Shameless, unpatriotic citizens sell out Zim in UK
AS President Mnangagwa prepares to visit the United Kingdom in a trip which will see him gracing the Kingdom of Scotland, Zimbabweans are in high morale hoping to see their leader as he lifts the national flag high.
Many Presidents will come and some will meet their nationals on the side and address their own. Zimbabweans will enjoy when the listening President comes and maybe time allowing they will have the precious moments to chat.
In all this excitement there are Zimbabweans who are trying to spoil the party for Zimbabwe. How cruel some people could be. Day and night the MDC and some evil groups masquerading as human rights activists are planning to have flash demonstrations to vilify Zimbabwe and rubbish all the efforts being done by the President.
Speaking from Luton, England Tonderai Matereke a Zimbabwean mechanic said; “Some people have no shame. How can they be willing to vilify their country just to please the whites here? This is a shame.”
It is surprising how these malcontents hope to be assisted by demonstrating against their country in the foreign land. Many of these are good for nothing charlatans bent on soiling the good name of Zimbabwe.
The people who are working against Zimbabwe are comprised of two groups whose mind set is pathetic diabolical and indeed demented.
There is a group led by one Tapa working together with an MDC A official Danmore Sithole from Croydon, London. This group is going to demonstrate asking the world to add more sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Cde Mabhurukwa; a ZANU PF UK and Europe official; said “This behaviour of selling your country for a song is disturbing. While it is their democratic right to demonstrate, democracy must have boundaries.”
“These MDC people are a shame to our country. They are from the well-known Movement For Demented Charlatans (MDC), otherwise known as Mentally Disturbed Children Away from Home. MDC A.”
The MDC demonstrators comprises two groups that are confused and paid by their white handlers.
The main sponsors of the MDC and those so called human rights groups is a rich white Rhodesian now settled in the UK, Mr J Burke, and a farmer settled up North in Leeds, Mr Fish.
The other group is that of Zimbabweans without status in the UK. Most of them came to the UK for economic reasons but in order to get visas fast, they sought asylum in the UK.
When an asylum seeker becomes successful in his claim, can he called a refugee? The definition of a refugee according to The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees is:
“A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.”
In the UK, a person becomes a refugee when government agrees that an individual who has applied for asylum meets the definition in the Refugee Convention’. That person will be ‘recognised’ as a refugee and issued with refugee status documentation.
Usually refugees in the UK are given five years’ leave to remain as a refugee. They must then must apply for further leave, although their status as a refugee is not limited to five years.
If the asylum is refused, one becomes a refused asylum seeker. A person whose asylum application has been unsuccessful has no other claim for protection awaiting a decision. Some refused asylum seekers voluntarily return home, others are forcibly returned. For some, it is not safe or practical to return until conditions in their country change.
In all types of asylum, immigration or human rights applications, evidence is needed to support the application.
Evidence is information to prove – to the Home Office, or maybe to the courts if you are appealing a refusal – that you are telling the truth. This may be to prove that you need to be in the UK, that you can’t live elsewhere, or just that you meet the criteria (the rules) of the application.
The evidence needed will be specific to your case, to your individual situation. There are, however, some standard rules and principles that need to be met and these will depend on the kind of application you are making.
So in order to get the evidence, many Zimbabweans will lie that they are MDC members so that they can justify that they are being persecuted or fear death if they are returned to Zimbabwe.
For some applications, such as in asylum applications there may be several points at which you can submit evidence to support your case. In other applications, you may only get one opportunity to submit evidence. The evidence you submit will depend on the rules you are trying to show you meet and maybe where in the application process you are.
For example, if you have had a refusal from the Home Office and you have an opportunity to provide more evidence, your evidence should try to address the reasons the Home Office have given for their refusal. Can you show that you do, in fact, meet the rules or requirements? When possible, you should try and pre-empt (take action to stop it happening) the Home Office refusal and provide evidence for areas they commonly refuse applications on, or areas of your application that appear to be weak or vague.
So many people will then resort to demonstrations at the Zimbabwean High Commission every twice a week. They will take photos dancing to some funny drum beat shouting obscenities to the embassy staff and insulting their own country all for creating evidence that they are in danger should they be returned back to Zimbabwe.
