Why our diamonds should be sold locally

Muchadura Dube
ATTEMPTS by some former white farmers to settle their fight with the Government by seizing our diamonds in Belgium recently should serve as a warning to policymakers not to auction any of our resources in Western countries.
Our resources should be auctioned locally. It benefits our economy in immense ways to undertake such an exercise locally.
Besides the obvious benefits of huge financial windfalls to the local economy, the ripple effects in other sectors of the economy, such as tourism, are astronomic. Naturally, employment will be created to benefit thousands of unemployed youths. It’s indeed true that these Western hypocrites will always have permanent interest and never permanent friendship.

Yes, human rights are pivotal as they seek to safeguard humanity from abuses, but it is unfortunate the West creates situations which it manipulates for the benefit of its countries’ interest.

Lest we forget that the West thrives in disorder and when the divide and rule scenario rules supreme!
The West does not assist African countries in capacity building which enhances the continent’s technological base rather it encourages its citizenry to participate in the so-called human rights crusades.

If indeed they cared about the human rights of indigenous Africans, one would ask why it took so long for them to realise that they were treating Africans as second class citizens during the long and arduous colonial era.

It took for some African countries, Zimbabwe included, the tortuous journey of liberating the country using the gun.
Lives were lost as these unrepentant and cruel colonial savages refused to grant independence and stubbornly insisted that Africans were incapable of governing themselves.

In the case of the racist Rhodesian prime minister, Ian Douglas Smith, he vehemently denied blacks their right to independence, swearing that black majority rule would never come in a thousand years.

Smith was to swallow his words when the gallant sons and daughters pummelled him into submission barely a few years later.
To suggest that the West cared for Zimbabweans by mentoring them in the so-called human rights is indeed blasphemous.

One would ask, in the case of Zimbabwe, which human rights supersede the right to land which is the people’s source of income?
How dare they are the ones who decide what is best for us yet none amongst Africans has ever set the agenda for them?

The Europeans are still ensconced in deep slumber, relishing their erstwhile positions of privilege.
That Zimbabwe has finally clinched economic deals with its historical allies, the Chinese and the Russians, has sent tremors in the Western capitals, as they had expected the country to suffocate under their heinous and treasonous sanctions regime.

This has fuelled their ‘‘dirty tactics’’ of witch-hunting for any financial transactions which benefit Zimbabwe in a bid to show up their faltering sanctions regime.

It is an act of folly for the West to think that Zimbabwe will ever be a colony again. As expected, Africans and all progressive people of the world will take aboard Zimbabwe’s economic empowerment model which seeks to enhance the livelihood of its grassroots people.

Muchadura Dube is a Nyanga-based farmer and political analyst.