Beware Zimbabwe, sheep-scented wolves roam

24 Jul, 2016 - 00:07 0 Views
Beware Zimbabwe, sheep-scented wolves roam

The Sunday Mail

Rangu Nyamurundira
Just two months after its historic Million Man March, Zanu-PF’s Youth League has once again slapped awake the deluded dreams of #Tajamuka and #ThisFlag proponents who think of themselves as the new majority that can call for our duly elected President Mugabe to step down. The Daily News could only grudgingly call it a “controversial” march. Indeed, it was “controversial” because the Zanu-PF Youth League’s march knocked the breath out of deceiving narratives by Evan Mawarire that “every Zimbabwean” is behind his hashtag farce.

Mawarire thinks that since opposition supporters lost faith with an increasingly confused MDC and are now grappling for anything to keep their political agenda afloat, it amounts to “the biggest miracle” by the people of Zimbabwe. What then are those youths whose march is called “controversial”?

I guess Mawarire will not consider them as part of God’s people. In a recent Sky News television interview, a weeping Mawarire told us that in “the entire history of Zimbabwe”, he now sees people stand up to injustice.

Zimbabwe’s history must then only be as blurred in the teary vision of Mawarire. That interview reminded me of the melodramatic collar-pulling antics of Ugandan Bishop Sentamu on BBC in 2007 when that Bishop swore that he was “not going to wear a dog collar until Mugabe’s gone”.

What now that God still has a purpose for President Mugabe and raises the man annually when the world has declared him dead?

The likes of Mawarire suddenly feel godly so much as to pray, but only years after the causal fact that has Zimbabweans facing our current economic hardships. Upon those knees, they best seek God’s truth to know what instigated the pain we feel today as a nation. How do men of God claim to weep over impoverishment, yet refuse to curse the full measure of sin that has caused it?

Wafundisi, the sanctions that you have for so long neglected to pray about, let alone mention on your pulpits, are designed to attack the core of Government’s institutions and processes. Having achieved their objective, they breed the very corruption and bureaucracy these men of God now sheepishly weep about.

Please, who do you mislead?

Why did such pastors not weep as they now do on television when America prophesied that its sanctions legislation would make the Zimbabwean people scream? Where the likes of Mawarire not meant to intercede for God’s people the moment they heard such evil intent?

Now they weep on Sky News over that manifested evil and falsely accuse another of it. They give false testimony to a suffering people that must be set free by the truth.

The greatest tragedy by these false men of God is that they are distracting us, and in the process robbing us of time during which we must be redeeming our socio-economic humanity lost to sanctions.

We are a people whom, despite our innovation and resilience exemplified in the Great Dzimbabwe, where deprived of our economic advancement by a violent, racist and discriminatory colonial history, so much that we are playing catch-up economically.

Recently, Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader prophet Walter Magaya shared on God’s principles of time, season and timing. An understanding of that biblical impartation is that we have time by the virtue of God’s gift of life. A season becomes that passing moment defined by one’s attitude. Timing is our reaction to grasp an opportunity presented within a passing season.

The good prophet spoke biblically on the word as written by his God. Yet, we must apply such teaching to our earthly condition.  Our condition had been that of a country long playing economic catch-up. But the nation is now placed within a season of indigenisation and economic empowerment.

It is a moment boldly manipulated for the sake of our economic salvation so that we must prosper in our own indigenous right. And God — having blessed our land abundantly — placed in President Mugabe the wisdom of policies that have made us an educated and innovative people.

Yet, in our season of economic redemption, our timing is distracted by so-called godly men that would have us doubt and spend our season of economic redemption wandering in the wilderness.

The innovation and resilience of those among us who would transform our Zimbabwe is sought out. Let the supporters of #ThisFlag and #Tajamuka purge themselves in the economic wilderness that sanctions created while those who believe in our economic redemption march on.

We are at a critical moment when it is important to understand the distinctions among comrades, constituents and cronies in our season of empowerment and economic growth.

Comrades are united by a moment’s pursuit against a common enemy and easily parted thereafter. Constituents will always love what you do for them, but their love for you remains fickle and they will soon do away with you.

Cronies — known also as allies or partners — will march with you through thick and thin. So, Mufundisi Mawarire, let those who praise your name today carry on. It is your butterfly moment.

Rangu Nyamurundira is a lawyer and advocate of Zimbabwe’s indigenisation and economic empowerment programme.

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