The photograph speaks more eloquently all that needs to be said – a shrew
vanquished!
Ever since Grace burst of the Zimbabwe political stage and went after Mai
Mujuru with all guns blazing and then turn on Mnangagwa in the fight to be the
one to succeed her husband as State president, she has been as cocky as hell. The
photograph says it all – the shrew has not just been tamed, she has been completely
and totally vanquished! Whilst the Mujuru faction has tried to regroup and relaunch their bid for political power as Zim PF there is no danger of the G40 faction doing the same. This is not to say if Mnangagwa was to “baby dump” Grace, to use her phrase, there will be a shortage of political wooers. There are many political parties in Zimbabwe without even two bond coins to their name and a rich political widow like Grace will be an irresistible magnet as Joice Mujuru would readily testify!
VP
Mnangagwa should not hurry off and throw another big party to celebrate his
victory over the G40 faction as he did following his appointment as VP in 2014;
his victory over G40 is but a skirmish the real threat to him becoming
president, at least past 2018, is coming from the economic meltdown and winning
the elections.
Zimbabweans
have become restless and the street protests will only get worse unless
something is done to revive the economy and end the tragic human suffering the
current economic meltdown has brought. President Mnangagwa will ditch some of
Mugabe’s stupid policies like indigenization law and do something to reduce the
runaway wholesale looting and plunder. If he can reduce the looting in Marange
by half even, that will boost collected revenue by one billion dollars or more!
The impact on the national economy will be unbelievable!
Mnangagwa
cannot risk contesting in free and fair elections because he has too much
political baggage, a lot more than Joice Mujuru and we know she has struggle to
relaunch herself as a credible candidate to rule Zimbabwe.
VP Emmerson Mnangagwa can try to sell himself as his own man and distance himself from Mugabe and the past; he will fail. Mai Mujuru has tried to do that arguing that she said and did nothing to stop Zanu PF corruption, vote rigging and murderous tyranny because she saw nothing.
"A puppy does not open its eyes the day it is born," she argued.
Of course the people of Zimbabwe have dismissed that as an insult to their intelligence. There is no breed of dog, bird, lizard, or whatever whose young take more than 34 days to open their eyes let alone 34 months after birth. She expects us to believe that it took her 34 years to open her sexy eyes!
Oh by the way, Mai Mujuru may have been as blind as a blind-mole for 34 years but that did not stop her getting a lion's share of all the looting and plundering that has crippled the nation.
Mai Mujuru has maintained she does not know any details of how Zanu PF has been rigging elections; for once she is telling the truth. She is a simpleton who was promoted way, way above her level of competence. She has no idea how elections were being rigged because anything more complex than the equivalent of one variable linear equation is Greek to her. Even at the individual level, one is often to deal with complex, two variables, problems. As a national leader one has to deal with a lot more complex problems, with five or more variables.
Mai
Mujuru is a corrupt and incompetent simpleton who should have never been
allowed to hold any public office beyond that of a councilor; her own track
record of the last 34 years confirms this. She has only managed to stay in
office all these years because Zanu PF rigged elections. Of course she is being
naïve if we expect the people of Zimbabwe to elect her president in a free,
fair and credible election.
Whereas Mujuru is struggling to shake off her corrupt simpleton tag Emmerson Mnangagwa will have an ever tougher time shaking off his vote rigging murderous thug image. Mnangagwa may not be smart enough to have masterminded any of the Zanu PF vote rigging schemes but he was the heartless thug who supervised their implementation.
Whereas Mujuru is struggling to shake off her corrupt simpleton tag Emmerson Mnangagwa will have an ever tougher time shaking off his vote rigging murderous thug image. Mnangagwa may not be smart enough to have masterminded any of the Zanu PF vote rigging schemes but he was the heartless thug who supervised their implementation.
The
greatest hindrance to Mnangagwa’s presidential ambition is by far the prominent
role he played in the Gukurahundi massacres. He has made a spirited effort to
down play his role and even threatened to sue former MDC Senator David Coltart,
to silence him. It all backfired as it only encouraged more and more details of
his role to come out.
Mnangagwa
will never implement any meaningful democratic reforms to allow free, fair and
credible elections because he will never win such elections. Not even if the
economy produced a double digit economic rate!
What Mnangagwa should do is force Mugabe to step down straight away, he does not have a single day to waste, so he can implement his economic reforms and policies designed to end the economic rot. He may be able to resist the pressure for meaningful political reform if he has great economic recovery figures under his belt.
What Mnangagwa should do is force Mugabe to step down straight away, he does not have a single day to waste, so he can implement his economic reforms and policies designed to end the economic rot. He may be able to resist the pressure for meaningful political reform if he has great economic recovery figures under his belt.
Mnangagwa
has spent his whole life building this Zanu PF dictatorship and perfected the
art of vote rigging and Mugabe was the greatest beneficiary of his hard work.
For the first time in 36 years he is to be the principle beneficiary; he is not
going to risk it all by implementing reforms and forced to dismantle the
dictatorship and renounce vote rigging! He has waited for too long to give it
all up when he the presidency is now one rigged election away!
