tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40511631191111804022024-03-14T06:36:04.975+02:00Zimbabwe, we cannot turn back!!!The test of courage and commitment is not when there is no danger or uncertainty; but when one puts his life on the line against terrible odds and there is absolutely no certainty of victory! We have been down this path and are hardened by the many lashes of history. We shall be home, waiting when New Zimbabwe comes.Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-6163099179400033922016-08-28T16:28:00.000+02:002016-08-28T16:28:08.011+02:00Sanctions must stay until real change: By Psychology Maziwisa, a certified political turncoat <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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FAR from hurting the generality of the people of
Zimbabwe, as President Robert Mugabe would conveniently want everyone to
believe, it is becoming increasingly clear that the targeted sanctions are
achieving their desired effect: to hurt Mugabe and his self-interested mob.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The European Union (EU)’s sanctions must and are likely to
stay put until Mugabe does more than just heed Julius Malema’s call to
denounce violence.</div>
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There is nothing more indicative of the stinging and now unbearable effects of
the targeted sanctions than the increasing complaints and calls for those
sanctions to be removed and removed as soon as yesterday. Any psychologist
would surely tell you that what that means is plain and simple: now is precisely
the wrong time to relax the sanctions. If anything, now is the opportune time
to go a gear up and intensify their effects.</div>
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The mob has been hit where it matters the most — in their pockets. While the
travel bans have curtailed the lavish spending of individuals, preventing them
from indulging their shopping passions in places like Paris, London and
Rome, the bulk of the mob have been barred from sending their children to study
at expensive colleges in Australia, the UK and America as the once highly esteemed University of Zimbabwe lamentably
falls into decay.</div>
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There is no way the European Union would decide to ease the pressure on those
who have hurt us for so long while never bothering to do anything to mitigate
our suffering except to mouth empty words denouncing violence at
an Independence celebration, after having inflicted 30 years of
perennial misery. Even the Bible warns against words without action.
Accordingly, Mugabe’s message of tolerance on April 18 must be ignored for what
it is: mere talk.</div>
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In case they need reminding, sanctions are there for a reason and that is that
a handful of people have vandalised the country in a way almost too frightening
to comprehend. Hundreds of innocent and law-abiding citizens have been tortured
and killed simply for expressing their democratic desire to elect a government
of their choice.</div>
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Their best opportunity for reform came when Morgan Tsvangirai who won the last
presidential election agreed to form a government of national unity with
Mugabe. It is fair to say that while Mugabe has somewhat become less
of a dictator after the September 15 2008 agreement, he has not done enough for
the people of Zimbabwe to warrant any mitigation of the targeted sanctions.</div>
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Political reform is not coming as quickly as it could. For instance, while the
country was “celebrating” Independence, political activists were being held in
the dark, cold and miserable cells of the notorious Harare Central Police
Station. Frivolous though their protest may have been, the attention-seeking
ladies of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) should not have been forced to endure
an entire Independence weekend in primitive, cells.</div>
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While Mugabe says he regrets the low pay for teachers, he customarily takes a
delegation of 60 or so people with him on international trips to Copenhagen for
instance, for an entire week, and they are paid scarce foreign currency.</div>
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Progress on human rights and related issues is key to the relaxation or removal
of targeted sanctions. However, despite the setting up of a media commission responsible
for the licensing of new media houses, not even one has been licensed. Instead,
the under-fire Attorney General Johannes Tomana is to head that process. </div>
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If Mugabe and his henchmen are serious about the lifting of sanctions, they
must genuinely promote human dignity, freedom of speech and the rule of law,
end arbitrary arrests, apply Zimbabwean laws to the full extent without bias,
and bring to justice all perpetrators of politically-motivated violence.
They must also act in conformity with the letter and spirit of the global
political agreement.</div>
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The people of Zimbabwe have suffered far too long at the hands of a
bunch of self-interested individuals who have unconscionably abused their
power. Our consolation, however, is that the targets of the sanctions are
clearly stung hard by them. We applaud this and wish the sanctions could be
intensified until we witness real change.</div>
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<b>Psychology Maziwisa is interim president of the Union for
Sustainable Democracy and can be contacted at leader@usd.org.zw.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-31536561073098295372016-07-08T23:33:00.000+02:002016-07-08T23:33:10.372+02:00"Our country has been brutalised at the expense of satisfying Mugabe and a handful of evil, self-interested, murderous, parasitic and dictatorial sycophants" Maziwisa<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN">By Psychology
Maziwisa <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN">ZANU PF as led
by Robert Mugabe has not the slightest intention to allow Zimbabweans to freely
express their political will especially if it has the potential to eventuate in
a change of government. </span></b><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Their culture of
violence has sabotaged every election since 2002. It is now being shamelessly
brought to bear on the current constitutional outreach programme even with the
unity government in place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">The simple
reality is that Mugabe is not interested in any process whose outcome might
result in Morgan Tsvangirai succeeding him as President. He will, therefore,
stop at nothing in his quest to stay in power. He believes not in the
democratic process but in tyranny as the tried and tested and, therefore, the
only means to attaining and staying in power. He does not believe in free and
fair elections let alone their results. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Consequently, to
believe that, simply by virtue of the institution of the inclusive government
and his denunciations of violence, Mugabe has become more disposed to democracy
than dictatorship is to be fooled by him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Our country has
been brutalised at the expense of satisfying Mugabe and a handful of evil,
self-interested, murderous, parasitic and dictatorial sycophants who have
neither the desire nor the conscience to reflect on the extent of their
unbelievable destructiveness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Reports so far
compiled across the country about the three-month long constitutional outreach
programme paint an extremely sad and disturbing picture. They are a reflection
not just of the breathtaking level of shamelessness and willingness on the part
of ZANU PF to intimidate, torture and even kill innocent citizens but also of
their frightening determination to do anything and everything, however
unthinkable it may be, simply in order to confirm Mugabe as President for
life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">That soldiers
whose duty should be to safeguard the nation against any threat to the safety
and security of its civilian citizens are ordered to march on that very
civilian population with arms of war is outright terrorism. That they do so
chanting the slogans of a specific party and, therefore, declaring their
allegiance not to the nation in keeping with their oath but to that party,
speaks to the character of Zimbabwe as a failed state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Instead of
promoting peace and security they sow terror and strife. Across the nation,
whatever sense of security was engendered by the advent of the inclusive
government, is fast giving way to considerable apprehension and alarm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Newly established
military camps in the Manicaland and Masvingo provinces are an ominous
presence. In Karoi, for instance, soldiers have become a menacing and
disturbingly common sight. In Bindura residents have been told that if they
fail to support the Kariba draft which guarantees Mugabe’s excessive powers they
do so at their own peril. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Sadly, there is
absolutely nothing new in this behaviour. It has happened too often before to
come as a surprise to anyone. If anything, it has come to be regarded more as
normal than abnormal in Zimbabwe. The onus is not on Mugabe but on Tsvangirai
to show it in a different light. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Thus far, he has
not succeeded in doing so and the inevitable danger is that a lot more innocent
lives will be lost, whatever progress has been achieved so far derailed, and
the country will plummet further into the depths of dictatorship from which it
may never emerge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Any honest
analysis of the MDC post September 15, 2008 would indicate that apart from
unsuccessfully declaring unilateral appointments by Mugabe as ‘null and void’
the MDC as we have known it over the years: courageous, confrontational,
uncompromising and proactive has become alarmingly ineffective and compromised.
Indeed, there might just well be some justification for the view that many in
the MDC have become ‘comfortable’ in government and are more focused on
enjoying the privileges of office than on challenging Mugabe and ZANU PF. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">How many people
had limbs chopped off, relatives tortured and or killed in the fight for
democracy during the infamous 2008 presidential election? They endured their
sufferings because they were filled with hope and, while they did not expect
direct assistance from the MDC at the time, many now rightly expect Tsvangirai
and the MDC, as partners in the inclusive government with a say in controlling
the police force, to do more to protect not just its supporters but all peace
loving Zimbabweans who continue to be terrorised by ZANU PF thugs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">There is a
looming danger that, if the MDC does not have the audacity to ward off the
terror, victory will go to those intent on having things their way as more and
more Zimbabweans give in to their demands. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Whenever reports
of calculated and deliberate violence have surfaced, this writer has given
voice to the legitimate expectation of the people of Zimbabwe that Tsvangirai
and the MDC should do more than just deplore the violence and actually take
some decisive action. Zimbabwe relies on Tsvangirai, not Mugabe, to save
innocent lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Intimidatory
military camps across the country must be closed immediately and troops
returned to barracks. That will not happen if all Tsvangirai does is to wring
his hands. Tsvangirai must physically go to those camps to ensure that they are
closed down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-52501662393182235002016-07-08T23:25:00.000+02:002016-07-09T01:50:47.054+02:00Psychology Maziwisa on Jonathan Moyo<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b>Moyo's sickening sycophancy</b></div>
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<i>Psychology Maziwisa</i></div>
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If there is one individual in Zimbabwean politics who will
say anything and everything at the click of a finger simply in order to win his
master's accolades, it is, unsurprisingly, that charlatan Jonathan Moyo. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Apparently the duty Moyo owes to his dictatorial master is
one that he is prepared to fulfil even if it only serves to cheapen himself in
the eyes of the people of Zimbabwe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Surely, our hearts have to go out to the unfortunate and
poor people of Tsholotsho who must certainly by now hate themselves for having
elected such a weak sycophant as their parliamentary representative.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Throughout his career Moyo has developed and embraced such a
sickening propensity to abruptly switch from an entirely sensible point of view
to one that is totally outrageous.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He has only to be convinced that it is politically
expedient. Everything else can be flagrantly ignored. There is not a single
person familiar with Zimbabwean politics who would honestly profess ignorance
of the fact that each time Moyo has fallen out of Mugabe's favour he has
criticised him. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Indeed, they would equally confirm that whenever the
opportunity to put a smile on the old man-s face has presented itself, Moyo has
profusely sung the dictator's praises. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In his piece, The cancer of politics of personalities,
published in The Herald on 27 May 2010, Moyo, in typically desperate fashion,
took pains to pay homage to the controversial and controversially appointed
Judge President George Chiweshe - apparently in an attempt to appeal to the
latter's ear ahead of his day in court for allegedly defaming Roy Bennett.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The truth of the matter is that Moyo has every reason to be
terrified because, if brought before an impartial Judge, the case against him
is a compelling one. No doubt he takes consolation from ZANU PF's intrinsic
conviction that anything that is associated with Mugabe is beyond the reach of
the law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, what really prompted this writer to comment on a
piece otherwise deserving of no comment at all was Moyo's ridiculous and
patently untrue description of Mugabe as 'an iconic African leader with a
towering global stature'. Such toadyism is simply sickening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If that is what it means to be a politician then, rather
than becoming one, I would much rather stick to being a commentator committed
to 'keeping the bastards honest'!<o:p></o:p></div>
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A few examples will serve to illustrate Moyo's alarming
inconsistency.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just before the 2008 harmonised elections Moyo went on about
how 'Mugabe should go now' because it was in his own best interest and in the
national interest as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He argued that Mugabe's standing had plummeted both 'in and
outside the country' and that his continued presence in office had become 'such
an excessive burden to the welfare of the state and such a fatal danger to the
public interest of Zimbabweans'.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Moyo correctly further argued that Mugabe lacked 'the
vision, stature and energy to effectively run the country, let alone his
party'. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Of <a href="http://archive.kubatana.net/html/archive/archspecialentry_index.asp?sector=URBDEV&spec_code=050601evictdex">Operation
Murambatsvina</a> he wrote that that evil exercise attested to the fact that
Mugabe is 'without compassion'.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One wonders what really has changed between then and now for
Moyo to now consider it a 'privilege' for anyone to serve in a Mugabe-led
government.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In his recent unsuccessful attempt to sell Mugabe's
presidency as one that promotes and protects the rule of law, Moyo unashamedly
referred to Tsvangirai's justified calls for an end to Bennett's continued
persecution as 'the most blatant and most outrageous attack on the rule of law
since 1980'.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If Moyo wants clear examples of what really amounts to grave
attacks on the rule of law he needs only to look at his master's monstrous
political record.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was Moyo's master and not Tsvangirai who arbitrarily
detained, cruelly assaulted and devilishly tortured thousands of innocent
Zimbabweans in Matabeleland during the years 1985 and 1986.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was his master and not Tsvangirai who, in a 1982 speech
to Parliament, said of Gukurahundi: 'An eye for an eye and an ear for an ear
may not be adequate in our circumstances. We might very well demand two ears
for one ear and two eyes for one eye'.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Indeed it was the dictator and not Tsvangirai who, in
perhaps the clearest expression of his contempt for the rule of law, said: 'The
government cannot allow the technicalities of the law to fetter its hands. We
shall, therefore, proceed as government in a manner we feel as fitting; and
some of the measures we shall take are measures which will be extra-legal.'<o:p></o:p></div>
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More recently, several Zimbabweans have either been
prosecuted or threatened with prosecution for 'insulting the person of the
President' simply for exercising what is recognised elsewhere as their inalienable
right to free speech.</div>
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Rule of law in its purest form envisages that no one is above the law and
everyone is subject to it. It is Mugabe and his cronies who have set themselves
above the law.</div>
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Accordingly, no one can take seriously anything that charlatan
Moyo ever says without causing their beloved ones a great deal of anxiety about
the soundness of their mind. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mugabe has not only wrought great evil on the people of
Zimbabwe but his evil has infected those around him as is evidenced when we see
the keenness with which Moyo licks his master's boots.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Psychology Maziwisa is Interim President of the Union for
Sustainable Democracy (USD) and can be contacted at <a href="mailto:leader@usd.org.zw">leader@usd.org.zw</a></i><o:p></o:p></div>
Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-16990233455372244962016-06-07T20:30:00.002+02:002016-06-07T20:30:43.529+02:00Zimbabwe doomed as long as Mugabe stays on<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">By Jonathan Moyo</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">ALTHOUGH
President Robert Mugabe has of late been displaying bravado by ruthlessly
attacking in public some Zanu PF contenders for his 27-year tainted rule, such
as Joice Mujuru, and unleashing violence against opposition politicians in
police cells, while giving the impression he is still like an invincible lion,
the inescapable home truth visible to all and sundry is that he is now behaving
like a cornered rat whose quandary is that every escape route it tries is a
dead-end.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">This became clear after his astonishing yet revealing indication last week that
he is set to dissolve parliament in the next few months to enable him to yet
again stand for re-election under controversial circumstances that are certain
to widen and deepen Zanu PF divisions.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">At best, the threatened dissolution of parliament which has angered Zanu PF MPs
is designed to give Mugabe assured campaign assistance from the ruling party's
parliamentary hopefuls who would be forced to support his divisive candidacy in
joint presidential and parliamentary elections he wants to call well before the
expiry of his current term in March 2008.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">But there could be another sinister agenda to resuscitate Mugabe's dead 2010
plan.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">In effect, Mugabe does not want to be succeeded by anybody. Zanu PF factional
leaders who imagine that they are Mugabe's preferred successors are living in a
fools' paradise because Mugabe does not want any successor.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">This is because in his book there will never be a vacancy for the presidency as
a long as he is alive.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Witness how, because he has no shame in putting himself above Zimbabwe, Mugabe
has become so determined to play all sorts of dirty games in his shocking quest
to find any pretext to justify his ambition to remain in office and rule for
life. As a result, his public pronouncements have become an embarrassing tale
of flip-flops.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">In December 2004 he was settling to retire in 2008 while publicly putting his
weight behind Joice Mujuru as his designated successor whom he had clumsily
imposed on the hierarchy of Zanu PF and government against laid down rules and
procedures and to the detriment of the democratic process inside the ruling
party.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">But by December 2006 at the Zanu PF annual conference in Goromonzi the same
Mugabe had changed tack as he was now bad-mouthing Mujuru and asking for a
two-year extension of his rule under a deceitful plan to harmonise presidential
and parliamentary elections in 2010.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Come March 2007, against the background of a decisive rejection by his own
party of his sinister 2010 plan, Mugabe is now asking for a fresh and full
presidential term while threatening to cause chaos and mayhem in Zanu PF by
dissolving parliament in what is an utterly reckless pursuit of power for its
own sake.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Besides his personal and maybe family interest, there is no ideological
content, no policy thrust and no enduring national agenda or principle behind
Mugabe's latest bid to extend and further entrench his rule through a
self-indulgent re-election campaign that would require a premature and
ill-advised dissolution of parliament. Even the usual anti-Blair gibberish
would not do because Tony Blair is leaving office this July.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">And the notion that the defence of Zimbabwe's sovereignty or land reform is
possible only if Mugabe is in office is now a silly joke that is not funny.
