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Mnangagwa's extra-ordinary track-record of escape

11 Dec 2017 at 06:24hrs | Views
A child of the revolution, nurtured on the perennial run, from childhood to the present age of 75. Multiple narrow escapes!

Emmerson Munangagwa's multiple escapes remain too extra-ordinary to be of Man-making! This is of the anointing of God! The longest and most challenging, brutish and nasty of its kind. I hold no fear for Zimbabwean President Emmerson Munangagwa as a person and as Head of State! I would rather fear for the mafia that still remains in his cabinet. The world is looking at a complete man! A Robert Gabriel Mugabe University Graduate!

I have always argued with Garwe staunch critics that both intensive and extensive learning never stops no matter how adverse the situation or conditions could be in a respective institution. Far be it from me to expect a most seasoned 75 year-old to sink so low as to act like a 37 year-old delinquent war-monger tribalist youth just retired from the war-zone!

If God could humble Saul the mass-murderer, and out of him mould Paul the greatest Apostle of all The Apostles what would stop Him doing the same with The Garwe? It is also an undisputable fact that Emmerson Munangagwa has never ruled Zimbabwe! This remains as the greatest oppirtunity for him to show Zimbabwe that which he was capable of! For many years Munangagwa has assisted the previous Chief Executive Officer to drive his own vision and mission! Which he later openly contradicted and got the ugly boot. Living 37 years ago, would it be going forward or retrogression? Surely Zimbabwe has to be a progressive nation that teams-up to make corrections upon former President Mugabe's national biblical Gehena with The President.

Give President Munangagwa wings to fly on the job! It should surely be more about healing the old wounds than either making fresh-bleeding new-ones or opening the old wounds. The same strategy! National Rainbow Team Spirit upon Mugabe! The new political dispensation would heal the wounds! It is all about engagement and re-engagement with a constructive intent!

Zimbabwe would not afford to waste another single minute to destroy the gains of independence and the new political dispensation of survival and picking crumbs and stitching together the remnants of The Mugabe nemesis. When I look at this Garwe I see an aggressive-reformist-transformational leader who has shocked not only the Zimbabwean nation but the entire world! Broke both the ruling ZANU-PF both Centeal Committee and Politburo respectively hate, hurt, malice and undue vengeance also prone to succumbing to negative incitement of no wisdom! President Mnangagwa levels of pragmatism, starting with his inaugural speech about a fort night ago was much unZANU-PF! It remains as clear that it was this suppressed level of pragmatism and extra-ordinary high quality common-sense that courted so much hate, hurt and undue vengeance upon him among all presidential aspirants!

A visible and humiliating clean electoral walk-over! None in The ruling ZANU-PF had expected such effects of The Munangagwa reformatory and transformational whirl-wind! Both The ZANU-PF Central Committee and Politburo least expected anyone from within their ranks to rise against the party's well entrenched culture of national plunder and externalisation of the loot with a 90 day deadline to repatriate all such! Or face ptosecution in the courts. What, in ordinary SADC and African Union culture of political primitivism could have been firing squad material, as in Joseph Kabila' s Democratic Republic of Congo, The Central Africa Republic and Somalia below the nose of these guardian institutions, President Munangagwa has protected! All those either incited and hired to hurl insults upon him and champion his unholy demise with televised road shows, none of them was, so far, either missing or harrassed.

The national team spirit worked on Mugabe's many years of difficult and costly retirement and ushered-in a new pragmatic era with Emmerson Munangagwa's rise from the grave! Make it work furthermore beyond Mugabe. President Munangagwa was a well-seasoned multi-graduate from Africa and the world's various extra-ordinary hands-on schools of thought that range from that of oppression and suppression! The revolution and the war of indepence! Persecution and narrowly escaped execution at the former colonial gallows for childhood ever-brave political activism which led to The Munangagwa bombardment of The Fort Victoria (Masvingo) Railway Line during colonial rule! The Generation 40 Grace Mugabe school of Hate, Hurt and Grave Malice! Vengeance! The Grace Mugabe School of Isolation! Denigration! And Undue Ridicule! The Robert Gabriel Mugabe School of Appointment and whimsical Disappointment, Promotion! Demotion and Expulsion! Robert Gabriel Mugabe School of Escape and Survival of The Fittest!  The Generation 40 Shool of Poisoning and Cruelity and Scaling-Out of Grave Walls! The Job of Uz School of Tolerance and Forgiveness! Restoration and Prosperity! The School of Governance! The Grace Mugabe School of Resentment and Rejection! The School of Humility, Loyalty, Credibility, Intergrity, Obedience, Courage, Determination and Godly Wisdom of Response in Persecution! Open-theatre Schools for extra-ordinary men and women! That a few would dare escape nor survive! As such could only go by the relevant anointing of God. For men/women made of the stuff that great men's/women's mothers/fathers were.

