The Dream

The mood is lightening in repressed Harare. The sun shines here too. With the MDC having claimed parliament people are beginning to dare to dream. Beginning to believe that the 10 year old dream may be coughing its first breaths. And that's what it is - the first breaths. Alongside the first breaths of the new are the kicks of the collapsing jongwe. Now is a time where history can be made or unmade. The last kicks of the jongwe could be bloody. And the new birth already seems to have something of the old. There is the likelihood of ZANU PF elements being brought into an MDC government to pacify the armed forces and ZANU PF itself. Some say any new birth is better than the old. True. But the struggle will continue under any new government. We will have more democratic space that we will need to burst open. We will have to struggle to make sure a new government delivers social services, that it doesn't repay illegitimate foreign debt, that it doesn't privatise our resources into the hands of the new elites. The struggle will continue. Freedom is always on the horizon. And we have to keep marching.     

So in the next few days let our joy be drunk with vision. The results we hear have to be defended by our actions. And when our actions win freedom and a new government let us know that the struggle continues. For our dreams of freedom to be born in our homes, our neighbourhoods, our communities. We are the dream. 

To listen to Comrade Fatso's hit song 'Bread And Roses' see:

www.comradefatso.vox.com 

For reports on Comrade Fatso's blog on BBC see:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7322727.stm


 

For Comrade Fatso's reports on France 24 see:

http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080331-zimbabwe-waiting-election-results-rigging

This is Comrade Fatso's Daily Blog during the Zimbabwe Election period.

See www.comradefatso.vox.com

For Daily Election Blogs by other MAGAMBA! poets and activists see www.myspace.com/magamba