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There is a question that many of the people who, either have hopelessly surrendered themselves to the might of neo-liberal imperialism as an invincible force or have been hopelessly romanticised by the glitter of imperial wealth keep asking the likes of this writer time and again.
This writer got his e-mail inbox inundated with the same question after an article titled “Work for and defend Zimbabwe” published by The Herald on the 31st of July 2007. The question is phrased in different ways but always to the effect that it is hypocritical to criticise imperialism or any of the western policies while one is either studying or living in a western country. Its either, “Why are you enjoying imperialism if you do not like it?” or “Don’t you think its hypocritical to be criticising imperialism from the comfort of western cities?”
There are no doubts; many if not all of the people who ask this question actually do believe that it is a sensible and legitimate question. The sense and legitimacy is derived from an expectation to see a Western trained intellectual who thinks west, acts west and who does no more than wallow in terminology fetishized by the West just as they wallow in Western whiskey and champagne in obscene and treacherous looking lounges.
They expect an intellectual who comes back to Africa with nothing more than degrees and a shiny package of adjectives and superlatives reflecting the glitter and glory of the Western universities that produced them. In short they are contented with an African intellectual, who after years of study and research in the West does no more than imitate Western life even to the extent of taking pride in the idiotic fact that their children cannot speak their vernacular language as they would be trying to make them English, French or whichever imperial empire they subscribe to.
This writer certainly thinks such thinking is worse than vain and would like to make it clear that the experiential and academic knowledge he has acquired in the West so far and that be to be acquired later will be used to benefit the African context in general and the Zimbabwean context in particular. That context is the context of struggle, a struggle that stretches back to the days of slavery, up to colonial days and all the way to the current struggle against neo-liberal imperialism. That context is no context to wallow in velvety plastic luxury while availing oneself as a tool for the furtherance of the subjugation of one’s own people; an attitude that says Africa is a place good enough only for aid.
It must be stated categorically that there is no salvation for our suffering people in developing countries unless we, people from the less developed countries turn our backs to the models that charlatans of all types bred by the legacy of the imperial empire have tried to sell us since the collapse of colonial empires, a long fifty eight years for Africa. There is no salvation outside this rejection just like what President Robert Mugabe told a Ghanaian audience in July 2007. There has not been any development from all the models so far imposed on the African continent; the most failing being the Structural Adjustment Programmes, often referred to as SAPs.
The only meaningful development for Africa in general and for Zimbabwe as a particular state cannot be separated from a rupture of the kind we saw in Zimbabwe in 2000, the people driven land redistribution programme. It was not the first rupture of its kind.
The Iranians first nationalised their oil in 1945, then there was Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaha project, Kenneth Kaunda’s humanism, Nasser’s nationalisation of the Suez Canal and Gaddaffi’s OPEC dream where the Oil and Petroleum Exporting Countries sought to have full control of their product.
What is interesting is that every time there has been such a rupture there is always a wave of Western intellectual giants who just emerge as if from deep slumber. They awaken to the threatening and dizzying rise of billions of people in rags and they always stand aghast at the threat of this hunger-driven multitude weighing on their privileges- they relentlessly work on counter strategies; all designed to perpetuate the world order that nurtures racial supremacy while it preaches against it.
Rather than looking at the plight of the multitude in rags, they anxiously search for their usual supernatural silencing tricks, which habitually come in form of development packages meant to divert attention as well as to pacify the threatening masses. A reading of reports and minutes by the so-called “pro-democracy groups” in western countries as well as the publications of innumerable forums and seminars on the so-called “Zimbabwe crisis” is ample illustration of how the West will go to any length to tame anything they perceive as a threat to their imperial hegemony.
Surely we cannot ridicule or ignore the patient efforts of honest intellectuals, hailing from both the industrialised and the less industrialised countries; who, because they have ears to hear and eyes to see, are discovering the terrible consequences of the devastation imposed on developing countries by the so called specialists in the development of the “Third World”.
This writer wants to be part of this team of honest intellectuals and is making every effort to do so day by day. The dream is to have a growing mass of such honest intellectuals founding a revolution for the silent majority of this planet. The fear is that the neo-liberal team of the not so honest intellectuals continues to use the massive resources from imperial coffers to showcase the wave of their magic wand- a bait meant to spring us back to a world of slavery dressed up in today’s capitalist fashion.
That fear is becoming more than a threat if one looks at the fact that the educated petty bourgeoisie of Africa – more so that of Zimbabwe, is not prepared to give up its privileges. This is either because of the sweetness of the western way of life, the employee mentality created by the western way of training in former colonies or plain intellectual laziness.
The lot in this petty bourgeoisie club tend to forget that all genuine political struggle requires rigorous, theoretical debate, and they refuse to rise to the intellectual effort of conceiving new concepts equal to the murderous struggle that lies ahead of every African country.
