When thugs and thieves masquerade as citizens and citizens voices are violently silenced: between the rock and the hard surface.
By Rev/ Apostle Anglistone T. Sokhulu Sibanda
I condemn all forms violence and the use of disproportionate force on anyone and do remind us that human life is sacred and nobody has a right to injure, inflict pain or take away another person's life and the actions by the state, rogue military personnel, the thugs and terror gangs as well as the instigators are not only barbaric, old fashioned and evil, they are in fact satanic and unacceptable in our nation,counter development and invite God's judgment upon a nation.
Zimbabwe is going through yet another sad spate of history when thugoracy or mobocracy reigns supreme and leaves a trail of destruction.
When thugs and thieves hijack the citizens' space and purport to be ordinary citizens, having been hired by evil power hungry politicians who would rather have the whole country razed down in order to caress their egos, logical thinking and human rights gets trampled upon and the country thrown into a crisis, where the poor become poorer and suffering of the masses is perpetuated to the advantage of greedy and selfish politicians.
When one dares write or say the truth, they are rubbished and attacked, they are cyber bullied and by the cyber bulls whose shallow minds have no common sense but a fixation of their souls in grabbing power by all means necessary, indeed the end justifies the means.
The current economic quagmire in Zimbabwe is not just an economic crisis but a political crisis of disputed legitimacy where illegitimate contenders of power use citizens as tools to claim legitimacy.
The country is thrown into a quandary by thieves and looters of varying degrees and stature and the impact of the stealing, looting and wanton destruction is felt not by the same looters but by the ordinary citizens whose voices get silenced violently and rights thrown into abyss by those contending for political power.
The black Monday of the 14th of January will go down into history as the black day when citizens' rights were taken away first by hired thugs, hoodlums and hooligans who flooded the roads, blocking traffic, burning tyres destroying property, looting shops in the neighborhood and burning them down, stoning police officers to death in the name of democracy and then later by the state in response to the provocation by hooligans who are executing a well planned strategy aimed at pushing Nelson Chamisa into government via the back door under the guise of "ordinary citizens" sadly using children in the process and instilling such a bad culture into their mindset.
The organizers and instigators knew very well the nature of the state, that in such a scenario, the response from the state would be disproportionate violence and had all systems set to expose the brutality of the state.
Where did this begin?
Did it start by an ill advised action by the Head of State and government who announced fuel price hikes?
If l may divert your attention a bit, is fuel is Zimbabwe the most expensive fuel in the world as has been reported and the world made to believe? Certainly not, the hullabaloo is politically motivated. The fact is that the price hike was inevitable as the market forces had rendered the fake money, the bond note valueless but government kept an imprudent mantra that the bond note is worth 1:1 with the USD.
Fuel had become the cheapest in the world going for less than US0.40 per liter, implying huge losses on government and the importers, creating an unsustainable situation.
The mistake that government made was to deny the reality that we have lived a lie since 2016.
The bond note, a surrogate currency introduced by the RBZ governor during Robert Mugabe's rule was supposed to have been flushed away with him.
What boggles the mind is that the MDCA and its partners, ZCTU knew the truth that the fuel prices were necessary and inevitable but chose to play politics and hoodwink citizens into action through pressing a social media panic button and cyber criminals sending fake news to cause public panic and despondency.
For example there were photoshopped pictures of Mazoe orange crush going for $29.99 circulating on whatsapp but no one saw that in reality Mazoe orange crush is going for $6-$8.
The real issue at hand is the issue of salaries that have been eroded by the price hikes and the argument over the payments of salaries in USD which is not sustainable because the country is not exporting.
On those issues I support the labor unions and urge government to act urgently in addressing the genuine labor issue.
However, on the fuel price hikes, anyone using their right mind to think without polluted political lenses would know that our fuel had become too cheap and the country was running a huge loss.
Back to the subject: who triggered the violence? Is it government through announcing price hikes?
I refuse to be myopic and shallow, we Zimbabweans have a very short memory and we seldom analyze events and statements and link them to have a broad understanding of geopolitical situation. We always tend to isolate incidents and event when those are in fact systematic and well orchestrated.
