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OUR enemies, former colonisers, have very wrong views and perceptions of us.
They believe and think our life transforming programmes are spontaneous, without a historical past.
But how wrong they are.
This week, the leadership of the country made it clear that we can, as a nation, fend for ourselves.
For long we have defined ourselves as an enterprising people and we have shown that we can develop our country through local resources and collective effort.
That has been who we are and what we will always be: A people who can look after themselves no matter the conditions or pressures.
To fund or not to fund, it has not just been shown but proved that, it is a matter of choice.
The narrative that has been spread by erstwhile colonisers is that we are helpless and will not succeed unless the West comes to bail us out.
Our leaders, since the days of Chaminuka, Mbuya Nehanda and Lobengula have seen through colonial hypocrisy — so do our current leaders.
It has been the colonialist strategy to make us helpless, perpetual beggars moving from one Western city to the other with a begging bowl.
That is not who we are as Zimbabweans, we can never be beggars.
Our country has everything required to propel it to dizzy heights and what we do not have we can easily pay for, considering the vast resources we possess.
Our story tells of our undisputed prowess as a people, blowing to smithereens the notion that it is only the whiteman who can save blacks.
We have bravely soldiered on, facing the colonialist head on; first on the battlefield and now in the various arenas that make a nation.
We repossessed our land and we reclaimed our economic space.
As a people, a country, we have been harassed, criminalised and labelled all sorts of names including squatters on our land, on the soil on which we were born, land handed down to us by our ancestors.
The Western media has deliberately strangled our discourses on land, on our programmes and our aspirations because we dared question European and American authority.
And consequently we have been denied so-called critical support.
And this denial of support is meant to effectively silence us.
But we will not be silenced.
We have a vision for the nation. We are determined not to sell ourselves short and thus have refused to compromise our values and Zimbabwean ethos.
Thus we are heartened when the leadership reassures us that we are capable of driving the development agenda on our own.
It is common knowledge that the West uses financial support to have its way with African countries.
When we talk of the Munhumutapa Empire, we do so with pride. We recall a powerful and influential state and it fired us to shake ourselves from the yoke of colonialism.
Let us also be the generation that will inspire posterity.
Let us defend our sovereignty, protect it with our sweat and blood and never ever stop taking the struggle to higher realms. We will take the struggles of Chimurenga to new and higher economic trajectories.

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