Mujuru displaying her ignorance to the world

FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Tuesday interview with South African radio station SAfm has all but confirmed that she learnt nothing from working closely with President Robert Mugabe in the 10 years that she served as his deputy.

From her responses marked by stutters and incoherence, a display of ignorance on a number of issues including ideology and foreign policy, Mujuru proved to the world why no serious person can consider her as a factor in the country's political arena in this lifetime and probably the next.

Even some sections of the private media who announced Mujuru's launch of her Zimbabwe People First party last Monday as a Tsunami should have been left with their heads hanging in collective shame as the former VP did everything to disprove their descriptions.

Instead, the interview showed that Mujuru is a Tsunami in the real sense, a disaster to Zimbabwean politics and perhaps the second worst politician to happen to this beautiful nation after MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Mujuru left many convinced that outside the shed provided to her by President Mugabe, the ZPF leader is nothing but a pathetic politician not fit even to lead a burial society.

Never mind the dubious characters and political novices that form part of her team particularly in Matabeleland, Mujuru herself betrayed her lack of understanding for ideology both in terms of definition and practice.

Asked by the interviewer what her party's ideology was, Mujuru embarrassingly said, "Our ideology is that we would want to change our people's way of living, we would want to change our people's thinking, we would want our people to be part of the global village."

Perhaps guided by Herbert McClosky's definition of ideology as, "systems of belief that are elaborate, integrated and coherent, that justify the exercise of power, explain and judge historical events, identify political right and wrong, set forth the interconnections, casual and moral, between politics and other spheres of activity," it is clear that Mujuru's years in the ruling party were wasted ones.

If Mujuru, since the days of the liberation war to the 34 years she spent in the government, failed to grasp the meaning of ideology in a party, Zanu-PF, it is at least expected that somewhere along her journey to her PHD, she should have encountered the term and captured its tenets but here is a "Dr Mujuru" who has failed to learn a simple concept from these two great institutions.

This is telling especially in trying to understand Mujuru's stance that her party is open to getting funding even from Western agencies.

Asked during the interview if they were getting any funding from Western agencies, Mujuru responded, "Not as yet, if we're going to get anybody who will come with a gesture then why not, we will accept."

She went on to indicate that they would make friends with all those, world over, that are ready to make friends with them, revealing that already, "a lot of people have approached us and we have approached a lot of people."

Now Mujuru is open to feeding from the same trough that has nourished Tsvangirai and his party, turning them into a willing extension of a Western regime agenda that is not in the interest of Zimbabwe and its people.

Mujuru, after all the years in the government, has failed to learn that Western aid comes with conditions most if not all of which are opposed to the interest those on the receiving end.

The new friends that Mujuru says she and her party are ready to embrace, the West, are the very institutions that imposed illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe following the government land reform exercise of which she's a beneficiary.

Addressing the CEO Africa Roundtable 2011 Conference in Nyanga, Mujuru  then VP said a double-digit growth rate and US$100 billion economy by 2030 was within reach but highlighted the efforts would be affected by sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.

Fast forward five years later, now in the cold, Mujuru declares that she is open to Western funding and Western friends leaving many convinced that allegations before her sacking that she had sacrificed her soul on the altar of regime change agents were in actual fact true.

Oblivious of her shortcomings that have once again been exposed in her interview with the South African radio station, Mujuru spent 10 years in the closest proximity to a great statesman but learnt absolutely nothing from him. Instead she started hallucinating on how she could fill that great man's shoes without bothering to check her tiny feet. Delusions of grandeur they call it.

The same delusions that made her perpetuate that she was a war time female Rambo who gunned down a helicopter with an AK-47 rifle and continued to post-independent Zimbabwe that she can, without any leadership qualities and content, can lead this country.

A commentator once opined that Mujuru was at best a creation of her husband the late Solomon and all her life benefited from the benevolence of President Mugabe. Full stop.