SO here we go again; entangled with debates on some sections of the media in the country.
We have a bug in our midst; a stubborn media midwifing everything ridiculous about opponents of the empowerment agenda.
We have in our midst a bug so fierce, so wont in its crusade to distort the history that Charles Ray, that former United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe famously tried to distort a few years ago.
On the surface, this is supposed to be a big problem in the country.
But we have encountered so many problems in our past.
That painful past whose wounds refuse to depart our hearts.
We had the colonial past.
Today the lingering pains of that dark era still consume inner parts of soul.
Yes, the body still works, it still walks, but so tormented are our hearts that the determination to tell that story vigorously compels us to tell our story.
On Wednesday, we did it, with honours too.
Yes, one of our own, that decorated freedom fighter Dr Felix Muchemwa launched his book The Struggle for Land in Zimbabwe 1890-2010.
We were there far away from the madding media at Belvedere Teachers College.
There we redefined our narrative.
A story never been told before.
A riveting chronicle of events leading to where we are today.
There is an attempt to snatch away our history.
It is a project.
Unfortunately for those driving this anti-Zimbabwe project through the various media outlets, donor funding from which their cold supper used to come from has dried up.
The West, this part of the media must be told, is no longer interested in the same old tired story of Mugabe this, Mugabe that.
It is a dead and boring tale only told by the naive.
It no longer sells.
Not even the ‘Dr Grace Mugabe this’, ‘Dr Grace Mugabe that’ trend they have been trying to impose on us.
It never sold.
It will not sell.
The market too is getting tired of these diatribes.
Perhaps if Geoff Nyarota was one to be trusted someone would take him and his IMPI seriously.
Unfortunately for Geoff, the past is like the sun which never shies away from its role on mother earth.
Then there is Morgan Tsvangirai, one that the so-called ‘independent’ media threw away together with the water from a dish.
He resurfaces.
It is supposed to be a grand return; more like Jesus’ Triumphant Entry.
Everyone is supposed to cheer and ululate.
We are supposed to pop up champagne for the return of the Prodigal Son.
But alas!
The ‘mighty’ have fallen.
A paltry crowd representing Tsvangirai comes out, as usual and expected in the media —private media — telling us they want President Robert Mugabe to resign.
This surely was the biggest joke in town.
It was as nasty in appearance that it can take pride of place only in the league of the ridiculous.
And the cheer leaders in that part of media disturb our peace screaming headlines to that effect?
They hope they will remove President Mugabe through their headlines?
They hope they can split ZANU PF?
The ZANU that conquered Smith with the gun and bullet.
I refer them to Stephen Chan’s latest instalment on Zimbabwe.
We have been there before, seen and heard it all.
It will not move anyone preoccupied with the development of this country.
We are Zimbabwe.
We are the people.
We are no fools and we know where we came from.