If I'm Given The Power To Transform Zimbabwe In Four Years

Elections are just a four-year ritual that hands legitimacy to criminals

If given the power to transform Zimbabwe in four years, the first step would be to end the myth that Western-style electoral democracy is the solution. For those that use the wrong dictionaries, democracy's true meaning is “mob rule”. That is why one should never use someone's language without knowledge of its the root and code. Zimbabwe’s problems stem from the illusion that elections bring accountability or good governance in a place where politics is a tool for exploitation, not from the absence of elections. The farce of elections in Zimbabwe, like in much of Africa, is just a four-year ritual that hands legitimacy to criminals, while the real decisions about the country’s future are made outside its borders.

Power in Zimbabwe does not sit with voters. It sits in foreign embassies, in NGOs with foreign funding, and in global financial institutions. When a foreign government sees a self-reliant African state as a threat to its interests, it has multiple tools to derail it. First, it funds media propaganda through NGOs. Then it funds political opposition movements, often built around weak figures with Western education and zero grassroots support. Then it manufactures social outrage by financing so-called civil society actors who can be marketed as local voices but are reading from a script written in Washington or London.

Under this setup, no matter who becomes president in Zimbabwe, they are boxed in. If they push for serious land reform or challenge the mining contracts that bleed the country dry, they will be labeled a dictator. If they seek to chart an independent path, they will face sanctions. If they manage to grow the economy, they will be accused of corruption or human rights abuses. Once that narrative is set, the next election will be used to replace them with a compliant puppet who will undo every gain. This cycle repeats because electoral democracy has been turned into a system of remote control.

To break out of it, Zimbabwe needs to end this four-year revolving door and scrap the current political party system entirely. The parties in Zimbabwe have no ideology. They are built around personalities and tribal loyalties, bereft of policy. People jump from one party to another depending on who is in power. There is no shared vision, no national development strategy, just a scramble for positions and contracts. What Zimbabwe has are just power clubs, not political organisations. In such an environment, elections, as evidence in the past four decades, do not give people a say. They give seasoned corrupt actors new opportunities to loot.

A real transformation would require a system of government built on competence, not popularity contests. It has be ideological driven, even more so its security apparatus, with zero tolerance to corruption and foreign collusion. A national development council should be formed, staffed by afro-centric technocrats with a track record, not soldiers or musicians turned politicians. These officials would be responsible for implementing 10-year development plans that prioritise self-sufficiency in energy, food, and industry. Their focus would be on building infrastructure, reviving manufacturing, and reclaiming control over Zimbabwe’s natural resources. This council would be protected from political interference and immune to foreign manipulation. Its members would not be picked through votes that are bought with T-shirts and food parcels, but selected through performance and vetted by independent panels with no party allegiance

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Foreign-funded NGOs that interfere in domestic policy would be shut down. Western embassies would be told plainly that Zimbabwe is not a client state. International partners would be welcome, but only on terms that respect Zimbabwe’s sovereignty. No more economic “assistance” that comes with political conditions. No more aid that funds opposition movements under the cover of democracy promotion. Trade deals would be reviewed. Foreign mining companies would either reinvest their profits locally or have their licenses revoked. Land reform would not be reversed, but improved with actual support to farmers to make the land productive.

This plan would not need approval from parliament. The legislature in Zimbabwe is not a place of reform. It is a place of stagnation, where bills go to die and where public funds are quietly stolen. Any attempt to change the system by passing reforms through that body is naïve. The criminals will not pass laws that remove their own power. You do not ask permission from thieves to lock up the vault. You change the locks and put them out of business. The political system in Zimbabwe is beyond reform.

Zimbabwe’s transformation will not come from another election, but from ending the illusion that elections bring power to the people when in reality they only recycle the same failures. Zimbabwe does not need anymore slogans, rallies, or manifestos. The country is in dire need of a revolution of the mind, a reset of expectations, and the courage to admit that democracy, as currently practiced, is a weapon used against us.

The West does not care about African democracy. It cares about African compliance. Mnangagwa is now openly parading himself with British diplomats, he has accomplished the goals they installed him to achieve. Nelson Chamisa is also parading himself with same puppet masters, he assisted in the accomplishment of those goals. You know and have seen for yourself that any leader who challenges this colonial patronage arrangement is either demonised or removed. Libya learned this the hard way. Gaddafi turned Libya into Africa’s most developed country, and he was killed for it. Zimbabwe should learn from that. The goal of a revolution is to impress foreign donors, but to build a country that works for its own people, regardless of what any Western government thinks about it.

Decolonisation is and it means decoupling completely from the Western patronage systems that have kept Zimbabwe and much of Africa locked in dependency and submission. These systems function to maintain influence and extract value under the guise of development and democracy. Every loan, every grant, every training program tied to foreign approval is a leash. Zimbabwe can only stand on its own, by severing these dependencies and replace them with self-directed policies rooted in national interest, not donor expectations. That includes withdrawing from NGO funding networks that serve as fronts for foreign agendas, limiting media operations funded by external actors, and reasserting control over education and civic institutions that have been infiltrated by ideological conditioning.

Equally important is building a long-term ideological and security infrastructure dedicated to preserving sovereignty once it is reclaimed. Liberation without protection is just a pause between colonisations. Mnangagwa is ushering a mafia style globalist transfer of wealth and power to a few of crobies in cahoots with the globalist mafia. Countries that have pushed back against foreign interference, Russia, Hungary, El Salvador, have all done so by explicitly confronting the networks that undermine their autonomy. Russia cracked down on foreign NGOs and built its own payment and internet systems to survive sanctions. Hungary refused to let foreign-funded universities and organisations dictate its social policy and used lawfare to push them out.

El Salvador jailed criminal elements backed indirectly through external influence operations and stood firm despite pressure from Washington. El Salvador also recently passed legislation targeting foreign NGOs, imposing a 30 percent tax on foreign funding and establishing a registry system to classify them as foreign agents. These measures are not random, they are structured responses to systematic attempts at foreign control through soft power. Any country that has broken from the Western sphere learns quickly that the backlash doesn’t come with tanks, it comes with NGOs, think tanks, journalists, and activists bankrolled from abroad. Without a framework that treats foreign influence as a national security issue, the door stays open for regime change by other means. So these governments stated above, understood that liberation is not a one-time event, but a permanent state of vigilance. Without a defensive ideology, a domestic narrative, and hardened institutions, any national revival is just waiting to be dismantled at the next election or regime change operation. Nobody messes with North Korea. They operate on cold, calculated realism, both military and political, and not naive idealism. They don’t waste time appealing to the UN or chasing illusions. They know exactly how the world really works.

That is how Zimbabw could be transformed in four years. There is no benefit in holding another election, but by breaking free from the system that keeps it trapped.

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