Wednesday, November 4, 2009

How to Fix Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a country in grave crisis, as usual. The economy has stabilised - for now - and the number of tourists in our country has doubled since last year, but the sorry truth is that the political conflict at the centre of Zimbabwe’s troubles has only got worse.

MDC does what it can but has no experience of government and, has no real power to get the job done. Meanwhile, ZANU (PF), the great liberation party of our country, still the real centre of power, is tearing itself apart from the inside!

ZANU (PF) is not the monster the Western media denounces. At least, not all. There are many ZANU (PF) Party members (myself included), who are so unhappy with the situation Zimbabwe finds itself today and would like to see it resolved for the benefit of all our people.

But it is true that the party has a dark side, usually associated with the BIG MEN in the security sector. President Mugabe himself cannot control these men and he knows he cannot trust them. But he and they have a common interest: they need him to stay in power to save them from justice and from the vengeance of their victims.

Power corrupts - and too many of our ZANU (PF) comrades have become corrupted over the years. The Party has become separated from the people it liberated. The Security chiefs dictate the agenda and bludgeon people into a submission that only fuels their discontent. The interests of the many are sold out to the interests of a few. Friends, for too long, the spectres of colonialism and MDC terrorism have been used to keep attention from how these very people are, right now, plundering our national economy to fill their own pockets!

To survive, ZANU (PF) needs to change course and remake itself as a force for unity. It is the only party capable of bridging the chasm between the extremes of the MDC on the one hand and the die-hards in the security apparatus on the other.

Let me say, we need to throw out the rotten apples and reform. We must embrace the Inclusive Government, however painful and difficult that may be. ZANU (PF) must become the senior partner in a project of national healing that can only be overseen by the party that brought the country liberation. We cannot entrust our future exclusively to the MDC – or, worse still, to those who have been trying to obstruct what little progress the IG has made so far.

To fix Zimbabwe, we first need to fix ZANU (PF).

9 comments:

  1. Zimbabwe is becoming a stable country again. All the professionals should go back. Our country needs us. We need as many doctors, lawyers and professors as we can get. Let’s go back to save it.

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  2. kupi! kunorohwa nemaC.I.O. kana! I would rather suffer over here than go back!

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  3. Morgan Tsvangirai is asking all Zimbos to go back to rebuild our country. Morgan is mad. Just because he’s made a deal with the devil, he now wants us to go back. He is eating while millions of Zimbabweans starve. How can we go back to torture and intimidation? Millions of qualified people are unemployed – how could we possibly go back to that? It is only recently that there is a little food and some salaries being paid – is this the time to return? No. I will not return unless ZANU is removed from power!

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  4. I have always been a proponent for democracy and people have a right to support whoever they want. Mugabe should have gone as was the will of his people. Can we fix it? It is an internal political issue and will remain so; the West is too caught up in their illegal wars to aid the people of Zimbabwe.

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  5. Security chiefs? Mugabe’s henchmen! A small band of violent thugs who maintain their power by sacrificing their fellow countrymen. They rule by intimidation, they steal from the Zimbabweans to line their own greedy pockets. You ask how Zimbabwe can liberate themselves from them yet you offer no solution. Sadly, the solution rests inside Zimbabwe, inside the minds of the people whose votes were stolen from them in March, inside the displaced farmers and farm-hands, in the empty bellies of Zimbabwe’s children. Behind the news reports lies a country who is desperate to shake off the last 20 years of tyrannical dictatorship. Give Zimbabwe it’s voice back.

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  6. I pray for you my Zimbabwe.

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  7. "But it is true that the party has a dark side, usually associated with the BIG MEN in the security sector." People are complaining about Morgan being a Western puppet, but these men above are a much scarier proposition. We have already seen the brutality and force that the army and police have used against us, and we know Mugabe cannot trust these guys.

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  8. I agree. Enough is enough. MDC cannot be trusted with our country. ZANU (PF) must reform if it is to maintain this unity govt with MDC. We need fresh ideas and new leaders, anyone but Bob will do.

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  9. Tanzwa navaMugabe. Bob ngaachienda! ZANU (PF) pf imbavha dzoga. MDC ndizvo!

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