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Cde Teurai stretched my patience to the limit, Cdes
11 Dec 2014 at 09:46hrs | Views
Dear Cabinet and
Politburo members
Comrades, it was with much sadness that this week I had to take a drastic move to make wholesale dismissals from my Cabinet. I last took such a painful decision in 1989 after several senior members of my government had been found with their fingers stuck in the Willowgate cookie jar. This time around, it was not entirely my decision. It was the people who made the decision and as the loyal servant of the people that I have always been, I was left in an invidious position of implementing the decision.
A lot of things have been taking place behind the scenes for a long time now. I did not want to rush into action. I did not want to appear to be making unilateral decisions, so I waited for the right time for the people to make their own decisions. During congress last week, that long-awaited decision was finally made, for that divisive, corrupt and inept leadership be shown the door. And that decision was unanimous. The people were very clear on this, so who am I to go against the people's wishes without putting my own job at risk?
So I had to do my job by dismissing from government Cde Teurai, Cde Nicholas, Cde Didymus and all the others who have been, not only at the forefront of fanning factionalism in the party, but also were plotting some treasonous acts. I had been patient with most of the "misleaders."
I tried to warn them about what they were doing. They thought I was joking. They thought they were now superior to the people. They thought of themselves as untouchables. They thought of themselves as indispensable. They regarded themselves as the owners of the party and the country. They thought nothing would ever happen to them. Until the people decided enough was enough. Today they are in the dustbin of history, where they rightly belong. I hope this serves as a lesson to all of you Cdes who will make it into the new-look Cabinet and Politburo.
Nobody is indispensable. Nobody is above the party. And that the party belongs to the people. That the people will kick you out if you take them for granted. It was especially sad when I signed Cde Teurai's dismissal letter. Together with Cde Didymus, we came a long way. I never ever thought it would end like this. But my personal relationship with them could not save them when the people started baying for their blood.
I really wonder how a person like Cde Teurai got carried away like this. While I knew she was always talking to the country's enemies, I never thought she could be so gullible as to be fooled into believing they could help her replace me. That was the dumpiest thing anybody with such an impeccable revolutionary background could ever do.
Before she came, I had had three vice presidents. Cde Simon, Cde Joshua, Cde Joseph. Even Cde Simon who served as my deputy for a record 23 years never tried to do something like this. After only serving for 10 years, she thought she was ready to take over. How naïve and silly!
Anyway, this is not the end of the dismissals. There shall be more dismissals if the owners of the party deem it necessary. Those that will be making it into the new Cabinet should be prepared to be loyal to the party and work extra hard otherwise they will face the same fate. Let us see how this will end.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
…And Now CZ's Notebook
Lovely!
If there is one commodity that is in short supply in this country, it is sympathy. Because of exactly that, Dr CZ thinks this precious gift should never, ever be wasted on former Vice President, Joice Mujuru, and members of her cabal who this week got the boot from government as factional fights in Zanu-PF appear to be getting to their logical conclusion. These people deserve nobody's sympathy, because as far as the truth is concerned, they have not been adding any value to Zimbabwe and its people, but only to themselves, so it is only up to them to sympathise with themselves.
If it is about serving the country, most of them should be pleased that they did more than enough. In Mujuru's case, more than 40 years. That should be inordinately more than enough. The country is teeming with younger and more intelligent men and women who can serve the country just as well (if not better than) Mujuru, Nicholas Goche, Didymus Mutasa, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Webster Shamu, Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, Francis Nhema, Olivia Muchena, Munacho Mutezo and many, many more.
Spaniards have a lovely saying: To every pig comes his Martinmas! It's the equivalent of local sayings like chisingaperi chinoshura or okungapheliyo kuyahlola. There is an end to everything. The best we can ever do is to welcome these men and women together with others like Rugare Gumbo, Jabulani Sibanda, Ray Kaukonde who, for a very long time had been happy habitués of cloud cuckoo but have suddenly fallen by the wayside, down to mother earth. Jabulani Sibanda has already started tasting what it is like to be a piddling nobody in Zimbabwe. There is certainly no doubt that many of them will be following suit soon.
