The impoverished police, army and general citizens must strike together

For tens of thousands of years in the dark and uncertain jungles of Africa, our great Ancestors have faced difficult challenges of dangerous wild animals, invasions by brute foreigners and droughts and starvation and various diseases. Our ability to create stability in difficult  and trying times even caused Jesus to seek asylum in Africa and our peace-creating ancestors hosted him. Jesus could have gone to Rome to seek asylum but who trusts the Caucasians? Even Jesus doesn't trust them, he found peace within the Africans rather. Moses too sought refuge in Central Africa where he even married his wife. We are Africans, we have a particular way of resolving difficult issues with outmost precision and we have a well-documented track record.
We have learnt as African children from generation to generation that the power of our survival lies in our ability to unite and defeat any threatening challenge. In the midst of difficulty, we hug each other and sing and console the weak and the dying and dance and raise the inner spirit and march towards a problem and defeat it. We have surprised foreigners as slaves bound in chains across the ragging Oceans sold as cheap commodities in America and we have submerged better as survivors.
We surprised heavily armed foreigners along the Shangani river in 1894 and we surprised foreigners at the Pupu battle. We surprised foreigners at battle of Isandlwana. Indeed we surprised foreigners during the Soweto apprising against injustice of one human being by another.    
In 1977 the Gallant Liberation Freedom Fighters of our own in Zimbabwe taught us that the inequality that the Colonial regime was subjecting us to was unacceptable. We stood by our gallant heroes at all levels of the struggle.  
We kept the African resilience of unity in adversity which kept us afloat surviving sabotage and advantage taking for thousands of years. Yes our ancestors taught us that no problem can defeat our power when we are united. Our ancestors taught us to hold hands and confront a dangerous lion and kill it with our bare hands regardless of how vicious it is. And yet our enemies have leant to attack the very unity that made us survive thousands of years of trial. Our enemies feed and lunch on us by the simple tool of divide and rule. Our enemies take time to study negligible faults in our unity and nurse and hone and encourage those faults of division to widen to the point of fracture in order to feed on us. They remove the adhesive which cements us together and steel form us. They rape and steal our wives, steal and kill our fathers at night, imprison those of us who try to highlight injustice. All we need is to study the traits of our enemies and correct our mistakes which set us as a cheap resource for armed thieves. We need to revert to old and tried resolves of our ancestors which is based on unity and refuse to be divided by armed thieves who feed on our resources.
The liberation of Zimbabwe was fought to liberate Zimbabweans to make them great. It was a liberation war against the big-man-syndrome. A war to liberate Zimbabweans from police brutality. A liberation war to make Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe be allowed to talk their minds freely without harassment from the big and corrupt and divisive Rhodesian regime which only recognised White Zimbabweans as the only people deserving the best of Rhodesia. This was a war to create equal opportunity for the Venda, the Ndau and the English to be allowed to contest an election on Zimbabwean soil as equals. The 1977 liberation war was a war to remove nepotism, corruption, tribalism, poverty, marginalisation, bullying, lack of National Progress and indeed a war to place Zimbabweans on a better footing among Nations of the World.
Protest is one of the best tools of Civilisation and all Nations in the World have once protested to get things right. What is not right is dirty protest which involves blood and flesh of human beings scattered all over the country ending up worse than bad. Zimbabwe is a generally highly educated country and our solutions should reflect education. Zimbabwe should not look at the template of protest as that displayed in Libya, Egypt, Ukraine, Syria where some Western opportunists took advantage and caused people to destroy their country their failed leaders and their people.
Protest is a tool of civilisation which a humble Social Worker Joshua Nkomo and a simple teacher Robert  Mugabe used to remove strife from the majority of Zimbabweans who were forced to accept poverty while the select few were expanding their wealth. A Black Rhodesian Police man was brain-washed during training that it was alright for his White superior to earn two hundred times the salary of a Black junior. A Black Rhodesian solder was forced to accept that his boss was right to own private aeroplanes and that a poor soldier's job was to silence people who spoke against abuse of power.
Because the template of discrimination in 1977 was that of black versus White where a White-man claimed to be more powerful than a Black man physically and militarily, we had no option but resort to a gun. Times have changed now and so has the criterion of segregation.
