Don't abuse the Soweto Uprisings

The commemoration of the Soweto uprisings by the MDC youths leaves a sour taste in the mouth. The commemoration borders on desperate attempt by the misguided youths to resurrect their political relevance. As Cde Rugare Gumbo rightly said, these were just paid-up gangs demonstrating to get money.

These misguided youths need a bit of schooling. The principles, rights and ideologies that the South African students died for in 1976, are totally different from what the MDC youths seek to advance. They are actually like water and oil. If these youths had at least attained an elementary education, I am sure they could have grasped properly the history of the Soweto Uprising .The children were massacred during an uprising against the oppressors who are today the biggest benefactor of the MDC-T.

 The children must be turning in their graves to see the misdirected youths shedding crocodile tears. How can a player celebrate a victory of a rival team? The same system that the Soweto students died fighting against is exactly what the MDC-T and its youths are fighting to advance.

The problem with the MDC-T youths is that they engage in such activities when they are under the influence of illicit beer, mostly zed and kachasu. As a result, what they say in most cases is hogwash and you cannot tell a head or tail of it. In less than a year, they are already demanding the 2.2 million jobs that Zanu Pf promised to create by 2018. They must read the economic blue print properly before making fools out of themselves. With their limited education, they can ask Douglas Mwonzora to explain.

In any case, it must cross the youths' minds that most of the people lost their jobs because of the sanctions that their party leaders called for. Zanu Pf is just trying to redress the mess that was caused by their party. It does not make any sense for the youths to make such demands. Their anger must be directed to the people who caused this unemployment and we all know who they are.

The same youths were mum when their elders failed, during their stint in the inclusive government, to deliver on the promises they have been preaching since the inception of the MDC-T. Civil servants were promised hefty salaries and heaven-like working conditions which they never tasted. The money which they promised to inject into the economy remained a pie in the air until they exited government.

Zanu Pf youths are not demanding to be slaves like the MDC-T youths are doing. It is because they were empowered through the land reform programme. The MDC-T youths were dissuaded by their leaders from empowering themselves through taking upfarms. Otherwise their cry would have been not as loud as it is today. Paradoxically, their leaders necodemously acquired land and some are still pestering the District Administrators for land. Others, very senior for that matter, have actually said they would defect to Zanu Pf if they are given some plots.

The opposition is attempting to rally Zimbabweans to their cause. The youths of this country must not be hoodwinked into engaging in hooliganism. The leaders of this gang gave an ultimatum to Zanu Pf government to deliver jobs or face civil unrest. We know that the MDC-T has been itching for an Arab Spring like uprising in Zimbabwe.

We have been hearing such empty threats since the formation of this party. There have been the so called final pushes in their various phases but nothing came out it.

If the youths are really sons and daughters of a democratic party as they claim, they must vent their anger on the ballot. That's what democrats do. We are a peace-loving nation. The move by the youths to proceed with the rally despite a police directive barring them from doing so is a cause for concern for us and really demonstrates a new boldness in their ranks to clash with the authorities. Our security systems must follow this development with keen interest.