[Civsoc-mw] ROBERT GABRIEL MUGABE

[Martha Kwataine]

True historian like D D Phiri Mzerr. Mumaitha

" Nothing happens in the spirit until someone prays, nothing happens in the
physical until someone moves"

On 6 Dec 2017 01:03, "cuthbertkachale" <cuthbertkachale at gmail.com> wrote:

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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Paliani <palianic2011 at gmail.com>
> Date: 05/12/2017 12:20 (GMT+02:00)
> To: Cuthbert Kachale <cuthbertkachale at gmail.com>
> Subject: Your texts 5 Dec 2017
>
>
> Cuthbert Kachale wrote:
>
> I hope you have all by now read the article before this one in which
> Zimdaily interviewed a Mugabe uncle.
>
> I have made a few observations which I need to share, though.
>
> To me that interview pauses more questions than answers.
>
> Some issues require a broader perspective than narrowed down here.
>
> 1. The matter of surnames. For example the Mugabe surname is NOT unique to
> Zimbabwe. It stretches from Zimbabwe right all the way to Uganda. In Uganda
> they are called Mugabis. Some journalist told me that there is a trace of
> Mugabes among the people of Mzimba. He cited the Mlothas or Mlotchwas as
> among them. In the African culture there are surnames (Chiwongo) and totems
> (mfunda) and those who are chiefs have their chieftain names as well.
> However,  totems and surnames can be used interchangeably.
>
> For example l can call my Mlamu Marion Chibambo Hweaa or Dlamini.
>
> So the name Mugabe or Mugabi has some trace elements. There was Banthu
> migration every which way. We Tumbuka people came from the Congo Basin. The
> Ngondes and Nyakyusas came from Mali. Some of the chieftain prefixes are,
>  "Mwene" as in Zimbabwe's Mwenemutapa,   Or Malawi's Mwenelupembe,  Mwene
> Mkhumba.
>
> In Burundi they are "Mwemi".
>
> By practice some people use, or adopt names and surnames or totems
> appropriate to the society in which they live. The Russian based Jews
> adopted Russian names. Those in Germany,  France or Britain did the same to
> suit their new homes after dispersal into the diaspora.
>
> In Zimbabwe there are Bandas who go with the surnames of Sibanda,
> Chibanda  or Shumba. They are the same people whose surnames all mean Lion.
>
> Robert,  just like Kamuzu,  rarely talked about his father. However
> Bridget used to brag that their father came from Malawi.
>
> The story about a Mr Mugabe looking after Bona and her children
> presupposes that Bona had a long and adulterous relationship with that
> other Mugabe when Suzgo or Masuzgo was in Bulawayo. This claim is unlikely
> to be true for a number of reasons.
>
> a) the portion of land that the missionaries gave to Suzgo could not have
> belonged to two different men,  both linked to Bona and the children as
> their own home.
>
> b) when Robert brought back his father to Kutama, together with the other
> family,  where was this other man.
>
> c) Did this other man give up his land to Bona and children and the wider
> family.
>
> d) all the children from Bulawayo,  the children of Suzgo and MaTchuma,
> all bore the surname,  Mugabe.  Were these adopted by the other man.
>
> 2. According to the Sunday Mail interview quoted above,  Mugabe had no
> elder brother who was alive. Raphael  born in 1919 only lived for 6 months.
> Michael who was born in 1922  was poisoned and killed in 1934  when Robert
> was only 10.
>
> 3) MaTchuma never had a son called Stanley. Bona never had a son called
> Amon whom the author says was elder brother to Robert.
>
> What is interesting is that Suzgo tried to somehow 'balance' the names of
> his children with the two wives. Here we go:
>
> a) with Bona: Robert,  Donato, Sabeena and Bridget
>
> b) wth MaTchuma: Albert,  Donald and Regina.
>
> I will make further comments as and when it becomes necessary.
>
> Mzee.
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