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Shamu has said.
Minister Shamu said Zimbabwe had graduated from colonial rule and had been liberated both physically and spiritually.
The minister was speaking at a United Methodist Church fundraising dinner in Harare last Friday.
“We are now in charge of our own destiny both as a country and as a people having waged a protracted armed struggle to liberate ourselves from British colonial rule,” said Minister Shamu in a speech read on his behalf by the ministry’s director of rural communications, Mr Regis Chikowore.
“We have since graduated from that colonial period and liberated ourselves both physically and spiritually. The dependency syndrome has no room anymore in a free and independent Zimbabwe,” Minister Shamu said.
He said Zimbabwe had remained steadfast before God in the midst of foreign oppressors.
“We turned the tables against our oppressors but we never even as we waged the liberation war turned against the Almighty and the Bible.
“We are indeed a great people, a fact that is acknowledged by both friend and foe, and a tribute we ourselves cannot doubt and therefore undermine at our own peril.”
He urged Methodist members to contribute towards the refurbishment of its church structures that were built during the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
“This is something worth reflecting on and it should move us all to want to contribute in whatever form. There is no donation going towards this noble cause that can be described as either small or big”, he said.
Minister Shamu said many people found solace in the church.
“Many of us, if not all of us, have home in the church with our different backgrounds, pursuits and even shortcomings.
“It is an assemblage on which people from different walks of life and persuasions gather together in holy communion,” he said.
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