They are contented with being passive and pathetic consumers of western intellectual input; that to the extent of labelling some of us, the intrepid few that chose not to live on borrowed reasoning- ungrateful hypocrites who fail to appreciate the greatness of the western way of life.
Surely there is nothing hypocritical about pointing out that the ways of your host are not in the best interest of the entirety of humanity, even if that host was a Western country. Rather there is everything treacherous about a Joseph who goes into Egypt and totally forgets that he has a whole Israelite tribe to rescue from biting poverty just because he happens to be promoted by the Pharaoh to be a high ranking official in the Egyptian way of governance.
That is precisely what some of our intellectuals are doing; fighting to be at the helm of the international system by pretending to be as white as wool because that way they make it ahead of fellow blacks and access the bonuses that come with such posturing. These are bonuses of indignity, shame and treachery.
Now we keep asking. What has happened since the days of Dr Martin Luther King? What has happened since the days of negritude and African Personality? What has happened to the vision of Marcus Garvey, Kwameh Nkurumah, Julius Nyerere, the pre-independence Nelson Mandela, Samora Machel and that of Patrice Lumumba?
We cannot find an answer as to why the search for ideas that are genuinely of an African origin, produced by the brains of the “great” African intellectuals is all but in vain. All we can see is borrowed reasoning-our vocabulary and ideas are all imports from elsewhere and somehow we find it reasonable to ask why we continue to be a continent of beggars.
This writer believes that there is no such thing as neutral writing and it is now both necessary and urgent that out trained personnel and those who work with the pen realise this glaring reality. By imagining or pretending to be neutral in such times as the stormy times we are living in these days, all we do is give our adversaries a monopoly over thought, imagination and creativity.
This writer also wishes to put a message across to Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), as well as to the country’s petty bourgeoisie, its media fraternity and the community of its intellectuals. This message is to say, before it is too late- and indeed it is already late- we all need to come home to ourselves, not necessarily by flying home if one is in the Diaspora; but to our society and to the misery we have inherited, a misery which has only gotten worse in the last eight years but was never as glorious as the Western Press would want all of us to believe.
They say Zimbabwe was the Jewel of Africa and a land of milk and honey but are we as naïve as to buy that kind of distortion of history? Are we as naïve as to help tell the world that farm workers on white owned commercial farms were a shining jewel of Africa-that they made people of Zimbabwe live in luxury?
We must understand that the battle for an ideology that serves the needs of the disinherited and suffering masses is not and cannot be in vain.
That is it may, we must also understand that such an ideology can only gain credibility on an international level by us being genuinely creative, honest and dedicated, otherwise it rots in the dustbin of rhetoric.
We all need to portray an honest and faithful image of our people and our country, an image conducive to carrying out fundamental change in political and social conditions and to wrenching our beloved country from foreign domination and exploitation. Failure to adhere to this basic rule of patriotism is nothing but betrayal, never mind the justification behind it.
We cannot continue widening the chasm between the affluent people of our society and those whose only aspiration is to eat their full and quench their thirst, just to survive and preserve the dignity of passing through the face of this earth. How long are we going to enrich ourselves by profiteering from the sweat of the poor? The rich man’s cattle cannot continue to fatten on the crops of the poor man in a country we all inherited from our ancestry.
Lastly, this writer will talk about the concept of aid, something those in the opposition keep claiming to be the only ones with the key to. Indeed the MDC has the keys to the house that stores international aid laced with dirty strings and that key is their servile posturing as willing poodles for the imperialist cause.
Like many developing countries across the globe Zimbabwe can be inundated with foreign aid, theoretically meant to work in favour of development but at the end the result has always been the same in many places, especially in Africa-but one can always search in vain for anything that can be called development, that is, development particularly linked to the aid.
Those in power, either because of misleading advice from the so-called specialists on Third World development, naïveté, class selfishness or pressure from political benchmarks imposed by the donor countries; often cannot and will not take control of the influx from abroad and place demands on it that are in keeping with the interests of the people.
At each evaluation phase this aid is of token significance, if at all it is of significance to such indicators as infant mortality rate, illiteracy rate, life expectancy, doctor-patient ratio, school-attendance rate and the Gross Domestic Product.
It is often of significance in its creation of a petty bourgeoisie middle class ready to pacify and descend on the poor masses should any of them threaten their newly acquired privileges. That is exactly what the aid is calculated to achieve in the first place and we can only be fooling ourselves if we believe this theory of all blame squarely lying with corrupt African governments. In any case, aren’t the proceeds of the alleged corruption invested in the donor countries themselves, making it all a very convenient cycle in terms of flow of currency?
The only aid we should be encouraging is aid that helps us to overcome the need for aid and often that aid does not come in dollars. It comes from good willed and fair partnerships in trade and governance processes.
