Opinion / Columnist
Surely, how could a mere pastor be listened to as if he fought for this country, Cdes?
21 Jul 2016 at 06:28hrs | Views
Dear Cabinet and Politburo members
COMRADES, I will not be able to fully address you this week. You all know that I had a very tight schedule in the past few days as I had to run around to perform my duties.
I, however, still expect to get your reports on how this Evan chap was able to mobilise our people the way we cannot do ourselves. I still believe that there is something that you are not telling me… that is what I want to hear from you… don't tell me the nonsense about this thing that you are calling social media - whatever it is - it cannot stand in the way of a great revolutionary party like ours … it cannot stand in the way of a party of the gun, never, ever! Whatever it is that you call social media, it cannot be superior to our solid party structures. If we defeated the British, we can also defeat this social media thing.
Surely, how could a mere pastor be listened to as if he fought for this country? How could our people all of a sudden start behaving as if we did not liberate them? This can't be! Surely, there is something that is going on that either you don't want to tell me, or you do not even know about yourselves… not this social media excuse that you are telling me…
This is not the time for lame excuses … remember how things started in the Arab world … seemingly silly things like a protest had far-reaching consequences. We should always sleep with one eye open and walk with our backs firmly to the wall.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
… AND CZ'S NOTEBOOK
Same difference!
"As the MDC-T national spokesperson, kindly be advised that I have absolutely NO comment to make on the appointments for the office of vice president that were announced at a press conference in Harare on Friday, July 15, 2016. I refer all questions and/or queries to president Morgan Tsvangirai."
This was a statement posted by MDC-T spokesman, Obert Gutu on his Facebook wall, shortly after the party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, announced the appointment of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri to positions of vice presidents of the opposition party; the duo joining Thokozani Khupe.
This was a statement pregnant with meaning.
Looked at closely, Gutu was distancing the party from the move, effectively saying that this was Tsvangirai's private affair, just like his marriage, his health, his controversial house and or issues to do with his many girlfriends.
As if to confirm that this was so, all communication relating to these appointments were done by Tsvangirai's spokesman, Luke Tamborinyoka.
The announcement was made, not at the MDC-T Harvest House headquarters, but at Tsvangirai's private residency in Highlands.
This is the Tsvangirai that we have grown to know and accept … the man who owns the MDC whole and raw and therefore runs it like his private tuck shop. We are told that the decision to handpick the two came from members of the party's National Council … a rubber-stamping body equivalent to ZANU-PF's Political Bureau (Politburo).
From the events of as way back as 2005 — when the climate of dread arrived — right to this day, we should all have an idea of how the MDC-T brand of democracy works, so it would only take a fool to disagree with the owner of the party. Rwandans have a saying that in a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case.
Ask those that have tried it before! It is not only in ZANU-PF where losers end up being winners!
Dr CZ likes it when things like this happen … those who have been peeved by the latest developments have in the past been most vociferous about how an democratic Tsvangirai is.
We are told that the party's constitution is so democratic as to allow the owner to do whatever he likes … of course it has to!
Those with appropriate throats have been screaming that the constitution was amended to make it democratic enough to allow the owner to do this … of course it had to!
This is what power is all about and this is what it does.
What happens is that when a leader wants to increase his powers, he simply vandalises the constitution, and his acolytes call them amendments.
Amendments only become necessary when they inconvenience important people. Constitutions are supposed to be there for the convenience of important people. And important people have worshipful praise-singers to cheer them on.
There is a world of difference between advisors and bootlickers. Sadly, Tsvangirai has more of the latter and therefore becomes the company he keeps.
He is told exactly what his ears are ready to hear.
The last time Tsvangirai had advisors was before the party split in 2005, when he had the likes of the late Gibson Sibanda, David Coltart, Welshman Ncube and some such. After that, there has been a successive breed of bootlickers. It was also then that the party had a constitution. Right now, the party's constitution is written in the sand, it can be changed anytime.
The sad reality of the situation as a country is that we are so desperate for change, and we have among us those who no longer care about the quality of the change that will come, for as long as it is change. As past events have shown, some changes have turned out to be worse than no change at all.
