Opinion / Letters
Mugabe's description of Mutasa spot on
03 Feb 2015 at 04:46hrs | Views
EDITOR,
The testing of President Robert Mugabe's political acumen by desperately twisting his speech in a bid to buy sympathy for Didymus Mutasa who is faced with the ignominy of political obscurity is just but a wild goose chase.
The ousted secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa is reliving and revoking the sad memories of the sellout Morrison Nyathi who orchestrated the Nyadzonya massacre. Mutasa, popularly referred to as Nyathi, fell by the way side for the same reason of letting his selfish ambitions and ego overtake national responsibility. Indeed, it is true that everything that has its genesis in anger and self conceit usually ends in shame and disgrace.
The earlier Mutasa had learnt from his mistakes the more his chances of saving himself from the spot-on and accurate description of his person by President Mugabe. To say the least, the President took away nothing from Mutasa but just called a spade a spade.
Mutasa is pregnant with misguided pride and arrogance of elephantine proportions. He unwittingly overestimated his influence and foolishly sought audience from Sadc as an individual, a board which is seized with addressing national issues. In my opinion that is insanity at its highest level.
His character is thus nothing less than that of a stubborn ass as evidenced by his snubbing of the Zanu-PF congress while crafting his defence from documents he stole from Zanu-PF leaving a trail of evidence pointing at him beyond any reasonable doubt
In 2010 he teamed up with the then MDC-T Co-Minister of Home Affairs Theresa Makone and demanded the release of his son Martin Mutasa and Themba Mliswa from Mbares Matapi Police Station, clearly defeating the course of justice.
This closeness to Makone again confirms the alleged spy character Mutasa has since the Rhodesian times.
Mutasa once plunged the nation into shame when he presided over the dubious diesel dripping mountain project in Chinhoyi. Despite all the advice, he arrogantly proceeded with the project and extravagantly rewarded the fake sangoma, in whom he saw a chance of decorating his political curriculum vitae.
It is in light of this dubious character that President Mugabe applied similes to articulate Mutasas behaviour which some overzealous writers deliberately translated into a version which is at variance with what the President meant
To then have a delusional Alex Magaisa, former Morgan Tsvangirais advisor crying more than the bereaved and clinging on to a sinking ship adds drama to the political circus. After failing to address the verbal diarrhoea which reigned havoc in the then MDC-T camp where Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti took turns to churn out obscenities in the public, he has the guts to question President Mugabe's statesmanship.
The crocodile tears and shameless hullabaloo are indexical to a desperate attempt towards political relevance by this foiled MDC-T advisor which categorically justifies their loss in the 2013 harmonised elections.
It is however interesting to note the plurality of foolishness in opposition politics where they have gone desperate to the extent of focusing on the President's speeches rather than espousing competitive and developmental strategies. This follows the sensationalism of the "Pasi tie ZANU-PF" slip of a tongue which virtually yielded nothing.
Zimbabwe needs strategists not political amateurs to stir the fortunes of the nation around. Let us not dwell on trivialities and focus on building a better Zimbabwe.
The testing of President Robert Mugabe's political acumen by desperately twisting his speech in a bid to buy sympathy for Didymus Mutasa who is faced with the ignominy of political obscurity is just but a wild goose chase.
The ousted secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa is reliving and revoking the sad memories of the sellout Morrison Nyathi who orchestrated the Nyadzonya massacre. Mutasa, popularly referred to as Nyathi, fell by the way side for the same reason of letting his selfish ambitions and ego overtake national responsibility. Indeed, it is true that everything that has its genesis in anger and self conceit usually ends in shame and disgrace.
The earlier Mutasa had learnt from his mistakes the more his chances of saving himself from the spot-on and accurate description of his person by President Mugabe. To say the least, the President took away nothing from Mutasa but just called a spade a spade.
Mutasa is pregnant with misguided pride and arrogance of elephantine proportions. He unwittingly overestimated his influence and foolishly sought audience from Sadc as an individual, a board which is seized with addressing national issues. In my opinion that is insanity at its highest level.
His character is thus nothing less than that of a stubborn ass as evidenced by his snubbing of the Zanu-PF congress while crafting his defence from documents he stole from Zanu-PF leaving a trail of evidence pointing at him beyond any reasonable doubt
In 2010 he teamed up with the then MDC-T Co-Minister of Home Affairs Theresa Makone and demanded the release of his son Martin Mutasa and Themba Mliswa from Mbares Matapi Police Station, clearly defeating the course of justice.
This closeness to Makone again confirms the alleged spy character Mutasa has since the Rhodesian times.
Mutasa once plunged the nation into shame when he presided over the dubious diesel dripping mountain project in Chinhoyi. Despite all the advice, he arrogantly proceeded with the project and extravagantly rewarded the fake sangoma, in whom he saw a chance of decorating his political curriculum vitae.
It is in light of this dubious character that President Mugabe applied similes to articulate Mutasas behaviour which some overzealous writers deliberately translated into a version which is at variance with what the President meant
To then have a delusional Alex Magaisa, former Morgan Tsvangirais advisor crying more than the bereaved and clinging on to a sinking ship adds drama to the political circus. After failing to address the verbal diarrhoea which reigned havoc in the then MDC-T camp where Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti took turns to churn out obscenities in the public, he has the guts to question President Mugabe's statesmanship.
The crocodile tears and shameless hullabaloo are indexical to a desperate attempt towards political relevance by this foiled MDC-T advisor which categorically justifies their loss in the 2013 harmonised elections.
It is however interesting to note the plurality of foolishness in opposition politics where they have gone desperate to the extent of focusing on the President's speeches rather than espousing competitive and developmental strategies. This follows the sensationalism of the "Pasi tie ZANU-PF" slip of a tongue which virtually yielded nothing.
Zimbabwe needs strategists not political amateurs to stir the fortunes of the nation around. Let us not dwell on trivialities and focus on building a better Zimbabwe.
Source - Caitlin Kamba
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