Opinion / Columnist
We should revisit leadership Code, Cdes
22 Jan 2015 at 08:38hrs | Views
Dear Cabinet and
Politburo members
COMRADES, I know that by now most of you have read this: "Minister Chimene told The Sunday Mail that preliminary investigations indicated Mutasa had become "an A2 farm baron."
She said: "He had a mafia that handled his dirty jobs. We have since established that over the years he has parcelled out farms to his wives, girlfriends, relatives and friends. Party properties are being run by his girlfriends and he is now collecting rentals on a monthly basis. Some of the land was given to nephews and nieces who live in Europe. A lands investigations team has been set up and will carry out audits of all A2 farms in Headlands, Nyazura and Rusape. Once we have completed the exercise, I will personally hand over a detailed report to my principal, President Mugabe, so that necessary action will be taken. He was abusing the name of the President and we are going to expose all his corrupt activities…"
When such gut-wrenching allegations are being made against people who for many, many years have been very senior members of our party and government, one can understand why some of our people and the opposition allege that the developments that have taken place under our leadership are woefully not commensurate with the seemingly inordinate 35 years that the party has been in power. These people could be right. You have heard similar allegations being made against Cde Joice.
In hindsight, I have to admit that as a leader, I erred in letting the Leadership Code that was unanimously adopted at our party's Second Peoples' Congress of 1984 progressively ignored out of existence. If we had faithfully implemented the Leadership Code to the letter, all this would not be there. This country would not be having these sorry apologies for leaders.
Under this Leadership Code, every thing was taken care of, from corruption in all its permutations, to sexual immorality (including serial bed-hopping and wife snatching!) to looking or appearing drunk in public places, to being shabbily dressed, to loan-sharking (chimbadzo)… anything that an upright leader should not, and never do was covered in that little yellow book of ours. I think we should seriously consider dusting it up. Experience being the greatest teacher, in hindsight I have to sincerely admit that the abandonment of this little bible of ours created insalubrious conditions under which monsters like Didymus and others effervescently flourished.
Instead of giving our people unbridled democracy, because of these bad-apple characters, we seem to have become an incompetent, corrupt and shameless kleptocracy. When we ushered democracy in 1980, the world was besotted. We thought we had delivered the nirvana that our people for long had hankered for. Because of people like these, that dream fast turned into a nightmare. Looting is the only skill members of this cabal seem to possess in spades. It is near impossible to talk about Didymus, Joice and others outside the contest of looting. It is their signature achievement.
It is now even reaching my ears that so powerful and fearsome an image that Didymus polished out there (sometimes using my name!) that he would even wantonly practice the primitive tradition of musengabere, the Gumbura-style of "marriage" in which the "bride" literally has no other choice! Some people should be charged with rape! We cannot allow that to go unpunished if we really are a democracy that we strive to be! Never ever! Anyway, all that has finally come to an end now.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
…And Now CZ's Notebook
Juicy
We shall forever be grateful to the State media for dutifully informing us that disgraced former presidential affairs minister (and very, very soon to be former Zanu-PF member!) Cde Didymus Mutasa parcelled out more than a dozen farms to his wives and concubines. Human beings being naturally nosy, especially when it comes to juicy misfortunes of others, who is Dr CZ to resist the riveting temptation of wishing the dung-throwing in Zanu-PF to go on for a little longer, so that by the time sanity prevails, we will be aware who has the most wives (and/or small houses), who is sleeping with whose wife, who is related to who, who has been stealing what and what not.
We know that the same Mutasa fellow used to be an agent for the "notorious" Rhodesian secret service. We also know that Rugare Gumbo always had serious problems of discipline and was always planning coups. We also know that Temba Mliswa is an agent for the American Central Intelligence Agency. We now know that Webster Shamu used to execute one of the manliest tasks in-between his war propaganda broadcasts during the war. We now know a whole world more than we ever knew before the torrid political divorce started in Zanu-PF. That sagely saying comes to mind … unless the wind blows, we can never see mother hen's bottom!
We now expect the other side to be firing their own volleys soon. Who would want this eye-opening development to suddenly stop? Meanwhile, in the not so distant past, we have heard the Zanu-PF leadership queuing up to excoriate former prime minister and veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for his alleged sexual licentiousness. Now if what has been alleged about Mutasa (and several other Zanu-PF honchos) is anything to go by, then Tsvangirai is nothing but a piddling amateur at this game.
