LAST POST OF 2010 - WHAT DO WE NEED TO REVIEW?

So much has occurred between the post in March and this final post of 2010.

I am blessed to have learnt much blessed to still have something left to fight with come 2011.

I think the greatest lesson I realised regarding the struggle in the first decade of the 21st Century is that Zimbabwe wont survive without..... HONESTY.

The end result more political mire and sins of omission and commission.

A great country is being betrayed reduced by too much dishonesty ... too many people with short sighted, short term, selfish, self serving agendas at play. Usually either based on cowardice or greed.

(I wrote the piece below in response to an article on another blog - I think its apt)


The point is - CAN A STRATEGIC REVIEW EVER TAKE PLACE AND HAVE PRACTICAL EFFECT for the greater good?

Why else look back and reflect over issues?

A freedom struggle is an intellectual and practical 'arms race' between the forces deemed the cause of oppression / suppression and the oppressed.

THE PROBLEM in Zimbabwe is that a natural process of protest and change was hijacked and artificially infused with the anger of some over the land issue and the opportunistic greed of big powers seeking to control the nations resources. .

The peoples agenda for broadbased freedoms -begun years earlier- against policies like ESAP/(HIPC) and the one party state agenda; has now been put second by parties using the crisis and political prostitution to get money and status.
There have been ZERO corresponding lasting gains for the country. There have been no increases in THE RULE OF LAW with the increasing waistlines or bank balances.

The selfish ECONOMIC AGENDA of foreign powers mixed with self serving individualism has created a clever, well resourced hope and change talking monster that has usurped the real struggle.

- What this has done is corrupt a revolutionary process in terms of strategic thinking and infusion of effective personnel -all binned- in favour of retaining people and ideas that served the new masters economic agenda best.

Who was watching the setting up of so many donor funded individuals and groups who on the surface opposed Mugabe as the forefront of a mass popular movement called MUGABE MUST GO - but on closer inspection proved straw men with no real foundation or vision for Zimbabwes 'freedom'?
WHAT SENSIBLE STRATEGY is in the hands of a 'faux' manufactured opposition that is MORE loyal to the desires of its outside elite donors than the needs and protection of the Zimbabean people?...

their existence (funding, ideas base) rests with the donors rather than any evolutionary process of greater efficiency of leadership or ideas renewal.(Why do they use foreign 'consultants' as advisers - while excluding so many Zimbabweans?) The elite interference dis-empowers the peoples mandate and agency - Zanu playing nationalist hero stating to deal directly with the organ grinder rather than the Zimbabwean proxy...where is the peoples legitimate voice?

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Zimbabwes false struggle is based upon a cover of anti 'HUMAN RIGHTS' abuse that allows the regime new life and power - WHAT genuine human rights campaigners NEED increased amounts of peoples suffering -for years- to boost their own international political profiles and profit margins ...What genuine human rights advocates talk of 'non-violence' while seeking to get to State House riding on the back of stage-managed public anger and manipulating civil strife?
What is sensible or 'peace loving' about sending civilians against a military regime - just so one can score democratic propaganda points?

The two branches of the forces supposedly challenging the incumbency (the owners and their proxies) have appropriated positions where their blunders and mistakes dont really affect them so in terms of issues like the REFERENDUM and other issues if their failures dont affect them why should they care about the QUALITY of their planning or decision making?

The CFR / Western hegemony (the true chefs) - are indifferent because they live a long way away from the suffering their meddling creates.

The opposition chefs dont care because their money/survival doesn't depend on any political effectiveness - they are the trusted employees the foreign powers African Karzais, good 'yes-men' and megaphones. Opposition supporters are human rights cannon fodder there to be incited but never prudently organised or protected.

It isnt about challenging Mugabe using constant blundering and fumbling - the issue is their inability to stop a seeming years old legacy of blundering and fumbling.