Zanu (PF) a threat to national security:

In order to appreciate this unimpeachable conclusion whose evidence is now well-documented beyond rational disputation, it is necessary to make clear upfront the internationally agreed and therefore reasonable definition of national security.

While points of emphasis and nuances may differ from scholar to scholar in international relations and strategic studies, the generally shared view of national security is that it is about the imperatives of ensuring the survival of a nation given its territorial boundaries, heritage, ethos, values and interests as systematically pursued through the use of cultural, intellectual, media, economic, military, political and diplomatic power.

As such, it is now common cause that threats to national security around the world are no longer posed only by other nations but are equally if not more so posed by quasi Military Junta and criminal cartels like ZANUPF.

These non-state actors, like the ZANUPF Militia thugs and loose cannon generals always not only target innocent people or human rights activists but they mainly target in a systematic way the foundational values, institutional backbone and cultural pillars of the country under attack using rape, torture and murder, with impunity.

In view of this well-established understanding of national security which is applicable to all nations including Zimbabwe, and given the application of the German saying that if you want to kill a dog you must allege that it has rabies, just witness the current frenzy whose objective is not to allege that Zimbabwe has rabies coming from ZANUPF and their allies in North Korea but also their African puppets and state media mouthpieces, let alone Mugabe and his treacherous ZANUPF.

Here are some of the benchmarks of this frenzy gleaned from the military dictatorship against Zimbabwe’s national security interests.

If, for example, you reflect on the publications of the so-called state media all their issues — day in and day out, week in and week out — are always pro-Zanu-PF in ways that are not only oppositional to the liberation party but are tellingly oppositional to the legacy of the liberation struggle itself and are therefore against the foundational values and aspirations of a free Zimbabwe.

The same is true of the work of some military generals, partisans, who now constitute a destabilizing colony in Zimbabwe by their sheer staggeringly outrageous partisan interference of the peoples' mandate and all of them founded and funded by ZANUPF's stranglehold on blood diamonds.

Although the ZANUPF military dictatorship claims to support peaceful demonstrations, they continue to arrest and torture peaceful democrats whilst the so-called state media labels them as “thugs” and not demonstrators.

When Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai describes the last extraordinary Sadc summit held in Sandton, South Africa as a “success” and refers to the report of the Sadc Organ Troika summit held on March 31 in Livingstone, Zambia as “accepted” he is demonised as a “liar” in a manner designed to undermine not only in the person or office of the Prime Minister of the government but also the State of Zimbabwe itself and this by the same so-called state media which routinely labels WOZA and MDC-T activists as thugs in order to undermine the legacy of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle against terrorist dictatorship.

And Brigadier General Douglas Nyikayaramba is promoted by the same so-called state media as a “exercising freedom of speech” when he is blatantly threatening the people of this country to say the obvious that he is a serious national security threat, which he clearly is in his indisputable role as the engine of hostile ZANUPF interests in Zimbabwe.

Yet, if there’s one thing that stands out about Brigadier Nyikayaramba’s much-talked-about, deliberately and clearly unpatriotic statement proves that he himself and ZANUPF have become a national security threat far beyond normal politics. It is not the rather inane point that he should have made the statement as a professional soldier when it is crystal clear that he should not be making such treacherously dangerous staements and should be fired forthwith. In addition, parliament should take immediate steps to impeach Mugabe given the large body of evidence proving massive human rights abuses and trashing of Zimbabweans' constitutional rights.

When something is wrong, it is wrong regardless of who says it, let alone how or when it is said.

However, the point to underscore here which Zimbabweans and the progressive world should note is that the so-called state media in Zimbabwe which view any and all criticism against it as a “hate campaign” routinely demonise our freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives for our country’s heroic struggle for democracy as “thugs” and who in the same vein and for the same diabolic reasons patronise the country’s military leadership which has taken full advantage in ZANUPF's looting sprees, not only in Zimbabwe but also the Congo. It is these “Generals” that are ZANUPF thugs ad should step down and seek exile in North Korea or stand in the dock at the Hague for their crimes.

These “Generals” by definition are thugs propping up a dictatorship which "hijacked" Zimbabwe. As for our compatriots in the so-called state media, the stubborn truth is that there’s not even one cat which is still in the bag.

For ZANUPF, the game is over.

