Opinion / Columnist
Woo to Sibanda for starting the fire that cannot be extinguished by water but human blood!
09 Oct 2014 at 16:30hrs | Views
Open your eyes Mr Jabulani Sibanda and you will see that regime change is already taking place and there is nothing you and your fellow war vet can do to stop it now! The driving force of regime change is not the MDC threat of street protest but something more subtle, insidious but totally indifferent to your "fire that cannot be extinguished by water", the economic meltdown!
After 34 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and all-out looting the national economy has completely collapsed. Unemployment has soared to nauseating Mount Everest heights of 90% plus, 300 000 children or 80% are out of school, there is no running water in most cities and towns across the land, 62% of our people are poor with 16% of them living in abject poverty according to a UNICEF report, etc.; that is what economic meltdown means!
The economic meltdown is affecting everyone; first it was the politically powerless povo but it was not long before the wealth of the Zanu PF ruling elite started to disappear like morning mist and they joined us the poor. The late Nathan Shamuyarira lived the last decade of his life in abject poverty and died a pauper. Mugabe, with the cynicism befitting George Orwell's Animal Farm, painted his house the day he died to hide the years of neglect, decay and rot.
Mrs Shamuyarira could not afford the bus fare to visit her husband on his death bed five miles or so away. Even if Mugabe had painted the Shamuyarira house outside and inside; the late Shamuyarira was and his wife is one of us, the 2 million living in abject poverty!
Nathan Shamuyarira was the man, as Minister for Information (Propaganda and Brainwashing would be more appropriate), who moulded Zimbabwe's public print and electronic media after independence in 1980 into the useless institution it is. There to faithfully serve Zanu PF in total disregard of its expected public role of promoting freedom of expression and a free media. Mugabe has praised Shamuyarira for this on many occasions in the past and did so again at his funeral.
In his funeral, Mugabe was flashed with anger at Professor Jonathan Moyo, the Minister for Information, calling him a "weevil" and the "devil incarnate" for having allowed the country's public media to report details of rampant corruption in government and government controlled institutions.
Mugabe was livid with anger not at the rampant corruption but that it the details had not been suppressed. He has vehemently denied there was corruption, maintaining that the economic collapse was caused by sanctions and not corruption. The reports of PSMAS CEO like Cuthbert Dube receiving $ 500 000 per month showed that corruption was rampant and it was the root cause of the economic collapse.
The late Nathan Shamuyarira was not just a member of Zanu PF; he was one of the party's grandees. If the economic meltdown affected him to the point of forcing him into a life of abject poverty it is inconceivable that ordinary Zanu PF members were spared. The 62% now considered poor and 16% living in abject poverty included Zanu PF members, party grandees and war vets.
As long as Zanu PF remains in power the economic meltdown will only get worse because the party has failed to address the underlying causes of the economic collapse i.e. the corruption, the lawlessness, etc. The worsening economic meltdown will only mean more and more people will be forced into a life of abject poverty, hopelessness and despair.
"We have heard that there are some opposition party leaders calling for mass protests against the Government. They are calling people and they are relying on students whom they have manipulated over the years to pursue their regime change agenda," said Jabulani Sibanda.
"War vets are going to defend the country and its people with fire which cannot be extinguished by water," he threatened.
In a free and democratic country, the people have the right to hold peaceful public demonstrations. Even if the use of violence should stop the street marches nothing will stop the economic meltdown which is the driving force behind the street protests.
Mugabe has failed to deliver on his promise of mass prosperity, he cannot even honour the promise to the few ruling elite, as the late Shamuyarira and many others would testify, because the promise was always an illusion. To keep the promise Mugabe needed economic prosperity and no economy could sustain much less thrive the criminal waste of human and material resources brought on by the mismanagement and corruption of his tyrannical regime.
What you Sindaba and your misguided war vets have been defending is an unsustainable illusion.
Now that it is clear that the Zanu PF dictatorship cannot deliver economic prosperity, freedom, liberty and human dignity resisting regime change is just as unsustainable as the notion that the people will accept to suffer these economic hardship and never protest.
After 34 years of ruthless repression and misery, the cup is full to overflowing; the economy itself is fighting to end this dictatorship. Mr Sibanda you and your fellow Zanu PF thugs have done well to delay regime change all these years but that, sir, is not the same thing as stopping it happening forever. Regime change is now upon us, there is nothing you or Mugabe can do to stop it now.
What is at issue now is whether the nation is going to have orderly change or violent change. If Mugabe steps down now so the democratic reforms, that should have been implemented during the GNU, to be finally implemented; there will be an orderly change of guard. The longer Mugabe and Zanu PF try to hang on to power the greater the human misery as the economic meltdown bits deeper and, worse still, great the chance of a violent end to Zanu PF rule.
