WITH the regime change agenda exponents having recently congregated to further perpetuate and up the tempo in their anti-Robert Mugabe and anti-Zimbabwe project, there is now greater need for the country to consolidate the gains made in the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-ASSET) programme thus far.
Almost two years after the regime change agenda was tersely stopped in its tracks through the July 31 2013 humbling of the opposition MDC-T by ZANU PF, Western hawks and their adherents are apparently hovering over Harare with misplaced hope that they will finally dismantle the people’s hegemonic grip on Zimbabwe’s sovereignty and integrity.
There is this tetchy affection with Zimbabwe, that infinite craving to control and own the means of production in this country; the Zimbabwe that tore to shreds the British dream during the liberation.
The question that will continue to linger in the eyes and minds of the progressive world, the question that will forever haunt Western countries if they have a conscience is why Zimbabwe?
Not only has Zim-ASSET, the country’s economic blueprint which seeks to breathe life into an economy battered by years of illegal economic sanctions through their blind pursuit of the regime change agenda become the focal point in Zimbabwe’s political economics, it has also been under attack by opponents of President Mugabe’s Government.
Yet the quintessential demand from the majority when new government rolls around is for delivery to be on table of agendas.
And the ZANU PF Government, despite being cramped by a glut of drawbacks has never failed to deliver on its mandate. 
This week, an analysis by The Sunday Mail, revealed that six months to the end of the first phase of Zim-ASSET, Government has made great strides, meeting well over half its targets under the blueprint’s quick-win objectives.
The first phase covering the period between October 2013 and December 2015 had 38 targets and not less than 20 quick-win have been scored or are at various stages of implementation.
But that has not deterred the West from forging ahead with their plans of ousting President Mugabe and his Government from power through means well outside the dictates of the ballot box.
On July 2, Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Zimbabwe, Phillipe Van Damme, British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Catriona Laing and Dutch Ambassador Gera Sneller participated in a supposedly ‘high’ level conference on Europe-Zimbabwe ‘relations’ in Brussels, Belgium.
The conference was meant to put the so-called Mugabe regime under intense pressure to ‘open up space to non-governmental organisations’ (NGOs) and at ‘worst’ prop up the fortunes of the opposition, including the confused and confusing ‘People First’ movement.
While it is an open secret that the West are admires of means outside the ballot box to oust governments that operate to their dislike, their options are fast dwindling by the day as President Mugabe’s ruling ZANU PF party continues to assert its dominance on the country’s political scene through its sound policies which resonate with the majority.
So intense is the agitation for the ouster of President Mugabe, that more ‘high’ level conferences are said to be in the offing in the next coming few weeks.
The Brussels conference was convened by the usual suspects in the regime change agenda which include the Zimbabwe Europe Network (ZEN), the Zimbabwe Institute (ZI) and Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, among others.
The profiles of ZEN and ZI are revealing.
“ZEN is a network of (over 30) European trade unions and civil society organisations, including secular, faith-based and developmental organisations as well as diaspora groups, with programmes of support and/or presence on the ground in Zimbabwe”, reads the profile in part.
“ZEN was launched in October 2008 to ensure that the EU and its member states stay engaged on Zimbabwe and that the perspectives and recommendations of Zimbabwean civil society help shape its future policy decisions.”
On the other hand, ZI purports to be an independent think-tank wishing to add to Zimbabwe’s ‘development’.
“The Zimbabwe Institute is an independent political think tank working with various stakeholders to facilitate political dialogue, consensus building and policy development in Zimbabwe according to participatory democratic principles,” reads the profile.
In Brussels, the West wanted to find modalities on providing finding to NGOs, and to ‘weaken’ the Government of Zimbabwe’s arms and structures through infiltration.
In the same breath, they also sought to find ways to galvanise people to rebel against the Government.
‘Missing’ activist Itai Dzamara was supposed to be the focal point in the rebellion ‘plan’ but it has since fallen like the proverbial deck of cards.
By fighting for more ‘space’ in the country’s political demography, the NGOs are angling for confrontations reminiscent of the later stages of the hyperinflation period of 2008.
The idea is to paint a bleak picture as possible as Morgan Tsvangirai suggested to United States’ Senator Russell Feingold on March 26 2006.
It also involves making the country ungovernable through massive demonstration and ‘cover lost’ ground which is the period February 2009 to July 30 2013.
The period July 31 2013 to date is also factored in the new regime change onslaught, with the West seeking to capitalise on the changes ZANU PF has gone through by supporting the so-called ‘People First’ project.
These surely are exciting times.
And Zimbabwe must be careful. The enemies are coming again!
Let those with ears listen.