Endgame - The right side is Mugabe's side Mthwakazi!

Ok, you will think me crazy Mthwakazi, but hold your fire.

It's not been easy for me to wake up to this realization, let alone 'accept' it, but the history of the word is full of such salutary lessons, from before and through Biblical times to now.

Like innovation in technology and business, revolutions are products of the process of learning and unlearning and learning again - in that continuous and unbroken cyclical turn.

NASA, that great American institution of space exploration, will tell you how it uses the otherwise hostile forces of the universe - on paper NASA's enemy - to propel spacecraft to the very edge of the solar system. Using the centripetal forces of distant planets, NASA flings spacecraft from restraining orbits in a catapult effect, thus 'slinging' the exploration vehicles well into the target celestial body faster, cheaper and quicker. In short, NASA looks at what the heavenly body does, not just what it is.

So how does this all fit in with uMthwakazi today, and how is all this relevant here?
I'm not gifted with brevity and clarity, but allow me to try to explain.

You see, unlike NASA, uMthwakazi has seen and continues to see uMugabe as a hostile object - to use our NASA imagery - and fails to see what uMugabe can do for Mthwakazi in these endtimes. As Mthwakazi, we have been mentally parked in the pain and repudiation of Gukurahundi - totally understandable - but in the process allowed that to cloud our judgement, blur our vision and stifle our action, even blind us to opportunities via uMugabe that would help us 'sling' uMthwakazi to where she wants to be. Not to oppress anyone, but to be totally free as any other people on the planet - that must be emphasized!

I hope uMthwakazi unfolding history will vindicate me as having been right when uMthwakazi majority was wrong and still entangled in political cobwebs of the painful past. And I hope I will not live to regret this, but to celebrate this - with all of uMthwakazi. So let me commit treason against uMthwakazi here!

Today, Mthwakazi - in this endgame - uMugabe isn't the enemy but a friend. I would have wanted that sentence to stand alone without commentary so it's totally visible, clear, and unencumbered. But, hey …

If there is a right side in this endgame, that side is Mugabe's side, not the side of his enemies or those who today present themselves as his enemies.

I would hasten to underline the fact that I speak of no 'correct' side; I speak only of a 'right' side. Some might say those two words mean the same thing, and I haven't bothered with a dictionary check. I define the two as I use them here. 'Right' appeals to the mind, 'correct' to the heart. And I have already alluded to the fact that this is the time for uMthwakazi to learn to set the heart aside and learn to put on her thinking cap, to unlearn pain and in its place put deliberateness informed by courage of conviction. I am therefore speaking to Mthwakazi's mind here, not to her heart!
To help uMthwakazi make that bold, unthinkable move, let us unpack those who today put themselves forward as Mugabe's enemies, from the so-called war veterans, to Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T, Joyce Mujuru's ZF, #This Flag, #Tajamuka etc, and the general Shona populace who today see themselves as 'leading' some of form of revolution. Notice I have not shied away from mentioning the Shona populace directly, and this is not for tribalistic but factual reasons that are provable, are demonstrable and beyond cavil. Shona fantasists, all manner of Gukurahundists and other 'silent' Shona supremacists will latch onto this point and yell in their usual shrill voices to attack me as this and that. That's is fine. But that won't change the truth. And 'Mthwakazi' - to whom I proudly belong and publicly declare proud allegiance to - means 'people'. UMthwakazi includes Shona speakers who subscribe to the value systems of Mthwakaziness. UMthwakazi has never been part of this establishment which this new crop of Shona 'revolutionaries' has ever supported. Keep this perspective when you launch your attacks on me!

When Mugabe unleashed an undeclared war against uMthwakazi in the 1980's, no single 'war veteran', except those targeted by that pogrom, raised any voice. Since then - and over many years - the same so-called 'war vets' have been instruments of terror against the civilian population - Black and White - in support of the very same Mugabe that they would have us believe has become their enemy overnight. Professor Welshman's recent article warning about these so-called war vets is a must read(http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-30586-Ncube+Don%E2%80%99t+be+fooled+by+war+veterans!/news.aspx).
As for the Mujurus and Dongos and Tsvangirai's of our time, need anyone say anything more that anybody doesn't already know?

I must reserve my severest criticism for dubious pastors and groups like #ThisFlag, #Tajamuka, the opportunistic #BeatthePot and an assortment of other hashtag 'revolutionaries' and crazy individuals who are self-marketing and self-extoling and now polluting the social media on a daily basis. What an assemblage of utter chaos and a maddening mob on the loose! What a loud silence from this flat thunder!

These are the very same Shona people - not the particular individuals - but the very same mob mentality that brought in, cheered, ululated and sustained Gukurahundi's military operations against uMthwakazi from beginning to the end, and who today support, sustain and drive Gukurahundi and Gukurahundism in all its professed and denied manifestations. Many will remember that video shot just after the April 1980 elections (recently posted on social media) when these very same Shona mobs were crying: 'Nkomo must be killed; 'Nkomo must be killed!', or words to that effect.  

It is this same Shona mob seen today running about in a vandalistic fervour they mistakenly see as a 'revolution' or some form of civil uprising. Shona people who to this day will not own up to their twisted sense of political and social justice, who make shrill noises about one Shona person recently disappeared but fail to see the depravity of their inactions in failing to raise the issue of thousands of Mthwakazi's disappeared and tens of thousands of Mthwakazians killed and maimed in their name and with their fullest support between 1980 and 1988.

People who aren't even ashamed to today to invite uMthwakazi to depose with them and for themselves a Mugabe they have loved and still love so dearly except for their opportunistic ventures and avarice, documented fraud, deception, thievery and other similar vices involving money, dishonesty, lecherous sex and generalised unsavoury behaviour that has touched cities and continents across the globe. Twisted arrogance of a false superiority that still tells itself today that it's big when it is this small, that it's clever when it is this foolish, and that it's funny when it is this shameful. The folly that believes uMthwakazi is inevitably tied and rolled into anything that is done by the Shona and their braying mobs - the mobs we see in this self-acting endgame now appropriated by an assortment of Shona opportunists as a 'revolution' by braying mobs of the 1980's which brought us this Mugabe tyranny whose true nature they are only but marginally experiencing now when uMthwakazi bears the scars of the political trenches that came with 1980 Zanu-PF rule.   

This is the motley collection of Shona mobsters today made up of #Tajamuka, #ThisFlag, #BeatthePot and others who would today present themselves as representatives of civil society and the civilian population. I see they have also extended their totally lunatic ideas to the unsuspecting village population using a hashtag whose name I can't recall and am happy not to recall, by which the poor and ignorant will be made sacrificial lambs by this donor-driven and dangerous outfit masquerading as 'revolutionaries' in our midst. Statistics of the killed and maimed villagers will soon be posted on social media by the 'leaders' of these groups who - not long from now - will be on planes to receive this or that 'bravery' award and fat cheques in the usual capitals, while back home, families - forgotten and worthless and now de-personalised and dry statistics - grieve over irreplaceable losses.

Someone not from the so-called government side has got to stand up to this greed and heartlessness that has long informed the so-called opposition ranks and help put a stop to it all! I may not be one of those doing that here, but someone better equipped than me may be able to extract some sense in some of what I've said here and put it out to the hearts of our people to help stop this. If Zanu-PF is depraved, then our so-called opposition are politically and decidedly debauched!  
Mthwakazi, your enemy in this endgame is not Mugabe. #Tajamuka, #ThisFlag, #BeatthePot and others of this debased genre, are!

They are your enemy because it is the same Shona grouping 'inviting' you to the chaos and mayhem they failed to cajole and force uMthwakazi into in 1980 when they got their hands on the State's weapons of mass killing. They are your enemy because they want to use you - again - into establishing or extending their political empire and tribal stranglehold over uMthwakazi using different (or same) faces and institutions after Mugabe. Mistakes didn't end with Nkomo and Zapu! And they are also your enemy because they are inviting you to run with them blindly into an empty void of lawlessness in which the only beneficiaries will be the most dangerous of them: all of them their own! When they are this dangerous in conditions of law you don't need anyone to tell you how dangerous they will be in conditions of disorder where their excesses will have no restrictions. There are people - well known - driving this Shona mob there - into which they are inviting uMthwakazi - for all these very reasons.

You don't want to go there with them Mthwakazi!
And I need ask this - much to the expected chagrin of Shona supremacists, Shona fantasists and Gukurahundists - have you noticed Mthwakazi that all the so-called 'leaders' of these hashtag 'revolutionaries' - including the maddened individual self-promoters - are all Shonas and all speak in Shona?

Coincidence? Check your history again!

So what am I saying in practical terms Mthwakazi?

It's simple really.
Mugabe is desperate and needs friends now. Physical death can't come sooner for him despite all the surface appearances of 'business as usual'. And Mugabe's real nightmares aren't coming from the #Tajamukas etc of today, but from his old friends he knows are now out to get him - this time without fail. Mugabe also knows fully well what they hold against him if they get him alive or what they can do if they now want him out - dead or alive. Contemporary precedents abound for him to know that very well.
 
Contrary to popular usage of the saying, in politics there are of course permanent enemies, but there are simply times when you can and should work with your enemy when your interests and your enemy's come to coincide. In this endgame, uMthwakazi's interests coincide Mugabe's. UMthwakazi's future is not in degenerate lawlessnesse, but in a lawful, stable and properly recovered State. For all his many faults, Mugabe would wish this than the alternative that his wily (new) and impatient enemies want the State to go - from where they will steal the State and terrorise everybody after.  

