Tuesday 27 March 2012

Who killed Lookout Masuku?

Lookout Masuku

l have heard most of the NUST students asking themselves about the poster at the Commerce building writen "Who killed Lookout Masuku". This fellow was a Leuitenent General and the deputy in the army and was arrested in 1983 following the Gukurahundi genocide. As one of the ZAPU leaders, it can be concluded that soon after his release in1983, something was done to him by someone. Gukurahundi is a time where many innocent civilians mostly Ndebele speaking were massacred by the Five Brigade, an army trained by 106 North Koreans. That's the question, on who killed this fellow can be linked to this Five brigade because this army was wiping away the Ndebele Kingdom.
Dr Ray Motsi, a scholar also revealed that this Five Brigade raped women so that they give birth to Shona babies. If this army had the guts to rape women who were innocent and did not know anything about the Gukurahundi and dissidents, how can they not have the power to kill one of the most influential Ndebele in the genocide?
We as the Matebeleland people were heavily affected by this genocide which some rulers call it "a moment of madness", we are solely touched by this suspicious death of our hero who was trying to hold back what belongs to us. We also fell pain for our brothers and sisters who were marginalised to dissidents while they were fighting for our freedom as Matebeleland people.

2 comments:

  1. even if you might suggest that someone killed him( whom we dont know about), your post indicates otherwise..

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  2. Initially l thought you we offering an insight to who actually killed him. I was disappointed to see it was only a question. A lot of people would want to know who exactly gave the order and who carried it out if ever there was an order. The truth will out one day. It always does.

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