Dear Editor
Pease allow me to say, ‘Thank you to Tshanga Dube for being a financial backbone to Highlanders Foot ball Club.’ Tshinga Dube explained how he has over the years quietly supported Amahlolanyama with his funds, and even loaned it monies it is yet to pay back. He is a generous man who should be applauded indeed. I have no problem with that. There are many individuals, including Dube himself, who have supported Highlanders in one way or another and never called for a rally to display their donations.
Thus, what makes this bus donation questionable is why he has chosen this time to call for a rally to display his donation. And why did his invitation cards allude to Highlanders as a n extension of Zanu? What has his Zanu parliamentary candidacy and rally have to do with Amahlolanyama. Is he simply not bribing its supporters to vote for Zanu? And why bring in VP Mnangangwa as the main speaker at the so-called handover ceremony/rally? How dare Tshinga try to cleanse Mnangangwa of his alleged Gukurahundi massacres involvement by using Highlanders? Did he fail to invite VP Mphoko, or his Bulawayo governor? Dube was entitled to invite who ever he wanted, but surely not a man alleged to be at the forefront of the murder of the very people who mainly support Highlanders? What was Dube trying to do? To tell us that he is leading the pack making Mnangagwa look like a saint not responsible for Gukurahundi in any way?
Tshinga has shown us that he is extremely desperate for that seat. I recall that after the 2013 general elections rumours circulated thatubaba uTshinga Dube took his loss badly such that he had to be hospitalized. I wished Bulawayo could spare him that pain this time, but no; Makokoba voters should not. He deserves to be punished heavier by using Highlanders to sanitise Gukurahundi leaders. As a seasoned politician, business, former Zipra cadre, military industrialist, military leader; he seems far detached and insensitive to the anger of the people of Bulawayo regarding Gukurahundi. His military strategies have failed to work and voters should shoot him inside the ballot box as punishment. He really doesn’t care about how people who lost relatives and friends during that era feel and think about the whole issue. He is only thinking, and desperately so, about getting the Makokoba seat at all cost, even if it means waging an emotional Gukurahundi war
Bulawayo and Highlanders. Tshinga needs to respect uBulawayo and be punished for being insensitive. Makokoba should not vote for him. Thank you for the bus. The money spent on it may as well have come from our national coffers.