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Gibson Nyikadzino
Correspondent
Former French finance minister Pierre Moscovici in October 2012 said: “We have to speak the language of truth. African growth pulls us along, its dynamism supports us and its vitality is stimulating for us. We need to be in Africa continuously.”
France has lived true to its word.
It has been in Africa more than any other imperialist country through force and disguised military operations that have seen Africa’s gold being looted.
Between 1962 and 1995, French troops intervened 19 times in Africa, while in the last 19 years they have interfered more than 35 times in Africa and former colonies, including invasions of Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic.
These interventions are always sold to the public on the grounds of “humanitarian intervention.”
Economies in Africa are emerging more than those of the world. The future of trade, business, human capital development and commerce is in Africa.
Seeing this, France’s Francois Hollande acknowledged in 2013 that “tomorrow’s economy will heavily depend on the strength and vibrancy of African businesses.”
The West will use any means to interfere in the domestic affairs of Africa, and Zimbabwe in particular.
In the age of neo-colonialism, the tact and strategy to interfere has changed.
During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, it was surprising how some Africans made a fortune by selling out their own.
Notorious chiefs were involved in selling their own in countries like Mali, The Gambia and Ghana. The slave trade is today acknowledged to be one of the greatest historical evils that altered the lives and histories, especially of Africans.
It should be emphasised that the atrocities, cruelty and inhumane treatment of millions who were captured and sold into slavery was without resistance.
The losses the continent incurred are also unquantifiable.
As it is that the slave trade ended, it has been replaced by neo-colonial politics that have seen “compatriots” among us also surviving on cannibalising their own and despicably becoming antagonistic of the country.
In this chaos, a dangerously primitive idea would be to think that someone is your ally simply because they are Zimbabwean. The past has informed the present.
Neo-colonialism has done the utmost to brainwash Africans into thinking that they need the straitjackets of colonialism and neo-colonialism if they are to be saved from their alleged retrogressive instincts.
Such is the age-old racialist justification for the economic exploitation of the continent, which, if not careful some opportunists are free to invite.
Facts and ideas of how besieged Zimbabwe is and has been should be put into perspective as seen with the conflation of opposition politics and the civil society.
In his “Letter to the World Bank” last year, opposition politician Tendai Biti outlined conditions that he wanted the World Bank to consider to withhold US$7 million in aid under Covid-19.
Biti said: “I would be happy to help facilitate a dialogue between the Bank and civil society” to ensure “that international support to Zimbabwe is consistent with economic and democratic reform and not step backwards for our long-suffering people.”
Biti’s inclination to bring civil society into his ‘dialogue’ with the World Bank exposes the nature of who Zimbabweans need to consider their own, considering the harm civil society is keen to inflict on Zimbabwe. The Government is aware of how the United States and its allied governments are doing in the name of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), media and journalists in many countries.
The work of some NGOs in Zimbabwe today is outdated, but at the same time, NGO work is part of foreign policy initiatives by the west to make Africans domiciled on dependence.
A lot of mind manipulation continues to unfold since what the opposition parties fail to do, civic societies come to their aid.
The media and media practitioners also continue to do the bidding.
In February 2005, former US President George W Bush told journalists at White House: “The wars in this world, at this stage, will be fought through the media.”
Media wars have been at an increase at the turn of the millennium with some powerful global corporations and ‘philanthropists’ recruiting journalists in this war against Zimbabwe.
In this war, journalists have become the soldiers while people with some vested interests are the generals.
For known reasons, two decades later, Zimbabwe has been a battlefield, not only for ideological contestation, but one that sought to negate the credibility of the State.
The expected result has been to see the chaos unfolding in Afghanistan today replicate in Zimbabwe as advocated for by compatriots presenting themselves as “new nationalists”, yet they are all but middlemen of neo-colonialism.
A coordinated and orchestrated campaign to soil, strangulate and exterminate the aspirations of Zimbabwe remain underway under what the globalist generation’s agitation of what they term “winds of change” sweeping the continent.
The “winds of change” that the ‘new nationalists’ are parroting are meant to dislodge the aspirations of Zimbabwe by setting the agenda of the west.
The truth has to be known timely. There are compatriots doing the west’s bidding as civil society and opposition politicians.
Their ‘righteousness’ appears genuine. They know the future of the world is in Africa, so they are preparing the way for the neo-coloniser.
Like slave trade, the neo-colonial agenda in Zimbabwe is faced with nationalist resistance.
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