What everyone can now see and understand is that Zimbabwe is doomed as long as
Mugabe remains in office. This is not a realisation of people who hate him but
people who love Zimbabwe more and who want to put their country first and above
any individual.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Yet Mugabe's indication that he will now seek re-election is revealing and most
welcome in so far as it validates the fact which he has thus far strenuously
denied that his earlier plan to scrap the 2008 presidential election under the
pretext of harmonising parliamentary and presidential polls in 2010 was indeed
designed to extend and entrench his rule via the backdoor.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">What is now clear is that Mugabe believes he needs not two but at least five
more years in power which he hopes will translate into a lifetime of his rule
to secure immunity from likely prosecution for his alleged human rights
violations and other indiscretions.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">What this means is that, along with some of his Zanu PF succession contenders
who think they are his preferred choice, Mugabe is also now living in a fools'
paradise since he apparently does not realise that he has put himself in an
untenable lose-lose situation whether it's heads or tails, given that what most
people in and outside Zanu PF now want is for him to retire in the national
interest.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Mugabe's determination to remain in office until death do him part is
apparently driven by a fatal combination of old age, his unquenchable thirst
for power, his having a young wife with young children and his getting
sycophantic advice from unscrupulous politicians, incompetent bureaucrats and
delinquent propagandists all influenced by insecure and increasingly nervous
securocrats who are better informed about political developments on the ground
and who can see that Mugabe's empire is crumbling.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">It is notable that, unlike the dead 2010 proposal which was initially
championed by Nathan Shamuyarira who is now conspicuous by his silence on all
major issues, Mugabe's latest bid to extend his rule by standing for
re-election did not emanate from Zanu PF structures but came direct from his
embattled office using the government-controlled media. This is because the
desperate bid does not have structural or political support within Zanu PF.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">There are some roving Zanu PF political schemers who fancy themselves as
kingmakers and who have been hoping and jumping from one faction to another
since 2004 and who now, because they are still shopping around either for a
leader or a factional home within the ruling party, are encouraging Mugabe to
stand for re-election with the promise of their campaign support. These
schemers are using their alleged support for Mugabe as a convenient weapon to
block the presumed political interests of Joice Mujuru, Emmerson Mnangagwa and
Gideon Gono.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Among these Zanu PF schemers are the likes of Elliot Manyika, Nicholas Goche,
Sydney Sekeramayi, Oppah Muchinguri, Saviour Kasukuwere and Patrick Chinamasa
who, by virtue of his ministerial portfolio, is drafting the legal instrument
to facilitate Mugabe's re-election bid that would include the unpopular
dissolution of parliament.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Most of them want Mugabe to stay for their own self-interest, not because they
think that he is a good leader.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">As influential leaders of the Zanu PF youth and women's leagues respectively,
Kasukuwere and Muchinguri are key to Mugabe's controversial re-election bid and
they are expected to provide powerful endorsements from their leagues. But
their tasks will be more than a tall order because the majority of the youth
and women in Zanu PF are saying they have had enough of Mugabe whom they accuse
of failing to turn around the economy which has become Mugabe's effective
opposition.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Against this backdrop, it appears that Mugabe's bid to seek re-election is
intended as a ploy to regain lost political leverage in the negotiation stakes
for his failed 2010 plan which he hopes to resuscitate through the bid. His
strategy is to threaten to dissolve parliament in order to render every Zanu PF
politician currently in public office as politically insecure and vulnerable as
he himself has become.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Mugabe's hope is that by spreading his political insecurity to make it a shared
threat within the leadership of his party, Zanu PF critics of his 2010 plan
would be forced to rethink their opposition purely for reasons of safeguarding
their own positions which are now in jeopardy as a result of Mugabe's
re-election bid.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">But Mugabe is in a zero sum quandary. What complicates the game plan for him to
the point of being left behaving like a cornered rat, despite his roaring
posture of a lion, is that, whether it's about his wish for a two-year
extension of his rule under his old 2010 plan or his quest for a fresh and full
presidential term under his new 2008 re-election bid that would be preceded by
the unpopular dissolution of parliament, there is one irreversible constant:
the growing chorus within Zanu PF's rank and file for him to retire now as a
statesman or face the inevitability of a humiliating exit at the polls, as
happened to Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia, or worse, be thrown out through chaos and
mayhem, as happened to Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire.</span></div>
</span></span><o:p></o:p>Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-70576697952989857392016-06-07T20:27:00.001+02:002016-06-07T20:27:45.317+02:00The 'useful idiot' has gone too far this time<div style="background: white; border-bottom: solid #EFF0F1 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #EFF0F1 .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0cm 0cm 4.0pt 0cm;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;">By Prof Jonathan Moyo</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">IS PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe an ethnic bigot masquerading as a nationalist?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">This admittedly very unhappy and most uncomfortable question is raised not out
of any petulant disrespect or mischief but out of grave national concern given
the persistence of inflammatory tribal bigotry by George Charamba, Mugabe’s
spokesperson, in his weekly column “The Other Side” which he writes under the
cover of the poison pen of Nathaniel Manheru in the Herald on Saturdays.</span></div>
</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Charamba’s inflammatory tribalism would ordinarily go unnoticed but for the
fact that he is Mugabe’s trusted and loyal personal spokesperson with no track
record of ever holding independent opinions that are his alone. Charamba speaks
for Mugabe. Put differently, Mugabe speaks through Charamba.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">This is consistent with the fact that Charamba is a civil servant appointed as
a government bureaucrat who should serve everyone without regard to their
political affiliation, ethnicity or any other social or natural condition or
division. Charamba is not a politician, elected or otherwise, and he thus does
not represent anybody in government, not even himself. He only represents
Mugabe as his spokesperson or mouthpiece.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Therefore, the views expressed in the column in question by Charamba are
supposed and certainly are intended to project, articulate and defend Mugabe’s
thinking and policies on major issues of national interest. I know this as
someone directly familiar with the origins and purpose of the Nathaniel Manheru
column in the Herald which was started under my watch when I was minister of
information.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Against this backdrop, there is a feature of Charamba’s pro-Mugabe column which
has been recurring over the last 12 or so months to the point of forming a
disturbing if not alarming pattern. This has to do with the column’s crude
tribal bigotry sometimes coupled with equally crude gender bigotry presented by
Charamba in Mugabe’s name.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The latest example of this tribal bigotry is in Charamba’s current installment
of his column published by the Herald last Saturday (July 8, 2006) and targeted
at this writer.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Apparently stung by the real issues against Mugabe in an article I wrote last
Friday (July 7, 2006) in the Zimbabwe Independent unraveling Mugabe’s
ideological and policy contradictions behind the so-called mediation between
Zimbabwe and Britain by former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa, Charamba yet
again used inflammatory tribal bigotry in Mugabe’s defence.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">In essence, Charamba’s response to my article is to assert that I have no right
to criticize or challenge Mugabe from the “anthills of Mazowe” where my family
is doing agriculture on 627 hectares we are currently developing from
previously derelict land last used for grazing purposes, because I am from
Matabeleland and thus belong to a clan “whose lineage never dreamt of having
land in the heartland of Mashonaland of Zimbabwe”.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">This is tribal bigotry at its worst.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">But where is this tribal bigotry coming from? Do Charamba and President Mugabe
whom he represents really imagine that they can ever get away with this kind of
scandalous and unacceptable tribal intimidation?</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">This kind of crude tribal bigotry coming from Mugabe’s office at this juncture
in Zimbabwe’s troubled history after the evils of Gukurahundi and Murambatsvina
may explain why Mugabe and his cronies like Charamba remain liable to being
held accountable for committing crimes against humanity. Tribal bigotry is a
crime against humanity.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">For anyone to boldly assert that it takes some “cheek” for a Zimbabwean from
Matabeleland to criticize Mugabe from the “anthills of Mazowe” in the heartland
of Mashonaland is crudely tribal and very inflammatory. Assertions of this
nature can incite tribal hatred and violence.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">In fact, you cannot get a better indication or expression of Mugabe’s Bantustan
ideology than this. And when Mugabe’s pretences to nationalism are questioned,
the same cronies like Charamba who peddle Mugabe’s Bantustan ideology cry foul.
Yet Zimbabweans who worry about Mugabe’s tribal nationalism or ethnonationalism
know only too well that it is this same Bantustan ideology that bred the
Gukurahundi atrocities between 1980 and 1987 and the Murambatsvina atrocities
in 2005.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">These atrocities were a product of hallucinations of ethnic challenges to
Mugabe’s power. In the case of Gukurahundi, Mugabe’s tribal hallucination led
to the massacre of over 20,000 people in the Midlands and Matabeleland
provinces and the destruction of homes and livelihood of many more. On July 1, 2000
Mugabe described Gukurahundi as madness at the first anniversary of Joshua
Nkomo’s death in Bulawayo. Indeed, it was ethnic madness. But six years later
Mugabe has done nothing to deal with the visible scars and still bleeding open
wounds of that ethnic madness. Why this inaction for so long? Does Charamba’s
shocking tribal rant in the Herald last Saturday give a clue to what Mugabe
thinks about people from Matabeleland and their rights as Zimbabweans?</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">There are similar questions around the evil Operation Murambatsvina founded on
Mugabe’s ethnic hallucination that some urban Zimbabweans he has previously
ethnically insulted as “totemless” were about to use Ukrainian style orange
revolution tactics to rise up against his government after the March 2005 parliamentary
elections. Like in the case of Gukurahundi, the response was to ethnically
uproot these Zimbabweans from their homes and sources of their livelihood with
the result that 18% of the population was rendered destitute by Murambatsvina.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Even the so-called Tsholotsho saga of November 18, 2004, was a direct result of
Mugabe’s ethnic hallucination when members of his party from at least six
provinces who thought they had a right to freely and democratically choose the
party’s leadership in terms of the Zanu PF constitution were accused of and
punished for allegedly plotting a tribal coup against Mugabe and his ethnic
cronies.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">What the above three examples show is that tribal bigotry runs so deep in
Mugabe’s politics that thoughtless cronies like Charamba cannot free themselves
from it. That bigotry is now rearing its ugly head over the already
controversial land reform program with shocking calls, exemplified by
Charamba’s column in the Herald last Saturday, that people from Matabeleland
with land in Mashonaland should not have the tribal cheek to criticize or
challenge Mugabe. This is pure Bantustan politics with no national content
whatsoever.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">It is very clear from Charamba’s regurgitation of Mugabe’s Bantustan ideology
that there are just too many things that are very wrong with Zanu PF’s
patronage driven land reform program, including that it is apparently tribal.
