Never Be Fooled, ZANU-PF Is Great

Supporters of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party. The party under the leadership of President Robert Mugabe is holding a national congress in December 2011., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.

Never be fooled, Zanu-PF is great

December 24, 2013 Opinion & Analysis
Dr Obiu Ngondi-Katu
Zimbabwe Herald

I visited Zimbabwe to see for myself the bad governance I am used to seeing on the international news channels. I visited Zimbabwe to witness first-hand the brutality of Zanu-PF to its own people and the white community in general. Never be fooled, Zanu-PF is great. It is the greatest political party in Africa.

Zanu-PF is a highly complex and organised political party that has gone through a lot but has been able to regenerate itself to the level of successfully taking on each challenge as it came.

Zanu-PF survived the onslaught from the mighty United States of America and the European Union combined. Which African political party world would survive such an enormous economic jab from US and EU, except Zanu-PF? Not even the ANC would last six months, but Zanu-PF has gone past a decade. Not even European parties would survive this. Zanu-PF is the political trendsetter and pacesetter for Africa.

I wrote this as Zanu-PF was meeting in Chinhoyi for the annual people’s conference in Chinhoyi. The annual conference connects the party with its important past.

Born is 1963, in the African township of Highfield in then Salisbury, Zanu-PFhas largely remained one of the most successful revolutionary political parties in Africa and has gone further than many of its contemporary revolutionary parties by shrugging off post-colonial Western pressure to abandon its well defined course of total black empowerment and emancipation.

Party insiders say what made this year’s conference different and sweet was that it cam months after sending the British sponsored MDC-T formation into the political dustbin. Many African political parties really look forward to Zanu-PF, although they might not want Europe to know but they envy Zanu-PF in general and President Mugabe’s leadership style. Sadly, they might never implement such projects in their own countries for fear of retribution. The important fact is that they indeed wish they could.

Now Zanu-PF also has to go into the New Year looking at how Europe and the US have changed their regime change tactics by using the threat of terrorism as an entry point. The Western countries are deliberately over-stressing the degree of the terrorist threat in Africa for the reasons of propping up their own interests on the continent and increasing their military presence in the region.

Where the threat is real, African countries are interested in foreign support in the fight against extremists, but are keen on receiving it in a form of training of their national armed forces and weapons supply.

The West, in turn, continues to insist on its military presence on the continent. In the case of the US, the Americas use the pretext of anti-terrorism to expand AFRICOM’s presence and infrastructure in Africa.

The majority of the African countries and communities oppose the idea of continued Western military presence on the continent.
The West continues to uphold its duplicitous policy of double standards throughout the world.

It often uses terrorist groups in different countries and, when the time is right, normally replaces the term ‘terrorism’ with ‘struggle’ for democratic values. Extremists, confronted by the French in Mali, are similar to mercenaries — “fighters for freedom”, that commit unprecedented crimes in Syria, that result in large numbers of civilian casualties. It is obvious that the West divides terrorism into two groups: “acceptable” — which acts accordingly to their interests, and “unacceptable” — which threaten their citizens and interests.

The West in Mali took control of extremely important uranium deposits of Niger and oil fields of Nigeria. Algeria is next on the list because of its gas deposits.

That explains why Washington was so passive with Syria. According to their best guess, Syria is not as rich in minerals as the countries of Maghreb.

Now, Zanu-PF should lead the way in ensuring that Africom does not find a base in Africa south of the Sahara in particular and Africa in general, because it is such superior military outfits that Europe would want to use to get closer to defined and declared enemies like Zanu-PF.

It is fact that Europe would now want to craft new techniques to deal with Zanu-PF after dismally failing to use MDC formations to topple President Mugabe and his political party Zanu-PF.

Never be fooled. Zanu-PF is the greatest and I wish all political parties in Africa were like Zanu-PF. Europe and the US would not want to sleep before burying Zanu-PF, the political trendsetter of Africa.

— DayAfrica.com.