One of the heartbreaking moments in the history of Zimbabwe is the Nyadzonia massacre. It is a story that needs to tell again and again as it has some important pointers to our current political situation.
Nyati was a ZANU cadre who worked as a double agent for the Rhodesians. It is said one morning he called for a routine parade, with the full knowledge that the Rhodesian army and airforce were going to make an attack on the base. What followed was a bloodbath as innocent people including unarmed women and children were killed.
Alex Magaisa's so-called Big Sunday Read expose on the land reform and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's Farm Mechanisation is a similar attempt to derail the land reform and criminalization of the whole of Chimurenga.
Here is a whole Professor and a lawyer calling a process that went through our own Parliament and became a law, illegal. The irony is that process was done when Magaisa was a special adviser to then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirayi. He was privileged to have access to the list of the defaulters. It is surprisingly funny that he chose to discover the list now.
For the record, the list of defaulters is a public document and the extent of the debts written off is known,
Magaisa is drinking poison from the Rhodesian propaganda cup. Every black person on the defaulters' list is a criminal to him. This is the same label that the Rhodesians gave to blacks during the second Chimurenga...terrorist or terrorist's collaborator!!
Alex Magaisa wants us to call all those that benefitted not only from the mechanisation scheme but all beneficiaries of the land reform program criminals. It is exactly how the disposed of white Rhodesian settler farmers call all resettled black farmers.
The likes of Magaisa are counter-revolutionaries who are bent on subverting the Chimurenga revolution. As indicated earlier in Nyati's story at Nyadzonya, counter-revolutionaries could not stop our liberation. Chimurenga will go to the next level.
Aluta Continua
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