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Imperialist renew Zimbo regime change agenda

03 Aug 2011 at 13:40hrs | Views

Neo-imperialist agents working as diplomats in Harare, have renewed their regime change agenda calls amidst fears, that the pro-people economic polices being driven by President Robert Mugabe and the Zanu-PF party if successful will trigger other African states into following suit thereby reducing the financial benefits they are looting from Africa.

The Neo-Imperialists have through the so called multi-national companies created a vehicle through which they continue to loot Africa's resources for their own benefit, while the indigenous communities in Africa remain impoverished.

The calls by the neo-imperialist comes at a time when the South African  African National Youth League Congress led by the marauding Julius Malema are pressuring on nationalisation of key companies and the redistribution of land in that country.

In an recent interview by South Africa's Amandla News Letter the ANCYL spokes person Floyd Shivambu lamented that mineral resources in that vast country were still controlled by imperialist multinational forces and warned that whoever wanted the status quo retained was, "doing so in the interest of the imperialist."

Shivambu bemoaned the poverty in which most of the youths in independent South Africa were enmeshed in, arguing that the ANCYL is always motivated by the need to realise the totality of the Freedom Charter objectives.

"But also as a youth generation confronted with massive challenges of poverty and unemployment, the ANC Youth League is forever expected to provide guidance and leadership on what should be done towards the real betterment and empowerment of people's lives. The poverty and suffering of our people inspires us a lot," Shivambu said.

He added, that when the ANC Youth League took the resolution on the nationalisation of mines in June 2008, it was inspired by the reality that South Africa had realised political freedom, but struggled to economically emancipate the black majority and Africans in particular.

"In our basic understanding, economic emancipation and freedom means the realisation of the Freedom Charter objectives, and we will realise that in our life time. The actualisation of the Freedom Charter should have happened upon transition, but because the balance of forces was not totally in favour of the forces of change, certain retreats had to be made by the leadership. Now that we have the necessary political power to transform the economy, we should move decisively to ensure that the people share in the country's wealth," said Shivambu.

In this regard Zimbabwe has boldly taken steps that are aimed at achieving economic independence following the political independence of 1980.

At the dawn of the 20th century the Zanu-PF Government redistributed land to all its peasants and a decade later it has enacted the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act all in line with the goals of the liberation struggle.

In face of the imminent economic revolution being advocated by revolutionary forces like President Mugabe, the pivot of power in Europe and America is being threatened and hence their need to silence the likes of President Mugabe.

The evidence of the anti-African drive by Europe and America who are working with sell-outs such as the MDC formations in Zimbabwe is there for everyone to see, more so now that even diplomats openly talk of regime change in Zimbabwe.

Leading the pack of the neo-imperialist plunderers in Harare is Charles Ray, America's Ambassador to Zimbabwe.
 
"There is no way you can build a house from the roof. You have to start from the foundation going to the top. So I do not think removing Mugabe will change anything. What is needed is to change the whole system. Some people might argue about this, but removing him from power will only see minor positive developments in the country," Ambassador Ray told a public hearing in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second capital in July 2011.

Even in Britain strategies of how to end the rule of President Mugabe have claimed centre stage, with some calling for new strategies as they bemoan that sanctions have been ineffective.

Instead of dwelling on the aftermaths of the News of the World collapse, speaking in the House of the Lords recently, the Earl of Sandwich John Edward Hollister Montagu was at pain to establish whether sanctions have had any real effect on the regime change agenda in Zimbabwe.

"I feel we are stuck where we are and that we should press harder for the rule of law, fairer elections, constitutional change and a great deal more commitment from SADC, the African Union and Zimbabwe's African neighbours.

"I wonder whether the sanctions, strengthened in February 2009 and relaxed since then, have really had any effect on President Mugabe, or whether in some perverse way they have actually boosted his morale," said Montagu.

Political analysts in Harare, have described the statements by the Ambassador as a wake up call for all the Head of States in Africa.

"This is the time Head of States begin to act responsible and see Europe and America for what they are not what they purport to be. When they come to Africa it is not about brotherhood but it is informed by their quest to financially rob us, but others simply refuse to see this," said one political analyst based at the University of Zimbabwe.

Patrick Zhuwawo, Member of Parliament for Zvimba North and a former Minister said the western powers insecurity is getting higher everyday over the fear that if Zimbabwe's pro-people policies were to succeed it would be a model all other countries would scramble to follow.

"This issue is not just about President Mugabe and Zanu-PF, it goes beyond that. Zimbabwe to the American and their allies is so critical in that our models of human resource emancipation threatens the vanguard of those very countries which control the resource rich Africa through its multi-national companies," Zhuwawo said.

Zhuwawo said the fears of the west and America were further heightened by the South Africa's ANC Youth League which has come fully in support of the nationalisation of mines in that country.

"The youths in South Africa are clear on the emancipation of the black African. They have seen what economic independence means through gleaning some of the youthful beneficiaries of the Land Reform in Zimbabwe and they see it as the only option to uplift themselves from the poverty they find themselves in and the Americans are getting scared that is, then, why you find people like Charles Ray uttering that kind of rubbish," Zhuwawo said.



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