Uncloaking the neo-imperial diabolical mask

as dissuade them from supporting the revolutionary Zanu-PF. The agenda has already been set to vilify the revolutionary party left, right and centre. This therefore means that anything that has to do with Zanu-PF is to be portrayed in a very negative way as from November up to the day of elections.
Objective reporting is no longer the guiding principle as good is turned into bad and evil is turned into virtue. Nonentities are going to be made saviours and liberators are going to be painted villains.
We wonder whose interests the media houses are trying to protect. Are they the interests of the people who buy their newspapers or foreign handlers who are dishing out millions of dollars for such a heinous regime change project?
These treacherous scribes are more interested in safeguarding and defending the interests of the imperialists than those of the indigenous people. One cannot be too far off the mark if one proposes that the private media elites are out of touch with the reality on the ground.
If they are peddling the interests of their Western sponsors and their MDC-T friends then they are in for a rude awakening. Newspapers do not make choices on behalf of the masses it is the people who actually have the power to make their own choices regardless of the heavy dosages of propaganda dished on a daily basis. The people will always decide what they want in the end.
As we pointed out in one of our instalments the elections are crucial in that they seek to restore the Zimbabwean people’s pride. It is the 2013 elections that are going to be a watershed in that they are going to determine whether the Zimbabwean people are going to continue to follow their own path, carry their own bags or they are going to occupy other people’s space and be deprived their own identity.
It is in this light that we contend that Zimbabwe is standing at the crossroads of destiny and the manner in which they vote will determine the country’s future for many generations to come.
Zimbabweans must not shun elections and must vote in large numbers. If many Zimbabweans do not vote then they are mortgaging their own future and that of their children. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that only a few individuals, a click of the neo-imperialist Britons have the right to decide on the lives of the majority.
Members of the opposition movement have joined hands with our erstwhile colonisers because of material gains. What they fail to comprehend is that material gains are bad and when they are coupled with treachery they spell doom. The logic behind the inaudible desire to accumulate wealth while deceiving the people only distances such pseudo-politicians from the people.
The Zimbabwean people’s hearts yearn for comfort and this must be real and not simply be hollow. Zimbabweans are yearning for a people centred constitution and not one that has been borrowed from elsewhere.
However, what is disheartening is that there are some political parties which want to ignore what the people said during the Copac outreach programmes.
Are they implying that if the general populace have said they are against the notion of a “cut and paste” constitution then the people’s wish of having a home grown constitution must not be respected? Politicians, be it from Zanu-PF or the two MDC formations must ask themselves whether it is just for Zimbabweans to continue to labour under the Lord Carrington “authored” Lancaster House Constitution. What Zimbabweans want is a Constitution that protects them politically, socially, economically and culturally?
Steve Biko in one of his writings on Black Consciousness proposed that as Africans we must not live to fight another day. As Zimbabweans we must get ourselves involved totally in everything that we do. We must sit and act as one big unit and must not afford the luxury of being fragmented and distracted from the mainstream of events.
It is us who must determine our own future. All progressive Zimbabweans must resist attempts by protagonists of the regime change agenda. It cannot be denied that by instituting and maintaining sanctions the West and their Western sponsored political parties are bent on oppressing Zimbabweans not as individuals, but as a people because they are realising that the majority of Zimbabweans like their President, have got an undying spirit of Murenga and Mbuya Nehanda to defend our heritage.
It is in this light that we must use this concept to unite ourselves, respond and forge ahead as a nation. As progressive Zimbabweans we must take this opportunity to cling to each other with a tenacity that will shock those advocating for regime change.
Zimbabwe has already crossed the “Red Sea” of economic and political problems and this happens once in a lifetime or in the history of a country. If the truth be told, we will never cross this “Red Sea’’ ever again since as a nation we have survived the neo-imperial onslaught centred on American and EU led illegal sanctions.
The good news is that there is light at the end of the tunnel for truth will always triumph over evil. As Zimbabweans we must brace ourselves and complete the last hurdle which is to bury neo-imperialism once and for all. In a true bid for change we must take off the Western neo-imperial treacherous coats just like what the gallant sons and daughters did during the second Chimurenga.
We must be prepared to get rid of the white man in us if we are to be victorious. We must unite as Zimbabweans in defending our heritage at all costs because unity and security are incompatible. All we have to do is go forward with courage and determination knowing fully well that we have wolves, hyenas and vultures in our midst. This is the cruel side of life which even our Lord Jesus Christ had to endure.
It is public knowledge that Britain, United States and other European countries are very much interested in all that is happening in Zimbabwe. They are scared of Zimbabwe’s political and economic potential in the Sadc region if left unchecked.
They are aware that the Zimbabwean land reform programme, its indigenisation and empowerment drive are reverberating in the whole Sadc region and beyond.
They know that these are the foundations of not only a strong state, but also an unshakeable government. Zimbabweans must not be caught off-guard by the treachery in some of our own for it is a fact that treachery and faithfulness dwell side by side like peaceful neighbours.
It must be borne in mind that treachery has a horrible smell, the smell of Moise Tshombe, Nyathi and many others who have sold out and are continuing to sell out, it is a pungent smell of betrayal and treachery as displayed by the biblical Judas Iscariot.
Those who sell out are not men of principle and conviction for they are already foreigners in their own land. It is true that righteousness exalts a nation, but treachery is a disgrace to many people. Good leadership endures and its government lasts for many years as its people remain loyal by virtue of their leader’s strong character.
If Zimbabweans fail to vote wisely they will not have anyone, but themselves to blame, they will be haunted by their failure to make things right when they had the opportunity. They will belatedly realise that they were like a person who lived all his life washing his hands with spittle and yet just underneath his feet there had always been an overflowing stream.
In its entirety the Zimbabwean culture depicts that we are a people particularly bound to nature by our totems and our existence is also entirely linked to the soil. We are not afraid to farm, to own our own resources and to determine our own livelihoods. Steve Biko posited that the time is ripe for the Black people to map their own way forward.
He said “Blacks ‘must be’ out to completely transform their system and to make of it what they wish. Such a major undertaking can only be realised in an atmosphere where people are convinced of the truth inherent in their stand.”
Emancipating our mental faculties is therefore very vital for one cannot be conscious of self and yet remain in mental bondage.
Martin Luther King Jnr also pointed out that any type of liberation cannot be freely given by the oppressor. Zimbabwe has to totally emancipate itself during the 2013 election; we cannot afford to be appendages of our erstwhile colonisers.