Opinion / Letters
Dear President Dumiso Dabengwa
29 Sep 2012 at 04:50hrs | Views
No living Hero of the Zimbabwean Liberation struggle deserves respect like you in my beloved country. This statement cannot be translated and tagged as a tribal song of praise because I, the writer, am not of your tribe but a true Zimbabwean who consumes nothing but the truth. Your Zapu party Mr President was the first authentic instigator of black consciousness on a different name in 1959. Your Party Mr President invented and mentored people like Robert Mugabe who was your secretary general in 1961.
It is your Zapu party that taught Zimbabweans to fight injustice which Zanu and Mugabe are abusing today and claiming credit for the expertise of your party. Morgan Tsvangirai is a qualified student of Mugabe. Mugabe is a qualified student of Zapu. Simba Makoni is a qualified student of Mugabe. Mugabe is a qualified student of Zapu. Welshman Ncube is a qualified student of Zapu and you dear President are the leader of Zapu the mother-party where Zimbabwean politics revolves.
It is not the University's fault if its students choose to use their education to burn the country like what Zanu is doing. The University of Zapu has done a good job to teach them how to demand freedom. As the head and Chancellor of the University of Zapu, you must be proud that you have done a good job. You have taught them the right thing and they chose to saw seeds of division and corruption and reduce our country to the shameful end of even losing our own National currency.
Nothing Mr President will take genuine shape politically until Zapu the seed-bank and University of political alignment of Zimbabwe blesses that political shape. In other easier words, I am saying, Zimbabwe is waiting for Zapu to sound its authoritative thunder. Zapu the mother of all political parties in Zimbabwe has got to stand up and direct weary Zimbabweans.
In order to do so, at your command Mr President, Zapu must inspect it's muscles and make amendments where we are weak. Our weakness is the weakness of Zimbabwe and our strength is a National strength.
My observation as the lowest element of this great party is that we have done great things in the past led by a certain age group of leaders. It is my observation Mr President that our Gallant fearless, young and able Joshua Nkomo, born 1917 was only 40 years old when he changed Zimbabwe for ever by leading this Nation in 1959. It is my observation Mr President that the most formidable militarily feared Commanding intelligence supremo of Zipra Freedom fighters Dumiso Dabengwa born 1939 was only 24 years when he led our forces in 1964.
It is my little observation Mr President that in 1964 when you led our forced to sacrifice their blood for our freedom, many if not all Black Rhodesians aged above seventy were against that youthful ideology. It is my guess Mr President that the seventy year elders of Zimbabwe in 1964 prefered a settlement through tedious persuasion with hardened racist Colonialists who were gaining out of our sweat and suffrage just like todays Zanu.
At the age of twenty-four Mr President, you performed your best and no sanity will dispute that. General Walls and Ian Smith, your arch-opponents acknowledged your expertise and successes after 1980 and who am I to doubt you?
The problem we have now in Zapu which is now holding Zimbabwean true independence is a natural one. This natural problem needs nobody but you Mr President to realise and correct quickly. Its only worth a single silent night of undisturbed deep thought through reality and a new morning of renewed positive leadership from you. A leader like you would detonate a hand grenade and explode your own body into small pieces than be captured by the enemy to be tortured to divulge classified information. A leader with your experience is strong enough to take one most important step and correct our country even if it means exploding oneself.
The truth is that a seventy year old is naturally persuasive, reasonable and never takes risks. At seventy one would have learnt the full price of risk taking thus why seventy year old men can't start a very big new successful business. A seventy year old man has seen the consequences of taking risk and cannot marry a seventeen year old girl and start a successfully healthy family. Age can be an impedance and wisdom is knowing that some jobs can't be started by people above a certain age.
In Zapu, no one has the authentic power to make real changes unless you Mr President endorse and direct that change. A deep thought about my observation could create a Zapu that you will be proud of Mr President. If you re-trace your 2008 promise that you would only ignite the Zapu flame and give it to someone younger, would make create a Zapu to win this election. I am of belief that YOU Mr President should spell out that you are handing over the flame that you successfully re- ignited, in 2008, to a younger Zapu leader. If anyone suggests it and enforces that change without your blessing, I personally would refuse to join such a culture of treachery within our ranks. I will stick with you until you effect that change yourself for the credibility and loyalty of our cause.
I have always imagined a man called Methuseli Moyo as the best person capable of a reactionary new leadership of Zapu which is needed for today's Zimbabwean political dynamics. I have never seen this man, but I have read his staff and I am a fun of it. I visited our Bulawayo offices last July from the UK and I noticed that we need to do more.