The fact that Charamba has the idiotic courage to blurt out this tribal bigotry
in the Herald means that he gets his confidence from his knowledge that the
Bantustan ideology he peddles under the pretext of nationalism and sovereignty
which breeds tribal bigotry comes from his boss whom he speaks and writes for.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Do Mugabe’s cronies like Charamba really believe that Zimbabweans from Matabeleland
should not have land in Mashonaland and that if they should have it they should
not criticize or challenge Mugabe to whom they must be grateful? If they
believe this tribal bigotry, what are its implications on Zimbabweans from
Mashonaland who have land in Matabeleland?</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">And there are many Zimbabweans from Mashonaland with prime land in the choicest
parts of Matabeleland. Go to Umguza in Matabeleland North around the very
fertile Nyamandlovu Aquifer farming area, and you will find many Zimbabweans from
Mashonaland there. You will also find them in very large numbers if you look at
who controls the best hunting and tourist safaris in places like Hwange, Binga
and Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. In
Matabeleland South you will find many Zimbabweans from Mashonaland with huge
stakes in gold mining.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Should people in Matabeleland follow Charamba’s idiocy coming from Mugabe’s
office and ask whether the lineage of those Zimbabweans from Mashonaland who
are farming, mining gold or operating hunting and tourist safaris in the
choicest parts of Matabeleland ever dreamt of having land there?</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">What is even of greater national concern about Charamba’s tribal bigotry in his
Herald column in defence of Mugabe’s failed policies and false nationalism is
that it now has a tribal pattern with many shocking examples which include the
following.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">If you take a careful look at the installments of the column published over the
last 12 months in the Herald on Saturdays, you will be shocked to notice that
Charamba has been systematically using the column to inflame tribal emotions
for Mugabe’s political purposes. He has over the time preposterously claimed
that Matabeleland region is not geographically, culturally or tribally
synonymous with the Ndebele whom he has referred to in disparaging colonial
terms as the “clicking people”.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">In one of his many tribal attacks on Welshman Ncube and Gibson Sibanda in the
same column over the last 12 months, Charamba has challenged the two opposition
politicians from Matabeleland to prove that they are Nguni and therefore
Ndebele in a vain attempt to prove his own stupid view that Matabeleland region
is not synonymous with the Ndebele people whom he considers to be foreign to
Zimbabwe. One need not wonder how Charamba and his boss would react if Mugabe
were challenged to prove that he is a Zezuru let alone a Shona or a Zimbabwean.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">As if this is not bad enough, reading through a number of installments of
Charamba’s column over the last 12 months, readers would be shocked to find his
scandalous tribal references to Ndebele women as mere sexual objects.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Other women who are not Ndebele but who have strong roots in Matabeleland have
not been spared either from Charamba’s bigotry. At one time he dismissed Edna
Machirori as a “menopausal” columnist after she criticized President Thabo
Mbeki for not acting decisively against Mugabe. Machirori is the former editor
of the Sunday News and Chronicle in Bulawayo who now writes a regular column
under the pen name of Mavis Makuni in the Financial Gazette.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The question must be asked again, where does Charamba get the courage and
confidence to use his Herald column on Saturdays to fan tribal and gender
hatred in the manner he has done over the last 12 months?</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">One thing for sure is that Charamba does not get that courage and confidence
from himself. Apart from being a coward who can only say the bigotry he has
written only under the cover of a pen name, he is not a man of ideas by any
stretch of the imagination. In fact, he does not have any ideas. He has words,
yes, and he thinks those words are ideas.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">This is because Charamba is a poorly schooled wordsmith who suffers from the
folly of thinking that words are synonymous with ideas. That is why he cannot
tell the difference between expressing himself through ideas and impressing
readers through words.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Because he does not know the difference between words and ideas, Charamba is
typically thoughtless and is prone to debating individuals and their personal
lives and social identities through the use of what he imagines are fancy words
ironically uplifted from Victorian literature. Charamba’s information about
individuals is always based on the gossip of and rumors from state security
agents and never on direct knowledge. This is why his information is often
unreliable.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">All of Charamba’s installments in the Herald on Saturdays are unique for their
consistent failure to engage those he lampoons in a sustained debate of ideas,
issues, facts, policies or ideologies. He invariably takes pot shots at
individuals in very personally intrusive terms and always abusively so. He uses
his Manheru disguise to invent things and peddle outright falsehoods about the
individuals that have been the focus of his demonization over the last 12
months.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">For example, in his tribal attack on me last Saturday, he found it necessarily
to drag my wife into his bigotry. Does he dream that anyone is afraid of him or
his boss? The fact that some of us who know better have not said anything about
how abusive Charamba is of his vulnerable wife does not mean we are fools. We
come from communities that know something about common decency.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">But if Charamba continues to throw dirty mud at people’s families and insulting
their ethnicity to fan tribal hatred, then he must prepare himself and his boss
for real disclosures on the way. Zimbabweans would be told many things about
everything including how Charamba has attempted to murder his wife in cold
blood and how that attempted murder has been covered up. And the disgusting bloody
evidence would be given because it is available. This is not a threat but a
promise.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Last Saturday Charamba wrote in the Herald as Nathaniel Manheru that I should
not lecture Mkapa on Zimbabwean politics allegedly because I was a “petty
refugee” in Tanzania when Mkapa was that country’s foreign minister during the
Lancaster talks. He also charged that I should defer to Mkapa because he was
president of his country when I was a mere government minister in Zimbabwe!
This demonstrates how thoroughly thoughtless and shallow Charamba. It also
demonstrates how Mugabe has failed to groom his mouthpieces and why he has
failed to groom a successor.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Charamba is so empty headed that he cannot understand the simple fact that
every ordinary Zimbabwean has an absolute right to lecture Benjamin Mkapa or
any other foreigner on Zimbabwean politics. The same absolute right is enjoyed
by Zimbabweans who were not yet born when Mkapa was Tanzania’s foreign minister
in 1979, let alone me who supposedly was a refugee in Tanzania at the time when
in fact I was studying in America. Indeed, regardless of their background,
Zimbabweans also have an absolute right to lecture Mugabe himself on national
politics.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Another example of Charamba’s thoughtlessness displayed in his column last
Saturday is his defence of Mugabe’s desperation for settlement talks with
Britain through Mkapa’s mediation under the self-serving but false argument
that “…we have been and still are dealing with an outstanding colonial
question, namely that of land…”.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The fact of the matter is that there is a world of difference between the
colonial question and the neocolonial question. Zimbabwe’s hard won
independence addressed the colonial question which led to the liberation
struggle. The discharge of that hard won independence through sovereignty and
democratic governance along with dynamic and sound economic policies should
address the neocolonial question. It does not make any sense for the
postcolonial state to address the neocolonial question by going back to the
colonial question as if Zimbabwe is not an independent country. This is because
the colonial and neocolonial questions are structurally different. It may very
well be asking too much to expect Charamba and his boss to understand or grasp
this.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Despite the foregoing, Charamba’s tribally inflammatory Manheru column in the
Herald on Saturdays is not altogether useless. In fact it has been a gold mine
as a media and diplomatic source of juicy state secrets and other information
about goings on in government. This is because there have been numerous
occasions when Charamba has thoughtlessly used his column to leak juicy tit
bits he overhears at the Monday briefing meetings and other encounters with
Mugabe which he attends with state securocrats and other key bureaucrats.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">That’s how Charamba got to hear for example that the CIO hatched the
Murambatsvina plot with Mugabe without the input of key government decision
making processes such as cabinet. Charamba leaked that to New African magazine
and in his Manheru column. He also used the same column to leak the information
that Zimbabwe had found a mediator outside the UN’s Kofi Annan and he named
Benjamin Mkapa as that mediator long before the Banjul meeting between Annan
and Mugabe.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">There are many other examples of Charamba’s juicy leaks which have been so
useful that some media circles in Zimbabwe have acknowledged Charamba’s help in
filling them in on what’s happening in government by nicknaming him as “the
useful idiot” because he gives hostage to fortune.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">But others in the Zanu PF politburo and yet some in government, especially in
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have not been amused by Charamba’s reckless
leaks in the Manheru column. They view Charamba as a double agent with dubious
British links made during his days as a graduate student in Britain when he was
on study leave from the president’s office sponsored by the British government
whose hysterical dislike he now simulates with reckless abandon. The strong and
growing feeling in these government and Zanu PF circles is that Charamba makes
juicy leaks of state secrets in his Herald column on Saturdays to deliberately
harm the Zanu PF government by cleverly forearming Mugabe’s detractors.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Only time will tell which is which. Meanwhile Charamba must wise up to the fact
that his use of tribal bigotry and inflammatory intrusion into people’s
families and personal matters has gone too far and will not be tolerated
further. He should convey the same to his boss who stands to lose the most.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">By Prof
Jonathan Moyo</span><br />
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<div style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">IF President Robert Mugabe truly and honestly believes that he is a serious
presidential candidate in the general election scheduled for March 2008 and
that he can best govern this battered country until 2013 should he win, then he
miserably failed to demonstrate that at the controversial Zanu PF extraordinary
congress which started late yesterday afternoon.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13.0333px;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">The simple truth is that Mugabe has no national reason to seek reelection and
that Zanu PF is being particularly irresponsible by allowing him to do that in
a disgraceful manner as shown yesterday at the special congress.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">So pathetic was Mugabe’s performance that when he was formally declared the
ruling party’s presidential candidate, fair-minded Zimbabweans in and outside
Zanu PF who had or still have a soft spot for him for one reason or another did
not know whether to laugh or cry.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">The televised ill-fated declaration was as unwise and as sad as a different but
morally equivalent event some 29 years ago when an aged and out-of-shape
Muhammad Ali unwisely agreed to defend his world heavy weight boxing title
against a young and agile Leon Spinks who went on to clobber and humiliate him
on February 15 1978.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Because Zanu PF’s irresponsibility has caused it to fail to protect the
national interest and because Mugabe is apparently determined to thrive under
that failure in pursuit of his personal ambition to be president for life, it
is now up to Zimbabweans across the political divide to rise to the challenge
by finding a united front to stop Mugabe and his cronies from turning their
self-indulgence into a national catastrophe.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Before he was declared as the Zanu PF candidate yesterday, Mugabe opened the
Zanu PF special congress with an uncharacteristically insipid speech, delivered
in a cracking voice and notable for its shocking incoherence, irrelevance and
lack of inspiration. His rambling speech sent a clear, loud and very worrying
message to bemused delegates that Mugabe now represents an unhappy past.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">But if Mugabe’s speech was pathetic from the point of view of someone who
desperately needed to convince his special congress delegates and the
television audience that he has what is required to solve the nation’s daunting
problems many of which have been caused by him or during his controversial rule
over the last 27 years, the proceedings that followed his uninspiring speech
proved beyond any doubt that the Zanu PF special congress was a charade.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Consider the following: Mugabe’s hopeless speech, which was full of the same
old clichés he has been saying over and over again to no useful end, was
immediately followed by a perfunctory tabling of the central committee report
for adoption by Vice President Joice Mujuru who had the appearance of someone
who was so removed from it all that she could not care less. Her dutiful act
was followed by long-winded and useless vote of thanks from Vice President
Joseph Msika whose essence was to confirm that the Zanu PF presidium would be
better consigned in a museum than anywhere else in a properly functioning
society, let alone a democratic one.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">When the presidium was done, the secretary for legal affairs, Emmerson
Mnangagwa, was asked to announce the main purpose of the special congress and
he outlined two. First, he said that the special congress was being asked to
ratify constitutional amendment 18 and he narrated the background to its
enactment by the Parliament of Zimbabwe which he situated in the Sadc mandated
South African led talks between Zanu PF and the two MDC factions.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">What was shocking is that Minister Mnangagwa did not seem to appreciate the
absurdity of asking a Zanu PF congregation, with no standing in our
Constitution whatsoever, to ratify an Act of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. The
matter would have been different and even understandable if he had asked the
Zanu PF special congress to ratify decisions of the Zanu PF central committee
in support of processes, including the inter-party dialogue, leading to the
enactment of Amendment 18.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Someone needs to tell Zanu PF’s manipulative barons that once a law has been
enacted by the Parliament of Zimbabwe, and assented to by the President, only
the courts can pronounce themselves on that law one way or the other. No other
body has the competence to ratify or do anything else about that law besides
abiding by it.</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">After the absurd and meaningless ratification of Amendment 18, Minister
Mnangagwa then announced that the second, and obviously most important,
business of the day was to declare Mugabe as the Zanu PF presidential candidate
in the 2008 presidential election allegedly "in compliance with Article 5
section 22(4) of the party’s constitution and in terms of Article 6 section
30(3) of the same constitution".</span></div>
</span>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">Article 5 section 22(4) of the Zanu PF constitution deals with the convening of
an ordinary, not special, congress and provides that resolutions emanating from
the party’s provincial structures, youth league and women’s league shall be
circulated to the constituent organs of congress at least 14 days prior to the
date of congress.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">A number of these organs did not meet the requirement for making resolutions 14
days before the congress and some of them, like Matabeleland North, made their
resolutions in support of Mugabe only last Saturday on December 8 while
Masvingo reported to have done so only yesterday on the day of the congress! In
the circumstances, while all the reporting organs recited Article 5 section
22(4) of the Zanu PF constitution to justify the resolutions they read in
support of Mugabe, a majority of them violated that provision and shamelessly
displayed their violation on national television.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">In addition to this, all the reporting 10 provinces along with the youth league
and women’s league claimed that they were declaring Mugabe as the candidate of
the party in terms of Article 6 section 30(3) of the Zanu PF constitution which
deals with the powers and functions of the national people’s conference.
Section 30(3) of that article provides that the national people’s conference
"shall declare the president of the party elected at congress as the state
presidential candidate of the party".</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">What is instructive here is that this article is specifically about the powers
and functions of the national conference and not congress or a special congress.
It was very strange, and indeed incomprehensible, for the youth league, women’s
league and 10 provinces to pretend to be following the Zanu PF constitution
when they were in point of fact using a provision on the national people’s
conference and mischievously conflating it with the special congress.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">While those who read the strange resolutions in support of Mugabe’s candidacy
did not know what they were doing and clearly are not familiar with the Zanu PF
constitutional provisions that they were invoking, those who drafted the
resolutions new exactly that they were manipulating the party’s constitution in
order to violate it . This was done as part of the desperate efforts to impose
Mugabe’s candidacy on an unwilling but helpless ruling party now incapacitated
by deep divisions.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">After all the organs had read the resolutions that had clearly been written for
them by manipulative powers behind the scenes, Zanu PF national chairman, John
Nkomo, formalised the declaration of Mugabe as the presidential candidate by
acclamation.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">The delegates responded by looking at each other in bewilderment. The usual
chanting of slogans, singing and dancing were all forgotten. Even the singing
national commissar, Elliot Manyika, remained glued to his seat looking as confused
if not as sorry as everyone else. Mugabe himself looked equally perplexed and
even fearful. As if there was the hand of God at work, Nkomo looked at Mugabe
and sought to reassure by saying, "Cde. President we have tried".</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">All this was live on television. There was something about the images which
seemed to foretell what we are most likely to see on the day of the results of
the 2008 general election.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;">To any discerning observer who was either inside the special congress yesterday
or who watched the charade unfold from the beginning to the end on television,
it was clear that nobody in Zanu PF actually supports Mugabe’s candidacy.
