Zanu PF factions counter accusations a necessary preamble for the savage fight to follow

Grace Mugabe has been uncompromising in her demand to have VP Mujuru “baby-dumped” because the VP is the leader of faction seeking to force her husband out of office. The Mujuru faction has come up with its own counter accusation; accusing the Mnangagwa faction, of who Grace is their stalking horse, of seeking regime change. 

“It’s unfortunate that we are witnessing Tsholotsho Two, the people who were involved in the Tsholotsho declaration are now also involved to bring a regime change,” said Rugare Gumbo. Gumbo is from the Mujuru faction.

What these Zanu PF idiots, from both factions, have failed to see is that ‘no regime change’ has creating a political system designed to retain power at all cost including denying the majority of the people a meaningful say and even murdering innocent people and to reward those committed to this ethos was always doomed to fail. The system is inherently inefficient and wasteful because it stifles debate, competition and meaningful accountability and every soon the ugly faces of mismanagement and corruption will emerge.

The waste of resources, human and material, will lead to poor economic performance and the fall in the standards of living, particularly those with no political power. The people will, naturally, become restless in the face of increasing economic hardships. The ruling elite’s response is to become more oppressive to ensure there is no regime change but since this does not address the core problem of the criminal waste of resources it easy to see why this becomes a vicious circle.

In the case of Zimbabwe decades of vicious circle of increasing political repression encouraging more corruption and waste leading worsening economic performance have resulted in rampant corruption and total economic meltdown. The latter has result in unemployment soaring to 90% plus; forced 300 000 or 80% of children out of school because their parents are too poor to pay their fees; 16% or 2 million people are now living in abject poverty or on less than $1.25 per day; etc.

The economic hardship have not spared the ruling elite either as the countless stories of Zanu PF party grandee like the late Nathan Shamuyarira and Enos Nkala who lived the last years of their lives in abject poverty.

 Of course this vicious circle designed to condemn more and more people into a life of abject poverty and despair was unsustainable; the vicious circle was bound to be broken and the political system founded on ‘no regime change’ ended with regime change.

The factional fighting going on in Zanu PF right now, although each faction claims to be the one defending ‘no regime change’ in their own macabre way, is in fact a regime change agenda in response to the worsening economic reality. Each side has realised that the system is relegating too many people into poverty and despair but instead of seek a holistic change of the system they want the size of the ruling elite reduced and are fighting to ensure it the other faction that remain in power.

Accusing each other of being corrupt and counter revolutionaries is a necessary preamble; it helps to justify the savagery that is to follow! History belongs to the winning side; revised versions of heroic exploits of VP Joice Mujuru shooting down a helicopter during the war of independence claiming it was all a lies, for example, have already started to come out. The winning side will come out with shocking details of how corrupt and tyrannical the losers were!

What Mujuru and Mnangagwa and their respective factional supporters must realise is that the nations will only end corrupt system that has forced millions into a life of poverty and hopelessness by instituting a political system that allows regime change. The half-way solution of one faction dumping another but still retaining the ‘no regime change’ mantra is not acceptable; it too will collapse just as surely as this Zanu PF was doomed to collapse.