ACCORDING to the European Union Observer Mission (EUOM) to our July 30 harmonised elections, the elections ‘did not meet international standards – they were not traceable.’
However, the African Union (AU) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) found the same elections free, fair and credible.
But back to the EUOM report.
Europeans have proved and underlined for everyone to see their true colours; that they can never be friends of Africa.
This has always been their stance as demonstrated throughout history.
Their primary purpose in Africa is to loot and plunder its wealth by hook or by crook.
For this, they murdered Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and DRC’s Patrice Lumumba.
For this, they deposed Kwame Nkrumah, murdered Herbert Chitepo and Mbuya Nehanda — and for this, they installed and supported treacherous despots such as Mobutu Sese Seko.
In pursuance to this agenda, they imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe for having taken back her land, land which the British had robbed us of through bloodshed; land for which thousands of Zimbabwe’s sons and daughters fought and died for.
Despite this, it was still an affront to them that we should take our land.
Even though we had paid the ultimate price of life and limb, to the European mind, it could never be correct for us to take back what was ours in the first place.
It was still an affront to them, a punishable offence although they knew clearly that the British and Americans had reneged on fundamentals of the land issue agreed at the Lancaster House Conference in 1979 — that they would pay the white farmers for the land which we had liberated and would give back to the people of Zimbabwe.
This is who they are, the Europeans.
For Europeans, a relationship of equals with Africans is inconceivable.
They (whites) would rather see us in zoos or museums, like they did to Sarah Baartman and where they still hold Mbuya Nehanda’s skull.
They would rather have us thus, to exercise control and to tickle their fancy but never to ensconce as fellow humans.
During the liberation struggle, they called us ‘terrorists’; signing the death sentences for thousands of innocent civilians who were shot on sight, incarcerated and battered to death in prisons, hanged as well as massacred for ‘aiding and abetting terrorism’.
Europeans supplied the terrorist regime of Ian Smith with military hardware and weapons of mass destruction.
But the real reason each Zimbabwean stood condemned in their eyes was because the indigenes stood for what was theirs and justice – ‘Zimbabwe neupfumi hwayo hwose’.
It is still the reason Zimbabwe stands eternally condemned – it can never do anything right in the eyes of the West.
It is not about the elections, but about us owning what is ours; our wealth, nothing else.
Throughout the forests of Mozambique and Zambia, in the hills and hinterland of Zimbabwe, at the pungwes, Zimbabweans sang from the depths of their hearts and souls: “Tinoda Zimbabwe nehupfumi hwayo hwose, simuka Zimbabwe!”
This is the crime each patriotic Zimbabwean will never be forgiven for by the Europeans.
If you want to be friends with Europeans, let them in to loot and plunder, no questions asked, but when you talk of indigenisation, community share ownership, workers owning shares in companies, majority ownership of the stake in companies, then you are ostracised.
Europeans want blacks to play by their rules.
Zimbabwe held elections which Africans were so pleased about, but to the Europeans, the same elections were not ‘traceable’.
In our battle against the West, we had unwavering friends – our African brothers and sisters.
Africans stood by us until we triumphed against the brutish British.
Ghana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Algeria, Tanzania, Mozambique Zambia and Botswana, among others, through the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Liberation Committee channelled resources to the liberation forces for the liberation of our country.
Europeans, on the other hand, spent sleepless nights planning our demise and spared no expense supplying the Rhodesian terrorist regime with fighter jets, bombs, guns and chemical poisons.
Without Africa, our struggle would have been far too horrendous.
For this reason, other Africans nations matter to us because all they ever wanted was for us to be free and sovereign.
It is they (Africans) who have our interests at heart, hence when they say our elections were free, fair and credible, it is credible because they have the credentials to form a just opinion about us.
Europeans never wanted us to be a people in our own right and in charge of our own destiny.
When they say our elections were not ‘traceable,’ we know why.
We have not left the door open for them to loot and plunder at will.
We have not surrendered to their will.
And so, their surrogates parrot: “The Constitutional Court judgement raises questions of legitimacy,” brazenly maintaining the same meaninglessness of Morgan Tsvangirai’s mantra: “The elections are a nullity.”
We were never surprised, neither are we surprised by Tenda Biti and Nelson Chamisa’s mantra about ‘legitimacy’.
Indeed, nothing that does not pander to the interests of the Europeans is legitimate.
‘Legitimacy’ derives from being Europe’s doormat, hence the MDC Alliance is ‘legitimate’ to the Europeans despite the unprovoked violence it unleashed on the people of Zimbabwe on August 1 2018 which resulted in the death of six people, the destruction of property and the disturbance of peace and tranquility of Zimbabweans.