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It is at such rallies that the people will be able to judge politicians by the way they articulate their policies, programmes, plans and projects to them.
Some politicians, instead of focusing on what they want to offer should they be elected into political office, waste the people’s precious time by scoring negative points against their rivals.

This is the biggest mistake that MDC-T is making.
MDC-T politicians seem to take rallies as avenues for scoring political differences with their opponents or plat forms for assuring Western countries of their commitment to their demands.

While Zanu-PF is busy selling its manifesto at its rallies, MDC-T is busy complaining on all sorts of things some of which are irrelevant and unfounded.
It was at last Sunday’s rally that Solomon Madzore, the MDC-T youth assembly chairperson rabidly attacked Zimbabwe’s liberation war heroes for no apparent reason.

We feel that as Zimbabweans we are all greatly indebted to those living and departed sons and daughters of the soil who sacrificed everything to bring about genuine freedom to all of us and even to ungrateful people like Madzore.

Madzore, with a warped, poisoned and borrowed mind behaves more like a robot.
He speaks with a wide open mouth and a shut mind. The young man has wholly accepted to use the mind of the former oppressor and it is a pity that he has become a white washed nincompoop.

Even a Grade One pupil cannot be that stupid.
For us, as black people, it is extremely painful to see a young black man who could easily have been a proud owner of an industry or a commercial farm being so misused by the very cunning and exploitative white world.

Whenever an African agrees with what the Westerners say, he is automatically seen as a civilised black man.
When you use political campaign rallies to attack your fellow black men you are hailed as a true democrat by the deceptive Western world.

Some have been given dubious accolades which range from awards for bravery, certificates for defending human rights to all sorts of other nonsensical Western praises.
For people like Madzore, Steve Biko observed that: the African in himself has developed a certain state of alienation, he rejects himself, precisely because he attracts the meaning white to all that is good, in other words, he associates good and equates good with white.

This arises out of his living and it arises out of his development from childhood.
Out of ignorance, people like Madzore and all his kind have allowed themselves to be at the mercy of the white man and to have him as their eternal supervisor.

Only the West can tell them how good their performance is and instinctively each one of them is at pains to please the white world.
These are youths who after imbibing false values of white society, premised on bogus democracy and are taught to ridicule and despise those who fought for genuine democracy.

Some blacks in our midst, due to their admiration for anything that comes from the Western countries, have in a way been reduced to mere empty buckets which need to be filled with Western democratic knowledge as to free them from their savagery and uncivilised past.

Biko observes that the type of black man we have today has lost his manhood.
Reduced to an obliging shell, he looks with awe at the white power structure and accepts what he regards as the “inevitable position”.

The black man has accepted a position of servitude under white power or rule.
It is not surprising at all, to hear some blacks among us, ignorantly but wholeheartedly saying let the country be re-colonized once more so that we can go and free it.

It is quite interesting how the activities and various pronouncements made by MDC-T activists have been extensively covered in Western media.
Why these “house niggers” receive much attention is that they always say what is quite favourable to the white man’s interests.

At one time they equated the resettlement of poor Africans to mushrooms growing everywhere.
The other time, in total contradiction to Zimbabwean values and beliefs they openly supported gay rights in line with the thinking of David Cameron and Barack Obama.

It is also not something new how they have attacked indigenisation and black empowerment policies.
We hear them once again mocking all those who participated in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle.

Zimbabweans must totally refuse to be pawns in the white man’s game.
This type of backward and primitive political thinking calls upon all of us to provide our very own ingenuity or ideas to defend our African space and not to rely on ideas borrowed or created by those who were once our oppressors.

No one in MDC-T can tell us that they are acting on their own initiative when they are openly in alliance with the white world.
The recent image of the MDC-T party’s manifesto on the Internet clearly exposes them for what they really stand for and it also vindicates what we have always been saying about who actually owns and controls this political outfit. Biko interestingly notes that the logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in Africa.

To a large extent the white former colonialists with the help of civic groups and donor funded African political parties have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form.

This is the extent to which the process of dehumanisation has advanced within the ranks and files of some political parties. Many blacks in our midst suffer from this inferiority complex which was inherited from years of brutal white colonialism.

Such assimilators are a great danger not only to themselves or their communities but to the entire African race comprising the living, the dead and the yet to be born.
This retards Africa’s development as well as weakening its standing in the international system.

Those in MDC-T should know that if one is free a man, no man made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one one’s mind is manipulated and controlled by the white world as to make him believe that he is a liability to the white man, then there will be noting that manipulated idiot can do to be free from such a mental vice.

President Mugabe through his very principled stance on empowering the once marginalised black man has made the generality of Zimbabweans to see themselves as a being complete men.

He has made us less dependent on Western thought and freer to express what we are.
This has made most of us to resist any attempts to subjugate our people once more.

Zimbabweans can no longer tolerate attempts by the Western world to dwarf the significance of their being a free people.
It is only idiots who after using borrowed minds still think that they are not yet free.

We have seen how much some individuals in the MDC-T as well as those in Western-funded civil society groups have been obsessed by the democratic rhetoric of human rights, rule of law, good governance, and multi-partyism.

It is as if these are not the very democratic principles that the nationalist leaders had to wage protracted guerrilla warfare in order to make the white man understand that blacks were also human beings who wanted to enjoy the same rights as those of the white oppressor.

There is absolutely nothing new these pseudo democrats have to offer us in terms of democracy.
Such fools still believe that the black man’s future is doomed without the white man’s type of democracy.

We have seen these past years how such imbeciles have fought tooth and nail to derail Zimbabwe’s indigenisation programme.
We blacks, we lack confidence in our own progress.
We fear to venture into the unknown.
We wait for others to think for us.

We have over the years borrowed unsuitable development policies which have always been a disaster to the general black populace.
We have remained enslaved in the white man’s colonial mentality as if independence never came our way.

Biko helps us to understand why in this 21st Century, many years after attaining independence, we have remained as if the whole continent is still under the yoke of colonialism.

It is by looking back at the colonial set up and what it stood for and defended or safeguarded that we can at least free ourselves from this colonial hangover.
Sekou Toure clearly sums it up when he says in order to achieve real action you must yourself be a living part of Africa and of her thought; you must be a popular element of that energy which is entirely called forth for the freeing, the progress and happiness of Africa.

Zanu-PF has set itself on a quest for genuine freedom and just there on the horizon we can all see the glittering prize.
Let all progressive Zimbabweans and Africans in general march forward with courage and determination, drawing strength from those who yesteryear fought fiercely and gallantly to bring true democracy to the African masses.

Let all vana vevhu in whatever constituencies they are go in large numbers to defend what has always been theirs in the July 31 elections.

Darlington Mahuku and Bowden Mbanje are lecturers in international relations, and peace and governance with Bindura University of Science Education