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It's year 2015 Gugurahundi in reverse now
27 Mar 2015 at 17:56hrs | Views
It's year 2015 Gugurahundi in reverse now: Mass soldier-recruitment from Mathebeleland immediately, fear of imminent streets - mass-protests by ZANU
Dear Citizens of Zimbabwe, below is a recruitment appeal to young people to come and join the army. Please be very careful about this ploy. It is a very dangerous ploy. Zanu wants to recruit you to train you so that you are equipped to kill and maim your own people, the people of Zimbabwe. Do not get involved into this honey trap. How do you justify your recruitment now, you will be trained and be taught how to kill and maim your own kith and kin so that you are given peanuts to take home and support your families? Ask yourselves another question why are they recruiting now when the national uprising is imminent? Zimbabwe is surrounded by friendly countries; there is no single sign of war with the neighboring countries or the feared western countries. Why recruitment of this kind, and why, for goodness sake? The fear of the war is the economic war they have dismally failed since Zanu government took power in 1980, they cannot even rig it like they did in July 2013, they cannot even nikuv it, to put it in local language terms. People have no jobs, 90% of the population is not in formal employment. Industries and factories are closing and relocating to investment friendly countries. The road infrastructure is in shameful conditions, potholes everywhere. Townships are smelling of piling rubbish, no electricity, it will be worse and not better. Mbare and Makhokhoba townships are text book cases of a failed state. Schools and hospitals are in a horrible state, they cannot even send their children to these schools and hospitals. Lady Grace has gone to wherever for treatment of wound appendix. She can never go for treatment in a local hospital.Germany and other international financial institutions are demanding their payment of debt and by right. Zanu was tricked $14 billion dollars of diamond sales by international crooks! Since independence 96 Billion dollars was spent by this government. What did they do with the money? There is 9 billion debt still to be paid by the "good."
The only jobs available to young people are police and the army. The government of Zimbabwe is playing with your lives and destroying them in the process. They want to train you and you are equipped with the knowledge of killing and you will be the people to keep us in subject position. For how long are you going to keep us in subject position? How do you agree to be trained so that you kill your own mothers and fathers? Is that not cruel and barbaric, demonic enough? I would suggest to you to go out and demonstrate for this government to fall as it has failed you, than to join the army so that you are brainwashed by the ZANU demonic and cheap political rhetoric.
Again why is this recruitment targeting the youth of Mathebeleland especially? Is it another Gugurahundi now in reverse? Please youth of Mathebeleland, smell the coffee. You will be liable for the atrocities you do not know the origin of. You were not born when the actual Gugurahundi in the 1980s was set up composed of Shona speaking to go to Mathebeleland and kill, maim and destroy what is Ndebele and Zapu in Mathebeleland and Midlands. Why do they now target Ndebele speaking youth? Just to tarnish you and you will be accountable for the killings you will have done to the innocent people of Zimbabwe. Keep away from this trap! Militarization process can never be the solution to industrializing Bulawayo and Mathebeleland.
Please let's learn to sacrifice once and for all. This recruitment is evil to the core and do not go for it. It is lethal to the people of Zimbabwe. Mathebeleland youth, please know that at this stage of our convoluted political development since 1980, we have united as one people facing the same challenges. The Gugurahundi, farm invasions, Murambatsvina, 2008 general election (Mavhotera papi) have actually united us and the people are now saying very loud, the evil tribalism, its origins are Zanu and not a Zezuru or Karanga or Manyika from Mashonaland. The people of Zimbabwe now know where this barbaric tribalism comes from, ZANU and Mugabe as the chief architecture of divide and rule. They had succeeded in telling people of Mashonaland and their children that Amandebele people are inferior to Amashona people and must be eliminated. Global politics does not buy this disposition anymore. We have been used and abused using tribalism as a card to divide and rule us. Because we were not aware of this we fell into this tribal division and thinking. Tribalism is now a tired dirty rhetoric, it cannot buy anymore. The youth should aspire for higher and better life qualities than to be taught to kill by desperate Zanu machinery. They are now all out to use and destroy the lives of citizen as young as 18. If that is not Satanism then what is more diabolic than this.
