ZANU PF COMMENDS THE CHURCHES

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By Margaret Kamba

ZANU PF Acting Secretary for Information and Publicity Cde Mike Bimha has commended the churches for the role they played in efforts to have the illegally imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe removed.

The church has always been known for the role it played in the colonizing Africa with Lord MacCaullay charging the priests to tread cautiously with the black man who was indeed religious. To him the idea was dispossessing the black man of that belief and making the white man superior.

Denouncing the African Traditional Religion over the years was evident with efforts later to play the drum introduced in some churches later being done. It was a taboo “kurova makuva” for the Christian and some up to today still do not do it. During the first Chimurenga and the liberation struggle, the church was also used by the colonizer to read the last rights to the Ambuya Nehanda and many others before they were killed.

In the recent years some sections of the church have been used to peddle the regime change agenda by singing from the same script as the Non-Governmental Organisations and some opposition political parties.

Speaking during a press briefing held at the Party Headquarters this week, Cde Bimha said the Party is indebted to the churches.

“As a Party we are humbled by Zimbabwean clerics organized under the Zimbabwe Churches Sanctions Relief who accompanied the President to Glasgow to amplify the legitimate call for the removal of the illegal sanctions on our economy, on our people, to hold a special meeting with the Anglican’s Archbishop of Canterbury the most reverend Justice Welby pleading for the removal of sanctions was indeed a major diplomatic breakthrough by the church,” Cde Bimha said.

“As ZANU PF, we will always be indebted to the church for that support. We are grateful to the Zimbabwean clerics among them Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi of the ZCC, Reverend Andrew Wutawunashe, chairman of the Indigenous international Council churches, Father Fidelis Mukonori of the Roman Catholic Church and the Zimbabwe Elders Forum’s Reverend Felix Mukonowembwe Harvest Time Ministries, Elizabeth Karonga of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop Peter Mukwena of the Worldwide Family of God Churches and member of faith of the nation campaign Bishop Trevor Manhanga of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God Church in Zimbabwe and Bishop Reverend Farai Katsande of the Zimbabwe Council of Pentecostal Churches. We are very grateful and we will continue as a Party to work with the church.”