well well well good morning and uh good afternoon good evening i don't know where you are on the
face of the world what an honor what an honor again to meet here far and wide we are here on
the african space discussing african problems and seeking for those critical critical african
solutions here on your on your channel we discuss african politics african science and i am quite
excited this morning uh to be broadcasting live from uh harare live from maharale harare here in
in zimbabwe live from harare in zimbabwe and i threw up a vest in the morning for those who
want to base their belief system on them on the biblical text where it says people must
listen obey their political leaders and that is in the book of romans
so if you believe in the bible that is the premise of the argument if you believe in the bible and it
is a source of your faith systems and then you are a christian should you be participating in
political oppositions because this very same bible you're holding in your hand says you must obey
your your leaders see earlier on when i started on these programs and i was telling you that
you you take some stuff as christians because it is convenient and it's nice for you to listen to
when you get some other issues you want to say no but this is so you're quite selective in
your usage of the bible and the argument is quite simple if you believe that the bible is the word
of god and the same bible says you must not oppose your your leaders you must work with them no
it means therefore that you're a sellout it means that therefore you have become you have become a
son of pfa you know you know promoter and all that stuff well that's none of your business
i will do a program for you next week exactly and i'll tell you what is my political party so don't
don't hurry me don't hurt me i'll tell you that when it is right broadcast is proper and i'll
give you the principles of which i've made my own decisions from oppositions to a private personal
political party to a place where i think we can begin the development but if you say you believe
in the bible and the bible says you must not oppose your leaders because your leaders were put
there by god that's what the bible says then it means that therefore if the leaders are put by god
it means that the colonialists were put there by god the the death of our people was sanctioned
by god the going of the people to slavery was was done by god therefore we we must not have problems
with each other we must have a problem with a god who allows us to suffer in the name of religious
persuasions and then they say no no you cannot use that example because you also have people like
daniel shadrick and michigan a bit migo beautiful that brings us the zimbabwean conversation
because if you believe in daniel shadrick mission the bet nico they were not running an opposition
party outside of the parliament of nebuchadnezzar they were inside the parliament they were part
of the parliament where the conversations were happening even daniel in chapter six
he was one of the leaders he was a prime minister in the in the parliament it means therefore that
if there were issues with nebuchadnezzar of worshiping idols if there were issues
of dealing with that with other political or religious conflict issues like the issue of
diet as it appears on the first chapter you don't argue this from your bush you argue with aspenas
who is the head of the of the of the eunuchs within the house what am i saying therefore
that it is important that we don't confuse the biblical text with political ambitions if the
bible text teaches you and that advocates that you must start looking for areas of common convergence
in the same wavelength therefore use the same bible to come back to the table to negotiate
to talk and blessed are the peacemakers make peace with one another that is common sense i i think i
have a slight advantage as a returning resident into zimbabwe than some of you people who have
been sitting here for the longest of time and you may feel like i don't understand some people are
saying i don't understand this but when politics i believe you you are too shallow on the smackdown
politics i believe you you are you you're not reminded everything is fine everything is fine but
here is my two sons with as a person who has been living in london who has lived in johannesburg who
has lived in swaziland who have lived in europe when i come back to zimbabwe right now and i
drive from zivara sequoia i go digital museum i drive through second avenue i get down to magaba
right around i've taken my time for the past few weeks just driving around and looking at the place
the city is falling apart i even took a drive to chivero where the waterfall for zimbabwe is before
is being drawn from and it is not it is not a lie that people in our are drinking sewage water
it is not fully and well processed and purified and yet 60 if not 80 of all these cities are
falling within the hands of mdc so i look at it and say are we playing politics for politics
or playing politics but holding the people ransom to our political ambitions now what is it zimbabwe
is developing as i'm looking at it i'm coming i'm new i'm new i'm ugly to it
all in terms of being on the ground but i'm new but i'm seeing some infrastructure
movement without the city of harare but harare remains locked in right there if i'm saying
that instead of us fighting politics for politics let's begin to change from political parties into
what i want to call national politics whoever is building becomes my friend if a ball is sunk
a ball has been sung for the community to drink you don't come and pee in the ball
because the person who built it is not your friend you are now an enemy to the people who
are eat drinking from that well that what is right is right no matter who does it it does not matter
who is doing it if what they're doing is right is right i put up a poster the other day of the
airport yeah but this airport only shown up is for sure now people must say guru who is shallow now
are you telling me that the people who jump on the airplanes are only shown on people and it's
a national asset where all of us tend to benefit from my two cents worth therefore says if you want
to start seeing development in the country let's talk unity let's talk unity let's talk
coming together if the mdca mdct mdcf and the new name of the new party we don't know which of the
political parties are in the terrain you cannot change this from shouting outside get into the
parliament yes you want the constitution to be changed you can't change the constitution from
the bush therefore you need to get into the space where this conversation is whether i
believe in the constitution or not that's my own personal argument for another day but for today
i see people in harare i see people in kwazana i see people in glenview in glenora suffering and
struggling yet these municipalities are in the hands of the opposition parties and the budgets
of these of these municipalities is available but there's very some opposition parties are not using
that money to develop their own countries and develop their own environment i say so because i'm
coming from south africa i've seen this happening many times where the government releases a budget
for a municipality huge budget millions of friends arrive at the municipality then the councillor
and the the mp and the and then and the mayor begin to argue who is gonna get the contact
so they argue they tend to the contract someone wins the tender then they sit around but who is
going to eat in this contract so they argue and fight the contract is cancelled they tender again
they tender again two years later three years later they are still arguing amongst each other
until that budget is returned back to the national treasury you can do this for your
own research i'm not being malicious that's the truth so when you talk about people fighting over