The science of today’s multinationals does not condone or cherish such partnerships. They thrive on a monopoly of knowledge and would rather perpetuate the crisis of childhood diseases and water born diseases than share the knowledge that combats such challenges. They prefer to expand their knowledge into the cosmetics industry by setting up plastic surgeries meant to satisfy the whims of some overfed people whose charm and life are threatened by the excess of calories in their meals. Their communities need technology and science to deal with diseases emanating from excess food while our children are born in malnutrition-related sickness, and all we can do is look and admire.
This writer thinks its time our great minds and our people stand in unison and declare our resolve for a better world. After all they say a slave who does not organise his own rebellion deserves no pity for his lot.
He alone is responsible for his misfortune, especially if he harbours illusions in the dubious assurance of a master’s promise for freedom. This is the kind of promise we seem to be getting from those talking about something called a new Zimbabwe. Freedom can only be won through struggle and the conflict between the opposition MDC and the Zimbabwean government, if not the people cannot pass for a struggle. It is merely a counterrevolutionary conflict benefiting the real enemy against whom the real struggle is to be fought.
In this context the solution for the crisis we Zimbabweans have created for ourselves since the MDC allowed themselves to be imperialist tools in 2000 can only be solved by us Zimbabweans and no one else. We need to re-orient our political, intellectual and technical focus towards the struggle that empowers the generality of the Zimbabwean population.
Such re-orientation is the only way that can free us from the mentality that says one has to be servile to imperialism for them to reside or study in a Western country.
We do need to appreciate and tolerate the western way of life in terms of co-existence and sharing values but that has nothing to do with condoning the stealing of our countries’ resources.
Case rested.
Homeland or death. Together we shall overcome.
Reason Wafawarova is Metro’s Political Columnist he is based in Sydney, Australia and can be contacted on wafawarova@yahoo.co.uk.
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Reason, your being in Sydney is immaterial in so far as I am conerned.However, you must state your role in training and indoctrinating the youth militia.What is your position on the level of murderous violence currently being perpetrated on the Zimbabwean populace by your trainees and fellow Zanu-Pf members.I intend to start a campaign for your arrest for crimes against Zimbabweans!!
Reason..I have no knowledge of your personal history..Vis a Vis Zimbabwe. I will only say that this is a better “Reasoned” article than your previous ones. It sets out the need for an individual political system that suites the African ideal. Unfortunately, That opportunity was lost when RGM distorted the economics in Zimbabwe. He could have redistributed the land in a much slower way so as to introduced small holders to the the best farming practices. He could have set in [place a much more rigorous Financial model. He could have invested in schooling. he did none of this. He plundered his country along with his fellow ministers. Your country needs educated people. I don’t mean people with Western Mindsets, but people who are prepared to invest their intellect to better their fellows. I don’t care what political or social agrarian policies Zimbabwe adopts. As long as they are equitable and fair. You really can’t say they are at the moment. Go back home and help them.
Post Script…Reason..I think your in Perth
For the first time since yu started contributing to this forum–this is the only level headed article yu have contributed.
i have just finished reading about Stalin and Mao-tsetung and have realised that their scheming was not different from that of the western countries.These
morons where as hungry to control the world as yu always accuse the west of.
therefore as a zimbabwean -who knows his history very well from 1800s–neither is capitalism nor communism better for me.
my forefathers where neither of this. and the zanu flank yu want everyone to identify with is far much worse. However-i do agree that zanu, by siding with mao and stalin they wanted to gain their land from the west after wich they wuld have then started taking us to an african /zimbabwean ideology. but wat i dont know is when where they planning to initiate their program.
dont worry mate we will vote mdc and we will make sure that we cultivate and promote those values wich existed during the tohwechipis, dhlembeus,mukwatis,lobengulas,chaminukas etc.
but i wont get there ridding on the zanu ticket.
Reason,you still did not answer the question why you would leave in imperialist Australia.I would accept your argument if you leaved in CHINA,CUBA or that other communist Korea.This article is only meant to exonerate yourself from your previous venomous attack of the West.However I appreciate your last sentence where you acknowledge the need for co-existence with the West.I wish you could tell that to Mugabe,maybe he might listen.
REASON, WHY ARE YOU IN AUSTRALIA, NOT ZIMBABWE? WHY AUSTRALIA, WHICH IS ONE OF THE THREE WORST ‘ENEMIES’ OF OUR BELOVED ZIMBABWE. IF ZIMBABWE CANNOT OFFER YOU THE LIFE THAT YOU WANT, GO TO OUR ‘FRIENDS’ IN CHINA, OR LYBIA, OR EQUATORIAL GUINEA.
Guys dont waste your time. Reason is not in Australia as he claims. He is a CIO operative in Zimbabwe. They like writing articles and putting other people’s faces and claiming to write in Australia or UK or USA to boost the strength of their arguments. In principle they will be accepting that views from such countries are normally honest and free from censorship. Come June 27 the truth will come.
27 JUNE - ZANU MOTTO
355 000% INFLATION.TOTAL FUCK-UP !
355 000% INFLATION.TOTAL FUCK-UP !
355 000% INFLATION.TOTAL FUCK-UP !
