Opinion / Columnist
Has Mugabe shown his cards too soon in the succession race?
05 Aug 2014 at 22:54hrs | Views
Ever since Grace Mugabe and her son Robert Jnr were endorsed for key leadership roles within the Zanu-PF party there have been whispers that this is a strategy by the first family to create a political family dynasty to protect their political and economic interests.
This move has divided opinions as shown by Wilbert Mukori's comment below:
The entry into the political fray by Grace and now her son Robert Jr is for political power but the for economic reasons too. The country's economic meltdown has been like a ten-year drought; first it was the grass that suffered, then the small bushes; then trees and now even the thousand year old giants whose root go down hundreds of metres are feeling the drought.
Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira have been living in abject poverty for decades. His standing in the party counted for nothing. If Mugabe was to die Grace and her son will be nothing more than the wife and son of the former president. The party will forget them just as quickly as it forgot the late Shamuyarira.
Whoever becomes the next president, he or she would want accept the nonsense that the Mugabes should be left to live in the Blue Roof mansion when everyone knows it was taxpayers dollars that paid for it!
The only sure way Mugabe can be sure the Blue Roof mansion and all the other looted wealth stay in the family is by making sure Grace becomes president or, at the very least, she hold the balance of power to be the king-maker.
Mugabe's bold move to position Grace to take power may have finally spooked Mai Mu-juru and/or Minister Mnangagwa, whom he has treated all these years as if they were kindergarten head-girl and head-boy, to make a decisive move of their own - for the first time ever to openly defy Mugabe and challenge his authority. What do they have to lose, now the tyrant is denying them the presidency, one thing that had forced them to bite their tongue all these years and put up with all that s****t from the tyrant? Nothing!
In his attempt to secure his wife's future Mugabe may have unwittingly precipitated the collapse of Zanu PF and the end of his own rule. No freedom loving Zimbabwean will shed a tear over that one!
This move has divided opinions as shown by Wilbert Mukori's comment below:
The entry into the political fray by Grace and now her son Robert Jr is for political power but the for economic reasons too. The country's economic meltdown has been like a ten-year drought; first it was the grass that suffered, then the small bushes; then trees and now even the thousand year old giants whose root go down hundreds of metres are feeling the drought.
Zanu PF grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira have been living in abject poverty for decades. His standing in the party counted for nothing. If Mugabe was to die Grace and her son will be nothing more than the wife and son of the former president. The party will forget them just as quickly as it forgot the late Shamuyarira.
Whoever becomes the next president, he or she would want accept the nonsense that the Mugabes should be left to live in the Blue Roof mansion when everyone knows it was taxpayers dollars that paid for it!
The only sure way Mugabe can be sure the Blue Roof mansion and all the other looted wealth stay in the family is by making sure Grace becomes president or, at the very least, she hold the balance of power to be the king-maker.
Mugabe's bold move to position Grace to take power may have finally spooked Mai Mu-juru and/or Minister Mnangagwa, whom he has treated all these years as if they were kindergarten head-girl and head-boy, to make a decisive move of their own - for the first time ever to openly defy Mugabe and challenge his authority. What do they have to lose, now the tyrant is denying them the presidency, one thing that had forced them to bite their tongue all these years and put up with all that s****t from the tyrant? Nothing!
In his attempt to secure his wife's future Mugabe may have unwittingly precipitated the collapse of Zanu PF and the end of his own rule. No freedom loving Zimbabwean will shed a tear over that one!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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