According to the Zimbabwe
Independent, Mugabe could soon remove Chiwenga as ZDF commander anytime between
the beginning of next year and the next elections in 2018.
"Plans afoot to retire Chiwenga for political reasons,”
a senior government official told the paper.
"There is already a precedent set when his predecessor, the late ZDF commander General Vitalis Zvinavashe, was removed on political grounds after he was in 2003 entangled in controversial stories which involved Mnangagwa, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, retired Colonel Lionel Dyke and plots for a political exit and soft landing for Mugabe. Zvinavashe was deployed to the Zanu PF politburo and given a political role."
"There is already a precedent set when his predecessor, the late ZDF commander General Vitalis Zvinavashe, was removed on political grounds after he was in 2003 entangled in controversial stories which involved Mnangagwa, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, retired Colonel Lionel Dyke and plots for a political exit and soft landing for Mugabe. Zvinavashe was deployed to the Zanu PF politburo and given a political role."
It was only six days ago that Mugabe
was warning the security services chefs not to take sides in the party’s
factional wars – or to be more precise not to take Mnangagwa’s side – and he is
already taking action. That was quick!
In Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, one does not
need to do or say anything to be in serious trouble; look at Joice Mujuru, she
was booted out of the party for no other reason than that there had been a
bedroom coup in State House and unknown to her, she was in the way!
Joice Mujuru and many of her supporters
were all booted out of the party because her election into the VP position
would have disrupted Mugabe’s plan to have his wife appointed into that position.
Mugabe needed an excuse to justify booting Mujuru and her supporters out and so
he falsely accused them of plotting to assassinate him.
It has now been over a year since
the treason charge was made and the “baby dumping” punishment was carried out
and yet no one has ever been arrested and brought before the court of law
charge with this serious crime. The nation should have known this was just another
trumped up charge, many of Mugabe’s political opponents have all had been
accused of high treason. In this case it was not the CIO, Police or Minister of
Home Affairs who made the accusation but a hysterical Grace Mugabe, forming at
the mouth – a dead giveaway of yet another stage managed national crisis with a
pathetic actress playing the grieved Lady Macbeth!
Mugabe has always ruled by fear,
when he warned security services chefs last week to stay out of Zanu PF
politics he was reminding them he is a ruthless boss. He was dishing out the dose
of fear by the bucketful this time. Just to make sure the message was rammed
home; he is firing General Chiwenga and made an example of him! There will be
no court-marshal, Mugabe is Commander-In-Chief; read he is the accuser,
prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.
Besides, General Chiwenga is one of
the top brass security Chefs who vowed that they will never salute anyone with
no liberation war credentials – it was sweet music to Mugabe’s ears at the time
but now that the tyrant has other plans that is unforgivable! Times have
changed; Mugabe now wants his wife Grace to be president and she has no liberation
war credentials. So in firing Chiwenga before Grace takes office the tyrant is
saving the General the embarrassment of having to eat humble pie!
There many other security sector
chefs like Police Commissioner Chihuri and Douglas Nyikayaramba who too said
they would never salute anyone with no liberation war credentials; they must be
worried sick whether they too will be taking early retirement. They have good
reason to be worried sick; Chiwenga is definitely not going to be the only one
to be booted out of office. The on-going in fighting in Zanu PF is now so
savage and ruthless, as far as Mugabe is concerned; everyone is now guilty of
high treason. So before the dust finally settles and calmness restored (if at
all) many, many more chefs’ heads will be chopped off! The purge has only just
started; the only question is who will be next!
Mugabe is like a vampire bat that blows
soothing warm breathe after each savage bite!! The most notable subtle detail to
be noted is that this is a rabies savage bite because in Zimbabwe’s worsening
economic situation anyone kicked out party, government, army, etc. will soon be
wallowing in abject poverty.
In the last 35 years General Chiwenga
has jumped in his car and never had to think twice where he was going because
he has never paid a penny for fuel let alone anything else. He will now learn
that fuel costs money. It will not be long before he too is reminded the bank
loans he got must be paid back; loans that Chiwenga thought had been written
off would suddenly be revived – that is the sort of thing Mugabe would do, he is
very vindictive.
To General Chiwenga and all the
security Chefs now quivering in their boots fearful they are the next one to
join Chiwenga into early retirement and down the slippery slope into abject
poverty; we the povo welcome you to the real Zimbabwe. You have played your
role in helping Mugabe establish and retain this corrupt and tyrannical
dictatorship. For the last 35 years you have live a life of untold luxury
whilst we suffered for want of clean water, one decent meal and all the other bare
necessities of life.
The army's independence was badly compromised by the individuals President Mugabe promoted to lead it. We learnt good stuff from the British but all these things were soon forgotten by the Chefs in their blind effort to please President Mugabe. Solomon Mujuru, Zvinavashe, Chiwenga, etc. they were all the same! Now Mugabe is going after them and picking them one by one and discarding them all.