We all know what has been happening since 2 000 and we now have more than 10 000 hours of real evidence. ZANUPF journalists who have taken brown envelopes before and those who continue to take such envelopes are known as are the sources of these dirty envelopes, some of which are local. The bottom line is that the peoples' movement will not allow our country to be sacrificed under the altar of brown envelopes. Never ever!

Some well-known ZANUPF media recipients of dirty brown envelopes like me are now shamelessly trying to justify our 30 pieces of silver by foolishly claiming that there’s a fifth column in our country which is allegedly taking advantage of an alleged power vacuum in Zimbabwe and which is said to be determined to prevent the MDC formations from taking over power. Well, anybody who thinks there’s a power vacuum in MDC-T or Zimbabwe is a joker who probably failed high school or dropped out therefrom.

But if things come to a head, then names will have to be named and the chips will fall where they should. There’s just too much at stake to allow some riff raff misfits in the corrupt so-called state media to get away with political murder when there’s a lot of empirical dirty stuff known about each and all of them.

In the meantime, what is clear is that the routine demonization of democrats as “thugs” and by our partisan military leadership whose firm roots are certainly not in the legacy of our heroic national liberation struggle as “Generals” are in fact a classic translation of the German saying that if you want to kill a dog, you simply allege that it has rabies. These "Generals" are guilty of rabid behaviour

It is also now clear that the regime change intention of this translation is not only to change the government of the day in our country by removing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai from power but to also change the system of our governance from that based on the legacy of corruption, violence, lies, and meaningless propaganda which we have corrupted and looted for ourselves and destroyed everything decent as a result.

The so-called state media, which is undoubtedly driven by brown envelopes, is being used to falsely allege that Zimbabwe has sanctions in order to justify the killing of our nation wherein the target is not Zanu-PF, or the government or President Mugabe but Zimbabwe itself. This explains why we have a very serious, clear and present threat to our national security personified and represented by Mugabe and organised around his treacherous ZANUPF Generals.

If you doubt this submission, then consider what the US Ambassador Charles Ray said about the matter last week when addressing journalists in Bulawayo and ask yourself what the implications of what he said are on our country’s national security and what the roles of Mugabe and his ZANUPF are in those implications.

Otherwise, and in very poignant and thus unambiguous language, America’s representative in Harare made it clear that Washington has no intention of changing the Zimbabwean house by only changing its roof.

Ambassador Ray told the journalists, who included some zanupf brown envelope seekers, that “There is no way you can build a house from the roof. You have to start from the foundation going to the top. So I don’t think removing Mugabe will change anything.

“What is needed is to change the system of governance. . .Sadc is working on the issue of Zimbabwean elections and I don’t see any reason why some political party is pushing for elections this year. Elections should be held at a time when every Zimbabwean is free to participate.”

This positive statement, which puts paid to the current ZANUPF election roadmap for elections this year, is not difficult to unpack.

The import of Ambassador Ray’s statement is that it is a reminder to the junta known as the ZANUPF regime that, because it is morally the equivalent to enslavement and tyranny which have been scandalously justified on the basis of lies and propaganda – which is unjustified on the universal values of human rights, democracy, good governance and the rule of.

This makes the ZANUPF in power forever, at all costs, agenda a triple threat to national security in that it seeks to perpetuate(1) not just the leader of the dictatorship, and (2) not just Junta (3) the roots of their system of terror and therefore the pariah State itself.

Now, if this is not a direct and very serious threat to our national security then nothing is. All the noise that Mugabe and his boot licker generals have been making against the people is about this fact.

What is worrying against this backdrop and what explains why General Nyikayaramba is wrong, is that the personification and representation of Ambassador Ray’s prudent statement that Zimbabwe must change not only its roof but also its foundation is none other than the peoples' mandate – Tsvangirai. The fact is Mugabe and ZANUPF are a very serious and on-going threat to Zimbabwe’s national security.

While people are free to say what they want, the inescapable truth that obtains in any and all constitutional democracies such as ours is that a threat to national security must be dealt with in terms of national security without any fear or favour. Given the widely held definition of national security proffered above, it should not matter whether the threat is coming from foreign governments, multinational corporations, political parties, politicians, NGOs, churches, media organisations, journalists, academics and criminal cartels.

