Casting the first stone.

sometime last week I decided to catch up with Zim news and I must say what I saw when I open the NewZimbabwe website is something I did not see coming. The story about Archbishop Pius Ncube. Read the article and mina zwi... partly because I was in shock and partly because I believe its unethical to chop and chew those who are ordained to do the Lord's work.

So i decided to forget about this issue, up until I get an email from my friend, "SERIOUSLY WHAT WAS HE THINKING?" then she put a link to the New Zimbabwe website.AHHhh wabseng'nyathele iconzi! Not that I am Pius is innocent and not that I am saying he is guilty. I got upset because she was the last person I expected to get such a reaction from... I mean she is a legal clerk and has given the best advice when it comes to legal matters kodwa I just felt as though she didn't even give the guy a chance... considering we got the phrase '... not guilty until proven guilty from the legal field.

As we speak the media has already crucified ubab' uPius and the dude hasn't even been given a chance. Yet i find a few things a little outta place. Thina sikhula eZim we were never exposed to any form of nudity, not in the Parade or Look 'n' Listen or any other magazines and certainly not in any newspaper or TV shows ( unless mina ngakula kweyami ngedwa iZim) Now we get the media posting nude pictures... methinks i ought to ask a question. What happened to the media being informative, educational and being just. Sure we've been informed , but the verdict has been given , and quite frankly what good does a nude picture of Pius do for me absolutely nada! I think there are more pressing issues in the country to be dealt wit, such as looming food shortages and the ban of imported goods as well as the future of the country( ubab' uDube olegrocer yakhe seyaphila njani engasakhon' ukuwoda impahla zokuthengisa es'tolo sakhe).

Then this MaSibanda or Mrs Sibanda lady goes on live TV and supposedly makes a confession....If I have dirty laundry I aint airing it out on national TV. So I guess ZTV ( if that is still the name) is now the Maury Povich show in the making. If they keep going at this rate soon it will be like the Jerry Springer Show.

Take Mr Sibanda yena ngokwakhe...how does a soldier afford to hire a Private Investigator, considering kuyalanjwa ekhaya....I'd think it would be wise to invest imali into something worthwhile( then again I have not yet experienced marriage maybe for some individuals , hiring a PI is worth every dollar or mhlawumbe I have this whole kulanjwa picture all wrong)

Now I go on to His Excellency Sekuru Bobby. At a funeral our 'intelligent ' prez was quoted as saying that he was praying for the Archbishop - a man of God who was sleeping around with married women( not a direct quote but something along these line) Ngizathi kuMongameli welizwe... yehla es'hlahleni ugaja lungephuki! Firstly abanye bahlulukelwe and have just suffered a loss... then of all places you choose to utter such a comment. Then under the pretext of trying to empathize uBobby uyamgcona lumuntu. On the sleeping around with married women issue.... I think its best we neva through stones at other people's houses when we know that our own is made of glass. When Sally Mugabe was still alive the very same Bob was seeing a woman by the name Mrs. Guriraza who also happens to be the same lady we all know as Grace .

So lets suppose Pius did it... so what. Just coz he is an Archbishop does not mean he is not human and he aint got feelings; sure... maybe in that case you are thinking he shouldn't run after married women. Well it takes 2 to tango ! Just coz he is a man of the cloth it does not mean he is perfect...no one is perfect we are all striving for perfection and we all sin every day, but no one ever points a finger at you when you go astray so who are we to point fingers at other people when they mess up.For some people this is the very man you asked to pray for you izinto zingahambi kahle, and before you even say anything, look back at some of your trying times and think for a moment- you may not have made it were it not for Arcbishop Pius holding you up in prayer. Only Pius and God know what is what and if he did it he knows he needs to ask for God's forgiveness, and he needs to repent, and am sure he can do so without the whole world breathing down his throat.

Before we even bring Pius out like the woman caught in adultery , we need to examine ourselves. As Christians we are bought with a price, we are the bride of Christ, yet when we sin we cheat on him and become adulterers. No one exposes us and prepares to stone us, therefore as Pius goes through this trying time we ought to be praying for him and not looking for what we think might be the perfect stone to cast him with because do not have the right to do so!