Opinion / Columnist
Mugabe Day proposition, disgusting and nauseating
10 Feb 2015 at 11:23hrs | Views
The pronouncement by Zanu PF Youth League Secretary to have a Mugabe Day enacted in Zimbabwe as a national annual holiday is disgusting and nauseating. It is ridiculous of Mr. Pupurai Togarepi to make such a proposal yet no plan of action for the resuscitation of the economy that has adversely affected the young people in Zimbabwe has been heard of from his office.
Most of the national holidays we have in our country are significant of clear collectivism amongst Zimbabweans and some chronicle our history which is worth noting. Independence and Heroes holidays are a clear indication of our protracted struggle spearheaded by many indigenous Zimbabweans to liberate the masses who were brutalized and emaciated by the successive colonial regimes before independence in 1980. Thus the two aforementioned holidays are imperative to the nation that has successfully annihilated the white imperialists through collective effort.
For the nation to have a Mugabe Day today is a gross misnomer as this undermines the role played by other significant stalwarts of the liberation struggle for instance Comrades Nkomo, Chitepo, Tongogara, Ziyaphapha Moyo, Takawira and many others. If we are to equate the President Mugabe's contribution to the formation of an egalitarian Zimbabwe with his compatriots then we will end up having all the 365 days of the calendar as national holidays.
The Zanu Pf Youth League must be conspicuous in formulating plausible economic recovery models for our economy that is in the intensive care unit. President Mugabe himself when he was a youth never hero-worshipped the figures of his time for example Benjamini Burumbo, Aaron Jacha or Abraham Twala but was rather focused on liberating the oppressed Zimbabweans.
Politics of personality is what has made our country hemorrhaging for decades now. It is heart-wrenching to think that in a country of over 13 million people, we continue to press our hopes in one person let alone a nonagenarian. It is high time we changed the entire leadership in our oligarchy government for a better Zimbabwe. The president should have long retired to earn our respect and recognition. He soiled his scintillating credentials as a liberator, reconciler, revolutionary and statesman by his prolonged stay in power resulting in the death of a once vibrant economy which was also the envy of the world and infringements of human rights.
As the DARE Youth Movement we urge the Zanu Pf Youth League to attend to the most exigent issues affecting young people in our beleaguered nation. That's wasting arrows on squirrels yet there is a bigger hunt elsewhere. We have 5 million Zimbabweans living in diaspora as economic refugees and that speaks volumes of a situation that repels indigents to seek solace elsewhere yet we parrot praises on a man who is at the helm of the government responsible for all this abyss. More surprising is the stagnation Zimbabwe has witnessed in terms of development yet the once looked down upon countries in the same bloc with us are now progressing at an accelerating rate. Ironically today we import grain from Malawi, a country which until recently was import-dependent, transforming itself into a net export only when clear empowerment models that favoured mostly the young people were drafted.
21 February should be celebrated as the president's birthday since everyone has one than to halt business and force everyone to recognise the Mugabe Day. We need not retrogressive thinking but a clear cognition of the solutions to redeem our ailing economy.
DARE Youth Movement is highly perturbed by this new development emanating from the self-proclaimed party of the people - Zanu Pf. However we remain committed to our goal of restoring values in Zimbabwe and bring real empowerment to the poverty harangued and Zanu Pf 'empoored' Zimbabweans.
Most of the national holidays we have in our country are significant of clear collectivism amongst Zimbabweans and some chronicle our history which is worth noting. Independence and Heroes holidays are a clear indication of our protracted struggle spearheaded by many indigenous Zimbabweans to liberate the masses who were brutalized and emaciated by the successive colonial regimes before independence in 1980. Thus the two aforementioned holidays are imperative to the nation that has successfully annihilated the white imperialists through collective effort.
For the nation to have a Mugabe Day today is a gross misnomer as this undermines the role played by other significant stalwarts of the liberation struggle for instance Comrades Nkomo, Chitepo, Tongogara, Ziyaphapha Moyo, Takawira and many others. If we are to equate the President Mugabe's contribution to the formation of an egalitarian Zimbabwe with his compatriots then we will end up having all the 365 days of the calendar as national holidays.
The Zanu Pf Youth League must be conspicuous in formulating plausible economic recovery models for our economy that is in the intensive care unit. President Mugabe himself when he was a youth never hero-worshipped the figures of his time for example Benjamini Burumbo, Aaron Jacha or Abraham Twala but was rather focused on liberating the oppressed Zimbabweans.
Politics of personality is what has made our country hemorrhaging for decades now. It is heart-wrenching to think that in a country of over 13 million people, we continue to press our hopes in one person let alone a nonagenarian. It is high time we changed the entire leadership in our oligarchy government for a better Zimbabwe. The president should have long retired to earn our respect and recognition. He soiled his scintillating credentials as a liberator, reconciler, revolutionary and statesman by his prolonged stay in power resulting in the death of a once vibrant economy which was also the envy of the world and infringements of human rights.
As the DARE Youth Movement we urge the Zanu Pf Youth League to attend to the most exigent issues affecting young people in our beleaguered nation. That's wasting arrows on squirrels yet there is a bigger hunt elsewhere. We have 5 million Zimbabweans living in diaspora as economic refugees and that speaks volumes of a situation that repels indigents to seek solace elsewhere yet we parrot praises on a man who is at the helm of the government responsible for all this abyss. More surprising is the stagnation Zimbabwe has witnessed in terms of development yet the once looked down upon countries in the same bloc with us are now progressing at an accelerating rate. Ironically today we import grain from Malawi, a country which until recently was import-dependent, transforming itself into a net export only when clear empowerment models that favoured mostly the young people were drafted.
21 February should be celebrated as the president's birthday since everyone has one than to halt business and force everyone to recognise the Mugabe Day. We need not retrogressive thinking but a clear cognition of the solutions to redeem our ailing economy.
DARE Youth Movement is highly perturbed by this new development emanating from the self-proclaimed party of the people - Zanu Pf. However we remain committed to our goal of restoring values in Zimbabwe and bring real empowerment to the poverty harangued and Zanu Pf 'empoored' Zimbabweans.
Source - Job Max Mhende
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