admindemocracy — itself a sponsored feel-good factor about the wondrous sweetness of limitless freedoms and liberties, easier preached at forums and rallies than practised in real life.
On the other hand those who preach custodianship of the revolution have been irresolute on matters of true democracy, labelling those that style themselves as “democratic forces” mere quislings of Western powers who know no better than worshipping at the altar of puppet politics, yet they themselves do nothing much in serving the revolution they pretend so much to cherish, when they are not using it as a looting vehicle in the notorious exercise of self-aggrandisement.
The question to ask is why the concept of democracy should ever run contrary to the tenets of a popular revolution like the Zimbabwe one, or why a popular revolution like Zimbabwe’s land reform programme should be led by people who are wary of democratic tenets, if indeed we are talking of true democracy. Is it not given that democratic uprisings give rise to popular revolutions? Is it not factual that revolutions are an expression of democracy itself, born out of the collective will of the people?
Why then is it we seem to have two clearly distinct camps, one of self-proclaimed revolutionaries and another of self-anointed democrats in the same country — both proclaiming to be standing for the will of Zimbabweans? We in Zimbabwe are victims of a world in which humanity is in chaos, torn apart by the machinations of great powers as they seek to subject weaker nations to subjugation and pillage.
We have a home-grown revolution that has been bastardised by a thoroughly compromised band of nationalists and also faces the great threat of a façade of democracy sponsored by powerful nations acting outside international law, instructing civic bandits who, dollars in hand, live by preaching and promoting alien values designed to lead to the plundering of our nation and to the sordid prospect of us degenerating into a client state of Western imperialism.
This article is not about setting out any doctrines, and neither is it about a messianic deliverance of our people. It is not about great prophecy and it certainly does not make claims about possessing any truths. It simply is about speaking on behalf of Zimbabweans in particular and on the greater behalf of the African people and all others considered to be lesser people by those who claim leadership to this world — the so-called Western world leaders. We today live a life of contradictions because we are a disinherited people, so disparagingly viewed by those who immensely contributed to our dire status by fate of history — a history of painful slavery and egregious colonial exploitation and persecution, effects of which we cannot erase by the mere prospect of forgetting.
We have in the post-independence era lost the clarity of our own revolution and among us there are others who with rigour and vigour are pursuing the vision and goals of imperialist forces, blissfully unaware of the national duty to which we are all called to reverse the humiliating legacy of the history of the last century.
Nelson Chamisa hails with great admiration the role played by our dead revolutionary icons who championed the fall of colonial empires and he ironically does that hailing from a political party that prides itself as an ally of the very forces that people like Samora Machel died fighting — in fact the very forces that cut him out by gunning down his plane from the skies of apartheid South Africa.
How does one offer so great praises to African revolutionaries while standing on a platform of great admiration for the system these revolutionaries fought down so heroically? Just how does one manage to do this without making a perfect fool of himself?
Nelson Chamisa, like most of us, is a victim of the order of the so-called Third World — a lesser world invented for us at the fall of colonial empires in order to perpetuate foreign control of our intellectual, cultural, economic and political lives. It is a world of perpetual dependency and Chamisa’s political party is a dependency party that knows no better than depending on the crumbs that fall from the table of wealthy Western countries.
Unsurprisingly a dependency party has no policy since you do not need policies to be a parasite. Poodles have no policies of their own unless they cease to be poodles. Our revolution has sadly been hijacked by those whose mentality is a direct product of colonisation of the mental processes, and those among us who proclaim to stand on the platform of democracy are only pawns of neo-colonial supremacy of the former colonisers — hopeless wretches that cannot distinguish between democracy and dependency.
We hear some of these people believe they are bringing to the nation a “new Zimbabwe,” of course built on the foundations of the power of the old colonial masters. It is the sad reality of our times that we have inherited a highly noble legacy from revolutionaries who secured for us political freedom and independence, yet we continue to give credence to this gigantic fraud of history that exalts the white person as superior and Western nations as hegemonic and even exemplary.
Our elections must be run on the basis of who best should lead the struggle against the political gangsters and economic exploiters from foreign lands, not who best can please them most. Morgan Tsvangirai explicitly prides himself in pleasing Western leaders and he has assured himself of supporters in this demeaning and humiliating trait. We must be ashamed of ourselves.
