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An enemy at the gate is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly against the city.
However, the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears no traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the business that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
“He rots the soul of the nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night, undermines the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist,” – Marcus Cicero, speaking to Caesar, Crassus, Pompey and the Roman Senate in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
The above quotation fits very well with the heading “MDC-T singing Angels and Demons”. Politics is said to be a dirty game. However, the game should be played between the opposing parties and not against the “masses of Zimbabwe”.
Instead of facing Zanu-PF as their opponent, the MDC-T’s game is dirtier as its game plan has engulfed the masses of Zimbabwe making them suffer, toil and languish in poverty in their motherland.
The dirty game has also powerfully encircled the business community, which is grappling with capacity utilisation.
The MDC-T spokesperson, Nelson Chamisa, the young Kuwadzana MP is the lead singer in the song the “Angels of demons”.
Even as this writer put pen to paper the young MP does not resonate with anything to do with growth, development, expansion and empowerment for Zimbabweans. Worse still, it is in his constituency where progressive people’s maize crop was slashed.
The first chorus of the song “Angels and Demons” was sung when MDC-T treasurer general Roy Bennett (another Rhodesian Selous Scout) was released or acquitted in his trial by a Mutare magistrate’s court.
Bennett was the Angel and Tomana (the country’s AG was the Demon).
The MDC-T lead singer, Chamisa filled with the Eurocentric ideology, which the Rhodesian nurtured him to hold in high esteem describes Bennett as the angel. He was an angel because he sources money from their disciples, the NGOs whom Barack Obama gives money for regime change in Zimbabwe.
The disciples, in the “Angel and Demons” song, namely the Crisis Coalition of Zimbabwe, the lawyers for human rights supported by foreign Western embassies, had a big bash at Strathaven (MDC-T leader’s residence) and at Harvest House where their urban followers were dancing and ululating whilst Chamisa rubbished Tomana and the prosecutors.
As the MDC-T choir continued with their sordid song (Angels and Demons), Hon Theresa Makone took lead on the second chorus.
The NewsDay of February 7, page 5, reported, “Mbare Violence: Litmus test for the Police . . . Makone raises issue with President”.
In the same article Makone, who is the Co-Minister of Home Affairs said, “The disturbing violence, where hired thugs assaulted innocent citizens and destroyed property, was a litmus test for the police to arrest perpetrators and not the victims”.
This writer feels the choir sang in discord, as the minister did not tell the nation who the arrested victims were. It is an open secret that the Siyaso Home Industries are owned by Zanu-PF supporters.
It was also clear that it was the Zanu-PF hierarchy that was targeted by the perpetrators of this violence.
the minister and NewsDay were accusing the police of arresting angels instead of demons. The angels are those who destroyed property worth US$300 000 and the demons are those whose property was destroyed. Instead, police should have caused more injuries to the wounded and let free the perpetrators of violence.
Hon Tendai Biti also sang from the same hymn book calling Hon Obert Mpofu a demon for mentioning that he (Mpofu) had a letter in which Biti was accepting receipt of the money from diamond proceeds. The civil servants, in Biti’s hymn book were labelled demons for demanding better salaries.
Biti as the choir master, he was melodiously and soundly supported by The Standard newspaper, which acted as the choir by publishing the unfortunate story on the first page. What an angelic philosophy!
In Kadoma, another choral group, led by Gokwe-Kabuni MP Muguti sang yet another “Angels and Demons” song. The demons in this violence were the vendors and the 21st February Movement youths whose possessions were snatched away from them.
The individuals who were viewed as demonic were badly assaulted by the youths from the MDC-T who were priding themselves as angels.
The question that begs answers is when are these violent angels going to stop the madness of destroying the country?
The MDC-T choral group led by Chamisa, Biti and Makone can easily be likened to angel Lucifer, who through his excitement wanted to equate himself with God and was fired from heaven.
