OUR CRISIS-NARRATIVE PRONE PRIVATE MEDIA ARE BEGINNING TO BE A REAL IRRITANT, more so when you realize it is the same headline, same voices done only on different days by different reporters working under a central editorial order!! If it’s not Masunungure, Pigou, Chan or Mandaza

...and his other illiterates, it’s the usual opposition with their NGO echo chambers working to amplify messages from well-known western embassies whose grievance against Zanu-PF and Zimbabwe is historical and land-based. Meanwhile on the ground, key infrastructural projects

...related to Water, Road Network, Agriculture proceed unnoticed by our urban-centric, crisis-keyed media narrators who know no place or activity outside their newsroom windows and routine visits to notorious embassies for LINE-OF-THE-DAY against the country. There are no field

...reports or field reporters except these warped narratives arising from slander news gathering budgets in their crisis-ridden newsrooms which fail to pay reporters on time, if at all!! I mean do you need that battery of hellfire heresy voices to know as a reporter that this

Economy is enjoying its finest hour by way of exchange rate and pricing stability, themselves key macro-indicators?? Or that we have done exceedingly well and better on Covid-19 than countries whose envoys dare tell us what to do without advising their stricken Govts back home???

And done all that virtually alone, only aided by few friendly countries which include China? Do you need divination to know we have been through repeated climatic disasters which have affected the whole region, but without allowing those nature-made disasters not to become hunger

...and famine as long predicated by those same parsimonious, sanctions-rewarding Western countries who are so broke that theirs is only dispensing sermons overlaid by sanctions?? Do you need to do a whit more to know we have reached a turning point Agriculturally, all to create a

food-secure Nation?? Above all, do you need to be extra-clever to know that this false crisis narrative is meant to blunt SUBREGIONAL ANTI-SANCTIONS COMMEMORATIVE ACTIONS which the US and other western countries fear most?? That this false crisis narrative which is being

...sponsored for foolish echoes in some countries in the region is meant to create a sub-regional de-census ahead of OCTOBER SECOND COMMEMORATIONS AGAINST ILLEGAL SANCTIONS?? Meanwhile, three things continue to happen barely noticed inside the country or because of Zimbabwe.

One, Zimbabwe’s role in underpinning sub-regional stability, including investments of same western Govts crying crisis, remains unmatched, critical and only viable response. Two, persons who sought to ferment instability on instigation from the same western embassies continue to

... go through due process, ALL OF THEM FALLING WITHIN JUDICIAL PROCESSES as expected & required under the RULE OF LAW. How does placing suspects to their defenses under due process become a crisis?? What should be done?? Shoot them on sight as is done in the US whose supposedly

...black Ambassador here dares open his mouth to teach us on the sanctity of life which his own colour-kind back in the US only enjoys in cemeteries??? Three and critically, all so-called claims of abductions and torture today point to CHURLISH, AMATEURISH INSIDE-OPPOSITION JOB

...which has gone awry!!! Against such mounting evidence, those same embassies desperately seek to paste blame on Zimbabwe and its govt who must be indicted for sins they sponsor and subcontract to their incompetent, botch-prone opposition?? When are the western ambassadors going

...to pronounce themselves on serious allegations pointing at key opposition people they support and sponsor??? Is the evidence not being led by the supposed torture victims whose poor case the same ambassadors took up rather hastily?? Which takes me to my last point. Why have

...accredited missions here if heads of those stations speak to Govt through NewsDay??? Surely they can do so from Washington, Brussels and London?? The role of an ambassador is to engage host govt within norms of civilized diplomacy. Except to create an impression on minds of a

...a local fringe lunatic that you can goad your govt knowing fully well we are behind you unconditionally, why would a properly trained ambassador shout to his/her host from the gutter when hallways of diplomacy are open??? Is that building bridges or playing opposition locally,

...all against dictates of the Geneva Convention?? What is the host country supposed to do in those circumstances?? Demure??? And to imagine we have a press which thinks its role is to amplify messages from hostile foreign states to home Govt?? Why would a self-respecting

...National paper think that it’s role is to play unofficial and turgid de-marche for the US or some western embassy to Zimbabwe govt which received letters of credence from the same? What journalism is that which turns bona-fide newsrooms into poor extensions of USIA, United

States Information Agency?? What motivates supposedly national journalism to play such a servile, nay, treacherous, anti-nation role on behalf of foreign powers??? Lastly, whence comes this impression that South Africa can intervene in Zimbabwe, assuming there are grounds for

...such intervention?? On what basis, what might, what capacity, beyond that of solidarity, camaraderie and good-natured concern by a neighbour?? South Africa is the youngest State in our region. It faces myriad problems of a long apartheid. It has no capacity to help any African

State in Sadc, beyond friendly solidarity. Let that sink into minds of all and sundry. In any event, Zimbabwe, alongside many SADC countries which got their Independence before South Africa, has gone quite some way in resolving its colonial legacy and empowering its people,

...something the ANC govt is grappling to do just now. South Africa is no donor State in SADC. If anything, its long apartheid legacy makes its post-1994 subregional role quite problematic for the rest of Sadc States who know the continued dominance of Afrikaner capital in Sadc

...does not benefit the ANC or blacks in Soweto or Khayilisha. That is the sordid truth. South Africa can not intervene militarily in any Sadc country. That lesson was driven home during the Mandela days when it sought to do so in Lesotho. Since that disastrous escapade, South

African diplomacy has been tempered and restrained to function within Sadc structures, as should be!! Just what is the logic & implication of Zimbabweans of insufficient history and national consciousness asking for South African intervention in Zimbabwe outside Sadc structures?

A wish to be occupied, hegemonized by SADC’s youngest State which is still grappling to overcome its apartheid legacy?? Is that the erudition which political scientists like Masunungure are supposed to show and share?? Or is South Africa being urged to be a pawn of US diplomacy

...in the region, the same way South American countries were instrumentalized by US against Venezuela?? Is the ANC ready for such a role??? Fortunately not, which is why President Ramaphosa is taking a different, realistic route. This thread is meant to help those newsrooms which

...continue to exhibit irritating shallowness in covering Zimbabwe within sun-regional and world affairs. Plainly put, only Zimbabwe has the capacity to play a stabilizing role in Sadc. And it has been playing that role from 1980 to this day. This is why America and other western

...interests are dying to get us into Mozambique on their terms. That will not happen; we are of Sadc, for Sadc and will engage within parameters set bilaterally and sub-regionally. We don’t move in to secure foreign interests. That’s not our foreign policy goal!!!!