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around them will have been shocked at the manner by which the United States government has unleashed its pirate radio station on Zimbabwe to destabilise the country by inciting inter-party violence using Zimbabweans employed as broadcasters.
For a long time now, the broadcaster has been dishing out solar energy-powered radio receivers to Zimbabweans and other listeners in South Africa, Botswana and elsewhere to diffuse its anti-Zanu PF and anti-Mugabe propaganda.
The listeners are mostly hooked on to take part in the station’s “Live Talk” programme in which a Zanu-PF official or two are occasionally brought into comment on some issues under discussion.
A week ago a “Live Talk” cast included South Africans and Zimbabweans resident in that country and in Botswana and those here at home, all of whom spoke against Zanu-PF – a member of the inclusive Government along with two MDC formations – and against President Mugabe, and nearly all of them instigating MDC-T supporters to organise themselves and take violence to Zanu-PF members whom they alleged to be brutalising them.
South Africans, who probably remotely know what goes on in Zimbabwe and may never have been to the country before, were among the leading pack calling for the obliteration of Zanu-PF from the Government and accusing it of causing violence.
Some of these brought on the to the show denounced arrests by police recently of MDC-T supporters for alleged acts of violence in several towns.
Some of the callers asked, “what (MDC-T) co-Minister of Home Affairs Theresa Makone is doing in the Government” while failing to protect those members of her party picked up by the police in connection with political violence.
Sadc and the African Union were also blamed by some listeners “for not doing enough to punish” Zanu-PF which they claimed caused violence, and not MDC-T.
In a clear act of disinformation the pirate radio station alleged that MDC-T supporters were detained for “discussing” the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
One participant even had the temerity to describe President Zuma and his predecessor Cde Thabo Mbeki as “dictators” who should not have been involved in resolving inter-party political challenges in Zimbabwe.
President Zuma, like Cde Mbeki, were mandated by Sadc to bring peace to warring political parties in Zimbabwe, with Mr Mbeki’s “quiet diplomacy” mediation culminating in the inclusive government being born out of the Global Political Agreement, now in the throes of death.
Those contributing to the talk navigated discussion on the current political situation in this country to the gallery of the black expatriate broadcasters who ply their trade under heavy dosages of indoctrination, which has diminished their perception of the value of the independence, freedom and sovereignty of their own motherland.
Their minds having been so doctored, the radio station’s crew purvey their masters’ propaganda which appears effectively to have defiled the minds of some Zimbabwean politicians and their supporters hand-held by the West into believing that they are a superior political breed to their peers in other parties.
But how can that be when the track record of some of the Western countries themselves has a long, continuing black history of discrimination of minority black races from Africa whose ancestors were abducted centuries ago?
True, some of the blacks in question have somehow navigated their way into political display windows where they struggle to dig in their heels while white racists eye them condescendingly and with a sneer, even a thumb on their nose.
At one time when an irate Zimbabwean asked why the pirate broadcaster waged a vicious propaganda campaign against this country, a former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation worker, now with the US station, retorted by saying the channel was “a market-place for ideas.”
Charmed by that defence, the owners of the channel must have reclined in their seats with celebratory swigs of a befitting beverage and with the quip: “Got it, Miss! Got it right.”
Market place? All right. But when one of the goods sold is Zimbabwean blood then that market-place takes on a gory sight with which only connoisseurs of violence, blood, are wont to associate.
What Zimbabweans being lured by the Western countries do not realise is that the imperialists want simply to use them to enhance their leverage in the regime change campaign in this country.
After that, they will then be turned into cat’s paws to raw materials from this country with which to surfeit the bellies of the hegemonists while they themselves and other Zimbabweans remain as itinerant scavengers on soil pulsating with wealth under their feet.
It must therefore be clear to everybody that the West however, white and strong its hand might appear, will never ever establish or increase the politicians in this country whom it is holding and directing as though they were blind and should not walk headlong into danger.
The same applies to those that the station employs who put dirty silver and the Diaspora upfront while torching the only roof over their own people now suffering from the effects of illegal sanctions the West slapped on Zimbabwe as punishment for reclaiming its birth-right, land, from foreign occupation.
After reading this article, some might accuse this pen of trying to imprison Zimbabwe in a cocoon from which the country may not access foreign aid.
Such a change seems to suggest that a country must kow tow to those dangling aid as a carrot even if at pains of surrendering its sovereignty, as if such aid were a gift.
On the contrary, students of international relations – and this writer is among them – know that foreign financial aid, for instance is not charity, a mere hand-out but is lucrative investment, like one putting money into a bank account where it yields handsome dividends, profit.
It is for that reason that poorer countries sometimes struggle to clear the interests on aid from international organisations with the result that the recipients become hamstrung in their rational development efforts while trying to repay every cent loaned to them.
Even visibility aid-givers seek to exact the patronage of recipient countries in spite of some of this type of aid not benefiting the masses sorely in need of development assistance, the best of which is personnel assistance under which expatriates impart their expertise to understudies in addition, in some cases to a transfer of advanced technology from their more-developed countries.
This thesis’ bottom line is that Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans and that only they should find solutions to challenges confronting them, with help from other African countries where necessary.
This is because African countries together share a colonial history of suppression and exploitation of their vast raw materials both of which imperialism seeks to replicate in present and future generations.
What all this means is that Zimbabweans, however, disparate their political persuasions, should stick together and look to God for their survival.
This is particularly urgent and imperative in light of Western Europe and America which are engaged strenuously in trying to squeeze life out of Zimbabweans through their obscene, illegal economic embargo so as to wring out the country’s subservience and make it take other of the West.
Look at what happened recently; the European Union renewed for another year the sanctions first imposed by Britain and the US in protest at our land reform programme.
Although some well-sighted EU members reportedly were opposed to the renewal, they nevertheless went along with the blind sheep, driven by mob psychology even towards an opaque future, just for the sake of also being sheep themselves.
Now, when human beings reconstitute themselves into a tragic creation, as EU members have literally done the Master Creator should not at all be expected to smile at such disaster.
For Zimbabweans to continue to be focused on self-determination; a signature tune during the liberation struggle, the country’s political organisations should be viewed as different roads that eventually converge on a common destiny of self-realisation and self-actualisation of people travelling on them.
Today, however, some political parties resemble roads that criss-cross each other and along which dangerous beasts roam so that travelers scatter and are rendered directionless by the predators.
As such, how then can Zimbabweans hope to consummate self-determination as a free united people?
“Tempus fugit,” they say in Latin.
Yes, time flies and Zimbabweans should not be left behind gazing nonchalantly at the mesmerising colours of a python creeping up toward them for a kill.