Opinion / Columnist
Temba Mliswa hallucinating over expulsion from Zanu-PF
20 Jul 2015 at 13:43hrs | Views
The embattled former ruling party Zanu-PF chairperson for Mashonaland West, Temba Mliswa, is making false claims that many of his erstwhile comrades in the ruling party still report to him, and that they are also allegedly aligned to the expelled former Vice President Joice Mujuru. This assertion is put forward without tangible proof to prop it up.
Mliswa qualifies to be labeled a chronicle liar in the context of the fact that when he was ousted from Mash West Provincial Chairmanship, he was chucked by the same people in a vote of no confidence style; now claims that they are his loyalists. How can that be when they teamed up to dislodge him in the first place? What circumstances have changed to turn-around tables so abruptly?
He is a replica of the tale told by an African author, Chinua Achebe, who said that "The lizard which fell from an iroko tree said if you do not praise yourself no-one will ever do so to you." Therefore, pending the bad consequences which stumped out his political career recently, he is under personal impetus to praise himself as a way of serving his waning political image which is eroding daily.
If his clams had any grain of truth he should have won the recent poll in Hurungwe West if the constituents sill pay allegiance to him. He was shown the exit in the recent by-election held in Hurungwe. This is a crystal clear signal that he is making noise while languishing in the political dust-bin.
Mliswa's band wagon mentality is a clear testimony of the last kicks of a dying horse. His assertion that "if Zanu PF wanted to completely rid the province of ‘Gamatoxes' a complete overhaul of the structures would have to be carried out." What is the source of his sympathy with ZANU-PF when he is no longer a cadre of the party? He seems to be having a desperate desire of keeping himself visible and relevant to the national political matrix.
He further claims that, "They will have to fire all the 311 chairpersons and others because my ghost will continue to haunt them." This is his wish which will not see the light of the day. ZANU-PF is a big organisation which does not take orders from ex-members that are fighting their personal agendas. The best advice for him is to mind his business and forget that he will ever influence ZANU-PF processes. His tenure of office to do that expired and is non-renewable.
Mliswa's claims that he was so influential in the province that he had allegedly "masterminded" the victory of his June 10 by-election rival, Keith Guzah, in the internal Zanu PF primary elections to choose candidates to represent the party in the mini-poll. Mliswa claims that he had instructed district chairpersons to ensure Guzah, whom he considered a weaker candidate, wins the right to represent Zanu PF against him in the by-election. This is an extreme case of fantasy and imagination. How can he make such a misguided claim when he was eventually defeated by the candidate he deemed weak in the same election.
If wishes were horses beggars would ride, however, in the case of Temba Mliswa, if wishes were facts Mliswa would mislead anyone who dares listen to him.
The expulsion of Mliswa from ZANU-PF is a true replication of similar persons that believed that they were bigger than the party and applied rebellious tactics until they were dumped by the wayside. That marked the dead end of their political aspirations on the macro-political landscape. Among these are embattled politicians such as Edgar Tekere, Simba Makoni, Dumiso Dabengwa, Joyce Mujuru, Rugare Gumbo, Didymus Mutasa, Jabulani Sibanda and Ray Kaukonde among others.
When these people leave ZANU-PF they are propelled by the illusion that they have a big followership trailing theme. Simba Makoni declared that he was backed by vast numbers of big wigs in the party that would follow him, and he was even promising an action packed mass exodus of ZANU-PF heavy weights to join him; only to discover ultimately that it was him and Dabengwa that entertained personal disgruntlement and grudges against the party. They failed to make it out of the ruling party and are currently languishing in political wilderness.
The recent ZANU-PF casualties such as Mutasa, Mliswa and Jabu Sibanda are similar cases of ridicule that are bickering and gibbering loudly before their ultimate relegation to the political dust-bins like what happened to their predecessors.
Source - Suitable Kajau
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