2015 highlights: "Blessings be to my Mother; I have travelled a journey, a million times longer than my fellow human beings in other parts of the world to achieve eventually the same, less or sometimes nothing; for I am expected to defend my ethnicity, my nationality, my political allegiance, my colour and my being. By the time I am understood the opportunities otherwise meant for me are gone. Such has been the predicament of the African child in foreign land. I am that child in the wildness; I can only make a self reflection but never a redeemer. Today as I celebrate my birth day more than 10,000 miles away from my biological mother and motherland, I concur that today I see with a different pair of eyes and I use a different measure; I will never be the same again for better or for worse. My commitment to my country, has not faded with my age nor with distance but has blossomed, and with those words, I declare to be not only to be part of hope but make myself available to be among the makers of hope, not only for Zimbabwe but for generality of mankind.
It is befitting today, to challenge the narcissistic politicians of our beloved land, that while they have succeeded at least in theory to decapitate our generation’s resolve to innovate and develop, in practice we are closing in with a vengeance; and we will make up for the lost time and opportunities. We shall, and make no mistake be the leaders of our own destiny, to many it will happen on your watch.
To my fellow country men and women; on this special day of my birthday; with all the hardships we have encountered together, the rivers of tears I have shared with you, the succulent smiles we have exchanged, the warmth that bond us together as a people, the sanguineness we have exuded even in turmoil, continue to give me a grain of hope that one day, a Zimbabwean harvest will be realised, I thank you all" Pfebve (8 Feb 2015)
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