Professor Jonathan
Moyo and Emerson Mnangagwa are the heavy-weights in Zanu PF; these are two ten
tonne bulls, supercharge with testosterone, locking horns; this is the clash of
the titans. The Zanu PF G40 vs Lacoste factional war has moved up a gear,
straight into overdrive. This is it!
Professor Jonathan
Moyo has opened his attack with his Blue Ocean presentation revealing Emerson
Mnangagwa’s plans to seize State Institutions and then, ultimately, seizing
power from Mugabe himself. Mnangagwa has promised to give his counter presentation
which will prove that our “nutty” Professor is a CIA American agent!
Jonathan Moyo has
been at the heart of Zanu PF’s vote rigging machine and Emerson Mnangagwa has
been at the heart of the party’s culture of violence and murder. So, the two
have been a lot more than Mugabe’s right hand and left hand man; they have been
are the right and left lobe of the tyrant’s brain. Mugabe owes his long stay in
power to those two gentlemen, there is no question about it.
The two know the
regime’s dirtiest secrets in great detail because they were involved in their
planning, execution and/or burying the skeletons. Booting out of the party a
simpleton Mai Mujuru was easy; she held very senior positions in the party and
government but had no clue what was going on around her. Ever when she uncovered
some serious stuff by accident, she lacked the intellect to understand its full
import. Booting out Moyo or Mnangagwa, with all the wealth of information they
have on everyone in the party, is a totally different kettle of fish.
Still, Zanu PF has certainly
become too small to house these two bulls, Moyo and Mnangagwa; it is clear one
of them must be booted out. The two bulls are now eyeing each other knowing
fully well that when the fighting is done one will be food for the vultures. “Manya
yamagora!” as one would say in Shona.
President Mugabe is
behind the G40 factions. If he thought booting Mnangagwa out of Zanu PF was
going to be as easy as booting out Mujuru; he could not have been more wrong.
Whether Mugabe like it or not, he knows his fate and the fate of his ambitious
and greedy wife is now irretrievably tied to the G40 faction. Whilst the two
factions trading blows, each expose and counter expose; he, as the leader of
Zanu PF, and the party will feel each blow. His and the party’s grip on power
is weakening with each blow.
A weak and enfeeble
Zanu PF will present the best opportunity to push for the implementation of the
democratic reforms, since MDC leaders failed to get even one reform implemented
during the GNU. Before the victorious faction, it is irrelevant which faction
wins, has had the time to recover its breath and lick its wounds we must
confront it with demands for democratic change.
Both Mnangagwa and
Moyo have already made it clear that “Zanu PF will not reform itself out of
office!”
Well, the democratic
reforms are about restoring the people’s individual freedoms and basic human
rights which Zanu PF has systematically eroded. The party must be pressed to
explain who gave them the right to ride roughshod over the people denying them their
freedoms, human rights, hope and human dignity!
If is important that
we do not allow the next elections to take place with no reforms in place. Zanu
PF will rig the elections and use the election result as cover to resist
demands for reforms. The party will then use the next five years to consolidate
its strangle hold on power and thus better able to resist future demands for
reform.
By contesting the
flawed July 2013 elections against the advice of SADC leaders, Morgan Tsvangirai
and his corrupt and incompetent MDC friends accomplish nothing other than offer
Zanu PF the bolt-hole to escape having to implement the democratic reforms, as
David Coltart admitted in his book.
“The worst aspect
for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now
do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” confessed Senator Coltart.
“The electoral
process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw,
which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust
between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other
would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process
credibility.”
Since the rigged
July 2013 elections the opposition have failed to get even one reform
implemented and yet they still want contest next year’s elections. Tsvangirai
is banking his hope of winning the elections on voter education and
mobilization. We know Zanu PF has deliberately allocated fewer voter
registration centres in opposition strong holds and followed this up with fewer
polling stations in these areas compared to Zanu PF strong holds.
Besides there are
other electoral problems such as a corrupted voters’ roll, a pro-Zanu PF public
media, Zanu PF’s unfair access to public resources and funds to bankroll its
election campaigns, etc. which gives Zanu PF the electoral advantage. The
nation would be very foolish indeed to once again allow Zanu PF get away with
holding another flawed election.
