Chamisa note: Nothing wrong with being a dove

"CHAMISA is considered to be one of the greatest orators of his generation," so goes one claim. If that had come from credible sources rather than Wikipedia then we would all be crying out "God help that generation," but of course we take comfort from the fact that Wikipedia has wacky information mingled with facts thus some people fail to separate facts from much rubbish.

We are after all talking of our very own ICT Minister Nelson Chamisa, who once described Roy Bennett as "an angel," and now describes himself as being "as white as a dove," so I will let you tease out facts from rubbish.

Many will accuse me of reading too much into Chamisa's words but then again someone has to, for we cannot let him go on disgorging statements that potentially stigmatise his very own race, the black people what with statements like this, "God created me just as I am. They can paint me black but it doesn't matter, I'm as white as a white dove."

Nothing wrong with just being a dove, the dove is just the signifier and the signified concept that the visual of the dove gives is peacefulness so it matters not what colour the dove is for indeed we have a variety of doves and all have varying shades, we have black doves, white doves and a myriad of other shades. But for reasons best known to minister Chamisa he chooses to be 'as white as a white dove.

I'm as white as a white dove' claimed our journalist bashing minister who according to the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) "verbally abusing" a journalist during a press conference.

Nkosana Dlamini, the Zimbabwe correspondent for the SABC, raffled the feathers of the white as a white dove minister at a press conference addressed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at the party's Harvest House HQ sometime in March.

Perhaps someone forgot to mention/whisper to Dlamini that the "white as a white dove" minister was allergic to Zanu-PF.

Dlamini's crime was triggering the ministers allergies by "bringing Zanu-PF propaganda to Harvest House' after he had asked Prime Minister Tsvangirai a question."

It is worrying and indeed should worry every right thinking person when a black African minister in the mould of Chamisa displays such shocking levels of western indoctrination such as to equate black to evil and whiteness to goodliness as implied by the minister in his statement.

However, what is worse is to then consciously or subconsciously propagate these racial stereotypes by using analogies that further re-enforce these race-deprecating themes.

I am sure the minister has much better analogies in his arsenal; it is discouraging to hear some of his abominable analogies such as equating Roy Bennett to an angel.

The young minister has successfully shown us that he is never short of a statement, nonetheless statements empty of reason but full of words that do not amount to any sense - a lot of hot air.

As if to put paid to the Wikipedia claims Minister Chamisa claimed, "We have defeated Zanu-PF on the platform of facts and marketplace of ideas and they are not happy to live with that reality.

"They have decided that if they can't play the game, they will play the player."

I could not help but wonder what ideas he was referring to, or what facts they (MDC-T) had used to defeat Zanu-PF.

What one cannot escape from is the glaring absence of facts in the minister's denial of penning the now infamous note praising President Mugabe, which by the way is not criminal.

In any case, his boss Tsvangirai has also sung praises about President Mugabe, as has his colleague Finance Minister Tendai Biti.

However, for minister Chamisa giving praise to the President seems to be criminal or a medical condition to be avoided since he claimed "I'm allergic to Zanu PF. Every tissue in my body is allergic; including the hand that they claim wrote that note.

"I have consistently fought dictatorship in this country, and I will continue to fight tyranny. I will never ever worship the devil. I refuse now, I refuse tomorrow and will refuse forever."

This is just classic, is it any wonder why Wikipedia proclaimed him a great orator?

Has Chamisa gone cuckoo?

Why does he choose to cover himself with a woollen blanket if he is allergic to wool?

Right now he is in government with the same people he refers to as devils, the same organization he is allergic to, Zanu-PF, is all over him like a woollen blanket and maybe that explains why he is the saddest minister.

A child that is allergic to grass will never have fun playing in a park full of grass.

Chamisa's self proclaimed sadness has attention seeker written all over it, he will get some sympathy from some quarters but, he might as well find a grass free park to play on cause Zimbabwe will always have Zanu-PF the cause of his allergies.

Advice to Chamisa
Back to the infamous note, if you did not pen that note minister please just sue the newspaper in question, other than that please spare us the nonsense.

And by the way, what ideas have you come up with for our nation from your so-called market place of ideas?

Minister, please do not confuse empty sloganeering for ideas.

We are not as gullible and easily flattered by your cheap talk; many of us can separate fact from fiction.

We are still to see or hear credible policy or real plans for empowerment development or economic recovery from your people (MDC-T) other than the now nauseating "Mugabe must go" slogan which is neither plan nor policy for the economic recovery of our nation.

Ironically it is your party that is shouting Mugabe must go you even qualify that with the now, yet your party seems to be fidgeting backwards when the word election is mentioned Zimbabwe is ready for an election the (MDC-T) may not be but Zimbabweans are ready even to vote next month.

You are not ready to give up the ministerial jobs that make you so sad and I ask why oh why do not push for an election ASAP?

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Brilliant Pongo writes from the United Kingdom. He can be reached via: bbpongo@yahoo.ca