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Like you, I am a member of Movement for Democratic Regime Change
Rejoice Ngwenya
April 02, 2013

Zimbabwe is a constitutional, multiparty democracy. Citizens are permitted to be members of, register and vote for any political party. This is why it is legitimate for Jonathan Moyo, George Charamba, Rugare Gumbo, Christopher Mutsvangwa, Goodson Nguni, Simbarashe Mumbegegwi, Tafataona Mahoso, Jabulani Sibanda and Obadiah Msindo to be staunch members of Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front [ZANU-PF].

But herein is the crisis. If, like me, you are also a citizen of this country and want to engage in legitimate activity that enhances your resourcefulness, knowledge and opportunity to vote against ZANU-PF in 2013, the people mentioned above will accuse us of having an ‘illegal regime change’ agenda. They are ignorant of that in a constitutional democracy; democratic regime change is actually legitimate! The reason why I register and vote in all elections where a President, Member of Parliament, Senator and Councillor contest is to ensure their replacement or retention. Actually, every five years since 2000, all of us four million four hundred thousand registered voters have been trying to inadvertently and legitimately change the ZANU-PF regime!

What Jonathan Moyo, George Charamba, Rugare Gumbo, Christopher Mutsvangwa, Goodson Nguni, Simbarashe Mumbegegwi, Tafataona Mahoso, Jabulani Sibanda and Obadiah Msindo imply is that if you, like me, are doing everything, and asking for support from anyone you can, to legitimately ensure ZANU-PF lose the next election, you are in fact a criminal. And this is coming from educated men [or at most, three of them]!

Since 1999, I have had an opportunity to work with and listen to some of these un-informed ZANU-PF supporters. You’ve to feel pity for them. They consider friendship to Americans, Europeans and Zimbabwean commercial farmers as … illegal. To them, the fact that they wine and dine with Chinese, Russians, North Koreans, Lebanese and Israelis in order to entrench the hegemony of ZANU-PF should simply be ignored. These men also have a colleague called Happison Muchechetere who runs Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings [ZBH]. ZBH owns and controls two television stations and four radio stations, whose broadcast policies are determined directly by Webster Shamu, another staunch member of ZANU-PF.

Like you, I am free not to decide about these partisan broadcasters. I am ‘compelled’ to pay licence fees to ensure Muchechetere gets his monthly salary to watch CNN - a ‘Western’ television channel. My American and European friends have assisted me and the other four million five hundred thousand citizens to listen to Studio Seven, Voice of the People and SW Radio. Like you, I don’t pay fees to these three brave radio stations. Tragically, according to current ZANU-PF laws, Studio Seven, Voice of the People and SW Radio will never be licensed to broadcast from Zimbabwe. According to Jonathan Moyo, George Charamba, Rugare Gumbo, Christopher Mutsvangwa, Goodson Nguni, Simbarashe Mumbegegwi, Tafataona Mahoso, Jabulani Sibanda and Obadiah Msindo, these studios have an illegal regime change agenda!

Here’s my problem with Jonathan Moyo, George Charamba, Rugare Gumbo, Christopher Mutsvangwa, Goodson Nguni, Simbarashe Mumbegegwi, Tafataona Mahoso, Jabulani Sibanda and Obadiah Msindo. In their minds, as long as I, like you, do not support ZANU-PF, whoever I vote for or be-friend, whatever news paper I read, which ever radio ‘foreign’ station I listen to, I am advancing an illegal regime change agenda. These men have appropriated themselves a role of God who decides what is good or bad for humanity. My advice to them: gentleman, go back to the School of Constitutional Democracy.

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