Dear Zimbabweans
Bucking the predeterminism trend
“Don’t lose it before you fight for it”
Just yesterday (20th of November) I was talking with my friend on the implications of the situation, now unfolding in ZANUPF party, Zimbabwe, where we see all along that ZANUPF was using the country to play its own games, to right their messy house. We also talked of the likelihood of their preferred candidate, Emerson Mnangagwa, to really embrace democracy and accept defeat when he is defeated in the upcoming elections, will the army now accept the will of the people and let the opposition form a government. He said NO. I felt the same too. It’s ZANUPF we are talking of here. My friend’s reasoning doesn’t stem from the fact that Mnangagwa would have been defeated. He said he would steal the elections; its business as usual, the ZANUPF way. He said already the new registration system for voters in the upcoming elections, BMV system has already been tempered with to make ZANUPF and Mnangagwa win next year’s elections. How, he has no idea, but in his mind the ZANUPF has already stolen the elections. The opposition will not win is a predetermined thing in him. My cousin feels, like a lot of Zimbabweans, it is better for us to concentrate on removing Robert Mugabe, and for Mnangagwa to take over and we should give him time, even when he knows Mnangagwa is not good for the country and will still keep the status quo, that he will steal the elections. My cousin doesn’t want to think beyond removing Robert Mugabe and installing Mnangagwa. He feels Mnangagwa will all of a sudden change and will have the country at heart. He doesn’t think the opposition should be given a chance to win it. It is predeterminism in him that the opposition will still fail against Mnangagwa. My question is; why we are not pushing for what we really want in Zimbabwe? Why are we accepting these as eventualities as if this is all that we can have, and be? Why are we still scared of ZANUPF, to the extent that we still give them our right to determine where we will go in life.
Zimbabweans have gone through the worse process of instilling democracy in Africa, maybe in the whole world. We have fought against one dictator for over 37 years. He was a wily, mischievous, smart, and formidable polarizing figure. No one didn’t even think he will be around for over a week after the army had taken over, fighting for his presidency. The more he stayed the more he dug deeper, the more a lot of people got confused, demoralized, and gave up. After he refused to resign several times, and read one of the most wily speeches ever, telling us to go to hell, the morrow day everyone begin to question the whole process, where it was going, whether it will succeed in removing Mugabe and Mugabeism. We had doubt, doubt with doubting the process of bucking the predeterminism trend. He had to go; either through the purging process, the negotiation process, the election process, though I have to admit, I preferred the election process, but going he has gone now through negotiations. We have lost a great chance to make it worthwhile for the country if he had left through the constitutional processes, that is through impeachment and the election route, than negotiations. That way we could have jailed him later for the crimes he committed on us, and demand that he returns the money he stole from us. If we were smart enough, in the next elections, around July next year, and there was a clean sweep to power for the opposition, then we could also have jailed every other thief and abuser. We could have demanded they be tried for destroying our country, for breaking and making broke the country, and this would have acted as a good lesson to those whom we would have elected to lead us tomorrow. For this status quo to continue, for ZANUPF to continue bleeding us, for us to keep failing to arrest back the country from these crooks is a complete failure on the part of the Zimbabweans and their future.
