Opinion / Columnist
What are the economic and political ramifications of Grace publicly denouncing chillaxing VP Mujuru
14 Oct 2014 at 17:09hrs | Views
Being vice-president is not about chillaxing in the office and leaving President Robert Mugabe to shoulder alone the responsibility of leading the country, the veteran leader's wife said Monday while addressing a rally in Matabeleland South.
It is no secrete that VP Mujuru has done very little in all her years in government. Her pathetic performance record is no worse than that of many of her Zanu PF colleagues. Look at Simon Muzenda, John Nkomo, Mnangagwa, Mutasa, etc. they all would have had Fs in everything year on year for 34 years if anyone had bothered to grade their work. It is not that VP Mujuru has been doing nothing that matters here but what the nation can expect from VP Grace Mugabe and, more intriguingly, what are the ramifications of Grace publicly denounce the chillaxing Mujuru! Let us face it Mai Mujuru is as dim witted as they come; she has never come up with anything original or of any substance in all her 34 years in power. The only thing she and her late husband have been doing is loot. When it comes to looting anyone can walk onto someone's farm, for example, kick off the own and move in. All one needs to be a looter is to be greedy, have no sense of justice and contempt of the law and have the power to impose one's will.
The test if the looter has any brain is whether or not they are able to put any of the looted wealth and resource into productive use. God knows how many millions of dollars have been poured into farming to increase production but all to no effect. The Mujurus are billionaires from the looted wealth but only because they kept looting to more than make up for all they wasted. None of all the mines, farms, business ventures they looted or started are a success. Not even one! But to be fair to the Mujurus, the same can be said about all the other Zanu PF looters which is everyone.
Grace Mugabe has often given the impression that her Gushungo Dairy Business is a great success. What she has never said is how many billions of dollars have been poured into the business in the form of loans, none of them repaid, and in other indirect subsidies such as paying none of taxes everybody else pay. Include these things and the success story is seen for what it really is – a total disaster. Grace wants the chillaxing Mai Mujuru replaced with none other than herself, of course. What is she offering? When it comes to brains; she is just as dim witted as Mai Mujuru. There is very little brain activity in that fruitcake, capping her with a PhD and calling her Dr Grace will never change that basic reality! As VP, Grace would commandeer state resources like Police, Civil Servants, Ministers, helicopters, etc. the same way she is doing right now with her meet-the-people rallies but with the added gravitas befitting her VP, Doctor and First Lady titles. She has not said anything of substance during these on-going country- wide rallies because there was never any purpose to holding these rallies in the first place.
The rallies are a foretaste of VP Grace Mugabe's ethos - she has nothing to say but will go to great taxpayers' expense to say it! We have already forgotten what she said in Gwanda but the millions wasted to host these rallies have dragged the whole nation even deeper into the economic abyss adding to the nation's mounting economic misery – no one will forget that in a hurry.
Soon after independence Zimbabweans nicknamed Robert Mugabe the modern day Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese Explorer, the first European to reach India by sea. After two years in power, Mugabe had already travelled to every corner of the world.
"The only place Vasco da Gama has not been to is hell!" Zimbabweans commented, in sheer exasperation at all this waste of money on endless globe-trotting with nothing to show for it! After 34 years Mugabe's appetite for globe-trotting has not abetted in anyway. Two years ago he travelled to Singapore alone eight times in one year and each trip costed the taxpayer US$3 million. The country's economy has shrunk over the years but that has had no effect on his spending habits and extravagant tastes.
Mugabe has recently added a new dimension to his globe-trotting -begging. He was in China in August, his 13th trip to that country in his 34 years in power, begging the Chinese to bankroll his $27 billion ZimAsset economic recovery plan. The Chinese gave him $3 billion for specific projects but refused to give him a dollar in budgetary support because he is "a bad debtor" (不良债务人 in Chinese). They told him so to his face. VP Grace Mugabe will definitely want to travel, she is shopaholic. We will now have two globe-trotters! We should just double our current president's budget office allocation because we will a double the motorcade, double overseas trips, double everything. Indeed Grace is not wasting time in waiting for the official appointment and being sworn in as VP; she is VP already in all but name!
