Victory is sweet.
Real heroes achieve it on the battle field but cowards make false claims of victory in the rallies, media and history books to celebrate and enjoy their own lies.
Shona people have never won any war on their own.
Making a long list of wars calling them “chimurengas” and making false claims of victory is one thing but winning a real war in a real battle is another.
However, if there is a war that Shona people have won on their own without assistance which we are not aware of, which has escaped the eagle eye of information age, we challenge the headquarters of Shona supremacism, ZANU Pf, and all Shona historians to furnish us with such information.
The Zimbabwe army emerged as a strong force in 1980 when it combined well trained and disciplined ZPRA and the Rhodesian Army. The FN toting, razzmatazz, Shona only liberation group, ZANLA, that had a strange appetite for chicken, could not form a strong army on its own.
Now the Zimbabwe army is a shadow of its own. The skilled Rhodesians have completely left the army. Most ZPRA members have retired or died due to old age.
What is left now is an ill- equipped, hungry, under – paid ,demoralised and indisciplined army with torn uniforms and boots.
Thanks to Minister of Defence, gogo Opah Muchinguri we came to know this. “We need food rations, as we are expected to provide 30 items, but we are only giving them 10,” she told Parliamentarians in 2019.
“We are expected to provide four sets of uniforms but they have only one. You can identify a Zimbabwean soldier by their worn-out uniforms,” continued gogo Muchinguri-Kashiri.
This sounds like a disorganised rebel group in a jungle somewhere in DRC than a national army. But it is a true reflection of an army that defends Zimbabwe, a broke and failed state without its own currency.
As for the arms, we saw them ourselves during the coup of 2017. Ancient tankers most of them confiscated from ZPRA in the 1980s were rolling for all to see. It was a big show of weakness.
Due to hunger and underpayment the Zimbabwean soldiers have resorted to armed robbery and illegal supply of arms and ammunition to armed robbers hence the knee shaking series of armed robberies around the country.
One member of the Zimbabwe National Army, Zvindozvashe Dzuda was charged with several counts of armed robberies, theft and illegal supply of ammunition by the Zimbabwean court this weak. This the level of indiscipline, demoralisation and poverty in the Zimbabwe army.
We note that although the boastful and arrogant Shona people lay claim to every war that happened in Zimbabwe, there is one war which even the most noisy Zanupf members or the most drunk Shona historian will never mention.
That is, the 1st Anglo – Matabele War of 1893. If we were to follow the Chimurenga myth this war would be called Chimurenga (1). But no! The Zimbabwe Chimurengas start with 2nd Anglo Matabele War which they call Chimurenga 1. The 1st Anglo – Matabele war is missing in the history books of Zimbabwe because of many reasons that are a humiliation to Shona supremacist.
Firstly, it exposes the fact that the the traitorous Shona people acted in alliance with the white colonisers to fight and destroy the Kingdom of Matabeleland on 3 November 1893 after giving away their own country Mashonaland for free to the same colonisers on 13 September 1893.
Secondly, it exposes another indisputable fact that Matabeleland and Mashonaland aka Zimbabwe are two separate countries that were colonised on different dates, using different methods. Mashonaland was occupied through peaceful means on 13 September 1890 while Matabeleland was occupied on 3 November 1893 after a deadly war (1st Anglo- Matabele War) in which Matebele Royal Army fearsly resisted colonialism.
Thirdly it exposes yet another fact that Shona supremacists who portray themselves as Pan Africanists are actually anti Matabele genocidists who went as far as forming up alliances with the whites to obliterate Matabele Kingdom and nation.
Last but not least, the Shona people have never engaged the mighty Matabele in a war except in a genocide where unarmed innocent Matabele civilians including women and children were butchered.
As one who speaks to Matabele young men and women on a daily basis,it is my testimony that they are itching for the opportunity to liberate themselves from the Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe using whatever means possible. Should the opportunity avail itself, triumphalists, trumpet blowers and accomplished liars that are Shona supremacist will be suffer another humiliating defeat.
In the American revolutionary war (1775- 1783) supporters of the British Crown, called loyalists or Tories, were declared ‘persons inimical to American liberties’ by the patriots. During the war, loyalists were made to flee to British strong holds and when their cause was finally defeated in 1783 around 60 000 of them migrated to British territories where Britain compensated them in cash and kind.
As Matabeleland independence is surely coming like sunrise, we pity those Matabele who sellout on the revolution. The poor and broke Shona supremacist government won’t be able to maintain its small pay it gives to you. They are also human eating tribalists and that means migrating to Zimbabwe will as good diving into a river with hungry crocodiles .
Selling out is totally unacceptable in every revolution. Matabeleland revolution is not about to accept traitors. The British Crown could not trust the loyalists, it held them in suspicion and were the most despised. This shows that traitors are loathed even by their own masters.
A good traitor is a dead one. The necklace is the best gift for all traitors.
Izenzo kungemazwi!
Israel Dube
MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs