ONE of the key strategies of the colonialists in the early days of colonisation was to wipe out, in some sections of the country, the older populations and remain with the young people.
These, they said, were pliable and were easy to indoctrinate with their Western values.
Ever since, our young have been targeted and used as tools and weapons against their people, their past and their culture.
Enter the regime change agenda project!
The key strategy of the regime change agents is to recruit our children in tertiary education institutions and induce them to do their bidding.
The idea is to create a rebellious intellectual grouping that will unleash havoc in our peaceful country.
For 30 pieces of silver, our children are expected to spit on their flag, with promises of future leadership positions.
With the meagre money dangled, they are expected to trample on everything that gave them life and the ‘education’ that they now boast.
However, the onus is on us to ensure this does not happen.
It is our responsibility to protect our children, to show them the folly of some of their ways and the dangers in some of the routes they have chosen and might choose to travel.
Do our children know who they are; that they have an identity and a heritage that must be protected, preserved and perpetuated.
Hundreds of Western organisations are operating and ‘supporting’ ‘youth organisations’ in the country.
What are they teaching our young; dzavo itsitsi dzei kubvisa mwana wemvana dzihwa? Back in their countries their youths have a myriad of challenges and are suffering from maladies of all kinds.
So why the focus on our youths?
It is time we take the bull by the horns and ensure that we are the leaders and the first to disseminate valuable knowledge about our past, our present and instill a sense of nationhood among our youths.
We need to recoup the lost self-confidence in our young people, empower them so that they can take charge of their own lives and be loyal citizens of the nation.
Our young must grow up to be a people who are proud of their motherland and ready to defend it with their blood.
Our education system must continue to improve.
It cannot be a system that creates elites who cannot repair a broken door or tend a bed of cabbages or sing the National Anthem but are ready to burn the country, their heritage, for the imperialist’s 30 pieces of silver.
Our young must sense the importance of the land and be proud to be and be known as vana vevhu, who have an inseparable tie with that priceless resource that we were given by God.
That onus is on us.
Our eminent teachers, doctors and professors as well as our elders, the walking libraries, must come together and craft a rescue plan as a matter of urgency.
We must come together and break the grip of Westernisation that is squeezing out the life of our children, masquerading as globalisation.
The Second Chimurenga was unstoppable because, besides the physical determination of our people, it was spiritually driven by memories of a historical and cultural past.
It was driven by youths who fully understood who they were.