By Nick Mangwana
Continuing this week's theme of Perpetual Cleansing I
honestly felt like writing this instalment in Shona my mother tongue. For when
one gets emotional, they resort to their vernacular.
I have a cousin who married a beautiful Ndebele
lass. After a few years in that dry Masvingo District where I hail from she
became very fluent in Shona. But whenever she was upset the beautiful clicks
that make Ndebele so musical would start rolling out. That's what happens when someone stops using
their head but start using their heart.
So I am thinking this in Shona, because it comes from the
heart. I will start by at least asking
my first question to the reader in Shona and revert back to English with some
translations for those who speak our many other official languages. Pane akambosvina matumbu kana guru (does
everyone know how to clean tripe or cow chitlins?). For the sake of those who
have never had the experience or witnessed it I will explain.
Whenever the insides of an animal are turned and cleaned, no
matter how hungry it had been before its slaughter there will always be faeces
in its gut. If those that are very healthy and shiny with a lustrous sheen,
when they die and you turn their insides, you will find faeces. I want the good reader to catch this point.
Even those animals that actually starve to death, they will always have faeces
inside them. Hell, even if you slaughter a cow that has just finished relieving
itself or defecating, it will always have faeces inside of it. Now, we all know
that defecating is a way of self-cleansing. So in short, no matter how much an
organism cleans itself it will always what they call in biology residual
faeces. If you insist on draining all
the faeces from the system of the animal, the animal may dies. For there is
something called "residual faeces" in every living organism.
One may wonder why we have just gone to biology class again.
Those with insight have already picked that Zanu PF is a living organism. It
will always have residual faeces in its system as in undesirable people no
matter how much we purge. It is not only
impossible to get rid of all the residual faeces, but is also quite healthy to
have them.
Thus Zanu PF as an organisation is always going to have this
residual faeces or stool. These are people that represent undesirable part of
its being. We all would like it to be out, to expel and remove it but it is
virtually impossible. There are of course people that have pursued these new
fads. There is one called colonic irrigation. This is a new fad by many
celebrities who feel that they are too posh to have faeces in their system. So,
special equipment is used to pump water through the backside into the large
intestine or colon. The other name for
this procedure is colonic hydrotherapy. Those people that practise these
processes will be trying to remove what they believe to be putrefied faecal
matter in their large intestines. Is the good reader surprised? Done be, there
are people that obsessed with getting rid of faeces. They try to cleanse
themselves of all faecal matter. But here is the thing, after a few meals there
will be residual faeces again in their systems.
No matter how much you put this equipment through the back passage and
irrigate, there will be faeces in your system.
So what’s the solution? How does one make sure they don’t
have residual faeces in their gut? Well, you know what? You can’t. Some things are just meant to be.
Zanu PF is a party of millions of people. It should try to
get rid of unwanted excess baggage in its system. But it should not obsess
about it. Once the annoying ones are
gone, that’s it. There is no point in going for purity because that state will
never be attained. Some things we have to live with. There will always be those
are among us who are not fully with us. If churches can have those, how do we
expect a political party to have everyone who is who unwavering? I would like
to say that they can but the reader and the writer here know that it’s a
utopian notion.
The party should continue to be vigilant against bad
elements but vigilance does not meaning burning down your house because it has
bed bugs. Hatipise imba nekuti yaita tsikidzi.
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