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is and deal with that threat once and for all.
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have asked these questions once, and will continue to ask them for as long as it remains necessary, for it is only us or some among us who can free us from the jaws of colonial bondage.
Why do we Africans continue to be taken for a ride and, allow to be taken that far and yet, we have doctors and professors in our midst?

How can a nation so blessed with the highest literacy rate in Africa whistle and ululate while the devil sucks our very mother’s breast at our expense?
It is all clear for all and sundry to see that Tsvangirai is a stooge, created and molded in the colonial master’s image, and to my surprise, some of our learned kith and kin smile and listen while he boasts about it!

Is this not a taboo? Is this not as good as dreaming of Osama bin Laden not only contesting, but also winning a legitimate election in the USA?
Will that be acceptable in the USA and, at whose expense? Certainly, this example can only be misplaced, for the American lot are so wise that they can harvest where they did not sow, while the very sower grins and smiles widely.

Yes, you got it right and clear Brigadier General Nyikayaramba! He who has ears to hear has heard! A soldier not ready to die for his nation’s rights and freedoms is not worthy his salt.
This is a duty not only for soldiers but also for all Zimbabweans home and abroad, as long as we are conscious of our identity.

This is not a plea to anyone! By the way, it takes the brain to discover who you are, and fight for that which is yours.
For how long shall we continue to only to recognise our heroes long after they are gone? Are we that dull to the extent that the enemy can create his mouth pieces, the likes of the “daily nonsense” and the “noise day” in our country and we continue to smile.

How can we listen and nod while those that truly stand for our rights have their characters assassinated in broad daylight?
President Mugabe is indeed our hero, whom I shall celebrate now while he is still alive and after the good Lord would have called him.

Like it or not, his achievements will not be washed away, no matter how many pirate radio stations, and biased newspapers will manifest in the country.
Our forefathers suffered for years and years at the hands of Ian Smith and his predecessors, and there were no sanctions, not even targetted sanctions against that regime.

Is it not true that then our votes did not even count? Were we being recognised as humans at all? And why were we being denied all these rights, including the basic once like the right to basic education?
And above all, where were the sanctions? The West could not impose the sanctions on Smith and friends, who were their kith and kin.

Dear comrades, has the enemy suddenly become saintly, right here on earth, as to start fighting for the same rights that he denied us not so long ago?
Those that stand for what is right shall not stumble, for the saying goes, “You can only take a good man down, but you cannot keep him there!”

President Mugabe could have simply ignored such issues like the land issue, black empowerment, indigenisation, and in return got all the Nobel Peace prizes, birthday parties abroad, as well as media praises from the whole of Europe and America.

He could have simply ignored the call for brotherly support from our troubled brothers and sisters in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa and Mozambique in return for mansions and other forms of worldly wealth in Scotland, the United States, Switzerland, you name it!

Instead, our statesman has stood for what is right for Africans and, how do we pay him back?
Africa is hungry for men and women, who are ready to stand against all odds, for as long as our rights are being infringed and trampled on, and surely Brigadier Nyikayaramba is one such a man.

He who imposes for us a leader from the cold corridors of Europe and America infringes on our rights and hence deserves our fullest resistance!
How can one impose for us someone a leader who cannot even sing his own national anthem, let alone interpret one colour on our national flag and then we say “thank you”?

One who will stand on the podium to call for the suffering of his own people simply to clear his way into office? One who . . ?
Shall we blame our brave soldiers for standing firm against such a figure, posing a clear threat to our national security? This is not about personal gains but the right to defend our identity.

If the soldiers had kept quite, surely the wind would have said it.
“Tinofa tichienda kuZimbabwe!”