Mutasa's court challenge of Mugabe's election rigging will expose the fallacy of Mugabe being infallible!

Zanu PF is rolling out the party’s propaganda machinery to stop Didymus Mutasa going ahead with the Court Challenge of the party’s last year rigged elections. When Margaret Dongo mounted a similar and successful court challenged of the Zanu PF rigged Harare South parliamentary elections in 1995, Mugabe ended with egg on his face. Mugabe will have a lot more than egg on his face if Mutasa’s court challenge was successful too – it will once and once for all that Mugabe is indeed as fallible as any other mortal and political ramifications of that will shake Zimbabwe politics to the core!  

The Mutasa court challenge is turning out to be struggle between reason and truth against the forces of mysticism and dogma; the essence of those fighting for human progress against those fighting to drag mankind back to ages when mankind was not much different from the apes!  

Zimbabwe is in this hell-hole because for the last 35 years the nation has been sold the North Korea “The Great Leader Can Do No Wrong”. It was this mentality that acted as a powerful sedative so many people lived through the Gukurahundi madness with it anything registering in the mind. To them it was a nightmare best forgotten.

By the late 1980s the Zimbabwe’s economy was in trouble and by the mid-1990s it was in the gutter proof that Mugabe’s scientific socialism was not working, instead of delivering “gutsva ruzhinji” mass posterity it was delivering mass poverty. But instead of question the fallacy of the doctrine that Mugabe is infallible on which “The Great Leader Can Do No Wrong” mentality is based people adopted it to suit. The people would not hear of blaming Mugabe; no, it was the incompetent and corrupt ministers round him who were to blame. How convenient, how naively convenient!

It is a well-known fact that Mugabe is a control freak; he wants to be involved in everything and dictating everything. Minister are there to carry out his orders regardless how nonsensical. For example the late Bernard Chidzero, then Minister of Finance, mourned the bloated size of the Army – twice the size of Smith’s Army although there country was no longer fighting a war - and wanted it reduced but was overruled by Mugabe!

Even if one accepted that many of the ministers and official are indeed incompetent and corrupt; it is none other than Mugabe himself who has appointed them to those positions and has retained them in cabinet all these decades. Mugabe has appointed people like Simon Muzenda and Joice Mujuru knowing them to be “simple minded”, as he has himself admitted regarding the later, for his own selfish reasons. Compared to these simpletons he might as well be infallible!

Caitlin Kamba’s article “Nothing amiss on Mugabe's description of Mutasa” in the Bulawayo 24 Opinion column is meant to brainwash the readers and perpetuate this notion that Mugabe is infallible and to question the actions of an infallible leader is per se sheer madness.

Kamba accused Didymus Mutasa of letting his “selfish ambitions and ego overtake national responsibility” and even compared him to Morrison Nyathi who orchestrated the Nyadzonya massacre. What a load of rubbish.

It is Mugabe who rigged Zanu PF’s electoral process to stop Joice Mujuru who had secured the backing of nine out of the ten country’s provinces for the position of VP. In 2013 Mugabe rigged the national elections for exactly the same reason he rigged the Zanu PF election – to gratify his insatiable appetite for political power and wealth.

He has in power for 35 years already and all he has to show for it is a national economic in ruins, unemployment a nauseating 90% plus, 16% or 2 million people now living in abject poverty, etc. On the political front he has murdered over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans to establish and retain this de facto one-party dictatorship which is itself collapsing. And still he wants to remain president and has attached himself to State House like a binnacle to a rock!

Didymus Mutasa is right to challenge the undemocratic conduct of Zanu PF’s last December elections. The whole Zanu PF propaganda machinery has been rolled out to denounce Mutasa and stop the court challenge because the regime knows that the whole world knows that Mugabe rigged the elections.

There will be more than the egg on Mugabe’s face if the Courts should rule that Zanu PF party procedures were NOT followed in last year’s elections; the ruling will put to bed the fallacy that Mugabe is not just infallible but that he is himself incompetent and corrupt.  Exposing the lie of Mugabe infallibility will be the super solvent to dissolve the superglue with which Mugabe has attached himself to State House. The binnacle will fall off!

Zimbabweans have watched the country go to the dogs these last 35 years but still they have kept faith with the fallacy that Mugabe is infallible. Discrediting and rejecting this farcical “Great Leader” nonsense is a critical first step in our fight to end this Zanu PF tyrannical rule. Accept that Mugabe is just a fallible mortal like everyone else then the need to dismantle this political system that has allowed him to rule the country with an iron fist without democratic accountability becomes self-evident.