Monday, 19 October 2015

Mujuru and the Benefits of Historical Amnesia

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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