Cde Jonah is an exemplary leader

Dear Cabinet and Politburo members

COMRADES, I notice with great dismay that even some among you, who are supposed to know better, are joining our ignorant detractors in baying for Cde Jonah's blood. His crime? Doing exactly what is expected of a real leader, a leader who does not give excuses, but thinks on their feet and works with what is available.

As much as Cde Moyo should have sought Cabinet approval for some of the decisions he - in his illimitable wisdom - made, I honestly do not see anything really scandalous that this hardworking chap did.

If anything, his only "crime" is that he has been doing his work for both government and party - which to me are largely one and the same thing.

Unlike most of you, Cde Jonah is like a giraffe … he is pro-active because he sees situations that are way ahead … he does not have to react to situations, but rather manage them way before they happen.

As a leader who is gifted with such powers of foresight, I understand Cde Jonah whenever he makes such moves. In the past I used to doubt him, but - with the benefit of hindsight - I have grown to appreciate the value of his wisdom. So I won't be stampeded into condemning him … like what happened before resulting in him being chased away from the party… only for us to follow him and beg him to please come back when we had realised that everything that he had been doing was meant to benefit the party and the country.

Surely, if a country as big as ours can be bogged down on minor issues involving minuscule amounts like these change figures involved here, I don't see us getting anywhere in this global village.

If you ask me, Cde Jonah is an asset to both the party and government. I can't even imagine what the party would be like without him … in fact, I cannot imagine where the party would be today had it not been for his vision and foresight.

That he did not seek Cabinet approval is not a problem to me, considering the tiny amounts involved and the urgency of the projects that needed the funds. Anyone who has even a fleeting appreciation of how a government works should know that if Cabinet is to approve each and every transaction, nothing will ever be done.

This is the reason why there are ministers to exercise executive authority over some of these day-to-day issues and these are men and women of very high integrity, so for anyone to find anything scandalous about the way Cde Jonah's judgment is stretching their imagination dangerously too far.

During the inclusive government, Morgan himself was involved in some  criminal activities that involved double dipping when government presented him with an opportunity to acquire a decent house … and in the end, millions of dollars were lost, but did anyone make any fuss about it?

So why all this fuss now by the same opposition and even some of you Cdes, about this matter?

Imagine if Cde Jonah and his double brains were with the opposition, we would long have been eroded out of power. You don't campaign for an election with State resources just weeks before the vote … it would become obvious that this is vote-buying … what needs to be done is to always keep in touch with the people who matter - like chiefs as in this case - so that when an elections is called, they already know which party to order the people to vote for … or which candidate.

The problem with most of you and those in the opposition that are seeing a scandal here is that you always think of the electorate after the nomination court has sat.

You all know that this STEM, which was Cde Jonah's brilliant idea, is meant to create a bounteous harvest of youthful voters… people who trust the party and therefore would want it to remain in power? When Cde Jonah presented this programme to me, it did not make a lot of sense, but in hindsight, I can now see that this way, we can so easily capture not less than one million new voters in the next five years. How many of you ever thought of it like that?

It is high time you stopped looking at situations and cases at face value … politics is about making strategic decisions whenever opportunity presents itself.

As far as I can see, all that needs to be done is for appropriate adjustments to be made … Cde Saviour's Ministry of Local Government would simply have to forward part of its budget to Cde Jonah's High Education so that it can replace the Zimdef funds that Cde Jonah advanced to the chiefs on behalf of the ministry responsible for chiefs … and same for the Ministry of Finance, which was supposed to release funds for the crucial million-man march and the meeting with war veterans, etc, etc. What is important is that what needed to be done was done, not from which fund because money can always move from one ministry or department to another, as long as it is fully accounted for… which is what has happened in this case.

So my considered view on this matter is that Cde Jonah has no case to answer … if anything, he is one leader that most of you should learn a lot from.

