The way to a man’s heart
is through his stomach! Many people would agree.
The way into a disgruntled
Zanu PF member’s head is through his/her stomach! Anyone remotely familiar with
Zimbabwe politics will agree to that; there is nothing Zimbabwean politicians
would not do for you if you feed them, especially meat, beer and/or weed – strictly
in that order for the best results.
Last year Didymus Mutasa
had 8 out 10 provinces lined up to vote for Joice Mujuru and had lined up the
Zanu PF Youth League conference to launch what he was thought was the first bid
for demand for change and power. The nation’s economy was sinking fast and the
youths, like everyone else, were feeling the ill effects of unemployment and
growing poverty. Mutasa was confident the Youth League conference would be
calling for change.
As if to underline the
point of the worsening economic situation, the party was struggling to raise
the money to buy food to feed the delegates to the Youth Conference. A fact
President Mugabe seized upon and used to his advantage.
When President Mugabe
met the conference delegates the eve of their conference, instead of talking
about the country’s worsening economic situation, the hordes of unemployed and
the need for meaningful leadership change; Mugabe talked about Mutasa, as party
secretary for administration had let the delegates down by failing to secure
the money to buy them food. Mugabe promised the youths he will kill 30 cattle
from his farm to ensure they have meat and supply milk for their tea. By the
end of the evening the youths were singing Mugabe’s praises and would have lynched
anyone who dared criticize Mugabe!
President Mugabe has
managed to keep everyone in Zanu PF behind him regardless his sorry record as a
national leader because was clever to give each one a share of the looted wealth,
just enough to keep them happy. He did the same with Tsvangirai and his MDC
friends.
Some people are talking
of fireworks during the Zanu PF conference starting tomorrow as a result of the
worsening factional wars in the party. There will be no fireworks because
President Mugabe has made arrangements to ensure the conference delegates are
well fed. The party has raised some money to pay for the conference but even if
it had failed to raise a dollar President Mugabe would have footed the bill –
this is where some of the $ 2 billion a year from the looting and plunder in Marange
goes.
The easy with which Mugabe has been able to bribe our political leaders is shocking even the ordinary people too. How many times have the voters given away their vote because they were given a t-shirt, youths give away their chance to ask about jobs because they were given a piece of meat and even leaders like Tsvangirai forgetting about the reforms because he was given a mansion!
ReplyDeleteSo the well-being of 13 million people is being traded for a mansion!
We are our own worst enemies, selling away our rights and even our very lives for a piece of meat!
Patrick you were right, Mugabe is splashing a show for the delegates and they have responded with the singing of the tyrant's praises already!
ReplyDelete“Your Excellency, when we were coming here Thursday aboard the Air Zimbabwe plane, Central Committee members said I should thank you for flying them to Victoria Falls,” said Zanu PF Matabeleland North provincial chairperson, Richard Moyo.
“Some of us were flying for the first time and are very happy.” Speechless!
Mugabe can afford to fly all Central Committee members to the moon and back if he so wished; he has been pocketing billions every year from all the looting and plunder going on in Marange. According to Partnership Africa, Canada Mugabe pocketed $2 billion in
2012 alone!
Mugabe is not only paying for the flight tickets of all the 300 Central Committee members, he will pumper them silly with food and drink throughout the conference just to make them
forget the party and country's many problems. They will all be tripping over each other to sing Mugabe's praises; the praising has started already with Moyo! what a nation of simpletons!
The country is sinking into the abyss; unemployment has soared to 90%, that is not what we want-ed? Millions are starving, that is not what we wanted? Of all people Mathema should know that over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans have been murdered by this Zanu PF regime in its drive to establish the de facto one party dictatorship Mathema is so proud of. Thousands of Zimbabweans lost their very lives is the fight for independence, freedom and liberty for all and not so the few can deny the mass their freedom, rights and even the right to life!
ReplyDeleteZanu PF is now completely rotten to the core these nincompoops like Minister Mathema are now so excited with the prospects of the coming feast President Mugabe has prepared for him and the other delegates he has already forgotten about the masses and the real outside the conference venue.
“We are the only party that knows we have only one centre of power and leadership. Our party has one ideology and philosophy that says we belong to one party,” said Mathema. Really?
Even President Mugabe himself acknowledged that Zanu PF is being torn apart by the raging factional wars; how can that be is the party has “only one centre of power and leadership”? Unless of course most of the members live in cloud-cuckoo land or it is that they start hallucinating the minute they have a piece of meat in their mouth.
We really have some of the most useless leaders in the world; the country is in serious economic and political trouble and those tasked to come up with answers are hallucinating of a Zimbabwe totally divorced from the real one just because they have been bribe with meat!
"When the time for a congress comes, we are all going to resign before elections to choose the new leaders, that is how the leaders are to be elected. Right now we are far away from the
ReplyDeletecongress and some elements in the party are calling for others to be removed from their positions, we say pasi nemi," Mugabe said.
Yes Mr President but least you forget; you are the one who removed Comrade Joice Mujuru and 150 others from their positions; congress had nothing to do with that one. Comrade Mnangagwa and his supporters should take note and watch out! It is not everyone who waves the olive branch and shouts peace! peace! who want peace. Some have the olive branch in one hand and an assassin’s dagga in the other!
Mugabe reads the wrong speech again in Vic Falls.
ReplyDeleteIf he cannot walk because he is physically weak; yes use a wheelchair. So now it is clear that he is also mentally weak; what is Grace going to do now? She is the one determined to keep him in power no matter what!
“We have two constitutions in this country; the one is written which I hear some of us saying they want to do civic education on, but there is another constitution which we see every day,” said Madhuku.
ReplyDelete“If you go out in the streets and ask what is the constitution of the country people will tell you that there is one called Robert Mugabe who is the President of the country, who will do this and that, and that they take seriously that his wife will be the next President.
“So, in any debate about constitutionalism we must always know that there are two con-stitutions in this country,” said Madhuku
Well Professor Madhuku is right there, we do have two constitutions in the country, the written that most people know but which government will respect and strictly apply if it is in Mugabe or Zanu PF’s interest and then there is the second constitution which is the supreme law of the land which says Mugabe can disregard the above constitution and apply his whim if he so wishes.
If the truth must be told and it must, the 2013 constitution was so weak and feeble it allowed too much wriggle room for a tyrant to misinterpret and even abuse the powers of the State President and Mugabe is the type of dictator who does not need a second invitation to abuse his powers.
Contrary to all MDC leaders’ claim that the March 2013 constitution was a democratic one it is not. Mugabe “dictated” it as the Zanu PF MP on the committee that drafted it has since admitted and the tyrant saw to it that the constitution was weak, feeble and allowed him all the space to abuse his dictatorial power it granted to him.
If we are serious about wanting a democratic Zimbabwe with strong democratic institution that will stop any tyrant dead in his tracks then we must discard the weak March 2013 constitution and draft a democratic one for a change!