BOOTLICKERS LIKE PROF MAKUMBE ARE AS MUCH A THREAT TO DEMOCRATIC CHANGE AS MUGABE OR TSVANGIRAI

@Mariko
Professor John Makumbe has accursed other people of being Mugabe’s bootlickers; he must be Morgan Tsvangirai’s chief bootlicker!

Professor Makumbe has taken it upon himself to sing MDC’s praises. For the last years he has been going on about how Zimbabweans should be thankful to MDC for the full shops and financial stability. What nonsense! To start with, it was the abolition of the Z$ that ended Zimbabwe’s runaway inflation and thus allowed financial sanity to prevail allowing shops to fill up with goods once again. For the record, it was Chinamasa who abolished the Z$. But more significantly, was the full shops the sum total of the democratic change the nation had been fighting for? Of course not! Just to underline that; Mugabe has already said he will reintroduce the Z$ and there is nothing to stop him.

As things stand; if Mugabe does not get a significant flow of money for his war-chest from selling the Marange diamonds, he will reintroduce the Z$ very soon. He can not print the US$ or SA Rand but can print as much Z$ as he please. If MDC had delivered on their promise of democratic change then nation will not be at the mercy of a dictator like Mugabe any more.

The GPA was a stupid move by MDC but people like Professor Makumbe have never tired of praising it. He started bleating “Two legs bad! Four legs good!” and would not shut up.

The sad truth that needed to be said is that Tsvangirai is a simpleton who was promoted far above his level of competence – of herding goats. If this had been told, MDC would have hopefully replaced him a long, long time ago and the nation would have hopefully ended the Zanu PF dictatorship and will have a democratic and competent government by now.

Mariko, Zimbabwe is in this mess because Mugabe’s bootlickers have lied about what the dictator has been doing. If there is going to be real democratic change in Zimbabwe then we must deal not only with the dictators and the goat herders but their army of bootlickers. Professor Makumbe probably has his eyes on the UZ vice chancellorship; well he should earn it some other way and not by bootlicking!

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@Mariko
The likes of Fungayi and company will talk about everything else under the sun but the one thing they will not talk about how Mugabe has down trodden the ordinary people of Zimbabwe. If the M&G was a Zimbabwean publication the regime would have bombed the newspaper out of existence a long time ago. The only other option open to the regime is to have Fungayi bombard the site with rubbish and stifle meaningful debate. But this has its limitations; no one believes their nonsense, particularly when again and again their fallacy is challenged and exposed.

As long as they remain on this site; it is right that Fungayi, Dora, etc. should not be allowed to get away with nonsense.