LAST week’s proposal by the European Union (EU) Parliament to tighten punitive sanctions on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Government  is a clear indication of the unmitigated hostility towards ZANU PF by the hawks within the body.

This closely follows the recent absurd suggestion by the US that sovereign Zimbabwe must seek the services of someone neutral to mediate dialogue between President Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa.

However, it is a given that the West and the US have never been comfortable to see ZANU PF, a former liberation movement, in power.

Examples abound.

There are occasions when they have toyed with the idea of a military attack and even to invoke the intervention of the UN Security Council.

The reaction by the West to the recent disturbances is enough to convince even a fool of its brazen dislike of the ZANU PF Government.

Why has the West remained dead silent in apportioning blame on the recent looting and mayhem instigated by the MDC, a party they helped to form?

That’s a question we are submitting to neutrals.

Instead, hoodlums who burnt and destroyed property are presented as innocent civilians exercising their rights. And the intervention of the army, which was invited to stop the anarchy when rioters had overpowered the police, is now ostensibly given as the reason for punishing the ZANU PF Government.

What hogwash!

Cases of falsehoods being spread to tarnish the image of the security forces are conveniently ignored in Washington and Brussels.

Observance of the rule of law by taking alleged culprits to court is dismissed as further attempt to thwart ‘peaceful protests’.   

Fortunately, we are able to see through the naked hypocrisy of the West.   

They did it in Iraq, where they saw non-existent weapons of mass destruction in order to attack the country to get its oil.

They ganged up against Muammar Gaddafi on the pretext they wanted to save Libyans from a dictator, when all the time their eyes were firmly fixed on Libyan oil. They are doing it in Venezuela, where a Chamisa incarnate by the name of Juan Guaido has declared himself president.

The US and its European cousins are strongly backing him, at the same time drooling over the possible control of Venezuelan oil fields.

Southern Africa is referred to as ‘The Persian Gulf of Minerals’ because of its vast mineral wealth — the envy of the West.

This explains why there was a concentration of armed struggle in this region in order to rid itself of Western predators.

Mozambicans, Zimbabweans, South Africans, Namibians and Angolans had to shed blood to ensure control of their natural resources.

The West has never forgiven liberation movements for that. (Vakabvisirwa chingwa pamuromo).

The emergence of the MDC, a brainchild of Chatham House, is part of their grand plan to create a surrogate party to further Western interests.

Former liberation movements are known to be conscious of the sanctity of their inheritance.

Meanwhile, the MDC Alliance, emboldened by the tacit support from the notorious NGOs and their Western backers, is plotting more ‘massive protests’. But President Mnangagwa is having none of that.

No doubt he is aware that the overriding function of a Government is to maintain law and order. And at times, it might be necessary to invite Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan.

Given a choice between succumbing to the whims of the West and the crushing of subversive elements, the option is obvious.

May be, the decision by the EU Foreign Affairs ministers to ignore the hawkish approach by their Parliament gives hope that the voice of reason might eventually prevail.