Zimbabwe.
It was indeed a joyous day in which people across the political divide exhibited their patriotism, national unity, selflessness and self-determination in a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere.
Regardless of the stadium not being large enough to accommodate the thousands of peace-loving Zimbabweans; those locked out remained peaceful; heeding the clarion call for a violent-free Zimbabwe by President Mugabe. Indeed it was a non-violent day; a day when people demonstrated that “violence” is not a cherished culture in Zimbabwe.
This year’s Independence theme was “Indigenisation and Empowerment for Social and Economic Transformation”. This theme was never a partisan theme but is a national theme that resonates with the objectives of why the revolution was waged.
If Zanu-PF and some sections of the government are resonating with this sumptuous theme then they have not lost the revolutionary ethos to accost Western values of democracy. People must understand that it is better to make a mistake of operations which can later be corrected or developed.
It is good to make a bad start from which lessons for a better future can be learned. However, it is costly to make a bad decision riding on dangerous willpower. A bad decision that rides on a dangerous willpower becomes treacherous and cannot easily be corrected as was in Guatemala.
People must remember that a decision is taken after a thought process and is driven by a will to execute.
Thus, in politics when a decision does not benefit the majority, it is regarded as bad, and the willpower to execute it is regarded as dangerous or treacherous.
This writer believes protesting against the Independence theme that aims at empowering and indigenising the economy is extremely dangerous. Any party that views indigenisation and empowerment as a “slogan” not a national vision will be making a bad decision and will be riding on a dangerous willpower that will be difficult to reverse as has happened to Libya, Guatemala and Chile, just to mention a few.
In the book “The Confessions of an Economic Hitman (CEHM)”, an American CIA agent confesses about evil activities the CIA and the American United Fruit Company (UFC) played in demonising land reform, indigenisation and empowerment in Guatemala in 1950-1954. Guatemala was viewed by Eisenhower as a communist beachhead that threatened American national security. It sounds synonymous with Zimbabwe’s perceived rare threat to America’s interests posed by the land reform which resulted in America imposing the current illegal sanctions.
If one searches on Google or reads the book on CEHM one will be thoroughly schooled on how evil the CIA is. In the same book (CEHM) it is stated that America creates violence in nation states where it aims at plundering natural resources. After causing the violence, using the CIA, it launches a barrage of propaganda against a democratically elected government, accusing it of not practicing democracy and good governance in order to find reason for regime change.
The mention of the theme protests by the MDC-T leader and his party clearly demonstrate lack of patriotism and national symbolism; lack of self-belief and self-determination. When Fidelis Mhashu says “if the MDC-T comes into power we will return the land to the whites”; people must be wary of his utterances. Fellow Zimbabweans, this has happened before in Guatemala where Americans were not even ashamed of proclaiming that a democratically elected government was ousted”. The Guatemalan president, who had vouched that time had come for land and other resources to start benefiting indigenous Guatemalans, was ousted by the CIA.
The American Air Force bombed Guatemala, killing thousands of innocent people.
Both the CEHM and Google acknowledge that President Arbenz was democratically elected to power after he had crafted a well-received election manifesto. However, because of his indigenisation and land reform philosophy, he was toppled from power by the CIA. Was this not a regime change that was undemocratically practised by America?
It is clearly stated on Google that America finances, arms and supports factions of neo-liberal characters.
True to the confessions awash in the CEHM by John Perkins (a CIA Agent) and on Google, many countries like North Korea, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Chile, Zaire (now DRC) and Ghana, just to mention a few, have suffered the American evil hand of regime change.
The job creation concept of the MDC-T is premised on the Guatemalan concept that the UFC crafted for the America Congress in the 1950.
Hardly a century later and we see a replica of this concept in Zimbabwe. Fellow Zimbabweans, when the PM said he was protesting against the independence theme, the message was intended to please the Anglo-Saxons and was never intended to benefit any Zimbabwean, including those in the MDC-T.
This writer implores you Zimbabweans to read about East Timor, Guatemala, Bahrain, Libya and compare the situations with what is happening in Zimbabwe.
I am sure you will see scaring similarities that will make you wonder. People must remember that East Timor was attacked by Indonesia with the express authority of America. Indonesia was armed by Americans to invade East Timor for America to gain access to its oil. Are sanctions not used for Anglo-Saxons to reclaim our land?
According to Wikipedia, the Guatemalan President was ousted in a coup engineered by the US government and the CIA. A military junta headed by Colonel Carlos Castillo replaced him. Dear reader, I hope you still remember the attempted coups in Zimbabwe and their link to the West. Fellow Zimbabweans, remember the coup in Ghana that ousted Nkrumah and its link to Britain, remember the coup in DRC that ousted Lumumba and its link to America, the coups in Nigeria and their link to Britain and America and the recent coup in Mali and its link to America.
Does this give you a good pen picture of how bad the West is? Is this a demonstration of democracy and does it still leave you with a feeling that the West is the best democracy benchmark?
The above information is awash on the internet and in Literature books. There is clear evidence that many organisations like the MDCs and civic organisations have been formed and funded by the CIA and MI5 to advance regime change agendas.
Regime change is not a myth as some academics want to make people believe.
Regime change is a real philosophy employed by America under the guise of democracy, human rights, rule of law and good governance. Most opposition political parties in Third World countries are surrogates or stooges of the West.
They are used as tools for neo-colonisation, since the West, especially America, no longer have any colonies from which to plunder resources.
Honestly, if Americans themselves, are confessing about the employment of this evil philosophy of regime change, who are we to contest that confession? Dear reader, if Americans are confessing about the use of service and ex-service men as tools of regime change who are we to deny it?
It is hoped that peace in Africa is not threatened by our own greedy and neo-liberal politicians, who get funded by the West for a regime change agenda, under the guise of the asymmetric use of the term democracy.
It is also hoped that neo-liberal politicians and civic organisations will not use pseudo democracy as a vehicle for violence that aims at regime change.
It is this writer’s strong belief that this information, found on the internet and is abound in literature, should not be treated as Zanu-PF propaganda. People must develop a culture of hating what is bad and liking what is good, regardless of who says it or from which political party is this fact engineered.
l Panganai Kahuni is a political socio-economic commentator.



