Independence message to fellow Zimbabweans

Today Zimbabweans of all color, tribe and race converged in Harare and elsewhere possible to celebrate Independence which they attained thirty-three years ago. There had been campaigns and counter campaigns; it's a fact, but all this was behind scenes facts, what lay before everybody was the new hope. Leaders from the world over came to witness the birth of a great nation whose freedom, all and sundry knew had been courtesy of the barrel of a gun. Yes, the Lancaster house talks became a full stop of a long, painful sentence. We had come into the struggle pioneered by the forgotten likes of Moffat Hadebe (living legend) whose mother Dikeledi Nyathi cached the first ZPRA arms of war in 1963. May your spirit rest in peace, mother and heroine of the heroes' acre in our hearts. The story is long and it shall be told one day.

The post election trauma, to some of us was allayed by the prudent comrade S.K.Moyo (the late, may his soul equally rest in peace.) He came to the Diaspora and contained our worried souls that Zimbabwe had come to stay; leaders would come and go. As the flag went down, Umdala Wethu shed tears of both joy and concern; he said. Tears of joy because the Union Jack, not the Rhodesian flag came down. He had fought against British imperialism and occupation than the British people. It was a system of packaged beliefs which had to be de-taught. Tears of concern welled in that he could foresee the disaster implanted into peoples' freedom by the hidden hand. This he said worried him to the marrow. That was Joshua.

Today I went to celebrate such independence and I have this to say; it was good marching by the forces, the only surviving freedom relic to write home about. That too is not the crux of the matter. What had Cde Josh foreseen; and are we really seeing it or we are still blind and will once again be hoodwinked to hell-dom? In brief, Zimbabwe belongs to Zimbabweans black and white; Immigrants, their children and so-called indigenous. There is no alien who confesses to be Zimbabwean. Things should be put right constitutionally. When Zimbabwe came all who confessed to belong here should be given that status even if it's posthumously. Their off-spring too if they so wish. The term alien should be alienated from our mindsets to exist with dictionary relevance.

Finally, every Zimbabwean should enjoy regional expression and unbridled rights in the nation-state of Zimbabwe. Nation-state should be one-nation aggregating self-governing regions. Regions will be basically areas of social commonalities; Matebeleland, Masvingo, Manyikaland; Mashonalaland and Midlands. The devolved power system will not only solve the tribal issue but the resource issue as well. There are other multiple benefits that go with this; competition-induced development, inter-state trade just but to mention a few. Most critically, ALIENATION which I consider Africa's little but devastating anti-development attribute will be put to rest.