Opinion / Columnist
What is Mphoko smoking?
17 Feb 2015 at 14:20hrs | Views
Gukurahundi was a sad chapter in our country's young history and the sooner that our leadership admits it, the better for national healing and progress, but sadly we have a whole Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko choosing to bury his head in the sand and insult victims of the deadly purge.
Mphoko would have us believe that was a western conspiracy, when it is a fact that 20 000 unarmed civilians were brutally murdered by the North Korea-trained 5th Brigade in the 1980s under the current Zanu PF leadership.
Is North Korea in the West? Did Western militia kill the harmless children and women from Midlands and Matabeleland? Did the West deploy soldiers to Zimbabwe to kill civilians? What has really gone wrong with Mphoko, because each time he opens his mouth, he is making a blunder?
Why is Mphoko hysterically trying to defend the massacres? We know people in Zanu PF sing for their next meals and grovel in bootlicking, but that does not mean that a whole vice president has to lose his marbles in the name of praise-singing.
It is indeed shocking that a whole vice president seeks rather vainly to deny the obvious, which even his proud master (President Robert Mugabe) admitted was a "moment of madness".
So Mphoko wants to rewrite history or maybe it is just another moment of madness, how incredulous.
Mphoko might not have been elected but it does not give him the passport to be reckless and as Jonathan Moyo would say, speaking with an open mouth and a closed mind.
It is worrying that Mphoko is in charge of the toothless Organ of National Healing and Reconciliation. Where can he take you with his waffling and high-sounding, silly conspiracy theories.
Even a kindergarten pupil can see that there is something wrong with Mphoko because the West never cut people's noses and mouths and never slashed open pregnant women's bellies.
Mphoko cannot put lipstick on a frog in broad daylight like this because it will remain a frog.
What we need is a commission of inquiry into the murders to root out and punish the killers not this.
Mphoko would have us believe that was a western conspiracy, when it is a fact that 20 000 unarmed civilians were brutally murdered by the North Korea-trained 5th Brigade in the 1980s under the current Zanu PF leadership.
Is North Korea in the West? Did Western militia kill the harmless children and women from Midlands and Matabeleland? Did the West deploy soldiers to Zimbabwe to kill civilians? What has really gone wrong with Mphoko, because each time he opens his mouth, he is making a blunder?
Why is Mphoko hysterically trying to defend the massacres? We know people in Zanu PF sing for their next meals and grovel in bootlicking, but that does not mean that a whole vice president has to lose his marbles in the name of praise-singing.
It is indeed shocking that a whole vice president seeks rather vainly to deny the obvious, which even his proud master (President Robert Mugabe) admitted was a "moment of madness".
So Mphoko wants to rewrite history or maybe it is just another moment of madness, how incredulous.
Mphoko might not have been elected but it does not give him the passport to be reckless and as Jonathan Moyo would say, speaking with an open mouth and a closed mind.
It is worrying that Mphoko is in charge of the toothless Organ of National Healing and Reconciliation. Where can he take you with his waffling and high-sounding, silly conspiracy theories.
Even a kindergarten pupil can see that there is something wrong with Mphoko because the West never cut people's noses and mouths and never slashed open pregnant women's bellies.
Mphoko cannot put lipstick on a frog in broad daylight like this because it will remain a frog.
What we need is a commission of inquiry into the murders to root out and punish the killers not this.
Source - dailynews
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