“THIS Government has humiliated us, education no longer has value in this land and it does not matter how highly educated you are, you can never live the life that reflects your status.”
These sentiments, repeated over and over, capture so succinctly the capitalist, selfish ethos imparted by the system established by the British armed robbers.
You are educated, so society owes you?
It is not that society has educated you.
You have drawn from it so much more than many others so you owe this society big time.
There is no doubt the attack on the ‘humanness’ of the Government of Zimbabwe is led by the confusionists, the pundits of false economic theories, refereed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank who lambast the Government for a huge social services bill, for failure to reign in expenditure on what they term the non-productive sector.
How can education be described as non- productive?
Can anyone be productive when they have not learned how to be productive? Health is also labelled non-productive.
What nation can be productive when it is not healthy?
Despite years of university education, how is it possible for one to close their eyes to the political economy of the country which is characterised by control of the means of production by foreigners and blame the economic woes of the nation on the so-called huge social services bill.
Who would worry about how much is spent on education or health if the billions from our foreign-owned mining concerns went into the national treasury?
Has anyone quantified how many billions were produced for the white farmers by black labourers and what difference it would make had this been paid to the labourers?
Instead of facing the truth, that our means of production are capitalist-owned and so the state is left to glean where the capitalist has harvested in order to take care of the nation, the apologists for capitalism wear their badges of mis-education and parrot their Western capitalist masters that the Government has its priorities upside-down.
The peanuts the Government controls is not the issue.
The issue is the wealth which truly belongs to Zimbabweans, which is controlled by a few, which benefits a few.
This argument is not ours, it is not the argument of the ordinary Zimbabwean, it is not being said because of a wish to make it so simple for others that it is a selfish argument.
The impoverishment of our people by capitalism introduced by the British robbers left our people on the periphery and no-one loses sleep over their condition, but the Government.
It is only the mother who has struggled all the way from Gokwe with a husband with a broken leg in a scotch-cart to get to Kwekwe General Hospital who appreciates from the depths of her soul that Government still has a place for those who have nothing.
She does not need to study so-called economic theories to understand that privatisation of public facilities such as hospitals is a death-knell for the poor.
It is only the family whose first born benefited from free education and is now looking after his siblings, who know from the depths of their hearts that Government did not blunder in making education free for so many for as long as it could.
And no one understands better than the new farmer why the British robbers and their relatives imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe, because they too have now reaped the fruits of the rich land from which their forefathers had been banished for more than 100 years.
These too understand that the Third Chimurenga, the Land Reform Programme, was not a blunder.
It is these ordinary Zimbabweans who understand their country and what it takes to move it forward, not the pundits who only think of their selfish interests and the accolades in cash and kind from their Western masters who condemn us because we fought them and defeated them and reversed their robbery of what is ours.
And it is our leaders who sat under the trees in Mozambique and Zambia and decided socialism was the only way to serve the masses of Zimbabwe who cannot but craft social policies which cater for the broad masses first.
These policies for which the Government of Zimbabwe is being tried were never abandoned but each thing which is important and of such magnitude takes time to consolidate.
But the people are at peace that such ever happened, it reassures them that the Government cares.
Everybody should share what Zimbabwe has, not just a few, it cannot be because so many died for it to be simple for everyone.
When people say do not cost us by paying for everyone, there is a problem because no-one costs them when they get all they need.
People should understand that for others to die for a cause is a great sacrifice indeed.
It is not easy to let go of everything you have and everything you are for the sake of others.
Those who died wanted it to be so, that no-one should feel so hurt that they are not worthy citizens of Zimbabwe.
That there should be provision of free education for each child of Zimbabwe, free health, that each should have land freely because it is their heritage and should establish their own enterprises to meet the material needs of the nation.
That is socialism.
The illustrious sons and daughters of Zimbabwe who died at Chimoio, Nyadzonia and elsewhere died for the nameless Zimbabweans beyond the hills and yonder, the same ones who are now accused of gobbling the nation’s resources and destroying the economy through the Government’s ‘irresponsible social services expenditure.’
But it is precious to remember that it is these ‘nameless’ Zimbabweans who bore the brunt of the war of liberation and were its backbone.