Zanu PF youths have learned nothing from the abuse they have been subjected to by their leadership if their recent march to threaten the Premier to denounce sanctions or face dire consequences is anything to go by.
After a year of accessing affordable and plentiful goods and services that had become extinct in Zanu PF Junta ruled Zimbabwe- thanks to MDC-T’s magnanimity in accepting to join the flawed SADC mediated coalition government- the party of geriatrics renowned for its penchant for unbridled violence against citizens is at it again.
This time it has mobilised the Zimbabwe youths it has been feeding a dosage of toxic propaganda in Border Gezi torture training camps under the guise of National Service Training to march in the capital’s streets demanding that the Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe must call for the lifting of EU and US imposed sanctions against its geriatric party leadership or face unspecified dire consequences.
And they were provided with free food, transport and logistical support from the Zimbabwe Republic Police to commit their treasonous act which threatens the continued existence of the coalition government by threatening one of its key players.
Not that it is anything new that the party of the past has always harboured bad intentions for the wellbeing of the adored premier but the manner the threat was marshalled using scant State resources and that the national president found it appropriate to grace the march and address the marchers deserves nothing short of total condemnation by all well meaning Zimbabwean citizens.
For a Party that has orchestrated infinite persecutions of citizens for airing their genuine grievances against misrule by the same party’s successive governments over the past decade over trumped up treason charges against the Head of State and Government to openly be associated with a treasonous march against the sitting leader of Government is instructive of the lawlessness it represents among us.
Zanu PF has over the past three decades systematically impoverished and pauperised the entire Zimbabwe citizenry except for the few in its top echelons and their close underlings who benefited immensely from riches they looted from the country’s natural resources and victimised poor citizens including the lot it paraded in its unholy march to petition and cajole the Premier to call for the immediate lifting of sanctions imposed on Zanu PF leadership.
A year ago this month the same leaders they are marching for heartlessly winded all their wealth in Zimbabwe dollar terms to zero, zilch, nil just in case their amnesia has got the better of them.
This is the same leadership that had fooled them into believing that they were millionaires by printing fake money and availing it to the indoctrinated young citizens in unrestrained quantities after using them in vicious onslaughts against the social political and economic fabric that held the country together.
And for their efforts and religious praise singing of a rogue regime they were handsomely rewarded with valueless currency that catapulted them to paper millionaires but kept them firmly stuck in the thick glue of poverty that today instructs them to march for the uplifting of sanctions against their wealthy leadership in the vain hope that the riches will devolve down to their generality.
The reality though is that the lifting of sanctions if ever it will happen will only open a window that has been deterring them from going abroad to enjoy the loot they have siphoned from the State coffers over three decades of unaccountable management of the country.
None of their riches will devolve to the youths that are being abused to protest the sanctions to the Premier who as they have now seen has tremendous influence over the nations that imposed them.
Instead of threatening him over the sanctions issue the youths must demand an honest explanation from the old guard in Zanu PF as to why the goods and services that had disappeared a year ago have become in plentiful abundance albeit that they require immense effort to attain but nevertheless are there for the taking for all willing to work towards their attainment which was not the case under monolithic misrule by them geriatrics.
They will discover that sanctions they have been indoctrinated to believe are the source of their hardships has absolutely nothing to do with their economic malaise but rather the same old leadership using them in the sanctions wars have everything to do with their unsavoury economic plight.
Before the current war against the sanctions the same group of indoctrinated youths must ask what became of their efforts in the land redistribution war and the price wars they were used to prosecute with such success but nothing for them to show for their effort
They must ask themselves what became of their revered party’s brag about making them multi millionaires, trillionaires and quadrilionaires for them to be penniless a year after rearrangement of the government structures from monolithic Zanu PF rule to cooperative rule by the three political formations now in government.
They must critically question what became of the slogans they were led to chant in the not too distant past that “the land is the economy and the economy is the land” a decade after they successfully repossessed the land?
They must inquire into why when they are in full and direct ownership of the land the sanctions are now a detrimental economic issue when hitherto the lack of land ownership was put to them as the reason for their poverty and failed economic progression.
They must ask themselves if the wars they waged against prices were worth their effort and if they have delivered the desired outcomes of affordable goods and services to their tables.
They will discover that there is no single solution to their economic problems and a holistic approach to economic management of the country is the critical ingredient necessary for them to move out of their economic quagmire.
Lifting of sanctions will not deliver the desired economic respite they are chasing after and the Premier they accuse of stalling the lifting of the sanctions will not be in a position to deliver the economic prosperity they like all other citizens yearn for unless there is a paradigm shift in the manner their party approaches national management of the country’s resources and their distribution to citizens.
As long as the distribution process of the country’s resources is skewed on political patronage and violence is used as a tool to compel subjugation and compliance the critical economic factors that underpin individual prosperity like productivity will not support individual economic empowerment of the majority of them and they will forever remain open to political abuse as they rely on their party leadership to sustain their living.
This business of blindly taking to party sloganeering and internalising the slogans as the gospel truth is not healthy for our nation’s future leadership.
We need open minded youth capacitated by the system of governance to think wide and varied and innovate their own solutions to economic and sociological challenges they face rather than blinkered youths that pander to the whims of the old and tired leadership at the helm of political formations.
Only when we have such an enlightened youths will the future progression of our country to dizzy heights of economic prosperity be guaranteed for all and sundry
Threatening a Premier with dire consequences over an issue that will not yield a difference to their lives like the lifting of sanctions is a sign of the level of blinkered thinking that threatens the country’s future economic progression.
The country has more foreign manufactured goods retailing than those locally produced.
That is where the economic malaise of today’s youth in our country is scripted. As long as the country does not innovate production strategies that enable it to produce in excess of its citizens’ consumptive demands it is unlikely to come out of economic sanctions gripping it.
The real sanctions on the country are not those imposed on Zanu PF leadership by the US and the EU but the failure by the leadership to create a political environment that attracts and encourages investment and entrepreneurship by serious business minded people globally.
The failure to attract and stimulate such investment within the international community coupled with the encouragement the youths are getting to impound assets of investors and expropriate them for personal aggrandisement as opposed to them being encouraged to innovate Greenfield investment projects of their own is the major sanctioning scourge that Zanu PF has been promoting for decades without moving the country forward.
In many instances the party has reversed economic progress and the current threat to the Premier over sanctions that are of no consequence is a case in point.
If MDC youths had staged such an obnoxious march against the President and the premier had graced the occasion by delivering a solidarity address to the marchers we are in no doubt as to what the consequences would be not just to the marchers but also to the Premier.
The Courts would by now be clogged with cases of Treason slapped on the march organisers yet because the treasonous act was directed at the Premier it is condoned and even receives Presidential solidarity.
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