as a country addressed this question openly to an extent that, young people are more divided than the elders on tribal lines”

Tensions are high as the rift has followed Zimbabweans across the Limpopo.

Said one Zimbabwean, “What is sad is that the Shona people laugh at us that we do not take education serious, they claim that once one finishes O level in Bulawayo all he knows is to cross to Egoli. These stereotypes are not fair.

“If you look at it realistically there are no industries in Bulawayo, our capital, so it makes no sense to take your education further. If you dig deeper you also realize that the three universities in Matebelend are not for the average person, Solusi is expensive, NUST is for top notch and Gwanda is just not there. Of course Bulawayo Polytechnic is doing wanders but this is the age of degrees.

“But be that as it may, there are so many Ndebeles who soldier on for quality qualifications but are still stereotyped.”

Now with foreigners burdening resources in South Africa, a fault line has been drawn that Shonas must go back to Zimbabwe, while the Ndebeles plan the establishment of Mtwakazi Free State.

A language and culture expert has warned that the Ndebeles were developing a dangerous element of entitlement in South Africa.

“It’s only normal because since they fall under the Nguni family they assume they must feel at home when they are in South Africa.

“However they must make no mistake to think that those that belong to South Africa would welcome them forever. If you ask a Xhosa or a Zulu they will tell you Ndebeles are not natives.

“I advise they keep good relations with their home boys so that one day when they need to return to Zimbabwe it’s all cozy for them.”

With elections facing South Africa and Zimbabwe, ethnicity differences are likely to heighten, if this continues unchecked may have dire consequences.

Zimbabweans need to unite despite race, gender and tribe as they march in watershed 2018 elections.

Mugabe's games of divide and rule tactics dates many decades back!

Segregation by Mugabe to other tribes and leaders didn't start today with these tribal hatreds in zanu today. It's something that was promoted by this man ages ago, now it's eating deep inside his party and it's torn apart. 37 years down the line, this could have stopped if this man was a true leader as we are told. All good army commanders have been killed in Zimbabwe, either arson or something. We have another lot. They don't salute anyone who was not a killer in the bush wars, it's a funny lot indeed.

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A letter written to RG Mugabe by Lt Gen Lookout Masuku and 'The Black Russian' Zipra Commander, Dumiso Dabengwa in 1980 (Extracted from Judith Todd's Through The Darkness Book)

RE: Allegations against Zipra

Whilst we appreciate the difficult task our Minister of Defence faces in moulding a Zimbabwe National Army, we would like to draw the Minister's attention to the following.

We are aware that a few former Zipra elements have refused to go to Assembly Points. These few elements have refused to take orders from any quarter including from the Minister of Home Affairs (Dr Joshua Nkomo). In compliance with the MOD's directive and appreciable spirit of reconciliation we at one stage managed to apprehend several of these elements and put them in Khami Prison.

We are still, with full vigour and determination, forging ahead with this exercise with an objective to obtain peace and tranquillity in our beloved land, and indeed create conditions for civil authority to function without let or hindrance.

In spite of this determination, it has come to our attention that Zipra has not been and is not being treated fairly and equally with other forces. The following examples serve to illustrate our case:

1.The appointments by merit to the Zimbabwe 21st Battalion was rejected by other comrades because the majority of men recommended to be officers happened to be former Zipra cadres.

2. Zipra has revealed both to the government and the Joint High Command (JHC) Headquarters the number of cadres still undergoing training abroad but our comrades in Zanla have not. We further understand that Zanla has sent men to train in Libya, Romania and Yugoslavia without the knowledge of the JHC. The intentions behind such a move puzzle us.

3. Incitement of the population against Zipra and its Command by some political leaders and slogans such as "Pasi ne Zipra" cannot make our determined effort to build one army any easier.

4. Radio broadcasts give an impression that our full and well known participation in the struggle to liberate our country is neither appreciated nor recognised. For example only Zanla and Chimurenga songs are played - a development which affects cohesion in the army and is indeed out of step with the spirit of National Reconciliation.

5. The presence of dissidents at Sanyati, Zvimba and Hurungwe has been blown out of proportion as Zipra acts of organised rebellion while similar acts by Zanla elements are not talked of. We hereby present a few cases of unmentioned Zanla dissidents.

a) On 22/06/80 Zanla dissidents at Marenga Business Centre fired two bullets destroying the fuel tank of the vehicle driven by Sgt Gava of Zvimba Police Post in Sinoia.

