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(TALKZIMBABWE) Tsvangirai dishonours Zimbabwe's liberators

Tsvangirai dishonours Zimbabwe's liberators
Musa Chembiri (alias) - Opinion
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:23:00 +0000

DEAR EDITOR - The fact that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai chose to play golf instead of attending the burial of Cde Chando at Heroes Acre has a lot of symbolic significance.

As a PM of Zimbabwe who took the oath of allegiance, Tsvangirai should have been at Heroes' Acre to show his solidarity with those fallen heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice to liberate Zimbabwe.

The regime change project which Tsvangirai is fronting is hell-bent on removing all the vestiges and legacy of the Liberation Movement.

One of the ways change is achieved is to challenge the current cultural norms, beliefs and symbols.

In order to adopt the postmodern global norms of democracy, good governance, rule of law, human rights, the traditional cultural norms and symbolisms have to be challenged and destroyed.

By failing to attend this solemn ceremony, Tsvangirai was actually signalling his intention to break with the tradition and symbolism associated with the attending the burials of departed freedom fighters.

In the West, all political leaders (including the opposition) solemnly attend any remembrance services for their fallen heroes even as far back as those who fell in the First World War.

What makes Tsvangirai think that those fallen Zimbabwean heroes do not need to be remembered and respected?

It is a sign of disrespect for a political leader like Tsvangirai to play golf instead of paying his respects to the fallen gallant sons and daughters of Zimbabwe whose sacrifices made it possible for Tsvangirai to enjoy the priviledges he is enjoying today.

What Tsvangirai has done is very unAfrican and goes against the cultural norms of Zimbabwean society.

Whoever advised him clearly advised him wrongly and he will pay the price at the ballot box.

If this latest Tsvangirai stunt is supposed to change the thinking of Zimbabweans and induce a cultural change in that society, then one can only conclude that Tsvangirai is very naive and does not understand the deeply rooted African culture that even 100 years of colonialism and Christianity failed to eradicate.

We honour our dead and have a special place in our hearts for our fallen liberators.

Labels: LIBERATION, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, NEOCOLONIALISM

posted by MrK @ 4:23 PM