Opinion / Columnist
Zanu PF's innate fear of losing election to MDC-T in Mathebeleland: Come 2018 elections!
06 Feb 2017 at 14:46hrs | Views
The fear of Zanu losing elections in Mathebeleland to Richard Morgan Tsvangirai is legitimate and so evident it is for this reason that they have to come up with trumped up, smear allegations about Tsvangirai: he attempted to kill our iconic Josh Nkomo. It is the looming elections that make Zanu politicians in Mathebeleland uneasy about losing them and nothing else. It is indeed very pathetic to go so low to defame someone as innocent as Richard Morgan. In retrospect, in their weekly Zanu PF polit-buro meetings they sit with criminal cabals who sat down orchestrated the elimination of Josh our icon of the nation.
Why can't they shout at Mugabe for once and call him: murderer; you killed my father together with 20,000 innocent civilians. What makes some intellectual Jonathan Moyo fails to confront Mugabe and tell him on his face he killed his father u Baba u Mlevu during the Gugurahundi atrocities? What difference will it make to accuse Robert Mugabe in his grave that he killed 20,000 civilians in Mathebelelands and Midlands, why not while Mugabe lives? Is it the fear of losing food greater than to fight for your father that got killed by criminals, murderers, you sup with them criminals and murderers year-in and year-out defending Mugabe at every turn to actually please him and be a little good boy in his presence? To me this is inconceivable if I think about the well appraised intelligence Jonathan Moyo has in relation to all of us put together.
Does it assist them anyhow: VP Mphoko and Jonathan Moyo to tell us that a case will be opened to charge Tsvangirai over trumped up charges: charges Richard Tsvangirai never did because the two politicians are scared of the actual killer-leader: Mugabe. Why can't a case be opened now before the elections of 2018: against Mugabe for killing Jonathan's father: u Baba UMlevu? What makes VP think he has so much power to tell the people of Mathebeleland that the genocide of the 1980s issue is now over, come and get your birth & death certificates of your dead ones and close the case. You have shown all rudeness and rawness of your ethic towards human lives, lives were lost in genocide activities in 1980 and you decide to go casual with it, it means you exercising power over us, you are saying iqhude elikhulu ngubani lapha? Who has power to reduce us this low!
For argument sake why should a case be opened for Tsvangirai alone (who was supposed to kill our iconic Josh) if VP Mphoko is closing the case of Mathebeleland genocide never to bring Mugabe and his entire criminal cabal to book. The news media today was all talking about Mphoko telling all gullible to come and collect birth & death certificates and close the Gugurahundi era! Is the life of the people of Mathebeleland so cheap? Does that dangling of the Holy Bible on Saturday tell you to value the lives of our departed ones this cheap VP Mphoko?
Dear VP Mphoko: these crimes of genocide in Mathebeleland & Midlands and crimes against humanity committed in Mashonaland regions will not go silently and unchallenged by mere mention of us to come and collect our birth & death certificates of our dead ones. Those criminals; those who committed them will be brought before the international courts and those responsible will be tried dead or alive. Do not fool yourselves about the power that you think you have at the moment, by selectively smearing Tsvangirai of your dirty crimes because Tsvangirai is a direct threat to your political existence. Kuzaphela konke lokhu when Mugabe dies: reality will visit you; follow you and it will sink in your psyche, to all criminals of Gugurahundi perpetrators, CIOs and your like: your time is a borrowed one.
You will never be given a chance to reinvent yourselves when Mugabe dies. The moment will come and we shall make sure justice is done at international level. It is all evident that the fear of losing elections in Mathebeleland is so large, they have to drag the poor Tsvangirai to mud him so as to lose Ndebele vote. But they have tried it several times. The more this young charismatic man called Tsvangirai receives such mud-slinging, the more popular he becomes: history has taught us so. Come 2018, Bulawayo and beyond will be red, red. We are at pains with the political success of Morgan Tsvangirai in Mathebeleland provinces.
Tsvangirai too must be told! No out-of-court utterances please!
President Richard Morgan Tsvangirai must be told too that when he tells Mugabe to stand down he should stop promising what he cannot not do. No President has a mandate to exonerate criminals. To say that he will give a safe passage to Mugabe's retirement is wholly laughable. Even if Tsvangirai won the elections in 2018, he has no right to exonerate Mugabe and his criminal cabal for the crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity committed by Mugabe and his criminal regime. Such cases cannot be handled at national level; such crimes are handled at international level dear Morgan. Whoever wins elections will have the mandate from the people to give up the cases of genocide and crimes against humanity to the Haig.
It is wholly naïve for MDC-T President Tsvangirai to give himself such extra judiciary powers to exonerate heinous crimes committed in Zimbabwe during Zanu PF regime era. If, for argument sake, Tsvangirai commits such crimes when he becomes President, is he going to be exonerated by the next government? This makes our judiciary system laughable indeed. Legalities in such heinous crimes are not a child's play but very serious issues. African politicians should know this! President Richard Morgan Tsvangirai should know this too.
