Opinion / Columnist
ZANU PF should heed the President's call for unity
20 Feb 2016 at 11:23hrs | Views
The address to the nation by President Robert Gabriel Mugabe on Friday 19 February 2016 calling for the factionalists in the ruling party ZANU PF to "Shut up", needs all peace loving Zimbabweans to heed the President's call so that the revolutionary party which hitherto was facing disunity to unite again under the "Son of the soil" concept, which was the driving force during the armed struggle.
The President made it clear that Zimbabwe is one and there is need to be no tribal connotations if dealing with Zimbabwean issues. So the people need to focus on the development of the country and stop tribal war of words that nearly caused the ruling party to disintegrate until the intervention of President Mugabe to restore order. People need to appreciate and realise that tribal politics has no room in a democratic country like Zimbabwe, hence, the need to embrace the "son of the Soil" ideology in the country.
The war of liberation was fought by all Zimbabweans and there was no tribe which can claim to have fought alone in that war hence all the people should take the President's address to nation seriously. Everyone in the country needs peace to prevail and those creating confusion in the country and seeking to destabilise the prevailing peaceful environment through factional wars should be advised to stop such machinations. Divisions within the country are not necessary considering that Zimbabwe needs to fight the economic doldrums so that everyone enjoys the national cake.
It was clear from the President's address that factionalism has no room in the ruling party and whoever still harbouring it should throw that mentality away for the betterment of the country in general and the ruling party in particular. Zimbabweans should not be held at ransom by few individuals seeking their political aggrandisements while the economy is further shrinking downwards. The Zim-Asset needs to be totally implemented and the ruling party ZANU PF should not waste its time on factional wars while the 2018 harmonized elections are drawing near.
During the 2013 harmonized elections campaigns, ZANU PF came up with Zim-Asset as a campaign tool and having an objective to make it being fully implemented before the next harmonized elections that is before 2018 harmonised elections. As such people in the country are expecting serious commitment from ZANU PF for the total implementation of that Zim-Asset so that during the coming 2018 harmonised elections the ruling party would have something to preach to the electorate. Taking the full implemented Zim-Asset to the electorate would make ZANU PF being retained by the voters throwing the opposition political parties into the political wilderness.
So the call by President Mugabe for all those engaged in factional fights to stop and realise the concept of the "son of the soil" ideology should be taken seriously because Zimbabwe cannot afford to be diverted from its fight for economic turn-around to political fights. All the people are looking forward to government to make sure that the economy is revived but when the top leadership spend their time fighting for positions in the ruling party defeats all efforts of the economic revival by the same government.
ZANU PF members and supporters should realise that the President made it clear that people should not abuse each other. The President further implored the youths to respect their elders so that there is unity in the party. So all Zimbabweans should listen and take heed of what the President said. Abusing each other in either an open or closed fora should be stopped as the President said, so that the ruling party is united again. People should realise that division with the ruling party or any society is counterproductive especially in a country like Zimbabwe which is facing some plethora of problems.
It is a fact that Zimbabwe is currently facing the El Nino induced drought and the economic problems that are causing sufferings in a lot of families so if the ruling party is divided there would be no room for it to seek solutions to such problems. Some economic problems that are in the country call for unity of purpose from all people both in the ruling party and government so that resources are availed to the public with the combined effort of everyone in the country. For that reason the factional fights that were creating divisions within the ruling party should stop and people get geared for the revival of the economic fortunes.
People should also realise that the President made it clear that all the said G40s and the Lacoste teams should "shut up" and those people who have been involved in such factional wars should heed what the President said. It would be naïve and uncalled for to keep on reading in various media houses some machinations to divide the revolutionary party by those said teams when the President has ordered such teams to stop forthwith their factional wars within the ruling party. Those factional teams which used to spend their time fighting for supremacy in the ruling party should now spend their time trying to build the party and create unity which they destroyed.
Actually the time is still with ZANU PF members and supporters to bury the hatchet and work for the development of this revolutionary party. ZANU PF can be stronger again once all those who have been failing to sleep trying to decampaign each other in the ruling party, now to realise their mistakes and work together as one for the betterment of ZANU PF and the country.
It should be known and realised that the former revolutionary parties in the region such as the UNIP of Zambia, KANU of Kenya as well as MCP of Malawi let the power snatched by the new political parties in their countries because they waited for too late to rectify their problems. Now that ZANU PF through its First Secretary and President of the party Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe has seen it and called for unity within the party should be applauded. Such a move taken by President Mugabe has shown the nation that he is an astute political leader who quickly seeks solutions for the party and country whenever there is threat to peace and tranquillity. As such ZANU PF should listen to what its leader has said so that the political power which has been with ZANU PF since independence in 1980 is not snatched away by those new opposition political parties in the country.