who will get the contract instead of people uniting to build the road build the hospital
build the clinics build the schools for the budget of doing those things is available so the problem
is not just the political system that you are dealing with but the leadership of that political
system that holds people ransom why because chamiza says i want all of it or nothing at
all but you can't have everything you need to come to the table where the discussions are happening
put your ideas there get into the system get the budgets let the lives of the people improve
i know why i know why the opposition leaders don't want to become part of progress because
if progress happens in in harare right now they'll be saying it belongs to zanu pf
then we want to wait wait just wait you must drink swag water and drive on potholes until we get into
power then we'll start fixing these roads because if we fix the roads right now the credit will go
to the ruling party but we're suffering while we are waiting for you to get into power i suggest
that a strategy that would work would be that go back into parliament go back into negotiations
get back into the discussions of peace improve the lives of the people while you are driving your
own political agenda on the side we cannot hold people ransom to our political careers because
with this messianic idea of what you think the country will be when you get into power
the real issue right now are the people if you put people first you'd want to know why is the
sewage water flowing in front of their house and yet you are the owner of the city and you're not
fixing that and it is not for the first time it is not for the second year it is not for the third
year it is not for the fourth year there is not even a plan right now to fix some of those issues
of course in good information in my own research i have established that to fix up the water problem
in the chivero dam will cost nine million nine million to fix up the water issue the man who
is doing that i interviewed him personally and he says yes that's what i want right now to fix
up the water problem he took the proposal to the municipality and says we can fix the water problem
for nine million the same opposition party says yes it's good for 9 million but can you make it 20
20 million to which the men did not agree and then the man was summoned to go to parliament when you
go to parliament the information is that now no no no can we make this contract 60 million so tell me
between 9 million of fixing water in the chivero dam for are ready to drink and the 60 million
that the mdc wants in harare to fix up the water who is chowing the difference between
the nine million and the sixty million is that the sanity of government is that the mdc government
is this the municipality managers is this the mayor is this the opposition leader verify this
information for yourself i have it i have the information in my hand that to fix up
the water problem in our area will cost nine million nine million but yet the opposition
party wants six million so who is corrupt at the end of the day this corruption corruption story
you keep on talking about the city is in the hands of opposition who is corrupt when people
are drinking sewage water in our area we need to know as citizens who is causing that to happen is
that the ruling party or the opposition party who is holding us ransom to our own resources
it's not a mistake it's not a mistake that people are suffering and still doing slogans there's no
solutions in slogans now where we are moving on to we are moving on to national politics how do
we build a country how do we build a nation not how do we make one man a leader of the country
he will get there also hungry like everybody else eat money like everybody else is eating
there's no righteousness in this whole business of thinking that so and so is better than sorry
so the real issue that conversation is that those that are building are the ones that want to start
working with those that are doing construction and alleviating the poverty of our society
that becomes the direction and i think this is where the greatest audience is actually stuck
into people simply want services delivered not enhance political agendas we simply want services
delivered we want our land agriculture we want our mines that's our land we want our trees
that's forestry we want our houses the department of housing we want our tourism that's traveling
we want we want things on the ground and in passing and then closing i want to pass on this
issue of sanctions no let's let's let's vote let's do the sanctions you do the sanctions for who you
do the sanctions for the political party or you do the sanctions for the people at the end of the day
who suffers in the midst of the sanctions are these not the common people are we not getting
this very same people who are going to be leading to into poverty into hunger and everything else i
don't know maybe i'm just a voice that is shouting from nowhere but truly speaking from my heart of
hearts without any political inclination if i should get home and i find that my mother's
the road that goes to my mother's house has been fixed i am happy i am happy if i find
that the clinic is now working i am happy if i find the school is now functioning i am happy
as to the political slogans and toy toying around that is happening around leadership
we need to start understanding something very important the office of his excellency
president mnangagwa is in two ways there is the man himself who is here doctor emerson
is here the next thing we need to discuss is the chair the office that he represents which is here
and i think too much anger confuses people you cannot marry a person to a chair a chair
is the office that he represents him as an individual is an individual leaders come and go
the office remains in place and i think opposition needs to start looking very intently at the office
which delivers services for the people rather than looking at a person because when you get confused
between them the person and the office your politics become an individualistic very near
neo-minded politics that simply says i want me my person to be there and if anyone else is not
there then this thing will not work but at the end of the day what is suffering is not the politics
what is suffering are the people ask yourself as opposition leaders what are you doing to
alleviate the problems of the society people are running up and down in the streets doing slogans
when are they working right now i had the other day when i was in the farms down in guerrero the
government has come up with the with the strategy the 400 400 hectares of land that were taken
and then by the black people and again christians have come to you another day because when this
issue of land was being distributed you did not support them gabe you said this was evil you cited
the colonialists now we have a whole bunch of christians standing at the door looking for the
same land are you telling me that by becoming a christian you're not entitled to land poverty has
become your password come on get a life get a life out there what's important right now get involved
in the programs that change your life get involved in the program that transform your own communities
get involved in a vehicle that will enhance the dreams of the young people
we can sacrifice a whole generation of young people waiting for one leader to get into power
this is neocolonialistic politics where opposition leaders are given money by foreign people and they
are told tell them that israel it is raining outside when it is no longer raining we know it
by now all these opposition parties are punished in the hands of the colonial system to drive the
foreign agenda and how long is zimbabweans are we constantly going to fight party politics it's time
but if you decide to do it do it better you