The
recent avalanche of apologies from former VP Joice Mujuru, apologizing for “her
role” in the Zanu PF failures and then Tendai Biti apologizing for “collective
foolishness” of the opposition reminded me Jesus’s warning to his disciples.
“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.
Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves,” said Jesus in
Matthew 10:16.
“Suppose
there are two men, the first man runs over your son and kills the child,”
explained my late father. “The second man steals your cow. Both men offer their
apologies. The innocent as a dove person will accept the two men’s apologies
and that will be the end of the matter.”
“The
shrewd as snake person would dig deeper into the two incidents. If the first
man was sober as a judge when the accident happened, brought the body of the
dead child together with his most sincere apologies; it was probable an
accident. It will right and reasonable to forgive him.”
“On the
other hand if the cow was stolen in the dead of night and you have only found
out who the guilty person because you would not rest until you uncovered the
truth. A cow cannot just disappear into thin air without trace! It will be
right and reasonable to doubt the sincerity of the thief’s apology. This was
not an accident but a carefully planned act for selfish gain; the man is
apologizing not for having wronged you but for being caught which is not the
same thing!”
On what
basis therefore can one justify accepting Mai Mujuru’s apology for “her role”
in the corrupt and oppressive Zanu PF tyrannical rule. It will be naïve and
downright stupid to accept that she did not know this was going on; not after
34 years, of course she knew. Indeed she not only knew what was going on, she
certainly played her part in the corruption and looting.
Mai
Mujuru is one of the richest individuals in Zimbabwe with a fortune valued in
billions of dollars amassed at the time when many business ventures were
closing down and corruption was rampant. She must be a very shrewd business
woman or else she is as corrupt as they come! She has denied being corrupt,
most jail birds will tell you they are innocent “the lawyer fcuked me up!” She
will, no doubt, explain to the world how she made her fortune one of these fine
days.
If has
taken two years of nagging Tendai Biti on when he and his fellow MDC leaders
will apologize for betraying the nation and failing to implement even one of
the raft of democratic reforms necessary for free and fair elections. Mugabe
bribed MDC leaders into doing nothing on the reforms and so after five years of
the GNU not even one reform was implemented.
Of
course Tendai Biti and his MDC friends sold-out during the GNU. MDC leaders
“were busy enjoying themselves during the GNU, they forgot why they were there”
as SADC heads commented.
“We
would like to apologise for the collective foolishness of the opposition and
failure to form an alternative political voice in the country,” admitted Tendai
Biti.
It was
not the sudden realization of the tragic consequences of the 35 years of Zanu
PF corrupt and tyrannical rule that forced Mai Mujuru to admit the failure and
prompted the apology. If she had not been kicked out of the party last
December, she would still be playing her role in the dictatorship vehemently
denying there was corruption and blaming the economic meltdown on “the
sanctions imposed the imperialist West!”
Mai
Mujuru never saw the injustice of the Zanu PF dictatorship or the tragic human
suffering brought by the economic meltdown; she did see any of this for the 34
years she was in power and does not see it now. What she sees now and has
prompted her to make this uncharacteristic admission of Zanu PF’s failures is
the political reality that she is no longer in power and she sees the admission
and apology as necessary first steps in her attempt to regain power.
Similarly
Tendai Biti’s apology is not because he and his fellow MDC friends have had any
“Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus transformative moment”. They are still
the same corrupt and breathtakingly incompetent sell-out they were before the
rigged July 2013 election that saw most of them kicked off the gravy train.
They are apologizing because they too see it as the necessary first step for
them to get back into power.
Mujuru’s
apology has not “cured” her of being the corrupt and tyrannical woman she has
been these last 34 years. The apology has not “cured” Biti of the “collective
foolishness” he and other MDC leaders showed during the GNU.
Zimbabwe
is in this economic and political mess because the people of Zimbabwe have been
naïve and gullible and treated all our leaders as if they were all incapable of
doing anything wrong. Now that the country is in a real mess, it would fool for
us to accept at face value that all that went wrong was an accident.
“I am
sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and
as innocent as doves,” said Jesus. Those words are as relevant to Jesus’s
disciples as there are to us today. A healthy and functioning democracy demands
an electorate that is as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves!
Zimbabwe
missed up on the chance to create a democracy in 1980 because we were naïve to
trust Mugabe and his cronies. The country had the golden chance to end the Zanu
PF dictatorship during the GNU but wasted that chance because we entrusted the
task of implemented the reforms to to corrupt and incompetent MDC leaders.
