Zimbabwe: A Return to Grace

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Zimbabwe: A Return to Grace (letter to the parties)

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I read history books of liberation struggles and of African heroes that stood up to an unforgiveable injustice; a struggle and quest for sovereignty that ricocheted off of a seemingly impenetrable foe.  We belted hymns of liberation and struggle as the sound of marimba and mbira accompanied every verse and every chorus; in celebration, we embraced a legacy and heritage that should never be forgotten.

But sadly the heroes we used to celebrate now bolster the establishment that now holds us hostage; indeed, our arrogance and naivety deceived us.  Rhetoric and speeches on ‘patriotism’ are now laced with threats but yet ironically seem to possess an unpatriotic dogma within them. At no point would one have believed that one day our beloved nation would fall victim to the African Hex of rogue regimes, questionable governance and the politics of contradiction and disingenuousness.

The indignation towards the status quo is very real and the frustration associated with it unmistakably unwavering. This is a frustration that is fueled by the realization that our country has now fallen pray to a political agenda that shakes its moral and ethical foundation to its very core. We are a nation that now finds itself in unchartered waters and stranded on a sinking ship destined for the abyss.

The legacy of struggle and of liberation will always echo through time and reverberate in our nation’s soul. However, in this spiritual acknowledgment of a great past, our minds are chained to the great betrayal of present. As we look towards a brighter horizon, the generation of today now carries the burden of creating a unified and prosperous nation for the generation of tomorrow & tomorrow’s tomorrow because we have been failed by the generation of yesterday. The challenge we now face is to harness within ourselves the ability to look beyond the fear, pain, self-interest and disappointment of yesterday & today and instead, boldly embody those values that the ones that came before us have forsaken.

William Hazlitt once said “grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”  This is the inner harmony that the generations that came before us have lost; and it is this same inner harmony that our generation will rediscover as we realign our hopes and aspirations to a doctrine that is fundamentally fortified and blessed with an unbridled commitment to the well-being of all people; an inner harmony we will rediscover as we return Zimbabwe to Grace.

sincerely yours,
"A son of the Soil"