Someone must tell Saviour Kasukuwere that "youth" and "children" are not the same words and therefore can never be used interchangeably. For him to have a dream if not a nightmare and wake-up thinking he can extend the national service to children doesn't only cross the boundary of common sense but it interferes with the role of the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare. In any case do children of ZANU PF bosses ever go for National Service as well or its for the poor? No, their children agree with all of us that everything in its entirety in Zimbabwe is dead and this is why they have been sending them to study outside Zimbabwe. They do not endorse Zimbabwe's education, health delivery and even the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
With the exception of Ambrose Mutinhiri who else among the ZANU PF elite ever sent their children to the National Youth Service? Why? Because they too know that the programme is nothing but the academy of hooliganism and intolerance. So negative are they with Zimbabwe's education system that after their children's deportations from the West they made sure they did not stay in Zimbabwe any extra days and decided to send them to other centres; Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore etc. a resounding vote of no confidence on their own performance at the helm of our country. This has been the undoing of Zimbabwe, ZANU PF is not capable of thinking straight and they reduce our country to a laughing stock by giving us ministers who are comic characters who cannot sit down to think properly.
The National Service has been reduced to a circus of expectations and frustrations over the past 9 years and for a minister, with whom I share a liberation legacy bestowed upon us by our liberation war hero parents, to continue being used to further objectives that are countervailing to the liberation struggle is really painful to come to terms with. What has ZANU PF not done to marginalise the liberation struggle? They joined hands with Peter Walls and Ken Flower to discredit their ZIPRA comrades whom they later called dissidents as a precursor to massacre 22000 innocent Ndebele-speaking Zimbabweans, they dumped China, Scandinavian countries and the then USSR, our liberation time comrades, in order to please the West, they made Joshua Nkomo, a man they would later shower with praise as Father Zimbabwe in his death, an object of ridicule and humiliation, they stripped Dumiso Dabengwa and Lookout Masuku of their freedom, dignity and military ranks and forced ex-ZIPRA cadres out of the military. For 17years they made former veterans of the liberation struggle paupers and beggars in independent Zimbabwe while they dinned and wined with the likes of Chinamasa and Chidyausiku, both Senators in UDI times, Olivia Muchena; a member of Muzorewa's Zimbabwe-Rhodesia government and Phillip Chiyangwa, a member of the notorious BSAP that had terrorised the same ex-cadres for the independence of Zimbabwe.
They refused Augustine Chihuri, an ex-cadre, attestation into the Zimbabwe National Army and preferred to have Peter Walls instead. As we speak they beat the same mother and father who suffered for them just because they have decided to exercise their right to choose a party of their choice. They made Zimbabweans squatters in their own country and after being challenged to that they embarked on half-backed glasnost that later led to our fiscal colonisation by USA, South Africa and Botswana with our own currency, the symbol of our identity, disappearing into oblivion in the same way that our proud independence has now become host to regional, continental and international scrutiny. 31 years into our independence ZANU PF has betrayed us and we no longer have the fiscal symbol of our sovereignty, a national currency, and we are now the colony of SADC which made us a "Principality" governed by three people but with SADC's barometer. Indeed the current ZANU PF is a party of traitors who sold our souls.
JULIUS SAI MUTYAMBIZI-DEWA is the Chairman of Communities Point. He writes in his own capacity.
Contacts: mutyambizidewa@yahoo.co.uk or 00447529705413 or 07401182271
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