In Chipinga Police are being assaulted by organised groups or gangs of Zanla, making police patrol duties impossible. This includes an assault on Inspector De Lange at APX.

c) Zanla shootings at Kachuta TTL on 17/06/80 (ii) shooting at Murambinda on 18/06/80 (iii) stealing of two (2) watches and $40.00 from a bus driver in Maranke TTL. Also threats to farmers in Maranke and Fort Victoria area on 22/06/80.

d) Zanla has been harassing and in some cases burning villages of the civilian population around Golf and Hotel Assembly camps for their refusal to provide them with food when they visit their villages. As a result people in this area are demanding the removal of these camps from this area. The above few examples involving Zanla units exclude other wide ranging cases of murder, shooting, kidnapping, abductions and kangaroo courts by Zanla or Zanu PF cadres which are never mentioned.

6. We, in the Zipra Command, wish to remind the MOD of the fatal incidences which led to near disaster in Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique during Zipra. (Zipra, the Zimbabwe People's Army, was launched in 1975/6, an attempt to unite divided liberation forces which ended in killings and disaster.) Integration of forces can never succeed if it means the absorption of one force by another; hence the shortcomings which befell Zipa should be avoided at all costs.

7. The Zipra Command calls for non-interference by certain politicians in military affairs. Military affairs are the responsibility of the JHC and the Prime Minister in his capacity as MOD.

8. The Zipra Command and the highly disciplined Zipra cadres in the Assembly Points regard peace and co-operation with the government as our first priority and an indispensable national duty - we sacrificed our lives for.

9. At present we have specialists in the country whose weapons still remain in Zambia. We understand the government cannot permit entry of these weapons. We strongly feel that these weapons can be of better use in the defense of the state rather than left to wear and tear in Zambia.

10. We have submitted to JHC HQs figures of Zipra personnel training outside the country but to our surprise those who have completed such training find it very difficult to return home. They have been made to wait under frustrating conditions in the country of their training. At the moment we have 1 600 men in Angola who passed out two months ago and are still waiting for authorisation to enter the country.

11. On the other hand Zanla cadres have no problems returning into the country after training, for example the 2 500 recent returnees from Mozambique.

Conclusion: In the light of what we say above, we hereby recommend the following:
a) The MID to inform the nation that the army is his sole responsibility and that any reprimands or praises are done by him and the JHC.
That politicians must leave military matters to military men, if the process of integration is to move with the desired speed.
c) The MOD to adopt a parental attitude to the army and regard the three former armies as three children of one family, hence equal status.

D Dabengwa (Zipra Commander)

L Masuku (Zipra Commander)   extracts from Obert MuMuNdewerere of his face book page!

MRP leader Mqondis Moyo quits govt job!

SECESSIONIST Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) leader, Mqondisi Moyo, has quit his governmentpost to concentrate on opposition politics, amid allegations he is a State security agent.

By KHANYILE MLOTSHWA
Moyo, who served as accounting assistant at the Agricultural Extension Services (Agritex)in Matabeleland North province, announced his resignation on Wednesday, citing conflict of interest between his political beliefs and that of his employer.
“I have announced my resignation because there are people who go around claiming that I am a CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation) operative,” he said.
“Their reasoning is that how can I be a civil servant and also be in opposition politics? It is mostly my people, who are making these claims. These claims have been made despite the fact that this is the 13th month I have been working without a salary.”
Moyo said he had resigned because of his “forced transfer” from Bulawayo offices to Bindura in Mashonaland Central province.
“I saw the transfer as a trap. If I had gone to Bindura, they would tell me that it is a political lie that Zimbabwe is made up of two nations. They will ask me why do I have a problem with people coming from other regions to work here and to farm here, if I can also go and work in another region.”
In a letter dated December 30, 2016, Moyo said he would officially quit government service on April 1 this year.
“My resignation from the service is necessitated by the unfair labor practice by the Public Service Commission, as the employer, Agriculture ministry, as the parent ministry, as well as Agritex head office. I, hereby, refer to the unprocedural transfer, which was initiated by the Public Service Commission on May 11, 2015. Part of the letter read.
“I further put it categorically clear that my transfer to Mashonaland Central was punitive. I quote section 13(4), which reads: ‘No transfer shall be used as a punitive measure except pursuant to the disciplinary procedures provided for in part VIII’. Both my transfer and cessation of my salary is tantamount to punishment and to cause untold suffering to my person and family, which I feel is inhuman, unethical and lacks merit.”

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Inkundla yamaKhumalo refuses to identify with the newly self crowned Ndebele King !

27^th January, 2017

Rev. Bruce Khumalo

The Chairman,

Inkundla yamaKhumalo

Bulawayo.

