Opinion / Columnist
Zimbabwe is greater than any single individual
08 Apr 2017 at 17:59hrs | Views
One day king Ahab came back home, sullen and refusing to eat, to which Jezebel his queen inquired as to the source of his gloom. Ahab's responded precisely, 'Naboth has refused to sell me his vineyard'. Earlier the king of the northern kingdom of Israel had approached Naboth enticing him to sell him his fruitful vineyard. Ahab wanted to convert the vineyard into a vegetable garden. But Naboth, the Jezreelite refused citing that the vineyard belonged to his family line for generations, so he couldn't simply therefore give his inheritance over to Ahab, this making the king fume. Perhaps his anger would have subsided over time, but only to be encouraged by his wicked wife, the evil Jezebel.
Jezebel: 'Are you not king over Israel. Cheer up, eat for I will get you the vineyard'.
Obviously Jezebel was assuming that she was the owner of Israel and its people.
It is said that Jezebel later wrote letters in the king's name, stamped them with the royal seal, and sent them out implicating and setting up Naboth in a scam that will culminate in him being dragged out of the city, at Israeli elders' orders, to be stoned to death for blasphemy. After being informed that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose to annex the deceased's vineyard. But the displeasure of God with his act would soon come, conveyed through God's spokesperson Elijah, reminding Ahab that he has murdered a man to seize his property. Therefore, said God, where dogs licked Naboth's blood, his and your wife's blood would also be licked. An aghast Ahab would soon pronounce God his own enemy. There was never a man like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the presence of the LORD, urged by his wife Jezebel, the chronicler concludes.
The spirit abiding Jezebel would later manifest in Herodias. When John the Baptist, disapproved of her marriage to king Herod. Herod had taken Herodias his brother Philip's wife to be his own. Disliking the criticism Herodias prompted her daughter, who had amused the king through some dance, to request the head of John on a platter as a reward. Maybe Herodias later ate John's head, because she demanded it on a serving dish. She could have simply asked to have John to be beheaded, but demanding the head on a dinner plate horrifies many.
Later in Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Gorereza Mugabe surprised many by publicly saying she belongs to Satan. As secretary to the president, she became his mistress while still married to Stanley Goreraza and together they had two children, Bona, named after Mugabe's mother, and Robert Peter, Jr. All this happened while the Zimbabwean president was still married to his first life Sally. This makes Bona a child born out of fornication, out of wedlock and therefore a bastard. Grace Mugabe later abandoned her husband for Zimbabwe government's CEO, RG Mugabe. Later Sally Mugabe would die in extraordinary circumstances. Some people in Zimbabwe implicate Grace Mugabe in Sally's death, given how flow of information is throttled in Zimbabwe, nothing could be further from the truth. Some suggest that if Sally was still alive, RG Mugabe would have handed the over power decades ago, but with Grace urging him on, and wanting to be president too, RG Mugabe continued in power despite being very old. But having waded into RG Mugabe's personal life, Grace Gorereza soon pushed her way into Zimbabwe's political life, inhibiting and prohibiting change. Her lack of respect of the will of the people made her say that the husband she stole from Sally would even rule from the grave, if dies of old age, having misruled Zimbabwe autocratically for close to four decades. Grace herself was imposed to her position as women league secretary just as ED Munangagwa imposed Auxillia as MP in Zivagwe constituency.
So the spirit that earlier inhabited Jezebel, and later Herodias, is here now in Zimbabwe, in Grace Gorereza Marufu Mugabe. That spirit that is unfeeling, murderous and it considers only the carrier and disregards all others. State media coverage of her rallies exposes both her folly and vice. Grace Mugabe knows but chooses to ignore the state of rot in Zimbabwe. All she wants is to remain first lady just to remain influential so she can continue taking advantage of the system, further plummeting Zimbabwe into deep chaos, un-reigned corruption and mis-govenance. Grace RG Mugabe does not care about the suffering masses, collapsed infrastructure, unemployment, poor health delivery system and a collapsed economy precipitated by her husband's negligent and lack of foresight in managing the affairs of the Zimbabwean. Thus her vileness approximates or even surpasses that of her precursors. We are reliably informed that Robert Mugabe ordered war veterans and security to carry out a brutal eviction of white farmers at the bidding of the bloody-thirsty Grace Mugabe, the same way Jezebel urged the decapitation of the innocent Nathan to annex his property. Despite all this insensitivity, haughtiness and ridicule of the Zimbabwean people, she is still lavished with the title, Amai, meaning mother of the nation. What kind of a mother is she that chooses to adorn herself with costly germs and costumes when her children are hungry and in total poverty? She is potential heir to Zimbabwe's top post, by virtue of being the president's closest. Many think that, with RG Mugabe being old, she is manipulating his senses to eventually anoint her as the successor. Given how RG Mugabe disregards the constitution, this can easily happen. Grace Mugabe is and has already stepped on many of Zanu-PF party cadre's toes, for which recently she is forcing the ejection of Sandi Moyo and Sarah Mahoka from the party women's league management. Mugabe will obey his wife in ejecting the two from the party. Grace Mugabe has become the most powerful person in Zanu-PF party. It is also shocking that instead of promoting women, Grace seems to be waging a war against women, with Oppar Muchinguri and Joyce Mujuru he earlier victims.