The problem we are facing now is a problem caused by one of our own, very Black in colour, and one who has been too long at the helm and too long singularly enjoying the sweet of our land while the rest rot.  One Zimbabwean man that we handpicked and empowered to lead a struggle that had already been established by 1977 but is claiming to be the originator and the only brain that can lead Zimbabwe. The language of guns as part of our revolt does not make sense this time but can only cause strife and instability and National disunity which we do not want.
There is a problem in Zimbabwe which needs a simple gardener and the lowest ranked Military and low ranked Police to solve. A low ranked Zimbabwean Military earns less than $400.00 a month in a rich and educated country like Zimbabwe. This soldier cannot afford to buy his daughter an i-pad for Christmas. The soldier can't take his family for holiday in Singapore to see how people in Singapore live. This soldier has no clue how much other soldiers in other parts of the World earn. This soldier is kept comparing himself to the salary that a Rhodesian soldier earned thirty five years ago. The majority of Zimbabwean soldiers are poor as compared to their standard of education. A simple Black man who left Zimbabwe to live in Britain with primary school education can earn up to $2700.00 a month. This is what Zimbabweans deserve. We deserve to earn exactly as the English people in Britain. We were Colonised by the English and lived under the English rule for 100 years and our culture, aspirations and values have become English and we demand nothing less.
President Mugabe dresses English, eats English, sleeps English, prays English, dreams English, earns English, raises his children English, weds his children English, runs his farm English, writes English, reads English, thinks English and so is every Zimbabweans and that is what we fought for.
We emulated English way of doing things and refused to be limited to anything less than English in 1977 and we cannot accept anything less than English today. There is nothing that the English have that we cannot create in Zimbabwe if some people do not stand as a stumbling block between us and Civilisation.
If President Mugabe was in my position today being a marginalised Zimbabwean, he would write an article more abrasive than this one getting people to refuse to be limited and oppressed by those who have created their wealth out of our liberation struggle.
The problem that we face in Zimbabwe is not that Mugabe is an evil man who eats human flesh for dinner, but simply that Mugabe is a human being of African descent. All human beings have faults. No one is perfect! In Zimbabwe, we are always forced to believe that Mugabe is perfect and that is our mistake. Mugabe, human as he is, needs to be limited by us. Any leader we appoint has to face a high office which we regulate as a strong and united Nation. No Zimbabwean on any public or private office within our boarder should survive a day in office if we sense that he or she is failing to carry out the mandate we empowered him to execute. We are the guarantors of high office in Zimbabwe and the granted man should be seen to be working for us and not the other way round. Mugabe must be limited and shown the door now after 33 years of failure. Because we made Mugabe to believe that he is perfect at all times, all our systems have failed because Mugabe does not see them. Mugabe has never joined a queue at Makombe house to see how corruption works under his leadership but he is told by corrupt trustees that all is well and yet we expect Mugabe in his perfection to know that. Nothing compels Mugabe to check his systems and he has sensed a free will to rest in bed and enjoys the benefits while he is not doing the job we commissioned him to do. Mugabe does not travel by road from Harare to Bulawayo to see 22 roadblocks manned by his corrupt Police who need 22 wallets full of money from a simple and impoverished Zimbabwean driver. This is what we fought against in 1977. We fought a government led by arrogant people who had become so rich to taste the gnashing of teeth of the poor in our society. They chose to go to bed and sleep than listen to our many problems.
The Zimbabwe we fought for in 1977 is not one we live in. We fought in order to be equal with the English and the only way we needed to be equal was to work hard and use our natural potential and education together with our resources to raise the standard of living for everyone within our rich boarders. The result we got out of the struggle was to put Mr Mugabe in power and the standard of living deteriorated. We have taken all the mines, the farm fields, the airports, the Government offices, the railways, hospitals, city sky-scrappers and surrendered them to the Mugabe close allies but we are now poorer than we were in 1977.
Those of us whom we elevated to lead us have taken National Wealth and allocated it among themselves and their families and they are now too rich to worry about listening to our tales of poverty. We used to share Mageu under the Mopani tree during the war in 1977 and now they can't remember our names and they view us as a problem.