Mntungwa!

Re: FOR YOUR UPDATE

I hope I find you well. This is in keeping with the undertaking that I made to the family (Khumalo) in a family meeting on 30^th April 2016, that as often as is possible I will keep you updated. I have enclosed some documents and correspondences for that purpose, as well as for your information and attention.

Once again I want you to understand that this is a Very Holy Assignment. God is the Creator and Father of All creation and the Father of all spirits. He is in charge of everything that I am doing and it will not fail because it is His. This is not about me. lt is all about Jesus, the One Who owns the Matebele people and also died for their freedom. I am just a servant.

I am aware of the very selfish determination from a few of us to clandestinely block this noble work. On September 03, 2016; a week before UMgubho eMhlahlandlela, you will remember that as Khumalos we were invited to a family meeting, e Art Gallery ko Bulawayo. Umhlangano lowo wabizwa ngesiphangiphangi by Ayanda Khumalo as a family meeting. To our surprise we were addressed by a Mr Silonda, giving us a report from an unspecified Khumalo delegation that he said had just returned from Swaziland and KZN kuzanusi lasezinyangeni ukuyadinga ithole. The Khumalos present atg the meeting utterly rejected the report because no meeting had sent anyone on such an errand, “what the terms of reference were and who decided the composition of this delegation?” These were some of the unanswered questions raised and no one even wanted to know the name of that “thole”. Even the members of the Research Committee rubbished the report as unauthentic and a rigging process. 

We all know that the report given emgubheni about “ithole selitholakele” was not the truth but a compromise just to present something to the “people” in order to cover the shame. I want you to know that after the meeting, the outspoken “Khumalo spokesman”, Phillip Khumalo literally pulled me aside and whispered to me that the whole reason behind the report, lendaba yezinyanga zeSwaziland was “me” and that there are some Khumalos who are desperate to block the work that I am doing because they have vested personal interests of a financial nature in this Kingship thing. He even mentioned the names of the sponsors of this evil work. Phillip admitted and confirmed to me that no one had any clue as to what to do until my ascendancy. He, encouraged me not to lose heart, “ngoba ivele ibonakala ngamanxeba mnawami”. After that he sought to see my wife. He then accompanied me to my car and repeated the same loving brotherly words of encouragement to my wife in my hearing. I know that he still remembers all this.

I have neither doubt nor fear of any kind about the outcome of what I am doing and indeed the outcome of Mthwakazi. I am ready for anything. However I want to appeal to my brethren once again through you Mntungwa as a respectable elder. If anyone cannot believe the Almighty God and His purpose for this nation (UMthwakazi) as represented by me, at least have a heart for the suffering people of Mthwakazi of whom I am also a part.  

I love you all.

God bless you.

30 years after Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe hasn't moved an inch!

HE Gukurahundi massacres, that claimed an estimated 20 000 lives, are a national tragedy that should not be reduced to a regional issue, a senior member of the Christian Alliance of Zimbabwe has said.

BY KHANYILE MLOTSHWA

Ray Motsi was speaking on Saturday at a service organised by pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu to mark the beginning of the Gukurahundi atrocities in January 1983 and console the surviving victims of the atrocities and those who lost their relatives.

Motsi said Gukurahundi was more tragic because, “a government-sponsored by people’s taxes tried to destroy another tribe in the country”.

“Until Gukurahundi has been made a national tragedy and has been memorialised, we will not have moved an inch towards progress,” he said.

“I came from the UK in 1986 happy to come home. I was told to go to the Theological College, at that time along Lobengula Street [Bulawayo]. When I got here [Bulawayo] and tried to speak to people, I realised there was a problem.

“In the coming years, I asked questions and people began to tell me all these things about Gukurahundi. I couldn’t believe it, I asked myself how could that happen, yet we have not heard about it.

“When my work took me to rural areas, I was confronted by the truth, the truth of Gukurahundi I could not run away from. I have spent over five years doing research on Gukurahundi. I did a PhD thesis with the University of Pretoria on what happened and how it happened.”

Motsi said what was encouraging was that the Ndebele people, who were battered by the Fifth Brigade, were each day finding their voice to comprehend what happened and to express themselves.

“The Ndebele were victims in the 1980s, but today are survivors. Some people thought that Gukurahundi would wipe out the Ndebele people. But here you are,” he said.

“This is God’s work and God’s promise to you, that someday you will rise again. No one will come from the east to do things for you. If there must be a difference here in Matabeleland, then it is God’s promise that He, will raise people here to stand up, speak out and be the change wished for in this region,” he said.