355 000% INFLATION.TOTAL FUCK-UP !
355 000% INFLATION.TOTAL FUCK-UP !
355 000% INFLATION.TOTAL FUCK-UP !
The only problem with you guys is you are not in Zimbabwe and you are commenting from comfort zones of the countries you are blasting. I suppose you are the brains we would need to develop Africa but unfortunately you are not where you are wanted. Come home and fight , either side and prove us that you are more patriotic than us yearning for change. We are fighting from our homeland. The land is ours too, not for ZANU only. Its bad when you call for chaotic reforms. We beleive in systematic ways of doing things
This article is sickening.Pure propaganda and the worst part of it is it was written by a coward who fled poverty from his homeland. My brother, if you really want to develop your homeland, what are you doing out there? You should have just joined the land grand and benefited from cheap funds from your beloved petty bourgeoisie in ZANU PF who are safeguarding the wealth they stole in the pretext that we are getting back what is ours. The other big mistake you are making is refering to true heroes in the likes of Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey. You cant compare those guys with Patrick Chinamasa, Didymus Mutasa and VanaKasukuwere. Do you know that kuno vanhu vari kurohwa. You are the puppet because you are writing what you dont even know about, what you know is what you get from your selective reading. Come back home and witness it if you want to be taken seriously by people like me who are more patriotic than you in the sense that we are keeping our beloved country on course against your failed heroes’ failed policies
Reason…Look at the article in SOKWANELE (URL below) and tell me that your beliefs support the treatment poor “Memory” was subjected to. I defy you to answer and give us a single reason for listening to your “Rants!” on the perfect society, or the 2way forward for Africa.
I’m sickened and ashamed to share this earth with people who refuse to accept that others have different views. Democracy was always a challenge to the Marxist philosophy. Please justify your views after reading the article.
http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/968#comment-223693
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTEDOS ?
WHO WILL GUARD THE GUARDIANS THEMSELVES ???????? IF THE PRESIDENT OBEYS NO RULES, HOW CAN THE POVO BE EXPECTED TO OBEY THE SAME RULES ??? IF MBEKI SAYS NO CRISIS …
Reason kuresoner kushoma iwe…
Wafawarova: vanhu varikuurawa neZANUPF havadzoki.
CHINJA MAITIRO !!!!
NOW REASON -IF I COULD MEET YOU I WOULD BUY YOU COFFEE OR A CUP OF TEA BECAUSE YOU HAVE SHOWN KUTI WAKADYA BHUKU-YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE FREE EDUCATION PROVIDED BY OUR GOD FATHER R.G.M.
MOST OF YOUR ARTICLES ARE HONEST AND WELL PRESENTED…UNLIKE THE RESPONSES THAT ARE DIRECTED AT YOU.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A PARTY THAT HAS NO OPINIONS LIKE MDC..I THINK THE DICTATOR HAS BRAINWASHED THEM BEYOND RETURN.THEY WILL DO ANYTHING HE SAYS.HE DESERTED THEM AGAIN BUT THEY NEVER COMPLAIN.HE FAILED TO UNIFY THE PARTIES BEFORE THE ELECTIONS AND THEY KEPT QUIET…THESE ARE A BUNCH OF FOOLS.
COMING BACK TO THAT FORIEGN AID OR CASH HAND OUTS FOR DEVELOPMENT-SOME TIMES WE ARE BETTER OFF ON SLOW PROGRESS THAN RUSHED RESULTS.
ESAP WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT TYPE OF THING-WE WERE LEFT WITH 60% UNEMPLOYMENT AND THEY SAID IT WAS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY..ONLY TO TURN AROUND LATER TO ADMIT MISTAKES.MUGABE WAS AGAINST IT BUT HAD NO CHOICE AT THE TIME…STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM MY FOOT..THOSE PEOPLE ONLY EVER WANT TO PUNISH US. SKY ROCKET INTEREST RATES..THIS IS WHAT WE WILL GET UNDER MORGAN -ALL THOSE DOLLARS HE IS BEING PROMISED…OUR CHILDREN WILL PAY FOR THAT.
FUCK MDC
I think we need to acknowledge facts when they are presented. I will rate this as an honest and well balanced piece.
It is souls searching and very motivating in as much as it sets you in somber thinking.
I laughed at one time and felt like crying at another.
Those who think this is a piece to promote ZANU PF are just plain stupid and paranoid in my opinion.
Reason, we are behind you fully. We want more of this. Keep it up.
We need an African ideology. We need a self determined destiny and we need OUR DIGNITY.
Very good Brother Reason
I emailed reason and told him ROBERT GABRIEL MUGABE destroyed the country b4 they were sanctions…….. i simple stated 3 facts on how mugabe messed it up from 1997-2000
A) 1997 Mugabe gives war veterans $50 000 monies which were not on the state budget
B)Muagbe send the army to D.R.C without parliement approval( the state had no money to support those soilders in forex and was not budgeted for
C) 2000 Mugabe starts invading white farms without a strategy.