These developments are also good in other ways. They will fasten the democratisation of the political space in the country. Still on this latest dismissal, some legal experts this week pointed out that the President could have made a mistake by firing Mujuru on charges of incompetence as provided for under Section 102 of the Constitution.
These legal panjandrums point out that under this particular section of the law, a full-scale investigation would be required to prove beyond any reasonable doubt, that the allegations of incompetence are indeed true. These same legal experts say since this did not happen in her case, Mujuru could, by a legal technicality still be the country's Vice President. They say, instead, the President could simply have invoked the Sixth Schedule of the same section under which he is not obligated to give any reasons for his actions as Mujuru was serving "at his pleasure".
Well, let us wait and see if Mujuru would try to stand up to her legal rights and fight to clear her name, which has obviously been soiled by these allegations of incompetence. One of the "victims" of the latest purge is none other than Webster "Cde Cremora" Shamu. Previously known by his war name Charles Ndlovu. The brother will be remembered for "popularising" the title Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces after he leaped forward to remove any ambiguity when then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai appeared to confuse some of his executive duties with those of the President. It is not the first time the former disc jockey has gotten the boot from President Mugabe.
The fellow was fired from his deputy ministerial post in 1989 after being implicated in the Willowgate scandal. In the early 1980s, Shamu was head of Production Services in the Ministry of Information where over Z$50 000 was embezzled through a false payroll scheme and suicides took place. The Willowgate dismissal gave him time off to take up the leadership of the Zimbabwe National War Veterans Association.
He then proceeded to cool his feet at Zanu-PF headquarters where he was editor of The Voice. In preparation for a comeback, he sloughed off his war name, Charles Ndlovu, to his natal one, Webster Shamu. Only recently, he was named as having received "gifts" like motor vehicles from the cash-strapped Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation when it was still under his portfolio, while his wife was reportedly on the corporation's payroll. Who said a cat has nine lives?
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
Politburo members
Comrades, it was with much sadness that this week I had to take a drastic move to make wholesale dismissals from my Cabinet. I last took such a painful decision in 1989 after several senior members of my government had been found with their fingers stuck in the Willowgate cookie jar. This time around, it was not entirely my decision. It was the people who made the decision and as the loyal servant of the people that I have always been, I was left in an invidious position of implementing the decision.
A lot of things have been taking place behind the scenes for a long time now. I did not want to rush into action. I did not want to appear to be making unilateral decisions, so I waited for the right time for the people to make their own decisions. During congress last week, that long-awaited decision was finally made, for that divisive, corrupt and inept leadership be shown the door. And that decision was unanimous. The people were very clear on this, so who am I to go against the people's wishes without putting my own job at risk?
So I had to do my job by dismissing from government Cde Teurai, Cde Nicholas, Cde Didymus and all the others who have been, not only at the forefront of fanning factionalism in the party, but also were plotting some treasonous acts. I had been patient with most of the "misleaders."
I tried to warn them about what they were doing. They thought I was joking. They thought they were now superior to the people. They thought of themselves as untouchables. They thought of themselves as indispensable. They regarded themselves as the owners of the party and the country. They thought nothing would ever happen to them. Until the people decided enough was enough. Today they are in the dustbin of history, where they rightly belong. I hope this serves as a lesson to all of you Cdes who will make it into the new-look Cabinet and Politburo.
Nobody is indispensable. Nobody is above the party. And that the party belongs to the people. That the people will kick you out if you take them for granted. It was especially sad when I signed Cde Teurai's dismissal letter. Together with Cde Didymus, we came a long way. I never ever thought it would end like this. But my personal relationship with them could not save them when the people started baying for their blood.
I really wonder how a person like Cde Teurai got carried away like this. While I knew she was always talking to the country's enemies, I never thought she could be so gullible as to be fooled into believing they could help her replace me. That was the dumpiest thing anybody with such an impeccable revolutionary background could ever do.