So the revolutionary party members and supporters should heed President Mugabe's call for unity so that all factional wars and such abuse of one another in the ruling party are stopped and people then speak with one voice. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans and people should not be divided by foreign ideologies which have no room in this mighty country named after one of the Wonders of the World, Zimbabwe Ruins.
The President made it clear that Zimbabwe is one and there is need to be no tribal connotations if dealing with Zimbabwean issues. So the people need to focus on the development of the country and stop tribal war of words that nearly caused the ruling party to disintegrate until the intervention of President Mugabe to restore order. People need to appreciate and realise that tribal politics has no room in a democratic country like Zimbabwe, hence, the need to embrace the "son of the Soil" ideology in the country.
The war of liberation was fought by all Zimbabweans and there was no tribe which can claim to have fought alone in that war hence all the people should take the President's address to nation seriously. Everyone in the country needs peace to prevail and those creating confusion in the country and seeking to destabilise the prevailing peaceful environment through factional wars should be advised to stop such machinations. Divisions within the country are not necessary considering that Zimbabwe needs to fight the economic doldrums so that everyone enjoys the national cake.
It was clear from the President's address that factionalism has no room in the ruling party and whoever still harbouring it should throw that mentality away for the betterment of the country in general and the ruling party in particular. Zimbabweans should not be held at ransom by few individuals seeking their political aggrandisements while the economy is further shrinking downwards. The Zim-Asset needs to be totally implemented and the ruling party ZANU PF should not waste its time on factional wars while the 2018 harmonized elections are drawing near.
During the 2013 harmonized elections campaigns, ZANU PF came up with Zim-Asset as a campaign tool and having an objective to make it being fully implemented before the next harmonized elections that is before 2018 harmonised elections. As such people in the country are expecting serious commitment from ZANU PF for the total implementation of that Zim-Asset so that during the coming 2018 harmonised elections the ruling party would have something to preach to the electorate. Taking the full implemented Zim-Asset to the electorate would make ZANU PF being retained by the voters throwing the opposition political parties into the political wilderness.
So the call by President Mugabe for all those engaged in factional fights to stop and realise the concept of the "son of the soil" ideology should be taken seriously because Zimbabwe cannot afford to be diverted from its fight for economic turn-around to political fights. All the people are looking forward to government to make sure that the economy is revived but when the top leadership spend their time fighting for positions in the ruling party defeats all efforts of the economic revival by the same government.
It is a fact that Zimbabwe is currently facing the El Nino induced drought and the economic problems that are causing sufferings in a lot of families so if the ruling party is divided there would be no room for it to seek solutions to such problems. Some economic problems that are in the country call for unity of purpose from all people both in the ruling party and government so that resources are availed to the public with the combined effort of everyone in the country. For that reason the factional fights that were creating divisions within the ruling party should stop and people get geared for the revival of the economic fortunes.
People should also realise that the President made it clear that all the said G40s and the Lacoste teams should "shut up" and those people who have been involved in such factional wars should heed what the President said. It would be naïve and uncalled for to keep on reading in various media houses some machinations to divide the revolutionary party by those said teams when the President has ordered such teams to stop forthwith their factional wars within the ruling party. Those factional teams which used to spend their time fighting for supremacy in the ruling party should now spend their time trying to build the party and create unity which they destroyed.
Actually the time is still with ZANU PF members and supporters to bury the hatchet and work for the development of this revolutionary party. ZANU PF can be stronger again once all those who have been failing to sleep trying to decampaign each other in the ruling party, now to realise their mistakes and work together as one for the betterment of ZANU PF and the country.
It should be known and realised that the former revolutionary parties in the region such as the UNIP of Zambia, KANU of Kenya as well as MCP of Malawi let the power snatched by the new political parties in their countries because they waited for too late to rectify their problems. Now that ZANU PF through its First Secretary and President of the party Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe has seen it and called for unity within the party should be applauded. Such a move taken by President Mugabe has shown the nation that he is an astute political leader who quickly seeks solutions for the party and country whenever there is threat to peace and tranquillity. As such ZANU PF should listen to what its leader has said so that the political power which has been with ZANU PF since independence in 1980 is not snatched away by those new opposition political parties in the country.
So the revolutionary party members and supporters should heed President Mugabe's call for unity so that all factional wars and such abuse of one another in the ruling party are stopped and people then speak with one voice. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans and people should not be divided by foreign ideologies which have no room in this mighty country named after one of the Wonders of the World, Zimbabwe Ruins.
Source - John Mukumbo
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