By AGO Mutambara in Memory of Dewa Mavhinga |Self-selection: Leadership is a decision Leaders are neither born nor made Leadership is a choice Dewa chose to lead
Self-sacrifice: The price of freedom is death The path of a revolutionary is a journey of sacrifices If you are not prepared to die for freedom, you don’t deserve freedom If you are not prepared to die for justice, you don’t deserve justice
If you are not prepared to die for democracy, you don’t deserve democracy A revolutionary has no life It belongs to the struggle, to the people, to the cause Dewa understood this
Education and hard work: Revolutionaries must diligently and masterfully pursue both formal and informal exposure or training There must be excellence in both the streets and the classrooms Change agents must be relentless and fearless Dewa was an embodiment of courage and a personification of excellence
Disagree without being disagreeable: Fighters for and defenders of human rights, democracy and freedom must NOT use terms like sellout or traitor to describe those they disagree with in a common struggle, be they rivals or opponents Freedom fighters must NOT use and internalize repressive regimes’ violent and disparaging language Such language is meant to de-legitimize competitors and justify their physical elimination (death) Human rights activists, opposition activists and progressive journalists cannot be part of such a value system
Dewa never stooped that low Rest in Peace, an icon of the Human Rights struggles in Zimbabwe, SADC, Africa and the Global South
Source: Zimeye
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Source: Zimeye