Published by the government of Zimbabwe
Campion Mereki
14 May 2008
opinion
Harare — THE recent harmonised elections will go down in the annals of history as a suffrage that nearly sold out the revolution to detractors.
Zimbabwe is on a cliff edge. There are people who are trying to push it down the precipice. The illegal economic sanctions imposed by the West were an attempt to force Zimbabweans to reject the principled leadership of Zanu-PF for the proxy leadership of MDC-T. It is an open secret that life is difficult in our country.
Many Zimbabweans are living from hand to mouth with no savings. It is difficult to convince an ordinary man in the street who is ravenously hungry that his hunger is caused by sanctions imposed by Britain and her allies. You need to feed him first and then explain to him the circumstances surrounding his suffering. Every human being needs a full stomach in order to live and survive. When a man is hungry and jobless and the Western stooges approach him with offers of food and stories that the Government is behind his suffering, the man -- if he is naïve -- is bound to swallow the lies hook, line and sinker.
When voting day comes that person is likely to vote against the Government in the hope of a "better" life.
The West has tried since 2000 to depose President Mugabe when the Government embarked on the land reform programme.
There is nothing that the West, especially Britain, has against President Mugabe except his refusal to turn Zimbabwe into a client state. The issue that is at the core of Zimbabwe's problems is land.
Britain wants this infinite resource for its kith and kin from whom it was taken from. That cannot be allowed to happen. The land is ours; it is our heritage, our legacy. We would rather suffer or die than let it go. The Westerners have persecuted us in the hope that we will relent, but we have stood by President Mugabe and vow to die defending our country from reverting to a British colony. We are not defending this country for ourselves, but for our children and their children's children. MDC-T leadership is myopic. They want power for power's sake. Once in power, they will be remote controlled from Whitehall and the White House. When they get a Damascan moment later and realise that they sold their birthright, it will be too late.
The West would have formed and sponsored another opposition to self-perpetuate.
The problem with MDC-T is that none in its leadership experienced or bore the brunt of the liberation struggle.
It is a generation that comprised of "yes baas" politicians who are very dangerous.
These people should not be allowed to lay claim to the leadership of this country.
Zimbabwe is not for sale.
The precious blood of sons and daughters of this nation did not flow in vain. We fought the settler regime.
The settler brigands hanged Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi. Why? Tears fill my eyes when I hear Tsvangirai, a coward who fled the struggle, appeal to Britain and other Western countries to exert pressure on President Mugabe to relinquish power. Tsvangirai should remember that Zimbabwe would not suffer a leadership of stooges.
We have a lot to learn from the Zambian experience. When President Kenneth Kaunda's Unip lost to the MMD, a Western-sponsored party, Frederick Chiluba -- a former bus conductor -- became president of Zambia in October 1991.
Just look at how commonplace, the West wants the leadership of Africa to be.
Chiluba went on a 10-year looting spree and was replaced by Levy Mwanawasa, who is proving to be mentally challenged.
We are on the equivalent of the Israelis journey across the desert, where many are bound to fall by the wayside.
We are now within reach of Canaan, the Promised Land.
Yes, it has been a tortuous journey from Egypt. The British nearly got us on March 29 but I believe God wanted to test our resolve.
Let's remain steadfast in the run-off.
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