The bloody stay away did not just happen, it is a result of several months of planning and large sums of money that have been put together. It is the effect of a well oiled and well funded system that seeks to destabilize the country and make it ungovernable and one cannot rule out a possibility of Chamisa - Mugabe Alliance especially in light of the involvement of characters like the notorious former ZANU PF terror gang leader Jim Kunaka and Shadreck Mashayamombe and crew the MDC.
Those who dare to remember would recall the spirited comments by Advocate Chamisa in the run up to July 31 elections where he said "we will not accept any result whose winner is not ourselves".
The notion of making the country ungovernable was put into play and we are witnessing that script being played and becoming a reality.
The country is being made ungovernable by the MDC and its partners hiding behind "citizens ". If indeed they are not involved, why does Chamisa call those who have been arrested for arson, murder, looting etc "political prisoners"? Since when do thieves and arsonists became political prisoners if they have not always been political activists.
Chamisa has infact claimed ownership of those people and must be held to account.
He had admitted that he is a gang leader by default he is using political power to obstruct justice.
He has exposed himself and his friends who are hiding and if indeed those in hiding are innocent citizens why are they hiding?
The truth is that the violent protests were well planned way before elections when activists went for trainings and what we see unfolding is the result of the trainings.
When Linda Masarira wrote and even went to testify before the Motlante commission that activists were trained in Cape Town and in Livingstone of how to mobilize citizens into action, she was insulted, ridiculed and cyber bullied but the truth is that the violent protests are not just an ordinary citizens reaction to fuel price hikes but a well planned strategy that is being implemented to get Nelson Chamisa into government by all means necessary. Sadly the regime was once again caught ill prepared for such actions and the dissent within the ruling party exacerbating the situation.
I watched hooligans in action at Entumbane in Bulawayo where the popular "Thwala okukwanisayo" happened and having been a leader of one of the influential residents associations, met with some of our members and discussed about what was happening.
Judging from the comments of social media of on local radio and other platforms, those youths that led the violence were not ordinary citizens as the world had been made to believe.
There are certain traits, patterns and behaviors that are known of the people of Bulawayo and those youths do not fit in the Bulawayo societal trends. It is vividly clear that those thugs who blocked Kombis were first fewer that the majority who wanted to go to work. If they had not enlisted the services of those thugs from Cabatsha squatter camp where MDC leaders (names withheld for fear of victimization) usually bus jobless, homeless and desperate people to use in either rigging their primaries or as tools for violence, the stay away would have flopped.
I had a direct encounter with the thugs along Solusi Road later in the evening and they were smelling alcohol and clearly having taken some drugs and were demanding bribes or else they burn the car is that an innocent protest about price hikes?
Indeed the state could not sit and fold hands.
The world and indeed some of you in the diaspora and the majority who have no correct information of what has been happening under cover, have been fooled into believing that that the protests were innocent.
Yes the strike by doctors and teachers etc is on point and it is purely a labor issue but has been hijacked by regime change elements who want to use the economic crisis that has been brewing over 20 years to hoodwink citizens into overthrowing a constitutionally elected government through unconstitutional means.
The next period of changing a government is in 2023 through an election and anything before that is illegal and proponents must know that the charge for that is treason.
They cry loud about the rule of law, they must prove that they believe in the rule of law by following the law and wait for 2023.
In as much as the constitution guarantees the right to protest and petition in a peaceful manner, the same constitution also mandates the government with a responsibility to protect the same citizens and property.
In as much as no investor would come into a country where the government shoots at innocent civilians, no investor would come into country where there is lawlessness, violence, looting, where ordinary citizens become thugs and militias that rob other citizens.
The nonsensical argument about the right to protest and the right to life is myopic. The same thugs that are said to be angry citizens that are frustrated by falsified and twisted facts by the instigators were violating other people's rights and freedoms of movement, right to security and they were also threatening those who were going to work such that the majority of citizens were forced to stay away by a bunch of hired thugs and hooligans who deserve not to be brutalized by the state but to be kept safe and sound in prison.
The nation cannot be held to ransom by groups of thugs who were mobilized by a group of power hungry upcoming tyrants whose little fiefdoms in the civic Society spaces are run by interconnected and well oiled cartels in a similar fashion that they condemn about how ZANU PF runs the country.
Nelson Chamisa and his friends do not care about you nor about anyone but they simply want to replace ZANU PF and be the ones who are eating on your behalf. If they have the capacity to hire thugs to cause anarchy, they have the propensity to unleash worse terror or even a genocide should they get into power.
