ZANU PF UK BLOG: We Chose to Act

By Nick Mangwana

Taking an active role: ZANU PF UK engaging Zimbabweans
in Europe recently in Amsterdam

I am thinking of 2 groups of people. One group decides to sit by their keyboards and pine. They constantly reminisce and flirt with an illusionary Zimbabwe. One which they feel could have gone a certain way if certain outcomes had gone differently. They then find fault and kiss their teeth.

Some of those in group are very witty. They write in unimaginable and creative rhapsody. They get a lot of likes and thumps up on Facebook. They have hoards of followers. But at the end of the day they go to bed and tomorrow is another day. They wake up again and prowl the online media. Like a heat seeking missile they search. Discovering an article critical of their country is their eureka moment. Their spirits are once again enthused. Dai zviri zvamashavi, ravo rati tuguu! It’s nice to provide this type of entertainment. There is a whole industry out there of their ilk. So really this is no big deal.

There is a confused group which cannot distinguish between
their country and the party they disagree with

The only problem is when one confuses their country with a party they dislike. Even with that they will not act. They wait for someone to give them the Zimbabwe of their dreams. But that person they wait for will only give them the Zimbabwe of his own dreams. Not the one they desired. After they are given that false awakening, they will brood in their self-pity and again, tomorrow is another day.

But there is a second group which some of us chose to belong to. This is a group of those that refused to flirt and indulge in illusionary hope. A group that felt that they cannot play the ostrich injudiciousness. We therefore kept our heads away from that sand dune and actually did something. We realised that we could listen to soulful music all day. But when that battery runs out, there will still be the Zimbabwe we don't want out there.

You cannot wish the country's problems away; neither
can you solve them by denigrating your motherland:
Do something to bring transformation

We could engage in idle tittle tattle, but the Zimbabwe we want would also remain a mirage. We then decided to embark on this arduous journey we are now on. A journey that has transformed us from apathetic by-standers to impelled participants. We felt that None but Ourselves can transform our country from its desolate state it finds itself in. None but Ourselves is actually responsible for our own happiness or melancholy. You can spend the whole day, a year, a life time even, feeling sorry for yourselves. Feeling like victims robbed of a certain destiny.

Those on our side blame ill-fate and sanctions. Those on the other side blame bad governance and poor economics. Whatever explanation you have for the current place you occupy, the outcome is the same.

If you choose to be a passenger, refuse to help pick the coordinates, apathetic to the selection of the driver, don't complain if you find yourself in a strange destination! We chose to act. We chose to remain Zanu PF and contribute meaningfully to the well being and destination of our country. When we made this choice, we didn't close the door after ourselves. It remains open to those that are yet to swing a decision. And there is still room in the inn.

Iwe Neni Tine Basa

None-But-Ourselves

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