Opinion / Columnist
Bhasikiti will now know long spoon is not enough to sup with Mugabe
20 Feb 2015 at 05:25hrs | Views
Masvingo Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti has been fired from government with immediate effect.
The way Mugabe has willy-nilly hired and fired senior government officials underlines just how powerful Mugabe is. With such tyrannical powers over all who would dare challenge him and, lo behold, no one, absolutely no one, has ever dared to challenge him on anything. If a cabinet minister cannot dare speak his or her mind then who else will dare.
It is little surprise then that the country has seen some shocking cases of mismanagement and corruption but all swept under the carpet. The state institutions have been abused to institutionalize some of the heart breaking human rights violations including the murder for selfish political gain of over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans.
God; am I glad that the regime is imploding, the years of corruption and tyranny, has eroded not just the nation but Zanu PF too. The party is rotten to the core and it is now caving in because the centre cannot hold. The nation has been dying for to see this dictatorship go so it can renew and start a new political system where the rights and dignity of all Zimbabweans are valued and held in high regard.
All the people like Bhasikiti, Gumbo and all the other Zanu PF thugs who have been victims of Mugabe's dictatorial whim it is impossible to feel sorry for them because for all these years they have played their part in creating the tyrant Mugabe. He who sups with the devil not only needs a long spoon but, more significantly, must know all there is to know about how to treat food poisoning because the devil seasons his guests' meals with poisons instead of spices.
Yes Bhasikiti has known for months that he will be dumped, still it does not make it any easier. Indeed now that he has been dumped, this will mark the beginning of his long journey into the political hell of a marked man; he should know the ill-treatment Mugabe has dished out to his political opponents. You had better start rebuilding your rural home because you almost certain to lose the farm. Welcome to the hell-on-earth you worked so hard to create for others!
All these years you thought you were in the "right basket" until that fateful night when Mugabe told you were in the "wrong basket"! You will now have the rest of your life to know exactly why many of us have been campaigning for democratic change.
The way Mugabe has willy-nilly hired and fired senior government officials underlines just how powerful Mugabe is. With such tyrannical powers over all who would dare challenge him and, lo behold, no one, absolutely no one, has ever dared to challenge him on anything. If a cabinet minister cannot dare speak his or her mind then who else will dare.
It is little surprise then that the country has seen some shocking cases of mismanagement and corruption but all swept under the carpet. The state institutions have been abused to institutionalize some of the heart breaking human rights violations including the murder for selfish political gain of over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans.
God; am I glad that the regime is imploding, the years of corruption and tyranny, has eroded not just the nation but Zanu PF too. The party is rotten to the core and it is now caving in because the centre cannot hold. The nation has been dying for to see this dictatorship go so it can renew and start a new political system where the rights and dignity of all Zimbabweans are valued and held in high regard.
All the people like Bhasikiti, Gumbo and all the other Zanu PF thugs who have been victims of Mugabe's dictatorial whim it is impossible to feel sorry for them because for all these years they have played their part in creating the tyrant Mugabe. He who sups with the devil not only needs a long spoon but, more significantly, must know all there is to know about how to treat food poisoning because the devil seasons his guests' meals with poisons instead of spices.
Yes Bhasikiti has known for months that he will be dumped, still it does not make it any easier. Indeed now that he has been dumped, this will mark the beginning of his long journey into the political hell of a marked man; he should know the ill-treatment Mugabe has dished out to his political opponents. You had better start rebuilding your rural home because you almost certain to lose the farm. Welcome to the hell-on-earth you worked so hard to create for others!
All these years you thought you were in the "right basket" until that fateful night when Mugabe told you were in the "wrong basket"! You will now have the rest of your life to know exactly why many of us have been campaigning for democratic change.
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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