Many will post their photos on social media and splash them on the internet and argue that their photos at the embassy has been viewed by the CIO and that they are now marked for death should they be returned to Zimbabwe.
Now with the coming of the President to the UK, those asylum seekers or failed asylum seekers will be stampeding to go to Scotland so that they can bolster their asylum claim. This second claim is called fresh application.
For the selfish reasons of wanting a visa, these people are prepared to portray Zimbabwe as death trap so that the country will be kept on the sanctions list. Imagine how many people will be affected and are being affected by the sanctions. For what? For a visa of one pathetic liar who hates his country.
At the early stages of an asylum claim, their evidence may just be their testimony about what has happened to them and/or what they think may happen, and why that means it is not safe to return to your country. So they feel vindicated if they demonstrate against Zimbabwe.
We will see these people in Scotland not because they have a conviction in what they are saying but that they drag Zimbabwe into a dip end just for them to be given asylum.
Documentary evidence is often hard to get because of the circumstances in which you had to leave your country so photos while you are holding placards denouncing your country being cheered by few colonisers presents a good documentary evidence of the idiocy one displays as they destroy their country.
Documentary evidence might include a political party membership card, an arrest warrant, a birth certificate, or newspaper articles about you or about persecution of people like you. This is why these people would want to hog the headline. It is all a show.
Those you will see in Scotland vilifying Zimbabwe are motivated by the basis of a fresh claim which is new evidence about the original reason they claimed asylum; or it might be that their situation has changed since they claimed asylum and had an appeal heard and dismissed; the situation in their country may have changed; or that by insulting the president they have become surplus evidence and they are new targets.
Every day, all over the world, people make one of the most difficult decisions in their lives: to leave their homes in search of a safer, better life. But they do not set to lie about their country and put those left behind in the jaws of sanctions.
Most people in the world have had the experience of leaving the place where they grew up. Maybe they will only move as far as the next village or city. But for some people, they will need to leave their country entirely – sometimes for a short time, but sometimes forever. This is the world we are in today. Some people out there are so proud of their countries. Not these few Zimbabweans in the MDC camps.
There are many reasons why people around the globe seek to rebuild their lives in a different country. Some people leave home to get a job or an education. Others are forced to flee persecution or human rights violations such as torture. Millions flee from armed conflicts or other crises or violence.
Some no longer feel safe and might have been targeted just because of who they are or what they do or believe – for example, for their ethnicity, religion, sexuality or political opinions.
But Zimbabwe has never seen such problems, yet Zimbabweans are seen at every international gathering insulting their nation and the leaders. Shame on us.
We still have many Zimbabweans talking bad about our health system. It is not a secret how the Government is renovating hospitals in Zimbabwe. A state of the art hospital is almost getting finished in Bindura.
Sally Mugabe Cenral Hospital has been refurbished and equipment which costs over half a million has been commissioned. Wilkins hospital was given a face lift and now boasts of world-class Covid-19 treatment facilities..
Many districts and provinces are seeing their hospitals renovated. The times for medical tourists is gone.
The new dispensation is pulling through thick and thin, but we still have some misfits singing the pride of their countries away in demonstrations out of the country.
Some are demonstrating for a diaspora vote in diaspora. How does the United Nations help you with how votes are taken in Zimbabwe?
Often, the grievance quickly expands to include a repudiation of the Government, or its head, or more general denunciations of corruption and economic inequality, yet the protesters are not in Zimbabwe.
Photos of the anti-government marches routinely show an intimidating sea of people furiously demanding change. And yet, it is surprising how little these crowds achieve. The fervent political energy on the ground is hugely disproportionate to the practical results of these demonstrations.
But most demos fail to create significant changes in politics or public policies. The problem is what happens after the march.
The hodgepodge groups that participated had no formal affiliation with one another, no clear hierarchy, and no obvious leaders. But social networks helped to virally replicate the movement so that the basic patterns of camping, protesting, fundraising, communicating with the media, and interacting with the authorities were similar from place to place.
So besides trying to destroy Zimbabwe the MDC demonstrations abroad will yield nothing.