Tsvangirai should learn from Joshua Nkomo's blunders
"We believe that the true unity of the people of Zimbabwe is founded on fundamental principles rather than personalities"
History always repeats itself and at most times, it does so in a different fashion with strange agitators and bedfellows and yet, its essence is always unchanged; it demonstrates repetitive interminable underlying themes, like waves pounding the sea shore, but we remain oblivious or choose to ignore its lessons. If only we could learn from them then, I postulate, we would advance at a more accelerated pace. We would deliberately avoid repeating those same mistakes that in retrospect seem so apparent and yet, they always remain hidden from and illusive to our brains because of the blindness of raw selfish ambition.
I read Masuphula Sithole's "Struggles within the Struggle" for the umpteenth time, and it is quite intriguing how resemblances of current events jump out at you from historical chronicles.
I occupied myself with the chapter on the ZAPU-ZANU split in July 1963. I am still trying to understand why it happened and what we can learn from it given what is currently happening within the MDC-T. I was pleasantly surprised.
From Masuphula's account, his brother, Ndabaningi, penned a document titled "The Reasons for Our Action; a narrative that sought to justify why Joshua Nkomo, the then President of ZANU, was no longer a suitable leader.