Nathaniel Manheru cum George Charamba has latched on, like
binnacle to a rock, to Alexander Noyes’ erroneous assertion that having liberation
war credentials will be the game changer in Zimbabwe’s next elections. Mr Noyes
is the Oxford University scholar who claimed that Joice Mujuru’s war credentials
will help her win the next elections.
“And if liberation war credentials impart a forte to Mujuru,
how do infinitely better liberation war credentials residing in Mugabe who
joins nationalist politics in the 1950s, and Mnangagwa who joins the ranks of
combatants in the early-to-mid 1960s, stand them negatively in the same race?” demanded
Manheru.
Alexander Noyes’s article appeared in the New York Times. The
article was trash; devoid of any intellectual merit. Noyes assumed that the
people of Zimbabwe hold their liberation war heroes and heroines in such revered
regard they have completely failed to see the transformative change from
liberator to corrupt and murderous tyrant. After 35 years of Zanu PF misrule,
there a mountain of evidence that the freedom, liberty and human rights and
dignity the nation had dreamt of have remained a pipe dream as millions have
been forced into a life of abject poverty and despair. The people would have to
be mentally blind not to see the reality of political and economic mess Zanu PF
has dragged them into.
In fact it is our Oxford scholar who ignoring the mountain of
evidence that the people Zimbabwe are not been blinded by the war hero rhetoric,
they are not naïve and gullible as evidence by their rejection of Mugabe and
his thugs. The whole world knows, except Noyes, that Mugabe and his cronies
have stayed in power all these years not because they flaunted their war credentials,
hypnotizing the electorate. They have stayed in power because they have used every
dirty vote rigging trick there is; breaking the law, bribing officials, harassment
and beating voters, they have murdered over 30 000, etc.
Manheru was only too pleased to take up Noyes’ theme of
liberation war credential as the game changer only to further his own
propaganda message that Mugabe is invincible. Mugabe has been harping none stop
about his war credentials and not allowed the nation to talk about anything
else.
If Mujuru and her People First should “win” the next
elections it would be because she was able to counter Mugabe’s dirty tricks;
after all she was in the tyrant’s camp for 34 years, even a simpleton like her
would have learned a few of his dirty tricks. As long as the next elections are
NOT free, fair and credible, it is
possible that Mugabe will lose regardless his “infinitely
better liberation war credentials”; it all depends on whether he is able to rig
the elections, war credentials have nothing to do with it.
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CEPHAS MSIPA SAYS LEADERS MUST DO MORE FOR THE PEOPLE.
THE TRAGEDY OF ZIMBABWE IS MOST OF OUR POLITICAL LEADERS HAVE NEVER RE-ALLY CARED ABOUT FREEDOM, JUSTICE AND HUMAN DIGNITY. THEY WENT INTO POLITICS FOR THE SHARE OF THE POWER AND LOOT AND AS LONG AS THEY GOT THAT THEY WENT ALONG WITH THE CORRUPTION AND BRUTAL POLITICAL OPPRESSION. THEY ONLY PROTESTED WHEN THEY FELT THEY WERE NOT GETTING A SHARE OF THE SPOILS AND, UNFORTUNATELY, THEY WERE BY THEN TOO FEEBLE TO CHANGE ANYTHING!
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