Opinion / Columnist
Goodbye and good riddance Rugare Gumbo and your contrived concern for povo!
12 Nov 2014 at 19:52hrs | Views
The net is closing in on the Mujuru faction of Zanu-PF; they are losing ground to the Mnangagwa faction fast. Rugare Gumbo, in a panic over lost ground, is trying to recast the factional war as a threat to the whole nation.
"We don't understand where this is coming from. All this shows that there is no discipline in the party. It's unZanu-PF-like. Zanu-PF does not behave that way," Gumbo said.
"The party has been infiltrated and compromised as true Zanu-PF supporters don't behave that way. It's unheard of."
Zanu-PF has always been a party of thugs united by their common desire to loot regardless of the consequences of their corruption and looting. Well one of these consequences was that someday there will be little left to loot and that day is upon us! Party members are fighting like wild cats amongst themselves over the little wealth left.
That Rugare Gumba should project this Zanu-PF factional warfare as a national one is to be expected given the party's warped mentality in which selfish Zanu-PF party interests have been placed way above national interests. The regime has never had any qualms about riding roughshod over the people's basic human rights including rigging elections and even murder in pursuit of its ‘no regime change' mantra. To Zanu-PF what was in the party's interest must necessarily be in the nation's interest as the party was the nation. And so the reverse is also true that what threatens the party threatens the nation.
Mr Gumbo the demise of you and your fellow Mujuru faction supporters pose no threat to the nation per se; it is great for the nation be getting rid of corrupt and oppressive tyrants, even if it be only one half - still it is a good start. Getting rid of the Zanu-PF dictatorship, be it one half or the whole thing, poses a serious threat to the nation but only because state institutions have been corrupted to serve the party and not the nation.
Mugabe has corrupted the country's security institutions, the Judiciary, etc. so it is hardly surprising that the country is easily become ungovernable as the Zanu-PF party factional fighting spills over into these state organs too. There are elements in the Police, for example, with very strong allegiances to the Mujuru faction of the party, they know that the demise of politicians in the faction will sooner or later end their own demise.
It is intolerable that we have a corrupt and highly partisan Army, Police, etc. but to have members in these institution fighting each other is a fearful thing particularly since they all have access to guns and many of them have twitchy fingers!
One can only hope that the rank and file in the Army, Police, etc. will finally realise that the days of Zanu-PF dictatorial rule are over and so are the days of partisan Army, Police, etc. Their allegiances from now on are, to the rule of law, to the people and to the country, Zimbabwe; and should have never been to Mugabe and to the party, Zanu-PF.
Still, what people like Rugare Gumbo must understand is that Zanu-PF was doomed to fail because no nation can ever sustain the party's looting and wasteful culture. The dog-eat-dog taking place in Zanu-PF is of the party's own making; the people have played no part in it.
Still the people are grateful to see an end to the corrupt, murders and tyrannical repression that the Zanu PF dictatorship has come to represented. The regime dragged us into this political and economic hell-hole and there was no getting out of the hole as long as the regime remains in power. And so the nation is pleased to see the regime crumble and go.
Rugabe Gumbo's threats of the defeat of the Mujuru faction having catastrophic consequences for the nation will not stop Mugabe and Mnangagwa finish off the faction; the people have no say in that. As far as the nation is concerned the job is only half done; after the Zanu-PF the party congress the nation will have to get rid of the last half of the dictatorship.
As for now, good bye and good riddance to you Mister Rugabe Gumbo; save us from all your belated speeches of contrived concern for the long suffering povo!
"We don't understand where this is coming from. All this shows that there is no discipline in the party. It's unZanu-PF-like. Zanu-PF does not behave that way," Gumbo said.
"The party has been infiltrated and compromised as true Zanu-PF supporters don't behave that way. It's unheard of."
Zanu-PF has always been a party of thugs united by their common desire to loot regardless of the consequences of their corruption and looting. Well one of these consequences was that someday there will be little left to loot and that day is upon us! Party members are fighting like wild cats amongst themselves over the little wealth left.
That Rugare Gumba should project this Zanu-PF factional warfare as a national one is to be expected given the party's warped mentality in which selfish Zanu-PF party interests have been placed way above national interests. The regime has never had any qualms about riding roughshod over the people's basic human rights including rigging elections and even murder in pursuit of its ‘no regime change' mantra. To Zanu-PF what was in the party's interest must necessarily be in the nation's interest as the party was the nation. And so the reverse is also true that what threatens the party threatens the nation.
Mr Gumbo the demise of you and your fellow Mujuru faction supporters pose no threat to the nation per se; it is great for the nation be getting rid of corrupt and oppressive tyrants, even if it be only one half - still it is a good start. Getting rid of the Zanu-PF dictatorship, be it one half or the whole thing, poses a serious threat to the nation but only because state institutions have been corrupted to serve the party and not the nation.
It is intolerable that we have a corrupt and highly partisan Army, Police, etc. but to have members in these institution fighting each other is a fearful thing particularly since they all have access to guns and many of them have twitchy fingers!
One can only hope that the rank and file in the Army, Police, etc. will finally realise that the days of Zanu-PF dictatorial rule are over and so are the days of partisan Army, Police, etc. Their allegiances from now on are, to the rule of law, to the people and to the country, Zimbabwe; and should have never been to Mugabe and to the party, Zanu-PF.
Still, what people like Rugare Gumbo must understand is that Zanu-PF was doomed to fail because no nation can ever sustain the party's looting and wasteful culture. The dog-eat-dog taking place in Zanu-PF is of the party's own making; the people have played no part in it.
Still the people are grateful to see an end to the corrupt, murders and tyrannical repression that the Zanu PF dictatorship has come to represented. The regime dragged us into this political and economic hell-hole and there was no getting out of the hole as long as the regime remains in power. And so the nation is pleased to see the regime crumble and go.
Rugabe Gumbo's threats of the defeat of the Mujuru faction having catastrophic consequences for the nation will not stop Mugabe and Mnangagwa finish off the faction; the people have no say in that. As far as the nation is concerned the job is only half done; after the Zanu-PF the party congress the nation will have to get rid of the last half of the dictatorship.
As for now, good bye and good riddance to you Mister Rugabe Gumbo; save us from all your belated speeches of contrived concern for the long suffering povo!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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