On the other hand the some factions of war vets have vowed that they will go back to war if ED Mnangagwa does not become the next president. They demand this despite Mnangagwa being highly unpopular, hated and even feared by many Zimbabweans. A large percentage of the Zimbabwean populace participated in the liberation war in one way or another, so it is largely unfair for war veterans to take the onus upon themselves to unilaterally choose and decide who they want to be the next leader for the Zimbabwe. The motive of the war veterans may then seem to be overtly selfish, for they prefer a leader who will prioritise their own needs and benefits, whilst shunning and preventing the choices of the ordinary person, who fought in the liberation war alongside them through diverse ways of support. Zimbabweans should be given chance to choose a leader who will represent a wide spectrum of views and needs.
Both factions in Zanu-PF are acting as if there is no constitution that prescribes power transition procedure in Zimbabwe. Deviously, the constitution of Zimbabwe says that, until 2023, in case sudden death, or decapitation of the president, the ruling party should elect another candidate to finish the term. But Zanu-PF as we know it, would never carry out this procedure freely and fairly.
Grace Mugabe and ED Mnangagwa may forget that while Zimbabweans maybe resilient, resilience itself is not the end. Suffering Zimbabweans keep expecting relief from their suffering, they need a break yesterday. So they must realise that people cannot continue to suffer at the expense of their own wellbeing and prosperity, derived only from influence by the virtue of being in power. Grace and Emmerson are fighting to lead Zimbabweans the majority who actually disapprove neither to manage their affairs, given both's history of treachery, corruption, cruelty and general disregard of values and norms. Grace and Emmerson desires weigh heavily on the Zimbabwean and the two are trying hard to impose their selves on the unwilling but oppressed Zimbabweans.
The same with attitude is with Youth Secretary Kudzai Chipanga who is now living large through bootlicking RG Mugabe and his wife. Chipanga must ponder it in mind that the majority of the youths he is misrepresenting are unemployed, poor and living well below the poverty datum line whilst Chipanga, who is well fed and clad, continues his selfish outbursts. He is someone deriving most benefits by supporting individuals who are ruining Zimbabwe. Mr Chipanga will go down in history as one unpatriotic youth who helped destroy the future of fellow youths through turning a blind eye to RG Mugabe's bad governance and by being an auxiliary to his destructive strategies. Kudzayi Chipanga will only fall together with his blind leaders, RG Mugabe and his evil wife, for their leadership is not based on support and endorsement from the people, but on patronage, excessive coercion and oppression.
Haughty Grace, Mnangagwa and Chipanga act as if Zimbabweans live in their backyard, with no say at whatsoever to how we are governed. They give us a perception that Zimbabwe belongs to them and they should do whatever they want with it and us. They are three totally self-centred and misguided individuals. Mnangagwa though does not exhibit his qualities openly, but he is one person who says one thing whilst actually doing the opposite. As his totem, he has actually managed to carry out all his strategies secretly. When he comes to parliament and public, he acts cordially and all smiling, but clandestinely he changes into the real monster we know, the ruthless leviathan, strategizing, and manipulating. At the present moment, he is laying his ground work, altering the constitution and laws as if in favour of the present executive, but he is in fact seeing beyond. At some time, he will wage his vicious attack on his foes in Zanu-PF and then all Zimbabweans, Putin's style, to rule them with an iron fist. ED Munangagwa is rising the same way Putin rose in Russia, first completing Yeltsin's term and quickly consolidating power. Many believe Emmerson Mnangagwa employs same measures in use by Putin to eliminate political opponents. Though ED Mnangagwa may seem to think that ruling Zimbabwe is kind of a birth right to him, and that he can do whatever he wants with Zimbabweans, but even the king of Great Babylon, at the height of his power and enjoyment and glory, through a finger script on the wall, God severed away all power from him.
