ZIMBABWE IS A SOVEREIGN STATE: PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA
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By Margaret Kamba
ZANU PF First Secretary and President Cde E.D Mnangagwa has expressed his displeasure at the conduct of Britain and reiterated that Zimbabwe is a sovereign state.
This follows debate in the UK Parliament on whether or not to readmit Zimbabwe into the Commonwealth.
There has been pressure by the West for other African countries to have Zimbabwe budge ahead of its next general elections. Efforts by civic society have also stopped at nothing to create an anti-government narrative in order to usher in MDC’s Nelson Chamisa into power. Hashtags among them #ngaapindehakemukomana are the order of the day on social media platforms with the likes of Hopewell Chingono who are on an anti-government payroll fueled to rubbish the country.
It has always been known that when Zimbabwe embarked on the Land Reform Programme, this riled the West and its allies who saw the potential threat of what this meant. If other countries followed suit in empowering their nationals through the land, then its self professed notion of being superior would be unearthed.
The illegally imposed sanctions and isolation were therefore key strategies in ensuring that nobody else dares take the route taken by Zimbabwe in empowering the black majority.
The neo-colonial agenda has over the years seen the recruitment of our own people in singing from the coloniser’s hymn book a song to destabilise the country however efforts by the ruling Party, ZANU PF have seen a mobilisation strategy that is wrecking havoc to the opposition countrywide thanks to the numerous developmental programmes among them in infrastructure development, transportation, agriculture and mining among others.
Speaking during his address to the nation, President Mnangagwa said he was concerned by Britain’s actions.
“As I conclude my address, let me draw your attention to recent developments on our bilateral relations with the British Government. Only last week, our country Zimbabwe became a subject of unmerited focus and debate in the British House of Lords,” President Mnangagwa said.
“The British extra-territorial concern by a foreign legislature on a sovereign African state which is a full and equal member of the United Nations, is grossly unwarranted in terms od tenets of international law and practice.
“Zimbabwe is a sovereign state and has been since its independence from colonial rule in 1980, which is not even affiliated to the Commonwealth, a body it voluntarily quit due to differences related to her just Land Reform Programme.”
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