Grace Mugabe's travelling circus finds its positives

The travelling circus variously dubbed as endorsements or meet the people tour that has graced Zimbabwe this week has had its positives, surprisingly. First as part of the proceedings on Tuesday church leaders prayed against corruption and for moral rejuvenation. Secondly, on Wednesday ZANU PF suddenly discovered with its ranks a destroyer of factions.
 
Given that their host on the day is the recent recipient of a fraudulently and corruptly acquired degree it was a most suitable supplication and it will be noted that Grace Mugabe still hasn't had the moral courage to return the degree. Not yet. The day before when the circus was in another part of the country she was threatening that blood will be spilt if anyone tried to take her farm that she grabbed from someone else.
    
Without any sense of shame the church leaders tried to turn the endorsement occasion into a commercial transaction. Their request to Grace for assistance or to be favourably considered when stands and farms are being distributed stinks to high heaven. Scratch my back and I will scratch yours is the modus operandi. Chemahara chando mazuva ano.

By the way what was Grace doing when she was going on about how churches and the government need to work together so that the programmes espoused in ZIMASSET are a success? Does anyone believe that Grace knows what she is talking about?

Is there anyone who honestly believes that Grace, the First Lady despite her PHD has read the document called ZIMASSET?
 
Wednesday was the day for a real spectacle in Harare. Such performances will be difficult to replicate outside TV programmes like the Flintstones or Tom and Jerry. In her element, Grace was trying to convince the nation that someone thought she could stop the land reform and was silly enough to offer her a bribe. The result was, wait for it. She refused, she said no.
In another act people who had previously not seen eye to eye i.e. from different factions were brought together on stage and made to apologise for their scheming behaviour.

Please Grace, can you publicly invite Mai Mujuru to your next meeting? 
 
It would be good if the walls separating the different factions in ZANU PF are destroyed. The country bleeds as different government ministers will not cooperate with each other because the other is from a different faction. By her own claims the recent demolitions across the country were a result of factionalism.

The recent decision to stop another recipient of a PHD from the UZ (whose authorship is in dispute as one Kereke claims to have done all the work) from becoming a senator and the subsequent insults from Professor Moyo show how the issue factionalism is bringing the country to a standstill. Voter registration cannot continue simply because denying Gideon Gono a seat in the senate is more important!

The strange thing in all this is that when Grace says factions will end because she is now on the scene, what does it say about her husband who has been leading the same party for the last 30 years?

At least she was honest when she acknowledged that people are angry because the ZANU PF government has failed to deliver on the promises the party made during the election. The question then is what do angry people do Queen mother, Queen of all Queens to register their displeasure?

They demonstrate, they protest. They have a right to do so. At least someone will start paying attention to their needs.