Opinion / Columnist
Grace has her legs twisted in her designer knickers, regime change is in her bed!
10 Oct 2014 at 15:28hrs | Views
It is a well-known Zanu PF tactic to blame everyone else but themselves when things are not going their way. Grace Mugabe is a slow learner by all account but she has clearly learnt this tactic now. She has been berating ‘rogue' Zanu PF officials for colluding with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) to get rid of her husband.
At one of her many rallies said there were rogue Zanu PF officials were saying that no programme to rescue Zimbabwe from its downward economic spiral could succeed "as long as Mugabe is in office."
"There are senior people who pretend to support President Mugabe and during the day even dance to songs praising him, but during the night they say he is too old and should go," continued Grace.
Well she got the essence of blame someone else tactic but got herself twisted in her knickers, because the rogues she is after are as mythical as the three headed hyenas with eyes that can see though stone. It is to be expected of her given her pretentious of claiming to have a PhD when she does not even have an "O" level certificate!
First of all MDC leaders are politically died; they have proven beyond all doubt that they are breathtakingly incompetent it is pathetic to even think they can now engineer the economic meltdown to ouster Mugabe. MDC had the tyrant on the ropes for five years and they had to do was implement the democratic reform and thus deliver the coup de grace to finish him. Mugabe, unable to rig the elections, would have been finished.
So having failed to carry out the more straight forward task of implementing the reforms our Doctorate First Lady with no "O" level qualification now thinks these MDC idiots have engineered the nation's economic meltdown! We all know you did not get the PhD for your intellectual prowess; just keep your hands below the level of your head!
Second it is none of those Zanu PF "rogues" dancing and praising your husband during the day but plotting his removal at night who are responsible for Zimbabwe's economic meltdown either. The Zanu PF rogue, yes it is a Zanu PF rogue who has dragged the nation into this hell-hole, is none other than the corrupt and murderous tyrant whom you have been sharing your bed with all these years, the one and only Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
For years Mugabe has denied there was no mismanagement and corruption, blaming the economic slow-down on drought, MDC, on the sanction "imposed by the evil imperialists", etc. And so for years these cancers of mismanagement and corruption have been allowed to grow and spread to every corner of the economy. After 34 years of this criminal waste of human and material resources the economy is now in terminal decline overwhelmed by tennis ball size cancerous tumours everywhere.
Mugabe has shied away from dealing with the mismanagement and corruption because they constitute an integral part of the political patronage system which he has used to reward those loyal to him. It is political patronage that has kept Mugabe and Zanu PF in power all these years.
With the economy in the doldrums and the party's popularity at rock bottom Mugabe and Zanu PF are now totally dependent on rigging the elections to stay in power, as the 2008 and 2013 elections showed. And the political patronage system came to its own in both these elections; it is simply unthinkable that Mugabe and Zanu PF would want to dismantle the system now.
So yes, as long as Mugabe and Zanu PF remain in power the economic meltdown now gripping the national economy will only get worse! It is not MDC or rogue Zanu PF officials who have engineered this but Mugabe himself. And now he is caught in a trap of his own making. The criminal waste of resources born by decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption was economically unsustainable from the start. After 34 years, the chickens – more like the red billed quelea - have finally come home to roost!
Madam, the economic meltdown is real. Unemployment has soared to nauseating heights of 90% plus, 300 000 children or 80% are out of school, 62% of the people are poor and 16% or 2 million now live in abject poverty, etc. How much worse does the situation have to get before you people in Zanu PF will finally accept that the regime has failed and therefore must go!
Mugabe and Zanu PF must step down to allow the democratic reforms agreed in 2008 to be implemented and free, fair and democratic elections held. Only a new government with the electoral mandate and will to end mismanagement, corruption and all the other economic and political problems that have weighed down the nation will get this nation out of this hell-hole!
Those who say Mugabe is too old and feeble to lead the nation out of the current economic mess are talking nonsense; in the past he was young, strong and vigorous and look what a mess he made! The truth is he is now as he was then a corrupt and murderous tyrant who never had any useful idea. When he found himself in a position of power he could not resist the default setting of using political patronage to consolidate his grip on power.
Those pinning a lot of hope on Mugabe's young wife, Grace, to revive the national economy are equally mistaken. She is just another intellectual midget catapulted way above her level of competence. She too is reverting to the same default setting of political patronage to consolidate her grip on power. Whilst Robert inherited a strong and vibrant economy in 1980, she gets a feeble economy in total meltdown, feeble husband and a political party tiring itself to pieces. Now the poor woman is doing her best to hang on but will never succeed!
Grace is busy hunting down imaginary Zanu PF rogues she thinking are out to force her husband out of power and her too. When the rogue who has destroyed Zanu PF and the nation with it is none other the man she has shared her bed with all these years. He is the one pushing her reach for the top job in the land knowing fully well she will never hang on. Do not look down now; it is a long, long way to fall!