Everyone understands that it is wrong and the most telling statement in that
regard is the holding of a sham special congress when a national people’s
conference was in order.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">The tragedy in Zanu PF is that its leading factions, especially those
associated with Solomon Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa, are now using their
mutual hatred as a way of expressing their support for Mugabe. The divisions
between these factions has widened and deepened as they compete to prove which
faction supports Mugabe more than the other. One can only imagine what would
happen if these factions were to unite against Mugabe in support of Zimbabwe.</span></div>
</span><o:p></o:p>Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-84748065385961696992016-06-07T20:07:00.000+02:002016-06-07T20:24:34.436+02:00Why Mugabe should go now<strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Why
Mugabe should go now, by Jonathan Moyo</span></strong><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates
that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or
happy, foolish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering
reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who
has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">That Mugabe must now go is thus no longer a dismissible opposition
slogan but a strategic necessity that desperately needs urgent legal and
constitutional action by Mugabe himself well ahead of the presidential election
scheduled for March 2008 in order to safeguard Zimbabwe's national interest,
security and sovereignty.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One does not need to be a malcontent to see that, after 25 years of
controversial rule and with the economy melting down as a direct result of that
rule, Mugabe's continued stay in office has become such an excessive burden to
the welfare of the state and such a fatal danger to the public interest of
Zimbabweans at home and in the diaspora that each day that goes by with him in
office leaves the nation's survival at great risk while seriously compromising
national sovereignty.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If there is one unified truth among otherwise divided Zimbabweans, a
truth now also ringing true within key governmental and non-governmental
centres of regional, continental and international opinion, it is that the
country's seven-year-old economic recession will worsen as it gets wider and
deeper beyond fuel shortages unless and until there is a far-reaching political
settlement of the five-year-old Zimbabwean leadership question.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">So what should President Mugabe do? The leader of the MDC, Morgan
Tsvangirai, says Mugabe should be dragged to the negotiating table by the likes
of presidents Thabo Mbeki and Olusegun Obasanjo and forced to talk a political
settlement with the MDC. But calling for inter-party talks now is really
flogging a dead horse not least because there's really nothing to negotiate
given the depth of "Mutually Assured Demonisation" (Mad) between Zanu
PF and the MDC. No wonder Zanu PF and its government, gloating over reported
divisions within the MDC as if they cannot feel the heat from the ethnic fires
that are burning inside the ruling party, have been quick to dismiss
inter-party talks by reminding Tsvangirai that his party is in parliament where
a lot of talking is done.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On March 18 Trevor Ncube wrote an incisive analysis of the Zimbabwean
predicament ahead of the general election in this paper which disappointingly
concluded that President Mugabe was needed now as never before as the solution
to the crisis gripping the country and challenged him to appoint able and
dynamic deputies to succeed him.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mugabe has publicly demonstrated his leadership incapacity to make way
for an able and dynamic successor by succumbing to manipulative tribal pressure
from a clique in his party on November 18, 2004 at a politburo meeting that
unprocedurally and unconstitutionally amended Zanu PF's constitution to guarantee
the imposition and ascendancy of Joice Mujuru to the vice-presidency three days
before the Zanu PF membership was due to elect a new top leadership and central
committee.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Curiously, this real coup whose tribal story has not yet been told took
place on the morning of the same day during which, later in the evening, a coup
plot was allegedly hatched at Dinyane High School in Tsholotsho giving rise to
the so-called Tsholotsho Declaration. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"From all discernable
indications, Mugabe has lost influence and is now viewed with suspicion or
cynicism or both by his peers in the Sadc, African Union and across the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Inter-party negotiations or appointment of able and dynamic potential
successors are no longer viable options for Mugabe not only because Zimbabwe
has now reached a point of no return to Zanu PF but also because the required
critical solution must focus not just on Mugabe but also, and more importantly,
on Zanu PF itself where there is internal dictatorship, institutionalised patronage
and refusal to reform.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This leaves Mugabe with one real option that he must now exercise: to
resign in terms of the constitution of the land and to allow Zimbabweans to
choose a constitutional successor now. The nation is bleeding and it would be
very irresponsible to expect Zimbabweans to wait until 2008 for the
presidential election.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Zanu PF proposal that the next presidential election should be held
in 2010 together with parliamentary elections due then is pure political
madness gone too far all because of the politics of patronage and must be
rejected with all democratic and legal force possible.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Apart from the obvious yet very important fact that a voluntary
constitutional resignation to make room for a constitutional successor now
would indelibly guarantee him an honourable legacy and avoid the risk of
looming instability in our country, the following are among compelling reasons
why Mugabe must follow the constitutional exit door by resigning now.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">First, Mugabe is now leader of a shelf political party that exists only
in name even with those seemingly high numbers in parliament because, in real
terms, the hearts and minds of the bulk of its members have ideologically
emigrated to a new all-inclusive third way beyond current party boundaries, the
so-called third force which in fact is a people's movement, such that Zanu PF
membership is now only for strategic survival purposes in practical and not
ideological terms which are temporary.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mugabe could of course reverse this were he to resign now and give the
remaining scattered faithful ones in his party some hope to inject a new
dynamism before time completely runs out with the result of consigning Zanu PF
to the fate suffered by Unip in Zambia, Kanu in Kenya and the MCP in Malawi.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The rot in Zanu PF smells in government where the Cabinet has become no
better than a status club in which ministerial positions have no strategic
policy value as they have become instruments of patronage to gain personal
access to national resources and the illusion of power and influence.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This explains why government has now resorted to ruling through
"GBO" (Government By Operations) led by jittery security arms, implemented an
undeclared state of emergency and roped in the Reserve Bank to pursue an
unprecedented law and order approach to monetary policy in order to criminalise
Zimbabweans, whether as individuals, families or businesses, to make them
insecure and vulnerable to inhuman and barbaric attacks in the name of
restoring order reminiscent of the Gukurahundi days.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This evil has been dramatised by the destruction of houses and business
properties that has affected the whole nation and invited the possibility of
international intervention to the detriment of our sovereignty.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the most compelling reasons for Mugabe to resign now have to do with
his own fallen standing in and outside the country. The prevalence of unkind
jokes about him on text messages and the Internet say it all. Mugabe now lacks
the vision, stature and energy to effectively run the country, let alone his
party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">He is without compassion, maybe because he is now too old, too tired and not in
the best of health. His failure to visit stranded families left homeless and
suffering from the irrational acts of his own government speaks volumes of his
cold and cruel leadership style.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">From all discernable indications, Mugabe has lost influence and is now
viewed with suspicion or cynicism or both by his peers in the Sadc, African
Union and across the developing world where he used to enjoy considerable authority.
Of course, Mugabe is still respected as an old man and he still makes very
interesting bombastic speeches that are applauded for their entertainment value
and which are full of sound and fury but signifying precious little at the
level of policy and action.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Given the foregoing, President Mugabe has no reason whatsoever to
continue in office as that is no longer in his personal interest and is most
certainly not in the national interest. He just must now go and the fundamental
law of the land gives him a decent constitutional exit that he must take while
he is still able to do so to save the nation and preserve his legacy. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;">OF the various problems in Zimbabwe that account for the seven-year-old
political stalemate that has precipitated an unprecedented economic meltdown,
the one that is now looming larger than any other is the chronic leadership
deficit, particularly but not only in the Zanu PF government. So serious is
this deficit that the most fundamental issue that explains the palpable despair
among Zimbabweans today is leadership, stupid.</span></div>
</span><span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Take the case of the economic meltdown. Many, not only among economists but
also within the diplomatic community and multilateral bodies such as the United
Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, believe that the
problem in Zimbabwe has to do with the adoption of wrong policies by the Zanu
PF government.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;">There have been ubiquitous calls to the effect that things could change for the
better only if President Robert Mugabe and his ruling lot adopted correct
policies underpinned by a new democratic dispensation.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;">While understandable, these calls have nevertheless been misplaced because
those making them have failed to appreciate that policies, including a new
democratic constitution, are not value-neutral commodities that can be traded
with political ease.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Policies are an expression of leadership to the extent that there must be an
ideological connection between the policy and the policymaker. The alternative
is an assured circus.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The Zanu PF government has irredeemably failed to get a policy handle on the
causes of the political malaise and the collapse of the formal economy in the
country not because there are no alternative policies out there that it can
adopt. It’s because there is no visionary leadership within the ruling party
that is both existentially and ideologically well disposed to the pursuit of
alternative national policies capable of getting Zimbabwe out of the woods.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;">On offer is the self-indulgent leadership of President Mugabe who is now too
old despite his photogenic makeup, has become very tired, visionless and
beleaguered. Mugabe remains in office not because he is in charge of the
goings-on in the wider society but largely if not only because of
considerations of his personal and family security in a world that is
increasingly becoming hostile to former heads of state with unresolved human
rights and corruption issues during their rule.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">A leader in this kind of a box in which Mugabe now finds himself tends to
invariably construct his own political reality which in turn blunts his ability
to tell the difference between winning a popular victory and securing a stolen
result at the polls. There is no way such a leader can ever enact correct
policies even if they smack him on his face.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">This explains why even with the best of intentions by some within his inner
circle, Mugabe’s leadership has become inherently limited and in fact doomed to
fail. No wonder his associates are now unable to distinguish between defending
their beleaguered boss as a person and defending his principles, human ideals
or policies.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Mugabe’s two deputies are not in a better position than him vision-wise.
Vice-President Joice Mujuru is seemingly content with wanting to become
executive state president by crisscrossing the country in the glare of the
media hoping to win voters by waving “a pigs-and-chicken manifesto” in an
economy whose wheels have fallen off.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Mujuru’s more senior counterpart, Vice-President Joseph Msika, has practically
retired on the job but not from it and is now marking his sweet time in office
incapable of doing anything meaningful.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">If this kind of visionless and self-indulgent leadership is bad for Zimbabwe’s
battered economy, what is dramatically worse is that Zimbabweans must for
reasons only known to God endure the policy curse of a do-nothing Minister of
Finance in Herbert Murerwa who has become an ever-sulking crybaby over money
printing and currency reforms as if he has forgotten that it is him who
presided over the economic origins of the present crisis in 1997 when he
printed money to irresponsibly compensate some veterans of the liberation war
and to bankroll the unpopular war in the Democratic Republic of Congo whose
political and economic benefits to Zimbabwe remain elusive.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The situation is no better outside government but is worse within Zanu PF’s
raging succession war in which the acrimonious factions are united by their
lack of a policy.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Meanwhile the crisis continues to widen and deepen despite occasional flashes
of recovery through what some now see as cynical manipulation of apparently
declining inflation figures at a time when prices are skyrocketing like never
before.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">History does not have a single example of a nation that has ever pulled out of
the grip of a chronic crisis of the magnitude currently bedevilling Zimbabwe
without following the path of visionary leadership. Failed leadership always
leads to failed governments and ultimately failed states. On this the examples
are too many to mention.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The bottom line is that when a nation finds itself in the woods, it simply
cannot get out without the guidance of a visionary and capable leadership that
first and foremost knows what is going on; is confident that it knows for sure
and is able to make it abundantly clear to everyone else that it indeed knows
not only what is happening but also what must be done and why.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Once despair takes hold of a nation in some unprecedented fashion, in the way
Zimbabweans today are suffering the indignity of living from hand to mouth in a
land of plenty, it becomes necessary for society to produce leaders who are
dealers in hope to checkmate the merchants of despair. This happens through
either having the incumbents in government reinventing themselves and
discovering new visions and new skills or having a new generation of previously
unknown visionary and capable leaders emerging to show the way.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">When Britain was in the woods during the Second World War, the way out was
through Winston Churchill’s leadership. And when the Great Depression battered
the American economy, Franklin Roosevelt provided pivotal leadership in the
form of his “New Deal”.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The remarkable success of the civil rights movement in the United States was
made possible by the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. Closer to
home south of the Limpopo Nelson Mandela’s leadership was decisive in moving
South Africa from the apartheid woods to the promise of a new democratic
dispensation.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">In our own country, visionary leaders such as Joshua Nkomo, Ndabaningi Sithole
and Herbert Chitepo were instrumental in laying the nationalist foundation for
Zimbabwe’s liberation.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">But since Independence Mugabe’s leadership has tragically failed to lay the
foundation of a vibrant, dynamic and prosperous nation. While there are a
number of explanations for this, the main one is that Mugabe is given to using
high-sounding words to put his ambition over and above any enduring human
principles or ideals.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">During the Tsholotsho saga in 2004 Mugabe demonstrated to the whole world his
hostility to democracy as an enduring human principle and ideal even within his
own party when he invoked false allegations of a coup in order to prevent his
party membership from freely electing leaders of their choice in accordance
with Zanu PF’s constitution.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Earlier in 1980 no human principle or ideal informed Mugabe’s rhetorical
declaration of national reconciliation which stands in retrospect as cynical
propaganda never intended to achieve any racial harmony beyond consolidating
Mugabe’s political power. Witness how today Zanu PF is prone to shocking
racism. In the 2005 parliamentary election campaign, Zanu PF political
commissar, Elliot Manyika, had no qualms about singing at rallies and in the
electronic media “Musha une Bhunu ndewani tibhombe?” (Whose house has a white
man so we can bomb it?)</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Similar trappings are evident in Mugabe’s claims to national unity that are all
about self-preservation without any lasting principles or human ideals.
Zimbabweans will never understand how a leader committed to national unity
could have allowed the madness of Gukurahundi in which over 20 000 people were
massacred while many more had their homes and livelihoods destroyed.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The fact that Mugabe has done absolutely nothing of national significance to
heal the Gukurahundi wounds even after rhetorically acknowledging the madness
speaks volumes about his disdain for enduring human principles and ideals. It
is this disdain that has left the door wide open to such evil deeds as
Operation Murambatsvina whose victims numbering at least 18% of the population
are still trapped in untold misery to this day.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">In the same vein, the disastrous failure of the otherwise necessary land reform
programme undertaken in 2000 is defined by its lack of grounding in enduring
human principles and ideals that can withstand the prejudices of the moment.