All those who have never been dishonoured know of no true value of honour! All those who have never been in poor health, accordingly, would lack sufficient wisdom to manage or preserve good health! Accordingly, all the people who have never been in poverty would lack sufficient wisdom to manage or retain and multiply God's multiple blessings to reach all! Those who have never been caught-up in spiritual poverty would be surely bound to misappropriate spiritual affluence! Anyone who misses this Open University remains as incomplete and hollow. Which of the above schools could have president Emmerson Munangagwa missed? Of course, the answer is none of the above in the presence of Jesus Christ! Amen.

President Emmerson Munangagwa belongs to the new stable of Heads of State! The new stable of pedigree Heads of State that started with the late former Zambian President, Levi Mwanawasa. On taking-over the leadership of Zambia's then ruling party, The Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) and government, Mwanawasa went on a quick audit of his predecessor, Frederick Chiluba's uspicious governance with an urgent transformational and reformatory agenda! And the security agents took Chiluba-in for questioning severally. And various corruptly externalised and other acts of corruption by the former president were exposed. Tanzania's sitting president John Magalufi caused lots of constructive administrative trouble on assuming office as if he had been a political new comer from Planet Mars! Shook the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi hardened strongholds who had been long and turing in the gravy train.

First female Malawian president, Dr. Joyce Banda triggered brave patriachic resentment and rejection with her anti-corruption drive that saw her being packaged out of power after disposing of the presidential jet pleading unbearable national poverty. She chanelled the proceeds from the sale to national water and sanitation and went for a 30 percent salary cut. All these men and one woman have confirmed the true and real need for new blood in all institutions! New blood marks organisational new tenure of life! Creativity and growth! And how most organisations that have, for a long time beat the drums of democracy and good governance and yet they remain as highly undemocratic, primitive and non-functional or paralysed. Charity truely begins at home! The new school has well-exposed as to how much grand talent remains both oppressed and suppressed within such respective institutions. Under-utilised! Or untapped.

These wise men have acted like total strangers on getting into power! There-by confirming a great learning process even in the most adverse conditions that they could have lived and worked under! Or, spiritually, never having been part of the institutional prevailing ideology. When the new school of thought manifested with these wisemen, a lot of people within the respective political institutions that had thrived on liberation credentials to insulate corruption had to take-cover from the inspirational and the art of real public service! In Africa, business magnets abandon business to go into government for both free-for-all financial and material wind-falls! Land and mineral scandals! While in the modern world governments have struggled to attract technocrats and other such highly seasoned professionals out of the private sector. With The Levy Mwanawasa drive, Zambia would have never been the same again. And Mugabe would have got neither sympathy nor support in the way that he got from sitting Zambian President, Edgar Lungu.

When extra-ordinary men are born the battle begins long before conception! The child is at war before s/he is both conceived and born respectively! Abraham, the divine appointed Father of All Nations battled to get his only child, Isaac, whom he eventually got twenty years later at age 95, after the divine promise because the devil was opposed to it. (Gen 17:5, 18:9-10). The first sign that Abraham and his aged wife Sarah were carrying an extra-ordinary anointed seed. Isaac, got his twins, Esau and Jacob twenty years later after marriage to his cousin, Rebecca because he carried Israel (Jacob) within his scrotum. (Gen. 25:20-21, 26). And, therefore, the devil had brilliant cause to contest this anointed birth.

Rachel was first denied by her fatjer in marriage and was exchanged for her elder sister Leah. After Jacob had agreed to go into servitude for her and eventually married her, she remained barren for many-many years before she could conceive the anointed Joseph, the divine dreamer, sold into slave-labour by his own kin! (Gen. 30:1-3, 22-24). Joseph found favour both in the eyes of God and in the eyes of Men in slavery, in prison, in Portiphar's house and in the house of Pharoah against the will of his detractors. God found reason to favour Joseph with an illustrious track-record of escape because he (Joseph) carried the anointing of both personal and national survival! The breath that saved The Israeli Nation inclusive of his blood brothers who had traded him-off into slavery in a fit of jelousy. He was too visible. Joseph miraculously found devine favour and skipped numerous death traps with the hand of God on his way to  The Egyptian Premiership in enemy territory! That had motivated the devil to oppose Joseph's anointed birth and fruit of labour to exterminate God's favoured Israeli nation. The devil was in opposition! So did he with these multiple most identical Emmerson Munangagwa cases.

Hannah, Elkanah's wife, faced resentmet and rejection from Peninah, her husband's second wife, and the public for her barrenness! Barren because of her divine appointment with God! 1Samuel 1:2, 5-20). Appointment to carry a great prophet Samuel who both made and unmade Kings! The Devil was in opposition to this divine appointment. The same went for Manoah's wife! The mother of The Great Samson! Because she was carrying a saviour and hero of Israel out of Philistine humiliation. (Judges 13:2-4). And, again the Devil was in opposition. The biblical Moses had to be hidden in the river to escape the murderous hand of The Devil so that he would, 40 years later, lead The Israelites out of servitude to the promised land of Canaan. (Exodus 2:1-10). Jesus'parents had to flee to Egypt to save The Messiah from Satanic opposition that threatened the divine birth despite the fact that 33 years later He had to face the destined violent death in the hands of The Devil! (Luke 1:26-33, Matt. 1:12-15). John The Baptist faced Satanic opposition! A delayed birth to an aged barren Elizabeth and Zacharia! (Luke 1: 7-15) Like Jesus, he also died a violent death because The Devil was in opposition.

Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Munangagwa has lived a life of a most brave track-record of death traps! From village witches in the then Shabani prior to conception to an embryo in his mother's womb! Condemned to The Gallows at a tender age for effective political activistism! To gunfire at the battlefront and captivity respectively! To Prison and banishment to Zambia. To scaling ready-made customised grave walls-out at The National Heroes Acre with that Grace Mugabe and former Co-Vice President Phelekezela Report Mphoko and cabal Gushungo Dairies manufactured customised poisonous Ice Cream! That Ice Cream Movement! To The Grace Mugabe Generation 40 Israeli Mosad sniper terrorist hit squad! Cornered by civilian political novices in The Generation 40 with borrowed and failed militancy! Surely only God can do that! Only The almighty God carries sufficient authority to fail every Satanic manoeuvre under all circumstaces. Like Joseph, all of President Munangagwa's enemies found themselves both  miraculously exposed and ashamed beyond measure before celebratory dawn.

Emmerson Munangagwa remains as no ordinary man! He has kept The Devil on panick mode as an embryo in his mother's womb to the present! The Devil's radar never misses people of substance! Grace Mugabe and her Generation 40 passed a death sentence upon Munangagwa because they had realised that it was only death that could stop the unstoppable God's anointed man and obvious presidential material from ascending to power after Mugabe! Poisoning is not for ordiinary targets! Surely Dr Grace Mugabe, also known as Dr. Stop It, would not waste her poison on ordinary and ineffective personalities! When Grace and Mphoko Generation 40 looked at The Garwe they saw an unstoppable president in the quick-making! And they fevered! They suffered stomach aches with neither toilet paper nor running water! Grace went bersek with her desire to rule! She took a most hurried short-cut and started misruling above her senile 94 year old husband, former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe! To safe-guard her dream-rise to power Munangagwa had to either die or be forced into permanent exile.

I betrayed President Munangagwa when Grace Mugabe went bersek with her venomous attacks upon the then Vice President after the poisonous Ice Cream saga and Professor Jonathan Moyo's malicious presentations upon Munangagwa. The miscalculated malice, hate, hurt and undue vengeance snd humiliation that made a new president and ushered-in a new dispensation in Zimbabwe. I am on record as having put it straight too early that Munangagwa carried high potential to govern better than Mugabe and that he could well be in command of superior following than Mugabe! And that, of all the presidential aspirants after Mugabe, within ZANU-PF and all opposition, Munangagwa had no equal as he remained as the would be most equipped to make any meaningful impact in the respective race! Even if he were to stand against Mugabe himself in 2018! And possibly Munangagwa commanded of superior access to arms of repression than Mugabe! My prophetic soul! Only if The Generation 40 had paid attention to this most accurate prediction. Generation 40 was most keen to up-grade the most primitive strong man power approach into a strong woman power approach as against a strong ethics driven corruption-free institution approach! Strong parliament!

The strong judiciary, the strong police, the strong military, the strong clergy and strong human rights institutions. Like Joseph who fed and settled his most weired brothers, many of Garwe adversaries have remained as front-runner-beneficiaries of Munangagwa's new political dispensation! Unlike Joseph, Multiple self-confessed Mugabe true-sons still surround President Emmerson Munangagwa as senior ministers! Joseph was in similar authority. Despite having forgiven his blood brothers and fed them who had sold him into slavery and reported him to their father Jacob as having been attacked by a hyna and as dead. He did not appoint them into influential positions. Loved them but never trusted them! Neither did they trust Joseph too as symbolised in their apology and need for solid assurance of security after the death of their father Israel (Jacob), because they knew their foot-prints. Joseph assured his brothers of sufficient food and security but not governance roles! There would be surely zero wisdom for Garwe to seek to govern with Robert Mugabe self-confessed sons and daughters. The Gushungo Matibiri Mugabes! They would surely need to go and lick their most true father's wounds rather than taking opportunities for possible sabotage of the revolution.

Only traitors of the worst order would fore-go both their biological and political DNA! The Gushungo Matibiri Mugabe must surely act decent enough to keep their word and loyalties. George Charamba, The Permanent Secretary in The Ministry of Information and Honourable Obed Moses Mpofu Gushungo Matibiri Mugabe, among others, stand to compromise the new Emmerson Munangagwa political dispensation at all costs.

Reginald Thabani Gola
E-mail:regtgola@gmail.com
Cell. 00263 775 184 749.



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