BY THE WAY WHEN DID THE SANCTIONS START? up to today reason has never replied to my email about the truth on how zimbabwe collapsed , it was all coz of those 3 things and not sanctions.
HOW MANY COUNTRIES ARE SURVIVING WITH SANCTIONS TODAY………. it’s only zimbabwe which fails to survive coz of mugabe’s policies and greedy.
taura zvako ME,that is the truth.Panganai ,all of Reason’s articles are about glorifying ZANU PF and villifying MDC.In all his articles he does not leave reference to the effect that the MDC is an imperialist tool or something to that effect.And the corrupt and national looters in ZANU PF are for soverignty,patriotism and have the country at heart.Reason here is just trying to justify his stay in Australia.We know he is there because he wants to support his family back home,something he can not do if he was in Zimbabwe.
Well Muran. Reason may well be after looking after his family back home but his argument here is that he does not agree with the type of African intellectual acceptable to colonially minded people like yourself.
He is simply arguing for his freedom to think the way he likes.
I am sure he did that with excellency.
Tinomuziva Reason uyu ari hake kuSydenyhe was in Darwin b4 that he is a CIO and has been studying endlessly in Aussie.He is aZanu ass leaker he dreams Zanu ndambomunzwa achirotomuka some months back when i was on night shift at royal darwin
Panganai and others…While i acknowledge the points in Reason’s arguments, I sincerely believe that we CANNOT blame the West for the chaos in our country. the fact that Mugabe has squeezed Zimbabwe into his personal property is WRITTEN ON THE WIND, IT’S IN THE AIR WE BREATHE… Can’t we see that the west is a scapegoat. can we blame the west for the bruitality that the people are being subjected to, for the torture, the killings, the raping of women? You cannot tell me that all those burnt houses are a creation of the MDC and the western media! The west has not ordered the people to stop producing food in the farms. the west has not ordered Mugabe to suppress the independent media to the extent that only those in the diaspora have access to balanced news about Zimbabwe. the west did not order Gukurahundi and Murambatsvina. the west did not order the siege and total devaluation of our electoral commission’s authenticity. The west did not order…OH GOD! THE LIST IS JUST TOO LONG.
I QUIT!
This piece is not about what the West has done or not done in Zimbabwe. It is about African minds in betrayal to the cause of the continent.
Zimbabwe, just like the West’s faults do not exonerate Mugabe, Mugabe’s faults cannot exonerate the West from the evil they have perpetrated on humanity.
I still think people are getting out of topic here. Is Reason wrong in saying that we should use our knowlegde to benefit Zim and Africa?
KITI INONZI REASON WAFAWAROVA IBVA WAROVERA KU AUSTRALIA IKOKO. UKANGOTSIKA MUZIMBABWE YAKASUNUNGUKA WAFA. NDAKUYAMBIRA. 27 JUNE TIRI KUSUNUNGURA NYIKA KUBVA KUVASVETASIMBA, ZVIMBWASUNGATA ZVE MACHAINA ANA MUGABE NAANA CHIHURI. WAMAMA.
So the so called new zimbabwe or free Zimbabwe is going to be run by vindictive murderers like pfuti huru? How revealing?
I do not think Reason will even bother thinking twice about this empty and myopic threat.
We are behind you Reason. No one will touch you and go scot free. Never ever.
Futseki Alfonse Panganai neweReason. We have your Sydney details and just finalising logistics to follow mwana waChihuri. If you thing Pfuti Huru’s threats are futile then watch the space!
Dont go around threatening people who are giving their opinions to try and make our country better..iwe simbarashe urigwara.If not dzoka ku zimbabwe tizokupa maheader.Who the fuck do you think you are?
You have no brains-just like your leader.why is it most mdc supporters dont like debate? brain dead like morgan..thats why.
The minute you hit them with facts they get their nickers twisted and chuck dummies out of the pram.Dont fucking insult people who are making a contribution -bitches.
If you have no common sense then stay out of politics and join your puppert boss in botswana.
Dont even respond to my article-deal with the facts reason has put forward-thats debate.Just say your points and go back to your cup of tea.
Take your threats and stick them up your gay hole…you cant scare the gallant warriors of zimbabwe..bitch!!
We are still waiting for the so called best african minds. I havn’t seen any.The ones we have are mired in greed,corruption and murderers minds.
