Opinion on Nelson Mandela Day

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Happy Mandela Day! But I have so many many questions to the loyals of this day. I am not too expectant of answers but I expect you to read.

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Of all the African heroes and heroines why him only? I used the terms heroes and heroines for convenience’s sake. Like my idol Dambudzo Marechera I believe in the ‘Fuck your heroes’ concept.

Who made sure there is a day as this and why? I think it’s a recognised day on the United Nations calendar. School me if I am wrong!

I’m intrigued about the subversive Mandela who went to prison versus the gentleman that was cooked by thirty years of confinement. The complete turn around is amusing. Where I come from and my biased prison study prison system hardens criminals. But Mandela and his other golden boy turned bad boy Robert Mugabe came out of it as gentleman with degrees from recognised tertiary institutions from the governments which made them superintendents of the newly independent governments.

Any better sexy prison tale than this?

Now I’m thinking as the day unfolds  are the grievances of that day when brave children were butchered like terrorists in Soweto solved as we celebrate this icon’s day?

I know owning nothing and struggles are breeding grounds for love, but take sometime to think of the impact of love if we had access to the means of production. I am thinking it could be more beneficial to everyone including those who are not beneficiaries of the Madela Foundations if we rethink the motives and goals of the subversive Mandela again

This unpopular opinion is inspired by a man’s remark in a certain Harare bookshop who claimed ‘only a coward leaves a woman like Winnie’.

My world stopped on hearing that and I now have a dangerous theory on the popular marriage to Machel’s wife.