Recent wheat fires, coincidence or sabotage?
Nevanji Munyaradzi Chiondegwa
An accident is defined as an unfortunate event that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury and possibly death.
On the other hand, a coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.
These words are word people use everyday but which nobody ever thinks deeply about.
Many accidents that occur could be avoided via adherence to safety and health rules or regulations set up by authorities.
There is a known fact that the operation of machinery under the influence of alcohol is highly likely to lead to an accident.
The driving of a motor vehicle while inebriated with alcohol will most likely lead to death via an accident, for the driver is impaired.
Now these are all things that could have been avoided by simple adherence to safety and regulations.
It is why in insurance there is a distinction between an accident and accidental, the latter being acts that caused damage or harm but which themselves were accidental.
There are no coincidences in life, only illusions of coincidences. The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Settlement recently announced that the country is expecting a record bumper harvest of wheat after the farmers outdid themselves to surpass all previous harvests.
The Ministry along with millers were hopeful that the 79 000 hectares of wheat grown was supposed to bring about 380 000 tonnes of wheat.
The Zimbabwean economy is agro-based, the growth of the agricultural sector will therefore spur economic development with the improved availability of raw materials resulting in down-stream and upstream growth in the agro-processing industries.
The resultant cut in import costs would have seen the saved foreign currency being invested in other areas, for example the intended increase by 21 000 hectares to 100 000 hectares of wheat in the next winter cropping season according to Agriculture Ministry Permanent Secretary, Dr John Basera.
Also hoped for was the lowering of bread prices from USD1.20 back to USD1 or even less with the increase in local productions seeing a cut in the costs of importation?
The increase in costs were a result of the disturbances in the global supply chain disturbances in Eastern Europe.
However, all this may end a pipe dream due to the fact that veld fires have to date destroyed nearly a thousand tonnes of wheat spread across the country.
The destruction occurred in a space of a week leading the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services expressing Government’s dismay about the prevalence veld fires after this week’s Cabinet meeting.
Among the farms destroyed by fires include Mr Benedict Chagumuka, who was nominated by Zimpapers as one of the best wheat farmers in Mashonaland Central only a few days back.
Being nominated as one of the best farmers of a particular crop across a whole province especially one like Mashonaland Central is no mean feat.
It means you will have done extremely well and you are an expert in the crop production.
What many may rush to ask is whether there were fire guards around the farms or fields in question.
According to Mr Chagumuka, the fire that destroyed his 12 hectares was spotted in the middle of the field early in the morning.
Secondly, most wheat field are circular in shape to cater for the movement of the centre-pivots used in irrigating the crop. This automatically means there is space around the fields which are generally rectangular.
One need not have a degree in mathematics to know that if you draw a circle in a rectangle there are basic spaces it cannot touch and fill.
So before you even construct a fire-guard, one naturally exists.
These farmers are not first timers, they have been in wheat farming for a while now and obviously do know about fire-guards and they are basic requirements on all farms.
Agricultural extension officers insist on these and therefore one cannot say there were no fire-guards.
The fire on one farm was noticed to start from the middle of the field, on another it merely burnt the wheat fields and so on and so forth.
Nevanji has an inquiring mind which refuses to conform and as I said, there are no coincidences, only illusions of coincidences therefore my inquiring mind seeks to know why all of a sudden a year before elections fires are burning ready to harvest wheat.
That the wheat fields are naturally designed as fire-guards makes me even more curious.
Coincidences or accidents? No way, not coincidences and certainly not accidents me thinks.
So it leaves me only thinking of one thing; SABOTAGE!
The unavailability of bread was the match that lit the spark for the French Revolution after Marie-Antoinette failed to understand that the unavailability of bread meant also that the peasantry cannot have cake which she suggested they have instead.
The availability of wheat means the availability of not just bread but a constant source of happiness and satisfaction for the town-folk who need bread on almost a daily basis.
When they are happy, they praise the government whose policies have ensured their getting bread every day at low prices.
This does not augur well for Zimbabwean opposition and its detractors.
As stated before, Zimbabwe’s economy is agro-based and wheat is one of the strategic crops along with maize and small grain crops.
Its availability unties up capital for investment in other areas. Not only does it allow for untying up of capital, but it allows for the expansion of the agro-processing industry thus creating jobs and jobs which are needed to placate the garrulous urban population which votes for Zimbabwe’s useless opposition because they cannot find jobs.
They of course blame the ruling ZANU PF and therefore the government for lack of jobs.
So if one is to think not even deep but merely scratch the surface, it becomes easy to notice who would benefit from a poor harvest of wheat and who would suffer from the destruction of wheat field.
Now they do say; “if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it is a duck!”
It is a known fact that many in the leadership of the opposition have not only called for sanctions but actively participated in demonising the country, calling for sanctions and do not want to see the country prosper.
It spells the death of not just their political lives and relevance, but the opposition and resurgence of the Revolutionary Party ZANU PF and all other movements in the SADC region.
So yes, there are those who would not want Zimbabwe’s wheat harvest to meet expectation and eliminate the country’s dependence on imports, create jobs, lower prices of bread and boost local economic growth.
These persons have been known to work with the United States Embassy in Zimbabwe.
Anyone who does not know that what that means is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is actively working with the opposition to destroy the Zimbabwean and therefore by extend the African revolution and renaissance is a novice in both politics and diplomacy.
The CIA is known for black operations which involve manipulation of weather to create monsoons and cyclones (OPERATION POPEYE anyone?).
They are known to unseat governments, assassinate unwanted third world country leaders, stage coups and general sabotage (the book Confessions of an Economic Hitman comes to mind).
So would our detractors, including our opposition be happy with the success of our winter crop season and would they let Zimbabwe become wheat self-sufficient, create jobs and therefore eliminate dissent?
Above all else, Zimbabwe was sanctioned for taking its land. The success of the winter wheat crop would not only mean that the Land Reform has been successful but that Black Farmers have been able to do what white farmers failed to do since 1966.
By extension, it would mean that Africa can be self-sufficient with the control of its resources including land. It would encourage other African countries to repossess their land and that means end American domination of Africa and the world!
In extending the sanctions regime on Zimbabwe in 2019, the then USA President, the disruptive Donald trump said; ‘Zimbabwe remains a threat to US foreign interests’.
One needs look no further than the fact that USA has attacked Iraq because it claimed its oil was under Iraqi soil.
So, it`s clear what their foreign interests are, ‘control of foreign countries natural resources’ which starts from land.
Zimbabwe dared take to land and must be sufficiently punished from coercive measures to economic sabotage.
Everyone knows that wheat burns and rapidly at that. It goes without saying that farmers would take all necessary precautions to avoid fires.
Who else knows about wheat burning? CIA! And would the Americans and their local stoogies go that far?
Why not if they can even murder as they did Patrice Lumumba among other people?
So Zimbabwean authorities need worry, like really worry considering that we have enemies within.
There is no coincidence here, just open sabotage! Its not even accidents or accidental causes, but planned and downright SABOTAGE!
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