Tsvangirai is but an
errant student who can answer but one question out of ten, voter education and
mobilization alone will never be enough to counter Zanu PF’s many other vote
rigging activities. We want free, fair and credible election and for that we
must have all the democratic reforms implemented. There is no better time to
demand the reforms from Zanu PF than now when the regime is breathless and
enfeeble by its own savage internal factional war.
The G40 vs Lacoste
factional war is going to be blood; when heavy weights like Jonathan Moyo and
Emerson Mnangagwa lock horns, they do with explosive forces. Whatever the
outcome of the fight happens to be; we, the people, must be quick and
uncompromising in making our demands for democratic reforms and an end to
dictatorial rule!
After 2000 Mnangagwa did nothing to stop the reign of terror in Kwekwe where he became a perennial loser against MDC’s Blessing Chebundo. His ascendancy to as an appointed Vice President of his ZANU PF party instilled in him a sense of “we have arrived attitude” that saw him traverse the length and breadth of the country publicly stating that his party will rule our country in perpetuity even if we voted for someone else: “Ukarota uchitongwa nerimwe bato risiri ZANU PF muka ubike doro nekuti vadzimu vane vakurasa” and to MDC and other opposition supporters who were starving and desperate for food aid Mnangagwa told them clearly that the food aid was only for ZANU PF supporters.
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa is a murderous tyrant who should not be allowed to rule Zimbabwe. We want the democratic reforms implemented before the next elections as the only sure way of ending the Zanu PF dictatorship.
@ Grace
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely right that by participating in the July 2013 MDC helped end SADC's role in Zimbabwe politics. You are also right that Tsvangirai is an idiot.
However, you are wrong if you think SADC cannot do anything since 2013 to stop the madness going on in Zimbabwe. Of course, they can. SADC leaders know that Zanu PF has been rigging elections and, with no reforms in place, will continue to do so. The regional leaders also know that Zanu PF's continued rule in Zimbabwe is the root cause of the economic meltdown in the country with unemployment now at 90% plus another rigged election is certain to cause social and political instability in Zimbabwe and the region.
It is in SADC leaders' interest to stop Zimbabwe sliding into the abyss and take the region with here and all they have to do is refuse to accept another rigged Zanu PF elections.
Both Professor Jonathan Moyo and Emerson Mnangagwa are in this factional war to win and will not want to settle for anything less! They have a lot to fight for and have a lot of fight in them yet; this is going to be a long fight if it is going to be shot then it will be bloody and decisive.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest worry is the factional war will spread and drawing in the ordinary people. Tyrants are known for engineering lawlessness to justify their brutality. It will not be beyond Zanu PF to start widespread street protest or worse as a pretext for declaring a State of Emergency, suspend the constitution, postpone elections, etc.
If Zanu PF cannot rule the country, they will do they best to make the country ungovernable. “Shaisano!” as one would say in Shona.
A weak and enfeebled Zanu PF will be like a cobra that has been squashed in half by a car; the only thing keeping it alive is its desire to bite someone and empty its poison glands! I agree this is the right time for us to make our bold and uncompromising demands for democratic change but still be on our guard for Zanu PF trickery.
Someone who is unemployed and has been out of work for decades, as is the case with many of the 90% plus unemployed in Zimbabwe; will think about food and other bare necessities of life. They will think of little else. It is all very well for those with plenty to eat and have little economic hardship to worry about except how to shed off a few pounds and, just to rub it in, complain about the poor’s rumbling tummies.
ReplyDeleteIf you were one of the 90% plus unemployed, one of the millions living in abject poverty, etc. then you would want the nation to talk about how are we going to get the nation’s economy back on track a.s.a.p. and nothing else. I too believe that the nation is not going to get out of this economic and political hell-hole Zanu PF landed us in without implementing the reforms so we have free and fair elections.
If you, Phunyukabempethe, know of a better solution out of this hell; then please let us hear it. If all you have to say is complain of heard enough of reforms then you are no different from the fat cats who think their problem of losing weight is more urgent than that of the millions facing starvation. Worse still, there are people who do not want to hear the plight of the poor mentioned because they know it is the poor who are sustaining their glutton.
The need to find a way out of the hell Zimbabwe is in is the most serious issue of our generation and if implementing the reforms is the answer then it is right and proper that the nation should spend all its energy and treasure on reforms and nothing else. Reforms is the nation’s holy grail!