Opinion / Columnist
Sympathy for Mujuru is but Zim syndrome of victim of a tyranny pining for the tyrant
15 Nov 2014 at 17:00hrs | Views
The out pouring of sympathy by ordinary Zimbabweans for what Mugabe and Mnangagwa are doing to VP Mujuru, Rugare Gumbo and many others in her faction is totally misplaced in that it fails see her and her supporters as an integral party of the Zanu PF dictatorship that has landed us, the ordinary people, into this hell-hole. We are the victims of the dictatorship who have suffered broken careers, broken limbs, broken lives and many paid the ultimate price of lost lives. Over 30 000 have been murdered by the regime for selfish political gain.
The harassment of Zanu PF provincial chairmen out of office, the firing of Jabulani Sibanda out of the party, suspension of Rugare Gumbo from the party for five years and the coup de grace to be delivered to VP Mujuru at the party congress to all these erstwhile Zanu PF members in nothing but a mosquito bite compared to broken limb or lost we, the ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered. Indeed Mai Mujuru and others are getting a taste of their own medicine and we are the innocent victims.
It is nonsensical and demeaning that we should be moved to tears over Gumbo and Mujuru's mosquito bites when they have been totally indifferent and irreverent to us whose limbs and lives they broke.
VP Mujuru, for example, was not elected VP to "WAU!" the cabinet meetings with her looks (not that she is so much to look at) but to serve the people and nation from the corruption and oppression that have become the hallmarks of this Zanu PF dictatorship. If anything she has led the corruption from the front!
So those feeling sorry for her political demise are sorry that she not be able to continue with her corruption and looting. The same people have had very little sympathy for the 2 million Zimbabweans now living in abject poverty or the 30 000 the regime has murdered. I have heard of the Stockholm syndrome but this takes the biscuit!
"Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with them," according to Wikipedia.
This is something worse than Stockholm syndrome; this is the Zimbabwe syndrome in which the victim of corruption and ruthless oppression pine for the tyrant to remain in power so he/she can inflict even more pain and misery on them.
When Mugabe squandered $5 million on his daughter's wedding many Zimbabweans were speechless with owe and pride. The country has had no clean running water in all the cities and towns right across the land for decade; but what of it. They were beaming with pride that the tyrant's daughter was having a wedding befitting that of a Hollywood Superstar at the nation's expense – a nation that could not afford something as basic as clean running water to millions of its people!
No doubt the day Mugabe dies the nation will go into deep morning lasting a month, at least; just like the Russians did when the tyrant Stalin died.
At the heart of the Zimbabwe syndrome is the people's sub-zero low self-esteem. Deep down many Zimbabweans have never ever believed that they too would enjoy freedom, liberty, peace and all the human rights the nation was fight for in the war of independence. The people aspired for freedom, etc. and hoped for the best which a totally different matter. They never believed that Mugabe and his fellow nationalists would deliver freedom, liberty, mass prosperity and all the rest and so when indeed they did fail the people were disappointed but not surprised.
Deep down the people expected the liberation war heroes and heroines to betray them and they have never really protested about the betrayal because, deep down, they have never viewed themselves as worthy recipients of the freedom, liberty and all those things the nation had aspired for before independence.
Unless and until the people of Zimbabwe start seeing themselves as full members of the human race, not mere voiceless and helpless subjects of a tyrannical regime, and worthy of all the rights in UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights this nation will never ever get out of this hell-hole.
Mai Mujuru is not worthy our national sympathy, after all she is suffering are minor inconveniences at the hands of the Zanu PF monster she helped create. The real victims here are us whose limbs and lives the monster has broken for the last 34 years. All the nation's tears and sorrow must be saved for the ordinary Zimbabweans at the coal face of the Zanu PF corruption and brutal repression and none for those who, until now, were part and parcel of the tyranny.
The harassment of Zanu PF provincial chairmen out of office, the firing of Jabulani Sibanda out of the party, suspension of Rugare Gumbo from the party for five years and the coup de grace to be delivered to VP Mujuru at the party congress to all these erstwhile Zanu PF members in nothing but a mosquito bite compared to broken limb or lost we, the ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered. Indeed Mai Mujuru and others are getting a taste of their own medicine and we are the innocent victims.
It is nonsensical and demeaning that we should be moved to tears over Gumbo and Mujuru's mosquito bites when they have been totally indifferent and irreverent to us whose limbs and lives they broke.
VP Mujuru, for example, was not elected VP to "WAU!" the cabinet meetings with her looks (not that she is so much to look at) but to serve the people and nation from the corruption and oppression that have become the hallmarks of this Zanu PF dictatorship. If anything she has led the corruption from the front!
So those feeling sorry for her political demise are sorry that she not be able to continue with her corruption and looting. The same people have had very little sympathy for the 2 million Zimbabweans now living in abject poverty or the 30 000 the regime has murdered. I have heard of the Stockholm syndrome but this takes the biscuit!
"Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with them," according to Wikipedia.
This is something worse than Stockholm syndrome; this is the Zimbabwe syndrome in which the victim of corruption and ruthless oppression pine for the tyrant to remain in power so he/she can inflict even more pain and misery on them.
When Mugabe squandered $5 million on his daughter's wedding many Zimbabweans were speechless with owe and pride. The country has had no clean running water in all the cities and towns right across the land for decade; but what of it. They were beaming with pride that the tyrant's daughter was having a wedding befitting that of a Hollywood Superstar at the nation's expense – a nation that could not afford something as basic as clean running water to millions of its people!
No doubt the day Mugabe dies the nation will go into deep morning lasting a month, at least; just like the Russians did when the tyrant Stalin died.
At the heart of the Zimbabwe syndrome is the people's sub-zero low self-esteem. Deep down many Zimbabweans have never ever believed that they too would enjoy freedom, liberty, peace and all the human rights the nation was fight for in the war of independence. The people aspired for freedom, etc. and hoped for the best which a totally different matter. They never believed that Mugabe and his fellow nationalists would deliver freedom, liberty, mass prosperity and all the rest and so when indeed they did fail the people were disappointed but not surprised.
Deep down the people expected the liberation war heroes and heroines to betray them and they have never really protested about the betrayal because, deep down, they have never viewed themselves as worthy recipients of the freedom, liberty and all those things the nation had aspired for before independence.
Unless and until the people of Zimbabwe start seeing themselves as full members of the human race, not mere voiceless and helpless subjects of a tyrannical regime, and worthy of all the rights in UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights this nation will never ever get out of this hell-hole.
Mai Mujuru is not worthy our national sympathy, after all she is suffering are minor inconveniences at the hands of the Zanu PF monster she helped create. The real victims here are us whose limbs and lives the monster has broken for the last 34 years. All the nation's tears and sorrow must be saved for the ordinary Zimbabweans at the coal face of the Zanu PF corruption and brutal repression and none for those who, until now, were part and parcel of the tyranny.
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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