SUDDENLY 2015 has become interesting.
Those were my thoughts as we sat in the marquee at the newly transformed Robert Mugabe Square, amidst the ululation and familiar dances.
The party was going through a surgical process like pus draining from a boil, there is agony, numbness and finally relief.
It was painful.
I looked at the comrades that sat with us although we had lost them along the way.
Decades of a brotherhood etched in the blood of the struggle.
The just ended ZANU PF congress revealed weaknesses and strengths, but shed light to the fact that the colonial conquest is far from over, it has just simply taken a different shape.
Like the days of Morrison Nyathi during the struggle, the enemy continues to wear the face of a comrade.
And 600 years after the first imperial ship landed on the continent, the liberation movement continues to be under siege.
Our war is economic.
There is a dangerous tendency by many to assume the imperialistic agenda is no more.
It is a naive assumption that any interest in Africa by the colonial powers ended when we won the war.
The war on Africa’s resources has intensified and it can only get worse before it gets better.
The silence of the Western media on the happenings in ZANU PF can only speak volumes to the discerning.
They too have since realised that the Congress was the birth pangs of a revolutionary party that refused to die.
The fourth phase of the Chimurenga has begun, and the party stands united after flushing out the rogue elements that were dividing the party.
The onus is upon the newly selected team to ensure that total economic independence is achieved.
The double agenda that had existed in the party was derailing the full implementation of Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-ASSET).
Now the ground has been levelled and from here on there can be no excuses.
Upfumi kuvanhu.
The team has the weight of the nation on its shoulders, as it has to implement the final stage of Murenga’s war of sovereignty.
Liberation movements like ours do not simply die as we have seen with many urban parties across the continent.
They regenerate, exorcise and rise again.
The First Chimurenga was a realisation that the visitor intended to stay longer than he had planned.
It was crushed with a promise that mapfupa angu achamuka.
The second phase of this revolution was the sacrifice of ordinary men and women when they took arms and defeated the whiteman.
The third phase, which was long overdue was finally implemented through the Land Reform Programme in 2000 resulting in the West imposing illegal sanctions on us.
Their hope was to weaken our economy and our resolve towards kuzvitonga kuzere.
The fourth phase of the struggle is busting the sanctions where we take charge of our economy.
The economic blueprint sets the platform for what should be an unprecedented economic boon for the country.
We have just emerged from a painful process.
ZANU PF has once again emerged stronger because liberation movements never die.