21st February Movement, restoring the captured legacy
It is the first 21st of February Movement without you Leader, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, in our midst and we realise now that its celebrations were less about the cakes and fun fare and more about your direct engagement with Zimbabwe, to remind us from where we had come and to where we must go.
You may have left us, but your vision becomes more glaring now. May your departed spirit give us a sign, how best our worsened state might reclaim the stolen MOVEMENT toward your vision for our “Ziiimbabwe”, as you called out to it? Dearly departed President, your vision is alive now more than ever within our disillusioned souls.
The real criminals have turned your vision into a horror of an impoverished nation at the mercy of cartels that have corrupted the centre and kills off our hopes.
There were never any ‘criminals around your Presidency’, were there? We realise now that they removed you because you kept their baser appetites at bay. You were the incorruptible barrier against the real narcissistic criminals and their cartels that have now captured Zimbabwe.
It dawns upon us now that they removed you only so that their hardened criminal handlers could come close enough to capture the entire State’s value chain, from the ruling Party and its Politburo into government, cabinet, state institutions and agents paid off with cars and privatised salaries to allow and be complicit in the rape of our nation.
We are deep in their mess and betrayal of our aspirations, ever since we were used to cleanse their criminal intent and its deed against Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
In the name of “Open for Business” and a “New Dispensation” they have reversed the gains of a vision’s pursuit for the indigenisation of our country’s wealth and the economic empowerment of our majority.
While their so called New Dispensation has now done away with that empowering vision, their alternative preferring foreign economic interests is proving a disaster. It is reported that foreign direct investment has reduced by more than 60%.
The economy goes deeper into recession despite preferred and prioritised Indian, white and foreign economic interests, to the exclusion of our black majority aspirations being condemned to being the “hewers of wood” Robert Mugabe implored us to shun.
Robert Mugabe had seen through their treacherous criminal intent on the eve of their betrayal, knew he sat at the table with those whom would betray him and his vision for Zimbabwe, “Wandinodya nawo ndowachazondichera. Wana Judas Iscariot.” The 21st February Movement remembers.
The ideology for which many Zimbabweans sacrificed their lives in the struggle for independence is now spat upon, by a few entitlement seeking liberation comrades who have shamelessly betrayed the gains of that struggle to rob and mortgage the birth right of our young generation and those to follow.
Twenty years on, when black people are supposed to be settled into making their land productive these sell outs now use the land to settle personal political vendettas against those with a different outlook and alternative ideas for re-embracing Robert Mugabe’s vision for the people’s Zimbabwe.
They loot and plunder as if knowing it is their last days. Their entitlement is a cancer, ravenous like termites eating away and set upon bringing down our house of stone, Zimbabwe.
Dearly departed President, it is as you said those last days, how their cartels manipulate the currency to trigger inflation and enrich themselves, so much so that our livelihoods have failed to keep pace reducing the worth of entire basic salaries of civil servant to a few slices of meat.
The cartels and their government lackeys are striping Zimbabwe of its assets and wealth, to store for their children and concubines when the rest of us are left upon our knees. We will remember the complicit beneficiaries in our coming Operation Recovery of ill-gotten wealth.
Accessing education is a nightmare to the aspirations of Zimbabwe’s children and their impoverished parents. In their new dispensation a child’s university degree costs as much as ZW$5 000 a semester while the majority parents are earning less than ZW$1,000 a month.
Our human dignity is lost to hospitals that have become death traps, with beds turned to graves and wards become like cemeteries where traumatised doctors have been deprived of basic tools to save the lives of countrymen and women.
Meanwhile, those who impose themselves on us fly themselves across the globe for first world health care, affording a total makeover on the money of the same taxpayers condemned to death within our country’s borders. At best it is a dark and tragic comedy of usurpers.They have captured hope, stolen it, beaten it out of us and murder its dying breath.
The Zimbabwean confidence Robert Mugabe had nurtured within us is now a shadow of itself, as we are laughed at by our neighbours and those that had been subdued by his resolute vision for our nation. There is little pride left, which Robert Mugabe had always inspired and nurtured in us, stirred and kindled.
Give us a sign Baba, another revolution beckons, a Movement by Zimbabwe’s future, birthed in the promises of the 21st of February. Give us a sign to rise from the deprivation of our hopes and killing of our aspirations for a better “Ziimbabwe” your vision has made us clearly see and yearn for.