Some food for thought given the current abductions, torture and murders:

First they came for the Ndebeles and Shonas of the Midlands and Matabeleland and I didn’t speak out because l wasn’t an Ndebele and l didn’t live in Matebeleland.

Then they came for the white farmer owners and their black farm workers I didn’t speak out, because I was neither a white farm owner nor a farm worker.

When they came for the poor urban, so-called slum dwellers, I didn’t speak out, because I was not a slum dweller.

When they came for trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for MDC activists, and I didn’t speak out because I was not an MDC activist.

Then they came for the Anglicans and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t an Anglican.

Then they came for the human rights defenders and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a human rights defender.

Then they came for me and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.

Credit to Pastor Martin Niemöller (I892-I984), the German anti-Nazi activist.

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