Opinion / Columnist
You are a man among men, said Mrs. Chinamano! This time its Chris Mutsvangwa and not Edison Zvobgo
22 Jul 2016 at 18:14hrs | Views
I will reiterate what the late comrade Ruth Chinamano said to late comrade Dr. Edison Zvobgo sometime back in the early 1980s; it was a heated parliamentary debate. "Dr. Edison Zvobgo, you are a man among men!" said Ruth. Whatever that means! Must have had a good meaning in this statement back then, but this is a topic for another day. We have to learn to give gratitude, say thank you God, even small gestures that he prepares for us for our final journey to victory, final independence of our great country Zimbabwe, albeit 36 years later. It may appear small gesture because it came late, better late than never! Your move, indeed the move that the war veterans took on Thursday, your final decision to let loose from Zanu PF is a gift for all peace longing peoples of Zimbabwe. There is some fresh air blowing through Zimbabwe, a wind of change, unstoppable part of the reason is because of your stance against those that rule us with impunity.
Please do not tell us to endorse VP Mnangagwa for a coronation after Mugabe fall from power. We want full democratic changes to take place. Whatever changes that will take place in Zimbabwe now, there should be democratic and not power trust upon some individual. Mugabe' ascendancy to power was a walk in the rose garden and it is for this reason that he did not appreciate the work; the armed liberators had to put up with fighting Smith regime with their bare hands. His failure to appreciate the liberation struggle is simple because this man never went to war, we are even told he was so much afraid of the gun, said Tekere. Does this surprise us that he sends young people to brutalise and maim the population on his behalf, because he himself cannot do the dirty work?
You said it all: you are now with the masses of the Zimbabwe demanding end to the regime: you are saying eloquently you want regime change! We the ordinary people want regime change so that we can sort our lives around that has been devastated by the current government of Zanu PF for 36 years. You are saying the majority of the population is languishing in dire poverty; you are concerned about the injustice in the country is just horrendous. Each and every Zanu elite is corrupt through and through. The looting of public coffers is so shameless, there is no precedence in the way they loot public fund and its resources for their personal use. We see this open theft and we are powerless to say anything against it. Fear is our basic instinct and it is overwhelming even the most courageous in our midst.
Mutsvangwa, you have experienced violence yourselves at the hands of the Zanu PF government. You have been humiliates on several occasions because you wanted your head clear, never again a blind loyalty to a geriatric who will collapse any time due to old age, leaving accountable for the atrocities and theft, looting, barbaric and savage beatings of innocent people, committed by this Zanu PF regime. When you wanted to peacefully demonstrate and air your grievances regarding abject poverty in the country generally, injustice and corruption at government level, you were confronted with tear and water cannons. You were humiliated in the presence of the whole nation to see, through the glare of the television media. When your patron called you again for some semblance of reconciliation you went to accept those pieces of silver, some appeasement! We as the nation looked on and wondered how low you can still go to accept those crumps of bread falling from the tables of Amai grace and her children: Chatunga, Bona and Belamore,: just to pay for the school fees of your children! But you have seen that you are back to square Harare, you have nothing to fall back to for a normal living, day to day cost of living leaves you in total dire straits. That six million was not enough in comparison to the loot of 20 billion dollars from diamond revenues. Where is the loot? Ask yourselves, where is the money from the diamond sales?
Nigeria's Buhari has given us a transparent example how looted money can be recovered even if it was put in the most sophisticated foreign banks. They can loot yes but we are going to get all the loot back and pay off the debt we owe to the international lenders. This fact of bringing back the loot, we are going to do it, they must know, it will happen, whether they are dead or alive.
Your number adds up to the masses that are fighting against nepotism, hunger, tribalism, absence of the rule of law, extra judiciary practices in the police execution of constitutional law. Your position is strategic as well that will force the regime to think, if they have not done so already.
Mr. Mutsvangwa, what you are doing, challenging the regime is extremely brave. We really commend your bravery. You deliberately put your ministerial post on the line together with you parliamentary mandate. How many people would dare to do what you have done given the current economic hardships we are facing? Both those posts are a means to survive the current economic hardships and not serving the nation.
These youths, Zanu youths will find themselves on the wrong side of the pale. They will be left to suffer the rage of the masses when all the Zanu cronies will have fled to safer places. The police too, are very misinformed lot. They look malnourished all of them, seemingly underpaid, but they have the audacity to inflict such barbaric acts on the innocent population, without knowing the repercation of their acts later is really scary and painful to comprehend.
The Thursday grievances you said are well known to us for a long time now, it will be our irony to say we are grateful that you suffer the same social and economic conditions just like "us" ordinary people. We are wholly prepared to coalesce and put together a big fight to remove Mugabe and his cronies. We should however be mindful of the fact that it is not enough to remove Mugabe from power, but we want the whole status chore to leave office and we start afresh.
