Mujuru's admission of Zanu PF "failure" confirm self-destruct gene has kicked in big time!

Zanu PF has always been a party of ruthless thugs united by their greed for absolute political power and the material wealth it brought. It is the party’s ruthlessness, summed up by Mugabe’s boastful “I have degrees in violence!”, that has allowed the party to ride roughshod over the people hopes, dreams, freedoms and human rights including the right to a meaningful democratic say in the governance of the country and even the right to life.

 

The party needed to be utterly ruthless and cold hearted to establish the de facto one-party one-man dictatorship we see in Zimbabwe today and to carry out its destructive economic agenda and murderous political repression for three and half decades without flinching or remorse. Mugabe had done his homework in destroying all the country’s democratic institution by undermining the rule of law and appointing men and women after his own cold heart. He shared with them the absolute power and the looted wealth; they took the all-powerful drugs and their transformation from human with a conscience to cold-hearted monsters was complete.

 

Mugabe and Zanu PF’s greatest strength, ruthlessness, was also its greatest weakness. Just as the Zanu PF dictatorship was renowned for being utterly ruthless with political critics and opponents from outside the party it was equally ruthless with those from within Zanu PF itself.

 

Zanu PF history is full of stories of party members who have forced out of the party because they were unhappy with the autocratic direction the party was going. Simba Makoni, Edgar Tekere, Margaret Dongo and Dumiso Dabengwa have all been forced out of the party. They are the lucky one for lived to tell the tale; others like Hebert Chitepo and Tongogara were not so lucky, they had a brutal and violent deaths.

 

Up to August last year, Zanu PF had eliminated one or two internal critics that changed with the purge of former VP Mujuru and those who had dared support her bid for high office. By firing Mai Mujuru and fifteen other senior party leaders Mugabe’s ruthlessness turned on the self-destruct gene; party members are ruthlessly attacking each other and now the party is imploding.

 

Whilst they were members of Zanu PF Mai Mujuru and her followers had their share of the power and the loot, they never said anything critical of the party for 34 years; the ruthless purge opened their eyes and loosened their tongues. In what some people have already termed her manifesto to launch her fight back former Vice President Joice Mujuru has admitted that Zanu PF rule has been a total disaster and she apologized to the nation for her “role in this failure”.

 

"Now Mujuru wants to apologise? If she had any honour as she claims befitting a revolutionary, why didn't she turn down all those power elevations for 34 years? Even more telling, why didn't she resign?” asked Zanu PF Deputy Secretary for Information and Publicity Monica Mutsvangwa. "She's now pouring scorn on what she enjoyed most, the power and its material rewards, which she's still enjoying."

 

When the pot starts calling the kettle black; rest assured the soot must be getting under their skins! Mrs Mutsvangwa is not denying Zanu PF failed the nation with its insatiable greed for power and loot. What she is questioning is Mai Mujuru’s hypocritical claim to honour which they both clearly lack and never had.

"Our President is a visionary leader and a consummate politician,” continued Mrs Mutsvangwa. No doubt suddenly aware she had admitted too much and so needed to cover her tracks.

 

“He has seen it all over the long years in politics. It's a fatal mistake if power hungry people see it other ways. Zanu-PF will not miss her and, as for her attempt to ride on the immortal reputation of our President Mugabe, we say down with crocodile tears," she added.

 

It is Zanu PF’s own propagandists who keep making the fatal mistake of trying to dig themselves out of a hole.

 

If anyone is power hungry then it must be Mugabe; he is the one who has corrupted the country’s state institutions, tampered with the national as well as party constitution, rigged national as well as party elections, had over 30 000 innocent people murdered, etc., etc. all for one purpose and one purpose only - so he can remain leader of Zanu PF and the country.  

When you are in a hole, stop digging. In the three and half decades of mismanagement and corruption Mugabe and Zanu PF have dug an economic hole so deep they cannot get out.

 

for themselves and the nation an economic hole so deep the Political analyst Goodwine Mureriwa, accused Mujuru of trying to take advantage of the economic challenges facing Zimbabweans to push her selfish agenda.

"I think she's (Mujuru) just trying to take advantage of the plight of the people of Zimbabwe in the face of the economic challenges being faced in the country just like what Morgan Tsvangirai did in the 1990s, when he took advantage of the plight of workers to launch his political career.” Goodwine Mureriwa said, according to Chronicle reporter, Farirai Machivenyika.  

"It's clear that her ambitions are selfish and she simply wants to justify her entrance into opposition politics using the people. She's trying to buy political capital from her expulsion from Zanu-PF, but unfortunately for her, she's bound to fail because people can see her intentions," Mureriwa said.

"She was one of the big wigs to rush to exploit the diamonds in Marange for personal gains and is also sitting on a multi-billion dollar estate left by her late husband that she's refusing to share equitably with other beneficiaries."

Of course Mai Mujuru is taking full advantage of the economic meltdown to expose Mugabe’s decades of misrule and ruthless tyrannical rule. By purging Mai Mujuru Mugabe has made her and all those purged with her his enemies and they know so much dirty things about him to bury him and his cronies alive and that is exactly what they are doing. Whether or not the people will be fooled by her hypocritical apology to elect her back into power is another matter.

 

What matters now is that Mugabe and Zanu PF are stuck in a political and economic hell-hole of their own making; the economy is in total meltdown and the party is split down the middle and the self-destruct gene has kicked in big time. Zanu PF is imploding and there is not anyone can do to stop it. Not that anyone in their right mind would want to stop the implosion; the nation is dying to see the demise this corrupt and ruthless dictatorship and, hopefully, see it replaced with a healthy and functioning democracy.