Claude Maredza Correspondent
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. . This is why invariably the fight against colonialists always started in the larger native groupings. They felt the pinch more than the smaller native groupings who had in a way become house niggers on the master’s behest.

And this is a common phenomenon not just all over Africa, but everywhere where people where colonised.

In the case of Zimbabwe, that’s when you see people like Benjamin Burombo from the Karanga majority native grouping of the Masvingo area being among the first people to scheme a revolt against white racist rule.

They felt the pinch of racism and colonialism more being part of the majority Karanga native grouping of Masvingo, who were deliberately isolated more by the colonialists pursuant to the divide and rule policy of the racist colonialists. That is divide and rule psychologically hitting the native big time, thanks to the colonial strategist, Lord Salisbury. And this strategy would be repeated everywhere the colonialists conquered, not just in Zimbabwe or Africa. And it worked, at least for a while until the native, both house nigger and field nigger woke up to it and realised that they were being divided in order to be ruled forever.

They reunited and fought the colonialist and took back their land, their heritage.

This strategic reasoning by Lord Salisbury carried the day and Fort Salisbury was established on September 12, 1890 in the Zezuru area, the area in which present day Harare is located, a distance of 300 kilometres from Masvingo or Fort Victoria.

This was indeed quite far from the densely populated Karangas in the Fort Victoria region and the possible threat they posed due to their numbers as per Lord Salisbury’s fears.

Fort Salisbury, obviously in honour of Lord Salisbury, was soon to be called just Salisbury, also becoming the capital city of the colonisers’ Rhodesia.

It was to become the capital city of Zimbabwe at independence in 1980 with the new name becoming Harare.

In 1980, Harare carried on being the capital city of Zimbabwe because nothing could be done as the colonisers had already messed things up from way back when they arrived here, thanks to the strategic reasoning of this Lord Salisbury.

All the infrastructure fit for a capital city had already been established in Harare, so it was no longer feasible to immediately move the indigenous capital to its original and correct location, i.e. Masvingo.

This could only be done some time in the future after the independence euphoria had settled down.

We sure hope the authorities are still alive to this very important and crucial unfinished business and they will do the right thing sooner rather than later because its spiritual and divine.

Ignoring it will only be at our own peril as this would be an unfortunate direct affront on and disobedience of our ancestors and therefore God.

This cannot be forgiveable because we know the exact position and, therefore, there is absolutely no reason why we should not correct this dastardly colonial sin as a matter of urgency and as priority number one.

And the correct fact is that the capital city of Zimbabwe has always been Masvingo from the Mutapa days when our destiny was still in our own hands right up to this moment when our destiny is once again back in our own hands after serious disturbances in between.

That Murenga, our highest bridge to God, our most senior Mhondoro in Zimbabwe, moved to the new Guruuswa at Njelele near Matopos and also near present day Bulawayo after the power struggles at Great Zimbabwe around 1450 A.D does not in any way take away the fact that Great Zimbabwe, i.e. Masvingo, much as it was our capital city then, is still our de facto capital city now. Murenga only moved to Njelele because he detested the bloodshed at Great Zimbabwe during the internal power struggles of that time; around 1450 A.D.

As Murenga correctly spiritually observed and advised then, blood at that time and or at any other time desecrated and desecrates Great Zimbabwe or Masvingo, the capital city and therefore the whole country, and that’s why he moved.

And that’s why shedding of blood is totally not permissible in Zimbabwe under any circumstances except only under a Murenga war normally referred to as Chimurenga.

A Chimurenga war only happens when our national sovereignty is threatened in any conceivable way. This is the only time Zimbabweans are divinely permitted by God through Murenga our most senior Mhondoro and representative to God to shed blood as this will be in defence of our nationhood which is a natural and divine obligation.

This also explains why all Mhondoros or holy and Godly ancestral spirit mediums in Zimbabwe from the most junior right up to Murenga completely detest the colour red because it signifies blood. This is why the red garments worn presently by our traditional chiefs are viewed in some quarters as a real mockery of our spirituality because they are a design by our colonisers, the British. This is in direct antagonism with the fact that red is a colour which signifies blood. For this reason, our divine spirit mediums totally detest red, yet our chiefs ironically wear red robes given to them by colonialists as the major part of their regalia to signify that they are chiefs.

We have also carried on with this totally unacceptable practice even into independence. That flies right into the face of our original divine practices; practices which ironically the chiefs must safeguard as custodians of our tradition and culture.

Since colonialism destroyed our very spirituality, we have since abandoned our real spiritual duty as guided by our Mhondoros and have continued with what the coloniser imposed on us even into independence!

We need to change that. It’s an imperative.

Claude Maredza is from Norumedzo Village, Bikita District, Masvingo Province. His contact details are; e mail;[email protected]; phone: 00 263 (0) 77 2 382 099.

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