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The
Manifesto of ZANU (PF): Parliamentary Elections 2005
Zimbabwe African
National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF)
2005
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THE PEOPLE'S
MANIFESTO MESSAGE FROM THE FIRST SECRETARY AND PRESIDENT OF ZANU
PF CDE. R.G. MUGABE.
On March 31,
2005, Zimbabwe holds a Parliamentary General Election, the sixth
since attaining her Independence on 18th April, 1980, after a ZANU
PF-led protracted national armed liberation struggle against British
white settler colonialism. In all these multi-party elections, ZANU
PF, whether as its constitutive predecessor liberation movements
of ZANU (PF) and PF-ZAPU, or as a single united political entity,
has always commanded majority support, to emerge as the indisputable
winner and authentic Voice and Party of the Zimbabwean people. In
all but one plebiscite, this electoral landslide translated into
an above two-third-majority representation in Parliament, on the
strength of which ZANU PF was able to Implement the transformation
of Zimbabwe from a racist colonial backwater to a vibrant non-racial
democracy it is today. Defending the interests of our erstwhile
colonizer, Britain.
Leading the
pack is the MDC, itself a creation and creature of resurgent British
imperialism. The impending Silver Jubilee will thus be an affirmation
of our sovereign independence which we hold so close and so dear,
and which we jealously continue to guard and pledge, to defend with
our very lives, for the sake of posterity.
The Jubilee
is a celebration of the gains which that Independence has yielded
and brought to all Zimbabweans: freedom; sovereignty; a non-racial
democracy; the land; improved social conditions; education for all;
health for all; economic opportunities for empowerment, among many
other benefits. These are gains Zimbabweans are not about to let
slip by wrongly reposing the governing mandate in dubious, sell-out
parties typified by the MDC, parties which will not hesitate to
wreck and trample upon this hard-won and precious legacy, in favour
of foreign white interests. Blair and his allies will never be allowed
to win over us!
ZANU PF is the
Party of struggle, liberation and democracy. It was ZANU PF and
ZANU PF alone, which Ied the people of Zimbabwe in their relentless
armed struggle against British racist settler colonialism, after
forcibly planting itself on our soil in 1890.It was ZANU PF which
ended lan Smith's so-called Unilateral Declaration of Independence
(UDI), thereby restoring, albeit briefly, the authority which quiescent
Britain had lost through that rebellion by the white racist settlers
grouped as Smith's Rhodesia Front (RF). The British Labour Government
of the day lacked the courage to intervene militarily to end that
rebellion and illegality. Instead it rushed to the United Nations
as if it was a liberation movement! Indeed, it was ZANU PF, which
won and brought democracy to Zimbabwe from Britain and its white
racist settlers here who resisted it. Their anti-democratic posture
had the support of many European nations who flouted UN sanctions
designed to end UDI and bring about democracy. Even the successive
American administrations would not support anti-UDI sanctions, citing
their need to secure chrome from the then UDI Rhodesia, then a strategicmineral
for America's defense industry. Not once did European governments
or the successive American Administrations support ZANU PF or the
Zimbabwean people in their fight for democracy and a just dispensation
in Zimbabwe. In other words, neither Europe nor America - the two
powers keenest to give us lectures on democracy, had a hand in fighting
for, or creating the democracy we enjoy today in the country. No,
instead they subverted it out of self-interest. Today we tell them
boldly they have no lessons on democracy to impart to us. They cannot
teach us democracy today. They had none to give to us for nearly
a century of their misrule here. We scoff at and reject such rank
hypocrisy.
ZANU PF has
nurtured that democracy since Independence in 1980. Unlike countries
of the West who continue to hunt for Nazi war criminals to this
day, ZANU PF pioneered the policy of National Reconciliation by
which Rhodesia's white war criminals stand forgiven, and which has
been replicated in other countries of the region and elsewhere in
the world. The ZANU PF Government has been able to defend peace
and democracy in other countries where both would have been lost:
in Mozambique, Somalia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
and most recently, in Equatorial Guinea where the ZANU PF Government
averted a potentially bloody coup led by western mercenaries.
Through this
Manifesto, ZANU PF speaks to you and to me, speaks to all Zimbabweans
in their many beautiful shades and walks of life, renewing its covenant
with the People of this Land, and offering its vision, plans and
programmes for the next five years, during which it undertakes to
build with them a thriving national economy, they will own and control,
a growing and expanding economy that will serve them before all
else, ZANU PF offers to the Zimbabwean People its tried and tested
leadership for another five years, during which it pledges to consolidate
the new direction Zimbabwe has charted for itself, a direction guaranteeing
that Zimbabwe shall never be a colony again; that never again shall
it ever be a minor or a chattel in global affairs.
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