Psychological warfare against ZAPU futile

Recently Zanu-PF through its state media mouthpiece has been in overdrive against ZAPU. One has to respect Zanu-PF for their strategy, but let me assure them this time around that they will fail, because their strategy is as transparent as glass.

Zanu-PF's aim is easy, that is to tarnish ZAPU's image through association, it knows very well that people have voicing whether Dr Dabengwa's ZAPU has really withdrawn from Zanu-PF and some people; particularly those from MDC-T have been trying so hard to build a picture of ZAPU as a Zanu-PF project. Zanu-PF is cunning in its approach; it attempts to undermine the credibility of Dr Dabengwa by portraying him as eager to go back to Zanu-PF if he is given a good position. Recently the state media alleged that Ambrose Mutinhiri, a former ZIPRA cadre, reported that he wants the 1987 Unity Accord re-visited and that Dabengwa has said that he is willing to work with Zanu-PF as long as the Unity Accord is revisited.

Many people have been suspicious of DD, saying that his pull out was fuelled by the desire to work with the Mujuru faction as part of the perennially Zanu-PF succession problems.

For the politically naïve and for those mischievous, this Zanu-PF strategy will, but for those who are politically mature and astute, will not be duped by this bare-thread strategy which lack substance and credibility.

ZAPU does not seek to tarnish ZAPU because it hopes to win anything in Matebeleland, but it seeks to continue with the false notion that claims unity between ZAPU and Zanu-PF. They know that if ZAPU wins resoundingly, as it will, that the pretense will not hold anymore.  The centre will just crumble like a badly baked cookie.

The withdrawal of ZAPU effectively nullified the so called Unity Accord, which in actual fact was never meant to be a Unity. The Unity Agreement was a surrender document from ZAPU's perspective which was meant to save millions of innocent lives from Zanu-PF's 5th Brigade.

Dabengwa will not seek to revisit a surrender document, which humiliated him personally and ZAPU as a whole. There is nothing in the Unity Accord which espoused or resembled ZAPU policy. I believe that Dabengwa would prefer to swallow poison than to re-join Zanu-PF.

Zanu-PF wants to be seen as if it is friendly to ZAPU, this stance and approach is simple, it seeks to arm Tswangirayi's MDC-T. MDC-T has gullibly latched to Zanu-PF propaganda and strategy and I do not foresee it ever breaking away from it. As the election approaches, we will hear more and more accusations and allegations from MDC that ZAPU is a Zanu-PF project and that Dabengwa is a Zanu-PF agent.

Mutinhiri is part of that strategy; the MDC-T is bound to believe what Mutinhiri says as he was a ZPRA cadre.  

Zanu-PF's strategy will not survive for one reason and one reason alone, it is a weak strategy, which insults people's intelligence. All normal people know that Dabengwa will never go back to Zanu-PF; all intelligent people know that ZAPU will do very well in the forthcoming elections.

No psychological warfare or weapon formed against ZAPU shall prosper; ZAPU has always emerged victorious in all its battles and wars.