Some of them practise their trade for purposes of entertainment, like the great acts of the American illusionist Harry Houdini, or film director Steven Spielberg.
These acts are essentially facades. In the case of the above-mentioned duo, their acts are regarded as entertainment.
However, not all such acts are performed for purposes of entertainment. Some, if not most, are conducted in deceit for some sort of gain.

Without knowing it, we witness these acts in the form of supernatural miracles, medicinal cures, even investment packages.
In fact, the ongoing global financial crisis owes its birth to such acts. But if really come to think of it, anything can be a facade.

Courtship for marriage could be regarded as such an act. That is why some cultures have done away with it completely and opted for arranged marriages as is the case in some Asian and African customs.
In some Shona dialects, to court someone for purposes of marriage is known as kunyenga while to deceive or con is known as “kunyengedza”. The two share a root. I am not well versed in the dynamic links of culture and language, but I would assume that this group of the Shona people that use this dialect perhaps adopted the custom of arranged marriages.

The best place to find such information is from the ministry of Native Affairs, oh sorry, I mean the Ministry of Education, Arts, Sport and Culture, headed by Senator David Coltart, “Gurukota reDzidzo, Tsika neMagariro Evanhu veZimbabwe”.
I think it is high time we stopped all this smart talk under the guise of progressive thinking and call a spade a spade.

A rainbow is a spectrum of colours produced from the refraction of white light. There is no black in that equation.
So, why do people talk of a “rainbow nation”? I think it is a misplaced metaphor to describe a multi-racial society, especially one that is predominantly considered black.

We conveniently hear of reconciliation when it is the Honourable Prime Minister Ian Smith or Botha facing the noose, while Saddam hangs.
We hear of “blood diamonds” but do not hear of “blood weapons” and never stop to question why. It is not a racial argument, although racism can be part of this equation, not at all, it is about ideology (philosophy), people and, ultimately, wealth.

When a desired ideology is methodically imparted on a population through the various vehicles, like religion and education, it manifests itself in a desired culture, in our case, a culture that is blind to discrepancies, therefore, creating the greatest illusion, where men call other men god.
That is why I am not surprised that Gurukota reDzidzo, Tsika neMagariro Evanhu veZimbabwe riri VaDavid Coltart is said to have ordered school books with a questionable doctrine.
The majority of us do not question, in the same way we do not question why the great Cecil John Rhodes chose to be buried at the Matopos.

The boy almost literally owned this country. He could have been buried at Great Zimbabwe or even in Victoria Falls.
But no, it had to be the Matopos, the most sacred place to the black people, from where our prophets and spirit mediums communicated with God, and we do not question.

It is tantamount to burying Mbuya Nehanda at St Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
Some will say I am being paranoid with historical trivialities, or I am a frustrated racist, but when some people have been for decades shipping diamonds out of my country on the pretext of collecting “stones for fish ponds”, while my fellow Africans despised the stones for eroding their hoes, it makes me question.
It is all about doctrine and the custodians of it. John 1:1 says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

What did King Solomon ask for and was given, but with it came much more than he had asked for? It was a doctrine by which to govern; so enticing was his “Word” given unto him by God that according to the third Book of Kings, all peoples of all kings of the earth came to hear his wisdom, and with this wisdom came great wealth.
If you have the Word like King Solomon, you have the world, you are a god, that is why to this day we call people of European descent “mulungu”, Swahili and Nyanja for God, and we are not perplexed.

God created all men equal, with equal opportunity to wisdom (the Word) and wealth, but some men decided to make themselves unequal by prescribing to the “word” of others, thereby making themselves subservient.
That is why the injustices perpetrated against them go unnoticed because they are not the custodians of the word that makes them see the injustice.

In simple terms, there are many laws today that are in direct conflict with our culture (modern and traditional), that hinder and constrain us, but we cannot challenge these laws from our African perspective because we have been socialised to believe that it would be backward or retrogressive to do so.
If we subscribed to our own doctrines we would be masters of our world like King Solomon, smile all the way to the bank, like the Chinese, Indians, Japanese, and other emancipated peoples.

There is one common denominator among all Third World countries, and that is their adherence to foreign doctrines.
The facade of David Coltart at the helm of the ministry that deals with imparting dogma to our children is neo-imperialism at its best; it is an insult. Minister Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga would have been a better facade for that post and the Honorable Senator with his BLL best suited with her ministry.
There is a reason why expatriates do not teach young children in the United Kingdom. It is the preserve of the “Spencers”; it is not a racial argument; it is about the hand that rocks the cradle, it is about heritage.
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