We are in this hell-hole because before independence it was unthinkable for a black person to say anything remotely critical of black leaders. We saw the white as wrong and evil and the blacks as good and wholesome. It too 20 years to finally accept that leaders like President Mugabe can be corrupt and tyrants we then switched to Mugabe wrong and evil and Tsvangirai good and infalible. Even with MDC leaders' track record of being corrupt and incompetent people like Mkwananzi still treat them as good and infallible. As if that was not bad enough, the idiots think of themselves as enlightened - Tajamuka! The stupidity of it all gets me!
ReplyDeleteHow are we ever going to get out of this hell-hole when we still have people are so naive and gullible, they still continue to see corrupt and incompetent people as competent even with all the evidence put before them?
I do agree with you there, President Mnangagwa can bring about a sea change in Zimbabwe's economic fortunes just by scrapping stupid laws laws like the indigenisation law and taking decisive action to reduce the rampant corruption. In a country with 90% unemployment rate, most economic activities performing at as low as 35% economic recovery rate of 15% plus even twice that is possible.
ReplyDeleteIf Mnangagwa was to achieve such economic miracles many people will forget about democratic reforms and elect him.
I do not see Mugabe accepting that he must step down, his mind is set on dying in office. If I was Mnangagwa I would consolidate my position by not just silencing some of the G40 members but Mugabe and his wife too by forcing him to step down now! It is high time Mnangagwa showed the nation that he has what it takes to be president by acting decisively !
He has less than a year and half before the next elections, just enough time for noticeable economic recovery to filter through if changes are implemented now!
If Mnangagwa is hoping that President Mugabe will ever offer to step down and allow him some time to establish himself and stamp his own authority before the next elections, then he had better think again.
ReplyDeleteMugabe has been in power for 36 years, the country is in a total mess and everything, absolutely everything the tyrant has done has taken the nation deeper and deeper into the hell-hole but that has done nothing to dampen his desire to hang on to power. It is simply not in the DNA of a tyrant to give up power no matter what and Mugabe is in a league of his own when it comes to power hungry megalomanias!
Frankly, I do not think Mnangagwa has the intellect to see the critical importance of him easing the old sausage out of office so he can do something to rescue the economy. Given Zimbabwe's dozy and incompetent opposition going into the next elections with no reforms implemented is a given. But with the economy still in a mess, Zanu PF will have to pull all the vote rigging stops to win.
The last thing Mnangagwa wanted is to go into the next elections with the same baggage of economic meltdown and then have to massively rig the elections and thus confirm he is just a chip off the old tyrant Mugabe.
As far as the ordinary people of Zimbabwe are concerned all these factional wars in Zanu PF are just a distraction, they should have had their eyes glue on the ball demanding meaningful democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections. Sadly they have the physical eyes but not the mental eyes. We are in this mess because the Zimbabwe electorate is naive and gullible and unless they sit up and pay attention and use their heads this nation will never get out of this hell-hole. Never ever!
For the record, I am pleased that "Mafirakureva" Grace Mugabe has been silenced and those stupid nationwide rallies are over. The prospect of her as President frightened the daylight out of me. Of the three Grace, Joice and Emmerson, the latter has some common sense whereas the two women are just empty drums who cannot think of anything else other than loot and shopping!
ReplyDeleteGiven the present chaotic state of affairs and the country's wealth and potential; it is possible to achieve a 30% economic growth rate for a decade or so given a good and competent government. If Mnangagwa was to takeover he will achieve a 10% growth rate, at least, without any problem; if he did even the West will be tempted to turn a blind eye to his vote rigging antics. What matters for the country, is we will have forfeited the chance for democratic reform, the even higher economic growth rates and a chance to have our basic freedoms and rights restored.
We had our golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU and we wasted it and now we are paying dearly for it and, God forbid, may do so for manny, many more generations to come!
@ mai Chibwe
ReplyDeleteI agree with you there that there is nobody on the political stage worth the candle but that is not to say there are Zimbabweans out there with the ability and vision to lead the country. They are there alright. Why they have not come out is because the present political system does not allow quality to emerge but the exact opposite - scum. One has to be a murderous thug like Temba Mliswa, Kasukuwere, Mnangagwa, Mugabe, etc. to survive in a Zimbabwe's dangerous political waters.
Tsvangirai and Chamisa are doing their best right now to recruit Jabulani Sibanda and all the other disgruntled war veteran thugs to their side, just to stiffen up their militia.
As long as we maintain a political system were thugs rule the roost then we will have corrupt and murderous tyrants like Mugabe or corrupt and incompetent idiots like Tsvangirai as leaders.
If we want leaders with some common sense at least then we must implement all the democratic reforms so there is freedom of expression and meaningful democratic debate and competition. People like Mugabe and Tsvangirai will never win a free, fair and credible elections because they will never stand full public scrutiny.
We have allowed tyrants like Mugabe to corrupt our state institutions to create a dictatorship so he and his thugs can rule the roost. It is for us the people to implement the democratic reforms designed to dismantle the dictatorship, if we want change.
You want competent leaders; then first cleanup Zimbabwe's dirty political system.