The MDCA and its partners have equally become dangerous to the nation as ZANU PF that the critique, the only difference is that the latter has the state machinery.
The BBC and other media are either deliberately being economic of the truth or their are back at their brainwashing antics in that they chose to ignore the facts ground that majority of peace loving citizens' rights were taken away by the MDCA. If such acts happened in London, the same media house would report it as terrorism but if terrorists terrorize ordinary citizens in Zimbabwe, it's a right to protest and government must fold hands and allow what in their country would be termed as "terrorism" to happen because we are a poor African country. Is that how objective journalism is defined? It is now evident after Chamisa's statement that his party hired thugs to cause mayhem and force the majority of citizens to join the stay away against their will, violating freedoms of choice.
When government began to execute its constitutional mandate of protecting people and property, then the government becomes wrong, off course l am not condoning excessive use of force but this was a strategy to expose the government's propensity to violence in order to trigger international outcry and force ED into negotiations with Nelson Chamisa.
It is called the 'Dilemma Tactic" and indeed government found itself in a dilemma where any of its action would backfire to the benefit of the few that want political power for themselves not the poor citizens.
Who said the protests were done by the majority? Those youths are not the majority and urban dwellers in Harare and Bulawayo are not the majority, they represent a fraction of the population and hence the notion that Chamisa won is a fallacy that he even failed to prove at court and started attacking the judiciary for having demanded that he produces primary evidence which he obviously did not have he was lying as is his character.
He also doesn't have a majority in parliament, unless the greater number of ZANU PF MPs are G40 that is now in cohorts with MDCA hence the impeachment warning by Mugabe's nephew who wants to come back or bring his uncle hiding behind the 40 year old dictator.
There is a lot of information that is not in the public domain that citizens deserve to know and without bias l shall continue to share in order to liberate our minds that have been captured and brainwashed for too long through lies and propaganda from both ZANU PF and the MDC.
At this juncture Zimbabwe needs a solution.
The only solution to this crisis is a genuine dialogue not a dialogue to give Chamisa and his cabal cabinet posts but a dialogue on nation building where citizens are at the center.
Anglistone T. Sokhulu Sibanda writes in his own capacity.
By Rev/ Apostle Anglistone T. Sokhulu Sibanda
I condemn all forms violence and the use of disproportionate force on anyone and do remind us that human life is sacred and nobody has a right to injure, inflict pain or take away another person's life and the actions by the state, rogue military personnel, the thugs and terror gangs as well as the instigators are not only barbaric, old fashioned and evil, they are in fact satanic and unacceptable in our nation,counter development and invite God's judgment upon a nation.
Zimbabwe is going through yet another sad spate of history when thugoracy or mobocracy reigns supreme and leaves a trail of destruction.
When thugs and thieves hijack the citizens' space and purport to be ordinary citizens, having been hired by evil power hungry politicians who would rather have the whole country razed down in order to caress their egos, logical thinking and human rights gets trampled upon and the country thrown into a crisis, where the poor become poorer and suffering of the masses is perpetuated to the advantage of greedy and selfish politicians.
When one dares write or say the truth, they are rubbished and attacked, they are cyber bullied and by the cyber bulls whose shallow minds have no common sense but a fixation of their souls in grabbing power by all means necessary, indeed the end justifies the means.
The current economic quagmire in Zimbabwe is not just an economic crisis but a political crisis of disputed legitimacy where illegitimate contenders of power use citizens as tools to claim legitimacy.
The country is thrown into a quandary by thieves and looters of varying degrees and stature and the impact of the stealing, looting and wanton destruction is felt not by the same looters but by the ordinary citizens whose voices get silenced violently and rights thrown into abyss by those contending for political power.
The black Monday of the 14th of January will go down into history as the black day when citizens' rights were taken away first by hired thugs, hoodlums and hooligans who flooded the roads, blocking traffic, burning tyres destroying property, looting shops in the neighborhood and burning them down, stoning police officers to death in the name of democracy and then later by the state in response to the provocation by hooligans who are executing a well planned strategy aimed at pushing Nelson Chamisa into government via the back door under the guise of "ordinary citizens" sadly using children in the process and instilling such a bad culture into their mindset.
The organizers and instigators knew very well the nature of the state, that in such a scenario, the response from the state would be disproportionate violence and had all systems set to expose the brutality of the state.
