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Sibanda bedroom coup jab at Mugabe was more potent than Ali's left hook that floored Foreman
31 Oct 2014 at 16:00hrs | Views
Jabulani Sibanda's "bedroom coup" jab at Mugabe has hit home and true than Muhammad Ali's left hook that flooded George Foreman in the rumble in the jungle!
The Shona have a saying; "Chidya matovho akazodzipwa nedovho remhuru!" (The tough dog known for chewing through the toughest of hides often choke on the hide of a calf!)
Mugabe certainly has the tough dog reputation and for good reason too. Here is a tyrant who has ruled his party Zanu PF - a grouping of snakes, rats, hyenas, vultures, a few clever people and host of some of the most dummy people who have ever lived - for donkey years. He has ruled the nation for 34 years, some would say; but that can be explain because he did not flinch from using brute force to impose his iron will on the nation. The tyrant has had over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans murdered in cold blood, for Pete sake!
Mugabe has managed to keep Zanu PF solidly behind him even when it was self-evident his misrule had brought the nation to economic ruin for which everyone including the Zanu PF ruling elite grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira were paying dearly for with their very lives. Mugabe is a loner in that he never had any real friend even within the party and yet he negotiated a path that kept the various factions in the party vying for power faithful to him but out of power. No one knows how he has managed to pull off this amazing fit of political intrigue; he is without doubt a tough dog – chidya natovo.
Well who would have predicted that our tough hide chewing dog would choke on a calf's hide in the form of Grace Mugabe.
When Grace Mugabe announced to the world that Mugabe must "baby-dump" VP Mujuru "or we will do it our self"; everybody raised their eyebrows in disbelief. "Does this woman know who she is commanding much less threatening?" many people asked in shock. Well Grace clearly knew who exactly she was commanding and threatening.
Yesterday R G Mugabe confirmed that Mujuru will indeed be dumped!
We might not like everything that Jabulani Sibanda stands for, has said and done but one cannot deny that there has been a "bedroom coup" in the R G Mugabe home. It is Supremo President Grace Mugabe who now rules the Mugabe roost, Zanu PF and the nation!
Who would have thought that R G Mugabe's, should just call him Grace's husband in the true Thomas Hardy tradition, dream of being president for life will be foiled by a women of no consequence like Grace! Grace's husband went into a rage against Sibanda on Thursday, confirms that the "bedroom coup" jab had landed and hurt the tyrant because it is the truth!
The Shona have a saying; "Chidya matovho akazodzipwa nedovho remhuru!" (The tough dog known for chewing through the toughest of hides often choke on the hide of a calf!)
Mugabe certainly has the tough dog reputation and for good reason too. Here is a tyrant who has ruled his party Zanu PF - a grouping of snakes, rats, hyenas, vultures, a few clever people and host of some of the most dummy people who have ever lived - for donkey years. He has ruled the nation for 34 years, some would say; but that can be explain because he did not flinch from using brute force to impose his iron will on the nation. The tyrant has had over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans murdered in cold blood, for Pete sake!
Mugabe has managed to keep Zanu PF solidly behind him even when it was self-evident his misrule had brought the nation to economic ruin for which everyone including the Zanu PF ruling elite grandees like the late Nathan Shamuyarira were paying dearly for with their very lives. Mugabe is a loner in that he never had any real friend even within the party and yet he negotiated a path that kept the various factions in the party vying for power faithful to him but out of power. No one knows how he has managed to pull off this amazing fit of political intrigue; he is without doubt a tough dog – chidya natovo.
Well who would have predicted that our tough hide chewing dog would choke on a calf's hide in the form of Grace Mugabe.
When Grace Mugabe announced to the world that Mugabe must "baby-dump" VP Mujuru "or we will do it our self"; everybody raised their eyebrows in disbelief. "Does this woman know who she is commanding much less threatening?" many people asked in shock. Well Grace clearly knew who exactly she was commanding and threatening.
Yesterday R G Mugabe confirmed that Mujuru will indeed be dumped!
We might not like everything that Jabulani Sibanda stands for, has said and done but one cannot deny that there has been a "bedroom coup" in the R G Mugabe home. It is Supremo President Grace Mugabe who now rules the Mugabe roost, Zanu PF and the nation!
Who would have thought that R G Mugabe's, should just call him Grace's husband in the true Thomas Hardy tradition, dream of being president for life will be foiled by a women of no consequence like Grace! Grace's husband went into a rage against Sibanda on Thursday, confirms that the "bedroom coup" jab had landed and hurt the tyrant because it is the truth!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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