One can even go so far as to say she is not VP and yet she already exercising the powers of Supremo President Grace Mugabe. No one, absolutely no one, but the Supremo President would have the audacity to publicly denounce VP Mujuru as a VP "who does nothing". The nation is holding its collective breathe to see whether Robert Mugabe is going to finally rein in Grace and put her in her place. If he does nothing then we will all know that there has been a palatial Blue Roof coup, Grace now rules the roost!
It is no secrete that VP Mujuru has done very little in all her years in government. Her pathetic performance record is no worse than that of many of her Zanu PF colleagues. Look at Simon Muzenda, John Nkomo, Mnangagwa, Mutasa, etc. they all would have had Fs in everything year on year for 34 years if anyone had bothered to grade their work. It is not that VP Mujuru has been doing nothing that matters here but what the nation can expect from VP Grace Mugabe and, more intriguingly, what are the ramifications of Grace publicly denounce the chillaxing Mujuru! Let us face it Mai Mujuru is as dim witted as they come; she has never come up with anything original or of any substance in all her 34 years in power. The only thing she and her late husband have been doing is loot. When it comes to looting anyone can walk onto someone's farm, for example, kick off the own and move in. All one needs to be a looter is to be greedy, have no sense of justice and contempt of the law and have the power to impose one's will.
The test if the looter has any brain is whether or not they are able to put any of the looted wealth and resource into productive use. God knows how many millions of dollars have been poured into farming to increase production but all to no effect. The Mujurus are billionaires from the looted wealth but only because they kept looting to more than make up for all they wasted. None of all the mines, farms, business ventures they looted or started are a success. Not even one! But to be fair to the Mujurus, the same can be said about all the other Zanu PF looters which is everyone.
Grace Mugabe has often given the impression that her Gushungo Dairy Business is a great success. What she has never said is how many billions of dollars have been poured into the business in the form of loans, none of them repaid, and in other indirect subsidies such as paying none of taxes everybody else pay. Include these things and the success story is seen for what it really is – a total disaster. Grace wants the chillaxing Mai Mujuru replaced with none other than herself, of course. What is she offering? When it comes to brains; she is just as dim witted as Mai Mujuru. There is very little brain activity in that fruitcake, capping her with a PhD and calling her Dr Grace will never change that basic reality! As VP, Grace would commandeer state resources like Police, Civil Servants, Ministers, helicopters, etc. the same way she is doing right now with her meet-the-people rallies but with the added gravitas befitting her VP, Doctor and First Lady titles. She has not said anything of substance during these on-going country- wide rallies because there was never any purpose to holding these rallies in the first place.
Soon after independence Zimbabweans nicknamed Robert Mugabe the modern day Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese Explorer, the first European to reach India by sea. After two years in power, Mugabe had already travelled to every corner of the world.
"The only place Vasco da Gama has not been to is hell!" Zimbabweans commented, in sheer exasperation at all this waste of money on endless globe-trotting with nothing to show for it! After 34 years Mugabe's appetite for globe-trotting has not abetted in anyway. Two years ago he travelled to Singapore alone eight times in one year and each trip costed the taxpayer US$3 million. The country's economy has shrunk over the years but that has had no effect on his spending habits and extravagant tastes.
Mugabe has recently added a new dimension to his globe-trotting -begging. He was in China in August, his 13th trip to that country in his 34 years in power, begging the Chinese to bankroll his $27 billion ZimAsset economic recovery plan. The Chinese gave him $3 billion for specific projects but refused to give him a dollar in budgetary support because he is "a bad debtor" (不良债务人 in Chinese). They told him so to his face. VP Grace Mugabe will definitely want to travel, she is shopaholic. We will now have two globe-trotters! We should just double our current president's budget office allocation because we will a double the motorcade, double overseas trips, double everything. Indeed Grace is not wasting time in waiting for the official appointment and being sworn in as VP; she is VP already in all but name!
One can even go so far as to say she is not VP and yet she already exercising the powers of Supremo President Grace Mugabe. No one, absolutely no one, but the Supremo President would have the audacity to publicly denounce VP Mujuru as a VP "who does nothing". The nation is holding its collective breathe to see whether Robert Mugabe is going to finally rein in Grace and put her in her place. If he does nothing then we will all know that there has been a palatial Blue Roof coup, Grace now rules the roost!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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