Opinion / Columnist
Mugabe has ruled Zanu PF and the country like a crow on the top perch crapping on those below
02 Sep 2014 at 08:27hrs | Views
The factional fighting in Zanu PF is heating up and whilst the factional members are slogging it out in a vicious no-hold-barred and take-no-prisoners fight, they all take it in turn to shower Mugabe with praise as if to say he can do no wrong. If anything it is Mugabe himself who has drummed the hornet by parachuting his wife Grace to lead the women's league in violation of the party rules. It is this Mugabe can do no wrong mentality that concerns me!
When a senior Zanu PF leader like Rugare Gumbo talk of "Anyone who misdirects their focus to dwell on petty, narrow and immature politics is not only showing disrespect to President Mugabe who is genuinely determined to improve the welfare of the people- but is on the wrong side of history and should be ashamed of himself or herself." It is clear why the country is in such a serious mess!
The country is facing a serious economic meltdown millions of our people have been thrown into a life of abject poverty and despair and here is someone who still believes Mugabe is doing fine. This not just anyone but one has had his hands on the levers of power and therefore could and should have done something to stop this regime dragging the nation into this mess. The sheer stupidity of leaders like Rugare Gumbo is breath-taking.
No wonder Mugabe has all these years ran circles round the Zanu PF leaders and treated them all with the uttermost contempt whenever he pleased. Mugabe is the first secretary of Zanu PF but not in the conventional sense of first amongst equals but more like the crow on the top perch crapping on all those below!
The truth is Zanu PF has failed to deliver mass prosperity and has delivered instead mass poverty. If someone as senior as Rugare Gumbo does not have the courage to tell Mugabe that simple reality then who will! It is clear Gumbo did not have the courage to speak the truth and the least he should have done then is to shut up. Instead he is showering Mugabe with praise whilst heaping all the blame on those around the tyrant as if it is unthinkable for Mugabe to be fallible!
It is pleased that Mugabe and the whole Zanu PF edifice are collapsing; the dictatorship is rotten to the core and it is now collapsing like a rotten watermelon. Zimbabwe needs a new political system in which those in leadership positions have the humility to accept that they are first and foremost fallible mortals and not demigods and therefore they are accountable to their follow leaders and the public at large affected by their decisions.
Mr Rugare Gumbo, Mugabe is corrupt, neurotic and murderous tyrant; he has fcuked up big time and so too have you. You have sat there all these 34 years dozing and said and done nothing to stop all this madness!
When a senior Zanu PF leader like Rugare Gumbo talk of "Anyone who misdirects their focus to dwell on petty, narrow and immature politics is not only showing disrespect to President Mugabe who is genuinely determined to improve the welfare of the people- but is on the wrong side of history and should be ashamed of himself or herself." It is clear why the country is in such a serious mess!
The country is facing a serious economic meltdown millions of our people have been thrown into a life of abject poverty and despair and here is someone who still believes Mugabe is doing fine. This not just anyone but one has had his hands on the levers of power and therefore could and should have done something to stop this regime dragging the nation into this mess. The sheer stupidity of leaders like Rugare Gumbo is breath-taking.
The truth is Zanu PF has failed to deliver mass prosperity and has delivered instead mass poverty. If someone as senior as Rugare Gumbo does not have the courage to tell Mugabe that simple reality then who will! It is clear Gumbo did not have the courage to speak the truth and the least he should have done then is to shut up. Instead he is showering Mugabe with praise whilst heaping all the blame on those around the tyrant as if it is unthinkable for Mugabe to be fallible!
It is pleased that Mugabe and the whole Zanu PF edifice are collapsing; the dictatorship is rotten to the core and it is now collapsing like a rotten watermelon. Zimbabwe needs a new political system in which those in leadership positions have the humility to accept that they are first and foremost fallible mortals and not demigods and therefore they are accountable to their follow leaders and the public at large affected by their decisions.
Mr Rugare Gumbo, Mugabe is corrupt, neurotic and murderous tyrant; he has fcuked up big time and so too have you. You have sat there all these 34 years dozing and said and done nothing to stop all this madness!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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