Zimbabwe’s Zanu PF rebel leaders
FreeAfrica (March 9, 2004)

It’s high time somebody gave the appropriate title to Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF gang. They are and have proved beyond doubt that they stand solid as no less than what are called “rebels”.

Photo: Zimbabwe’s youths being decolonised in terror Zanu PF camps.

These are the men that have betrayed the purpose of so many of Zimbabwe’s true heroes who died for the liberation and empowerment of Zimbabwe’s black population. Those fallen true heroes must have started turning in their graves the moment rebel leader Mugabe and his Zanu PF militants began implementing their twisted and inhumane ideas against the segregated populations of their choice. To date what had been meant to be a short and swift cleansing of a section of the country’s population has now turned into wild fire vigorously engulfing the entire country’s population including the arsonist rebels themselves as they gasp for breath in search of empty ideas to stop the fire.

George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” would be the greatest depiction of the Rhodesia-Zimbabwe politics, with Robert Mugabe likened to Napoleon and Jonathan Moyo with Enos Nkala during his times, to Squealer, while Ian Smith would have been Mr. Jones. Perence Shiri and Mnangagwa would be the dog guards and so the satire drama continues…

These men who have completely denied the people of Zimbabwe their right to a free and democratic society seem to think that they can really get away with their gruesome activities against the people of Zimbabwe by simply rewinding their propaganda colonial-struggle tapes and then trying to convince the people of Zimbabwe that when the innocent are killed and tortured or raped, it is because the colonial wars of the 1970s are still in progress, and anyone opposed to the brutality visited upon the innocent for such ‘noble causes of decolonisation’ is themselves a threat deserving to die, as they would simply be a tool of the ‘British and American colonial masters’.

Well, it’s time these rebels in Zanu PF began to “wake up and smell the coffee”. True liberation fighters know that the struggle against oppression and segregation in Zimbabwe is far from over and infact ‘Independence Day’ in 1980 only marked the end of the rule for the Smith regime and it’s oppressive white minority rule but was the beginning of the rule by yet an even more monstrous black majority regime, the Mugabe regime which managed to play dirty under the covers of skin colour. Freedom is yet to come for Zimbabwe, and yes! it will be a long-walk, but as Mandela had to bare 27 years behind bars before the oppressors succumbed, so it may be, for the victims of the Mugabe rebels of Zanu PF.

The Zanu PF rebels are currently making it mandatory for Zimbabwe’s entire population of youths and children to first serve in the rebel’s ‘training camps’ before such youths and/or children can be considered for any further education or employment to advance their lives and/or develop the country that most of these youths and children would so dearly love. Various media reports have been conducted with scary revelations of what these Zimbabwe youths and children are subjected to by the Zanu PF rebels; and the Zanu PF rebels have defended such brutality against the youths and children of Zimbabwe as young as 11 years old, by giving the following kind of un-thought justifications; "The [camps] programme focuses on mental decolonisation of our youths and brings back their dignity as a people…” These were the words of Zanu PF rebel Youth Minister Ambrose Mutinhiri when he was questioned about the purposes and events of brutality testified to by escapees from such Zanu PF rebel sponsored terrorist training camps.

The question that bothers most people looking into the future of Zimbabwe today is; What will happen to Zimbabwe’s future generations that are currently being trained as mini-terrorrists by Mugabe’s government, when these Mugabe rebel leaders and militants are gone? For indeed they shall soon be gone. Where will the resources of rehabilitating an entirely degenerated population come from when Robert Mugabe and his rebel empire have stolen and left all proceeds for their kith and kin? Well perhaps the answer could be simple and straight forward for this one; maybe such beneficiary kith and kin could be tomorrow’s miserable victims of a land and property repossession program, when the victims of the rebel’s theft begin to demand what rightfully belongs to them. Maybe when the people have exhausted the value of such repossessed stolen property and finances by the Mugabe rebels, then they would consider reestablishing the fallen country’s resources and minerals and using such, together with some donor help from stronger nations, to rebuild and redevelop the beautiful once upon a time bread-basket of the sub-region.

Is Mugabe even thinking of the consequences of his actions as he perpetrates these crimes? Well, even asking such a question of him is giving him too much of the benefit of a doubt. The man lies even to his own ministers, family and supporters by convincing them that when they settle themselves on stolen land and property it can be theirs forever.

What country in this world is justifiably led by such notorious war criminals? To try and comprehend the fate of Zimbabwe’s youth and children just makes one breathless. To think that an entire youth generation has to go through such humiliation, violations, rape, torture and murder training as a State mandatory for survival is in itself insane to comprehend. What kind of a sick mind does one have to foster in order to subject humans to such injustices? One would have to have no heart and conscience at all to justify such cruelty and evil. All for what –– Money? Avoiding accountability for acts of terror, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity? Power greed? –– Its hard for an ordinary and sane person to understand, latter-on to even believe the probability of such brutality happening, hence victims of such brutality and insanity leadership suffer for generations before being taken seriously on their plight, as potential sympathizers try to pinch themselves on the forearm to prove to themselves that they are not day-dreaming some Friday the 13th horror movie. Of-course there is those potential sympathizers who would prefer to rather play dumb and ignorant for purposes of securing their own interests.

African leaders such as Mbeki and Nujoma reward and defend such evidently brutal and sinister leadership by their counterparts in Zimbabwe, with the rolling of the red carpet for welcome and approval, and they even vote such rebels into positions of continental leadership just so the rest of Africa does not lose out on such ‘important’ lessons of brutal justice by the Mugabe rebels. These African leaders’ war against the colonial white settlers seems to be best fought by killing and torturing as many black Africans as one can possibly live to victimize, hence even their seemingly similar policies of traditional lifelong kingdomship kind of leadership.

Africans have to stand up now and fight for their freedom and rights. Our own leaders have become rebels against the masses. And these rebels have to be stopped before they fully pass-on their weapons and dirty tricks to the entire next generation of leaders. One can imagine a time in the not-so-distant future when these very life-threatening, well-resourced and dangerously armed leaders of Africa will all have died and died along with our beautiful continent. Africans must say no to this dead-end tunnel of leadership and in unison and support for each other, we should bring an end to such madness and brutality such as that happening to the youth and children of Zimbabwe.

Note: to read a good depiction of the Rhodesia-Zimbabwe politics CLICK HERE for George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”.