Opinion / Columnist
Mujuru is harmless in a democracy but dangerous in Zim mudded political water
09 Jun 2015 at 08:56hrs | Views
Mai Mujuru is a simple woman, a simpleton, and that shows through and through in what she does.
For the best part of her life Mai Mujuru had paid heed to the Mark Twain adage, "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Every time she has opened her mouth she has left everybody wonder first "She is a deputy Minister?" then "You are not serious she is a Minister!" and then from 2004 to 2014 "Vice President! No wonder Zimbabwe is in a mess!"
In November 2013 Mai Mujuru her open her big mouth to deny the corruption stories in the Premier Service Medical Aid Society were all a pack of lies by the West to further their regime change agenda. She was roundly criticized for the stupid remarks. She then made the mistake of denying that she had said any such stupidity and the video recording of her making the speech went viral.
True to her well-trodden way of doing things; after Mai Mujuru unceremonious booting out of Zanu-PF last December she has said very beyond thanking Mugabe for having promoted her beyond her level of competence and then booting her out. But the decades of holding high office had clearly made her big headed; the dream of being president, encouraged by her promotion to VP, had not died with the booting out. And she opened her big trap again!
She started well by admitting Zanu-PF failed the nation it is 35 years in power and apologized for it.
"For my own role in this failure, I am truly sorry and I apologise to my fellow Zimbabweans," she said. She should have left it at that but old habits never die!
"I served faithfully in the government of Zimbabwe until my controversial, non-procedural and unjustified expulsion from both party and government in December 2014. To be discarded by my own party was initially devastating," she continued.
Give a fool a long rope and he will hang himself with it! So the quarrel with her erstwhile Zanu-PF colleague was not over the party's "failures" but that they had kicked her out of the party.
"I experienced feelings of betrayal and broken trust. However, as many know, it is when we confront our greatest fear that we find personal redemption."
"Ndiri mwana wevhu (I'm a child of the soil). I remain loyal to my culture and the ideals of the armed struggle," she concluded in what everyone believe is her own roundabout way of announcing she has revived her political career and dream of being president.
If what she has done and stood for the 34 years she was in power is an example of her remaining "loyal" to the ideals of the armed struggle then the ordinary people of Zimbabwe will be most unwise to elect her president for the same corruption and tyrannical oppression of the last 35 years.
If one was to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she accepts that in the last 35 years Zanu-PF was not loyal to the ideals of freedom, justices, human rights, etc. She too, as a senior member of the Zanu-PF governments throughout the 34 years, had not been loyal to these ideals.
So for 34 years she had forgotten the ideals and only remembered them after she was booted out of Zanu-PF. And she expect the people to take her word that she will not forget the ideals again if she if elected back into office. She really is a simpleton because only a simpleton would believe the people are that naïve and gullible!
"The information we are getting is that it is panic stations in the party, going right to the top (Mugabe). Her (Mujuru's) statement made it clear that she is still in the game and that she is going to go for it and this has rattled the party," a well place source said, according to the Daily News.
There are three basic reasons why Zanu-PF bigwigs are rattled by the prospect of Mai Mujuru contesting the next elections:
1) So far Zanu-PF has used the argument it alone had the liberation war record with some of the security top brass boasting that they would not salute someone who did not fight in the war of liberation. Well that will not apply purged members like Mai Mujuru, Rugare Gumbo, etc.
2) Zanu-PF is unpopular with the electorate and the only way the party can remain in power is by rigging elections. The prospect of former Zanu-PF members like Mai Mujuru, who are familiar with how the regime has rigged past elections, is worrisome because there is a real danger of the details of the vote rigging tricks being leaked out. There is a precedence of this; in 1995 Margret Dongo, a former Zanu-PF MP and CIO, successful uncovered how the party had tried to rig that year's elections.
3) But what frightens Zanu-PF most of all is what the purged party members already know about the party and its leaders. By public admitting to Zanu-PF "failures" for instance Mai Mujuru has already taken out the sting out of Zanu-PF tried and tested mantra of blaming the West imposed sanctions on all the country's ills.
As the political temperature rises Zanu-PF leaders will revert to their usual dirty tactics this time they will not have it all their way because the purged Zanu-PF members have enough dirty on the leaders to hit back. When VP Mnangagwa was out campaign in the on-going by-elections he started de- campaigning Didymus Mutasa. The latter hit straight back warning he would unleash a "treasure trove of damning information" on the VP if he did not shut his trap.
Ordinary no one would have cause to fear the entry of a simpleton like Mai Mujuru on the political stage because she will soon tie herself in all sorts of contradictions and confusion. Zimbabwe is not a democracy and there is no need for manifesto or coherent policy on anything.
In Zimbabwe's mudded political waters of vote rigging, voter intimidation and even murdered only those with the opportunity to play these dirty tricks "win". However, simpletons too can do very well here as long as they too have learned to see in these mudded waters, that is what makes Mai Mujuru's re-entry in Zimbabwe politics a frightening prospect for Mugabe and company!
