Opinion / Columnist
Mujuru's Awkward Performance in the United Kingdom
13 Oct 2016 at 09:42hrs | Views
The leader of Zimbabwe People First (ZPF), Dr Joice Mujuru's awkward performance in the United Kingdom, whilst addressing various platforms, has left many Zimbabweans wondering whether she can be trusted with the country's highest office of national President, come 2018.
Her attempts to appear as a Saint through promising the former owner of her farm, Guy Whatson-Smith, compensation of a whopping one million and four hundred and seventy thousand United States dollars, is now proving to be a political gimmick which has badly backfired. More than a week after Mai Mujuru's much publicized promise for compensation, it has come to light that there is no substantive indication that Whatson-Smith will get the money as promised. Whatson-Smith revealed that "Mujuru only proffered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with no date of payment on it and no final figure. It is no more than a memorandum of understanding", said Whatson Smith.
Mujuru displayed a false picture of a leader who is sympathetic to white farmers who lost farms under the Land Reform Programme in order to get funding for her party from some gullible British citizens. It is clear that her plan is to get sympathy from the British who would then pour millions, if not billions of dollars into her party's coffers. A fraction of the donations will be then used to compensate Whatson-Smith; no wonder why the Memorandum of Understanding is just as good as tissue paper as it has no date. What a crafty woman!
The Zimbabwe People First leader was untruthful when she alleged that the bond coins, currently in circulation in Zimbabwe, are being rejected by everyone, including tax drivers and supermarkets. She said this whist trying to defend her stance against the pending introduction of bond notes. The truth is that bond coins, which are pegged against the US dollar, were welcomed as an additional medium of commercial transactions many years ago, in the process sidelining the South African rand, although initially some Zimbabweans campaigned for their rejection in the same way they are doing against the introduction of the bond notes.
Mai Mujuru and her family enjoyed the fruits of the Land Reform Programme as they benefitted from the farm for decades. At no point did Mai Mujuru indicated that she wanted to pay compensation to Whatson-Smith whilst she was still part and parcel of ZANU (PF) and government senior leadership. Zimbabweans and the world at large cannot be fooled by such cheap political posturing.
Mai Mujuru goes on to tell the world that her late husband, General Solomon Mujuru (may his dear soul rest in peace), was killed by ZANU (PF), saying that the General "may have been killed by the couple's ZANU (PF) enemies to pave way for my ouster from the party". However, on 21 February 2016 Mai Mujuru sensationally told a United Kingdom newspaper, The Sunday Times, that she knows who killed her husband but refused to disclose the identities of the killers.
While she is entitled to her views about what might have caused the unfortunate death of her husband, why would she choose to utter such stunning statements on foreign soil? Mai Mujuru wants to paint a picture that she was very close to the late General Solomon Mujuru, but it is public knowledge among Zimbabweans that the couple was no longer habituating as husband and wife. The truth is that Mai Mujuru and General Mujuru were on an unofficial separation for more than a decade before the unfortunate passing own of the General.
As Mai Mujuru's blundering continues whilst speechifying during a visit to the land of Zimbabwe's former colonial masters; she blatted that she had great admiration for Morgan Tsvangirai for his bravery, for allegedly being the first opposition political leader to challenge President Mugabe in Zimbabwe's post independent era. She is conveniently forgetting that many opposition political leaders challenged President Mugabe long before Tsvangirai stepped into the political ring. Some of these leaders were the late Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the late Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, the late Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutsena, the late former ZANU (PF) Secretary General, Edgar Tekere and Mai Mujuru's current sidekick, Margret Dongo.
Maybe Mai Mujuru is trying to tell the world that she admires Tsvangirai for being the first opposition political leader to openly dine with Zimbabwe's former colonizers, during which economic demise of Zimbabwe was being planned in order for him to be elevated into power. She admires Tsvangirai for having gained access to funds from the regime change agenda architects before she could lay her hands on such funds.
Addressing her supporters in Luton, the ZPF leader uncharacteristically talked on the phone in the midst of her speech, a rude gesture indeed which shocked her overzealous supporters.
