‘We are too powerful for SADC western puppets’

ANESU MASAMVU

Zanu PF claims its tough stance against imperialist maneuvers targeting liberation movements in SADC has resulted in sponsored and well-coordinated attacks directed at them by some opposition voices in the region who feel the party is a stumbling block against their agenda sponsored by the West.

Zanu PF and its leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has been accused by opposition parties in SADC including Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia of interfering in their election processes in support of ruling liberation movements.

Party director of Information and Publicity Farai Marapira says the claims emphasize the power of the ruling party in fighting imperialism in the region.

“As Zanu PF, we are powerful but not in the essence of manipulation. We are powerful because we represent a very strong ideal. We are powerful because we represent the true values of Africa. We are powerful because our message resonates across borders. And this is something that a neocolonialist ideologist cannot countenance,” Marapira told the Business Times.

He added, “You must understand that these so-called proponents of democracy came into Africa on the back of their industrialization, which was ahead of ours, and chose to put us on an even keel with dogs, stating that dogs and Africans are not allowed in here today. These are the same people that want to turn around and tell us that only where the people they back, only when those people have won, is there democracy.”

Marapira says Western forces are agitated because they cannot crack the ZanuPF code.

“So when a party like Zanu PF stands against such a formidable force and defies it, of course, people are bound to have sleepless nights, and the Brenthurst Foundation is at its end, all its foot soldiers, Ian Khama and Mmusi Maimane; they are at their wits end. They’ve run out of ideas.”

“What they do not realize is that this is not about Zanu PF; this is about African people rediscovering themselves, African people redefining themselves outside of the colonial context. And this is what is worrying the Brenthurst Foundation: that the people of SADC, the people of Africa, are identifying themselves with their true greatness, which is their true history.”

Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba on X said dethroning Zimbabwe’s ruling party influence in the region will not be an easy task.

“It can only be ZanuPF, which is strong enough in the region to take the sponsored flack against liberation movements.” We are ready to endure the vilification; we gain more ground in the region, which gets radicalized by such fallacious accusations.”

Charamba added, “The anti-liberation parties tide is fast ebbing. It could never have endured; its politics are pro-capital, pro-white, anti-people, anti-majority, and anti-liberation. Therein lies its mortal weakness.”

With the majority of the revolutionary political parties in the region losing grip on power, Charamba indicated that “very soon” they will be meeting to strategize on the best way forward to counter what he says are sponsored attacks aimed at pushing Western influence in the region.

“They are actually targeting the President and Zimbabwe’s chairmanship of SADC. That is where the issue is, but they will not conquer. Liberation Movements are meeting in a few days’ time to jointly strategize,” Charamba said on X.