By Nyashadzashe Ndoro | Nehanda Diaspora |
Returning and new members of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) were sworn in on Thursday morning following last week’s Holyrood election, among them was Zimbabwean-born Maggie Chapman (41) who took her oath in Shona.
The outgoing Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh, who decided not to stand in the election, ran proceedings, which require MSPs to pledge their allegiance to Queen Elizabeth before they are allowed to undertake any parliamentary duties or receive their MSP salary.
But determined incoming legislator Chapman took her Scottish Parliament affirmation in Shona.
“Ini Maggie Chapman ndino tsitsa nemoyo wangu whose kuti ndichave mutsigiri anovimbika uye akatendeka waMambokadzi Elizabeth nanevanji wavo navose vachatonga mushure mavo ndichiita zvose izvi pamutemo.
(I, Maggie Chapman swear to be loyal to Queen Elizabeth and the Royal Family),” she said.
Chapman, who ran in 2016 but missed out on a seat, won a seat in the NorthEast region, which is an area dominated by oil and gas. The people there elected her as their first Green representative since the 2003 parliamentary election.
Last week, she said she believed the Green Party’s vision for moving past oil and gas had struck a chord with voters in the region.
“I think it’s a signal that maybe there’s a recognition that we need to be clear about the plan we have for the just transition, the last thing we want to happen to all of the workers in the oil and gas industry is for them to be out of a job without their being any thought or clear plan for their futures and for the future of the communities that they live in and support them.
“I think we saw quite clearly the consequences of de-industrialisation and the shift away from coal as an energy supply and the destruction that did for the communities of the central belt and elsewhere,” she said.
Meanwhile, last Friday Zimbabwean-born now Nicolle Nkazimulo Moyo was elected as the councillor for Peterborough’s Hargate and Hempsted ward while Alice Mpofu Coles was elected councillor for Whitley in the United Kingdom. Nehanda Radio
Giribheti naSitera kungopihwa chitauriso(mic) pagungano munenge matova varungu 😂
….and it’s all over the internet, what’s so special kuti shona yataurwa muScottish parliament
Zivai Chomueke mutauro unoratidza munhu wemukati baba… Murungu ku associter ne zim (shona) nyika yakavadzinga…. Ndaremerwa nazvo
Zivai Chomueke chakanaka muupenyu uno gona kusazo chiziva zvachose kana uka tadza kutozvi corrector nhasi
Previous Simba Tarusenga even us we were bled by Europe, but still we speak their language in parliament, in churches everywhere, but do they do the same thing of going to the internet to fly the pride
Zivai Chomueke namata sha,if u don’t see kukosha kwazvo izvo,namata👏
Witness Kwasina zvomene muvudzeivo munhu uyu
Zivai Chomueke i hope u are joking
Zivai Chomueke That’s why you responded
Zivai Chomueke zvako iwe ,hapana kana chinoshamisa ,
Zivai Chomueke andikushori wakakura uchiona kukosha kwemuvakidzani baba vako uchiona kunge vasina basa saka ramba wakadzwanya asi isu tinoti wakadadisa ukaita kuti vazive Kuti Shona is not just a language
Why not take orth in Scottish since she will be serving a majority of Scottish people not shona. Thats a bit silly !!!
Mkhululi Ndlovu ko kana vachitenderwa kutaura chero language zvisinei nekuti uri ku shandira vapi.
Mkhululi Ndlovu Shona ndolanguage yake
a bit silly,it’s too harsh asiyana,nemi,munonamata nechirungu asi church yese muri,magorosviba
Mkhululi Ndlovu kkkkkkkkk ukurwadziwaka uzapola mafana
I think it is bizarre too.
Gibson Chapepe Kikiki
Mkhululi Ndlovu you pray in English who would you be impressing
Hayiya Masuku heyi wena !! I dont pray ungazo ngiphaphela!!!
If indeed its true .. iam feeling guilty already … Nationality goes beyond skin colour,, gender or Creed… Most of us me incl,.kungouya pa joza kuzo kanya dhaka… Dumelang…. Eita….uvukile..
Shona tsvee
Previous Simba Tarusenga kkkkkk
Previous Simba Tarusenga uvukile mwana mhani
Muzimabwean muda ataure language ipi
Not Zimbo wen u expelled them accusing them of supporting mdc
Hazvina basa
She’s proud of speaking Shona despite where she was at that time bigup to her
Chaka penga chimai chenyuchi
Proudly Zimbo for Life
Why Shona? Does she identify her self as Shona? Just my thoughts.
Tinos Malisa I guess she is proud to identify with her Zim roots
Mamwe maZimbo anotonyara kutaura Shona kuda kuzviita makaradhi ,well done @Maggie Chapman
This shows you how much potential is in Zimbabwe but ne mbavha idzi hapana kwatinoenda
Our girl our family
If it were in Zim , For taking her oath in Shona, wwe would have demonstrated,
Ask Arnold Batirai kikikikikiki
So??
Zvichimboitirweyi and zvichibetsera Zimbabwe how?
Apa ari kuita chivanhu chaakadzidziswa paaikura…..becoz munhu uyu ari kupika
shona yacho yairema kubuda but vakamira mira zvavo
I respect him , our mother language is superior ,,(dada nerudzi rwako ,rurimi rwako nedzinza rako ,,,,,so lovely)