Puppets will only make us stronger

The violence has been so excruciating in that people of this great nation suffered slavery, colonisation, wars and sanctions all aimed at subjugating black Zimbabweans. Throughout these years that the British, Portuguese and Americans unleashed various treacherous and treasonable activities which resulted in thousands and thousands of people dying, Zimbabweans have remained resolute.
The question of sovereignty and national symbolism is not a new phenomenon but a deep-rooted culture in our people. Thus let no one ride on the myth that it is Mugabe rhetoric and let no one think of having the capacity of removing the gentry of courage and bravery from the people of this great nation. It is so disheartening to note that people of high academic stature can pride on running institutions like SAPES as a vehicle for regime change. 
This institution that has failed to meet the ordinance status of a University continued to be used by the West as a propaganda institution to advance West interests.
What is more denigrating is that the majority of those who run SAPES have nothing positive to offer to Zimbabwe. The coterie of the so called public speakers, who they invited in the wisdom of them being experts, are just a bunch of Western propagandists. 
These propagandists who pretend to speak with love passion for our great nation, include the likes of Brian Raftopolous, Piers of the International World Crisis, Charles Ray, just to mention a few.
One would think Brian and Ibbo, instead of rubbishing Zimbabweans political leadership, in league with Charles Ray, they would at least idolised Senator Joseph Culverwell or the likes of Guy Georgias, the late Brigadier General Grey, the late Colonel Victor Mark, just to mention a few, who chose to join the war of liberation instead of becoming our erstwhile colonisers propagandists.
As it stands, Brian and Ibbo, think, because of their high academic positions, well earned for that matter, have the preserve of telling Zimbabweans what is good and bad. These neo-liberal academics are not ashamed of directing their energy to grand position Western agendas. One wonders whether their placentas are in Europe and America. When academics of high profile become that spiteful, people get worried.
Dear reader, the way the indigenisation and empowerment plus land reform are rubbished by nearly every presenter invited to lead debate at SAPES is scaring.  The way these merchants of hope continued to talk about electoral reforms and security sector reforms are scaring too. The reason for all this negative discourse, dear reader, is simple. Most of these presenters invited by SAPES come from the civic organisations that were formed and are aligned to Europe and America. One can easily tell what the presenter is going to talk about, by not using prophetic powers, but by just knowing which organisation the presenter hails from.
Our national anthem is a summary of our indigenisation laws, land reform laws, electoral laws and systems of governance. If we are all agreed that our national anthem guides us in formulating our national vision and makes us remain on the path of national symbolism then the problem is solved. 
The questions are: Do we all understand and believe in our national anthem? If we do why then talk about drafting an agreed national vision that can easily be extracted from the national anthem? 
Most of our neo-liberal academics, Brian and Ibbo included have no kind words for the Indigenous and Empowerment Act plus land reform.  They argue that the process was not well thought out and is tantamount to land and factory grab. The reason behind this thinking is that the education these Western propagandists received forbids “the owner of a stolen property to claim it from the thief who later registered the stolen property in his (the thief) name”. What it means is that Rhodesia must not have been Zimbabwe for when it colonised Zimbabwe it later was registered as Rhodesia.
The resilient Zimbabweans, using their courage, energy, resolve and bravery refused the above fetish idea that encourages colonisation beyond redemption and fought tenaciously for their freedom, independence and sovereignty.
People can be assured that Zimbabweans will continue with their resolve and resilience in charting their destiny. Europe and America have lived for centuries in independence and development. They never started as developed as they are today. Their development has been evolutional, starting from worse than our current state of development, to levels of the first world. 
This was after they plundered human capital and raw materials from Africa, East Europe and Asian.  Now that these colonialists no longer have colonies from which to plunder resources their economies are in dire streets. Their only salvation to survive is to use puppets and Western propagandists the likes of Ibbo, Brian and Rudo as gateways of plundering third world resources as happened in Libya and Iraq.
This has been a threat to world peace as Europe and America incite violence in order to plunder resources.  Activities in Northern Africa and the Arab spring are a good example. The threat to world peace has also affected countries like Zimbabwe and Iran which have been slapped with sanctions by the bullies of the world America and Britain.
l Panganai Kahuni is a PhD student with Kwazulu/Natal University.