When demonstration delivers only its partial meaning to the country.

When demonstration delivers only its partial meaning to the country.

The 16th of August 2019 demonstration will take only 2 of 3 meanings of the word. It will take the meaning of protesting; the ills that some protesters state they suffer. It will also take the meaning of exposition; of how and to what level the movement that garners it operates. This demonstration however has no credence in claiming the third meaning of the word; validation or corroboration, on the claims and counter claims of the subject matters of instigation and ownership of the country’s ills. History will have it as a fail at linking the protest as an operational mechanism that accurately and effectively targets entities that are guilty for the pains present. Its record will show it as ineffective at driving sustainable and progressive change. The future’s gaze back at history will show this and will harshly question it.

What did the people of those urban areas elect to do in deploying their energies and brawn on that mid August Friday? Who and how many did it intend to leverage? History will show an arrogance in the abandonment of self introspection that better forges a way forward post a realisation of the true self in a global world full of positive and negative forces upon the self and collective. The question unanswered is who are you and why are you who you are, to then think in a clear way and decide why you need what you need with the help of those whom you see as friends ? Some have been lost on this as individuals or members of some movement since inception!

When enemies are seen as friends more than family and comrades: 

There is an American nature that is forgotten when the American faces, voices and thoughts come to our shores. The hate that they now readily expose on their own to the world towards their own who just happen to look like us is transformed by high sea winds and violent waves to arrive for misconstruing as love and concern for Africa, through some dollar denominated and dominating accent of righteousness! There is a still growing and perpetuating history that is into the centuries here, that some amongst us now think is only of old and not a factor. 

“They have stopped hating us, they are never willing to hurt us again and they will throw money and throw love at us that they cant afford their own and Mexicans . America sacrifices for Zimbabweans to do well!” 

The thoughts of desperate oblivion to the point of burning better bridges with whom you could build together a fort. All with whispered urging on by the very enemy. Modern slaves who see American DNA through Netflix and not the microscopic examination by pan African mindsets. Think back from slavery, through colonisation and to modern day trade and embargos.

The extend to which value is not found in African people and the pan African institutions:

 It goes to show some leaders find no value in our own in so far as avoiding both short and long term consequences of reloaded and shallowly investigated artefacts of western foreign policy. At the bottom of the iceberg is where Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans need to pin point the nature of foreign interest and its incorrigible parasitic demons that are incompatible with not only our rightful inheritance, but the very nature of our hopeful and independent beings. There are wars internal opponents wish to burden upon the next generations as was upon those past that we celebrated at the dawn of this week. The burden of liberating is not being invited back by omission but by commission! Have we ascertained all the ways foreign powers can reintroduce any of the historical imbalances and unfair gains? Have we? If true of Lobengula’s X signature, he is forgivable for he had no history to learn from. But for this clique of modern day law practitioners cum protesters with a history to lean on...gross negligence of the most pathetic order!

The ushering in of a dangerous precedent: 

I amongst many have asked before how long the MDC thinks it could hold to power obtained through such fashion of ungovernability and how its leaders think they can hold on internally when they make it a trend that disorder, sabotage and confrontation become the deciding factors? How long? Can they against a hell bend dirty tactics ZANU PF angling for power in a field that then has an MDC government as a precedent example of national power grabbing? The answer might be yes only with borrowed mighty foreign power! A foreign power that will feed a nation on a sweets diet of the west whilst it harvests minerals as if grains. The hunger and malnutrition (lack of growing entrepreneurship) that persists? Satisfied by mere jobs and money in the ATM! Before you march, I ask, have you settled it with them, who will own what in Zimbabwe? For how much? 30 pieces of silver?  That in itself is a very big problem! A reversal of gains! Occupy Zimbabwe is the underlying invite under the preferred consequences of MDC’s preference for (un)civil confrontation. But they must write “karma is a b***h” on the same wall they wish to write “mene, mene, tekel, parsin” for ZANU PF. For when read together in the time they are preparing for themselves, it will adequately announce poetic justice!

