O. Vengeyi, The Bible in the Service of Pan-Africanismthe country in two years when Zimbabwe becomes the top diamond
producer country and massive deposits of platinum, gold, coal, copper,
iron and other minerals are for Mahoso evidence of have God’s provi-
dence. For him, these are not only the reason for the imposition of sanc-
tions on Zimbabwe by the West, but they are also the ‘means that the
(same) illegal sanctions will not only be defeated by the people them-
selves but they are likely to end up punishing and embarrassing those
who invited them and those who imposed them.’ For him, this is not far
from happening; as the rest of the growing economies of the world apart
from the struggling and debt-ridden West are very happy to do business
with Zimbabwe.^59 He thus pushes his argument in another article by
citing 1 Sam 17:49 where David defeated Goliath by throwing stone a
stone that struck Goliath on the forehead leading to his death as a repre-
sentation of what is happening in Zimbabwe. For him, the mineral
deposits especially diamonds are stone that David (Zimbabwe) used to
defeat Goliath (the West).^60
In practical terms, Mahoso argues that it is business with the emerging
markets in friendly nations that shall prosper Zimbabwe (while hostile
nations have a down turn) as Deut 28:7-13 says, out of the fruits of the
land; agriculture and minerals.^61 In the same light, Mahoso sees the
economic crisis in Greece as well as the rest of Europe and America as a
fulfillment of the word of God (Deut 28:7-13) that Zimbabwe shall pros-
per as her enemies not only scatter but drown in poverty, such that
Zimbabwe will never borrow from anyone but will lend (Deut 28:13).
According to Mahoso, this is particularly true because already, ‘the very
same white racist governments which imposed illegal sanctions on
Zimbabwe....today suffer and behave as if they are the ones who have
been sanctioned’, that is why ‘they now want to return to a new Berlin
Conference and a new partition of Africa’, as ‘has already happened over
Libya and Cote d’Ivoire, but Southern Africa’ has survived, thanks to ‘a
solid revolutionary alliance between young people of the generation of
Julius Malema and their grandfathers (elders) who fought in the Second
(^59) Mahoso, ‘Africans with white no fly zones mentality’.
(^60) Cf. Mahoso, ‘Ngoda-Stone that blasted away Goliath’, AFRICAN FOCUS: The Sunday
Mail. 14 August 2011.
(^61) Cf. Mahoso, ‘No going back on land issue’, The Sunday Mail. 20 February 2011.