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ZANU‑PF and ANC‑South Africa are a bird with two wings
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It sounds stupid to describe ZANU‑PF and ANC as a bird with two wings, an obvious fact. But reading my arguments will elaborate on what I really mean. Mr Marapira, in his wisdom or lack of it, makes it clear that he does not know how violent his boss, Dr Mnangagwa, is. By so saying, ZANU‑PF is distancing itself from Chatunga's criminal charges laid upon him in South Africa.
The question is: did the ZANU ruling party and government listen to Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and Madlanga's depositions in the South African parliament? From the two commissions, without a doubt, South Africa is one of the most corrupt countries in Africa. The corruption taking place in all government institutions and councils is unimaginable by common sense. A whole president can open a bank account with a mattress and sofa in his farm in Phala‑Phala.
The director of information for ZANU‑PF, Mr Marapira, is talking about his party that is at par with the ANC ruling party of South Africa: zero tolerance to violence, my foot. "Our president has been very clear on matters regarding violence. He stated clearly that as a party, we do not condone violence in any form," Marapira said.
Who perpetrated the Matabeleland genocide from 1983 until 1987? Who murdered white farmers and farmworkers in the wake of the millennium? (Hondo yeMinda.) Who perpetrated acts of barbarism during "Operation Murambatsvina" in 2003? Who cut limbs and murdered opposition voters in the thousands in 2008, having lost elections to Morgan Tsvangirai? (It is Chiwenga who ordered the killings of thousands of MDC voters.) According to Mr Marapira, dark historical events do not constitute violence if violence is perpetrated by ZANU‑PF.
The corruption taking place in South Africa cannot be described in a single sentence. It is so deep in almost every arm of the party and government, from the presidency going down. Councils are run by officials with basic education. Wearing an ANC T‑shirt is enough to be given a position beyond their pay grade. Whistleblowers have tried to expose the stench of corruption in the party and government system. So many of the whistleblowers have been eliminated. What makes it worse in South Africa is the degree of corruption right inside police institutions. South Africa was captured by criminal syndicates a long time ago, starting from the Zuma presidency.
ANC‑South Africa and ZANU‑PF Zimbabwe are both criminal governments. ZANU‑PF could be better than ANC because there isn't as much to loot as in South Africa. The only arm of the government that is working in South Africa is the judiciary, where Chatunga Mugabe finds himself mingled up with the justice system. Those who are cheering that Chatunga will go to a South African prison will be ashamed to find that Chatunga has leverage.
Chatunga will tell the courts where he got the firearm from. Where did Chatunga get a car with police blue sirens? Where did he get the red passport from? How did he enter South Africa without his passport indicating his length of stay? There is a litany of questions to be answered by corrupt South African officials who facilitated so many items that Chatunga had the means to commit crimes.
Mr Marapira should know that if a citizen committed a crime in a foreign country, Zimbabwe needed to stand by its citizen and not against its citizens. Are we to be proud of a country that does not care about our well‑being in foreign countries? For a citizen who commits crimes in foreign countries, the government of the citizen engages the foreign government in the interest of their citizens, not making the situation worse again for their own citizen.
It appears as if Chatunga has nobody on his side. His mother cannot travel to South Africa. The government of Zimbabwe has washed its hands of it; they will not assist him. Yes, if Chatunga is charged and found guilty, it is a serious offence; he could spend years in prison. Let us not fuel the fire to make it worse by laughing at him. He is a victim of circumstances. This is not the time to laugh at him anyway. How hard‑hearted could you still be to laugh at this situation? Chatunga is our child, just like any other youth in Zimbabwe. We don't disown them when they commit crimes.
Chatunga is partly at fault: his upbringing made him what he is. He socialized wrongly; his parents did not give proper boundaries while he was growing up. What is wrong and right is wholly absent in his life today. Child upbringing is longitudinal. Chatunga did not become a murderer or a drug user overnight. So many events accumulated with time for him to lack a sense of justice, a trait that one gets in a home environment and not exactly at 29 years of age. The justice system will judge him on the day he attempted to murder his gardener.
