EDITOR – I HATE to admit it, but Mandiitawepi Chimene was right.
Like others, I always thought her noise about exhuming Cecil John Rhodes’ remains at Matopos and sending them back to England was uncalled for, but I was wrong.
Your newspaper has made me understand the implications of Rhodes choosing to be buried at Njelele.
Out of all the places, he chose to be buried at the headquarters of the spirits of this land called Njelele.
Rhodes defiled our ancestors and I am sure his purpose was to totally separate us from our beliefs.
To some extent, he succeeded because as it is our very own children know nothing about Njelele, but everything about missionaries and the Pioneer Column who colonised us.
Our children and even some adults do not even understand the significance of Njelele as our sacred shrine.
Time time, ukada kuvatsanangurira zvinonzi mave kutaura zvechivanhu nemashavi zvisingadiwe kuChurch.
That is how bad it is and I am sure that Rhodes is smiling in his grave.
A lot of people don’t even know that buried besides Rhodes at Matopos is his gay partner Leandar Starr Jameson and we have been living all these years with homosexuals lying on our sacred shrine.
Actually, homosexuals have caused untold suffering to the black majority.
It’s high time we do the right thing and that is cleansing our sacred shrine.
We must begin by exhuming those filthy remains and let us not forget to explain to our children why we are doing it.
We must return to Njelele.

Murongiwa
Chitungwiza