We will not ‘exit’ our revolution

31 Jul, 2016 - 00:07 0 Views
We will not ‘exit’ our revolution

The Sunday Mail

Rangu Nyamurundira
Smack a growling pup into a yelping frenzy and no sooner will it draw out its irate mother! Indeed, the British hound is out and set upon Zimbabwe.

Britain’s Ambassador Catriona Laing is barking against our Government for sending the West’s social media progeny with tails between legs.

Surely, disoriented by Brexit, she claims first that Britain supports the people of Zimbabwe’s “peaceful, prosperous and democratic future”, but goes on to threaten the same Zimbabweans with blocking access to IMF funding if such future is not defined by a violence-threatening social media or is entrusted to their Zanu-PF Government.

She insults our intelligence. We are not foxes to entertain British lords on horseback.

Here are the same Britons that would not have their “friend”, America’s Barack Obama, threaten their Brexit campaign.

Nigel Farage, head of the United Kingdom Independence Party who led the “Exit” push, says “threatening people too much insults their intelligence”.

A lot of people in Britain said, “How dare the American president come here and tell us what to do? It backfired. We got an Obama-Brexit bounce, because people do not want foreign leaders telling them how to think and vote.”

Yet here we are, Britain sending its hound to bark at Zimbabweans to embrace insurrection against our constitutionally-elected President, Cde Mugabe.

With her hash-tag pups now smacked into a yelping frenzy, Britain makes the usual “human rights” charge of “attacks by government on apparently peaceful social media-biased movements”.

Already, handled NGOs have been paid into an orchestrated chorus; they howl “Sadc intervention”.

Is it now a human right to threaten and intimidate? What is peaceful about seeking to impose criminal insurrection?

Must a Government mandated to protect its citizens define a threat of violence any less harmful, wait negligently into permitting the act and only then smack such growling pups?

Let us hazard for a moment to understand Laing.

You see, like those kicking and screaming Brits dragged from the warm bosom of the European Union, she thinks a British-designed social media platform will and must drag Zimbabwe away from the guardianship of our President.

She must heed her fellow Briton, Nigel Farage, that she threatens us too much to insult our intelligence.

We know that Britain, now fearing the economic cold of a European Union exit, must hasten to force herself upon new bed mates.

Who better to pick on than a long estranged colony whose rich endowments are known and threaten it back into that exploitative affair?

Laing behaves like a scheming atete, sent by an unattractive brother to isolate Zimbabwe from her resolute guardian, President Mugabe, to have us vulnerable so Britain’s carnal economic desires that will molest our richly endowed womb and surrogate for British livelihoods.

President Mugabe will have none of it and has made it clear that Zimbabwe is no Francophone African country whose economic fertility is bondaged to French urges.

And that, our President reminded war veterans and Zimbabweans, is our “sin”, of breaking free from such British carnal machinations.

The British will embrace wapanduki among us or foster a horde of twitting followers, manipulate them into purging this “sin” of declaring our economic chastity from British compulsions.

Given that her threats assume we lack intelligence, this British she-wolf and her fostered pups are blind to a stubborn reality that Zimbabwe is not built in a cloudy realm, nyika yemasaisai, where leafy communiques or dreamy twits can huff and puff us away.

We are Great Zimbabwe, built upon solid ground and by the spirit of committed hands not deterred by the bloody cuts from jagged solid rock upon solid rock.

We remain that house of stone despite challenges coming our way; thanks to the wise, collected and resolute leadership of President Mugabe.

The count of Laing’s 30 000 #thisflag pups, most of them growling their insurrection threats in cowardly safety beyond our borders, will not threaten millions of Zimbabweans to exit our revolution and forsake our God-given wealth to be prostituted to the British economic interests.

At the recent World Youth Day celebrations in Poland, Pope Francis, from whom the Mawarires should learn, told the truth to set Zimbabwe free; that “the world is at war”, not of religion but “a war of interest, there is a war for money, a war for natural resources, a war to dominate people”.

Zimbabwe has long been forced into that economic war by foreign plunderers.

Mawarire and his kind of pastoral folk would be the treasonous instrument of such a war like those missionaries sent ahead of our colonisation to manipulate our minds to serve European and British economic interests.

Fool us once, shame on you, but fool us twice then shame on our indigenous lot.

But thank God, we are on solid ground from those twitting clouds.

A few days ago, in a single district of Mazowe North, 12 573 indigenous Zimbabweans marched despite the less glamorous by-election, to remind all that we build up for 2018 to have our total independence.

It is another of the political “flash-floods” which, undeterred by a moment’s hardships nurtured by internal and external forces, rises to declare confidence in President Mugabe and his Zanu-PF Government’s vision for a totally independent and prosperous Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is firmly on the ground, mobilising a revolution to march into 2018.

The message is clear: Our indigenous aspirations will not be defined by romantic and airy moments called #thisflag and #tajamuka however much the likes of British Ambassador Laing come out in defence of their smacked and yelping pups.

  • Rangu Nyamurundira is a lawyer and advocate for Zimbabwe’s indigenisation and economic empowerment programme

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