This is the first installment of Cde Cain Mathema’s book, Why the West and its MDC stooges want Zimbabwe’s Defence and Security Forces reformed, that The Patriot will be serialising. Comrade Cain Mathema is ZANU PF secretary for land and the Minister of Provincial Affairs for Matabeleland North. In this installment, Mathema quotes Phathisa Nyati who argues that racial discrimination was the cornerstone of the colonial project in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from the outset.

By Cain Mathema

Chapter One
The Zimbabwe Independence Lancaster House Constitution.

ZIMBABWE’s independence Lancaster House constitution was a compromise constitution.
It was a compromise constitution that was arrived at after three months of intensive negotiations between the Patriotic Front (that is, ZAPU and ZANU led by Cde Joshua Nkomo and Cde Robert Mugabe respectively) on the one hand, and the Margret Thatcher government and the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia British proxies and stooges (that is, Ian Smith, the leader of British white racist stooges and proxies in the country, Abel Muzorewa, Chief Chirau, Ndabaningi Sithole, Chief Khayisa Ndiweni and James Chikerema; the last five being the British black stooges in the country, they never had any influence on the economy as they were just black small-scale farmers at best; whereas Smith and his kind were white racist large-commercial farmers, who possibly had invested in the mining and manufacturing sectors as well, as we know, the white commercial farms also had large deposits of all sorts of minerals, which , in many cases, they quietly, illegally, mined; that is why at the end of the day the cry by Britain, its Rhodesian proxies and stooges and its Western allies, is really to do with the country’s minerals, for which the country was colonised in the first place, and not for farming) on the other.
The British imperialists and colonialists in the first place never wanted to grant Zimbabwe independence, a country whose raw materials they had been looting with impunity and whose people the British exploited and brutalised beyond any experience the people had ever witnessed before on white farms, in white mines, in white shops, in white factories, in government departments, in white homes, in jails, in detention centres, in restriction centres, in communal lands, etc, etc.
Meanwhile the exploited had no alternative, but to buy expensive goods manufactured in the country and in Britain, some of the goods were actually manufactured using cheap raw materials they produced in the country but sold to local white merchants who fixed the prices (and no black farmer dared to protest against the prices offered for fearing victimisation as a trouble maker) and exported to Britain by the British companies operating in Zimbabwe.
British colonial and racist rule over the black population was brutal, cruel and sadistic physically, culturally and psychologically.
This rule was so executed not just for the immediate slave labour required by the British ruling class, but also so that in the long term the black population would wholeheartedly accept being slaves of the white man, slaves who were supposed to forget about their glorious past where they were independent both politically and economically.
And let us not forget, the colonial system was completely supported and promoted by all the Christian denominations that came to this country from Britain, Western Europe and the United States of America and were in turn handsomely paid by Cecil John Rhodes and his fellow British imperialist plunderers and racists in the form of funds and large tracts of prime land in the country – the churches and their missionaries were deep up to their noses in the bosom of colonialism and white racism in the country.
Anyone who believes otherwise is influenced by infantile disorder and/or by discomfiture over what horrible things his or her church (the church he or she is proud of and boasts about as being the only true representative of Jesus Christ on earth) has done in Zimbabwe over the years.
Let us listen to Phathisa Nyathi on how one denomination practised racism in its own churches.
Phathisa Nyathi, Sunday News, Bulawayo, August 3-9 2014, says:
“Racial discrimination was the cornerstone of the colonial project in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from the outset.
“This was so in all social spheres, education included.
“The missionaries of the London Missionary Society (LMS) were no exception. “They had children of school-going age, most of them born in areas of the missionaries’ operations such as Inyathi and Hope Fountain Mission stations.
“It was never the intention of these early missionaries to send their own children to the very schools that they set up.
“They were setting up schools for the natives.
“Their racial ideology was no different from that of the colonial administrators and officials.
“Even the Reverend William George Brown who busied himself setting up schools in Nkayi did not ever envision his daughters attending the same schools.
“So, initially his two daughters Kathleen and Peggy were taught by some lady who lived not far from Inyathi Mission… (It is this white lady who was the) first to impart some rudimentary education to the impressionable little white girls, Kathleen and Peggy.
“It was then time to proceed to schools that offered primary education. These were to be found in Bulawayo.
“That was at the time when there were no primary, let alone secondary schools for black children in Bulawayo.
“Both primary and secondary schools had been established for both white boys and white girls.”
White missionaries were racists through and through!