Mugabe’s self-indulgent propaganda that Constitutional Amendment 17 brought
finality to land reform remains dangerous nonsense because, as a trained
lawyer, he should know better that there can never be such finality through a
law that bars people who lost land during the chaotic reform process from
approaching the courts.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Against this backdrop, and given the breadth and depth of the current crisis
that has left Zimbabweans in total despair, one does not have to be malicious
or mischievous to understand that Mugabe simply does not have the leadership
vision and capacity to pull Zimbabwe from the woods. He is just not that kind
of leader.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;">IF there is one sobering thing that can be unequivocally said about why the
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has scandalously delayed the announcement
of the March 29 presidential election, it is simply that President Robert
Mugabe did not win the election and is now desperately trying to steal the
result through an unjustified recount because he does not have any prospect of
winning a run-off or a re-run.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Had Mugabe won the election, even with less than the absolute majority required
under the Electoral Act, ZEC would have announced the result ages ago and
Zimbabweans would have been spared the constitutional uncertainty and political
anxiety that have put the nation on the brink of utter chaos and mayhem.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The simple truth which ZEC has found hard to stomach and which Mugabe and his
shocked cronies have found hard to swallow is that Morgan Tsvangirai won the
presidential election even if with less than the required absolute majority. In
other words, Tsvangirai got more votes than Mugabe and thus defeated him.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">If the Electoral Act had not been amended after the 2002 presidential election
to require a run-off where no candidate gets an absolute majority, Tsvangirai
would have been sworn in by now and Zimbabwe would be in a totally new
situation under his MDC government and we would not have the current charade of
a dissolved cabinet whose defeated ministers are now seeking to
unconstitutionally smuggle themselves back into office under spurious but self-serving
interpretations of Section 31E of the Constitution.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">It is common cause that Mugabe dissolved not just parliament but also cabinet
before the March 29 elections and this fact was widely reported in the media.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">What must be understood is that in terms of Section 31E (1) (a) of the
Constitution, the significance of the dissolution of cabinet by the president
is that it is constitutionally the same as the removal from office of
vice-presidents, ministers and deputy ministers. When the president dissolves
cabinet, it means that vice-presidents, ministers and deputy ministers have all
been dismissed and removed from their offices in one fell swoop.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">There are two scenarios under which cabinet is typically dissolved or dismissed
in Zimbabwe: one happens before a cabinet reshuffle and the other before a
general election. In either case, the dissolution means that there is no
cabinet thereafter and thus there are no government ministers. Many times in
the past, Mugabe has dissolved cabinet before a reshuffle and persons not
reappointed in the reshuffle have not remained as ministers on grounds that the
dissolution was merely an administrative matter with no constitutional
significance.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Given that Mugabe has not reappointed anyone to reconstitute the cabinet that
he dissolved last month, Zimbabwe right now does not have a cabinet. This means
there is no government. As such, there is now a constitutional vacuum which is
made worse by the fact that the country is also going through an unprecedented
economic meltdown whose resolution requires an elected government with a
requisite economic recovery plan.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The only exception, which is not much of a consolation, is that the dissolution
of the cabinet in March did not affect the embattled Mugabe who appointed it
and who, even if defeated on March 29, is nevertheless empowered by Section 29
of the Constitution to unhappily continue in office until the person elected as
President on March 29 takes over the reins of governance.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The constitutional crisis now gripping the nation arises from ZEC’s delinquent
failure to announce the result of the March 29 presidential election and that
failure has in turn prevented the democratic and constitutional processes from
yielding a new President to enable the country to move forward in a stable and
cohesive manner cemented by national unity and the law.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Against this background, ZEC’s perverse delay in announcing the result of the
presidential election leaves Zimbabweans and the international community with
only one gloomy conclusion: the defeated Mugabe and his shocked hangers-on are
using the delay to scheme up a dirty game plan whose nefarious purpose is to
reverse Tsvangirai’s electoral victory with the collusion of ZEC at all cost
and by any means available. This is being done under a barrage of confused and
confusing Zanu PF talk around a recount, runoff or rerun when the result has
not been announced.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">In the circumstances, ZEC’s delay in announcing the result has become
inherently destabilising to the detriment of both the national interest and
national security.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">As far as the national interest is concerned, there was no reason on earth why
the nation went to great lengths and at great cost to hold a presidential
election in terms of the law on March 29 if there’s was a predetermination by
officialdom that only one particular candidate, Mugabe, had to win or else all
hell would break loose.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The outcome of an election is determined by the voters and not by the whims of
officialdom. The voters rejected Mugabe on March 29 and officialdom must
unconditionally and graciously accept that electoral verdict in the national
interest even if some officials have debatable or even understandable
reservations about Tsvangirai’s leadership, ideology or policies.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">If officialdom uses all sorts of self-indulgent pretexts to reject an electoral
outcome that has been determined by the will of the people, as is currently
happening, that rejection necessarily threatens national security by exposing
the country to hostile external interference. This is because the international
community, especially Zimbabwe’s neighbours in SADC, cannot be expected to
stand idly by while Mugabe digs in and embarks on a scorched earth policy
against his own people and country for the sole purpose of reversing an unannounced
election result won by Tsvangirai. Zimbabwe’s detractors won’t miss such an
unfortunate opportunity created by what can only be Mugabe’s contempt for the
electorate with the assistance of ZEC.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">Because Mugabe is so stubborn as to be incapable of doing the right thing on
his own, those who still have his ear and the ear of the military and security
complex around him, need to appreciate three inescapable realities facing
officialdom and communicate them accordingly:</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">• The current electoral stalemate created by ZEC on Mugabe’s behalf cannot be
resolved through a recount, rerun or runoff. It would be foolhardy to use an
election to resolve an election impasse. What is needed is a negotiated
settlement for a transitional process that recognises the will of the people as
expressed on March 29 while also appreciating Mugabe’s institutional
sensitivities and personal anxieties along with those of his close associates
in key organs of the state.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">• Zimbabweans have crossed the electoral Rubicon which means that Mugabe simply
cannot win any election; not even one which is neither free nor fair in his
favour. Mugabe’s days of electoral victories are irretrievably gone.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">• In the most unlikely event that Mugabe were to win a recount, runoff or rerun
by hook or by crook and thus remain in office, the economy would reject him
with devastating consequences for the livelihood of ordinary people to the
point of necessitating never before seen chaos and mayhem.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">What this means is that Mugabe no longer has any electoral option involving him
as a candidate outside a negotiated settlement for a gracious exit. He is
certain to be humiliated in untold ways if he should be unwise enough to
participate in a runoff or rerun as no rational voter can see him turning
around the economy or just running this country for the next five years.</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="line-height: 18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">The Zanu PF claims that only Mugabe can secure the gains of the liberation
struggle in general and the land reform programme in particular are plain silly
and if they are true, then God help us because Mugabe is not going to be with
us for any sustainable period in revolutionary terms.</span></div>
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Communication and Technology and Courier Services in Zimbabwe has threatened to
kill Pastor Mawarire after his close friend Tafadzwa Masarara, a well-known
crook and CIO operative lost to Mawarire in a debate focusing on #ThisFlag. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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owned by Supa, was hoisted by Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa, ZiFM presenter, a Zanu PF
apologist and daughter to the incompetent Minister of Health Dr David
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Supa who is part of a pro-corruption movement, #OurFlag,
which was recently launched on twitter by Zimbabwe’s crooked academic Prof
Jonathan Moyo and his handsome son-in-law Tafadzwa Wakatama was riled by Evan’s
performance, which prompted him to openly threaten to “dismiss” Evan on
twitter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Supa who was waylaying in his car, pounced on Evan soon after
the debate accusing him of lying and threatening to kill him. The whole drama
was well planned with Ruvheneko taking a video, which has since gone viral, and
its purpose was to discredit Evan, but it backfired leaving viewers shocked by Supa’s behaviour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Listeners were also left bewildered when Tafadzwa Musarara,
whose arguments were persistently incoherent and childish, threatened Evan with
what he called “subversion”, heavens knows what it is but these ZanuPF mafias’
behaviour in the studio was rather chilling. The behaviour can only be
described as a showmanship of thuggery and evil. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In another bizarre moment, Ruvheneko, the Zanu PF stooge
masquerading as a radio presenter, introduced Tafadzwa Musarara, as a political
analyist, which raised eye brows as to why Ruvhi was trying to camouflage this
loser’s affiliation to Zanu PF.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Supa Mandiwanzira</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now Zimbabweans are asking: Why was Supa Mandiwanzira
waylaying the Pastor in his car. Is this what they did to Itai Dzamara? Why are young people like Supa and Musarara who should be drivers of our economy and
examples of excellence turning evil? Why are they propping and protection evil?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is not the first time Supa has been involved in
silencing Pastors. Years ago, he and his other CIO operatives broke into Pius
Ncube’s residents and installed cameras, to capture the Bishop’s private
moments, which they successfully did, and this brought the demise of Ncube and
his voice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">For now, as a citizen of Zimbabwe, I urge all Zimbabweans of
all walks of life to keep vigilant, to protect and stand by the only voice that
we have in Pastor Evan. Whatever happens to Evan Mawarire, we will hold Supa
and Masarara accountable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In fact, Supa and Tafadzwa Musarara have offered the ZRP with
a line of investigation into the disappearance of Itai Dzamara. Could it be
that these two buffoons are the rogue elements within the state security organs,
which Monica Cheru Mpambawashe once referred to, in her Herald article
“Unpacking the Dzamara saga.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Never shall we continue to allow crooks to molest us again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">#ThisFlag </span>Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-54644393311409083802016-03-30T18:11:00.000+02:002016-03-30T18:11:27.164+02:00Point-by-point response to Mugabe’s Tokyo hallucinations<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjphZscioZJ0MRvqER6IWcpMUR4MWk2jtLkhTHlWRfHw8QzZf8a_UyUhSw_xxTHTEfEq5x0fDhk0jYiB3v6-VOditHbSc1f3sDraLwnoTP3m5UPDJJ3uzOyr5qS8cKlpuvo7MNxVl8S9MA/s1600/modi1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjphZscioZJ0MRvqER6IWcpMUR4MWk2jtLkhTHlWRfHw8QzZf8a_UyUhSw_xxTHTEfEq5x0fDhk0jYiB3v6-VOditHbSc1f3sDraLwnoTP3m5UPDJJ3uzOyr5qS8cKlpuvo7MNxVl8S9MA/s400/modi1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“You
just go to Zimbabwe now and ask the people whether I should stand down. They
will be angry with you.”<br /></span></td></tr>
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Felex Share in TOKYO, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Japan President Mugabe yesterday
said anyone unhappy with his constitutional stay in power should condemn the
people of Zimbabwe as they are the ones who gave him the mandate to govern the
country since 1980, adding that his successor should be people oriented and
someone ready to defend the country from latter-day neo-colonialism being
propelled by the West. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Mugabe,
stop lying to people because this will not help. It’s very insulting to take
Zimbabweans for fools. Your route to a long and menacing stay in power is a simple
one to find. The path to your grip on power is laid and still lies through the
carcasses of our people. In the 80’s you were an accomplice in the slaughtering
of our people in Matebeleland where you, according to Dan Stannard then CIO
chief who worked closely with Emmerson Mnangagwa, killed almost 50 000 innocent
people. As if that was not enough, in 2008, you also attempted to murder or you
gave orders for the massacre of thousands of our people. In the end, almost 500
people were butchered under your watch, and today you want to lie to us that
people have been voting for you. You can only tell that to your children or
crooked and supposedly learned people like Professor Jonathan Moyo and
Professor Charity Manyeruke.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Speaking in a wide ranging
interview with Japanese journalists here yesterday, President Mugabe said
health permitting, he would stand as the ZanuPF presidential candidate in 2018
if the people decided so. “He (successor) must be a good leader all the time, a
leader who is people oriented,” said President Mugabe, “a leader who listens to
the voices of the people, who takes care of the people, who thinks of the
people before he thinks of himself. He should be a leader who is really
directed and governed by the wishes of the people. This is what I have tried to
be. This is what our Government has tried to be.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>You
have dismally failed to act like someone who listens to the voices of the
people let alone take care of the people. Instead who have condemned people to
death, brutalised them and urinated on their hopes. You think, only, about yourself.
In fact, Jonathan Moyo once said “</i></b><b><i><span lang="EN">What
is now clear is that Mugabe believes he needs not two but at least five more
years in power which he hopes will translate into a lifetime of his rule to
secure immunity from likely prosecution for his alleged human rights violations
and other indiscretions”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN">All what the government has tried to do
for the past 36 years is looting resources meant for the development of the
country and the betterment of our people. These unfortunate and gross accounts
of daylight robbery by you and your crooks come to mind:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><i>Willowgate motor Industry rampant looting.</i></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Amendment of the then constitution to necessitate
illegal farm allocation to none, but your cronies.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Grand Theft of War Veterans Funds in which
Mujuru’s doctor declared 90% disability for the former vice president.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Mismanagement and the subsequent looting of
GMB monies by Kumbirai Kangai to fund ZanuPF bigwigs’ lifestyle.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Massive looting of the National Housing
Scheme by Enoc Chikowore to fund Zanu PF elites.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Daylight robbery of City of Harare by
Solomon Tawengwa in order to prop up the Zanu PF regime.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Looting of DRC Diamonds for personal
gratification, in which our soldiers perished in vain.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Looting of white farmers machinery, such as
tractors, harvesters and livestock in the name of land redistribution.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Allocation of multiple farmers to most
crooks in Zanu PF<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>The Chiyadzwa-Marange diamond grand theft of
all time. People will never forget.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>The looting of Air Zimbabwe and ZBC</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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President Mugabe added: “When we
waged the struggle it was a people struggle for the freedom of our people and
that should remain the objective of the leaders in the future. (He needs) to be
people oriented to push that the people remain as free as possible and defend
and protect them against any outsider.” To lead the country for the past 36
years, President Mugabe said, was because of Zimbabweans who successively elected
him to drive their empowerment agenda. President Mugabe said anyone with a
problem with the decision of the majority was free to criticise them “if they
don’t like my long stay in power they should criticise my people, I do not vote
for myself into power,” he said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Now
this is totally bonkers “successively elected to drive their empowerment agenda”.