There is no better evil between Grace Mugabe and Emmerson Munangagwa, they are flip sides of a same coin. Both don't care about the people of Zimbabwe and both have shown shocking sides of evil and political opponents' intolerance.
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Zanda Shumba
zekishumba@gmail.com,
St Johns, Bag 113, Nyazura,
Zimbabwe
+263776630178
Jezebel: 'Are you not king over Israel. Cheer up, eat for I will get you the vineyard'.
Obviously Jezebel was assuming that she was the owner of Israel and its people.
It is said that Jezebel later wrote letters in the king's name, stamped them with the royal seal, and sent them out implicating and setting up Naboth in a scam that will culminate in him being dragged out of the city, at Israeli elders' orders, to be stoned to death for blasphemy. After being informed that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose to annex the deceased's vineyard. But the displeasure of God with his act would soon come, conveyed through God's spokesperson Elijah, reminding Ahab that he has murdered a man to seize his property. Therefore, said God, where dogs licked Naboth's blood, his and your wife's blood would also be licked. An aghast Ahab would soon pronounce God his own enemy. There was never a man like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the presence of the LORD, urged by his wife Jezebel, the chronicler concludes.
The spirit abiding Jezebel would later manifest in Herodias. When John the Baptist, disapproved of her marriage to king Herod. Herod had taken Herodias his brother Philip's wife to be his own. Disliking the criticism Herodias prompted her daughter, who had amused the king through some dance, to request the head of John on a platter as a reward. Maybe Herodias later ate John's head, because she demanded it on a serving dish. She could have simply asked to have John to be beheaded, but demanding the head on a dinner plate horrifies many.
Later in Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Gorereza Mugabe surprised many by publicly saying she belongs to Satan. As secretary to the president, she became his mistress while still married to Stanley Goreraza and together they had two children, Bona, named after Mugabe's mother, and Robert Peter, Jr. All this happened while the Zimbabwean president was still married to his first life Sally. This makes Bona a child born out of fornication, out of wedlock and therefore a bastard. Grace Mugabe later abandoned her husband for Zimbabwe government's CEO, RG Mugabe. Later Sally Mugabe would die in extraordinary circumstances. Some people in Zimbabwe implicate Grace Mugabe in Sally's death, given how flow of information is throttled in Zimbabwe, nothing could be further from the truth. Some suggest that if Sally was still alive, RG Mugabe would have handed the over power decades ago, but with Grace urging him on, and wanting to be president too, RG Mugabe continued in power despite being very old. But having waded into RG Mugabe's personal life, Grace Gorereza soon pushed her way into Zimbabwe's political life, inhibiting and prohibiting change. Her lack of respect of the will of the people made her say that the husband she stole from Sally would even rule from the grave, if dies of old age, having misruled Zimbabwe autocratically for close to four decades. Grace herself was imposed to her position as women league secretary just as ED Munangagwa imposed Auxillia as MP in Zivagwe constituency.
So the spirit that earlier inhabited Jezebel, and later Herodias, is here now in Zimbabwe, in Grace Gorereza Marufu Mugabe. That spirit that is unfeeling, murderous and it considers only the carrier and disregards all others. State media coverage of her rallies exposes both her folly and vice. Grace Mugabe knows but chooses to ignore the state of rot in Zimbabwe. All she wants is to remain first lady just to remain influential so she can continue taking advantage of the system, further plummeting Zimbabwe into deep chaos, un-reigned corruption and mis-govenance. Grace RG Mugabe does not care about the suffering masses, collapsed infrastructure, unemployment, poor health delivery system and a collapsed economy precipitated by her husband's negligent and lack of foresight in managing the affairs of the Zimbabwean. Thus her vileness approximates or even surpasses that of her precursors. We are reliably informed that Robert Mugabe ordered war veterans and security to carry out a brutal eviction of white farmers at the bidding of the bloody-thirsty Grace Mugabe, the same way Jezebel urged the decapitation of the innocent Nathan to annex his property. Despite all this insensitivity, haughtiness and ridicule of the Zimbabwean people, she is still lavished with the title, Amai, meaning mother of the nation. What kind of a mother is she that chooses to adorn herself with costly germs and costumes when her children are hungry and in total poverty? She is potential heir to Zimbabwe's top post, by virtue of being the president's closest. Many think that, with RG Mugabe being old, she is manipulating his senses to eventually anoint her as the successor. Given how RG Mugabe disregards the constitution, this can easily happen. Grace Mugabe is and has already stepped on many of Zanu-PF party cadre's toes, for which recently she is forcing the ejection of Sandi Moyo and Sarah Mahoka from the party women's league management. Mugabe will obey his wife in ejecting the two from the party. Grace Mugabe has become the most powerful person in Zanu-PF party. It is also shocking that instead of promoting women, Grace seems to be waging a war against women, with Oppar Muchinguri and Joyce Mujuru he earlier victims.
