I got this off another site. Hero to Zero, or the Curse of the Small House! No sane Zimbabwean could have predicted such a great moment of truth, with a momentous revelation of unparalleled magnitude by President Robert Mugabe after his 33 year rule over Zimbabwe. Mugabe has typically always addressed the gukurahundi issue in a dismissive manner with no regard for victims. This time, the president managed to evoke painful memories of his own childhood, in an unguarded moment of utterances depicting himself as a man from a sad and broken family. It has taken an advanced age of 90 years, a close family members death and probably coming to terms with the realisation that all humans are mortal beings, for him to display this vulnerable side of himself. When ones time comes and ones number is is called up, its a roll of honour we all respond to and dutifully report for. There is only one way out of this life and no one can NIKUV it. At some point we all have to account for our actions in life, hence we naturally seek to make peace with our maker in one way or another as we draw closer to the end of our days on this earth. Sometimes this manifests itself in open admissions of guilt over past crimes as we have all deduced from Mugabes revelation. Mugabe has inadvertently created a PR headache for the Zimbabwe government, Zanu PF party and all those who have always vehemently defended his corner over the gukurahundi massacres as they are now faced with a situation where he has openly alluded to the reason behind such a heinous post independance act. -quite a long read-and have done it in chucks-read to the end.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:36:45 +0000
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