GUNGA Kwakabva Zita rebato redu The need to explore and explain the word GUNGA for people to know 1. Our party, GUNGA, began as BOND Political Party with the word BOND and symbol of the raised handshake denoting a Covenant, consensus, determination, compact, congress or agreement to win political power to resist both the corruption that was already intractable in ZANU pf and the MDC which we correctly took to be the barking dog of neo-imperialism. 2. Politics requires punch lines which by nature should be sentences made of one or a few short words which summarise the co values of the organisation or party. 3. GUNGA was coined as a short-format for the Shona language word GUNGANO which in English means a ‘gathering’ or ‘congress’ of people over a recurring or pressing issue. 4. The preoccupation in our party name-search was a desire to get a punchy and emotive word that would mean a BOND, Compact, Covenant, Promise, mutual pledge and fierce determination to achieve these. 5. The root of this longish word –gungano- and its related group of words further discussed below is UNGA and when you put a ‘G’ to the root the resultant term or word is GUNGA and it denotes big or powerful. 6. The word GUNGANO is closely related to sangano or ungano or a mutual belongingness to and among people in active and concerted agreement. 7. The Ndebele words that were considered are sivumilano, imbizo, isizwe and several others. 8. When the term GUNGA is explored through the format sungano it becomes a covenant. A close look at this group of words should easily reveal to anybody that a lot of intellectual thought and emotive soul-searching and vision even went into the short format GUNGA. 9. Though the acronyms ZANU and ZAPU sound like Shona or other vernacular language words their curse is that they are made from English words. As such they are some form of embarrassment for organisations that try to claim they pursue the Africanisation agenda that was championed by the martyred Patrice Lumumba. 10. On my part, I feel very bad that as a nation we still have to use English to ensure communication with wider audience. I consider it a curse we should strategize against with speed. 11. When I win elections and assume office in 2018 I am going to be the first president to talk to the international press in my mother tongue. I do not like to emulate Mugabe who views himself or prides in being viewed as a ‘British’ boy. 12. It is a shame for a man of Mugabe’s notoriety that he thinks speaking in English is a big deal. 13. I took steps to officially and effectively abandon European language names the moment I understood the nobility of asserting my rightful identity through all the means necessary. 14. Mugabe has enjoyed all instruments of state power so he has no legitimate excuse for not leading CHIMURENGA against imperialist cultures. 15. I, Jayaguru Nyati, the Founding President of GUNGA am an exponent of the well-considered view that restoring the identity of the indigenous is no less important than restoring land to the indigenous. 16. If somebody asks me whether I am more African and more nationalist than Mugabe I will answer in the affirmative. 17. I believe that on many issues that matter Mugabe has been a motor-mouth who deploys less than exiguous effort in following through what he waffles on the podium with crocodile tears. 18. Honestly speaking I, inter alia, would not burn expensive and quanteous aviation fuel to go and attend mass in Rome. 19. For goodness sake what does Mugabe, the father of Zimbabwe independence, think he is doing when he at ‘one go’ burns money that could revamp the Accident and Emergency unit at Harare Gomo Hospital or at Parerenyatwa, if not both. 20. It is not wrong to view GUNGA as Zimbabwe National Congress because we are that in name and deed GUNGA is the vision of our time. Hazvizi zveshungu bodo asi chokwadi. Siyabonga kakhulu, Thank you Yours Jayaguru Nyati Robert Godfrey Kazembe aka Musasiwa Ainziwo Cde Brezhnev
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 06:19:01 +0000