FROM television we learn foreign culture and adopt it as our own. From television, our daughters see a white girl wearing a ‘skirt that ends where it starts’ and call it a mini-skirt.
My sisters, its not a mini-skirt, but just a string and thats disgusting!
They see white girls swimming with their fathers and believe they too can swim with theirs fathers deep down in Madlambudzi, Matshetsheni or Murehwa!
Hell no!
We are a cultured society, well-groomed and therefore that culture and heritage needs to be preserved at all cost.
Our sons wear trousers below their bottoms, pierce their noses and scratch their skins in the name of tattoos!
That’s unacceptable.
İn the past, tatoos were there, fine, but they were decent and had meaning. During the times of King Mzilikazi there were no clothes but imisisi and ama betshu were worn.
They were good enough to cover those precious items of ours, those parts which matter most.
These are called private parts.
They cease to be private if they are paraded in public.
We ought to revert to yesteryear ways of presenting ourselves.
Society has become ungovernable.
The children have been taught about rights; rights bent on destroying our culture, hunhu hwedu, ubuntu bethu, bunhu gwedu.
I am glad this digitisation which the Government is embarking on seems promising.
We hope to ‘brew’ our own productions centred on African values that will teach us African ethics and create employment for us.
What do we learn from the Lil Waynes, Nicki Minajs, Chris Browns and Rihannas?
Absolutely nothing!
We must mould, shape and nurture our children in the African way, the Zimbabwean way.

Philasande Mandla Malinga,
Plumtree