Where did this begin?
Did it start by an ill advised action by the Head of State and government who announced fuel price hikes?
If l may divert your attention a bit, is fuel is Zimbabwe the most expensive fuel in the world as has been reported and the world made to believe? Certainly not, the hullabaloo is politically motivated. The fact is that the price hike was inevitable as the market forces had rendered the fake money, the bond note valueless but government kept an imprudent mantra that the bond note is worth 1:1 with the USD.
Fuel had become the cheapest in the world going for less than US0.40 per liter, implying huge losses on government and the importers, creating an unsustainable situation.
The mistake that government made was to deny the reality that we have lived a lie since 2016.
The bond note, a surrogate currency introduced by the RBZ governor during Robert Mugabe's rule was supposed to have been flushed away with him.
What boggles the mind is that the MDCA and its partners, ZCTU knew the truth that the fuel prices were necessary and inevitable but chose to play politics and hoodwink citizens into action through pressing a social media panic button and cyber criminals sending fake news to cause public panic and despondency.
For example there were photoshopped pictures of Mazoe orange crush going for $29.99 circulating on whatsapp but no one saw that in reality Mazoe orange crush is going for $6-$8.
The real issue at hand is the issue of salaries that have been eroded by the price hikes and the argument over the payments of salaries in USD which is not sustainable because the country is not exporting.
On those issues I support the labor unions and urge government to act urgently in addressing the genuine labor issue.
However, on the fuel price hikes, anyone using their right mind to think without polluted political lenses would know that our fuel had become too cheap and the country was running a huge loss.
Back to the subject: who triggered the violence? Is it government through announcing price hikes?
I refuse to be myopic and shallow, we Zimbabweans have a very short memory and we seldom analyze events and statements and link them to have a broad understanding of geopolitical situation. We always tend to isolate incidents and event when those are in fact systematic and well orchestrated.
The bloody stay away did not just happen, it is a result of several months of planning and large sums of money that have been put together. It is the effect of a well oiled and well funded system that seeks to destabilize the country and make it ungovernable and one cannot rule out a possibility of Chamisa - Mugabe Alliance especially in light of the involvement of characters like the notorious former ZANU PF terror gang leader Jim Kunaka and Shadreck Mashayamombe and crew the MDC.
Those who dare to remember would recall the spirited comments by Advocate Chamisa in the run up to July 31 elections where he said "we will not accept any result whose winner is not ourselves".
The notion of making the country ungovernable was put into play and we are witnessing that script being played and becoming a reality.
The country is being made ungovernable by the MDC and its partners hiding behind "citizens ". If indeed they are not involved, why does Chamisa call those who have been arrested for arson, murder, looting etc "political prisoners"? Since when do thieves and arsonists became political prisoners if they have not always been political activists.
Chamisa has infact claimed ownership of those people and must be held to account.
He had admitted that he is a gang leader by default he is using political power to obstruct justice.
He has exposed himself and his friends who are hiding and if indeed those in hiding are innocent citizens why are they hiding?
The truth is that the violent protests were well planned way before elections when activists went for trainings and what we see unfolding is the result of the trainings.
When Linda Masarira wrote and even went to testify before the Motlante commission that activists were trained in Cape Town and in Livingstone of how to mobilize citizens into action, she was insulted, ridiculed and cyber bullied but the truth is that the violent protests are not just an ordinary citizens reaction to fuel price hikes but a well planned strategy that is being implemented to get Nelson Chamisa into government by all means necessary. Sadly the regime was once again caught ill prepared for such actions and the dissent within the ruling party exacerbating the situation.
I watched hooligans in action at Entumbane in Bulawayo where the popular "Thwala okukwanisayo" happened and having been a leader of one of the influential residents associations, met with some of our members and discussed about what was happening.
Judging from the comments of social media of on local radio and other platforms, those youths that led the violence were not ordinary citizens as the world had been made to believe.
There are certain traits, patterns and behaviors that are known of the people of Bulawayo and those youths do not fit in the Bulawayo societal trends. It is vividly clear that those thugs who blocked Kombis were first fewer that the majority who wanted to go to work. If they had not enlisted the services of those thugs from Cabatsha squatter camp where MDC leaders (names withheld for fear of victimization) usually bus jobless, homeless and desperate people to use in either rigging their primaries or as tools for violence, the stay away would have flopped.
