(TALKZIMBABWE) Natural justice must prevail in Zimbabwe

Natural justice must prevail in Zimbabwe
Joseph Mbizvo Chiteza
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:28:00 +0000

DEAR EDITOR - The whole political process of looking up to Europe and America to teach the world about democracy, human rights and in our case as Zimbabweans, the tactics to solve our economic woes without thinking about natural justice, demonstrates deep seated ineptitude of unparalleled proportions on our part.

Zimbabweans, and indeed Africans in general must be clamouring for justice against those who brutalised them and enslaved them to this day. Colonialism is something that many of us experienced and its perpetrators are the Bennetts and Freeths of our time. They are alive and cannot deny that fact.

If they really believe that President Mugabe brutalized his own people as they wish us to believe, they must use the same zest to show how much wrong they created to people who never chose colonialism, but became unwilling victims.

Why do we want to persecute people on the views of what happened in thirty years, while ignoring what happened for more than a century?

Justice delayed is justice denied. Justice must be acknowledged when a wrong is finally corrected. Zimbabweans, whether they are President Mugabe's cronies or other are justified to regain or attempt to repossess their land.

It was stolen by imperialism and had to be re-distributed to bury the warped thinking of people who now pretend to be philanthropists.

White farmer Ben Freeth has no claim to the land what-so-ever and can only re-gain the right to work on it if he intergrates with everyone else and becomes a less so pompous White-African.

Our thoughts and statements on the whole issue, as Zimbabweans, has been disappointing to say the least. We embraced the schools of thought of governments whose survival depends on covert operations without reaching a sufficient level of objective inquiry about why we had become so useful to merit American and British 'philanthropic' support.

Our acceptance of the political prescriptions which sought retribution and the use of knuckle-duster tactics against people who were in the trenches ensured that we remained dazed and unsure of what we needed to do to solve the problems we had inherited from colonialism.

What we need is unity of purpose and as eloquently stated by other scholars, this can only be possible if Zimbabweans, everybody can help to make the choices that will integrate us rather than divide us.

People like Raymond Majongwe have huffed and puffed since that year when they left University of Zimbabwe. They have been very eloquent in mocking our political establishment, more often to please the so-called international community without clear objectivity.

The bulk of the people who have blamed our economic problems on land re-distribution have been very myopic to blame it on local politics without making an effort to see why nothing is being done to manipulate agriculture to their advantage.

They ignored issues around global politics and showed a quest for subservient politics, whose aim is always to provide for other economies, by way of exports, without considering the needs of the poor who are the locals.

Europe and particularly Britain gained a lot from the economic and political quagmire made possible by the MDC's failure to see its trojan horse usefulness in fighting land re-distribution.

In 2000 when the MDC won parliamentary seats, its leader went to Europe for some weeks to 'learn leadership strategies.'

He was being taught about democracy building which was, however, a cover for policy goals that were duplicious and full of deceptive terms, while Britain was wooing both human and mineral capital to its shores.

Up to now the MDCs have no solutions of their own to build industries or create vibrant farming mechanisms which were destroyed and hampered by the trade embargo by America and Europe.

They are waiting for solutions to come from the National endowment for Democracy and Westminister Foundation for Democracy who largely funded and continue to advise them and their side wings in ways to create regime change.

A wide range of multifaceted organisations train their personnel to further ruin a comatose economy, poisoned by restrictive measures. It is sad, indeed.

They seek regime change which of course is the view of America to our world.

The same tactics will be used to remove them just as what elites did to the Chilubas and Savimbis of our time.

This writer is being kind to say academics such as Dr John Makumbe and Dr Lovemore Madhuku acted as house niggas to America's foreign policy.

It is also fair to point out that their antagonism to the government of President Mugabe is absurd and nonsensical considering that they have worked at the univesirty where he is a Chancellor all their lives. Why did they not leave for regional colleges, if they felt stiffled by a lack of democracy in Zimbabwe?

They instead, should have participated in nation-building such as advising government on weather forecasts and predicting natural disasters such as droughts, rather than run alongside dispossessed and resistant supremacists.

All they have done is make noise, make arm-chair comments and gain a few bucks. They are obviously using unorthodox means to appear relevant to the processes of democracy, when in actual fact their motives are driven by the desire for material gain.

The MDC-T party is an equally useful tool of imperial hegemony who are still flying in the skies of misplaced blissfulness.

