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Zanu-PF
brought democracy? What an illusion
Rejoice
Ngwenya
May 06, 2013
Christopher
‘Criss Angel’ Sarantakos is an American magician and
psychic illusionist. Like our own deceitful local ‘angelic
prophets’ who entertain rather than preach, Sarantakos does
things that dazzle the eye. If you are gullible and uninformed about
physics, chemistry, doctrine and psychology he makes you believe
anything, even a mirage.
We have thousands of
such gullible citizens and ‘Christians’ in Zimbabwe.
The less enlightened ones like Herald columnist Fortious Nhamburi
are victims of Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu-PF) grandiose
illusions. You believe Sarantakos or Zanu-PF, you believe anything
like the myth that Robert Mugabe ‘brought democracy and freedom’
to Zimbabwe!
Democracy is a way of
life, an attitude, personal and collective experience. If you add
freedom to it, it mutates into humanity, the very chemistry and
electricity that drives your being, your conscience. I confess.
Zanu-PF still has remnant democrats. I have worked, wined, dined
and socialised with them. Some are lawyers, businesspersons, academics,
Christians while others are politicians. But ‘bringing’
something does not mean you ARE it. Webster Shamu was, in the 1970s,
‘preaching’ One Man One Vote on ‘pirate’
Radio Zimbabwe from Mozambique. Yet only last month, he bragged
how a vote will not take what a gun brought ‘independence’.
And so if elections are not a vital cog in the machinery of democracy,
why would Zanu-PF nauseate us about June 29? They are masters of
political illusion!
Fortious thinks anyone
who is not Zanu-PF or did not ‘go to war’ could not
be a democrat. It is even a crisis of untold proportions he opines
if one had a relative in the army or a ‘white neighbour’!
Paralysing, award-winning idiocy!
There is major difference
between ‘independence’ and ‘freedom’. Joshua
Nkomo epitomised freedom. His brand of militarism was people centred.
He, like Ian Smith, also made mistakes, but there are things that
are inexcusable like killing your own. Zanu-PF did it during the
‘independence’ war. Its fixation with Maoist ideology
legitimised murder of innocent civilians conveniently labelled ‘sellouts’.
Villagers were pummeled into submission, tortured into compliance
and butchered on the flimsiest of all accusations.
Fortious is
right, I was not in Zanu-PF ‘military’ camps in Mozambique,
so I have no record of how many innocent people were ‘eliminated’
after Kangaroo ‘court’ verdicts or which girls were
raped; neither was Mugabe’s ‘high command’ a bastion
of democratic excellence. Tragically, it delivered Maoist zealots
into Parliament hoping that time and distance from Mozambique would
transfigure them into democrats. But if Gukurahundi, Murambatsvina,
the murder of MDC activists in 2008; if the plunder of ‘white’
commercial farms; if the de-industrialisation of Bulawayo; the exile
of three million Zimbabweans in South Africa, United Kingdom, USA
and Australia; if one million percent hyperinflation; if the total
collapse of National Railways; if Access
to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the Public
Order and Security Act and the Criminal
Law (Codification and Reform) Act; if the partisan judiciary
and compliant public security institutions; if the potholes on our
roads and the empty grain silos; if the monopoly of ZBC and the
insults from Herald; if Mugabe’s 33-year old iron fist rule
and Zanu-PF’s rigging of elections - if this is democracy,
then Fortious and his kind can stuff it!
Zanu-PF may have ‘brought
independence’, but they know zilch about freedom. Coercion,
violence, compliance, submission, hatred, pain, suffering, corruption,
lies, plunder – is not democracy. Like Criss and our own local
‘angelic prophets’, they are better exhibiting their
psychic illusions on Mars.
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