MLF responds to MDC-T on the burning of the Zimbabwe flag

THE MDC-TSVANGIRAI PARTY’S REACTION TO THE ZIMBABWE FLAG BURNING INCIDENT  IS IN LINE WITH ITS ZANUIST HERITAGE.

Reports that the MDC-Tsvangirai  South Africa Chapter has all of a sudden saw it fit to castigate Mthwakazi Liberation Front for burning the Zimbabwean flag cannot go unchallenged.

A national flag is a powerful symbol of nationalism and rallying banner for all the peoples who subscribe to the founding ideals of a particular nation-state. Desecration of the flag is thus, not only considered a public outrage against the state, but also a protected form of free speech in all free and democratic societies..

It is a known fact that the Zimbabwean flag was designed and imposed on the people of modern day Zimbabwe by a Shona supremacist party called ZANU-PF. Its dominant symbols are representative of ZANUism, Shona supremacism and Shona-centricity. The absence of Matabeleland symbols in the Zimbabwean national flag is clearly consistent with the historic state sponsored marginalization of this region.

MDC-Tsvangirai South African provincial spokesperson Kumbirai Muchemwa reportedly told the NewsDay that  “(The Zimbabwe) flag does not belong to a party as some members of the MLF believe; it is the symbol of a people and a nation” . It is a pity that Mr Muchemwa deliberately concealed the known fact that the Zimbabwe flag is a symbol of the people of Mashonaland and the ZANU-PF concocted Shona-centric artificial “nation-state” of Zimbabwe.

The MDC-Tsvangirai party is a Shona supremacist outfit that is run by people who trace their political heritage to ZANU-PF and it is therefore not surprising that they have joined their said mentors in singing the anti-Mthwakazi Liberation Front chorus and defending their flawed “national” heritage.

The MDC-T is merely defending the founding symbols of the ZANU-PF concoted Shona-centric artificial ‘nation-state” of Zimbabwe and the Shona domination of Mthwakazi (Matabeleland and Midlands). One needs not go beyond the heavily Shona-speaking key decision making organs of this political party to get a glimpse of extent of their low regard of the peoples of  Mthwakazi and their strict adherence to the Shona supremacist grafitti that is written all over the Zimbabwe national flag.

Mthwakazi Liberation Front as a representative of the long suffering and marginalized people of Matabeleland and Midlands has every right to burn the Zimbabwe national flag to highlight Shona supremacism and other evils that the modern day state of Zimbabwe brought to our people.

We therefore remain committed to our view that the Zimbabwe national flag is a symbol oppression and suppression of the people of Mthwakazi and that its alleged sacredness does not  extend  beyond the Jameson Line (which is the natural boundary between Zimbabwe and Mthwakazi).On the same vein we do hope that the MDC-T will respect our democratic right to express ourselves by desecrating the said flag bearing in mind such a right is jealously  protected in all democratic societies.

VUKA MTHWAKAZI!

DAVID MAGAGULA
Secretary for Information and Publicity

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