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Ranga Mataire
Writing Black
The democratic dispensation brought about by decolonisation has birthed numerous political outfits whose main reason for existence is to prove that black people are incapable of running the affairs of their countries.
Most of these political organisations exist in different guises, but the commonest denominator is that pretence and imaging as democratic entities motivated by the need to entrench and widen the democratic sphere.
However, on closer inspection, most of these political entities appear to be appendages of Western imperial interests. A fact that remains undeniable is that the West didn’t voluntarily relinquish their colonial hold on colonies.
In our case, we had to fight a real war of liberation for the racist colonial regime to agree to come to the negotiating table that later led to the granting of political independence.
The fact that we won our political independence did not mean overnight change of racial superiority of those who once oppressed us. Many fled the country because they could not bear living in a country governed by black people.
They remain nonchalant and very contemptuous of majority black leadership.
Forty-one years after independence, the Rhodies have not changed. They are still convinced that blacks can’t govern and are piqued by the fact that their once unfettered access to our mineral resources are now being checkmated.
Besides directly instigating instability, the same Western countries that supported oppressive minority regimes in our continent are coming back dressed in some attractive apparels singing all sorts of ism and have become masters of freedom and democracy.
It is the same Western countries that today are fervently giving moral and financial support to so-called opposition political parties masquerading as merchants of democracy when in fact they are mere fronts for Western interests keen to roll-back the map of liberation in Africa.
Recent revelations by South Africa’s Tony Leon, the founding leader of the Democratic Alliance party have proven beyond doubt never to trust these black faces masquerading as post-liberation champions of democracy.
In an interview with News24 about his new book “Future Tense” Leon declared that Maimane was “an experiment that went wrong”.
The same Maimane who Leon said was an experiment that went wrong is a very close friend of a local politician and both have the propensity of defiling struggles for independence waged in Southern Africa.
In fact, the two share consistent and shameless pro-Western sycophancy.
Our sincere prayer is for the local opposition leaders to smell the coffee and realise that unless they change tact, they remain disposable experiments. Anytime you find someone getting so cosy with former colonisers to the extent of calling for sanctions on his own people, that person is nothing, but a white man’s experiment and must never be allowed anywhere near power.
Every Zimbabwean is aware of the “Trip of Shame” to the United States by opposition leaders, Tendai Biti and Nelson Chamisa. The trio’s mission was to apprise American congress leaders of the need to slug out the momentum of the New Dispensation as this had the effect of rendering the opposition redundant.
In effect, the two lobbied for continued sanctions in the hope of instigating mass discontent and ultimately effect a regime change.
A lesson learnt from such misadventure is that tomfoolery is not the preserve of vagabonds, but is also prevalent within the medulla oblongata of those harbouring dreams of running a country.
In their political drunken stupor and imagined political stardom sought to show their handlers that they were indeed doing their bidding by attempting to create and cement a network of white surrogate leaders within the region.
Chamisa, Raila Odinga of Kenya, Maimane and Bobi Wine of Uganda represent a post-liberation leadership that has risen and ridden on a wave of a nonchalant attitude towards nationalist ideals that inspired thousands to rise against colonialism.
It is not surprising that characters like George Soros have found it convenient to financially support such a group of shameful surrogates of Western imperialism who are grouped under the banner of the Southern African Partnership for Democracy (SAPDC) formed last year in South Africa.
Maimane was once the chairperson of the group. Eight opposition parties: Lesotho’s All Basotho Convention, Namibia’s Rally for Democracy, Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change, South Africa’s DA, Tanzania’s Civic United Front, Zambia’s Movement for Multiparty Democracy, Angola’s Convergencia Ampla de Salvacao de Angola-Coigacao Eleitoral and Swaziland’s United Democratic Movement form the group.
Conscious of the machinations of erstwhile colonisers’ attempt to roll back the map of liberation and install pliable regimes, Southern Africa former liberation movements are governing parties in their respective countries resolved to coalesce under the banner of Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa (FLMSA), whose ideals and vision are at variance with those of the SAPDC.
We need to remain vigilant in safeguarding our independence from some black faces with white masks who are willing to sell their souls for a case of whisky. Judas would be green with envy!
Online Reporter