So, if I had my way - and if uMthwakazi would allow me - I would invite all Mthwakazians to organize solidarity marches in support of Mugabe in his, this desperate moment; this depleted state.

I would invite uMthwakazian to assemble at the City of Kings and Queens' City Hall and all such places and send a clear message to the handlers of Mugabe and the Shona - again - to say that uMthwakazi's rejection of being 'enemized' in 1980 when it suited is met with the same contempt and derision as today's choreographed attempts to 'befriend' uMthwakazi, again when it suits. By the ultimate sacrifice (a genocide) uMthwakazi rejected tyranny and by the same political sacrifice today (ganging up with its enemy) uMthwakazi is refusing to be pawned like marbled pieces on a political chessboard for the benefit of others.

The police and other security services will be put out to 'protect' such a march by uMthwakazi. We are here talking the true game of politics!

Mugabe has learnt the hard way. He may not admit it in public, but he is today ashamed, shamed and small. He played with the big boys of deception - the world's political illuminati -  when he was politically wet behind the ears and has ended up a virtual prisoner in a State prison publicly presented as State House. Running hither and thither between the people and his handlers, frightened - and rejected by both - Mugabe has shrunk in political size to nothing in a political island called Private Isolation. In physical stature, we are watching him shrink to oblivion right in front of our eyes. It is not a pleasant sight, and the pelting he is receiving as his goodbyes, mostly from his own, has grown cruel, increasingly sadistic. We are talking a broken man; a tortured soul running away even from himself - in a hurry!

Time is not on Mthwakazi's side, morally and politically.

Mugabe is ripe for a friend and friends.

For Mthwakazians, this is an opportunity - when his internal friends have now turned against him and positioned themselves as his enemies. It is time for uMthwakazi to swap positions with her erstwhile mob tormenters and position herself as Mugabe's friends. Yes, it is time to befriend and be friends with Mugabe in this endgame.

Forget #Tajamuka, #ThisFlag, #BeatthePot and the Morgan Tsvangirais and Joyce Mujurus of this world Mthwakazi. All of these are just plastic; fake and unauthentic (in terms of State power). It may well be most ironic - admittedly - but it is time for Mthwakazi to go with Mugabe, and nothing else.

As many sober Mthwakazians have consistently warned since the start of this unfolding mobocracy, ngamandlwane wodwa which are not going anywhere -  this #Tajamuka, #ThisFlag, #BeatthePot, War Vets, MDC-T and ZPF nonsense. There is no 'revolution' there and there will never be one there. Not like that anyway!

I salute you Mthwakazi for the way you have conducted yourselves so far during these fly-by-night, purposeless, and visionless 'mobocrafties'. But the time for silence and inaction is now over. It is time to take action in support of the right side; to take sides!

With this one stroke of political genius, this Machiavellian stroke, uMthwakazi can put paid to this political mirage called 'succession' politics and help arrest the actions and activities of these criminals behind the #Tajamukas of this world, criminals who are trying to drive the State to a chaos and lawlessness from which they will emerge with the private trophy of a stolen and reprivatized State.

As we stand today - in this endgame - that right side is Mugabe's side, or you end up with one Emmerson Mnangagwa as Head of State who some of this Shona mob have publicly said they want as president and are working for. And for all we know, this wily and ruthless operator may well be behind all these things - and using uMthwakazi too as pawns - the very people he killed so mercilessly and ruthlessly -- to install himself as Emperor of a new Karanga political empire (as a repudiation of a 'liquidated' Zezuru empire). Mthwakazi we are not into those games. UMthwakazi is the serious business of modern statecraft.

You have to answer yourself privately Mthwakazi - as Mandla or Thembi or Nyasha - which you would rather have - Mugabe or Mnangagwa? Perhaps that's an artificial question anyway, but pose it all the same as a question that prompts further political enquiry and self-interrogation.

Things have moved on Mthwakazi. We are in the here and now and need to act in the here and now. It is time to think, think and think again. Time to suspend emotions, pain and history - and do something rather than be by-products of political events as Mthwakazi.  

Any offer of help from uMthwakazi now, Mugabe will gleefully jump on. And uMthwakazi must offer it!
The usual suspects will label me CIO. If that's an insult, I'm happy for such an insult to be made; it will just bounce off my body. But if it is presented as an accusation, let me say pre-emptively that such an accusation is totally false. But should you persist with such an accusation, then I will insist on you knowing the full import of saying so in those terms.
Anyone Mthwakazi for #MthwakaziforMugabeNow?