Egoli

I'm here to raise awareness about our struggles in Zimbabwe. South Africa is crucial to any resolution of the Zimbabwe crisis. They are what many activists refer to as the sub-imperialist power, our neighbour that dominates the SADC economies. Their diplomacy may be quiet but the invasion by their products and their companies is as loud a kachasu-addicted drunkard. Here is where power resides. Where just the province of Gauteng has a bigger economy than any African country apart from South Africa. Here is where Zimbabweans reside. Millions of Zimbabwean refugees are the waiters, the cleaners, the vendors. You hear Shona every thirty minutes. Here is also where activism should reside. The space is here. And it needs to blown even wider. So as MAGAMBA! we aim to use our word as our weapon. We have interviews lined up with South African TV, radio and newspapers to raise awareness about the crisis. We are also distributing my album here to the various media so that there are fresh, new, revolutionary Zimbabwean voices on the airwaves. We will spin webs with the many Zimbabwean and South African movements here to build a real solidarity movement.  

Tomorrow is another page in the Zimbabwean story. The regime is militarising our country and preparing a war against its people. The MDC is calling for a peaceful stayaway. We have to start taking action as Zimbabweans. A stayaway is a first step and a step that often fails. But it cannot be business as usual in Zimbabwe. Our activism needs to multiply. It needs to be clever. It needs to be creative. It needs to involve everyone in a huge spider web of peaceful resistance, knitting our many struggles together. As the saying goes, even lions can be tied down by spider webs.