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revelations that help expose the cause of sporadic acts of violence that rocked our major cities.
In his conversation in the aforementioned cable with Ambassador Charles Ray, Gutu confessed that, “he was aware of allegations of corruption within the MDC-T.

“He had no knowledge of corrupt ministers, but said local councils were a concern. Many councillors had been elected for the first time in March 2008 and were trying to help themselves to the spoils of office.”
How the councillors are helping themselves to the spoils of office is the question. We recently learnt of how people perceived to be Zanu-PF lost their vending stalls in Highfield, Harare with the councillors replacing them with the people of their choice mostly MDC members. Today we are aware that in Bulawayo a group masquerading as Makokoba Residents Associations (MRA) has also been put in place to lobby for the removal of shop owners perceived to be Zanu-PF through forcing cancellation of their leases.

Already we have it on good authority that Bulawayo City Council Mayor Thaba Moyo, his deputy Amen Mpofu and a yet to be identified council official have taken a lead in the cancellation of shop leases of people perceived to be Zanu-PF in Mpopoma. The trio successfully took over a butchery, grocery and bottle store in Mpopoma. Then the million dollar question is that, in pursuit of the spoils of office are the MDC-T councillors and sympathisers not realising that they are igniting violence.
All this is happening at a time when Zanu-PF is pushing for the black empowerment drive, which the very MDC-T is against. Whilst the MDC-T finds it normal to protect the interests of few remnants of the Rhodies they are on a spree to dislodge their black brothers and sisters from the very business they took from the former colonisers.

The question is for how long are the black brothers perceived to be Zanu-PF going to stand asunder as their legal leases are being cancelled and their stalls being unfairly given to others? More so at a time when those who are taking the stalls are against the implementation of the black empowerment drive as informed by the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Programme.
It is important to accept and note that it takes two for violence to take place and in this case it is clear that the MDC-T through is councillors are brewing the violence. People have to wake up to the reality that sanctions themselves have caused so much suffering within our population and the youths are the hard hit.

They go to school, they have their diplomas, degrees there is no employment they are frustrated. We have two groups of youths, those from Zanu-PF and those from the MDC formations. You have a Zanu-PF youth who believes in the black empowerment as informed by the principles of the liberation struggle.
On the other hand we see an MDC youth who believe even the little that we have should go to the white men and above believes in the removal of people perceived to be Zanu-PF in the economic chain.

Then this is where our problems begin. The economic environment prevailing needs youths who are on the same wavelength, who share the same common objectives that illegal sanction should go and that the economy of this country must be in the control of Zimbabweans.
That shared vision is critical particularly when people are suffering, when people are being subjected to so much suffering by the illegal sanctions. Problems then start when you then get people when the youths expect them to understand and know better that this economy is ours, but those people call for imposition of sanctions against their own country.

Those people oppose a noble venture like indigenisation, and actually sup with those who are causing our suffering emotions are bound to rise and given. Our youths are just prone to violence nor are they mad people.

To avoid incidences of violence in future there is need for us to have a shared vision, a shared value system, which in this case is the total upliftment of the black Zimbabweans without depriving those already empowered.
We may differ in terms for example of how we implement the land reform programme which has already been implemented, how we implement indigenisation, but all the same be agreed that this economy and

the resources the country has belongs to the Zimbabwean people.
On the indigenisation drive we are saying 51 percent must come to indigenous Zimbabweans. When people are agreed on that and only disagree on the implementation then that would be normal. But there are some in our midst who say we do not deserve the 51 percent but the minority whites white deserves it.

This then puts our Zanu-PF and MDC youths on a warring path. But the MDC beliefs negates the whole purpose of the struggle for independence, and empowerment of the blackmen.
In other words their value system as far as capitalism is concerned is the same whether one belongs to the Democrats or Republicans. The same trend is generally the same in Britain. But the moment you differ on values and ideology you will always have problems, very serious problems because those issues are what build a nation.

If you were to go to America and start a party that supports communism you can be rest assured that you are going to be arrested, you can be rest assured that you are going to have problems with the youths in America and there will be violence.