The Trinity of Emancipation
By Vusi Moloi © 2009
Preamble
The African jungle teaches us that the most important consideration is the unqualified compliance with the supreme law of self-preservation. This means that the organism must not be uprooted from its natural environment which facilitates the preservation of both survival and quality of life. The organism must enjoy the autonomy where it’s not subjugated under the claws of predators. The critical factors that remain core to the survival ability of the organism to emancipate itself from the claws of foreign occupation include a piece of ground, a set of ground rules and the ability to be an architect of its destiny.
A Piece of Ground
An organism needs a piece of ground it can call its own. When the lion chooses to settle on a particular territory he must trust his natural instincts and ceremoniously pee around the ground to mark the perimeter of his own piece of ground. Those that stray within his borders must sniff the ground and back off never to be seen as trespassers by the border patrols. A piece of ground lends territorial integrity and a sense of permanence to those who have built their sanctuary in the land of the ancestors.
A Set of Ground Rules
It’s not enough to be part of the natural environment. An equitable set of ground rules must exist to ensure the continuity and stability of existence and the ability to interact with others within the confines of mutual respect, autonomous existence and collective belonging. It’s the ground rules that constitute orderly coexistence when chaos threatens to impose itself. The wisdom of the collective and the ancestors is embodied in the ground rules. It is this body of sacred rules together with syntactic compliance that gives the collective and its members a survival advantage.
Architects of Their Own Destiny
The citizens of the African jungle must be able to belong to the collective and architect their own destiny as they see fit uninterrupted by foreign occupation or indirect foreign rule. They are the domain experts in the land of their ancestors and know what is needed to gain a survival advantage. Anyone who says otherwise is a treacherous impostor driven by self-interest and not the interests of the collective.
Learning From Others
When Mao Tse-Tung and his comrades won their revolutionary struggle in October of 1949, it gave them the ability to achieve the trinity of emancipation when they regained their piece of ground, wrote their own constitution and embarked on the path of economic emancipation as architects of their own destiny. They had shaken off the chains of foreign occupation and were unstoppable on the road to the new dispensation. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara achieved the same trinity of emancipation in January of 1958. They wrote their own constitution, carved their own land and chose their own leaders. The Russians achieved the same in 1917 via the Bolshevik Revolution where they wrote their own constitution, gained their own piece of ground and became architects of their destiny.
When Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980 she failed to gain the trinity of emancipation since she didn’t write her own constitution. The constitution was written for her by others which effectively entrenched indirect foreign rule. Zimbabwe didn’t gain her piece of ground even though she chose her own leaders to represent her. For this reason, Zimbabwe only gained one third of the trinity of emancipation. Today she continues to be tossed back and forth and sometimes getting squashed by the vicious claws of indirect foreign occupation.
When South Africa gained her freedom in 1994 she wrote her constitution under the circumstances which extracted extreme concessions from her and imposed a heartless restraint with deep claws upon her piece of ground even though she was able to choose her own leaders. South Africa effectively achieved less than half of the trinity of emancipation hence the bitter struggle continues as I write these lines.
Discussion
The unconditional compliance with the trinity of emancipation as we have seen with other revolutions like China, Cuba and Russia engenders a sense of irrefutable fulfillment in the hearts and minds of the indigenous people of the land.
When Zimbabwe was negotiating Lancaster Agreement, she had plenty of time to learn from those who had gone before her like the great Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia who later decried that the exclusion of the land from the Lancaster Agreement was a harsh precondition as reported in the article Why The West Is Less Influential in Zimbabwe. Prior to ratifying the agreement Mr. Robert Mugabe questioned the logic of accepting such independence without a piece of ground but he signed off anyways. He has now learnt the hard way that if it is not there in the first place it will never be there going forward. He broke one important maxim of the African jungle and that is to trust one’s instincts at all times. He had felt a sense of hesitation but went against it anyways. This is the greatest thing he will ever regret and it will haunt him all the way to the grave.
South Africa had plenty of time to learn from the mistakes of others like Zimbabwe and be inspired by others like Mao-Tsetung. Amazingly she duplicated the exact mistake of “willing buyer, willing seller” from Zimbabwe which had already established a track record of unmitigated failure in the previous fourteen years. Now fifteen years since 1994, South Africa is still far away from the finish line with respect to achieving the trinity of emancipation. We hope that the great Msholozi will cover enough ground even though the forces reaction are better resourced to resist any bold moves with respect to a much needed change.
Conclusion
The University of the African Jungle and her curriculum of The Supreme Law of Self-Preservation teaches us to gain a survival advantage by following the trinity of emancipation. Others who have achieved the trinity of emancipation, despite a high price being paid like China, Russia and Cuba inspire us to go forward in the great struggle for freedom and advancement.
About the Author
A former South African Television Journalist, Vusi Moloi is a published author of a contextual poetry book, A Goodbye To My Little Troubles, and maintains a blog, Zulumathabo on the Internet.
