Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo reminds the
warring party factions that President Mugabe is the party’s 2018 Presidential
candidate and threatens those plotting to succeed him with “disciplinary action”.
Some things never change; President has played his
divide and rule game for years and he is still at it. He is the one who
destroyed the Mujuru faction by “baby dumping” her and her supporters but
within weeks he created another faction, G40, to challenge the Mnangagwa faction.
The G40 faction is nothing more than a handful of political feather-weight headed
by Grace Mugabe, a nobody with more ambition and no brains. The G40 faction
would have accomplished nothing if it was not for the tacit support from Mugabe
himself.
After months of the dog-eat-dog factional fighting
that has left poor Mnangagwa shaken and stirred in equal measure; after the demise
of Mai Mujuru he was cocksure the presidency was his, now he will be very glad
to still keep his job playing the subordinate role to Mugabe. Now with Mnangagwa
firmly put in his place, Mugabe takes centre stage to claim his role as the
only one who can keep the peace and unite in the party.
President Mugabe is sending Simon Khaya-Moyo to
marshal together the harassed and blooded members from both sides of the
factional divide to stop the fighting and accept Mugabe as the unifying force
just as the party has always done with the populous!
Yes Mr Khaya-Moyo and we all know what that means;
having decided on the Zanu PF candidate we the populous are expected to dutifully
vote for him or her, even if the candidate is a baboon as the late VP Simon Vengai
Muzenda once boasted.
"Chinohi Zvobgo chii panyama yehuku? Chero
tikaisa gudo tikati ndiro ratada, ndiro ramunovhotera." (Zvobgo is a
nobody! Even if we nominate a baboon, you will vote for it) Ranted and raved
the former VP in 2000; first against the late Eddison Zvobgo, his nemesis in
the factional war for Zanu PF dominance in Masvingo Province (a factional war orchestrated
by none other than Mugabe himself), and then against the increasing restive populous
who were demanding democratic change.
Muzenda deputized President Mugabe from 1980, when
the country attained her independence, right through to his death in September 2003.
How the nation was lumbered with such a totally useless and brain-dead
individual in high office for all those years is per se testimony of Zanu PF’s
political struggle hold on the nation.
No doubt Mugabe too wants to die in office
regardless of his tragic track record of mind blogging incompetence, rampant
corruption and murderous tyrannical oppression. In his 36 years in power he has
murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain his de facto
one-party dictatorship. Or rather his one-man dictatorship, since he has always
surrounded himself with minions like Simon Muzenda, Simon Khaya-Moyo, Emmerson
Mnangagwa, etc. who have all shown that they have had as much say in the
running of Zanu PF as povo have had in the governance of Zimbabwe.
Yes Comrade Simon Khaya-Moyo we have all heard
you; Zanu PF has nominated President Mugabe as its candidate for the coming
elections and we, the people, will be frog matched to the Polling Stations to
dutifully endorse his electoral victory. All past elections were conducted on
the strict basis of delivering no-regime-change; why should the next elections
be any different? And yet, the situation on the ground demands that the nation
must question the valid of this no-regime-change mantra like never before.
Hearing Zanu PF’s demands to rally behind the
party is one thing but cowering down to the tyrannical dictates like serfs is
another matter.
This nation is groaning under the burden of 36
years of corrupt and tyrannical rule. Unemployment has soared to 90% plus
compared to 25% in SA; millions are living in abject poverty. Our hospitals and
clinics, starved of funds, have no staff and no medicines whilst the man Zanu
PF is intend on imposing on the nation is rucking in a staggering $2 billion a
year from the wholesale looting in Marange. This madness should have never
happened and now it must be stopped!
Zanu PF has the right to nominate whoever the party
pleases as its presidential candidate for the next elections, it can even nominate
a baboon if it so wished but what Zanu PF must know is the next elections will
be free, fair and credible and the results a true reflection of the free and
democratic wish of the people of Zimbabwe. The days of frog-matching people to
vote for whoever Zanu PF nominates are over!
Zimbabwe should have had her first free, fair and
credible elections in 2013 if MDC had not betrayed the nation and failed to get
even one of the 2008 GPA democratic reforms implemented BEFORE that year’s elections.