At the moment, it would appear like Dr CZ is a killjoy, who is just there to pull Tsvangirai and his MDC-T party down. People usually choose to ignore uncomfortable truths. But Dr CZ prefers to face the truth, than pretend there is a difference between ZANU-PF and the MDC-T. But the difference is the same.
As St Jerome of Jerusalem once said: If truth causes an offence, it is better that an offence be caused than the truth be denied.
Wisdom!
At the weekend, African leaders were gathered in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, where, in their accustomed wisdom, unanimously agreed that a common passport for Africa would wipe off all the continent's ills … poverty, diseases, wars, dictatorships … every one of them! So they happily launched the passport.
Dear reader, please don't laugh, because these are men and women who are supposed to be taken seriously by the world.
Naturally, first to get this document are the leaders themselves —who already travel seamlessly with their diplomatic passports — followed by their ministers, then politicians, then possibly politically-connected businesspeople … after which the ordinary citizen may start receiving it, most likely in the year of our Good Lord 3000!
They don't call it the Dark Continent for nothing!
Dreaming
"I urge all ZANU-PF members in this district not to use social media as it is a western technology that they implement through these fake oppositional parties to destroy the government. Mujuru and Tsvangirai with their people circulated false information through social media that our economy is falling so that people must fight against the government, they deceived you to resist bond notes giving you false reasons, please don't be fooled by these lies, our economy is not falling, instead, we are rising as long as we work together." These were pearls of wisdom that the Minister of Rural Development, Promotion and Preservation of National Culture and Heritage, Cde Abedinico Ncube had to share with villagers in rural Gwanda at the weekend. Being the Minister of National Culture and Heritage, we have no doubt that Cde Ncube — whom we expect not to have a car or a mobile phone — has something useful to teach the party's members about local technologies that will not destroy the government.
What Dr CZ knows for sure is that what ZANU-PF is trying to do on social media is not different from trying to stop the sun from setting, stopping Zambezi River from flowing to the Indian Ocean.
We are told government law drafters are burning the midnight oil trying to come up with foolproof laws to regulate the social media.
We hope and pray that those that have decided to do this know what social media is in the first place. Dr CZ is made to understand that the majority of our Cabinet ministers are still stuck to the envelope and stamp era, so all we can do is to wish them the best.
Meanwhile, Dr CZ has a suggestion. If these upcoming laws are to be implemented, it would be prudent just to make the country a big jail and assume that everyone is a criminal, with the onus resting on those who claim not to be to prove themselves, otherwise because to arrest each and every offender might not be a really workable solution.
Putchist crank-pot
Not long time ago, we read the following from Christopher Mutsvangwa. He was referring to Didymus Mutasa: "The challenge that is befalling the party is that an ambitious coterie of political chancers that has also recruited lumpen elements with criminal intent are pursuing a fascist agenda as they employ Nazist tactics to try to wrestle power and then proceed to resurrect a post-Rhodesian political agenda. The coterie is totally opposed to the revolutionary history of the party whose regalia and banners they are so much wont to flaunt.
"The sad and inescapable reality is they harbour the reckless aberration that they can displace or bypass those that were engaged in the most critical 1973-1980 period of the national liberation struggle. They dream of a vault to high office whence they will ensconce themselves to corrupt influence as a prelude to the restoration of a post-colonial Rhodesian order.
"These are putchist crankpots with no appreciation of statecraft. The only political card they are hanging on to is their coalescence around a pretender called Didymus Mutasa."
Following Mutsvangwa's eventual dismissal from ZANU-PF, we wonder if the same now applies to him… that he is also a putchist crank-pot.
What Mutsvangwa is only seeing now, Dr CZ saw it long time ago, which is the reason Yours Truly left that party in 1982! If Dr CZ were Mutsvangwa, he would quietly find a quiet university where he would teach quietly, and quietly writing books (including possibly a dictionary of insults!) away from the madness called politics.
Brio!
