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Opinion / ColumnistZimbabwe Deserves Freedom From ZANU-PFbyFikile wa Motsamai10 hrs ago |234ViewsMalcolm X once warned: “You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it.”Zimbabwe has been chained to a poisonous version of patriotism, imposed by a ruling elite that demands silence while it devours the nation. ZANU-PF has turned patriotism into a prison, the liberation struggle into a shield for corruption, and power into a tool for looting. It is time to face a painful truth. ZANU-PF is no longer a liberation movement. It is a criminal cartel wearing a liberation badge. Its fingerprints are all over our hunger, our unemployment, our collapsed currency, our broken hospitals, and our stolen future.Enough.
The nation must wake up.The Great Plunder: A Government of ThievesZimbabwe is not poor. Zimbabwe is being robbed. The ZANU-PF elite has perfected the art of daylight theft. Not the petty corruption of desperate bureaucrats, but billion-dollar looting executed by ministers, generals, and presidential relatives.- Fifteen billion dollars in diamonds vaporised into offshore accounts- Command Agriculture became a feeding trough for connected criminals- COVID-19 funds turned into personal shopping vouchers- Public land, state companies, mines, and national assets auctioned to foreign profiteersThese are not mishaps. They are economic war crimes against the nation. ZANU-PF has transformed governance into organized looting, while ordinary citizens drown in poverty.
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