Opinion / Columnist
Mugabe's Fattah on Mujuru and others drags the nation to barbarism of demigod Roman Emperors!
25 Nov 2014 at 15:40hrs | Views
"At least 10 Cabinet ministers and more than 100 Zanu-PF legislators face the political wilderness as the mindless bloodletting in the divided party reaches alarming levels ahead of its crucial "elective" congress scheduled for next week," reported Bulawayo24 reporter.
Once the Zanu PF juggernaut gets going, there is no stopping it. It started with provincial leaders in the Mujuru faction being haunted out of office. Soon the grass fire was burning down the bushes in the form of centre committee members and then the big trees hundreds of years old in the form of politburo and cabinet ministers are smouldering!
When you accept to join in a mud-crab dance you necessary accept that you will get mud all over. By joining Zanu PF Mujuru, Mutasa, Gumbo and others did a lot worse that join a mud-crab dance, they joined an unusual ruthless hyena clan and now the clan is booting them out using its usual dirty tactics!
Everyone has known that Mugabe does not fight fair; his focus is to hit below the belt with the first blow and hit hard, very hard – that is his forte. Mai Mujuru have working with him all these years, they have all seen how Mugabe fights and therefore they must have expected him to use his dirty tricks on them too. They were naïve to think he would never use the same dirty tricks on them as they had seen him use on Tsvangirai and others. Well now they know better; unfortunately it is too late for them to do anything about, the fighting is over and Mugabe has already won!
Hyenas roll in game dung to mask their scent for better hunting. But when a clan wants to boot one member out, they go for the game smell and not the looks. They will not be fooled by a buck looking like a hyena! Mugabe drenched Mujuru and her supporters in goat's blood and the smell has the Zanu PF hyena clan in blood-thirsty frenzy.
When Mugabe accused Mujuru and others of plotting to kill him; that in Zanu PF political language is a Fattah, now every Zanu PF thugs thinks he is a James Bond, 007, with a licence to kill the plotters!
Even if Mai Mujuru and other senior members in her faction manage to get seats in the Zanu PF central committee they will be as comforted as goats in a hyenas' pen – just because the hyenas are full now does not mean they will never be hungry! Indeed Mugabe will probably want them in senior dead-end positions in the party and government, just as he did with the late Edson Zvobgo who he appointed Minister without Portfolio (read - Minister of nothing), just to keep a tag on them and they do not stray off and team up with MDC or worse still divulge his vote rigging secrets.
Mugabe has pronounced the Fattah on Mujuru and her followers but sometimes it is more pragmatic to delay its execution, have it hanging over their heads like the sword of Damocles! Like the Roman gladiators, Mujuru and her followers might just as well be saying to Mugabe "We who await death at your pleasure, salute you!" The barbarism of Zimbabwe politics has sunk to new depths of Rome under a demigod Emperor!
Once the Zanu PF juggernaut gets going, there is no stopping it. It started with provincial leaders in the Mujuru faction being haunted out of office. Soon the grass fire was burning down the bushes in the form of centre committee members and then the big trees hundreds of years old in the form of politburo and cabinet ministers are smouldering!
When you accept to join in a mud-crab dance you necessary accept that you will get mud all over. By joining Zanu PF Mujuru, Mutasa, Gumbo and others did a lot worse that join a mud-crab dance, they joined an unusual ruthless hyena clan and now the clan is booting them out using its usual dirty tactics!
Everyone has known that Mugabe does not fight fair; his focus is to hit below the belt with the first blow and hit hard, very hard – that is his forte. Mai Mujuru have working with him all these years, they have all seen how Mugabe fights and therefore they must have expected him to use his dirty tricks on them too. They were naïve to think he would never use the same dirty tricks on them as they had seen him use on Tsvangirai and others. Well now they know better; unfortunately it is too late for them to do anything about, the fighting is over and Mugabe has already won!
Hyenas roll in game dung to mask their scent for better hunting. But when a clan wants to boot one member out, they go for the game smell and not the looks. They will not be fooled by a buck looking like a hyena! Mugabe drenched Mujuru and her supporters in goat's blood and the smell has the Zanu PF hyena clan in blood-thirsty frenzy.
When Mugabe accused Mujuru and others of plotting to kill him; that in Zanu PF political language is a Fattah, now every Zanu PF thugs thinks he is a James Bond, 007, with a licence to kill the plotters!
Even if Mai Mujuru and other senior members in her faction manage to get seats in the Zanu PF central committee they will be as comforted as goats in a hyenas' pen – just because the hyenas are full now does not mean they will never be hungry! Indeed Mugabe will probably want them in senior dead-end positions in the party and government, just as he did with the late Edson Zvobgo who he appointed Minister without Portfolio (read - Minister of nothing), just to keep a tag on them and they do not stray off and team up with MDC or worse still divulge his vote rigging secrets.
Mugabe has pronounced the Fattah on Mujuru and her followers but sometimes it is more pragmatic to delay its execution, have it hanging over their heads like the sword of Damocles! Like the Roman gladiators, Mujuru and her followers might just as well be saying to Mugabe "We who await death at your pleasure, salute you!" The barbarism of Zimbabwe politics has sunk to new depths of Rome under a demigod Emperor!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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