Zanu-PF enemy dependency politics is an erosion of peace and security

Zanu-PF has a rampant and untreated case of enemy dependency syndrome to politics. By far, the greatest threat to Zimbabwe right now comes from within Zanu-PF political obstructionists and the know-nothings, money corrupted politicians and dysfunctional political mongers that are blocking the much needed economic and political reforms to fix the country's depressed employment, decaying health sector, halted financial sector, disenfranchised social constituencies, and a deplorable social and economic infrastructure.

In the aftermath of the coup President Mnangagwa and the coup plotters around him got impressed with their own self-importance. They adopted self-serving superficial remedies using empty slogans and rhetoric that alienated many stakeholders inside and outside the coup camp.

The catchphrases, "Zimbabwe is open for business. Criminals around Mugabe. Let bygones be bygones. New dispensation," have proved too farfetched for the coup leaders to translate into concrete and tangible outcomes that benefit the public.

They are so hard pressed with the desire for power, and their remedy is to resort to their old school of enemy dependency disorder, false flags, unholy covert operations and organising attacks against themselves to blame a perceived target group using incorrect deceptive pretext for repression.

Since Zimbabwe's post-independence, Zanu-PF has always relentlessly went out searching for enemies by creating non-existing adversaries and carrying out acts of self-sabotage to blame perceive competitors.

Zanu-PF has an intuitive need for enemies as a principle of survival and proliferating its stranglehold on its diminishing political power and popularity. The greatest national security risk has its roots within the Zanu-PF leadership, a party that has an obsessive penchant for engineering, masterminding and undermining its own security protocol to stave off their deteriorating political influence and support.

Zanu-PF finds it easier to run against a threat than it is to articulate a vision of where the country should go and how to get there. In the absence of enemies and threats, Zanu-PF finds it hard to postulate, persuade and mobilise people to run along with them. They do not have the incarnation, scope and vocabulary for concreate and viable economic and social development strategies that resonate with the needs, wishes and wants of the country and populace. They choose to rely on the easy but sad enemy approach and disparaging political sound bites.

The enemy approach works well with Zanu-PF because Zanu-PF does not care about bloody and messy consequences even if it means sacrificing many of its own supporters if the method achieves the intended outcomes by the instigators. Self-sabotage is done to create and portray a situation that provokes sentiments that its party, leadership and supporters are under the threat of destabilisation and attempts to assassinate its leaders.

Zanu-PF prefers the enemy approach to their politics because bashing an enemy helps them to stir up public sentiments and emotions directing people towards perceived non-existing enemies and away from the pressing social and economic issues affecting the wider citizenry. The rivals and the enemies are explicitly identified magnified and amplified as impediments to peace, security and prosperity in the country.  

The current Junta government is premised on the principle of force, commands and coercion. Therefore, to be able to use military instruments, emergency statutes and political aggression in the public space, Zanu-PF needs a pretext of a threat, conflict and a perceived enemy. The deliberate stage managing of a security threat such as the unfortune bomb incident at the Zanu-PF rally at White city stadium is an internal provocation which is a necessary concomitant to resort to militarism and subversion of democracy, peace and security in the country.

The white city stadium incident is indicative of a Zanu-PF that is searching for new a bogeyman to channel energies and attention of everyone towards an imaginary enemy and fictional threat carefully stage managed.

The Zanu-PF enemy creation concept is drawn from historical evidence and documented information detailing Zanu-PF political misogynies like the ZAPU dissidents enemy creation to kill 20000 Ndebele people;  Morgan Tsvangirai western sanctions enemy to portray Morgan as a western puppet;  white farmers land enemies to forcefully grab farms from  the Whites;  Joice Mujuru witches  enemy to purge Joice from Zanu-PF, the Lacoste and G40 power animosity to perpetuate corruption; and criminals around Mugabe by the coup plotters around Mnangagwa to legalise a treasonous coup.

The basic concept by Zanu-PF has always been about scaremongering the public to believe that there is an existential threat to their wellbeing, national peace and stability so that ruthless action is taken to eliminate completely perceived enemies with support from a small section of the privileged members of the establishment and the blind followers.

The success of the wicked Zanu-PF enemy dependency strategy entails training ruthless dark forces within its intelligence service to carry out stage managed crisis provoking missions purportedly against the incumbent but in fact intended to benefit the very same incumbent.  

False flags are a dirty strategy by Zanu-PF perpetrated by its dark forces against its own supporters as a means for reprisal on perceived enemies including controlling and manipulating the public.