Opinion / Columnist
'Zanu PF is a party of thugs,' Tim Sebastian tells party apologist to his face
05 Dec 2017 at 19:56hrs | Views
"Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!" (Evil can never be hidden forever, it will always come out!) so goes the Shona saying.
There is no doubt that Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his Zanu PF regime have done a lot of evil things during the last 37 years and counting of their corrupt reign of terror. Robert Mugabe, he has led from the front on this, has shamelessly falsified or denied of facts and glossing over those he could not deny for the single purpose of portraying his evil dictatorship as God's greatest gift to the people of Zimbabwe.
Nick Mangwana, Zanu PF's representative in the UK and Europe, is a die-hard Zanu PF apologist who has learned the art of denying and falsifying historic facts at the grandmaster Mugabe's feet and learnt it well. But there is only so much even a seasoned apologist like Nick can rebuff. In a recent Conflict Zone interview, the presenter, Tim Sebastian bombarded Nick with the historic facts of Zanu PF's ruinous reign of terror the Zanu PF apologist melted like bee wax in the midday African sun.
The truth historic facts of Zanu PF past in coming out bit by bit and soon the trickle will turn into a flood. No one, not Mugabe himself much less his acolytes, apologists and propaganda specialists can stop the flood or deny the truth. Tim Sebastian had done his research and was spoilt for choice of what historic bombs to lobby at the Zanu PF apologist seating before him! The two subjects Nick tried to deny was that Zanu PF destroyed the Zimbabwe economy and that the replacement of Mugabe with Mnangagwa has changed nothing. See video of the full interview on Bulawayo 24.
In his 37 years in power Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs have completely destroyed the country's economy. 90% of our people are out of work and many have never held a formal job for 20 or more. Zimbabwe is now the poorest nation in Africa and 72.3% of the population live on US$1.00 or less a day. Basic services like clean running water have all but collapsed.
Meanwhile Mugabe and the few ruling elite have lived in unparalleled luxuries and have amassed wealth that even mega Movie Star will not match. Mugabe's has 15 large farms, business interests all over the world and his Blue Roof mansion is valued at US$ 2 billion.
The Mugabe regime has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain the de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship. The coup last month was about removing one dictator, Mugabe, to replace him with another, Mnangagwa; the dictatorship itself has remained untouched, if not reinvigorated.
Mnangagwa was not only Mugabe's right hand man all these last 37 years but his chief enforcer. It is Joint Operation Command (JOC); a Junta, comprising the top brass in the Army, CIO, Police and Prison Services, a select few from party and government and headed by Robert Mugabe and deputized by none other than Mnangagwa; that has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist all these years. It was JOC that has masterminded and executed all corruption, vote rigging, political murders and all the other mischiefs and treasonous acts by the dictatorship.
The coup was a precipitous act by the Junta to stop Mugabe handing over the presidency to his wife Grace instead of passing it to Mnangagwa, a JOC member. Although Mnangagwa was out of the country, running for his life, he has himself admitted that he had "remained in touch with the coup plotters throughout".
The coup was code named "Operation Restore Legacy", said General Chiwenga, the coup ringleader. The only legacy the coup has restored is the supremacy of JOC. It came as no surprise, that many of the Junta members are today ministers, special advisors, deputy ministers, etc. in President Mnangagwa's new administration. No doubt General Chiwenga and General Phillip Valerio Sibanda will be appointed to fill the two VP positions after the Zanu PF congress this coming weekend.
The key Zanu PF dictatorship players in will finally move out of the shadows of the shadowy JOC into the full limelight of cabinet and thus restoring thugs' secretive brotherhood bond, the legacy Chiwenga was talking about, that JOC members will rule Zimbabwe forever.
Of course, Tim Sebastian was right to call Zanu PF a party of "thugs" and Zimbabweans "deserve better".
Mugabe lost the March 2008 vote to Morgan Tsvangirai who polled 73%, by Mugabe's own inadvertent admission. After six weeks of recounting, ordered by Mugabe himself, ZEC had reduce this to 47% to force the run-off. The Junta had contrived to use wanton violence to force the people to vote for Mugabe.
"What was accomplished by the bullet cannot be undone by the ballot!" Robert Mugabe had thundered to spar his thugs on to beat, rape and even murder innocent Zimbabweans.
And yet we still have apologists like Nick Mangwana, stoically insisting that Zimbabweans "voted for Zanu PF and deserved Zanu PF". The poor idiot still thinks that his stubborn denial of the historic facts can, somehow, turn rigged elections into free, fair and credible elections, thugs into democrats, etc.
President Mnangagwa is a thug, he owes his elevated position to his fellow Zanu PF thugs and they are in his government for no other reason other than to claim their own share of the spoils of power. Zanu PF's past-history of corruption, vote rigging and tyranny and his own part in it are all coming out in the open and there is nothing anyone can do to stop or deny these facts. The Zanu PF thugs and the many evil things Zanu PF has committed are all coming out, a milestone round Mnangagwa's neck that will drag him and his presidency into the abyss.
Zimbabwe is due to hold parliamentary and presidential elections next year. The pressure is mounting to make sure the elections are free, fair and credible. If the elections are indeed free and fair, they will be the country's first ever. Zimbabweans would want to boot out Zanu PF and to quickly implement the democratic reforms to another dictatorship rising from the ashes of this Zanu PF dictatorship to haunt them.
"Will Zimbabwe ever have justice under Mugabe's party?" Tim Sebastian asked.