Thousands of young and old Zimbabweans have left the country to settle in other
countries, is that empowerment. Is giving privilege to people like Saviour
Kasukuwere, Patrick Zhuwao and other politicians related to you, the right to
loot at the expense of the masses empowerment? <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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“You just go to Zimbabwe now and
ask the people whether I should stand down. They will be angry with you.” Asked
if he was fit for the Presidency at the moment and in 2018, President Mugabe
said: “At the moment I am the President that’s why (I am here). Do you see me
as not fit? Why not contest two years later? “Two years later is no time but
only God knows what will happen in two years’ time, 2018, I don’t know, it will
depend. If I am fit enough, yes, but If I am not fit enough I will not. My
people will want me to be a candidate and they have already nominated me as a
candidate for 2018.” President Mugabe said Zimbabwe abounded with ivory and
Government would ensure it benefits everyone. “We have got elephants and they
carry ivory and I want that ivory to benefit Zimbabwe. So I will comply with
the rules set for us to trade in ivory,” he said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Mugabe
people are angrier with your senility and continued stay in power at 92. At 92,
what new ideas do you want to implement now, which you failed to implement in
your prime age. Another stupid lie is that you want ivory to benefit Zimbabwe,
but again, people never benefited from the diamonds, but only you and your
crooks</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Soon and very soon, life will serve it’s own justice, regardless of who
is judged first, you or me. Ndatenda</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-24594106400281566852016-02-17T13:52:00.001+02:002016-02-20T19:48:07.167+02:00Grace Mugabe and Sarah Mahoka: The tale of two typists who have gone too far<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grace Mugabe: Typist 1</td></tr>
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It now appears certain that factionalism is ripping Zanu PF
apart and that things might turn ugly if this problem persists. Now, my main
concern is that factionalism in Zanu PF has not only become an impediment to
our country's progress, be it, economically, socially and politically, but it
has also become menace and a serious concern for our national security.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here, I am arguing that Mugabe's divide and rule tactics,
which he has used over the past 36 years will, if the situation is not handled
well, create despondency and necessitate the breeding of malcontents within
Mugabe's securocrats and liberation war veterans. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mugabe's wife, Grace, recently made utterances, which can
only be interpreted as an attempt to demean and to dismiss war veterans as
undeserving and a spent force was unwarranted. Saviour Kasukuwere, Grace and
Mugabe's blue eyed boy has, in the past, described war veterans as drunkards in
another statement, which was meant to cheapen war veterans including the likes
of Augustine Chihuri, Constantine Chiwenga, Perence Shiri, just to mentioned a
few.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Compatriots, considering that Grace appears to be vying for
presidency, is this not a recipe for a civil war considering that war veterans
have, in the past, vowed that they will never salute anyone without liberation
war credentials. Ok then, if not by waging a war how are they going to stop
her?<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Victoria Falls, Mugabe warned services chiefs
against delving into politics, well only when it comes to Zanu PF and the First
Family. Is it because he received intelligence warning him about
securocrats' possible backing of "Team La Coste" President Emmerson
Mnangagwa? Is Mugabe not pushing securocrats and war veterans too far this time
considering that he has allowed his two typists Grace and Sarah Mahoka to trample
mercilessly on war veterans? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Consider Mahoka calling a whole VP Mnangagwa a duck, Grace
undressing Joyce Mujuru and Didymus Mutasa. Compatriots, I mean Mnangagwa and
Didymus Mutasa were once our nation's spy supremos and now they are being
trampled on, just like that, by typists. That alone, could be a recipe for grooming
malcontents within Mugabe's securocrats and war veterans, that is if we still
have genuine war veterans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fellow countrymen, given the current succession race, don't
you think that, one way or another, our national security is compromised and
under serious threat? Say if Mnangagwa, Mutasa, Dabengwa decide that they have
had enough of rubbish from Mugabe, surely, we will have another Banyamulenge in
Zimbabwe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know some will argue that in the past Mugabe has
successfully purged CIO Margaret Dongo, CIO Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, the late
Edgar Tekere and others who met unexplained deaths, without any consequences, but
for how long?<o:p></o:p></div>
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God forbid, if Mugabe was to go today, will Saviour
Kasukuwere, Jonathan Moyo, Sarah Mahoka and Patrick Zhuwao protect Grace Mugabe
and her empire? Will Joyce Mujuru continue to live as muroyi veDotito? and will
the crocodile continue to live as a lizard or a lame duck?</div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="color: #88ac0b; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The 'useful idiot' has gone too far this time<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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IS PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe an ethnic bigot masquerading as a nationalist?<br />
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This admittedly very unhappy and most uncomfortable question is raised not out
of any petulant disrespect or mischief but out of grave national concern given
the persistence of inflammatory tribal bigotry by George Charamba, Mugabe’s
spokesperson, in his weekly column “The Other Side” which he writes under the
cover of the poison pen of Nathaniel Manheru in the Herald on Saturdays.<br />
Charamba’s inflammatory tribalism would ordinarily go unnoticed but for the
fact that he is Mugabe’s trusted and loyal personal spokesperson with no track
record of ever holding independent opinions that are his alone. Charamba speaks
for Mugabe. Put differently, Mugabe speaks through Charamba.<br />
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This is consistent with the fact that Charamba is a civil servant appointed as
a government bureaucrat who should serve everyone without regard to their
political affiliation, ethnicity or any other social or natural condition or
division. Charamba is not a politician, elected or otherwise, and he thus does
not represent anybody in government, not even himself. He only represents
Mugabe as his spokesperson or mouthpiece.<br />
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Therefore, the views expressed in the column in question by Charamba are
supposed and certainly are intended to project, articulate and defend Mugabe’s
thinking and policies on major issues of national interest. I know this as
someone directly familiar with the origins and purpose of the Nathaniel Manheru
column in the Herald which was started under my watch when I was minister of
information.<br />
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Against this backdrop, there is a feature of Charamba’s pro-Mugabe column which
has been recurring over the last 12 or so months to the point of forming a
disturbing if not alarming pattern. This has to do with the column’s crude
tribal bigotry sometimes coupled with equally crude gender bigotry presented by
Charamba in Mugabe’s name.<br />
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The latest example of this tribal bigotry is in Charamba’s current installment
of his column published by the Herald last Saturday (July 8, 2006) and targeted
at this writer.<br />
<br />
Apparently stung by the real issues against Mugabe in an article I wrote last
Friday (July 7, 2006) in the Zimbabwe Independent unraveling Mugabe’s
ideological and policy contradictions behind the so-called mediation between
Zimbabwe and Britain by former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa, Charamba yet
again used inflammatory tribal bigotry in Mugabe’s defence.<br />
<br />
In essence, Charamba’s response to my article is to assert that I have no right
to criticize or challenge Mugabe from the “anthills of Mazowe” where my family
is doing agriculture on 627 hectares we are currently developing from
previously derelict land last used for grazing purposes, because I am from
Matabeleland and thus belong to a clan “whose lineage never dreamt of having
land in the heartland of Mashonaland of Zimbabwe”.<br />
<br />
This is tribal bigotry at its worst.<br />
<br />
But where is this tribal bigotry coming from? Do Charamba and President Mugabe
whom he represents really imagine that they can ever get away with this kind of
scandalous and unacceptable tribal intimidation?<br />
<br />
This kind of crude tribal bigotry coming from Mugabe’s office at this juncture
in Zimbabwe’s troubled history after the evils of Gukurahundi and Murambatsvina
may explain why Mugabe and his cronies like Charamba remain liable to being
held accountable for committing crimes against humanity. Tribal bigotry is a
crime against humanity.<br />
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For anyone to boldly assert that it takes some “cheek” for a Zimbabwean from
Matabeleland to criticize Mugabe from the “anthills of Mazowe” in the heartland
of Mashonaland is crudely tribal and very inflammatory. Assertions of this
nature can incite tribal hatred and violence.<br />
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In fact, you cannot get a better indication or expression of Mugabe’s Bantustan
ideology than this. And when Mugabe’s pretences to nationalism are questioned,
the same cronies like Charamba who peddle Mugabe’s Bantustan ideology cry foul.
Yet Zimbabweans who worry about Mugabe’s tribal nationalism or ethnonationalism
know only too well that it is this same Bantustan ideology that bred the
Gukurahundi atrocities between 1980 and 1987 and the Murambatsvina atrocities
in 2005.<br />
<br />
These atrocities were a product of hallucinations of ethnic challenges to
Mugabe’s power. In the case of Gukurahundi, Mugabe’s tribal hallucination led
to the massacre of over 20,000 people in the Midlands and Matabeleland
provinces and the destruction of homes and livelihood of many more. On July 1, 2000
Mugabe described Gukurahundi as madness at the first anniversary of Joshua
Nkomo’s death in Bulawayo. Indeed, it was ethnic madness. But six years later
Mugabe has done nothing to deal with the visible scars and still bleeding open
wounds of that ethnic madness. Why this inaction for so long? Does Charamba’s
shocking tribal rant in the Herald last Saturday give a clue to what Mugabe
thinks about people from Matabeleland and their rights as Zimbabweans?<br />
<br />
There are similar questions around the evil Operation Murambatsvina founded on
Mugabe’s ethnic hallucination that some urban Zimbabweans he has previously
ethnically insulted as “totemless” were about to use Ukrainian style orange
revolution tactics to rise up against his government after the March 2005 parliamentary
elections. Like in the case of Gukurahundi, the response was to ethnically
uproot these Zimbabweans from their homes and sources of their livelihood with
the result that 18% of the population was rendered destitute by Murambatsvina.<br />
<br />
Even the so-called Tsholotsho saga of November 18, 2004, was a direct result of
Mugabe’s ethnic hallucination when members of his party from at least six
provinces who thought they had a right to freely and democratically choose the
party’s leadership in terms of the Zanu PF constitution were accused of and
punished for allegedly plotting a tribal coup against Mugabe and his ethnic
cronies.<br />
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What the above three examples show is that tribal bigotry runs so deep in
Mugabe’s politics that thoughtless cronies like Charamba cannot free themselves
from it. That bigotry is now rearing its ugly head over the already
controversial land reform program with shocking calls, exemplified by
Charamba’s column in the Herald last Saturday, that people from Matabeleland
with land in Mashonaland should not have the tribal cheek to criticize or
challenge Mugabe. This is pure Bantustan politics with no national content
whatsoever.<br />
<br />
It is very clear from Charamba’s regurgitation of Mugabe’s Bantustan ideology
that there are just too many things that are very wrong with Zanu PF’s
patronage driven land reform program, including that it is apparently tribal.
The fact that Charamba has the idiotic courage to blurt out this tribal bigotry
in the Herald means that he gets his confidence from his knowledge that the
Bantustan ideology he peddles under the pretext of nationalism and sovereignty
which breeds tribal bigotry comes from his boss whom he speaks and writes for.<br />
<br />
Do Mugabe’s cronies like Charamba really believe that Zimbabweans from Matabeleland
should not have land in Mashonaland and that if they should have it they should
not criticize or challenge Mugabe to whom they must be grateful? If they
believe this tribal bigotry, what are its implications on Zimbabweans from
Mashonaland who have land in Matabeleland?<br />
<br />
And there are many Zimbabweans from Mashonaland with prime land in the choicest
parts of Matabeleland. Go to Umguza in Matabeleland North around the very
fertile Nyamandlovu Aquifer farming area, and you will find many Zimbabweans from
Mashonaland there. You will also find them in very large numbers if you look at
who controls the best hunting and tourist safaris in places like Hwange, Binga
and Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. In
Matabeleland South you will find many Zimbabweans from Mashonaland with huge
stakes in gold mining.<br />
<br />
Should people in Matabeleland follow Charamba’s idiocy coming from Mugabe’s
office and ask whether the lineage of those Zimbabweans from Mashonaland who
are farming, mining gold or operating hunting and tourist safaris in the
choicest parts of Matabeleland ever dreamt of having land there?<br />
<br />
What is even of greater national concern about Charamba’s tribal bigotry in his
Herald column in defence of Mugabe’s failed policies and false nationalism is
that it now has a tribal pattern with many shocking examples which include the
following.<br />
<br />
If you take a careful look at the installments of the column published over the
last 12 months in the Herald on Saturdays, you will be shocked to notice that
Charamba has been systematically using the column to inflame tribal emotions
for Mugabe’s political purposes. He has over the time preposterously claimed
that Matabeleland region is not geographically, culturally or tribally
synonymous with the Ndebele whom he has referred to in disparaging colonial
terms as the “clicking people”.<br />
<br />
In one of his many tribal attacks on Welshman Ncube and Gibson Sibanda in the
same column over the last 12 months, Charamba has challenged the two opposition
politicians from Matabeleland to prove that they are Nguni and therefore
Ndebele in a vain attempt to prove his own stupid view that Matabeleland region
is not synonymous with the Ndebele people whom he considers to be foreign to
Zimbabwe. One need not wonder how Charamba and his boss would react if Mugabe
were challenged to prove that he is a Zezuru let alone a Shona or a Zimbabwean.<br />
<br />
As if this is not bad enough, reading through a number of installments of
Charamba’s column over the last 12 months, readers would be shocked to find his
scandalous tribal references to Ndebele women as mere sexual objects.<br />
<br />
Other women who are not Ndebele but who have strong roots in Matabeleland have
not been spared either from Charamba’s bigotry. At one time he dismissed Edna
Machirori as a “menopausal” columnist after she criticized President Thabo
Mbeki for not acting decisively against Mugabe. Machirori is the former editor
of the Sunday News and Chronicle in Bulawayo who now writes a regular column
under the pen name of Mavis Makuni in the Financial Gazette.<br />
<br />
The question must be asked again, where does Charamba get the courage and
confidence to use his Herald column on Saturdays to fan tribal and gender
hatred in the manner he has done over the last 12 months?<br />
<br />
One thing for sure is that Charamba does not get that courage and confidence
from himself. Apart from being a coward who can only say the bigotry he has
written only under the cover of a pen name, he is not a man of ideas by any
stretch of the imagination. In fact, he does not have any ideas. He has words,
yes, and he thinks those words are ideas.<br />
<br />
This is because Charamba is a poorly schooled wordsmith who suffers from the
folly of thinking that words are synonymous with ideas. That is why he cannot
tell the difference between expressing himself through ideas and impressing
readers through words.<br />
<br />
Because he does not know the difference between words and ideas, Charamba is
typically thoughtless and is prone to debating individuals and their personal
lives and social identities through the use of what he imagines are fancy words
ironically uplifted from Victorian literature. Charamba’s information about
individuals is always based on the gossip of and rumors from state security
agents and never on direct knowledge. This is why his information is often
unreliable.<br />
<br />
All of Charamba’s installments in the Herald on Saturdays are unique for their
consistent failure to engage those he lampoons in a sustained debate of ideas,
issues, facts, policies or ideologies. He invariably takes pot shots at
individuals in very personally intrusive terms and always abusively so. He uses
his Manheru disguise to invent things and peddle outright falsehoods about the
individuals that have been the focus of his demonization over the last 12
months.<br />
<br />
For example, in his tribal attack on me last Saturday, he found it necessarily
to drag my wife into his bigotry. Does he dream that anyone is afraid of him or
his boss? The fact that some of us who know better have not said anything about
how abusive Charamba is of his vulnerable wife does not mean we are fools. We
come from communities that know something about common decency.<br />
<br />
But if Charamba continues to throw dirty mud at people’s families and insulting
their ethnicity to fan tribal hatred, then he must prepare himself and his boss
for real disclosures on the way. Zimbabweans would be told many things about
everything including how Charamba has attempted to murder his wife in cold
blood and how that attempted murder has been covered up. And the disgusting bloody
evidence would be given because it is available. This is not a threat but a
promise.<br />
<br />
Last Saturday Charamba wrote in the Herald as Nathaniel Manheru that I should
not lecture Mkapa on Zimbabwean politics allegedly because I was a “petty
refugee” in Tanzania when Mkapa was that country’s foreign minister during the
Lancaster talks. He also charged that I should defer to Mkapa because he was
president of his country when I was a mere government minister in Zimbabwe!
