“People don’t know the troubles and dirty wars that we fight,” said Mugabe at the funeral service of Susan Tsvangirai. He is right there; the man does fight dirty alright. What Mugabe did last year to win the presidential run-off was dirty, ruthless and brutal – it is certainly one of the dirtiest elections in human history. In some lucid moments he has even boasted of having “degrees in violence!”
Last year’s dirty fight got him what he wanted; the right to remain the State President with all his dictatorial powers and that his cronies are allowed to keep all their loot. The fly in Mugabe’s ointment was Zimbabwe’s economic melt down; unless he addressed this economic problem, his continued rule was in doubt.
By 2000 Mugabe had earned himself a reputation of a two faced double crossing dictator and the international community had stopped giving Zimbabwe an financial assistance marking the beginning of the country’s economic melt down. So fighting dirty to retain the presidency was one thing getting the international community back whilst he still remains in State House was a different challenge. A challenge Mugabe is losing!
Getting Tsvangirai and MDC to join him and Zanu PF in this GNU as a junior partner with no meaningful power has fooled no one except Tsvangirai and his fellow MDC leadership. The GNU is nothing but a white-wash Zanu PF tomb!
“We have just started a new life after years of fighting each other and insulting each other,” Mugabe said. “We have said let’s give peace and harmony a chance and work together.” Mugabe’s peace overtures will fool only the gullible, not whilst all those responsible for past human rights violation remain free and whilst the Police and Army remain under his political spell ready to fight his next dirty war!
Mugabe wants to have everything his way; he wants to be a great statesman and be acknowledged as such and is ready and will, at a drop of a hat, to fight dirty anyone who dares say he is not a great statesman! He would like to see Zimbabwe prosper, “gutsa ruzhinji” but destroyed the country’s agricultural sector- the backbone of the country’s economy- to please his cronies. He has vowed his cronies will keep the farms although they have clearly failed to put them into productive use. He has reached out for peace, by extending an olive branch in one hand whilst holding on to his spear, red with the blood of his last victim, in his other hand!
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and Mugabe is a living example of the later. Having enjoyed absolute power for three decades the man has become so big-headed he thinks he can forgive himself of all his past crimes and everything will be forgotten. He does not have to show any sign of remorse, promise dismantle the repressive system he created nor promise not to use the system again. Nothing!
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