Opinion / Columnist
Kasukuwere told 'he is a dead man walking' but then so is Mugabe himself!
15 May 2015 at 19:17hrs | Views
At a recent press conference war vets savagely attacked Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere accusing him of plotting to remove Mugabe with the British and Americans – a mortal sin in Zanu PF theology.
"Tyson (Kasukuwere's nickname) is a dead man walking," a senior Zanu PF official told the Daily News.
Not that anyone is surprised; Zanu PF is a party of thugs, they do not live by any civilized laws. The only law they know and understand is the law of the jungle – screw them before they screw you! They call each other comrade but they would smile at you, kiss you and then stab you; they can do that in reverse order too, just for the hell of it. They trust no one; they have never trusted any one. They do not trust themselves so how can they trust someone else.
War vet leader Victor Mutemadanda, spearheading the purge of Kasukuwere, is but an overzealous new version of yesteryear war vet thug Jabulani Sibanda. Victor was wittering about Kasukuwere plotting regime change with the British. What is so insulting about this is for the last 35 years this Zanu PF regime has denied the people of Zimbabwe a meaningful say in the governance of the country. The regime has held the regular elections but always tampered with the process to produce a "no regime change" result.
What is so insulting is the regime has systematically denying a meaningful vote but to add hot chilli to the open wound has maintained that it is outsiders and not Zimbabweans who want free and fair election with regime change as one possible outcome.
The whites treated blacks as immature infants; they insisted in calling blacks were "Boy" or "Girl" regardless how old the individual happen to be. They denied the blacks a vote for exactly the same reason ten year olds do not have a vote the world over.
Independence did not bring exactly the one-man-one-vote the nation had been promised; as far as Mugabe and Zanu PF were concerned the only vote that counted was one guaranteeing no regime change any other vote was discarded. Mugabe has corrupt all the state institutions like courts, Police, etc.; instead of courts safe guarding the freedoms and rights of the people they have made it possible for Mugabe to ride roughshod over the people's hopes and dreams of freedom, justice and liberty in pursuit of his singular goal of "no regime change"! Misguided war vets like Mutemadanda and Sibanda have been the tyrant's willing foot soldiers in his satanic scheme.
It is clear that Mugabe"s ZimAsset plan has failed to deliver economic recovery and as long as the tyrant remains in power the economic meltdown; which is behind the unemployment soaring to 90%, has forced 16% of our people into abject poverty, etc.; will only get worse.
We need to end this stupid "no regime change" nonsense Mugabe has imposed on the nation; it is an oxymoron to civilized free and fair elections. We want the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA implemented and fresh free and fair elections held.
The nation accepts that Zanu PF is a party of thugs and that is imploding. Kasukuwere was the pack leader of the thugs who hunted down and purged Jabulani Sibanda, Joice Mujuru and many of her supporters out of the party last year. Today, hardly a year later, Kasukuwere is himself the hunted as for Mutemadanda, he will be next.
No one in Zimbabwe is going to lose sleep because Kasukuwere has been purged or even killed. What the nation will not accept it an attempt by any of the Zanu PF factions to national struggle get the democratic reforms implemented so there can be fresh free and fair elections.
Mugabe can purge Kasukuwere and his followers out of the party or even have them all killed it makes no difference to the people of Zimbabwe but what he must understand is demand for him to step down so that all the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA can be implemented followed by fresh free and fair elections still remains on the table. Indeed the nation views all his internal party wars as a distraction and a waste of time; Zimbabwe must end the economic meltdown a.s.a.p. and therefore has no time to waste on petty Zanu PF factional war!
The present economic meltdown is socially and politically unsustainable and since the only way the nation can ever hope for economic recovery is by way of regime change then regime change is now as certain as sun rise. Mr Mugabe, you have managed to avoid regime change for 35 years but will not do so now; politically, you are the dead man walking!
"Tyson (Kasukuwere's nickname) is a dead man walking," a senior Zanu PF official told the Daily News.
Not that anyone is surprised; Zanu PF is a party of thugs, they do not live by any civilized laws. The only law they know and understand is the law of the jungle – screw them before they screw you! They call each other comrade but they would smile at you, kiss you and then stab you; they can do that in reverse order too, just for the hell of it. They trust no one; they have never trusted any one. They do not trust themselves so how can they trust someone else.
War vet leader Victor Mutemadanda, spearheading the purge of Kasukuwere, is but an overzealous new version of yesteryear war vet thug Jabulani Sibanda. Victor was wittering about Kasukuwere plotting regime change with the British. What is so insulting about this is for the last 35 years this Zanu PF regime has denied the people of Zimbabwe a meaningful say in the governance of the country. The regime has held the regular elections but always tampered with the process to produce a "no regime change" result.
What is so insulting is the regime has systematically denying a meaningful vote but to add hot chilli to the open wound has maintained that it is outsiders and not Zimbabweans who want free and fair election with regime change as one possible outcome.
The whites treated blacks as immature infants; they insisted in calling blacks were "Boy" or "Girl" regardless how old the individual happen to be. They denied the blacks a vote for exactly the same reason ten year olds do not have a vote the world over.
Independence did not bring exactly the one-man-one-vote the nation had been promised; as far as Mugabe and Zanu PF were concerned the only vote that counted was one guaranteeing no regime change any other vote was discarded. Mugabe has corrupt all the state institutions like courts, Police, etc.; instead of courts safe guarding the freedoms and rights of the people they have made it possible for Mugabe to ride roughshod over the people's hopes and dreams of freedom, justice and liberty in pursuit of his singular goal of "no regime change"! Misguided war vets like Mutemadanda and Sibanda have been the tyrant's willing foot soldiers in his satanic scheme.
It is clear that Mugabe"s ZimAsset plan has failed to deliver economic recovery and as long as the tyrant remains in power the economic meltdown; which is behind the unemployment soaring to 90%, has forced 16% of our people into abject poverty, etc.; will only get worse.
We need to end this stupid "no regime change" nonsense Mugabe has imposed on the nation; it is an oxymoron to civilized free and fair elections. We want the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA implemented and fresh free and fair elections held.
The nation accepts that Zanu PF is a party of thugs and that is imploding. Kasukuwere was the pack leader of the thugs who hunted down and purged Jabulani Sibanda, Joice Mujuru and many of her supporters out of the party last year. Today, hardly a year later, Kasukuwere is himself the hunted as for Mutemadanda, he will be next.
No one in Zimbabwe is going to lose sleep because Kasukuwere has been purged or even killed. What the nation will not accept it an attempt by any of the Zanu PF factions to national struggle get the democratic reforms implemented so there can be fresh free and fair elections.
Mugabe can purge Kasukuwere and his followers out of the party or even have them all killed it makes no difference to the people of Zimbabwe but what he must understand is demand for him to step down so that all the democratic reforms agreed in the 2008 GPA can be implemented followed by fresh free and fair elections still remains on the table. Indeed the nation views all his internal party wars as a distraction and a waste of time; Zimbabwe must end the economic meltdown a.s.a.p. and therefore has no time to waste on petty Zanu PF factional war!
The present economic meltdown is socially and politically unsustainable and since the only way the nation can ever hope for economic recovery is by way of regime change then regime change is now as certain as sun rise. Mr Mugabe, you have managed to avoid regime change for 35 years but will not do so now; politically, you are the dead man walking!
Source - Wilbert Mukori
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