Unshakeable intra-party unity on display in Zanu-PF
THE ZANU-PF Congress was, but a case of masterful organisation, unshakeable intra-party unity and exuding self-confidence by joyful party delegates.
That way it defied the inveterate doomsayers and their wishful prophecies. They had wished and willed sapping and divisive internecine fights. They conjured scenarios of a calamity which all came to zero.
The overriding takeaway is that President Mnangagwa was duly re-endorsed as the leader of ZANU-PF and as the sole candidate for the party for 2023 Harmonised Elections in an extraordinary display of party cohesion.
This should not have come as any surprise to the party cadreship and membership. For it is common cause that ZANU-PF has been around for six decades. Along the road it has been driven by a single-minded desire to seek and deliver a better life of bountiful prosperity for the people of Zimbabwe.
To discharge this historic duty to the revival and rejuvenation of the Zimbabwean nation, it has not shied away from confronting and overcoming every obstacle standing in the way.
To deliver on the inviolability of its compact with the people, it formed and grew the new state of Zimbabwe.
It embraced the arduous, protracted and painful route of the armed struggle in the form of an all embracing, unifying scientific People’s War.
This would give issue to the much prized freedom, democracy and independence in 1980.
It is thus no surprise that the party has come this far since. After all ZANU-PF stands atop the most organised and structured nation on the African continent. Fighting a modern war against the foremost imperial marauders of all human epochs of necessity engendered this accolade and attained this attribute of sheer resolve.
That is why its cadreship and membership can easily and unexpectedly find amity amongst the ranks. Born of the supreme sacrifices of so many, its leadership sees itself as serving cadres who owe it to the people as opposed to any self-glorification. They see themselves as avatars of the many thousands of patriotic martyrdoms. Progressive humanity across the globe hails this world outlook. On the other hand, there are shameless enemies and detractors. In masochistic disappointment, they inevitable gnash their teeth in an ever-recurring string of disappointments.
The other takeaway of the historic congress was the injecting of new energy to the economic agenda of the Second Republic. This crucial assignment is premised upon the conscious and diligent harnessing of both domestic and foreign direct investment.
The goal being to deliver on growth and prosperity as yearned by the 196070s Generation of Supreme and Selfless Self Sacrifice. This is notwithstanding, indeed in complete defiance of the menace of heinous sanctions imposed by a cabal of hostile and post imperial powers of the West.
Everyone can see that “EDworks” has turned the width and breadth of Zimbabwe into a gigantic construction zone.
Yellow metal of heavy construction equipment dots the landscape. Dams, irrigation schemes, water tunnels, power stations, airports, new global class mining ventures, and new magnificent buildings are mushrooming all over across the breadth and width of Zimbabwe.
President Mnangagwa has rekindled that “can do” hope on a populace that has been relentlessly battered by dispiriting propaganda.
This emanated from London, Washington and other sulking inimical capitals of the West. Zimbabweans at home and abroad have embraced a new and confident disposition befitting of a modern nation begot by a modern and proud warrior undertaking.
The tantalising scoresheet is awash with a slew of successes. Granaries are filling up. All thanks to the husbanding of water for all year irrigation.
Then there are the benefits of Pfumvudza-Intwasa home-grown innovation of lean farming techniques that are successfully defying the scourge of climate change. The mining industry is playing its part as the bedrock of aspired world class prosperity.
President Mnangagwa has long been a champion of the nascent and youthful industry of small and medium-SME enterprises gold miners.
There was a sequel to the 2013 War Veterans Masvingo Congress resolution. President Mnangagwa promptly became the Cabinet leading light of the fateful decision of 2015 to restore legality to SME gold mining.
His 2017 ascend to the apex of national political power has seen him tend this crucial monetary industry to phenomenal growth. Today SME miners account for over 60 percent of national gold deliveries. And we are still counting the growing gold tonnage.
Every enticing incentive, inclusive of international pricing parity of the precious metal of ages is being granted and factors so as to expand some gold production. This has proved a boon to the national monetary authorities as the geopolitics buffet the petrodollar.
After all the US currency of fiat was contrived to serve as the instrument of superpower hegemony through monopolising the currency of global trade. The astute President Mnangagwa simply found it untenable that a country whose millennia old Great Zimbabwe Civilisation was built upon gold mining ended up without an own national currency.
The all-round development of the gold industry lies at the heart of the restoration, stabilisation and strengthening of the Zimdollar. Wherein lies the genius in collecting commodity reserves in the form of royalties from our treasure trove of much coveted mineral endowments.
President Mnangagwa has moved with speed and alacrity to plug loopholes that were drenching the Treasury of precious currency.
No more haemorrhage of hard currency earnings to the benefit of predatory post-colonial centres of the dominant global finance centres of the West.
The glowing story of the gold industry is amplified by the equally exciting performance of the romantic lithium sector and the bedrock carbon steel full value chain.
Ancillaries like thermal for base load power, new hydroelectric turbines and coking coal batteries are being built on a clip. New energy industrial parks are on the drawing boards. All said, President Mnangagwa’s mantra Zimbabwe Is Open for Business is exciting the juices of global corporate boardrooms.
This slew of socio-economic scoresheet achievements has served to upend the comprador political elite and their penchant for treachery.
Confusion and fissures now reign supreme among their ranks. The filthy lucre of foreign funding for treasonable mischief is paling in appeal as the homegrown prosperity deliver more wholesome, appealing and palpable rewards.
No surprise that this is prompting the penning of apologies that reek of ambiguity from the exiled G40 kingpins.
The more ignorant among them tenaciously hung on to the dreamboat of Robert Mugabe. He has since the former President turned into a self-styled and personal deity.
He prays to the former first leader a mystical messiah.
That aptly goes for one whose politics thrived riding on as ‘a consort and entangler’ with the former First Lady. He forlornly persists in clutching on to that only source of political value he may have waded.
All understandably for a talented starved political greenhorn.
Needless to say, it’s an enterprise wholly laughable to the tempered ZANU-PF cadres and their long held philosophy of earthly scientific materialism. After all they do know Mugabe longer and better.
True revolutionaries, wrought by blood and iron are prone to scoff at such political pretences by neophytes. Indeed, they are actually bemused in wonderment. As the saying goes: each to how own ways I don’t mind. Best of luck with what you have.
In the meantime, President Mnangagwa is on course to another five-year Presidential term. By the time he is done, his seat will be reserved on the throne pedestals of the legendary Munhumutapas and Changamires of yester yore.
Zimbabwe shall be great again.