Opinion / Columnist
Zimbabwe is a shameful haven of human brutality, political and economic failure
23 Aug 2016 at 07:24hrs | Views
Since when have donkeys and dogs shared bedroom and one expected a full and happy rest from all of such species together? While both dog and donkey are animals, never though can they stand side by in support of one another except to fight and distabilize peace. The worst enemy of the two animals is one who puts them together. But then humans were given better brains of God. Zimbabwe too has been acclaimed to be a land with a highly literate people by United Nations statistics and standards.
Pain grips any logical person when failing to understand why all Zimbabweans cannot see things for what they really are in the country: ugly, sadistic, competitively nasty and brutal, due to government corruption therefore Zimbabwe is a failed government. Why are we blinding ourselves against reality in the name of we are a tribe better than another tribe, or ingratiating self to Zanu for the sake of being acceptable as the favoured of Mr. Robert Mugabe and the ruling cohorts? While immediate and temporary benefits may be multiple when someone decides on joining Mugabe's Zanu, people forget these are short but never long-lived benefits however one may consider them. Take a hard look at the ten years of Joyce Mujuru as the Vice President of Zimbabwe, let alone twenty-six years as a faithful Zanu Member of Parliament (MP) and, still yet, another ten years of being a Zanu faithful cadre in the armed struggle only to end up a mockery of what the struggle was all about.
Think of the hundreds of Zimbabweans who have died since after 18 April 1980 and consider the cause of their deaths. Many died out of mere suspicion that they were supportive of the official political opposition party that had spend similar amount of time in the trenches of an armed struggle. One would expect some respect for comrades who had spend equivalent time in the battle grounds against, an enemy if such were actually the truth. What cuts the differences between and ideology born on conviction and sheer love of power for the sake of it, is the desire to count self less important to the ideals one sacrificed for the sake of FREEDOM OF ALL IRRESPECTIVE. One can never say this was the cause why many innocent Zimbabweans lost and continue to lose their lives under the banner of President Robert Mugabe and his so-called revolutionary vanguards.
After the December 2015 shocking Zanu Congress that sacked half of the Zanu Sino styled Politi-Buro and undermined the respect of people choices in selecting a leader of Zanu among other unpleasant atrocities, Zanu has openly disregarded common men suffering and run down the country economy. Were there any democracy Zanu would have either called for a fresh term of elections or President Mugabe would have just resigned. Except for extreme avarice that is ruling the hearts of all joining politics today in Zimbabwe, events of recent unrest (August 2016) in the country would have suggested that every effort to communicate peacefully the failure of a system has had its toll and the government need acknowledge the people loud call on stop ugly oppressive brutality on the people as enough.
The Zanu euphemism in believing that Zanu is the only way to economically attaining oneself unaccountable wealth through plunder and theft and label it as success is false and full of immoral, legal and political uncertainties. The ripple effect of the Zanu euphemism also led, in Zimbabwe, to the formation and seeding of many churches that are feebly faith based except as they make economic gains for church leadership contributing to the smooth stay in power of Zanu.
Foundation of churches cannot be only in order to exploit the desperation of the suffering masses and soften their acquiescence to Zanu extreme brutality as well as to cushion their sorrowful length of suffering without such a faith being criminal. It smells a ploy at the heart of Zanu strategy to render masses politically important almost permanently. Everyday a church emerges among the desperate communities of Zimbabwe while similarly a political association is born to try and squeeze smooth entry through funding of self-centered persons into the political puzzle hoping that by joining the political forum of parties one may pave his/her way into the permanent strata of the wealth. Arguably this notion besets the nation of Zimbabwe unlike any other in Christian history of spreading growth.
The above distortion helps to highlight the extent to which Zanu has convinced the generality of Zimbabweans that the best in Zimbabwe is to join corruption out of a defeatist imagination that Zanu cannot be beaten out of power by organized mass driven protests. Yet with a clear ideology TO NEVER CEASE TILL MUGABE AND HIS CABAL ARE RETIRED IMMEDIATELY all things are possible. Brutality has gone unnoticed yet promoted from the complicity with which Mr. Mugabe, the African Union and the SDCC have connived to undermine masses electoral victory by leaving Mr. Mugabe in control of government machinery. Mr. Mugabe and Zanu have used state machinery to benefit himself financially apart from employing and rewarding all retired soldiers and none conscripted constabulary forces to mobilize and vandalize rural people. For the truth to show openly Mr. Mugabe and his surrogates have to be stopped from benefiting from state funds and machinery and that calls for a Transitionary Authority to develop the transparency necessary over a reasonable time for elections to be free and fair.