Our hospitals are now dying places, our roads death traps, school buildings have become hazards, our currency disappeared, and factories are owl nests and transport system a century behind.  No one will come from Venezuela and tell Mr Mugabe to retire so that we can start a new economic page to better our people. The only thing that has to happen is that we must unite and get Mr Mugabe's entire Government to retire.
We were taught by our ancestors to do this tens of thousands of years ago along the Nile river but we have now allowed the also hungry CIO to be used by Mugabe to keep dividing the strength of our unity.
We must realise that Mr Mugabe's Government are so educated and organised to cling to the positions they have held in the past 34 years only to result in impoverished Nation. In their education, Mr Mugabe's Government know how to throw peanuts to a monkey so that it can guard their unfair luxuries. They train the low IQ police and politicise them to see Zimbabwe as a country which is at the risk of being reclaimed by British Colonialists. They do not employ high IQ Zimbabweans into the Military and Police but rather choose cooked and vulnerable individuals and give them guns. They take a few recognised people from marginalised areas of our country and throw peanuts at them to preach to the masses that Zimbabwe cannot fare any better after the Mugabe regime.
These monkeys are varied and they get peanuts at different levels. Some of these low IQ monkeys have had their father's heads decapitated by Mugabe low IQ army in the 1980s.   Although it works well for President Mugabe to through peanuts at brain-washed low IQ Military, Police, chiefs and provincial leaders, what peanuts cannot do is to fulfil the economic reason why we went to war in 1977.
We went to war so that we would live and enjoy life as the English where our Police would address us as sir and madam and respect the law. We went to war so that our Police would earn as the English Police and need not to steal from our people. We went to war in 1977 so that our soldiers would earn $2000 a month as the English. In 1977, we went to war so that our hospitals would be free and of high standard like English the hospitals. Rich as we are, with all the minerals that the World is hunting for, we went to war in 1977 so that our children would be paid to go to University just as the English.
We went to war in 1977 so that an ordinary carpenter working in Zimbabwe could take his family to Germany for holiday just as the English do. In other words, we went to war so that there can be nothing that our English Colonisers could do that we cannot do. All that has failed.
If the reasons why we went to war have failed and we are being led by Mr Mugabe, who else can we blame and what justification can we use to paint Mr Mugabe as an able man who has lifted the living standards of Zimbabweans?
What does Mr Mugabe use to achieve his failed stay in power? We all know that president Mugabe uses poor monkeys and keeps throwing raw groundnuts on their mouth so that they sustain his position. It is these poor monkeys who must wake up and see if they can buy their children i-pads for Christmas? It is these poor Police who have become thieves, these poor soldiers who can't take their children to Hawaii for holiday. These teachers, nurses, vendors, mechanics, taxi drivers, job seekers, farmers, chiefs, councillors' doctors and preachers must come together and revolt in an educated Zimbabwean manner and get Mr Mugabe to his retirement.
Allowing ourselves to be divided by educated Mugabe is a National weakness. Mr Mugabe has taught the Police and Army  that they must defend his government violently without a single question asked. On the other side, those in the Opposition Parties with the potential muscle to push a National strike are being dived into smaller useless groups. In total, One Zimbabwean says I am a patriotic Zimbabwean Police or a patriotic Soldier and I will do what my country instructs me to do although there is a clear leadership problem resulting in National poverty. The other group says I am MDC-T and I can't talk to a Zanu Police or Soldier who was brain-washed not to see potholes and closed factories in our country. The other group says Zanu fought for this country and I can't betray the struggle of our fathers but must wait for Mr Mugabe to shout at the British until they come back to build factories and railway lines and employ us. The other says I am Zanu PF and I am waiting for Mr Mugabe to cede power to Mnangagwa who hails from Zvishavane where I come from so that we too could get a good life like the people of Zvimba. The other says I am MDC Ncube and Mugabe and Tsvangirai have shown many times that they will never do anything for the people of Midlands and Matebeleland and I cant talk to MDC-T. The other says in 1920, Zimbabwe was colonised as two different countries as Mashonaland and Matebeleland but at Independence, the British erroneously handed Matebeleland to Mashonaland which is why Mugabe has closed almost all factories in Bulawayo. The other one says Zanu stole a Zapu liberation struggle in 1963 using a tribal card only to produce a Government of thieves and murderous who have impoverished both the Shona and Ndebele to the extent of leaving the country.