11 comments:
“We shall pursue the philosophy and ideology of modern nationalism. This entails that we will, in all our endeavors always put our country and its people first before all else. We shall always pursue the emancipation and liberation of the region and indeed Africa as a whole. We endorse unreservedly all the noble efforts in the region and in the continent to fight for political autonomy and economic progression of Africa and its member states. In this regard, we endorse the latter and spirit of the African Union`s vision 2063 in its entirety,” said the Mangoma renewal party statement.
These are all empty words that have neither meaning nor relevance to the needs and aspira-tions of the people of Zimbabwe. Elton Mangoma was a senior member of the MDC –T team who failed to get even one democratic reform implemented; how does that reality fit in with putting “our country and its people first”?
What is the idiot talking about “emancipation and liberation of the region”? The only liberation the people want is to have these mindless idiots like Mangoma out of their lives. After sell-out of the reforms all MDC leaders should have apologized and retired from public life!
MDC is splitting again and again like amoeba as each leader seeks to be the top dog is precisely because the only thing the members care about is power and nothing else!
”In fact we begged her (Sekai Holland) and pleaded with her that if she was going to be involved in the split (of MDC renewal) her integrity was going to be greatly compromised,” said the official.
How the split have compromised something she has never had in the first place?
@ Patrick
The regime will do anything to remain in power and the regime knows that if street protests were to start with so many people on the street so it is emptying the streets in advance!
@ Hwande
Mugabe had grown accustomed to being criticized by the West, whose he dismissed as white racist pursuing their regime change agenda.
Up to now African journalists have lapped up his anti-white rhetoric like hungry puppies lapping up milk. None of the African journalists have ever asked him a difficult question let alone a loaded question like when will there be democratic elections in Zimbabwe!
Mugabe had campaigned hard to ensure he was elected chairman of SADC and the AU; it was the endorsement that he had been accepted and forgiven after the 2008 elections fiasco. In 2008 the two bodies had refuse to accept the results of the elections and forcing him to accept the humiliation of the GNU. He was careful to avoid the wanton violence of 2008 in the 2013 elections and hoped the rest of Africa would turn a blind eye to the other blatant vote rigging tactics he employed.
Being asked a loaded question like when will he hold free and fair democratic elections in Zimbabwe had him at a total loss. He could not risk answering reaffirming that the 2013 elections were free and fair because sure as hell the next question would have been, "Free and fair as the 2008 elections?"
Mugabe never withdrew his initial claim that the 2008 elections had indeed been free and fair. So answering that with a yes would have invited the killer question; "Are you saying both AU and SADC were wrong to have rejected the 2008 elections result and forcing you to join the GNU?"
All his hard work in making sure he was elected chairman of SADC and AU would have been undone, whatever he said.
Mugabe's chief of propaganda has since dismissed the incident with Sahara TV as a "Boko Ha-ram journalism". No one in Nigeria or the rest of the world was fooled by that nonsense!
Mugabe and his fellow AU and SADC leader rubber stamped his rigging of the July 2013 elections and even rewarded him with the chairmanship of the two bodies. It is clear that many of the ordinary Africans were not so easily fooled and they are getting increasingly angry at tyrants who overstay their welcome!
Now that the ice has been broken and it is there in the open that Mugabe rigged the last elections, he can expect to be heckled none-stop during his many travels! For someone who loves to travel, this is the one thing that will force him to now dread traveling!
@ Zimvigil
I agree, Zimbabwe is not stable but a nation that has been dragged right to the edge on hell and will now plunge into the depths economic and political abyss. The fear that the country may go beyond the point of no-return, if it has not done so already, is well founded.
Mugabe's ZimAsset economic recovery plan is dead in the water, the tyrant failed to get any donor to bankroll the $27 billion plan. For the last two years the economic meltdown has got worse and worse and the only way to turn it round is for the regime to accept democratic re-forms - regime change reforms! Mugabe would rather see the whole nation totally destroyed than accept regime change!
The people are facing increasing economic hardship but fear to protest because the regime is set to use brute force to silence them. The nation is facing the grim choice of starving or cry out and be beaten or worse!
Any calmness people see in Zimbabwe is deceptive; it is the calm before the storm!
@ Zano
Mugabe rigged the 2013 just as he rigged the 2008 elections and still he maintained the elections were free and fair and democratic. You and Mugabe can continue to claim the elections were democratic the truth is there were not. Let us just say that the truth caught with Mugabe on his last trip to Nigeria.
Africa is sick and tired of tyrants who rig elections and then lie endlessly about it!
Zanu PF stopped serving the nation a long time ago to become a group of self-serving thugs. In time the group started to shrink to serve Mugabe, his family and the select few in his inner circle.
If there had been free and fair elections then the populous would have voted Zanu PF out of office a long time ago. The people would have got their democratic wish in 2013 if the MDC had implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU.
