President Mugabe has disregarded and violated Zanu
PF and the nation's laws and constitution repeatedly, has ridden roughshod over
the people’s hopes and dreams, in his quest to stay in power at all cost. Even
after decades of absolute power and a life of unparalleled luxury and comfort
he still craved for more power. Indeed the more power he got the greater his craving
and the greater the brutal he became is his quest to secure power.
For the first 33 years since he got into power in 1980 Mugabe has, by and large, got away with his corrupt and tyrannical agenda to grab power at all cost but these last two years has been radically different, his evil past has caught up with him and now it is overwhelming him.
“The marquees have been set up, the roads resurfaced and the WiFi is ready - but proceedings at President Robert Mugabe's ruling party conference this week could be far from peaceful,” reported News24.
“Officially, the Zanu-PF conference at a top Victoria Falls resort will simply confirm Mugabe, 91, as party leader and sole candidate for elections in 2018.”
News24 reporter is spot on, the Zanu PF congress is indeed “far from peaceful”. Even if President Mugabe is confirmed as the party’s candidate for the 2018 elections, everyone knows that the real issue, the elephant in the room, is why he was still leader of the party. He has conned the party members far too often in the past and they have allowed him to get away with it but not this time.
Last year Mugabe did not want Joice Mujuru to be
elected by party members VP because he had always considered it his prerogative
to appoint (and then fire) all those in powerful positions in the party, government
and in society that way all the appointees are beholden to him and at his mercy.
If the election had happened it would have been the first time party members
had had a meaningful say in who held a position of power beyond the Central
Committee; this is something Mugabe simply did not want to see happen.
The assassination plot against him was all a lie
and after a year with no evidence produced many people can see this was just another
one of Mugabe’s dirty tricks to get what HE wanted – absolute power, of course.
The accusation allowed him to dump Joice Mujuru and 150 other big wigs from the
party.
The dumping of so many party members of fictitious
charges had one big unintended consequence, it send a shock wave, a wake-up
call, to everyone in the party and outside forcing them to see Mugabe for the
ruthless and manipulative tyrant he is. The people of Zimbabwe's hatred of President
Mugabe came to the fore in the 2008 elections but whatever it was back then it
has since redoubled in the last two and half years.
If there are no fireworks in Victoria Falls and
President Mugabe manages to keep a lid on things and stops Zanu PF imploding; still
we can be sure the fireworks and implosion is still on the cards it is just a
matter of when not if. Since President Mugabe himself has set the precedence
making Zanu PF a party of thugs who do not have any respect for the law or
constitution in resolving such important matters as who will lead the party then
he should not be surprise that his successor will be whoever is left standing
after the party implosion!
Zanu PF is doomed to implode; there is nothing
anyone can do to stop it. Indeed the party imploded last year resulting in the
expulsion of Mujuru and her followers and now what remained is set to implode
and fracture into two or more further fragments.
If people like Minister Chris Mutsvangwa and
Minister Shuvai Mahofa are not summarily dumped during the Vic Falls congress
then it will be on President Mugabe’s to-do list before Christmas or his wife
will give him hell! Peace, what peace is there in hell?
“I want to emphasise that this is not an elective conference, it’s only the congress which is elective. So, we must not spread rumours. You are aware that his Excellency the president is the only one after the amendment of the constitution last December who is elected … all of us we are appointees and he can appoint at his leisure,” said Khaya-Moyo.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly what is wrong with Zanu PF; why should President Mugabe be the only one exercising such absolute powers – to appoint everyone else with any meaningful power in the party “at his leisure”! If those clamouring for the return of the woman’s quota system had any brain at all then they will be fighting for the return of the party members’ electoral powers too.
President Mugabe has toyed with Zanu PF as if it was his own personal property and not a party belonging to thousand other members, human beings and not his cattle or sheep to abuse and discard as he wished. It is about time that Zanu PF members put their foot down and stopped this nonsense!
If looks can kill then there will a bloodbath in Victoria Fall. Can you imagine Kasukuwere bumping into Mutsvangwa each would be reaching for their weapons before anyone can step in to stop them. If Grace was to meet Oppah or Shuvai, she throwing a nuclear bomb at the two even if she dies too.
ReplyDeleteNow that everyone knows there are no set rules to govern the party's affairs everyone is in to win by all the dirty means they can think of; the in fighting in Zanu PF is not over by a long shot!
Women league members have passed a vote of no confidence on Monica Mutsvangwa and Esphinah Nhari. The former is being punished for opposing the firing of Manicaland women’s league member and the later for denouncing G40 faction.
ReplyDeleteSo Nhari is being fired for denouncing the G40 which no one in the party has ever acknowledged exists! What a bunch of hypocrites Zanu PF members are!