Opinion / Columnist
I never said I am retiring, Cdes
26 Nov 2016 at 17:09hrs | Views
Dear Cabinet and Politburo members
COMRADES, I notice that the media has been awash with misleading reports suggesting that I am abandoning the revolution by hanging my political boots. This is certainly not true. Neither did I say anything remotely in that direction. That was dangerously misleading, and I thought it was important that I correct this so that you pass it on to the grassroots so that there is never any confusion.
Surely, how can I be out of sync with the people so badly that I can be talking of abandoning the revolution when all the party structures and provinces are clamouring that we should take the revolution to its logical conclusion.
The people still have oodles of confidence in our leadership, which explains why only a few months ago, the Youth League organised a successful million man march, just to repose their confidence in the party's leadership.
I have just finished routing the imperialist forces for them and the people know that the time has come for us to ensure that our successful land reform is concluded; ensuring that our people reap the fruits of our indigenisation programme… and also just to ensure that our people enjoy the milk and honey… the cloying goodies that have kept the imperialist vultures lurking in our skies for this long.
These evil people in the West can't wait to see our party losing power, but sadly for them, that wait is going to last longer than most of them. This is God's plan, not ours.
One thing that I can assure all of you Cdes is that when service to the people is a calling, one gets satisfaction that not even all the money in the world can distract our attention to deliver on our promises… this is what keeps me going.
I always tell you that it is cold out there… only last week, Didymus — of all the people in this world! — called; pretending like he was concerned about the President's health and that of his family, when in fact he was trying to sweet-talk him into picking him from the dustbin of history. It was not an accident of coincidence at all that he called just days after the party had re-instated several members of the party like Cde Nicholas, Cde Webster and others… We could tell that he did not sleep for several days after watching those Cdes marching back into Shake Shake Building and it dawned on him that he might not be able to serve the people ever again. He is now realising that what their Western handlers had been promising them is a moon, which promise only a fool can believe.
If I were him, I would have gotten straight to the point… that I am very sorry for misbehaving and that I was a prodigal son who wanted to return home, instead of trying to be clever.
Anyway, let's us see how it all goes.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
Again!
Being the quintessential super patriot that he has always been, Dr CZ is getting worried again. He cannot afford not to worry when the devil and his agents are back at their criminal mischief. Fuel has started running dry in this country … the British and their evil American cousins are at it again … they have started chasing and diverting ships bringing fuel to this country… as well as filling up thousands of drums with fuel and hiding them on white-owned farms and those owned by the less patriotic of our people.
It is always like this when things are about to go wrong. Our Anglo-Saxon detractors start by mopping up all the cash from the streets, followed by fuel, then comes food stuffs, then commonsense, then patience… and on and on the shortages increase to critical levels until we reach a point where they can start dictating terms to us all the way until they insinuate their puppets into our government.
Once bitten, twice shy. This has happened before so we are more than alive to their devilish machinations. They did it in 2008, so they cannot repeat it this time around. No and never!
Talking of things going wrong and going wrong very fast, Dr CZ was this week going through the archives of the Financial Gazette. What he observed reminded him of something that he has for sometime been trying to tell his memory to completely forget because there would be no use for it since it would never happen ever again. It looks like this information might come handy very soon.
On April 3, 2008 — just less than a week after the historic harmonised March 29 elections — the cover price of the newspaper that today is pegged at US$2 was ZW$40 million. On April 10, it had gone to ZW$55 million, by April 17, it had grown to ZW$85 million. By May 1 the price was now ZW$210 million, by May 15 the price had gone to ZW$400 million, which by June 5 had doubled to ZW$800 million. A week later, June 5, the price had hit ZW$5 billion and by the time the presidential election run-off was held on June 27, the newspaper's cover price had hit ZW$20 billion.
Dr CZ just thought it is his patriotic duty to remind his dear fans of this as they eagerly wait for their bond notes.
Awards
As much as we are supposed to be very proud of ourselves, the undeniable reality on the ground is that Zimbabwe is a country in coma. But if there is anything that the country continues to be fruitful on, it is its bumper harvest in the awards sector. We doubt if there is any other country where there are so many barren awards being shared. When nothing is moving, Zimbos are busy creating awards to celebrate that nothing is happening, and when they give themselves these awards, they organise more awards to celebrate winning those awards. We are truly becoming an awards country and a half.
This week, we were bombarded with requests for votes from those Zimbos who have nominated themselves for the ZimRights Community Human Rights Defenders Awards (CHRA)… the People's Choice Award. The way these people have been campaigning leaves us all wondering if they are into whatever it is that they do for altruistic reason, or they are in it primarily for personal glory. In most countries worth called countries, these awards are bestowed… they are not something to campaign and stampede over as we are seeing here.
