By Dr Masimba Mavaza There is a new weapon created by the West to isolate Zimbabwe. Having failed to effect a regime change in Zimbabwe the West has viciously devised a plan to isolate ZANU PF. The plot of isolation involves the opposition parties in the region. A unity of purpose has been forged between the opposition parties against the revolutionary parties. As the Cold War intensified in the 1950s, the United States government used anti-communism to undermine progressive struggles for social change, including the anti-colonial and anti-imperial alliance between Africans and Black Americans. Black activism on international political issues was often deemed anti-American, and the civil rights establishment, once actively anti-colonial but under siege from McCarthyism, quieted its voice during much of the 1950s.However, an undercurrent of news from Africa, most often conveyed by Black newspapers, made it across the Atlantic, inspiring a new generation of Black activists coming of age in the late fifties and early sixties. The Algerian War for Independence, the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya, and the independence of Ghana all made a deep impression on Black high school and college students who were beginning to challenge segregation in the Jim Crow South.The revolutionary organisations created connection with the world-wide struggle for freedom and justice.The slogan “One Man One Vote” was borrowed from the Zambian independence movement and it became a rallying point for independence seekers. But it was the experiences of the revolutionary movements in the field that allowed them to link their struggle for civil rights with the global struggle for human rights and create a bond which has shocked the West and all colonisers.They began to see their struggle as one for liberation and independent institution building. And they looked to the freedom fighters for inspiration and solidarity.The unity between freedom fighters was coined around the understanding that “There is no difference between the sting of being called a ‘kaffir’ in South Africa and a ‘nigger’ in the U.S.A.”. “The cells of Robben Island and Birmingham Jail look the same on the inside.”Many groups declared themselves human rights organizations and encouraged and supported “the liberation struggles against colonialism, racism and economic exploitation”. So the revolutionary movements became a unified movement and that unity has progressed beyond independence. It has become natural that the movements help each other to overcome any struggles which threatens their very existence. In order to shake and destroy that unity, the colonialists now under a different name are using the opposition forces in the region to attack solid revolutionary movements. A new war to recolonise Africa has started disguised as a struggle for democracy. This manifests itself very clearly in Ian Khama’s persistent claims of a SADC-ZANU PF manipulation conspiracy which is a clear indication of a puppet weaponised against all revolutionary movements in Africa. The idiocy of Ian Khama exposes a disturbing disconnect from reality showing clearly that in him we a confused clique oiled by their masters to bring confusion in Southern Africa. As my dear comrade Marapira said “In Ian Khama we have a new Mad Man in SADC with access to newspapers willing to publish his vitriolic and caustic diatribes.”To show that Ian Khama has become a sale out a Chombe of SouthernAfrica Khama keeps silent when European parties campaign for other parties away from their countries. British Labour staff campaigned for Kamala Harris in the US , this because it was done by the UK it is “normal”, if the same thing happens in Southern Africa it will be “paroted” as interference. Around 100 Labour Party staff were understood to be volunteering for the Democratic nominee ahead of the US election on 5 November. This was not seen as anything bad because it was not done by Africa. In a now-deleted post on networking site LinkedIn, the Labour Party’s head of operations said: “I have nearly 100 Labour party staff, current and former, going to the US in the next few weeks, heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia.“I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of [North] Carolina – we will sort your housing.”The news was criticised by some allies of Donald Trump, including former deputy assistant, Sebastian Gorka, who responded to a post on X about the Labour campaigners with: “This is a crime Keir Starmer”Apart from one single complaint, the campaign by the British Primeminister against Trump was not blown out of proportion. The ZANU PF situation is now treated differently from the Keir Starmer saga. SADC has a lunatic who embodies a bygone era of neo colonial dominance in SADC politics, and vainly clings to the toxic memory of his rhetoric as president between 2008-2018. While the region has moved on, Khama like other dummy politicians like Uncle Ruckus Maimane cling to relevance by only singing of ZANU PF. They know that their paymasters will pay them more if they attack, divide or criticise ZANU PF. The aim of Khama and Maimane is diabolic,Satanic and deeply depressing as it is aimed at creating a united regional dislike of ZANU PF. As SADC evolves under President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s leadership, it is crucial to prioritize diplomacy and constructive dialogue, rather than engaging with Khama’s unfounded madcap assertions, which serve only as distractions.This lunacy became evident in Namibia where the opposition has been taught to hate ZANU PF and Zimbabweans. The same hate speech and lessons were again imported into South Africa. We should be alive to the fact that the West has launched long distance war against ZANU PF and Zimbabwe. The regime change agenda which had failed is now introduced by trying to isolate Zimbabwe and ZANU PF. The freedom fighters have one thing in common, In one lifetime, they have witnessed imperial grab of our land, extraction of our resources, exploitation of our labor, forcible forestation of our soil as a colonial mechanism of dispossession, and more. Yet, we believe with all our senses that empires fall and oppression cycles collapse. History proved that many times. Even before Western oppression comes to an end, it is already exporting a legacy of corruption, loss, and poverty. We have seen US imperialism extract the resources of Iraq for decades, and then interfere through a military occupation to “stabilize”, “democratize” and “ensure justice”.This what they are trying to do. They want to use democracy as a reason to undemocratically dispose and dispossess. We must not forget that the masters are as powerful as we praise them, and as weak as we don’t buy what they sell. The kind of power they have is extractive, destructive, toxic, and unilateral. Our collective liberation is greatly dependent on us not internalizing this abusive power. Our fight is to dismantle the power asymmetries that have kept us from enjoying our basic rights and freedoms for too long. Let’s not be hungry for being our oppressor, let’s not be apt for the excessive force that some of us may think make them “glorious”They are not our masters; we are not their slaves. We will not let them patronize us with their false entitlement, democracy speeches. We must not allow the enemy to divide us. We are getting rid of the culture and beliefs that were inherently engraved in our mindsets.Fighting this internalization among the oppressed is imperative to reshaping the narratives and rhetoric that are soaked by ideologies of indoctrination based on white supremacy and domination. The generations of the colonizers are by default and intention growing up to a sense of entitlement. They were, and are, raised to believe they are noble and we are inhuman; they are the patron and we are the labor; they are the absolute and we are the other. And in this disposition, it is improbable to turn a blind eye to the liberation movements. The liberation movements are now under attack and divide and rule is once again being used by the enemy. We need to strengthen the ways we have each other’s backs because many of us are constantly operating in survival mode; we need to bring more joy and dance into each other’s spaces because many of us are struggling with trauma in its different shades. And we need to speak and listen more to each other’s politics- not on a panel, not in a session, but create south-south consistent spaces of informal political education. We need to center critical consciousness and radical revolutionary love as foundations for every transformative action. If our liberation movements are to survive as a political act and liberation project, they must genuinely self-ground in sisterhood and pursue beyond borders. We are as good as how much hope fills our hearts and minds. Hope is the driving force for us to criticize, question, revisit, doubt, recontextualize, analyze, mobilize, pushback, resist, love, and emancipate.The energy we brought back home was overwhelmingly contagious and we must not spare any chance to explain that this is the Africa magic!Liberation movements must campaign for each other must vote for each other and must make sure we remain in power. The hatred exported in the region by the opposition and its handlers is just a flame powered by newspapers. ZANU PF is a friend of all liberation movements. To that end it will not allow any liberation movement to be booted out of power. If any is taken out it will bounce back. With Zanu PF help. An injury to one is an injury to all. 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