Opinion / Columnist
Zanu PF has stripped Mutasa of all that matters, he must make his now or never check-mate move!
22 Jan 2015 at 12:13hrs | Views
Zanu PF Manicaland province has written to the politburo, the highest decision-making body in the party other than congress (well it would be better to say the highest rubber-stamping body because the party constitution means nothing, it is Mugabe who decide and everyone else follows) to endorse their decision to expel Didymus Mutasa.
I hope Didymus Mutasa is smart enough to know that sometimes the best defence is offence. Politics is a game of chess, the opponent threats to take your Knight counter by threatening to take their Queen. It will be even better if, by threatening their Queen, you also threat their King.
Mutasa has lost his post as Minister after 34 years as Minister of this and Minister of that. He has also lost his seat as politburo member after ever since Zanu PF was born! Being expelled by the province will only mean he is no long an ordinary card-carrying member.
Being kicked out of cabinet and the politburo is equivalent of the bull hippo being driven out of the only remaining pool at the start of drought. He will have nowhere to wallow to escape the fly, biting tsetse flies, the sun and the heat and, to crown it all, there are no lady hippos out here - not even the ugly of the ugly.
"Samuel Udenge, the provincial chairperson, said yesterday that his executive committee would not rescind its decision to have Mutasa expelled from the party, and had already written to the politburo to this effect," reported the Daily News.
"Mutasa, however dismissed contemptuously the recommendation of his home province to expel him, saying the only Zanu-PF he knew and recognised was the one that existed before the "criminal congress" held in Harare last month."
Stripping Mutasa of ordinary member status is more like the mud-skippers banishing the bull hippo from the shallows; no wonder Mutasa dismissed the move with contempt, the shallows is home for mud-skippers and not for hippo, not even baby hippos!
Mutasa has lost everything; he must now go for broke, he must make his big check-mate move – challenge the "criminal congress" in Court.
"Kana wadya gudo, chidya mombo!" so says the Shona adage! (If you are forced to eat a baboon then eat the big fat male!) It makes sense; you do not want to eat a skinny sick one with fur falling off like a dog with a skin disease!
I hope Didymus Mutasa is smart enough to know that sometimes the best defence is offence. Politics is a game of chess, the opponent threats to take your Knight counter by threatening to take their Queen. It will be even better if, by threatening their Queen, you also threat their King.
Mutasa has lost his post as Minister after 34 years as Minister of this and Minister of that. He has also lost his seat as politburo member after ever since Zanu PF was born! Being expelled by the province will only mean he is no long an ordinary card-carrying member.
Being kicked out of cabinet and the politburo is equivalent of the bull hippo being driven out of the only remaining pool at the start of drought. He will have nowhere to wallow to escape the fly, biting tsetse flies, the sun and the heat and, to crown it all, there are no lady hippos out here - not even the ugly of the ugly.
"Samuel Udenge, the provincial chairperson, said yesterday that his executive committee would not rescind its decision to have Mutasa expelled from the party, and had already written to the politburo to this effect," reported the Daily News.
Stripping Mutasa of ordinary member status is more like the mud-skippers banishing the bull hippo from the shallows; no wonder Mutasa dismissed the move with contempt, the shallows is home for mud-skippers and not for hippo, not even baby hippos!
Mutasa has lost everything; he must now go for broke, he must make his big check-mate move – challenge the "criminal congress" in Court.
"Kana wadya gudo, chidya mombo!" so says the Shona adage! (If you are forced to eat a baboon then eat the big fat male!) It makes sense; you do not want to eat a skinny sick one with fur falling off like a dog with a skin disease!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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