Opinion / Columnist
Mugabe, Zuma meeting of the doomed and the damned
07 Nov 2016 at 00:24hrs | Views
The meeting between Mugabe and Zuma in Harare on Thursday was a surreal encounter between the doomed and the damned.
'His Excellency President Zuma brings with him a cloud of hope and integrity' gushed Zanu PF, adding that Zuma was walking in Mugabe's footsteps. They ignored the dark cloud of hopelessness in South Africa over the rampant corruption which has damned his presidency. And as far as 'integrity' goes, the Vigil supposes that Zanu PF must have its own definition of this word. Just ask Jonathan Moyo, who didn't even bother to go to court on Friday to answer for his defrauding of state funds – even though he had given an undertaking to be there.
As for the doomed Mugabe, he is already booked in next month for more monkey gland injections in Singapore. In the meantime, state television was banned from showing him tottering to the lectern at the Zuma meeting.
The Daily News quotes Zanu PF insiders as saying it could be 'mene, mene, tekel and parsim' time for Mugabe (the words appearing on the wall during Belshazzar's feast). They were interpreted by the Prophet Daniel to mean 'God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end . . .'
Angry South Africans must hope that Zanu PF is right that Zuma really is 'walking in Mugabe's footsteps' and that his banquet too is about to end.
In any event, few South Africans are likely to take up Zanu PF's invitation to abandon their university courses to get a 'decolonised' education in Zimbabwe, even if they were offered a three-month doctorate such as Dr Grace's.
Source - ZimVigil
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