By MANDLA KUMALO
I normally do not want to respond to the social media neither do I want to be vilifying people.
But after reading the article by Nomazulu Thata I was pushed to pen this response. I wish Mr Editor you will find space to publish my article.
It is shocking and disturbing that Nomazulu accuses Mavaza as a Tribalistic simply because he told the truth about Mohadi. Mohadi’s behaviour is not political bu criminal.
He abused his office. We must all remember that the office of the Vice President is the next powerful office after that of the president. Whatever people think Mohadi wields a lot of power.
Now using this power against women is horrible and disgusting.
We need to bear in mind that out of nine women Mohadi abused for are married to CCIO officers who work for Mohadi.
His behaviour was neither Ndebele or Shona. His behaviour is not and must never be viewed in tribal lines. People must remove the tribal jacket and look at the misconduct of KEMBO Mohadi. It is pathetic and clearly inhuman to accuse Mavaza of tribalism because he was brave enough to rebuke the evil actions of Ubaba Mohadi.
Yes Mavaza is not a likeable character because we all know he a CIO operative planted in the UK to destabilise opposition. He did his job well and MDC in the UK is now none existent thanks to Mavaza.
Mavaza writes extensively for ZANU PF and he defended it with his blood. That I admire of him. Not because I agree with him. I find him mentally disturbed. Any person of his age who supports ZANU PF has mental issues. To an Nomazulu Thata seems right. Mavaza’s bias towards ED and Genarari is obvious. I think he has gone all out to blast Kembo as if he is the only one soiling the presidium yet all the three are putting on dirty linen. There was a lot to write about EDs romance with a student on attachment at his farm, the guy who was made to jump through the window and about the Generari can think of the Marondera girl, the nasty always familiar divorces that the Generari always go through and uses the army.
But being fair to Mavaza he attacked Chiwenga viciously about Mary. His article was published and this Ndebele protector Thata was silent. I think a person who screams tribalism when one person has clearly exposed his bad side is a more tribalist than anyone.
I am a pure Ndebele myself being a Khumalo I am a real Ndebele. Historically people who have animal names as surnames and body parts as surnames are Shona who were capture by us the real Ndebele. Yet the most tribalist of all the people are the as Hina’s who think that they are now Ndebele. All people with names like Moyo,Nyoni,Sibanda,Ncube,Ndlovu and any other names you can think are pure Shonas but they have become Ndebele. This is a topic for another day.
I don’t want to say I agree with the Nomazulu above but she makes mo sense
Nomazulu Thata is a member of Mtwakazi and she advocates for division of Zimbabwe and the supremacy of the Ndebele. This thinking is idiotic and it is the reason why Thata is always against Mavaza.
Truth be said Mavaza does not hide his love for ZANU OF and ED and Mugabe. Dr MASIMBA Mavaza was the only ZANU PF who was writing criticising Grace Mugabe when she was the First Lady. Mavaza was the only ZANU PF boot kicker who could praise Mnangagwa when he was under attack. I listened to his interview in Harare on Radio the day Mnangagwa was fired. Mavaza said on Star Fm interviewed by George Musumba “ Mnangagwa’s expulsion was wrong unlawful and motivated by a grudge and power” he went on to say. “The First Lady is being ill advised by a clique and it is not good for Zimbabwe”. This was courage many senior ZANU OF members had put their tails in between their legs. But this CIO operative was vocal. It is because of this that I respect him.
Despite him being CIO Mavaza had told off many senior ZANU PF members. He wrote an article against Mutodi nobody called Mavaza a tribalist. He wrote an article criticising Chris Mutsvangwa. Nobody not even Thata accused Dr Mavaza of being a tribalist.
Dr Mavaza is an annoying pig but he is not a tribalist. He writes his opinion and he does not discriminate. Check your achieve Dr Mavaza had no nice words about the treatment of Mary Chiwenga. Why is That defending Mohadi with a card of Tribalism.
If there is anyone against Mohadi is his colleagues ex ZIPRA. Ex ZANLA will never benefit from the demotion of KEMBO.
I’m all fairness KEMBO must grow up. Surely your wife is safe until she meets Mohadi.
