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Kasukuwere humiliates Mugabe bootlickers
26 Sep 2016 at 09:03hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF bootlickers were embarrassed at the weekend after the party's political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, blocked them in their stampede to shake the 92-year-old leader's hands.
Kasukuwere - who was the master of ceremonies at Mugabe's welcome rally at the Harare International Airport, upon his return from the United Nations General Assembly meeting - blatantly told dozens of junior Zanu PF officials who had lined up to greet the nonagenarian that they were not qualified to do so.
Singling out the party's Mount Pleasant legislator, Jason Pasade, and a youth league official, Tendai Wenyika, Kasukuwere seemed to accuse them of seeking to convey some message to Mugabe clandestinely by "scratching his palm" during the handshakes.
"Those people, who are stampeding to meet the president when they are not supposed to be there, should go back.
"There are too many chefs there, Jason come back here! You are not supposed to be there and in any case, I will still tell the president that you are also here when I introduce officials present," he said.
"The same applies to Tendai, please come back... together with the one who is clutching a bag, just come back," the combative Kasukuwere - popularly known as "Tyson", in reference to Mike Tyson the former US heavyweight boxer - went on.
The evidently mortified officials obliged, with their faces and shoulders drooping, as Kasukuwere continued to humiliate them saying "I know you want to pinch and cause cracks in the old man's hands as you scratch him".
Mugabe - with a rose in his hand - appeared charmed by Kasukuwere as he went on to chant slogans exalting the man.
"Pamberi nemaministers edu, napolitical commissar vedu ava VaKasukuwere, newomen's league yakatungamirirwa na amai vedu First Lady (Grace Mugabe), neyouth league yakatungamirirwa naVa (Kudzanai) Chipanga…pasi ne MDC nezvimwewo zvakazovambwa zvitototo, pasi nazvo," Mugabe said.
Mugabe - who apologised for arriving late, saying his departure from New York had been delayed owing to congestion in the airspace - went on to praise the Zanu PF Harare provincial executive as well as war veterans and liberation war collaborators for their work in organising the party.
"I am really sorry that we kept you waiting and arrived this late as there were problems with our travel arrangements.
"However, I know that even if we had arrived much later than this, you would still have waited for me to address you even in the dark," he said.
Whenever Mugabe either arrives into the country from a foreign trip or is celebrating his birthday, ruling party and government officials make a bee line to the airport to welcome him.
At one point, former Information minister, Webster Shamu, took the bootlicking to another level, describing Mugabe as Cremora (a coffee creamer) before saying he wished he was the nonagenarian's son.
Kasukuwere - who was the master of ceremonies at Mugabe's welcome rally at the Harare International Airport, upon his return from the United Nations General Assembly meeting - blatantly told dozens of junior Zanu PF officials who had lined up to greet the nonagenarian that they were not qualified to do so.
Singling out the party's Mount Pleasant legislator, Jason Pasade, and a youth league official, Tendai Wenyika, Kasukuwere seemed to accuse them of seeking to convey some message to Mugabe clandestinely by "scratching his palm" during the handshakes.
"Those people, who are stampeding to meet the president when they are not supposed to be there, should go back.
"There are too many chefs there, Jason come back here! You are not supposed to be there and in any case, I will still tell the president that you are also here when I introduce officials present," he said.
"The same applies to Tendai, please come back... together with the one who is clutching a bag, just come back," the combative Kasukuwere - popularly known as "Tyson", in reference to Mike Tyson the former US heavyweight boxer - went on.
The evidently mortified officials obliged, with their faces and shoulders drooping, as Kasukuwere continued to humiliate them saying "I know you want to pinch and cause cracks in the old man's hands as you scratch him".
Mugabe - with a rose in his hand - appeared charmed by Kasukuwere as he went on to chant slogans exalting the man.
"Pamberi nemaministers edu, napolitical commissar vedu ava VaKasukuwere, newomen's league yakatungamirirwa na amai vedu First Lady (Grace Mugabe), neyouth league yakatungamirirwa naVa (Kudzanai) Chipanga…pasi ne MDC nezvimwewo zvakazovambwa zvitototo, pasi nazvo," Mugabe said.
Mugabe - who apologised for arriving late, saying his departure from New York had been delayed owing to congestion in the airspace - went on to praise the Zanu PF Harare provincial executive as well as war veterans and liberation war collaborators for their work in organising the party.
"I am really sorry that we kept you waiting and arrived this late as there were problems with our travel arrangements.
"However, I know that even if we had arrived much later than this, you would still have waited for me to address you even in the dark," he said.
Whenever Mugabe either arrives into the country from a foreign trip or is celebrating his birthday, ruling party and government officials make a bee line to the airport to welcome him.
At one point, former Information minister, Webster Shamu, took the bootlicking to another level, describing Mugabe as Cremora (a coffee creamer) before saying he wished he was the nonagenarian's son.
Source - dailynews
