By Dr Tafataona Mahoso

ON February 16 2015 The Herald broke the news of the alleged US government’s audit of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) it funded through USAID.
Entitled ‘Zim NGOs abuse over US$850 million’, the story was later echoed in a number of internet outlets.
Significantly, The Standard, The Zimbabwe Independent, Newsday, Southern Eye, The Financial Gazette and the Daily News did not give the story the coverage it deserved.
But even for those who did cover the story, the problems of framing were similar to those experienced when the same media houses reviewed the legacies of the late businessman, Mr Eric Bloch and the late Professor Terence Ranger.
They missed what could be called an original ‘Dzimbahwe perspective’.
Concerning the recent audit of USAID-funded NGOs in Zimbabwe, there are at least four critical stories from a Dzimbahwe perspective:
The first is that in Zimbabwe NGO corruption is synonymous with the corruption of journalists and media houses, especially some of those who avoided the story this time.
The second story is that the US$850 million from the US Government alone is under-stated but significant, since it is an indicator of the scale of the money-laundering in which the Anglo-Saxon powers engaged in order to avoid the Political Parties Finance Act in their funding of the opposition MDC formations. In this regard the real crime from a Zimbabwean point of view is not the NGO and media corruption, which was always known, but their involvement in treasonous activities, serving foreign powers in pursuit of illegal regime change.
The third story is that although the audit demonstrates the failure of the illegal regime change project up to now, it does not mean the end of regime change objectives. It means that the forces of illegal regime change have regrouped and restrategised in readiness for a new phase called ‘re-engagement’, which explains why a great deal of chema money is now being released openly to Zimbabwe while President Mugabe and First Lady Grace Mugabe remain under sanctions.
The fourth story is that the information published in The Herald on February 16 2015 was not new and USAID and the US Government knew all along that they were using thieves and liars for the purpose of demonising and destroying Zimbabwe.
Now that they failed, they cannot move on to a new phase without some closure to the first phase. The closure takes the form of a ‘forensic audit’ in order to retain some ‘credibility’ for USAID, for the US Government and for NGOs.
In order to deal with most of these possible stories (later), it is perhaps necessary to start with the most obvious one: That USAID, the US Government and their allies knew all through the 13 years since 2001 that they were shoving hundreds of millions of dollars through the coffers and hands of thieves and liars.
I say so because, to start with, many Zimbabwean publicists exposed the lies and the corruption throughout those years.
My African Focus instalment for July 15 2012 for instance, included the following information:
As for implications for Zimbabwe of the heavy emphasis placed on intervention through misnamed NGOs, we must expect to endure the increasing corruption of society and increasing levels of civil noise and confusion as manifestations of what I have called the chema economy.
There are hundreds of thousands of persons employed full time to corrupt professionals; and there are even larger numbers of those being corrupted.
The corruptors are promoted the more people and institutions they corrupt.
The recipients are also promoted, the more ‘help’ they accept in the business of corrupting public opinion for the empire’s benefit.
This is the context in which we must see the corruption of journalists and editors working for so-called ‘independent’ media.
A significant portion of Dr Blessing-Miles Tendi’s book, Making History in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe: Politics, Intellectuals and the Media, is also about NGOs and the corruption of the media, journalists and university professors through sponsorship.
Illegal regime change requires not only the corruption of organisations, institutions and individuals; it also requires the corruption of language.
COIN doctrine means ‘counter-insurgency doctrine’.
But in the case of future US military intervention in Zimbabwe (Operation Shumba), the potential US invasion forces, the MDC formations and the journalists and civil society bodies fronting for them are called ‘counter-insurgents’.
So in the eyes of the US and its allies, it is President Mugabe and all the patriots of Zimbabwe who are the rebels, while the illegal regime change forces are called the legitimate counter-insurgents.
Latin American theologian Jose Miranda anticipated this corruption 50 years ago, when he wrote that:
“Clear perception (or understanding) in this point is intolerable to the West. Evil is in reality totally penetrated by good intentions and calculations, a reality which seems to be possessed by a substitute for the human soul and which, endowed with a prodigious dynamism, raises itself before real man to control him and submit him to its ends.”
What I have been pointing out in these installments is exactly the relentless push to institutionalise treason, disrespect, defamation and contempt of the African by seizing all available platforms of the society and employing them in the cause for illegal regime change.
Eight hundred and fifty million US dollars (US$850 million) is a lot of money for one single donor to spend on a small country like Zimbabwe.
And there were about 30 other country sources involved in the illegal regime change project here!
This has not stopped.
It has now changed channels!