Given Ambassador Ray’s statement that the objective of the US government’s support of the people of Zimbabwe is not only to change the roof by removing the unmandated "President" Mugabe and Zanu-PF from power but also to assist Zimbabweans change the country’s foundation so as to have an entirely new house as it were, it is clear therefore that the US and its UK, EU and white Commonwealth allies are very concerned about the so-called roadmap to Zimbabwe’s elections as some gullible and treacherous zanupf elements in our midst would have us not believe.

If the much-talked-about Sadc roadmap is about elections, then surely its electoral objective should be about confirming or changing only the roof of our government by enabling the election of a leader and a political party to superintend over our government for a five year period. In this case, the whole matter would be purely a political facelift.

But if the issue is to change not only the roof but also the foundation of the house of Zimbabwe as clearly stated by Ambassador Ray only last week in Bulawayo, then we have a positive situation on our hands. Nobody should be allowed to allege that our country has rabies or that MDC has rabies or that some MDC leaders have rabies as a dictatorship perpetuation strategy of not changing the foundational roots of our country.

Ambassador Ray’s intervention last week must be taken very seriously when seen not only against the background of Mugabe's destruction of the nation as a corrupt institution but also as seen against the very positive archival fact that the Facilitator’s Report of the Sadc Troika summit held in Livingstone on March 31 is correctly entitled “Zimbabwe Peace Process”.

In God’s name, this peace process that the Facilitator has in his mind is a great step forward because Zimbabwe is at war. Indeed, Zimbabwe been at war since 2000 when Mugabe declared a chimurenga against the people of this country. ZANUPF and their warring armies have been using the state to fight the people. The Facilitator is aware that Zimbabwe has a GPA government in place which is not working because ZANUPF refuse to comply with the GPA.

The GPA stands for “Global Political Agreement” and not “Global Pasi Agreement”.

The GPA was signed after an illegal unilateral militarised terror campaign mounted in June 2008 by ZANUPF calling for a "parliamentary" sham election with only one contender and after a war against the people. Quite clearly, the attempt to not implement the 2008 GPA by ZANUPF from a political disaster to a peace process smacks of a sinister plot and clearly shows that our country has rabies of war. That justifies Ambassador Ray’s wish to say that a change is needed in the roots and foundation of our country.

Zimbabwe has been at war since 1980 and no peace was ever restored after the Lancaster constitutional process following our national independence in 1980. It continued during the Gukurahundi period from 1981 to 1987 when Nkomo was forced into a "Unity Accord" or ZANUPF genocide would continue . Since then, Zimbabwe has been a war zone and that explains why Zimbabwe is destitute today. Money that should have been spent on peacetime projects like health and education was either looted by ZANUPF chefs or spent on military operations against Zimbabwe citizens.

As a natural reaction to ZANUPF inspired terrorism, good men and women of Zimbabwe came together to form a grass roots, people-driven movement, the MDC-T, under Tsvangirai. This movement grows daily from strength to strength and has the peoples' mandate to govern. The MDC-T are now the majority party in government

Historians who peruse through the Facilitator’s Livingstone Report from the archives will also notice that its third paragraph has the following statement which should wake up the peoples' movement and make us vigilant going forward, “The developments in the Northern part of our continent should impress upon all of us within the Sadc region, about the need and importance of resolving the Zimbabwean impasse speedily and in a way that will not just satisfy the Sadc region but also that would be acceptable to the entire world”.

A real eye-opener! It was timely for the Facilitator to warn ZANUPF that they should stop their shenanigans and start conducting themselves in a way that is civilised and humane and stop using the military to beat and torture citizens. Sadc has changed and it is high time for ZANUPF to civilise its national politics and move away from its barbarian savagery to date.

It is the very acceptable sentiments, as captured under paragraph three of the Facilitator’s Livingstone Report which is now set in concrete, which dovetail with last week’s call by US Ambassador Ray to change not just the roof of our government but also the foundation or roots of our governance as part of the Sadc election roadmap which prove the current threat to our national security represented by Mugabe and his ZANUPF.

The new issues about security sector reform, media reform and the reform of ZEC among others which Tsvangirai has tabled as part of the so-called Sadc roadmap to Zimbabwe’s elections are very acceptably and in line with the GPA as signed on September 15, 2008 but they also constitute an important ingredient to our national security and should be vigorously supported for that reason and that reason alone.