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Nomusa Garikai <zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
For the best part of her life Mai Mujuru had paid heed to the Mark Twain adage, "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Every time she has opened her mouth she has left everybody wonder first "She is a deputy Minister?" then "You are not serious she is a Minister!" and then from 2004 to 2014 "Vice President! No wonder Zimbabwe is in a mess!"
In November 2013 Mai Mujuru her open her big mouth to deny the corruption stories in the Premier Service Medical Aid Society were all a pack of lies by the West to further their regime change agenda. She was roundly criticized for the stupid remarks. She then made the mistake of denying that she had said any such stupidity and the video recording of her making the speech went viral.
True to her well-trodden way of doing things; after Mai Mujuru unceremonious booting out of Zanu-PF last December she has said very beyond thanking Mugabe for having promoted her beyond her level of competence and then booting her out. But the decades of holding high office had clearly made her big headed; the dream of being president, encouraged by her promotion to VP, had not died with the booting out. And she opened her big trap again!
She started well by admitting Zanu-PF failed the nation it is 35 years in power and apologized for it.
"For my own role in this failure, I am truly sorry and I apologise to my fellow Zimbabweans," she said. She should have left it at that but old habits never die!
"I served faithfully in the government of Zimbabwe until my controversial, non-procedural and unjustified expulsion from both party and government in December 2014. To be discarded by my own party was initially devastating," she continued.
Give a fool a long rope and he will hang himself with it! So the quarrel with her erstwhile Zanu-PF colleague was not over the party's "failures" but that they had kicked her out of the party.
"I experienced feelings of betrayal and broken trust. However, as many know, it is when we confront our greatest fear that we find personal redemption."
"Ndiri mwana wevhu (I'm a child of the soil). I remain loyal to my culture and the ideals of the armed struggle," she concluded in what everyone believe is her own roundabout way of announcing she has revived her political career and dream of being president.
If what she has done and stood for the 34 years she was in power is an example of her remaining "loyal" to the ideals of the armed struggle then the ordinary people of Zimbabwe will be most unwise to elect her president for the same corruption and tyrannical oppression of the last 35 years.
If one was to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she accepts that in the last 35 years Zanu-PF was not loyal to the ideals of freedom, justices, human rights, etc. She too, as a senior member of the Zanu-PF governments throughout the 34 years, had not been loyal to these ideals.
So for 34 years she had forgotten the ideals and only remembered them after she was booted out of Zanu-PF. And she expect the people to take her word that she will not forget the ideals again if she if elected back into office. She really is a simpleton because only a simpleton would believe the people are that naïve and gullible!
"The information we are getting is that it is panic stations in the party, going right to the top (Mugabe). Her (Mujuru's) statement made it clear that she is still in the game and that she is going to go for it and this has rattled the party," a well place source said, according to the Daily News.
There are three basic reasons why Zanu-PF bigwigs are rattled by the prospect of Mai Mujuru contesting the next elections:
1) So far Zanu-PF has used the argument it alone had the liberation war record with some of the security top brass boasting that they would not salute someone who did not fight in the war of liberation. Well that will not apply purged members like Mai Mujuru, Rugare Gumbo, etc.
2) Zanu-PF is unpopular with the electorate and the only way the party can remain in power is by rigging elections. The prospect of former Zanu-PF members like Mai Mujuru, who are familiar with how the regime has rigged past elections, is worrisome because there is a real danger of the details of the vote rigging tricks being leaked out. There is a precedence of this; in 1995 Margret Dongo, a former Zanu-PF MP and CIO, successful uncovered how the party had tried to rig that year's elections.
3) But what frightens Zanu-PF most of all is what the purged party members already know about the party and its leaders. By public admitting to Zanu-PF "failures" for instance Mai Mujuru has already taken out the sting out of Zanu-PF tried and tested mantra of blaming the West imposed sanctions on all the country's ills.
As the political temperature rises Zanu-PF leaders will revert to their usual dirty tactics this time they will not have it all their way because the purged Zanu-PF members have enough dirty on the leaders to hit back. When VP Mnangagwa was out campaign in the on-going by-elections he started de- campaigning Didymus Mutasa. The latter hit straight back warning he would unleash a "treasure trove of damning information" on the VP if he did not shut his trap.
Ordinary no one would have cause to fear the entry of a simpleton like Mai Mujuru on the political stage because she will soon tie herself in all sorts of contradictions and confusion. Zimbabwe is not a democracy and there is no need for manifesto or coherent policy on anything.
In Zimbabwe's mudded political waters of vote rigging, voter intimidation and even murdered only those with the opportunity to play these dirty tricks "win". However, simpletons too can do very well here as long as they too have learned to see in these mudded waters, that is what makes Mai Mujuru's re-entry in Zimbabwe politics a frightening prospect for Mugabe and company!
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Nomusa Garikai <zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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