Mugabe's failure to rig economic recovery since the rigged 2013 has resulted in the economic meltdown and it is set to get worse. The only way to end the economic meltdown is for Zanu PF to step down to allow for the necessary economic and political reforms. So ultimately the people will have their change to boot this Zanu PF regime out of office.
The in fighting in Zanu PF is by those who feel they have been left out and the economic melt-down has made the situation worse because all those left out of the inner circle face abject pov-erty. The in fighting in Zanu PF has moved from fighting for power to one of life or death, no wonder it has become such a ruthless war of attrition.
Zanu PF has always been a party held together by the glue of shared loot. The moment Mugabe started to struggle getting enough loot to keep his wasteful cronies happy the party too started falling apart. The party thugs’ greed for wealth was insatiable and the more loot they got the more they wasted it. It was just a matter of time before the nation’s economy flagged under the wasteful burden and trigger the infighting within the party for shrinking loot. Zanu PF was doomed to implode and that was started in earnest already, it will not stop until the party has self-terminated!
President Robert Mugabe has left Harare for Egypt at the taxpayer’s expense.
He has spent more than $10 million on foreign trips to date since January at a time his broke government is battling to pay workers and grow the stunted economy
Mugabe who is the African Union’s chair flew out today to Sharm-el Shekh for the launch of the Tripartite Free Trade Area, comprising Comesa, SADC and the East African Community.
The TFTA brings together 26 member states whose leaders will sign the agreement on Wednesday. It also unites a population of 625 million and a gross domestic product of US$1,2 trillion. It accounts for half of the membership of the African Union and 58 percent of Africa’s GDP.
- See more at: http://www.zimeye.com/mugabe-flies-out-to-egypt/#sthash.gGkTHXrX.dpuf
Zimbabwe's economy is in total meltdown surely we should be concerned about how to save the few companies that are still there and how to encourage new companies to start up. We are wasted time and money on how to increase trade when we have nothing to sell and no money to buy anything with!
The only reason Mugabe is going to Egypt is because he loves traveling and hobnobbing with every leader; it makes him feel he is a great statesman playing at the world stage. Instead of him staying at home to sort out the country's economic woes and political chaos he is traveling to escape these problems.
He is a great statesman who cannot allow himself to be tied down by petty domestic issues when he should be solving international, continental or regional ones. Sadly it is the domestic taxpayer who is footing the bill of the international, continental and regional statesman's busy schedule!
@ Mudhara
Millions of Zimbabweans out there including myself would agree with you that they do not want Mujuru, Mugabe and all the other Zanu PF thugs in power. Still the fact of the matter is she has been in power for 34 years and Mugabe and other are still in power.
If we do not get all the democratic reforms implemented to that the next elections are free and fair then Mugabe and his cronies will still remain in power regardless what you or me and millions other Zimbabweans want. Let me make this very clear, I will do my best to ensure all the democratic reforms are implemented a.s.a.p. because until the reforms are implemented nothing, absolutely nothing, of substance can ever be accomplished!
Having said that, I have to admit getting all the reforms implemented is not going to be easy. It was easy to get the reforms implemented during the GNU, MDC had all the trump cards then but they wasted the opportunity. Now Zanu PF has the trump cards and they will not give an inch. So there may well be fresh elections with no reforms implemented.
Mai Mujuru's re-entry into politics will help remind Mugabe and his Zanu PF thugs that even if they resisted democratic reforms they should know that they will not get away with rigged elections because Mujuru and others know all their dirty tricks! So having Mujuru and others who know Mugabe's trickery and will expose them if push comes to shove is a good thing.
Whether you or me like Mujuru is irrelevant but it would be self-defeating to discourage Mujuru and company from taking Mugabe head on in his own mudded political waters particularly when no one else can.
Details of how Mugabe rigged the elections will destroy Mugabe and his reputation which are hanging by the thread right now. When Mugabe tripped and fell the whole world laughed because the whole world is sick and tired of his antics Details of his cheating will be given world wide coverage and this time he will be shunned as if he is a leper.
Yes you are right Mugabe has weave such a web of lies, corruption and intrigue all those he has cheated and conned have finally caught up with him and they all want revenge!
Amos Midzi, Zanu PF MP purged for belonging to Mujuru has died. He was heavily indebted and is suspected of committing suicide.
Once you have been thrown out of Zanu PF it does not matter how rich you were before that point, you will soon be as poor as a church mouse. The fall from rich to poor can be very steep, loans that everyone else was never asked to repay will suddenly be due, for example.
Let Midzi be a warning to all the others Zanu PF members purged from the party; the party will be after you to finish you off in its own way in its own sweet time.
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