Why is it a source of pride that one pleases those whose evil hearts never seem to soften? The blows against Zimbabwe have been redoubled and intensified despite our extending the hand of reconciliation to those who spite us in return.
The truth of the righteous has been trampled upon by vampires who thrive on sucking the blood of the nations — fighting against everything good for the African and our own young people sometimes treacherously serve these murderous people.
Every one of our processes is hijacked and manipulated for the greater end of securing Western interests, and those intellectuals among us who call themselves realists will call this blatant evil pragmatism or realism — defining it as mere world politics that all of us leftist wrecks should learn to accept and live with.
Our constitutional process in Zimbabwe has not been spared this disastrous meddling and the Western lobby has the greater aim of establishing through this process a client regime that will secure Western imperialist interests over not only our political affairs but also our natural resources. We have among us today some who have even dared to Christianise the false struggle for democracy that has besieged Zimbabwe in the last decade, betraying the word of Christ and transforming His Cross into a bludgeon that has been used to bring our collective selves into submission.
As what happened during the colonial era, we have shameless people who put on the robe of Jesus Christ in order to rent our bodies and souls asunder — some to deceive us for their own personal gain and others to deceive us on behalf of imperialist vampires after the soul and blood of our nation. The Christ that died on the cross at Calvary stood for what we understand most — universal liberation of all nations.
But his ministry has been Westernised, adulterated, abused, manipulated and propagandised to suit the selfish ends of dishonest people — including a band of wealth seekers that masquerades notoriously as anointed prophets of God among us — yet they are only accountable to themselves.
Thomas Sankara had this to say about the salvation of Africa: “We must state categorically that there is no salvation for our people unless we turn our backs on all the models that charlatans of all types have tried to sell us . . .” He continued, “There is no salvation outside of this rejection. There is no development separate from a rupture of this kind.”
We cannot save ourselves without rejecting the cause of our bondage. It is like talking about salvation without renouncing sin. The cause of heathenism is sin, just like the cause of national exploitation is the subjugating of nations. Without rejecting the cause there is no redemption.
Africa is not going to develop without the rapture as suggested by Thomas Sankara. We had this rapture when white commercial farmers were displaced by indigenous farmers in Zimbabwe in 2000 and we hope the remaining foreign-owned mines and other production sectors will soon face the rapture that will result in indigenous people taking full control of the means of production.
We have to come to an understanding that the economy is not money and that money is not the economy. That has been the deception of our time. The economy produces money and not vice versa. This is the lesson those who believe in the power of financial aid must learn. South Africa will rupture soon and every African must brace for the challenge that comes with this kind of necessary shaking. It is time the imperialist is awakened by the dizzying rise of billions of people in rags, aghast at the inevitable threat of this hunger-driven multitude so hungry for justice and equality. We must in our indignation for justice reject every other form of miracle concepts of development as prescribed by the West.
We must collectively reject and discredit the numerous publications and innumerable forums and workshops used by the West to demean those among us who stand against imperial hegemony, while vaingloriously exalting the vacuous virtues of corporate democracy. We cannot in the name of democracy allow ourselves to be spirited back to a world of slavery dressed up in fashions of today’s liberties and democracy.
The fear of this writer is compounded by the fact that there are hardly any stalwarts for justice left even among those that purport to stand for our revolution.
We have people of gigantic standing like qualified lawyers openly confessing that they abrogated national duty by side-stepping the people’s views on the draft constitution, all in order to pursue the agenda of purse-holders from the West. That is betrayal of the national interest and those involved must not be allowed to trivialise their misconduct.
We have in the MDC-T people who have proven to all and sundry that their idea of change is to take over corruption from their political rivals in Zanu-PF, and equally there are supposed revolutionaries within Zanu-PF whose idea of a revolution is to win Western sponsorship ahead of their political rivals in the MDC-T, even limiting the call for the lifting of sanctions against the country to restoration of Western handouts. That is humiliating for anyone who considers themselves revolutionaries.
Democracy and revolution are an inseparable pact that cannot exist one outside another. It is hard to believe that supposedly sane people in Zimbabwe’s political arena see these two concepts as contradictory today — all because they have lost the grip of the true meanings. With a true revolution comes true democracy and only democracy breeds successful revolutions.
Zimbabwe we are one and together we will overcome. It is homeland or death!
- Reason Wafawarova is a political writer based in Sydney, Australia.
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