adminCharles Dube
BY the end of this article readers will be in the light of what exactly happened to Tabitha, Joseph Takundwa and Fatima’s last born daughter. Before we come to that it is appropriate to show how opportunists joined the band wagon of liberation fighters at independence. Sell-outs who were against the armed struggle suddenly transformed from being traitors to champions of the struggle and top officials in the ruling party.
Remember last week we quoted Nyati describing himself as a chameleon with the fangs of a cobra who successfully shed off his past and put on the colours of the new rainbow. Nyati publicly proclaimed that he too was a war veteran, something which baffled Takundwa. He had been successfully vetted and also received the fifty thousand dollar gratuity. He in fact had taken one of the leading roles during the war veteran demonstrations.
Takundwa was amazed by the incredible amount of wealth Nyati had amassed in so short a time. He now owned supermarket chains and factories and was one of the first blacks to run a fleet of minibuses. Takundwa had questions as to what magic wand did Nyati wave for himself to achieve all these things. What he achieved only in dreams, Nyati achieved in reality. Nyati then became Takundwa’s source of inspiration.
Having built trust on Nyati gradually, Takundwa was being drawn to crime. Takundwa says one lesson he learnt from Nyati was to associate with people who mattered.
He never missed the chance of rubbing shoulders with the Nyatis and other men of status and influence. Takundwa falls to Nyati’s bait when he asks the latter if he too has the potential to reach where Nyati has already reached. Nyati tells Takundwa that nothing is impossible.
Nyati somehow agrees with Takundwa that it is difficult to make it in business. As a businessman, there is something very important that one needs. One needs to have a lot of courage and determination in order to get it. Takundwa falls in Nyati’s trap when he says he thinks he also needs what Nyati is talking about. Takundwa is gullible and this weakness in his character is taken advantage of by Nyati. Nyati is cunning and knows how to get his target.
Nyati talks highly of Takundwa. He says he knows that Takundwa is a very brave and courageous man. His eyes are full of bravery and determination and it is men like Takundwa who can make it in business and he is the man who can very easily get the “thing” he is talking about. What can Takundwa not do when he has been so much worshipped? Takundwa readily accepts to go and get whatever and wherever it is that which Nyati is talking about. He wants to go and get it immediately even if it is under the ocean, or on top of a mountain.
Nyati lies to Takundwa that all the businessmen he sees driving Mercedes Benzs, even Indians that own a lot of shops in town have this thing he is talking about. He tells Takundwa that he cannot make it in business without it. When Takundwa asks Nyati how he could also get that particular thing, Nyati strikes the iron while it is still hot by asking Takundwa how many children he has.
Takundwa tells Nyati that he has two girls left now, his first born son having died during the war. There is Sofia who completed her form four the previous year and Tabitha, the little girl who was born on 18 April 1980, the day the country became independent. Meanwhile, Nyati has not told Takundwa about the so called “thing”. He informs Takundwa that he must realise once he tells him there is no going back before he tells him about the thing. We can conclude this far that Takundwa is equally evil as Nyati. How come he fails to see that Nyati is driving him to commit a heinous crime? He is materialistic and can go to great lengths to achieve riches. Nyati wants assurance that once he tells Takundwa he is already in. Ironically Takundwa says he is already in it come rain or sunshine. He commits himself to a huge criminal case he has no knowledge about.
Nyati adds threats telling Takundwa that if he double-crosses him and if he tells anyone about this job, then he would crush him to nothing. Nyati still does not trust Takundwa and believes that he might spill the beans one day. Nyati is a schemer and decides that Takundwa carries out both the raping and killing himself. That way, Takundwa would spill the beans at his own peril.
The mystery of what happened to Tabitha, Joseph Takundwa and Fatima’s last born daughter is solved here. She was kidnapped by Nyati and her father, Joseph Takundwa, who raped and killed her at the command of Nyati. What a grisly murder. Talk of ritual murders in order to get rich.
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