After having served in ZANU (PF) under President Mugabe, who mentored the ZPF leader, according to her own admission, she now paints the President as a devil who does not care for Zimbabweans. She now views the party, which natured her for more than forty-two years as an evil organization. Shame!
Her attempts to appear as a Saint through promising the former owner of her farm, Guy Whatson-Smith, compensation of a whopping one million and four hundred and seventy thousand United States dollars, is now proving to be a political gimmick which has badly backfired. More than a week after Mai Mujuru's much publicized promise for compensation, it has come to light that there is no substantive indication that Whatson-Smith will get the money as promised. Whatson-Smith revealed that "Mujuru only proffered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with no date of payment on it and no final figure. It is no more than a memorandum of understanding", said Whatson Smith.
Mujuru displayed a false picture of a leader who is sympathetic to white farmers who lost farms under the Land Reform Programme in order to get funding for her party from some gullible British citizens. It is clear that her plan is to get sympathy from the British who would then pour millions, if not billions of dollars into her party's coffers. A fraction of the donations will be then used to compensate Whatson-Smith; no wonder why the Memorandum of Understanding is just as good as tissue paper as it has no date. What a crafty woman!
The Zimbabwe People First leader was untruthful when she alleged that the bond coins, currently in circulation in Zimbabwe, are being rejected by everyone, including tax drivers and supermarkets. She said this whist trying to defend her stance against the pending introduction of bond notes. The truth is that bond coins, which are pegged against the US dollar, were welcomed as an additional medium of commercial transactions many years ago, in the process sidelining the South African rand, although initially some Zimbabweans campaigned for their rejection in the same way they are doing against the introduction of the bond notes.
Mai Mujuru and her family enjoyed the fruits of the Land Reform Programme as they benefitted from the farm for decades. At no point did Mai Mujuru indicated that she wanted to pay compensation to Whatson-Smith whilst she was still part and parcel of ZANU (PF) and government senior leadership. Zimbabweans and the world at large cannot be fooled by such cheap political posturing.
Mai Mujuru goes on to tell the world that her late husband, General Solomon Mujuru (may his dear soul rest in peace), was killed by ZANU (PF), saying that the General "may have been killed by the couple's ZANU (PF) enemies to pave way for my ouster from the party". However, on 21 February 2016 Mai Mujuru sensationally told a United Kingdom newspaper, The Sunday Times, that she knows who killed her husband but refused to disclose the identities of the killers.
While she is entitled to her views about what might have caused the unfortunate death of her husband, why would she choose to utter such stunning statements on foreign soil? Mai Mujuru wants to paint a picture that she was very close to the late General Solomon Mujuru, but it is public knowledge among Zimbabweans that the couple was no longer habituating as husband and wife. The truth is that Mai Mujuru and General Mujuru were on an unofficial separation for more than a decade before the unfortunate passing own of the General.
As Mai Mujuru's blundering continues whilst speechifying during a visit to the land of Zimbabwe's former colonial masters; she blatted that she had great admiration for Morgan Tsvangirai for his bravery, for allegedly being the first opposition political leader to challenge President Mugabe in Zimbabwe's post independent era. She is conveniently forgetting that many opposition political leaders challenged President Mugabe long before Tsvangirai stepped into the political ring. Some of these leaders were the late Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the late Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, the late Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutsena, the late former ZANU (PF) Secretary General, Edgar Tekere and Mai Mujuru's current sidekick, Margret Dongo.
Maybe Mai Mujuru is trying to tell the world that she admires Tsvangirai for being the first opposition political leader to openly dine with Zimbabwe's former colonizers, during which economic demise of Zimbabwe was being planned in order for him to be elevated into power. She admires Tsvangirai for having gained access to funds from the regime change agenda architects before she could lay her hands on such funds.
Addressing her supporters in Luton, the ZPF leader uncharacteristically talked on the phone in the midst of her speech, a rude gesture indeed which shocked her overzealous supporters.
After having served in ZANU (PF) under President Mugabe, who mentored the ZPF leader, according to her own admission, she now paints the President as a devil who does not care for Zimbabweans. She now views the party, which natured her for more than forty-two years as an evil organization. Shame!
Source - Chadzimura Mhute
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