All the GPA reforms will now be implemented BEFORE the next elections without
failure. Any elections held before all the reforms have been implemented will
be null and void!
We are sick to the back teeth of rigged elections
and equally sick of listening to those who take part in such elections only to
bitch about “rigged elections” after. We have drawn the line in the sand; enough
is enough!
The
right to free, fair and credible elections is not a privilege and it is high
time that President Mugabe and his cronies in Zanu PF understood and accepted this
simple, basic and irrefutable political reality.
Yes the last year has been hell for V P Emmerson Mnangagwa; with Mujuru's demise he has singing and dancing in the rain to celebrate what he thought was a crowning moment of all his year of groveling to Mugabe and doing all the tyrant's dirty work. But ever since Professor Moyo gave that BBC interview in which he made it clear that being first VP meant nothing (no doubt President Mugabe had approved the choice of words) it has been one lost skirmish after another the political ambushes have been coming thick and fast. No wonder he is shaken and stirred in equal measure.
ReplyDeleteSomeday, when the political dust has finally settled down and all Zimbabweans their free, fair and credible vote guaranteed is would be great to celebrate the historic occasion by launching an opaque beer called "Crocodile" and a cocktail with an exotic Zimbabwe fruit called "Ngwena". Both the beer and cocktail must be served shaken and stirred in equal measure!
The nation must toast every free, fair and credible election; even if it be for a school prefect, Councillor, MP or State President, it does not matter; with a Crocodile of Ngwena shaken and stirred in equal measure!
The 2008 GPA democratic reforms must be implemented BEFORE the next elections. Any elections held before the reform will be null and void! We have waited for free, fair and credible elections for far too long to accept even one more rigged election.
Free, fair and credible vote is not a privilege, it is a right; whenever it should be denied we must demand it and never rest until we have secured it once again.
Yes Mugabe has created the G40 faction as a quick replacement of the Mujuru faction as a counter check to Mnangagwa faction. But unlike all the other factions Mugabe has sponsored in the past to effect his divide and rule schemes with no intention of see anyone of those factions win, he has a special interest in seeing the G40 faction win the succession war.
ReplyDeleteYes Mnangagwa has been thoroughly "shaken and stirred in equal measure" but Mugabe is not necessarily calling a truce because he feels sorry for Mnangagwa or because the two factions are now strong enough for one to counter balance the other. The tyrant may be calling a truce, which the very seriously shaken and stirred in equal measure Mnangagwa will no doubt welcome, only to lure Mnangagwa to drop his guard for Mugabe to deliver the coup de grace!
Mugabe is a ruthless murderer and after decades of using Mnangagwa to do his dirty work notable during Gukurahundi and then masterminding and implementing all the vote rigging schemes of the last 16 years; it would fit the nature and character of Mugabe to thank Mnangagwa with a kiss of death! Mugabe is a man of violence, he has "degrees in violence" has said so himself!
Within weeks of Joice Mujuru being kicked out of the party, before the dust of that ugly episode had settled, there has been an attempt to poison Mnangagwa. No one has ever been arrested and no suspect named; we all have one suspect but will not dare name!
Zanu PF's current factional war has a predetermined winner already. Think of it as a football game in which one side has had four players send off, scored twice but ruled offside although both were from corner kicks, etc. The game go into extra time and penalty shoot-out until the favoured team scores the winner!
Zanu PF's factional war will not stop until Mnangagwa's threat to succeed Mugabe is completely eliminated for good! Mnangagwa can read, he is a lawyer for Pete’s sake, he can read between the lines what that means!
Now that you have said it, it is almost certain to be what President Mugabe has planned for Mnangagwa, a stab in the back, after all these decades of doing his dirty work! But considering how much this nation has suffered because of him I would be lying to say I feel sorry for Mnangagwa. He would be getting his reward for his treason and betrayal and murders of innocent people. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword!
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ReplyDeleteThe easy with which President Mugabe has twisted his Zanu PF colleagues round his little finger makes him a great and clever man or they are some of the most naive people on earth. It is when ones at the mess he has made of the nation that one is forced to discount the first option, only a first class idiot would have made such a dog's breakfast of the country and people. As for his cronies they are without doubt some of the most corrupt and incompetent nincompoops on this earth!