This letter is a call to every Zimbabwean out there to choose which battle to fight. They are many battles to fight in Zimbabwe now, and most of these do not get us out of our current quagmire. The first battle is to stay alive, to find food. The second battle is to fight against political expediency which the majority seems to fall for most of the times. Some had chosen their battle to be only about removing Robert Mugabe from power, only that! And these were mostly ZANUPF people and a number of political expediency undiscerning people. The others had chosen to fight the battle to install Mnangagwa into the ZANUPF and the country’s political arena. And they also succeeded. Some have chosen the fight to be about the next elections, to fight to have opposition parties take over from the corrupt ZANUPF. And there are millions more who don’t care who wins. They are already convinced nothing will ever change, they are losers of a fight they have no guts to even try to enter. This group consists of the largest chunk of Zimbabwean voters. Here is a simple math to work with. Mugabe has always accumulated around 2 million votes in the past election times; March 2008, June 2008, July 2013, and they has been small incrementals to his tallies for the last 10 years. The Tsvangirai MDC’s, at his strength in 2008 March election, got over 2 million votes too, but in 2013 they went down to 1 million votes. It’s a very simple phenomenon. Most of the voters, young voters who voted for the MDC in 2008 left the country during those tumultuous years and most never returned back. They are no longer counting to the MDC votes, rather if you subtract that, that’s why we see the MDC has lost votes. Everyone knows that most of the ZANUPF voters are old people who have a deep connection with the liberation struggle, and these didn’t leave the country in the last ten years more than the MDC Well of votes. The MDC and ZANUPF both together have polled around 4 million votes in the last 2 elections they competed. If you check the census on 2012, Zimbabwe has still pretty much the same population as in the last decade, meaning they were at least 2 million people who were either registered but didn’t vote or who never even registered to begin with. Usually, in any country that is politically literate, the voting numbers are more than half of the country’s population, and that means our figures of voters should be around 7 million. But a lot don’t bother. They are defeated even before they voted
I know for a fact in the 2013 elections, in my street, Svosve road, in Zengeza, Chitungwiza, those who were registered to vote and really voted were just a third of the total number of people eligible to vote, but they didn’t bother to register let alone to vote. Ask any voter in Zimbabwe, they will attest to this. This story predominates in the whole country. This is problematic. These are people who don’t care where the country goes. These are the people ZANUPF use to stay in power. ZANUPF has made the election process and voting unattractive and painful to these people, thus preempting them of their right to participate. It’s the same as with when a child experiences pain, he may develop different personalities in an attempt to bottle up the suffering. The pain is delegated to one of those personalities which he calls bad, so other characters can be free but neither is evil. Undoing these generations of misaligned educational policies of the democratic process is impossible without an unshakable sense of self, a clear purpose and a lasting commitment. This country they call home has devoured them such that their personhood (agency) is misaligned with relation to spaces of competing orders. Had these people been voting, ZANUPF would be long since gone. The connection between identity, democracy and space would have been purposeful, and the exploration of it (as theme, motif, and trope) in this text is methodical in that we carefully craft these unsettled figures on both competing and complimentary spaces to engage the ever-present theme of predeterminism and constitutional exercise of rights. But place and location has had the ability to devour these dwellers literally and metaphorically. Thus then in this literally text, I propose space as text, a signifying theme that can be both liberating and debilitating. And once these Zimbabweans begun to see themselves as not only the owners of Zimbabwe, but also the protectors of it, they will develop a positive sense of self, and will continue to contribute to the development of the country as a whole. Thus we can spirit-rise our dreams together. This experiment is not about our root systems, but about the space between us that has kept us from achieving on our dreams.
Then among the people who used to vote, and still vote for the opposition, some have given up hope, some skip voting sometimes, some discourage others who want to participate, some are still confused who to chose to fight for in Zimbabwe. this is made all the more difficult by the fact that Zimbabwe has ubiquitous numbers of parties and politicians in the opposition fold, with each dreaming to be the next president; Morgan Tsvangirai, Simba Makoni, Nkosana Moyo, Ndumiso Ndabengwa, Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti, Lovemore Madhuku, Joyce Mujuru… the list is longer. This has always made it difficult for the voters to decide which leader to vote for to remove ZANUPF. These leaders profess to be against Mugabe, but if you burrow deep why they can’t find common ground to work as one entity, you will realize they are driven by personal ambitions, ambitions to enrich themselves, ambitions to be the next Mugabe, ambitions to be kissed by the populace, and rarely ambitions to right the country.
