Opinion / Columnist
'Mugabe please get on your scotch kart and go to Zvimba'
08 May 2016 at 11:20hrs | Views
Man with the many titles, it really is time to get on your scotch kart and go to Zvimba or wherever else other than Zim
I just completed reading David Coltart's book, "The Struggle Continues" and must say I found it very interesting. For those that haven't yet read it, it's a fascinating autobiography that stretches from his youth during the Rhodesian era, the part he played therein to events where he repeatedly emphasizes his most current thinking that focuses on constitutional means for Zimbabwe to transition beyond the disastrous rule of Mr or Comrade Mugabe as his ilk like to refer to him.
The reader will excuse me if their preferred term is Comrade, I really don't care too much for it any more, especially when all indications are that most of those that go by this term given their contribution to the struggle for independence have since shown us that the fight wasn't really as much about freedom as it was about simply ending white minority rule and replacing it with a black equally evil one. The recent "meeting" between war vets, vetlets and Mr Mugabe on the 7th of April clearly demonstrates this, all the requests for a free 20 percentage of this and that without any effort whatsoever expended by individuals being a telling indicator.
Indeed the constitutional route is the most ideal and lawful means of getting Mr Mugabe and his entourage out of government and as a consequence end the country's current dire state. But such is the level of frustration that I would bet my bottom dollar that I wouldn't be the only Zimbabwean who now really wouldn't care how he goes. Go he must!
Mr Mugabe ought to have gone at any point in time really when he lost numerous elections in the 2000s but somehow electorally engineered the continuation of his tenure the most recent one being in 2013. I think in spite all the self perpetuating spin and propaganda Mr Mugabe knows what we all know, that Zimbabweans now really wish him gone, he has lost the mandate to rule. Just because you engineer an illusion doesn't make it real. You may print all the bond notes you wish, you cannot reengineer a political problem manifesting as an economic one by way of magic. There simply aren't any laws of nature or economics that accommodate for that kind of ludicrousness.
I truly admire the men and women in the various opposition and civil society sector who have toiled ceaselessly to see the back of Mr Mugabe. They truly have my sympathy. Mr Mugabe, the now Dr Ambuya, nephew Patrick and all their baggage handlers really ought to go now. There's no better time than now to do so.
There's this thing before us that looks like a spade, works like a spade, what shall we call it....a spade of course. It's plainly unkind to the elderly what his party is also doing keeping an old man away from spending time sleeping properly in a bed like we all do rather than stumbling along on his feet. Be gone please!
I just completed reading David Coltart's book, "The Struggle Continues" and must say I found it very interesting. For those that haven't yet read it, it's a fascinating autobiography that stretches from his youth during the Rhodesian era, the part he played therein to events where he repeatedly emphasizes his most current thinking that focuses on constitutional means for Zimbabwe to transition beyond the disastrous rule of Mr or Comrade Mugabe as his ilk like to refer to him.
The reader will excuse me if their preferred term is Comrade, I really don't care too much for it any more, especially when all indications are that most of those that go by this term given their contribution to the struggle for independence have since shown us that the fight wasn't really as much about freedom as it was about simply ending white minority rule and replacing it with a black equally evil one. The recent "meeting" between war vets, vetlets and Mr Mugabe on the 7th of April clearly demonstrates this, all the requests for a free 20 percentage of this and that without any effort whatsoever expended by individuals being a telling indicator.
Indeed the constitutional route is the most ideal and lawful means of getting Mr Mugabe and his entourage out of government and as a consequence end the country's current dire state. But such is the level of frustration that I would bet my bottom dollar that I wouldn't be the only Zimbabwean who now really wouldn't care how he goes. Go he must!
Mr Mugabe ought to have gone at any point in time really when he lost numerous elections in the 2000s but somehow electorally engineered the continuation of his tenure the most recent one being in 2013. I think in spite all the self perpetuating spin and propaganda Mr Mugabe knows what we all know, that Zimbabweans now really wish him gone, he has lost the mandate to rule. Just because you engineer an illusion doesn't make it real. You may print all the bond notes you wish, you cannot reengineer a political problem manifesting as an economic one by way of magic. There simply aren't any laws of nature or economics that accommodate for that kind of ludicrousness.
I truly admire the men and women in the various opposition and civil society sector who have toiled ceaselessly to see the back of Mr Mugabe. They truly have my sympathy. Mr Mugabe, the now Dr Ambuya, nephew Patrick and all their baggage handlers really ought to go now. There's no better time than now to do so.
There's this thing before us that looks like a spade, works like a spade, what shall we call it....a spade of course. It's plainly unkind to the elderly what his party is also doing keeping an old man away from spending time sleeping properly in a bed like we all do rather than stumbling along on his feet. Be gone please!
Source - Lovemore Fuyane
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