Good
evening Comrades
I hope you
are all well. We are very happy the party is growing in numbers through both
recruitment and reproduction. We want to assume that children will follow the
ways of the fathers.
We express
our congratulations to our Finance Secretary Cde Eddie Mukutirwa whose wife
delivered a baby girl this morning.
Comrades 5
years ago I lost 2 people who were very close to me. It was my first cousin and
his wife who both died in a case of homicide/suicide.
Over the
years my cousin who lived in Huddersfield always complained about his wife.
There was nothing positive he would ever say about her. We had a custom of visiting
them once a year. He would always come to our hotel and she would not. He would
then run her down all the way to the way she breathed, walked and smiled. Our question would always be, “If she is this
bad and you can’t find something positive about her, why are you staying with
her?”
It was not
about the kids because their kids were already independent and living their
lives in South Africa. On our visits we would go their house and do all sorts during
the day. They would undermine each other in front of us. Deplorably whoever
phoned the children would do the same to the children. Father would undermine
mother and vice versa. Even the children had the same question, “why are you
guys staying together?” Anyway as things go, tragedy struck and I had to take
two bodies to Zimbabwe to bury side by side.
Now, that’s
life. So in every association and relationship we have, we always tend to ask
ourselves the same question in an action called introspection, “why am in in
this?”. When we find that the positives
far outweigh the negatives and the advantages outstrip the disadvantages, we
let that relationship run (maybe with adjustments). The other option that
always available to us is to leave the association if it does not fulfil your
aspirations and its ethos are contrary to your value system.
I think we
all agree that my deceased cousin had a problem. The primary problem was he found
completely nothing positive in his wife to build on. Why then did he stay? In
our party we have the same challenge. We have those who profess to be members
of our party who don’t find anything positive about the party to even tweak our
narrative around. Is it rude to ask them the same question cdes, “If Zanu PF is
so bad to the core as you always purport, why do are you staying?”.
Now
comrades, our party has a lot to adjust, but a lot to reform but it has a lot
of positives. Some of us want to use those positives to build a 21st
Century party upon. But those who can’t find anything positive at all in our
party, why are you staying? You don’t agree with the ideology, you besmirch its
history, you ridicule its policies, you undermine its leaders! Why are you a member?
When you portray our party as a syndicate of criminal gangs, a gang that makes people
disappear (amongst other things), is it not a bad reflection on you to remain a
member of such an organisation?
On this
warm Sunday afternoon, I urge us to ponder in introspection whether a Zanu PF grouping
is the right forum for you. And if so why? Should you find that the answer is
in the negative, we won’t won’t begrudge you if you would press the “exit”
button. If you decide to stay, please help us to rebuild our party without
undermining its core. Please feel free to criticise as we all do, but its not
fair on others to issue seditious statements every day.
I thank you
for fostering a spirit of mutual respect and camaraderie as well as fair
criticism of our party and government without dispiriting our comrades.
Nick
Mangwana
Chairman
Zanu PF UK & Europe
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