Due to an apparent failure on major aspects of the rule of law application and the obvious eminence of the executive presidency of Robert Mugabe, open cruelty and a haphazard application of instant justice is on the growing among Zimbabweans as typical of any developing lawless nations. The painful reality is caused by blatant, uncontrolled-selfishness immensely rooted in huge capital accumulation of power and wealthy in unprecedented measures and scales by those professing innocent leadership. Such selfishness has only enabled dictatorship manipulation of masses with acute sense of ‘respect that has often always relapsed into a cause of perpetual anger in ordinary people against exploitation.
Perpetual anger against exploitation matures into a revolution whose overall outcome is often a civil war with much loss to innocent human life. Amazingly, a huge growing but Diabolically-driven leadership on an all-out -to grab; subsequently unable to control their avarice blindly promote social injustices born on love of money, self and power. These men and women will do anything to eliminate none profit organizations and opposition political parties so they establish themselves as defacto rulers of suffering countries. Indeed, in that context Zimbabwe has become a haven of brutality aimed at foiling a people politically social justice driven up rise against a tyrannical cruel regime whose government has failed.
A conscience, concise, constant and consistent mass driven up-rise stand born out of selfless love of people and social justice is pertinently relevant to STOP the gangrene of CORRUPTION CANCER now mature for treatment in Zimbabwe politics of governance. In my next argument I develop practical ways tested elsewhere in the world on efforts such as #THEFLAG, #JAMBAJA and #ZVAKWANA, SOKWANELE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH initiatives must deal a blow to a beleaguered Zanu government now groping for political and economic fresh air.
The haven of brutality that inevitably precipitated failure in the country of Zimbabwe has to be put to an end which should enable Zimbabweans to rebuild the country unity, economy growth without politics of hate, brutality and violence. Much honesty thinking and refocusing is required. Time for entering into liberation war for personal gain has proven an abject failure and disservice too self and nation. We need look at our children and grandchildren and apologize than hang onto power till blood is shade unnecessarily. We have to radically move away from the theory of violence as the only answer to resolving politics based on centrifugal forces.
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Andrew Manyevere <zimbopoitics@gmail.com
Pain grips any logical person when failing to understand why all Zimbabweans cannot see things for what they really are in the country: ugly, sadistic, competitively nasty and brutal, due to government corruption therefore Zimbabwe is a failed government. Why are we blinding ourselves against reality in the name of we are a tribe better than another tribe, or ingratiating self to Zanu for the sake of being acceptable as the favoured of Mr. Robert Mugabe and the ruling cohorts? While immediate and temporary benefits may be multiple when someone decides on joining Mugabe's Zanu, people forget these are short but never long-lived benefits however one may consider them. Take a hard look at the ten years of Joyce Mujuru as the Vice President of Zimbabwe, let alone twenty-six years as a faithful Zanu Member of Parliament (MP) and, still yet, another ten years of being a Zanu faithful cadre in the armed struggle only to end up a mockery of what the struggle was all about.
Think of the hundreds of Zimbabweans who have died since after 18 April 1980 and consider the cause of their deaths. Many died out of mere suspicion that they were supportive of the official political opposition party that had spend similar amount of time in the trenches of an armed struggle. One would expect some respect for comrades who had spend equivalent time in the battle grounds against, an enemy if such were actually the truth. What cuts the differences between and ideology born on conviction and sheer love of power for the sake of it, is the desire to count self less important to the ideals one sacrificed for the sake of FREEDOM OF ALL IRRESPECTIVE. One can never say this was the cause why many innocent Zimbabweans lost and continue to lose their lives under the banner of President Robert Mugabe and his so-called revolutionary vanguards.
After the December 2015 shocking Zanu Congress that sacked half of the Zanu Sino styled Politi-Buro and undermined the respect of people choices in selecting a leader of Zanu among other unpleasant atrocities, Zanu has openly disregarded common men suffering and run down the country economy. Were there any democracy Zanu would have either called for a fresh term of elections or President Mugabe would have just resigned. Except for extreme avarice that is ruling the hearts of all joining politics today in Zimbabwe, events of recent unrest (August 2016) in the country would have suggested that every effort to communicate peacefully the failure of a system has had its toll and the government need acknowledge the people loud call on stop ugly oppressive brutality on the people as enough.
