No price for our heritage

sure is that they have realised that life was unbearable wherever they were.
Despite the demonisation, one thing you cannot take away from Zimbabwe is its beauty, natural endowments and its hospitable people. This explains why many diplomats including those from the West, have frantically sought permanent residence in the country upon the end of their tour of duty.
The white former farmers are reportedly bringing  money, which they are dangling to the resettled farmers in the hope that they get farming land on lease basis. It is reported that the British government has been excited by this development. It has, therefore, pledged to handsomely fund these activities and has already tasked the Department for International Development (DFID) to look into ways these activities can be expedited.
Sources said apart from the promised funding, the former farmers themselves have substantial money which they are offering to resettled farmers in exchange for farming land on lease basis. It is a bit disturbing though, that some of the resettled farmers are falling for the carrot and stick strategy.
The resettled farmers must pluck a leaf from the Biblical Naboth. The King of Samaria, Ahab, offered Naboth some money in exchange for his vineyard, which was next to the palace. In his wisdom, Naboth refused and actually asked God to forbid him from selling the inheritance of his fathers. He was eventually killed for his resolute position about his heritage.
Land is our priceless heritage. No amount of money must tempt the resettled farmers to sell the inheritance of their fathers. Even if it means meeting their deaths, let it be, after all many gallant sons and daughters of the soil lost their precious lives and limbs because of that land. These fallen fighters will turn in their graves to see the land being sold for a song. The only price acceptable for our heritage is nothing less than blood.
The former farmers are coming back riding on the dreams that the MDC-T will win the watershed election, tentatively set for March next year.
The resettled farmers must not forget how their heritage was seized in the first place. The settlers came as innocent visitors. Treaties similar to these leases were signed and were subsequently manipulated to usurp our heritage. The farmers must not easily lose their memory, lest history repeats itself.
The resettled farmers must not cede their heritage no matter who demands it. We have heard recent stories in which some former farmers approached the district administrators with letters from certain politicians supporting their stay on the farms that were gazetted for resettlement. Like the Biblical Naboth, the resettled farmers must resist such orders no matter how much political clout these people wield.
Some farmers have not yet ceded the portions of their farms which were gazetted as far back as 2001 just because there are some politicians who back them. These people benefited and they now want to elbow out others from getting a share of their heritage.
The inheritance of our fathers is for every family member to share. As it is, there are still a number of family members who have not yet gotten their share. Those who received their shares are contemplating selling them while others want to give away the remaining inheritance to strangers.
The former farmers will not rest until they get back their loot. It will be naïve for us to go to bed when the enemy is spending sleepless nights hatching strategies of seizing our heritage. This is their only motivation for generously funding the MDC-T.
It does not follow that when you see someone labouring with chicken feeds, he has a great love for the chickens. He has love for the profit. There is a profit to be realised by the former farmers in supporting the                  MDC-T. The white farmers tried to seize our heritage using the dubious Sadc Tribunal Court, which ruled in their favour in 2008. The judgment was, however, not enforced and the tribunal was subsequently suspended in 2010.
The white farmers then sought the assistance of the North Gauteng High Court of South Africa, which is still teaming with the remnants of apartheid. The court ruled in favour of the white farmers in 2010, a judgment that Zimbabwe appealed against in the South African Supreme Court of Appeal.
The Supreme Court recently upheld the Sadc Tribunal and the North Gauteng High Court judgments. It also ruled that the tribunal judgment was enforceable in South Africa, a judgment that targeted the non-diplomatic properties owned by Zimbabwe in Cape Town, a move that will defy the Geneva Convention on diplomatic privileges.
The white farmers even took their battle to the last Sadc summit in Maputo where they bribed the Committee of Ministers of Justice/Attorneys General so that the tribunal could be reinstated. The plot was to make sure that the judgments it passed before its suspension are upheld and enforced. It was a grand plan to reverse the Zimbabwean land reform.
This was meant to be a smart way of reversing the land reform programme in Zimbabwe.