This week, the police pounced on Evan Mawarire, the chap who is the public face of the protest against things wrong in Zimbabwe. They accuse him of having something to do with a police helmet and baton stick that went missing during recent skirmishes in Harare. We were very, very impressed with the brio with which the police acted on this matter. If only they could do something similar on the US$15 billion worth of diamonds that we are all searching high and low for!
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cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
COMRADES, I will not be able to fully address you this week. You all know that I had a very tight schedule in the past few days as I had to run around to perform my duties.
I, however, still expect to get your reports on how this Evan chap was able to mobilise our people the way we cannot do ourselves. I still believe that there is something that you are not telling me… that is what I want to hear from you… don't tell me the nonsense about this thing that you are calling social media - whatever it is - it cannot stand in the way of a great revolutionary party like ours … it cannot stand in the way of a party of the gun, never, ever! Whatever it is that you call social media, it cannot be superior to our solid party structures. If we defeated the British, we can also defeat this social media thing.
Surely, how could a mere pastor be listened to as if he fought for this country? How could our people all of a sudden start behaving as if we did not liberate them? This can't be! Surely, there is something that is going on that either you don't want to tell me, or you do not even know about yourselves… not this social media excuse that you are telling me…
This is not the time for lame excuses … remember how things started in the Arab world … seemingly silly things like a protest had far-reaching consequences. We should always sleep with one eye open and walk with our backs firmly to the wall.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
… AND CZ'S NOTEBOOK
Same difference!
"As the MDC-T national spokesperson, kindly be advised that I have absolutely NO comment to make on the appointments for the office of vice president that were announced at a press conference in Harare on Friday, July 15, 2016. I refer all questions and/or queries to president Morgan Tsvangirai."
This was a statement posted by MDC-T spokesman, Obert Gutu on his Facebook wall, shortly after the party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, announced the appointment of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri to positions of vice presidents of the opposition party; the duo joining Thokozani Khupe.
This was a statement pregnant with meaning.
Looked at closely, Gutu was distancing the party from the move, effectively saying that this was Tsvangirai's private affair, just like his marriage, his health, his controversial house and or issues to do with his many girlfriends.
As if to confirm that this was so, all communication relating to these appointments were done by Tsvangirai's spokesman, Luke Tamborinyoka.
The announcement was made, not at the MDC-T Harvest House headquarters, but at Tsvangirai's private residency in Highlands.
This is the Tsvangirai that we have grown to know and accept … the man who owns the MDC whole and raw and therefore runs it like his private tuck shop. We are told that the decision to handpick the two came from members of the party's National Council … a rubber-stamping body equivalent to ZANU-PF's Political Bureau (Politburo).
From the events of as way back as 2005 — when the climate of dread arrived — right to this day, we should all have an idea of how the MDC-T brand of democracy works, so it would only take a fool to disagree with the owner of the party. Rwandans have a saying that in a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case.
Ask those that have tried it before! It is not only in ZANU-PF where losers end up being winners!
Dr CZ likes it when things like this happen … those who have been peeved by the latest developments have in the past been most vociferous about how an democratic Tsvangirai is.
We are told that the party's constitution is so democratic as to allow the owner to do whatever he likes … of course it has to!
Those with appropriate throats have been screaming that the constitution was amended to make it democratic enough to allow the owner to do this … of course it had to!
This is what power is all about and this is what it does.
What happens is that when a leader wants to increase his powers, he simply vandalises the constitution, and his acolytes call them amendments.
Amendments only become necessary when they inconvenience important people. Constitutions are supposed to be there for the convenience of important people. And important people have worshipful praise-singers to cheer them on.
There is a world of difference between advisors and bootlickers. Sadly, Tsvangirai has more of the latter and therefore becomes the company he keeps.
He is told exactly what his ears are ready to hear.
The sad reality of the situation as a country is that we are so desperate for change, and we have among us those who no longer care about the quality of the change that will come, for as long as it is change. As past events have shown, some changes have turned out to be worse than no change at all.
At the moment, it would appear like Dr CZ is a killjoy, who is just there to pull Tsvangirai and his MDC-T party down. People usually choose to ignore uncomfortable truths. But Dr CZ prefers to face the truth, than pretend there is a difference between ZANU-PF and the MDC-T. But the difference is the same.
