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TODAY, Zimbabweans from all walks of life commemorate National Unity Day, a day set aside to celebrate the signing of the Unity Accord that brought together the people of Zimbabwe into one party and Government on December 22, 1987.
Today, we also celebrate and not mourn, the life of an illustrious son of the soil, Senator Aguy Clement Georgias, who will be interred at the National Heroes Acre on account of his selfless contribution to the life of the common man in Zimbabwe.
Sen Georgias succumbed to renal and cardiac failure last Friday, aged 80.
Today, is thus a double celebration of our oneness as a people and a life well lived in Sen Georgias and the legacy he leaves behind, that no matter the circumstances of your birth, your destiny is in your hands.
And in these two events are valuable lessons that would serve us well if we keep them to heart going forward.
To illustrate the importance of unity to national development, we defer to the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel.
The story holds that the whole world spoke one common language. Because of this, the people became skilled in construction and decided to build a city with a tower that would reach to Heaven.
By building the tower, the people wanted to make a name for themselves and prevent their city from being scattered. When God saw what the people were capable of through one language and being a jealous God, he was concerned that their earthly achievements would lead them away from God.
He, therefore, confused their language and they began speaking different languages, failed to understand each other and abandoned their project before scattering across the face of the Earth.
We can’t add or subtract from this Biblical wisdom serve to substitute God for the Western overlords who do not want us to succeed as a people as that would lead us away from them and render them irrelevant in our scheme of things.
We therefore need to be one people, going forward, speak one language so that together we can achieve great things for our country.
To achieve grand things on the scale of the Tower of Babel, we need a selfless, fighting spirit. The kind of tenacity that defined the man who will be interred at the National Heroes Acre today.
Sen Georgias rose from humble beginnings to conquer the virtual secret society that was Rhodesian industry. He built his business from scratch and it became one of the engineering success stories in Zimbabwe, landing defence contracts at home and abroad.
As a successful businessman, with everything going for him, Sen Georgias could have just chosen a quiet life to enjoy his money with his family, but he was bigger than that. He had the nation and Zimbabweans at heart as evidenced by the testimonies from those who worked closely with him over the years.
The late national hero was relentless in his quest for justice for the common man and his pursuits have become the stuff of legal yore.
From challenging the usurious interest rates charged by banks when he successfully approached the courts for enforcement of the in duplum rule, to taking on the whole Western establishment when he challenged the illegal Western sanctions in British and European courts; Sen Gergias stood on the side of justice forking out over $1,3 million of his own money to the anti-sanctions suit.
What lessons do we learn from the late national hero? He bequeathed on us industry, patriotism and steadfastness.
He remained true to his beliefs till the day he breathed his last.
Together as one people, let’s march forward and emulate the illustrious life that Sen Georgias and other heroes and heroines before him, lived.
Online Reporter