I had a direct encounter with the thugs along Solusi Road later in the evening and they were smelling alcohol and clearly having taken some drugs and were demanding bribes or else they burn the car is that an innocent protest about price hikes?
Indeed the state could not sit and fold hands.
The world and indeed some of you in the diaspora and the majority who have no correct information of what has been happening under cover, have been fooled into believing that that the protests were innocent.
Yes the strike by doctors and teachers etc is on point and it is purely a labor issue but has been hijacked by regime change elements who want to use the economic crisis that has been brewing over 20 years to hoodwink citizens into overthrowing a constitutionally elected government through unconstitutional means.
The next period of changing a government is in 2023 through an election and anything before that is illegal and proponents must know that the charge for that is treason.
They cry loud about the rule of law, they must prove that they believe in the rule of law by following the law and wait for 2023.
In as much as the constitution guarantees the right to protest and petition in a peaceful manner, the same constitution also mandates the government with a responsibility to protect the same citizens and property.
In as much as no investor would come into a country where the government shoots at innocent civilians, no investor would come into country where there is lawlessness, violence, looting, where ordinary citizens become thugs and militias that rob other citizens.
The nonsensical argument about the right to protest and the right to life is myopic. The same thugs that are said to be angry citizens that are frustrated by falsified and twisted facts by the instigators were violating other people's rights and freedoms of movement, right to security and they were also threatening those who were going to work such that the majority of citizens were forced to stay away by a bunch of hired thugs and hooligans who deserve not to be brutalized by the state but to be kept safe and sound in prison.
The nation cannot be held to ransom by groups of thugs who were mobilized by a group of power hungry upcoming tyrants whose little fiefdoms in the civic Society spaces are run by interconnected and well oiled cartels in a similar fashion that they condemn about how ZANU PF runs the country.
Nelson Chamisa and his friends do not care about you nor about anyone but they simply want to replace ZANU PF and be the ones who are eating on your behalf. If they have the capacity to hire thugs to cause anarchy, they have the propensity to unleash worse terror or even a genocide should they get into power.
The MDCA and its partners have equally become dangerous to the nation as ZANU PF that the critique, the only difference is that the latter has the state machinery.
The BBC and other media are either deliberately being economic of the truth or their are back at their brainwashing antics in that they chose to ignore the facts ground that majority of peace loving citizens' rights were taken away by the MDCA. If such acts happened in London, the same media house would report it as terrorism but if terrorists terrorize ordinary citizens in Zimbabwe, it's a right to protest and government must fold hands and allow what in their country would be termed as "terrorism" to happen because we are a poor African country. Is that how objective journalism is defined? It is now evident after Chamisa's statement that his party hired thugs to cause mayhem and force the majority of citizens to join the stay away against their will, violating freedoms of choice.
When government began to execute its constitutional mandate of protecting people and property, then the government becomes wrong, off course l am not condoning excessive use of force but this was a strategy to expose the government's propensity to violence in order to trigger international outcry and force ED into negotiations with Nelson Chamisa.
It is called the 'Dilemma Tactic" and indeed government found itself in a dilemma where any of its action would backfire to the benefit of the few that want political power for themselves not the poor citizens.
Who said the protests were done by the majority? Those youths are not the majority and urban dwellers in Harare and Bulawayo are not the majority, they represent a fraction of the population and hence the notion that Chamisa won is a fallacy that he even failed to prove at court and started attacking the judiciary for having demanded that he produces primary evidence which he obviously did not have he was lying as is his character.
He also doesn't have a majority in parliament, unless the greater number of ZANU PF MPs are G40 that is now in cohorts with MDCA hence the impeachment warning by Mugabe's nephew who wants to come back or bring his uncle hiding behind the 40 year old dictator.
There is a lot of information that is not in the public domain that citizens deserve to know and without bias l shall continue to share in order to liberate our minds that have been captured and brainwashed for too long through lies and propaganda from both ZANU PF and the MDC.
At this juncture Zimbabwe needs a solution.
The only solution to this crisis is a genuine dialogue not a dialogue to give Chamisa and his cabal cabinet posts but a dialogue on nation building where citizens are at the center.
Anglistone T. Sokhulu Sibanda writes in his own capacity.
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