If I had the power and influence I would tell the young man Pastor Evan Mawarire to still remain put in South Africa for some time. What he has done, the revolution like no other, is enough for one person. We are 14 million citizens in the country, and all of us should play our part in removing the regime. Liberation movements of Zapu and Zanu were both fought in exile and not in the country. Please stay there, it will assist us more if you are co-ordinating the struggle in South African than in Zimbabwe. You will be harmed; we do not know where Itai Dzamara is to this date.
Again we thank you all the war veterans for the brave stand they have taken to really shake the ruling party of its existence. We have a just cause in our hands so there is nothing that will go wrong about our demanding Robert Mugabe to stand down.
Please do not tell us to endorse VP Mnangagwa for a coronation after Mugabe fall from power. We want full democratic changes to take place. Whatever changes that will take place in Zimbabwe now, there should be democratic and not power trust upon some individual. Mugabe' ascendancy to power was a walk in the rose garden and it is for this reason that he did not appreciate the work; the armed liberators had to put up with fighting Smith regime with their bare hands. His failure to appreciate the liberation struggle is simple because this man never went to war, we are even told he was so much afraid of the gun, said Tekere. Does this surprise us that he sends young people to brutalise and maim the population on his behalf, because he himself cannot do the dirty work?
You said it all: you are now with the masses of the Zimbabwe demanding end to the regime: you are saying eloquently you want regime change! We the ordinary people want regime change so that we can sort our lives around that has been devastated by the current government of Zanu PF for 36 years. You are saying the majority of the population is languishing in dire poverty; you are concerned about the injustice in the country is just horrendous. Each and every Zanu elite is corrupt through and through. The looting of public coffers is so shameless, there is no precedence in the way they loot public fund and its resources for their personal use. We see this open theft and we are powerless to say anything against it. Fear is our basic instinct and it is overwhelming even the most courageous in our midst.
Mutsvangwa, you have experienced violence yourselves at the hands of the Zanu PF government. You have been humiliates on several occasions because you wanted your head clear, never again a blind loyalty to a geriatric who will collapse any time due to old age, leaving accountable for the atrocities and theft, looting, barbaric and savage beatings of innocent people, committed by this Zanu PF regime. When you wanted to peacefully demonstrate and air your grievances regarding abject poverty in the country generally, injustice and corruption at government level, you were confronted with tear and water cannons. You were humiliated in the presence of the whole nation to see, through the glare of the television media. When your patron called you again for some semblance of reconciliation you went to accept those pieces of silver, some appeasement! We as the nation looked on and wondered how low you can still go to accept those crumps of bread falling from the tables of Amai grace and her children: Chatunga, Bona and Belamore,: just to pay for the school fees of your children! But you have seen that you are back to square Harare, you have nothing to fall back to for a normal living, day to day cost of living leaves you in total dire straits. That six million was not enough in comparison to the loot of 20 billion dollars from diamond revenues. Where is the loot? Ask yourselves, where is the money from the diamond sales?
Nigeria's Buhari has given us a transparent example how looted money can be recovered even if it was put in the most sophisticated foreign banks. They can loot yes but we are going to get all the loot back and pay off the debt we owe to the international lenders. This fact of bringing back the loot, we are going to do it, they must know, it will happen, whether they are dead or alive.
Your number adds up to the masses that are fighting against nepotism, hunger, tribalism, absence of the rule of law, extra judiciary practices in the police execution of constitutional law. Your position is strategic as well that will force the regime to think, if they have not done so already.
Mr. Mutsvangwa, what you are doing, challenging the regime is extremely brave. We really commend your bravery. You deliberately put your ministerial post on the line together with you parliamentary mandate. How many people would dare to do what you have done given the current economic hardships we are facing? Both those posts are a means to survive the current economic hardships and not serving the nation.
These youths, Zanu youths will find themselves on the wrong side of the pale. They will be left to suffer the rage of the masses when all the Zanu cronies will have fled to safer places. The police too, are very misinformed lot. They look malnourished all of them, seemingly underpaid, but they have the audacity to inflict such barbaric acts on the innocent population, without knowing the repercation of their acts later is really scary and painful to comprehend.
The Thursday grievances you said are well known to us for a long time now, it will be our irony to say we are grateful that you suffer the same social and economic conditions just like "us" ordinary people. We are wholly prepared to coalesce and put together a big fight to remove Mugabe and his cronies. We should however be mindful of the fact that it is not enough to remove Mugabe from power, but we want the whole status chore to leave office and we start afresh.
If I had the power and influence I would tell the young man Pastor Evan Mawarire to still remain put in South Africa for some time. What he has done, the revolution like no other, is enough for one person. We are 14 million citizens in the country, and all of us should play our part in removing the regime. Liberation movements of Zapu and Zanu were both fought in exile and not in the country. Please stay there, it will assist us more if you are co-ordinating the struggle in South African than in Zimbabwe. You will be harmed; we do not know where Itai Dzamara is to this date.
Again we thank you all the war veterans for the brave stand they have taken to really shake the ruling party of its existence. We have a just cause in our hands so there is nothing that will go wrong about our demanding Robert Mugabe to stand down.
Source - Nomazulu Thata
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