Speaker, for this motion we want to argue that we are here as this generation of economic freedom fighters, the inheritors of the legacy of courage of resilience, of unwavering commitment to principle of unconditional love for the African people; left for us by the special generation of African leaders who fought against colonialism and defeated it. They ushered a spirit of hope, an affirmation of our humanity as African people and guarded with their lives our sovereignty as people.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was one of the distinguished African leaders who sacrificed their youth for the emancipation of all Africans for the restoration of our right to humanity denied over generations by the colonialist forces.
We withstood untold humiliation at the hands of white people who stand here today and lecture us about human rights, who want to tell us how to feel about the pain they caused us, who have the guts to prescribe to us what racism is and what is not.
President Mugabe spent over a decade jailed by colonialists for fighting for African people.
The majority of white people, colonialists, have no moral authority to say anything about President Mugabe. They have no moral authority to impose their twisted conception of what an African state should be run like on any one.
When President Mugabe and the people of Zimbabwe finally defeated the evil regime of Ian Smith, they were not
thirsty for vengeance. They accepted that the white settlers community had made Zimbabwe a home. All they wanted was an equitable redistribution of Zimbabwe's wealth and the return of the land to the Zimbabwean people.
For over two decades President Mugabe and the people of Zimbabwe patiently waited for the settler community and Britain to reciprocate their kindness and return back to the Zimbabweans the land stolen during colonialism. They thought they were dealing with people who were interested in the future well-being of Zimbabwe, people who knew that justice had to be done in Zimbabwe; they were wrong.
The British government and its British settler community in Zimbabwe were never interested in justice; they were only interested in maintaining the privileges. Colonialism bestowed upon them. They never saw African people as equal human beings who can govern their own affairs. This is still the case in Zimbabwe as it is the case in South Africa.
If you dare touch the privilege of colonialism, which bestowed upon settler minority the right to dominate a native majority, you better be prepared for the full might of racist global institutions.
All the troubles of Zimbabwe, therefore, started when Zimbabweans began taking back their land and the white world stood up and vowed to punish President Mugabe and all Zimbabweans for daring to take back what rightfully belongs to them.
Despite this coordinated assault on the sovereignty of Zimbabwe, President Mugabe stood firm with extraordinary resolve to defend his nation. This unbending determination will inspire us for generations to come.
We now know that once we start shaking the foundation upon which our suffering is based; those who benefitted from our suffering will unleash their evil power on us. We will remain unshaken like President Mugabe.
This Parliament as a product of the struggle of independence of people across the continent, must honour
President Mugabe and on behalf of the people of the country send our deepest condolences to the people of Zimbabwe and the family of President Mugabe.
We must say to the wife of President Mugabe, she must remain strong and protect the legacy of her husband because we know that there are opportunists even amongst the ranks of the ruling party in Zimbabwe who want to destroy the legacy of President Mugabe.
The younger generation must learn from President Mugabe that we must never worship whiteness, we must never seek to be like them and we must seek to be better than them. We must produce the type of a young cadre who'll be able to lead Africa and South Africa in particular, to progress and redistribute land to our people.
The expropriation of land without compensation must remain a priority to all of us. Anyone who apologises for demanding land back is a coward and is selling out.
The legacy of the giants who came before us, those who were tortured, those who were imprisoned, those who were
harassed, even when they were facing death they were never scared to say they demand freedom in their lifetime. They delivered freedom. What we can do to our generation and in honour of the generation that gave us freedom is to fight for the return of the land and the wealth stolen from us by the beneficiaries of colonialism and children of criminals which landed in this country. Thank you. [Applause.]