Opinion / Columnist
The Zanu PF dictatorship was always doomed to end in tears
28 Oct 2014 at 05:16hrs | Views
Impeccable sources told the Daily News yesterday that many of VP Mujuru's supporters, comprising senior Zanu-PF members, wept uncontrollably when they met with her at the party's headquarters before the politburo meeting commenced on Friday last week.
"I've never seen anything like this in my whole life. Politburo members that included grown, battle-hardened men were weeping like children in sympathy with the VP and because of the pain of the persecution that Mai Mujuru is taking at the moment," said the source.
"Although I, myself, didn't cry, we all couldn't understand why the VP was being attacked this viciously by her enemies in the party. To add to everyone's pain, the VP herself remained very dignified throughout this emotional period and urged everyone to remain calm and not to worry. It was very sad."
It is not as if VP Mujuru had much room to manoeuvre; she was accused of "illicit dealing in diamonds". Anyone who is anyone knows that she is corrupt; it is one thing for her to say "remain calm and not to worry"; but that is easier said than done when there is all the evidence of Mujuru corruption.
Mai Mujuru is not the only one who is corrupt; Zanu PF was always destined to go down this disastrous route of corruption, economic meltdown and infighting.
When Mugabe decided to turn Zanu PF into a de facto one-party dictatorship and his fellow party leaders like Mai Mujuru helped him do that; they should all have known that the dictatorship would end in tears. The dictatorship stifled all political debate and competition within the country and within Zanu PF itself and it was this that opened the door to mismanagement and corruption. After decades of the regime denying these cancerous problems, the chickens have finally come home to roost.
Following the rigged 2013 elections it has becoming clear that the national economy is now in total meltdown; unemployment has soared to Mount Everest heights of 90%; 300 000 or 80% of children are out of school out of poverty; 16% or 2 million Zimbabwean now live in abject poverty; etc. The economic meltdown has not just affected the ordinary Zimbabwean but the ruling elite too, striking right at the heart of the Zanu PF core.
The late Nathan Shamuyarira was a Zanu PF grandee; he was the country's first Minister of Information and the grand designer of the country's oppressive and dominating public media. The late minister was not saved from poverty; he lived the last ten years in abject poverty and died a pauper.
Mujuru's supporters knew that losing this Zanu PF factional war meant the losers would be evicted from Easy Street to S***t Alley, where those condemned to a life in abject poverty dwell. The supporters have seen the sorry and miserable life the likes of Nathan Shamuyarira had and know what awaits them. Still, when one said it would all end in tears; they did not mean it literally!
"I've never seen anything like this in my whole life. Politburo members that included grown, battle-hardened men were weeping like children in sympathy with the VP and because of the pain of the persecution that Mai Mujuru is taking at the moment," said the source.
"Although I, myself, didn't cry, we all couldn't understand why the VP was being attacked this viciously by her enemies in the party. To add to everyone's pain, the VP herself remained very dignified throughout this emotional period and urged everyone to remain calm and not to worry. It was very sad."
It is not as if VP Mujuru had much room to manoeuvre; she was accused of "illicit dealing in diamonds". Anyone who is anyone knows that she is corrupt; it is one thing for her to say "remain calm and not to worry"; but that is easier said than done when there is all the evidence of Mujuru corruption.
Mai Mujuru is not the only one who is corrupt; Zanu PF was always destined to go down this disastrous route of corruption, economic meltdown and infighting.
When Mugabe decided to turn Zanu PF into a de facto one-party dictatorship and his fellow party leaders like Mai Mujuru helped him do that; they should all have known that the dictatorship would end in tears. The dictatorship stifled all political debate and competition within the country and within Zanu PF itself and it was this that opened the door to mismanagement and corruption. After decades of the regime denying these cancerous problems, the chickens have finally come home to roost.
Following the rigged 2013 elections it has becoming clear that the national economy is now in total meltdown; unemployment has soared to Mount Everest heights of 90%; 300 000 or 80% of children are out of school out of poverty; 16% or 2 million Zimbabwean now live in abject poverty; etc. The economic meltdown has not just affected the ordinary Zimbabwean but the ruling elite too, striking right at the heart of the Zanu PF core.
The late Nathan Shamuyarira was a Zanu PF grandee; he was the country's first Minister of Information and the grand designer of the country's oppressive and dominating public media. The late minister was not saved from poverty; he lived the last ten years in abject poverty and died a pauper.
Mujuru's supporters knew that losing this Zanu PF factional war meant the losers would be evicted from Easy Street to S***t Alley, where those condemned to a life in abject poverty dwell. The supporters have seen the sorry and miserable life the likes of Nathan Shamuyarira had and know what awaits them. Still, when one said it would all end in tears; they did not mean it literally!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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