Zanu-PF disciplinary committee is 'not subject to higher courts' says Mugabe - a load of bull!

Mugabe has stayed remained as the leader of his Zanu-PF party and head of government for the last 35 years in spite his pathetic and ruinous economic performance and tyrannical and murderous political record.

One of the reasons why he has managed to do so is he is a master of double talk; if he does not dazzle you with brilliance he baffle you with bull.  He was clearly at his bafling- with-bull best at the party's politburo meeting.

Addressing journalists in Harare after a Zanu-PF politburo meeting, the party's national spokes-person Simon Khaya Moyo said Mugabe emphasised that internal party disputes should be re-solved internally.

"He (Mugabe) said the party has principles, rules and values that are not subjected to higher courts as some believe and if you are a party member, there are structures you must use to get your concerns addressed, but not through the High Court or other institutions outside the party," Moyo added.

Private parties are encourage to settle their disputes without recourse to the country's courts but if one of the parties should feel they will not get justice they have a right to ask the courts to hear the dispute and to pronounce judgement. It is totally unacceptable that one party should then unilaterally decide that the nation's courts have no jurisdiction over the matter and therefore they will not appear before the courts.

"His Excellency, the President, opened the meeting with a clear message that every member of the politburo must be thoroughly familiar with the provisions of the party constitution," Moyo told the journalist.

It is great Mugabe remembered there was something called the party's constitution and, better still, he directed every member of the politburo to be "thoroughly familiar with the provisions of the party constitution". But he would have done best by quoting to all and sentry the exact provision(s) in the Zanu-PF constitution that said any internal disputes must be resolved internally and NOT "through the High Court or other institutions outside the party"!

If there is such a provision - there is none of course, it is just Mugabe baffling his gullible and idiotic politburo members - but for the sake of completeness we will say there is a provision in the Zanu-PF constitution barring members from seeking redress outside the party; then surely that provision violates the country's constitution and common sense which created the courts as the supreme arbiter and dispenser of justice.

Of course it is nonsensical that anyone should abrogate unto themselves the powers to judge what matters the courts should and should not hear; that is bulls***t!

When Mugabe returned on one of his many out of the country trip he asked the rhetorical ques-tion "Whose Courts and whose judges?" Mutasa would be taking his legal challenge. It was rhe-torical because everyone knows Zimbabwe's judiciary system is in all but name just another Zanu-PF department; there to do Mugabe's bidding. Still Mutasa should take his case to the courts.

In the 2008 SADC and AU election observer teams for the first time ever, as far as I know, re-fused to rubber stamp Zimbabwe's 2008 elections free and fair although they have given their thumbs up to some dodgy elections in Zimbabwe and other countries before and since. The wanton violence in Zimbabwe's 2008 elections was out of this world, the teams had no choice but to condemn them. Mugabe must be fearing that his court and his judges may be similarly compelled to disregard his wishes and judge in Mutasa's favour. The speed with which Mugabe changed the party's constitutional to give himself the power to appoint the two party secretaries who would go on to be the two Vice Presidents in government, for example, blatantly failed to allow for the consultative period called for in the party's constitution.

Is it not bad enough that Mugabe has corrupted the country's judiciary but his insistence that his own Zanu-PF disciplinary committee, kangaroo court, is now the supreme court of the land must be dismissed with the contempt it rightly deserves. No nation can ever allow that kind of tyranni-cal arrogance and absolutism.

There is no doubt that the conduct of Zanu-PF's electoral process last year defied all accepted norms in the conduct of democratic elections; this is something Mugabe has become expert in given he has routinely rig national elections for the last 35 years! Mutasa should not allow himself to be bamboozled by Mugabe's rhetorical bull into accepting that Zanu-PF disciplinary committee is the supreme arbiter in this matter and just take his case to the normal court!