As St Jerome of Jerusalem once said: If truth causes an offence, it is better that an offence be caused than the truth be denied.
Wisdom!
At the weekend, African leaders were gathered in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, where, in their accustomed wisdom, unanimously agreed that a common passport for Africa would wipe off all the continent's ills … poverty, diseases, wars, dictatorships … every one of them! So they happily launched the passport.
Dear reader, please don't laugh, because these are men and women who are supposed to be taken seriously by the world.
Naturally, first to get this document are the leaders themselves —who already travel seamlessly with their diplomatic passports — followed by their ministers, then politicians, then possibly politically-connected businesspeople … after which the ordinary citizen may start receiving it, most likely in the year of our Good Lord 3000!
They don't call it the Dark Continent for nothing!
Dreaming
"I urge all ZANU-PF members in this district not to use social media as it is a western technology that they implement through these fake oppositional parties to destroy the government. Mujuru and Tsvangirai with their people circulated false information through social media that our economy is falling so that people must fight against the government, they deceived you to resist bond notes giving you false reasons, please don't be fooled by these lies, our economy is not falling, instead, we are rising as long as we work together." These were pearls of wisdom that the Minister of Rural Development, Promotion and Preservation of National Culture and Heritage, Cde Abedinico Ncube had to share with villagers in rural Gwanda at the weekend. Being the Minister of National Culture and Heritage, we have no doubt that Cde Ncube — whom we expect not to have a car or a mobile phone — has something useful to teach the party's members about local technologies that will not destroy the government.
What Dr CZ knows for sure is that what ZANU-PF is trying to do on social media is not different from trying to stop the sun from setting, stopping Zambezi River from flowing to the Indian Ocean.
We are told government law drafters are burning the midnight oil trying to come up with foolproof laws to regulate the social media.
We hope and pray that those that have decided to do this know what social media is in the first place. Dr CZ is made to understand that the majority of our Cabinet ministers are still stuck to the envelope and stamp era, so all we can do is to wish them the best.
Meanwhile, Dr CZ has a suggestion. If these upcoming laws are to be implemented, it would be prudent just to make the country a big jail and assume that everyone is a criminal, with the onus resting on those who claim not to be to prove themselves, otherwise because to arrest each and every offender might not be a really workable solution.
Putchist crank-pot
Not long time ago, we read the following from Christopher Mutsvangwa. He was referring to Didymus Mutasa: "The challenge that is befalling the party is that an ambitious coterie of political chancers that has also recruited lumpen elements with criminal intent are pursuing a fascist agenda as they employ Nazist tactics to try to wrestle power and then proceed to resurrect a post-Rhodesian political agenda. The coterie is totally opposed to the revolutionary history of the party whose regalia and banners they are so much wont to flaunt.
"The sad and inescapable reality is they harbour the reckless aberration that they can displace or bypass those that were engaged in the most critical 1973-1980 period of the national liberation struggle. They dream of a vault to high office whence they will ensconce themselves to corrupt influence as a prelude to the restoration of a post-colonial Rhodesian order.
"These are putchist crankpots with no appreciation of statecraft. The only political card they are hanging on to is their coalescence around a pretender called Didymus Mutasa."
Following Mutsvangwa's eventual dismissal from ZANU-PF, we wonder if the same now applies to him… that he is also a putchist crank-pot.
What Mutsvangwa is only seeing now, Dr CZ saw it long time ago, which is the reason Yours Truly left that party in 1982! If Dr CZ were Mutsvangwa, he would quietly find a quiet university where he would teach quietly, and quietly writing books (including possibly a dictionary of insults!) away from the madness called politics.
Brio!
This week, the police pounced on Evan Mawarire, the chap who is the public face of the protest against things wrong in Zimbabwe. They accuse him of having something to do with a police helmet and baton stick that went missing during recent skirmishes in Harare. We were very, very impressed with the brio with which the police acted on this matter. If only they could do something similar on the US$15 billion worth of diamonds that we are all searching high and low for!
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cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
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