When one remembers that in the past this award has gone to none other than Joseph Chinotimba, the violent farm invader-in-chief, who a few years ago pumped bullets into his neighbour, Anna Maria Maenzanise, because she had chosen to be a supporter of the Movement for Democratic Change, then one wonders whether the award is worth anything at all.
Dr CZ thinks some of these awards are better bestowed on people when they are long dead because human being as we know them are capable of changing… we know a lot of people who were given this and that honour only for them to do things that would shock even the devil himself for the remainder of their lives. This is unlike football or any other sport in which a player can be celebrated for playing very well in a season… but a continuous journey that many might not be able to finish while still standing uprightly. Well, who is Dr CZ to let his jealous interfere with other people's plans?
Debunking…
This week, we loved soporific wartime stories in one of the State weeklies. In the past weeks, the paper has been carrying excerpts of a full-some interview granted by one former liberation war commander, Cde Francis Komboni Gondo, whose Chimurenga name was Cde Elias Hondo.
SM: In brief, how would you describe Tongogara?
Cde Hondo: He was very ruthless with tendencies of a dictator. He used to admire leaders like Idi Amini and Samora Machel. You know Samora Machel akanga asiri wekutamba naye. Aiwuraya munhu just like that. Dai Tongogara akasvika muno ari mupenyu, mwana waMagama, zvimwe zviri kuitika muno maiti baba (laughs). I am very serious.
SM: What do you mean?
Cde Hondo: With Tongogara, vanhu aingadai vasingangotaure taure zvavari kuita. Inga dai vasisiko.
SM: How come some people present Cde Tongo as a brave freedom fighter who was loved by many comrades?
Cde Hondo: Yes, he was very, very brave. Raive gamba but he was kind of a Joseph Stalin from Soviet Union. Remember Stalin followed Trotsky and killed him in Bolivia. Yes, Tongo was a revolutionary, but he was Stalin-like."
This interview reminded Dr CZ of his first encounter with the late Wilfred Mhanda (Dzinashe Machingura) at the launch of the Liberators' Platform in 2000.
At that time, it appeared quite odd that Mhanda could quite frankly reveal to Yours Truly that had Tongogara set foot in an independence Zimbabwe, some leaders that Zimbos have the luxury of seeing as very bad would have appeared like angels in comparison. He talked about how the nationalists who were jailed in Mozambican pit-prisons celebrated at the news of Tongogara's death and started looking forward to returning home because they were now assured that nothing untoward awaited them.
Then Dr CZ thought these were lies, blatant lies that he would never hear again about Zimbabwe's swashbuckling hero… sadly, it looks like there are more people willing to corroborate this other version of this country's history that until now has never had anyone to tell it.
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
COMRADES, I notice that the media has been awash with misleading reports suggesting that I am abandoning the revolution by hanging my political boots. This is certainly not true. Neither did I say anything remotely in that direction. That was dangerously misleading, and I thought it was important that I correct this so that you pass it on to the grassroots so that there is never any confusion.
Surely, how can I be out of sync with the people so badly that I can be talking of abandoning the revolution when all the party structures and provinces are clamouring that we should take the revolution to its logical conclusion.
The people still have oodles of confidence in our leadership, which explains why only a few months ago, the Youth League organised a successful million man march, just to repose their confidence in the party's leadership.
I have just finished routing the imperialist forces for them and the people know that the time has come for us to ensure that our successful land reform is concluded; ensuring that our people reap the fruits of our indigenisation programme… and also just to ensure that our people enjoy the milk and honey… the cloying goodies that have kept the imperialist vultures lurking in our skies for this long.
These evil people in the West can't wait to see our party losing power, but sadly for them, that wait is going to last longer than most of them. This is God's plan, not ours.
One thing that I can assure all of you Cdes is that when service to the people is a calling, one gets satisfaction that not even all the money in the world can distract our attention to deliver on our promises… this is what keeps me going.
I always tell you that it is cold out there… only last week, Didymus — of all the people in this world! — called; pretending like he was concerned about the President's health and that of his family, when in fact he was trying to sweet-talk him into picking him from the dustbin of history. It was not an accident of coincidence at all that he called just days after the party had re-instated several members of the party like Cde Nicholas, Cde Webster and others… We could tell that he did not sleep for several days after watching those Cdes marching back into Shake Shake Building and it dawned on him that he might not be able to serve the people ever again. He is now realising that what their Western handlers had been promising them is a moon, which promise only a fool can believe.
If I were him, I would have gotten straight to the point… that I am very sorry for misbehaving and that I was a prodigal son who wanted to return home, instead of trying to be clever.
Anyway, let's us see how it all goes.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
Again!
Being the quintessential super patriot that he has always been, Dr CZ is getting worried again. He cannot afford not to worry when the devil and his agents are back at their criminal mischief. Fuel has started running dry in this country … the British and their evil American cousins are at it again … they have started chasing and diverting ships bringing fuel to this country… as well as filling up thousands of drums with fuel and hiding them on white-owned farms and those owned by the less patriotic of our people.
