By Nick Mangwana
The self-contradiction of some of my compatriots is just
astounding. Do my fellow countrymen and the noble ladies have principles? I am
beginning to doubt. For how can people say that they hate corruption and attack
Zanu PF and then try to embrace Mrs Joyce Mujuru as a redeemer? Isn't she the
mother of everything that is corrupt? Isn't her quest for power one of the
reasons people were suffering from power cuts?
Those with good memories can recall that not so long ago the
Gamatox crew were siphoning money from Zesa to fund their efforts to seize power. Those who see the
economic redemption coming from discredited people are forgetting that Munacho
Mutezo was accused of siphoning $100k to fund Mrs Mujuru! If she as a leader of
this outfit was in complicit with the haemorrhaging of our State Enterprises by
personalising them, are people really thinking that this leopard will change
its spots?
The call which goes to those that remain in the party that
are mulling the temptation of joining the Gamatox outfit is that if your
reasons and motives are not the advancement of Zimbabwe and the improvement of
our economy, then don’t. People should
not surrender the long term for the here and now.
Somebody who practised widely known and recorded political
excesses cannot turn around today and say that they have had their Damascene
moment because they have expelled from the party. Why did they not have that
moment at the height of their power? As you are aware cdes, the “Damascene
moment” is a biblical moment when Saul of Tarsus who was persecuting Christians
was converted on the road to Damascus. Yes the same Damascus where all those
Syrian refuges are running from. This
was at the height of Saul’s power. Saul
did not wait until the Pharisees had excommunicated him then start preaching a
different gospel! No. If he had done that then it would have been a case of
sower grapes. That one is another allegory that may need explanation again.
Sorry cdes this week we are going to be all over the place. You see, the legend
of the sower grapes was stems from a fox that is said to have gone and tried to
reach to a bunch of grapes that were up a lofty branch of tall tree. It kept on
jumping try to reach them but failed. In frustration it walked away declaring
that, “It doesn’t matter, after all they
were sour grapes”.
The moral of this is that we have a woman that plundered our
parastatal trying to be the leader to our party. When she failed to she now
turns prancing around like a naked idiot at a market lampooning everything that
made her. She who is one of the major beneficiaries of the land reform is going
around uttering implied invectives against the Land Reform.
And who joins the band wagon and start masquerading as a
paragon of virtue!? It's none other than the Wizard of Chingwizi, Kudakwashe
Basikiti. Is it not just a few months ago when the press were having a field
day with his caricature and accusing him of nicking the goodies that had been
collected for onward donation to the vulnerable people that had been displaced
by the Tokwe-Mukosi overflow? They took him as a joke. They called him
"Basket Mouth" among other satirical names. Now they see him as a
hero. If the media that's hostile to
Zanu PF is this fickle then why should one buy this repacking of Mrs Mujuru
that we are seeing today?
Was it not a just over a year ago that we all went out to
defend her audio in which she appeared to lament the heat generated by the
exposure of corruption? The whole Zimbabwe media was on her case. Now all that
is buried and she is portrayed as a champion against all that is wrong with
Zanu PF. The tragedy of it is that there are some takers who are sitting
quietly in Zanu PF today waiting for a moment to jump ship. I think it's high
time these lot are told not to waste time. After all Temba chose Tsvangirayi
and Jabu chose Biti. How sickening.
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