The Zimbabwe governments spends a misery US$5 per year on
the education of povo’s children a far cry from what the same government is
spending on the children of the ruling elite. Mugabe’s daughter Bona has been
studying overseas at great expense to the Zimbabwean taxpayer. When she was
studying in Hong Kong she reportedly lived in a US$ 50 million mansion rented
(some say bought) for her exclusive use. She must have the seven University degrees
like her father by now considering she has been a student for donkey-years. She
hardly ever visits Zimbabwe; it is her parents who visit her regularly at the
cost of US$ 3 million a trip for Mugabe. All paid by the impoverish Zimbabwe
masses – who else.
Cuckoo, the paragon of cleptoparasitism, would fall off his
perch if it understood what Mugabe’s kleptocracy was doing! The Zimbabwe
economy is on its knees and the overwhelming majority are dying of want of the
most basic necessities because the nation’s resources and wealth have been
commandeered by a corrupt and oppressive few and wasted on luxuries and guns.
The demands of Zimbabwe’s Cuckoos know no limit; it is unsustainable, it is
killing the Reed Warblers!
The Cuckoo will surreptitiously eat one egg out of a Reed
Warbler’s or whatever the host happened to be nest and replace one of its own.
If she is not ready to lay the egg; she will eat them all to force the host to
start again. Within minutes of the Cuckoo usurper hatching, naked and blind; it
will evict the host’s nestlings and remaining eggs.
The foster parents will have their work cut out for the next
three weeks, the time it takes for a Cuckoo chick to fledge (which is twice the
time a Reed Warbler chick will take); trying to silence incessant hunger calls
and fill that cavernous coloured gape! Within two weeks the Cuckoo chick will
be three times the size of Reed Warbler feeding it!
The cleptoparasitic behaviour of the Cuckoo is a widespread
life strategy and every, very attractive – who needs birth control if there is
a filthy-rich uncle or bottomless sacks of public funds to pamper and spoil
junior rotten for you! In reality, the Cuckoo can only lay its egg in a select
few other bird spices. And even then many of the forced surrogate species have
developed various ways to counter the Cuckoo sparking an evolutionary “arms”
race of a sort.
There are corrupt and oppressive individuals in every
society and situation; the human Cuckoos. The men and women who championed our
struggle to end white colonial exploitation and oppression were follow
travellers and our heroes. The black masses, povo, believed the black
liberation heroes would were committed and would deliver freedom, justice,
liberty, economic prosperity, etc. Only Mugabe and his Zanu PF friends were
interested in and totally committed to secure absolute power for themselves and
all the prestige, influence and wealth that come with it.
Mugabe and his cronies were as genetically different to povo
as a Cuckoo is to a Reed Warbler. The only thing they have in common is the
black feathers!
When the Cuckoo hatchling starts evicting the other
nestlings and eggs out of the nest the host parent(s) know this is not right
but at a loss as what to do to stop it! For thirty years Mugabe and his thugs
has suck the life blood out of the nation and spent it on luxuries and on
tear-gas and guns whilst the basic needs of our people like health and
education collapse for lack of fund. The tear-gas and guns have been used
against those who dared complain about this criminal waste of resources and
gross human injustice. The nation is at a loss as what to do next!
In 2008 the Zimbabwean electorate risked the anger and
reprisals from Mugabe and his oppressive regime to vote for Tsvangirai and his
MDC party in droves. Over 500 innocent Zimbabwe paid with their very lives when
Mugabe unleashed his murderous party thugs aided and abetted by the Police,
National Army and other State security Agencies. Although the 2008 election
gave Tsvangirai and MDC the parliamentary majority and electoral mandate to
rule; there was to be no meaningful change. In a bizarre and unfathomable act
of political folly Tsvangirai agreed to have Mugabe back as head of state and
government complete with his dictatorial powers!
For the last four years Tsvangirai has been at best the
hapless Reed Warbler parent telling the world Mugabe has changed whilst the
tyrant continued his campaign of terror and bloodshed. There is overwhelming
evidence that power has transformed Tsvangirai, just like Mugabe before him,
from a reed Warbler into a Cuckoo. Mugabe gave Tsvangirai US$ 1.5 million to
build a house – taking him out of his US$ 30 000 house -, unlimited overseas
travel, his children are studying overseas too, etc.
The windows of the ministerial Mercedes Benz are heavily
tinted so that to the occupants looking out everything looks rosy! Tsvangirai
forgot his promise to bring democratic change the minute he tasted the
pleasures of being Prime Minister!
Tsvangirai, Mugabe, etc; these are men of no conviction.
They “move easily because they have nothing to weigh them down,” as Benny Frank
would say.
Many people thought Zimbabweans would stage an Arab Spring
style uprising against Mugabe the kleptocratic regime which has rob them of
hope and spirit. Public awakening has not materialised. The pended up public
anger will force the people to act but it will not necessarily bring about the
any meaningful change just as 1980 and 2008 rebellions have failed to bring
peace, justice, etc. Just as the Cuckoos hijacked the 1980 and 2008 uprisings
what is there to stop them doing so again?
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