Motsi said the people of Matabeleland had no reason to look up to political elites and expect a solution from them because they were complicit in the Gukurahundi genocide.
“Perpetrators have no moral high ground over their victims,” he continued.

“Never look up to them and expect that they will tell us the way forward. They were wrong. They will not say anything. They have to sit down and the victims should tell them the way forward.”

 

 

 

 

 

MUGABE MUST STEP DOWN:JULIUS MALEMA

EFF STATEMENT ON ZANU-PF'S RESPONSE TO CALLS FOR PRESIDENT MUGABE TO STEP DOWN
 Tuesday, January 24, 2017

 The EFF reaffirms its position that President Mugabe's occupancy of the position of president is not good for the radical African political program. He is the bastion of the reactionary phenomenon of "lead to the death" that has crippled the image and proxies of post-colonial Africa. President Mugabe is not only the contemporary engine of personality cult, but he is protected by a group of cowards around him who hypocritically defend him everyday, whilst harbouring ambitions to lead soon.

We are unequivocal that revolutions ought to promote programs and not personalities. The continent needs heroes who will be able to stand firm on the objectives of the African revolution whilst allowing democratic practises and succession of leadership. His example is contradictory to this ideal since it directly or indirectly promotes the phenomenon of refusing to leave office until death.

Before the ZANU-PF and its youth wing respond to the EFF about the charge that they are cowards; they should ask themselves a simple question - what is revolutionary about being led by a person in old age; who sleeps all the time in meetings, can no longer even hold a pen or write half a page? Failure to respond to this question signifies not that they are afraid of others, but of President Mugabe.
When youth movement across the continent are fighting for change, questioning the transformation of liberation movements into old age homes and general gerontocracy. The ZANU-PF youth is instead defending and advancing an essentially anti-youth statuesque. This is because there is actually no youth in the ZANU-PF Youth; what you find are middle age men and women, half of which are suffering from a mid-life crises. They should be ashamed of themselves for holding the future from being born in Zimbabwe.



We shall never tell lies as revolutionaries; all the anti-colonial struggle icons like Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Julius Nyerere knew when it was enough and handed over the baton to others. The African revolution must always distance itself from all forms of personality cults; insistence that President Mugabe must lead to the grave is a sign that ZANU-PF is drowning in cowardice.

Tribalism blamed for Zimababwe National team's loss!

Thousands of Zimbabwe soccer lover all over the world too to social networks to be express their anger over the national teams selection that eventually lead to an embarrassing loss in Gabon. Zimbabwe was playing in the AFCON tournament when they suffered a gruesome defeat against Senegal and Tunisia respectively. Most fans from Matebeleland cried foul saying there has never been such a clear exhibition of tribalism in the soccer fraternity. Former ZBC DJ now a Humanitarian Ezra Tshisa Sibanda called for the coach Calisto Pasuwa's head. Another die hard fan and political activist Dumisani Nkomo made a desperate plea on his face book page saying that this weekend's loss calls for a serious review of our soccer especially of junior policy. He also said that tribalism has no place in soccer.

One other guy who goes by the name Sewell Sewell had this to say, " I always said it that , unless all Shonas admit that we are equal in everything, Zimbabwe will go back to its good old days . But if shonas still believe that Ndebeles are not human being enough, sorry watch my words today 25 /01/2017 time 14:52. Zimbabwe will never ever be good in the hands of one tribe ngiyafunga.  I repeat ZIMBABWE will never succeed in the hands of one tribe called Shona.  The evidence is overwhelming , 40 years down the line Zimbabwe is in the hands of shonas but nothing have ever happened except utterly destroying the country, even in many parts of Mashonaland. The day That shonas will come to understand this, that's the day which we will call it a birthday of that country which does not have a name. To us that's not Zimbabwe, to us Ndebeles that country is no name.Gary Thwala another social activist said he was saddened at how tribalism tactics were being using as face by those who are looting the resources of the nation while ordinary people suffer daily.

Many commentators cautioned that selecting the national team on tribal grounds might lead to the demise of the most loved game in the country! Coach Pasuwa is blamed for blamed for selecting boys form Harare and Mashonaland region only. This came as a great shock to many Highlanders soccer fans . Some Southern African soccer lover commended Zimbabwe national team for representing the region at such a tough competition. A South African sport Minister Fikile Mbalula was heard saying " Today we are all Zimbabweans as we cheer our neighbors and wish them success!

Inhlamba emangalisayo!

