Out brotherhood and sisterhood must transcend tribal prejudice. We have no reason to fight each other. Our enemy is the system which sustains tyranny. We are our own liberators. We have the power.
Yesterday we were not so strong. Tomorrow we will be stronger. We love Zimbabwe. We love peace. We love democracy. If the tyranny permits, we will fight for this end peaceably at the ballot box.
We must continue to cry out against wrong and injustice. Many members of the tyranny government are too afraid to acknowledge this new revolution. “Fat with power and possession, drunken with ill-gotten riches, they are like the drones clustered about the honeycombs when the worker-bees spring upon them to end their rotund existence”.
After 33 years of wrecking the economy, destroying infrastructure and public services and driving about 2.1million Zimbabweans into exile, these tyrants have the audacity to stand in front of us and promise they will open industries, build houses, create jobs, provide free education for our children, stop corruption etc. They have failed to deliver the same promises in three decades – why should we believe them now?
Just a few days before the elections, like a troop of baboons, they have been descending upon us and promising us Canaan. They come in their flashy SUV 4X4s, suits and designer clothes. We sit in the dust, hunger rumbling in our stomachs, and listen to their history lectures. After the rallies, they retreat to their havens, never to be seen again until the next elections – leaving us in our dusty bowels of abject poverty.
The Gracious Grace will donate foodstuffs to us villagers in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central, at Rudhaka Stadium in Marondera and at rallies in Lupane, Matabeleland North and Gwanda in Matabeleland South.
Others have been donating food and money while others have been sending water bowsers to provide clean drinking water to residents in high density suburbs. Not to be outdone, others have donated an ambulance to one constituency and some scrapped all outstanding council bills. This is cheap politicking and electioneering. We do not want our outstanding rates scrapped…we want jobs to be able to pay our bills and to buy food for our children. Why should we live on hand-outs?
We must refuse to fight with the oppressors’ best weapon – Violence; but instead, we must defy injustice and domination with People Power. Vote wisely…we are the agents of change. If you vote for a rotten system, you will reap maggots.
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