All these reasons are very true and they are known. What Mr Mugabe has, which we cannot see or have failed to break for a long time, is the manipulation and arrest of these facts into a total tool to divide and confuse us.Mugabe gains out of our divisions and he invests more in dividing Zimbabweans.
Although Mugabe is English orientated, he remains one of us. He will never be English but will always look like us, Black, intelligent, cunning, resilient, beautiful and wise even at old age. Mugabe is using English tools of divide and rule more effectively than the English would use on us because Mugabe is one of us who knows how our ancestors taught us to unite in the face of adversity. As one of us, Mugabe knows our every strength and weakness and he knows exactly where within our unity where there is a weak point to strike. The Colonial regime did not understand us well but Mugabe's ancestors were taught together with our ancestors by one anscestor how to fight a raging lion as a united family. He knows the week point of the Zimbabwean adhesive and strikes at the weakest point and at the right time. Mugabe is more dangerous to an African cause that a European can be and thus why Ian smith did not amass so much personal wealth from Zimbabweans as Mugabe has done.
Our people can say things and narrate their poverty and marginalisation where they congregate during the day and Mugabe will visit them one by one at night through the CIO and put enough tools to silence them.
Zimbabweans are too educated to be fooled and divided into a home-made poverty. Let the impoverished Police and the masses hold hands together and give Mugabe a dignified retirement. The way to do it is to organise a National revolt.  Let the Police and Army be sent to oppress and suppress our people during strikes but surprise the failed regime by joining the revolt. No gun fire from one Zimbabwean to another is needed. We have survived together from the banks of the Nile river 10 000 years ago. We have overcome the dangerous wild animals in the virgin jungle of our continent together  for 10 000 years. We have shared wild fruits to survive in the dark rainy forests of Africa and we have slept together to warm our bodies for survival in the absence of houses for thousands of years. Together we have been ridiculed by the British and enslaved from Chief Seke to Chief Ndiweni and told that we can't attain Independence for 1000 years. We fought together in the challenging jungles to restore the dignity of our parents in 1977 and together we must not be bundled by one of our own who we have mandated to govern us but has learnt  foreign English traits to divide and rule us.
From our Police, Army, Vendors and professionals, we do not want blood in our country but we want our country back. Unity is the only grandfather tool that has kept us afloat for thousands of years to survive and thus why we are here. Let not Mugabe tell a single Zimbabwean to shoot another Zimbabwean we did not mandate him to kill black blood but rule in favour for it. Mugabe has failed to carry out our mandate thus why our Police are no thieves and the Military bank robbers.
Our ancestors taught us that it is an abomination to steal and their word has proven true to every African thief which is why we have seen the bad ending of Mobutu Sese Seko, Gadhafi, and many who believed more in the power of a gun than the wise words of our ancestors.
Our Police and army should join us and work together with us against adversity. They must listen more to the distant voice of our ancestors than listen to thieves who multiply their wealth and wed their children in millions of our money while we starve. allow Zimbabweans a free peaceful march and refuse to shoot a black impoverished hungry man seeking change. Enjoy the results of an African resolve. Teargas, guns, bullets and batons are Western tools which Mugabe is using to keep yours and mine wages low. You will never own palaces like him and yet in 1977 we fought so that every able Zimbabwean should own a palace not just  the Mugabes and Mnangagwas. Our country is too rich to finance that dream but at the moment we lack a leader who respects the mandate we gave him to lead us but has made his own millions and sleeping  as a contented man on the job.    
Let us unite to face this challenge as we have united in the past thousands of years to see this day together. No one is stronger than us together but everyone will walk on us and force us to eat crumbs if we let them tell us we are different.
Your grief is mine today as it has always been for tens of thousands of years that is how our ancestors have been uniting to defeat a stubborn situations. Thus why we are still alive. We are alive because our ancestors united and said enough is enough and now we DEMAND OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM OPPORTUNISTIC THIEVES.
Aluta Continua!!!!Kayihlom'ihlasele!!!Matakanana Kwete!!!Unity is Power!!!  
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