adminblacks were deprived and whites gained from the sweat of the indigenous people. It was a white settler institution that destroyed the fabric of African traditions and values.
This evil organisation was the first settler institution that recruited African sellouts such as Ndapfunya and Chipunza of Makoni in 1896. Such African sellouts were then used against their fellow Africans in the same manner in which some political parties are being used to fight Zimbabwe.
The MDC’s call for illegal sanctions that hurt their fellow Zimbabweans is akin to re-establishing the Loot Commission. MDC formations, Lawyers for Human Rights, Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe, some foreign funded NGOs, civic groups and neo-liberal scholars are the front-line soldiers of the West who are fighting to bring back the concept of the Loot Commission.
However, the Minister of Defence, Emmerson Mnangagwa, made it clear that our diamonds and platinum will not rot.
As a true son of the soil, he made it clear by saying that: “we are looking at a policy that brings about what we fought for”, The Herald December 17, 2012. Here is one of the early freedom fighters who have been given names such as “the hardliner”, “Mugabe’s bootlicker”, among other derogatory phrases used by the West, MDC formations, private media, and neo-liberal scholars in rubbishing those who stand firm on the principle and values of Chimurenga.
No one in the opposition wants to acknowledge that these revolutionaries are principled, dedicated and devoted individuals capable of making sure that the revolutionary flame continues to burn in Zimbabwe.
These revolutionaries are called hardliners or moderates by the West as a way to divide and weaken them from supporting President Mugabe’s thrust of indigenising the economy.
What the West does not understand is, in Zanu-PF, leadership is not assumed by one being a hardliner or a moderate, but the will of people.
It is assumed through the will of the people when one has demonstrated beyond any doubt that he or she is capable of defending the values of the revolution. Whether Zimbabwe detractors refer it to either a hardliner or moderate that does not matter, one has to be proven by the people of Zimbabwe that yes he or she is going to defend that which we fought for when he or she assumes power.
The MDC formations and the Lawyers for Human Rights in Zimbabwe are there to enhance and strengthen the Rhodes’ Loot Commission strategy of making every black Zimbabwean poorer. They would also want to allow space and tenure for the looters of our resources to continue doing so as they did during Rhodes’ colonial era.
In Nigeria such thinking is easily referred to as “nonsense” as indeed it is nonsensical for the MDC formations and the Lawyers of Human Rights to be stewards of protecting foreign interests.
Chief Chingaira-Makoni was decapitated for resisting white settler’s domination and his head was sent to the UK as a trophy of victory (What nonsense). Chief Mapondera was incarcerated to death by Rhodes’ Loot Committee whose descendants are being protected by the MDC and Lawyers for Human Rights through rights to tenure and the so-called rule of law.
It is historically stated that Chief Chingaira was treated as a Rhodesian Rebel as early as 1896. What the MDC formations and their supporters do not know is the fact that Rhodesians were the first to disregard the rule of law. They were the first to disrespect humanity when they wantonly killed Chief Chingaira-Makoni and took his head for a trophy.
Chief Chingaira-Makoni’s head was viewed as a trophy of victory by the white settler murderers in the same manner the Nobel Peace Prize was recently given to the European Union.
History has a devastating bias towards evil and demonic options and not necessarily facts from the settlers to suit their ambitions to dominate and conquer even the mindset of the unsuspecting students of history.
Chief Chingaira-Makoni was by far the greatest monarchy and not a rebel who defended his land and people from the axis of evil and tyranny of white settlers turned permanent visitors.
Chief Chingaira-Makoni was the greatest threat to the white settler regime and evidence is there to prove that many white settlers fell from his gunpowder.
Up to this day there is a devil’s pass, a place the whiteman found his match and realised, as was warned by other kingdoms, that Makoni was not an ordinary chief, but a king revered by the whole land from Shonas and Ndebele.
Fellow citizens, this writer hopes that people like Mwonzora, Tsvangirai, Mutambara and others, who hail from Manicaland where the courageous Chiefs Chingaira and Tangwena and Chitepo, came from, will one day stop the “nonsense” of regime change mantra.
It is hoped that all NGOs, including the Lawyers for Human Rights, will stop their cowardly behaviour such as demonstrated by Ndapfunga and Chipunza who sold out Chief Chingaira-Makoni for 30 pieces of silver in 1896. Ironically, Simba Makoni is a descendent of the Chipunza clan and perhaps being a sellout is biologically inherent.
The “whites came and built homes in Makoni and Chingaira did not like it which resulted in him declaring war against them”. Those white people were looters of cattle, goats and mineral resources, especially gold, that they found in Makoni area.
They displaced the Makoni people from their pastures and arable land, and used force to acquire “tenure”. This is how Zimbabwe was brought under “white forced tenureship” that the MDC formations now vociferously refer to as the rule of law. Surprisingly, the MDC formations demonise Zanu-PF’s land reclamation as land invasion.
The questions that arise are: Why call people who had to take up arms to liberate themselves and are using force to reclaiming what belongs to them as land invaders? Are the legal pundits in the MDC formations failing to appreciate the sumptuous use of the law of precedence as Zimbabweans use force to reclaim what was forcibly taken away by the very same criminals?
Why are the Lawyers for Human Rights not seeing the land reform and the indigenisation of the economy as law of precedence?
Are these lawyers, such as Mwonzora, Biti, Gutu, Ncube, just to mention a few, do not to see how this “law of precedence” could be applied in the same manner it was applied by the colonial settlers?
Fellow Zimbabweans, one thing that Chingaira despised as early as 1896 was cultural colonisation. Whites wanted to label us heathens so that they could rule us something Chief Chingaira-Makoni detested. His death led to lots of cultural distortions by the colonisers.
After the death of Chingaira, Rhodesians were so afraid of the potency exhibited by the Makoni people that they partitioned the district and appointed other chiefs who toed their line.
This is exactly why the MDC formations and the Lawyers for Human Rights are clamouring. They are pushing our erstwhile colonisers’ line and negate the violation of democracy and human rights the Rhodesians did.
This is why even the legal pundits in the MDC formations are silent about clinically applying the law of precedence. Remember Lawyers for Human Rights only talk about Gukurahundi compensation and yet history is awash with information on how blacks’ human rights were wantonly violated by Rhodesians.
Thus MDC formations are not for the democratisation of Zimbabwe political space, “No”. They are the pseudo-democrats preaching asymmetric democracy whilst enhancing and strengthening Rhodesian rule.
The feeling that Lawyers for Human Rights represent African rights is also rested sin die. The Lawyers for Human Rights only deal with rights of Africans who support the supremacy of a white man over a black man. They, however strongly, deal with enhancing colonial rights. This is a pseudo law organisation that is advancing colonial tenure and rights. Is this not shameful!
Zimbabweans should know that those referred to as hardliners should be viewed as courageous and principled leaders; followers of the revolutionary path that Chief Chingaira-Makoni, Mapondera, Kings Lobengula, Mzilikazi, Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi left as a legacy of liberating ourselves.
These are the icons that must be emulated by all Zimbabweans, especially the youths who are the leaders of tomorrow.
Panganai Kahuni is a political and socio-economic commentator.
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