OBITUARY :Cde Masenyama, mourning the death

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OBITUARY :Cde Masenyama, mourning the death Prosper Masenyama

The Sunday Mail

Prosper Masenyama

Prosper Masenyama

It is good-bye then Cde Kurayi Masenyama.

Go well, colleague and friend.

Yours is truly a sad passing, of a comrade dedicated to the cause of his country’s endeavour for economic independence and indigenous prosperity.

At the young age of 37, you held the position of Zanu-PF Director for Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment most capably.

With it you inspired a new generation of young Zimbabweans being called upon to make their contribution to our nation’s economic cause.

Allow us then, who, like you, have taken to the might of the pen, to raise our pens in your salutation.

You wielded yours for the voice of the Party you loved, in its endeavour to achieve “an empowered society and growing economy”.

Most notably you did it when so many of our peers had turned their backs, opted for silence in their comfort zones and ashamed of association with their nation’s cause.

You stood boldly upon the written word in the name of Zimbabwe’s economic revolution.

Most certainly our party, Zanu-PF, is left less armed without your intellect that reassured its pursuit for the total independence of Zimbabwe.

You engaged our minds, provoked our consciousness to reflect upon Zimbabwe’s indigenous socio-economic transformation.

In your last engagement of our consciousness, “Yes the party is supreme to Government” (The Sunday Mail, Sunday 25 January 2015), you lamented the role of Zanu-PF as the Party of the people, with the people’s mandate in Government.

I am reminded of those moments, always in your soft-spoken yet unyielding voice, when you argued for the Party to assert its authority to ensure implementation of its policies in Government.

And yes, when the debate became heated, you calmly reminded that after all “party ndiyo irikutonga” and not those appointed by the party to serve the party in its Government.

It was a fact always conceded to with an acknowledging chuckle.

Let us call them closing arguments then, from a young man convinced of his party’s ability to deliver for the people of Zimbabwe.

It is any thinker and intellectual’s hope that his ideas are heeded.

Indeed, may yours be a whispering clear voice to the party and Government that remains mandated to empower our indigenous majority.

We only hope that the young people you certainly did inspire will take up the mantle with the same conviction for the economic cause of our great nation, Zimbabwe.

Go well then Comrade.

Masenyama, speak on our behalf with the Almighty, that Zimbabwe seeks His strength now more than ever in our final approach to His promised land.

 

◆ Rangu Nyamurundira is the Acting Legal & Corporate Secretary at the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board and a member of the Zimbabwe Youth Council Board.

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