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Weeks of horror: The aftermath

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AS the dust settles on the madness that gripped the Zimbabwean economy these past weeks, certain realities are beginning to unravel on the direction we should be taking as a nation.
One is that, vultures are still hovering over us and are ready to pounce at the slightest opportunity.
They have been working round the clock to destabilise our economy over the past two decades but the results are the same.
Zimbabwe is just not about to die.
It is still very much alive and ready to shift a gear towards total transformation and development.
It is on its way to the top.
It is set to reclaim its status as one of the world’s biggest economies.
The politics of that madness has also been very clear.
Let us dig deep into this issue.
We have an opposition that is devoid of any ideas to support the national cause.
Here is an opposition that revels in the suffering of the majority, an opposition that naively believes that the ticket to State House is in the death of the economy.
Perhaps someone has yet to tell them that in the highly unlikely event that they assume power, they will have to contend with the same economy that they are taking part in destroying.
The ‘jecha’ mentality is an old, tired and abused strategy that has failed to gain traction with the changes that are happening in the economy.
As it is emerging, that ‘jecha’ is in fact being used to strengthen the foundation from which President Emmerson Mnangagwa is creating for the take-off.
This is a reality that someone has to face and swallow.
Here we go.
One person who might have been overly disappointed with the return to normalcy was, without doubt, Nelson Chamisa.
In tow was the indefatigable Tendai Biti, the MDC and pseudo-economists who disappeared in the same manner they emerged.
These people taught us a very important lesson.
We still have saboteurs in our midst and these need to be chucked out as a matter of urgency.
Yet another lesson was imposed on us: That there is no solution those celebrating the insanity in the economy can proffer.
What we now have is a bunch of critics whose job is to criticise Government without offering any solution.
The media too is at fault on this one.
We had a media that went to town over the high rates and unfair pricing models that gluttonous retailers were offering to helpless citizens.
Again, no solution came from that end.
Giuseppe Mazzini, in his book A Cosmopolitanism of Nations, defines nation and nation-building in terms of political equality and popular consent expressed in the form of ‘equality, liberty and association.’
He describes the nation as:
“The entirety of citizens who speak the same language and are associated, under equal enjoyment of civil and political rights, for the common purpose of developing and progressively perfecting all social forces and their activity.”
Yet what happened last week was not new or unique.
Let us look back to history.
A June 3 2013 article by Melinda Haring titled ‘Reforming the democracy bureaucracy’ reveals how the US uses its organisations to undermine foreign governments.
Zimbabwe has been on the receiving end of those shenanigans for close to two decades now.
“From its modest beginnings in the Reagan administration, the idea that outside actors can encourage democratic change overseas has grown into a
US$3 billion industry encompassing a vast array of programmes,” reads Haring’s article in part.
“Scholars and practitioners have argued convincingly that the ‘democracy bureaucracy’ remains unco-ordinated, is often counter-productive, contains redundancies, ‘and (is) characterised by scant strategic thinking and a cumbersome management system.
Yet, supporting democrats is an important plank of US influence and national security that can be improved with three reforms.
“First, the US Government should leave democracy assistance in authoritarian countries like Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe to the independent grant-making model exemplified by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
“Second, field-based organisations like the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) should focus on partly free places already on the road to change like Kyrgyzstan and Tunisia.
“Finally, non-competitive mechanisms for awarding funds to democracy-promotion organisations should end.”
An article titled Zimbabwe and the Power of Propaganda: Ousting a President via Civil Society by Michael Barker on April 16 2008 lays bare the strategy of the international media in tarnishing Zimbabwe’s image.
Part of the article reads: “As the case of ‘democratic’ interference in Venezuela has been well documented, this article will provide a critical – although by no means exhaustive – investigation into the complex issues raised by the current political interventions by foreign organisations into Zimbabwe’s political affairs.
Initially, this article will examine how ostensibly progressive mainstream media have acted as imperial flak machines to legitimise ongoing interference in Zimbabwe.
Subsequently, it will demonstrate how Western governments carried out an overt cultural war to successfully manipulate Zimbabwean civil society, and will then conclude by recommending how concerned citizens might best further the protection of human rights in Zimbabwe and elsewhere.
Zimbabwe is a strategic country for the US because events in Zimbabwe have a significant impact on the entire southern Africa region.” – (US Agency for International Development, 2005).
We should always be wary of elements who are bent on bringing this country to its knees.
Let those with ears listen.

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