Mabeza wants Mugabe to write his memoirs 'why not' - give over and confess the murders, etc

In the article Cephas Msipa's memoirs highlight gaps in Zimbabwe's history, Bulawayo24; Farai Mabeza laments the lack of written records, memoirs and stories about Zimbabwe, especial the pre-independence era.

"Nelson Mandela gave us his (memoir). Why not Mugabe? The best we have seen of Mugabe are pictures", wrote Farai.

There is a very simple explanation why President Mugabe and his cabal will not want their past retold in any detail; if they did then they will be compelled to either leave out a lot of stuff because they do not want the world to know it. Or else spin miles of yarn to fill the yawning gaps in their stories; if they are not caught in their own web of lies, they will be caught is someone else's web. The nation will not glean much about the past from the speeches of people like President Mugabe either.

President Mugabe is well known for his long, long speeches be it at the UN, at Heroes' Acre, in parliament (reading the same speech twice for good measure) or wherever he can get a captive audience. All his speeches have one thing in common, they are about other people; "the British imperialists and their evil Western allies" plotting regime change and their Zimbabwean puppet proxies, the opposition, being his hot favourite theme. If he has to say something about Zanu PF or himself and the past then it will be in very general terms.

After all the many speeches President Mugabe has given at Heroes' Acre all the nation will ever extract from them is that he and his Zanu PF friends made great many sacrifices and endured many hardships without ever knowing what exactly what these are.

The only way the nation will extract the truth from people like President Mugabe about what really happened before and after independences, especially after independence when greed got the better of them, is in a court of law!
 
National Heroes' Acre in Harare if filling up fast, the place should be called Heroes' Acres! In 36 years of our independence, Zimbabwe has more declared national heroes than countries like Britain in 2000 years. For all its heroes and heroines Zimbabwe has been a sorry tale of wasted opportunities, tragic human misery and barbarism of vote rigging and political murders. The many of those interred at Heroes' Acres have played a major role in the despair, destruction and deaths of the nation, making a complete mockery of the word hero!

William Shakespeare (now there is a true hero worthy of the name, honour, admiration and quoting) captured the very essence of our situation in Zimbabwe in his epic play Macbeth.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

After hearing that his wife has died, Macbeth was taking stock of his own indifference to the event. Death—our return to dust—seems to him merely the last act of a very bad play, an idiot's tale full of bombastic nonsense.

Who would ever doubt that since independence our way has been to dusty death socially, economically, politically and every which way? A tale told by an indifferent corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant full of lies and denials "signifying nothing".

So far at least, Zimbabwe has been a bad play; a nightmare that has now lasted 36 years from which there was no awaking. And Farai wants President Mugabe; the indifferent, corrupt, incompetent and murderous tyrant; to write his memoirs? Give over!