We cannot subcontract that responsibility to any other race, nation or people from another continent or planet.
It is none but ourselves, falling back on our God-given resources and our ever growing ingenuity.
Our painful history shows the world has not always been kind to us.
Nor is it any kinder today.
We continue to engage and re-engage the world, but working very hard ourselves as we do so.
Politically, our victory against settler colonialism sealed and sanctified our claim to self-rule, and to owning Zimbabwe, then, now and forever.
Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans, and shall remain so unto eternity!
For that reason, we firmly proclaim that, NYIKA INOTONGWA NEVENE VAYO, or Zimbabwe is only governed by its own people who are its sole owners.
There will never be a re-conquest or second colonisation of Zimbabwe by whomsoever, friend or foe.
Those seeking to restore foreign hegemony will fail.
NYIKA INOTONGWA NEVENE VAYO is thus our pledge to repulse foreign domination or tutelage, and to reject politics of foreign patronage.
Indeed, it is our oath to defend our territory in order to keep it sovereign, now, across dispensations and generations.
How then do we fulfil our responsibility, mission and duty in order to carry out the burden of developing our Zimbabwe?
Fundamentally and unfailingly by turning to its endowments and resources, whether animate or inanimate, above or beneath the ground we tread, whether known or unknown.
As Kwame Nkrumah emphasised, we are located in nature, which is our God-given territory of Zimbabwe.
We have the LAND and all which lies under it, grows and crawls above it.
We have our PEOPLE: black, white yellow, brown; short, tall, medium; hailing from this or that corner, tribe or region; of this or that faith, religion, belief or creed; speaking this or that language or dialect.
We have the KNOWLEDGE: culled from our heritage, developed through own inventions or sourced and borrowed from other civilisations.
With that pooled knowledge, we develop and acquire CAPACITIES to carry out and shoulder burdens of our development.
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