MDC-T Vote Unbridled Imperialism: Aspiration Of Those Who Lost Their Lives By The Name Zimbabwe
23 May 2013
By Reason Wafawarova
THE MDC-T has just come up with its policy position
for Election 2013, and the party has emphatically
validated its long-time political tag of being an
attack dog for ousted white commercial farmers and for
Western capital.
"We can't build an economy that survives on peasants.
Having everyone going into farming is not sustainable.
We have to remove people from the farms to the
industries than removing people from the industries to
the farms because I don't see that working," ranted
Morgan Tsvangirai at a political rally three days ago.
"In order to develop an economy, there is a need to
have most people employed while a few who want to get
into farming can go there," he continued.
On Zanu-PF's popular indigenisation and economic
empowerment policies that have so far resulted in the
establishment of 59 community share ownership schemes
brokered between multinational corporations and the
communities in which they are exploiting natural
resources Morgan Tsvangirai had this to say:
"We can't talk of indigenisation without empowerment,
indigenisation without empowering the broad majority
is selfish and only meant for a few. I want to assure
you we will review that indigenisation law so that we
create an empowerment law for the majority of the
people of Zimbabwe."
The on record understanding of the concept of majority
empowerment by Morgan Tsvangirai is an economic
environment that absorbs most if not all Zimbabweans
into an urban employment sector owned by "proven
investors," by which he refers to colonially
privileged Western corporations dominating Africa's
extraction and processing industrial sector.
Describing the objective of US funding of
international aid programs in a paper titled
"Exercising US Leadership: Democracy Funding in a Time
of Global Change," Congressional Affairs Manager Sarah
Trister recently wrote:
"The US Congress should fully fund the
Administration's request for US$56 billion to support
international affairs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, a two
percent increase over FY 2012. This budget is one of
the primary tools the United States uses to maintain
leadership abroad, pursue its international priorities
and promote American values."
It is people like Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai
that are targeted for this kind of funding — puppet
leaders committed to compliance with this unmitigated
and unbridled form of imperialism. One would have
thought the blatant blundering of the MDC-T over the
popular land reform program in 2000, coupled with the
party's acquired experience in governance through a
five year coalition with Zanu-PF are enough factors to
influence some level of maturity and policy depth on
the party of Morgan Tsvangirai and his colleagues. But
it looks like some people cannot learn.
It turns out that the only political script the MDC-T
is alive to is the one provided by its Western funders,
and the party is fool hardy fixed on this conviction
to drag an entire Zimbabwean population into puppet
subjugation to its Western financial masters; even
trying to do so through an election that every
political analyst worthy the name says the MDC-T is
bound to lose.
Instead of mobilising people around their needs, the
MDC is unambiguously and unequivocally trying to
mobilise Zimbabweans around the needs of ousted white
commercial farmers and Western investors. Selling
white supremacy for votes sounds quite misplaced for a
revolutionised society like Zimbabwe.
In explaining who is targeted by US imperialistic
funding Sarah Trister wrote:
"As Americans display growing fatigue over costly
military interventions abroad, the Obama
Administration has appropriately placed greater
emphasis on diplomacy and development to advance US
foreign policy and national security objectives. In
order to do so effectively, a robust foreign
assistance budget is needed, along with carefully
targeted use of available funds."
Morgan Tsvangirai seeks to align Zimbabwe in the US
grand plan of global domination (sanitised here as
global leadership), and he has the unadulterated
audacity to try his luck by doing so via a national
election – hoping to win it in the process. The man
has a knack for bravery, but this latest behaviour
borders on indecent stupidity.
Tendai Biti has vowed to fight the return of the
Zimbabwean dollar and the man has no plan whatsoever
to work towards the restoration of a local currency.
While it is given that a return of the Zimbabwe dollar
must be economically strategic in its timing, it is
quite another thing to adopt a policy that
"unambiguously and unequivocally" fights the return of
the Zimbabwe dollar. This seems to be the position of
Biti, as shown by his unguided overzealousness and his
notoriously loud mouth.
The current ZCTU Secretary General Japhet Moyo has
publicly rebuked Biti over his reckless and
ill-measured utterances that are fast becoming
habitual.
Biti also says his party seeks to "democratise" the
popular land reform program by "slashing farm sizes
and ending multiple farm ownership." Meanwhile his
leader Morgan Tsvangirai is vowing to return the
"peasants" on the farms to the cities where he wants
them to be employed by white investors from the West.
The man has this inexplicable moral supremacy to
publicly proclaim that in fact the resettled
Zimbabwean farmers prefer employment under white
investors to farming.
Africans belong to the jobs by definition. This is the
colonial legacy Tsvangirai cannot grow out of.
Without addressing the how part of the policy, Biti
says an MDC government would provide free education
for the first 12 years of every Zimbabwean's
educational life – and that presumably includes those
that prefer to have an education in private schools
and colleges. The MDC-T's approach to policy is so
uncommitted and ill-thought that even dreaming works
perfectly.
And the party hopes to win an election by announcing
job cuts for civil servants and members of the Defence
Forces in the unlikely event it wins this year's
election. Biti says his party will "rationalise" the
size of the army, and downsize the civil service. The
rationale for the latter is not provided, but we are
told that the chance of Zimbabwe ever going to war are
"nil"; so the army is a burdensome luxury that needs
to be thoroughly trimmed and "confined to the
barracks."
