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Gimmickry for Zanu PF read the flyer by ZAPU Chairman {Click Here}
Nowadays in Zimbabwe a day hardly passes without one being pummelled with the ruling party’s Vision 2030 propaganda. Every state-controlled media outlet is engrossed with this mantra, without a clear understanding of its meaning, origin or intentions. They have, together with the desperate electorate, been deceived by ZANU PF and President Emerson Mnangagwa into believing that Vision 2030 is a brainchild of his failing dictatorship, when in actual fact it is derived from the United Nations’ universal global development agenda as adopted at the historic UN Summit in September 2015 and came into force on 1 January 2016.
ZAPU would like to put it on record that Vision 2030 is not a brainchild of President Mnangagwa or his ZANU PF party. The components, adopted as the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) were never formulations of the Mnangagwa administration but were copied from the September 2015 UN Summit resolutions for a global sustainable development agenda. Trying to own this vision by Mr Mnangagwa and ZANU PF is not only a sign of deception, but also lays bare the inadequacies and bankruptcy of his regime on policymaking. It shows that the mediocre party and its president are not in touch with the realities on the ground, where over 90 percent of the population lives in abject poverty and neglect.
The ever-failing party, unable to meet the most basic of its mandate, now uses the UN development goals to manipulate the desperate electorate and also as political cover to violate the constitution to extend Mr Mnangagwa’s rule beyond the constitutional limit of two five-year terms. This is despite the fact that Mr Mnangagwa was not president both in 2015 when the UN resolutions were made, and in 2016 when they became enforceable. Only the gullible and naïve will be convinced by the ZANU PF propaganda machine that Mnangagwa is both the formulator and anointed implementer of Vision 2030.
Read more: Vision 2030: Is it Real or a ZANU PF Political Gimmick?
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Ignored in life, exploited in death’: ZAPU blasts Zanu PF over Dube funeral
ZAPU National Chairperson, John Zolani Dlamini, has expressed outrage over Zanu PF’s alleged interference in the funeral of Seven Dube, a revered ZPRA cadre.
Dube, who became the face of the armed wing as “Isotsha eliphethe umntwana” (the soldier cradling the baby) passed away on December 22, 2024, at his home in Ezimnyama, Osabeni Ward 2, Mangwe District, Matabeleland South, following a long illness. His funeral, marred by political interference, has sparked controversy, with ZAPU accusing Zanu PF of exploiting the burial for political gain.
“We are from the funeral of our ZPRA icon, Comrade Seven Dube, who died sometime last week after a long illness,” Dlamini told CITE after Dube’s burial on December 31, 2024.
“Dube was very popular, symbolising our party during the 1980 elections. He was not working and lived as a peasant farmer in rural areas. When he was sick, he received no assistance from the government, surviving on a meager allowance.”
Dlamini said that Dube contributed to the purchase of ZPRA properties confiscated by Zanu PF, leaving veterans like him destitute.
“Even his medical needs were a struggle to meet,” he added.
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22 December 2024
ZAPU marks today as a day of remembering the victims of the Ndebele Genocide (1983-1987) commonly known as Gukurahundi. The Ndebele Genocide is a microcosm of the Jewish Holocaust (1933-1945) and stands a stark reminder of the futility of having independence without freedom. The horrors of Gukurahundi have been documented in various ways but a platform for survivors to speak out openly remains a fleeting mirage. A chief-led Gukurahundi dialogue programme launched by President Mnangagwa in July this year remains on ice, clearly facing the stillbirth that similar window-dressing efforts have faced in the past. Apparently, there is no motivation for self-incrimination.
Political posturing and shedding of crocodile tears remains the government’s default strategy to buy time, hoping that the issue of Gukurahundi will eventually disappear as its victims die. No one outside the highest level of government has ever seen the report from the Dumbutshena Commision of Inquiry, established to investigate the Entumbane skirmishes between November 1980 and March 1981. Similarly, the Chihambakwe Commission of Inquiry established by President Mugabe in 1983 to investigate the massacres of civilians in Matabeleland by the Fifth Brigade issued a report that remains hidden from the public domain. In 2019, the Chairperson of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), the late Retired High Court judge Selo Nare told the media that the Dumbutshena and Chihambakwe reports had been lost.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Someone somewhere knows of the whereabouts of the “lost” reports. Perpetrators of Gukurahundi by commission are also officially known. The Zimbabwe National Army holds complete records of the list of soldiers deployed as members of the Fifth Brigade under the command of one Colonel ‘Black Jesus’ Perrance Shiri. The perpetrators of Gukurahundi are known and their trail of destruction remains evident in the parts of Matabeleland and Midlands they ravaged. Some victims of Gukurahundi can point at their rapists and torturers now decorated civil servants, diplomats or army top brass. A longer list exists, of Gukurahundi perpetrators by omission – institutions and individuals who watched in silence as the Ndebele Genocide occurred during half a decade of rape, torture and wanton bloodletting.
