NGOS: Auxiliaries of neo-colonial agenda (The Herald)

By Reason Wafawarova

04 July 2009

The Zimbabwean Prime Minister has returned from a tour of Western capitals that was meant to seek a lifting of the illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe by the Western coalition, as well as to seek material support to implement the policies of the new inclusive Government.

Through his Press conference after the trip, Prime Minister Tsvangirai made it clear that his trip was a success in that he got pledges totalling about US$500 million, albeit to be channelled through Western NGOs resident in Zimbabwe — the so-called implementation partners.

Other than these pledges, the Prime Minister came back with a counter assignment from the West, an assignment upon whose completion the country is meant to see the US$500 million as "nothing compared to what will be coming" according to Mr Tsvangirai.

What is the assignment? We have political benchmarks to meet.

Beware of NGO Trojan horse aid (The Herald)

By Reason Wafawarova

27 June 2009

IF there is one lesson that the tour by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to Western capitals provided, it is the fact that many, if not all, of the Western leaders visited by the Zimbabwean delegation are of the opinion that Zimbabwe is ripe for the picking.

It is the same old theory advanced by John Quincy Adams — the theory he called "the laws of political gravitation" where he advocated a wait-and-see approach to pre-independence Cuba, arguing that Cuba would "fall into our hands like a ripe fruit".

The trip to the United States, in particular, was interesting. President Barack Obama avoided being drawn into commenting on his January anti-grain expansion of the sanctions regime against Zimbabwe.

He chose to cushion that brutal gesture with an announcement that his government would fund Western non-governmental organisations stationed in Zimbabwe to the tune of US$73 million.

Beware: Weapons of mass distraction!

By Reason Wafawarova

THE egregious efforts by the BBC to perpetuate the image of a pariah state in Zimbabwe, even in the aftermath of the inclusive Government, is not without precedence.

The Western media has a long history of acting as a weapon of mass distraction — tactfully shifting the public’s attention from the core issues behind the West’s animosity towards its declared enemies and making them focus on made up fictions that are in reality facades of good intentions.

The Zimbabwean co-Minister of State for National Healing, Sekai Holland, allegedly gave an interview to the BBC claiming the most bizarre happenings that even a fiction writer would not even dream of conjuring.

We have heard reports that the Minister is furiously backpedalling from her alleged outrageous allegations against her partners in government, Zanu-PF — vehemently claiming that the BBC misquoted her.