Mugabe and Zanu PF must know that their "fire that cannot be extinguished with water" will be extinguished by human blood but woo unto those who start such dangerous fires because more often than not it is their own blood that will extinguish the last burning embers!
After 34 years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and all-out looting the national economy has completely collapsed. Unemployment has soared to nauseating Mount Everest heights of 90% plus, 300 000 children or 80% are out of school, there is no running water in most cities and towns across the land, 62% of our people are poor with 16% of them living in abject poverty according to a UNICEF report, etc.; that is what economic meltdown means!
The economic meltdown is affecting everyone; first it was the politically powerless povo but it was not long before the wealth of the Zanu PF ruling elite started to disappear like morning mist and they joined us the poor. The late Nathan Shamuyarira lived the last decade of his life in abject poverty and died a pauper. Mugabe, with the cynicism befitting George Orwell's Animal Farm, painted his house the day he died to hide the years of neglect, decay and rot.
Mrs Shamuyarira could not afford the bus fare to visit her husband on his death bed five miles or so away. Even if Mugabe had painted the Shamuyarira house outside and inside; the late Shamuyarira was and his wife is one of us, the 2 million living in abject poverty!
Nathan Shamuyarira was the man, as Minister for Information (Propaganda and Brainwashing would be more appropriate), who moulded Zimbabwe's public print and electronic media after independence in 1980 into the useless institution it is. There to faithfully serve Zanu PF in total disregard of its expected public role of promoting freedom of expression and a free media. Mugabe has praised Shamuyarira for this on many occasions in the past and did so again at his funeral.
In his funeral, Mugabe was flashed with anger at Professor Jonathan Moyo, the Minister for Information, calling him a "weevil" and the "devil incarnate" for having allowed the country's public media to report details of rampant corruption in government and government controlled institutions.
Mugabe was livid with anger not at the rampant corruption but that it the details had not been suppressed. He has vehemently denied there was corruption, maintaining that the economic collapse was caused by sanctions and not corruption. The reports of PSMAS CEO like Cuthbert Dube receiving $ 500 000 per month showed that corruption was rampant and it was the root cause of the economic collapse.
The late Nathan Shamuyarira was not just a member of Zanu PF; he was one of the party's grandees. If the economic meltdown affected him to the point of forcing him into a life of abject poverty it is inconceivable that ordinary Zanu PF members were spared. The 62% now considered poor and 16% living in abject poverty included Zanu PF members, party grandees and war vets.
As long as Zanu PF remains in power the economic meltdown will only get worse because the party has failed to address the underlying causes of the economic collapse i.e. the corruption, the lawlessness, etc. The worsening economic meltdown will only mean more and more people will be forced into a life of abject poverty, hopelessness and despair.
"We have heard that there are some opposition party leaders calling for mass protests against the Government. They are calling people and they are relying on students whom they have manipulated over the years to pursue their regime change agenda," said Jabulani Sibanda.
"War vets are going to defend the country and its people with fire which cannot be extinguished by water," he threatened.
In a free and democratic country, the people have the right to hold peaceful public demonstrations. Even if the use of violence should stop the street marches nothing will stop the economic meltdown which is the driving force behind the street protests.
Mugabe has failed to deliver on his promise of mass prosperity, he cannot even honour the promise to the few ruling elite, as the late Shamuyarira and many others would testify, because the promise was always an illusion. To keep the promise Mugabe needed economic prosperity and no economy could sustain much less thrive the criminal waste of human and material resources brought on by the mismanagement and corruption of his tyrannical regime.
What you Sindaba and your misguided war vets have been defending is an unsustainable illusion.
Now that it is clear that the Zanu PF dictatorship cannot deliver economic prosperity, freedom, liberty and human dignity resisting regime change is just as unsustainable as the notion that the people will accept to suffer these economic hardship and never protest.
After 34 years of ruthless repression and misery, the cup is full to overflowing; the economy itself is fighting to end this dictatorship. Mr Sibanda you and your fellow Zanu PF thugs have done well to delay regime change all these years but that, sir, is not the same thing as stopping it happening forever. Regime change is now upon us, there is nothing you or Mugabe can do to stop it now.
What is at issue now is whether the nation is going to have orderly change or violent change. If Mugabe steps down now so the democratic reforms, that should have been implemented during the GNU, to be finally implemented; there will be an orderly change of guard. The longer Mugabe and Zanu PF try to hang on to power the greater the human misery as the economic meltdown bits deeper and, worse still, great the chance of a violent end to Zanu PF rule.
Mugabe and Zanu PF must know that their "fire that cannot be extinguished with water" will be extinguished by human blood but woo unto those who start such dangerous fires because more often than not it is their own blood that will extinguish the last burning embers!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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