Opinion / Letters
Tsvangira's camp want to stretch the inclusive government as far as it can
04 May 2013 at 06:00hrs | Views
CABINET FILES AND NOTEBOOK WITH CZ
Dear Cabinet and Politburo members
COMRADES, if you can read through the behaviour in Morgan's camp, you can tell that they are people who would want to stretch the inclusive government as far as they can, because of the featherbeddings that it brings to them otherwise the lot is ready to go … it is only natural that one tries to make the cushion as comfortable and safe as it can ever be before they take a plunge.
That is why we are having Morgan trying to sweet-talk us into selling that house he recently moved in … and this demand by his members of Cabinet for exit packages while lawmakers from his and the other party are always making out-of-this-world demands.
They know the inevitable is coming with the harmonised elections and they are merely trying to make the best of the present situation to secure their future … the typical case of making hay while the sun is still shining.
We obviously will not expect them to come out in the open and acknowledge the fact that losing the coming election is certain to them as sunrise, but you have to read through their actions.
We might have to consider some of their demands - even though not put across in the most polite of manners - not because they are entitled to these things, but may be on some humanitarian and moral grounds … these are people that we have reluctantly worked with for nearly five years in government - and much longer for some MPs. Many of them have never worked anywhere in their lives…and after this, being unemployable as most of them are, they would find life on the streets very tough … you should understand their fears and the reasons they are trying to cling on for one more day.
What makes it worse for them is that there is no guarantee that after the elections, their Western handlers would continue to be generous with their cash … considering that they have not done very well.
The latest whirlwind tour of the region by Morgan is just a show meant to assure his handlers that he is still there on the ground and doing something. You and I know that there are no more reforms he expects from us.
Wasn't he the one who has been announcing that conditions in the country are ideal for free and fair elections? What has since changed in the past few weeks that he can now go around complaining?
Those of us who know him better understand why he is doing all this … to psych his handlers and followers up for the inevitable loss that is coming … he should have something to blame that loss on … which in this case could be these imaginary reforms.
I find it amusing that while some of us are already talking to the in-coming Southern African Develop-ment Community chairperson, Joyce Banda of Malawi whom we deliberately brought here for that purpose last week, Morgan is running to the out-going chair, Cde Kikwete of Tanzania.
Sometimes I really wonder whether Morgan is really half that foolish or it's a case of too many cooks and spoilt broth … that army of second-rate yes-men whom he takes advise from?
Well, let get ourselves ready to cruise to victory.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
. . . AND NOW TO THE NOTEBOOK
History!
We are told that the ever-blundering co-Home Affairs Minister, Theresa Makone, will this time be arrested for trying to obstruct the course of justice, blah, blah, after she allegedly phoned the Officer-in-Charge of Borrowdale Police Station demanding the release of MDC-T members who were detained there. Is that so? How many will remember something similar that took place in July 2010 when ZANU-PF's secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa's son Martin, who had been arrested together with Temba Mliswa?
This is what CZ wrote then:
"We loved the way The Herald reported the story involving Didymus Mutasa and the newly-appointed Co-Home Affairs Minister, Theresa Makone. Curiously this time around, the State-controlled daily reported without fear or favour the mischief that the police accused the two relatives of. Police said the two hopped from one police station to another and sought to secure the release of the former's son from police custody. Even after Mutasa tried to arrogantly dismiss the allegations, the police still insisted that the duo was involved in a scandal. So in this case we will unfortunately believe the police.
"What the police are saying is nonsense. As a father I have the right to visit my son, especially when he has been arrested," Mutasa was quoted as saying.
"I also have the right as a Minister to visit any person who has been arrested in this country. And as a citizen I have the right to go where I want," he said.
He however, admitted that the two made frantic efforts to contact Police Commissioner-General, Aug-ustine Chihuri and the Officer Commanding Harare province, Se-nior Assistant Commissioner Martin Chari. He did not tell us what he wanted to talk to the two about…hopefully it was not an attempt at influence peddling!