Let Dr CZ say it loud and clear here and now that he is neither condoning Tsvangirai's "open zip and shut mind policy" nor admiring Mutasa's unique skill of giving back to the community. If anything, it is never Dr CZ's business because this is purely between the politicians and their gods. All Dr CZ is trying to do is just express shock at the levels of hypocrisy that makes life the nonsense it is.
Uncharitable!
We loved this one from one of Dr CZ's legion of fans: (There is) a story in (this week's issue of) The Sunday Mail in which Didymus Mutasa is accused of being a Rhodesian spy and Smith apologist. I was tempted to look at the book he wrote in 1974. In its foreword, he is described 'As a dangerous man, and ungrateful troublemaker, and a rising civil servant…' In Shona they say Hupenzi hwechembere hunotangira kumahumbwe. For those with linguistic challenges, the saying has something to the effect that the stupid habits of an old woman start during child's play. Uncharitable, isn't it? It looks like despite trying to portray himself as a hapless victim of a ruthless system, Zimbos know Mutasa better and think that his is a well-deserved case of poetic justice.
Moonlighting?
Always being the super-patriot that Dr CZ has always been, he was so pleased that our army landed the lucrative contract to provide VVIP security at the on-going African Cup of Nations soccer showcase. This should make every Zimbabwean proud.
Lawless lawmaking! We were not at all surprised that Human Rights People's Choice Award winner, the rambunctious war veteran-turned-comedian Joseph Chinotimba has taken it upon himself to make the Harare CBD a real traffic jungle by staging a one-man demonstration in support of the pirate taxis that now make walking in the city a real nightmare. If anything, we are waiting for the same "Honourable" legislator to make his one-man protests weekly events.
Last week it was in favour of pirate taxis. This week it can be (done jointly with Tabitha Khumalo) in favour of our sisters who sweat it out night-in night-out in Harare's red-light district of the Avenues, at Murambinda Growth Point, in Makokoba, in Chinotimba (eponymously?), in Jahunda etc. The following week he can have another one in support of unregulated mining and illegal panning. Street-vendors in Harare are already having a field day right in First Street! He can also bless them with another solidarity protest. Around mid year, Cde Chinotimba can also organise a million-man march. No one is trying to insinuate that the brother man is following closely in the footsteps of someone who used to be called Cde Jabulani Sibanda… remember him?
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
Politburo members
COMRADES, I know that by now most of you have read this: "Minister Chimene told The Sunday Mail that preliminary investigations indicated Mutasa had become "an A2 farm baron."
She said: "He had a mafia that handled his dirty jobs. We have since established that over the years he has parcelled out farms to his wives, girlfriends, relatives and friends. Party properties are being run by his girlfriends and he is now collecting rentals on a monthly basis. Some of the land was given to nephews and nieces who live in Europe. A lands investigations team has been set up and will carry out audits of all A2 farms in Headlands, Nyazura and Rusape. Once we have completed the exercise, I will personally hand over a detailed report to my principal, President Mugabe, so that necessary action will be taken. He was abusing the name of the President and we are going to expose all his corrupt activities…"
When such gut-wrenching allegations are being made against people who for many, many years have been very senior members of our party and government, one can understand why some of our people and the opposition allege that the developments that have taken place under our leadership are woefully not commensurate with the seemingly inordinate 35 years that the party has been in power. These people could be right. You have heard similar allegations being made against Cde Joice.
In hindsight, I have to admit that as a leader, I erred in letting the Leadership Code that was unanimously adopted at our party's Second Peoples' Congress of 1984 progressively ignored out of existence. If we had faithfully implemented the Leadership Code to the letter, all this would not be there. This country would not be having these sorry apologies for leaders.
Under this Leadership Code, every thing was taken care of, from corruption in all its permutations, to sexual immorality (including serial bed-hopping and wife snatching!) to looking or appearing drunk in public places, to being shabbily dressed, to loan-sharking (chimbadzo)… anything that an upright leader should not, and never do was covered in that little yellow book of ours. I think we should seriously consider dusting it up. Experience being the greatest teacher, in hindsight I have to sincerely admit that the abandonment of this little bible of ours created insalubrious conditions under which monsters like Didymus and others effervescently flourished.
Instead of giving our people unbridled democracy, because of these bad-apple characters, we seem to have become an incompetent, corrupt and shameless kleptocracy. When we ushered democracy in 1980, the world was besotted. We thought we had delivered the nirvana that our people for long had hankered for. Because of people like these, that dream fast turned into a nightmare. Looting is the only skill members of this cabal seem to possess in spades. It is near impossible to talk about Didymus, Joice and others outside the contest of looting. It is their signature achievement.