BULAWAYO — 

Abantu abanengi okumangalisayo ngama 1980s babulawa bajikelwa emigodini eBhalagwe besetheswa icala lokuthi babegcina amalwecagtsha ayelwisana lokulumende kaMugabe.

Kodwa-ke uMugabe ngokwakhe wathi lokhu kwakungalunganga ngoba kulabantu abacatshangelwa ukuthi bazinkulungwane ezingamathumi amabili – 20,000 ababulawa yiFifth Brigade eMatabeleland leNkababzwe.

Uzulu uthi ukuthakazelela ilanga lokuzalwa likaMugabe ele 21^st February Movement eBhalagwe yinhlamba emangalisayo njalo bangeke baxolela uhulumende wakhe ngesenzo lesi.

UMgcinisihlalo webandla leZAPU ezansi yeMaNdebeleni, uMnu. Mathew Sibanda, uthi uMugabe uyadelela okuphindiweyo njalo njengebandla badabukile kakhulu ngalel’inyathelo. Uthe lenkokheli zomdabu zimbikele ukuba ziswele ukuthi zibambe kuphi.

UMongameli weMthwakazi Republic Party, uMnu. Mqondisi Moyo, laye uthe balokudana okukhulu ngalokho okwenziwa libandla likaMugabe.

Uthe uzulu akumelanga ahambe ukuyathakazelela ilanga leli.

UMnu. Zenzele Ndebele, isakhamuzi sakoBulawayo, ugcizelele esithi abeZanu PF benza ngabomo ngoba ukwenzela idili leli eBhalagwe yikuhlukuluza abantu ngokubathunuka izilonda zokubulawelwa.

Uthe okwenziwa libandla le Zanu PF loMugabe yinhlamba kulabo ababulawelwa izihlobo libutho leGukurahundi.

UMnu. Samuel Khumalo, okubandl leMDC-T, uthe okwenziwa nguMongameli Mugabe kulihlazo njalo kuveza ukuba lokhe elengqondo yokufuna ukubulala.

UMabhalane wenhlanganiso yeBhetshu LikaZulu, uMnu. Mbuso Fuzwayo, uthe kulusizi ukuthi umuntu angakhetha ukuyagida phezu kwamangwcaba awadalayo.

Uthe ngabe uthatha imali yomcimbi lo ayefundisa intandane zabantwana babantu abababulalayo.

Osakhulayo uLungile Nyathi laye uvumelane loFuzwayo esithi imali esetshenziswa kulumkhosi ngabe iya ekulungisiseni umonakalo oselizweni.

Zimbabwe is two nations in one: Mzila speaks out

A tale of two nations!  (Zim)

On the 19th of December 2016, former MDC legislator and former Minister in the Organ of National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration and a ZIPRA veteran of the 1970’s liberation war announced the formation of a Matebeleland National political outfit known as Alliance for National Salvation (ANSA).

The tough talking Mzila fired the first shot about who ANSA is and declared that Matebeleland had, “…continued to bear the burden of Zimbabwean unity.”. Mzila was quick to remind those in politics in Zimbabwe that, “The country that Zimbabwe is today is an amalgamation of two nations-Matebeleland and Mashonaland-after the colonial defeat of the two groups of people”

Mzila further went on to remind the political fraternity of Zimbabwe about the “burden of unity” between the two nations of Mashonland and Matebeleland, that has failed to work on an equal basis declaring that, “Ideally, the burden of unity should have been shared equally before and after independence. The winning side, in this case Mashonalnd elites, should be the ones carrying the burden of this unity. However, Joshua Nkomo and his Zapu are the ones who carried the burden of this unity soon after independence. It is so bad that Mashonaland politicians have the luxury of forming regional parties and fish for deputies in Matebeleland”

The straight talking and no nonsense Mzila did not beat about the bush regarding the need for Matebeleland people to look at themselves for their own “Salvation” rather than looking at outsiders to be their saviours.  He roared, “We have gone through trials and tribulations since 1890s to this day. Some of us have not lived to see the next day. Nevertheless, we are sons and daughters of warriors, brave men and women. It is a form of bravery to back down when faced with a difficult situation yet I it is cowardice not to analyse the situation one is caught up in and find a solution”

Mzila underscored the fact that Matebeleland people need “an urgent answer” to their challenges and seemed to point to the fact that the times to live in fear of being brutalized are gone.  “The effects of the heavy storms and the cyclones have gone, and gone for good”, he said in his issued statement.

