Opinion / Columnist
Msipa cannot defend status quo on 'war credential' when at issue is the very survival of this nation
16 Feb 2016 at 21:05hrs | Views
India, like so many other nations that had to free themselves from colonial domination and exploitation, had the choice of waging an armed struggle or continue with peaceful protest. They chose the latter course; a very wise choice for it was their guarantee of a democratic and free India!
"What kind of leaders will the armed struggle throws up?" asked Jawaharlal Nehru, the man who would go on to be the first Prime Minister of independent India. "Will they be the kind of leaders whom we would want to rule India?"
Zimbabwe's black nationalists, man like Cephas Msipa, Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe and all the other Zanu PF and PF Zapu leaders decided in their infinite wisdom to wage the war; the ordinary people of Zimbabwe were never consulted on this they were cajoled with an AK47 rifle to support the struggle. We know what kind of leaders the armed struggle throw up alright; incompetent, corrupt and murderous tyrants who firmly believe that regardless of the mountain of evi-dence of their failed leadership, the tragic human suffering and the over 30 000 dead in politically motivated violence alone they alone still know-best.
Even the few leaders one would consider to be the moderate ones from the basket of what our liberation struggle threw up, people like Cephas Msipa; even they are still firmly of the mentality that they are extra, extra especial by virtue of having "history in the armed struggle".
The choice to wage an armed struggle has thrown up leaders who not only believed they had a divine right to rule the country when the country attain its independence but over the years this divine right has been upgraded to the point today where keeping Zanu PF leaders in power so they can continue to enjoy their lavish lifestyles is now more important than ending the dehumanizing suffering and untold deaths the regime's corrupt and tyrannical rule has brought on the nation.
What comrade Cephas Msipa and all the other nitwit and hooligans in Zanu PF have failed to understand is that it is the survival of this nation that is at issue here because no nation can ever survive this level of criminal waste of human and material resources to gratify the insatiable ap-petites for power and wealth of the few ruling elite. Mugabe and the rest of his Zanu PF cabal have ruined this nation and they must go regardless of their liberation war credential. We want a leaders who will rebuild this nation not drag it even deeper into economic despair.
We demand the full implementation of the 2008 GPA democratic reforms followed by free, fair and credible elections; this is the only way out of this hell Mugabe and Zanu PF have dragged us into. The dog-eat-dog fighting going on in Zanu PF is a party affair of no real interest to the ordinary Zimbabwean, it's a side show; when the dog fight is over Zanu PF will still have to accept real democratic reforms because the present political and economic situation where millions are forced to live in abject poverty is simply not sustainable.
The nation has been very patient on democratic reforms but their patience is running out! Delay-ing the democratic reforms on the grounds that Zanu PF is the party of the liberation war worked in the past but this regurgitated nonsense simply does not cut the ice now!
"What kind of leaders will the armed struggle throws up?" asked Jawaharlal Nehru, the man who would go on to be the first Prime Minister of independent India. "Will they be the kind of leaders whom we would want to rule India?"
Zimbabwe's black nationalists, man like Cephas Msipa, Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe and all the other Zanu PF and PF Zapu leaders decided in their infinite wisdom to wage the war; the ordinary people of Zimbabwe were never consulted on this they were cajoled with an AK47 rifle to support the struggle. We know what kind of leaders the armed struggle throw up alright; incompetent, corrupt and murderous tyrants who firmly believe that regardless of the mountain of evi-dence of their failed leadership, the tragic human suffering and the over 30 000 dead in politically motivated violence alone they alone still know-best.
Even the few leaders one would consider to be the moderate ones from the basket of what our liberation struggle threw up, people like Cephas Msipa; even they are still firmly of the mentality that they are extra, extra especial by virtue of having "history in the armed struggle".
The choice to wage an armed struggle has thrown up leaders who not only believed they had a divine right to rule the country when the country attain its independence but over the years this divine right has been upgraded to the point today where keeping Zanu PF leaders in power so they can continue to enjoy their lavish lifestyles is now more important than ending the dehumanizing suffering and untold deaths the regime's corrupt and tyrannical rule has brought on the nation.
What comrade Cephas Msipa and all the other nitwit and hooligans in Zanu PF have failed to understand is that it is the survival of this nation that is at issue here because no nation can ever survive this level of criminal waste of human and material resources to gratify the insatiable ap-petites for power and wealth of the few ruling elite. Mugabe and the rest of his Zanu PF cabal have ruined this nation and they must go regardless of their liberation war credential. We want a leaders who will rebuild this nation not drag it even deeper into economic despair.
We demand the full implementation of the 2008 GPA democratic reforms followed by free, fair and credible elections; this is the only way out of this hell Mugabe and Zanu PF have dragged us into. The dog-eat-dog fighting going on in Zanu PF is a party affair of no real interest to the ordinary Zimbabwean, it's a side show; when the dog fight is over Zanu PF will still have to accept real democratic reforms because the present political and economic situation where millions are forced to live in abject poverty is simply not sustainable.
The nation has been very patient on democratic reforms but their patience is running out! Delay-ing the democratic reforms on the grounds that Zanu PF is the party of the liberation war worked in the past but this regurgitated nonsense simply does not cut the ice now!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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