| Mtukudzi on signing of Zim’s political accord |
| Thursday, 18 September 2008 03:29 |
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Congratulations fellow countrymen - the people of Zimbabwe - for being able to sign the historic political resolution and for understanding and agreeing to respect each other despite different political values. To the parties to the agreement - congratulations for giving us hope and confidence in the face of untold despair, mistrust, hate and the biting poverty that has broken our spirits. Many have long stopped living. Their hearts are shredded. They just exist like objects without substance. There is no life, no buoyancy in battered souls - only fear and inferiority. We want to rise, to shine again. We will not be spectators anymore among the progressive nations of the world. To be active participants rebuilding, redefining, and realigning our visions with the inclusive aspirations of every Zimbabwean is what we want. Our children are looking up to us for a future of prosperity – good health, a good education and good jobs. Our mothers too, the granaries and bellies are empty – they want abundance once more. The fathers yearn to wake up to the chirping birds and ride buses again to the factories to restart production. They have never wanted to live on handouts. Almost anything, everything, everyone now awaits revival, survival. This is the time for locomotion, movement, progression. Zimbabwe rightly deserves better. By signing this historic accord (creating the Inclusive Government between President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Mutambara) we hope Zimbabweans will now bury the hatchet and cease the hostilities and hate that turned father against son, brother against brother. If the parties to the political settlement are truly driven by selfless desire, above individual selfish complexities, then the deal should last. At artistic level the culmination of the agreement is exactly what most of our creative work, across the genres of art, have reflected all along – peace, love, tolerance, discipline and the respect for human freedoms and liberties. In the new dispensation the artist will not stop reflecting and laughing at our own follies as a nation and criticizing wrongs. Censure and censorship are awkward. Now the music will continue telling it like it is. We have a job to do, always. - Oliver Mtukudzi. - tukumusic.com |