This demonstrates how thoroughly thoughtless and shallow Charamba. It also
demonstrates how Mugabe has failed to groom his mouthpieces and why he has
failed to groom a successor.<br />
<br />
Charamba is so empty headed that he cannot understand the simple fact that
every ordinary Zimbabwean has an absolute right to lecture Benjamin Mkapa or
any other foreigner on Zimbabwean politics. The same absolute right is enjoyed
by Zimbabweans who were not yet born when Mkapa was Tanzania’s foreign minister
in 1979, let alone me who supposedly was a refugee in Tanzania at the time when
in fact I was studying in America. Indeed, regardless of their background,
Zimbabweans also have an absolute right to lecture Mugabe himself on national
politics.<br />
<br />
Another example of Charamba’s thoughtlessness displayed in his column last
Saturday is his defence of Mugabe’s desperation for settlement talks with
Britain through Mkapa’s mediation under the self-serving but false argument
that “…we have been and still are dealing with an outstanding colonial
question, namely that of land…”.<br />
<br />
The fact of the matter is that there is a world of difference between the
colonial question and the neocolonial question. Zimbabwe’s hard won
independence addressed the colonial question which led to the liberation
struggle. The discharge of that hard won independence through sovereignty and
democratic governance along with dynamic and sound economic policies should
address the neocolonial question. It does not make any sense for the
postcolonial state to address the neocolonial question by going back to the
colonial question as if Zimbabwe is not an independent country. This is because
the colonial and neocolonial questions are structurally different. It may very
well be asking too much to expect Charamba and his boss to understand or grasp
this.<br />
<br />
Despite the foregoing, Charamba’s tribally inflammatory Manheru column in the
Herald on Saturdays is not altogether useless. In fact it has been a gold mine
as a media and diplomatic source of juicy state secrets and other information
about goings on in government. This is because there have been numerous
occasions when Charamba has thoughtlessly used his column to leak juicy tit
bits he overhears at the Monday briefing meetings and other encounters with
Mugabe which he attends with state securocrats and other key bureaucrats.<br />
<br />
That’s how Charamba got to hear for example that the CIO hatched the
Murambatsvina plot with Mugabe without the input of key government decision
making processes such as cabinet. Charamba leaked that to New African magazine
and in his Manheru column. He also used the same column to leak the information
that Zimbabwe had found a mediator outside the UN’s Kofi Annan and he named
Benjamin Mkapa as that mediator long before the Banjul meeting between Annan
and Mugabe.<br />
<br />
There are many other examples of Charamba’s juicy leaks which have been so
useful that some media circles in Zimbabwe have acknowledged Charamba’s help in
filling them in on what’s happening in government by nicknaming him as “the
useful idiot” because he gives hostage to fortune.<br />
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But others in the Zanu PF politburo and yet some in government, especially in
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have not been amused by Charamba’s reckless
leaks in the Manheru column. They view Charamba as a double agent with dubious
British links made during his days as a graduate student in Britain when he was
on study leave from the president’s office sponsored by the British government
whose hysterical dislike he now simulates with reckless abandon. The strong and
growing feeling in these government and Zanu PF circles is that Charamba makes
juicy leaks of state secrets in his Herald column on Saturdays to deliberately
harm the Zanu PF government by cleverly forearming Mugabe’s detractors.<br />
<br />
Only time will tell which is which. Meanwhile Charamba must wise up to the fact
that his use of tribal bigotry and inflammatory intrusion into people’s
families and personal matters has gone too far and will not be tolerated
further. He should convey the same to his boss who stands to lose the most. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p> Please note that no permission was given by Jonathan Moyo for the reproduction of his work.</o:p></div>
Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-71246200322370343432016-01-01T15:39:00.001+02:002016-01-01T15:39:27.651+02:00A picture that tells a million story.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Disorientated Mugabe.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">For me the most important story in 2015 was a picture of Mugabe with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi during the India Africa Forum Summit 2015 held in New Delhi in October. Forget about his fall, but his picture with Prime Minister Modi tells a sad story for Zimbabwe. </span><br style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">The picture depicts a hopeless nation led by a senile President who is clueless and no longer has the will to carry on. The picture portrays a nation struggling to avoid the pitfalls of our history since independence. </span><br style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;" /><br style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;" /><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">But above all, the picture portrays a man who has been abandoned by his merciless family, who persistently force him to hang on until he drops dead, all in the name of protecting what they stole from us. Mugabe’s wife and children must hang their heads in shame.</span>Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-63740401981859673672015-12-15T03:29:00.000+02:002015-12-15T03:29:28.189+02:00Stanley Goreraza, Robert Mugabe’s de facto brother-in-law divorces again<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Grace “Gucci” Mugabe’s former
husband, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Goreraza">Stanley
Goreraza</a>, is divorcing his wife, Tamara, according to High Court of
Zimbabwe records, Majaira Jairosi Blog can reveal. Please see rare pictures of Stanley.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanley and Tamara in happier times</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanley and Tamara in happier times</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanley and Tamara in India where he was condemned to by Mugabe</td></tr>
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Goreraza is divorcing his wife,
Tamara Mary Stevenson Goreraza, a mechanical engineer, however finer details of
the divorce were not immediately available, nor was the outcome of the court
hearing.</div>
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Goreraza, an Air Force of
Zimbabwe wing commander, who is now believed to be Zimbabwe’s Defence attaché
to India, filed for divorce five years ago and the case was heard by High Court
judge Justice Lavender Makoni on December 2 this year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the High Court of Zimbabwe held at Harare, Wednesday 2 December 2015, before Makoni J C at 10:00 am Motion Roll</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tamara early this year<br /></td></tr>
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Goreraza was Grace’s first
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Although it is believed that
Grace was snatched from Goreraza, then a junior air force officer by ruthless
Robert Mugabe, before he was banished to China as a defence attaché where he
has been based for more than two decades, Mugabe insists that Grace was a
divorcee when he started dating her while his late Ghanaian wife, Sally, was
battling with a kidney ailment that eventually killed her in 1992.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Grace worked as a typist in the
typing pool in President Mugabe’s office before she was elevated to become his
private secretary.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Goreraza’s divorce case might
have taken long to conclude because he is permanently based abroad.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some people have suggested that this could be a preparation for reunion. In life, everything is possible.</div>
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If there is anything that
incenses me, it is the Zanu PF government’s lack of sensitivity to the growing
and unwarranted road carnage in our country. Does the Zanu PF government really
care about its people and their safety on our roads, which have become death traps?
Surely something has got to give. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I appreciate accidents happen everywhere
in the world, but we cannot have people’s lives wasted as if they are rats
considering the rate at which accidents are happening in our country. The
carnage on our roads signals the ineptitude of crooks running our country, particularly
The Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The man at the helm of The
Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development is a tried
and tested persistent failure, and one wonders why he is still in government.
Accidents happening on our roads should raise alarm and allow for serious
investigations into these unnecessary road traffic deaths. There must be full
investigations whose outcome must lead to the implementation of new road
enforcement laws targeted at reducing road accidents. The safety of our people
on the roads is paramount and government’s responsibility.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unsurprisingly, there have been
countless accidents this year alone, but it seems no one is doing anything
about it. All what I have heard of The Ministry of Transport, Communication and
Infrastructural Development is the talk of Tollgates. It does not surprise me,
because the Zanu PF government and the minister of Transport stand to benefit
from the revenues collected from these tollgates. It is all about nothing but
lining their pockets and funding the Zanu PF institution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have no problems with
tollgates, provided the revenues collected are channelled through to the
rehabilitation of our roads and enforcing rules that promote road safety. Tollgates
are everywhere in the world, and a good example is just next door in South
Africa. They have a world class road network system, suffice to say that they
still have accidents happening, but it could have been worse had their roads
been as dilapidated as they are in Zimbabwe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The most contributing factors to
the road accidents in Zimbabwe today are human error due to inexperienced
drivers and lack of objective road enforcement laws. The ZRP Traffic section is
not doing its proper job, save for gross incompetence and corruption. One would
thought that because of the overwhelming presents of traffic officers on the
road, accidents would be minimal, but alas accidents are even increasing on
daily basis. The whole ZRP department needs to be revised, even if it means
people losing their jobs, and in any case they haven’t got any job to do, so
why should they stay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "symbol";"> </span>Review the driver licencing programme, targeting
inexperienced drivers and drivers who are experienced but not fit to drive, due
to, for instance, recklessness.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-family: "symbol";"> </span></span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-family: "symbol";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Strictly enforcing motorists, especially public
transport to adhere to stipulated vehicle carrying capacity.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> Reducing speeds at problematic junctions or
locations (e.g. through the use of solar panel vehicle activated signs or rough
road surfaces)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Introduce driving bans and license endorsement
for driving offenders.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> Driver education programmes aim to increase the
safety behaviours of drivers and reduce driver errors. Programmes may be
provided one-to-one, within a group, or in the form of written materials (e.g.
an information manual). They can be targeted at specialist groups such as those
with a higher risk of accidents (e.g. those experiencing high numbers of crashes
or offences), or novice drivers.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> Above all, create a special elite branch or
division for policing all the traffic police officers, without fear or favour.
PISI and the CID division are useless, they are good at terrorising the
opposition parties working in cohort with CIO thugs.</span></li>
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Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-23565591223427290902015-02-10T23:54:00.000+02:002015-10-21T21:24:09.804+02:00Paul Munyaradzi Mangwana "They wanted an accident"<br />
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"Me and the project had to be destroyed. They sent word to my team that I had sold out...... and the team said lets destroy him and the project....... so when I visited the general and put my cards on the table, he told me of all the powerful people who were in it..... it was a powerful team. Those who are in the know in my party, they are saying we do not know how you survived" (Paul Mangwana)</div>
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<br />Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-64801633997814478552015-02-04T21:19:00.000+02:002015-02-04T21:19:13.300+02:00Mugabe's fall signals the fall of Zanu PF and the end of his days.
