Monday, 05 February 2007

Yes things have to be done and issues have to be resolved but for Zimbabweans someone has to do it for us. The bad effects of colonisation I guess. But then the thing is when it comes to partying we do it for ourselves.
Day and night I ponder endlessly why Zimbabweans are docile when it comes to issues that matter most, but I seem to get no logical explanation. Reminds me of a Zimbabwean man who was given a woman to marry for free and he asked if she was pregnant as well. It could have been a joke but I believe it really happened.

I heard that Mduduzi Mathuthu editor of New Zimbabwe .com, recently ran an article about a 4-year-old girl Olinda who was in need of urgent medical attention but the parents couldn't afford the hefty figure the doctor had charged. The editor published the father's name and cell phone number, bank name and account number for readers to deposit their cash if they so wished. I'm told all the information looked authentic and in any case readers were in a position to verify the information if they wanted to since the father's cell phone number was also provided. Forumites most of whom are Zimbabweans spent most of the time chit chatting about how best to get the money to Olinda's parents.

Some even suggested that the editor opens a fund account so as to have readers deposit the money after which the editor will send it to Olinda's father. You see. Zimbabweans were not even willing to deposit the money into the given account, but they wanted the editor to do everything for them. COPY the story, PASTE the story, PUBLISH the story, OPEN a fund account for them and GIVE the money to Olinda's parents. At least they read the story. For how long are we going to have some people continue doing things for us? What was so hard in depositing the money directly into the father's account? I just said to myself the-Do-It -For -Me attitude is heavily embedded in our minds so much that at times we end up looking like fools to the rest of the world. Could it be an effect of colonisation?


On the 6th of January 2007 I visited the Vigil in London for the first time. I have a strong feeling that many Zimbabweans don't know about this organisation. Not that they don't want to know but because they are always waiting for someone to do things for them. For those of you who don't know about it feel free to visit their website at http://www.zimvigil.co.uk/. Remember no one will read it for you, so you have to read it yourself. I arrived there around 2.05pm, only to meet with the co-ordinator Rose Benton, her husband Dennis and three 3 other members. So I was the only black Zimbabwean. As we were setting up everything I asked where the rest of the black Zimbabweans were only to be told that they usually come late in time to sign the register. So whom do they expect to do the setting etc for them even for their cause? I asked myself in my heart.

This Do-It-For-Me syndrome is so rampant amongst Zimbabweans that at times I think that we are mentally unstable. A few Zimbabweans started coming around 3.30 pm and yet the meeting starts at 2.00pm.This gave me the impression that they leave the White Zimbabweans to do the set up for them then they come to be VANAMUCHEKADZAFA. Around 4.45 pm I left and said well it's one of those things. The truth is I got very worried. Are we as normal as we think? I don't think so.

On the 27th of January I visited the Vigil again. This time it was even worse. I arrived there around 2.10pm only to meet with Rose, Dennis and the same three white Zimbabweans I met on the 6th.So again I was the only black Zimbabwean until after 3 pm when two other black Zimbabweans arrived. Few others arrived around 4.00pm and after. What is wrong with us? Where is our sense of responsibility? Why do we always want others to do things for us? This mentality of wanting to reap where we did not sow makes me wonder if we have working brains or not. We want to have things done, we want to see things change, but we don't want to be involved in the making.

WHY? Right now many of us are enjoying life in white territories and some of us don't want to be called Zimbabweans anymore whilst some of us have even opted to be called South Africans, but then the thing is, whilst we are enjoying life here do we ever think that these people work so hard for their countries. A friend of mine said to me it's our forefathers who worked for these countries. To imagine that someone is still blaming slavery for our failures makes me sad. My other friend said it is (us) immigrants who work to boost their economies whilst they call in sick on a daily basis. I don't know, but my questions still remained unanswered.


On a tougher note, our country is in shambles now and almost everyone is waiting for someone to do something for us. We are all hoping that things will change, but then the same question comes to mind. Who will change the situation if we are not involved in the changing process? MDC will do it, Lovemore Madhuku will do it, Raymond Majongwe will do it, Jenny Williams will do it. What will you do yourself? Just watch and later enjoy the fruits. It's sad. Let's change ourselves or else we are doomed.

Viomak is a protest Musician famed for her album happy 82nd birthday President R.G Mugabe (Zimbabwe Classics 1 Emotions of the emotionless) and now she has her second album happy 83rd birthday President R.G Mugabe (Zimbabwe Classics 2 Bones of a 30 year old) yet another dedication to suffering Zimbabweans. Visit www.viomakcharitymusic.com

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