Thread by @Laque_davis

1. It would be a travesty of history, to "commemorate" 🇿🇼's #UnityDay, without chronicling what that day means.

By & large, it's a stark reminder of the violent DNA of the Zanu party, & their persisting thirst for uncontested political dominance, that continues to spill blood.

2. #UnityDay came about, when Mugabe & his allies, shifted from the use of brutal force (Gukurahundi) to the use of dialogue (Unity accord), to institute their envisioned one party state.

Today should actually be a day of introspection & national mourning, and not celebration.

3. Post the inaugural post-independence election, Zanu instituted a politically motivated genocide, on Matebeleland & Midland regions, as punishment for supporting the Nkomo led Zapu.

Tragically, the untold consequences of the Zanu Gukurahundi evilness is yet to be fully told.

4. Motivated by a desperation to save lives, & put to a hault a senseless bloodbath against innocent civilians, Father 🇿🇼, Dr Nkomo succumbed to pressure.

He was dragged to a settlement that basically swallowed his party.

Through an amalgamation, Zanu & PF Zapu became ZanuPF

5. When you look at the terms of the agreement, the intention of the genocide, & the shift from confrontation to dialogue, are exposed.

Most importantly, item [6] of the agreement spells in black & white, that Zimbabwe was to be turned into an undesirable, one party state.

5. Besides that established fact that the #UnityAccord wasn't about peace nor Zimbabweans, but Zanu & its quest for uncontested dominance, the accord also wasn't even about Zapu.

In fact, by signing this, Zapu ceased to exist.
At best, it joined the existing "Zanu" structures.

6. Besides being politically immobilized, Zapu never receive its confiscated pvt properties.

They weren't even given an opportunity to decide what was to happen to the ashes of their political existence

Eventually, many Zapu leaders were dragged out of gov & the coalition party

7. One can also add that even with the Unity Accord in place, Zanu still bastardized the liberation contributions of many citizens from the broader Matebeleland region.

To date, our liberation history is by & large, Shona-lized.

It's consequently exclusionary & misinforming

8. If we are to remember anything because of this day, then let it be that Zanu is a violent party

Disappointingly, though unsurprising, many citizens from the South who wanted to attend Gukurahundi memorials today were arrested.

Commemoration plaques are continously destroyed

9. Even post the Unity Accord, it would seem like Zanu continues to deliberately underdevelop the South, as punishment for association with the Opposition.

Put differently, ZanuPF remains on a warpath with dissident & opposing views.

That's their legacy.
Violence & toxicity.

10. Yet perhaps the worst consequence of Gukurahundi, has to be the tribal divide that persists in our country to date.

There's an inheritance of anger, pitting Shonas vs Ndebeles.

Many from the South still bear the scars of their untold suffering.

Again, thats Zanu's legacy

11. Disappointingly, successive ZanuPF regimes are convinced that the Gukurahundi genocide will eventually succumb to the test of time.

There are findings of a whole commission on Gukurahundi that remain unpublished, since the 90s.

Honesty & truth telling remain elusive.

12. As we celebrate the so called #UnityDay, we are told Gukurahundi: "was a moment of madness".

Surely that can't be enough, without identification of the madmen & what eventually became of their madness.

After all, we may wake up with madmen in power.

That's scary.

enkosi!!