The Sunday Mail
Rangu Nyamurundira
The desperate private media told us that Zimbabwe was to “shutdown”, with their “main actors” bringing us to a halt. There would be no commerce, not a single dollar over the counter, no water or electricity. Our streets would be deserted and Zimbabwe turned into a “ghost town”.
South Africa’s eNCA news reported that 11 000 people in the Zimbabwean Diaspora had signed a petition that they wanted to present to the United Nations to call upon our duly-elected President to step down.
All of a sudden, 11 000 people are the new majority that defines our nation’s destiny; forget the stubborn reality of a million-plus Zimbabweans backing the President!
True, Zimbabwe faces economic challenges, many of them self-inflicted by corruption and bureaucracy.
Yet, the true majority’s intention is not to besiege streets through violence, but claim space within which to exert our innovation and enterprise towards transforming our Zimbabwe.
Only this year, over one million young people marched to assert President Mugabe’s vision for an empowered society that will grow Zimbabwe’s economy.
Youths are rallying for the future of our Zimbabwe.
Choking from the dust of that march, the architects of “#thisflag” who have chosen to hide behind social media are now maximising on an arrest to draw a crowd and amplify it into “the majority”.
The year 2018 is beckoning and they have found a new human rights poster child, Mawarire, to spur their regime change agenda.
It is no surprise that bloody American and French hands have crept out of the shadows to orchestrate this “Tajamuka” drama.
What these tajamuka fellas should wake up to is the realisation that African emancipation has never co-habited with the “American Dream” nor France’s leeching record in Francophone Africa.
The American Dream has systematically set its police upon the “nigger”, keeping “nigger” aspirations hazy and nightmarish.
Barak Obama was at pains to balance the interests of slave descendants and the perpetrating white America.
At last week’s memorial of slain white police officers, Obama sounded like an Uncle Tom, excusing master’s despicable conduct and urging field “niggers” not to revolt and to remain docile.
It is this bloodied American hand that reaches out to strangle black aspirations in our Zimbabwe using its house nigger here, Ambassador Harry Thomas.
Tommy must tame the “unusual threat” against American interests by stirring violence against an unyielding and resolute indigenous majority.
And the French; they have learnt the art of romanticising “nigger” violence, a skill perfected from its iron hold on Francophone Africa where “niggers” are hoodwinked to “freely” give servitude in gratitude for assimilation into French citizenship.
Long after colonisation, at least a dozen Francophone countries have been paying France a colonial tax; others forced to deposit 85 percent of their foreign reserves into France’s central bank.
Violence has been the French modus operandi to enforce economic compliance in vulnerable African countries.
In the last 50 years, of the 67 coups in 26 African countries seeking liberation against colonialism, 16 of the countries have been French ex-colonies, with 61 percent of those coups instigated by the French.
France’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe Laurent Delahousse would want us to believe Paris is different from her Western kith and kin.
But we must be guided by his predecessor Jacques Chirac who in 2008 revealed the true French agenda that “Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third (world) power”.
It must be no surprise that American and French hands are at the heart of the boorish tajamuka, #thisflag and failed stay-aways.
What is surprising is our slumber, having been entranced by the serenade of re-engagement narrative that the West has been churning out since 2013.
We should be wiser to the devil’s invitation to dinner.
The devil views black economic aspirations such as land reform and indigenisation as what Barak Obama called an “unusual threat” to America.
Elusive promises of economic re-engagement seem to be a merry-go-round calculated to buy time for a Zimbabwe without President Mugabe, one that can be manipulated into forsaking the ideological foundation which birthed land reform and indigenisation.
We must be wary of the re-engagement narrative.
President Mugabe has consistently and sincerely offered us our national economy, and the response is tajamuka.
What nonsense!
There is no denying that our country faces economic challenges, instigated primarily by Western economic sanctions, yet the pain of it has been sustained by internal corruption, bureaucracy and a chronic pull him/her down syndrome.
Mojamuka, then what? Burn down your home?
Majamuka, only to be manipulated and puppeteered into sacrificing our visionary whose very policies have ensured your education, made you an innovative lot capable of making reality.
Muri kujamuka to the applause of Western forces that have never hidden their intention to make Zimbabwe’s economy scream.
Well, here is a hard fact.
The same non-indigenous people have now run ahead of us, while we are busy running amok. They are now processing agricultural produce from the land we have taken back and setting themselves up to control the extent and value of our primary production.
They are going into agro-processing, cooking oil, stock feed and even the milling of our staple food and sadza is theirs.
Our stomachs are theirs to dictate to!
We are screaming blindly as the Americans and French would have us do, while their capital takes back control of our economy.
- Rangu Nyamurundira is a lawyer and advocate of Zimbabwe’s indigenisation and economic empowerment programme
