WATCH: Defence and Security in a new Zimbabwe, Roy Bennett

Those Zimbabweans who have used their role in the fight for independence to impose the de facto one-party state we are groaning under today betrayed the people and the revolution. We fought, all of us contributed in one way or another some more than others, for a free, just and prosperous Zimbabwe. The idea of some having special privileges much less deny others their freedoms and human rights is NOT what people fought for!

The coup was about restoring the dictatorial powers of the Zanu PF corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical ruling elite, that is the legacy General Chiwenga was talking about. We need to look Chiwenga, Mutsvangwa, Mnangagwa and the rest of the thugs in Joint Operation Command and the rest of the dictatorship straight in the eyes and tell them in no uncertain terms that they are wrong to resist the implementation of the democratic reforms designed to end the dictatorship.

Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because of the Zanu PF dictatorship the nation will never ever get out of this mess until we grasp the thorny nettle and dismantle the dictatorship. We need to get this done yesterday!