Zanu PF still would like to mess up the youth of Mathebeleland and remain with blood in their hands. Please watch out for this historical dilemma. You will be tainted for generations to come just like Zanu will be tainted for the 1980 Gugurahundi atrocities for the coming generations to come. History books will be filled with their legacy of hate and tribal cards that divided the people of Zimbabwe and hated each other, never to be able to live together side by side as civilized people of this world.
Zimbabwe National Army recruits officer cadets
by Oswell Moyo 27 March 2015
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has embarked on a nationwide recruitment of officer cadets in a move meant to further strengthen the country's defence forces.Speaking on the sidelines of national tree planting day commemorations held in Bulawayo yesterday, 1 Infantry Brigade Acting Commander Colonel Mpulaeng Siziba said the national army had started accepting applications for officer cadets who would undergo an intensive 18 months military training programme. "Applications are invited from qualified candidates to train as officer cadets. Upon completion of training, these candidates will be commissioned as lieutenants. We encourage youths from Matabeleland to come and join the force on time. In the past we had cases where youths started applying when the deadline had elapsed. The deadline for recruitment is April, 5," said Col Siziba. A notice issued by the army said interested candidates should have a minimum of 5 "O" levels including Mathematics and English and a minimum of 6 points at A-Level in any subjects. They should be between the ages of 18 and 22 for A Level certificate holders and up to 24 years old for diploma and degree holders.
Please be warned about these life threatening decisions you will have to make. You will be paid hunger salaries while they (ZANU) are busy amassing and abusing themselves with Zimbabwe's diamond wealth, they will enjoy themselves and their children at the glare of the army cadres, you, and your empty tummies grumbling, the signs of hunger! Have we sunk so low? You will be protecting them, you will be earning your $200 dollars a month. Please stand up and smell the coffee. The mass street protests will be around the corner. Join the mass street protests and say no to joining the army. People will rise up and will defeat this Zanu PF one day. It will be this one day and please do not find yourselves at the wrong side of the pale, below it.
Ndaboka zvangu mwana we mbodoko
Ugogo omncane
Chirikadzi chenyu
Dear Citizens of Zimbabwe, below is a recruitment appeal to young people to come and join the army. Please be very careful about this ploy. It is a very dangerous ploy. Zanu wants to recruit you to train you so that you are equipped to kill and maim your own people, the people of Zimbabwe. Do not get involved into this honey trap. How do you justify your recruitment now, you will be trained and be taught how to kill and maim your own kith and kin so that you are given peanuts to take home and support your families? Ask yourselves another question why are they recruiting now when the national uprising is imminent? Zimbabwe is surrounded by friendly countries; there is no single sign of war with the neighboring countries or the feared western countries. Why recruitment of this kind, and why, for goodness sake? The fear of the war is the economic war they have dismally failed since Zanu government took power in 1980, they cannot even rig it like they did in July 2013, they cannot even nikuv it, to put it in local language terms. People have no jobs, 90% of the population is not in formal employment. Industries and factories are closing and relocating to investment friendly countries. The road infrastructure is in shameful conditions, potholes everywhere. Townships are smelling of piling rubbish, no electricity, it will be worse and not better. Mbare and Makhokhoba townships are text book cases of a failed state. Schools and hospitals are in a horrible state, they cannot even send their children to these schools and hospitals. Lady Grace has gone to wherever for treatment of wound appendix. She can never go for treatment in a local hospital.Germany and other international financial institutions are demanding their payment of debt and by right. Zanu was tricked $14 billion dollars of diamond sales by international crooks! Since independence 96 Billion dollars was spent by this government. What did they do with the money? There is 9 billion debt still to be paid by the "good."
The only jobs available to young people are police and the army. The government of Zimbabwe is playing with your lives and destroying them in the process. They want to train you and you are equipped with the knowledge of killing and you will be the people to keep us in subject position. For how long are you going to keep us in subject position? How do you agree to be trained so that you kill your own mothers and fathers? Is that not cruel and barbaric, demonic enough? I would suggest to you to go out and demonstrate for this government to fall as it has failed you, than to join the army so that you are brainwashed by the ZANU demonic and cheap political rhetoric.
