the irony of the machine guns

We have seen too much of civil wars and enough gangstar movies to be aware of machine guns, I’m talking R4s, AK-47, 9mm and so on, and here we have uMsholozi lamenting daily to whoever, to bring his machinegun, for what exactly I don’t know. As a traditional Zulu man, is he not supposes to beseech for a shield n spear or knobkerrie? Well, Chika Onyeani confirmed it, we (Africans) are comfortable spending fortune enhancing our military services with innovated machines guns, and no wonder JZ is demanding his. It’s acceptable to have a protected land or household but guns issues in general are very controversial and for a presidential candidate singing about them is more than controversial, it’s scary. I take JZ’s hit as a metaphor, like Nasir Jones, what Jacob Zuma really wants is one MIC, he cannot really mention it in simpler language because we understand violence; his associates told me he listens to Nas. All Jacob wants its one MIC to spread his message, to administer his possible country. Unfortunately his sidekick Julius Malema and many like him took the message very literal, they wanted to take up arms and emulate DRC, well I guess, Msholozi was right we do understand the language of violence better.

Those who grew up in township like me will know that girls used to be sexually violated because according to us their ‘Nooos’ is their ‘Yesses’…. how dare do we presume that? but yes we assumed they understood aggression, and we still do. WHAT A SHAME, many of us did so thinking selfishly about our ‘machines’, we raged against ourselves because we couldn’t keep ‘emishini yethu’ locked behind the zip. We should have been the ones singing the song because we behaved like a bunch of comrades on steroids looking for oppression to conflict. I mean, there was time when we chanted the songs, relevantly, and the white man was scared, and now we can sing along with JZ, with twisted thoughts and women would love it. Women love a man with anything big and strong, especially big machines, like a Ferrari, enormous gadgets; plasma, HTC and of course machine guns; literally or figuratively, they give a sense of security. Pamela Anderson once said “whoever said size doesn’t matter, must have been a man”. Now who can blame all those women who chanted along with uMsholozi during his scandalous trial time? Like me, they understood the metaphor behind ‘mshini wam’. But violation of human rights is so not so African, the African value; Ubuntu is enslaved if we act like we did fifteen years ago. So, once again let’s not be cynical and give the nigga his MIC so he can say what’s on his mind, and those who want to produce and use their ‘machines’ they can hit the local clinic and grab some condoms.