Let’s padlock lips at Christmas

Stephen Mpofu

Perspective

AS our Government proceeds steadfastly with implementation of national, social and economic programmes alongside the empowerment of women and against the background of the West’s illegal sanctions’ noose hanging over its head to try to remove the revolutionary Zanu-PF party from power, the general unmitigated citizenry must without fail play the pivotal role of protecting our national security at all costs so that this nation moves unimpeded into brave new futures.

Yes, Zimbabweans, particularly those of us in Bulawayo, the first landing major city especially for Zimbabwean diasporans from countries to the south of us have been warned by Local Government and Public Works Minister, Cde July Moyo, obviously representing the views of other Government colleagues and other ruling party members, to exercise extreme care when interacting with friends and relatives from abroad back home to be with relatives and friends at Christmas when celebrating the birthday of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

That is all very well because, who knows, some of the returnees and some foreigners headed for Zimbabwe during this period in point might be carriers of dangerous diseases with new variants of the killer Covid-19 included and any further lockdown in the event of new infections could be a serious blow to an economy weakened by the West’s iniquitous sanctions.

But of equally paramount importance, all of us, Zimbabweans, must padlock, as it were, our lips, gateways to store houses of national security matters.

External forces which have lamentably failed so far to effect regime change will no doubt regard the festive season into which we are right now as THE perfect camouflage to try once more to ditch their sworn enemies into the political peripheries by sending paid agents Zimbabwean diasporans or their fellow nationals to harvest sensitive information about any Zimbabwean security weaknesses to exploit as well as encouraging people to cast negative votes during next year’s elections for the downfall of our incumbent Government so that Zimbabweans known to cow tow to imperialists opposed to Zanu-PF may be kicked as it were upstairs into power instead and in that way extinguish the revolutionary spirit which informed the war of liberation and continues to reign in our independent and free Zimbabwe.

If imperialists returned to our motherland by the back door, neo-colonialism and all its ingredients will return to this beloved motherland along with all its nefarious repercussions in a world where independence, freedom, and equality for blacks are now also THE norm.

Which therefore impels our revolutionary Government to act without any further delay by setting up speedy mechanisms for the writing and production of books on the war of liberation, which set this country free from deprivations of the rights and privileges of blacks, by those without knees in colonial Rhodesia, and have schools and libraries flooded with the books in-point as empowerment tools for all born-frees, some of whose knowledge about where and how the country in which they live came from, remains hazy.

It is tragic, to say the least, that heroes and heroines of our liberation struggle are dying one by one and taking with them vital information about how the independence and freedom that everyone enjoys came about so that the revolutionary spirit that led other patriots to shed their blood or lay their lives down all together for our people to be set free came about in order for present and future generations to be led by the same quest for the independence, freedom, equality and rights of all Zimbabweans.

Any further delay in immortalising the armed revolution as an imperishable tool for escalating ad infinitum the freedoms and rights of every son and daughter of the soil in our motherland may prove costly to the independence and future of our beloved Zimbabwe while at the same time rendering Zimbabwe’s renowned high literacy rate nothing but a fake; “otherwise how do such highly educated people fail to describe for the safety of their children and children’s children the road along which they themselves travelled to freedom?” Observers will ask if confronted with blunderous leaders of Zimbabwe’s future generations.