Mr President, let me wrap my opinion by honestly admitting that I am not an expert in Political Science and I do not know things as much as you do. I am only your small and insignificant but keen subject trying to make a difference. The reason why I wrote MY OBSERVATION to you is because I know that you are an intelligent leader who gives an ear even to the dull and the ignorant. You have done that many times in your carrier as a Zapu Intelligence Supremo since 1964.
I thank you.
It is your Zapu party that taught Zimbabweans to fight injustice which Zanu and Mugabe are abusing today and claiming credit for the expertise of your party. Morgan Tsvangirai is a qualified student of Mugabe. Mugabe is a qualified student of Zapu. Simba Makoni is a qualified student of Mugabe. Mugabe is a qualified student of Zapu. Welshman Ncube is a qualified student of Zapu and you dear President are the leader of Zapu the mother-party where Zimbabwean politics revolves.
It is not the University's fault if its students choose to use their education to burn the country like what Zanu is doing. The University of Zapu has done a good job to teach them how to demand freedom. As the head and Chancellor of the University of Zapu, you must be proud that you have done a good job. You have taught them the right thing and they chose to saw seeds of division and corruption and reduce our country to the shameful end of even losing our own National currency.
Nothing Mr President will take genuine shape politically until Zapu the seed-bank and University of political alignment of Zimbabwe blesses that political shape. In other easier words, I am saying, Zimbabwe is waiting for Zapu to sound its authoritative thunder. Zapu the mother of all political parties in Zimbabwe has got to stand up and direct weary Zimbabweans.
In order to do so, at your command Mr President, Zapu must inspect it's muscles and make amendments where we are weak. Our weakness is the weakness of Zimbabwe and our strength is a National strength.
My observation as the lowest element of this great party is that we have done great things in the past led by a certain age group of leaders. It is my observation Mr President that our Gallant fearless, young and able Joshua Nkomo, born 1917 was only 40 years old when he changed Zimbabwe for ever by leading this Nation in 1959. It is my observation Mr President that the most formidable militarily feared Commanding intelligence supremo of Zipra Freedom fighters Dumiso Dabengwa born 1939 was only 24 years when he led our forces in 1964.
It is my little observation Mr President that in 1964 when you led our forced to sacrifice their blood for our freedom, many if not all Black Rhodesians aged above seventy were against that youthful ideology. It is my guess Mr President that the seventy year elders of Zimbabwe in 1964 prefered a settlement through tedious persuasion with hardened racist Colonialists who were gaining out of our sweat and suffrage just like todays Zanu.
At the age of twenty-four Mr President, you performed your best and no sanity will dispute that. General Walls and Ian Smith, your arch-opponents acknowledged your expertise and successes after 1980 and who am I to doubt you?
The problem we have now in Zapu which is now holding Zimbabwean true independence is a natural one. This natural problem needs nobody but you Mr President to realise and correct quickly. Its only worth a single silent night of undisturbed deep thought through reality and a new morning of renewed positive leadership from you. A leader like you would detonate a hand grenade and explode your own body into small pieces than be captured by the enemy to be tortured to divulge classified information. A leader with your experience is strong enough to take one most important step and correct our country even if it means exploding oneself.
The truth is that a seventy year old is naturally persuasive, reasonable and never takes risks. At seventy one would have learnt the full price of risk taking thus why seventy year old men can't start a very big new successful business. A seventy year old man has seen the consequences of taking risk and cannot marry a seventeen year old girl and start a successfully healthy family. Age can be an impedance and wisdom is knowing that some jobs can't be started by people above a certain age.
In Zapu, no one has the authentic power to make real changes unless you Mr President endorse and direct that change. A deep thought about my observation could create a Zapu that you will be proud of Mr President. If you re-trace your 2008 promise that you would only ignite the Zapu flame and give it to someone younger, would make create a Zapu to win this election. I am of belief that YOU Mr President should spell out that you are handing over the flame that you successfully re- ignited, in 2008, to a younger Zapu leader. If anyone suggests it and enforces that change without your blessing, I personally would refuse to join such a culture of treachery within our ranks. I will stick with you until you effect that change yourself for the credibility and loyalty of our cause.
I have always imagined a man called Methuseli Moyo as the best person capable of a reactionary new leadership of Zapu which is needed for today's Zimbabwean political dynamics. I have never seen this man, but I have read his staff and I am a fun of it. I visited our Bulawayo offices last July from the UK and I noticed that we need to do more.
Mr President, let me wrap my opinion by honestly admitting that I am not an expert in Political Science and I do not know things as much as you do. I am only your small and insignificant but keen subject trying to make a difference. The reason why I wrote MY OBSERVATION to you is because I know that you are an intelligent leader who gives an ear even to the dull and the ignorant. You have done that many times in your carrier as a Zapu Intelligence Supremo since 1964.
I thank you.
Source - Ryton Dzimiri
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