Stephen Chadenga
Zimbabwe Socio-Economic Democrats leader Nkosikhona Ndlovu has said the late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo sacrificed his life putting personal interests aside for a better Zimbabwe where every citizen could enjoy the fruits of the liberation struggle.
Ndlovu said it was disheartening that the current crop of leadership were pushing selfish interests ahead of those of the majority to the extend of pushing citizens into forced exile.
“Joshua Nkomo believed in a Zimbabwe bigger than tribe, bigger than party and bigger than personal power,”Ndlovu said.
“He believed leadership must protect the people not push them into foreign lands where they become targets of hate.
“Umdala Wethu stood for unity, justice, peace, dignity and a Zimbabwe where every citizen could feel at home. Yet today many Zimbabweans are scattered across the world, not because they do not love their country but because survival pushed them out.”
Ndlovu said Zimbabwe was caught in political uncertainty that has witnessed leaders more interested in “extending power than extending hope, jobs, dignity and opportunity to ordinary citizens.”
“Across the Limpopo our brothers and sisters in South Africa are facing xenophobic attacks, humiliation and fear,”he said.
“They are being blamed for problems they did not create while the real issue remains unresolved. Zimbabwe must become a country where its people can live, work, build and dream without being forced into exile.”
The ZSD leader said the spirit if the late Father Zimbabwe should remind the current crop of political leaders that the country was not liberated for a few individuals “to own it ” but was freed for “all its children.”