ReplyDeletePeople like Chiwenga will soon find out that fuel cost money and he will feel it the more because his cut from such places as Marange will stop very soon, now that he is a marked man!
Now that he has lost his military position his shrew will have the renewed confidence to comeback into his life and give him a thorough dress down. He will not have any soldiers at his gate to tell her to go away, she cannot wait to lay her hands on him!
The lack of principled values and breath-taking stupidity is the common thread that runs through our failed leaders. I know Chiwenga is not the cleverest kid on the block still one would think he has some common sense to know that it was not for him alone to decide who was to be president of Zimbabwe. So if the people should elect some one with no war credential in a free, fair and credible elections why would he refuse to respect the people's wishes.
ReplyDeleteIn standing up and publicly say he would not salute a democratically elected leader but continued to salute someone who continued to rig elections Chiwenga showed that he was not worthy to be a general!
I believe many Zimbabweans who took part in the war of liberation really believed in freedom, liberty, human rights and all the rest it is just that when they tasted power they went crazy and became even worse oppressor than the whites they had set out to remove! Power is a very powerful drug and our people simply to do have a head for it much less absolute power which is what President Mugabe and his cronies have enjoyed for the last 35 years.
DeleteThe GNU offered the best chance to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and wean the regime off absolute power; it is a great tragedy that MDC wasted this golden opportunity. The dog-eat-dog fighting in Zanu PF could offer us another chance to end this tyrannical rule! We must be ready to seize the opportunity and not waste it again!
What is really disappointing here is that very few people seem to grasp this; SADC Heads of State had a clear understanding of the critical importance of implementing the GPA reforms than did Tsvangirai and his MDC friends much less the Zimbabwean people! Even today two and half years since the rigged elections we are talking of how to make the dictatorship work when we should be committing ourselves to implement the reforms designed to end it!
DeleteYou have said President Mugabe will never fire Chiwenga because he (Mugabe) is a liar who believes in violence; you are the one who is certainly confused. Mudhara, you need to control you tongue because it always seems to get ahead of your mind; you said one thing in one part and then contradict yourself in the next!
ReplyDeletePresident Mugabe has fired Zvinavashe, his failure to properly investigate Mujuru death and that of Tongogara would suggest that he knew a lot more that he is letting on. If the President is paranoid enough to suspect Chiwenga is on Mnangagwa's camp then it is not beyond him to fire him.
This factional war has seen Mugabe firing Joice Mujuru and hundreds of other very senior party members, who is Chiwenga in all this that he cannot be fired!
Even if the President does not fire Chiwenga, what we can be sure of is that the general and many others in the security service have all snapped to attention. They will all be saluting Grace even saluting her voice of the radio and yet yesterday they said they would not salute a dully elected president with no war credentials and now they are saluting Grace's voice and she is not even an elected rural councillor! Such is the fear Mugabe instils in our cowardly serf leaders!
Fear rules the land and we cannot pretend this is the Zimbabwe we fought for and many died for! The nation does not care if Chiwenga is fired or even murdered; his outrageous statement that he would not salute a democratically elected president shows he is a traitor and a willing toll in the tyrant’s hands! Why should povo, who have suffered for the last 35 years under this tyrannical rule, feel sorry for a traitor who is being kicked in the teeth by the tyrant he created!
In Africa we have a knack for raising our leaders mountain high making them demigods it is no won-der the leaders become lightheaded they see themselves as infallible and therefore they only ones complete to rule regardless how hopeless their track record happen to be!
ReplyDeleteWhat is happening in the great lakes region is worrying but is to be expected!
Yes Paul Kagame may have been a good leader for his country but by extending his rule he has set a terrible example for the nation because he has opened the door for others to follow regardless how hopeless they happen to be! He is only thinking of himself and not the nation!
Constitution are not meant for the here and now only but for generations to follow. If a leader cannot make his mark in 8 or 10 years then, yes he should go. Nations are like everything else in life, they grow and thrive from regular renewal and it is the stagnation that kills nations.
Rwanda can now look forward to many more life-presidents after Kagame and, like Zimbabwe, decades of rot and decay guaranteed!
@ Brooks
ReplyDeleteJust remember we are talking of a very cunning and manipulating tyrant here; the war vets have harassed, beaten and even murdered povo with Mugabe's active encouragement because they were furthering his one-party state agenda. Power was to be the monopoly of those with liberation war credentials. Now he wants his wife to take over after him, he sings a different tune.
Mugabe is a tyrant and he should not be allowed to twist us round his little finger! He said no one without liberation war credentials can be president, he must not be allowed to change now!
President Mugabe has been thanking Zimbabweans for our "resilience" in the face of the economic hardships brought on by the sanctions. He and his cronies continues to pocket billions of dollars from the looting and plunder going on in Marange and he thinks the people are too stupid to notice! We need free and fair elections yesterday!
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