They are not deterred by the futid smells caused by sanctions and will refuse to acknowledge that the demise of the dollar is bad for us because 'the people' are solidly behind them!

These people are of course the dispossessed farmers who hold the key to their treasure that made them useful guitars to in the regime change music industry.

Regime change has been good music so far and the echos resonate in power corridors.

They wish to throw Attorney General Johannes Tomana and Reserve Bank Governor Dr Gideon Gono's families into the gutters and hope that America and Britain will smile and throw them gifts.

They are so mistaken and ever so plain headed. They have not come out with policy proposals which are homegrown and believe that the whiteness in them can turn around a largely black-driven economy to a competitive and vibrant establishment.

All the best to ICT Minister Nelson Chamisa's improved internet service to the people of Muzarabani. There is no doubt America and Europe feel less miffed and even marvel at how effective their counsel has been when Chamisa tells the whole world that a former SELOUS SCOUT is good news to farming in a free Zimbabwe!

That is what political pluralism gave us. We live in a post Cold War era in which the tactics of economic plunder had to shift from merely blaming socialism to actions of interference and direct action full of shrewdness and brutality.

It is an issue of fake milk of human kindness when we accept that Mugabe's Gushungo milk is 'bloody' milk.

We surely have bad memory or complete amnesia. The talk about foreign investment is as hollow as the promises of billions of money in foreign aid that Finance Minister Tendai Biti bragged about many moons gone by.

We must work on the land and feed the people dear leaders as well as ordinary people of Zimbabwe.

Majongwe must go and teach agriculture than sing about: 'Kana zvikanaka ngazvinakire tose.'

We need to form groups that protect our industries with guns and ammunition and enforce production.

We must burn the midnight candles and think producitively rather than destructively.

We must not be so predictive and so stupid in our analysis of our capacity to run our affairs. We need to work hard and ask Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara why robotics, he studied at Oxford University, has not benefitted Zimbabwe. Why is it that we have no physicist to give us nuclear energy and electricity?

Our large deposits of uranium must put us at an advantage, surely! Why is it that we cannot win beauty contests when we have the most beautiful resources to beautify the world?

Let us try our own medicines, perhaps we might cure the 'aids disease' of inertia and lack of tact. We must be brutal to ourselves to understand who we are because the colonial mentality seems to make us whiter than white in our dark, enslaved, skins.

We need some kind of conscription that will drive our youths to fight on the land and produce our food. In times of war, people are mobilised to go and fight, even against their avowed will.

That law must be enacted to ensure that we feed ourselves. President Mugabe would have gone into retirement if we had shown a commitment to national pride, to peace and to self-sacrifice. Many of our scholars, workers and leaders helped destroy institutions of importance to our well-being by falsifying their political qualifications.

Many still build mountains out of ant-hills about political persecution in a country where Mugabe is President and Tsvangirai Prime Minister. They are like George Soros who egoistically speculates on money matters while sponsoring the NCA on the pretext of promoting human rights and constitutional matters.

Many people out there were the sharks who created the demise of our local currency.

We need to fight for a system that sees and protects Zimbabweans as people with equal opportunities to economic prosperity. America for example formed the National Endowment for Democracy to further its charm and protect its freedoms.

The British formed the Westminster Foundation for Democracy to overtly do the work that MI6 covertly does.

Their mission is the prosperity of their citizens. Zimbabwean citizens are not in that category so where is the fuss?

It is these organisations which make us wonder whether the MDC would have been in parliament today without their logistical support.

Africa continues to play into the hands of people who drive them into enslavement and who then confidently walk about without wearing masks pretending to be people oriented entities during the day and misleading the young and naive at night.

Their brutality is only seen when we draw out machetes and knobkerries at the slightest provocation due to the pervasive poverty created by their sanctions and propaganda.

As long as we remain inclined towards the ethoes that seek to demonise our leaders while pretending to hold us in awe, we are doomed.

The MDCs must understand that the noise about MDC UK chairman Jonathan Chawora and the local ministers who are now mired in corruption allegations clearly shows that money and money alone made them shout loud that President Mugabe was a dictator.

Most people abandoned their families in search of wealth. They made politics a scapegoat. That was a pretty good lie. We will see how history treat them, now that their leaders are in power.

Will capitalism continue to make them the regime change agents? Will their leaders continue to kill by denying that sanctions exist? Time will tell.

Thank you.

By Joseph Mbizvo Chiteza
Harare