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Harare, Zimbabwe (News of the South)-I love Nathaniel Manheru the writer, not the thinker, and do follow his articles as a way of growing not just my vocabulary but deepening my thinking, waging them against political fundamentalists on this side of the continent.

The opposition sometimes strengthens one more than comrades in arms.

Indeed Manheru is such a fundamentalist where the deities to recreate him as a Muslim he could be found somewhere crouched in the desert with an RPG launcher on his shoulder fighting for his ideals.

His plight is that of having a big mind in matters small and simple.

The plight of over-esteemed minds is to leap and borrow large sounding arguments and topics, even from foreign nations, whilst fleeing the near but tedious and painful crudity that is their reality.

To them, there is more comfort in dissecting the complicated nature of the Brexit and the ramifications pertaining to its people and the EU, than focusing on a more pressing but uncomfortable topic of rampaging people at Beitbridge border post here.

In the instance that a ‘big’ mind does focus on that, it papers over the issue, not by directly belittling it, but by growing a large and cloudy argument about shady philosophies that makes the truth a simple itch in a larger battle.

“You are worried about the riots? Britain is still out there”.

Mere admission to the truth is beyond the ‘big’ mind, so the only way through the sorry pictures of burnt cars and buildings is to canopy over them a conspiracy theory about Dickensian businessman lusty at the lost Zim-US dollar.

Why it has come to such a position isn’t the issue. Who has brought a whole country to that state, isn’t the issue again.

Again, the ‘big’ mind always sees shadows and hidden hands in everything.

To the big mind nothing is of itself or by itself. Everything is sinewy-limbed to the great evil of the West and any issue has to be contrived until it links.

Thus to Nathaniel Manheru the skirmishes at the border are a result of South African businessman angry at lost business after the government’s Statutory Instrument 64 which allegedly ‘tightens screws’ on the importation of some basic foodstuffs.

One of Manheru’s great skills is the ability to be elaborate about mundane topics, contrive them with well-oiled language until he seems to be relaying some holy truths when all he is doing is relaying old drivel.

Most often he has a cord of historical trinkets to tie things up into a perfect bouquet which is actually a bushel of weeds.

By the time he finishes mixing the beginning of whisky, by a slave he says was called Nearis Green, to the riots at Beitbridge and Brexit the unguarded reader is far down the drain he can’t come back up for a gulp of fresh air (truth).

The Zimbabwean situation is getting worse by the day and immediate action is needed to remedy things instead of lulling each other into the skewed comfort that SA businessman are fighting for our buying power.

Yes it’s a power we have, indirectly gotten again, because we cannot create anything of our own here due to a litany of reasons political and economic.

The few that are still operating here are doing so in an environment where their produce is more expensive than imports.

Now things are getting hotter in Beitbridge and somehow we just have to agree that someone has misfired in his policies or rule and stop pointing fingers across the trans-Atlantic divide.

The Zimbabwean topic has been talked about for a long time and to many the solution has been staring us all in the face since things went around a bend.

Never has the Zimbabwean problem required a polemical essay.

All it has needed is lucidity and man who see beyond the transiency of their parties.

What it doesn’t need are fundamentalists gifted in semantics and history.

Or derogatory young man with sex drives equal to their insanity.

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