“The Shona supremacist agenda that drove Zanu PF to commit the Gukurahundi Genocide continues to be the ethos of the party in 2026. Imagine if this was Bindura, Bikita or Chitakatira & Ndebeles were the only community voice that The Herald could find?
How would that be embraced by those communities? When Ndebeles say Gukurahundi continues up to this day, 46 years after the so-called independence this is what they mean. We're far from being an inclusive country that not only recognizes but respects ethnic diversity. Very far!” wrote Siphosami Malunga on X.
To confuse Zanu PF with Shona is worse than Zanu PF thugs confusing the party with the state!Whilst it is true that Gukurahundi targeted the Ndebele tribe more than any other tribe and it help Zanu PF thugs to impose the de facto one party dictatorship that has ruled the roost to this day. It is nonsense to even suggest that the Shona have benefited from the dictatorship.
Zimbabwe is a failed state precisely because the nation has been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical de facto one party Zanu PF dictatorship. Judging from the chaos and dog-eat-dog factional wars raging within Zanu PF itself it it would be tongue-in-the cheek to say Zanu PF has benefited from the one-party dictatorship. It would nonsense to suggest the Shona have benefited from the dictatorship and failed state!
Gukurahundi was never about disrespecting ethnic diversity, it was about party political dominance which, in the final analysis, is the primeval dog-eat-dog. If we are serious about ending the political and economic chaos and tragic human suffering Zanu PF has brought upon this nation then we must start by CORRECTLY identifying the root cause of the problem because failure to do so will meaning wasting time implementing the wrong solutions, at best!
At worst, we cause stir up tribal hatred and thus start Gukurahundi mark 2!There have been many political opportunists who have played the Gukurahundi and tribal car to bolster their political standing.
The late Dr Joshua Nkomo is on record saying the Gukurahundi massacre was NOT a Shona vs Ndebele struggle but a Zanu PF party seeking to impose a one party dictatorship by either eliminating PF Zapu, the only other political party stopping Zanu PF imposing a one party state. Or by forcing the party to unite with Zanu PF, which is what the 1987 Unity Accord accomplished.
The Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, that has dominated the nation’s national agenda this last 3 years is not about the Shona nor is it about Zanu PF the party. People like VP Chiwenga are against it the amendment because it seeks impose Mnangagwa dominance in violation of the constitution at Chiwenga and his supporters’ expense! The Shona as with the rest of the nation has nothing to gain from the chaos and politic strive that will erupt from the passing of this obnoxious amendment!
Gukurahundi was more than “a moment of madness”, it was genocide committed by murderous megalomanias whose hunger for political power and wealth was and still is insatiable. It is equally important to say what Gukurahundi was not. It was not a Shona tribal supremacist agenda.
The people of Zimbabwe must be very careful they do not drag themselves into yet another meaningless conflict sparked this time by the failure to distinguish the sins of a few individuals and attributing them to millions who had nothing, absolutely nothing, to do do with the acts, gained nothing and have suffered the post genocide consequences like everyone else!
Zimbabwe has paid dearly for the nation’s failure to nip in the bud the recklessness hunger for power and disregard of other people’s rights, suffering and deaths in young Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa and many of those behind Gukurahundi. There is no doubt that these qualities did not emerge in 1983, there were there long before that. Our failure to send the culprits to prison were they belong a.s.a.p. has resulted in some of those going to State House instead!
Have we finally learned that there is a heavy price to be paid for failure to condemn blind ambition, lawlessness and contempt for the freedom and rights of others? Over 20 000 innocent Zimbabweans were murdered in cold blood during Gukurahundi and it resulted in the imposition of the de facto one party, Zanu PF dictatorship that has ruled the roost to this day. And 46 years and counting of the dictatorship is the root cause of Zimbabwe being a failed state and the nation sinking deeper and deeper into economic mess, political paralysis and millions living in abject poverty.
