By George Chinyande| It looks like there have been 2 burials of 2 different things namely the 1st burial of the very troublesome chikwambu or chimuti or ngoromera gonamombe, which was secretly buried last week in a secret location with the family fearing that someone could locate it for longevity of life and rulership and the 2nd burial coming this weekend which are the really mortal remains of the deceased.

In my routine applied research in northern Mozambique a couple of years ago, I once bumped into a young man, a driver in a government department I worked for as an adviser, whose father was a well known witchdoctor in the area. I spent hours with the young man trying to extract what his father’s trade was exactly about. Firstly he admitted openly his father was/is a witchdoctor who can perform unbelievable antics which I never bothered anyway to verify.

But one interesting thing he revealed to me was how his father taught him since his boyhood to tame wild vicious animals like lions, hyenas, leopards, etc. He explained that his rural home is located in the middle of seamless thick forest heavily populated by lions and other deadly creatures.

One day his father took him into the bush to hunt for lion’s most precious source of power and why it is feared so much by both human beings and the jungle, which is a piece of object it swallows in once it goes active and vomits on tree leaves when it wants to sleep or rest. He claims that once a lion vomits the fattish object it is as powerless and timid as a newly born baby.

However, only skillful and powerful witchdoctors know how to hunt and locate this object which is done by monitoring closely the movement of lions until they get down to rest. Meaning one has to get as close to where they are resting as possible and thoroughly look for it on huge tree leaves until one finds it.

Once located the witch doctor is as happy as never before and has one of the rarest life treasure that makes him or her one of the most powerful feared human being on earth. According to the young man, his father would then mix the object with other African traditional stuff and vaccinate them so that no human being nor animal can dare them.

Once vaccinated, one can move through the jungle any hour of day and night coming across lions who can only tuck in their tails in fear and powerless. In fact lions can simply shy away from you regardless of your age, the young man further claimed. He challenged me to visit his bush area but I refused. Inquisitively, I asked him about. the day he dies what would happen with his treated body to which he said, some rituals have to be performed to retract the fear and power juju from him or her, otherwise the person’s alma will be troublesome.

From the look of things this appears to be what Gushungo the all powerful and feared was like most probably. The so called private traditional ceremony undertaken by the family and clan in Zvimba village a week ago could be exactly to treat and remove his ngoromera gonamombe zvibhakira which was finally buried somewhere as rumoured.

Gushungo’s cdes Enos Nkala and Edgar Tekere had expressed previously their wishes not to be buried at the Gushungo’s Zanu pf heroes acre, but he never bothered to listen to their wills. Today Gushungo Karigamombe himself through his evil wife Gire refuses to be buried there what a strange turn of history? Stranger things than fiction really all with the hallmarks of African life elongating and power grabbing and retaining juju.