The cult of personality has also destroyed the country and Tsvangirai and Mugabe have been the high priests of this cult personality politics in Zimbabwe. These were the drivers of this cult personality. Mugabe is now out, but that won’t stop the ZANUPF from creating another figure head, and it seems the new cult will be built around Mnangagwa, and he will become a huge clothe of red-blackened cloud that will continue to shipwreck our ideal country and memories. Going forward baring illness, death or these leaders being deposed from their respective parties, Tsvangirai and Mnangagwa will be the new leaders of these camps, the opposition and the ruling party respectively. These two individuals will continue telling the story of Zimbabwe. We will see soon, when we start again into the elections mode, the ZANUPF supporters will all coalesce around Mnangagwa whether they like him or not, the opposition supporters will break the opposition vote into 20 plus groups and personalities, thus Mnangagwa will win it. If we are really serious about removing ZANUPF, it’s time for us as voters in the opposition, who constitute the majority of Zimbabweans, to take it into our hands and chose which battle to fight, which leader to band around, and give all our votes to this leader whether we like or do not like him or her. It’s getting clear now that for years, even though the biggest chunk of ZANUPF supporters had fallen out of love with Robert Mugabe, they were still voting him to power and that stayed ZANUPF in power. They moved beyond the personal preferences and feelings, and coalesced around one figure and have all benefited with that. They are very few people in the ZANUPF who would say they never benefited from the party through its 37 years in power.
Some got farms, some got jobs in the local authorities, central government and national organisations, some got scholarships to study, some got housing stands, some got government contracts, some got goodies like food, farming and household stuff, some got farms and land such that hunger had taken time to translate itself into anger against Robert Mugabe. They consumed all the food they got, mismanaged the farms, destroyed the government and local authorities they lead etc, as if by accident, without desperation or a mind to conservation for tomorrow and then when hunger had settled in they folded all their fingers of blame at several of their leaders into one pointing finger against Mugabe. Then they started as fog of war against Robert.
But those in the opposition parties have fared with little and saw their country being bled out by the ZANUPF people, thus they suffered worst than their counterparts in ZANUPF. Yet the leaders in the opposition politics could always get donor funding, and abuse these for personal enrichment, and are well-off, but their supporters are poorer. But all of us have fared badly as compared to ZANUPF leaders themselves. I feel it must now stop to be about ZANUPF supporters vs. Opposition parties supporters, we all have suffered. The ideology of Us and Them among us people must end. The fences and gates cannot keep realities separate, the us/them binary fails because the two contrasting worlds are interlocked in a collective experience. We have to achieve the bifurcation of the humanist spirit together, from philosophy, ideologue, identity, economy, education, nationhood, etc… into reality, politics, science, art and poetry... We have to transcend the us/them binary thereby offering ourselves room for collective affirmation and existence beyond the control of party signifies and identity signifies like race, class, gender, sexual orientation… in simple terms this letter serves to galvanize everyone who is against ZANUPF hegemony to work together for the better of our future. This is our country too. You don’t need to have gone to war to be a citizen of a country, there is no requirement like that in our constitution. We were all born in Zimbabwe, we grew up in Zimbabwe, we have stayed in Zimbabwe, we have all built Zimbabwe, we all love Zimbabwe, maybe differently- it’s all our country. It is time to wrestle it away from those who think they won it by a gun for themselves. Let’s band together and fight the new Mnangagwa cult.
At least a number of the opposition figures have put aside their differences and rose above party lines to create an alliance, the MDC alliance. Maybe the best hope we have of going forward is to go with this alliance. Let’s band around this group. If over 4 million voters who do not vote for ZANUPF in every election period all vote for this alliance, then we are going to kick ZANUPF out. Its narrow minded and shallow to think Zimbabwe’s problems were caused by only one man in Zimbabwe as the idea that seem to be propagating. The whole ZANUPF cabal is responsible for destroying this country. It’s better for all of us who don’t like ZANUPF to do this and wait for what happens after winning the elections next year, than to say the elections are already won by the ZANUPF, and wait for ZANUPF to continue to plunder our country. The army boss has said it succinctly.
In the last 5 years there was no development that happened in Zimbabwe other than ZANUPF political soaps and shenanigans. He said he is afraid of Zimbabwe degenerating into the lawless and strife torn that Somalia and the DRC have been. I know he was speaking of the security issues and the possibility of a war here, but make no mistake, with ZANUPF still leading us, we are sure going the DRC and Somalia route, only not in security issues but also economically, if we are not worse than those two countries already. It’s your job and mine to see that we don’t go this route. ZANUPF is not the answer to our future. It’s ZANUPF we should be giving the feeling that they have lost before they even start voting. For goodness sake they had 37 years to build Zimbabwe, why do we want to give them more chances, to do what now. We are now the poorest country in the entire world, don’t we feel ZANUPF has achieved enough by sentencing us to this throne.
