Run-Off - Relaunching Revolution
The Herald (Harare)
OPINION
8 April 2008
Posted to the web 8 April 2008
By Reason Wafawarova
Harare
The just-ended harmonised poll presented very important lessons for the agrarian revolution and the envisaged presidential run-off offers the revolutionary masses of Zimbabwe a perfect opportunity to rise as one coalescent force to demolish all imperial aspirations as measured by the bizarre immature celebrations by the treacherous and insidious opposition MDC, along with their unthinking masters in the Western capitals.
The ruling Zanu-PF, yes ruling, is a long-established political organisation that has gone through testing times before and the just-ended election obviously presented one of the biggest challenge ever to affect the revolutionary party since it was formed in 1963.
Lesson number one was that if the leadership in the revolution fails to shake off the dead leaves hanging on the revolutionary tree, then the winds of the masses would always do the shaking. Some of the candidates that were reportedly imposed had for a long time been viewed as some of the most useless politicians our nation has ever known while some of them have for a long time been notorious for abuse of office and negligence of duty in their constituencies.
It was naturally the duty of the Zanu-PF Commissariat Department to ensure that the people are not presented with dead leaves for a choice in the election. How was it expected that these people who could not sell themselves to their own constituencies would be able to do a good job selling the President?
The National Commissar, Cde Elliot Manyika, was dead right when he said there is nothing like neutrality in politics. This was after he was asked about the role of his department in determining the ruling party's candidates. Indeed, there is nothing like neutrality in politics just like there should be nothing worse than bias towards politically useless people who have lost credibility with the grassroots.
Anyway, the battle was fought and the revolution was shaken and it is now time to relaunch it. It is time for all revolutionaries to be reminded that the people own the revolutionary process; and after Morgan Tsvangirai is silenced in the run-off, there is need for everyone to look after the revolutionary tree with diligence, respect and commitment as guided by the aspirations of those whose lives were sacrificed for Zimbabwe to be where it is today.
The second lesson that was brought by this election is that a chunk of the electorate has been coerced by sanction-induced economic hardships into accepting that the agent of the evil master who has brought this suffering can be the liberator as well. Tsvangirai went across the country asking people: "Are you hungry? Are you angry? Then remove this government."
The two questions and the suggested answer were not only an attempt at inciting people into a protest mood, but also a message meant to dupe the masses that they were under a government that was deliberately and intentionally inflicting economic hardships on them - just because "Government officials are sadists who derive joy in seeing people starve".
It is a simple American tradition introduced by one of the US' founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson. He called it "political gravitation" and all that is needed is that you isolate a country by mobilising others to shun it and making sure that its economy is strangulated until the poorest and the lowest persons in that country feel the effect.
Richard Nixon called this economic warfare the "screaming of the economy" and a point is always reached when some people find the pain inflicted by the economic warfare so unbearable that they begin to look up to the oppressor as the liberator.
This is what Tsvangirai sought to achieve by going around extorting votes by dangling the promise of a US$10 billion package -- something that obviously contributed immensely to the delusions that created the false victory that Tendai Biti seemed to take quite seriously. If the people of Zimbabwe are not free, then their bondage has been orchestrated from London through the lap-dog support and collaboration of the MDC and it is always important for one in bondage to remember always who the oppressor is.
Many times the children of Israel mistook Moses and even God for their oppressor and many times they misremembered the mediocre slavery meals they used to get in Egypt as part of true freedom.
When one reaches this stage it becomes extremely difficult to free them. A person who thinks and acts like a slave is very difficult, if not impossible, to free. One needs to think and act like a free man if they are going to win their freedom back. Not even a Messiah from heaven can free a people who think like slaves.
Tsvangirai's campaign rallies were all designed to make Zimbabweans think and act like economic slaves. The MDC hoped that they could capitalise on the hardships facing the people by posturing with a false sense of freedom and liberty packaged in financial pledges from Western governments. No wonder this did not work out.
As the legendary musician Bob Marley put it, "You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all the time." For one to act and think like a free man, they do not need to have a full stomach or to be rich. All they need is to have a free mind and a vision.
This is how the liberation war was fought and won. It was fought and won by young men and women with a free mind that carried a vision to break the chains of a ruinous colonialism. Carrying mere AK-47 rifles against the mighty arsenal of the Rhodesian Front, but they never felt inferior -- they kept thinking like free people and not like ill-armed colonial slaves.
Zimbabweans must tell the MDC once and for all that they will not be made to think like economic slaves, not anymore. The MDC might be having hordes of economic refugees in the Diaspora as supporters, but they cannot be allowed to create economic slaves out of Zimbabweans right on our home soil.
Tsvangirai was basically telling people kuti ndivhoterei ndinosunungura pandakakiya and that kind of an insult cannot be tolerated in this coming runoff. The third lesson coming from this just-ended election is that imperialism will not rest in its endeavour to reverse the land reform programme.
Tsvangirai was obviously fooled by the CIA and London into believing that war veterans can be bought off by massive pensions in return for being pushed out the farms to make room for the return of white settler farmers.