The MDC-T choral group, thinks, since they managed to get Zimbabwe and Zanu-PF on the American and European sanctions list and by becoming puppets, surrogates and stooges of the West, they could be equated to liberators of this country.
Fellow Zimbabweans, beware of the Lucifer in the MDC-T, beware of the demonic angels who seem to sing Christian hymns with the aim of pushing this country into satanic verses and the abyss that is hell.
Dear reader, the MDC-T president on his interview by Fox News clearly indicated that he was in favour of the violence in Egypt. One wonders whether the Prime Minister and NewsDay are now calling the President a demon and the PM an angel.
The nation will have been well placed had both the Minister and NewsDay highlighted in their article, victims who were treated as perpetrators of violence.
However, what we see here is the NewsDay joining the MDC-T song on “Angels and Demons”. Those whose property was destroyed are in the eyes of MDC-T, demons who should continue to suffer by getting arrested.
the MDC-T should stop singing in discord their song “Angels and Demons”. The MDC-T is a proponent of the American and European ideology.
It is important to show them how America holds their nation in high esteem. The MDC-T and their supporters must be seized with the fact that Americans and Europeans will not want any foreign national to tamper with their nation state.
They also would not allow any of their nationals to sing “Angels and Demons”. In as much as Americans and Europeans care for democracy, freedom of expression and freedom of association they do not allow anarchy to prevail in their nation states.
It is clear to everyone, worldwide, that no American or British worth his soul would rubbish and call for the isolation of America and Britain on any fora, whatever the reason.
In a quest to make the MDC-T and their supporters desist from their acts of sabotage and their dissident activities, this writer will give them a quotation from the former president of America George Washington.
It is hoped that they will read the quotation with the sincerity it deserves, so that they would start behaving and acting humanly to enhance unity, peace and tranquillity in Zimbabwe.
The quotation by George Washington, from the George Washington Wikiquote: “It may be laid down, as a primary position and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 years of age should be borne on the militia rolls, provided with uniform arms, and get accustomed to the use of them that the total strength of the country might be called forth at short notice on any very interesting emergency”.
(Sentiments on a peace establishment in a letter to Alexander Hamilton (2 May 1783) published in the writings of George Washington, 1938).
The above quotation is interpreted to mean that every able-bodied person in America was called to defend America from any type of aggression. It is hoped that the MDC-T and its supporters will not view national service as demoniac but angelic.
The quotation from George Washington is hoped to allow MDC-T and its supporters to be honest and faithful to the latter and spirit of patriotism.
Dear reader, if you see anyone from the MDC-T camp please educate him/her on the need to love one’s country and defend it from its enemies. When Mbuya Nehanda died she said, “mapfupa angu achamuka”, and not, “achamukirana”.
Indeed, “mapfupa akamuka” and the MDC-T should drop the concept of “kumukira mapfupa Ambuya Nehanda”.
This writer is asking everyone from the Presidency to the least man, including PM Morgan Tsvangirai and his supporters to be anointed with the sacred spirit of Mbuya Nehanda, Sekuru Kaguvi, King Mzilikazi and King Lobengula in defence of our Nation.
Let us get anointed with the sacred spirit of the Njelele Shrine and the Madzimbabwe shrine in defence of our country. Let’s get anointed with the Holy Spirit to defend what God has given unto Zimbabwe.
Behest Zimbabweans, behold fellow countrymen. We are apt to run from one bad extreme to the promising good extreme of prosperity, growth, expansion and development, establishing a nation with an eternal life and an immortal development.
To anticipate and prevent disastrous contingencies caused by sanctions, which some of our people crafted for the devil’s use will be part of wisdom and patriotism the nation would cherish.
This villager from Uzumba wishes you good reading times.
Meet you in the next article. Icho! Zimbabwe ndeyeropa! Iwe neni tine basa!
Panganai Kahuni is a social and political commentator. He is also well known for giving public lectures at universities and colleges on “The causes of poor governance and conflicts in post-independent Africa.” He can be contacted on [email protected].