Poor, poor Grace, she sure has her legs twisted in her designer knickers, the rogue she believes to be her mentor "God's gift to Zimbabwe" is the one he has shafted her big time. Now that Grace has foolishly committed herself to fighting to retain Mugabe and the Zanu PF dictatorship in power she will have to share with Mugabe the cup of poison when the final-curtail call comes of his reign of corruption and murder!
At one of her many rallies said there were rogue Zanu PF officials were saying that no programme to rescue Zimbabwe from its downward economic spiral could succeed "as long as Mugabe is in office."
"There are senior people who pretend to support President Mugabe and during the day even dance to songs praising him, but during the night they say he is too old and should go," continued Grace.
Well she got the essence of blame someone else tactic but got herself twisted in her knickers, because the rogues she is after are as mythical as the three headed hyenas with eyes that can see though stone. It is to be expected of her given her pretentious of claiming to have a PhD when she does not even have an "O" level certificate!
First of all MDC leaders are politically died; they have proven beyond all doubt that they are breathtakingly incompetent it is pathetic to even think they can now engineer the economic meltdown to ouster Mugabe. MDC had the tyrant on the ropes for five years and they had to do was implement the democratic reform and thus deliver the coup de grace to finish him. Mugabe, unable to rig the elections, would have been finished.
So having failed to carry out the more straight forward task of implementing the reforms our Doctorate First Lady with no "O" level qualification now thinks these MDC idiots have engineered the nation's economic meltdown! We all know you did not get the PhD for your intellectual prowess; just keep your hands below the level of your head!
Second it is none of those Zanu PF "rogues" dancing and praising your husband during the day but plotting his removal at night who are responsible for Zimbabwe's economic meltdown either. The Zanu PF rogue, yes it is a Zanu PF rogue who has dragged the nation into this hell-hole, is none other than the corrupt and murderous tyrant whom you have been sharing your bed with all these years, the one and only Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
Mugabe has shied away from dealing with the mismanagement and corruption because they constitute an integral part of the political patronage system which he has used to reward those loyal to him. It is political patronage that has kept Mugabe and Zanu PF in power all these years.
With the economy in the doldrums and the party's popularity at rock bottom Mugabe and Zanu PF are now totally dependent on rigging the elections to stay in power, as the 2008 and 2013 elections showed. And the political patronage system came to its own in both these elections; it is simply unthinkable that Mugabe and Zanu PF would want to dismantle the system now.
So yes, as long as Mugabe and Zanu PF remain in power the economic meltdown now gripping the national economy will only get worse! It is not MDC or rogue Zanu PF officials who have engineered this but Mugabe himself. And now he is caught in a trap of his own making. The criminal waste of resources born by decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption was economically unsustainable from the start. After 34 years, the chickens – more like the red billed quelea - have finally come home to roost!
Madam, the economic meltdown is real. Unemployment has soared to nauseating heights of 90% plus, 300 000 children or 80% are out of school, 62% of the people are poor and 16% or 2 million now live in abject poverty, etc. How much worse does the situation have to get before you people in Zanu PF will finally accept that the regime has failed and therefore must go!
Mugabe and Zanu PF must step down to allow the democratic reforms agreed in 2008 to be implemented and free, fair and democratic elections held. Only a new government with the electoral mandate and will to end mismanagement, corruption and all the other economic and political problems that have weighed down the nation will get this nation out of this hell-hole!
Those who say Mugabe is too old and feeble to lead the nation out of the current economic mess are talking nonsense; in the past he was young, strong and vigorous and look what a mess he made! The truth is he is now as he was then a corrupt and murderous tyrant who never had any useful idea. When he found himself in a position of power he could not resist the default setting of using political patronage to consolidate his grip on power.
Those pinning a lot of hope on Mugabe's young wife, Grace, to revive the national economy are equally mistaken. She is just another intellectual midget catapulted way above her level of competence. She too is reverting to the same default setting of political patronage to consolidate her grip on power. Whilst Robert inherited a strong and vibrant economy in 1980, she gets a feeble economy in total meltdown, feeble husband and a political party tiring itself to pieces. Now the poor woman is doing her best to hang on but will never succeed!
Grace is busy hunting down imaginary Zanu PF rogues she thinking are out to force her husband out of power and her too. When the rogue who has destroyed Zanu PF and the nation with it is none other the man she has shared her bed with all these years. He is the one pushing her reach for the top job in the land knowing fully well she will never hang on. Do not look down now; it is a long, long way to fall!
Poor, poor Grace, she sure has her legs twisted in her designer knickers, the rogue she believes to be her mentor "God's gift to Zimbabwe" is the one he has shafted her big time. Now that Grace has foolishly committed herself to fighting to retain Mugabe and the Zanu PF dictatorship in power she will have to share with Mugabe the cup of poison when the final-curtail call comes of his reign of corruption and murder!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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