Opinion / Columnist
Get ready for June 29, Cdes
11 Apr 2013 at 11:45hrs | Views
CABINET FILES AND NOTEBOOK WITH CZ
Dear Cabinet and
Politburo members
COMRADES, I am happy that after recent court rulings, it has become clearer not only that elections should be held in this country by the end of June, but also that only my office has the final say on when and how these elections would be held.
What it means is that we should get ready for elections on June 29. Never listen to the twaddle from our detractors who still dream of delaying the inevitable by a few more weeks.
Very soon our party will be having its primary elections, immediately after which our campaign will start in earnest.
Morgan and his minions know that after elections they will be history, that is why they have of late been pushing for exit packages … they know this is the dead-end. They want exit packages for their role in destroying the country?
And this Biti boy is trying to throw spanners into our efforts to import maize from Zambia so that his party can use the resulting exaggerated food crisis to trick hungry voters in the coming elections. Manje vanyangira yaona. It's a shop-soiled and over-used trick. And these people allege that the police are always arresting their members only … I notice that Cde Mliswa and other members were recently arrested in Mashonaland West for alleged political violence, right now very senior party members appeared before the courts in Mutare facing stock-theft charges. This is over and above many others who were arrested on murder charges in Mashonaland Central. Some have even been jailed yet these people chose not to see all this. Anyway, what can be expected of people who know that they will lose come whatever may?
This was an isotopic week for me … I was overjoyed to witness the swearing-in of Cde Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, much to the chagrin of the West…but I was also saddened by the untimely passing away of former British prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Of all the prime ministers Britain has had in her history, she was not the only woman, but the most sensible of them all. She is the one who forced the Lancaster House talks that facilitated the surrender of the Smith regime, and also undertook to fund land reforms in Zimbabwe … an undertaking that successive British governments have wantonly reneged on leading to our current marathon bilateral dispute with London.
May her soul rest in eternal peace.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
.... AND NOW TO THE NOTEBOOK
Just curious
Our prophets, who now seem quite prolific at prophesying deaths were celebrating their tails off this week…that their prophesy of the death of a Western leader had come to pass … in the death of Britain's Baroness Margaret Thatcher. It is not CZ's business to question the authenticity of these prophets, but one thing should be quite worrying to all those who believe that there is a wonderful life waiting for the righteous on the other end. Ever heard the saying that life here on earth is wonderful, and life in heaven is blissful but it is only the bridge that is not user-friendly?
Surely, why would men of God make it their business of joining the ignorant in scandalising death - even of the hopelessly aged -when it is only the natural path to one's heavenly rewards?
We have been seeing the same with former South African president Nelson Mandela…the way people have been praying for him when he was in hospital last week made it look like death is an abomination of some sort … it looked like these same people have serious misgivings about the existence of some heavenly rewards, otherwise what can explain the stridence and trenchancy in those tearful prayers, that God had no choice but to answer?
If it is time for CZ, Margaret Thatcher, or anyone to go for their heavenly reward, why would a mere mortal try to intervene?
If priests, prophets, and the generality of believers all join hands in shooing death away the way we see them doing, and are themselves so hesitant to go for their rewards when the time has come, we really wonder how they hope to convince those who have not had the chance of being saved with their message of an everlasting life on the other side.
Ya-ah!
Still on the death of Margaret Thatcher, CZ is now doubly convinced that that long threatened end of the world is finally here … otherwise how else can one explain strange things that we are seeing? Following the announcement of Thatcher's death, many communities in the United Kingdom and elsewhere (especially Argentina) went into paroxysms of joy, celebrating that the so-called Iron Lady of British politics, whom they dearly loved to hate, was finally dead. Placards screaming "The B***h is Dead!", "Maggie, Maggie Maggie . . . Dead, Dead, Dead…GOOD RIDDANCE", "Go to Hell," and some such were splashed all over as all sorts of musical instruments suddenly appeared on the streets for the massive celebrations. We have never known death as something that is celebrated. Such wild celebrations were last seen in Iraq after the execution of Saddam Hussein, in America following the killing of Osama bin Laden and in Libya following the death of Muammar Gaddafi.
To think that a people who look civilised like the British could hold such a bilious grudge more than two decades after Thatcher had left office is unbelievable. We only hope and pray that our people who are living there will not try to bring this new culture with them if ever they are to return to this country! Nxa-a!
