Farai Dziva|Controversial ZANU PF National Commissar Victor Matemadanda has claimed that MDC Alliance leader Advocate Nelson Chamisa will never rule Zimbabwe following his comments on Mbuya Nehanda.
Said Matemadanda :
“Zimbabweans might not know that Chamisa’s father was in the RAF battalion, meaning one Rhodesian African Riffle.”
“He (Chamisa) is a person who grew up in an army cantonment area, but an army which was on the side of the Rhodesian regime, and his value system because of that, is naturally against the revolution, the liberation of this country.”
“But if he thinks I am lying, he has every right to challenge me.
I know he is a son of a Rhodesian African riffler who fought against the liberation process of this country and his value system now favours the former coloniser.
And for him to disregard the physical and spiritual effort of Ambuya Nehanda is wrong.
A recognition that every one of us is doing, despite the fact that I am in the opposition or what, our people in Zimbabwe respect the spiritual world especially with regards to the liberation process if this country.
And for him to denigrate her, he will never rule this country because of that.
He is very irresponsible, very ignorant, very misguided anti-our culture, anti-Zimbabwe and anti-our culture.”
Addressing an e-rally on Sunday, Advocate Chamisa said that government was not putting its priorities right by planning to erect a giant Nehanda statue in central Harare while the nation is starving.
Responding to Matemadanda’s remarks the MDC Alliance said:
Surely cowards like Matemadanda lack moral probity to speak on Mbuya Nehanda legacy or to let alone brand a leader with people at heart like Advocate Nelson Chamisa as anti revolution.
Mbuya Nehanda was for the people and that’s why she remains popular up to this day and so is our President Nelson Chamisa because he fronts people’s interests.
The likes of Matemadanda and his boss Emmerson Mnangagwa only want to abuse Mbuya Nehanda’s name to prolong their corrupt and illegitimate regime.
The only notable thing that Matemadanda did is to defy Mbuya Nehanda’s famous “mapfupa achamuka” call for an uprising against colonialism.
Tax driving in a foreign country certainly is never part of our liberation struggle!
The best Matemadanda and Mnangagwa can do is to let the dead rest and spare themselves wrath of the ancestors.