Wake up Zimbabweans, let’s have thinking hands like a musician’s hands and vote for the best that gets us dancing after elections to the music of our pens. You attest to be the most literate people on the continent, but you can’t seem to know how to use your education the right way. Why are the most literate people refusing to exercise their right to vote? Why are the most literate people still getting used by ZANUPF? Why the most literate people don’t seem to know what the best way for the country is. Why the most literate people seem to be the most stupid and confused in Africa and the world. What literacy is that? Let’s embrace political literacy and activism, let’s tell every Zimbabwean who has every right to vote to go and vote. Let’s decide now the way forward to our future. Let’s decide what we are going to feed our families with, the schools, the roads, the water, the sanity etc… that we want for our families. When you don’t vote, you condemn yourself to failure. This is your right. Exercise it.
I don’t like Morgan Tsvangirai. Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube, I don’t like the MDC, but I will still vote for it. I have to position myself as a subject in a multivalent spatial matrix to measure democratic space and practice here. This merit attention; let’s reorder reality at every level for ZANUPF has disrupted our understanding of personhood. The MDC is still our best chance to remove ZANUPF. Zimbabwe politics is still about who has the best chance to represent your needs, not who we like or love. This is our democratic space. Here space denotes more than a marked room or a static enclosure; in fact space finds itself most complexly understood in time, moment and movement. Go to the elections with this attitude and win it for the country, and then we can talk of other opposition parties and the future after voting ZANUPF out. It’s as simple as that. You can look for yourself there is no N’anga (fortune teller) up my sleeves.
Makudo ndemamwe angarwisana pakudya asi papfumvu anorwirana (Baboons’ togetherness is that they fight each other over food but when in danger they fight together)
I am one baboon up for a fight against danger, join me!
Thank you, Ndinotenda, Ngiyabonga
Bucking the predeterminism trend
“Don’t lose it before you fight for it”
Just yesterday (20th of November) I was talking with my friend on the implications of the situation, now unfolding in ZANUPF party, Zimbabwe, where we see all along that ZANUPF was using the country to play its own games, to right their messy house. We also talked of the likelihood of their preferred candidate, Emerson Mnangagwa, to really embrace democracy and accept defeat when he is defeated in the upcoming elections, will the army now accept the will of the people and let the opposition form a government. He said NO. I felt the same too. It’s ZANUPF we are talking of here. My friend’s reasoning doesn’t stem from the fact that Mnangagwa would have been defeated. He said he would steal the elections; its business as usual, the ZANUPF way. He said already the new registration system for voters in the upcoming elections, BMV system has already been tempered with to make ZANUPF and Mnangagwa win next year’s elections. How, he has no idea, but in his mind the ZANUPF has already stolen the elections. The opposition will not win is a predetermined thing in him. My cousin feels, like a lot of Zimbabweans, it is better for us to concentrate on removing Robert Mugabe, and for Mnangagwa to take over and we should give him time, even when he knows Mnangagwa is not good for the country and will still keep the status quo, that he will steal the elections. My cousin doesn’t want to think beyond removing Robert Mugabe and installing Mnangagwa. He feels Mnangagwa will all of a sudden change and will have the country at heart. He doesn’t think the opposition should be given a chance to win it. It is predeterminism in him that the opposition will still fail against Mnangagwa. My question is; why we are not pushing for what we really want in Zimbabwe? Why are we accepting these as eventualities as if this is all that we can have, and be? Why are we still scared of ZANUPF, to the extent that we still give them our right to determine where we will go in life.
