Whatever anyone else says about
the dramatic events happening before our own eyes in Zanu PF, the drama has
given us some good laughs, double Dutch, you name it; it is all there.
"It is further disconcerting
that the statement is littered with subjective falsehoods, mischievous
perceptions and malicious innuendos written in a language and tone which is
disrespectful and contemptuous to my person and indeed, to the office I occupy,
that of Vice-President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and the Party Zanu-PF,"
said VP Mnangagwa in his press interview. He was accusing his counterpart, VP
Mphoko of making falsehoods, etc. in his statement and yet Mnangagwa’s own
statements, past and present, are all pregnant with the same things!
The core issue behind the present
sparring and back stabbing going on Zanu PF is centred around the story of VP
Mnangagwa’s sudden illness in August this year necessitating him being flown to
SA for medical attention. Was he poisoned, everyone asked? After weeks of
speculation and rumours, many thought he had cleared the issue only to now find
he had mudded the waters,
"During the Ordinary Session of the Politburo held
on September 6 2017 and the Ordinary Session of the Central Committee held on
September 8 2017, I informed the meetings that my doctors had said that I was
not food poisoned,” he explained in his statement last night.
“I did not state that poison had
been ruled out.”
STOP! Read that again.
“I did not state that poison had
been ruled out.”
Why, sir, did you not say so at
the time, if your intention was not to deliberately mislead?
It was at Shuvai Mahofa’s
memorial service that Mnangagwa had once again returned to the subject of his
illness and left his audience and the nation at large in no doubt that he had
been poisoned.
"I have come to tell you
that what happened to Mai Mahofa in Victoria Falls is what also happened to me.
I am making tremendous recovery. Those who wished me dead will be ashamed
because when God's time for one to die is not up, he will not die. I still have
many years to live and the truth will come out," Mnangagwa said.
It was this that had prompted VP
Mphoko, who was acting President in the absence of Mugabe, to respond.
"There's now little doubt,
if there ever was any, that there appears to be an agenda to undermine the
authority of President Mugabe and to destabilise the country by using lies to
fan ethnic tensions for political purposes," said Mphoko on Tuesday.
“It is most disappointing that a
person at the level of my colleague, Vice-President Cde R .P Mphoko would
misunderstand and misrepresent the statements made by his Excellency, the
President R.G Mugabe and myself,” responded Mnangagwa last night.
"Mnangagwa questioned why
Mphoko had to issue a public statement concerning his health when he could have
called him to discuss the issue," said a source quoted in a Bulawayo 24
report.
Big laugh! VP Mphoko could have
called but we all know he would have got an earful and still no wiser!
Comrade “Mafirakureva” (He who
will rather die than be silenced), the name Grace Mugabe has given herself, was
not one to be left out and has thrown in her threepence worth.
"My husband is someone who
is very disciplined when it comes to women. He is not a bambazonke (grab
everything) type, never ever,” said Mafirakuveva. “He keeps me and me alone.
STOP.
Well, for the record you, madam
was his secretary, then his mistress and then the mother of his illegitimate
child although you were married yourself and so was he. He only married you
after his wife’s death. Someone who stole a subordinate’s wife is not exactly
an outstanding example of a disciplined man.
As for yourself, madam; you can
say what you please but the world will never consider you “a catch like no
other”!
“Why would I want to kill someone
who was appointed by my husband? It is nonsensical,” continued Mafirakureva.
Is it not bad enough that you and
your husband’s insatiable greed for wealth and power have left this great
nation in economic ruins and political paralysis because we are stuck with this
incompetent, corrupt, vote rigging and tyrannical Mugabe dictatorship. Please
do not insult our intelligence too. We all know you are absolutely desperate to
succeed your husband as Zimbabwe’s next president, so desperate you kill.
“If politics gets to this stage,
it means you have run out of ideas. If you have run out of ideas, go home and
retire,” continued Mafirakureva.
Every dog has his day; every
madman has his moment of pure genius! Well Mafirakureva certainly had her bolt
of inspiration the political circus in Zimbabwe speaks volume of the decance,
rot and decay in Zanu PF. Unemployment has soared to 90% plus, 72.3% of our
people are living on US$ 1.00 or less a day, basic services like health and
education have all but completely collapse, etc.
Mnangagwa and Tsvangirai went to
SA for their medical needs because they could not get such service in Zimbabwe.
