Mnangagwa said this while addressing chiefs at the annual Chief’s Conference in Harare on Friday.
He said the remains of the founder of the former British colony, Rhodesia, were of no importance to the country and should be sent to the United Kingdom and Britain should reciprocate by repatriating the remains of Chimurenga heroes. Said Mnangagwa:
We still have Rhodes’ remains in Matobo. What do you think about it? If you go to the shrine, you don’t know whether you are talking to Rhodes or our ancestors.
His remains must be returned to where he hailed from and we can also have our ancestral remains which are being kept in Europe.
In 2012, the late former president Robert Mugabe blocked war veterans and ZANU PF members from exhuming his remains, saying his legacy was part of the country’s history.
Rhodes (1853-1902), was imperialist par excellence, a businessman and politician.
He played a dominant role in southern Africa in the late 19th Century and was at the forefront in the annexation of the greater part of the region for the British Crown.
Rhodes envisioned an uninterrupted railway link stretching from Cape Town (South Africa) to Cairo (Egypt) — the entire north to south controlled at the time by the British Empire.
Rhodes died aged 48 at his seaside cottage in Muizenberg, Western Cape, South Africa, and was buried at World’s View, a hilltop located approximately 35 kilometres south of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
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I think this brings out the issue that there is still some hostility between black and white even after Jesus came to set people free from the hostility.
In Ephesians 2:14 God speaks about His Son Jesus Christ and says “14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in His flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.”
God sees the different shades of skin as rainbows. A rainbow is a sign of God’s Covenant with People. Zimbabwe and Zambia were selected at the beginning of the world by God to keep the Majestic Rainbow Falls where God draws His people to Himself as tourists in the hope that they will remember Him and worship Him when they see these rainbows but people are now spiritually dead and cannot hear or discern Spiritual things as in Eph 4 18-19 18 “They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.”
This knowledge therefore helps us to understand the need for Christ in our lives today. God please send us a Revival!!!!