This was the time to provide revolutionary leadership to make other members of the Party understand the true nature of imperialism and its motives how it works to keep other nations under its control in order to maintain its exploitative grip and how revolutionary political parties must prepare themselves to defend the people’s freedom and independence. To him and a number of his comrades, this was the time to rise and defend the revolution. Many had begun to think that it was time to throw in the towel and surrender even to follow what looked like the new direction of the wind. That near-loss shook the Party to the core leading to many members to begin doubting their own Party, its philosophy and leadership.

In response, former colonial powers - led by the United Kingdom and supported by the United States - decided to provide massive funding and technical assistance to the counter revolutionary forces they had created in Zimbabwe in order to remove Zanu-PF from power.Īs a consequence, ZANU-PF nearly lost the Parliamentary Election held in June 2000. In February 2000 the Zanu-PF Government made that fundamental decision to repossess indigenous farmland that had forcibly been taken through colonial conquest. By the mid-nineties Western countries including the United States were already devising ways to remove Zanu-PF from power and replace it with a political outfit that would carry out its bidding.

The policies pursued by the revolutionary Zanu-PF Government since Independence had always been viewed, by the West, as a threat to their economic interests built on colonial foundations.

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