Again why is this recruitment targeting the youth of Mathebeleland especially? Is it another Gugurahundi now in reverse? Please youth of Mathebeleland, smell the coffee. You will be liable for the atrocities you do not know the origin of. You were not born when the actual Gugurahundi in the 1980s was set up composed of Shona speaking to go to Mathebeleland and kill, maim and destroy what is Ndebele and Zapu in Mathebeleland and Midlands. Why do they now target Ndebele speaking youth? Just to tarnish you and you will be accountable for the killings you will have done to the innocent people of Zimbabwe. Keep away from this trap! Militarization process can never be the solution to industrializing Bulawayo and Mathebeleland.
Please let's learn to sacrifice once and for all. This recruitment is evil to the core and do not go for it. It is lethal to the people of Zimbabwe. Mathebeleland youth, please know that at this stage of our convoluted political development since 1980, we have united as one people facing the same challenges. The Gugurahundi, farm invasions, Murambatsvina, 2008 general election (Mavhotera papi) have actually united us and the people are now saying very loud, the evil tribalism, its origins are Zanu and not a Zezuru or Karanga or Manyika from Mashonaland. The people of Zimbabwe now know where this barbaric tribalism comes from, ZANU and Mugabe as the chief architecture of divide and rule. They had succeeded in telling people of Mashonaland and their children that Amandebele people are inferior to Amashona people and must be eliminated. Global politics does not buy this disposition anymore. We have been used and abused using tribalism as a card to divide and rule us. Because we were not aware of this we fell into this tribal division and thinking. Tribalism is now a tired dirty rhetoric, it cannot buy anymore. The youth should aspire for higher and better life qualities than to be taught to kill by desperate Zanu machinery. They are now all out to use and destroy the lives of citizen as young as 18. If that is not Satanism then what is more diabolic than this.
Zanu PF still would like to mess up the youth of Mathebeleland and remain with blood in their hands. Please watch out for this historical dilemma. You will be tainted for generations to come just like Zanu will be tainted for the 1980 Gugurahundi atrocities for the coming generations to come. History books will be filled with their legacy of hate and tribal cards that divided the people of Zimbabwe and hated each other, never to be able to live together side by side as civilized people of this world.
Zimbabwe National Army recruits officer cadets
by Oswell Moyo 27 March 2015
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has embarked on a nationwide recruitment of officer cadets in a move meant to further strengthen the country's defence forces.Speaking on the sidelines of national tree planting day commemorations held in Bulawayo yesterday, 1 Infantry Brigade Acting Commander Colonel Mpulaeng Siziba said the national army had started accepting applications for officer cadets who would undergo an intensive 18 months military training programme. "Applications are invited from qualified candidates to train as officer cadets. Upon completion of training, these candidates will be commissioned as lieutenants. We encourage youths from Matabeleland to come and join the force on time. In the past we had cases where youths started applying when the deadline had elapsed. The deadline for recruitment is April, 5," said Col Siziba. A notice issued by the army said interested candidates should have a minimum of 5 "O" levels including Mathematics and English and a minimum of 6 points at A-Level in any subjects. They should be between the ages of 18 and 22 for A Level certificate holders and up to 24 years old for diploma and degree holders.
Please be warned about these life threatening decisions you will have to make. You will be paid hunger salaries while they (ZANU) are busy amassing and abusing themselves with Zimbabwe's diamond wealth, they will enjoy themselves and their children at the glare of the army cadres, you, and your empty tummies grumbling, the signs of hunger! Have we sunk so low? You will be protecting them, you will be earning your $200 dollars a month. Please stand up and smell the coffee. The mass street protests will be around the corner. Join the mass street protests and say no to joining the army. People will rise up and will defeat this Zanu PF one day. It will be this one day and please do not find yourselves at the wrong side of the pale, below it.
Ndaboka zvangu mwana we mbodoko
Ugogo omncane
Chirikadzi chenyu
Source - Nomazulu Thata
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