The Sunday Mail
BBC’s recent “HardTalk” with Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, who made Stephen Sackur look and feel like a kindergarten presenter, is indeed something to watch countless times.
It is a repeat movie that can never bore. Rewinding how such a miserable, confused and clueless sucker (read Sackur) pretended to be calm and collected under a barrage of discomforting and mocking unpleasantries from Prof Moyo smacks of a hard talk and a hard agenda gone soft.
The pretentious Sackur abused his enjoyment of Zimbabwean Press freedom by painstakingly trying to extract legitimacy for a transitional government mantra, but, unfortunately, ended up being disgracefully outmanoeuvred to the utter dismay of the notoriously narrow-minded racists whose currency he represents.
It was clear how increasingly megalomaniac Sackur was about attempting to find fault with our beautiful Zimbabwe.
It is essential, though, that he was tripped by the professor and he fell flat on his face. It was one of the rudest awakenings to the regime change agenda that the world has witnessed as that proud Zimbabwean son tore into white supremacy stereotypes and demystified the myth of a failed Zimbabwean state.
Instead of taking the rare opportunity to inquire about Zimbabwe’s empowerment policies and what makes Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans the world over tick; an unrepentant Sackur dug in with an all-too-familiar first question, insinuating that Zimbabwe is in desperate need of change.
Right there and then, he exposed himself, his organisation and his kith and kin as that well-acquainted enemy wishfully thinking of a Ku Klux Klan nostalgic return by his diabolic race to enslave a proud black people who have been independent for 35 years.
While Sackur insisted that President Mugabe was at a crossroads to give way to a transition, the professor repeated that the revolution is not complete and, therefore, the time for any transition could not be due; particularly hard on the heels of a landslide election victory and, more recently, a credible survey overwhelmingly rated Cde Mugabe as the most popular civil servant in the whole country.
Curiously, when referring to the destabilisation of the politics of Zimbabwe, Sackur was not hinting at an MDC takeover, but a banter within Zanu-PF. This softened stance clearly shows that any of the numerous MDCs have now been veiled in obscurity such that the British and their allies are under no illusion that the real deal of Zimbabwean politics is Zanu-PF.
The last time Morgan Tsvangirai, one of the faction leaders of the plethora of MDCs, was on BBC’s Hard Talk was on Independence Day in 2008 and that was a massive seven years ago when he was speaking in the confines of a hotel in South Africa, virtually in self-imposed exile making some hullaballoo about being President-elect.
He had envisaged himself at State House, having tea with journalists from BBC, CNN and all other hostile media channels that supported his sell-out cause. Cruelly, however, a massive seven years on, he lives a pathetic and miserable life having been ex-communicated from the very BBCs and CNNs that parroted his hard puppet agenda.
Back to Sackur.
How ironic it was that he savoured posing poisonous questions blatantly apologetic for the Gamatox cabal. The rabid stench of his slant is still fresh in our nostrils. Here is a British boy whose hard agenda is sickening.
The agenda is Zimbabwe should be led by anyone but Cde Mugabe. Anything but Zanu-PF.
Anything but a revolutionary consciousness. Anything. Even the Gamatox cabal. Tsvangirai. Anything.
Well, that is a very difficult agenda. A fierce agenda of transition and succession at all costs. The British must surely have selective amnesia.
History has shown that the revolutionary party always strategically triumphs over its enemies by patiently observing their weaknesses. The Gamatox cabal had the weakness of power-gluttony while Britain has its wilting regime change agenda as its Achilles Heel.
It is careless frivolity for any fair-minded people, organisation or political party to day-dream of a British-induced regime change in Zimbabwe. It is evident that Zimbabweans are not that gullible so as to allow a British hand to poison the cookie jar of our revolution.
That is why Sackur did not see that he gave himself up as a pawn and was taken off the chess board without the British gaining any piece from their risky hard agenda and neither did he do any favour to the Gamatox cabal whose infiltrates continued to be weeded out a couple of days later.
As for Tsvangirai, the BBC revealed much that he is litter in the political dustbin and in a rare fit of bravery, Sackur tried to appoint one of the VPs as successor to the President.
The manner in which he was shot down sent a clear message that Zanu-PF is not for sale. The arrogance with which the British think they can come into our country and select successors to our President for us is mind-boggling.
Thank goodness the professor was equal to the task because he softened that BBC’s hard agenda. Now with people like Tsvangirai still waiting for salvation, we are grateful that for now we have the professor as our figurative John the Baptist who baptises pompous white people with a language that blackens their souls and opens their eyes to realities they loathe.
The funny thing about many British or so-called independent journalists is that they always try to bring up the 1980-1987 period of Zimbabwe’s life in trying to stir emotions to feed into a hard agenda called a regime change agenda. It is telling that for someone such as Stephen Sackur who is married to an Iraqi woman, whose country the British and the Americans ravaged with reckless abandon in a shocking and awe-striking manner, has the audacity to refer to the 1980s disturbances rather than focus on the ensuing Unity Accord which has brought peace and stability in this beautiful country for the last 28 years.
Furthermore, Sackur sees it fit to focus on one allegedly missing activist yet there are hundreds of blacks bearing the brunt of vicious police brutality in Britain and America right now and yet our own police are searching high and low for this one Zimbabwean citizen who apparently vanished into thin air.
The manner in which Sackur shamelessly exposed the double-standards of his paymasters effectively made his hard agenda degenerate into a flaccid and nerveless diatribe in which he sank his head into the sand and refused to acknowledge the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe for the last 15 years, including refusing to concede that what the British wanted and still want is a failed State.
Unfortunately, all efforts by the British and internal enemies have resulted in Zimbabwe establishing itself as an independent State in the true sense of the word.
While these deplorable antics by the BBC and like-minded allies serve as mindless wishful thinking that smacks of boring tantrums calling for Zimbabwe’s demise, the Zimbabwe we know will trod on without any significantly unusual economic decline in spite of all measures to create a failed State.
Furthermore, we are cognisant that those opposed to Zimbabwe’s emancipation will continue failing to simply strategically organise themselves in spite of the opening of political space that is presented by elections and by-elections. As the opposition disillusion continues with monotonous boycotting of by-elections, the pain and misery of a failed regime change agenda will begin to dawn on the British and its local and international allies. The prospect of the admirable democracy that Zimbabwe is on course to attain continues to shake the very foundations of the West.
Meanwhile, the Stephen Sackurs of this world continue to inadvertently show us who our real enemies are. We have discovered over time what our enemies fear most and that is a Zanu-PF Government led by Cde Mugabe.
So, we are going to keep it that way until their fear consumes them.
Dubulaizitha!
