newsZimbabwe 2026: Socialism versus the spoilt children of yesterday’s colonialism
A custom-built Rolls-Royce Phantom valued at upwards of US$ 550,000 has arrived in Zimbabwe two weeks after the burial of Wicknell Chivayo who was a close friend of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. TREVOR GRUNDY wonders which high-minded ZANU (PF) ‘philanthropist’ will soon be bouncing around in the driver’s seat doing good for the people of Zimbabwe.
THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY: FANON REMEMBERED
“In order to triumph, the national revolution must be socialist; if its career is cut short, if the native bourgeoisie takes over power, the new State, in spite of its formal sovereignty, remains in the hands of the imperialists.”
- Jean -Paul Sartre writing in the preface of The Wretched of the Earth, the “bible” of African revolutionaries who came to power promising to end hunger and poverty
“Spoilt children of yesterday’s colonialism and of today’s national governments, they organise the loot of whatever national resources exist. Without pity, they use today’s national distress as a means of getting on through scheming and legal robbery, by import-export combines, limited liability companies gambling on the stock-exchange, or unfair promotion. They are insistent in their demands for the nationalisation of commerce that is to say the reservation of markets and advantageous bargains for nationals only.”
- Frantz Fanon –The Wretched of the Earth (‘Concerning Violence.’)
Without pity, they use today’s national distress as a means of getting on through scheming and legal robery