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Let’s give peace a chance

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PEACE is touted as a basis for development for many reasons.

This is so because it brings stability.

It brings unity.

It brings security.

Crucially, it brings development. If given a chance, land can be fully exploited.

Resources can be harnessed, all to the greater good of the masses.

Conflict, on the other hand, negates the good things that come with peace.

It affects every facet of development. This is why integration is critical for any society or country.

And this is why neighbours and countries alike support each other in times of conflict.

The world has, in recent years, witnessed conflicts that have destroyed millions of innocent lives and economies.

Most of these conflicts have been supported by superpowers and radical groupings.

Libya still rings loud in our ears.

A fully developed country suddenly reduced to ashes by a gluttonous West.

The damage that was inflicted on that country will not be repaired in our lifetime.

All we can do now is to lament what was and should have been.

That then gives us sobering lessons.

We should always unite as a people.

We should always know where we have come from and where we are going.

That narrative has sadly been dismissed as a certain political party’s rhetoric.

This is why it is difficult to bring the people of Zimbabwe together.

It is a daunting task to convince certain people that Zimbabwe is our country.

That we have no other country.

That we have no other home.

That home is where our life is and should be.

That home is where our land is.

Astonishingly, even the land has been rejected by those quarters.

Home has been denied its rightful place in our lives by those people.

Agonising and daunting as it is, we will not tire from driving home that point.

Aggravating that issue is the unseen fact that divisions destroy a people.

And this is what the outsiders have capitalised on in recent times.

Zimbabwe has been severely divided by the West.

We have been cut into puerile fragments of no significance by the sanctions.

Some have been taught land should only be cultivated by whites.

Some have embraced that notion that says black people cannot run the economy.

This is why we need an education that speaks to our aspirations.

We need an education that promotes our ideas.

We need an education that makes us cherish our country.

To love it and work for it.

We need an education that unites us.

We face many challenges today as a country but we conquer them as a country as well.

The COVID-19 pandemic aside, a fresh threat confronts the Southern African region.

An Islamic insurgency operating in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province is threatening our peace and stability.

The question is: What do we do as country?

We cannot obviously fold our hands and watch while our neighbours are being attacked.

We have to defend our neighbours’ territory.

That way, we will be defending ours as well.

An injury to a neighbour is an injury to the community.

Let us unite as a country, as a region to defend ourselves.

Peace deserves a chance.

After Mozambique, who is next.

Thus we cannot sit idly and watch our neighbour’s peace threatened. 

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