But since it is CZ's job to speculate, we can only conclude that maybe the people who had been arrested were above the law so they needed to be treated differently.
We loved it when Mutasa complained that police held his son in conditions worse than those that the Smith regime kept freedom fighters captured during the liberation war. Good! How many times has it been said that conditions in our prisons and jails are inhuman … funnily enough, he is only seeing it now … not when Justice Fergus Blackie went through it…not when Roy Bennett repeatedly endured it … Morgan Tsvangirai, Lovemore Madhuku, Tendai Biti, Raymond Majongwe, Nelson Chamisa … the list is endless!
If there is an iota of truth in the allegations raised against the two, we look forward to seeing the MDC-T leaping into action and taking an exemplary decision against Makone…or else we can tell that the party is not very much different from ZANU-PF."
History has a tendency of repeating itself…where were the Psychology Maziwisa's of this world and other "political analysts" who are now queuing to demand Makone be sent to the guillotine?
Really?
The State media - to whom laws of libel no longer apply - last week told us that former ZANU-PF minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who is now an MDC-T member, snatched someone's husband blah, blah. We expected to hear this long time ago … we were really beginning to get anxious why the campaign was taking long to kick off. Even if the story was true, we wonder how that becomes front-page news as if she if the first politician who has snatched another person's spouse in the history of this country? By the way did the same daily paper dutifully report that the reason she run afoul with the former revolutionary party was that she had repeatedly turned down demands for favours of sexual nature from party heavyweights?
Strange
CZ finds it strange that the National Constitutional Assembly life chairperson, Cde Lovemore Madhuku is waiting until after elections to launch his own political party…while in the meantime he is busy de-campaigning the MDC-T while at the same time campaigning for ZANU-PF. Why can't he just join ZANU-PF directly?
RIP
This one appeared in the obituaries section of one Western newspaper: "Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain, Why the early bird gets the worm, Life isn't always fair and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.
Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason. He is survived by his four stepbrothers: I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame and I am A Victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realised he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
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- cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
Dear Cabinet and Politburo members
COMRADES, if you can read through the behaviour in Morgan's camp, you can tell that they are people who would want to stretch the inclusive government as far as they can, because of the featherbeddings that it brings to them otherwise the lot is ready to go … it is only natural that one tries to make the cushion as comfortable and safe as it can ever be before they take a plunge.
That is why we are having Morgan trying to sweet-talk us into selling that house he recently moved in … and this demand by his members of Cabinet for exit packages while lawmakers from his and the other party are always making out-of-this-world demands.
They know the inevitable is coming with the harmonised elections and they are merely trying to make the best of the present situation to secure their future … the typical case of making hay while the sun is still shining.
We obviously will not expect them to come out in the open and acknowledge the fact that losing the coming election is certain to them as sunrise, but you have to read through their actions.
We might have to consider some of their demands - even though not put across in the most polite of manners - not because they are entitled to these things, but may be on some humanitarian and moral grounds … these are people that we have reluctantly worked with for nearly five years in government - and much longer for some MPs. Many of them have never worked anywhere in their lives…and after this, being unemployable as most of them are, they would find life on the streets very tough … you should understand their fears and the reasons they are trying to cling on for one more day.
What makes it worse for them is that there is no guarantee that after the elections, their Western handlers would continue to be generous with their cash … considering that they have not done very well.
The latest whirlwind tour of the region by Morgan is just a show meant to assure his handlers that he is still there on the ground and doing something. You and I know that there are no more reforms he expects from us.
Wasn't he the one who has been announcing that conditions in the country are ideal for free and fair elections? What has since changed in the past few weeks that he can now go around complaining?
Those of us who know him better understand why he is doing all this … to psych his handlers and followers up for the inevitable loss that is coming … he should have something to blame that loss on … which in this case could be these imaginary reforms.
