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"Gukurahundi" was a crime against humanity. Now at last one brave film-maker is putting it on record

Zenzele Ndebele is a 29-year-old Zimbabwean journalist and film producer, and he is a man to admire. His latest video, which is becoming available in Zimbabwe at this time, documents the appalling massacres in Matabeleland, when, in the mid-Eighties, upwards of 20,000 people of the Ndebele community are believed to have lost their lives.

The killers were Mugabe's infamous North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade. The term "Gukurahundi" is a Shona expression meaning "The first rain that washes away the chaff of the last harvest before the spring rains." But today to the Ndebele people the word evokes a mixture of dark emotions - terror, anger, even shame.

So terrifying, so brutal was the experience, it has for years remained undiscussed, unexamined. But now Zenzele Ndebele has courageously put together a video documentary, titled "Gukurahundi: A Moment Of Madness." At last the truth is being told - and that truth is terrible.

Archive footage shows a youthful Mugabe promising to "crush completely" the innocent people he called dissidents. Then some of the so-called "dissidents" who survived reveal the ordeals they were put through.

One man describes scores of youths being pushed down a mine shaft. Any who resisted were shot. The mine-shaft became filled to the brim with bodies, and a second one had to be found for the killings to continue.

Another interviewee describes how, as a young boy, he was ordered to set fire to a house in which soldiers had locked 30 of his family. But when the soldiers left a rain-storm occurred, and the people were saved.

Zenzele Ndebele told me that the climate of fear which Mugabe has now spread through the country made finding witnesses prepared to talk on camera very difficult. "Of those who agreed to talk, several changed their minds afterwards. They would call and ask me to leave them out."

As a result the video is only 25 minutes long, cut down from its intended length of 45 minutes. Yet I can tell you that it is 25 minutes of rivetting footage that people in our country, in Africa, in the world, should see.

I asked Zenzele if, as copies of his video become clandestinely available through Zimbabwe, he is fearful of action that Mugabe's thugs may take against him.

"I'm prepared for anything," he said. "After all, if they beat me up, it wil only serve to emphasise the truth of our history."

Comments

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[pat husy]

Is there no way people in Bitain can see this movie maybe through South Africa?

[chris Hill]

What a courageous man you are Zenzele Ndebele ! The massacre of the Matabele by Mugabe is another African genocide. Mugabe belongs in the dock as the accused at the International Court of Justice.

Well done sir!

chris hill
chrishelpline@gmail.com

[khalid]

i would like to screen the documentary made by Zenzele Ndebele, I would also like to interview him. do you know how I can get hold of any

[Zephaniah]

Zenzele is a great humble guy. I had an opportunity a few days ago to chat to him over a cup of coffee at one of the coffee shops in Bulawayo. Above all, I admire his humble spirit and the sky is no longer the limit for you, brotherman( Zenzele). Well done on your great movie and keep on being courageous because we are behind you!
One Love!

[Mabhunumuchapera Karikoga Chinembiri]

That film should be banned as it will trigger tribal wars and genocide. We have been through it and stop unearthing the healing wounds.If we use the language we speak today, we will call the dissidents- terrorists as they tried to undermine a democtratically chosen government in 1980.What is Britain and USA doing to terrorism now, Mugabe has emergency terrorism laws right now for anyone who threatens the solidarity and sovereignty of an independent Zimbabwe state.Under these laws that film is so sensitive that it will be banned under AIPPA.The struggle was over why did they kept guns during demobilisation and were also offered to join the army i remember.But they choose to be the Talibans as you know with war it affects the innocent civilians(IRAQ) but not only Chidhumo, Masendeke or Gayigusu

[Tatenda Makuvadza]

That film should be shown and used as a reminder of what conflict can do to people if it is not managed properly. This film should not bring back the rift we saw in the eighties resulting in utter madness, but should be used to benefit humanity as whole. YES and I do say YES, if we allow the folly of the eighties to cloud our judgement again we will all perish like the fools we are. We should know by now that combat never breeds winners - but that strength, unity and sustainable development comes from truth and reconciliation. Where were we, when the South Africans did it a few years ago? During the eighties we did not have any positive examples to draw from other than the lessons of domination and achievement by brute force - right now we can emulate the South Africans. Is that a YES.

[Karin Stowe]

Hi Zenzele Ndebele
I'm a Uk film maker that has been working in Zim 2007-09 making a documentary, I'm editing the film now, and would like to talk to you about yours, and some ideas I have. you can check work at:
http://munen-mushin.com/africapage.html
I;m based in UK, my mobile is 07876 308 027. Regards Karin

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