Opinion / Columnist
The demise of Mai Mujuru is a lesson in gender equality gone mad
23 Nov 2014 at 17:45hrs | Views
Those who saw the appointment of Joice Mujuru as good for gender equality ten years ago must now admit how wrong they were.
Mai Mujuru has proven to be an incompetent and ineffective leader not worthy of the position of Vice President.
Mugabe has always managed to exploit the people's narrow-mindedness to achieve his own selfish goal. He promoted Simon Muzenda to VP position ahead of many other candidates more worth of the promotion. Those who were putting petty regional consideration above merit went to town, pleased that Masvingo province had the second top post.
In all his years in power I cannot name one good thing that Simon Muzenda ever did. All he did was to run around and do as Mugabe told him. The country was sinking economically and some of the most brutal mass murders of political opponents happened during Muzenda's watch and yet the idiot never once stood up to Mugabe to object. The nation has suffered greatly because it achieved the regional balance at the expense of quality.
The people of Masvingo gained nothing from the singular honour that the VP was from the province. Indeed, even if Mugabe really wanted the VP to come from Masvingo then he could have picked someone more competent than Muzenda.
When Muzenda died; Mugabe, once again, wanted another VP on the same mould as Muzenda and Mujuru fitted that perfectly. Mnangagwa was set to win the elections and he needed to stop him but in a way that would please the narrow-minded people out there. He pulled the gender card and the feminists cheered and applauded.
Like those narrow-minded regionalist the gender brigade could not protest the appointment of Mujuru in favour of more competent female candidate and so they and the nation was once again stuck with another mediocre VP.
The fall of Mai Mujuru and her faction is not a surprise; she is incompetent and has been for all her decades in power. The prospect of her as president was the nightmare scenario in a nightmare.
"This is a very disturbing gender debacle which has clearly confirmed that this country is still largely patriarchal. Men are still in control and are using women to oust other women," said Jessie Majome, Member of Parliament for Harare West. She was commenting of Grace Mugabe playing the leading role that has ended in the fall of Mai Mujuru. This is gender equality gone mad!
Mai Mujuru's pathetic track record in power of failure is because she is breathtakingly incompetent and no man has anything to do with it. Mugabe promoted her for his selfish reason of surrounding himself with incompetent individuals who present no threat to his tyrannical ambitions.
The real lesson to be learnt here from the years of an incompetent and useless VP Muzenda followed by a decade of another incompetent and useless VP Mujuru is that accepting the appointment of leaders on regional or gender head count is folly. We must elect leaders on merit and merit alone!
zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Mai Mujuru has proven to be an incompetent and ineffective leader not worthy of the position of Vice President.
Mugabe has always managed to exploit the people's narrow-mindedness to achieve his own selfish goal. He promoted Simon Muzenda to VP position ahead of many other candidates more worth of the promotion. Those who were putting petty regional consideration above merit went to town, pleased that Masvingo province had the second top post.
In all his years in power I cannot name one good thing that Simon Muzenda ever did. All he did was to run around and do as Mugabe told him. The country was sinking economically and some of the most brutal mass murders of political opponents happened during Muzenda's watch and yet the idiot never once stood up to Mugabe to object. The nation has suffered greatly because it achieved the regional balance at the expense of quality.
The people of Masvingo gained nothing from the singular honour that the VP was from the province. Indeed, even if Mugabe really wanted the VP to come from Masvingo then he could have picked someone more competent than Muzenda.
When Muzenda died; Mugabe, once again, wanted another VP on the same mould as Muzenda and Mujuru fitted that perfectly. Mnangagwa was set to win the elections and he needed to stop him but in a way that would please the narrow-minded people out there. He pulled the gender card and the feminists cheered and applauded.
The fall of Mai Mujuru and her faction is not a surprise; she is incompetent and has been for all her decades in power. The prospect of her as president was the nightmare scenario in a nightmare.
"This is a very disturbing gender debacle which has clearly confirmed that this country is still largely patriarchal. Men are still in control and are using women to oust other women," said Jessie Majome, Member of Parliament for Harare West. She was commenting of Grace Mugabe playing the leading role that has ended in the fall of Mai Mujuru. This is gender equality gone mad!
Mai Mujuru's pathetic track record in power of failure is because she is breathtakingly incompetent and no man has anything to do with it. Mugabe promoted her for his selfish reason of surrounding himself with incompetent individuals who present no threat to his tyrannical ambitions.
The real lesson to be learnt here from the years of an incompetent and useless VP Muzenda followed by a decade of another incompetent and useless VP Mujuru is that accepting the appointment of leaders on regional or gender head count is folly. We must elect leaders on merit and merit alone!
zimbabwesocialdemocrats@gmail.com
Source - Wilbert Mukori
All articles and letters published on Bulawayo24 have been independently written by members of Bulawayo24's community. The views of users published on Bulawayo24 are therefore their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Bulawayo24. Bulawayo24 editors also reserve the right to edit or delete any and all comments received.
