I am just a blogger and I do not want to be confused with those award-winning journalists. I write to free my memory and to express the feelings and opinions of people around me. What l hear or read l always want to debate and interrogate its historical context. I believe nothing can happen for no reason....and reason rests in the past.
To put my idea to test today l want to explain why a USA award-winning journalist like Hopewell Chin'ono is unemployable in the United States as a journalist but can play James Bond against his own home country government. I want to explain why a whole Professor Alex T Magaisa spent his time writing anti-government diatribe packed with half-truths and has the cheeky to call it the Big Saturday Read.
The reason for both men attitude towards the Government of Zimbabwe is historical. We should understand why Hopewell Chin'ono would like to attack Jah Prayzah on social media. We must understand why Alex T Magaisa would attack Morgan Tsvanirayi's son on social media. The two are not only seeking attention on social media but the attacks the reflects self-hatred seeded in them by white supremacists associations that sponsors them.
Hopewell Chin'ono hatred of the state emanates from his upbringing. He is the proverbial Zimbabwean born person who went to the diaspora after independence. He came back only to find out some of his contemporaries had moved on in life. The contemporaries had more money, political power and had fitted well in the post-independent Zimbabwe. You can feel the bitterness in his writing and documentaries.
Alex T Magaisa is just like Hopewell Chin'ono and more. Here is an academic who has been here and there, and he believes he knows it all. He comes back in 2009 to be a special advisor to the then Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the failed Government of National Unity. Magaisa was a total failure at his task as Morgan Tsvangirai's advisor that the MDC literally broke up during his tenure. Magaisa had no option after MDC lost the 2013 election, but to put his tail between his legs and pack his bags.
What we have in the two gentlemen of Zimbabwe origin is the deep Rhodesian narrative in their writings and conduct. How can a journalist like Hopewell Chin'ono specialise in espionage on behalf of people who have sanctions against our country? How have we allowed him to call sanctions-busting corruption? Why have we not questioned his sources of information? Is it not crazy that the USA will award him another prize for excellent journalism for his antics of regular visits to Chikurubi Maximum Prison?
On Alex Magaisa, I have noticed he spent some weeks writing his so-called Big Saturday Read trying to discredit the land reform in general and the Chimurenga Revolution in particular. He rubbished the whole land reform program and even came up with a list of people he wanted to "expose".
The likes of the two are what l call intellectual bankrupt academics. These are people who believe that they have a monopoly of the knowledge of not only our political system but of the destiny of our nation. In reality, these are counter-revolutionaries who have sold their souls to the white supremacists.
I believe this quote accurately describes the two to the point; "They are harbingers of hate, violence and intolerance. They are just misguided and violent thugs and hooligans who possess neither a solid ideological grounding nor a viable alternative to governance. They belong in jail" said Obert Gutu on Twitter. I think following the #Demloot video every Zimbabwean knows where Hopewell stands and this dovetails with Obert Gutu's description above!!!
I have to go back to history to conclude this post. Chimurenga is our history. In the history of the Chimurenga revolution, counter-revolutionaries have come and gone, our revolution has not stopped as the will of the people is supreme. You cannot stop a revolution by writing rubbish or by posting one-liners on social media. The people power lives beyond the pen and keyboard. It is out there with the electorate.
Finally, I would like to quote John Lewis, a disciple of Martin Luther jr and the USA civil rights activist who passed away in 2020 but had recently said, "Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.'
Counter -revolutionaries cannot stop the Chimurenga revolution, they can only delay our progress!!!
