Knowledge is the means used in educating and informing the people and truth, facts and logic are the currency to achieve that objective. Propaganda is the means used to misinform and brainwash the people and lies and damned lies are the currency. Let’s just say some of Zanu PF’s lies and damned lies have lost their value, the lies and damned lies associated with the Gukurahundi massacre have completely lost their value!
“There are those who say there is Gukurahundi and all that. Who hasn’t wronged the other? I am here and I can’t even speak proper Shona or proper Ndebele, but I am here (as the country’s Vice President),” said VP Kembo Mohadi.
“Zimbabweans are one and Zimbabwe is for us all. Let it be Zimbabwe first before it is Shona, Ndebele, Zezuru or Kalanga. We are Zimbabweans first before anything.”
The nation was brainwashed into believing the root cause of the Gukurahundi massacre was the failure of Zanu PF led by the late Robert Mugabe and PF Zapu led by the also late Dr Joshua Nkomo to unite. The two parties did unite marked with the signing of the Unity Accord in December 1987 and the imposing of the de facto Zanu PF one-party state that has ruled the nation with an iron fist to this day.
The nation was brainwashed into believing the unity and de facto one-party system will deliver unity, peace and unparalleled economic development. All the opposition parties that have emerged since were considered a serious threat to national unity, peace and economic development. All damned lies, of course.
Zimbabwe’s economic decline, which started soon after independence in 1980 continued during the Gukurahundi years and thereafter. 40 years of Zanu PF misrule have left the country in economic ruins. Zimbabwe used to produce enough food to feed her own people with plenty left over to feed many others in the region. Ever since Zanu PF seized the former white owned farms to give to party loyalists mostly, the nation has depended on imported food aid - a damning testimonial in bad governance.
The people have been helpless to stop the economic meltdown because they were stuck with the corrupt and incompetent Zanu PF regime which rigged elections to stay in power against the democratic wishes of the people.
Zimbabwe has not known peace since the 1987 Unity Accord. To impose the de facto one-party state Zanu PF has had to ride roughshod of the people, denying them the freedoms and rights including the right to meaningful free vote and even the right to life. Over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans have lost their lives to establish and retain the de facto one-party dictatorship; 20 000 during the Gukurahundi massacre and 10 000 thereafter.
When Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe following the November 2017 military coup, he promised to end corruption, revive the economy and, most important of all, “a new democratic dispensation complete with the holding of free, fair and credible elections”. He has failed on all fronts and to silence dissent and reimpose the de facto one-party dictatorship ethos, he has resorted to the same dirty tricks of denying the people their freedoms and rights including the cold blooded political murders.
“This is our country; this where we belong. We want a united nation hence our Zanu PF motto, which says ‘Unity, Peace and Development’,” continued VP Mohadi.
“There cannot be peace where there are divisions. There cannot be development where there are divisions.”
The primary purpose of the Gukurahundi massacre was to use it as cover to justify the imposition of the one-party dictatorship. The few who were naive and gullible enough to believe the damned lie that the dictatorship would bring peace and economic prosperity have had their eyes forced open by the reality on the ground 33 years since the signing of the Unity Accord. No one, not even the naive and gullible, believe the damned lie that one-party dictatorship will bring peace and prosperity and hence the reason there is a growing national consensus for meaningful political change.
“Zanu PF motto: Unity (one-party dictatorship), Peace and Development!”
is tantamount claiming Z$1 = US$ 1. With inflation already soaring to 800%, no one will buy that!
Zanu PF has used unity as cover for imposing the de facto one-party state and for using brute force to silence dissent and eliminate the party's political opponents. With no one daring to hold the regime to democratic account corruption, mismanagement and lawlessness have become the order of the day.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great pity that we the citizen have been slow in exposing the lie of equating one-party dictatorship to unity and in condemning the evil of one-party dictatorship.
The one-party dictatorship is inherently evil in that it denies the people their birth right to free, fair and credible elections. And the ultimate expression of free vote is the ability to remove someone from the position of power and authority - which you cannot do in a one-party state.
The end of the Gukurahundi massacre was supposed to bring peace and economic prosperity, that never happened. All Gukurahundi brought was a chance for Zanu PF to impose the Zanu PF dictatorship and now the regime is fighting a rearguard war to retain the dictatorship by claiming the same bulls****t - that it will bring peace and economic development.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF is like a husband beating his wife and telling her to be quite as if he is beating her because her crying is disturbing the peace. Zimbabwe has never had peace these last 40 years and all because Zanu PF has used violence to impose its corrupt and tyrannical rule.
The Zimbabwean government will soon be on the market seeking financial advisors to assist in finding ways to mobilise the US3.5 billion required to compensate white former farmers for improvements they made on land that it compulsorily acquired for redistribution, a Cabinet Minister said on Monday.
ReplyDeleteAt the turn of the century Zimbabwe implemented agrarian reforms that saw minority white farmers lose vast tracts of prime agricultural land which were re-distributed to over 400 000 landless blacks.
The best people to pay the US$3.5 billion compensation are the individuals who benefited from the seized assets. The ordinary Zimbabweans did not only benefit from the seized farms but worse still the have suffered the consequences of the economic collapse that was triggered by the seizures. Why the impoverished ordinary Zimbabwean should now be asked to carry the burden of paying the compensation when those who benefited from the seizures go scot free beggars belief.
However, we should not be surprised to hear Mnangagwa is going around with a begging bowl asking for other to pay the compensation. Saying the Zimbabwean taxpayer was going to pay the US$ 3.5 billion was one thing but actually paying the bill was another. The Zimbabwe economy is in total economic meltdown, has been for two decades now; the country it failing to pay for basic necessities such as food, fuel, medicine; where would it get the money to pay for the compensation.
Mnangagwa promised to pay the compensation, was just as he promised to hold free and fair elections, just to please the naive and gullible; he knew all along that he would never honour that promise.