Mafirakureva was herself in SA to buy a mansion for her two boys studying there
is no quality schools in Zimbabwe because decades of poor funding.
To say Mugabe and his Zanu PF
cronies have run out of ideas and, to save the country sinking into serious economic
and political turmoil, retire with immediate effect is therefore an
understatement. Sadly, both Mafirakureva and Mnangagwa, the two vying to
succeed Mugabe, see the other as having ran out of ideas but not them.
Whilst the factional war is tiring
Zanu PF apart the nation will be ill advised to see this as spelling the end of
the regime’s reign of terror and chaos. Far from it. Zanu PF members are like a
troop of baboons, they fight amongst themselves all day but when threatened,
they will fight as one. The regime’s vote rigging plans of making sure there is
no verifiable voters roll, for example, are going ahead untouched by all the
bickering in the party.
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Zanu PF's factional war is now in overdrive, anything and everything goes, there is no holding back.
Mnangagwa deliberately held back the detail that he was poisoned and had only admitted that not food poisoning.
"During the Ordinary Session of the Politburo held on September 6 2017 and the Ordinary Session of the Central Committee held on September 8 2017, I informed the meetings that my doctors had said that I was not food poisoned. I did not state that poison had been ruled out,” he said.
Poor VP Mphoko he is the one who is now look foolish after his statement suggesting Mnangagwa was not poisoned.
Mugabe is good at making other people look foolish and ED Mnangagwa has clearly learned and from the expert!
Mugabe blamed President Khama’s “half-hearted approach to continental affairs” for Botswana’s candidate’s failed bid to replace SA’s Dlamini-Zuma as the next AU Commission chairperson.
This is a typical divide and rule Mugabe dirty tactic. He is the one who worked the hardest to make sure the Botswana candidate was not elected because he has sores to settle with President Ian Khama. Who does not know that after the rigged July 2013 election it was President Khama alone who refuse to accept Mugabe's victory demanding the process must be audited. Botswana refused to be drawn into the spat except to say.
“However, the Ministry chooses not to comment any further out of respect for President Mugabe’s advanced age and as such, understands that allowances need to be made,” read the statement.
Well who would have a salute of respect could be turned into a middle finger insult with such panache and elan, it is all so effortless and yet so totally disarming! Poor Mugabe he was fishing for a fight only to be praised to the high heaven for his stupidity!
"While Tsvangirai has made his own personal blunders, he is one man who has managed to stretch President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF honchos to the limit," you said.
Well that explains why the country is in a real mess and helplessly stuck.
Tsvangirai had the greatest opportunity to end the Zanu PF dictatorship and after five long years failed to get even one reform implemented. If someone does not understand the full implications of that betrayal, even now with the benefit of hindsight, he or she never will! Mawawa, you are one of the many to whom the simple truth has remained hidden because you have refused to open your eyes!
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends failed to get even one reform implemented because President Mugabe bribed the lot and for five years they were falling over each other to sing the tyrant's praise. Tsvangirai and his MDC idiots are help extend Mugabe's rule by foolishly contesting elections they should know by now will be rigged. And still someone still thinks Tsvangirai is STRETCHING "Mugabe and his honchos to the limit"! Such breath-taking stupidity landed us in this mess and will keep us there for decades to come!
ED Mnangagwa is not a democratic, he has never believed in free press and freedom of expression. Of course, he has given many speech professing to be a democrat and a defender of freedom of expression, etc. but that was paying lip service. He only supports a free press is if suits his selfish purpose. He is praising to the high heaven your article exposing the mischief in the Tsholotsho coup plot because it is useful for his purpose. He would haunt you for any articles on him exposing his role in wanton violence of 2008 run-off or murderous exploits during Gukurahundi.
Mark my words, if Mnangagwa was to succeed and takeover from Mugabe; we will be in deep trouble. He has waited for all these years to be president and will not be one to give up power so easily. We had our best chance of ending Mugabe’s rule during the GNU when all Tsvangirai and his MDC friends were asked to do was to implement the democratic reforms. After five years, they failed to get even one reform implemented and now we are paying for it!
@ Bhogwe
Let me say this again, I am not denying that there is poverty in Matabeleland, school and hospital have closed, etc., etc. I have never denied that. What I refuse to accept is the nonsense from the likes of MP Mushonga that some region or tribe has been singled out and have 90% unemployment, 72.3% living on UD$ 1.00 or less a day, etc. whilst other regions are enjoying economic prosperity and unemployment is low. How much better off the other regions are, she has been very careful not to say.
