"Zanu PF is our ally, ANC must prop them at all costs!" squealed Mbalula, Animal Farm Squealer style. W Mukori.

 Zanu PF has denied the people of Zimbabwe a meaningful say in the governance of the country out of greed. They wanted absolute power and would burn down the whole country rather see any one else rule it.

“The ‘new’ regime can be viewed from different angles, but the nub of it is this: there’s a recognition that the economic fiasco of the last 20 years was suboptimal, but Emmerson Mnangagwa and his fellow travellers will burn the house down if they feel it necessary. Make no mistake, their will to power is every bit as intense as Mugabe’s—as is their belief that they own the country’s choicest fruits by right of conquest,” wrote Stuart Doran.

“There’s no comprehending Zimbabwe without an appreciation of that mentality. Yet many fail to get it because they don’t read the country’s history. In 1979, at the height of the struggle against white rule, a diplomat who mixed frequently with Mugabe and other leaders of his party observed that ‘ZANU does not seem to attach much importance to the destruction caused by prolonged war’. They said they were content to see Zimbabwe ‘totally’ demolished if that was the price to be paid for preventing others from ruling it. That attitude has not changed an iota, notwithstanding the passage of 40 years and Mugabe’s departure. After all, the men who now rule wielded his hatchets for most of that period. 

“That’s a tough ask for the same group of individuals who have shredded the country since 1980—a fraternity that will continue to loot, will continue to be tetchy about the merest hint of dissent, and will continue to patently despise the notion that it requires the consent of the people to govern.

“It’s not a question of whether Mnangagwa and company will continue to view Zimbabwe’s resources as a God-given right, but whether they can walk the line between controlled greed and madness,” continued Doran.

Of course, Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies have never ever admitted that they have the divine right to the choicest fruit and will burn the country down first than let anyone else rule it. They have more tact than that! They have justified the insatiable greed and denial of the people’s basic freedoms and rights including the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country even the right to life on the grounds that Zanu PF was the only party that could be trusted to stop the return of the “colonial empiricists”. 

Whilst Zanu PF has made a big song and dance about the opposition being puppets of West pushing a regime change agenda. Zanu PF has itself allowed the Chinese and Russians to waltz into the country and have been the mastermind behind the wholesale looting of the country’s resources. And needless to say, both China and Russia have been behind Zanu PF’s vote rigging juggernaut and have supply all the regime’s needs for its political propaganda and tyrannical oppression. 

This is nothing new. Zanu PF borrowed this straight from George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

The turning point of the Animal Farm revolution was when the pigs kept the milk and apples for themselves. 

“You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. Milk and apples (this has been proven by science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well being of a pig. We pigs are brain workers,” cried Squealer. 

“Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back.”

The annoying thing was to hear ANC’s Fikile Mbalula wittering nonsense in support of Zanu PF. Thank God Nelson Mandela came before Fikile Mbalula because make no mistake about it SA would not be a democratic nation today. South Africans have booted ANC out of office, the very thing Mbalula feared would happen has happened. 

"In Zimbabwe,Zanu PF is our ally. Nelson Chamisa and his allies are not our allies " Fikile Mbalula. Yeah right!

Now that the SA voters have clipped ANC’s political ambition of keeping political parties with liberation war history in power at all cost, we can finally fight for democratic change knowing one of Zanu PF’s backers has been silenced. We still have the Chinese and Russians to fight besides Zanu PF itself. 

Neither Zanu PF nor its backers can afford to cancel the need to hold regular elections and rigging them is becoming a serious challenge particularly now that the millions of ordinary Zimbabweans are itching for regime change! Both SADC and AU want to see free and fair elections in Zimbabwe. This is a fight Zanu PF knows it is set to lose. Watch this space!