I personally welcome just like most of our peoples in Zimbabwe do: Amai Mujuru says "sorry for the Gugurahundi genocide," we should accept this. We accept it too when Mugabe said Gugurahundi was a "moment of madness". But because these crimes are of gross human injustices, international in nature we do not stop there with apologies. We go further and make sure all those who committed them do not go scot-free but should face justice: this will save as precedence to all other African countries: you face justice if you commit such heinous crimes. We shall never stop until we have sought justice and all perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity are tried before the international court of justice: the Haig!
Why can't they shout at Mugabe for once and call him: murderer; you killed my father together with 20,000 innocent civilians. What makes some intellectual Jonathan Moyo fails to confront Mugabe and tell him on his face he killed his father u Baba u Mlevu during the Gugurahundi atrocities? What difference will it make to accuse Robert Mugabe in his grave that he killed 20,000 civilians in Mathebelelands and Midlands, why not while Mugabe lives? Is it the fear of losing food greater than to fight for your father that got killed by criminals, murderers, you sup with them criminals and murderers year-in and year-out defending Mugabe at every turn to actually please him and be a little good boy in his presence? To me this is inconceivable if I think about the well appraised intelligence Jonathan Moyo has in relation to all of us put together.
Does it assist them anyhow: VP Mphoko and Jonathan Moyo to tell us that a case will be opened to charge Tsvangirai over trumped up charges: charges Richard Tsvangirai never did because the two politicians are scared of the actual killer-leader: Mugabe. Why can't a case be opened now before the elections of 2018: against Mugabe for killing Jonathan's father: u Baba UMlevu? What makes VP think he has so much power to tell the people of Mathebeleland that the genocide of the 1980s issue is now over, come and get your birth & death certificates of your dead ones and close the case. You have shown all rudeness and rawness of your ethic towards human lives, lives were lost in genocide activities in 1980 and you decide to go casual with it, it means you exercising power over us, you are saying iqhude elikhulu ngubani lapha? Who has power to reduce us this low!
For argument sake why should a case be opened for Tsvangirai alone (who was supposed to kill our iconic Josh) if VP Mphoko is closing the case of Mathebeleland genocide never to bring Mugabe and his entire criminal cabal to book. The news media today was all talking about Mphoko telling all gullible to come and collect birth & death certificates and close the Gugurahundi era! Is the life of the people of Mathebeleland so cheap? Does that dangling of the Holy Bible on Saturday tell you to value the lives of our departed ones this cheap VP Mphoko?
Dear VP Mphoko: these crimes of genocide in Mathebeleland & Midlands and crimes against humanity committed in Mashonaland regions will not go silently and unchallenged by mere mention of us to come and collect our birth & death certificates of our dead ones. Those criminals; those who committed them will be brought before the international courts and those responsible will be tried dead or alive. Do not fool yourselves about the power that you think you have at the moment, by selectively smearing Tsvangirai of your dirty crimes because Tsvangirai is a direct threat to your political existence. Kuzaphela konke lokhu when Mugabe dies: reality will visit you; follow you and it will sink in your psyche, to all criminals of Gugurahundi perpetrators, CIOs and your like: your time is a borrowed one.
You will never be given a chance to reinvent yourselves when Mugabe dies. The moment will come and we shall make sure justice is done at international level. It is all evident that the fear of losing elections in Mathebeleland is so large, they have to drag the poor Tsvangirai to mud him so as to lose Ndebele vote. But they have tried it several times. The more this young charismatic man called Tsvangirai receives such mud-slinging, the more popular he becomes: history has taught us so. Come 2018, Bulawayo and beyond will be red, red. We are at pains with the political success of Morgan Tsvangirai in Mathebeleland provinces.
Tsvangirai too must be told! No out-of-court utterances please!
President Richard Morgan Tsvangirai must be told too that when he tells Mugabe to stand down he should stop promising what he cannot not do. No President has a mandate to exonerate criminals. To say that he will give a safe passage to Mugabe's retirement is wholly laughable. Even if Tsvangirai won the elections in 2018, he has no right to exonerate Mugabe and his criminal cabal for the crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity committed by Mugabe and his criminal regime. Such cases cannot be handled at national level; such crimes are handled at international level dear Morgan. Whoever wins elections will have the mandate from the people to give up the cases of genocide and crimes against humanity to the Haig.
It is wholly naïve for MDC-T President Tsvangirai to give himself such extra judiciary powers to exonerate heinous crimes committed in Zimbabwe during Zanu PF regime era. If, for argument sake, Tsvangirai commits such crimes when he becomes President, is he going to be exonerated by the next government? This makes our judiciary system laughable indeed. Legalities in such heinous crimes are not a child's play but very serious issues. African politicians should know this! President Richard Morgan Tsvangirai should know this too.
I personally welcome just like most of our peoples in Zimbabwe do: Amai Mujuru says "sorry for the Gugurahundi genocide," we should accept this. We accept it too when Mugabe said Gugurahundi was a "moment of madness". But because these crimes are of gross human injustices, international in nature we do not stop there with apologies. We go further and make sure all those who committed them do not go scot-free but should face justice: this will save as precedence to all other African countries: you face justice if you commit such heinous crimes. We shall never stop until we have sought justice and all perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity are tried before the international court of justice: the Haig!
Source - Nomazulu Thata
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