THE similarity between the Trojan Horse story and the just ended HIFA festival in the use of subterfuge to induce submission to their trickery has already been exposed.
The beautiful Trojan Horse and the well packaged HIFA programmes were nothing more than window dressing to hide evil intentions.
This we now know.
Because all that glitters is not gold.
With the Trojans, it was the Greek soldiers hidden inside the gift horse and with us it is the message behind the well packaged theatre performances that are dangerous.
But for us, the mortal danger, however, is to look at the just ended HIFA festival as a one-off event.
It is not.
HIFA is just one aspect of this multi-faceted onslaught on a Government of a former liberation movement that defeated the white colonial regime.
And the Western imperialists have never forgiven them for that.
Hence the concerted effort to effect regime change.
HIFA has been trying through its shows over the years to make Zimbabweans hate themselves by not only highlighting foreign cultures but by also downplaying virtues of our own.
Instead, they have been bombarding us with plays that denigrate our Government.
To them, Zimbabwean politics is about getting rid of President Robert Mugabe – nothing more and nothing less.
In their plays, they are very careful not to show any positives that have come out of a Government led by a former guerilla leader as President.
To them, things like the Land Reform Programme and empowerment projects are non-events.
Following a deceptive lull after the crashing defeat of Western puppets by ZANU PF in the July 31 2013 general elections, proponents of the regime change are at it again.
When they go underground, they will usually be plotting new strategies.
They never tire.
With another election just around the corner, they are, perhaps, trying their luck once more.
Having been previously let down by civil society whose officials squandered their money with little to show at the polls, they seem to have changed tack.
Emphasis now seems to be on use of arts groups.
The proliferation of the number of arts and theatre groups is self-evident.
Western sponsors are keen to go to the grassroots to promote theatre groups which invariably specialise in political satire at the expense of our Government.
Since they are the funders, they determine the content of whatever production.
Arts aspirants in the musical, theatre and visual arts have been sponsored to go to Europe on exchange programmes so that they perfect their performances.
The message they send outside our borders is sheer treachery.
A notable feature about the promotion of these regime change arts groups is what appears to be a deliberate concentration in Matabelaland provinces.
Previously we have also noted that these Western ‘benefactors’ also concentrated on sponsoring NGOs in Matabeleland.
Why?
The answer is simple.
After having been let down by the signing of the Unity Accord in December 1987, Western malcontents will always try to divide the country on regional basis.
We mourn the massacres in Rwanda while they quietly celebrate.
They salivate at ethnic divisions that divert the attention of the indigenes from the looting sprees of imperialists like what they are doing in Libya, Iraq, Syria, the DRC and other parts of the world.
They are heartless.
But in Zimbabwe they have met their match.
The war of liberation has moulded us into citizens who value their sovereignty.
The impact of HIFA and other sponsored shows, be it theatre, music or visual arts will never match the nationalistic ethos that we have internalised during our struggle for independence.