“In the
past two weeks we have seen Zanu PF virtually tearing itself apart and in the
process it is sealing the fate of the country. I have never seen the country in
such a state of despair and despondency,” wrote Eddie Cross in his latest
article “Zanu PF pressing the self-destruct button!”
Yes Zanu
PF is tearing itself apart and it was none other than Mugabe himself who
pressed the self-destruct button by kicking out Joice Mujuru out of the party
because she had amassed 8 out 10 provinces to support her bid to be Vice President
in the forthcoming party elective congress. Mugabe had her and many of those
supporting her kicked out of the party because he did not want her election
would have meant the first ever orderly and democratic transfer of power in the
party. He did not want that!
Mugabe had
managed to stay in power as leader of his party and government for 35 years by
denying the opposition the democratic political space and by keeping his own
party Zanu PF in a constant flux of two or three warring factions. He has done
his best to promote weak leaders in each faction so the faction is weak and
whilst being careful no one faction ever emerged to dominated the other
faction(s). Joice Mujuru with her 8 out of 10 province following was going to upset
his carefully laid master plan and that is why she was “baby dumped”, as Grace
Mugabe put it!
By foiling
an orderly and democratic change of guard Mugabe has successfully manage to stay
top dog but the down side of this is he has forced the party and nation to have
a disorderly change of guard. With Mugabe now at a ripe old age of 91 and
sickly everyone can see he is going and thus the fight to replace him is
hotting up. When he dumped Joice Mujuru, he might just as well have fired the
starting gun for the scramble for power in his party.
“Although
we have been a State at war with itself for 35 years, only now have elements
come into play with the means and the determination to take whatever steps are
required to assume control of what is left of Zimbabwe,” noted Eddie. “Like a
pack of hyenas seeking to take a carcass away from an elderly lion.”
Oh yes
Mugabe has press the self-destruct button of his party Zanu PF but what is
worse the imploding Zanu PF is threatening to drag the whole nation into the
abyss with it! And here is where I beg to differ with Eddie Cross; he has continues
to deny he has had no part in getting the nation into this precarious and sorry
state.
“I
was regarded in 1976 as an “enemy of the State” for my political and economic
views. The same can be said of me today, but I am not going to change or flee
to safer climes. Instead I choose to do what Willy Margolis advised nearly 50
years ago – go about your business and do it to the best of your ability,” said
Eddie.
Eddie
Cross and his MDC friends’ business during the five years of the GNU was, above
all else, to implement the raft of democratic reforms agreed in the GPA. They
failed to get even one reform implemented in five years of the GNU. Not even
one!
Mugabe
bribed Eddie Cross and his fellow MDC leaders with the good life of the gravy
train just as he has bribed his own Zanu PF party members. The Zanu PF members
have enjoyed decades of absolute power and had their share of the looting and
plunder of the nation’s wealth and riches. In return, they have turned a blind
eye to Mugabe’s corrupt and murderous tyrannical rule.
Tsvangirai
was appointed Prime Minister and many of his MDC friends were given ministerial
positions complete with the ministerial cars, generous allowances and salaries
and the political standing. Tsvangirai got his $4 million Highlands Mansion to
sweeten the deal. All MDC leaders had to do in return was to kick all the
reforms into the tall grass; and they did!
If
MDC had implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU years we would not be
in this mess at the mercy of a rogue tyrant who has pressed the self-destruct
button of his own party and facing the real danger that the whole nation will
be dragged into the abyss with the party.
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