Stanley Goreraza mourns Mugabe stance on Zimbabwe flag
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Former husband to Zimbabwe First Lady Grace Mugabe has put his voice into the cries affecting the political landscape as activists turn on Mugabe’s ageing regime.\par
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Here is his latest statement:\par
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The Zimbabwean people have been virtually banned from embracing their flag. And what is the reason for this?\par
The flag had become a symbol of growing citizen resistance coalescing around a movement called thisflag.\par
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The government became afraid of what the flag was inspiring at football matches, at cricket matches, at gatherings, on social media and the country in general.\par
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The founder of this movement started it by accident.\par
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He did not sit down in a dingy office somewhere with strange men in suits and dark glasses and planned how he could inspire citizens to speak up and participate in fixing their country.\par
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The government was not necessarily afraid of the flag but the people who rallied around flag and were uniting around their flag. And that is why Evan Mawarire is in jail today, because the government is afraid of him.\par
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If you are freely doing whatever you are doing today then the government is not afraid of you. They will therefore not be interested in you. But if you are doing something that threatens the existence of the government, then they’ll come after you with everything they got. They will do whatever it takes to stop you because they fear you.\par
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They no longer fear the opposition because they have people inside the opposition who keep them informed of what they are doing.\par
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Some of their people in the opposition are the very people you hear accusing others of being intelligence projects, to kill of public support for them by planting seeds of suspicion. The first person you need to suspect of being an intelligence project is the first person to accuse others. Usually that person wants to deflect possible future suspicion on them.\par
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Evan could have continued with a luxurious good life in America but he chose to come back and fight for what he believes in with full knowledge he would be put behind bars the minute he walked onto Zimbabwean territory.\par
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He has done something for Zimbabwe, and what have you done except to buy bundles and throw mud at him. Have you ever been arrested for Zimbabwe? Have you ever been threatened with death by the president himself?\par
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Have you ever had someone call you and threaten to rape your wife before killing her just because you speak out loudly for the people.\par
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Written by Stanley Goreraza, ex husband to Zimbabwe First Lady, Amai Grace Mugabe\par
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