Forget the tribal ticket Mavaza can be anything but not a tribalist. He is low on brains he does not see that ZANU PF is now more Karanga than Zezuru. Mavaza will never be promoted in Mnangagwa’s ZANU PF. This ZANU PF only rewards Makaranga eku Zvishavane. This Mavaza must open his eyes and smell the coffee.
He will remain a CIO planted away from home. He thinks it’s a favour. The way he stands for ED he should be somewhere now. But no he is blind he can not see. Mnangagwa is only using him.
Mandla Khumalo
The above article is a response to an article written by Nomazulu Thata, see article below:
Dr Masimba Mavaza is a tribalist: Inherent hatred for non-Shona people
by Nomazulu Thata
I want to excuse myself right from the beginning of this article: It is not about protecting VP Mohadi and his scandals of his previous marriage with Senator Tambudzani Mohadi that left us cold about his criminal behaviour to her. It is not about bedding several married women. My today’s article is mostly in response to the article written by Masimba Mavaza castigating Kembo Mohadi telling him that he is soiling the presidency. His actual wording was “Kembo Mohadi embarrasses the presidium.” To pick Kembo Mohadi alone and in this manner is unacceptable. This is open tribalism. Mavaza writes 5-page article about Mohadi’s love for married women forgetting that a week ago there was the same news about Gen Constantino Chiwenga wo is dating a married woman, apparently had been dating her since 2017 while still married to Merry: his divorcing wife. The whole Gen Chiwenga shamefully destroyed the family of Mazura completely: if that is not worth a five-page article about high moral values from Dr. Mavaza.
Why did Mavaza miss this news about Gen Chiwenga who is bedding a married woman: it is said he snatched her from her husband in a Hollywood style, but Mavaza instead finds it newsworthy to write about Mohadi bedding several young women in his office disgusting enough to write home about it. In a Hollywood style, the wife of Mr. Mazura, a father of two children, a resident in Marondera confronted Chiwenga about dating his wife in 2017. After that, this man never found peace again: He has been threatened with unspecified action by the CIO secret service and one of them in the secret service advised Mr. Mazura to leave the country, which he did. This was a ploy by the CIO to give Chiwenga free access to this woman without sharing him with the husband. It is said in 2017 Mazura fled the country to Mozambique, but for some reason he came back in 2018, has been hiding in Chitungwiza.
It is said that the wife of Mazura confessed: while she worked in a tuckshop in Marondera, a car stopped right in front of her tuckshop and she was ordered to get into the car that took her to a lodge at Masaiti farm. About 10 minutes later, Gen Chiwenga entered the room where the woman in question was ordered to be. This story is as credible as we can imagine it: the husband has no reason to lie about it. Now Dr. Masimba Mavaza sees no evil in this but can pounce on the weakest from the three in the presidium: a non-Shona, splash Mohadi bare on the social media and calls him an embarrassment. He cannot do this to Chiwenga for reasons we all know will never see light of day. General Chiwenga’s life is a total mess and an embarrassment to the nation. We have not only an uneducated fool who holds two portfolios in an educated country like Zimbabwe; he cannot divorce his wife gracefully ever to meet the minimum of Dr. Mavaza’s moral standards.
Now let us visit the lifestyle of the president of the so-called second republic of Zimbabwe: The Right Honourable Dambudzo, Immersen Mnangagwa. We are told by once upon a time a close friend of him; Professor Jonathan Moyo that Mnangagwa sired 41 children with many women. Later we had it through the grape wines that a young student was doing internship at Mnangagwa’s farm also got a child with president Mnangagwa, curiously whose initials are ED: Ethan Dumisani, making 42 children of one man. Dr. Masimba Mavaza missed an incident that came in the news that the First Lady was tipped by her security details that in one of Mnangagwa’s many farms, her husband was pleasuring himself with a young woman: name withheld. In total rage Auxilia caught them red-handed; to cut the story short: she went after Mnangagwa who ran away and hid in the maize field. Dear Dr., Masimba Mavaza, is this story not an embarrassment to the presidium, to the nation?
Evidently Dr. Mavaza sort to get Mohadi because he is a small fry from the three presidents we have in the country. In the scheme of things Mohadi’s VP position was thrust upon him. A chronic sick man who has no formidable role as one of the top civil servants. Mavaza sat on Mohadi’s neck; his writing skills about beautiful morals came handy. All stuff and nonsense that Mavaza wrote about were hollow considering the filthiness in our political leadership. Mavaza knows that he is writing for a public stint not that what he says has any weight and of any value to a country whose morals fibres have decayed to all time low, starting with the first civil servant: Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.
