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Herald Reporter
Zimbabwe and Cuba should not tire in their quest for international justice and economic prosperity, Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo has said.
Cde Khaya Moyo, who is also the Senior Minister of State in the President’s Office and Cabinet, said the struggle for resources worldwide had led to the theory of “survival of the fittest”.
As such, he said, Zimbabwe and Cuba should remain steadfast in defending the plundering of their resources by Western countries.
Cde Khaya Moyo said this while presenting a paper titled: “Cuba and Zimbabwe — A Case of Revolutionary Twins” at the High Institute of Foreign Relations, La Habana in Cuba.
He is in Cuba at the invitation of the Communist Party of Cuba to exchange experiences on a broad range of areas, including socio-economic development. “In the struggle for resources, the world has indeed become politically polarised into a stage for playing out the theory of survival of the fittest,” Cde Khaya Moyo said. “We have stood shoulder to shoulder. We have even fallen together in battle in defence of what is most dear to us over the years of our strategic political relationship.”
Cde Khaya Moyo said the two countries need the world to restore the culture of justice. “It seems that over the years, justice has meant different things to different countries,” he said.
“The meaning of justice, international law, multilateralism and all the checks and balances that were meant to avoid war and destruction are now abused for the purpose of waging war and undermining the self determination of others instead.
“That is the reason that the sister political parties in Cuba and Zimbabwe found each other so many years ago. The struggles for the end of colonial subjugation, racial and class privilege in both Zimbabwe and Cuba were very similar and started at about the same time in the 1950s.”
Cde Khaya Moyo thanked Cuba for training local health professionals and teachers, adding that the establishment of the Bindura University of Science Education in Zimbabwe was a result of the Cuban experience in the advancement of science.
He described the two countries as “twins” as they ended up being slapped with some illegal sanctions by the West “for what we believe in.”
“Whilst you have lived a heroic 53 years under these measures, Zimbabwe has suffered the same experience of economic sanctions for almost 15 years now,” he said.
“Our perceived crime against these countries are the same. Let us not be fooled by the complicated demands for all manner of things in order to normalise relationships with them.
“The crime is that we defeated them and we are ruling our own countries without them and we are determining our own policies.”
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