Peace critical for development
EDITOR — The pronouncements by President Mugabe in Mali recently need to be reiterated with high energy.
Zimbabwe needs to continue preserving its peace and tranquillity if development efforts are to bear fruit. There has to be cohesion in our efforts to rebuild this country and the first port of call is creating a harmonious environment for investors.
African countries should guard their territories against infiltration by agents of regime change who make attempts to cause despondency and disorder. All these efforts seek to dampen the prospects of a promising country.
Libyans were fooled by imperialists to fight and attack their revolutionary leader. They were being promised glittering prospects after Colonel Gaddafi is out of office.
However, scenes from Tripoli show that the North Africans were sold a dummy and for all they were promised, all they got was a humanitarian crisis.
Egypt fell for the same trick. The idea behind sponsored conflict is to put African countries at the mercy of aid organisations, thus inhibiting their ability to make independent decisions.
With all these glaring examples in our faces, we should thwart all possible causes of conflict within our borders. Western-sponsored activists must be kept in check before they brew a storm we will all live to regret.
A strong message needs to be send to imperialist sponsors that we will not tolerate divisive elements to threaten our sovereignty.
As we approach our next elections, we need peace so that we can decide on the leadership to take us forward. Opposition parties will try to cause chaos so as to cover up for their imminent loss in the 2018 election.
They will try to use violence as a scapegoat for their political misgivings and as a country we should be well aware of their gimmicks. Peace should forever be a prerequisite for any progressive action, either national or at the individual level.
President Mugabe is right.