Zimbabweans have gone through the worse process of instilling democracy in Africa, maybe in the whole world. We have fought against one dictator for over 37 years. He was a wily, mischievous, smart, and formidable polarizing figure. No one didn’t even think he will be around for over a week after the army had taken over, fighting for his presidency. The more he stayed the more he dug deeper, the more a lot of people got confused, demoralized, and gave up. After he refused to resign several times, and read one of the most wily speeches ever, telling us to go to hell, the morrow day everyone begin to question the whole process, where it was going, whether it will succeed in removing Mugabe and Mugabeism. We had doubt, doubt with doubting the process of bucking the predeterminism trend. He had to go; either through the purging process, the negotiation process, the election process, though I have to admit, I preferred the election process, but going he has gone now through negotiations. We have lost a great chance to make it worthwhile for the country if he had left through the constitutional processes, that is through impeachment and the election route, than negotiations. That way we could have jailed him later for the crimes he committed on us, and demand that he returns the money he stole from us. If we were smart enough, in the next elections, around July next year, and there was a clean sweep to power for the opposition, then we could also have jailed every other thief and abuser. We could have demanded they be tried for destroying our country, for breaking and making broke the country, and this would have acted as a good lesson to those whom we would have elected to lead us tomorrow. For this status quo to continue, for ZANUPF to continue bleeding us, for us to keep failing to arrest back the country from these crooks is a complete failure on the part of the Zimbabweans and their future.
This letter is a call to every Zimbabwean out there to choose which battle to fight. They are many battles to fight in Zimbabwe now, and most of these do not get us out of our current quagmire. The first battle is to stay alive, to find food. The second battle is to fight against political expediency which the majority seems to fall for most of the times. Some had chosen their battle to be only about removing Robert Mugabe from power, only that! And these were mostly ZANUPF people and a number of political expediency undiscerning people. The others had chosen to fight the battle to install Mnangagwa into the ZANUPF and the country’s political arena. And they also succeeded. Some have chosen the fight to be about the next elections, to fight to have opposition parties take over from the corrupt ZANUPF. And there are millions more who don’t care who wins. They are already convinced nothing will ever change, they are losers of a fight they have no guts to even try to enter. This group consists of the largest chunk of Zimbabwean voters. Here is a simple math to work with. Mugabe has always accumulated around 2 million votes in the past election times; March 2008, June 2008, July 2013, and they has been small incrementals to his tallies for the last 10 years. The Tsvangirai MDC’s, at his strength in 2008 March election, got over 2 million votes too, but in 2013 they went down to 1 million votes. It’s a very simple phenomenon. Most of the voters, young voters who voted for the MDC in 2008 left the country during those tumultuous years and most never returned back. They are no longer counting to the MDC votes, rather if you subtract that, that’s why we see the MDC has lost votes. Everyone knows that most of the ZANUPF voters are old people who have a deep connection with the liberation struggle, and these didn’t leave the country in the last ten years more than the MDC Well of votes. The MDC and ZANUPF both together have polled around 4 million votes in the last 2 elections they competed. If you check the census on 2012, Zimbabwe has still pretty much the same population as in the last decade, meaning they were at least 2 million people who were either registered but didn’t vote or who never even registered to begin with. Usually, in any country that is politically literate, the voting numbers are more than half of the country’s population, and that means our figures of voters should be around 7 million. But a lot don’t bother. They are defeated even before they voted
I know for a fact in the 2013 elections, in my street, Svosve road, in Zengeza, Chitungwiza, those who were registered to vote and really voted were just a third of the total number of people eligible to vote, but they didn’t bother to register let alone to vote. Ask any voter in Zimbabwe, they will attest to this. This story predominates in the whole country. This is problematic. These are people who don’t care where the country goes. These are the people ZANUPF use to stay in power. ZANUPF has made the election process and voting unattractive and painful to these people, thus preempting them of their right to participate. It’s the same as with when a child experiences pain, he may develop different personalities in an attempt to bottle up the suffering. The pain is delegated to one of those personalities which he calls bad, so other characters can be free but neither is evil. Undoing these generations of misaligned educational policies of the democratic process is impossible without an unshakable sense of self, a clear purpose and a lasting commitment. This country they call home has devoured them such that their personhood (agency) is misaligned with relation to spaces of competing orders. Had these people been voting, ZANUPF would be long since gone. The connection between identity, democracy and space would have been purposeful, and the exploration of it (as theme, motif, and trope) in this text is methodical in that we carefully craft these unsettled figures on both competing and complimentary spaces to engage the ever-present theme of predeterminism and constitutional exercise of rights. But place and location has had the ability to devour these dwellers literally and metaphorically. Thus then in this literally text, I propose space as text, a signifying theme that can be both liberating and debilitating. And once these Zimbabweans begun to see themselves as not only the owners of Zimbabwe, but also the protectors of it, they will develop a positive sense of self, and will continue to contribute to the development of the country as a whole. Thus we can spirit-rise our dreams together. This experiment is not about our root systems, but about the space between us that has kept us from achieving on our dreams.
