This song is part of the #Artists4SocialChange Project supported by OSISA

Music: Vusa Mkhaya

Lyrics: Vusa Mkhaya

Lead Vox: Vusa Mkhaya

Background Vox: Mimmie
Tarukwana & Luke De Lukes

Programming and guitars: Mthabisi Moyo

Bass Guitar: David Mabhena

Musical Director: Vusa Mkhaya


This track revisits the pain that most Matabeleland and Midlands people had to go through during the genocide of 1983. This genocide, termed Gukurahundi was a series of massacres of Ndebele civilians carried out by the Zimbabwe National Army with directives from the then President Robert Gabriel Mugabe from early 1983 to late 1987. More than 20 000 civilians were killed by Robert Mugabe’s feared Fifth Brigade. Civilians died for merely being Ndebele even without any wrongdoing. The Ndebeles and other mionority tribes in Matabeleland were tortured, abused and even killed. The Zimbabwean government hasn’t been held accountable for this genocide regardless of many attempts by NGOS, the civil society and peace seeking individuals asking that the government should apologise. When Former President Robert Mugabe was asked about the genocide, he was quoted as saying it was a “moment of madness.”  No proper reconciliation or apology has been done by the government yet.

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