This reason hasn’t answered why he still in the imperialist country. WHY DO YOU STILL LIVE IN THE COUNTRY THAT U DESPISE SO MUCH?
i believe debate is health because it breeds leadership.we will always have different opinions come what may.since i was a toddler i have never agreed with my brother whether red is better than green.up to this day i love green and he is for red.some peiple will go to the grave having mugabe in their hearts others with tsvangirai.the difference is one will have more than the other without a doubt.the most impotant thing right now is simply who gets the most votes.the problem is that someone somewhwre tells me that these people are wrong or they are selling out because they are voting for puppets .if the people choose a murderer,crook,womaniser let the peoples wish prevail so that when the the elected gets it wrong then the people can take responsibility.it would be irresponsible for a society to be dictated to to who to vote for and accept because these things affect future generations.nanhasi tichirikungochema na lobengula wani ndiye akasechesa
CHANGAMIRERE—-YOU SEE THE PROBLEM IS IN ZIMBABWE POLITICS YOU DONT PROBE YOUR LEADERS ENOUGH BEFORE YOU VOTE…
AS SUPPORTERS YOU SHOULD HAVE A SET OF OF POLICIES YOU ARE IN SUPPORT OF SO THAT NO ONE IS IN A POSITION TO DICTATE ANYTHING TO YOU.
EXAMPLE -MORGAN CHANGES HIS MIND BY THE DAY SO WHO AGREES TO ALL THESE CHANGES-NOT SUPPORTERS.YOU HAVE NOTICED KUTI ZANU ALWAYS HAVE A GET TOGETHER TO DISCUSS POLICY.THEY ALWAYS AGREE AND SOMETIMES NOT-BUT THEIR POLICIES ARE COMMUNICATED TO THE ELECTORATE CLEARLY…
YOU ALWAYS KNOW THEIR POSITION ON LAND-EMPOWERMENT-BUSINESS. MDC ARE CLUELESS.ALL THEY SAY IS VOTE FOR FOOD-WHAT FOOD? SUPPORTERS SHOULD PROBE THE LEADERSHIP SO THAT WHEN YOU GO TO VOTE YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE VOTING FOR-HOW IS IT GOING TO BENEFIT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY-THE COUNTRY?
ASK THEN QUESTIONS ON ISSUES LIKE LAND-FOREIGN POLICY-EMPOWERMENT-COLONISATION-ECONOMIC POLICY…WHAT IS THEIR MANIFESTO?
IF THEY SHOULD WIN THEN AT LEAST YOU KNOW WHAT SORT OF CHANGE YOUR VOTE WILL BRING-IT BECOMES A USEFUL VOTE. AN EMPTY VOTE IS LIKE WRITING A BLANK CHEQUE-IT WILL BE ABUSED SOONER OR LATER.
EVEN ZANU PF NEEDS TO REFORM-SO WE WILL PROBE ON WHAT NEEDS TO BE REFORMED? THEN WE CAST OUR VOTES IN PEACE.
ANYTHING ELSE AND YOU END UP WITH DICTATORS-BECAUSE THERE IS NO MANIFESTO FOR ACCOUNTABILITY WHEN IN GVT.ALL THE WHILE YOU ARE OBSESSED WITH CHANGE—BUT WHAT CHANGE?
Simbarashe; your sense of imagination is hyperinflated. Who on earth do you really hink you are?
You are nothing but a small supporter of a poodle politician or more precisely a poodle of a poodle.
Reason is writing here with his location and feedback adress well stated and you try to tell us that you are some detective who has skillfully discovered Reason’s location details. How stupid is that?
Anyway, I am sure Reason is big enough o take the likes of you in his stride.
As for me. Don’t you dare threaten me on this forum. You are wasting your borrowed time and I urge you to start debating this piece like somone with white matter between the ears.
Ndimi vatengesi vanoda kuendesa Zimbabwe muutapwa zvakare imi.
zuze-i very much appreciate your point of view.the fundamental point of my argument is that the wish of the electorate should be respected first and foremost whether the voter is smartor not.when the voter is respected he will know that he has a value and that politians feed from his hand irregargless of his position in society.this will prompt the aelectorate to probe politicians and vote for whats in their interest hence democracy flourish.zanu have been known to butcher their political opponents throughout its existence thus undermining democracy and rendering the electrolate thats not on their side valueless.whatever policies they put on the table its a take it or leave it scenario thats why the country is a failure
There is this inherent superiority complex that is in many men who consider themselves to be of great learning. The wish to think for the multitude is always uppermost in their ambitions. It is this that has cost many a big man their popularity with the pple. Such is also the belief of a lost few, now wallowing in less support than before, that the work of political leaders is to think for the people and force these thoughts down the them. It is the thing that drives the same politicians, as elections draw closer, to bring to the electorate, bags of salt, when what the pple want is the point by point strategy of reversing the fortunes of the country economically.
Such a mind set is evident in the above article where the writer states towards the end that pple need re-education, obviously, to his own mindset. Why not the other way round, you being re-educated to another man’s mindset? My ideal answer here would be - Each to his own. Let’s allow free thinking, let’s share opinions but never allow a few to boss over the rest on the grounds of assumptions of fact where no such fact exists.
Name calling dilutes the point in any argument. Each time you call a certain set of pple by some derisive title you then alienate yourself from a large number of pple who cease to take you seriously, hence your complaints about reverse mail. Let free thinking flow and let there be freedom to choose - from political parties, where to reside, what language to teach your children what to wear as long as such choice does not impede on other pple’s freedoms. Ane nzeve anzwa.
