The time for freedom is now

Below this posting is a riveting article by United States based Prof Ken Mufuka, a patron of a Geneva based grouping of Zimbabwe exiles led by Daniel Molekela. I have always admired Prof Mufuka, for his wit, personal accomplishments and Africanism. But after reading the article below, i was let with no option but to add onto to the growing list of things that make him a hero to me. He is frank. I was left scratching my head after going through his article. One thing that struck me that many among my friends is that we are our own liberators. Ýes we can harp about how Thabo Mbeki is not a fair mediator, how SADC as a whole, AU and the world has failed us but all this will come back to us because we have to learn to be our won liberators. The whole of SADC is full of marxists, communists, people who believe in pan-Africanism, people who believe that the are some people somewhere who wants to recolonise Africa therefore will not agree with our struggle. If people in Thailand can lay siege for weeks at an airport in a bid to fight for their freedom, if students in South Korea can pelt the police with tomatoes for days on end to fight for their freedoms, if people in Khutsong can burn buses, block roads and threaten to boycott elections for their freedoms, if people in Iraq, Pakistan, India never mind the terrorists can do all sorts of things evil to free themselves why can't Zimbabweans do the same. The past two weeks have been particularly encouraging, soldiers looting shops, masses joining into the National Constitutional Assembly protests, the recipe for success is on course. All that is needed at the moment is to keep the momentum going. And for my friends in the civic society movement, there can not be any other great opportunity to launch mass protests like the one on Mrach 11 2007 than the abduction of Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) Director Jestina Mukoko this week by obvious state security agencies. Should we wait until her body is found somwhere dumped by the roadside or floating in some river in Marondera or Goromonzi. The time is now.