Joseph Chinotimba, the notorious war veteran who has unashamedly claimed to be one of the leaders of the white farm invasions since 2000, is the latest one to come out in support of Gono. “As war veterans, we are saying those whites whom we had allowed to remain in the farms would leave with immediate effect - immediately!” Chinotimba warned the country’s remaining 300 out of the original 4000 commercial white farmers in 2000.
Morons like Chinotimba have been allowed by the dictatorship to disturb the peace with their threatening and abusive words and, worse still, to commit heinous crimes. The nation has to deal with these morons and not close our eyes and pretend they are not there.
Tsvangirai and MDC clearly had no clear plan to deal with morons like Chinotimba and restore the rule of law. MDC fought hard to get a foot hold in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Tsvangirai went on to appoint the most ineffective of MDC Ministers to head it. Giles Mutsekwa may just as well be a Zanu PF Minister; Mugabe must be very pleased with him!
Just as well it not MDC who will decide whether Gono and Tomana keep their jobs; the West will. Thugs like Chinotimba think it is the MDC or their favourite scapegoats, the white farmers. The West is not so easily intimidated and certainly not by the likes of you, Chinotimba.
The RBZ Governor, Gideon Gono had done a great job in raising the money required to finance a luxurious life style of the dictator Mugabe, the Zanu PF ruling elite and misfits and thugs like Chinotimba for many years. It is little wonder the whole cabal and all the creepy crawls are all out fighting for Gono to keep his job. What simpleton in the cabal are finding hard to understand is the show is over, Gono can not bankroll their extravagant life styles any more even if he returned his position as RBZ governor.
In the past Gono printed Z$, sold the nation jewels and silver, borrowed, stole and God knows what else beside. Whilst all these nefarious activities helped Gono to raise the cash to bankroll the dictatorship they also had the adverse effect of turning the Z$ into a worthless currency, fuel the country’s economic melt down, left the country up to its ears in debt, the RBZ was cleaned of all foreign currency and the whole world has lost confidence in Zimbabwe’s financial institution, etc. There is nothing Gono can do now to raise the necessary money to bankroll the dictatorship as in the past.
Zimbabwe’s only hope of an economic recovery is to get a massive foreign aid. The West holds the tramp card- they are the only source of the foreign aid and they will not pay a penny until they see significant political and economic reforms in Zimbabwe. At the RBZ the West would like Gono replaced, they do not want to see Gono’s voodoo-economics policies pursued.
On Thursday this week the Army’s top brass met with Robert Mugabe, the Commander-in-Chief, to demand better pay for those serving in the Armed Service. They want to be paid more than the US$ 100 a month paid to all other civil servants. No doubt the top brass themselves expect to be paid the top dollar, plus all the other allowances and luxuries as before. To press home their demands, they reportedly told Mugabe the soldiers are so angry that the senior officers now feared being “shot at while reviewing a parade”.
Ironically only days before, one of the Army top brass, Air Vice Marshall Heneri Muchena, speaking on behave of all the Security Chiefs had vowed that Gono would be forced out of office “Over our died bodies!” It is a well know historic fact that no army marches on an empty stomach. Already the same Over-our-died-bodies top brass is afraid of reviewing a pass-out parade of its own man!
The Commander-in-Chief should have told these morons that the days when Gono would pay them everything they asked for were long gone. The reality today is that they can have Gono as RBZ governor and this time they will soon lose the US$ 100 a month too. No doubt the Command-in-Chief said no such thing; he is not an honest man, he betrayed the ordinary and innocent people of Zimbabwe and will no hesitate to betray a bunch ruthless thugs. Yes the thugs had served him well and he paid them well and now he and the thugs have each to face the music alone.
Mugabe went back to his offices knowing fully well he can not hold the dictatorship together for very much longer. If he had anywhere to go, he would have cut and run long ago. Unfortunately for him, he has no where to go, even his old dictator friends do not want him by their side – Mugabe’s heartless brutality against his people made them look like angels in comparison but having Mugabe close would force the spotlight to fall on them too. “Mboko jena rinoparira perere nhema” as we would say in Shona.
Mugabe’s dictatorship is crumbling. The Service Chiefs and thugs like Joseph Chinotimba’s efforts to stop that happening are as futile as the proverbial frog putting out the forest fire with his piss. They will be the suckers left holding the angry tiger by the tail whilst the leading thugs like Mugabe are doing their best to cover their tracks and good their escape.
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