Teaching your kids a language other their own without their consent is moral criminality.
Reason urimhata zvomene. EVen if there are bits of logic in your article, the fact remains that we should not continously blame the west for what is around us today. To find resons for this please answer me’s questions. Get real, you want us to accept your trash tichirohwa nezvimbwasungata zvaMUgabe kuno iwe uchinakirwa kuAustralia? Haunyari, come back home and experience these hardships.
You people are funny for sure. What will Reason’s presence do your political fortunes or lack of such fortune?
Let him wright from Honolulu or from the moon if he so wishes.
And who told you that Reason arikunakigwa in Australia?
I thought he was one persecuted guy and all by people from his own motherland. Kusanyara maZimbabweans. Idiots.
Reason….You sound intelligent but if you cannot see that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe then you are unaware of what is happening on the ground. You also unaware of some basic facts. Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF failed to cope with the national democratic phase of the revolution. Now, ironically, it shall be achieved by the bourgeois intellectuals who are currently representing the MDC. If you were an honest intellectual, you would have realized by now that Mugabe is nothing more than a fascist nationalist. Although there is logic in your anti-imperialism rhetoric, it all collapses when confronted by the Zimbabwean situation. In you zeal to apologise for Mugabe, you distort history. The land reform was never anti-imperialist or anti-capitalist. Rather it was motivated by Mugabe’s desire to punish the white farmers for supporting MDC. In this sense, it was a power retention mechanism implemented only to destroy the opposition. For propaganda purposes, Mugabe used anti-imperialist rhetoric to cover up his real intentions. At the same time. he developed notions of empowerment as an excuse for dishing out farms to his cronies. Mugabe has, since 1980, built a parasitic petty bourgeoisie which had a bumper harvest in 2000. Since then production has shrunk. At the end of the day, the key question is whether Mugabe is a socialist or a capitalist. The answer is Mugabe is a capitalist. Therefore, in your rhetoric, its high time you called a spade a spade.
I dont get your logic and yo use of ridicullous verbartic language to justify the plunder and murder in zim today. Dont think everyone is happy as you being abroad, writing all those ridicullous articules to perpetuate the existence of tyrant that has run his course.For me and a few others would love to dearly return home tomorrow as im currently eking existence as a second class citizen in my adopted country, because of a system that you are trying to perpetuate and bombard us through your dreary articles from dawn until sunset.You seem of the old school that anything Robert Mugabe is sancrosat and should never be questioned. Let me remind you that you and your like should never assume that you are the only ones born leaders, remember the nyereres, kaundas, bandas and where are they today. Their countries havent stood still since their demise, but have actually progressed after the so called liberation fathers were booted out. My advice to you is get decorated with your so called western education but dont tell us how to run our lives because we know our own destiny and where things have gone wrong and this does not a professor of idiocrasy to know why.
That’s the million dollar question isn’t it? What justifies the rape, pillage and murder? This so called Revolution? We have this clown Reason Wafawarova trying to lecture us on virtues. I am a Marxist Socialist he proclaims! It is a our legacy! What a fcuken joke, laying claim to a system perfected by tyrants who murdered millions to stay in power, no wonder Zimbabweans are under siege as we speak. Reason you are a hypocrite, you have just stated it’s your right to speak your mind but the Party you back is out murdering innocent Zimbabweans because hey…they see through your bullshyte. Thank God for Australia’s sound democracy huh? The irony of it!
Who is paying this fool to write all this nonsense.What exactly does this fool do for a living.
Surely these are some of the people like his masters in Zanu pf who do nothing except loot from the treasury and sit on a computer developed by the WEST to spew garbage.
i guess you are probably munching
a pizza or MCdonalds burger wherever you are while spewing that trash.I bet you watch SEX and the CITY in your spare time.
UNREASONBLE my brother.
You see brother MUgabe is now a puppet of CHIwenga and Perence SHiri.Mind you that certificate in politics you are studying is irrelevant.All you are doing is parroting writings of other intellectuals without acknowledging them which in fact is plagiarism.Stop this nonsense. Study carpentry or metalwork,it is what progressive
Zimbabweans need.
