Hence home! you idle creatures, get you home! Leave the Square Harare at once!

"Is this a holiday?" The play begins on the theme of not knowing one's proper place. Two Roman tributes, Flavius and Murellus, representative of the Roman nobility, are eager to retain the status quo of the Republic under Senate rule. They encounter workmen or mechanical and are offered by menials' disregard for sumptuary laws: going about without the sign/of your profession or in other words, not wearing the clothes that designate their professions clearly. The classes are forgetting their station! The caste system is jeopardised! "Reading" itself is in danger!

It was a holiday the 25th of May 2016 marking the Africa Day. The crowd that cheered President Mugabe and his wife Dr. Grace Hararee are classical examples of the Shakespeare play of Mark Antony. The gullible crowds are still the same as was in Shakespeare times and it still so, like yesterday at Square Harare, Zimbabwe. The crowds roared and cheered. Pasi ne MDC! Pansi labasizondayo! Most of them came with empty stomachs, some with babies on their backs and small children, perhaps in the hope of having some food after the ululating and clapping of hands, or they just to come and see their ruler: The Life President Robert Mugabe. Yes, the crowds can be used and abused by any system anywhere in the world. You need to see how Donald Trump uses the very crowds to his political favour! To say that the crowds in Harare that crowded the Square Harare in their thousands are gullible, it is still an underestimate. Some sterner stuff should be crafted to describe the stupidity of a Zimbabwean povo.

Whatever on-sight international media coverage that caught the happenings of yesterday in square Harare, it is shameful to know what THEY think about a Zimbabwe-African of today and Africa celebrating their African Union! With all the education we boastfully claim we possess in Zimbabwe, the stupidity that was displayed in that square Harare yesterday is galling to say the least. So many good minded people of Zimbabwe complained about this one-million-men- match, it does not solve our economic problems at all, please boycott this event! It is money going to waste, some said, the demonstration is to make the ruler "feel good" feel good by splashing so much needed money that could be useful in face-lifting dilapidated schools and hospitals. No books and medicine, civil servants unpaid for months and this government thinks people can live on air alone. But again these are the people who are bearing all hardships who will go to square Harare to cheer the ruler! Heil Mugabe! Heil Führer!

What has President Robert Mugabe done to Zimbabweans since independence to be cheered and revered the way he was accorded yesterday? I will certainly not repeat what we all know, the untold miseries he has presided over for 35 years. Here are people who have seen it all, some of them born in absolute poverty, screaming on top of each other's voices in praise of the ruler. But they have been brought down, reduced to abject, smelling poverty not even experienced in the colonial era. We have drought, no rains, El Nino is threatening yet another year of no rains. The population of 4, 5 million is living on hand-outs coming from the western countries even USA has donated millions towards alleviation of hunger and famine. This country called Zimbabwe is not ashamed even to get assistance from western countries, those countries that are insulted at every opportunity by the Zimbabwean ruler. Nothing adds up to full total! The audacity to still shout: "Heil Mugabe! Our Revolutionary Icon!" Baba wedu! Life President! He shall rule even in his grave! Saying so much nonsense in such economic dire straits the country is going through; it simply means something is lacking in our psyche and rational thinking processes. It is wholly not normal by all standards to cheer at 35 years of absolute failure. One did not even need to read economics to know that Zimbabwe is a failed state right, left and centre. What is there to cheer, clap hands, and ululate in a failed state?

At Square Harare yesterday, there was no drink offered, no food offered to people who came from long distances to come and give the ruler a big ego for three hours and go back again empty handed, thirsty and hungry. What were in abundance were party shirts and caps that show the head of the President. People started fighting for them, to get one at least to wear so that they can sing for the ruler proudly in party regalia. This is 2016 whereby people should be knowledgeable enough to know that they are used and abused by the Zanu PF. Where is the national pride? Where our fathers and mothers not proud to give Smith regime a middle finger? There is no difference between Ian Douglas Smith and Robert Gabriel Mugabe, perhaps one is white and the other is black. There is no other distinct ideological difference beyond colour of their skins .It is just sad how the politicians have such a low opinion of their underlings. Some people were left stranded, their respective buses gone leaving them vulnerable in the dark, mid-night, in the middle of Square Harare.

It is indeed, not so thought through gatherings of yesterday that give us the epithet "stupid Africans!" when THEY say we are stupid, we cringe! We say no we are not, but we are, evidenced by the thoughtless gathering that brought a million-men- match from all corners of Zimbabwe staged just to make some oldie of 92 years feel good about himself! It is satanic but last, to gather people together for a three hour "feel good" to a man who has done nothing to a country like Zimbabwe and we have to listen to downright dishonesty from them politicians, starting with the youth leader, the main organiser of the million-men-match, forced into our throats to make us believe that Mugabe is iconic, a revolutionary, a Father of the Nation, all that happening on the Africa Day.

President Mugabe is a killer, an architect of genocide, destroyed our food securities by unprofessional farms invasions hence we are starving, destroyed homes in urban areas in 2005, killed and maimed citizens who did not want to vote for him in 2008, mavhotera papi, rigged the elections openly in 2013. Do those citizens of Zimbabwe who were dancing toyi-toyi in Square Harare yesterday know all these facts? Are they not coming from those dilapidated flats of Mbare: their permanent residence: where there is no toilet and no running water working anymore? Are they not vendors who do not know where the next plate of a meal is coming from? Children are seen playing in sewage waters right in the middle of several Zimbabwean townships. In year 2016, after the Millennium, there is no reliable clean water; urban citizens look for abandoned wells to collect water in bush-faeces-collecting-water wells. What were they doing ululating at a despot who has destroyed lives of thousand in a reckless manner? Children's deaths due to absence of clean water and sanitation are common in Zimbabwe.

Where are those people today who were dancing toyi-toyi for their ruler yesterday? What has changed in their lives today having wasted time yesterday by going to polish the ego of a nonagenarian who is living in his last days of his life? Did they get the food they wanted, some hand-outs in form of mealie-meal? Idle creatures indeed!  Hence home! Zimbabwe is exceptional in the sense that nowhere in this world perhaps in North Korea, can people get assembled to give praise to a despot and be happily told to go back to their miserable economic situations without complaining, but happy to have seen their ruler, how stupid can we still be? How low have we gone, I thought we reached the rock bottom long back! Physically is there any depth lower than the rock bottom? This is really the height of folly! Citizens have to be invited nearer so that they are mocked right on their faces.

It remains to be seen if the indeed the Zanu PF government will be able to rig the economy as the MDC-T always put it. If Zanu PF can organize the citizens in such a short space of time to gather at the Square Harare to mark the Africa Day, what makes them fail to fix the economy since they rigged 2013 when they "won the elections with a landslide?" With all the big brains in abundance in the party, what makes them fail economically to give citizens employment they dully promised long ago? Is it not rudeness to assemble people and mock them on their faces, telling them emptiness, dishonesty and rudeness of the first order?

Chimwe nechimwe chinenguva yacho! Inguva yavo. Time will come too, when the people of Zimbabwe will read these hard and sarcastic times, seemingly unending,  everything just went wrong at the beginning of time, in 1980. The poverty of their Chimurenga! Who knew that the German Hitler will fall from his grace and love of absolute power? He fell indeed together with his henchmen, and now he and his bunch of criminal cabals are in the dark side of world history. Heil Mugabe, Heil Führer! In the mean time let's take care of Bona's baby.