Opinion / Columnist
Our enemy is the system which sustains tyranny
26 Jul 2013 at 12:45hrs | Views
This call for democracy must be unlike all other calls because the time is up. It must not be sporadic. It must not be a flame of popular discontent, arising in a day and dying down in a day. This call for democracy must knit us together as brothers and sisters. We must stand shoulder to shoulder and trod on together to the new Zimbabwe.
Out brotherhood and sisterhood of revolutionists must be alive and warm. It must pass over and transcend tribal prejudice. We are brothers and sisters and have no reason to fight. Our enemy is the system which sustains tyranny. We are our own liberators. We have the power. The power is people power.
Yesterday we were not so strong. Tomorrow we will be stronger. We love Zimbabwe. We love peace. We love democracy. If the tyranny permits, we fight for this end peaceably at the ballot box.
We must continue to cry out upon wrong and injustice. We must continue to sing the eternal song of human freedom in Zimbabwe.
A few members of the tyranny government see the revolution. Some of them are too ignorant, and many are too afraid to acknowledge it. "Fat with power and possession, drunken with ill-gotten riches, they are like the drones clustered about the honey combs when the worker-bees spring upon them to end their rotund existence".
After 33 years of wrecking the economy, destroying the main public services and driving about 2.1 million Zimbabweans into exile; they have the audacity to stand in front of us and promise they will open industries, build houses, create jobs, provide free education for our children, stop corruption etc. They have failed to deliver the same promises in three decades and why should we believe them at this juncture?
With a few days to go before the elections, like a troop of baboons, they are now descending upon us and promise us Canaan. They come in their flashy SUV 4X4s, suits and designer clothes. We sit in the dust, hunger rumbling in our stomachs and listening to their history lectures. After the rallies, they retreat to their havens, never to be seen again until the next elections. They leave us in our dusty bowels of abject poverty.
They have got no policies to enunciate for we have seen their failures in the last three decades. The Gracious Grace will donate foodstuffs to us villagers in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central, at Rudhaka Stadium in Marondera and at rallies in Lupane, Matabeleland North and Gwanda in Matabeleland South.
Others have been donating food and money while others have been sending water bowsers to provide clean drinking water to residents in high density suburbs. Not to be outdone, others have donated an ambulance to one constituency and some scrapped all outstanding council bills. This is cheap politicking and electioneering. We do not want our outstanding rates scrapped…we want jobs to be able to pay our bills and to buy food for our children. Why should we live on hand-outs?
As the Election Day gets closer and closer, our cry for freedom, democracy and justice shall treble. We must refuse to fight with the oppressors' best weapon - Violence; but instead, we must defy injustice and domination with our power - People Power. Vote wisely…we are the agents of change. We know our enemy, that System which sustains tyranny. If you vote for a rotten system, you will reap maggots.
Yours in the struggle.
Tendai Hamadziripi Kwari can be contacted at tendai.kwari@btinternet.com
Out brotherhood and sisterhood of revolutionists must be alive and warm. It must pass over and transcend tribal prejudice. We are brothers and sisters and have no reason to fight. Our enemy is the system which sustains tyranny. We are our own liberators. We have the power. The power is people power.
Yesterday we were not so strong. Tomorrow we will be stronger. We love Zimbabwe. We love peace. We love democracy. If the tyranny permits, we fight for this end peaceably at the ballot box.
We must continue to cry out upon wrong and injustice. We must continue to sing the eternal song of human freedom in Zimbabwe.
A few members of the tyranny government see the revolution. Some of them are too ignorant, and many are too afraid to acknowledge it. "Fat with power and possession, drunken with ill-gotten riches, they are like the drones clustered about the honey combs when the worker-bees spring upon them to end their rotund existence".
After 33 years of wrecking the economy, destroying the main public services and driving about 2.1 million Zimbabweans into exile; they have the audacity to stand in front of us and promise they will open industries, build houses, create jobs, provide free education for our children, stop corruption etc. They have failed to deliver the same promises in three decades and why should we believe them at this juncture?
With a few days to go before the elections, like a troop of baboons, they are now descending upon us and promise us Canaan. They come in their flashy SUV 4X4s, suits and designer clothes. We sit in the dust, hunger rumbling in our stomachs and listening to their history lectures. After the rallies, they retreat to their havens, never to be seen again until the next elections. They leave us in our dusty bowels of abject poverty.
They have got no policies to enunciate for we have seen their failures in the last three decades. The Gracious Grace will donate foodstuffs to us villagers in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central, at Rudhaka Stadium in Marondera and at rallies in Lupane, Matabeleland North and Gwanda in Matabeleland South.
Others have been donating food and money while others have been sending water bowsers to provide clean drinking water to residents in high density suburbs. Not to be outdone, others have donated an ambulance to one constituency and some scrapped all outstanding council bills. This is cheap politicking and electioneering. We do not want our outstanding rates scrapped…we want jobs to be able to pay our bills and to buy food for our children. Why should we live on hand-outs?
As the Election Day gets closer and closer, our cry for freedom, democracy and justice shall treble. We must refuse to fight with the oppressors' best weapon - Violence; but instead, we must defy injustice and domination with our power - People Power. Vote wisely…we are the agents of change. We know our enemy, that System which sustains tyranny. If you vote for a rotten system, you will reap maggots.
Yours in the struggle.
Tendai Hamadziripi Kwari can be contacted at tendai.kwari@btinternet.com
Source - Tendai Hamadziripi Kwari
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