Chamisa must stop desecrating the liberation war history
Hosia Mviringi
The pending March 26, 2022 by-elections have exposed deep-seated political desperation of epic proportions by political green horns angling for a share of the available seats.
Mr Nelson Chamisa of the ‘new party’ that is not very new has been trying too hard to show and prove to the world that indeed he is a ‘new creature’.
This instalment will focus on Chamisa’s futile attempts at rebranding and his desperate attempt to hijack and defile the history of the liberation struggle.
Through repeated pronouncements which have characterised messages at his rallies in the current run-up to the March 26, 2022 by-elections.
Nelson Chamisa has been frantically trying to paint himself and his formation as a reformed unit which is a far distance from the former MDC outfit which moulded them into what they are today.
*The history*
When the MDC was formed through the funding and sustenance of the Western governments and donor funding, it was primarily aimed at returning and retaining the pre-land reform status quo, which would then reflect the pre-colonial land ownership patterns.
ZANU PF as a true revolutionary movement correctly identified this and successfully foisted the puppet tag onto the then MDC as led by Morgan Tsvangirai.
True to its puppet tag, the MDC then, which Nelson Chamisa was an active frontline leader, had successfully campaigned, for two decades, to have Zimbabwe under a yoke of Western economic sanctions, which were primarily supposed to either force ZANU PF out of power or at least induce a reversal of the land reform program.
Nelson Chamisa, in his wisdom or lack thereof, is trying to hoodwink Zimbabweans into thinking that indeed there is something new in the ‘new’ yellow movement.
*What’s ‘new’ in an unrepentant old creature*
Colours and symbols are not enough to symbolise a renewal. It doesn’t matter how one tries to convince the people on the podium of convenience, what people want to see is a true renewal of deeds above all the rhetoric.
In one desperate speech, Nelson Chamisa struggled to convince the people that he too is a freedom fighter. In that speech he alleges that he too fought in the liberation struggle, purportedly while he was safely tucked in his mother’s bosom.
In this vain attempt he would want the world to believe that indeed the liberation struggle credit cannot fairly be claimed by a single political party.
It is indeed hilarious and sad at the same time that someone would get to such heights of desperation in attempt to prove that he has changed.
A new brand does not only need to tell people that they are ‘new’, but they need to go the extra distance to prove that indeed they are a new brand and live through those claims.
They must be living testimony to those claims.
As it stands Nelson Chamisa and his can not claim to latch on a well established nationalist ideology and claim to identify with those values they have fought for over two decades.
Politics of deception can not be allowed to flourish.
Nelson Chamisa and his crew should stop desecrating the history, ethos and values of the liberation struggle.
He should stop the blasphemy by claiming to love war veterans and all that they stood and continue to stand for, yet he fought tooth and nail to reverse that which most liberation compatriots died fighting for, the right to the land.
During the liberation struggle, anyone who collaborated with the enemy to bring harm to the nation or to threaten the struggle was referred to as a traitor, and the reward for selling out was well laid out.
Until Chamisa and his crew depart from their traitorous ways they cannot be allowed to preposterously claim credit or association with the liberation struggle.
The liberation struggle can never be prostituted for anything.
It is criminal to call for sanctions, then watch people’s salaries get washed down the drain, war veterans and collaborators having their pensions burnt out by inflation, a country’s health sector reduced to a mere joke as a result of such sanctions, only to wake up tomorrow dressed in yellow pretending to love the same people more than the rest!
War veterans today remain as one of the sections of society severest hit by the man-made scourge of sanctions. Their pensions disappeared overnight during the hyperinflation era of the late 2000s. Today they live in abject poverty as a result.
The country’s farmland continue to lie desolate because real new indigenous black farmers have no access to critical inputs while the country continues in isolation, all as a result of a few individuals, Nelson Chamisa included, who chose to be ambassadors of Western imperialism in Zimbabwe.
The questions that must be posed to Nelson Chamisa are; What good can the country expect from the same individuals whose hands drip with blood of innocent citizens who died on hospital floors in over twenty years of sanctions?
How can the people be convinced that Nelson Chamisa and the CCC are indeed “the new” that they claim to be when they continue to conveniently avoid denouncing sanctions in public?
How can they escape and shed the puppet tag when they say one thing during the day and continue to campaign for imperialist sanctions policy who's known intentions are to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle?
In recent recorded videos, Nelson Chamisa is seen bragging that soon after the 2018 elections he went on a whirlwind tour of European Capitals, carelessly gallivanting on a mission to Western governments to maintain a hurtful economic embargo on the country.
Nelson Chamisa announced this feat with pride as one of his key strategies to gain the keys to State house.
The liberation struggle ethos, values and principles (nzira dzemasoja) that Chamisa would now want to pretend to subscribe to, behoves all of us to love our country and put its people and interest first. It behoves us to protect it from all enemies and hostile forces.
The liberation heroes we remember today died in the course for a cause, part of which is to liberate the country from economic servitude and to safeguard the national birthright in form of land.
The liberation war history is sacred. It cannot be prostituted for anything.
Chati homu chase a
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