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Dr Masimba Mavaza
Cultural erosion describes the process of a culture losing many of its core elements. This is often due to the arrival of a new culture that replaces the original way of life. Or simply copying what others are doing so that you can fit in. Pressure from those around us makes it very easy to jump in without thinking.
Every society and subsection of society has a unique culture. Culture can describe many parts of human life, which includes: religion, language, intellectual interests, tradition and even the type of food eaten. In every society, culture is at the core of what is important to a group of people.
We are what we are because of our culture.
Zimbabweans abroad have been blinded by the fake brightness of the countries hosting them. The world has adopted lives which even animals are afraid to indulge in.
Migration has turned people into the lowest of animals. Are these the signs of the coming of Christ? In deed if your eyes are closed please open them? There is a big tree coming from the horizon, it is being carried by a big storm no one had ever seen.
What is happening now can be called cultural erosion. It stinks to the highest level and many political leaders have failed the nations.
Our culture has always been under attack. It was seriously wounded in colonisation, when another country comes and takes over a group of people who already have an established way of life and introduce their foreign evil life.
This has come back in a crazy way. Recently in Zimbabwe police arrested 19 learners from a number of colleges who gathered to have a sex party. On their X (formerly Twitter) handle, police said they raided the students before the party started and recovered condoms and drugs at a house in Harare.
Bulawayo was not to be left behind 39 high school students from various schools were arrested during a Vuzu party in Bulawayo’s Kumalo suburb on Friday, police confirmed.
Police said they recovered used condoms, bottles of whisky and cigarettes at the scene.
Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said they were still conducting further investigations when contacted for comment.
What has our country come to? These sex parties called Vuzu parties are generally described as wild parties mostly attended by teenagers where they engage in alcohol consumption, drug and substance abuse as well as sexual activities with various partners.
This is happening under our nose as parents and we must be appalled. This is the pool your child will pick your daughter-in-law from.
If it is not shocking enough these are your own children engaged in these parties.
The social decay is not only done in England or in South Africa. As parents in diaspora grapple to find solutions to end the scourge of social decay our own country has caught up and are destroying the roots of the tree that makes them people.
The institution of marriage is under attack from all sides and is not going to survive if we are blinded too.
Today same-sex “marriage” have taken the centre stage, and all indications are that it will become a legal form of cohabitation. This distressing state of affairs did not, however, just drop out of the sky. There has been a gradual weakening of marriage in the world long before the present crisis. It may be helpful prior to discussing same-sex marriage to identify briefly two major contributing factors.
These relate directly to the two purposes of marriage, which are: first, to help each other in all things that belong to this life and the life to come, and second, under the blessing of God to be fruitful and multiply. Both of these purposes of marriage have been under sustained attack, especially by individualism and the separation of sex from marriage.
Zimbabwe needs to stop the importation of cultural decay, for today we are left with the end result of the effects of these forces.
Tarusenga Muzambindo was shocked when his son brought a daughter-in-law home. Up to this date he cannot speak without crying.
It took a month to prepare the coming of the new daughter-in-law. Muzambindo felt happy that his son is now going to marry. His son Kuziva was a bubbling 28-year-old. He had always spoken his mind and the family was more proud of him because he held a Masters in Law degree and was working for a big law firm in London. The last thing which was left in capping his life success was marriage.
When Kuziva’s car was parked in the drive way there was excitement in the house. A few church members were invited to see and bless the daughter-in-law.
Kuziva stepped out in a navy blue suit. He opens the passengers’s door and out emerged a muscular, well-built strong man. The two walked past seemingly stunned and confused congregants and relatives.
People followed the two into the house. Muzambindo quickly broke the silence. Where is our muroora, son? We have been waiting.
Kuziva started with a thick voice. Mum and Dad and all here present this is my fiancée. He smiled as he pointed to this guy he came with. As everyone thought he was joking Kuziva stood up and gave his boyfriend a big hug and he then pulled his head towards him as kissed him. The sight was repulsive and a quick sense of surprise engulfed the house. Muzambindo wanted to die. The act was despicable and horrifying. The embarrassment was something else. This where the diaspora has taken us. Muroora rume.
In South Africa they have a programme called “Do you trust each other?” This programme has revealed the extent of social decay in our world in our time.
The programme targets unmarried couples. They are asked to exchange or switching their phones for sixty seconds and check how trustworthy is the other partner. The program is on YouTube.
I have seen and heard things. It has revealed that people are now animals. Each couple interviewed so far has shown serious cheating.
With great shock a new relationship is now born. It is called Friends with benefits. This is when friends sleep together sexually but have no commitment.
Many cheating men and women indicate that they fall in love for money. So as much as they maximise their multiple partners, the more richer they become.
This culture has sipped through our mother land Zimbabwe.
If you ask out and start dating a Zimbabwean woman you have just started a credit management store. As soon as you start the affair her rent is due and short, her hair needs doing, her clothes grow old and needs replacing if she is a single mother the children need fees clothes and pizza.