Before she came, I had had three vice presidents. Cde Simon, Cde Joshua, Cde Joseph. Even Cde Simon who served as my deputy for a record 23 years never tried to do something like this. After only serving for 10 years, she thought she was ready to take over. How naïve and silly!
Anyway, this is not the end of the dismissals. There shall be more dismissals if the owners of the party deem it necessary. Those that will be making it into the new Cabinet should be prepared to be loyal to the party and work extra hard otherwise they will face the same fate. Let us see how this will end.
Kindest Regards
Yours Sincerely
ME
…And Now CZ's Notebook
Lovely!
If there is one commodity that is in short supply in this country, it is sympathy. Because of exactly that, Dr CZ thinks this precious gift should never, ever be wasted on former Vice President, Joice Mujuru, and members of her cabal who this week got the boot from government as factional fights in Zanu-PF appear to be getting to their logical conclusion. These people deserve nobody's sympathy, because as far as the truth is concerned, they have not been adding any value to Zimbabwe and its people, but only to themselves, so it is only up to them to sympathise with themselves.
If it is about serving the country, most of them should be pleased that they did more than enough. In Mujuru's case, more than 40 years. That should be inordinately more than enough. The country is teeming with younger and more intelligent men and women who can serve the country just as well (if not better than) Mujuru, Nicholas Goche, Didymus Mutasa, Dzikamai Mavhaire, Webster Shamu, Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, Francis Nhema, Olivia Muchena, Munacho Mutezo and many, many more.
Spaniards have a lovely saying: To every pig comes his Martinmas! It's the equivalent of local sayings like chisingaperi chinoshura or okungapheliyo kuyahlola. There is an end to everything. The best we can ever do is to welcome these men and women together with others like Rugare Gumbo, Jabulani Sibanda, Ray Kaukonde who, for a very long time had been happy habitués of cloud cuckoo but have suddenly fallen by the wayside, down to mother earth. Jabulani Sibanda has already started tasting what it is like to be a piddling nobody in Zimbabwe. There is certainly no doubt that many of them will be following suit soon.
These developments are also good in other ways. They will fasten the democratisation of the political space in the country. Still on this latest dismissal, some legal experts this week pointed out that the President could have made a mistake by firing Mujuru on charges of incompetence as provided for under Section 102 of the Constitution.
These legal panjandrums point out that under this particular section of the law, a full-scale investigation would be required to prove beyond any reasonable doubt, that the allegations of incompetence are indeed true. These same legal experts say since this did not happen in her case, Mujuru could, by a legal technicality still be the country's Vice President. They say, instead, the President could simply have invoked the Sixth Schedule of the same section under which he is not obligated to give any reasons for his actions as Mujuru was serving "at his pleasure".
Well, let us wait and see if Mujuru would try to stand up to her legal rights and fight to clear her name, which has obviously been soiled by these allegations of incompetence. One of the "victims" of the latest purge is none other than Webster "Cde Cremora" Shamu. Previously known by his war name Charles Ndlovu. The brother will be remembered for "popularising" the title Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces after he leaped forward to remove any ambiguity when then Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai appeared to confuse some of his executive duties with those of the President. It is not the first time the former disc jockey has gotten the boot from President Mugabe.
The fellow was fired from his deputy ministerial post in 1989 after being implicated in the Willowgate scandal. In the early 1980s, Shamu was head of Production Services in the Ministry of Information where over Z$50 000 was embezzled through a false payroll scheme and suicides took place. The Willowgate dismissal gave him time off to take up the leadership of the Zimbabwe National War Veterans Association.
He then proceeded to cool his feet at Zanu-PF headquarters where he was editor of The Voice. In preparation for a comeback, he sloughed off his war name, Charles Ndlovu, to his natal one, Webster Shamu. Only recently, he was named as having received "gifts" like motor vehicles from the cash-strapped Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation when it was still under his portfolio, while his wife was reportedly on the corporation's payroll. Who said a cat has nine lives?
cznotebook@yahoo.co.uk
Source - CZ
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