Opinion / Columnist
Denial of Grace Mugabe involvement is to be expected in a banana republic
10 Jan 2015 at 19:32hrs | Views
Mashonaland Central provincial affairs minister, Martin Dinha said President Robert Mugabe's wife was not involved in the removal of 200 families from Mazhou Farm in Mazoe.
"Zimbabwe is not a banana republic as wished by some people and we have not deteriorated to that level of lawlessness and anarchy," said the Minister.
What is this a game in semantics: Grace was "not involved" but she is the one who has been demanding the families' eviction and will stands to benefit from it. She was the farm to be part of her game reserve.
The evictions were carried out in totally disregard of a court order saying no one was to be evicted unless alternative land was found for them. There was no alternative land offered to these families. If the eviction was not lawless then what is lawless.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political hell-hole because there is no rule of law. The economy is in total ruins with unemployment 90% plus, 16% or 2 million people already living in abject poverty, etc. after decades of corruption and mismanagement.
On the political front, Zanu-PF is yet to hold free and fair elections in 35 years of the country's independence and over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans have been murdered by Mugabe to establish and retain the de facto one-party dictatorship.
Minister Dinha, you are just a willing tool in the dictator's hands; Mugabe is using you to do his dirty work and he will discard you like used toilet tissue the same way he has abuse and discarded others like Jabulani Sibanda and the late Nathan Shamuyarira.
Sibanda was fired from the party and now lives in fear of his own life after years of criss-crossing the country intimidating, harassing and terrorizing the people on Mugabe's behalf.
The late Nathan Shamuyarira is the father of Zimbabwe's highly partisan public media. Mugabe praised him for having produced a public media that kept a lid on corruption and all the other evils committed by the regime. Still that did not stop Mugabe discarding him when he no longer required his services.
Shamuyarira lived the last years of his life in grinding abject poverty; the family was so poor his wife could not afford the bus fare to the hospital to see him on his deathbed. The afternoon he died Zanu-PF had the potholes in the road to his house patched up and his house was painted to hide the decay and rot in a cynical move befitting George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Minister Dinha, Zimbabwe is a banana republic in every sense of that phrase and no amount of denying it will ever change that!
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Wilbert Mukori can be contacted at zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
"Zimbabwe is not a banana republic as wished by some people and we have not deteriorated to that level of lawlessness and anarchy," said the Minister.
What is this a game in semantics: Grace was "not involved" but she is the one who has been demanding the families' eviction and will stands to benefit from it. She was the farm to be part of her game reserve.
The evictions were carried out in totally disregard of a court order saying no one was to be evicted unless alternative land was found for them. There was no alternative land offered to these families. If the eviction was not lawless then what is lawless.
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political hell-hole because there is no rule of law. The economy is in total ruins with unemployment 90% plus, 16% or 2 million people already living in abject poverty, etc. after decades of corruption and mismanagement.
Minister Dinha, you are just a willing tool in the dictator's hands; Mugabe is using you to do his dirty work and he will discard you like used toilet tissue the same way he has abuse and discarded others like Jabulani Sibanda and the late Nathan Shamuyarira.
Sibanda was fired from the party and now lives in fear of his own life after years of criss-crossing the country intimidating, harassing and terrorizing the people on Mugabe's behalf.
The late Nathan Shamuyarira is the father of Zimbabwe's highly partisan public media. Mugabe praised him for having produced a public media that kept a lid on corruption and all the other evils committed by the regime. Still that did not stop Mugabe discarding him when he no longer required his services.
Shamuyarira lived the last years of his life in grinding abject poverty; the family was so poor his wife could not afford the bus fare to the hospital to see him on his deathbed. The afternoon he died Zanu-PF had the potholes in the road to his house patched up and his house was painted to hide the decay and rot in a cynical move befitting George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Minister Dinha, Zimbabwe is a banana republic in every sense of that phrase and no amount of denying it will ever change that!
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Wilbert Mukori can be contacted at zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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