It is always like this when things are about to go wrong. Our Anglo-Saxon detractors start by mopping up all the cash from the streets, followed by fuel, then comes food stuffs, then commonsense, then patience… and on and on the shortages increase to critical levels until we reach a point where they can start dictating terms to us all the way until they insinuate their puppets into our government.
Once bitten, twice shy. This has happened before so we are more than alive to their devilish machinations. They did it in 2008, so they cannot repeat it this time around. No and never!
On April 3, 2008 — just less than a week after the historic harmonised March 29 elections — the cover price of the newspaper that today is pegged at US$2 was ZW$40 million. On April 10, it had gone to ZW$55 million, by April 17, it had grown to ZW$85 million. By May 1 the price was now ZW$210 million, by May 15 the price had gone to ZW$400 million, which by June 5 had doubled to ZW$800 million. A week later, June 5, the price had hit ZW$5 billion and by the time the presidential election run-off was held on June 27, the newspaper's cover price had hit ZW$20 billion.
Dr CZ just thought it is his patriotic duty to remind his dear fans of this as they eagerly wait for their bond notes.
Awards
As much as we are supposed to be very proud of ourselves, the undeniable reality on the ground is that Zimbabwe is a country in coma. But if there is anything that the country continues to be fruitful on, it is its bumper harvest in the awards sector. We doubt if there is any other country where there are so many barren awards being shared. When nothing is moving, Zimbos are busy creating awards to celebrate that nothing is happening, and when they give themselves these awards, they organise more awards to celebrate winning those awards. We are truly becoming an awards country and a half.
This week, we were bombarded with requests for votes from those Zimbos who have nominated themselves for the ZimRights Community Human Rights Defenders Awards (CHRA)… the People's Choice Award. The way these people have been campaigning leaves us all wondering if they are into whatever it is that they do for altruistic reason, or they are in it primarily for personal glory. In most countries worth called countries, these awards are bestowed… they are not something to campaign and stampede over as we are seeing here.
When one remembers that in the past this award has gone to none other than Joseph Chinotimba, the violent farm invader-in-chief, who a few years ago pumped bullets into his neighbour, Anna Maria Maenzanise, because she had chosen to be a supporter of the Movement for Democratic Change, then one wonders whether the award is worth anything at all.
Dr CZ thinks some of these awards are better bestowed on people when they are long dead because human being as we know them are capable of changing… we know a lot of people who were given this and that honour only for them to do things that would shock even the devil himself for the remainder of their lives. This is unlike football or any other sport in which a player can be celebrated for playing very well in a season… but a continuous journey that many might not be able to finish while still standing uprightly. Well, who is Dr CZ to let his jealous interfere with other people's plans?
Debunking…
This week, we loved soporific wartime stories in one of the State weeklies. In the past weeks, the paper has been carrying excerpts of a full-some interview granted by one former liberation war commander, Cde Francis Komboni Gondo, whose Chimurenga name was Cde Elias Hondo.
SM: In brief, how would you describe Tongogara?
Cde Hondo: He was very ruthless with tendencies of a dictator. He used to admire leaders like Idi Amini and Samora Machel. You know Samora Machel akanga asiri wekutamba naye. Aiwuraya munhu just like that. Dai Tongogara akasvika muno ari mupenyu, mwana waMagama, zvimwe zviri kuitika muno maiti baba (laughs). I am very serious.
SM: What do you mean?
Cde Hondo: With Tongogara, vanhu aingadai vasingangotaure taure zvavari kuita. Inga dai vasisiko.
SM: How come some people present Cde Tongo as a brave freedom fighter who was loved by many comrades?
Cde Hondo: Yes, he was very, very brave. Raive gamba but he was kind of a Joseph Stalin from Soviet Union. Remember Stalin followed Trotsky and killed him in Bolivia. Yes, Tongo was a revolutionary, but he was Stalin-like."
This interview reminded Dr CZ of his first encounter with the late Wilfred Mhanda (Dzinashe Machingura) at the launch of the Liberators' Platform in 2000.
At that time, it appeared quite odd that Mhanda could quite frankly reveal to Yours Truly that had Tongogara set foot in an independence Zimbabwe, some leaders that Zimbos have the luxury of seeing as very bad would have appeared like angels in comparison. He talked about how the nationalists who were jailed in Mozambican pit-prisons celebrated at the news of Tongogara's death and started looking forward to returning home because they were now assured that nothing untoward awaited them.
Then Dr CZ thought these were lies, blatant lies that he would never hear again about Zimbabwe's swashbuckling hero… sadly, it looks like there are more people willing to corroborate this other version of this country's history that until now has never had anyone to tell it.
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
Source - fingaz
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