Posted by Arthur Gwagwa on FB on 27 April 2014 Although I have not personally met Sekai Holland, I regard her husband Jim as one of my few friends in Zimbabwe. I also think she comes from a very good heritage. This is what David Coltart said in his insightful eulogy at the funeral her father Mike Hove, “In the 1950s when Mr Hove was a member of parliament we were starting out a more civilized path of respecting all our people, a trend which was abruptly derailed when radicals and hardliners on both sides of the political spectrum chose violence to decide the contestation over power. It is shameful that we as whites treated great men and women like Mr Hove, Enoch Dumbutshena and countless others as second class citizens. In doing so we squandered the opportunity of securing a peaceful transition to majority rule and condemned Zimbabwe to a brutal civil war which poisoned our nation, poison which persists to this day through men (on both sides let it be said) who have had their minds bent by a bloody war. As a result we have suffered 50 years of trauma. As I listened to the stories mourners related of this great man’s life I thought that it really is time for us to “Start again a little higher”, so that as a Nation we once again strive to achieve the ideals and principles that Mr Hove stood for. When we do so I have no doubt that all the promise, the “good things”, that our beloved Nation has will be realised”. This paragraph is cited in a speech that I presented in Berlin - See more at: davidcoltart/2013/05/briefing-paper-by-the-zimbabwe-human-rights-ngo-forum/#sthash.RZmyqS7L.dpuf
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 16:22:46 +0000
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