Opposition politician Ms Linda Masarira has warned that the
country’s detractors are behind the planned July 31 demonstrations and want to
use cover of corruption to subvert the Government.
In a detailed statement, Ms Musarira, an active member of
country’s civil society movement with inside information on its modus operandi,
said the advent of the New Dispensation in 2017, opened floodgates for the
country’s detractors to come in as freedoms flourished.
Presently, she said, merchants of regime change seem to
have found a voice in activists such as Hopewell Chin’ono, some churches and
the country’s troubled opposition led by Mr Nelson Chamisa.
Massive funding from rich sources such as George Soros of
the Open Society Initiative and the United States Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), the said organisations want to use July 31 to defeat democracy and foist
on Zimbabwe a National Transitional Authority (NTA), Ms Masarira said.
“The impending 31 July revolt by citizens will play into
the strategy of the US of instigating the fall of the Zanu PF Government,
replace it with a “technocratic” neo-liberal National Transitional Authority
(NTA).”
“The NTA is a US imposed idea that will see the Americans
pour millions of dollars into Zimbabwe for the resuscitation of the economy,
provided the NTA reverses some nationalistic policies such as the land reform
and liberalise the economy to allow their companies to freely loot Zimbabwe’s
natural resources,” said Ms Masarira.
She said the strategy originates from Henry Kissinger’s
foreign policy plan premised US dominance and exploitation of resources of
weaker rich nations.
The NTA proposal, she said, seeks to suspend democracy by
suspending elections for a period of seven years, focus on rebuilding the
economy through reversing ZANU PF nationalistic and populist policies to allow
multi-national corporations to invest in Zimbabwe, create jobs and loot
strategic minerals like uranium, lithium, gold, diamonds, natural gas.
Armed with skills learnt from the notorious Centre for
Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies (CANVAS), an international
organisation based in Belgrade, Serbia, whose track record is littered with
success stories of bringing down governments in several countries, civil
society and opposition activists want to create “dilemma scenarios where they
score normative leverage through public sympathy”.
“Canvas Group leaders led the Otpor revolution in Serbia
that brought down the ‘dictator’, Slobodan Milosevic and worked with activists
in Egypt, Libya, Syria in the Arab Spring and their latest project was in
Sudan.
“In short we are under attack as a nation. They are
tirelessly working to bring down one of the most entrenched governments that is
hated by the United States of America for its radical stance in empowering its
citizens.”
The organisation, that targets governments that do not
pander to the whims and caprices of the United States is funded by the US
International Republican Institute (IRI), an organisation that continues to
fund some clandestine regime change agents in Zimbabwe, Ms Musarira said.
Ms Musarira, an insider in the country’s well-oiled civic
society, also exposes organisations that are actively working with a selected
few activists in order to effect regime change in Zimbabwe and install a puppet
administration with handlers in the US.
“Otpor was funded by the US International Republican Institute
(IRI) that is also funding some activists’ groups in Zimbabwe alongside the
National Endowment for Democracy and other smaller US Embassy grants as well as
organisations like George Soros’ OSISA among others. Pursuant to the regime
change agenda, the United States has trained over 200 activists from Zimbabwe
through its Young African Leadership Initiative Programme (YALI) and most of
these leaders are deployed into organisations to influence a neo-colonialism
agenda. Zimbabwe had been a target of the United States since the land reform
programme and the US scaled up funding for the Civic Society Space,” read part
of Ms Musarira statement.
Zimbabwe’s civic organisations are among the most highly
funded non-governmental organisations on the continent, leaders of the
organisations that consorts with Western embassies live flashy lives and often
pay people to demonstrate.
Although civil society organisations bleat about good
governance and harp about fighting corruption, a closer look reveals a web of
deceit and dishonesty. Last year, Amnesty International was forced to close its
offices in Zimbabwe due to rampant fraud.
Ms Masarira claims that various organisations that are
being funded to destabilise the country that include; Zimrights, Election Resource
Centre, Combined Harare Residents’ Association and Crisis Coalition and from
outside the country’s borders there are organisations such as the Open Society
Initiative for Southern Africa, which is funded by George Soros, the Human
Rights Watch and the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, which are all allegedly
linked to the CIA to create “international relations war zone for Zimbabwe and
stifle the government’s capacity to engage”.
“These organisations influence international perception
about a country and the regime change proponents are strategically positioned
to influence the international community against Zimbabwe. Their concerted and
unrelenting efforts to demonise Zimbabwe, backed by a legion of Diaspora based
fake asylum seekers who want the country to become a failed state so as to
justify their asylum status, have been vehemently attacking Zimbabwe,
instigating instability and sabotage activities being carried out by activists
at home.
“The local activists are bent on generating fake news that
are alarming, sensational and disturbing with an objective of causing public
alarm, panic and despondence using social media and make financial gains in
return from naïve donors.”
The violent demonstrations that rocked the country on
August 1, 2018 and also the January 2019 protests can all be traced to the
trainings that were done by the Canvas Group. Herald
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