Comments on: Zimbabwean Army of Reconstruction http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/zimbabwean-army-of-reconstruction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zimbabwean-army-of-reconstruction Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Manatsa Kuvheya http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/zimbabwean-army-of-reconstruction/#comment-184251 Manatsa Kuvheya Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:42:31 +0000 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=1897#comment-184251 I think we have a problem with people who all they see is a problem and fail to acknowledge change- no matter how small it is. Miles is being unfair- and he knows it. He is one of the few emerging ‘intellectuals’ to have made a name for himself from the crisis and actually he doesn’t have a credible solution- except demo- c’mon- after that then what. Zimbabwe is coming out of post-colonial relationship and sadly our own intellectuals do not acknowledge the nature of this relationship. All of a sudden diamonds from Marange should have solved all our problems- c’mon guys how much is made by Rio from Marowa and other fields, how much is made from the gold by the different international mining houses. Its only looting when it’s done by black elites. We need a proper class analysis of how elites (no matter how corporatised or informal) have ruined the economy- those in organised mining and agriculture included.
This sort of ahistorical analysis of the Zimbabwean question is not taking us anyway for we have made it to be a problem of politics and the politicians without an adequate analysis of the structure of the economy in terms of ownership and where the profits are kept. Young black intellectuals have become the biggest apologists for white capital- which wants to convince us at this late stage that it meant well- created jobs etc.

We really need to rethink the national project but I am afraid some of our Oxford trained ‘scholars’ do not have the necessary tools for such a project. Without an understanding of the real issues we risk being sucked into the labelling approach- (corrupt, dictator, etc) very common amongst Political Scientists of this age without giving us a proper methodology of moving ahead. So with all due respect to Bev and team at Kubatana lets rethink the Zimbabwe project beyond Mugabe- because one day he will be gone but we will still be caught in this rut because we lack ideas of moving ahead.

Manatsa

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