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Stephen Mpofu
VIOLENT acts by hooligans in some urban areas during a largely failed stayaway sponsored by Zimbabwe’s enemies, should be seen for what they really were – the tip of a dangerous, grand imperialist plan to reverse the gains of independence, freedom and sovereignty not only in Zimbabwe but also in the entire African sub-continent.

Of course, skeptics and myopic imperialist lackeys will predictably refute the above claim by this pen, for only those people lacking foresight will allow themselves to be corralled into acts of self-destruction by the enemy, the way some unpatriotic Zimbabweans are being sponsored by negative forces against self-determination as a free nation.

Yet this pen can state with indisputable equanimity that governments of liberation movements in Southern Africa have long stood as painful thorns in the body politik of Western imperialist nations that have agonisingly waited for an opportunity to avenge their defeat by freedom fighters, whom they pejoratively called terrorists, during the armed struggle against white racist minority rule.

After all, the passage of time is highly unlikely to have erased from the mind of the imperialists the name “terrorist organisations” by which the enemies of black freedom were demonising liberation movements now in power in Southern Africa.
therefore land reform in Zimbabwe in 2000 was perceived as that golden opportunity to start the ball rolling in the act of liquidating terrorist governments in this region.

Thus, economic terrorism was unleashed on our country in hopes of exacting regime change.

A quick fix in Zimbabwe, so the enemies of liberation parties in power must have convinced themselves, would have a domino effect in the region with governments by guerillas in Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa also falling by the wayside to pave way for postmodern, imperialist hegemonies in the countries in point.

The above claim has been vindicated by other countries in our region which have supported evidence gathered by Zimbabwe’s security system to the effect that a third force was involved in the civil disturbances.

[America and French embassies in Harare stand accused by the Government of their involvement in the civil disturbances along with the European Union delegation in Harare which issued a statement supporting civil unrest in the country.]

In South Africa, Secretary-General of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Mr Gwede Mantashe, told journalists following a meeting of his party’s working committee on Tuesday that the committee expressed concern about the recent upsurge of destabilisation activities in Zimbabwe as being sponsored to effect regime change.

Mr Mantashe also said a recent assessment by liberation movements pointed to the disturbances in Mozambique and Zimbabwe as being sponsored acts towards regime change.

[The rebel movement, Renamo was formed in Salisbury, (Harare) in rebel Rhodesia and then exported to Mozambique to wage a counter-offensive against Frelimo’s campaign against Portuguese colonial rule in that country as the external enemy’s tool of destabilisation, Renamo has continued to wreak havoc across Mozambique, killing innocent people with many others fleeing the country to seek refuge in neighbouring Malawi.]

Which lends credence to this pen’s claim above to the effect that all governments formed by former freedom fighters are marked with red for removal by any means possible.

Mr Mantashe told journalists that it was the duty of Zimbabweans, as was also that of South Africa, to do everything in their power to revive their economy and with that vanquish plans for regime change.

Therefore when the Government restricts the importation of certain basic commodities that can be produced locally, such a move is meant to protect local industries and in that way help improve the economy.

It is therefore counter-productive of anyone to oppose such progressive measures, and so the burning down of a Zimra warehouse at Beitbridge by those opposing the empowerment of our own industries only plays in the hands of the enemy with those hired to commit the crime ending up not as heroes but as villains of their own acts in a war of political attrition that the enemy within and without has declared on our Government.

The regret by God, as recorded in the Bible, that his people perish because of ignorance, applies equally to people in the non-religious sphere – witness young people in particular in this country being loosed by unpatriotic political parties or by foreigners directly or through their diplomatic representatives to commit crimes that also disadvantage them as Zimbabweans.

It is the highest degree of naivety of any black person to allow himself or herself to be used by imperialists to cause harm to their own country as such action also affects them and their relatives.

The time appears long overdue for effective political socialisation of Zimbabwe’s youth across the board as these young men and women are often touted by political leaders as the country’s future leaders themselves. That way, the youth will resist any nefarious plan by conscience-and patriotism-dead forces to sabotage the peace and with that the country’s hard-won independence and freedom.

Opposition political parties that allow themselves to be turned into Trojan horses of foreign powers determined to again enslave black people stand warned that they will be turned into mere zombies themselves by foreigners that draw them into power by the nose to rubber-stamp the exploitation of the continent’s resources in a repeat of Africa’s economic impoverishment at the height of colonialism.

In the prevailing unholy alliances between some opposition parties and their imperialist masters this pen humbly believes that liberation movements in power should again forge the unflinching solidarity that saw them put their heads and resources together during the freedom struggle.

Standing together that way, their governments will form bulwarks against imperialist designs so that their countries’ independence and sovereignty do not become a mere proverb.

But this pen also believes that it behoves on the African Union to protest and denounce acts of destabilisation of AU member states by foreign powers apparently seeking to establish political and economic strangleholds on the African continent.

If imperialists try to turn Africa into their playground and be allowed to get away with murder as it were, there is a real risk of the reversal of the gains of independence, freedom, peace and stability on this continent, which seems to be the bigger picture in the minds of imperialist forces.