IT was no surprise that the hugely anticipated Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) elections to be held tomorrow would be dwarfed by the historic visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Harare.
However, the usual madness by the so-called ‘independent media’, in particular, the Daily News, provided a stark reminder that we are miles behind in imbuing the values of patriotism in the minds and hearts of many in the country.
Yet the temptation would have been to naturally turn a blind eye on the attempt by the Daily News to once again present a picture of a country in limbo; a ZANU PF in dire straits, all to downplay the significance of President Xi’s visit.
There is a catch to this madness.
Zimbabwe and ZANU PF, in the eyes of the so-called independent media must never be seen in positive light.
Both the Daily News and the attempt to destroy ZANU PF from within are, without doubt, futile projects that will never achieve the desired results.
Within ZANU PF, there is this worrying trend where officials feed the so-called independent media with wrong information on the goings on in the party as prominent writer Nathaniel Manheru indicated in the latest instalment of his column ‘The Other Side’ in The Saturday Herald of November 28.
There are people in ZANU PF who seem to support the false notion that ZANU PF is crumbling and on the brink of collapse.
That will be given due attention when the time comes, but what is as certain as the sun rises from the East is that those nefarious agendas are surely headed for a disastrous ending as the near future is the time to not only expose them, but obliterate these debilitating agendas bent on ‘reforming’ ZANU PF from within.
While this writer believes he has done little to tackle those misguided elements in exposing what they believe they are doing in trying to extinguish the flame that shape the destiny of this country through the ideas, ideals and values of the liberation struggle from which the history, present and future of this country is shaped upon, there is this compelling desire to let it be known that; “Vazhinji nevazhinji takavafushira nepamusana pekuda nyika yedu.
“Nehanda komborera mhuri yeZimbabwe!”
There are those within this country so wont on rubbishing the legacy of the liberation struggle, so invested with re-inventing the history of this country; those unswerving to reshaping the history and values of the liberation struggle from which our destiny as a nation is shaped.
But this is a history that can never be re-written; a history that can never be re-shaped and a destiny that can never be re-routed by misguided elements who have created this false and sometimes misdirected self-proclaimed comfort zone that they are ZANU PF and that the party cannot survive without them.
Last week’s report by the Daily News provided the clearest reminder of how foolish individuals can be; how President Robert Mugabe’s warning sometime this year that there are misguided elements within the party, political midgets inside the ruling party who have foolishly gone to bed with the opposition media to peddle lies about what they assume to be the goings on in the ruling party.
Did what the Daily News reported about last week’s Politburo meeting actually happen?
Is this what those veterans of the struggle fought for; that some elements within the party can feed the enemy with what they claim to be ‘information’?
Reports that President Mugabe got rid of the State Procurement Board chairperson, Charles Kuwaza, made interesting reading.
This writer will not judge Kuwaza’s disastrous reign as leader of this strategic entity, but what history will forever record is that here is a man who was the bane of this country’s development or lack thereof.
And most interesting was the revelation that President Mugabe had taken over leadership of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).
What we learn from this initiative is that Africa presently needs the bold leadership of persons like President Mugabe to rid it of the scourge of corruption.
The direction provided by President Mugabe and what Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa said recently during the Zimbabwe National Day of Prayer that:
“Days of punishment are indeed coming for corrupt leaders”, need to be taken seriously. The ZIFA election comes tomorrow, but what we need is a leadership free from the madness wrought on us by the confused Cuthbert Dube.
President Xi came, saw and conquered the madness of the Western imposed sanctions.
President Mugabe took over the drive to finish off the endemic corruption afflicting our dearest country.
And the ZIFA elections will come and go, but Zimbabwe will stand firm in the wake of adversity.
In Zimbabwe we trust and we shall conquer as one people, one nation and one entity.
Let those with ears listen.