MDC’s paper on de-Zanufication: A threat to peace and stability October 15, 2013 Opinion & Analysis<http://www.herald.co.zw/category/articles/opinion-a-analysis/> [image: Tendai Biti (left) and Morgan Tsvangirai]<http://www.herald.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Biti-and-Tsvangirai.jpg>
Tendai Biti (left) and Morgan Tsvangirai *By Panganai Kahuni* *.......To Zanu-PF I say the landslide victory must inspire you not to sinking into smug complacency and taking for granted that time is on your side and that because history is with you then total Independence of Zimbabwe will fall into our hands like a ripe mango. The forces arrayed against Zimbabwe are formidable, entrenched and powerful. Thus every cadre must be alert on every second......* COLONIAL rule left most of the African people poverty-stricken and disease-ridden while enormous quantities of mineral and agricultural wealth were drained out of Africa and particularly Zimbabwe year- in and year-out. >From the labours of black people, vast profits were wrung for industrial and financial monopolies. Legislation turned millions of Africans into helots in their motherland thereby threatening African peace and security. Various attempts to manipulate the truth were made by the West using political surrogates and neo-liberal academics but it dismally failed. The MDC de-Zanufication of Zimbabwe concept paper master minded by Tendai Biti with the aid of foreign security agents was brought to a grinding halt by the July 31 2013 elections that sent both MDC formations to the cleaners. Zanu-PF reminded Zimbabweans about the dreadful things and monstrous wrongs the West inflicted on Zimbabweans through the satanic illegal economic sanctions. People responded positively to the revolutionary party’s call and rejected the de-Zanufication of Zimbabwe and its institutions. The MDC formations’ political philosophy is that of continuing a jack-boot system which keeps the Africans at the hewer-of-wood and drawer-of-water level. MDC rejected land reform and indigenization of the economy in search of de-Zanufication and de-revolutionalising Zimbabwe. Africa’s former colonial masters, especially Europe are of the habit of creating puppets amongst us who eagerly demonstrate their affinity with the European cultures and philosophies from which they can cut off only harmful results to Zimbabwean destiny. Let the neo-liberals MDC formations know that it will take all the tricks of expurgation and the greatest manipulation of the truth ever fashioned to wipe out pages of history. This also goes to the pseudo Pan-Africanist Madhuku. To Zanu-PF I say the landslide victory must inspire you not to sinking into smug complacency and taking for granted that time is on your side and that because history is with you then total Independence of Zimbabwe will fall into our hands like a ripe mango. The forces arrayed against Zimbabwe are formidable, entrenched and powerful. Thus every cadre must be alert on every second. Every Zanu-PF cadre must know that the West operates in Worldwide combinations at all levels: political, economic, military, cultural and through intelligence and information services. They operate from European, American and African centers, using agents who are unpatriotic sons of Zimbabwe, buying personal satisfactions with betrayal of their country’s peace, safety and integrity. The West seduces leaders of political trade unions, civil societies and human rights groups to create rifts and quarrels within the national fronts. The country was brought to abyss by the West using its local surrogates (the MDC formations) which inherited Western culture of violence. Fellow Zimbabweans, this writer was on sabbatical in Ghana where I came across peace literature from Dr Kwame Nkrumah. I now know peace and will always write about peace, speak peace, walk peace, breath peace, sleep peace and smile peace. I have become a peace ambassador who will always write about peace as a peace ambassador for peace to prevail. Peace breeds prosperity, peace builds wealth, peace houses wisdom and visionary thinking that radiate in human kind. Peace is an epoch of creating economic wealth and forbids mankind from being corrupt, greed and selfish. In peace there is humanism and collectivism. Having talked about the de-Zanufication of Zimbabwe concept document by Tendai Biti I now ask the following questions: Did anyone ever ask what the de-Zanufication was meant to do to Zimbabwe and its people? Were the security organs in this country ever aware of the origins of this de-Zanufication concept? If they did were they ever serious about its ramifications? This writer got the roots of its genesis in the literature books of Dr Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana. After reading the genesis of such reactionary works that continue to haunt Africa today I declared myself a student of Saint (Dr) Kwame Nkrumah and shall die writing