President Robert Mugabe to award Dr Grace Mugabe with another doctorate

The leadership of President Robert Mugabe is generally viewed as a dictatorship. Political history informs us that dictators have a propensity to hand over power within their family circles. The obtaining scenario in Zimbabwe shows that President Mugabe is making preparations for a member of his family, his wife Grace Mugabe to take over the honour of a dictatorship when he dies. In North Korea power was passed on for three generations of the Kim family, with Kim Jong-Un taking over for father Kim Jong-Il, who in turn succeeded his father, Kim Il-Sung. In Syria, Bashar el-Assad inherited the mantle of power from his father, Hafez el-Assad, and in Cuba, with Raul Castro taking over for brother, Fidel Castro. Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-hye impeached on bribery charges took over power after the death her father. It will appear that the easier way of taking over of an existing dictatorship is to inherit it by consensus from the incumbent dictator to a family member to create another dictator. The transition and transfer of power by the president to his wife is on course. President Mugabe is not under pressure to choose a successor he is under pressure to sell his chosen successor to his party.

President Mugabe is convinced that his chosen successor possesses the requisite skills and attitude for as successful dictator. Grace Mugabe qualifies to walk the footsteps of President Robert Mugabe because she craves for absolute power.

Power has been implanted in her mind set. Her desire of absolute power is leading to the development of setting strategies to get into power by all costs and this propels her to want more of it. Dr Grace Mugabe's desire for power is driven by the constant fear and a sense of insecurity in the event of loss and separation with the significant others such her husband President Mugabe. This fear is also based on her fallacies about what will become of her without the protection of the president. Power, money and wealthy is used to compensate for her insecurities and it is used as a decoy for status symbol, protection and control over others. Given the perceived fear factor Dr Grace Mugabe is adopting maladaptive coping strategies by attempting to acquire, possess and hoard power, material resources and money as much as possible to overcome her fear factor. The more she gets these concreate power sources of money, businesses, internal and external properties, farms, off shore accounts and control over the once feared Mnangagwa, Sekeramayi, Chombo, Chinamasa, Chiwenga and the rest, the more she wants these power sources almost driving her to a point of compulsion and obsession. The desire for power is making Dr Grace Mugabe egocentric and self-centred.

Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein were notable of their narcissistic behaviour including execution of their perceived detractors as a means to hold on to power. President Mugabe ordered the killing of Ndebele people in 1980s due to paranoia, egoism and narcissistic penchants associated with fear of loss of power. Grace Mugabe is a product of President Mugabe and she has now earned the name "Stop it!" There is an inclination to believe that Dr Grace Mugabe is narcissistic and self-serving, this being attributed to her brutal verbal attacks and purging of Joice Mujuru and Ray Kaonde; illegal diamond deals sometimes going wrong, displacement of poor villagers to acquire more land illegally, staging fake attempts to bomb the Gushungu dairy business, stealing goods confiscated at ZIMRA to donate to the unsuspecting poor as if they were hers and donating government tractors to farmers in her name. It appears the taste of power is making Dr Grace Mugabe detach herself emotionally from the basic rules of ethics and the needs of others. She has in essence become less able to see things from the point of view of those she is causing distress.

Her approach is about criticising her perceived competitors for failing to provide services, accuse them of treasonous crimes of attempting to topple the President, undermining the first family, undermining the authority of the president, insulting the president while portraying herself as coming in to fix the national problems of the people by of course providing superficial remedies that do not go far in resolving deeper national crisis. Dr Grace Mugabe does not trust anyone more than she has to. Although Grace needs supporters beyond President Mugabe to consolidate her power take over, she engages them with ambivalence and she is conscious that her supporters support her because of what she promises and gives them. While Grace engages her supporters to implement strategic missions she is positioning her supporters to taste power too that can make them crave for more power like her. They may in turn attempt to overthrow her. Dr Grace Mugabe is coping with this anxiety and fear by using intimidating tactics of both her friends and supporters. Her ambivalence relationship with her G40 counterparts defines the fear factor running down her nerves. The following incidents are not very far from being shot from the door steps of the first family.

Saviour Kusakuwere is accused of creating parallel structures to topple the president and the same time acting as his rescuer simple to make him more obedient to her. Jonathan Moyo is accused of creating a support base in Tsholotsho when he donated hundreds of bicycles to the Tsholotsho community from STEM money. Sarah Mahoka and Sandi Moyo are accused of aspiring to be future vice presidents. Dr Grace Mugabe is coping with her feelings of paranoia by carefully intimidating friends and foes alike. It worked for Joseph Stalin (1920 -1953) during his leadership of the Soviet Union. The general rule is that Grace is providing her supporters with just enough rewards but not enough to allow them to build up their own resources and structures to turn on her.

The evidence is that Grace constantly reviews and renews her cadre of supporters at every stage of her overall strategy. She builds a new core support group at every stage of her strategies and dismantles it once her strategy is achieved. Grace appears to know when her key activists have stopped to be an asset for her or when they have become a liability or when she suspects them to be threat to her chances of assuming power. She will then plot to get rid of them using other people, groups, individuals or ZANU PF structures projecting a false belief that the people have spoken not her in getting rid of certain individuals she no longer needs within her ranks. Sarah Mahoka and Sandi Moyo from women league, former youth leader, Tsenengamu, Gomwe and Emmerson Mnangagwa too were used in the un-ceremonial purge of Joice Mujuru and her counterparts. When that mission was accomplished they had to be discarded. The attempted cyanide attack on Emmerson Mnangagwa was not an ordinary and isolated incident and little has been done in the way of investigations into the crime.

The controversial doctorate was meant to be a symbol of charisma, intuition and intellect despite the outcry from the mainstream but the longer it has gone society has comes to accept the title of "doctorate" conferred by the one and only President RG Mugabe. Benito Mussolini earned notice of the people for his charm and ability to persuade others. Dr Grace Mugabe with the distinguished doctorate has yet to convince people on whether she is a persuasive speaker.