O. Vengeyi, The Bible in the Service of Pan-Africanismempty for more than two years. For Mahoso, it was a miracle; it can only
be attributed to God.
God’s promise of eternal prosperity to Zimbabwe
Mahoso claims that all machinations of the enemy have failed; neither
sanctions, filling African disks with white memory nor threat of military
aggression have yielded the desired results in Zimbabwe and in South-
ern Africa at the moment, not only because the elders were vigilant and
stood to the task; fighting for the rights and justice of their people until
the enemy was confounded, but especially because God who speaks
through the elders, the same God who believes in pan-Africanism, stood
with them (elders) as they defended the nation (pan-African values) and
the same God has promised Zimbabwe, Southern Africa and Africa at
large that no such disaster shall overcome and overwhelm them again.
God, for Mahoso, promised unlimited protection and prosperity to Af-
rica, Zimbabwe in particular.
In a long article, worth to be called a sermon of thanksgiving for God’s
protection and blessings on Zimbabwe, Mahoso digs deep to expose
what he thinks are the evil plans that had been hatched by the enemies
of Africa in trying to influence regime change in Africa, Zimbabwe in
particular. For Mahoso, the West used Africans with white ‘no fly zones’
mentality, or ‘Africans with disks full of white memory’ some as high as
presidents and African Union dignitaries. Despite all these almost seem-
ingly intractable strategies, for Mahoso, God has foiled them all and the
enemy is on the run. Mahoso interprets the global financial crises in the
West since 2008 as confirmation of the scripture, where God outlined a
plan for his beloved people (Israelites) Zimbabweans. He thus begins
the article, ‘Africans with white no fly zones mentality’ with a biblical
quotation from Deut 28:7-13, again from a Ndau translation of the Bible
and not English:
(7) Na Jehovah unozoita kuti vavengi venyu vamumukire nokumurwisa, vechip-
inda ngenzira imwe chete; Asi Jehovah unoita kuti kana vomutiza vavengi
venyu, vachapararira nenzira nomwe. (12) Na Jehovah uchamuzarurira pfuma
yake; amupe mvura yenyika yenyu ngenguva yayo; nokuropafadza mabasa ose
amavoko enyu; Imi muchapa marudzi mazhinji zvikwereti, asi imi hamuzotori
zvikwereti. Jehovah uchakuitai misoro yeutungamiri; hamungaite miswe kwete.
(Deut 28:7-13)
According to Mahoso’s biblical interpretation that penetrates deep into
the historical social and economic issues bedevilling Africa, Deut 28:7-13