The Sunday News
Charles Dube
NYATI charms Joseph Takundwa with his newly found status. Remember Nyati has turned liberation hero from being a traitor of the liberation struggle. He has suddenly become very rich to the awe of Joseph Takundwa. The feeble minded Takundwa is drawn to serious crimes by his godfather Nyati. The cruelty of Nyati is exposed in the manner he deals with this simpleton called Joseph Takundwa. Nyati believes in the use of charms which lead to his downfall.
Nyati is so evil that he believes success comes from spilling blood. In fact he believes in ritual murders. Nyati is calculating and a good judge of character. He says he is absolutely sure that Takundwa is the right man for the job. From the very first day Takundwa walked into his office just before the municipal elections, he could immediately tell that was the type of man he had been searching for. His experience in the Rhodesian army meant that the game of spilling blood would not be new to him.
Nyati is totally convinced that the use of charms prepared from human parts has played a decisive role in the tremendous success that he has achieved so far both in business and in politics. It is these very same charms that have effectively blinded people to the many crimes that he committed during and after the war. He believes this is the reason why both the “Solomon Taneni scandal” and the “Sisida scandal” left him untouched. Is this true? Only time will tell.
Nyati shows that he so much believes the supernatural when he declares that his n’anga has promised that he could prepare him a lot more powerful charms if he could bring him the private parts and the heart of a young, innocent virgin. That innocence would be the factor that would effectively blind everyone to any crime that he would have committed. That n’anga had promised that such a charm would bring him unbelievably immense wealth and political power. It could get him a Cabinet post.
In addition to that the younger and more innocent the victim, the greater the power and wealth that he would accrue.
The n’anga had promised that the amount of power and wealth would treble if the victim is raped before it is killed. This should never be followed. You follow this kind of advice at your own risk. Nyati trusted his n’anga but never succeeded as later developments reveal. However, Nyati backstabs Joseph Takundwa by targeting his daughters for his own ends.
He says he has been to Takundwa’s house to inspect the goods at first hand. He says he is satisfied with what he has seen.
“The little girl is young and innocent enough to produce the desired effect. The fact that she was born on Independence Day would add another interesting dimension to the ritual. She is therefore, more than just an innocent little girl. I like very much to believe that this “independence” aspect would definitely catapult me into the highest echelons of political power and influence.”
Nyati is also a schemer. He realises that there is a slight problem in carrying out his mission. How far could he trust the timid looking and perpetually drunk Takundwa not to spill the beans one day? Then suddenly a thought comes to his mind. “What if I make sure that Takundwa carries out both the raping and killing himself? That way, he would spill the beans at his own peril.” Then there is Sofia, Tabitha’s older sister, the other girl he has seen at Takundwa’s place.
Nyati adds that he has never set eyes on a more desirable girl in his whole life. He says he cannot get her out of his mind. He declares that he wants Sofia. He says he must have her and nothing will stop him. He is definite that his old tricks will supply him with a solution to that one. The battle has been half won. He says he is convinced that his slick Mercedes Benz has already made a very good impression on the girl. He is sure that at one point he caught her staring hungrily at his Mercedes Benz with eyes full of admiration.
Nyati thinks Sofia is gullible and can be won over by a car. He is evil minded and describes his Mercedes Benz as the sexiest car in the world. He has no respect for woman folk as he implies that they are easily taken up by luxury. He says no woman could ever resist the Mercedes Benz. He says: “I have yet to come across the woman whose knees would not tremble at the sight of the Mercedes Benz. Women might be known for their frailty as Shakespeare said of them one time but that does not give Nyati a licence to despise them in this fashion.
Nyati expresses anger at Takundwa’s delay. They had agreed to meet at two o’clock but the latter fails to catch the time and thinks saying sorry would pacify Nyati. Nyati cannot take that. HE SAYS: “This is a business deal . . . There is no “I am sorry” in the dictionary of business language.” When Takundwa arrives they go straight into their business deal, that of killing Tabitha and mutilating her body as planned. Nyati commands Takundwa to do all the dirty work, cutting parts while she was still alive.
Nyati tells Takundwa that the charms work better if they take the parts while she is still alive. Will those charms work? Those charms never worked because we meet Nyati later saying his ancestors have turned their backs on him. Things are no longer the same. He asks: “Have I not done everything that the n’anga asked me to do? He promised me that everything that I would touch would turn to gold. Yet everything is beginning to take a downward slide. Why? Did I commit an error somewhere along the line?”
Just a month ago, Nyati says he lost an election for a Parliamentary seat. The fact that he lost that primary election to a woman rubs salt to injury. His attempt to bribe voters by buying beer and making cash hand outs did not pay dividends at all. He is a bitter man at the end as he says: “The bloody hypocrites drunk my beer, took away my money and went on to vote for the little woman! This primary election has cost me thousands of dollars. The Parliamentary seat could have gone on to earn me a Cabinet post, that I am very sure of. That was exactly what the n’anga had promised me.”
All this has not materialised. Nyati’s fortunes are going down. Read on and find out what happened to him later.
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