Talking about tribalism in this country, one can despair. Tribalism is rife in this country. We have reached a situation whereby the people of Mashonaland are openly telling us that we are second in this land and lesser. Their tribalism towards us is open, they do not hide that they hate non-Shona peoples. One wonders how we are going to build a diversified country blessed with several tribes and dialects if their attitude is divisive and not nation building. It appears at if the people of Matabeleland are always on the receiving end; we react to what a Shona person will have carelessly said or done to openly provoke tribalism and in the media. I sometimes feel we people of Matabeleland must apologise to the Shona people for being in Zimbabwe. That we speak the Shona language eloquently is not enough, they will never try to speak isiNdebele. (Chindeere)
It is an embarrassment to the people of Mashonaland that Zanu has destroyed this nation. Nobody ever thought that this country will grind to a standstill because of mismanagement, nepotism, cronyism, corruption, tribalism that have manifested itself to the point of no return. Even opposition party are marred by tribalism and are singing the same hymns from ruling Zanu PF party songs. The opposition is nowhere different, certainly not the ideology that is already non-existent in the opposition.
It is an embarrassment to those who voted Zanu PF in 1980 because these are the people who voted on tribal lines more than ideological conviction. Hence, today we realize how the people of Mashonaland want Zapu to be as dirty as Zanu PF in their imaginations. They are busy crafting ways and means to suggest that be it Zapu and Zanu are equally corrupt and dirty parties to soothe their tribal egos. Does it surprise us that the people of Mashonaland wished Mafukufuku to be hanged publicly? This inherent wish to suggest that Zapu equals to Zanu corruption and its failings is wholly tribalistic, still entrenched in the hearts and minds of some Shona’s. Zapu was never a government ever to measure its inability in comparison with Zanu government; Zapu has never ruled Zimbabwe: I suppose to most of them, this fact is not important at all. According to them, Zapu must also go down too and be falsified to be as bad as Zanu PF.
That Zanu has failed Zimbabweans to this devastating magnitude is an embarrassment and this fact should be put paid to those who voted for Zanu and must be the ones to remove the monster Zanu PF they voted for in the first place in 1980. Zanu PF is a Mashonaland project since the Zapu/Zanu split in 1963. For argument sake, if we participated in removing Zanu PF in power, we shall never smell the leadership of the aftermath of the struggle to remove Zanu PF. Instead we shall be told to be satisfied with appeasing positions that conceal tribal power structures in the leadership.
Despite all these tribal turbulences in our nation, we shall continue to fight tribalism in this country. It was the dream of Comrade Joshua Nkomo to have this nation united. It is not in the interest of the coming generations to leave this country tribally divided. Our forefathers and mothers failed to build a strong and united diversified nation. We the next generation are failing too to build a united nation. This is a beautiful country endowed with everything one hopes for to prosper nationally and globally. To divide this nation tribally into Mashonaland and Matabeleland is will not solve tribal problems: we have tribally mixed since the coming of the Nguni’s to the north. We must work even harder to eradicate tribalism in our midst. We know that Globally, diversity is the buzz word and there are many positives and advantages to remain united than what divide us.
Let us not pretend tribalism does not exist yet it does and hence we see and experience it in various forms and actions daily. We must learn to face tribalism head-on without fear; just name it, if there is tribalism in any situation. Nobody in this country should feel like a second-class citizen for whatever reason. We respect the birth right of citizens born in this country: our white cousins; our former colonisers should have same equal rights enjoyed by all. Like him or hate him, this is Joshua Nkomo’s dream we want to realize if we live.
Dr. Masimba Mavaza, you were wholly tribalistic in your previous article. If you fear General Chiwenga and President Mnangagwa, why pick on Kembo Mohadi the weakest link? Should we understand your article as giving a message to all three presidents perhaps; it appears you cannot possibly attack Chiwenga and Mnangagwa out of fear: in Shona we say: Kurova imbga waka viga mupini. Remember too that we read your articles and understand the devil in the detail. We are not bamboozled by your Oxford use of English language.
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