adminthe forthcoming elections is laudable. The President could not have said it better when he told Britain’s new ambassador to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert that: “We want observers who will not have any choice on who to assist and who not to assist. We abhore meddling in our own electoral affairs.”
In this sense, the British and the European Union become ineligible to be observers of our elections because of they are the indisputable political parents to the MDC formations. They are definitely the driving forces and natural guardians of the MDC formations hence their hands are too dirty to assume the impartial duties of an observer.
The European Union stands guilty of being an overly interested stakeholder in the Zimbabwean body politic and as such lose the right to be observers as their political judgment is already clouded by imperial pre-conceptions geared towards engendering regime change in our country.
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Like the President rightly put it, “by imposing sanctions those people have demonstrated dislike of one side.” In effect, by imposing sanctions, which are meant to poison the electorate’s minds against Zanu-PF, they have already tilted the electoral field in favour of the MDC formations.
How then could they fairly judge an electoral process to which they are embedded participants and whose results they are dutifully trying to pre-determine?
Worse still, the Europeans funded and continue to fund the unquestionably partisan pirate radio stations that broadcast concocted hate programmes meant to gang Zimbabwe’s electorate against Zanu-PF. Together with the United States, the European countries play host to Studio 7, Voice of America, SW Radio and all other similar imperial projects that propagate falsehoods about our political landscape.
The Westerners have also conceived and openly fund innumerable non-governmental organisations domiciled in Zimbabwe to Nicodemously foster regime change and whip up the electorate into supporting pro-western parties through a partisan distribution of donations. As it stands, allowing the Americans and Europeans to observe our elections is tantamount to asking the MDC’s to observe elections they are part to.
It cannot be overemphasised that we are at war with the West. This war finds expression in many fronts including the West’s frenzied efforts to block the sale of our diamonds from Chiadzwa. The West is conspicuously opposed to the sale of our diamonds. It uses its docile local tentacles in the form of the MDC formations and other selfish individuals like Farai Maguwu to dig up purely fabricated reports on human rights abuses in Chiadzwa, which it uses to unjustifiably scuttle Kimberly processes to regularise trade in Marange gems
This war can be traced back to the West’s unrelenting efforts to derail our land reform programme, which had effectively bruised its imperial ego by dispossessing white farmers of their ill-gotten land. Plainly, this is the bone of contention between the West and Zimbabwe.
Just as the West is at war with Al Qaeda, Iran and North Korea so are we at war with it. In this context, could any western country therefore condone or late alone acquiesce to a request by either Iran or Al Qaeda to observe its national elections? Such a scenario would make the imperial bloc shudder, as it is unsavoury to imagine and thus could be interpreted as a glaringly provocative gesture.
In fact, it was mischievous for the new British envoy to even ask if they could be observers in our elections. What do they take us for? Gone are the days when we felt obliged to subject our systems to their imperial checks and balances. Our revolution has reached stages where we fully appreciate what it means to be independent and sovereign. We are now disenchanted about the phony democratic machinations by European Union and the United States. Similarly, we can never allow the West to infiltrate our turf on the excuse of being election observers. We will not open up our flanks
to our enemy for the benefit of his intelligence gathering and other military machinations.
We cannot easily be distracted and thus cannot drop our pan-African guard. More so, our experience with the westerners instructs us that they do not have any moral nor democratic latitude to pause as observers or to act as the self-arrogated world policemen.
History is replete with cases of human rights abuses and unconstitutional seizure of power by the west in Africa and the rest of the world. Slavery and colonialism chronicles inimitable cases of immoral and undemocratic acts against humanity by the west.
Furthermore, pictures and reports coming out of Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan corroborate its undemocratic disposition that disqualifies it from becoming observers in a democratic event like elections.
In a nutshell, we have been disabused of the illusion that the westerners are the paragons and beacons of democracy. Above all, the ongoing neo-imperial and re-colonisation efforts in Ivory Coast and recently in Libya further emboldens our resolve to vigilantly keep on guard against these unremitting hegemonic designs. The Caucasian bloc still harbours neo-colonial ambitions and will stop at nothing to abuse our electoral processes to entrench their expansionist drive.
Online Reporter