The removal of Mugabe from office will not be a beauty pageant or a picnic but a wrestling match with the gods that only those leaders with the jihadist ingredient and suicidal element need to attend. Too much love for life or too much fear of death are qualities that are not needed in the political theatre that will uproot the titanic tyranny in Harare. Praying and wishing for Mugabe’s death is not enough, not even voting in huge numbers will help, what is needed is the conquest of the fear of death and then Mugabe will be thrown out of State House. Paying Mugabe in his own currency by standing up pound-for-pound to his violence is a political choice that Zimbabweans should be seriously thinking of, or otherwise stop wasting time in preparing for elections whose results Mugabe will ignore or manipulate.
Mugabe’s only survival tactic in politics is violence and the tried and tested manipulation of the fear of death that politicians like Tsvangirai suffer from, often leading to boycotts when the country needs real leadership. The solution to this will be found by politicians who will mobilize the many Zimbabweans into self defense mode against the few youth militias, soldiers, police and war veterans who are instructed to intimidate the people. As soon as these hired forces are overwhelmed by the many Zimbabweans who are prepared to die for freedom, precedence has it that the armed forces are known to turn around and join the people. This takes reckless and suicidal leaders who understand that under the shadow of death is where freedom normally hides.
The foundations of progress and prosperity are dependent as ever before upon the wise policies of government, prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and the safeguard of every business and every home. The first necessity of any nation is the smooth functioning of the vast business machinery for employment, feeding, clothing, housing and providing luxuries and comfort to a people. Unless these basic elements are properly organized and function, there can be no progress in business, in education, employment, governance or rule of law. There can be no advance in the fundamental ideals of a people. A people cannot make progress in poverty!
The greatness of Zimbabwe will come out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own our Zimbabwean system! We will come closer to the ideal of the abolition of poverty and fear from the lives of men and women than ever before in any land. Such that, the departure from our Zimbabwean system by injecting principles destructive to it, which our opponents propose will jeopardize the very liberty and freedom of our people, will destroy equality of opportunity, not alone to ourselves but to our children.
My conception of Zimbabwe is a land where men and women may walk in ordered freedom in the independent conduct of their occupations; where they may enjoy the advantages of wealth, not concentrated in the hands of the few but spread through the lives of all, where they build and safeguard their homes and give to their children the fullest advantages and opportunities of the Zimbabwean life; where every man shall be respected in the faith that his conscience and his heart direct him to follow; where a contented and happy people, secure in their liberties, free from poverty and fear, shall have the leisure and impulse to seek a fuller life.
This all leads to a release of the energies of men and women from the dull hardships of life to a wider vision and a higher hope. It leads to the opportunity for greater and greater service, not alone from man to man in our own land, but from our country to the whole Africa. It leads to a Zimbabwe, healthy in body, healthy in spirit, unfettered, youthful, eager, with a vision searching beyond the furthest horizons, with an open mind sympathetic and generous.
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