Opinion / Columnist
Mutsvangwa threatens Mugabe with his '2008 A team' - no more A teams thanks
15 Sep 2017 at 07:41hrs | Views
The Zanu PF factional war goes into overdrive with the rogue war veterans led by Chris Mutsvangwa, Mugabe's ruthless storm troops since 2000, declaring war on the tyrant.
"We are going to pit that impeccable level of organization against the upstarts of the G-40, and this is the mother of all battles in the Zimbabwean politics. We have been on it for some time but today we are declaring that the battle and the campaign begins," said the charged Mutsvangwa.
"This is going to deliver something that even President Mugabe could never think of in 1979 and 1980, and we will do something much bigger. In 2008, he (Mugabe) was defeated by Morgan Tsvangirai, until the runoff and these war veterans and other stakeholders rescued a man who was in the jaws of a defeat when the crocodiles of the MDC were chewing him up," he said.
Yes, Mutsvangwa and the nation know exactly how you and your fellow war veteran rogues did to rescue Mugabe in 2008. You were Mugabe's storm troopers who harassed, beat, raped and even murdered innocent civilians in that year's operation "Mavhotera papi!" (Whom did you vote for!)
Tsvangirai won the March vote with 73% of the votes, according to Mugabe's own inadvertent admission, but this was reduced to 47% to force the run-off after six weeks of recount 5 million ballots – it took six weeks because cooking up the new count involved changing the figures in each and every polling station. Operation Mavhotera papi had to be ruthless brutal, and it was, to overhaul the 73% defeat in March into a 84% victory in June.
"What was accomplished by the bullet cannot be undone by the ballot," boasted Mugabe, to encourage his thugs in their acts of wanton barbarism.
Of course, every Zimbabwean who loves and values freedom, liberty, justice and has suffered the consequences of decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption under this Mugabe dictatorship would want to see Mugabe lose next year's elections.
What people like Mutsvangwa do not understand is Zimbabweans will never join him in his crusade against Mugabe and G40 not because the want Mugabe to remain in power. They will not joint Mutsvangwa because they do not trust him not to turn on them just as he and his rogue and Mugabe himself have all done after independence. Should Mutsvangwa & co. win the factional war against G40, they will impose Mnangagwa with the same brutish indifference to the freedoms, rights and human suffering they have shown when they imposed Mugabe.
A Zimbabwe in which one needs Mutsvangwa and his A team thugs to win elections is not the Zimbabwe we want. We want a democratic Zimbabwe and all we need right now is to implement the democratic reforms to ensure elections are free, fair and credible. Indeed, there is no point in next elections going ahead until the reforms are implemented!
"We are going to pit that impeccable level of organization against the upstarts of the G-40, and this is the mother of all battles in the Zimbabwean politics. We have been on it for some time but today we are declaring that the battle and the campaign begins," said the charged Mutsvangwa.
"This is going to deliver something that even President Mugabe could never think of in 1979 and 1980, and we will do something much bigger. In 2008, he (Mugabe) was defeated by Morgan Tsvangirai, until the runoff and these war veterans and other stakeholders rescued a man who was in the jaws of a defeat when the crocodiles of the MDC were chewing him up," he said.
Yes, Mutsvangwa and the nation know exactly how you and your fellow war veteran rogues did to rescue Mugabe in 2008. You were Mugabe's storm troopers who harassed, beat, raped and even murdered innocent civilians in that year's operation "Mavhotera papi!" (Whom did you vote for!)
Tsvangirai won the March vote with 73% of the votes, according to Mugabe's own inadvertent admission, but this was reduced to 47% to force the run-off after six weeks of recount 5 million ballots – it took six weeks because cooking up the new count involved changing the figures in each and every polling station. Operation Mavhotera papi had to be ruthless brutal, and it was, to overhaul the 73% defeat in March into a 84% victory in June.
"What was accomplished by the bullet cannot be undone by the ballot," boasted Mugabe, to encourage his thugs in their acts of wanton barbarism.
Of course, every Zimbabwean who loves and values freedom, liberty, justice and has suffered the consequences of decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption under this Mugabe dictatorship would want to see Mugabe lose next year's elections.
What people like Mutsvangwa do not understand is Zimbabweans will never join him in his crusade against Mugabe and G40 not because the want Mugabe to remain in power. They will not joint Mutsvangwa because they do not trust him not to turn on them just as he and his rogue and Mugabe himself have all done after independence. Should Mutsvangwa & co. win the factional war against G40, they will impose Mnangagwa with the same brutish indifference to the freedoms, rights and human suffering they have shown when they imposed Mugabe.
A Zimbabwe in which one needs Mutsvangwa and his A team thugs to win elections is not the Zimbabwe we want. We want a democratic Zimbabwe and all we need right now is to implement the democratic reforms to ensure elections are free, fair and credible. Indeed, there is no point in next elections going ahead until the reforms are implemented!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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