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Traitors: A dreaded threat to Zimbabwe

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JUDAS ISCARIOT was a traitor who collaborated with the Jews to assassinate Jesus.
Judas Iscariot was a game-changer in the works of Jesus Christ contributing decisively to his arrest and subsequent assassination.
What is a traitor; this person who has capacity to change the course of events in a decisive way?
A traitor is a person who is not loyal to his or her own country, political party, nation, family, friends, ethnic group, team, religion or even social class.
The traitor achieves this by helping or supporting covertly or overtly the enemies of the group to which he belongs.
In political, economic and national issues, the traitor commits a crime called treason.
This is a crime where one tries to overthrow one’s own country’s government or helping own country’s enemies during a war or state of instability.
The word ‘traitor’ emerges with Judas Iscariot (Luke 6:16) handing over Jesus to the chief priests, captains of the temple and elders (Luke 22:52).
Thus Christians and Muslims to this day consider those people blasphemous to their religions as traitors committing treason.
The following countries have laws of treason specifically crafted to deal with traitors; United States, United kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Hong Kong, Muslim States, Turkey, Russia, New Zealand, Italy, Ireland, Brazil and Canada. This list is merely an elaboration.
The traitor seems to be the most feared individual by all nations.
Unfortunately, Zimbabwe also has traitors, those who handover the country to its enemies.
Why does a person seek to become a traitor and treasonous in the first place?
To be a traitor arises from any of the following causes.
Lack of self-knowledge
Here the person inside a conflict does not understand his position within the conflict.
He has no allegiance to any of the sides including the one to which he naturally belongs.
If approached by the enemy of his side he has no value attached and can hand-over-Jesus without the slightest remorse.
The person lacks the history of his people as well as the background of the current conflict.
This situation arises when the nation has no deliberate policy to inform citizens of its history through education.
When traitors emerge out of lack of self-knowledge, it is the government to blame as it will have failed through its educational curriculum to create common identity among its citizens.
Identity is a product of self-knowledge.
This is a need that must be satisfied.
Even Maslow identified ‘belonging’ as a real need
Fear of the enemy
Sometimes the enemy is so fierce some of us cannot face it.
The invincibility of the enemy may be perceived or real, all the same some of us will offer favours to the enemy with the mistaken hope that the enemy will spare them when push comes to shove.
Some fear of the enemy is mere cowardice.
In our own liberation struggle, some people were so much afraid of Ian Smith’s war machinery that they would rather side with him to avoid his military arm. Some of them became sell-outs providing the Rhodesian army with vital intelligence.
These were called vatengesi.
Traitors are not trusted by both sides of the conflict.
Before being a traitor, your people trusted you.
But when you become a traitor and betray your own people, you lose their trust. Those enemies using you will never trust you.
They will use you and dispose of you when no longer needed.
All sides of the conflict that use traitors know very well that a traitor is a betrayer who cannot be trusted.
Traitors that result out of fear of the enemy have personal inherent weaknesses they fail to overcome.
They are easily overwhelmed by a conflict situation and seek to be refugees of the conflict.
Ambiguous cause
In a conflict, it is the responsibility of those in charge such as the state to clearly define the nature of the conflict to its subjects.
If the conflict is ambiguous to citizens, sometimes they will not share the cause. The state machinery may risk creating traitors if the threats to the nation are not known by citizens.
For an example, Zimbabwe is a very rich country in terms of her natural resources.
It will always be in conflict with looter nations, those that would want to loot those resources without commensurate compensation.
These looter nations, will look for traitors from among us to supply them with vital information.
They will use these individuals to destabilise the system and create a conflict environment.
But because the citizens have no fair understanding of the threats before their cause, they may fall to the machinations of these looting nations.
The nation should have an education curriculum that articulates national threats to prepare the citizens for the eventualities.
National service particularly for the youth should be an integral part of the development of the Zimbabwean citizen.
Zimbabwe should not be shy to introduce national youth service programmes because all the countries of this world have some form of youth induction and service.
Divide and rule tactics by your enemies
One way of the enemy of the nation to direct attention away from his machinations is by redirecting the citizens towards each other.
Citizens will be forced to focus on racism, tribalism, gender and age as conflict zones in a nation.
You always hear them reminding Zimbabweans of the Ndebele-Shona divide. They will exaggerate gender conflict.
As citizens are engaging each other on these petty conflicts, the enemy is scouting for traitors in the process.
Because group cohesion will have been eroded, it will be very easy to identify those among us who will be willing to cross the line and serve the enemy as traitors.
It is very important to know that the very nations scouting for traitors among us, themselves have ruthless policies against traitors.
Julian Assange of the Wikileaks is languishing in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over two years now.
He is regarded as a traitor who sold American secrets to the world.
Edward Snowden is a wanted American computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency.
Americans accuse Snowden of being a ‘traitor’.
Title 18 of the United States Code states that, “whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, … and shall be incapable of holding
any office under the United States.”
The American position and that of many other countries of the world goes to show how bad traitors are to their nations.
Zimbabwe will be affected the same if she does not have a long term strategy to manage citizens who dine with her enemies.
Individual Zimbabweans must endeavour not to be used by the enemies of our country.

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