VP Emmerson Mnangagwa told New Africa Magazine that Mugabe’s
secret to staying in power for 35 years is “because he is a principled leader”
who has championed the interests of the black people and has never deserted
them.
“So his (Mugabe) people, the majority in this country, stand with
him in good and bad times, and he does not desert his people. This is why he
has survived. That is the secret,” said Mnangagwa.
What a truckload of bull!
Mugabe deserted the people soon after independence, if not before,
when he reneged on the revolutionary values of freedom, justice, peace, human
rights and dignity to all Zimbabweans in pursuit of his selfish goal of
securing absolute power for himself and his Zanu PF friends by creating a de facto
one-party dictatorship. Of course Mugabe knew one could not honour the people’s
right to a free and meaningful democratic vote in a one-party state; the two
were mutually exclusive. And yet he still resolutely pursued his one-party
dictatorship regardless.
When Mugabe got into power in 1980 he has methodically worked to undermine
the country’s democratic institutions and has on many occasions put himself and
his party thugs above for singular purpose of securing absolute political power
and create a one-party dictatorship by hook or crook.
As time passed it became increasingly clear that his Zanu PF regime
was incompetent and corrupt and was delivering mass poverty instead of mass
prosperity as promised. It was this that hardened the people’s resolve to end
the Zanu PF dictatorship, have democratic changes to restore their democratic
right to a meaningful vote and with it the right to end the one-party state and
regime change.
Mugabe’s responded to the growing demands for regime change by going
up a gear with his political intimidation and vote rigging. In the 2008
elections when he lost the March elections and falsified the results to justify
the need for a presidential runoff, he went into overdrive to be sure he did
not lose again.
In July 2008 presidential runoff, Mugabe declared war on the
innocent and defenceless people of Zimbabwe in his ruthless determination to
force them to vote for him and Zanu PF. The level of violence he unleashed on
the nation was so brutal and widespread that not even the SADC or AU election observers;
known for their see-nothing, hear-nothing and say-nothing approach to election
monitoring; could pretend they saw nothing and heard nothing. They had no
choice but to condemn the election process.
How can anyone say Mugabe is a principled leader when he so
callously ditched freedom, human rights, justice and all the other human
niceties for which the whole liberation war was about and for which so many
suffered and thousands lost their very lives. No principled leader would betray
the cause for the selfish love of power and wealth.
Mugabe has managed to stay in power for 35 years because he
destroyed the nation’s democratic institutions and then carried out a ruthless
campaign of intimidation, vote rigging and even murdered his political
opponents and ordinary people just to stay in power.
If Mugabe has never rigged elections or kill anyone for selfish
political gain, as VP Mnangagwa would have us believe, then why did SADC and AU
reject his election victory in the July 2008 presidential runoff and forcing
him to go in the GNU? Then the over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans murdered in
politically motivated violence are all a figment of the nation’s imagination.
No Mugabe has used every manner of dirty trickery including
rigging the vote and even the murder of the innocent to stay in power, VP
Mnangagwa should not try to falsify the historic records.
One of these fine days Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, alias
"Ngwena" or "Crocodile", will be asked once again to
tell us what really was Mugabe’s secret to staying in power all these years.
This time he would be asked to place his right hand on the good book and swear to
“tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!”
The truth will reveal that the real Mugabe is an incompetent,
corrupt and ruthless tyrant with a flair for rigging elections and squashed like
ants all those he considered threatened to his hold on power. Mnangagwa will be able to give
details of the vote rigging, for example, after all he has been Mugabe’s right-hand
man in all these devilish scheming.
Mnangagwa will also confirm under oath that his claim that Mugabe was
principled leader who never deserting the people was all cock and bull for the naïve
and gullible people out there.
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