Even your dear Rober Mugabe does not speak that Socialist nonsense anymore.While Zimbabweans watch the HONDO YEMINDA,he and Grace Mugabe will be watching for you guessed right SEX and the CITY on their latest satellite dish.
karl max! all talk ,and no action
the responses i am reading from my fellow brothers on this article by Reason are fascinating,my problem is the the insults and personal attacks being directed at the author of this story.gentlemen!,there is no need for that because this is the way he thinks and if you think he is wrong persuade him to your ideas if you have any,if not just keep quite coz silence is golden.i for one am interested in the various ideas that can be put foward so i can choose the one that most suit myself,i am not looking for the best insults coz i happen to have been brought up well you know!i am sure Reason will never change his mind because of a top drawer insult but a top drawer argument.comeon zimboz give us what youve got.I HATE ZANU PF SIMPLY BECAUSE THEIR LEADER IS ALWAYS INSULTING HIS OPPONENTS AND AVOIDS OPEN DEBATE WITH THEM
If the same God created all man then i believe africans have a mandate to solve their own problems. We can blame colonialism for some of the problems we have but now that we are free lets show the world that we are as good as everyone. Many of us are good at talking but when it comes to doing we will not lift a finger. let me tell you the african problem(if not curse)- everyman is looking after his own, period. I wonder what all the degrees some of us have are being used for.
let me also caution you guys in the diaspora. why is it you always use foul language when you disagree with someone. most of you are in the same boat with this guy wafawarova coz we havent benefited from those same degrees you are so proud of. zimbabwe needs development not talk. look at the japanese for example- no japanese ever invented a car but today they produce sme of the best cars in the world. anyway how did all this happen? well they also sent some of their best minds abroad to study who later used the knowledge they had acquired to develop japan. most of you guys were not sent but are political refugees but that doesnt change the fact that if you are zimbabwean then work for zimbabwe not just spew nonsense.
everblazing-i agree with you on the insults issue totally but wish to add on the development.japan makes cars and many other things and is the technological giant of asia largely because they were the some of the people to embrass capitalism in the mid 40s.they also have been an ally of the the biggest economy in the world for over half a century-usa.their desciplined attitude and ability to change culturally and religiously also helped.all in all development take more than sending people to learn but requires expecional people to lead,good examplary friends who you can learn something from and of course good fortune.for example alot of our gvt leaders were sent all over the world to learn and come and develop our country but look at what they brought back e.g Bright Matonga,Jonathan Moyo,Made and Perence Shiri who attended the most prestigious military academy in the world-Sandhurst.
Reason, you need to wake up. If you really love Zimbabwe, go back and like a man fight for the rights of all the people being beaten. You are a poor coward, wanting to vent your ideas on people that ran away from the country because you perhaps are part of this. You may live lovishily now and say what ever you think is right, but always the sun rises and sets, so shall it be in Zimbabwe. Everyone is sick of this justification of ZANUpf, they behave (zanupf)like the pharoes during the days when the children of Israel were enslaved. What more do you want to see? Dont you think there has been enough punishment already for zanupf, remember God is the ruller of Heaven and Earth, and everyone shall be anwerable to all they have said and done. The fear of the Lord is the beggining of all wisdom. Human life is a very special gift that all would love to cherish, why take away someone’s life because they differ with you or they dont like you? But remember it shall be done to you as you have done so.
This attitude of thinking that every writing that criticises the West or imperialism is ZANU PF MUST STOP
Panganai,
Reason admitted he was a Mugaybe fan.
When did he say that and to who. Give us a link. And if he did what is the matter with that.
Are you saying 43% of the voting population that voted Mugabe should be attacked the way you guys are attacking Reason here? Kwanai kani vanhu imi. This is pathetic.
ladies and gentlemen, let me take this time to speak words of wisdom. I looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry for help. My people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge. Until our leaders and us the people they lead understand justice and righteousness then progress is just a dream ; you know the kind of dream a famished man has - he dreams he eats only to awaken and find out it was just a dream.
A people mus make sure its leadership is defended and that the same leadership is accountable to the ery people it leads. Its a simple philososphy of life.
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PANGANAI…
1. DO U THINK KUTI IT’S TRUE KUTI 43% VOTED FOR ZANU? IF U DO THEN U ARE JUST ONE SELF-DECEIVING FOOL.
2. DO U THINK THAT WE CAN STAND ON OUR OWN AS A NATION WITH THE KIND OF LEADERS (RULERS) THAT WE HAVE, AND WITHOUT POSITIVE INTERSUBJECTIVITY OF THE REST OF THE WORLD? IF U BELIEVE SO, U ARE ONE HELL OF A MANGUAM
3. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT MUGABE’S POLICIES OF VIOLENTLY FORCING THINGS TO GO HIS WAY AND ELIMINATING ANY OPPOSITION AND CRITICISM AGAINST HIM CAN YIELD ANYTHING POSITIVE FOR ZIMBABWE? IF U BELIEVE SO, U ARE AN A**HOLE.
4. DO U BELIEVE THAT ALL THE CHAOS IN ZIMBABWE, THE 3.5 MILLION REFUGEES (FROM A NON-WAR-ZONE STATE) IS A RESULT OF THE WEST’S SANCTIONS (TARGETED TO MUGABE AND ALLIES) AND THAT TROUBLE CAME ONLY AFTER THE SANCTIONS? IF U BELIEVE SO, NDINE UROMBO NEVAKAKURERA!
I DO NOT believe any of the above. What I believe is that the WEST HAS NO GOOD INTENTIONS FOR ZIMBABWE whatsoever and on that belief I will die.
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