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Saturday saw a tragic accident which claimed 7 Dynamos Fotoball Club fans on their way to Gweru to watch their beloved team take on Chapungu in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match.
16 others were reportedly taken to hospital after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned rolled a few times.
May their souls rest in eternal peace.
The thing that has irked us though is essentially how this story has almost passed without incident. Often we talk about how the west takes over our stories and misrepresents them. We argue that there is more chatter when a westerner dies than there is when an African, never mind Zimbabwean.
Right now on Zimbabwean social media there is a bigger reaction to the shooting in Orlando than to the tragic deaths back home. Seven fellow Zimbabweans died when a tyre burst. They were traveling on a highway like many of us will at some point. Very few tears, even less outrage.
Do we think our own lives matter? Or do we need a western media platform to make it seem like they matter? Does our own media think the death of seven fans in such a sad way matters?
Reporting it on the off is not enough. We will get intimate with the Orlando tragedy because all of those lives are made to matter.
That is the real tragedy. That we don’t think the lives of our fellow Zimbabweans are worth that thought. Or the emotion.
You can’t say we have bread and butter issues to worry about when that emotion is placed on a foreign tragedy.
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