Well? Have we finally learned the lesson? Alas! Signs are, we have not learned the lesson and those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat the same mistakes and pay dearly for it yet again.
https://x.com/WMukori/status/2043709192926576923
ReplyDeleteGukurahundi was a Zanu PF orchestrated genocide and not "a moment of madness", as Mugabe would have it. Gukurahundi did not last a month or a year, it lasted five years. It was not a handful of people who died during the massacre; over 20 000 were murdered in cold blood. And, worst of all, the dog-eat-dog primeval drive to dominate behind Gukurahundi did not end with the signing of the 1987 Zanu PF and PF Zapu Unity Accord. The target changed but the formate and the goal remained.
Our failure to deal with the perpetrators has given those behind the lawlessness and violence to commit these heinous acts. Mnangagwa and Chiwenga orchestrated the 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi and the nation should have send the two to prison and today the two are in State House, instead.
Still, to call Gukurahundi "a Shona supremacist agenda" is wrong, irresponsible and dangerous. Zimbabwe is a failed state, one of the consequences of the Gukurandi, the dictatorship, etc. Digging ourselves out of this mess and alleviating the suffering and deaths of our people is the greatest challenges before us. We should not compound the situation by misreading the past to create more problems for ourselves.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/wilbert.mukori.5/videos/2193967648022150
"Those who rigged Chamisa in 2018, engineered a sham “election” in 2023, enabled the recall of his MPs and gleefully crushed dissent have no right to tell him to fight much less dictating how to fight." said Thabani Mpofu.
Well! Well! This is real rich coming from the lawyer who has gone down in Zimbabwe legal history as the man who made a complete fool of himself in the country's highest court, Constitutional Court. By refusing to have the sealed ballot boxes of the 16 Polling Stations with "identical votes casts for Chamisa, for Mnangagwa, spoilt votes and most significantly were Mnangagwa was not just winning but winning big", Mpofu proved just how corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless he was!
If there was ever any doubt that the MDC/CCC leaders connived with Zanu PF to rigged the election - Mpofu's idiotic refusal to have the ballot boxes opened end the doubts!
@ Fanuel Chirombo
ReplyDeleteNever mind! After 46 years of participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy, you still have no clue what is going on here! The spirit is willing but the intellect is weak!
What is the point of having election rules is the said rules are disregarded, you are warned that the rules were ignore and you still participate in the flawed process regardless?
“Conclusion 13.3
The SEOM (SADC Election Observer Mission) noted that, as detailed in sections 6 and 7 of this report, some aspects of the Harmonised Elections fell short of the requirements of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections (2021),” stated the SEOM report.
“What would be the significant difference if the opposition boycotted this process?” Fcuk me!
You clearly do not understand what free and fair elections are about, in this day and age, and yet has the right to vote This is the equivalent of some one in High School asking the question one would expect from one in grade one. No wonder we are a failed state!
@ Fanuel Charombo
Delete“Nhayi VaMukori, ko zvemunenge makatotsamwa. Matsamwiswa nebvunzo wangu kana kuti pane nedzimwe nyaya? Muri kungopopota musiri kupindura mubvunzo. Saka isu tisingazivi, tinodzidza sei? Tinoda kuziva kuti tikaregera kupindura kuti tinoda kana kuti hatidi CAB 3 chii chinozoitika.”
I am disappointed that you are asking questions so stupid it clearly shows you have no clue what we are talking about. I am not angry with you for asking stupid questions, I am just disappointed that any one can be so shallow, thick and slow. By the same token I am disappointed Zimbabwe is a failed state. It is the reality and being angry with the reality will serve no purpose!
If some one in High School ask grade one questions, one does not bother answering because if the individual has not learned year one stuff in 13 years what hope is there they will learn it in one day much less in a few sentences on WhatsApp?
Leaders like Chamisa tell you idiotic lies and con you to participate in flawed elections time and time again because you have no clue that an idiotic lie is, what constitute flawed elections, etc., etc. You are who you are!
Well what is there for me to say! You have nailed it! It is my fault that you are stupid. QED!
Delete"The greatest lesson I have learned in life is to know that I don't know. The most stupid person is the one who believes that they know everything without verification. I don't know what the benefits of a boycott of participation are, and I sought verification from an "I know everything" idiot who masquerade as a smart person. A fool indeed!"
