By Bernard Bwoni
From the limelight
of otherwise trivial political careers to the obscurity of political darkness, the
likes of Mutasa, Mliswa, Gumbo and the ‘Mother’ have been humiliated (rightly
so) and subsequently embittered by the realisation that they have accomplished nothing
but a free-fall into the twilight of their productive political years. This
political near dearth experience soon to be political oblivion has wounded them
and their response has been to make counter spurious claims of ‘People First’.
The thing with quislings is that they talk as if their choice to cross the
floor was about 'People First' and as if they put 'People First' when in fact
the reality is that it is all about their own egotistical quest and their
insatiable desire to follow the undignified pathway that come with the trappings
of power. The thing with such individuals is their inability to stand for any
real principle and hence the undependable wobble into the opposition ranks and
Western handholding. They will swing from one end of the political pendulum to
the next hopelessly hoping to land on the solid side of principle but they never
do. Now they must live with the reality of an inevitable descend from self-proclaimed
political importance to the darkest depth of political obscurity. There is no
'People First' in any quest for a regime change agenda. There is only one
ZANU-PF and the PF stands for Patriotic Front and those who claim 'People
First' do not for one second have the patriotic marrow in their
deoxyribonucleic acid. Those who attempt to weaken the party that liberated
this country are reckless and careless to say the least. The sanctity of
Zimbabwe's liberation struggle and independence must never be compromised by
the likes of the crooked Mliswas, uncles and ‘mothers’ at the expense of the
majority. Zimbabwe is on the way up and as our independence approaches again we
must never forget the sacrifices.
Independence is
that beautiful realisation that one is free from physical, mental, political
and economic shackles. What a lovely feeling indeed. It entails the
reorganisation, the rebranding and the rebuilding of the victim's emotional,
economic and political infrastructures to support the independent entity's
trajectory. Zimbabwe's independence was not and is not the final journey's end
but rather the beginning, the bridge that connects and enable us as a sovereign
nation to drive up national processes, to determine our own destiny and ensure
the country remains on course. 18th April 1980 removed the many obstacles that
limited our potential as a people and put in place opportunities. It is true
that many challenges remain but the shackles have been totally eliminated. With
the shackles of Rhodesia out of the way any challenge can be and will be
overcome. As we celebrate our hard won independence let us all remember that
where there are challenges there lie in great opportunities. Challenges
obstruct opportunities and as President Mugabe rightly stated at the South
Africa-Zimbabwe Business Forum, it is about creating opportunities for present
and future generations to own the country’s natural resources. President Mugabe
said that in some African countries independence was only a ‘half measure as
those countries do not even own their natural resources’.
There is definitely a lack of patriotism among those
who have been working underhandedly to dismantle the structures of the ruling
party in Zimbabwe and it is such a shame that some of them actually
participated in the sacred struggle to liberate the country from those who they
are now working towards serving. The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe was fought
and won by men and women with the patriotic marrow and blood that flowed
patriotically through their spirits, blood that flowed in the land we call
Zimbabwe today. These sons and daughters of Zimbabwe fought a just war and put
the country ahead of all distractions and trappings. The priority was the
liberation of the country and all its component parts. The likes of Temba
Mliswa do not possess that patriotic marrow in their spineless bones and yet
they start to believe they are bigger than the sacrifices of those who
liberated this country. ZANU-PF is way bigger than the unstable and
self-serving Mliswas and uncles and they must never be allowed to undermine the
honourable name of the revolutionary ruling polity. These are just but very
small individuals in the grand scheme of things and the party is way bigger
than all their treacherous simple minds put together. ZANU-PF is that bigger
picture built on the collective strength of the people. The revolutionary
ruling party is way bigger than the insignificant and irrelevant Mliswas and
uncles. These errant turncoats are exactly where they belong and the spirit of
those who gallantly fought for the independence of Zimbabwe will guide them
towards the permanent political dustbin.
It is the likes of Mliswa and uncles who have
gleefully embraced CIA agents like Erick Little in the naïve quest to undermine
Zimbabwe, to aid and abet the regime change agenda that continues to seek to
undermine Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe’s national security is constantly under threat
owing to the actions of the overzealous and over-paid perfidious few who are
touting the lame ‘People First’ ideology and publicly courting the dysfunctional
opposition in the hope of toppling the ruling party. This is no way to suggest
that the likes of Mutasa, Mliswa, Gumbo and others should not differ with the
ruling party ideology but when it comes to affairs concerning the integrity of
that bigger and sacred entity called Zimbabwe then national pride and duty
dictates that it is unethical to invite alien onslaught to further own ailing
political careers. The reality is that those who have been kicked out of the
ruling party will never in their lifetime empower the black indigene but rather
continue to further the interests of our erstwhile colonisers as the local
opposition has done over the years. I would not at all be surprised if Mliswa
does not start calling for further sanctions against Zimbabwe.
The one thing that is certain is that patriotism has
indefinitely abandoned those who have been rightly ejected from ruling party.
Wining and dining with known CIA agents the likes of Eric Little is an
unpatriotic assault on the country and Zimbabwe unfortunately is being bruised
from all angles by these unpatriotic renegades and as expected the MDC-T. For
one to have a patriotic commitment to Zimbabwe they have to uphold the
principles of protecting and preserving the country’s virtues whatever it takes
and not to undermine it to further own ambitions towards the upper echelons and
corridors of State House. The sad thing is that those who are abusing the
sanctity of Zimbabwe’s liberation are supposed to be the very same custodians
of national sovereignty by virtue of having participated in the struggle to
liberate Zimbabwe.
The lack of patriotism in the likes of Mliswa and
uncles has yielded a self-obsessed and mercenary attitude as we have seen and
that has a profound effect on the country as a whole. Patriotism is not a
part-time promise to uphold national principles but the dedication of a
lifetime to national trajectory. It is that sense of shared sense of identity
for the preservation of national pride and identity. Zimbabwe’s liberation
struggle provided that platform and it is up to the people of Zimbabwe to
proudly uphold. Quislings like Mliswa do not inspire and will never build
nations. It is compound and united structures like the ruling party that build
nations. The nation is the complex entity with its people being the component
parts defining it. Tampering with the core of this unique entity has a
disastrous cumulative effect on all the micro component parts. Those errant
comrades who have been shown the door out of ZANU-PF were tinkering with the
nucleus that anchors the nation as a whole.
The gallant sons and daughters of Zimbabwe who fought
for the liberation of Zimbabwe were ready to sacrifice all for the greater good
of the whole country and not only the individual pieces that make up the whole.
The young men and women who liberated the country were patriots who were
committed to uplifting all Zimbabweans from the mire and mud created by the
racist Rhodesian system. Zimbabwe’s independence did not come free of charge,
many a young men and women lost their lives and for the likes of Mliswa to cosy
up to known CIA agents insistent on undermining and compromising the ideals of
the sacred struggle is morally unrefined. As Tsvangirai has said to Didymus
Mutasa “If you are proposing love to a girl you do not do that in the media or
in public. Mutasa has not approached me and if he really wanted to engage me at
that level he would have come to me through the right channels,” What more can I
say, birds of the same further flock together.
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