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that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or
happy, foolish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering
reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who
has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power (Jonathan Moyo)</span></div>
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slogan but a strategic necessity that desperately needs urgent legal and
constitutional action by Mugabe himself well ahead of the presidential election
scheduled for 2018 in order to safeguard Zimbabwe's national interest,
security and sovereignty (Jonathan Moyo)</span></div>
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his own fallen standing in and outside the country. The prevalence of unkind
jokes about him on text messages and the Internet say it all. Mugabe now lacks
the vision, stature and energy to effectively run the country, let alone his
party. He is without compassion, maybe because he is now too old, too tired and not in
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fail to protect the national interest and because Mugabe is apparently
determined to thrive under that failure in pursuit of his personal ambition to
be president for life, it is now up to Zimbabweans across the political divide
to rise to the challenge by finding a united front to stop Mugabe and his
cronies from turning their self-indulgence into a national catastrophe (Jonathan Moyo)</span></div>
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Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-60758749970856045762015-02-02T18:37:00.000+02:002015-02-02T19:32:58.266+02:00How the bastards stole your vote<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The manner in which the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) conducted the 31st July, 2013 general election has been the subject of much discussion. This report, coming as it does sixteen months after the poll, may seem outdated. However, several events over this period make it necessary to highlight and bring to the fore once more ZEC’s conduct of the 2013 ballot. The document below is a must read for those who want to get an insight of the depth of electoral fraud in Zimbabwe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jonathan Moyo, Emmerson Mnangagwa, </span><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">General Constantine Chiwenga, Saviour Kasukuwere and Patrick Zhuwawo were at the centre of what later became known as "The 2013 Election Grand Theft". The theft was masterminded by an evil company known as NIKUV, which is well known for propping up dictators and undermining democracy by using its fraudulent data manipulation system. The company was censored in Zambia after its attempt in subverting the will of Zambian voters by manipulating electoral data. For the 2013 Election Grand Theft alone, the Nikuv bosses pocketed US$10 million as a reward for manipulating data on behalf of the discredited and sunset Zanu PF leader Robert Mugabe.</span> </span></div>
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<span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come 2018 election some of us in the MDC Renewal Team are prepared to stand in the line of fire in defence of our vote and the right to purse happiness.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part of defending our vote will involve a determined and relentless effort to have reforms implemented or else we will not take part in the elections.</span> </span></div>
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now too old despite his photogenic makeup, has become very tired, visionless
and beleaguered. Mugabe remains in office not because he is in charge of the
goings-on in the wider society but largely if not only because of
considerations of his personal and family security in a world that is
increasingly becoming hostile to former heads of state with unresolved human
rights and corruption issues during their rule" ( Zanu PF Minister of
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seek, by one means or another, to retain the presidency of a country you have
already badly run for thirty years and left in a ruinous state. It is not
helpful either to proudly declare that if ZANU PF calls on me to stand for
another term I shall gladly do so"(Zanu PF Deputy Director of Information,
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circumstances, to find it within yourself to recognise the gravity of the
crisis caused by yourself and those who had nothing to lose but everything to
gain from your repressive rule. The starting point for this, Mr President, is
that you swiftly prepare for your exit while helping prepare our country for
the coming of democracy" (Zanu PF Deputy Director of Information,
Psychology Maziwisa).</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span>Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-38446478873150255322015-01-18T18:27:00.000+02:002015-01-18T18:27:23.703+02:00When crooks are in-charge
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The much revered murderer and Chinhoyi
diesel rock maestro is giving the despotic nonagenarian sleepless nights and a
hard time. One can tell by Mugabe’s desperation, which is reflected on daily
basis in the Zanu PF’s information department extension – The Herald, which is
now on Didymus Mutasa’s case left, right and centre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Zanu PF’s information department under
the editorship of a Botswana deportee and Jonathan Moyo’s scribe toy one Ceaser
Zvayi is now telling us that the Chinhoyi diesel rock maestro was an agent of
the colonial British South Africa Police special branch and that Mutasa gave 15
farms to his wives and lovers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The case presented later by Mugabe’s
mercenaries of pen is very interesting. Compatriots, this is what we have
always argued that the current crooks who masquerade as liberation war heroes
embarked on a disastrous land grabbing policy only for the benefit of their
kith and kin. But Mugabe and his misfits have always denied this and now they
are telling us that Mutasa gave 15 farms to his wives and girlfriends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Compatriots, it reminds me of an argument
put up by a friend of mine, who I once respected and admired until he started
diagnosing people with HIV +.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his argument
on a round table discussion organised by the Media Centre, Job Sihkala charged
that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the money allocated to the ministry
of youth meant for projects was parcelled out to, mostly, Saviour Kasukuwere’s
close associates and his girlfriends, and that none of the ordinary people
benefited from it. Reading today’s story about Mutasa’s in the Zanu PF
controlled Sunday Mail, I could not help it but agree with what Sikhala had to
say. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The question now fellow
Zimbabweans is; how many more cases of corruption and plunder are these crooks
hiding from us. Does it mean that as long as the thugs within Zanu PF continue
to lick Mugabe’s back side, our people will never know how much was stolen from
them? Surely, I cannot wait for the day when the likes of Obert “The Obedient
Son” Mpofu, Ignatius Chombo and Emmerson Mnangagwa are going to fall out with
Mugabe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One thing for sure my brothers
and sisters is that for us to have the Zimbabwe we want, we must first stop
these crooks. Whether we want it or not, the onus is now on us to make sure
that we have liberated ourselves from these idiots. Like I have always said, we
owe it to posterity. Stopping these crooks does not mean we have wait for 2018
elections neither does it mean we have to be violent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We don’t need to wait for
elections because they will give us nothing as long as fraudsters and
mercenaries like <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ari Ben-Menashe and
Paul Calder LeRoux who were part of the Nikuv syndicate are still receiving loyalties
from Zanu PF. Violence but a peaceful mass protest will not be acceptable
unless if needs be. I say unless needs be, because we will never allow Zanu PF’s
Border Gezi trained militias in ZNA and ZRP to brutalise our peaceful
protestors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Compatriots, Zanu PF is now at its weakest point and we must take each and
every opportunity to hit it where it hurts most. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-76796735774845556442015-01-18T02:16:00.000+02:002015-01-18T02:16:35.646+02:00Politics of deceit and chauvinism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In all aspects of life, nothing
is so irritating as to confront an ignorant man or woman who conveys propaganda
with dogmatic arrogance. In Zimbabwe, we have two terrible twins who we must
continue to expose for what they are, so that our people can understand the depth
and crudity of lies that these sycophants parade as the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fellow Zimbabweans let me
introduce Jonathan Moyo and Psychology Maziwisa who are legends when it comes to
the politics of deceit and chauvinism. Here we have two former critics of
Mugabe, who, by absence of moral values and greedy, later became the tyrant’s chiefs
of chicanery. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Compatriots, the purpose of this
article is to delve into the minds of these two petty political thieves by re-visiting
what they said about Mugabe and Zanu PF before the Obedient Son dangled a few
carats of diamonds from Marange in front of them. This article will also
revisit what Psychology Maziwisa said about Jonathan Moyo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am not just hanging them out to
dry, but I am confronting two snots who defend a despot by spreading offensive
and insulting falsehoods, which in turn, have propped up the tyrant and aided
the continued subjugation of our people. Now the question is whether they
believe in the lies that they tell or they are blinded by greed and cannot see
through the deviousness of Mugabe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But how can someone just abandon
their conscience only to go against everything that they believe in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is what I am talking about:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In his article – Why Mugabe
Should Go Now – Jonathan said, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“But the most
compelling reasons for Mugabe to resign now have to do with his own fallen
standing in and outside the country. The prevalence of unkind jokes about him
on text messages and the Internet say it all. Mugabe now lacks the vision,
stature and energy to effectively run the country, let alone his party. He is
without compassion, maybe because he is now too old, too tired and not in the
best of health”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In his open letter to his
discredited nonagenarian boss, Psychology Maziwisa concurring with Moyo wrote;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“It<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is not helpful, Mr President, at the
age 86 to seek, by one means or another, to retain the presidency of a country
you have already badly run for thirty years and left in a ruinous state. It is
not helpful either to proudly declare that if ZANU PF calls on me to stand for
another term I shall gladly do so”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the same article - </span>Why Mugabe Should
Go Now – Jonathan wrote;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“This explains
why government has now resorted to ruling through "GBO" <br />
(Government By Operations) led by jittery security arms, implemented an
undeclared state of emergency and roped in the Reserve Bank to pursue an
unprecedented law and order approach to monetary policy in order to criminalise
Zimbabweans, whether as individuals, families or businesses, to make them
insecure and vulnerable to inhuman and barbaric attacks in the name of
restoring order reminiscent of the Gukurahundi days”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Similarly, Psychology almost
addressed the same issue in his open letter to the despot when he charged that;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Thirty years on, however, Zimbabwe
is stuck with the same head of state and government, and commander-in-chief of
the defence forces. If you must know, Mr President, this tragic state of
affairs has not come about of our own volition. The right to vote for a
government of our choice has effectively been negated through ZANU PF’s
manipulation of the political environment by means of sustained violence,
intimidation, abduction and unlawful killings contrary, Mr President, to your
fine words of April 17, 1980”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In another article by Jonathan Moyo – Mugabe’s
endorsement irresponsible – he lambasted that;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Because Zanu PF’s irresponsibility has caused it
to fail to protect the national interest and because Mugabe is apparently
determined to thrive under that failure in pursuit of his personal ambition to
be president for life, it is now up to Zimbabweans across the political divide
to rise to the challenge by finding a united front to stop Mugabe and his
cronies from turning their self-indulgence into a national catastrophe”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">However, in support of Moyo, Psychology Maziwisa pointed out that, in his
article – Does MDC have the audacity to ward off terror?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The simple reality is that Mugabe is not
interested in any process whose outcome might result in Morgan Tsvangirai
succeeding him as President. He will, therefore, stop at nothing in his quest
to stay in power. He believes not in the democratic process but in
tyranny as the tried and tested and, therefore, the only means to attaining and
staying in power. He does not believe in free and fair elections let alone
their results”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In his article, - Zimbabwe Doomed As Long As Mugabe Stays On - Jonathan
Moyo bemoaned that;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Mugabe's determination to remain in office until
death do him part is apparently driven by a fatal combination of old age, his
unquenchable thirst for power, his having a young wife with young children and
his getting sycophantic advice from unscrupulous politicians, incompetent
bureaucrats and delinquent propagandists all influenced by insecure and
increasingly nervous securocrats who are better informed about political
developments on the ground and who can see that Mugabe's empire is crumbling”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a rather similar language Psychology Maziwisa wrote in his article -Does
MDC have the audacity to ward off terror?-, that;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Our country has been brutalised at the expense of
satisfying Mugabe and a handful of evil, self-interested, murderous, parasitic
and dictatorial sycophants who have neither the desire nor the conscience to
reflect on the extent of their unbelievable destructiveness” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Compatriots reading what these two buffoons had to say in their writings, I
keep on asking myself; so what has changed about Mugabe that these goons saw it
fit to bury their hatchets? Is what they are telling people now about Mugabe
and Zanu PF a true reflection of their voice within? Interestingly Psychology
once gave us an insight into the mind of a petty political thief by exploring
Jonathan Moyo’s psycophancy behaviour, which he, Pyschology has unfortunately
become. Compatriots, I am going to reproduce Psychology Maziwisa’s article
entitled “Moyo’s sickening psycophancy”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Moyo's sickening sycophancy<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Psychology Maziwisa<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">June 04, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If there is one individual in Zimbabwean politics
who will say anything and everything at the click of a finger simply in order
to win his master's accolades, it is, unsurprisingly, that charlatan Jonathan
Moyo. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apparently the duty Moyo owes to his dictatorial
master is one that he is prepared to fulfil even if it only serves to cheapen
himself in the eyes of the people of Zimbabwe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Surely, our hearts have to go out to the
unfortunate and poor people of Tsholotsho who must certainly by now hate
themselves for having elected such a weak sycophant as their parliamentary
representative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Throughout his career Moyo has developed and
embraced such a sickening propensity to abruptly switch from an entirely
sensible point of view to one that is totally outrageous.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He has only to be convinced that it is politically
expedient. Everything else can be flagrantly ignored. There is not a single
person familiar with Zimbabwean politics who would honestly profess ignorance
of the fact that each time Moyo has fallen out of Mugabe's favour he has
criticised him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Indeed, they would equally confirm that whenever
the opportunity to put a smile on the old man-s face has presented itself, Moyo
has profusely sung the dictator-s praises. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In his piece, The cancer of politics of personalities,
published in The Herald on 27 May 2010, Moyo, in typically desperate fashion,
took pains to pay homage to the controversial and controversially appointed
Judge President George Chiweshe - apparently in an attempt to appeal to the
latter's ear ahead of his day in court for allegedly defaming Roy Bennett.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The truth of the matter is that Moyo has every
reason to be terrified because, if brought before an impartial Judge, the case
against him is a compelling one. No doubt he takes consolation from ZANU PF's
intrinsic conviction that anything that is associated with Mugabe is beyond the
reach of the law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">However, what really prompted this writer to
comment on a piece otherwise deserving of no comment at all was Moyo's
ridiculous and patently untrue description of Mugabe as 'an iconic African
leader with a towering global stature'. Such toadyism is simply sickening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If that is what it means to be a politician then,
rather than becoming one, I would much rather stick to being a commentator
committed to 'keeping the bastards honest'!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A few examples will serve to illustrate Moyo's
alarming inconsistency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just before the 2008 harmonised elections Moyo
went on about how 'Mugabe should go now' because it was in his own best
interest and in the national interest as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He argued that Mugabe's standing had plummeted
both 'in and outside the country' and that his continued presence in office had
become 'such an excessive burden to the welfare of the state and such a fatal
danger to the public interest of Zimbabweans'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Moyo correctly further argued that Mugabe lacked
'the vision, stature and energy to effectively run the country, let alone his
party'. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of Operation Murambatsvina he wrote that that evil
exercise attested to the fact that Mugabe is 'without compassion'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One wonders what really has changed between then
and now for Moyo to now consider it a 'privilege' for anyone to serve in a
Mugabe-led government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In his recent unsuccessful attempt to sell
Mugabe's presidency as one that promotes and protects the rule of law, Moyo
unashamedly referred to Tsvangirai-s justified calls for an end to Bennett-s
continued persecution as 'the most blatant and most outrageous attack on the
rule of law since 1980'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If Moyo wants clear examples of what really
amounts to grave attacks on the rule of law he needs only to look at his
master's monstrous political record.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was Moyo-s master and not Tsvangirai who
arbitrarily detained, cruelly assaulted and devilishly tortured thousands of
innocent Zimbabweans in Matabeleland during the years 1985 and 1986.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was his master and not Tsvangirai who, in a
1982 speech to Parliament, said of Gukurahundi: 'An eye for an eye and an ear
for an ear may not be adequate in our circumstances. We might very well demand
two ears for one ear and two eyes for one eye'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Indeed it was the dictator and not Tsvangirai who,
in perhaps the clearest expression of his contempt for the rule of law, said:
'The government cannot allow the technicalities of the law to fetter its hands.
We shall, therefore, proceed as government in a manner we feel as fitting; and
some of the measures we shall take are measures which will be extra-legal.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">More recently, several Zimbabweans have either
been prosecuted or threatened with prosecution for 'insulting the person of the
President' simply for exercising what is recognised elsewhere as their
inalienable right to free speech.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rule of law in its purest form envisages that no
one is above the law and everyone is subject to it. It is Mugabe and his
cronies who have set themselves above the law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Accordingly, no one can take seriously anything
that charlatan Moyo ever says without causing their beloved ones a great deal
of anxiety about the soundness of their mind. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mugabe has not only wrought great evil on the
people of Zimbabwe but his evil has infected those around him as is evidenced
when we see the keenness with which Moyo licks his master's boots.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For these followers of the Goebel
school of propaganda and falsehood, it is perfectly safe to lie and distort.
But the danger comes when the liar begins to believe in and live by his own
lies as Mugabe's men are now doing.</span></div>
Majaira Jairosihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432536845174340874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051163119111180402.post-16845450398063589762014-12-28T01:22:00.001+02:002015-08-17T22:21:44.535+02:00 Robert Mugabe Junior has found love.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One could forgive him for being a son of one of the most
hated men in Zimbabwe, but Robert Junior is, like any other young man, showing
his prowess in dating light skinned women. In Robert Jnr, former Premier Morgan Tsvangirai
has found his match. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tsvangirai is well
known for his love of light skinned women and for his habit as a serial dater. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert jnr (middle) with his sweetheart on the left</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Robert Jnr found his love in Dubai where he is enrolled at
American University of Sharjah. He is dating Fatin Al Zadjali, his university
sweetheart believed to be a daughter of a business mogul from Oman.
Nevertheless, his father Mugabe Snr is said to have objected to Robert’s
relationship with his Oman sweetheart but his mother Grace “Gucci” Mugabe has
endorsed the relationship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Licking the lollipop: He is a young man, and he does things that any other young man would do.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Donning his boy friend's baseball cap, Fatin looks amazing. Soon to be part of the Gushungo Royal family</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fatin’s father has shops in Dubai where Grace does most of
her shopping and often gets discounts hence her endorsement to Robert’s
relationship with Fatin. Robert Mugabe Snr is insisting that his son marries
someone from Zimbabwe like what his sister did. Robert Mugabe jnr’s sister Bona
Chikore who, through arranged marriage, married a Simba Chikore from Zimbabwe
early this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert jnr on his sweetheart's Facebook profile picture </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of the Mugabes family members who requested to remain
anonymous said: “the old man will not stand a chance, Grace will always have
her way. She says the last word. I am not going to be surprised if Robert
Junior marries Fatin next year”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Evidence of
Grace's control over Mugabe was there for all to see during the congress held from December 2-7.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Addressing
the congregate, Mugabe got carried away when he took to the stage to dissolve
the Zanu PF central committee and started lecturing delegates about the
liberation struggle. Grace intervened by writing a note advising him to take
his seat, but after reading the note, he announced to delegates that his wife
had advised to stop talking, leaving her embarrassed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“My wife
has written a note; she says I’m talking too much. That’s how I am treated even
at home, so I must listen,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Besides
revealing that Grace was running the show at his house and now in the party,
Mugabe also showed that he had no control over Grace when she forced him to
call for a rerun of the central committee elections for Mashonaland East
province.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This was
after Grace vehemently rejected the list of members that was presented to
congress by former chairperson Simon Khaya Moyo.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wish you all the best Robert and Fatin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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