Opinion / Columnist
People First 'major focus' is toppling Mugabe - if all we do is replace one dictator with another, we deserve to suffer!
19 Dec 2015 at 17:21hrs | Views
According to a report in Zimeye Joice Mujuru's People First is attracting some following with a number of people deserting other parties to joint. Notable amongst those joining her is Jeffryson Chitando, Former MDC political strategists and one of Tendai Biti's PDP heavyweights.
"We are now People First and the major focus is for us to topple Mugabe and his wife Grace from power .That is our objective and there is need for us to join hands and focus on one common objective," said Chitando.
The nation would be very foolish indeed to listen to people like Chitando.
Yes toppling Mugabe from office is important if all we achieve is remove one corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant but only to replace him with another then we have not learnt much from all the tragic suffering and sacrifices of the last 35 years. Mugabe has been the head of the Zanu PF dictatorship but the tyrant has sown his seed far and wide in our land, we have tyrants in every section of our society from the brainwashed village bullies who have been frog-matching our people to attach Zanu PF rallied to thugs in parliament and cabinet.
The dog-eat-dog fighting in Zanu PF which has resulted in people like Joice Mujuru and Didymus Mutasa being booted out of the party has weakened the dictatorship and created a unique opportunity for the nation dismantle the whole dictatorship and not just topple its head. In other words people like Joice Mujuru and Didymus Mutasa are as much part of the dictatorship as Mnangagwa and the others who have remained with Mugabe in Zanu PF.
If People First was to get back into power Mutasa will resume his ruthless campaign of terror in Manicaland from where he left off when he was booted out from Zanu PF last year. Mujuru will not be implementing any of the 2008 GPA reforms but will instead concentrate on replacing all those political appointees who have served Mugabe well all these years with ones who will serve her with the same blind loyalty.
People First will create an new Zanu PF dictatorship in all but name.
The only reason people like Chitando are not concerned about replacing the Mugabe dictatorship with a Mujuru dictatorship is because whilst they have been victims of the former they will, hopeful, be holding the thick end of the whip this time.
It is us, ordinary Zimbabweans, who must demand not just the toppling of Mugabe but the dismantling of the oppressive one-party dictatorship because we are the ones who will be at the business end of the whip – there will be no comfort to be had from knowing that it is now Mujuru and not Mugabe who now wields the whip!
"We are now People First and the major focus is for us to topple Mugabe and his wife Grace from power .That is our objective and there is need for us to join hands and focus on one common objective," said Chitando.
The nation would be very foolish indeed to listen to people like Chitando.
Yes toppling Mugabe from office is important if all we achieve is remove one corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant but only to replace him with another then we have not learnt much from all the tragic suffering and sacrifices of the last 35 years. Mugabe has been the head of the Zanu PF dictatorship but the tyrant has sown his seed far and wide in our land, we have tyrants in every section of our society from the brainwashed village bullies who have been frog-matching our people to attach Zanu PF rallied to thugs in parliament and cabinet.
The dog-eat-dog fighting in Zanu PF which has resulted in people like Joice Mujuru and Didymus Mutasa being booted out of the party has weakened the dictatorship and created a unique opportunity for the nation dismantle the whole dictatorship and not just topple its head. In other words people like Joice Mujuru and Didymus Mutasa are as much part of the dictatorship as Mnangagwa and the others who have remained with Mugabe in Zanu PF.
People First will create an new Zanu PF dictatorship in all but name.
The only reason people like Chitando are not concerned about replacing the Mugabe dictatorship with a Mujuru dictatorship is because whilst they have been victims of the former they will, hopeful, be holding the thick end of the whip this time.
It is us, ordinary Zimbabweans, who must demand not just the toppling of Mugabe but the dismantling of the oppressive one-party dictatorship because we are the ones who will be at the business end of the whip – there will be no comfort to be had from knowing that it is now Mujuru and not Mugabe who now wields the whip!
Source - Patrick Guramatunhu
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