The answer is to that question has to be; NO!
The sooner Zimbabweans rid themselves of this Zanu PF culture of political thugs the sooner the country can start the task of rebuilding the nation from the ruins Mugabe left.
There is no doubt that Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his Zanu PF regime have done a lot of evil things during the last 37 years and counting of their corrupt reign of terror. Robert Mugabe, he has led from the front on this, has shamelessly falsified or denied of facts and glossing over those he could not deny for the single purpose of portraying his evil dictatorship as God's greatest gift to the people of Zimbabwe.
Nick Mangwana, Zanu PF's representative in the UK and Europe, is a die-hard Zanu PF apologist who has learned the art of denying and falsifying historic facts at the grandmaster Mugabe's feet and learnt it well. But there is only so much even a seasoned apologist like Nick can rebuff. In a recent Conflict Zone interview, the presenter, Tim Sebastian bombarded Nick with the historic facts of Zanu PF's ruinous reign of terror the Zanu PF apologist melted like bee wax in the midday African sun.
The truth historic facts of Zanu PF past in coming out bit by bit and soon the trickle will turn into a flood. No one, not Mugabe himself much less his acolytes, apologists and propaganda specialists can stop the flood or deny the truth. Tim Sebastian had done his research and was spoilt for choice of what historic bombs to lobby at the Zanu PF apologist seating before him! The two subjects Nick tried to deny was that Zanu PF destroyed the Zimbabwe economy and that the replacement of Mugabe with Mnangagwa has changed nothing. See video of the full interview on Bulawayo 24.
In his 37 years in power Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs have completely destroyed the country's economy. 90% of our people are out of work and many have never held a formal job for 20 or more. Zimbabwe is now the poorest nation in Africa and 72.3% of the population live on US$1.00 or less a day. Basic services like clean running water have all but collapsed.
Meanwhile Mugabe and the few ruling elite have lived in unparalleled luxuries and have amassed wealth that even mega Movie Star will not match. Mugabe's has 15 large farms, business interests all over the world and his Blue Roof mansion is valued at US$ 2 billion.
The Mugabe regime has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain the de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship. The coup last month was about removing one dictator, Mugabe, to replace him with another, Mnangagwa; the dictatorship itself has remained untouched, if not reinvigorated.
Mnangagwa was not only Mugabe's right hand man all these last 37 years but his chief enforcer. It is Joint Operation Command (JOC); a Junta, comprising the top brass in the Army, CIO, Police and Prison Services, a select few from party and government and headed by Robert Mugabe and deputized by none other than Mnangagwa; that has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist all these years. It was JOC that has masterminded and executed all corruption, vote rigging, political murders and all the other mischiefs and treasonous acts by the dictatorship.
The coup was a precipitous act by the Junta to stop Mugabe handing over the presidency to his wife Grace instead of passing it to Mnangagwa, a JOC member. Although Mnangagwa was out of the country, running for his life, he has himself admitted that he had "remained in touch with the coup plotters throughout".
The coup was code named "Operation Restore Legacy", said General Chiwenga, the coup ringleader. The only legacy the coup has restored is the supremacy of JOC. It came as no surprise, that many of the Junta members are today ministers, special advisors, deputy ministers, etc. in President Mnangagwa's new administration. No doubt General Chiwenga and General Phillip Valerio Sibanda will be appointed to fill the two VP positions after the Zanu PF congress this coming weekend.
Of course, Tim Sebastian was right to call Zanu PF a party of "thugs" and Zimbabweans "deserve better".
Mugabe lost the March 2008 vote to Morgan Tsvangirai who polled 73%, by Mugabe's own inadvertent admission. After six weeks of recounting, ordered by Mugabe himself, ZEC had reduce this to 47% to force the run-off. The Junta had contrived to use wanton violence to force the people to vote for Mugabe.
"What was accomplished by the bullet cannot be undone by the ballot!" Robert Mugabe had thundered to spar his thugs on to beat, rape and even murder innocent Zimbabweans.
And yet we still have apologists like Nick Mangwana, stoically insisting that Zimbabweans "voted for Zanu PF and deserved Zanu PF". The poor idiot still thinks that his stubborn denial of the historic facts can, somehow, turn rigged elections into free, fair and credible elections, thugs into democrats, etc.
President Mnangagwa is a thug, he owes his elevated position to his fellow Zanu PF thugs and they are in his government for no other reason other than to claim their own share of the spoils of power. Zanu PF's past-history of corruption, vote rigging and tyranny and his own part in it are all coming out in the open and there is nothing anyone can do to stop or deny these facts. The Zanu PF thugs and the many evil things Zanu PF has committed are all coming out, a milestone round Mnangagwa's neck that will drag him and his presidency into the abyss.
Zimbabwe is due to hold parliamentary and presidential elections next year. The pressure is mounting to make sure the elections are free, fair and credible. If the elections are indeed free and fair, they will be the country's first ever. Zimbabweans would want to boot out Zanu PF and to quickly implement the democratic reforms to another dictatorship rising from the ashes of this Zanu PF dictatorship to haunt them.
"Will Zimbabwe ever have justice under Mugabe's party?" Tim Sebastian asked.
The answer is to that question has to be; NO!
The sooner Zimbabweans rid themselves of this Zanu PF culture of political thugs the sooner the country can start the task of rebuilding the nation from the ruins Mugabe left.
Source - zsdemocrats.blogspot.co.uk
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