Of the empowered Mliswas, empowered to eat from crumbs falling off the rich white mans table.... the table far far away from the reach of the majority of Zimbabweans. Where is our strongest punch against neo colonialism ....imperialists eating and our gate keepers being given a dine to look the other way.... Nathaniel Manheru is angered, I think... But then we need foreign investors. The Herald today carries a story singing of how Bulawayos face is shining again, all this thanks to foreign investors. More of the Billys. How can we cry of one foreign investor and pat ourselves on the back for having brought more foreign investors with a similar paint? Mliswa only soils our sense of morality, our collective conscience, and it is only a sense which he soils. He exposes our false moral fastidiousness, our moral emptiness and the silly bravado we show in denying, defending or policing that emptiness. But Billy Rautenbach steals a country, steals our destiny, pawns it, before selling back to us the owners, leftovers from that pillaged destiny. He robs us of a whole economy. Lobengula never got the time to shape a wildlife policy. Larger, existential events overtook him. But he, at the very least, showed a strong sense of stewardship, with a tiny fraction of the knowledge we of this generation now have. Come to think of it, Caliban-like, we showed white gold-seekers all sites of old workings of gold, iron and coal. Early Rhodesia’s geological maps came from African knowledge. We had worked gold, worked iron, worked copper, building a formidable knowledge base. Today the white man has the knowledge, is the main actor. We do not have the knowledge, much worse even the curiosity. We do not care, we never wake up to our responsibilities of stewardship. Does this country have to know what is happening to its resources through a chance altercation between one small black man and one dribbling white man? Or from journalistic curiosity? Come on, Zimbos. We are better mheni. Simuka Zimbabwe. Nathaniel Manheru.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:50:47 +0000
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