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(TALKZIMBABWE) Zanu PF, the youth and a new values revolution

Zanu PF, the youth and a new values revolution
*Jackson Matsikachando
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:48:00 +0000

THIS last Saturday marked the 98th anniversary of the African National Congress and we duly extend our congratulations and salute the enduring Freedom Charter. Yours was a struggle that was our struggle, as ours was yours.

With this long history across the river in mind, and our own present circumstances, we must now call for an re-examination of the revolutionary vanguard in Zimbabwe, whose being defines the soul of a nation, and its history. It is imperative that the next step in the party, and in Zimbabwe come not from political agitation, but reasoned thought and consensus.

The party needs, by an effort of the collective mind, to elucidate the cause and effect of the factors that have put us as a nation in this quagmire.

Any factious inclination will place the party as a unit in a paralyzed state of mind, and in the field of action, means we will not be successful until we steadily pursue a clear and definite object carrying the public sentiment.

We must not make it difficult for the people to support us. The party needs a renewed set of convictions which spring naturally from a candid re-examination of where we are in relation to the constantly changing objective conditions of a new age.

The message must be proactively driven home to the huge school that is society, and in particular, the young and urban voter, that our political independence created the skeleton of our complete freedom, but the protein thereof can only come through empowerment, redemption, restoration and a new values revolution.

This is the task we face as we look towards an African Renaissance - the road itself is a long one, and in part unknown and our limitations we remain conscious of, but only we can make ourselves anew.

The party should most importantly recognize that the youth constitute the raw material of this work that has begun and must continue and in them, hope must naturally be placed.

The party should now be proactive in its argument with those who would shout the political x-y-z's without knowledge of contemporary geopolitical facts and the political a-b-c's or even realizing that there is a political a-b-c.

It is time to reclaim the good name of our country from yesteryear elements who have hijacked it for their own ends and push the agenda for Our Zimbabwe.

The frontline history and heritage of the region compels it, and the future of our country absolutely demands it.

*Jackson Matsikachando

Labels: ANC, FREEDOM CHARTER, ZANU-PF

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