2012 has definitely not put its best foot forward as has been characteristic of all election years in Zimbabwe in the past 3 decades of independence. Recent events of violence by some unscrupulous members of the police force in Nkayi and other areas, which have been synonymous with election years in those areas, have degraded the status of the once elite force in the region to the ranks of the notorious NAZI Geheime Staatspolizei, commonly known as Gestapo (Secret State Police). Our police have become so partisan in the Zimbabwean securitised politics that even the top ranking military and police officers openly reiterate that they will never accept a President who did not fight in the liberation struggle.

At present ZAPU has no newspaper mouthpiece. The trend is that the State media covers ZAPU when it finds or thinks it has found something negative to report on. The so- called independent press appears to support other political parties, and also looks for something negative to report on when it comes to coverage of ZAPU. Some will argue that this thrust of focus by the existing press is part of the exercise of what remains of freedom of the press. It falls on ZAPU to speak for itself, beyond any measure and amount of distortion, on what defines it as a political brand. This press release is but a small effort at that. ZAPU is unique in its face, its stand and its aims. The reader is invited to take a slow, reflective walk with the writer down this uniqueness.

One of the world's greatest statesmen of his time, Napoleon, once remarked that 'you must never fight too  often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war '. The guy must have been a good history student who had acquainted himself with the 100 years' war between France and Britain. One hundred years fighting the same enemy! The same thing is happening is Zimbabwe.