I find it amusing that while some of us are already talking to the in-coming Southern African Develop-ment Community chairperson, Joyce Banda of Malawi whom we deliberately brought here for that purpose last week, Morgan is running to the out-going chair, Cde Kikwete of Tanzania.
Sometimes I really wonder whether Morgan is really half that foolish or it's a case of too many cooks and spoilt broth … that army of second-rate yes-men whom he takes advise from?
Well, let get ourselves ready to cruise to victory.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
. . . AND NOW TO THE NOTEBOOK
History!
We are told that the ever-blundering co-Home Affairs Minister, Theresa Makone, will this time be arrested for trying to obstruct the course of justice, blah, blah, after she allegedly phoned the Officer-in-Charge of Borrowdale Police Station demanding the release of MDC-T members who were detained there. Is that so? How many will remember something similar that took place in July 2010 when ZANU-PF's secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa's son Martin, who had been arrested together with Temba Mliswa?
This is what CZ wrote then:
"We loved the way The Herald reported the story involving Didymus Mutasa and the newly-appointed Co-Home Affairs Minister, Theresa Makone. Curiously this time around, the State-controlled daily reported without fear or favour the mischief that the police accused the two relatives of. Police said the two hopped from one police station to another and sought to secure the release of the former's son from police custody. Even after Mutasa tried to arrogantly dismiss the allegations, the police still insisted that the duo was involved in a scandal. So in this case we will unfortunately believe the police.
"What the police are saying is nonsense. As a father I have the right to visit my son, especially when he has been arrested," Mutasa was quoted as saying.
"I also have the right as a Minister to visit any person who has been arrested in this country. And as a citizen I have the right to go where I want," he said.
He however, admitted that the two made frantic efforts to contact Police Commissioner-General, Aug-ustine Chihuri and the Officer Commanding Harare province, Se-nior Assistant Commissioner Martin Chari. He did not tell us what he wanted to talk to the two about…hopefully it was not an attempt at influence peddling!
But since it is CZ's job to speculate, we can only conclude that maybe the people who had been arrested were above the law so they needed to be treated differently.
We loved it when Mutasa complained that police held his son in conditions worse than those that the Smith regime kept freedom fighters captured during the liberation war. Good! How many times has it been said that conditions in our prisons and jails are inhuman … funnily enough, he is only seeing it now … not when Justice Fergus Blackie went through it…not when Roy Bennett repeatedly endured it … Morgan Tsvangirai, Lovemore Madhuku, Tendai Biti, Raymond Majongwe, Nelson Chamisa … the list is endless!
If there is an iota of truth in the allegations raised against the two, we look forward to seeing the MDC-T leaping into action and taking an exemplary decision against Makone…or else we can tell that the party is not very much different from ZANU-PF."
History has a tendency of repeating itself…where were the Psychology Maziwisa's of this world and other "political analysts" who are now queuing to demand Makone be sent to the guillotine?
Really?
The State media - to whom laws of libel no longer apply - last week told us that former ZANU-PF minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who is now an MDC-T member, snatched someone's husband blah, blah. We expected to hear this long time ago … we were really beginning to get anxious why the campaign was taking long to kick off. Even if the story was true, we wonder how that becomes front-page news as if she if the first politician who has snatched another person's spouse in the history of this country? By the way did the same daily paper dutifully report that the reason she run afoul with the former revolutionary party was that she had repeatedly turned down demands for favours of sexual nature from party heavyweights?
Strange
CZ finds it strange that the National Constitutional Assembly life chairperson, Cde Lovemore Madhuku is waiting until after elections to launch his own political party…while in the meantime he is busy de-campaigning the MDC-T while at the same time campaigning for ZANU-PF. Why can't he just join ZANU-PF directly?
RIP
This one appeared in the obituaries section of one Western newspaper: "Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain, Why the early bird gets the worm, Life isn't always fair and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.
Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason. He is survived by his four stepbrothers: I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame and I am A Victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realised he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
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- cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
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