"Nyati (Cde Didymus Mutasa) has re-joined the party and since his
return, it has been our wish to meet him officially as Makoni leadership and
work together going forward,” announce Zanu PF national secretary for finance,
Patrick Chinamasa.
"Sometimes we see things differently and fight, but that should not
separate us. Now that Cde Mutasa is back, we must unite and work together. He
laid a strong foundation for the party in Makoni and his return should solidify
it. We are amending our constitution to create a Council of Elders where cadres
with vast experience like him can sit as advisors.”
What Chinamasa meant to say is “we must unite and loot together!”
All Zanu PF has ever done since getting into power in 1980 was loot and
rig elections to maintain the party’s iron grip on power. As long as there was
plenty of loot to go round Zanu PF were united and the looting and rigging went
ahead smoothly. The party cadres started fighting to the death when the amount
of loot started to fall, notably after the last white owned farms were given
away, and members started to fight over the scraps.
One can understand why people like Mutasa are as keen as mustard to re-join
Zanu PF – within a few months of being booted out of the party in 2014,
together with Mai Mujuru, Rugare Gumbo, Munacho Mutezo, Simbarashe Bhasikiti
and many other, many have hit hard times. Hunger, disease and all the other
problems afflicting the poor are no strangers to the Mutasa and others’ home;
so familiar the dogs wag their tails to welcome them!
One can well imagine Mutasa singing “The good times are here are!” As a
member of the proposed Council of Elders, he is probably expecting to get a
party car, free fuel, an office and secretary, etc., etc.! He will lucky to be paid
Z$500 (US$ 5 at today’s exchange rate) per month allowance.
With the country’s economy sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss, the
nation is on edge and desperate for meaningful democratic change and an end to
the economic meltdown. Instead of accepting that Zanu PF has failed to revive
the economy, step down and allow the nation to implement the democratic reforms
necessary for free, fair and credible elections; the party is doing the exact
opposite, it is refusing to accept it has failed and will use wanton violence
to retain its iron grip on power.
Mnangagwa has Libya’s late dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s mentality of
hanging on to power to the bitter end. Giving up power in a peaceful process is
simply unthinkable, it is not in their DNA!
A word of caution to Didymus Mutasa and company; in
your eagerness to earn brownie points, do not do Zanu PF’s dirty work.
Didymus Mutasa was fingered in 2012 arson attack of
an MDC leader’s home. Christpower Maisiri, an innocent 12 year old boy, was
burnt to death! If you pay no heed to this warning, you can be certain Zanu PF
will not have time for another cover-up as in 2012; you will be the one left
holding the bag and you, not Mnangagwa or anyone else, will account for
whatever is in the bag!
Zimbabwe's worsening economic meltdown is putting Mnangagwa and Zanu PF under increasing pressure to step down. Mnangagwa and his cronies' response will be to step up the brutal repression and hang on to power at all cost. For the last 20 years the party has relied on war veterans more than any other segment of society to do the party’s dirty work of beating and killing the people into submission.
ReplyDeleteThere is no denying that former VP Joice Mujuru had a lot of grass root supporters in the ordinary people and war veterans, the same cannot be said of the G40 faction. And so it makes a great deal of sense for Mnangagwa to be wooing Mai Mujuru and all her factional leaders and war veterans back into the party given the road ahead is going to be rough and will require all thugs to unite.
It is easy enough to entice Mai Mujuru and her lot, they were booted out of Zanu PF six years ago and they are already as poor as the proverbial church rat! The wealth they pretend to have amassed during their 34 years in power was only real whilst they remained party leaders; as soon as they lost the party’s patronage their wealth evaporated like the morning mist. The party is dangling the promise of Zanu PF patronage and the church rats and captivated by the smell of the cheese and are oblivious of the trap!
Mnangagwa want Mutasa and the war veterans to do his dirty work of intimidating, beating, raping and even killing innocent Zimbabweans just to maintain his iron grip on power. Didymus Mutasa, Simbarashe Bhasikiti, Jabulani Sibanda, etc. these are cadres who have shed innocent blood in the past to keep Zanu PF in power. Mnangagwa was Mugabe’s chief enforcer, he has shed the blood of many, many innocent Zimbabweans himself and is ready to do it again. Mnangagwa is certain ready to shed even more innocent blood to hang on to power and we must be ready for it!
Zimbabwe's worsening economic meltdown is putting Mnangagwa and Zanu PF under increasing pressure to step down. Mnangagwa and his cronies' response will be to step up the brutal repression and hang on to power at all cost. For the last 20 years the party has relied on war veterans more than any other segment of society to do the party’s dirty work of beating and killing the people into submission.
ReplyDeleteThere is no denying that former VP Joice Mujuru had a lot of grass root supporters in the ordinary people and war veterans, the same cannot be said of the G40 faction. And so it makes a great deal of sense for Mnangagwa to be wooing Mai Mujuru and all her factional leaders and war veterans back into the party given the road ahead is going to be rough and will require all thugs to unite.
It is easy enough to entice Mai Mujuru and her lot, they were booted out of Zanu PF six years ago and they are already as poor as the proverbial church rat! The wealth they pretend to have amassed during their 34 years in power was only real whilst they remained party leaders; as soon as they lost the party’s patronage their wealth evaporated like the morning mist. The party is dangling the promise of Zanu PF patronage and the church rats and captivated by the smell of the cheese and are oblivious of the trap!
Mnangagwa want Mutasa and the war veterans to do his dirty work of intimidating, beating, raping and even killing innocent Zimbabweans just to maintain his iron grip on power. Didymus Mutasa, Simbarashe Bhasikiti, Jabulani Sibanda, etc. these are cadres who have shed innocent blood in the past to keep Zanu PF in power. Mnangagwa was Mugabe’s chief enforcer, he has shed the blood of many, many innocent Zimbabweans himself and is ready to do it again. Mnangagwa is certain ready to shed even more innocent blood to hang on to power and we must be ready for it!
The challenge is how to force him to step down before he drags the nation over the edge into the abyss as Gaddafi did. Many more Libyans has died in the civilian to remove Gaddafi and nearly 10 years after the dictator was removed, the country is still in chaos. The same can easily happen here!