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Media’s misplaced obsession with regime change

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BEFORE last Friday, when Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa unpacked the media’s over-indulgences with ZANU PF and President Robert Mugabe, one would have been forgiven for writing the ruling party’s obituary and an epitaph of Zimbabwe and Kenya relations.
That we have a reckless media whose obsession with ZANU PF and Zimbabwe has the potential to cause anarchy within the country and diplomatic tiffs outside Harare’s borders is no longer a matter of debate, but one requiring serious diagnosis.
Inside the country, there is a nagging fixation with ZANU PF, a chronic addiction to President Mugabe and his wife Amai Dr Grace Mugabe, one that has now become a free for all show albeit with lies being the order of the day.
But here is one ‘show’ that is sadly slipping outside our borders with reckless abandon and with potential to damage Harare’s good standing with friendly African nations.
That has to stop.
When the Kenyan newspaper, The Spectator, published an article about President Mugabe’s alleged defamatory comments to the Kenyan public on Wednesday last week, it was taking a cue from the nefarious activities of regime change mouthpieces masquerading as newspapers in Zimbabwe.
They have an agenda.
They seek to split ZANU PF with the ultimate prize being the destabilisation of the country.
Although the Kenyan report has now been discredited, the damage is there for all to see.
President Mugabe is alleged to have said: “Those people of East-Africa shock me with their wizardry in stealing.
“Sometimes I tend to believe that stealing is in every Kenyan’s blood.
“You can even think that there is a subject in their universities called ‘Bachelor of Stealing’.”
There have been numerous reports about ZANU PF’s ‘factionalism’ that have been discredited by the party itself and events pervading the country, but that has not deterred publications from turning a blind eye on the eternally compelling fact that the ruling party is here to stay and that there is an abundance of peace and stability in the country.
Yet Zimbabwe is on the path to self-redemption, economically that is.
December 2015 will not only be about the festive celebrations.
It will be about the rebirth of the Zimbabwe economy and its re-emergence from the sanctions-induced hiatus.
It will be about the transformation of Zimbabwe – China relations into a formidable economic powerhouse that Zimbabwe should be.
When Chinese President Xi Jinping comes to Harare next month, he will ignore the nonsense from the private media.
He will do business with Zimbabwe and leave knowing that he has made the Southern African country work again.
The Beitbridge-Masvingo-Harare-Chirundu Highway will be dualised amid all this mischief by the so-called private media.
The Hwange Unit(s) 7 and 8 Stations will be repaired.
A new Harare City will be unveiled.
Somewhere near the Zambezi Valley in Mashonaland Central, a massive agriculture project will be launched.
The economy will tick again.
But efforts to overshadow this triumphant return to the fore of the Zimbabwean economy are there for all to see through the reports coming from that notorious section of the media.
But the big game in town is the second coming of our economy.
The new craze in town is that Government, despite the negative publicity it is incessantly subjected to, is going to give civil servants bonuses.
Yet in the eyes of the so-called ‘independent’ media, that should be overshadowed by persistent claims of what they say is factionalism in ZANU PF.
We have said it before and we will say it again; there will be no drama when the purportedly ‘hot’ succession issue is dealt with.
We might be a ‘shadowy and little regarded rag newspaper’ as The Daily News said of us recently, but we stand by the truth and what we say goes.
Those who follow us and are serious minded people know this truth.
At the hugely subscribed ZANU PF fundraising dinner on Friday last week, VP Mnangagwa was spot on when he said there were no fissures in the ruling party and that they (fissures) were a creation of the party’s detractors.
“Since the watershed 6th National People’s Congress held in December 2014 and indeed as the curtain comes down on 2015, it is disheartening that the media has been awash with discourse which seeks to portray ZANU PF as a weak and divided party, thereby implying that the country could be facing a crisis of immense proportions,” said VP Mnangagwa.
“There is no doubt that this warped analysis is not only wrong, misplaced and misinformed, but that it is equally mischievous.
“It is based on attitudes and views that are informed by a litany of denials of reality.”
VP Mnangagwa said ZANU PF was a reality and ‘a fact of life that could not be wished away’.
Instead of paying attention to the madding media in the country, VP Mnangagwa told the gathering that Government would create a conducive business environment, including implementing the ease of doing business and other necessary reforms.
“In pursuing this vision, we will not shy away from making correct decisions,” he said.
“Like on a big tree, dry leaves always fall off the big tree (for it) to grow.
“We take pride in that we have reached a stage in what Amilcar Cabral once said: ‘our struggle has reached a stage we must look into each other’s eyes’.
“Indeed, we must be frank and honest with each other within the party and as Zimbabweans, lest we forget the great sacrifices made by the thousands who shed their blood for you and me to enjoy doing business in a peaceful and independent Zimbabwe.”
When all is said and done, no amount of political hysteria will deter Zimbabwe’s path to development and destroy ZANU PF.
Let those with ears listen.

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