THIS old adage refers to the impossibility of running away from one’s misdeeds, fleeing with no one chasing; put differently being overtaken by own sins. Overtaken connotes not only being found by own sins but being found and surpassed.
Revelation says some people’s sins go before them into judgments, while other people’s sins follow them. Being followed by own sins is equivalent to an attempt to run away from own shadow.
There is always a dilemma of inferiority and superiority complexes. One can portray superiority when in fact, is covering the deep rooted sense of inferiority or vice-versa. Such complexes abound in almost every situation in life.
Smart Boy is a good illustration of this self deceit. He had a putrefying wound in his back resulting in him always wearing a jacket no matter how hot the day was. Indeed by all standards he looked smart. Unknown to his admirers Smart boy was slowly but surely diminishing health wise.
One day natures’s resilience gave in and Smart Boy succumbed and died. It was only at his death that people came to know that Smart Boy was not what he wanted people to know about him.
When God addresses humanity, we the specks of dust, he relates to us relationally, regardless of his high station. This led David to wonder at such condescension, all for the redemption of mankind.
A good father is vouched for by his own family. The late pastor RR Ndlovu once said “pets like cats and dogs know whether their master is a good man or not”. Children need not to be reminded of how good their father is, in fact they know better.
As free as Mandela (late SA first black president Nelson) goes the saying, “Indeed Tata Mandela was a free man”. He could not help it but let that freedom exudes profusely.
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The saying about the shadow following its owner is an instruction to those fond of killing, oppressing and being corrupt that their shadows will religiously follow them till they drop dead. Issues of legacy come to the fore. What legacy are you building?
The unfortunate part with legacy unlike, the curriculum vitae, it is written by onlookers. Legacies are notorious for outliving incumbents long after they are gone – the Hitlers, Napoleons and Neros of this world. To the Jews, Adolf Hitler committed an unforgivable sin by superintending over the holocaust.
Napoleon Bonaparte is vilified by Catholics for humiliating the pope. Nero was very ruthless king and the bible attributes his curiality to the legacy he copied from his mother.
Recently, VP Phelekezela Mphoko torched a flame by taking the lid off the Gukurahundi genocide. Whether the genocide was conspiracy or not, that aside for now, VP Mphoko cut a lone figure that has courageously opened the debate on this emotive and dark patch of our history. Instead of calling the man names, let us put off the lenses of deception, corruption, arrogance and faked superiority.
It is not for the perpetrators of this ugly scorched earth strategy to tell the victims of Gukurahundi that the chapter is closed. It is the victims of that massacre that must have the last word in as far as closure to this is concerned. Instead of lambasting Mphoko let the country embrace his endevour at finishing this work in progress.
Let the victims be identified and called upon to render their version on how to bring an end to this dark era. Should this route be considered, it will not be surprising to see the majority of the victims coming from forward.
Not all voices that vilify Mphoko are genuine. Some read this version out of context, whilst others are bent on keeping the Gukurahundi issue under lid, for fear of being exposed for their ruthlessness.
It is worrisome to note that most of our people are so gullible to believe what their opinion leaders would want them to buy. There is need for Zimbabweans to read between the lines.
When Jonathan Moyo said Zapu would never produce a State president, he was misunderstood. In actual fact, he was saying as the status qou remains Zapu members stood no chance of taking up the position of president.
In simple terms Moyo was saying there was need to revisit the Unity Accord so as to enable members from both Zapu and Zanu PF equal opportunities in as far as the presidium was concerned.
Jabulani Sibanda repeated the same sentiments. Of late Callistus Ndlovu bemoaned the shortsightedness of viewing Unity Accord agreement as an event.
A close analysis of the above said three views lead to one congruence, namely, that the Unity Accord as it stands today, is not sensitive to prevailing circumstances.
This has resulted in rendering former Zapu members redundant in as far as the Unity Accord is concerned. This redundancy has manifested itself by the reduction of Zapu representation at the presidium.
Zapu is currently represented by one person instead of two.
Even the former arrangement was favouring Zanu PF since the president and the first vice-president came from Zanu PF, while the second vice-president and the national chairman came from Zapu.
It has been argued from some quarters that the Unity Accord was silent on the allocation of position of national chairman. However, this has been regularised.
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