Mugabe calls truce to carefully orchestrated factional war that has Mnangagwa shaken and stirred in equal measure

Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo reminds the warring party factions that President Mugabe is the party's 2018 Presidential candidate and threatens those plotting to succeed him with "disciplinary action".

Some things never change; President has played his divide and rule game for years and he is still at it. He is the one who destroyed the Mujuru faction by "baby dumping" her and her supporters but within weeks he created another faction, G40, to challenge the Mnangagwa faction. The G40 faction is nothing more than a handful of political feather-weight headed by Grace Mugabe, a nobody with more ambition and no brains. The G40 faction would have accomplished nothing if it was not for the tacit support from Mugabe himself.

After months of the dog-eat-dog factional fighting that has left poor Mnangagwa shaken and stirred in equal measure; after the demise of Mai Mujuru he was cocksure the presidency was his, now he will be very glad to still keep his job playing the subordinate role to Mugabe. Now with Mnangagwa firmly put in his place, Mugabe takes centre stage to claim his role as the only one who can keep the peace and unite in the party.

President Mugabe is sending Simon Khaya-Moyo to marshal together the harassed and blooded members from both sides of the factional divide to stop the fighting and accept Mugabe as the unifying force just as the party has always done with the populous!

Yes Mr Khaya-Moyo and we all know what that means; having decided on the Zanu PF candidate we the populous are expected to dutifully vote for him or her, even if the candidate is a baboon as the late VP Simon Vengai Muzenda once boasted.

"Chinohi Zvobgo chii panyama yehuku? Chero tikaisa gudo tikati ndiro ratada, ndiro ramunovhotera." (Zvobgo is a nobody! Even if we nominate a baboon, you will vote for it) Ranted and raved the former VP in 2000; first against the late Eddison Zvobgo, his nemesis in the factional war for Zanu PF dominance in Masvingo Province (a factional war orchestrated by none other than Mugabe himself), and then against the increasing restive populous who were demanding democratic change.

Muzenda deputized President Mugabe from 1980, when the country attained her independence, right through to his death in September 2003. How the nation was lumbered with such a totally useless and brain-dead individual in high office for all those years is per se testimony of Zanu PF's political struggle hold on the nation.

No doubt Mugabe too wants to die in office regardless of his tragic track record of mind blogging incompetence, rampant corruption and murderous tyrannical oppression. In his 36 years in power he has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain his de facto one-party dictatorship. Or rather his one-man dictatorship, since he has always surrounded himself with minions like Simon Muzenda, Simon Khaya-Moyo, Emmerson Mnangagwa, etc. who have all shown that they have had as much say in the running of Zanu PF as povo have had in the governance of Zimbabwe.

Yes Comrade Simon Khaya-Moyo we have all heard you; Zanu PF has nominated President Mugabe as its candidate for the coming elections and we, the people, will be frog matched to the Polling Stations to dutifully endorse his electoral victory. All past elections were conducted on the strict basis of delivering no-regime-change; why should the next elections be any different? And yet, the situation on the ground demands that the nation must question the valid of this no-regime-change mantra like never before.

Hearing Zanu PF's demands to rally behind the party is one thing but cowering down to the tyrannical dictates like serfs is another matter.

This nation is groaning under the burden of 36 years of corrupt and tyrannical rule. Unemployment has soared to 90% plus compared to 25% in SA; millions are living in abject poverty. Our hospitals and clinics, starved of funds, have no staff and no medicines whilst the man Zanu PF is intend on imposing on the nation is rucking in a staggering $2 billion a year from the wholesale looting in Marange. This madness should have never happened and now it must be stopped!

Zanu PF has the right to nominate whoever the party pleases as its presidential candidate for the next elections, it can even nominate a baboon if it so wished but what Zanu PF must know is the next elections will be free, fair and credible and the results a true reflection of the free and democratic wish of the people of Zimbabwe. The days of frog-matching people to vote for whoever Zanu PF nominates are over!

Zimbabwe should have had her first free, fair and credible elections in 2013 if MDC had not betrayed the nation and failed to get even one of the 2008 GPA democratic reforms implemented BEFORE that year's elections. All the GPA reforms will now be implemented BEFORE the next elections without failure. Any elections held before all the reforms have been implemented will be null and void!

We are sick to the back teeth of rigged elections and equally sick of listening to those who take part in such elections only to bitch about "rigged elections" after. We have drawn the line in the sand; enough is enough!
 
The right to free, fair and credible elections is not a privilege and it is high time that President Mugabe and his cronies in Zanu PF understood and accepted this simple, basic and irrefutable political reality.