I have travelled round Zimbabwe and do not claim to know every village, anthill and stream around the country but I do not need to know all that to know that Zimbabwe is in a serious economic mess. If I was to travel round the country it would be to improve people’s lives and not to produce a chart on who is the poorest of the poor! I am not interested in poverty contest!
To undertake such an exercise is a waste of time and will only be seen as validate people like Mushonga’s foolish and downright irresponsible allegation.
@ Petros Magomazi
I stand to be corrected but there is nothing you have said here that proves that I was biased; indeed, you are saying here what I have said.
"There are many ways of poisoning a person", I agree with you there. What you have missed is that Mnangagwa's statements to his Zanu PF colleagues on 6 and 8 September does not mention that although food poisoning had been ruled out the Doctors had nonetheless said he had been poisoned. Mnangagwa admit this himself in his Thursday press interview.
“I did not state that poison had been ruled out,” admitted Mnangagwa.
I asked the reader to stop and read this point again to get its full import. It is clear you and your fellow academics, whoever they are, missed that.
Have you ever wondered why Zimbabwe, with all its many academics, professionals, etc., is this hell-hole? Why have we, I dare call myself a professional although you probably will dispute that, all failed to save ourselves and the nation from sinking into this economic and political hell-hole? I dare say, I have thought long and hard about it.
My view is we have many, many academics, professionals, etc. all with very impressive academic qualifications and CV (forget those with PhD after three months) but very few of them have common sense.
The main thrust of my article was to how Mugabe and his cronies are fiddling whilst the nation burns. 90% of the population are unemployed and 72.3% are living on US$ 1.00 or less a day; the economic hardship these folks are facing is heart breaking. Hundreds of thousands of our people are dying of the poison called “abject poverty”. If you and your fellow academics had any common sense, you would be telling the nation about the urgent need to find the antidote to poverty that is causing so much suffering and death.
“We, a group of academics examined Mnangagwa's statements and concluded that there were no contradictions,” you tell me. Sure, what do you want, a Noble Prize! Your stupidity never seize to amaze me!
With unemployment now at 90% plus, 72.3% of the people living on US$ 1.00 or less a day, education and health services barely functioning, etc., etc. one would have thought her ladyship Grace 'Mafirakuva' Mugabe would have told her husband years ago to retire. Instead she is the one who has been demanding that he must stay on. She has even suggest buying him a wheelchair give he is now physical feeble to stand up let alone walk on his own steam!
“If politics gets to this stage, it means you have run out of ideas. If you have run out of ideas, go home and retire,” said Mafirakureva.
Mafirakureva is making a lot of noise, typical of empty drums. She can see the speck in Mnangagwa's eye but fail to see the logs in her own husband's eyes!
This came amid reports Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant-General Phillip Valerio Sibanda has reportedly thrown Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, who presides over the security sector in government, under the bus after he rejected his attempts to recruit him to support Grace’s ambitious Generation 40 (G40) project.
Instead, Sibanda is said to have reported the matter to Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander General Constantine Chiwenga before escalating it to Mugabe, the ZDF Commander-in-Chief.
Top military commanders who spoke to the Zimbabwe Independent this week said in the run-up to the tense April 7 meeting between Mugabe and the war veterans in Harare, Mphoko approached Sibanda, his junior in Zipra, for a meeting to discuss the current political dynamics and alignments within Zanu PF, but the ZNA chief was not impressed as he apparently retorted that he only serves the government of the day in terms of the constitution and the law, while loyal to his bosses not any other people. It is said that is why he then escalated the matter to his superiors.
Senior army officers said Mugabe’s meeting in Harare with war veterans has proved to be a watershed event, amid the intensifying succession conflict which poses the gravest danger to the Zanu PF regime yet.
While Chiwenga’s future remains uncertain as Mugabe, who brushed aside war veterans’ main demands despite being shaken by the army resistance, wanted to remove him for backing Mnangagwa, it now appears the April 7 meeting gave him a reprieve.
Although some army sources say his contract is about to or has expired and will not be renewed, Chiwenga’s close aides say it was renewed in June last year and is now open-ended, meaning he is just “serving at the pleasure of the Commander-in-Chief”.
Anyone who was in the war of independence knows that the G40 faction will get rid of them if they get into power and that is why they are not biting any of the G40 bait other than the likes of Mphoko!
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