Opinion / Columnist
Forcing Mugabe to Bend, is not treasonous
28 Jun 2016 at 11:54hrs | Views
There are so many English terms that we use as a country without fully understanding their meaning. These are the words which our, half educated Presidents, use to suppress us without us questioning.
Poor scrutinisation of these English terms cost Africans a lot and anyone can come with a University Degree and intimidate us to believe him even when they are half baked. As a University Degree holder, I NOW KNOW very well that a mere presentation of a Degree is not to mean that one knows everything. Actually, no one knows everything and no one must be allowed to hold people's dreams and potential for a long time without challenge as is the case of Robert Mugabe.
If a Zimbabwean has REASON to forcefully push Mugabe out of power, without using foreign military power, it cannot translate to treason. If it was treason, Mugabe himself should have been hanged in 1980 for being part to push Ian Smith out Militarily. The fact that Ian Smith was born in Zimbabwe and was ruling Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe was born in Zimbabwe and was pushing another Zimbabwean out of power, means discontentment was justified. It was not treasonous, but patriotic to remove an arrogant head of state.
Times have changed and military is no longer the acceptable tool to remove a failing head of state. The acceptable way now is to use democratic tools where people should vote freely. In Zimbabwe, there has never been a free vote since the refusal by Zanu in 1980 to allow free campaign in Mashonaland by other players.
Mugabe's Zanu deploys Zanu-PF Police, Zanu-PF Army, Zanu-PF CIOs, Zanu-PF Ministers, Zanu-PF youths in every polling station to scare people from voting the opposition. DEMOCRACY ONLY RECOGNISES FREE VOTE and a vote that is not certified as free cannot produce a democratic President.
Democracy means "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives." The term "Elected" is key to Democracy. Treason is "the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government" The term "Betray" is key to the meaning of treason.
Betray means "expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy"
Elected means to "choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting."
In Zimbabwe, it takes the AK47 at the hand of a Zanu Police or Zanu Soldier to accept Zimbabwean model of Democracy. Democracy is forced by the fear of a gun in Zimbabwe.
One cannot freely and democratically protest against the failing leadership without facing a Zanu AK47.
In other democracies around the World, if teachers can't be paid on time, they are free to protest until such a Government pays on time or leaves office. In Zimbabwe, the AK47 does not allow that.
In other democratic countries, if unemployment rockets to 80%, the unemployed are allowed to protest until unemployment is minimised or the lame Government quits office. In Mugabe's half baked Democracy, the Itayi Dzamaras are abducted by Zanu-PF AK47 Police.
The whole problem begins with the Nation accepting an unscrupulous narration of Democracy. Every country in the World belongs to its citizens. No country belongs to a single person, otherwise it would be a farm.
If a country belongs to everyone and its not a farm, then everyone must be a stakeholder who is democratically eligible to protest and force a failing undemocratic regime out of power.
Zimbabwe has, as we have allowed it, become a farm with farm security guards who enforce the will of the farm owner. In such a case, one cannot protest because the farmer does not allow protests which disturbs his sleep and his potential to increase his money.
Having been reduced to farm squatters in our own country, it is time now to do to Mugabe what we did to Ian Smith. If Farm Guards in the shape of ZRP, ZNA are deployed to stop democratic activities during elections and during democratic protests, then, we are justified to force Mugabe by the same precision Mugabe forced Ian Smith to bend in 1977.
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Rakanga Danble <rakangadanble@yahoo.com
Poor scrutinisation of these English terms cost Africans a lot and anyone can come with a University Degree and intimidate us to believe him even when they are half baked. As a University Degree holder, I NOW KNOW very well that a mere presentation of a Degree is not to mean that one knows everything. Actually, no one knows everything and no one must be allowed to hold people's dreams and potential for a long time without challenge as is the case of Robert Mugabe.
If a Zimbabwean has REASON to forcefully push Mugabe out of power, without using foreign military power, it cannot translate to treason. If it was treason, Mugabe himself should have been hanged in 1980 for being part to push Ian Smith out Militarily. The fact that Ian Smith was born in Zimbabwe and was ruling Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe was born in Zimbabwe and was pushing another Zimbabwean out of power, means discontentment was justified. It was not treasonous, but patriotic to remove an arrogant head of state.
Times have changed and military is no longer the acceptable tool to remove a failing head of state. The acceptable way now is to use democratic tools where people should vote freely. In Zimbabwe, there has never been a free vote since the refusal by Zanu in 1980 to allow free campaign in Mashonaland by other players.
Mugabe's Zanu deploys Zanu-PF Police, Zanu-PF Army, Zanu-PF CIOs, Zanu-PF Ministers, Zanu-PF youths in every polling station to scare people from voting the opposition. DEMOCRACY ONLY RECOGNISES FREE VOTE and a vote that is not certified as free cannot produce a democratic President.
Democracy means "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives." The term "Elected" is key to Democracy. Treason is "the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government" The term "Betray" is key to the meaning of treason.
Betray means "expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy"
Elected means to "choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting."
In Zimbabwe, it takes the AK47 at the hand of a Zanu Police or Zanu Soldier to accept Zimbabwean model of Democracy. Democracy is forced by the fear of a gun in Zimbabwe.
In other democracies around the World, if teachers can't be paid on time, they are free to protest until such a Government pays on time or leaves office. In Zimbabwe, the AK47 does not allow that.
In other democratic countries, if unemployment rockets to 80%, the unemployed are allowed to protest until unemployment is minimised or the lame Government quits office. In Mugabe's half baked Democracy, the Itayi Dzamaras are abducted by Zanu-PF AK47 Police.
The whole problem begins with the Nation accepting an unscrupulous narration of Democracy. Every country in the World belongs to its citizens. No country belongs to a single person, otherwise it would be a farm.
If a country belongs to everyone and its not a farm, then everyone must be a stakeholder who is democratically eligible to protest and force a failing undemocratic regime out of power.
Zimbabwe has, as we have allowed it, become a farm with farm security guards who enforce the will of the farm owner. In such a case, one cannot protest because the farmer does not allow protests which disturbs his sleep and his potential to increase his money.
Having been reduced to farm squatters in our own country, it is time now to do to Mugabe what we did to Ian Smith. If Farm Guards in the shape of ZRP, ZNA are deployed to stop democratic activities during elections and during democratic protests, then, we are justified to force Mugabe by the same precision Mugabe forced Ian Smith to bend in 1977.
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Rakanga Danble <rakangadanble@yahoo.com
Source - Rakanga Danble
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