Every year, at my High School, we had a college
ball. We invited girls from the neighbouring school to the ball and, before the
end of the afternoon’s dancing, it was the tradition to have a lucky draw. Each
of the girl got a ticket when they arrived and the three lucky ones from the
draw get a bunch of flowers and humper of goods!
Let me emphasis here, this was a random draw and
NOT a beauty contest.
The master of ceremony of year was a pompous guy
who, in his infantile wisdom, turned the lucky draw into something akin to a
beauty contest complete with the Steve Wonder song “Is she lovely!” Before
handing over the flowers and humper the master of ceremony had an impromptu
interview with the lucky winner; asking her questions borrowed from the Miss World
Contest!
As luck would have it, the last lucky winner; the Beauty
Queen, as far as the MC was concerned; was one of the ugliest girl around. This
was the climax of afternoon, the moment the pompous MC had lived for and he
took off like a rock. He started rattling about the young lady’s beauty, “slimline
portal”- she was short and fat, “lovely and supple skin” – never seen so many
mole-hill pimples on one face, “she is beaming with self-confidence” – she
could not even remember her own name when asked. I felt so, so sorry for the
poor girl!
The usual Zanu PF propagandists and apologists have
been in fine voice and creativity filling all the available space and media
with the praises of the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
“Former President Robert Mugabe is gone, a giant of
the liberation struggle and a colossus that stood against imperialism is no
more, he has been silenced by ineluctable fate,” wrote Pupurai Togarepi, a Zanu
PF Young League leader.
“In this instance death has been very unkind and
unjust, snatching from us a fatherly figure before we had the opportunity to
tap all the wisdom from his encyclopaedic memory.”
Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of the whole
region, under Mugabe’s leadership the country is now totally dependent on imported
food aid. This is happening in the time and age when human ingenuity has turned
deserts into blooming orchard. We are starving in a country which for all
intent and purposes is the Garden of Eden.
Zimbabwe’s economy is in total meltdown;
unemployment has soared to the dizzying heights of 90%; the country’s basic services
such as the supply of clean running water, health care, etc. have all but
collapse; etc. ¾ of our people live in abject poverty, on US$0.35 per day.
In 1980 Zimbabwe was ranked a middle income nation,
in the top ten rich countries in Africa; today we are the poorest on continent.
Zimbabwe’s rapid economic decline is a damning
testimonial in the sheer incompetence of Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies. Where
is the wisdom in destroying the nation’s agricultural sector, the economy,
health care; you name it!
Robert Mugabe was able to stay in power for 37
years regardless of his pathetic failure to deliver economic prosperity because
he and his Zanu PF regime rigged the elections and brute force to retain power.
In 2008 not even SADC and AU leaders could turn a blind eye to his barbarism,
they refused to recognise Mugabe as the winner of that year’s election and forced
him to go into GNU with Tsvangirai.
The GNU’s primary task was to implement the
democratic reforms designed to stop Mugabe rigging elections. Sadly, Tsvangirai
and his MDC friends were corrupt and incompetent and failed to get even one
reform implemented. Not one!
Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies fought to end
white colonial oppression but only to replace it with black oppression. Mugabe
and Zanu PF have denied the people of Zimbabwe their freedom and human rights
including the right to a meaningful vote and ever the right to life.
Mugabe has murdered over 30 000 Zimbabweans for
selfish political gain in his 37 years in power! Over 30 000!
Mugabe is “a giant of the liberation struggle”, “a
father of the nation”, etc. learned by heart by Zanu PF apologists and
regurgitated without even stopping to think what they mean even when they are
the exact opposite. Robert Mugabe was a corrupt and murderous tyrant – not a liberation
hero.
The more the Zanu PF apologists try to falsify the
truth and reality in Zimbabwe and make Mugabe a hero, the more everyone can see
he is a corrupt and murderous tyrant!
Robert Mugabe is a corrupt and murderous dictator;
his 37 years track record speaks volumes and cannot be airbrushed and hidden
away. “Renemanyanga hariputirwi!” so goes the Shona saying.
Mugabe is one of the most corrupt and ruthless tyrants of the last century and those trying to portray him as a hero are wasting their time. They more they try to cover up the more it is clear to all that this is just a cover up! "Rinemanyanga hariputirwi" as one would say in Shona.
ReplyDeleteTo forgive Mugabe the dictator is to forgive the Zanu PF dictatorship, the system he created and is still alive and thriving. Mnangagwa and the rest of the Zanu PF cronies that those who forgive Mugabe will forgive them too and those who see Mugabe as a hero will see them as heroes too.
ReplyDeleteSince last year's rigged elections Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies have become increasingly uneasy because the label of illegitimate would not go away. They are hoping that the death of Mugabe will make the nation forget, if not forgive and forget, about the rigged elections. They hope, portraying Mugabe and, by extension, themselves as national heroes will help the nation do this and then move on.
Robert Mugabe was a corrupt and murderous dictator just as Mnangagwa and the current Zanu PF regime are illegitimate our getting out of this hell-on-earth depends on condemning both as evil that must not be swept under the carpet!
Chamisa and Biti outraged the members of their party by expressing condolences to the Mugabe family and praising the late tyrant. Chamisa had also noted that, because of the coup against him. Mugabe had become an opposition supporter late in life.
ReplyDelete“What is gratifying to us is that at the end of his reign he voted for change, he voted for me, in fact, Mr Mugabe is one of the few people who did not hide their vote,” Chamisa told Al Jazeera. “We have lost a voter, we have lost a supporter, we have lost a citizen, an African son.”
Biti, meanwhile, told opponents of Mugabe, “His legacy shouldn’t be detracted by the fact that there were atrocities.”
Biti himself has said he was “tortured” by Mugabe’s thug forces for being a member of the opposition.
“This is not funny at all. Mugabe killed many of our colleagues and never got to account for it. What is it our leaders got from Mugabe that they see him as a hero today?” another anonymous MDC member told Zimbabwe Voice, and online outlet. Yet another opposition supporter speaking to the outlet said they were “shocked but not surprised” at Chamisa, calling the opposition “very weak.”
“We are going nowhere with these clueless opposition leaders,” the unnamed individual lamented.
All Chamisa and his fellow MDC leaders want is power and they have shown they will do anything to secure it. They sold-out during the GNU by failing to implement even one reform. Chamisa is so thrilled Mugabe voted for him he immediately forgave the murderous thug for all the opposition supporters beaten and murdered by Zanu PF.
Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies were no different, they too sold-out on the revolution principles, rigged elections and even committed mass murders for selfish political gain.
What Zimbabwe needs is principled national leaders with the nation’s interests at heart!
Here is a priest who should have never been a priest because he loves the things of this world with no sense of shame and piety. It is little wonder a dictator like Mugabe got on well with Father Mukonori. No doubt the two will meet again in hell!
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