DeleteYou have already proven beyond all reasonable doubt that I, Wilbert Mukori, am the fool. I have acknowledge you are the wise one. Subject closed!
@ Pastor E
ReplyDeleteAre the issues raised not true, relevant and objective? If so tell us why you say so and not just say “be objective”. Any idiot can say “be objective” or some one with half a brain can say why they said so!
@ Professor Lumumba
ReplyDeleteThank for highlighting the tragic event in Africa and in Zimbabwe in particular.
You have asked why AU and SADC have been silent. They did help force Zanu PF to accept the 2008 to 2013 GNU whose number one task was to implement the democratic reforms to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorship. Not even one token reform was implemented. Mugabe bribes Tsvangirai & company.
Ever since the GNU debacle the opposition have participated in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuate the dictatorship. The opposition have conned the people to participate with idiotic lies. Millions have believed the lies and participated. What did you want SADC and AU to do?
@ Cool Breeze
ReplyDeleteHow naive! So you think when Chamisa lied about plugging Zanu PF vote rigging loop holes he was fighting the regime? Even now the penny has not dropped that Chamisa has been helping to keep Zanu PF in power for years!
Some people see what they want to see regardless how divorced that may be from the reality on the ground.
@ The Cool Breeze
Delete“Chamisa hasi iye who destroyed the country . You know the exact people and yet you so afraid to go after them . Day in day out you attacking Chamisa kunge ndiye ari pachigaro.”
Did Chamisa lie about plugging vote rigging loop hole? What has asking that to do with “those who destroyed the country”? Are you saying we cannot hold Chamisa to account for lying about plugging vote rigging loop holes because he is not the one who “destroyed the country”?
Just because you do not have the intellectual capacity to deal with Chamisa lying and “those who destroyed the country” you should never assume that everyone else does not have that capacity.
The truth is you cannot bear to hear Chamisa taken to account for anything especially something you cannot dare to deny. Chamisa is a demigod who can do no wrong. You seek to defend him by talking about “those who are destroying the country”.
Guess what, by lying and conning millions to participate in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating the dictatorship HE, CHAMISA, is too destroying the country!
How is it possible that any one can still consider a mere mortal like Chamisa to be a demigod in this day and age, beggars belief. Poor Zimbabwe, we have millions of mentally challenged people and they have the vote!
“Chamisa hasi iye who destroyed the country!” So Chamisa has been doing the nation a great favour by lying and conning millions to participate in flawed elections to keep Zanu PF in power? The spirit is willing but the intellect is just too weak and feeble to sustain even one simple and coherent idea! The penny has not dropped given all the advantages of the 21st century. It will never ever drop!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_JrjoKDJAE
ReplyDeleteMDC/CCC leaders have not only failed to deliver even one token democratic change in 26 years and, worst of all, have conned the nation to participate in flawed elections, "so flawed, so illegal the only logical step is to withdraw", to perpetuate the dictatorship. The people themselves have been conned to participate in the flawed elections again and again because they have failed to realise that Chamisa & co. are corrupt, incompetent, liars and conmen!
Whilst some people have accepted that Zanu PF has been rigging the elections millions of Zimbabweans have yet to accept that Chamisa & co. have connived with the regime by failing to implement reforms and bu conning people to participate in flawed elections. As long as millions of Zimbabweans refuse to accept the reality Chamisa & co. are liars and continue to believe the idiotic lies of opposition winning rigged elections there will be no meaningful change in Zimbabwe.
It is insane that 46 year after independence millions continue to participate in flawed processes giving Zanu PF legitimacy. Participating in the flawed CAB3 process is equally insane, it is proof of a nation that cannot think outside the box.
@ Fanuel Chirombo
ReplyDelete“Phew! Finally, you have inadvertently disclosed your reason for boycotting flawed processes such as elections and CAB 3 : they give Zanu PF legitimacy. The main question now is Does Zanu PF care about legitimacy? Maybe, we need to start by discussing what legitimacy is and how it benefits the ordinary person.”
Over 5 millions out of estimated 7 million voters have participated in the flawed elections again and again and you are saying it is the 2 million who did not vote who have given Zanu PF legitimacy? How did you work that one out? And you still claim that you are the smart one!