EDITOR – AFTER reading one weekly with Thomas Mapfumo’s interview in South Africa, I could not help, but feel pity for the old man.
It’s as if Mapfumo is lost.
It’s as if there is something he has been running away from for the past 11 years and I’m sure that something is not Robert Mugabe, the CIO or the Government as he says.
Mapfumo is now a pale shadow of himself and rumbles about plans to come back home to perform.
Funny enough, he even goes on to say he is waiting for an invitation from promoters to come back to Zimbabwe to perform.
I found this hilarious because Mukanya goes on to say, “My door remains open to come to Zimbabwe.
“I am not afraid of coming to my home country as stated in some media circles.”
Imagine Mapfumo now wants to be invited back home as if he was chased away.
In South Africa, Mukanya knows it that he is so near yet so far.
He can’t help it, but smell beautiful Zimbabwe across the Limpopo, but no one is stopping him from coming back home except himself.
That is the tragedy of coming face to face with one’s lies.
It is sad that Mapfumo knows well that he needs no promoter to come back home, perform and make money.
I think deep down, his past is haunting him, especially the way he left unceremoniously.
I suppose what eats him everyday is asking himself what he has to show for the 11 years in self-imposed exile.
It’s a pity Mapfumo is slowly fading away, but he will always be remembered as that Chimurenga music guru who chose to forget where he came from to the extent that he says ‘No one owns Zimbabwe’.
I’m sorry Thomas, but Zimbabwe has owners and we own Zimbabwe and will not run away from it as you and other quislings did.
The tragedy is quislings always end up miserable.
In most cases, they also die miserable.

Mwenewazvo
Harare