Bravery and laughter
Our domestic worker (whom we fondly call Gogo – “granny” in Ndebele) came in this morning – laughing her head off. She has just come back from an Easter break with her family in Nkayi. Her first anecdote was from a zanupf rally held near her rural home.
The speaker had thundered away at the crowd for some time, then shouted “What has MDC done for you over the past five years?”. One very brave soul got up and retorted “What has zanupf done for us over the past TWENTY-FIVE years?”, at which the crowd collapsed into laughter, and started to drift away.
She also told us that she had got into commuter bus together with a staunch woman zanupf supporter. She lives quite close to us, and every now and then they hold wild noisy parties. That day, however, she was fuming and very unhappy indeed. She had a whole pile of zanupf T-shirts which she was finding impossible to give away – the people only wanted MDC T-shirts!