To this end, he kept saying he would establish some Truth and Reconciliation Commission to do a land audit and also review the pensions of war veterans. In his justification for such a review of pensions while he spoke at Sakubva Stadium in Mutare, Tsvangirai said it must be remembered that the war veterans "are not getting any younger".
Very true, Morgan, they are not getting any younger, which is why they are not going to be fooled into giving up their land for some attractive pension package, however, lucrative.
This election had given so much hope to those white settler farmers and there was a deliberate foreplay of things to come through the showing of land occupation documentaries in the Western media. Everyone was being psyched up for Tsvangirai's Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- in fact, a team that should be rightly called the Treachery and Recolonisation Commission.
It is no surprise that the Western media portrays President Mugabe as having lost this election when they know he has not lost it. In their minds, what more can make the image of a dictator than a man who refuses to recognise and accept defeat in an election?
Poor Western media, there are not many takers left for this kind of crude propaganda, really none outside those poor viewers in Western communities who are always subjected to unfair doses of slander and propaganda for news.
Biti obviously feels like he is talking to the world each time he is beamed on BBC, but the truth is that the rest of the world outside Western communities sees a perfect stooge and puppet. Just what did Biti think he was doing saying, "It is clear that no one voted for Cde Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF in this election"? His BBC interviewers did not see the need to edit out this most stupid assertion, of course. You smile and say "Cute" when your poodle vomits, don't you?
The fourth lesson provided by this election is that myths are really deceiving. Poor Simba Makoni. Poor thing. Dr Devaluation is set to gain a new name as Dr Seven Percent soon after the presidential election result is announced. Is this all that reported charisma and intelligence is worth nhai, Nyati?
This writer did say before that Makoni believes the mirror too much and is also easily flattered. So that air-clutching symbol lived for exactly 59 days and died just like the naivety of believing in this Trevor Ncube theory of the Third Force. Third, yes, because Makoni came an emphatic third; but force, no, because there is no force to talk about in 7 percent. Sometimes nicknames can be deceiving. Did Dumiso Dabengwa really believe he was some kind of black Russian?
What a shameful and pathetic way of marketing the Russian legacy if you ask this writer. Whoever told Dabengwa to stand up when people are looking for political heavyweights must be the same person who must have told him that he was as mighty as Putin.
Dabengwa might argue that 190 000 votes garnered by Makoni in Matabeleland are decent enough to save his face, but there is certainly nothing Black Russian in accumulating a 7 percent vote.
As for Ibboston Day Joseph, what an academic quack! Is this all that could come out of the hype and activity that was at SAPES offices when innocent unsuspecting youths were duped into believing that they were in the process of beginning something called Mavambo? The people of Mazowe must feel insulted to have been dragged into this shameful and degrading piece of history without their consent.
Then we hear there were 917 people in Masvingo who thought that Kudzai Mbudzi was different from his name. However, the rest of the constituency were quite clear that Major Mbudzi was not named for nothing. This shameful political outing is what Kudzai Mbudzi once called a revolution. Some people!
Poor Arthur Mutambara. The people of Zengeza thought that King Arthur was not even comparable to that forgotten childish political gatecrasher called Tafadzwa Musekiwa. Being rejected by a constituency that was once gullible enough to be duped by a 24-year-old con politician when you are a NASA rocket scientist does not exactly sound like palatable news. But what was Mutambara thinking when he started running around as Makoni supporter number one and as a leader of a political party at the same time? Political naivety does not come any cheaper.
Oh, Job "Ken Saro Wiwa" Sikhala! Nhai, homeboy, did you really have to end it up in a prison cell? We will call it fighting to the bitter end. Now that Mbudzi did not make it to Parliament and Sikhala's term of clowning has been terminated, who is going to be the next jester in our august House of Assembly?
Oh St Mary's, the nation will never forget you for providing comic relief to Parliament for the past eight years. Hopefully this Marvellous chap will live up to his name.
The politicians, or pseudo-politicians, cited here are just part of many who fell victim to delusions of grandeur and, of course, one Langton Towungana has been left out because some things are better left unsaid, especially when there are claims of divinity involved.
Point number five and the last one in the lessons provided by this election is that a revolution cannot be killed. Even at its worst showing, Zanu-PF remained invincible. In sport they say a team is considered a giant when it can avoid defeat even at its worst performance. That is a measure of depth. Now that defeat at the hands of the reactionary MDC was resolutely avoided, it is time for the giant to rise again and as sure as the sun rises from the East, this runoff will be a massacre for the MDC and Tsvangirai.
As they say, when you slap a sleeping lion you have the onus to brace up for a very crude time. When a revolution rises in defence of its existence no force can stand and stop it and, indeed, MDC Tsvangirai has every reason to be very afraid of the runoff.
They are staring defeat right in the face -- and no amount of politicking or solidarity-seeking can stop the tide. The US, the UK and everyone else can do absolutely nothing about Tsvangirai's impending defeat. It's homeland or death. The revolution will triumph. Together we will overcome.
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