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VaChikepe: The Poet: Cecil John Rhodes1. Cecil was born in England in...
VaChikepe: The Poet: Cecil John Rhodes
1. Cecil was born in England in...: Cecil John Rhodes 1. Cecil was born in England in 1853 into a family oa an Anglican Clergyman at Bishop's Startford in Hertfordsh...
1. Cecil was born in England in...: Cecil John Rhodes 1. Cecil was born in England in 1853 into a family oa an Anglican Clergyman at Bishop's Startford in Hertfordsh...
Cecil John Rhodes
1. Cecil was born in England in 1853 into a family oa an Anglican Clergyman at Bishop's Startford in Hertfordshire (Atkinson, 1972)
2. He went to Oriel College, OXFORD and got his Master's degree in1881.
3. He went to South Africa where he become an outstanding politician and businessman and made a lot of wealth in the diamond mines at Kimberley (Parker, 1960).
4. Rhodes won over his partners to the idea of using the wealth of the De Beers Consolidated Mining company to develop the north on behalf of Britain (Parker,1960).
5. IT WAS TO THIS END THAT HE SENT CHARLES RUDD TO NEGOTIATE WITH LOBENGULA, THE KING OF THE NDEBELE, FOR PERMISSION TO MINE MINERALS IN MASHONALAND.
6. This agreement which become known as the Rudd Concession was misinterpreted by Rhodes as permission to set up an administration in Mashonaland.
7. "The fact that Lobengula had granted no land rights, no powers to make laws nor authority to settle disputes was tacitly disregarded" Mutambirwa 1980:34
8. What is important is that Rhodes appeared to be deceitful to both the Shona and the Ndebele.
9. RHODESIA WA FOUNDED ON MISTRUST AND MISJUDGEMENT.
10. Rhodes went on to form his own company The British South Africa Company (BSAP), which organized the pioneers who went to Zimbabwe and set up and administration.
11. This mistrust of the European settlers by African has been the only constant and consistent feature in Zimbabwe during the colonial era. Whatever the settler administration did for the African people was construed by the Africans as a tactic to subdue them.
12. When the settlers developed a system of education for Africans separate from their own, the mistrust grew stronger and many Africans refused to go to school (Mungazi, 1982)
13. The settler developed to be the colonial government and the new government proclaimed boundaries of the new country of Rhodesia and enacted laws.
14. Thus, the government instituted an educational system that was too tired. There was a Ministry of African Education and a Ministry of European Education. The curriculum in the African section did not take cognizance of the African traditions but of diluted European tradition. The end product was obviously not meant to be European nor pure traditional African. (Chrispen Matsika, 2012)
15. This resulted in the 'educated' African shunning their traditions at the same time not being accepted as equals by their European colonizers.
FROM
THIS
FRUSTRATION
ROSE
THE
DISCONTENT
WHICH
LED
TO
AFRICAN
UPRISING
AND
EVENTUALLY
INDEPENDENCE.
That is the reason why I always session my brains so that I do not fall on the same trap that my fore-fathers fell in and also so that I can be a better leader: For I believe that this world can be a better world if vivid and transparent communication reigns in our midst.
More Love to the thinkers...
Yours in ink
Publisher T. P Chikepe
Saturday, 22 February 2014
In
between four eyes: By VaChikepe The Poet 27/1/14
My imagination,
Cannot comprehend your beauty!
Oooh my dear…
I wish to see,
Your face everyday…
So I can satisfy,
The anxiety of
My heart desire!
The anxiety of my heart desire…
The fulfillment of that day,
The first day I saw you…
Before my loneliness
And my eagerness to be happy,
And to happyfy!
In between four eyes
I felt the shaking of my ribs
In between four eyes
I could not stop smiling at you
And in between four eyes
I could not stop the overflow of my
humour,
That left my face plastered with
beauty!
That pushed me closer to your ears
And that…that enhanced that eruption
Of those beautiful love words
From my saddened and roasted heart!
In between four eyes
Danced the love of our hearts!
To my surprise
I could not surprise,
But comply!
To my complication,
I could not complicate
But simplify!
To my weakness
I could not witness
But I kept on advancing!
Close to your shoulders
I became!
Close to your ears
I whispered!
And so deep
Into your heart,
I searched for that treasure!
That treasure…
The beauty of yourself
The monolog of my heart desire!
Why did I meet you,
Inspires my heart to feel your body!
Why did I meet you,
Enforces me to be thanked
Before I think!
And shuns away misery
From my scissor!
Love, love, love…
Some called her a game…
Some called her a feeling…
Some called her a match…
And some called her a pain
But I call her the way1
The endless way to rediscover
yourself!
When I am so in love
I run after the second hand for you
Just to overtake his space!
When I am so in love
I run after your tinniest dream
Just to overtake his inability!
And when I am so in love
I run after your misery
Just to burn his shadow beyond
recognition!
Of cause that has left me with many
scars…
But in between four eyes,
I saw scales of scars,
Falling down with a thud
From both worlds…
And I saw smiles of freshness
From a new bornself!
New bornself I love
New bornself I will forever love!
An element of prayer in my soul,
To be born once and for good!
Love in its traditional sense,
Love blessed from the heavenly
places.
I guess this remains for our last
tick
Of the big clock to answer!
But what I know is…
In between four eyes
I stammered for your love
And you murmured for my attention!
An end written in your own words
In another…another page
With another pen
From a different hand!
In between four eyes
Only the two understood
The same, differently!
Love…
effervescing…
In between…
The four eyes!
“It wasn’t easy…but we make it eazy!”
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