Foreign intervention: Zimbabwe's externalisation of its political value and values

The desperation to find an internal fault has blinded and bound a proportion of Zimbabwe to paralysis yet opportunities to progress abound. In consequence, we find Zimbabweans with a degraded cohesiveness around the fundamental duty of patriotism. The hellbent nature of finding internal fault now has increasing kinetics, energised externally, but of a very weak link between internal realities and nationalism. With little as internal drivers and few as internal prescribers of conventional and internally generated political wisdom, some Zimbabweans and some political players find themselves compulsorily purchasing a foreign ‘good’ at a cost that will prove exorbitant. The delivered environment will prove to be of technical obsolescence to wished for progress.

A shame it is.

Why do we find ourselves with this unwelcome complement of antagonism to national unity and strategy? Politics is being defined and forced on the people of Zimbabwe as a zero sums game. When Zimbabweans need to process their politics, some are made to perceive binary options and sides of only destruction or progress. It is not options between progress A compared to progresses B, C or D with all being part of a net positive hierarchy.

 

The general person has allowed themselves to be robbed! They have been robbed of perspective, a hope, and a more productive reality. The unadulterated competition of ideas and efficacy of methodologies by our representatives has already suffered a foreign intervention or invasion of some sort.

 

Zimbabweans are now cornered to live each day with the perception that those that internally disagree with them represent a preference for violations, poverty, idleness, corruption, incompetence and at worst death. Such entities have been defined as internal enemies by the self-proclaimed universal partners - awo vanoita zvekupinda pinda pasi rose!

Step away from our Zimbabwe for a minute!

The events of the last 4 years on Capitol Hill have revealed an ugliness of American politics and society. Those states have had their people’s differences accentuated to expose unnecessarily catastrophic if not cataclysmic enmities. They now march against each other’s rights, worth and weight of mattering! They now bear arms in open threat to peaceful co-existence all because compromises and national definitions that give platforms for co-existence have been redefined as zero sum games. How did it come to that? It is simple!

 

The word is spelt F O R E I G N!

 

Mereka yaka ambana nezvehu foreign and look at them now. Someone thought Barack was foreign and had no place at the apex of America’s power. Then came a Donald suspected to be a servant and subject to a foreign power. Within his tenure Donald himself allows even trade to be a matter dictated by foreign proprietor phobia, and those arguing for other trade methods and arrangements to be viewed as foreign agents. Black people are treated as foreigners to be distanced from equality and their vote takes a different meaning to white votes - “the black vote”. More like that vote that seeks the contents at the base of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs! Kumafufu. These people who look exactly like us have all been degraded from being full Americans before and beyond the waters’ edge!  

Step back to our Zimbabwe where some amongst us invite them to give weight on how much Zimbabwean lives matter! Please do step back into Zimbabwe where our struggles are for things of matter because mwana vevhu agara akakosha.

 

We are first and foremost Zimbabweans who are bonded together for common and independently perceived progress. A progress we can all agree on and fight to sustain before and beyond the visitation of foreign interests. Ndiyani anoda kuudzwa kuti chii chakanaka? Even the word is ours to show takagara tinazvo - chakanaka is not chighudhu!

 

The foreign interests should not come to define our internal relationships, to form or deform them, grade or degrade them, set up objectives or dissonant subjectivists upon them. Foreign interests should only pass by to seek the synergies available from the thrust of our positive common aspirations. And make no mistake, Zimbabweans have the capacity to see where their common aspirations arise and can be driven from, in this world and within their own world. What we have for ourselves and can do with it is not hard to see. Those who want such too at our disadvantage and distraction  are also not difficult to identify. In this, spearheads of our nation thus need to occupy the sharp piercing edges where what is sought is not mere direction but the optimal impact points of a nation’s well built momentum. 

Ipapa apa - A nation's momentum. 

We have the capacity for healthy competition to be the spearheads of Zimbabwean aspirations which are obtainable through how the country is resourced through nature, nurture and its Human Resources. We however cannot afford having some of us turned and trained to become antagonistic arrows fired from the bows of those that seek to receive our dividends as free perpetuities. Who wants to be a cash cow for other countries? For our people yes! To be a bread basket, yes! Pfumvudza’s success, yes! A stable and efficient local currency and monetary system, yes! All for Zimbabwe in partnership with non-parasitic partners, yes! 

 

Our politics can no longer have foreign objectives defining the opportunities and risks in our environment. We can identify and define them ourselves. We are qualified! Our politics and politicians need to be surrounded by the aspiration for united progress for all internal constituents. Our politicians and their followers need to respect the reality that the best political architects for Zimbabwe are Zimbabweans zeroed on Zimbabwe's optimal targets! No matter who wins amongst such architects and their designs, Zimbabweans will all still be winning and protected more than the foreign thought and the foreign need. Our politics must allow us to be sober and see that dialogue in parliament and with the executive is never detrimental even if the conversations can be very disagreeable. Any Zimbabwean can discuss and disagree with another on matters upon the country. We can define and formulate strategies for this country - tega tega hedu. Kwete kungo tagger tagger. @MupambiPfumi #HuyaUndinunure

 

Parliamentary sessions are genius if exchanges are conducted to ensure iron sharpens iron. When ideas and accountabilities are tested to the fullest capacity of our processes, it works! POLAD is genius and a great first platform to express all that needs expressing. All these are clear avenues to pursue for functional custodians of genuine Zimbabwean aspirations. Gakava ikoko!

 

Perpetual unity with the aspirations of the poorest and most disadvantaged Zimbabweans will for the awoken Zimbabwean always top seeking alliance with the interests of messengers of foreign wants. When we separate as Zimbabweans on what is common, and furthermore seek aid of the alien, we do not only externalise our accessible station of shared political values; but also our very own value to no gain.