Tracing roots of the Chirandu clan: Part 18

The tiff between the so-called Dumas and Rozvis — both Moyo Chirandus of Bikita —was a mere turf war that erupts when brother rises against brother for resources and other life-enhancing niceties E hope we have been able to clearly straighten this whole confusion about the Moyo Chirandu people of Zimbabwe and we also hope that all the Moyo Chirandus will henceforth be alive to the fact that the Duma, Rozvi, Dhewa, etc, are mere descriptions.

They are not sub tribes of the Moyo Chirandu.

Therefore, it’s enough to say one is a Moyo Chirandu and erroneous to try and break this down to Rozvi or Duma or Dhewa as clearly there is no point as aptly demonstrated.

Of course, we know of little fights that have happened based on these descriptions the most talked about being the tiff between the so-called Dumas and Rozvis, both Moyo Chirandus of Bikita.

These are mere territorial and turf wars that erupt when brother unfortunately fights brother for resources and other life-enhancing niceties.

This is clear testimony of the dividing nature of these descriptions of Rozvi/Duma/Dhewa because the Bikita Rozvis and Bikita Dumas are one and the same Moyo Chirandu people who began to use these Duma/ Rozvi unsustainable differentiations so that the one group of the same blood relatives would have better access to scarce resources than the other! Shame.

Even in chieftainship succession matters, brother is not just fighting brother but killing brother in order to take the throne out of sheer greed.

That does not in any way make these two people strangers or people of different totems and or tribes.

It simply means greed has taken the better of them and they fight when they are one and the same blood, which is unfortunate.

So even the so-called fight between the so-called Dumas and Rozvis of Bikita who are the same.

Moyo Chirandus anyway is really a crying shame because this is blood brother fighting against blood brother for territory and resources out of greed and that’s a real crying shame.

There is also the matter in which the Moyo Chirandus get the flak for having asked to rule as this Moyo Chirandu’s request to rule is supposed to have caused the civil war which led to the destruction of Great Zimbabwe.

A lot of people have this clearly erroneous notion that it is the Moyo Chirandus who caused the civil war that led to the destruction of Great Zimbabwe city.

An analysis of events and evidence on the ground do not support this notion, on the contrary.

I really think it is unfair to blame Mutota, Dlembeu’s son, therefore a Moyo Chirandu for having asked for his turn to rule.

Mukwati, a Shoko Mbire, therefore a cousin brother of Mutota, must have handled this with grace, dignity and honour and must have laid out the whole succession plan and shown Mutota when his turn to rule would arrive.

This would have led to civilised negotiations and all would have ended well. Instead of negotiating peacefully with his brother, Mukwati is reported Shaka demanded that candidates vying to qualify for selection into the elite Fasimba training had to be pure Zulu first and foremost as this assured loyalty and undivided patriotism as enunciated by Shaka and the Zulu elders

to have said, “Bva Togwa,” meaning, “So let’s fight” and this puts the blame right at Mukwati’s door and not at Mutota’s.

If the talks had become a bit heated, Mukwati must have shown leadership and knowledge of statecraft by exploring the negotiation route rather than the violence route. He didn’t. Instead he opted to have an unnecessary fight which led to destruction and the rest is history.

Therefore, anybody, even the most biased and unfair would clearly find it difficult to put the blame of the civil war that erupted at Great Zimbabwe around 1450 on anybody else except on Mukwati rather than blame Mutota and the Moyo Chirandu.

Had Mukwati opted for diplomacy instead of war, probably we would not be where we are today.

We would probably be at some lofty place of progress and success as a nation.

There was completely nothing wrong with Mutota asking for his turn to rule.

After all, he was eligible for the throne, probably even more eligible given that he was genetically purer than Mukwati seeing as Mutota was coming from the purity of Dlembeu as Dlembeu was not diluted by any foreign blood as both his parents were of the same blood making Dlembeu

and, by association, his progeny purer and better candidates for the throne as their loyalties would not be divided given that their founding father and mother were one and the same people, brother and sister to be exact.

This in no way absolves Chibatamatosi and Nyakwava from the abomination of the incest they committed.

However, the same dastardly act of incest, albeit regrettable and an abomination of no comparable measure still produced a seed of purity, one Dlembeu, and by dint of that it means that a child who would not be affected by patrimonial and or matrimonial biases was born, putting Dlembeu’s patriotism at no risk of any nature as his loyalties were in a father and mother who were the same people and therefore such patriotism was pure.

Dlembeu’s purity would thus be his progeny’s inheritance as well making Mutota and all other Moyo Chirandus after Dlembeu pure by inheritance and DNA.

We see this affinity to patriotic purity being applied by Shaka Zulu when he put together the elite battalion of his army known as the Fasimba CrackCommando Unit, which is probably the first commando unit to be formed in the history of any military under the sun.

Shaka demanded that in order for candidates to qualify for selection into Fasimba training, over and above other qualities, they had to be purely Zulu as the first and most important prerequisite as this assured loyalty and undivided patriotism and oneness with the main Zulu vision and mission as crafted by Shaka and the Zulu elders.

Thus the first requirement to be considered for Fasimba Crack Commando Unit training was purity of Zuluness which entailed that the prospective Fasimba trainee had to demonstrate beyond any shadow of doubt that he dreamt Zulu, drank Zulu, ate Zulu, thought Zulu and had total Zuluness in his DNA so there was absolutely no doubt about his patriotism and total loyalty to Zululand.

We see the same thing happening more openly with most European monarchs, royal houses and other European blue bloods.

And with the European monarchs, the incest is not even considered as an abomination as we Africans take it. It is quite open and accepted as normal.

They intermarry quite openly meaning their incest is so open that they don’t see abomination in it any more. They do it so as to preserve their royalty and, of course, in the process keep the main thing —their wealth, preserved within the family and not going to some outsider.

Whether it’s the British monarchy or other European blue bloods like the Rothschilds, the Bundys, the Collins, the Du Ponts, the Freemans, the Kennedys, the Reynolds, the Rockefellers, etc, it doesn’t matter.

They all intermarry openly to keep their wealth, power and monarchy in the family.

The same can be said about Arabs as well. There is so much inter marriage amongst the Arabs and it is all to do with trying as much as possible to keep wealth within the royal family ◆ Claude Maredza is a member of the Moyo Chirandu (Duma) Dynasty, specifically of Norumedzo Village ( KuHarurwa), Bikita, Masvingo, Zimbabwe and is, in fact, a Crown Prince of the Norumedzo Moyo Chirandu (Duma) Kingdom Royalty. He has doctoral level formal education and everything else below that besides other professional qualifications. He is also a well-known published author and film writer/ producer/director/actor. His contact details are as follows: e mail: maredzac@yahoo.com; phone: 00 263 (0) 77 2 382 099.