Staff Reporter
President Mnangagwa has called upon Zimbabweans to remain vigilant and united across all sectors of society to safeguard, preserve, and promote national interests.
Speaking during the burial of the late national hero Cde Makhethi Ndebele, also known as Comrade Jack Mpofu, at the National Heroes Acre yesterday, President Mnangagwa highlighted the ongoing efforts by detractors to reverse the gains of the country's liberation struggle.
“Let us remain vigilant and united across every sector of the society towards safeguarding, preserving, and promoting our national interests. Presently, there are concerted efforts to reverse the gains of our protracted liberation struggle. These attacks take many forms, including peddling falsehoods about our country,” President Mnangagwa stated.
The President condemned the deliberate and foreign-funded campaigns that seek to undermine Zimbabwe's achievements, describing these efforts as void of the evident and unprecedented success milestones being witnessed across all facets of society and the economy.
“It is a shame that there is a deliberate and foreign-funded campaign which is void of the evident and unprecedented success milestones we are witnessing across every facet of society and the economy. We shall never be deterred or discouraged,” he asserted.
President Mnangagwa further emphasized the resilience of Zimbabwe against external forces attempting to sow discord and division within the region and continent.
He reaffirmed the nation's determination to overcome these challenges, drawing on the strength and unity that led to independence.
“The strategies by some powers designed to sow discord and division between fraternal states in our Region and in our Continent will never succeed. We defeated imperialistic agendas to achieve our liberation and independence. We shall defeat them in the present, again and again. Their interests are never designed for Africa and its people, but to control our strategic resource endowments, including our God-given minerals, which we have in abundance. Wherever their nefarious machinations show their ugly face, these shall be resisted, both in honour of our heroes and for the economic prosperity, peace, and stability for present as well as future generations,” President Mnangagwa declared.
The President also reaffirmed Government's commitment to implementing and accelerating programmes and projects that lift people out of poverty and into prosperity.
“Programmes and projects which help lift many of our people out of poverty into prosperity will continue to be implemented and accelerated. I invite all the citizens of our great country, at home and abroad, to join hands as we build the country brick by brick, stone upon stone, forever emboldened by our development philosophy. Nyika inovakwa, inotongwa, inonamatigwa nevene vayo/ilizwe lakhiwa, libuswe, likhulekelwe ngabanikazi balo,” President Mnangagwa said.
President Mnangagwa urged Zimbabweans to use the upcoming SADC Summit as an occasion to showcase the massive progress achieved despite the illegal sanctions and the challenges posed by climate change.
He emphasized that the vision of becoming a prosperous and empowered upper-middle-income society by 2030 can only be attained through positive image building.
Meanwhile, President Mnangagwa described Cde Ndebele as the epitome of patriotism and a loyal man to the nation who never wavered.
He called upon all Zimbabweans, especially the youth, to draw inspiration from the selfless sacrifice, patriotism, bravery, courage, and commitment exemplified by the late National Hero Cde Makhethi Ndebele.
