Selby Vusimusi Moyo
PAC Activist
By Selby Moyo
PAC Activist
The Moment of Reawakening
Our problem currently is that we do not have people who speak on behalf of Africans about their persistent unfavourable life conditions. Africans, including political parties which have for some time been viewed as “the embodiment of African inspiration”, look to the government and its system for salvation.
It does not matter that the current government and its system has chosen the side that represent their oppression and subjugation.
Their hopes are pinned on the leadership, even if it has proven for more than three decades all it has done is fail, having given itself to be used by that system that is anti interests and aspiration of Africans.
The paradox is that those political movements which had promise as that embodiment of African aspirations are ready to and have joined that system to assist in the subjugation and oppression of the Africans. Their role has been reduced to that of an opposition that seeks to compete with others within the system for what it can offer.
Thus, their role has changed to that which seeks advantage to access opportunities for their leaders to be close to those who control the system.
Shamefully, their interest is no longer that which seeks to topple that system, but to find ways to be comfortable within it.
What’s worse, they are divorced from the people they (leaders) claim to be representing — for they now represent themselves — as they (African people) are in turn reduced to screamers of slogans, or are mere observers of the misuse of their name!
So far, the government and the system it represents operate as if nothing is abnormal in society.
The masses are kept in check by promises of “a good life for all”, conditioned to being on a pendulum that takes them indefinitely from hopefulness to hopelessness to hopefulness… which ends nowhere because the masses are looking to leaders to show direction.
Only to realise (even though they do nothing themselves) that those leaders are just as hopeless and helpless, having ambitions to be close to or within the system.
The situation has become so pathetic that our lot can be described as being ‘menticidal’, that we are all suffering from what is being referred to as “menticide”.
There is no doubt that with the kind of life we have been reduced to, whereby we cannot think beyond having trust in people who claim to but not caring for anyone else, and left with little prospect of dynamic leaders, we will remain in this situation for a long time. What with the conditioning that we seemingly cannot escape in the short term!
The few enlightened among us are virtually locked away in their own lives, preaching to and among themselves, convincing themselves they are right, but only to the satisfaction of those who represent and run the system. Whatever solutions they might have and not and seldom can they be viewed to be assisting the masses.
Rather, they are mostly for the needs of the system, how it can lessen the burden on the masses.
If there are radical solutions, they are suppressed or undermined or sanitised.
Unless some among the masses can notice and raise awareness among their lot.
It is certainly going to take a while for the masses to reawake and take action. That can only be possible when they understand that the system is not going to fulfill their interests and satisfy thir aspirations.
That it is not meant to do that in the first place but, to the contrary, suppress those interests and aspirations.
Indeed, until the African masses realised they only have themselves to rely on for their salvation, they will remain in the same place or be migrated to a worse one.
That is happening every moment of their life…
The reawakening of our consciousness is as paramount as it is strategic. And that moment is now!
However, it will take those of us carrying the torch to light it, and erase the darkness, so to speak.
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