There is a discourse of hatred, intolerance, disrespect
for peasoas, a mentality of infallibility and a divine right to power, a belief
in omnipotence, a commodification of politics and ethical values that must end. Taken to the extreme, they create and, as
Roberto Tibana says in another debate elsewhere, they harbor killers.
To waterproof Frelimo, or any other organization, against infiltration by
murderers and psychopaths, against ambitious unscrupulous ones for those who
are worth everything is all that counts, a great deal must be changed in
discourse and practice, in ideas and culture. When tolerated strategy, tactics,
language, mentality, and practice are war (crushing, squeezing, not giving
space, destroying, governing a thousand years, enemies, traitors, etc.) the
ground is being fertilized for ambitious psychopaths gaining prominence and
power.
There is a text of a said prof, which, in the limit, makes the apology for the
murder of the junior and his stepmother, even insinuating that the father of
the Junior was murdered by his peers. The individual concerned is doing an ode
to violence, hatred, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and extreme intolerance 4
years ago on behalf of Frelimo. He has already been protected from Guebuza and
is now protected from Nyusi, probably in their absence. As you move up the rank
of the organization, your speech gets worse and more and more out of control.
It has been heavily criticized by many people, including many Frelimo members.
The latest report comes in a post by Gabriel Muthisse, which I advise you to
follow. But the organization, Frelimo, has never demarcated it until now, and
it has established itself internally. Because? Are there any people who think
that people of this kind are needed for certain jobs? Is this what, as Tibana
says, creates the idea that Frelimo harbors murderers even if it is not an
assassin organization?
The complaint made by Gabriel Muthisse shows that the facts are known and some
people within Frelimo completely repudiate them. But so far, at least as far as
I know, Frelimo as an institution has not yet publicly demarcated these
speeches or instituted legal proceedings against the individuals concerned, who
even advocate the murder of Frelimo members. Is this evidence that there are
individuals in their midst who see no problem in the tactics of the whole
valley?
This discourse of appealing to hatred as a maximum manifestation of loyalty and
power is present in politics and economy (for example, expropriation of lands,
murder of its occupants, pushing families into informality and illegality,
raping their wives, all in the name of progress and the great modernizing
investment). Today it is a said teacher or a communicator who incites physical
violence against a member who did not follow the internal discipline and
decided, by his conscience and will, to create an electoral alternative.
Tomorrow it is this member or other who incites, practices, lets practice or
justifies extreme violence against peasant families who have the misfortune of
dwelling upon valuable mineral resources. The day after tomorrow is a group
that kidnaps and whips or beats an independent or oppositional analyst, or
murders a jurist or other citizen because of his convictions. The next day is
someone who disagrees with the constitutional order and shoots until it is
heard, decentralized, demobilized and reintegrated, and given the power to name
democratically.
And so on.
All this has to stop. In order to really demarcate from a speech of political
hatred against one of its members, Frelimo and all other organizations have to
demarcate the whole discourse of hatred, power and control over others, and
resort to violence as the first who has more power to exercise control over all
spheres of society. Or we will risk normalizing hatred and violence as an
economic, political and social culture, method and practice, and its
denunciation will require more and more courage and will be more and more
confined to isolated acts.
We have to go much further than to repeat the soft discourse of tolerance which
cohabits with the omnipotence mentality and the practice of exclusion and
hatred.
The question is not tolerance but equality. We are socially equal and we have
equal rights even though they are humanly and politically different. No one
should have the power to choose to be tolerant (as if he were superior but for
moral reasons ethics tolerates others) or hate. Either we are equal, with equal
rights, with equal freedoms, or we are building a constitutionally articulated
farce as democracy that grows on a barrel of gunpowder. It does not work that
way. (Carlos Nuno Castelo Branco)
He was educated at Eduardo Mondlane
University (Diploma in Development Studies), the University of East
Anglia (Diploma in Development Economics, 1991, and MA
Industrial Development, 1992), the University of Oxford
(MSc Development Economics, 1997) and SOAS, University of
London (PhD Economics, 2002).[2] He was an Associate Professor in
industrialization and development economics at Eduardo Mondlane
University, from 1992 to 2012, and was Director of the Instituto
de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (Institute for Social and Economic Studies)
(IESE) from 2007 to 2012, and coordinator of IESE's research group on economics
and development, from 2007 to 2017. He is, currently, a visiting professor at
the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, ISEG, of the
University of Lisbon (https://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt), and a
researcher of ISEG's Centre for African, Asian and Latin American Studies, CEsA
(https://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~cesa).
His main research focus is on political economy of economic crisis and
transformation and systems of capital accumulation in Africa. Within this broad
area, he is working, currently, on crisis and dependent capitalism, public debt
and financialization, and premature financialization and premature
deindustrialization in Mozambique. Information on his work and publications
(most of which can be accessed online) is available from research gate, a data
base of scientific research and publications, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Castel-Branco/stats/profile_views.
Mozambique
will organise a business forum between Chinese and Mozambican business people
in Beijing in early September, a diplomatic source told Macauhub.President
Filipe Nyusi, who will be in Beijing to participate in the work of the
China-Africa Cooperation Forum (FOCAC) in the Chinese capital on 3 and 4
September, will open the meeting on 2 September.