Opinion / Columnist
'To hell with you!' Mugabe tells Mnangagwa (and the nation at large) - No, to hell with you, Mugabe!
05 Nov 2017 at 21:59hrs | Views
The Zanu PF factional war has now entered the no-holds-barred do-or-die phase.
"Who can tell me that Masvingo does not belong to me but belongs to them! Why would they do that! Did they fight the war that we all fought!" President Mugabe told the audience at the party's interface rally.
"I have a stake in Matebeleland; you have a stake in Matebeleland. The narrow mindedness that some have must condemn them to be outlaws of our party.
"We can't continue having people with such beliefs in the country.
"We will kick you out, through your buttocks even, out! Then we see where you go.
"Nekuti urikuitira toireti ikoko obva wati ndekwangu! (You use the bush as your toilet, you then think all the land is yours). Aahhh! To hell with you! To hell! Don't accept that in your own country; you must not listen to that rubbish!"
Putting aside President Mugabe's vulgar language, there are four things he is saying here:
a) He is accusing the people of Masvingo of regionalism because they have dared to support Emmerson Mnangagwa. He has not produced any evidence to prove that everyone from Masvingo supports Mnangagwa or that no one outside Masvingo supports Mnangagwa. He is making his usual sweeping statement as part of his divide and rule.
b) If Mnangagwa is guilty of having a narrow minded regional mentality, President Mugabe himself is worse in that he only cares about himself and his family.
He orchestrated the booting out of former VP Joice Mujuru is 2014, accusing her of plotting to assassinate him although he has never produced any evidence, because she was the immediate threat to his wife, Grace's ambition to succeed him as Zimbabwe's next president. As soon as Mujuru was out of the way, he has turned his attention on VP Mnangagwa because he was the next obstacle to Grace's vaulting ambition.
c) Zanu PF is imploding, the factional war in the party to find Mugabe's successor are tearing the party asunder. This would not have been as bad if the country was a healthy and functional multi-party democracy; it is not. Zimbabwe is a de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship with no functioning state institutions outside the dictatorship.
Zimbabwe is in an economic mess with unemployment a nauseating 90% plus, 72.3% of our people now living on US$ 1.00 or less a day, etc. Any political upheaval will make the already intolerable economic situation even worse.
d) There is no doubt, above all else, that it was President Mugabe's incompetence, vote rigging, corruption, tyrannical madness and his unquenchable greed for absolute power and material wealth that has landed us into this political and economic hell-hole.
Instead of accepting his failed leadership and allow the nation to implement the democratic reforms the nation is dying for; Mugabe continues in his evil ways undermining all efforts to get the reforms implemented. Even after 37 years of enjoying absolute power Mugabe is still hungering to extend his reign of terror and economic ruin and then pass the baton on to his wife.
When President Mugabe says, "To hell with you!" He is not just saying that to VP Mnangagwa and his Lacotse Zanu PF faction supporters only but he is also say the same to the rest of the people of Zimbabwe. He is the one who dragged us into this hell-on-earth, which is what has become of Zimbabwe today; but, worse still, he is clearly determined to drag the nation even deeper into this hell, in his resolve to be life-president and/or create a Mugabe ruling dynasty.
Zimbabwe is in this hell-on-earth situation because for the last 37 years President Mugabe has done as he pleased and told us all "To hell with you!"
"NO! NO! NO! To hell with you, Mugabe!" We must now tell this corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant; accompany by the waving of the finger and pointing for emphasis.
We, the people of Zimbabwe, must now focus all our attention on demanding the full implementation of the democratic reforms to end the Zanu PF one-party dictatorship and create a healthy and functioning multi-party democracy BEFORE elections.
Participating in the on-going voter registration when it is already clear the regime is rigging the vote; there is no chance of ZEC producing a verified voters' roll because of the very late start of the voter registration exercise, for example; is insane.
"Who can tell me that Masvingo does not belong to me but belongs to them! Why would they do that! Did they fight the war that we all fought!" President Mugabe told the audience at the party's interface rally.
"I have a stake in Matebeleland; you have a stake in Matebeleland. The narrow mindedness that some have must condemn them to be outlaws of our party.
"We can't continue having people with such beliefs in the country.
"We will kick you out, through your buttocks even, out! Then we see where you go.
"Nekuti urikuitira toireti ikoko obva wati ndekwangu! (You use the bush as your toilet, you then think all the land is yours). Aahhh! To hell with you! To hell! Don't accept that in your own country; you must not listen to that rubbish!"
Putting aside President Mugabe's vulgar language, there are four things he is saying here:
a) He is accusing the people of Masvingo of regionalism because they have dared to support Emmerson Mnangagwa. He has not produced any evidence to prove that everyone from Masvingo supports Mnangagwa or that no one outside Masvingo supports Mnangagwa. He is making his usual sweeping statement as part of his divide and rule.
b) If Mnangagwa is guilty of having a narrow minded regional mentality, President Mugabe himself is worse in that he only cares about himself and his family.
He orchestrated the booting out of former VP Joice Mujuru is 2014, accusing her of plotting to assassinate him although he has never produced any evidence, because she was the immediate threat to his wife, Grace's ambition to succeed him as Zimbabwe's next president. As soon as Mujuru was out of the way, he has turned his attention on VP Mnangagwa because he was the next obstacle to Grace's vaulting ambition.
Zimbabwe is in an economic mess with unemployment a nauseating 90% plus, 72.3% of our people now living on US$ 1.00 or less a day, etc. Any political upheaval will make the already intolerable economic situation even worse.
d) There is no doubt, above all else, that it was President Mugabe's incompetence, vote rigging, corruption, tyrannical madness and his unquenchable greed for absolute power and material wealth that has landed us into this political and economic hell-hole.
Instead of accepting his failed leadership and allow the nation to implement the democratic reforms the nation is dying for; Mugabe continues in his evil ways undermining all efforts to get the reforms implemented. Even after 37 years of enjoying absolute power Mugabe is still hungering to extend his reign of terror and economic ruin and then pass the baton on to his wife.
When President Mugabe says, "To hell with you!" He is not just saying that to VP Mnangagwa and his Lacotse Zanu PF faction supporters only but he is also say the same to the rest of the people of Zimbabwe. He is the one who dragged us into this hell-on-earth, which is what has become of Zimbabwe today; but, worse still, he is clearly determined to drag the nation even deeper into this hell, in his resolve to be life-president and/or create a Mugabe ruling dynasty.
Zimbabwe is in this hell-on-earth situation because for the last 37 years President Mugabe has done as he pleased and told us all "To hell with you!"
"NO! NO! NO! To hell with you, Mugabe!" We must now tell this corrupt, vote rigging and murderous tyrant; accompany by the waving of the finger and pointing for emphasis.
We, the people of Zimbabwe, must now focus all our attention on demanding the full implementation of the democratic reforms to end the Zanu PF one-party dictatorship and create a healthy and functioning multi-party democracy BEFORE elections.
Participating in the on-going voter registration when it is already clear the regime is rigging the vote; there is no chance of ZEC producing a verified voters' roll because of the very late start of the voter registration exercise, for example; is insane.
Source - Nomusa Garikai
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