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.

False Revolutions

Chimurenga is limited. Zanu, ‘the revolutionary party’, lacks the capacity to transform Zimbabwe’s creaking economy. Revolutionary struggle does not entail blaming third parties for all your problems.  Chimurenga had its time, now is time for progress and the people.

Revolution starts within. Victory is a testament of inward change. Dynamics of revolutionary evolution apply to both the people and organisations. Zanu fails to evolve as it sticks to old methodologies, and limited, plus nonexistent self- examination.

Zimbabwe stares at impending economic collapse. Continual repression inherited from colonialism has become Zanu’s national management strategy. Zanu has hijacked the whole state personal to ensure Zanu’s survival. Progress and the people of Zimbabwe are first casualties of Zanu style economic mismanagement. ‘Only Zanu must survive’ or ‘pamberi neZanu’, is the calling card of one party’s  self preservation agenda. Zimbabwe's development has been confined to the back-burner, for the next 5 years only Zanu matters. All economic indicators will continue a downward spiral.