Opinion / Columnist
Dongo launches party using same dirty tactics Mugabe used!
08 Aug 2015 at 10:29hrs | Views
Margaret Dongo will go down in Zimbabwe's political history as the firebrand war veteran who mocked Zanu PF's cowardly bigwigs, calling them "Mugabe's wives", for failing to stand up to Mugabe autocratic and tyrannical rule, especially the murderous political repression that has seen over 30 000 murdered in Zanu PF's 35 years in power. The firebrand has launched her political party, to take advantage of the increasing acrimony in Zanu PF following the purge of many party bigwigs in December last year.
Ms Dongo's new party is called the Movement for People First.
In launching her political party she said had been "guided by the liberation war tactic of provoking the enemy in order to engage the coward and fence-sitters among us into battle".
In others works provoke the enemy and force yourselves, cowards and fence-sitters and all into battle ill prepared and ill equipped! Yah up! That sounds like a "liberation war tactic" people like Mugabe had used with the disastrous consequences one saw during the war of liberation right up to this today.
Zimbabwe should have never used arms to end white colonial rule but it is easy to see how a few hot heads itching for a fight would have "provoked the enemy" into a military confrontation forcing the rest to join in or be killed. Zimbabwe was not the first nation to face colonial oppression and like all these other nations in Africa and beyond had the option of using force or peaceful means to achieve its objective, independence.
It was common to call those who wanted the peaceful route to end colonial rule "cowards and fence-sitters" but they were not all cowards; there were pragmatists too.
"What kind of leaders will an armed strangle throw up?" reasoned the pragmatists. "Are those the kind of men and women, we would want to rule the nation?"
After 35 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule we have the answer to the first question and no one in his/her right mind would hesitate to agree that the pragmatists were right to be concerned.
Thanks to the stupidity of tactic of panicking everyone into battle because the war has thrown up whole team of some of the most corrupt and incompetent individuals and thrust them into responsible leadership position that has turned them into monsters. Even when the situation demanded them to stand up and say no, these cowardly thugs have turned yellow, "Mugabe's wives" as Ms Dongo called them.
So by using the same tactic of stampeding everyone into joining her new political party as Mugabe used in the formation of Zanu PF all she can be sure of is all the riff-raff rejects from the imploding Zanu PF and the directionless MDC factions will troop to join the party. So if her party was to be a success it too will have corrupt and incompetent leaders just as been the case with Zanu PF and MDC!
Ms Dongo's new party is called the Movement for People First.
In launching her political party she said had been "guided by the liberation war tactic of provoking the enemy in order to engage the coward and fence-sitters among us into battle".
In others works provoke the enemy and force yourselves, cowards and fence-sitters and all into battle ill prepared and ill equipped! Yah up! That sounds like a "liberation war tactic" people like Mugabe had used with the disastrous consequences one saw during the war of liberation right up to this today.
Zimbabwe should have never used arms to end white colonial rule but it is easy to see how a few hot heads itching for a fight would have "provoked the enemy" into a military confrontation forcing the rest to join in or be killed. Zimbabwe was not the first nation to face colonial oppression and like all these other nations in Africa and beyond had the option of using force or peaceful means to achieve its objective, independence.
It was common to call those who wanted the peaceful route to end colonial rule "cowards and fence-sitters" but they were not all cowards; there were pragmatists too.
"What kind of leaders will an armed strangle throw up?" reasoned the pragmatists. "Are those the kind of men and women, we would want to rule the nation?"
After 35 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF rule we have the answer to the first question and no one in his/her right mind would hesitate to agree that the pragmatists were right to be concerned.
Thanks to the stupidity of tactic of panicking everyone into battle because the war has thrown up whole team of some of the most corrupt and incompetent individuals and thrust them into responsible leadership position that has turned them into monsters. Even when the situation demanded them to stand up and say no, these cowardly thugs have turned yellow, "Mugabe's wives" as Ms Dongo called them.
So by using the same tactic of stampeding everyone into joining her new political party as Mugabe used in the formation of Zanu PF all she can be sure of is all the riff-raff rejects from the imploding Zanu PF and the directionless MDC factions will troop to join the party. So if her party was to be a success it too will have corrupt and incompetent leaders just as been the case with Zanu PF and MDC!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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