[Civsoc-mw] HEROES OF OCTOBER 1967 MWANZA ‘WAR'

Fri Oct 13 21:14:53 CAT 2017

Adamson and Louis,
Generally, winners write history and losers generally get demonised. That is why 'leaders' hate writers.Mandela went from 'terrorist' to saint.HKB went from god-like worship to being demonised.Current leaders experience a flash in the pan praise before burning like shooting stars: mbeki, zuma, .But at all times there are heroes for everyone.Bob Marley for rastasMugabe for dictatorsThatcher for the rightChe Guevara for the militant left.Bushiri, TB Joshua for the ... Wandale for the ... etc ptc abc
In short, a hero is a construct of the beholder's or liver's eye at a given and permitted time in history.history permits us to now critique banda and hero chisiza; would chisiza have made a different president from museveni given his chosen route to power?
if i was living a wretched life, anyone promising redemption might  be a very tempting leader to follow.
 John Lwanda  
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Thank you. I ask questions but have no answers. You have said what I was thinking; but you have explained much better than I did.
adamson
On 13 October 2017 at 06:21, Louis Nthenda <louisnthenda at gmail.com> wrote:

Prof, suppose we scale heroism in opposing a dictatorship 1 to 10 with 10 being taking up arms in open rebellion. Dictatorship may be of the left like Stalinism or Maoism or of the right like Nazism, Fascism or HKB type. We will in fact find heroes within the system. These may be in high position but secretly working to sabotage the system and maybe providing secret information to the rebels (like Noriega of Mikuyu who featured on these pages). Others may have details of the armed rebellion but refuse to tell the authorities while they themselves do nothing. Etc etc. 
But your question I take it is: what would we call people on the other side who believe in the system and will tie up so-called rebels and take them to the Thsiri River and throw them to the crocodiles; people who will inform on others to the authorities; people pretending to be on the rebel side but in fact working to betray them. Can't we call these heroes too? They are taking different kinds of risks - risking the contempt of their friends. 
Am I interpreting your question correctly? 
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

May be it would not apply in other circumstances, but the understanding could be interesting if applied to:
Britain vs Nazi GermanyDaesh vs the world?
On 13 October 2017 at 01:25, Louis Nthenda <louisnthenda at gmail.com> wrote:

It's an interesting question, Prof. 
I think the assumption is that heroes are those who are presumed to have shown (1) the courage to take / choose the more difficult or tougher or more unpopular side of a situation on the principle of some higher purpose, when in fact (2) they were already privileged and didn't have to. 
In this narrative, it is taken for granted that, to take HKB's side and maintain one's privileges at little or no risk was the easier choice and therefore not heroic.
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

Were there also heroes to remember on the Malawi (Kamuzu) side? Or the heroes we talk about were only on the Chisiza side?
On 12 October 2017 at 18:17, Paliani <palianic at yahoo.com> wrote:

A Tribute to the Unsung heroes

This month of October, exactly marks 50 years after the ‘war’ in Mwanza between Malawi’ security forces on one front and an armed group of 16 under the umbrella of Ufulu Umodzi Malawi Party (UUMA) led by Malawi’s former Home Affairs Minister Yatuta Chisiza on the opposite front. It was during this ‘war’ that Yatuta Chisiza and his lieutenant Lutengano Mwahimba were shot dead while 5 of their compatriots escaped successfully to Zambia as one committed suicide when 8 had been captured alive, later tried at the high court in Blantyre, hanged (except one among them who became a state witness) and finally buried in unmarked graves in Zomba in 1969.
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