Opinion / Columnist
Military Dictatorship
28 May 2018 at 13:39hrs | Views
Zimbabwe is one of the many failed states of Africa. The people of Zimbabwe spent slightly more than two decades fighting to free themselves from British colonisation and then Ian Smith's racist Rhodesia unilateral declaration of independence, off British colonisation. On 18 April 1980 Prince Charles handed over the reigns of power to Robert Gabriel Mugabe overseen by Lord Soames, the few months Governor of Rhodesia after the British Conservative Government's successfull Lancaster House talks with the so called freedom fighters(yes 'so called'and I hate to say that).
If you cook delicious food and you let flies from a nearby pit latrine buzz over it, it becomes undelicious doesn't it, bad enough to throw away. Suffice to say Zimbabweans have never tasted that freedom. It remains hearsay. Why? We have learned a lesson that after fighting a war as tough as the one we fought, you lock weapons in the armoury, pick up tools and go to work. However this has not been the norm in Africa, Zimbabwe not spared. Leaders start killing anybody who opposes them creating security threats to themselves, enticing the army to create a non-existent enemy and letting the gun spit fear to the opponent. Once that is achieved kleptocracy creeps in and corruption swells. They themselves become afraid of losing power and a possible maximum jail sentence. That fear manifests itself in large convoys of presidential motorcades whenever they move from one point to another.
They say when a person is engulfed with fear he becomes dangerous to anyone around him. To protect their reign they become the vocalist of a Junta who become the protectionist. But dictators are all the same no matter what century they lived in. They don't seem to realise that dictatorships will always end, in most cases violently against the perpetrator. Robert Mugabe inherited this insecurity from Ian Douglas Smith and failed to squash it. Instead he expanded it and made it part of his life.
Here is what I think is best for all in some philosophical thinking as narrated by William Adama - "There is a reason we separate the military from the police. One protects the state from its enemies and the other serves and protects people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people". Always and always people end up winning.
Mr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, why not start by making people win. They will win anywhere because they are destined to as you are just but one creature of God with limited time on earth. We all know you don't feel secure when not in government as I have laid down the details of the fait of people like you above, but at times doing good does create an amazing chance of security and freedom for all.
Clement Dumisani Moyo
Mediation for Peace Centre
+263 712 708 284/77 662 090
clemenmoyo@gmail.com
If you cook delicious food and you let flies from a nearby pit latrine buzz over it, it becomes undelicious doesn't it, bad enough to throw away. Suffice to say Zimbabweans have never tasted that freedom. It remains hearsay. Why? We have learned a lesson that after fighting a war as tough as the one we fought, you lock weapons in the armoury, pick up tools and go to work. However this has not been the norm in Africa, Zimbabwe not spared. Leaders start killing anybody who opposes them creating security threats to themselves, enticing the army to create a non-existent enemy and letting the gun spit fear to the opponent. Once that is achieved kleptocracy creeps in and corruption swells. They themselves become afraid of losing power and a possible maximum jail sentence. That fear manifests itself in large convoys of presidential motorcades whenever they move from one point to another.
They say when a person is engulfed with fear he becomes dangerous to anyone around him. To protect their reign they become the vocalist of a Junta who become the protectionist. But dictators are all the same no matter what century they lived in. They don't seem to realise that dictatorships will always end, in most cases violently against the perpetrator. Robert Mugabe inherited this insecurity from Ian Douglas Smith and failed to squash it. Instead he expanded it and made it part of his life.
Mr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, why not start by making people win. They will win anywhere because they are destined to as you are just but one creature of God with limited time on earth. We all know you don't feel secure when not in government as I have laid down the details of the fait of people like you above, but at times doing good does create an amazing chance of security and freedom for all.
Clement Dumisani Moyo
Mediation for Peace Centre
+263 712 708 284/77 662 090
clemenmoyo@gmail.com
Source - Clement Dumisani Moyo
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