Festive season advice to Jabulani Sibanda
EACH time has its ups and downs. For heroes, when they fall, they fall with the people and when they rise, they rise with the people.
All great leaders represent what the oppressed stands for.
Falling because one’s individualistic goals have failed reduces one to a greedy person.
So the fall of former war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda and his resurrection must not be about his individual interests. It must be about coming back to save the people of Zimbabwe who have been reduced to scroungers by the Zanu PF regime.
The name Jabulani Sibanda is associated with terror, arson, brutality, murder and all that falls in the basket of inhumanity. Sibanda, using State resources, unleashed violence across Zimbabwe prior to the 2008 elections. We have people now living with disability because of him. Millions of dollars worth of property were destroyed because of this man. People lost their lives at the hands of this man.
Sibanda fell victim to former President Robert Mugabe's politics when he challenged the Mazowe meetings which were meant to propel his wife Grace politically. He was chased away and went into political Siberia.
That he has announced his political comeback should send shivers in the spine of many Zimbabweans.
While I personally welcome you back into the political limelight, my word of advice is that please get your act right.
Given that you walked the satanic pastime, it is time to make peace with the Zimbabweans you traumatised.
Our economy is in shambles. The Chinese have literally taken over everything that Zimbabwe stands for. We have been colonised.
Zimbabwe is yearning for people who speak truth to power.
Your thunderous voice must be added to that of Chief Murinye and the deposed Chief Ndiweni, among others. Zanu PF corruption is stinking to high heavens. This country needs your energy to come out of this situation.
As we are moving towards elections, it is my sincere hope that you will not torment the already suffering Zimbabweans.
Isaac Mupinyuri