Now exactly how disadvantaged are/were you?
We lived in a house with no electricity, well water, long drop toilet and some of the roofing kept down by stones.
My mum worked in the suburbs as a nanny and teaching White kids to speak "proper English" as she had the accent of her aristocratic English father.
Pap or sadza was our stable diet. This was supplemented, in the main, by home grown mbita, cabbage and spinach, birds, including guinea fowl that we trapped, doves that we shot using catapults, fish fingerlings that we netted using our vests, locusts, wild fruit including sadende (wild potatoes) and mbuzu (wild berries) and rabbits that we also trapped.
Flying ants and macimbi (mopani worms) were a special delicacy when available.
Sadza, mbita and amathumbu (derms) is still my favourite dish as much as Pam will not allow me to cook it in our home ... lol ...
My primary school education was at a Home for orphans and deprived kids.
My secondary school education was at the worst resourced school in Rhodesia. I was denied any chance of scholarships on grounds of ethnicity by government and international agencies.
For about 13 years I funded my own tertiary education, studying at night whilst working in the day, having first started as a groundsman and also working in a job where I started at 5am. In this way I secured 2 degrees that qualified me to later be Judge in 2 different countries.
Apart from what you see in the pic I also became an expert advisor to three different governments.
So what is it that you are doing apart from feeling sorry for yourself and demanding "free" this and that???
Just asking???? Just asking??
Are you doing your very best to uplift yourself?
I remember my African cousin Dada arriving at my Gogo's village in his very, very nice car. Everybody celebrated saying "kangela u'Dada, wa sebenza ... wa sebenza sibili ...." [Look at Dada .. he has worked ... he has worked really hard .. .!!!]
They did not say that he had a nice car. They said that he had worked real hard .. and the car was proof of that.
So it was the culture that a human needed to work in order to get.
That is why I just don't understand this current culture that one is entitled to things for free ....
I have the greatest admiration and respect for fellow Zimababweans that I have met in South Africa. They jumped the border fence, at extreme risk to themselves. They are making a living and feeding their families back home under very difficult conditions.
Lastly I absolutely reject as extremely insulting the notion that I "need" to be "affirmed" because of my ethnicity or skin tone when in competition with another human being.
In straight competition I have achieved championship status at chess, darts, basketball and golf.
PS: Had I demanded anything "for free" my Gogo, Mafulela Thebe, would have given me a jolly good thrashing
