The Public Manifesto: Zanu Pf, Our Nightmare

By Albert G Moyo

The Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) remains the worst nightmare of Zimbabweans; the kind that makes the adults flee thier homes, investors flee with their capital, children dislike education, and swallows the hope of everything, everywhere. Justice was chased away, truth was buried with those who stood by it and democracy was posted back to where it seemingly hailed from. Political parties are like "wild dogs" which constantly need to be checked, tamed, starved, disciplined, shackled, reminded, removed and resolved, before they scare everyone and everything. Zimbabwe will go down in history as a good example of what happens when political "wild dogs" are given long ropes to exercise liberty beyond the time of the people's will and are allowed to continue unchecked and unshackled. The people need to save themselves from the horrors born to them as a result of ZANU PF. There is no time to run and hide, no time to hope and expect the West, the African Union and SADC to solve our domestic affairs. Zimbabwe must unitedly go hunting and until the rogue mare is caught and rehabilitated, the children will not slumber and the families will not sleep. Hope is not far away from us; it is right within us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Albert G Moyo
• Release date: Mar 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005638900

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The Public Manifesto:

Zanu PF, Our Nightmare Stage, or the Queue

Albert G. Moyo

Copyright © 2021 Albert G. Moyo

Published by Albert G. Moyo Publishing at Smashwords

First edition 2021

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Table of contents

1.INTRODUCTION

2.ON THE SHORES OF FREEDOM

3.CHOICES

4.TIME TO CATCH UP

5.THE KIND OF UNDERSTANDING

6.WHY WAIT WE HERE?

7.NKOSI SIKELEL’ IAFRICA

8.THE ZIMBABWEAN DIALEMMA

9.REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION

For years prior to the emergence of fierce opposition politics, Zimbabweans had committed their political affairs to ZANU PF, believing that their aspirations and interests were aligned to those of a liberation movement that had for decades claimed to be a movement for the people, by the people. Unbeknownst to them, ZANU PF would stray from that appealing credo to become an unrecognisable monster representing everyone who is prepared to behave in any fashion that offends the principle of common decency. Through unorthodox means – ranging from intimidation to propaganda – ZANU PF managed to instil fear, which ultimately cemented the belief that politics is not for everyone. This gave birth to an unfortunate situation – competence and accountability of politicians were left unchecked. Politics became a sacrosanct subject that no one without war credentials could dare indulge in.

Today, Zimbabweans have renewed interest on the subject as the country sails further into the midst of a man-made storm. Unfortunately, they have come to realise very late that their stores are empty. The stockpiles they have put in ZANU PF’s care have been depleted, the mineral reserves shared and now under control of a few self-proclaimed veterans of the liberation struggle, some of whom were born years after independence. Cartels have taken control of the economy, fuelling a black market which makes the collection of taxes almost impossible. Corruption and the elimination of those opposed to it have become the order of the day. It is unfortunate that ZANU PF and its allies have over many years grown too unshakeable to listen, too strong to respect the people, too selfish to love the nation, and too ignorant to despise history.

This manifesto seeks to debunk the entrenched myth that the events haunting Zimbabweans even in their sleep are products of external forces trying to bring about regime-change through illegal means. The writer is also hopeful that this manifesto will, in a healthy way, present what the future of Zimbabwean politics should look like, and formulate a method of measuring and screening irrelevant and archaic systems put in place to give unfair advantage to ZANU PF.

This manifesto is not intended to conceal a call for political support or a smart way to gain political traction through populist rhetoric. It calls on all progressive Zimbabweans to wake up from the ZANU PF-induced slumber and reclaim what they have been denied for decades. In simple terms, this manifesto is ‘a midnight song of awakening from the nightmare called ZANU PF’. The time to wait for heavenly intervention is over. The stage has been set for the public to declare their determination to set themselves free from an oppressive regime masquerading as the liberator. This mini book is not for liberals and conservatives, but for all revolutionaries who see deliberate failure and disregard of proper procedure – all that ZANU PF stands for – and for those who see ZANU PF as a nightmare that scares children at night and in daylight, a nightmare that devours hope and chases away the dream for a better Zimbabwe for all, purchased by true patriots who self-sacrificed in the struggle for liberation. There is no better time than now for ZANU PF to be put on the stage for public scrutiny.

Only the foundation for this anticipated and needed stage to be set for our politics has been laid by this manifesto. It would also require participation of our people from every corner of the country for the project to succeed. The country can only be rebuilt by its own citizens. Our actions today will set the course that our lives and those of future generations will follow. The status quo remains comfortable only to those who score benefits from it. There will always be a few intransigent beneficiaries of the status quo. They are the enemies of progress whose utterances and commentary should be disregarded with the disdain it deserves.

This mini manifesto is a personal call to you and me to be counted not by titles, acquisitions or corruption and its brotherhood, but by moral excellence, duty, patriotism, purity of purpose, agility and sound reasoning emanating from the love of mankind and a will to make a difference. No man has ever made a unique and significant difference to the world twice, yet today our self-proclaimed heroes seem to have lost this simple understanding that their meaningful contribution – if they consider it a contribution – is now of a historical nature. We must remind them and correct the future narrative by testing their valour on the public stage.

The resounding ZANU PF hymns about liberation – now synonymous with many political parties – have made the people believe it to be the only tune for songs about nation building. This old party has not only managed to direct the music of our past, it has rewired the African dream and forged a highway to political powerful positions through a biased election and selection system.

This mini book is counter to the preconception that African liberation movements like ZANU PF are the true representatives of the salvation of Africans and that Africans still need saving. The fact is that people don’t need saving from such rotten institutions devoid of the resource of common sense, parties that have overstayed their welcome and forgotten their ways and purpose.

People need to save themselves from the horrors brought on them by these political parties. ZANU PF is the worst nightmare, yet the new parties are no different, despite how radical and democratic they seem to be, still harbouring the old notion of queuing in a political party inner line to gain popularity, employment and deployment. Yet, that is the starting point and fertile ground for young ZANUs in the making.

Zimbabwe does not need ZANU PF in its old clothing, or another ZANU PF in new suits and scarfs. What Zimbabwe needs is a stage for fair practice, a level political playing field. Only then can our country be reborn. In the following pages the writer launches a discourse admitting that governments are machines whose functioning and effectiveness is entirely credited or criticised by the operator at the helm of the machinery. ZANU PF is the operator who – for the past forty years– has failed dismally, and continues to fail, because of the systematic recycling of ideas that have been tried and tested over and over before. This manifesto calls the rigid, myopic and gangster-like ZANU PF to a common stage of ideas