The 28-year-old joins the club following a recommendation from former Ferguslie professional Keith Dabengwa, with the pair teammates at Zimbabwe cricket franchise
Matabeleland Tuskers.
Now, she says, "it's become this thing that I cannot get out of my head." Tshuma grew up in
Matabeleland, where much of the violence took place, and eventually made her way to the United States, where she was accepted to the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop.
For instance, two years after the attainment of independence, the notion of filth was used to designate dissenting voices in the regions of
Matabeleland and the Midlands in what has come to be known as the Gukurahundi massacres.
Mnangagwa was in charge of national security at the time of the 1982-87 assault in
Matabeleland, and analysts said the Bulawayo rally blast could have been calculated to implicate Mnangagwa's Ndebele opponents and stir up trouble.
Another cabinet minister is the airforce boss -- Air Marshal Perence Shiri, who had previously headed a special North-Korean trained unit that is alleged to have committed atrocities during a crackdown on a rebellion in the western
Matabeleland province in the early 1980s.
Air Marshal Shiri is directly linked to the
Matabeleland massacre of thousands of people by a North Korea-trained military brigade in the 1980s when Mr Mugabe moved against a political rival.
One cannot help reflecting on what all of Mugabe's scheming, and killings (the
Matabeleland massacre); the intimidation and beatings of opposition figures; the cowing of the population; the destruction of one of Africa's most promising economies; the exodus of millions of Zimbabweans to foreign lands just to keep body and soul together; the unchecked looting of the national treasury; the pomp and arrogance while ordinary folk were scrambling around for food for their children; and the endless misery of being Zimbabwean, has amounted to?
After independence in 1980, Mnangagwa, then the state security minister, directed the "Gukurahundi" massacres of supposed dissidents in the
Matabeleland and Midlands provinces.
However, Mnangagwa's history as state security chief during the so-called Gukurahundi crackdown, when an estimated 20,000 people were killed by the Fifth Brigade in
Matabeleland in the early 1980s, suggested that quick, sweeping change was unlikely.