PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his South African counterpart,
President Cyril Ramaphosa, have agreed to periodically engage so as to apprise
each other on regional security threats as well as expose machinations from the
region’s detractors who are trying to trigger a political crisis in the region,
Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu has said.
This comes as the SADC region has been under a renewed
onslaught from some foreign embassies working with opposition parties and civic
society organisations to paint a grim picture of the situation obtaining in
countries like Zimbabwe.
In their attempt to amplify their doomsday scenario in
Zimbabwe, Western embassies have engaged the services of South African and the
local media to manufacture a non-existent crisis by churning unsubstantiated
reports of a country that is in a crisis.
It is in this regard that a team from the African National
Congress (ANC) is expected to come to Zimbabwe and meet with Zanu PF, a party
that has historically played a key role in preserving regional peace.
“The gesture by the ANC not only epitomises our shared
nostalgic anti-colonial position, instead it reasserts a contemporary
reproduction of our consciousness to the hidden but the ever-present hand of
imperialism in the SADC region.
“In our view as a revolutionary powerhouse in Zimbabwe and
in the region, this party-to-party dialogue convened at the urgency of the
malicious deconstruction of the ‘Zimbabwean situation’ must expose the imagined
desires of a political crisis as misrepresented in the cyber space. We are
aware of the input of our opposition in this as its existence is only sustained
by creating despondency and demonisation of our nation in a bid to justify its
regime-change project. They have failed before and many more failures wait on
their part,” said Dr Mpofu. He said President Mnangagwa and Cde Ramaphosa were
constantly in touch and the expected visit of the South African delegation
would dispel any misconceptions of a crisis in Zimbabwe.
Both President Mnangagwa and President Ramaphosa are
members of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation.
“They are expected as soon as possible, it’s an initiative
that is being done by our principals, we are sister parties we should never
allow a third party to divide us,” said Dr Mpofu.
Miffed by progress that the country is registering under
the leadership of President Mnangagwa and in order to cast spanners in the
country’s recovery prospects, detractors are now demonising the country so as
to justify the continuation of illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe.
“Therefore, this forthcoming party to party dialogue
substantiates our timely response as liberation movements to the ever-changing
complexities of the neo-colonial decimation of the SADC region.
“The only obtaining crisis in Zimbabwe is the continued
demonisation of our Government by many forces opposed to the milestones of the
Second Republic. In the face of this pro-opposition postured ‘political crisis
in Zimbabwe’, this ZANU PF-ANC dialogue on Zimbabwe must reinforce our
ideological convergences in as much as it should unpack the two nationalist
parties’ shared existential threats.
“While there is a dedicated onslaught on Zimbabwe and ZANU
PF in particular to disfigure the political situation in the country, we hope
our ANC counterparts will be better acquainted with the genuine state of
affairs in our country beyond the sinister propagandas of our detractors,” he
said.
The meeting, Dr Mpofu said, is also expected to strengthen
regional interparty solidarities through enhanced peer-reviews of the
governance questions.
“The ultimate output of this dialogue should produce a
determined resolution to move the agenda for our development in our own terms.
As ZANU PF, we anticipate that the major resolution of this dialogue will see
our shared anti-colonial political soul magnified towards strengthening our
bilateral ties in the areas of commerce, industry, trade and the mutual
exchange of sustainable political ideas to build a better continent whose
tenets of state-craft are not determined by neo-colonial prefects and their
proxies on the doorsteps of our continued fight for unity, development and
freedom in Africa,” said Dr Mpofu.
Last month, President Mnangagwa held a meeting with three
envoys from President Ramaphosa who included former South African Minister of
Safety and Security Dr Sydney Mufamadi, who was leading the team, the former
Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete and former Minister of Public Service and
Administration Advocate Ngoako Ramatlhodi.
“The meeting was part of a peer to peer review of two
brotherly nations, which have shared historical ties forged in their nations’
struggle for independence from the white colonialists who are now sponsoring
mayhem in the region to install puppet regimes,” said Dr Mpofu. Herald
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