Mzila’s party adds another dimension in terms of diverse Matebeleland politics that is currently flooded with Restoration politics and Devolution politics.  It remains to be seen how formidable ANSA shall become in changing the dynamics of the politics at play in Matebeleland. Mzila and his followers talk of "Salvation" of Matebeleland and are yet to convince many that ANSA is the vehicle for that salvation. The stage seems set for a rough political tumble in Matebeleland in order to win the hearts and minds of its people. Mzila and ANSA seem to be firing a warning political shot to  political competitors in Matebeleland.

- Source: ANSA, umthwakazireview.com
Tags: ANSA, Moses Mzila Ndlovu, Matebeleland, Mashonaland,

Damaging claims on Gukurahundi released by CIA

The Americans have released damaging claims of who among Zimbabwe’s ruling class allegedly directed the Gukurahundi massacres of the early 1980s, in which an estimated  20000 innocent civilians were killed by the army mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands. 

According to declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports that were released on Wednesday this week, very senior government and military officials — whose names the Daily News has opted to withhold — allegedly plotted at the time to annihilate Zapu and the Ndebeles, as Zanu PF sought to create a one-party State.

The reports further claimed that a rattled Zanu PF leadership also feared at the time that the then in power apartheid South Africa government, working with unrepentant Rhodesians, would join forces with the late revered Zapu leader Joshua Nkomo, to destabilise the new Zimbabwe government.

The released CIA documents also reveal how the USA viewed President Robert Mugabe’s new government in the early 1980s as a key player in regional peace-building efforts, as well as, bizarrely, in Washington’s fight against the Soviet Union during the Cold War era.

The Americans also feared then that Mugabe would be assassinated, and overtly and covertly worked to keep the nonagenarian in power to protect their interests.

The released documents also reveal in startling detail how the army allegedly “blocked all movement and stopped all food shipment into what was then a drought stricken region”, to starve perceived supporters of Nkomo.

The Americans claim that Zanu PF wanted to create a one-party state soon after independence, and the Gukurahundi massacres were an attempt at breaking “the will of the remainder of the Zapu leadership to resist absorption into a one-party State”.

“We believe Harare’s allegations that the dissidents are directly controlled by Zapu political leaders are untrue and that they are intended to provide justification for suppressing Nkomo and his party,” the documents say.

Although the Zimbabwe government has maintained a thick veil on Gukurahundi, the CIA reveals that the total number of dissidents who operated in the western parts of the country did not number more than 300 people.

“The 5th Brigade, the Presidential Guard, and the North Korean trained People’s militia — whose loyalty is first to the ruling party — were created to solidify Zanu political control over the military,” reads other parts of the CIA’s reports. Daily News

Gukurahundist to celebrate the final conquer of Matabele!

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is set to fly into a fresh Gukurahundi storm, as he hosts his 93rd birthday party at Matopos National Park, a few kilometres from a mass grave of people killed during the massacres in the 1980s.
By NQOBANI NDLOVU
President-Robert-Mugabe
Activists have said it was insensitive for Mugabe to host his birthday fête a stone’s throw away from unmarked and officially unacknowledged graves of the 1980s killings that claimed an estimated 20 000 lives.
The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), MDC and pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu yesterday described the decision by Zanu PF to hold its festivities close to the mass graves as an insult to the people in the region, particularly relatives and survivors of the atrocities.
“Holding the feast in Matobo would be an insult to the spirits of the dead, which have not been appeased,” Pilate Ndebele, the MDC Matabeleland South provincial chairperson, said.
“It is an insult because some of the people accused of the genocide will be part of this party, while thousands continue to mourn decades on.
“How do you celebrate a party at a funeral? There is nothing wrong with celebrating the birthday anywhere in Matabeleland South, but at least not near Bhalagwe. It’s insensitivity of the highest order.”
Bhalagwe has become synonymous with the 1980s killings, as the camp was allegedly turned into torture chambers that saw scores of people being killed and buried in shallow graves.
The site is near Antelope Mine.
“It is inhuman for Zanu PF to be seen celebrating in an area where there are bones of innocent people.
“This only shows lack of remorse, considering that Zanu PF and its leaders are accused of having been behind the massacres. Matobo people have also lost their ancestral land, but government has not intervened to help them.
“They are a defeated people and how do they feel when the see the party they blame for their problems partying in their backyard?” Mbuso Fuzwayo, the Ibhetshu Likazulu pressure group
co-ordinator, said in reference to the recent mass eviction of villagers in Maphisa to pave way for the expansion of an Agricultural Rural Development Authority farm.
PDP provincial spokesperson, Edwin Ndlovu concurred: “Zanu PF is insensitive to the people of Matabeleland’s plight to wine and dine in Matobo, knowing very well what Gukurahundi did in the area, especially Bhalagwe.
“People of Matobo and other places in Matabeleland are seeking justice. The Gukurahundi issue needs closure, but Zanu PF is unwilling to come clean on it and do what needs to be done.”
Mugabe’s birthday falls on February 21 and is usually celebrated amid pomp and fanfare.
The Zanu PF youth league, which has organised the event since inception in 1986, announced that this year’s event would be held in Matabeleland South province, where thousands of villagers perished during the government-sanctioned Gukurahundi massacres in the early 1980s.
Zanu PF secretary for youth affairs Kudzanai Chipanga scoffed at the accusations of insensitivity.
“I am glad you say these queries are coming from opposition groups. When Zanu PF sits to decide on its policies and programmes, it is never informed by what the opposition thinks. This is our event to which they are welcome if interested. They can stay away and plan their own for their leaders if they so wish. But our choice of venue is informed by the desire to grow domestic tourism. You can check our record in the past few years,” he said.
Mugabe has described the Gukurahundi atrocities as a “moment of madness”, while lately Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has denied responsibility for the mass killings.
The atrocities ended with the signing of the Unity Accord between Mugabe and the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo on November 22, 1987.
Zanu PF Matabeleland South chairperson, Rapelani Choene was unreachable for comment.
Last year the 21st February Movements celebrations were held at Great Zimbabwe in Masvingo, while in 2015 they were in Victoria Falls.

