Zimbabwe: West using NGOs to foment political instability
Zimbabwe: West using NGOs to foment political instabilityPosted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
By Bulawayo Bureau
The Herald
April 17, 2007
WESTERN countries are using non-governmental organisations to foment political instability and to pursue a regime change agenda in Zimbabwe, Zanu-PF national chairman Cde John Nkomo has said. Addressing delegates at the Insiza Zanu-PF inter-party District Co-ordinating Committees last Friday, Cde Nkomo said NGOs were receiving money from Britain and the United States of America to create disturbances in the country.
"They are creating an unAfrican culture, giving money to people to remove their leaders. They are fronts for regime change who have no real purpose nor reason to be in the country," he said.
Cde Nkomo, who is the Speaker of the House of Assembly, accused the United States of trying to remove the Government but said such efforts would fail as Zanu-PF was a revolutionary party that worked for the people.
"Such efforts by America will fail as the party is growing stronger because it was born out of a struggle and a (people’s) desire to be free," he said.
"We will work hard to protect our sovereignty and we will not allow anyone to take it from us."
Cde Nkomo urged party members to stick to the ideals of the struggle for independence as this was the only way they could promote the growth of the party and the country.
He said although foreigners were welcome to invest in the country, they should not try to foster their ideals on the people of Zimbabwe.
"Whites and foreigners are welcome in the country but we will not accept any abuse from them any more," Cde Nkomo said.
He said the land reform was a just conclusion to the struggle against colonialism and that it was a form of empowerment to previously landless Zimbabweans.
"When they were partitioning Africa in Berlin (Germany in 1884), no one spoke about human rights, but now that we are getting back our land, we are now evil people," he said.
"When our colonisers came here they designated land into commercial farms and tribal trust lands, now we have also designated it and giving it to the people, that is why they are now making noise."
He said land and minerals were the wealth of the country and every Zimbabwean was supposed to benefit from these resources.
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1 Comments:
The use of NGOs to undermine the sovereignty of a country the US has policy disagreements with, is extremely troubling, and is an issue that deserves to be adressed by all African countries.
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