Mugabe calls off G40 airport demo - proof that events, the tail wags the dog!

So even the great Mugabe is now having to change his routine to avoid becoming a victim of events beyond his control. He controlled everyone before and now everyone is asserting themselves and Mugabe is the one running around fearful of what may happen next. 

“The way he decided to deal with the warring factions by changing his travel arrangements on his return and choosing, correctly, to dispense with the usual airport rally was a classic Gushungo (Mugabe) move,” said one Mugabe loyalist told Daily News on Sunday.

“Firstly, this meant that there was no drama at the airport as had been threatened by both the Generation 40 (G40) and Team Lacoste camps.”

It is no secret that G40 is Mugabe’s baby and therefore he would have been the one behind plan to embarrass Mnangagwa at the airport.

Mugabe fired the key members of Mutsvangwa group war veterans from the party and yet they are still there and calling the shots! They are the ones who got wind of the plan to embarrass VP Mnangagwa and made it clear that they will at the airport to punish the culprits.

So, Mugabe called off his G40 activists and to be absolutely certain nothing happened, he sneaking into the country with none of the usual pomp of hundreds of people bussed in to cheer him along and government officials forced to dropping everything to welcome him back at the airport and listen to the longwinded vanity speech of “we did this, we met so and so, etc.”

Everyone used to listen to every word Mugabe said and now it is him who is having to listen to even upstarts like Julius Malema. Malema dominated the media both sides of the Limpopo River when told the whole world Mugabe was "so old he cannot even control the spade" and must now go. Malema’s parting shot was at the Zanu PF officials themselves, calling the cowards for allowing Mugabe’s “lead to the death” carryon!

Even Mugabe’s great spin doctors and propagandist were dumfounded by Malema’s no-holds-barred attacked. Mugabe and Zanu PF had showed Julius Malema until now and, to be fair to Malema, he had mobilised his supporters to give Mugabe a hero’s welcome, notably at the late Nelson Mandela’s funeral. Journalists sensed the confusion in the Zanu PF camp and pressed the officials for comment. Some ended up calling Malema a “western agent send to destroy the revolutionary party”. Even they knew this was made them look even more pathetic than ever!

Mugabe with his insatiable greed for absolute power and wealth has done a great job of not just destroying Zanu PF but the country as well! And the Zanu PF cowards have stood by for the last 37 years and have done nothing to stop the madness.

“Many of us are worried sick about what will happen to Zanu PF and Zim when Gushungo is no longer around or at the helm to steer things,” continued the loyalist.

The whole nation is worried sick too about what will happen after Mugabe finally leaves office and for good reason. After 37 years of corrupt and tyrannical autocratic rule in which all the state institutions have been compromised to serve Mugabe’s selfish interest, the country is in economic ruins, everyone across the land is poor and angry after all the years of being abused, etc. The country is sitting on the edge of the abyss and Mugabe’s departure, anything, can push us over the edge.

All talk of Mugabe being in control is nonsense; Mugabe created this Zanu PF dictatorship and it has served him and his cronies well but he has lost control of the dictatorship. Mugabe is as helpless as a log floating down a flooded river, the dictatorship, chaotic as the flood waters themselves, has takeover control. We are all at the mercy of the dictatorship, this in the stuff of nightmares, and no one knows how and when the nightmare is going to end.

We should have implemented the democratic reforms during the GNU, when we had the best opportunity ever, and thus dismantle the dictatorship. Whatever happens now, we must make sure we dismantle the dictatorship next time we have the chance to do so. Meanwhile all we can do is hang on tight and stare well away from the convulsions of the factional war as the dictatorship tearing itself into pieces.

Zanu PF was doomed to end in self-distract. Whilst the party members’ appetite for wealth has grown in leaps and bounce, the nation’s wealth has remained finite. It just a matter of time Mugabe ran out of loot to give away to his ever demanding but wasteful cronies. The party will then fall apart when the member fight each other over the shrinking wealth; that process has started and, once started, there is no stopping it!