The abdication, being unhinged and deficits that are hidden under the artefact of being a mere option:

ZACC has a better chance of dealing with corruption, so does the TSP at stabilising the economy. None of the above in the current form has been seen here before and none is being afforded good time or non-partisan progressive political influence. Transformation needs transactions by all sides and these take time! Pane akagarira maoko! But MDC and the Chamisa chete chete brigade believe in some sublime power that brings “huchi nemukaka mangwana chaiye”, “US$15b yaka calculate-wa navaBiti” of the now infamous “vakomana vekuhwinha World Cup, ana Pogba!”.

ZACC and TSP are laying out processes with steps, milestones, and trajectories for the latter. The demo has none and neither does RELOAD. It has no proof of conditions that you have never seen, it promises exponential growth trajectories that can never be delivered and has no proof of concept whatsoever! Why is it forced upon us? Naivety and the laziness at inspection. There is a track record of what they feed to followers. There promised anti rigging mechanisms and claimed being rigged. They said they had ALL V11s and they gave none. They said they met Trump but didn’t meet Trump. Now, some still believe they are more truthful and able on the bigger things? Haana chinhu kunze kweshungu uyu! Mere words and jumping castle excitability at the chance to occupy high office and being the centre of attention amidst wailing sirens of a long motorcade. He has his ambitions that include mapikicha naMaikoro ndakachena kani!Zimbabwe seeks visualisable tangibility of its progress. This lot has none! Jambanja chete as they know in fury and in emotion, there found is an easiness to mislead. #ItWasStupid

Disengaged to prefer confrontational engagement of the wayward. 

I repeat, amidst fury is an ease of misdirection. Wherein fields of fact finding and cultivation lie fallow. You don’t sit to listen or to study in a demonstration. You are armed with perception that at times is dogmatic especially on the way to salvation. You are being led by faith and hope in things you cannot fathom nor you can find detours out of. 

Here, and please do hear, prophets and false ones do co-exist. There are those that claim miracle outcomes in this life, and others never even about the intended life to come. Ask them to show you a sign, a miracle; or revise their steps to see what they have done! Alas, the urban councils are a shambles! Is there corruption under their watch? Is there poor governance under their watch? Is there poor supply of sanitation and other household related needs under their watch? Are window panes being fixed quick under their watch? 

Only good at the promise of moving a mountain but not blowing away 1 foot sand dunes? Believe what you will and your right to peacefully march if you really will. I will sit and think! I will think whether ZANU PF can be allowed, in fairness, to arrange marches in the future targeting elected municipality officials so that their candidates take over office. I will also think if APA or Dawn or Build Zimbabwe were to grow in numbers, will an MDC government for example accept that they are marched out of office for some performance issue and will the US be sympathetic if such parties are let’s say shored up by the Chinese? Rules of the game that have no feet cannot stand! Neither should they march!

I also will sit and think why a march against the executive and not other arms of government? Why not march for parliament to be dissolved? Why not stand down from the legislative houses and forego the benefits if government is failing? #NyokaHuruHaizvirumi!

I will also sit and think why the recent trend is ignored? Why is the march concentrated in urban areas they run and why not in Lupane East or in Bikita? Harare ndoo vanhu chaiwo? Just Harare is the brain frontal lobe of this country? Be careful for it now appears, patriotically  deciphering here, the very center of cognitive dissonance in this country!


Those familiar with the religious stories of old will relate. And in this I leave you to pursue the future. A man called Esau was well set to inherit a rich future of what belonged to him by birth right. Due to short term hunger his history is neither celebrated nor is it legendary. In his moment of need for a small meal from what he already owned, he gave up everything of it to the one who’s story now endures as a forefather of the tribe of Jesus Christ. May this last holy name bless our vision and may it give Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans progressive focus and actions.