The parents get sick and the new boyfriend has to pay. Dating a Zimbabwean woman is simply becoming a bank. This is the culture we are ushered in. While in Zimbabwe the culture decay has led us to the lowest of the law. Going back to the Vuzu parties. Vuzu parties can be described as wild parties which are attended by mostly teenagers where they engage in alcohol, drug and substance abuse and end up voluntarily or involuntarily engaging in sexual activities with various partners.
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Vuzu parties have since taken Zimbabwe by storm which has drawn a lot of worry from parents, law enforcers, local authority and government officials in the city.
“The most common type is the plain Vuzu where they just invite about twenty to fifty young people. They drink alcohol, abuse drugs and engage in sexual activities,” Bvurajena from Bulawayo said.
Bvurajena said the second type is called the five-dollar Vuzu party where patrons engage in sex marathons.
“What happens in this party is that these young people are paired for sexual activities. They exchange partners in form of a competition to see who can sleep with the most partners,” he said.
“The victors of the competition are termed king and queen of the moment and are given all the gate takings which would have been collected prior to the party,” said Bvurajena.
There is another form which is called the slush and is attended by elderly people.
“Singles, divorcees, widows and widowers are the ones who attend this one. They pick each other from the community and sometimes from church.
“They create their own groups where they invite each other to their houses. There they drown in alcohol and bed each other,” he said.
He said they use very strong drugs which affect their immune system to the extent of blacking out for about three to four hours without being able to realise what is happening to and around them.
Bvurajena said there are however some cases where school children fall into temptation because they want money and material things to spend at school.
“In these instances, school children can be asked to fondle the other while studying at parks or other reading spots they utilise,” he said.
The Aids pandemic is coming back to Zimbabwe and no one is safe. As police are arresting these cultural misfits it is shocking that even married couples are found there.
Infidelity has become acceptable and the world is now rolling to the edge of a cliff.
In Harare it was reported that teenagers of schoolgoing age take turns to go into a secret hide-out located in Hatfield, Harare. The girls who attend the party dress in all sorts of skimpy tight fitting clothes, while their male counterparts are clad in hip-hop fashion wear. At the gate, young boys take turns to vet young teens before they allow them into their secret party. In Bulawayo, they call such gatherings Vuzu parties in South Africa they have no shame they call the F parties.
The children use the phones given to them by their parents to plan the occasion through
WhatsApp groups and it is one of the vuzu parties which have become popular with teenagers nowadays. As said before Sex or Vuzu parties are wild indoor gatherings organised by teenagers with activities that include beer drinking binges, drugs, and unprotected s.ex — with multiple partners. Imagine a competition to bed more girls in one day for a prize.
“Ndopata svika Apa” said Abide Shumba a legal analyst. With monies poured from diaspora it is easy for teenagers to fund the parties.Usually, the wild parties happen at homes where the parents are overseas.
This highlights the impact of migration to our culture and humanity.
From diaspora with malice the sex parties creates friends with benefits and it has become Zimbabwe’s underworld of teen sex and drugs.
To that end Zimbabwe’s health demographic indicates that nearly 60% of girls and 30% of boys are se.xually active before they reach the age of 18.
What a disastrous picture.
A 2019 study said there could be rampant backyard abortions resulting from the Vuzu parties.
The study entitled: “Exploring the practice of Vuzu parties among young people in Bulawayo,” was conducted by Aids Healthcare Foundation in partnership with Grassroots Soccer.
Findings of the study showed that absenteeism by parents and guardians often drive the youth to the parties.
“There are also concerns about the future consequences of the heavy drinking and drug abuse at the Vuzu parties,” the study noted.
“One youth respondent noted that his greatest regret of attending the parties was addiction and that some of the girls fell pregnant during the marathon sex escapades forcing them to conduct abortions as they did not even known who was responsible for the pregnancies.” Even Tinashe Mugabe will not solve the paternity issues coming from these parties.
At the Vuzu parties, the young people involved give each other prizes for those that have sex with the highest number of people there by promoting the use of Viagra related tablets.
“Once they get introduced to the world of drugs through these parties, they get hooked and it will be the start of an addiction,” psychologist Arnold Dzvova said. We are breeding a crop of culturally bankrupt children. It is painful that most of the house parties which degenerate into drug abuse and steamy sex sessions are hosted in houses where parents are living in the diaspora or hired venues using the funds sent by parents who are abroad.
A flat along Livingstone Avenue in Harare has become famous for hosting these illicit gatherings. Teenagers book a room for US$40 per night.
One resident said the police do know about this flat but are afraid to take action as the owner is highly connected.
Now with so many Zimbabweans joining the great track to England many houses will be opened to the Vuzu Sex parties. While diaspora makes a positive impact on economy it comes with a big price to pay.
Now many Zimbabweans are looking at the door wondering which son in law or daughter in law is coming into the family. Cry the beloved culture.
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