“I was shocked to discover that some of our equipment at some companies was bought in 1924," Tsvangirai said at the launch of a Zimbabwe trade Policy.
It was a poorly veiled jab at Mugabe who was born in 1923.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride! It does not matter how often Mugabe wish he was young the fact remains that he is, by any account, very old and in ill health!
Prime Minister Tsvangirai is a “flawed and indecisive character” as US Ambassador Chris Dell so aptly put it. Mugabe has taken full advantage of this weakness and twisted the PM round his little finger at will. Mugabe has nothing but contempt for Tsvangirai whom he has often called a “puppet”.
“I was in fact born in 1924 but I am not too old ladies and gentlemen. I am as fit as a fiddle," replied Mugabe who was at the launch too. "Vanorova imbwa akaviga mupini [The PM was secretively aiming to take on me], I know this man very well," he added to the laughter of ministers, senior government officials and guests
Mugabe is the author of Zimbabwe’s economic melt down and political nightmare with tragic human consequences. Tsvangirai had so much to aim for the knockout punch without ever hitting below the belt. Picking on Mugabe’s advanced age and ill health, the only things Tsvangirai has found to “hit” Mugabe back with, shows just how incompetent and desperate the PM is!
True to form, the foxy Mugabe turned the tables on poor Tsvangirai and had the last laugh!
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Mugabe is back in Singapore, “to arrange” post graduate studies for his daughter Bona, according to the Sunday Mail. Bona has been studying in Singapore for the last two years and many more years in Hong Kong. After all these years, she must have seven University Degrees - like her father -, at least. And, if she ever finishes her post graduate studies, she will be one on her father who never has no doctorate qualification.
For a nation struggling to provide the most basic education to hundreds of thousands of its children; how can the nation afford the extravagancy waste of collecting costly University degrees!
Mugabe has been a regular visitor in Singapore for health reasons. He says he is "as fit as a fiddle", but no one is fooled by that.
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Yes the leaders and the followers alike, we are all fallible but that is not the context in which one would talk of Tsvangirai being flawed and indecisive. Tsvangirai does not make mistake, he blunders again and again. Zimbabweans risked life and limb to give Tsvangirai parliamentary majority in 2008 and a political voice no one else other than Mugabe has ever had. And what does he do with this mandate? First he used it to get Mugabe off the hook following the sham June 2008 presidential run-off and grants the tyrant all his dictatorial powers. He has refused to use MDC’s parliamentary majority to assert parliament’s power and authority out of political cowardice. And Mugabe has rewarded Tsvangirai by kicking him in the teeth at every opportunity.
It is hard to feel sorry for Tsvangirai; it is because of his folly that Zimbabweans are still stuck in this mess.
The mistake Zimbabweans made back in 1980 was to trust a tyrant like Mugabe blindly. Sadly they did not learn from that mistake because they went on to put their trust in Tsvangirai, a flawed and indecisive character.
Zimbabwe’s biggest problem is South Africa’s problem is Africa’s problem: independence gave the electoral power into the hands of people who did not know how to use it. Leaders like Mugabe were quick to in usurping it and hence the absurd situation prevailing today where the Leaders have so much power over the people; it is them who hold the electorate to account. In Africa, it is the tail that wags the dog!
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