Chatunga is one of the late Robert Mugabe’s two sons.
Well, well! Like father like son! Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years by corrupting those around him and riding roughshod over the populous denying them their freedoms and basic rights. Mugabe was both a devious operator and ruthless tyrant; conning and fear were his guiding mantras. His son, Chatunga, learnt and learnt well from his father and is already putting what he learned into practice!
For the ordinary Zimbabweans he expects us all to be fearful of what we say on social media about our superiors like Chamisa! During his 37 years in power Mugabe had over 30 000 murdered in cold blood and millions were beaten and raped for selfish political gain. Chamisa may not be as powerful to do all that yet but who knows what he can do on social media. One of the things fuelling fear is not knowing powers these social demigods wield!
The second and more poignant component of Chatunga’s twitter was directed at Chamisa himself. Flatter him and he will be eating out of your hand like a puppy!
"Oh this one is another level!!"came Chamisa’s tweet reply.
QED!
Chatunga has no doubt seen how, first, Tsvangirai’s daughter and then when she died his son had used their late father’s name and ill-got wealth to catapult themselves into parliament. Chatunga is clearly thinking of doing the same.
Everyone knows that MDC leaders have no principles and values, they are breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent. Chatunga’s late father Mugabe exploited this weakness to the dregs during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. The dictator gave the MDC leaders ministerial limos, generous salaries, a US$ 4 million mansion to Tsvangirai, etc. and the MDC leaders spent the five years singing praises to Mugabe.
“He is the father of the nation. A fountain of wisdom! He is unflappable!” sung Tendai Biti!
MDC leaders not only kicked implementing the reforms into the prickly pear thicket but not even the constant nagging by SADC leaders could get them to implement even one reform.
They thought Mugabe had accepted them in the exclusive ruling elite club, they did not need to implement any reform now. Mugabe went on to blatantly rig the 2013 elections and MDC’s defeat was so overwhelming, over MDC leaders lost their gravy train seats and were in shock!
One can only imagine the young Chatunga asking his father to tell him the many stories of how he had outwitted Morgan Tsvangirai et al again and again! Now Chatunga can start outwitting Chamisa too!
The young Chatunga will only have to ask and one of the safe MDC parliamentary seat will be his.
There is no denying that Professor Jonathan Moyo, Patrick Zhuwao and other Zanu PF leaders booted out of the party in the 2017 military coup, played a major role in propping Nelson Chamisa and his MDC Alliance in Zimbabwe’s July 2018 elections.
The one thing we can all be certain about Professor Moyo and his disgruntled colleagues is they are all itching to get back into power and, above all else, they will not want the discredited autocratic and tyrannical system of government dismantled. They would happily pour huge chunks of their looted wealth just to maintain the status quo.
So, all our efforts to dismantle the corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship is doomed as long as we have the resourced filthy rich ruling elite, their families and cronies and their descendants using their wealth to bribe and block all efforts to implement democratic reforms.
If we want a democratic Zimbabwe must trace and recover all the vast looted wealth amassed by Mugabe and his cronies or the prospect of the likes of Chatunga Mugabe becoming another dictator will hang over our head like the sword of Damocles.
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