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There are times when you think you are spiting someone, when in fact, you are destroying yourself.
One such instance was when Robert Mugabe and his colleagues in ZANU (before it became ZANUPF) thought they didn’t need unity with ZAPU, as General Josiah Tongogara had demanded, and when they considered teaching Ndebele in regions outside Matabeleland as emasculation.
Zimbabwe has paid a huge price for those two decisions, and I will explain why.
Tongogara’s idea of returning home under one party, rather than ZANU and ZAPU, would have avoided the massive bloodshed that came with Gukurahundi. Teaching Ndebele across the country wouldn’t just have brought unity, it would have helped Shona speakers who are now spread all over South Africa. Ndebele wasn’t just a language; it could have been a commercial tool for Shona speakers in conducting sound business in South Africa.

But because our leaders were blinded by ethnic politics and lacked vision, they plunged the country into genocide.
Today, Shona speakers struggle in Matabeleland and South Africa.
I mention Shona speakers because all the Ndebele speakers I know speak Shona out of pragmatic necessity.
Learning languages broadens the mind, each new language opens new perspectives.
The refusal to unite by the Shona element in ZANUPF sowed the seeds that eventually led to the genocide of the 1980s, which was only halted in 1987 by the Unity Accord, amalgamating the two parties into what we know today as ZANUPF.

Those two decisions cost the country unity, which could have been achieved at a lower cost than we ended up paying through the massacre of around 20,000 people, imagined unity for that matter.

Swahili has also fostered regional cooperation and integration, resulting in shared economic benefits. The East African Community (EAC), comprising Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan, uses Swahili as one of its official languages.
It is estimated that the economic benefits of Swahili as a common language in East Africa range from US$5 billion to US$10 billion annually.
This figure reflects increased trade, tourism, job creation, regional cooperation, and education and research benefits.
Zimbabwe was colonised by Britain using people who could speak our languages.
Did it make them any less capable because they spoke Ndebele and Shona, did it dehumanise them.
Similarly, many of our people miss out on business and professional opportunities because they cannot speak the languages that would open those doors. Let us broaden our minds and avoid being so limited in our understanding of the world.
Let us learn from the mistakes of post-colonial leaders in Zimbabwe. Making a mistake is one thing, what is important is learning from it.

We can and should do better. We, the Shona speakers, should not just speak broken Ndebele when we go begging for votes in Matabeleland.
The Ndebele already speak Shona, so let us reciprocate.

White children in Britain speak French and Mandarin, yet China is considered their adversary and they mock the French.
Yet I vividly remember when Tony Blair became Prime Minister, he flew to France and addressed their parliament in French in 1998.
American leaders like George W. Bush speak proficient Spanish, though their mother tongue is English. The English go to the Arab world after learning Arabic, and they run Dubai today.

If you understand that these are business decisions, you will discard the archaic idea that learning another language is submission.
Here is the sad thing, the people who make these decisions make sure that their own kids speak French, Arabic, Mandarin and even Portuguese.

Grace Mugabe speaks fluent French, General Chiwenga’s wife speaks fluent Mandarin, and so does Collins Mnangagwa.
It is wise, and they know it. Yet the children in the ghetto are deprived of those opportunities because of empty, nonsensical political ideologies.

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