On the other hand the some factions of war vets have vowed that they will go back to war if ED Mnangagwa does not become the next president. They demand this despite Mnangagwa being highly unpopular, hated and even feared by many Zimbabweans. A large percentage of the Zimbabwean populace participated in the liberation war in one way or another, so it is largely unfair for war veterans to take the onus upon themselves to unilaterally choose and decide who they want to be the next leader for the Zimbabwe. The motive of the war veterans may then seem to be overtly selfish, for they prefer a leader who will prioritise their own needs and benefits, whilst shunning and preventing the choices of the ordinary person, who fought in the liberation war alongside them through diverse ways of support. Zimbabweans should be given chance to choose a leader who will represent a wide spectrum of views and needs.
Both factions in Zanu-PF are acting as if there is no constitution that prescribes power transition procedure in Zimbabwe. Deviously, the constitution of Zimbabwe says that, until 2023, in case sudden death, or decapitation of the president, the ruling party should elect another candidate to finish the term. But Zanu-PF as we know it, would never carry out this procedure freely and fairly.
Grace Mugabe and ED Mnangagwa may forget that while Zimbabweans maybe resilient, resilience itself is not the end. Suffering Zimbabweans keep expecting relief from their suffering, they need a break yesterday. So they must realise that people cannot continue to suffer at the expense of their own wellbeing and prosperity, derived only from influence by the virtue of being in power. Grace and Emmerson are fighting to lead Zimbabweans the majority who actually disapprove neither to manage their affairs, given both's history of treachery, corruption, cruelty and general disregard of values and norms. Grace and Emmerson desires weigh heavily on the Zimbabwean and the two are trying hard to impose their selves on the unwilling but oppressed Zimbabweans.
The same with attitude is with Youth Secretary Kudzai Chipanga who is now living large through bootlicking RG Mugabe and his wife. Chipanga must ponder it in mind that the majority of the youths he is misrepresenting are unemployed, poor and living well below the poverty datum line whilst Chipanga, who is well fed and clad, continues his selfish outbursts. He is someone deriving most benefits by supporting individuals who are ruining Zimbabwe. Mr Chipanga will go down in history as one unpatriotic youth who helped destroy the future of fellow youths through turning a blind eye to RG Mugabe's bad governance and by being an auxiliary to his destructive strategies. Kudzayi Chipanga will only fall together with his blind leaders, RG Mugabe and his evil wife, for their leadership is not based on support and endorsement from the people, but on patronage, excessive coercion and oppression.
Haughty Grace, Mnangagwa and Chipanga act as if Zimbabweans live in their backyard, with no say at whatsoever to how we are governed. They give us a perception that Zimbabwe belongs to them and they should do whatever they want with it and us. They are three totally self-centred and misguided individuals. Mnangagwa though does not exhibit his qualities openly, but he is one person who says one thing whilst actually doing the opposite. As his totem, he has actually managed to carry out all his strategies secretly. When he comes to parliament and public, he acts cordially and all smiling, but clandestinely he changes into the real monster we know, the ruthless leviathan, strategizing, and manipulating. At the present moment, he is laying his ground work, altering the constitution and laws as if in favour of the present executive, but he is in fact seeing beyond. At some time, he will wage his vicious attack on his foes in Zanu-PF and then all Zimbabweans, Putin's style, to rule them with an iron fist. ED Munangagwa is rising the same way Putin rose in Russia, first completing Yeltsin's term and quickly consolidating power. Many believe Emmerson Mnangagwa employs same measures in use by Putin to eliminate political opponents. Though ED Mnangagwa may seem to think that ruling Zimbabwe is kind of a birth right to him, and that he can do whatever he wants with Zimbabweans, but even the king of Great Babylon, at the height of his power and enjoyment and glory, through a finger script on the wall, God severed away all power from him.
There is no better evil between Grace Mugabe and Emmerson Munangagwa, they are flip sides of a same coin. Both don't care about the people of Zimbabwe and both have shown shocking sides of evil and political opponents' intolerance.
---------
Zanda Shumba
zekishumba@gmail.com,
St Johns, Bag 113, Nyazura,
Zimbabwe
+263776630178
Source - Zanda Shumba
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