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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>MDC Alliance youth leader and pro-democracy activist, Makomborero Haruzivishe has said the general public must remember that they have combined power that is stronger than that of politicians in power. He writes from his cell at Harare Remand Prison in Zimbabwe we he\u2019s detained for \u201cinciting public violence and resisting a peace officer\u201d after protesting over the deteriorating democratic space. Pindula News presents Haruzivishe\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n

Dear Comrades and friends,<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re wondering, I\u2019m enduring prison quite well. I\u2019ve been prosecuted countless times over the past decade that I made a gentlemen\u2019s agreement with pain. Having been arrested an average of three times a year, tortured numerous times since 2011, I have come to appreciate that pain has its place and I don\u2019t mock its power.<\/p>\n

But it is a power that doesn\u2019t touch my soul.<\/p>\n

This solidifies in me the art of endurance. Yes, ENDURANCE is the word. I knew the word but never had the opportunity to really \u201cfeel\u201d it, \u201ctouch\u201d it, but was forced by circumstances imposed on me by Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s dictatorship to live it. Indeed I\u2019m living it, and I\u2019m not so blind to military state capture to believe that it will end any time soon, as the subsequent capture of the justice system can prolong the seven months I have endured to seven years through more unjust convictions, but to me it doesn\u2019t matter anymore. I will endure it to the very end.<\/p>\n

You know, we have to face the facts; things aren\u2019t getting any better. They are getting worse. All we are asking for is a Zimbabwe where every child gets a fair chance of quality education and every adult gets a fair chance of a decent earning, but all we are getting is corruption and abuse \u2014 yet in 2017, many believed things have changed, but they changed for the worse.<\/p>\n

Just another dictator, ED, with an even worse agenda; the perpetuation of military state capture, a worse type of governance with an increasingly ruthless, ever widening network to act it out.<\/p>\n

Who knew before 2017 that there is a terror network of state agents called the \u201cFERRET\u201d squad who would be deployed against unsuspecting citizens with specific order to abduct, torture and harass them?<\/p>\n

Who knew before 2017 that there was a car rental company called IMPALA that is contracted by the government to ferry terror squads to our homes and move citizens to torture bases.<\/p>\n

Because of such terror networks that are sponsored with our taxes; thoughts of real death, not the remediable conceit now of imprisonment as a unique death, becomes an insistent, strident companion to such an extent that when gunshots were fired during my arrest: I was ready.<\/p>\n

Despite all this, we must never waver from the fact that justice is the first condition of humanity, and we deserve pure, undiluted justice.<\/p>\n

We must tattoo it in our hearts that \u201cI have the power, you have the power, and together we can make the change because people\u2019s power is stronger than the individuals in power\u201d.<\/p>\n

With this tattoo we must action our power through exercising our constitutional rights of freedom of assembly, association, demonstrate and petition in the streets, freedom of expression on social media, for now is the right time to stop agonising and intensify organising. After all, we are the ones we have been waiting for.<\/p>\n

More importantly comrades and friends, we must register to vote because after all is said and done, all popular democratic revolutions end in the ballot box.<\/p>\n

Worry more about yourselves, the future of our beloved Zimbabwe, the next generation \u2014 and worry less about me, for I definitely will come out, sooner or later, dead or alive.<\/p>\n

After all, as I was enduring my birthday on 23 April, yeah, ENDURE, because birthday in prison is unlike birthday anywhere else. In prison, one doesn\u2019t exactly celebrate their birthday, one ENDURES it. As I turned 29 years old, I reminded myself that some say life begins at 40, so I\u2019ve got 11 years to 40. But since the life expectancy for Zimbabwean men is around 30 years, I cherished the realisation that I have already lived a full life, so either way I am in charge!<\/p>\n

I REMAIN IN CHARGE<\/p>\n

Makomborero Haruzivishe<\/p>\n

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