Edmore Mbuzana Mlambo

Friday 22 April 2016

THE BANDITS AND IMF ARE BACK IN MOZAMBIQUE

It is not a coincidence that the IMF is withholding funds it had intended to give to Mozambique. I am a fan of conspiracy theories and I have one for the Mozambique scenario and it is scary. Really intriguing stuff.

Let us go to the seventies. Who was the major sponsor of RENAMO in the beginning? It was the USA. It justified the sponsorship by claiming that it was countering communism. The Samora Machel regime was a good friend of Russia and China. These two countries had actual backed Frelimo in its war against the Portuguese and as we all know there was a Cold War going on.

ENTER THE EAGLE
Fast forward to the nineties. Samora is dead. His aeroplane shot down by mysterious aliens from outer space, The aliens in question had no relations to the Afrikaans in South Africa or the capitalist Western countries. The world knows there was no love lost between Samora Machel between the apartheid regime and the western power.

Have I told you I love conspiracy theories? The aliens must have shot Samora Machel plane to please the apartheid regime and the western powers gods. Well with Samora Machel dead … the Eagle and the IMF landed. The rest is history or is it?

IMF AND THE RETURN OF WESTERN CORPORATES
When the Eagle lands the vultures follow. The IMF is one of the vultures for the western government and corporate. The western corporate got concession after concession of Mozambique’s resources. It was good while it lasted. The civil war was over as Renamo’s sponsors now were on the Mozambican government side. Alfonso Dhlakama becomes a nobody in the scheme of things.

ENTER THE DRAGON AND THE BEAR
Fast forward to the year 2010. Mozambique governments begin to award concessions to the Chinese and the Russians. The Chinese and Russians are entering a territory reserved for Western exploitation for centuries, I mean, since Vasco Da Gama ‘discovered’ Mozambique. It is crazy but true that the Cold War is not over. How can the West counter this incursion of China and Russia into their sacred territory?

THE RESURRECTION OF ALFONSO DHLAKAMA
It is here where most conspiracy theorists fail to weave a killer story. Renamo had been thrown to the dustbin and no Western power could induce the ICC to drag Alfonso Dhlakama for the war crimes he committed during that western sponsored civil war. This ruthless killer was dressed in a suit and put into parliament instead of being charged with war crimes. The Europeans (I mean , whites) say Africans have a short memory and we had all long forgotten of Alfonso Dhlakama , Renamo and the sponsors of war.

DEFENDING OF A REVOLUTION
I do not know if you now see the link between the rise of the ugly head of Renamo and the coming in of the Eastern Dragon and the Bear.This is where the Mozambican Finance Minister has failed to explain to IMF that Mozambique has a revolution to defend.

He needs to say in simple words. The money was used to strengthen Mozambican security in the face of the rising threat from Renamo. The act of not financing the Mozambican budget is criminal, it is as if the IMF is now sponsoring the rise of the Renamo.

THE RESULT OF THE CONSPIRACY THEORY
The West want the resources.Mozambique must be crushed to its knees. The West are financing Renamo again and setting up covert sanctions ,through IMF and donor agencies, against a legitimate government of Mozambique.

Africans let us wake up

Sunday 10 April 2016

Robert Mugabe Meets The Greedy and The Liars

The war veterans did meet President Robert Mugabe. It is what transpired in the meeting that has the ordinary people of Zimbabwe talking. The war veterans and the party they belong to are at loggerheads as to how to run the affairs of the party ZANU Pf. Here is my take on the meeting.

TOTAL CONTROL
The war veterans want total control of the party by grabbing the Commissariat Department. All party organs are now to be headed by a war veteran. They want to grab strategic organs of the party.

The recommendation wants all the committees chaired by war veterans. The recommendation if adopted will have war veterans heading the Provincial Committees and the National Executives of the Youth and Women. This recommendation will affect all post holders from the cell to the Politburo must and must be War Veterans. It will be war veterans at all levels.

This recommendation is undemocratic in the first place and secondly, what will the current pool of war veterans have the political skills to mobilise the grassroots to vote them into office.

STOPPING THE UNDEMOCRATIC PURGES AND SUSPENSIONS

The good that did come out of the meeting is the setting up of clear disciplinary procedures. The so-called vote-of-no-confidence gimmick by the Provincial Executive Committees was rightfully banned.

This vote-of-no-confidence was one of the most undemocratic things where an executive has the power to suspend a member of the party, without consulting the leadership of the grassroots membership.

The meeting went on to give powers to the National Disciplinary Committee to suspend or expel members in consultation with the Central Committee.

FREE LAND AND THE TWENTY PERCENT OF ALL
The selfishness displayed by the war veterans at the meeting was appalling, to say the least. They think Zimbabwe belongs to no one else except themselves. It is 34000 against 15 million and every one of us want a share.

The party and government must not allow this chicanery of extortion to continue. Enough is enough. These people have no long-term plans for the nation and lack social responsibility. They believe the world revolves only around them and their well-being. What about the other 15 million Zimbabweans.

THE WAY FORWARD
The meeting was important and as President Robert Mugabe rightfully pointed out there is a need to meet the war veterans regularly. The President needs to meet every organ of the party after this meeting in order for him to get feedback and input from Zimbabweans.