Now Zanu-PF will simply need to scare the hell out of
the soldiers and the civil servants, telling them in
no uncertain terms that they risk being "rationalised"
out of employment should the MDC-T ever come to power.
It would be interesting to see which civil servant or
soldier would prefer voting their job away.
There is a Dutch historian by the name Johan Huizinga
who once wrote, "We live in a world possessed. And we
know it." This was just before Europe plunged into
what history has termed World War II.
Just like the Nazis claimed to promote deep love of
country and people, the MDC-T makes impressively
passionate claims about democracy and people's
liberties as its core values.
Just like the patriotism of the Nazis turned demonic
and destructive, the MDC-T's path of democracy and
personal liberties is becoming a haunting demon
seeking to annihilate the popular needs of
Zimbabweans, and quite dangerously too.
Just as Nazism accomplished the very opposite of what
it sought, the MDC-T is increasingly facing a destiny
of endless shame rather than national honour. It is
very hard to marry a party of politicians who are
corrupt by definition to any concept of democracy or
personal liberty.
Just how the MDC-T continues to miss the global mood
swing around Zimbabwe's land reform program boggles
the mind. There is a serious problem that always comes
with donor-funded thinking, and that is the major
crisis at the MDC-T, apart from the legendary
mediocrity.
Fighting for "liberty and equality," French
revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre said the terror
himand his colleagues were carrying out was "nothing
other than prompt, severe, inflexible justice;" that
is before Robespierre himself was made a victim of his
own idea of justice.
It is important that our policy makers in politics
abandon the path of vindictiveness when pursuing
policy goals. We cannot assume an absolute love only
for our people. Absolute love for one's own people
easily turns into racism, and this is what gave this
world slavery, colonialism and apartheid.
Love for equality is desirable and honourable, but
when we turn it into the most supreme thing, we risk
breeding violence and hatred against those we perceive
as privileged. We have to take great care on how we
wish to deal with the rough edges and the undesirables
of the otherwise noble and fairly successful land
reform program; otherwise we face a real prospect of
becoming hate-driven in our own conduct. Such signs
are clear in the utterances of MDC-T leadership.
For all its puppetry and hopeless insidiousness the
MDC-T is still a Zimbabwean political party and it is
important for every patriotic Zimbabwean to consider
Morgan Tsvangirai and his colleagues as simply
mistaken, not evil.
Those Zimbabweans who consider Zanu-PF policies
unsound must of necessity consider the party perhaps
mistaken, not evil. We as Zimbabweans must come to a
time when after an election we accept whoever is
elected as our president, not this "Tsvangirai is my
president" hysteria we often hear in between
elections.
Tsvangirai is concerned that in the unlikely event
that he wins this or any other election to come, the
Zimbabwean army may fail to endorse him as the
Commander -in-Chief. From the look of things it
appears the army will not allow any situation where it
will report to any person of Morgan Tsvangirai's
insidious political inclinations.
Perhaps Morgan Tsvangirai should learn to abide by the
letter and spirit of the constitution his party
co-sponsored with Zanu-PF for endorsement by the
people of Zimbabwe recently.
In its preamble the new constitution that was assented
to by President Mugabe yesterday reads:
"Exalting and extolling the brave men and women who
sacrificed their lives during the Chimurenga/ Umvukela
and national liberation struggles, Honouring our
forebears and compatriots who toiled for the progress
of our country."
Just how does the army exalt and extol the brave men
and women who sacrificed their lives for Zimbabweans
to have self-determination while saluting a politician
whose thinking is funded and directed by the very
people at whose brutal hands these departed ones lost
their dear lives?
How does the army honour our for-bearers and
compatriots who toiled for the progress of our country
by saluting a Tsvangirai who thinks it is a brilliant
idea to send land beneficiaries back to work for white
capitalists in the cities? Morgan Tsvangirai's
handlers must hand him the book "Zimbabwe Takes Back
its Land," by Professor Scoones of Sussex University –
hoping the man can read.
The army's position is not about Tsvangirai the
person, but more about the core principles upon which
our nation is founded. The Americans are founded on
their idea of the search for freedom and liberty, as
well as the notorious doctrine of American
exceptionalism. We have our own foundations based on
our liberation struggle legacy, and on that we stand
founded.
No single politician can succeed in trivialising or
overriding these co-values, Tsvangirai included. The
matter of the liberation legacy and its co-values is
not an election matter. It is the mother of many
children, elections included. As such it cannot be
tempered with or modified by the diktats of
imperialism, be these in the name of American global
leadership or that of the overly glorified nobilities
of Western democracy.
It is important that the MDC-T reads the co-values of
our foundations when the leadership goes through such
pro-people policies like the land reform program and
the indigenisation of the Zimbabwean economy.
These are no policies to rubbish or ridicule – and
certainly no policies to even dream of reversing. The
issue of who controls our land and our economy cannot
be put to vote. It is defined by the aspiration of
those who lost their lives so that a country by the
name Zimbabwe can be on the face of this planet.
Zimbabwe we are one and together we will overcome. It
is homeland or death!
Reason Wafawarova is a political writer based in
SYDNEY, Australia
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