about peace as the soul of Africa St (Dr) Nkrumah did. I should like to believe that the need for preserving and maintaining peace and humanism is what motivates pan-Africanists such as Cde Mugabe to be brave, courageous, people centered and always principled in empowering the poor. Peace is paramount and dear to their hearts. Fellow Zimbabweans, what I learned about St Nkrumah during my sabbatical stay in Ghana was highly immeasurable. St (Dr) Nkrumah believed in industrialization, indigenisation and value addition of Ghanaian resources with an objective of creating wealth that benefited the poor thereby building a strong foundation for peace. During his tenure of office he constructed the World’s largest dam (Akosombo) on the Volta River. He further constructed huge silos for storing cocoa in order to control falling market prices of cocoa on the international market. Akosombo dam produced electricity that ignited Industrial growth while silos warehoused capital for industrial expansion. In his wisdom of peace St (Dr) Nkrumah enunciated a strong education policy and developed human capital that was skilled to run the Industrial programmes that he was putting in place. Schools and Universities flourished in Ghana as a result of sound leadership of St Nkrumah. Fellow Zimbabwean do you see any correlationships in Nkrumah’s visionary thinking with Cde Mugabe. Does something ring in you about the Zanu-PF indigenisation and empowerment strategy? Fellow citizens, this is what Nkrumah wanted in his 60 percent indigenisation strategy. In 1966 Dr Nkrumah built a gold refining Industry which was sadly left a 95 percent completion as a result of a military coup by the American backed Colonel Kotoka. Does anything ring in your mind about the American back MDC formations and their regime change agenda? St (Dr) Nkrumah established an atomic energy research centre at the University of Ghana with a view of generating energy that he felt would help in his Industrialisation strategy. I should want to think this was a precursor for Americans to topple him using an African surrogate military man; the power hungry Kotoka. Fellow Zimbabweans, do you see a symbolism of terror between Kotoka, and the violent MDC formations? Today the cocoa silos are growing grass and the gold refining industry is crumbling. Shame UN, Shame America, Shame EU and Shame Britain. St Nkrumah must be celebrated as Africa’s political grandmaster; a fearless visionary who defended African values aimed at making Africa a “great continent”. On 23rd September 2013 whilst watching Ghana TV3 I got shocking news of my life. Several University of Ghana Professors were interviewed on whether there was any President in Ghana that was close to the people and ever built any meaningful developmental industry as St (Dr) Nkrumah did. They all said loud and clearly, ‘No’ except for the late President Mills who demonstrated some semblance of Nkrumah’s ideological thinking. This prompted me, as a keen student of St (Dr) Nkrumah, to explore on why it was that bad. I found out that after the coup Ghana proclaimed an act of parliament ‘Act 380’ that erased all about Nkrumah and banished his party. This is why until today the gold refining industry is becoming derelict. Does this sound any warning about what Tendai Biti meant by “MDC must de-Zanufy Zimbabwe. Fellow citizens, do you see how peace was going to be sacrificed for violence if ever MDC-T had won the elections and gave back the land to the murderous Rhodesians such as Bennet and Eddie Cross? Do you note how Cde Mugabe’s indeginisation and black empowerment was going to be proclaimed illegal and how it would bring anarchy through violence. Imagine the resettled 300 000 families being told to return to their former rural areas. Can anyone imagine peace prevailing in this country after such horrendous activities? Fellow Zimbabweans; citizens of the world, when God created mankind He wanted it to enjoy peace and multiply to be as many as the sands of the sea. God wanted “man” to live in peace and harmony; loving each other and being neighbourly. Mankind was not created to annihilate each other but to multiply and live in peace. Let us all remember that peace (runyararo, ukuthula) is a preserve of African culture. Peace is a heritagic culture of Africans enshrined in the African philosophy of ubuntu/unhu. Violence is a Western heritagic culture which seeks to compete with Satan in destroying God’s precious creation: mankind. The world must rise and condemn this culture with the contempt it deserves. Condemnation must also be leveled against political scientists who have outlived their academic usefulness for Africa such as Ibbo Mandaza who naively support the West. In my next article I will write about how the West threatens World Peace using weapons of mass destruction. *Panganai Kahuni is a political socio-economic commentator* * *
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