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I’m always interested in hearing what readers of township vibes think regarding the situation in Zimbabwe and also their comments on the various posts here. Today I am going to share with you a response from one reader of township vibes, to my previous article (Will violence change people’s vote?).
He gives a very intelligent analysis and commentary on the greatest challenges facing Morgan Tsvangirai and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The greatest challenge facing MDC at this crucial point is how to reach out to the weak, impoverished, brutalised, intimidated, buttered, etc, souls in the rural and Peri-urban centers who NOW need reassurance that recasting their vote will continue to be the only saviour out of this Mugabe brutality and mess.

Unless this is bravely and urgently addressed, either a lot of voters are going to decide not to go and vote for fear of victimisation should the foreseeable obvious hold (i.e rigging in favour of Mugabe) or most will vote for the evil dictator (Mugabe) for fear of facing a repeat of what they are facing now as l write. The torture and brutality they face has (according to what is obtaining now ) been something no-one in this world can help stop or at least minimise. (Think of it, where is SADC, AU, UN, etc if they see pictures you produced and some shown on media world wide).

The confidence and security of some of the tortured and brutalised MDC supporters has been eroded much to the jubilation of Mugabe and his puppets. If only they (ex-combatants, army/police/militia/green bombers/etc) were wise enough to recall that the reason they took to the gun against Smith was this scenario. I am and will never suggest violence to redress violence and will much give support to an MDC that is full of the milk of human kindness which does believe in ending conflicts through dialogue and peace.

My request to all displaced Zimbabweans in the diaspora or anywhere else is that PLEASE PLEASE lets give which-ever relative we can talk to the confidence and advise to use their vote fruitfully without fear of intimidation and victimisation. Our part is to help on voter education and reassurance that its only through the ballot box that bread, butter, fuel, meat, sugar, beer, leisure, agricultural inputs/implements, profitable producer prices and so on, can return to every Zimbabwean’s table at affordable prices and NEVER through the black market.

‘Zimbabwe haingawire pasi takatarisa, pamusana pevanhu vashomanana vanofunga kuti inyika yavo (The country can never be sacrificed to a few greedy individuals who think they own it). They played their part. We need to be a dynamic state and move on lest we all fall disgracefully forever.

Lastly, Sovereignty which the aging dictator Mugabe always refers to, does not mean and will never infer citizens going without the basic food commodities, being beaten and brutalised by their own police and army, being denied the opportunity to exercise their choice of governance and least, facing the humiliation of spending endless ‘nights’ in bank, food and fuel queues. Sovereignty will never mean blatantly blaming this on other COUNTRIES (Britain, USA) who are even ‘helping’ housing and protecting those civilians fleeing the very Mugabe regime. Sovereignty is about enjoying the benefits of our hard won independence with freedom of choice, association, food self-sufficiency, adequate employment, maximum resource allocation and utilisation, a conducive and enabling political environment and governance, not to mention the desire for YOU, HIM and HER to be what they aspire and aspired yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Credit goes to one top reader of Township vibes for such a thought provoking commentary. Like I always say, I’m always interested in what you have to say. Leave your comments.

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