Then among the people who used to vote, and still vote for the opposition, some have given up hope, some skip voting sometimes, some discourage others who want to participate, some are still confused who to chose to fight for in Zimbabwe. this is made all the more difficult by the fact that Zimbabwe has ubiquitous numbers of parties and politicians in the opposition fold, with each dreaming to be the next president; Morgan Tsvangirai, Simba Makoni, Nkosana Moyo, Ndumiso Ndabengwa, Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti, Lovemore Madhuku, Joyce Mujuru… the list is longer. This has always made it difficult for the voters to decide which leader to vote for to remove ZANUPF. These leaders profess to be against Mugabe, but if you burrow deep why they can’t find common ground to work as one entity, you will realize they are driven by personal ambitions, ambitions to enrich themselves, ambitions to be the next Mugabe, ambitions to be kissed by the populace, and rarely ambitions to right the country.
The cult of personality has also destroyed the country and Tsvangirai and Mugabe have been the high priests of this cult personality politics in Zimbabwe. These were the drivers of this cult personality. Mugabe is now out, but that won’t stop the ZANUPF from creating another figure head, and it seems the new cult will be built around Mnangagwa, and he will become a huge clothe of red-blackened cloud that will continue to shipwreck our ideal country and memories. Going forward baring illness, death or these leaders being deposed from their respective parties, Tsvangirai and Mnangagwa will be the new leaders of these camps, the opposition and the ruling party respectively. These two individuals will continue telling the story of Zimbabwe. We will see soon, when we start again into the elections mode, the ZANUPF supporters will all coalesce around Mnangagwa whether they like him or not, the opposition supporters will break the opposition vote into 20 plus groups and personalities, thus Mnangagwa will win it. If we are really serious about removing ZANUPF, it’s time for us as voters in the opposition, who constitute the majority of Zimbabweans, to take it into our hands and chose which battle to fight, which leader to band around, and give all our votes to this leader whether we like or do not like him or her. It’s getting clear now that for years, even though the biggest chunk of ZANUPF supporters had fallen out of love with Robert Mugabe, they were still voting him to power and that stayed ZANUPF in power. They moved beyond the personal preferences and feelings, and coalesced around one figure and have all benefited with that. They are very few people in the ZANUPF who would say they never benefited from the party through its 37 years in power.
Some got farms, some got jobs in the local authorities, central government and national organisations, some got scholarships to study, some got housing stands, some got government contracts, some got goodies like food, farming and household stuff, some got farms and land such that hunger had taken time to translate itself into anger against Robert Mugabe. They consumed all the food they got, mismanaged the farms, destroyed the government and local authorities they lead etc, as if by accident, without desperation or a mind to conservation for tomorrow and then when hunger had settled in they folded all their fingers of blame at several of their leaders into one pointing finger against Mugabe. Then they started as fog of war against Robert.
