Hail Dr Grace Mugabe

For so long there are some pertinent issues negatively affecting the day to day lives of the generality of our populace whose solutions are below our nose but have gone unaddressed nor publicly spoken about  because the systems in the revolutionary Zanu PF did not allow for that kind of dialogue.

Today Zimbabweans from all walks of life say thank you to the entry of the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe into the mainstream politics of the revolutionary party as she has broken this hoodoo in the process demystifying the myth of untouchables within Zanu PF.

Some Zanu PF members had grown so big headed to the extent of forgetting the very people who usher them into power every five years. Worse still some where fast transforming themselves into centres of power in the process undermining the authority of His Excellency President Mugabe, the man at whose benevolence they enjoy their appointments.

Some of the Zanu PF senior members have been ministers since 1980 but have nothing tangible to justify their long service in government besides children sired out of wedlock in some cases the First Lady said during her whirlwind working tours of the country's ten provinces. Their constituencies are an eyesore. Some have not even contributed a life changing bill in parliament in the past 34 years they have been in the august house. But raising these issues within the ranks of Zanu PF has always been a taboo.

Some people have gone to abuse their status as war veterans for the purposes of self-aggrandisement. Year in year our war veterans still serving in government clamour to be promoted on the basis of being war veterans not on merit. While at the dawn of independence some war veterans went back to school and studied to become engineers, medical doctors and so on some chose not to. This group of war veterans still serving in government which did not upgrade its academic and professional qualifications want to continue being promoted on the basis of being war veterans not on their capacity to deliver.

The same applies to the war veterans in the party.

Anyone who dared speaks against the above preferred status quo prior to the statements by the First Lady were quickly labelled as agents of regime change and consequently dealt with.

In her first leg of whirlwind working tours of all the country's ten provinces Amai Mugabe has been resolute in her calls for a leadership that has the capacity to deliver on its promises to the electorate.
Amai Mugabe said it was high time underachievers were dumped as they were compromising service delivery calling for a new dispensation in which all candidates aspiring for high offices at all levels go through a screening process in which they outline their achievements in their previous lives.

The First Lady reminded members of the revolutionary party that war credentials card was no  longer a saleable strategy as the electorate was now more concerned on the bread and butter issues on the table not who liberated the country hence the need for workaholics ascending to position of power within Zanu PF.

Amai Mugabe also warned Zanu PF on how politics was fast becoming a highly financially taxing exercise wondering how someone without a mere vegetable garden aspired for high office and hoped to survive.

In essence Amai Mugabe's working tours were just but a clarion call to all those in leadership in Zanu PF to be sensitive to the plight of the people they lead and stop being self-centred if the party is to remain relevant amongst the masses.

In this vein this is why the First Lady committed herself to run with the revival of grant scheme the party used to have. She said she was going to engage private companies and some well-wishers to have the program reactivated in the immediate future.

Above all the First Lady called upon the party leadership to shun factionalism and harness their energies towards the fulfilment of promises made during the run up to the July 31, 2013 general elections in messages well received by the masses attending the rallies.