I may be 7 thousand miles away from Chatunga Mugabe. I am with him in my prayers. (I become religious and prayerful if I am faced with such highly emotional situations.) I am convinced it is not his fault to be immersed in such dirty intrigues. His parents and his upbringing are purely at fault here. He is the one facing the music alone, far away from home.
I hope the universe will intervene in his favour. There is a level of intelligence in which the energy from the universe operates. Its divine energy is not vindictive like humans: it does not judge, does not shame, but reflects good energy to its creation; it does not matter who.
The question is: did the ZANU ruling party and government listen to Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and Madlanga's depositions in the South African parliament? From the two commissions, without a doubt, South Africa is one of the most corrupt countries in Africa. The corruption taking place in all government institutions and councils is unimaginable by common sense. A whole president can open a bank account with a mattress and sofa in his farm in Phala‑Phala.
The director of information for ZANU‑PF, Mr Marapira, is talking about his party that is at par with the ANC ruling party of South Africa: zero tolerance to violence, my foot. "Our president has been very clear on matters regarding violence. He stated clearly that as a party, we do not condone violence in any form," Marapira said.
Who perpetrated the Matabeleland genocide from 1983 until 1987? Who murdered white farmers and farmworkers in the wake of the millennium? (Hondo yeMinda.) Who perpetrated acts of barbarism during "Operation Murambatsvina" in 2003? Who cut limbs and murdered opposition voters in the thousands in 2008, having lost elections to Morgan Tsvangirai? (It is Chiwenga who ordered the killings of thousands of MDC voters.) According to Mr Marapira, dark historical events do not constitute violence if violence is perpetrated by ZANU‑PF.
The corruption taking place in South Africa cannot be described in a single sentence. It is so deep in almost every arm of the party and government, from the presidency going down. Councils are run by officials with basic education. Wearing an ANC T‑shirt is enough to be given a position beyond their pay grade. Whistleblowers have tried to expose the stench of corruption in the party and government system. So many of the whistleblowers have been eliminated. What makes it worse in South Africa is the degree of corruption right inside police institutions. South Africa was captured by criminal syndicates a long time ago, starting from the Zuma presidency.
ANC‑South Africa and ZANU‑PF Zimbabwe are both criminal governments. ZANU‑PF could be better than ANC because there isn't as much to loot as in South Africa. The only arm of the government that is working in South Africa is the judiciary, where Chatunga Mugabe finds himself mingled up with the justice system. Those who are cheering that Chatunga will go to a South African prison will be ashamed to find that Chatunga has leverage.
Mr Marapira should know that if a citizen committed a crime in a foreign country, Zimbabwe needed to stand by its citizen and not against its citizens. Are we to be proud of a country that does not care about our well‑being in foreign countries? For a citizen who commits crimes in foreign countries, the government of the citizen engages the foreign government in the interest of their citizens, not making the situation worse again for their own citizen.
It appears as if Chatunga has nobody on his side. His mother cannot travel to South Africa. The government of Zimbabwe has washed its hands of it; they will not assist him. Yes, if Chatunga is charged and found guilty, it is a serious offence; he could spend years in prison. Let us not fuel the fire to make it worse by laughing at him. He is a victim of circumstances. This is not the time to laugh at him anyway. How hard‑hearted could you still be to laugh at this situation? Chatunga is our child, just like any other youth in Zimbabwe. We don't disown them when they commit crimes.
Chatunga is partly at fault: his upbringing made him what he is. He socialized wrongly; his parents did not give proper boundaries while he was growing up. What is wrong and right is wholly absent in his life today. Child upbringing is longitudinal. Chatunga did not become a murderer or a drug user overnight. So many events accumulated with time for him to lack a sense of justice, a trait that one gets in a home environment and not exactly at 29 years of age. The justice system will judge him on the day he attempted to murder his gardener.
I may be 7 thousand miles away from Chatunga Mugabe. I am with him in my prayers. (I become religious and prayerful if I am faced with such highly emotional situations.) I am convinced it is not his fault to be immersed in such dirty intrigues. His parents and his upbringing are purely at fault here. He is the one facing the music alone, far away from home.
I hope the universe will intervene in his favour. There is a level of intelligence in which the energy from the universe operates. Its divine energy is not vindictive like humans: it does not judge, does not shame, but reflects good energy to its creation; it does not matter who.
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