US scholarship bait for Zim ideological shift

US  scholarship  bait for ideological shift and recolonisation of Zim
One renowned academic during a public seminar on the impact of foreign aid in the developing world once opined that:

"Receiving aid was like making love to an elephant, of which the process was difficult to undertake at the same time once undertaken was not enjoyable at all while besides results taking too long to be realised one ran the risk of being crushed by the very the process."

Foreign aid comes in different forms that include cash and food handouts inclusive of assistance in education sector through the payment of school fees and availing of resource materials.

Foreign countries also offer scholarships under their aid packages and these do not come free and cheap.

In Zimbabwe the U.S Embassy is currently offering scholarships for students to study in that country's universities.

The price of that offer being the acceptance of going through a rigorous indoctrination programme like that of Lucifer in Waiting for the Rain by Charles Mungoshi. The moulding leaves one empty of their belief and value systems that identifies them as a Zimbabwean replacing it with the capitalist ideology of the Americans.

It is in pursuit of such evil deeds blanketed and marketed as globalisation that the U.S Ambassador Charles Ray in the winter of 2011 said that the war in Zimbabwe was not only about removing President Mugabe but changing the whole governance system.

He went at length to give a sermon on how one does not build a house starting with the roof.

Whereas a lot of theories came out of Ray's postulations, thanks to Wikileaks, the import of his statement has been exposed.

The children are the future leaders of any country and they form the foundation that which the values of a system are inculcated and reserved.

Once this baseline is destroyed then the nation is in crisis.

Through an operation code named Mission Zimbabwe, the Americans for quite sometime have been identifying intelligent Zimbabwean youths and offering them scholarships to study in the U.S where they are then indoctrinated with the value system of that country in the hope that on their return to Zimbabwe they would cultivate the same amongst their peers.

In excess of 1500 students are reported to have been offered the scholarship in recent years meaning that if they are evenly distributed across the country administrative province at least each province would get 150 opinion makers, a dangerous development if not checked.

It is therefore important for all and sundry to realise that the much talked about chat between the students in Zimbabwe and Ambassador Ray is not only an act of good will on the part of Ray but part of the grand plan to lure the youths away from the founding principles and values of the sovereign state called Zimbabwe to that of the Americans.

To clear any doubts on this development Ambassador Ray on 4 November 2009 dispatched a cable to Washington under the title Educating Zimbabwe's Next Generation of Leaders which in part read:

"In a conscious decision to effect change through the education of Zimbabwe's next generation of leaders, Mission Zimbabwe actively seeks the country's best and brightest for study in the U.S. In the past ten years the number of Zimbabweans studying in the U.S has grown from approximately 500 to 1,500.

"In a just-completed student visa validation study, Post discovered that overall, 93 percent of student visa recipients remained enrolled and in "good status " a year following their visa issuance, while 100 of those sampled that were enrolled in the Embassy's Education USA Advising Centre (EAC) were found in good status."

What this entails is that the Americans have conceded that despite the illegal sanctions that they imposed on Zimbabwe they have failed to achieve their regime change agenda, and as such are looking right into the future on how they can overturn the status quo.

The resilience in President Robert Mugabe and some of the Zanu PF members who today are being insulted as hardliners have eroded the patience of the American of any change coming soon, hence their looking into the future through the re-orientation of the Zimbabwean youth.

This is self evident in one of the cables by Ray dated 26 January 2010 following his meeting with Joseph Made, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Farm Mechanisation.

"It is impossible to know whether Zanu PF stalwarts believe what they're saying, particularly in the case of an individual like Made who received his education in the U.S and should know better.  Regardless, in his conversation with the Ambassador, Made was clearly spouting the ZANU-PF party line," read the cable.

What is clear here is that Zimbabwe and America have engaged in an ideological warfare with the superpower now stepping up its fight using its vast resources to poison the youths through the scholarships it is offering.

The education is meant to distant the youths who form the bulk of tomorrow's leaders from the founding principles of the liberation struggle which informs the ideology of sovereign state of Zimbabwe.

This is why it becomes important for Ray to remind those who care to listen and walking with him that a house begins to be built from the foundation.

That is why Ray is embittered by Minister Made who after going through the American education system like Caliban in the Tempest by William Shakespeare has only learnt how to curse.

Cursing in this case being the mastery of defending beliefs and value systems of Zimbabwe as informed by the principles of the liberation struggle, which the American Ambassador reduce to, "spouting the Zanu PF line."

What the founding generation of our leaders in Zanu PF ought to be reminded is that they have played their part and should be thanked for the resilience in the illegal attacks by the westerners.

But the biggest question arising is: What is it that has been done to ensure that the legacy they have created will be preserved by the same youths whom some have decided to christen Generation 40?

These youths make up the majority of the electorate, and these are the same youths being targeted by the Americans and their allies.

It is important to remember that education is a subtle tool for subjugation.
 
Revered African writer Ngugi Wa Thion'g in one of his novels Petals of Blood whose setting is in an unnamed African country gives a classroom scene in which students are having a geography lesson. All the students can recollect with ease the history of the Alps Mountains and River Thames but they cannot name the stones, trees and flowers that are just outside their classroom.

Therefore in face of such a reality the ball is in the hands of the Zanu PF leadership.

It is either what the old Zanu PF generation of leaders has fought for over a period spanning five decades will just wean away through concession to be signed by the so-called American educated next generation of leaders or Zanu PF actively engages this generation by way of giving them responsibility and relevance in the political dynamics of the country.

The engagement of this Generation 40 should not be misconstrued to mean power transfer. At any given opportunity the country needs 210 Members of the House of Assembly and it's a small figure to absorb Generation 40, meaning that their relevance has to be somewhere else.

Sanctions hitting the country have indirectly arisen the appetite for members of the Generation 40 to take up scholarships with the countries like the U.S.

There was no better time for such a ploy to be exposed like now when the country is once again embarking on a historic Indigenisation and Empowerment Act.

What this then means is the Zanu PF leadership has to ensure that the bulk of Generation 40 across the country's regional divide in their numbers form consortiums that will enable them access to the 51 per cent share in existing and new companies.

This becomes important in that while the Americans will be busy giving our chosen brightest students opportunities to study in the U.S, Zanu PF would be systematically identifying local youths from both the local universities and the University of Life and giving them relevance to the political dynamics by making them owners of the wealth.

By the time the so called generation of next leaders of Zimbabwe comes back  they will have to find back home a Zimbabwean educated next generation of leaders that would have not only graduated from the local State and private universities and the University of Life but also graduated from the University of Material Wealth.

An educated Zimbabwean next generation of leaders that would be ready to re-align the returning converts of the American education in a manner that defines and defends the very beliefs and value systems of the Sovereign Zimbabwe, which Ray and company seeks to demolish in pursuit of the capitalist informed ideology.

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Dingizulu Mahlathini Moyo can be contacted on zulumahlathini@yahoo.com