Inyathi could turn into blood bath if invaders continue!

Inyathi community in Matabeleland North is on fire as Shona and Ndebele speaking people are brutalising each other over the occupation of mining spaces in the area.

If reports are correct that the Shona people coming from outside the area have dominated all the mining claims at the expense of locals are true then there is a serious ethnicity problem that needs urgent attention.

Someone somewhere in government needs to urgently take serious the cries of the people of Zimbabwe for an amicable devolution of power principle where the generality of Zimbabweans is demanding for a preference being given to local people to benefit in their area's resources.

There is an apparent feud in the country with people from the Matabeleland Regions complaining of marginalisation and being denied opportunities to benefit from their local resources which they claim are being taken over by people from other regions but some system seems to be deliberately ignoring this cry and facilitating further frustrations on the people.

People in Matabeleland have a strong belief of the existance of a document called The 1979 Grand Plan which prescribes that Shona people must occupy as much of Matabeleland as possible and take over as much wealth as possible from the region.

Seeing the silence that is there from government and responsible authorities on this brewing storm in Nyathi and on the existence of the Grand Plan, there is absolutely no reason that one can try to give to make the people of Matabeleland not to believe that the Nyathi occupations are not part of the prescriptions of this plan.

Matabeleland is currently trying to go through a healing process where by there is some sectors within the communities who are advocating for a national reconciliation and to give nation building a chance while others are lobbying for a cessation of the region through the restoration of the Jameson Line boundaries of 1893.

It is incidents like this happening in Nyathi that further fuels the feud between the Ndebele and the Shona and makes this country extremely ungovernable. Logically, by now a rightfully thinking leader somewhere in Harare should have come down to the ground and allowed reason to prevail and ordered the Shona speaking occupants of these mines to vacate the mines and let the locals have the majority occupation.

In as much as it can never be tolerated by the people of Manicaland to see a hundred percent occupation of diamond mining fields by Ndebele speaking people from Nkayi the same should logically be the case in Nyathi.

I already can see some faces saying that this is tribalism. Its not tribalism at all but basic human nature principles. No community can ever allow itself to be dominated by people from other communities in their own areas.(By B Maduma Fuzwayo on his facebook page updates)

BILL SAIDI FULLY SUPPORTED GENOCIDE!

Our African culture strongly warns against speaking ill of the deceased more so before they are laid to rest but sometimes it really gets unavoidable.
I have been following many people speak praises on the departed former Chronicle journalist Bill Saidi. Was more shocked by the ZAPU leadership also writing a huge praise obituary for Saidi.

I asked myself what the motivation was if this current ZAPU indeed claims to be the same PF ZAPU which was led by Joshua Nkomo and Saidi so much hated together with its entire leadership.

I first really got to know of Saidi and concern myself about him in 1984 albeit I was only a teenager. He caught my attention and grief when my father and other PF ZAPU senior officials were arrested by the ZANU regime when ZANU was at its peak of being ZANU and Gukurahundi was also entering its peak.

In The Chronicle story which Saidi wrote he described my father as a senior dissident who had been arrested in Gwanda and published a photo of him with other ZAPU leaders from Gwanda in tattered prison clothes while we as family did not even know which prison they were being kept in.

