Mugabe has played one Zanu PF leader against the other, one faction against the other, in a game of divide and rule for thirty years. Remember the Karanga faction led by the late Edson Zvobgo, he neutralised its influence by favouring a rivalry faction led by the brain-dead late Simon Muzenda. The dictator played the same dirty trip all the other aspiring leaders in his party; Simba Makoni, John Nkomo, Mnangagwa, Mujuru, etc. Each time they thought they were Mugabe’s successor – BANG! – Mugabe would bring them crashing down to earth.
The WikiLeaks have shown that all the competing leaders wanted Mugabe out of power. Mugabe has a simple choice, he can purge all those named by WikiLeaks but at the end of the day he will have no party. It is all very well for loners like Mutasa and Gumbo egging Mugabe to punish all those named in WikiLeaks. They see this as the best chance to rise to the top not realising that there would be no party left for them to lead!
Mugabe, himself a loner, knows all the leaders named in WikiLeaks are itching for a fight, they had bottled their frustration at his refusal to step down all these years, they will attend the purge with safety pin pulled out of the hand grenade. Mugabe’s ill health and reports of his amassed wealth is making him look like a fat goose in encircled by squawking vultures!
Poor Mugabe, his instinct tells him – do nothing. The plotters from all the different factions are for once united in daring him hold the purge. And outsiders like Gumbo will not let the matter rest for a day; they want the purge! Mugabe must be wishing for death but it seems the grim-reaper is enjoying seeing the tyrant tormented!
Tsvangirai has his own WikiLeaks problems. A number of his senior leaders told the Americans he is a “weak, indecisive and inconsistent” leader. Which is of course true, Zimbabwe would not be in this mess if it was not for Tsvangirai’s blundering incompetency!
Tsvangirai thought the problem of his incompetency would go away if he pretended it was not there; last month he was talking the Americans he was a “visionary” leader, it was the best joke of the decade! Back in Zimbabwe the same week Professor Ncube broached the subject of Tsvangirai’s incompetency again. This week, Gutu, one of the senior leaders named in WikiLeaks was suspended by party members and then Chamisa, also named in WikiLeaks, nearly came to blows with another senior leader over the same issue.
Tsvangirai is incompetent and MDC must deal with this cancer; it is not going away but spreading instead!
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Mugabe agrees to setting up a committee to investigate the WikiLeaks traitors.
There were just too many Zanu PF big wigs named in the WikiLeaks for Mugabe to purge them. If he kicked them out of the party there will be no one left. But of course there are loners like Mutasa and Gumbo who had been left out of the power equation all these years and they really see this as their chance to come out of the shadow. They were not going to miss this chance and so they were not going to left Mugabe sweep this under the carpet. Mugabe had no choice but to set up the committee to investigate the WikiLeaks traitors. What he has done is set off a time-bomb in a room in which he as much a prisoner as those he intends to destroy.
Zanu PF has always been a party of violence and Mugabe has boasted of having “degrees in violence”. But he never imagined that he too would one day be the victim of violence he sowed.
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa tells UN Working Group on Human rights, there will be no security sector reforms in Zimbabwe.
“On Security Sector Reform, Zimbabwe will not even entertain the recommendation. Reform for who? For what?” Chinamasa said. “How dare they recommend that to those who fought against colonialism and all its ugliness, i.e. racism, injustices, discrimination, oppression, torture, exploitation and total dehumanization should go.”
It would not be for the first time that those who fought to end injustice, oppression, torture, etc. have in turn become unjust, oppressive, torturers, etc.
Thirty years after independence Zimbabweans continue to be denied the right to a meaningful say in the governance of the country and the right to life itself!
We need the security sector reforms to allow the Police, the Army and CIO to carry out their primary function of maintaining the rule of law in the land. For years the Police and CIO have turned a blind eye to Zanu PF inspired violence against the party’s political opponents for the sole purpose of forcing the electorate to vote for Zanu PF. In the last tens years these State agents have taken an leading role in the violence.
Minister, it is not the West who are demanding the right to a free and democratic vote. It is the long suffering people of Zimbabwe. Yes a free vote may well result in regime change but that is exactly what elections are all about. How many times have you seen this happen in the hated West, Minister?
Minister Chinamasa, you, Mugabe and the rest of the Zanu PF dictatorship have ignored the suffering masses of Zimbabwe and refused to hear their cry for justice and crashed their hopes and dreams just as the colonial regime of Ian Smith did before you. Ian Smith vowed there would be no black rule for a “thousand years!” There will be regime change in Zimbabwe; some day soon this Zanu PF dictatorship will be swept away just as Ian Smith was swept away.
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