Without State sponsored violence, you were never going to be the Vice President of the Republic of Zimbabwe-Cde Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena

In response to Dr Joice Mujuru – President of NPP.

Revolutionary greetings!

Let me start by thanking you for giving yourself time to read and respond to my open letter to you. This in itself is encouraging as we seek to find solutions to our national crisis.

One of the things we should avoid , is to refuse to listen to those who hold different political views from us. One of the reasons why we find ourselves in this crisis, is that, the political leadership wants praise singers around them who will avoid raising critical issues to the benefit of our nation.

If we are to build a democratic , developmental state, we must be open to criticism.

I note you elected to respond to my open letter through your spokesperson Mr Jealousy Mawarire, the man who frog marched all us to an election in 2013 without the implementation of key electoral reforms.

As you will know Dr Mujuru, SADC was limited in terms of its intervention in ensuring that the 2013 elections were held after the implementation of the electoral reforms, as adopted in the 2013 constitution . One individual, who is now your spokesperson, took the government to court ,forcing it to announce or to stick to the 31st July 2013 as the date for holding elections.

In June 2013, SADC held its summit in Maputo to receive reports from the political Principals on their views regarding the holding of elections. After the summit, SW radio reported the following ;
“By Violet Gonda
The Southern African Development Community will respect any decision made by the Constitutional Court regarding the holding of elections in Zimbabwe, whether it’s upholding the initial 31st July deadline or agreeing to extend the period by two weeks, as endorsed at the just ended Extraordinary SADC summit in Maputo Mozambique.

SADC Executive Secretary Tomaz Salomão told SW Radio Africa: “Decisions of courts are to be respected.” He then went on to say SADC would never create a precedent and disobey a court order.”

As you would know Dr Mujuru, the court challenge was mounted by your spokesperson who now has this to say about me and the entire revolutionary international Communist movement;

” Of particular note was an “Open letter to Joice Mujuru”, written and circulated on social media by one Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena who claims to be a socialist, may be a fascist, schooled in Marxism-Leninism, long-discredited philosophies that created some of the worst dictators and psychopaths this world has come to know and endure.”

Well l notice that your spokesperson does not understand the nature of our struggle. Karl Marx and Engels observed in the Communist Manifesto, “the history of all hitherto existing society is a history of class struggles”. The question to you Dr Mujuru, what is the class character of the National Peoples Party?

The very issues that your party is raising under the banner of the National Electoral Reforms Agenda (NERA) are the very issues which we wanted to resolve before holding the 2013 elections. We had reached a deadlock as the Inclusive government and we had to turn to SADC as the facilitator to the Global Political Agreement as signed on the 15th September 2008, but your spokesperson thought otherwise.

The question is, whose interest was he representing? What then does it say about your party and yourself when you have such dubious character as your spokesperson? Or Mr Jealousy Mawarire was implementing what you had agreed as a collective in ZANU (PF)? I am told that, in the history of Zimbabwe, it is only that court case that the government of Zimbabwe respected even though it ruled against it. The Zimbabwean government has never respected court rulings that are not in its favour.

Your criticism of Marxist – Leninist ideology confirms our worst fears, that your party is a stooge of imperialist forces. Your trips to London are meant to assure the imperialists in London, that its investments will be taken care of under your leadership, assuming you become the Head of State and Government.

In your response to my open letter to you, you sought to present yourself as a peace loving person who was opposed to violence while in ZANU (PF). You gave me incidences where you spoke out against violence in a number of rallies or public meetings. But you know Dr Mujuru that words without action mean nothing. In IsiNdebele we say, “izenzo kunge mazwi”.

Speaking out against violence while at the same time being a beneficiary of the same violent electoral process, does not make you a saint. The truth is, without State sponsored violence, you were never going to be the Vice President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Your former party ZANU (PF) used violence as a political tool in year 2000 and 2002 to retain state power. You then later on became a Vice President following your election as the 2nd Secretary of ZANU (PF) in December 2004.

If your party did not employ violence as a political tool to retain power, the MDC would have won 2/3 of the votes in the National Assembly , enough to pass a vote of no confidence in President Mugabe. So Dr Mujuru, just spare us your crocodile tears and respond to my request on the admission you made with regards to the 2008 elections. Just to remind you once again, who gave orders for the killing of over 200 opposition supporters in 2008?

In your response , you did not bother to address the salary gate saga. In my open letter, l did include a long quote from an online newspaper on what you were reported to have said in Chinhoyi. We all know that , just like everyone else in ZANU (PF) , you acquired your wealth through stealing from the poor.

Zimbabwe does not need recycled failed politicians like yourself, who parade themselves as saints. Lenin said, ” a true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people”, not to loot their diamonds in Chiadzwa.

We need to unite the working class and the poor. Only the alliance of the working class (unemployed, informal sector workers, diaspora, employed) and the peasants will drive out the fascist regime out of power.

Yours In Struggle

Cde Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena