Opinion / Columnist
Democracy according to St Didymus, Cdes
15 Jan 2015 at 08:30hrs | Views
Dear Cabinet and
Politburo members
COMRADES, I know most of you cannot not help but laugh at the claim by former presidential affairs minister Cde Didymus Mutasa that he is still ZANU-PF's bona fide secretary for administration. Our sages say madness has claims that sanity can never, ever match!
At first I also wanted to laugh, but I could not. Our elders used to say ukasekerera benzi rinokukurura nhumbi … if you tolerate a madman, he can strip you naked. This is certainly the case here. Knowing the fragile temper that some members of our party have, I don't have to over-emphasise that this Didymus fellow is stretching his luck too far. If I were him, after that treasonous plot had been uncovered, I would have shown remorse and sincerely asked for forgiveness. Instead, he has chosen to be disputatious and has taken the confrontational route.
I would want to believe that this Didymus fellow is speaking on behalf of all those people that he claims to be speaking for, and that these people will come out in their millions and stand by him to prove that the decisions that were taken by the party are indeed null and void as he claims. Surely, how could someone that we trusted for so long turn out to be such a shameless sell-out? Now it explains why our party and government programmes were not working… how could they when there were so many people who were hell-bent on sabotage?
Having been exposed and expelled, they now have the gall to come out and start lecturing the people of Zimbabwe on democracy and human rights! So for all these years that they have been senior members of the party, there was no democracy in the party? So why did they not leave on their own volition to show practically that they are indeed a principled people, instead of waiting until after they had been booted out to cry democracy? Why did they have to wait until the people had given them the boot in order to realise that things were not being done correctly?
Was what Didymus & Co were doing, buying votes, starving delegates to the Youth Conference, demanding sexual favours in exchange for party positions, and torching opponents' homes democracy? Since 1980, Didymus has been one of the most thuggish members of our party. We had to always rein him in for fear that he could tarnish the image of the party. He was always one of those who would hazard brutish suggestions during our brainstorming sessions, and today there he is, preaching the gospel of democracy!
Well, we know the fool always harboured presidential ambitions. Last time he even brought a con-woman to us who masqueraded as an n'anga who claimed that the country could get diesel from a rock in a hill near Chinhoyi. We later discovered that the whole idea was to get this woman to confuse everyone before anointing him as my successor. Luckily we saw through this chicanery quickly enough. Seeing that all his tricks were not working, he decided to join forces with our detractors in the West, and started plotting assassinations.
He claimed that he and his wife had suddenly fallen ill, and he was away for several weeks, where in fact he was holding a series of conspiratorial meetings with handlers, plotting their next course of action, now that their plot had been unearthed. Well, let us all wait and see how this madness ends. In the meantime all I can do for now is wish him all the best in his harebrained endeavours! But what I know for sure is that the people will deal with these sell-outs harshly!
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
…And Now CZ's Notebook
What goes around!
Dr CZ read former ZANU-PF secretary-general, the late Edgar Tekere's memoirs A Lifetime of a Struggle in which the oddball politician made the following sweeping claims: "As secretary-general of the party, I had the constitutional custodianship of the founding aspirations and principles, as well as the policies and decisions of the party. Thus, it was I who had the authority to remind, guide, rebuke and insist on adherence to the founding principles and vision of the party, and I took this responsibility extremely seriously.
"…Not long after my removal from the position, and taking advantage of Eddison Zvobgo's ambition to become secretary-general, Mugabe had the post abolished. He installed himself as president and first secretary of the party, instituting the post of administrative secretary, reducing the functions of that post to merely clerical."
What reminded Dr CZ of the late Tekere's claims was the Roger Boka-styled open letter published by disgraced former ZANU-PF and former presidential affairs minister Didymus Mutasa published in the privately-owned media (which until only recently he would never, ever talk to!) attacking what he claimed were thuggish, dictatorial and unconstitutional tendencies in the ruling party.
Of interest, Mutasa claimed to be speaking on behalf of all bona fide ZANU-PF members, including those who were frustrated into leaving the party over the years. Dr CZ is certainly one of those who left ZANU-PF way back in 1982. Looking at what is happening in ZANU-PF today, as someone who read, read, and read, Dr CZ cannot help but wish if only all politicians could be half as brutally truthful as prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904-89) who, in his 1942 autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali had this to say: "I regarded most of the people I met solely and exclusively as creatures I could use as porters in my voyage of ambition. Almost all these porters sooner or later became exhausted.
"Unable to endure the long marches that I forced them at top speed and under all climatic conditions, they died on the way. I took others. To attach them to my service, I promised to get them to where I myself was going… to that end-station of glory which climbers desperately want to reach…"
Sorry!
Still being the charitable person that he has always been, Dr CZ sees no reason not to commiserate with a number of ZANU PF members who lost their ministerial jobs in the second round of the tsunami that has been washing away many, including some traditional heavyweights. Of these, Dr CZ especially feels sorry for former social welfare and something deputy minister Cde Tongai Muzenda. In order to make sure that the ship remains on an even keel, while Tongai was being dismissed, his sister Tsitsi Muzenda was being summoned for national duty. So much about playing a tricky tribal balancing act!
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
Politburo members
COMRADES, I know most of you cannot not help but laugh at the claim by former presidential affairs minister Cde Didymus Mutasa that he is still ZANU-PF's bona fide secretary for administration. Our sages say madness has claims that sanity can never, ever match!
At first I also wanted to laugh, but I could not. Our elders used to say ukasekerera benzi rinokukurura nhumbi … if you tolerate a madman, he can strip you naked. This is certainly the case here. Knowing the fragile temper that some members of our party have, I don't have to over-emphasise that this Didymus fellow is stretching his luck too far. If I were him, after that treasonous plot had been uncovered, I would have shown remorse and sincerely asked for forgiveness. Instead, he has chosen to be disputatious and has taken the confrontational route.
I would want to believe that this Didymus fellow is speaking on behalf of all those people that he claims to be speaking for, and that these people will come out in their millions and stand by him to prove that the decisions that were taken by the party are indeed null and void as he claims. Surely, how could someone that we trusted for so long turn out to be such a shameless sell-out? Now it explains why our party and government programmes were not working… how could they when there were so many people who were hell-bent on sabotage?
Having been exposed and expelled, they now have the gall to come out and start lecturing the people of Zimbabwe on democracy and human rights! So for all these years that they have been senior members of the party, there was no democracy in the party? So why did they not leave on their own volition to show practically that they are indeed a principled people, instead of waiting until after they had been booted out to cry democracy? Why did they have to wait until the people had given them the boot in order to realise that things were not being done correctly?
Was what Didymus & Co were doing, buying votes, starving delegates to the Youth Conference, demanding sexual favours in exchange for party positions, and torching opponents' homes democracy? Since 1980, Didymus has been one of the most thuggish members of our party. We had to always rein him in for fear that he could tarnish the image of the party. He was always one of those who would hazard brutish suggestions during our brainstorming sessions, and today there he is, preaching the gospel of democracy!
Well, we know the fool always harboured presidential ambitions. Last time he even brought a con-woman to us who masqueraded as an n'anga who claimed that the country could get diesel from a rock in a hill near Chinhoyi. We later discovered that the whole idea was to get this woman to confuse everyone before anointing him as my successor. Luckily we saw through this chicanery quickly enough. Seeing that all his tricks were not working, he decided to join forces with our detractors in the West, and started plotting assassinations.
He claimed that he and his wife had suddenly fallen ill, and he was away for several weeks, where in fact he was holding a series of conspiratorial meetings with handlers, plotting their next course of action, now that their plot had been unearthed. Well, let us all wait and see how this madness ends. In the meantime all I can do for now is wish him all the best in his harebrained endeavours! But what I know for sure is that the people will deal with these sell-outs harshly!
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
…And Now CZ's Notebook
What goes around!
Dr CZ read former ZANU-PF secretary-general, the late Edgar Tekere's memoirs A Lifetime of a Struggle in which the oddball politician made the following sweeping claims: "As secretary-general of the party, I had the constitutional custodianship of the founding aspirations and principles, as well as the policies and decisions of the party. Thus, it was I who had the authority to remind, guide, rebuke and insist on adherence to the founding principles and vision of the party, and I took this responsibility extremely seriously.
"…Not long after my removal from the position, and taking advantage of Eddison Zvobgo's ambition to become secretary-general, Mugabe had the post abolished. He installed himself as president and first secretary of the party, instituting the post of administrative secretary, reducing the functions of that post to merely clerical."
What reminded Dr CZ of the late Tekere's claims was the Roger Boka-styled open letter published by disgraced former ZANU-PF and former presidential affairs minister Didymus Mutasa published in the privately-owned media (which until only recently he would never, ever talk to!) attacking what he claimed were thuggish, dictatorial and unconstitutional tendencies in the ruling party.
Of interest, Mutasa claimed to be speaking on behalf of all bona fide ZANU-PF members, including those who were frustrated into leaving the party over the years. Dr CZ is certainly one of those who left ZANU-PF way back in 1982. Looking at what is happening in ZANU-PF today, as someone who read, read, and read, Dr CZ cannot help but wish if only all politicians could be half as brutally truthful as prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904-89) who, in his 1942 autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali had this to say: "I regarded most of the people I met solely and exclusively as creatures I could use as porters in my voyage of ambition. Almost all these porters sooner or later became exhausted.
"Unable to endure the long marches that I forced them at top speed and under all climatic conditions, they died on the way. I took others. To attach them to my service, I promised to get them to where I myself was going… to that end-station of glory which climbers desperately want to reach…"
Sorry!
Still being the charitable person that he has always been, Dr CZ sees no reason not to commiserate with a number of ZANU PF members who lost their ministerial jobs in the second round of the tsunami that has been washing away many, including some traditional heavyweights. Of these, Dr CZ especially feels sorry for former social welfare and something deputy minister Cde Tongai Muzenda. In order to make sure that the ship remains on an even keel, while Tongai was being dismissed, his sister Tsitsi Muzenda was being summoned for national duty. So much about playing a tricky tribal balancing act!
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
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