Show
CZ is saddened by the fact that ZANU-PF is going ahead with its show of fighting corruption by using its suspended Manicaland provincial chairman Cde Mike Madiro & Co as an example to all and sundry. We never thought the party could be so hard-hearted as to take such a drastic step like handing the motley over to the police for a commonplace "crime" of allegedly helping themselves to cattle and possibly some cash donated for party functions by "well-wishers" over the years.
Unless there are some other misdemeanors that these people are being punished for that we do not know, there is really nothing new in what they are alleged to have done…in fact it is standard procedure the world over…who said a goat grazes where it is tethered? Let the party do an audit of who donated what through who since its formation in 1963 and see if there would be any one party member who would remain standing…this was the practice even from liberation war days…you bless your self from the proceeds of the fundraising, as long as you remember to pass on something forward.
Some stole hundreds of tonnes of sugar in Masvingo that year, what happened to them? They were promoted instead, and we see them making lots of noise everyday. Others stole tonnes of meat that year in Bindura…we will not mention those who helped themselves to monies collected (extorted) from various "well wishers" locally and abroad.
This has never been a crime, even from the days CZ was still a member of that party. In fact, that is the whole essence of being a politician…there are certain benefits that just come with being the power-that-be.
People do not become politicians for the salaries, or for the love of uplifting the povo's standard of living, never. But for the privileges that come with that resultant power…one of which is to decide what goes into the back pocket. Even in Europe, America and the world over such cases are rampant. You become a politician in order to - first and foremost - be able to bless yourself.
How many people know that by the time of his death in 2004, the saint-like Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat - best man at Uganda's Idi Amin's wedding in 1975 - had slowly but surely salted away close to US$1 billion from funds donated towards the Palestinian cause?
Nxa-a!
CZ is not impressed by the selfish decision made by the Dynamos executive to suspend the club's participation at CAF tournaments. The apology being given, that the team has perennially not performed well in this tournament - is very sorry and silly. The move defeats the purpose of having a football team in the first place ... should teams compete in tournaments they win only? If the Kenny Mubaiwa-led Dynamos executive is tired of running (down) the club, they should step aside, instead of making decisions detrimental to the club.
Well, no one is qualified to suggested that the CAF campaigns are very bad because they have been leaving the club's coffers hopelessly depleted, meaning very little for the back pocket!
-cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
Dear Cabinet and
Politburo members
COMRADES, I am happy that after recent court rulings, it has become clearer not only that elections should be held in this country by the end of June, but also that only my office has the final say on when and how these elections would be held.
What it means is that we should get ready for elections on June 29. Never listen to the twaddle from our detractors who still dream of delaying the inevitable by a few more weeks.
Very soon our party will be having its primary elections, immediately after which our campaign will start in earnest.
Morgan and his minions know that after elections they will be history, that is why they have of late been pushing for exit packages … they know this is the dead-end. They want exit packages for their role in destroying the country?
And this Biti boy is trying to throw spanners into our efforts to import maize from Zambia so that his party can use the resulting exaggerated food crisis to trick hungry voters in the coming elections. Manje vanyangira yaona. It's a shop-soiled and over-used trick. And these people allege that the police are always arresting their members only … I notice that Cde Mliswa and other members were recently arrested in Mashonaland West for alleged political violence, right now very senior party members appeared before the courts in Mutare facing stock-theft charges. This is over and above many others who were arrested on murder charges in Mashonaland Central. Some have even been jailed yet these people chose not to see all this. Anyway, what can be expected of people who know that they will lose come whatever may?
This was an isotopic week for me … I was overjoyed to witness the swearing-in of Cde Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, much to the chagrin of the West…but I was also saddened by the untimely passing away of former British prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Of all the prime ministers Britain has had in her history, she was not the only woman, but the most sensible of them all. She is the one who forced the Lancaster House talks that facilitated the surrender of the Smith regime, and also undertook to fund land reforms in Zimbabwe … an undertaking that successive British governments have wantonly reneged on leading to our current marathon bilateral dispute with London.
May her soul rest in eternal peace.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
.... AND NOW TO THE NOTEBOOK
Just curious
Our prophets, who now seem quite prolific at prophesying deaths were celebrating their tails off this week…that their prophesy of the death of a Western leader had come to pass … in the death of Britain's Baroness Margaret Thatcher. It is not CZ's business to question the authenticity of these prophets, but one thing should be quite worrying to all those who believe that there is a wonderful life waiting for the righteous on the other end. Ever heard the saying that life here on earth is wonderful, and life in heaven is blissful but it is only the bridge that is not user-friendly?
