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Cabinet appointment exposes Mnangagwa
03 Dec 2017 at 08:11hrs | Views
An MDC official Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointment of cabinet has exposed who he is.
He said there is an African saying which says that you judge a man by the people he keeps around him.
"Now that Mnangagwa has announced his cabinet ministers who are to be the people around him as he governs the country we can now have a clearer judgement of who he really is and where he is taking us from where we have been. As we have always said when he took over, our joys and celebrations through out the country were certainly not for his ascendance to presidency but were all about the fall of Robert Mugabe just in case Mnangagwa got carried away," he said.
"The army must not disband from their positions that helped Mugabe down. They made us believe that Mugabe was targeted because of criminals around him, well Mnangagwa has retained predominantly the same criminals around him which means that we are possessed to move to another battle. Mugabe's rule has been so pathetic that even when Mnangagwa gets to office at 8am we cheer that and think its being revolutionary when its only the basics and common sense that need to be done. The cabinet he has announced is the beginning of a show of who he truly is."
"I attended a national conference in Harare last week and there was a discussion about a past and new dispensation. I said to colleagues that there is no history to infer to but just a break from seeing Mugabe's face (worth celebrating) and not a change to anything new."
He said Mnangagwa has all but confirmed that we are still in the same trajectory which is a very "good" rude awakening to all of us that the departure of Mugabe's face is not yet UHURU.
"I am particularly excited that Mnangagwa played right into my prayers that he does not include anyone from the opposition in his cabinet because that was going to be a repeat of the Unity Government mistake of 2008 which led opposition to sit on its laurels and enjoyed a rare taste of governance while ZANU PF rejuvenated. The retaining of Obert Mpofu and all the other recycled perennial failures and looters clearly shows that even beyond Mugabe ZANU PF still does not have plans for the future of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe instead must begin having plans on the future of ZANU PF," he said.
"I have always said that my experience with people who went through the ZANU PF school is that these people remain the same and can never change. In IsiNdebele we call them umqhuqhumba, name given to dead beans that no matter how long you boil them, they remain hard and raw. This is in fact time we should not be mourning about the cabinet and Mnangagwa's plans but actually celebrate that its a revival of the prospects of wanting ZANU out especially to those who have been beginning to say give Mnangagwa a chance. The only chance we can give him is to be left alone to fail and kick him out with his party and army partners in 2018."
He said there is an African saying which says that you judge a man by the people he keeps around him.
"Now that Mnangagwa has announced his cabinet ministers who are to be the people around him as he governs the country we can now have a clearer judgement of who he really is and where he is taking us from where we have been. As we have always said when he took over, our joys and celebrations through out the country were certainly not for his ascendance to presidency but were all about the fall of Robert Mugabe just in case Mnangagwa got carried away," he said.
"The army must not disband from their positions that helped Mugabe down. They made us believe that Mugabe was targeted because of criminals around him, well Mnangagwa has retained predominantly the same criminals around him which means that we are possessed to move to another battle. Mugabe's rule has been so pathetic that even when Mnangagwa gets to office at 8am we cheer that and think its being revolutionary when its only the basics and common sense that need to be done. The cabinet he has announced is the beginning of a show of who he truly is."
He said Mnangagwa has all but confirmed that we are still in the same trajectory which is a very "good" rude awakening to all of us that the departure of Mugabe's face is not yet UHURU.
"I am particularly excited that Mnangagwa played right into my prayers that he does not include anyone from the opposition in his cabinet because that was going to be a repeat of the Unity Government mistake of 2008 which led opposition to sit on its laurels and enjoyed a rare taste of governance while ZANU PF rejuvenated. The retaining of Obert Mpofu and all the other recycled perennial failures and looters clearly shows that even beyond Mugabe ZANU PF still does not have plans for the future of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe instead must begin having plans on the future of ZANU PF," he said.
"I have always said that my experience with people who went through the ZANU PF school is that these people remain the same and can never change. In IsiNdebele we call them umqhuqhumba, name given to dead beans that no matter how long you boil them, they remain hard and raw. This is in fact time we should not be mourning about the cabinet and Mnangagwa's plans but actually celebrate that its a revival of the prospects of wanting ZANU out especially to those who have been beginning to say give Mnangagwa a chance. The only chance we can give him is to be left alone to fail and kick him out with his party and army partners in 2018."
Source - Byo24News