It is now even reaching my ears that so powerful and fearsome an image that Didymus polished out there (sometimes using my name!) that he would even wantonly practice the primitive tradition of musengabere, the Gumbura-style of "marriage" in which the "bride" literally has no other choice! Some people should be charged with rape! We cannot allow that to go unpunished if we really are a democracy that we strive to be! Never ever! Anyway, all that has finally come to an end now.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
…And Now CZ's Notebook
Juicy
We shall forever be grateful to the State media for dutifully informing us that disgraced former presidential affairs minister (and very, very soon to be former Zanu-PF member!) Cde Didymus Mutasa parcelled out more than a dozen farms to his wives and concubines. Human beings being naturally nosy, especially when it comes to juicy misfortunes of others, who is Dr CZ to resist the riveting temptation of wishing the dung-throwing in Zanu-PF to go on for a little longer, so that by the time sanity prevails, we will be aware who has the most wives (and/or small houses), who is sleeping with whose wife, who is related to who, who has been stealing what and what not.
We know that the same Mutasa fellow used to be an agent for the "notorious" Rhodesian secret service. We also know that Rugare Gumbo always had serious problems of discipline and was always planning coups. We also know that Temba Mliswa is an agent for the American Central Intelligence Agency. We now know that Webster Shamu used to execute one of the manliest tasks in-between his war propaganda broadcasts during the war. We now know a whole world more than we ever knew before the torrid political divorce started in Zanu-PF. That sagely saying comes to mind … unless the wind blows, we can never see mother hen's bottom!
We now expect the other side to be firing their own volleys soon. Who would want this eye-opening development to suddenly stop? Meanwhile, in the not so distant past, we have heard the Zanu-PF leadership queuing up to excoriate former prime minister and veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for his alleged sexual licentiousness. Now if what has been alleged about Mutasa (and several other Zanu-PF honchos) is anything to go by, then Tsvangirai is nothing but a piddling amateur at this game.
Let Dr CZ say it loud and clear here and now that he is neither condoning Tsvangirai's "open zip and shut mind policy" nor admiring Mutasa's unique skill of giving back to the community. If anything, it is never Dr CZ's business because this is purely between the politicians and their gods. All Dr CZ is trying to do is just express shock at the levels of hypocrisy that makes life the nonsense it is.
Uncharitable!
We loved this one from one of Dr CZ's legion of fans: (There is) a story in (this week's issue of) The Sunday Mail in which Didymus Mutasa is accused of being a Rhodesian spy and Smith apologist. I was tempted to look at the book he wrote in 1974. In its foreword, he is described 'As a dangerous man, and ungrateful troublemaker, and a rising civil servant…' In Shona they say Hupenzi hwechembere hunotangira kumahumbwe. For those with linguistic challenges, the saying has something to the effect that the stupid habits of an old woman start during child's play. Uncharitable, isn't it? It looks like despite trying to portray himself as a hapless victim of a ruthless system, Zimbos know Mutasa better and think that his is a well-deserved case of poetic justice.
Moonlighting?
Always being the super-patriot that Dr CZ has always been, he was so pleased that our army landed the lucrative contract to provide VVIP security at the on-going African Cup of Nations soccer showcase. This should make every Zimbabwean proud.
Lawless lawmaking! We were not at all surprised that Human Rights People's Choice Award winner, the rambunctious war veteran-turned-comedian Joseph Chinotimba has taken it upon himself to make the Harare CBD a real traffic jungle by staging a one-man demonstration in support of the pirate taxis that now make walking in the city a real nightmare. If anything, we are waiting for the same "Honourable" legislator to make his one-man protests weekly events.
Last week it was in favour of pirate taxis. This week it can be (done jointly with Tabitha Khumalo) in favour of our sisters who sweat it out night-in night-out in Harare's red-light district of the Avenues, at Murambinda Growth Point, in Makokoba, in Chinotimba (eponymously?), in Jahunda etc. The following week he can have another one in support of unregulated mining and illegal panning. Street-vendors in Harare are already having a field day right in First Street! He can also bless them with another solidarity protest. Around mid year, Cde Chinotimba can also organise a million-man march. No one is trying to insinuate that the brother man is following closely in the footsteps of someone who used to be called Cde Jabulani Sibanda… remember him?
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
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