We have been seeing the same with former South African president Nelson Mandela…the way people have been praying for him when he was in hospital last week made it look like death is an abomination of some sort … it looked like these same people have serious misgivings about the existence of some heavenly rewards, otherwise what can explain the stridence and trenchancy in those tearful prayers, that God had no choice but to answer?
If it is time for CZ, Margaret Thatcher, or anyone to go for their heavenly reward, why would a mere mortal try to intervene?
If priests, prophets, and the generality of believers all join hands in shooing death away the way we see them doing, and are themselves so hesitant to go for their rewards when the time has come, we really wonder how they hope to convince those who have not had the chance of being saved with their message of an everlasting life on the other side.
Ya-ah!
Still on the death of Margaret Thatcher, CZ is now doubly convinced that that long threatened end of the world is finally here … otherwise how else can one explain strange things that we are seeing? Following the announcement of Thatcher's death, many communities in the United Kingdom and elsewhere (especially Argentina) went into paroxysms of joy, celebrating that the so-called Iron Lady of British politics, whom they dearly loved to hate, was finally dead. Placards screaming "The B***h is Dead!", "Maggie, Maggie Maggie . . . Dead, Dead, Dead…GOOD RIDDANCE", "Go to Hell," and some such were splashed all over as all sorts of musical instruments suddenly appeared on the streets for the massive celebrations. We have never known death as something that is celebrated. Such wild celebrations were last seen in Iraq after the execution of Saddam Hussein, in America following the killing of Osama bin Laden and in Libya following the death of Muammar Gaddafi.
To think that a people who look civilised like the British could hold such a bilious grudge more than two decades after Thatcher had left office is unbelievable. We only hope and pray that our people who are living there will not try to bring this new culture with them if ever they are to return to this country! Nxa-a!
Show
CZ is saddened by the fact that ZANU-PF is going ahead with its show of fighting corruption by using its suspended Manicaland provincial chairman Cde Mike Madiro & Co as an example to all and sundry. We never thought the party could be so hard-hearted as to take such a drastic step like handing the motley over to the police for a commonplace "crime" of allegedly helping themselves to cattle and possibly some cash donated for party functions by "well-wishers" over the years.
Unless there are some other misdemeanors that these people are being punished for that we do not know, there is really nothing new in what they are alleged to have done…in fact it is standard procedure the world over…who said a goat grazes where it is tethered? Let the party do an audit of who donated what through who since its formation in 1963 and see if there would be any one party member who would remain standing…this was the practice even from liberation war days…you bless your self from the proceeds of the fundraising, as long as you remember to pass on something forward.
Some stole hundreds of tonnes of sugar in Masvingo that year, what happened to them? They were promoted instead, and we see them making lots of noise everyday. Others stole tonnes of meat that year in Bindura…we will not mention those who helped themselves to monies collected (extorted) from various "well wishers" locally and abroad.
This has never been a crime, even from the days CZ was still a member of that party. In fact, that is the whole essence of being a politician…there are certain benefits that just come with being the power-that-be.
People do not become politicians for the salaries, or for the love of uplifting the povo's standard of living, never. But for the privileges that come with that resultant power…one of which is to decide what goes into the back pocket. Even in Europe, America and the world over such cases are rampant. You become a politician in order to - first and foremost - be able to bless yourself.
How many people know that by the time of his death in 2004, the saint-like Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat - best man at Uganda's Idi Amin's wedding in 1975 - had slowly but surely salted away close to US$1 billion from funds donated towards the Palestinian cause?
Nxa-a!
CZ is not impressed by the selfish decision made by the Dynamos executive to suspend the club's participation at CAF tournaments. The apology being given, that the team has perennially not performed well in this tournament - is very sorry and silly. The move defeats the purpose of having a football team in the first place ... should teams compete in tournaments they win only? If the Kenny Mubaiwa-led Dynamos executive is tired of running (down) the club, they should step aside, instead of making decisions detrimental to the club.
Well, no one is qualified to suggested that the CAF campaigns are very bad because they have been leaving the club's coffers hopelessly depleted, meaning very little for the back pocket!
-cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
Source - CZ
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