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President Mugabe is on record urging Zimbabweans to remain peaceful, reiterating that Government is alive to the needs and challenges of the people and is working full throttle to ensure a better life for all. 
True to his words, a lot of projects have been undertaken by Government to improve the lives of the ordinary people through economic empowerment programmes as well as in the housing sector, and there are many opportunities for business that have been created in various sectors of the economy. The President has also been candid, telling the nation that the challenges the country is facing on the economic front, which are a result of illegal economic sanctions imposed on the country at the turn of the new millennium by Britain and her allies, are temporary and various mechanisms have been put in place to address the situation, with Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and the Office of the President and Cabinet taking an active role in engaging the international finance community and making sure that Government programmes are implemented locally respectively.
However, we note that there are some people who are bent on fermenting chaos and violence in the country, under the disguise of protests, recently under the banner of demonstrations against bond notes and unemployment as seen in Harare.
“You can’t urge people to adopt violence . . . violent demonstrations as a way of life or a way of solving grievances . . . Those who believe in that way of living in our country are not part of us . . . We say no, forever no,” President Mugabe recently said.
However, there are some people pushing their own agenda, which is divorced from national interest, who are busy day and night mobilising people to take part in violent protests. Last week, scores of people among them a policeman were injured in Harare while property including vehicles worth thousands of dollars were damaged after shadowy groups, civil society organisations and MDC-T supporters ran amok during demonstrations. Among the people believed to have been fueling the violent demonstration were Acie Lumumba of VIVA Zimbabwe, Tajamuka/Sesijikile spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi, Transform Zimbabwe president Jacob Ngaribvume and members of the Zimbabwe Coalition of Unemployed Graduates.
“What is disturbing is that according to their application through the court, they had said they would carry out a peaceful demonstration, but they ran amok and damaged property, cars and injured innocent people at the same time. Police were operating under difficult circumstances since there were about 4 000 people.”
There appears to be developing a culture of violent demonstrations, with the first scenes experienced in Beitbridge where Security Minister Kembo Mohadi said there was a third force involved.
Minister Mohadi — who is also the Beitbridge East National Assembly representative said: “What do you want to achieve by burning infrastructure and private property? These criminals are not even from Beitbridge. Since time immemorial, that’s not how we solve grievances in the town. We suspect a third hand was involved in all that chaos.”
Some foreign diplomats have been fingered as being part of the people who are involved in organising and sponsoring protests aimed at forcing people to revolt against the Government. We believe such diplomats are out of line and should look at themselves in the mirror and act in accordance to the laws of the land. Zimbabweans of all walks of like cannot allow a culture of violence to blossom in the country. That is unacceptable.
Online Reporter