Politburo bulletin: We are under attack comrades
THE candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Those holding the keys to the fortresses and armoury are our own, or are they still? Until when because these things change at ungodly hours, we are not safe anymore.
Daylight pledges of loyalty is talk, and talk is cheap. Brown envelopes are real currency, and taxfree too. The blood of kinsmen will not remain thick enough, cursed be the brown envelope. But then again, everyone deserves their reward. Until when, those in barracks are mothers and fathers with working consciences too. They know too well money is tastier with good sleep at night.
How did we get here, Comrades? What is it that made us believe we held an inherent title to dictate court decisions, to decide which project goes to tender and which one does not?
How did we tell ourselves that this rot will live to see all the days of our lives without reproach, what got into us to use our last arsenals and line of defence against hungry, unarmed “terrorists” who depend on nothing, but fancy legalese in Parliament and stones on the street?
These are not terrorists; they are the men and women winning the minds and votes of our supporters as we shoot Mbare vendors. Mr President, your haste national address yesterday is evidence that you are shaken, the citizens are encouraged to forge ahead even harder. It’s a temporary time of the people’s resolve and power. Forget the clownish Job Sikhala, fix eyes on the simple people.
Some of us are not so old to not care about the next 20 years. Our younger children are still in high school and need better education and employment opportunities as nearer to us as possible before we too answer the call of death.
We too want security for what we have built by hook or crook since the end of the liberation war. Could we not have taken enough care and foresight to leave the gravy train when we were still perceived as innocent? Comrades, we are under attack from inside and outside.
They say we lost the 2018 elections, but we ourselves know very well we are losing the legitimacy war by letting down our dwindling party numbers. We are losing a diplomatic war by the continued use of snipers and canons on unarmed citizens.
We are losing the democratic high ground by the wanton arrest of opposition members and journalists who expose corruption. We are losing the economic war, yes we are.
The corruption-busting cause was hugely thrown in disarray when former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono on a Saturday night said to Magaisa that citizens did not carry the farm mechanisation cost, denying again by a long article on Sunday, only to let his guard down on Tuesday and say it was funded by government, which survives on taxpayers’ money! Gono worked hard to keep the country running in his time, he was a victim of our imprudent system and ruthless patronage.
The onslaught on us has turned up the cadence because this is now a burning civic and human rights war which resonates with all the somebody’s and nobody’s on the international arena. We are in trouble comrades. Putin watched the late Robert Mugabe fall, he will watch us too.
Comrades, we are losing the political war too, July 31 was not an opposition thrust. It was a civil initiative which gained opposition traction because of resonance. These are real issues even to our own members.
Our supporters do not condone the perpetuation of these many a vice, they too are worried and hurt by commonplace corruption. They too are being beaten by the indiscriminate police batons and the gun butts of the KGIV boys in the streets while they try to eke out a living.
Our own members are good numbers of the vendors on the street corners, our own party members have no food in their homes too, our own party members are being kicked off the land by bigwigs in this room with multiple offer letters to large tracts of arable land which is being used for weekend braais in the midst of coronavirus and hunger.
Nobody is safe from the economic onslaught, nobody. Today our technocrats are using their skills to the benefit of the industries of other countries which we termed our enemies. No, we are now our own enemies.