Take heed, a patient in our midst

Dr Joice Mujuru's apparent silence until now had been making a lot of sound. Isn't it that they say sometimes one says more when they say nothing at all? Suddenly her newly found voices through the private press, purportedly selling some solemn message about erect (another name for build) and uproar (an antonym for peace) has sent the opposition into frenzy, amid accusations of plagiarism, this and that! It seems these opposition political parties, around whom they are supposed to coalesce, give her little credit for originality. For crying out loud, she is a doctor of philosophy. However, my interest lies elsewhere.

She may have sympathisers in MDC and her home area but elsewhere, people still remember her uncouth response to Dr Joshua Nkomo's clarion call for the economic emancipation of the black folk in general and Strive Masiiwa in particular. Is that the calibre of leaders that Zimbabwe wants? Mind you, she is not getting any younger and how would she take it if someone much younger that her was to point out that her aspirations for the presidency are merely a manifestation of delusions of grandeur from a senile woman? I am sure the likes of Ibbo Mandaza, Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa would, as has become custom, rush to her aid and start labeling or name-calling. But that will not detract people from laying the truth bare, for once stated it pierces like a sharp instrument to the core of our being. My interest lies in the various impairments that manifest in the Dr's psyche, as elucidated hereafter.

Visual impairment is clear in the lack of foresight. if she really haboured such lofty ambitions, how come she was found lyrically waxing about Zanu-PF and its leadership, barely a month before her expulsion? Now she has turned into a virulent critic. No wonder she applied for 98% disability. The blindness is also apparent in terms of her unbridled ambitions to the extent of treading even where angels fear to.

 Hearing impairment is evidenced by the fact that all sound advice has fallen on deaf ears as she has unwittingly surrounded herself with dead wood, have-beens with nothing to show in terms of wisdom for all the time they have supposedly been in this game of politics. These so-called advisers have a history of rebelling that is as long as my arm and have been serving at the pleasure and magnanimity of the president, only to turn around, like an innocent flower but a serpent underneath, to bite the hand that has been feeding them.

Cognitively she appears to suffer from a very short memory. In fact, this type of memory loss is called retrograde amnesia, which arises when existing memories are lost. This is quite convenient considering all the ordinary townsfolk that she has alienated. That she could appeal to a constituency she disenfranchised and belittled through uncouth statements, with particular reference to a revered by dearly departed statesman, speaks volumes about her dismissive character.

Her vain attempt to shed crocodile tears and supposedly apologise, for her purported misdemeanors while in Zanu-PF, are as remorseless as the wailing that she did on the untimely passing on of General Mujuru who, to all intents and purposes, had renounced their conjugal obligations in that charade of a marriage.

So, here you are folks. This is a cunning, calculating and ambitious person who will not hesitate to sing out of tune in pursuit of self-service and a chance to ride on people's emotions.

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Suitable Kajau <kajausuitable@gmail.com