r, seems to be increasing.
No longer are the few courageous WOZA, MOZA and NCA supporters alone in their battle against the Mugabe regime – its lies, its thieving and its injustice.
We hope that this open expression of discontent on the part of the forces does not stop there.
For too long these men and women, who are, after all the husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters of ordinary Zimbabweans, have allowed themselves to be used by the authorities.
Many of them have committed unspeakable acts against their fellow citizens in the name of doing their duty. Now they have seen the light.
We encourage them not to stop there, but to go the whole way and question everything they have been brainwashed into believing about Mugabe and Zanu (PF).
“Currently we have about 50 piglets which are being fed at one of our farms and soldiers will soon be eating pork,” Chiwenga told the soldiers. How utterly ridiculous! And how wonderful that this comment, which even a few months ago would probably have been greeted by a respectful silence, was met with “howls of laughter which took several minutes to die down”.
At last, it seems there is a glimmer of hope. At last, sense is prevailing.
The last count showed the armed forces to number around 20,000. We know there have been massive desertions lately – but that the remaining soldiers could be fed on 50 piglets? Please!
We urge them all not to be intimidated or fooled by Chiwenga’s parting shot:
“The spirit of the white person after whom this complex (King George VI barracks) is named is influencing you to behave in the manner that you are doing.”
Is beef and pork only for white people? Do only white people resist survival rations of beans and cabbage, for months on end? Cannot black people too want their children to go to schools with books, desks, roofs and trained teachers? Or be able to buy basic groceries with their hard-earned wages? Or go to hospital when they are ill and receive treatment to heal them?
Just whose spirit does Chiwenga want us to be influenced by?
Word for Today
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desire pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.” 1 John 1;15-17