Grace can wish to be president but can she stop the Tsunami wave demanding regime change!

Some people are saying Grace Mugabe is set to replace her husband as president; they could not be more wrong. Before she can take over the presidency Grace has two mountains to climb. First, she must establish her own Zanu PF faction strong enough to topple the Mnangagwa faction and to still keep the Mujuru faction at bay.

"Baby dumping" the Mujuru faction was easy, Grace did that in four months last year, but that was because she had the Mnangagwa faction and her husband doing all dirty and heavy duty work for her. Since dispatching Mujuru she has had to build her own faction to take on the Mnangagwa factions by enticing Mnangagwa faction members to switch their allegiance and join her. She has not been very successful in doing this.

For all the hot-air about the G40 faction, there are very few members in that faction. The three notable members of the G40 are Jonathan Moyo (who Mugabe demoted recently because he does not trust the him, no one does); Savour Kasukuwere who clearly did not have much grass root support since was not much of a threat to Mujuru and then Patrick Zhuwao, who is a political nonentity. Zhuwao lost the Zanu PF primary parliamentary elections in 2013.

Zhuwao is minister today because Bob is his uncle. As Minister of Youth he is trying hard to ingratiate himself with the party's youths by pushing the indigenisation law which, on paper, promises unimagined riches but in practice has been one of the most disastrous policies of Mugabe's 35 years in power. Zhuwao is making promises of jobs and wealth he will never ever deliver. The nation at large is now taking Zhuwao as some sick joke and everything he touches turns to ash not gold!

Patrick Zhuwao does not bring any gravitas and a sense of seriousness to the G40 faction but the exact opposite! That is the last thing the faction wanted given it is desperate to be taken as serious contenders for the presidency.

Grace Mugabe herself, as the presidential candidate for the G40 faction, has failed to impress. The only real arsenal in her armoury is that she is Mugabe's wife. To a party and nation that has grown sick to the back teeth of Mugabe corruption and tyranny, the nation blames him for dragging the country into this hell, being the tyrant's wife is now a curse not a blessing.

The second mountain for Grace to climb is the economy. Zanu PF has maintains its struggle hold on power even in the face of growing poverty and despair until 2008 when economic suffering forced Zimbabweans to risk life and limp to confront the regime and demand change. The nation would have accomplished their goal of regime change if MDC had not betrayed them by failing to implement even one of the GPA democratic reforms designed to stop Mugabe rigging the elections.

Still the economic meltdown today has produced the same economic hardships comparable to those of 2008 if not worse. The situation is getting worse by the day, not better. Grace Mugabe has no clue of the seriousness of the economic meltdown much less know what to do to end it. Come 2018 the people will wake up from their comatose sleep – they are known for going into political hibernation, the last great awakening being in 2008 – and they will once again risk life and limp and demand regime change.

The economic situation in Zimbabwe is socially and politically unsustainable; the discontent it is generating in the nation is a Tsunami wave so big it will sweep away Mugabe, Mnangagwa, Grace or whoever is the Zanu PF presidential candidate in the next elections. The cup is full and overflowing, regime change is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow.
Grace Mugabe will have her wish to be president if she can stop the tide demanding regime change or stop the sun rising tomorrow!

"If Mugabe was to drop died today Grace's faction will disappear like morning mist!" said Patrick Guramatunhu and I agree with him.

Mugabe, no doubt under pressure from his bossy and ambitious wife, has allowed this G40 faction to exist in the hope it would propel his wife into power. Now that the G40 has completely flopped, he must be deeply regretting this.

Zanu PF is imploding his wife's greed for power triggered the factional fighting and all he can do now is twiddle his fingers as fire consuming the party spread.

The country's economic meltdown has exposed all his lies of economic success and empowering the people. He had, miraculously, management to salvage some pride after the 2008 rejection by the people. He knows the coming elections will be even more humiliating, he has sworn enemies everywhere even from amongst his former party members. He has humiliated them for 35 years and now they will have the last laugh.

Everywhere he goes these days everyone, even those he once thought admired him, is deriving great pleasure at laughing at Mugabe. When he tumbled and fell at the airport beginning of the year people still laugh of it as if it was yesterday.  

"There is no democracy in Zimbabwe!" shouted the Nigerian Sahara TV reporter. "It there like a time limit?" She continued mocking at his 35 years in power.

It seem that the curse of the devil himself is upon him because mishap follow him everywhere, just to give the world another chance to laugh at HIM. How he failed to realize he was reading the wrong speech when he opened parliament, he will never know. And then there was him tripping over a step two inches high in India!

But it is the next national elections that scars the devil out of Mugabe; he has no money to bribe anyone with and even if he did the ground swell for regime change is just too much!

Longevity is supposed to be a blessing but only when it is accompany by peace and tranquillity and not chaos, back stabbing, one expose after another and everything falling apart. And instead of sympathetic support all Mugabe gets is gratuitous laughing.