3 Fronts Of Chimurenga 3

Zanu talk of a ‘Third Chimurenga’. This new battle is the Zimbabwean economic and agrarian revolution. However, only Zanu can define the terms of the Third Chimurenga. Only the connected, to Zanu, and Zanu bigwigs are living on milk and honey. The people live in poverty which has been worsened by 33 years of Zanu’s economic misleadership. The Zimbabwean is excluded from open political discourse and the free vote by a repressive state. Apart from hunger and being muzzled, the security forces are bent on using violence to repress dissent.

Chimurenga 1 and 2 were bloody affairs. Tragically all the gains from these two struggles have been negated by state sponsored repression. The vote won after Chimurenga 2 is gone. Repressive institutions from Chimurenga 1 are back, and the new oppressor is african. Chimurenga 3 has become a three pronged attack against the people. The weapons are the state, security force and repressive institutions. Worst of all, economic reform is not won by Chimurenga style etiquette.