AT the just ended Zimbabwe Heritage Trust (ZHT) Writers’ Workshop, the director in the Curriculum Development and Technical Unit (CDTU) in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Arthur Makanda, highlighted the travesty that our Government should be demonised for invoking God and the mothers and fathers of the revolution in the National Schools Pledge.
But the disagreeing constituency is perpetuating Allan Wilson and his fellow bandit robbers in the form of Allan Wilson High School and is at peace with that situation.
The Allan Wilson insignia says: ‘We are men of men’ claiming they (Allan Wilson Patrol) were men of valour who should be celebrated in perpetuity and this celebration being under the Zimbabwean skies.
Allan Wilson’s flag continues to fly in Zimbabwe’s skies, despite the atrocities he and the rest of the British armed robbers committed against Zimbabwe and its people.
Dr Augustine Tirivangana, at the same workshop, called this ‘the Luciferian consciousness’; a totally heartless attitude to Africans and anyone who stands in the way of capitalism.
“You cannot be a capitalist and have a heart at the same time,” he said.
“You have to kill your heart first in order to be a capitalist.”
What can be more Luciferian than believing that whatever exists in the world is yours at will and all you need are guns and ammunitions?
It is Luciferian because it is totally devoid of any humanity, of any respect for the human being.
The only values the Luciferian creed venerates are greed and lust for power, money and sex.
This is why, wherever capitalism flourishes, prostitution and homosexuality thrive.
They are the same creed and everything is subjected to the satiation of these.
It is Luciferian consciousness which was in the driving seat a few months ago when a handful of malovelent ‘spiritualists’ accosted the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, purporting to exorcise him of demons that made him stand for the National Schools Pledge.
They knelt there on the street in front of Ambassador House in a bid to use the name of the Almighty to intimidate the minister to force him to drop the noble cause.
When the jackals howl so desperately, you have to know you have found the seam of gold that everyone is after.
It is said that Lucifer was thrown out of Heaven and condemned to the dungeons of hell for having rebelled against God the Father.
Capitalism and its attendant vices all flourish under the banner of ruthless exploitation and expropriation of whatever one covets across the globe.
All the wars that ravage the world are wars of capitalist greed, that is why it is Luciferian.
Allan Wilson and the 32 bandits he commanded were killed in battle in an unjust war of aggression against the people of Zimbabwe.
They had callously robbed us of our land and now they were defending that robbery.
Our people fought and killed them and many other robbers in their effort to repossess their land, to reverse this robbery.
And now a school in Zimbabwe is in perpetual mourning for these murdering bandits who were justly killed for fighting to perpetuate the armed robbery of our land.
The black and white they wear at the school not only symbolises their mourning for Allan Wilson and fellow bandits, but the end of the armed robbery of our land by the British.
They are mourning that this should never have ended, that the liberation struggle should never have taken place and ended the reign of British banditry.
This is what Allan Wilson High School symbolises, what all these schools symbolise; David Livingstone, Cecil John Rhodes, Churchill, Haartman House, Victoria, Queen Elizabeth and many other colonial schools.
The continued celebration of the legacy of the robbery of our land in places where we raise our heirs befuddles the mind.
It is August, the month of our heroes’, so let us reflect deeply and see where we stand.
How do the children who died at Nyadzonia, Chimoio, Pasichigare, Mkushi and Freedom Camp feel when schools in the land they liberated with so much love and sacrifice still venerate the robbery of our land which claimed their lives and that of many thousands?
What is the source of this inertia in us?
Have we also imbibed Luciferian consciousness that we chorus with the bandit murderers from Britain: ‘They were men of men’.
This statement is an indictment against everyone who fought the British bandits from Mbuya Nehanda to the child who was torn out of its mother’s womb by bomb fragments.
They are mourning the end of the British armed robbery of our land, that is why there is so much viciousness about the National Schools Pledge.
It is not about God.
They are not worried about that.
In fact, they have never worried about God and that is why throughout history, they have never had any compunction about abusing the name of God in their quest for mammon.
As recently as 1890, a Catholic priest, Father Hartmann, accompanied as their chaplain, the column of armed bandits who led the occupation of our land.
What they actually cannot be at peace with is what God did through the liberation fighters.
In the National Schools Pledge, you immortalise their nemesis, the mothers and fathers who brought an end to Luciferian armed occupation of our land.
In the rabid condemnation of the National Schools Pledge, we should clearly see the writing on the wall, that, ‘tivete nezamu mukanwa’ if we still think that it is innocent to still have schools named after bandit robbers like Allan Wilson.
There is nothing innocent about it, it is an invocation, a prayer to Lucifer to restore its rule which was epitomised by the British armed occupation of our land, just as the National Schools Pledge is an invocation, a prayer to God and his children who fought for our liberation to protect us, to keep Lucifer out of this great land of ours.
They know that for each child to say that invocation every day, the Luciferian consciousness that still binds us in so much inertia will finally end.
They know that as long as we invoke the British armed robbers, Jameson, David Livingstone, Churchill and the rest of them, we are hemorrhaging ourselves of the strength to fight our enemy.
We are dishonouring and disarming ourselves and desecrating the memory of those who died to free us from Egyptian bondage.
Something does not work if we cannot see the immorality of this.
None of us can ever remotely think it possible that there can be a British Government Institution called Nehanda High, Kaguvi Institute of Technology, but still knowing this, we yet can stomach having Allan Wilson High, Hartmann House, Queen Elizabeth and the rest of them.
What this means is we are making a tragic admission that we are less than the British and when this is perpetuated year after year for 36 years, then something is terribly wrong with us.