HAIL TO THOSE IN THE TRENCHES, FIGHTING THE DICTATORSHIP!

By Reuben Kachisi

As Zanu PF continues on its destructive path, human rights defenders are getting more and more radicalized. That's the level of spiritual maturity and moral maturity by the sacrificial Zimbabwean human rights defender who does not give up on the Socratic attempt to interrogate the mendacity, duplicity and hypocrisy of African leadership, but is rooted in something deep. It's rooted in an attempt to keep track of the humanity of the very people who have dehumanized you. Use that as the standard of responding to pre-independence disposition in light of events in Zimbabwe for the last 10 years. Subject to random and unjustified violence, unsafe, unprotected and hated for whom they were.

We need to talk publicly about the courage to love. Love becomes a form of exigency. It helps break down the barriers, the wall of demarcation. So even the rage of the hapless Zimbabweans, the fury and the righteous indignation of even to look at the Zanu PF dictatorship in the face and all its dimensions and still persist the language of love, and still help Mugabe’s supporters to recognize that it's not all of them and it's not genetic.

A nation that was once the jewel of Africa is now in a cataclysmic downward spiral and shockingly still maintains this plutocratic and oligarchy in its structures and finds itself in the same bubble of guilt as those who to some degree still maintain a pigmentocratic hierarchy in their socio-political and economic polices. The most vulnerable are the children. And who is most connected to the children? It’s the poor women. Where is the discourse? Where is the outrage, where is the indignation by the so-called Pan-Africanists? Or is it the sleepwalking that has become normative? No repression lasts forever. Chickens do come home to roost, you reap what you sow and reality will come back to you. Hail to those in the trenches fighting the dictatorship!