Heroes and villains: mixing oil, water

sacrosanct, there are times when diplomacy is hurled out through the window.
This is the time when a spade is called a spade and when it becomes clear and clearer that no amount of cosmetics can beautify a frog.

During that time no one is prepared to hug a hyena to make peace.
The Heroes Holiday is just around the corner and it is that time of the year when Zimbabwe reflects on the journey that unshackled the country and its people from the brutal and racist colonial regime of Rhodesia.

It was a painful journey, oiled by blood and sacrifice. It was a journey for the lion-hearted, never for the chicken-hearted. It was a struggle to define Zimbabwe and what is Zimbabwean. This is nothing to joke about.
But let us celebrate.

We do this by celebrating the lives of our gallant heroes – departed and living – who traversed a long and arduous journey that began with the Umvukela of 1893.
In 1980 we got our deserved independence, after more than a decade of a war of attrition, dubbed the “Second Chimurenga”, but the struggle to undo colonialism and its relations of imperialism and neo-colonialism is still ongoing. It is a process.
Government – as led by the revolutionary Zanu-PF – is taking it to the logical conclusion of economic independence through indigenisation and economic empowerment.

Now this is quite an onerous task that our heroes – from Mbuya Nehanda to Sikhajaya Muntanga and the living cadres – have had on their hands.
This is a life of dedication to the people and the nation.
It is a lifelong commitment to the majority.
Now, one should wonder, could Zimbabwe have been free today if there were people of the calibre of some of our so-called leaders.

Of course this villager is talking about those who ran back home to their mothers, when they heard the sound of the gun, whom we now have in some measure including at the top echelons of our inclusive Government.
My installment last week will help illustrate the point and the fear.

This villager highlighted how some legislators were spending time calling for the legalisation of prostitution.
Some female legislator even called prostitutes “pleasure engineers”! What cheek!
This could have been pretty laughable were it not so tragic. Surely in Nhamoyebonde Village, such sentiments would send the chicken laughing, throughout the village.

While people should be concentrating on building on the momentum of the three Chimurengas to ensure that the other Chimurenga that Zimbabwe is still undertaking succeeds, some people are engaging on trivialities of seeking and abetting and legalising “pleasure engineers”.
All they think about is their loins and what to do in between the sheets.

The village soothsayer, that ageless fountain of wisdom, says: “Check their records. Find our how they got to where they are and tell me!” Sex maniacs!
The other tragic dimension is that these people are not only obsessed with such sex trivia but hail from political formations that have taken it upon themselves to fight all the people-oriented Chimurengas of Zimbabwe.
It is a fact that the Western-sponsored MDC formations fought against the land reform and are fighting indigenisation on behalf of Western capitol.

Never mind the lame and banal pretences that they do not want a few fat cats to enrich themselves.
There is a bigger picture, namely that the MDC formations fight to give white fat cats perpetual hegemony on our resources.
They are the same people who tell us they are fighting for democracy in Zimbabwe. But, which democracy?
You guessed right, the democracy as dictated from Washington and London.

Now the latter, have now become democracy champions when only a few years ago they needed the lessons of the gun to admit to the legitimacy of black majority rule.
We even hear the MDC now have their heroes, too.
Real heroes like Mbuya Nehanda, Joshua Nkomo, Josiah Tongogara, JZ, Leopold Takawira, among many others should be turning in their graves, with anger and disbelief.

The living among them should be wallowing in the curse that their efforts and exertions wrought.
But it does not end there.
We now hear that the MDC formations now seek to undo the security forces of Zimbabwe to weed out generals who have remained vigilant against the imperial enemy, since the days of Second Chimurenga. My foot!

The so-called security sector reform clamoured for by the MDC formations seeks to remove “hardliners” from the army who are “dabbling in politics”.
So, if there are hardliners there surely are soft-liners, too?
And if the hardliner is the one who fought the enemy and continues to guard jealously that which he acquired, then what does a “soft-liner” do? So MDC formations are full of soft-liners?

Yes, the soft ones ran back home to their mothers after an attempt to join the struggle and in their softness lies the folly that has catapulted them into the trenches of the enemy.
President Robert Mugabe is the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. For all we know, he is about the biggest hardliner against imperialism in the world today.
So does it mean torpedoing him as well, via deposing his generals?

Where on earth would any leader accept that? Certainly not here! Nyikayaramba, hazviite, Zimbabwe ndeyeropa!
President Mugabe should not, and this villager is sure he will not accept this foolishness.
He has already stated so, and the generals themselves knowing the supreme command have said hands off as well.

This is not about being unreasonable.
The force, under the command of President Mugabe, has done remarkably well in defending the country – so much that Britain feared to attack us.
The force has participated at various United Nations missions keeping the peace even in Europe itself.

It can only be political mischief that calls for the so-called reform of the force.
In fact, it is security sector “deform” that these mischievous guys are looking for.
A deformed force surely will do the bidding of the enemy and fail to defend the motherland.

A deformed force will find it amenable to salute enemy flags.
“One day, just one day. You will see how the generals are all important to his country. Just one day,” says the soothsayer.
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