Call for Zimbabweans in Beit Bridge to Arise

Prelude

Over the past week, I have received messages from Spirit, that a small band of Zimbabwean army soldiers have decided to rebel against the Zimbabwe army chief General Chinegwa, asking him to stand down. They believe that he is no longer fit for such high office, because he has used his position to order soldiers of the Zimbabwean army to engage in unrighteous activities such as coercion, intimidation, beating, displacement and unlawful detention.

They have further decided that the testing ground confronting the military shall be Beit Bridge, in the south of Zimbabwe, on the border with South Africa. To this end, this small group has over the past few days quietly moved down from Harare to Beit Bridge, where they plan to initiate a people’s uprising.

Beit Bridge, the Strategic Key to Zimbabwe’s Liberation

The small rebel group believe that if the people arise in Beit Bridge, and thus liberate that city from army rule of repression, then the days of Robert Mugabe as President of Zimbabwe will be numbered. It will then be only a matter of days or weeks before the entire Zimbabwean army and Zanu-PF leadership will implode and collapse upon itself. The rebel army will then depose General Chinegwa and with him Robert Mugabe as President, and restore government to the Parliament elected in March/08 and led by Morgan Tsvangirai. Neither Morgan Tsvangirai nor the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has had any role in the planning of the rebel movement. Yet the rebels are sympathetic with the MDC and will eagerly support the restoration of democratic government with full human rights in Zimbabwe.

Beit Bridge is on the southern most border of Zimbabwe, where for about 200 km the Limpopo River forms a natural border between Zimbabwe and South Africa. At Beit Bridge, a bridge crosses over the Limpopo to South Africa. The city on the South African side of the Limpopo is Mussina. A main commercial highway passes from Johannesburg and Pretoria through Messina and Beit Bridge to Harare.

Why is Beit Bridge so strategically important? There are three main reasons;

1. Beit Bridge is in the remote provinces of Zimbabwe, as far removed from the military and Zanu-PF power base in Harare as it is possible to go. It is about 600 km or one day’s car drive south of the capital Harare. With petrol so scarce in Zimbabwe, any insurrection in Beit Bridge would be difficult to oppose by mobilising military forces from Harare or central Zimbabwe.
2. Beit Bridge is on the highway controlling the main commerce between Zimbabwe and South Africa. If the rebel army were to control Beit Bridge, then perhaps 50% of Zimbabwe’s imports would be cut off from the Zanu PF leadership of Robert Mugabe. Moreover, the victorious rebel soldiers would have direct contact with sympathisers in South Africa, who would be able to provide the rebel army with food, armaments, clothing and any items required to support their struggle against the regular Zimbabwean army. It would be an ideal power base to secure and then issue a formal challenge for army chief General Chinegwa to step down.
3. About four million Zimbabweans have fled the Mugabe regime and become refugees in foreign nations. The vast majority of these refugees presently live in South Africa, in the Mussina/Pretoria/Johannesburg region. Once Beit Bridge is secured by the rebels, then the rebel army can issue an invitation for the Zimbabwean refugees to return to Zimbabwe, where they would be safe and cared for in the rebel held territory. An invitation could be offered for any of the refugees to join the rebel army, which could then quickly swell to an imposing force of perhaps half a million, quite sufficient to demonstrate to the Zanu PF government of Robert Mugabe that the military power balance has irrevocably shifted in Zimbabwe.

The Strategy to Take Beit Bridge for the People

In Africa, we have witnessed many civil wars and horrendous battles for liberation through military supremacy of one side over another. Many Africans have died as a consequence. Far too many.

But in Zimbabwe there is opportunity for Beit Bridge to be taken by the people, and few if any lives to be lost in battle. In Zimbabwe you have the situation in which the people "no longer tolerate totalitarianism in any political system or government, nor do they accept or permit the rule of any body of men who undertake to tell them what government they must accept" (Externalisation of the Hierarchy by Alice Bailey, p618).

The people are acutely invocative, and by the Law of Love, we know that our Spiritual Guides have a proportionate response. We are aware of Spirit overshadowing and blessing the nation of Zimbabwe. The international community refuses to invade militarily. Power sharing political talks have come to nothing. Only the people now can bring about enduring regime change. But how can Beit Bridge be taken by the people, when the Mugabe government uses totalitarian measures including torture and murder to maintain total control? The strategy is simple, and if our application of the strategy is well conducted, then few if any lives need be sacrificed. The strategy has three elements;

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1. Let the people dance. The Mugabe government has stripped the people of everything except their humbleness. Yet in their humbleness, lies their strength. In their humbleness, let the people dance. And so despite their great sorrow, the people will begin to dance, for their heart understands that God’s Spirit is sweeping the nation. They dance in their souls, because they become aware of the Spirit of God that is sweeping the nation, and their tears are turned to joy.

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2. Rebel soldiers commit to defend the people from any intimidation or assault by regular army or police. The commitment has already been given by a small and dedicated group of rebel soldiers. They do not want to shed blood unnecessarily. But they have seen the people dying from starvation, and the children playing amidst the garbage and raw sewerage. They take their stand for the people and the children. When the people come out onto the streets to demonstrate and sing and dance, then the rebel soldiers will come out also. And they will lay down their lives in their duty, to protect the people from acts of unrighteousness by the government forces.

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3. An invitation is sent to all police and regular army to denounce the Robert Mugabe/General Chinegwa rule of law and join the rebel army in defending the people. Over 80% of army soldiers and police want regime change and Morgan Tsvangirai to govern the land. They are in the army or police because they need a job, and they believe that the role of the soldier or policeman is to protect, not intimidate or assault the people. They are fed up with low pay and lack of food, and they want change. May the invitation be sent to all army and police units to defect. May the people sing to any government soldiers or policemen sent to intimidate them, to defect and join the rebel army.

A Joyful Christmas

Let the civil organisations promptly mobilise and invite the people of Beit Bridge to take to the streets and to sing and dance for their freedom and liberation from Zanu PF authoritarian rule. Let them affirm their dignity and freedom.

Once the people are mobilised, the people can liberate Beit Bridge in less than a day, and the regime change for the nation must follow within days or weeks. Beit Bridge can be taken back before Christmas. Then indeed despite the many sorrows and poverty of the people, it will be a Christmas of joy and a New Year of new hope.

Let all people, within Zimbabwe and around the world, visualise a peaceful transition of military power within Zimbabwe.

Let us see the best and manifest the best, always working from the positive, never placing a limit or restriction on anything. We see everything that is beautiful, everything that is perfect, and by so doing we draw it to us.

May we especially at this time identify with the plight of the common soldier in Zimbabwe. Through our love may we lift up those spiritual values that will encourage the soldier in the way of righteous action. May we share in his deep sacrifice and struggle, and through our strength of purpose and depth of love, may we sustain our meditative action until a sufficient number of soldiers in Zimbabwe take right action and bring about a change of government for the people.

Yours in love and light,
David Keane,
Secretary, Compassion Response Network