INFORMATION IS POWER!

After three years at University Of Zimbabwe (UZ), in the early 1990s, having witnessed the real horrors inflicted by the 92 year old despot for almost a decade up to 1987 during the brutal Gukurahundi massacres of 20,000 unarmed Matebeleland and Midlands people by the Zanu PF leader Robert Mugabe’s fifth Brigade, headed by his nephew then head of Fifth Brigade, now the Airforce of Zimbabwe commander Perence Shiri, the easiest thing to ever do was to simply defy oppressive authority and agitate for transparency. equality, prosperity , and justice for all, through defiance to oppression by the despot, ‘Black Oppressor of Blacks’.

My memory of life at UZ is one of incessant struggles involving frequent running battles with the brutal riot police force and confrontation with security authorities sometimes running well into the night along teargas attacks by the police.

This typically made me a ‘person of interest’ to security forces, but at no time did I lose my passion or resolve to fight for the freedom from oppression by Mugabe, of all Zimbabweans Coloured, White, Black, any tribe, religion, creed or political orientation.

In 1994, I joined the Agricultural and Technical Extension Services (AGRITEX) and because of my fluency in Shona and Ndebele I was able to relocate to Bulawayo as Head Of Training and responsible for the Mass Media unit. My job entailed frequent nationwide travel throughout farming areas and liasing with the AGRITEX personnel in direct contact with the target group.

This meant being in charge and responsible for the recording of quality farming radio programmes on the ground and spending several hours a week at ZBC studios, airing the recorded material through seven radio programmes , namely 1) Nhau Dzevarimi, 2) Tinokushevedzai varimi, 3) Kuchengetedzwa kwezvipfuwo, 4) Izindaba Zabalimi, 5) Sibiza Abalimi 6) Ukugcinwa kwezifuyo on ZBC Radio 2 and Radio 4 channels, along with 7) Agritex farm Diary on Radio 1. I had a great team under me including Penney Lumley, the late Calvin Madlela, and politician Frank Chamunorwa.

Besides the radio programmes, I was also responsible for translating, writing and publishing information on pamphlets, posters and books for staff and farmer training nationwide. This was at a time when Zimbabwe was reeling from the impact of ESAP and the DRC war along with a dying economy.

I was well informed about the issues relating to Zimbabwe’s land crisis and the farming issues and foresaw the eventual , disastrous war veteran led white farmer eviction campaign of 2000 onwards.

This was my cue to leave, so, after a two year stint in AGRITEX, I felt fully exposed to reality on the ground, and stifled at the same time as I had more to say than the system would allow me to put out.

I then joined a Non Governmental Organisation, (NGO) named Popular Education Collective (PEC), where, as head of the Outreach department, I was responsible for writing and editing information on good governance, democracy, human rights, voting, transparency and accountability and numerous other titles, some which are featured below. It was a hugely enriching experience that gave me nationwide travel to all remote corners of Zimbabwe and typically the same target group as in AGRITEX, so it was a smooth transition.

There were major variances which included the provision of libraries at coops and project groups, mainly stocked with our publications, designed to provide information that would leave readers in a position to make more informed decisions about issues such as good governance, democracy, human rights, voting, transparency and accountability which directly change their lives for the better.

One of the areas that I was involved in under PEC was liaising with the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) in producing a full report, shown below for June 24 and June 25 Elections in the year 2000. This had been the first election in which the original Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) established in 1999, had participated in with massive support. It was also the clearest indication that Mugabe was not prepared to let go of the country and would fight tooth and nail to hold onto power.

Having enjoyed access to the rural folk, in Zimbabwe,who are Mugabe’s Zanu PF stronghold, through Agritex publications, training and radio and later the Non Governmental Organisation, (NGO) named Popular Education Collective (PEC) work through publications and training on good governance, democracy, human rights, voting, transparency and accountability, it was inevitable that, with 25 years under my belt, fighting corruption, I would unleash a wave of absolute defiance to oppression across Social media platforms and further fight for the ordinary person’s plight in Zimbabwe.

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Future generations can never forgive our generation for sitting back and selling off the motherland to Mugabe, Zim1 family, Zanu PF stalwarts and securocrats who monopolise wealth and power through continuously looting national wealth and resources under the guise of ‘Black empowerment’ and ‘Indeginisation’ yet its all simply ‘legitimised crime and corruption’ .

Information is Power and the people of Zimbabwe don’t know their true power. It is therefore imperative that Zimbabweans must hop aboard the information train and freely undermine, the corrupt, oppressive Mugabe and his Zanu PF through all forms of information publication, debate and distribution as Zanu Pf cannot stop that train,..Wake Up Zimbabwe! Please feel free to share this withall your friends worldwide,Thank you…..more to follow! Sibusiso Ngwenya