Kindest Regards

Yours Sincerely
ME


… AND CZ'S NOTEBOOK

Nothing
Dr CZ is not at all taken aback by developments at the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef), where Higher Education Minister, Cde Jonathan Moyo and & Co are accused of looting the fund for their personal and the ruling party's benefit.

Having been a Zimbo his whole life, Dr CZ finds nothing quite new about this practice… if anything, this is part for the course.

The only scandal can be trying to change this tradition.
It is exactly for this reason that people get into politics … so that they can have unfettered access to public resources for their own benefit, politics itself being the art of managing public affairs for personal gain.

So for anyone to expect an African politician to behave differently would be like expecting a miracle. Thankfully, we are not yet in a season of miracles.

It is only those foolish enough to expect good from politicians that should be disappointed. And it is their fault!

Petard
As Zimdef-gate unravels, Dr CZ is just watching closely from the terraces. One thing that he has noticed with dismay is that those that are leading the frontal attack from the State media are the very same people who were handpicked by Cde Jonathan Moyo for the senior posts during his previous tenures as minister of information.

He taught them how to hunt and attack as a pack the way hyenas and wild dogs do … chasing their big targets for long distances while eating them away piece by piece until they make the final kill.

They have used this tactic on a lot of victims … from Joice Mujuru, Didymus Mutasa, Temba Mliswa… you name them, and as the factional wars continue to rage in ZANU-PF, it looks like there could be a typical case of one being hoist by his own petard!

Dr CZ's brothers at the Glass & Mortar Building are firing at Moyo from all angles… they have suddenly realised how corrupt the man is.

He might have placed them there, but it is human nature for one to always know which side of their bread is buttered.

Loyalties change depending on bellytics, the politics of the belly.

Let's us all wait to see how this ends.

God's plan

An awesome conversation between God and a man.

Man: God, can I ask you a question? 

God: Sure.
Man: Promise you won't get mad at me.
God: I promise.
Man: Why did you let so much stuff happen to me today?
God: What do you mean?

Man: Well, I woke up late.
God: Yes.
Man: My car took forever to start.
God: Okay.
Man: At lunch they made my sandwich wrong and I had to wait.
God: Hmmm!
Man: On the way home, my phone went dead, just as I picked up a call.
God: All right.
Man: And on top of it all, when I got home, I just wanted to soak my feet in my new foot massager and relax.
But it wouldn't work! Nothing went right today!
Why did you allow all that to happen to me?

God: Let me see, the death angel was at your bed this morning and I had to send one of my angels to battle him for your life.
I let you sleep through that.
Man (humbled): O-oh!
God: I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road at a particular time.
Man: (ashamed) Thank you!
God: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick and I didn't want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn't afford to miss work.

Man (embarrassed): Okay!
God: Your phone went dead because the person that was calling was going to give false witness about what you said on that call; I didn't even let you talk to them so you would be covered.

Man (softly): I see God!
God: Oh and that foot massager, it had a fault that was going to throw out all of the power in your house tonight. I didn't think you wanted to be in the dark. 

Man: I'm sorry God.
God: Don't be sorry, just learn to Trust Me…. in all things, the good and the bad. 

Man: I will trust you. 

God: And don't doubt that my plan for your day is always better than your plan.
Man: I won't God. And let me just tell you God.
Thank you for everything today. 

God: You're welcome child.
 It was just another day being your God and I love looking after my children.
And question time…
• Why do we feel sleepy in three-minute prayer, 
but stay wide-awake through a three-hour movie? 

• Why are we so bored when we look at the Holy Bible, but find it easy to read books, newspapers and magazines?
• Why is it so easy to ignore a message about God, 
yet we read and forward the nasty ones?
• Why are prayers getting smaller, but bars and clubs are getting fined for remaining open after operating hours?
• Why is it so easy to worship a celebrity, but very difficult to engage with God?
Think about it, are you going to forward this? 
Are you going to ignore it, cause you think you will get laughed at?
Remember God says if you deny me before your 
friends, I will deny you on judgment day.
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