At that time I was a very keen follower of the latest news from any sources and radio was always abuzz of dissident activities and how government was brutally dealing with dissidents. On the ground reports from the rural areas were coming in everyday of people being wantonly killed for being dissidents or harbouring dissidents.

I couldn't stomach the report of my own father being described as a dissident and appearing in the national paper in prison clothes tagged not only a dissident but a senior dissident. For all I knew my father was fulltime employed as the Township Superintendent by the Gwanda Rural Council at that time and was never on a single day absent from home to warrant him time to have gone out to practice dissident activity.

I think it was just two days after Bill Saidi's story that we were attacked by ZANU members with stones and petrol bombs while we slept in the night at home and our father was away in the prison we didn't know of but which Saidi knew of and never bothered to disclose in his story.

I remember vividly how me and my mum jumped out of the house through a bedroom window and left my younger siblings sleeping in the house not aware of what was happening. God has his own way of doing things and non of those petrol bombs went off that night.

The following morning we fled Gwanda as a family and sort refuge in Bulawayo. In only our second day in Bulawayo we got word that our home in Gwanda had been burnt down roof to floor. I couldn't and didn't want to believe it. My only source of information was that I was going to see it in the Bill Saidi Chronicle newspaper, what with the home of the most senior Gwanda dissident burnt down, it should have been headline.

I was lucky that my father's young brother who had squeezed us into his house in Luveve would always send me to buy the newspaper first thing in the morning and I would always start with searching for this Bill Saidi's latest update. Guess what, he was there in that morning's paper and to my shock he was writing heavily praising "government intervention in dealing with dissidents" and nothing about the burnt house in Gwanda.

I honestly hated that guy more on that day.

Years later when I was a little older and doing my third year at college, a brother of mine who was working for The Chronicle as a reporter took me to the Bulawayo Press Club when it was still housed at a Bulawayo hotel and journalists would gather there for media briefings and drink. He was busy helping me link some media names to faces. When he introduced me to this Bill Saidi I felt a bout of anger I have never felt again in my life.

To tell the truth I searched my pockets for a gun I knew I never had but prayed in a second that I will find in my pocket. I was ready to give my heart justice there and then and would not have cared the resultant consequences. Fortunately no magic happened to throw a gun or any weapon into my pocket. In huge anger I walked out of that place and never set my foot into that press club again.

When I heard of Saidi's death this week, that film of years ago replayed in my mind and I felt the anger rise again. I couldn't carry it and the following morning I went to my father's grave needing to console myself that I know that my father was never a dissident and in my heart I was saying another Gukurahundi tolerant had passed on.

As I was walking in the graveyard in the Gwanda Cemetery towards my father's grave, I passed through a mass grave of the Savage Family which was murdered by dissidents round about the same time that we were going through that terrible ordeal. It struck me and I stopped for a moment and asked myself how the Savage Family feels every time they visit that grave.

As I proceeded to my father's grave an internal voice asked me how long I was going to carry this anger in my heart. I honestly don't know for how long not only me but hundreds of thousands other Gukurahundi and dissidents victims we are going to be left exposed to such heart paining anger against each other.

I have never imagined myself in a situation where I feel relief on the death of another human being but the emotions that arose in me on the death of Saidi taught me a different dimension of the life we are forced to live in this country. This thirty year old Gukurahundi matter has been allowed to go unattended for too long and everyday people with answers to these ills are dying leaving us the victims to nurse bleeding hearts which we pass on to our children while the perpetrators die relief fully with nothing told to anyone.

Here I am right now left believing that I should have talked to Saidi and opened up to him and told him how much damage a news article he wrote in pursuant of his duty did to the subconscious part of my life. I strongly believe he will have explained one or two factors behind his work and definitely apologised and that apology would have cleared my subconscious life.

Having opened up I feel relieved and ready to forgive Saidi without talking to him and wish him a peaceful eternal rest. God in heaven is the one to judge.

As an aside, it comes into mind ukuthi how many of us are enduring this pain and even worse than I have been through? It is my plea to President Robert Mugabe and his government to seriously think of the sufferings that the people of Matabeleland have been through all these years and provide us with an open platform to have victims and perpetrators speak the truth to each other and find truce. Bleeding hearts can never be governable.

The starting point to a better Zimbabwe lies in truce and I make it my 2017 resolution that in my little corner I will give my effort into a push for a genuine Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Together we can do it. By Gwanda based political activist Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo writing in his own capacity!