Opinion / Letters
We need reforms to stop leaders behaving like silver-back gorilla amongst chattering monkeys!
02 Oct 2015 at 12:01hrs | Views
Dear Editor,
"He (Tsvangirai) did not listen; a silver-back in the middle of its macho display does not listen to chattering monkeys!" (Bulawayo 24 Opinion) Nice one Wilbert. I laugh now but did not laugh when Tsvangirai treated us like chattering monkeys when he visited UK a few years ago.
Tsvangirai was Prime Minister Tsvangirai then and he said Zimbabweans in the diaspora must go back home. The economy was still in a mess and there was no doubt that President Mugabe still ruled the roost. Tsvangirai barked his instruction with the confidence and authority of one who knows best and expected everyone to do as they are told.
Yeah, the silver-back gorilla was doing his chest-drumming display and telling the monkeys and all he is the boss.
Tsvangirai was booed off the stage and rightly so too!
Needless to say President Mugabe and his Zanu PF colleagues are even worse than Tsvangirai. "Zanu PF is the party of the revolution!" we have been told over and over again and we all know what that means, "Zanu PF can do no wrong, how dare you question the party's leaders!"
We are in this political and economic mess because for the last 35 years we have follow ill thought out economic policies and have been downright wasteful of our material and human resources but have plough on regardless. Very few people have dared to ask where we are going and they have been ignored or silenced.
Our political system has created monsters who, once elected into a position of power, think they are the silver-back gorilla and everyone else is a chattering monkey. The concept of a leader being the first amongst equal is completely alien; they are the silver-back and the rest are monkeys, period.
President Mugabe "dumped" former VP Mujuru and her supporters for no better reason than that if congress had elected her; she would no longer be beholden to him for her power and thus making her equal to him. He could not permit that not even in the name of democratic competition and allowing the members to have a say. So poor Mai Mujuru was accuse of factionalism, found guilty in a kangaroo court (main bedroom in the Blue Roof Mansion, according to Jabulani Sibanda) and punish.
Tsvangirai has copied President Mugabe, copy-cat, to stifle all meaning democratic competition and debate by making sure he is not the first amongst equals but rather the only silver-back with the rest chattering monkeys.
35 years of a silver-back gorilla drumming his chest super confident he has all the answers and the rest of us and the whole world are chattering monkeys is what got Zimbabwe into this pickle. We need to implement all the democratic reforms and take down our leaders so the accept their first amongst equals to whom will hold them to account through meaningful free and fair elections.
Yours truly
Nomusa.
"He (Tsvangirai) did not listen; a silver-back in the middle of its macho display does not listen to chattering monkeys!" (Bulawayo 24 Opinion) Nice one Wilbert. I laugh now but did not laugh when Tsvangirai treated us like chattering monkeys when he visited UK a few years ago.
Tsvangirai was Prime Minister Tsvangirai then and he said Zimbabweans in the diaspora must go back home. The economy was still in a mess and there was no doubt that President Mugabe still ruled the roost. Tsvangirai barked his instruction with the confidence and authority of one who knows best and expected everyone to do as they are told.
Yeah, the silver-back gorilla was doing his chest-drumming display and telling the monkeys and all he is the boss.
Tsvangirai was booed off the stage and rightly so too!
Needless to say President Mugabe and his Zanu PF colleagues are even worse than Tsvangirai. "Zanu PF is the party of the revolution!" we have been told over and over again and we all know what that means, "Zanu PF can do no wrong, how dare you question the party's leaders!"
Our political system has created monsters who, once elected into a position of power, think they are the silver-back gorilla and everyone else is a chattering monkey. The concept of a leader being the first amongst equal is completely alien; they are the silver-back and the rest are monkeys, period.
President Mugabe "dumped" former VP Mujuru and her supporters for no better reason than that if congress had elected her; she would no longer be beholden to him for her power and thus making her equal to him. He could not permit that not even in the name of democratic competition and allowing the members to have a say. So poor Mai Mujuru was accuse of factionalism, found guilty in a kangaroo court (main bedroom in the Blue Roof Mansion, according to Jabulani Sibanda) and punish.
Tsvangirai has copied President Mugabe, copy-cat, to stifle all meaning democratic competition and debate by making sure he is not the first amongst equals but rather the only silver-back with the rest chattering monkeys.
35 years of a silver-back gorilla drumming his chest super confident he has all the answers and the rest of us and the whole world are chattering monkeys is what got Zimbabwe into this pickle. We need to implement all the democratic reforms and take down our leaders so the accept their first amongst equals to whom will hold them to account through meaningful free and fair elections.
Yours truly
Nomusa.
Source - Nomusa
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