It’s not what you think about them

My name is Farai Shadreck Masarakufa, a Shona by birth right but a Ndebele by culture. Growing up like this made me feel uncomfortable. Most Ndebeles will be looking at me with that look they give to Shona people.

On the other hand I failed to be Shona. I couldn’t speak my Shona at all. People at times laughed me, mocked and made fun of it. It was all painful.

Well I had a privilege to be on both sides, the Ndebele and Shona sides. I would listen to Ndebeles talking. They will mostly go like

“AmaShona angithi ngabanikazi belizwe, they do whatever they want” – meaning Shonas are the owners of the nation so they do whatever they want.

On the other hand most Shonas go like,

“maNdebele anozvitisa stereki, I won’t talk with Ndebeles, andinyengi maNdebele ini.”

This seem to be going on and on incessantly, then I asked myself why this hatred? Why? Is this the way we’re supposed to live in our nation?

A lot happened in our, our past is not clean at all but why should we make even our future dirtier than the past is? I understand we have a lot of unresolved issues that needs to be resolved but the way we’re doing now, are we really dealing with it? Are we not all Africans, black and white people? We’ll never succeed as a nation if we continue hating on each other like this.

Our forefathers had their own queries which we’re not fully aware of them, remember this “We’re all villains in everyone’s story.” We’re nurturing hatred, tribalism and killing patriotism at the same time. If we’re then doing this what was then the purpose of Chimurenga war if we freed us to be enslaved by hatred and tribalism. Most might think I’m lying because people are pretending that everything is good and they love each other but in their hearts they know I’m not.

Please let’s talk about this. People let’s unite Zimbabwe.

I believe I missed some points to this, may we post them here. Let’s talk about it. What one piece do you think about the other person? What are your uniting solutions?

Let your voice be a solution, you got power to unite.