Staff Reporter
Ousted MDC Secretary General Moses Mzila Ndlovu will this weekend launch his proposed regional party from Johannesburg South Africa.
Sources very close to the former Welshman Ncube led MDC strong man, told Zimeye.com that Mzila will be officially meeting with people of his Kalanga ethnic group in the South African capital to announce the establishment of his political party.
The new political party is yet to be named but sources hinted it will be called the Bukalanga People’s Party which will only concentrate its efforts in 7 out of 210 constituencies in the country.
The party will only be focused on the Kalanga dominated areas West of Matabeleland South province.
According to the sources the party will seek to unite the Kalanga people who have refused to be incorporated under the proposed Mthwakazi kingdom which they claim is a Ndebele speaking people project they do not subscribe to.
“The party will only concentrate in our Kalanga constituencies of Tsholotsho North and South, Bulilima East and West, Mangwe, Matobo North and South
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Nothing will change the history of Mthwakazi. You cannot reinvent history no matter how much you may wish it. Who is Ndebele and what does “Ndebele speaking” mean when the very word Ndebele is of Sotho/Tswana origin?
Why didn’t these people try this experiment of theirs during Dr Joshua Nkomo’s leadership; himself a Kalanga/Sotho? They know that he would have rubbished it. I know of no so-called Ndebele family in Mthwakazi without the Kalanga as part of their family tree today. Apart from that; since they seem to always attribute the name Ndebele to people of Nguni origin, if find it difficult to understand their gripe since it is them the Kalanga who have virtually been in leadership positions in Zimbabwe under the generic tern “Ndebele”.
Show me one Nguni who has been a government Minister or Deputy in the last 36 years? Show me a Dlodlo, Khumalo, Nxumalo, Buthelezi, etc? You cannot, after your failure to deal with your tormentor; that is the Shona dominated ZANU PF/Mugabe, then resort to venting your frustrations on the innocent and weak minority Nguni people – what have they done to create the difficult situation you find yourself in today? Ngunis last ruled in that country in prehistoric times; before the creation of the nation state of Rhodesia. It is not them who imposed siNdebele on you and ignored the other languages. They were not in power. It is the white Missionaries who did that. Why didn’t you demand all these things from those in power, including Joshua Nkomo?
At Lancaster House, it is Nkomo and Mugabe who also preferred the official use of only Ndebele and Shona. Non of them were Nguni – Khumalo, Dlodlo or whatever. In PF ZAPU, they also preferred the use of the two languages and nobody ever complained. Now who is to blame for that?
Even the name Mthwakazi cannot be traced back to Zululand, just as it is the case with the word Ndebele. So what are these people on about? King Mzilikazi was Zulu and as a relative of King Shaka who was also Zulu. He left with Zulu speaking people; not “Ndebele” as these Bukalanga people are trying to imply. “Ndebele” has nothing to do with the Ngunis, if that is what Bukalanga people are trying to imply.
Many of the people who later joined King Mzilikazi along the way were not Zulu either; hence the invention of the name “Ndebele” – so why associate it with the Nguni? Besides, King Mzilikazi never intended going up North. He had already long settled around Pretoria/Rustenburg and would have remained there, were it not for the Vootrekkers who invaded his settlement and forced him out northwards to the now Matebeleland region. This Bukalaka thing is a misguided, uninformed and fruitless exercise just meant to divide the Mthwakazi people!!