Complexities of the ongoing Zimbabwe crisis
By Albert Weidemann
Sadly the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe is far greater and deeper than just taking of farms off white commercial farmers and chasing them off their land either bought by them before and or after Zimbabwe’s independence on the 18th April 1980 or of listening to Mugabe’s rhetoric and bleating about the colonial past for that matter.
The reality is that Mugabe/Zanu-PF believes it is only under their malevolent Marxist leadership that Zimbabwe can be run and ruled thus the great divide between people and supporters of the Movements for Democratic Change (MDC) which is a democratic party and the Zimbabwe African National Union later Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF).
If one breaks down the periods during Mugabe’s/Zanu-PF’s struggle not only when ZAPU the Zimbabwe African National Union was formed on 8th August 1963 but prior to that when the National Democratic Party (NDP) was both formed and banned from 1960 to 1961 later replaced by Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU).
The reality is that the struggle between Russia, China, and the West, between African groups, clans, ethnic lines and tribes arise and developed both during the Rhodesian bush war and continues both overtly and covertly to this very day.
There is a constant polling of resources and strategies by the black chosen elite in Zimbabwe for their selective agendas as there are in strategies for individuals, groups and other political party’s demise. I take no pride in making the statement because many of my personal friends and colleagues are black Zimbabweans who have suffered under Mugabe’s brutal regime.
However, the reality is that the routine heartless inhumanity between them is destroying the rich fabric of their own culture and society which only they alone must resolve. With the ever depleting food, water and mineral resources along with sustained under development the opportunity for conflict in Zimbabwe and Africa remain the albatross around their own necks.
It is in my humble opinion that due to the intractable conflict and misery within Zimbabwe where many millions of black people have been forced to flee that over the generations many may possibly feel less attachment to it discarding their Zimbabwean identity, heritage and roots let alone what their ancestors may have done and want no part it because of the constant violence they have seen and experienced and will no doubt see and hear again and again.
These will be Zimbabweans sidelined and excluded by their own black kith and kin from and by the very people they may have respected and admired.