Preamble
The African jungle teaches us that the most important consideration is the unqualified compliance with the supreme law of self-preservation. This means that the organism must not be uprooted from its natural environment which facilitates the preservation of both survival and quality of life. The organism must enjoy the autonomy where it’s not subjugated under the claws of predators. The critical factors that remain core to the survival ability of the organism to emancipate itself from the claws of foreign occupation include a piece of ground, a set of ground rules and the ability to be an architect of its destiny.
A Piece of Ground
An organism needs a piece of ground it can call its own. When the lion chooses to settle on a particular territory he must trust his natural instincts and ceremoniously pee around the ground to mark the perimeter of his own piece of ground. Those that stray within his borders must sniff the ground and back off never to be seen as trespassers by the border patrols. A piece of ground lends territorial integrity and a sense of permanence to those who have built their sanctuary in the land of the ancestors.
A Set of Ground Rules
It’s not enough to be part of the natural environment. An equitable set of ground rules must exist to ensure the continuity and stability of existence and the ability to interact with others within the confines of mutual respect, autonomous existence and collective belonging. It’s the ground rules that constitute orderly coexistence when chaos threatens to impose itself. The wisdom of the collective and the ancestors is embodied in the ground rules. It is this body of sacred rules together with syntactic compliance that gives the collective and its members a survival advantage.
Architects of Their Own Destiny
The citizens of the African jungle must be able to belong to the collective and architect their own destiny as they see fit uninterrupted by foreign occupation or indirect foreign rule. They are the domain experts in the land of their ancestors and know what is needed to gain a survival advantage. Anyone who says otherwise is a treacherous impostor driven by self-interest and not the interests of the collective.
Learning From Others
When Mao Tse-Tung and his comrades won their revolutionary struggle in October of 1949, it gave them the ability to achieve the trinity of emancipation when they regained their piece of ground, wrote their own constitution and embarked on the path of economic emancipation as architects of their own destiny. They had shaken off the chains of foreign occupation and were unstoppable on the road to the new dispensation. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara achieved the same trinity of emancipation in January of 1958. They wrote their own constitution, carved their own land and chose their own leaders. The Russians achieved the same in 1917 via the Bolshevik Revolution where they wrote their own constitution, gained their own piece of ground and became architects of their destiny.
When Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980 she failed to gain the trinity of emancipation since she didn’t write her own constitution. The constitution was written for her by others which effectively entrenched indirect foreign rule. Zimbabwe didn’t gain her piece of ground even though she chose her own leaders to represent her. For this reason, Zimbabwe only gained one third of the trinity of emancipation. Today she continues to be tossed back and forth and sometimes getting squashed by the vicious claws of indirect foreign occupation.
When South Africa gained her freedom in 1994 she wrote her constitution under the circumstances which extracted extreme concessions from her and imposed a heartless restraint with deep claws upon her piece of ground even though she was able to choose her own leaders. South Africa effectively achieved less than half of the trinity of emancipation hence the bitter struggle continues as I write these lines.
Discussion
The unconditional compliance with the trinity of emancipation as we have seen with other revolutions like China, Cuba and Russia engenders a sense of irrefutable fulfillment in the hearts and minds of the indigenous people of the land.
When Zimbabwe was negotiating Lancaster Agreement, she had plenty of time to learn from those who had gone before her like the great Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia who later decried that the exclusion of the land from the Lancaster Agreement was a harsh precondition as reported in the article Why The West Is Less Influential in Zimbabwe. Prior to ratifying the agreement Mr. Robert Mugabe questioned the logic of accepting such independence without a piece of ground but he signed off anyways. He has now learnt the hard way that if it is not there in the first place it will never be there going forward. He broke one important maxim of the African jungle and that is to trust one’s instincts at all times. He had felt a sense of hesitation but went against it anyways. This is the greatest thing he will ever regret and it will haunt him all the way to the grave.
South Africa had plenty of time to learn from the mistakes of others like Zimbabwe and be inspired by others like Mao-Tsetung. Amazingly she duplicated the exact mistake of “willing buyer, willing seller” from Zimbabwe which had already established a track record of unmitigated failure in the previous fourteen years. Now fifteen years since 1994, South Africa is still far away from the finish line with respect to achieving the trinity of emancipation. We hope that the great Msholozi will cover enough ground even though the forces reaction are better resourced to resist any bold moves with respect to a much needed change.
Conclusion
The University of the African Jungle and her curriculum of The Supreme Law of Self-Preservation teaches us to gain a survival advantage by following the trinity of emancipation. Others who have achieved the trinity of emancipation, despite a high price being paid like China, Russia and Cuba inspire us to go forward in the great struggle for freedom and advancement.
About the Author
A former South African Television Journalist, Vusi Moloi is a published author of a contextual poetry book, A Goodbye To My Little Troubles, and maintains a blog, Zulumathabo on the Internet.
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