But those in the opposition parties have fared with little and saw their country being bled out by the ZANUPF people, thus they suffered worst than their counterparts in ZANUPF. Yet the leaders in the opposition politics could always get donor funding, and abuse these for personal enrichment, and are well-off, but their supporters are poorer. But all of us have fared badly as compared to ZANUPF leaders themselves. I feel it must now stop to be about ZANUPF supporters vs. Opposition parties supporters, we all have suffered. The ideology of Us and Them among us people must end. The fences and gates cannot keep realities separate, the us/them binary fails because the two contrasting worlds are interlocked in a collective experience. We have to achieve the bifurcation of the humanist spirit together, from philosophy, ideologue, identity, economy, education, nationhood, etc… into reality, politics, science, art and poetry... We have to transcend the us/them binary thereby offering ourselves room for collective affirmation and existence beyond the control of party signifies and identity signifies like race, class, gender, sexual orientation… in simple terms this letter serves to galvanize everyone who is against ZANUPF hegemony to work together for the better of our future. This is our country too. You don’t need to have gone to war to be a citizen of a country, there is no requirement like that in our constitution. We were all born in Zimbabwe, we grew up in Zimbabwe, we have stayed in Zimbabwe, we have all built Zimbabwe, we all love Zimbabwe, maybe differently- it’s all our country. It is time to wrestle it away from those who think they won it by a gun for themselves. Let’s band together and fight the new Mnangagwa cult.
At least a number of the opposition figures have put aside their differences and rose above party lines to create an alliance, the MDC alliance. Maybe the best hope we have of going forward is to go with this alliance. Let’s band around this group. If over 4 million voters who do not vote for ZANUPF in every election period all vote for this alliance, then we are going to kick ZANUPF out. Its narrow minded and shallow to think Zimbabwe’s problems were caused by only one man in Zimbabwe as the idea that seem to be propagating. The whole ZANUPF cabal is responsible for destroying this country. It’s better for all of us who don’t like ZANUPF to do this and wait for what happens after winning the elections next year, than to say the elections are already won by the ZANUPF, and wait for ZANUPF to continue to plunder our country. The army boss has said it succinctly.
In the last 5 years there was no development that happened in Zimbabwe other than ZANUPF political soaps and shenanigans. He said he is afraid of Zimbabwe degenerating into the lawless and strife torn that Somalia and the DRC have been. I know he was speaking of the security issues and the possibility of a war here, but make no mistake, with ZANUPF still leading us, we are sure going the DRC and Somalia route, only not in security issues but also economically, if we are not worse than those two countries already. It’s your job and mine to see that we don’t go this route. ZANUPF is not the answer to our future. It’s ZANUPF we should be giving the feeling that they have lost before they even start voting. For goodness sake they had 37 years to build Zimbabwe, why do we want to give them more chances, to do what now. We are now the poorest country in the entire world, don’t we feel ZANUPF has achieved enough by sentencing us to this throne.
Wake up Zimbabweans, let’s have thinking hands like a musician’s hands and vote for the best that gets us dancing after elections to the music of our pens. You attest to be the most literate people on the continent, but you can’t seem to know how to use your education the right way. Why are the most literate people refusing to exercise their right to vote? Why are the most literate people still getting used by ZANUPF? Why the most literate people don’t seem to know what the best way for the country is. Why the most literate people seem to be the most stupid and confused in Africa and the world. What literacy is that? Let’s embrace political literacy and activism, let’s tell every Zimbabwean who has every right to vote to go and vote. Let’s decide now the way forward to our future. Let’s decide what we are going to feed our families with, the schools, the roads, the water, the sanity etc… that we want for our families. When you don’t vote, you condemn yourself to failure. This is your right. Exercise it.
I don’t like Morgan Tsvangirai. Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube, I don’t like the MDC, but I will still vote for it. I have to position myself as a subject in a multivalent spatial matrix to measure democratic space and practice here. This merit attention; let’s reorder reality at every level for ZANUPF has disrupted our understanding of personhood. The MDC is still our best chance to remove ZANUPF. Zimbabwe politics is still about who has the best chance to represent your needs, not who we like or love. This is our democratic space. Here space denotes more than a marked room or a static enclosure; in fact space finds itself most complexly understood in time, moment and movement. Go to the elections with this attitude and win it for the country, and then we can talk of other opposition parties and the future after voting ZANUPF out. It’s as simple as that. You can look for yourself there is no N’anga (fortune teller) up my sleeves.
Makudo ndemamwe angarwisana pakudya asi papfumvu anorwirana (Baboons’ togetherness is that they fight each other over food but when in danger they fight together)
I am one baboon up for a fight against danger, join me!
Thank you, Ndinotenda, Ngiyabonga
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