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Zimbabwe now ripe for a coup
21 Mar 2016 at 12:46hrs | Views
A political commentator has said Zimbabwe is now ripe for a political coup and President Robert Mugabe has reduced Zanu PF to Humpty Dumpty, the popular nursery rhyme character.
"For a long time, people spoke about the danger of the party reaching a tipping point, a point that I think we have long gone past.
"In fact, my friends and I now joke and liken the party to Humpty Dumpty because it is so broken that no one can seemingly fix it," a despondent Zanu PF politburo member said.
A central politburo member reportedly told Daily News that the "infighting was now beyond" the nonagenarian's control.
"Yes, I remember telling you guys that the president was at the heart of everything that happens in this country, and that there could not be a solution that could be found for anything in the party and the country without his active participation, including the party's regrettable succession fights.
"That was then when I, like many others in the party, felt that we were just at the tipping point where matters could be rescued.
"We have now gone past that and indeed have gone even past the point of no return that you say others are talking about," the senior party official said.
Political analyst and University of Zimbabwe Political Science lecturer, Eldred Masunungure, said the party's infighting had become a "lose-lose, high-stakes political game".
Political analyst Shakespeare Hamauswa said the events unfolding in Zanu PF showed clearly that the party was a "boiling pot".
"Things are falling apart and the centre can no longer hold. What it means is that anything, including a vote of no confidence on Mugabe, or coup, is now possible.
"It also shows that Team Lacoste is not a push-over. It is still there and they have strategists who are ready to bide their time, who do not advertise their existence or even celebrate their seeming victories as G40 does," Hamauswa said.
"For a long time, people spoke about the danger of the party reaching a tipping point, a point that I think we have long gone past.
"In fact, my friends and I now joke and liken the party to Humpty Dumpty because it is so broken that no one can seemingly fix it," a despondent Zanu PF politburo member said.
A central politburo member reportedly told Daily News that the "infighting was now beyond" the nonagenarian's control.
"Yes, I remember telling you guys that the president was at the heart of everything that happens in this country, and that there could not be a solution that could be found for anything in the party and the country without his active participation, including the party's regrettable succession fights.
"We have now gone past that and indeed have gone even past the point of no return that you say others are talking about," the senior party official said.
Political analyst and University of Zimbabwe Political Science lecturer, Eldred Masunungure, said the party's infighting had become a "lose-lose, high-stakes political game".
Political analyst Shakespeare Hamauswa said the events unfolding in Zanu PF showed clearly that the party was a "boiling pot".
"Things are falling apart and the centre can no longer hold. What it means is that anything, including a vote of no confidence on Mugabe, or coup, is now possible.
"It also shows that Team Lacoste is not a push-over. It is still there and they have strategists who are ready to bide their time, who do not advertise their existence or even celebrate their seeming victories as G40 does," Hamauswa said.
Source - Daily News
