Opinion / Columnist
Zanu PF is a party of crooks, the factional war has separated the smart ones from the upstarts!
13 Nov 2014 at 14:44hrs | Views
The Shona say "Matsotsi haagerani!" (Two crooks do not cut each other's hair!) They do not trust each other so much so that each, convinced the other will play a dirty trick on him/her, they will play have their retaliation dirty trick on the other. Zanu PF is a party of crooks and thugs; that is a fact. There are as many crooks and thugs in the Mugabe-Mnangagwa faction as there are in the Mujuru faction (indeed in terms of head count the latter has more but numbers count for nothing as Tsvangirai and his herd of wildebeest will testify).
The Mujuru faction has clearly been outwitted as far as the race to power is concerned; that is done and dusted. What is at issue now is can they hit back? Did they have a plan B or C? They can hit back by revealing the details of how Mugabe rigged last year's elections, for example!
Of course VP Mujuru, Rugare Gumbo, Didymus Mutasa and the other leaders in her faction know the elections were rigged; they were not previewed to the all the details of the scheme same as the members of the Joint Operation Command, still they would have known a lot!
There is no doubt that Professor Jonathan Moyo has managed to keep his job because he not only know a lot about the vote rigging scheme but more significantly he convinced Mugabe that he would hit back if the tyrant played any dirty tricks on him. What else would explain the uncharacteristic about face by Mugabe after a weekend of ranting and raving at the late Nathan Shamuyarira's funeral where he called the Professor a "weevil" and "devil incarnate" bend on destroying Zanu PF from within.
The Mujuru faction does not have a Professor Moyo character in their midst. They did not have a plan B let alone a plan C because they did not even see the factional dirty war coming. They have witnessed Mugabe and JOC play dirty tricks on Zanu PF's political opponents including last year's vote rigging and still it never occurred to Mujuru or any of the men and women round her that Mugabe may play the same dirty tricks on them.
One is hard pushed to find anyone an IQ three points or more above that of an idiot in that faction. They are all half-shillings.
Mujuru faction members are as incompetent as Tsvangirai and his MDC members. MDC had the five years to implement the reforms and stop Mugabe rigging the elections; they failed to implement even one reform. The Mujuru faction had donkey years to force through meaningful democratic changes in Zanu PF but have been sitting there like the three-monkey statue "Hear-nothing, See-nothing and Say-nothing!"
If the Mujuru faction "monkeys" do not speak now and help the nation get out of this mess; in a year or two most of them will have lost all their looted wealth and they will be living in abject poverty! Their empty stomachs will be doing all the talking then and they will not need to open their eyes and ears to know what living in abject poverty really mean!
zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
The Mujuru faction has clearly been outwitted as far as the race to power is concerned; that is done and dusted. What is at issue now is can they hit back? Did they have a plan B or C? They can hit back by revealing the details of how Mugabe rigged last year's elections, for example!
Of course VP Mujuru, Rugare Gumbo, Didymus Mutasa and the other leaders in her faction know the elections were rigged; they were not previewed to the all the details of the scheme same as the members of the Joint Operation Command, still they would have known a lot!
There is no doubt that Professor Jonathan Moyo has managed to keep his job because he not only know a lot about the vote rigging scheme but more significantly he convinced Mugabe that he would hit back if the tyrant played any dirty tricks on him. What else would explain the uncharacteristic about face by Mugabe after a weekend of ranting and raving at the late Nathan Shamuyarira's funeral where he called the Professor a "weevil" and "devil incarnate" bend on destroying Zanu PF from within.
One is hard pushed to find anyone an IQ three points or more above that of an idiot in that faction. They are all half-shillings.
Mujuru faction members are as incompetent as Tsvangirai and his MDC members. MDC had the five years to implement the reforms and stop Mugabe rigging the elections; they failed to implement even one reform. The Mujuru faction had donkey years to force through meaningful democratic changes in Zanu PF but have been sitting there like the three-monkey statue "Hear-nothing, See-nothing and Say-nothing!"
If the Mujuru faction "monkeys" do not speak now and help the nation get out of this mess; in a year or two most of them will have lost all their looted wealth and they will be living in abject poverty! Their empty stomachs will be doing all the talking then and they will not need to open their eyes and ears to know what living in abject poverty really mean!
zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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