“If every nation gets the leaders it deserves,” wrote Melanie McDonagh in the UK Sunday Times, “the Germans deserve (Chancellor Angela) Merkel, dull and competent.”
In Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe got a very boastful, excitable and unbelievably incompetent PM; deserving or not.
In my Form One Class, there was a boy who relished telling every one of his excellent Grade Seven examination results. He would rattle the names of all the neighbouring rural areas of which he was the top student. “KwaDanda, Ziguvo, Charungeno, Chipanza, kose kose hapana iitipwee,” he boasted. His end of first term school report was not much to talk about, except that it did helped shut him up.
What Dzungu, the class had nicknamed that meaning boastful and easily excitable, failed to understand was that the Grade Seven results were important in helping one secure a Form One school place; nothing more. If he had paid more attention to his school work he probably would have done a lot better than his below average report showed.
Tsvangirai reminds me of Dzungu; ever since he was sworn in as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe he has carried on as if he was the brightest Star in the Zimbabwe sky. When he visited the West in June and met leaders like Chancellor Merkel and US President Obama; he even condescended to preaching to them! The begging bowl he carried did nothing to humble him. He told the Western Leaders Mugabe had changed and that Zimbabwe was on an “irreversible” path to democratic change all in stack contrast to the reality on the ground. The Western leaders pointed this out to him but clearly he was not listening.
Tsvangirai asked the West to lift the targeted sanctions and renew financial assistance to Zimbabwe. And that was when the Western leaders told him when to get off; they did no such things!
Tsvangirai was way out of his depth; he can not be compared to such leaders as US President Obama in intellect, economic clout and public profile. And yet Tsvangirai behave as if he is. It was this pompous attitude that Zimbabweans in London did not like and booed him off the stage. He is like Dzungu boosting about his Grade Seven results to First Class Honours University Graduates who would use the Grade 7 certificate to wipe their backside!
In Mugabe Zimbabwe has is a spiteful and foul mouthed conman whose dirty past has finally caught up with him. For years he has masqueraded as a great statesman and liberation hero. Many people showed him with praise and honorary University Degrees. But time has shown him to be nothing more than a little man of little intellect whose love for power and wealth knew no limit. Many of the Universities have, in shame, since recalled the honorary degrees conferred on him. The fact that he was still able to con PM Morgan Tsvangirai is itself a sign of just how gullible the later is.
Mugabe should rightly be in The Hague, with former Liberia dictator Charles Taylor, facing charges of serious human rights violations. He has murdered tens of thousands of innocent Zimbabweans during his three decades of ruinous and murderous rule of Zimbabwe.
I can not think of anything Zimbabweans have done to “deserve” Mugabe. As for Tsvangirai, they voted for him because they were desperate to get rid of Mugabe; and desperate people do indeed do desperate things!
“And I mean it as a compliment,” confessed Melanie McDonagh commenting on her “dual and competent” caricature of Chancellor Merkel. Describing Tsvangirai as “Dzungu” and Mugabe as a dictator is purely to state the facts as one sees them!
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