The Zanu euphemism in believing that Zanu is the only way to economically attaining oneself unaccountable wealth through plunder and theft and label it as success is false and full of immoral, legal and political uncertainties. The ripple effect of the Zanu euphemism also led, in Zimbabwe, to the formation and seeding of many churches that are feebly faith based except as they make economic gains for church leadership contributing to the smooth stay in power of Zanu.
Foundation of churches cannot be only in order to exploit the desperation of the suffering masses and soften their acquiescence to Zanu extreme brutality as well as to cushion their sorrowful length of suffering without such a faith being criminal. It smells a ploy at the heart of Zanu strategy to render masses politically important almost permanently. Everyday a church emerges among the desperate communities of Zimbabwe while similarly a political association is born to try and squeeze smooth entry through funding of self-centered persons into the political puzzle hoping that by joining the political forum of parties one may pave his/her way into the permanent strata of the wealth. Arguably this notion besets the nation of Zimbabwe unlike any other in Christian history of spreading growth.
The above distortion helps to highlight the extent to which Zanu has convinced the generality of Zimbabweans that the best in Zimbabwe is to join corruption out of a defeatist imagination that Zanu cannot be beaten out of power by organized mass driven protests. Yet with a clear ideology TO NEVER CEASE TILL MUGABE AND HIS CABAL ARE RETIRED IMMEDIATELY all things are possible. Brutality has gone unnoticed yet promoted from the complicity with which Mr. Mugabe, the African Union and the SDCC have connived to undermine masses electoral victory by leaving Mr. Mugabe in control of government machinery. Mr. Mugabe and Zanu have used state machinery to benefit himself financially apart from employing and rewarding all retired soldiers and none conscripted constabulary forces to mobilize and vandalize rural people. For the truth to show openly Mr. Mugabe and his surrogates have to be stopped from benefiting from state funds and machinery and that calls for a Transitionary Authority to develop the transparency necessary over a reasonable time for elections to be free and fair.
Due to an apparent failure on major aspects of the rule of law application and the obvious eminence of the executive presidency of Robert Mugabe, open cruelty and a haphazard application of instant justice is on the growing among Zimbabweans as typical of any developing lawless nations. The painful reality is caused by blatant, uncontrolled-selfishness immensely rooted in huge capital accumulation of power and wealthy in unprecedented measures and scales by those professing innocent leadership. Such selfishness has only enabled dictatorship manipulation of masses with acute sense of ‘respect that has often always relapsed into a cause of perpetual anger in ordinary people against exploitation.
Perpetual anger against exploitation matures into a revolution whose overall outcome is often a civil war with much loss to innocent human life. Amazingly, a huge growing but Diabolically-driven leadership on an all-out -to grab; subsequently unable to control their avarice blindly promote social injustices born on love of money, self and power. These men and women will do anything to eliminate none profit organizations and opposition political parties so they establish themselves as defacto rulers of suffering countries. Indeed, in that context Zimbabwe has become a haven of brutality aimed at foiling a people politically social justice driven up rise against a tyrannical cruel regime whose government has failed.
A conscience, concise, constant and consistent mass driven up-rise stand born out of selfless love of people and social justice is pertinently relevant to STOP the gangrene of CORRUPTION CANCER now mature for treatment in Zimbabwe politics of governance. In my next argument I develop practical ways tested elsewhere in the world on efforts such as #THEFLAG, #JAMBAJA and #ZVAKWANA, SOKWANELE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH initiatives must deal a blow to a beleaguered Zanu government now groping for political and economic fresh air.
The haven of brutality that inevitably precipitated failure in the country of Zimbabwe has to be put to an end which should enable Zimbabweans to rebuild the country unity, economy growth without politics of hate, brutality and violence. Much honesty thinking and refocusing is required. Time for entering into liberation war for personal gain has proven an abject failure and disservice too self and nation. We need look at our children and grandchildren and apologize than hang onto power till blood is shade unnecessarily. We have to radically move away from the theory of violence as the only answer to resolving politics based on centrifugal forces.
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Andrew Manyevere <zimbopoitics@gmail.com
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