Opinion / Columnist
'Load shedding' R G Mugabe style - Mujuru and her supporters told they will be dumped
17 Oct 2014 at 14:55hrs | Views
The hotting up factional fighting in Zanu PF is "load shedding" Robert Mugabe style!
Zanu PF is collapsing because the system was unsustainable from the start. Mugabe had kept the party together by bribing all the members with positions, by allowing them to be corrupt and to loot. There are no cushy jobs, no white owned farms left to loot and the decades of misrule have seen the whole national economy grind to a halt. Abject poverty is affecting everybody including Zanu PF party grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira. Zanu PF is falling apart because Mugabe has nothing left with which to bribe the various party members; they are fighting each other for political dominance because they see it as the only way to keep the abject poverty, rogue out of their home.
Mugabe does not have enough cushy jobs and other wealth to share out to all; supply has been contracting whilst demand has grown by leaps and bounce. There is nothing else for it but to "load shed" Mugabe style.
The political purge that we are witnessing will force at least a third of the bloated civil service, Army, Parastals, etc. to go and thus giving Mugabe some more room for political manoeuvre. Many of those who will be "dumped" unceremoniously, as Grace Mugabe has already confirmed is to happen to Mai Mujuru, Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and many others, will be unemployed and condemned to languish in abject poverty. Still, many of them will be glad they were served from the congenial Chikurumbi Prison accommodation; the CIO have the evidence of the "illicit diamond dealing" Mai Mujuru, for example, is been accuse of.
"We are going to make you jobless and this means you will no longer be able to get money to buy support," Grace Mugabe told the Energy Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti. The two are known to belong to the Mai Mujuru faction.
Mugabe allowed Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC village idiots to enjoy all the comforts of power and gave Tsvangirai the $4 million Highlands mansion so that they do nothing about implementing the democratic reforms. Come 31 July 2013, there was a massive MDC "load shedding" as we know! It was not enough, he needed another "load shedding" and it was Mai Mujuru and her faction who had the short straw!
Those who supper with the devil need a long spoon; after 34 year Mai Mujuru had seen all the corruption and murders but from the point of view of one of the beneficiaries and never the victim. She and her supporters had become complacent confident Robert Mugabe will never ever turn on them! BANG! BANG! Mai Mujuru and her faction are finished and they knows it!
Zanu PF is collapsing because the system was unsustainable from the start. Mugabe had kept the party together by bribing all the members with positions, by allowing them to be corrupt and to loot. There are no cushy jobs, no white owned farms left to loot and the decades of misrule have seen the whole national economy grind to a halt. Abject poverty is affecting everybody including Zanu PF party grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira. Zanu PF is falling apart because Mugabe has nothing left with which to bribe the various party members; they are fighting each other for political dominance because they see it as the only way to keep the abject poverty, rogue out of their home.
Mugabe does not have enough cushy jobs and other wealth to share out to all; supply has been contracting whilst demand has grown by leaps and bounce. There is nothing else for it but to "load shed" Mugabe style.
"We are going to make you jobless and this means you will no longer be able to get money to buy support," Grace Mugabe told the Energy Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire and Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti. The two are known to belong to the Mai Mujuru faction.
Mugabe allowed Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC village idiots to enjoy all the comforts of power and gave Tsvangirai the $4 million Highlands mansion so that they do nothing about implementing the democratic reforms. Come 31 July 2013, there was a massive MDC "load shedding" as we know! It was not enough, he needed another "load shedding" and it was Mai Mujuru and her faction who had the short straw!
Those who supper with the devil need a long spoon; after 34 year Mai Mujuru had seen all the corruption and murders but from the point of view of one of the beneficiaries and never the victim. She and her supporters had become complacent confident Robert Mugabe will never ever turn on them! BANG! BANG! Mai Mujuru and her faction are finished and they knows it!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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