Through national capacities, whether inherent, developed or acquired, we transform our NATURE in order to change and develop our ENVIRONMENT for a better life for all, leaving no one or no community behind.
NYIKA INOVAKWA NEVENE VAYO has given us a debt-free model of development, and challenged us to self-finance our progress, brick upon brick, stone upon stone.
We have to avoid the debt trap through which we return to bondage.
Often a question is raised: How does NYIKA INOVAKWA NEVENE VAYO cohere with our ZIMBABWE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS mantra?
Is it not discriminatory, exclusionary, anti-FDI even?
The simple answer is that the philosophy and ideology of NYIKA INOVAKWA NEVENE VAYO is not exclusionary. Nor does it eschew foreign direct investment and partnerships.
All it does is to set parameters for both, all the time stressing the centrality of Zimbabweans and Zimbabwean plans and priorities in all such arrangements.
Our vision of sourcing and attracting FDI and partnerships is based on augmenting our own capacities as an economy, people and Nation.
Our vision in sourcing and attracting foreign investments is mutual gain and benefit.
It is not founded on our displacement or marginalisation, whether as indigenes, communities or as a people who own finite resources.
Indeed, these are key lessons from our Struggle for National Independence.
We secured foreign arms to enhance our capacity to fight colonialism and to dislodge the settler system.
We bore those arms, fought the enemy ourselves. We made sacrifices for our own liberation. Equally, we prosecuted that struggle on the basis of our thinking, philosophy, ideology and history.
The result and outcome was a free and independent Zimbabwe, freed from foreign values and ideologies, and thus ready and able to chart its own course independently.
So, NYIKA INOVAKWA NEVENE VAYO is a philosophy and ideology of self-determination and of national responsibility; indeed, it is an affirmation of our national sovereignty and independence.
Above all, it is a call and an exhortation to national duty and action.
Zimbabwe’s fate rests with Zimbabweans: They bear all its burdens and define its futures.
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