“Who can tell me that Masvingo does not belong to me but belongs to them! Why would they do that! Did they fight the war that we all fought!” President Mugabe told the audience at the party’s interface rally.
“I have a stake in Matebeleland; you have a stake in Matebeleland. The narrow mindedness that some have must condemn them to be outlaws of our party.
“We can’t
continue having people with such beliefs in the country.
“We will
kick you out, through your buttocks even, out! Then we see where you go.
“Nekuti urikuitira toireti ikoko obva wati ndekwangu! (You use the bush as your
toilet, you then think all the land is yours). Aahhh! To hell with you! To
hell! Don’t accept that in your own country; you must not listen to that
rubbish!”
a) He is accusing the
people of Masvingo of regionalism because they have dared to support Emmerson
Mnangagwa. He has not produced any evidence to prove that everyone from
Masvingo supports Mnangagwa or that no one outside Masvingo supports Mnangagwa.
He is making his usual sweeping statement as part of his divide
and rule.
b) If Mnangagwa is guilty
of having a narrow minded regional mentality, President Mugabe himself is worse
in that he only cares about himself and his family.
He orchestrated the booting out of former VP Joice Mujuru is 2014,
accusing her of plotting to assassinate him although he has never produced any
evidence, because she was the immediate threat to his wife, Grace’s ambition to
succeed him as Zimbabwe’s next president. As soon as Mujuru was out of the way,
he has turned his attention on VP Mnangagwa because he was the next obstacle to
Grace’s vaulting ambition.
c) Zanu PF is imploding,
the factional war in the party to find Mugabe’s successor are tearing the party
asunder. This would not have been as bad if the country was a healthy and functional
multi-party democracy; it is not. Zimbabwe is a de facto one-party, Zanu PF,
dictatorship with no functioning state institutions outside the dictatorship.
Zimbabwe is in an economic mess with unemployment a nauseating 90%
plus, 72.3% of our people now living on US$ 1.00 or less a day, etc. Any
political upheaval will make the already intolerable economic situation even
worse.
d) There is no doubt, above
all else, that it was President Mugabe’s incompetence, vote rigging, corruption,
tyrannical madness and his unquenchable greed for absolute power and material
wealth that has landed us into this political and economic hell-hole.
Instead of accepting his failed leadership and allow the nation to
implement the democratic reforms the nation is dying for; Mugabe continues in
his evil ways undermining all efforts to get the reforms implemented. Even
after 37 years of enjoying absolute power Mugabe is still hungering to extend
his reign of terror and economic ruin and then pass the baton on to his wife.
When President Mugabe says, “To hell with you!” He is not just
saying that to VP Mnangagwa and his Lacotse Zanu PF faction supporters only but
he is also say the same to the rest of the people of Zimbabwe. He is the one
who dragged us into this hell-on-earth, which is what has become of Zimbabwe
today; but, worse still, he is clearly determined to drag the nation even
deeper into this hell, in his resolve to be life-president and/or create a
Mugabe ruling dynasty.
What the people of Zimbabwe must tell President Mugabe in no uncertain terms is; “No! To hell with you!
“We demand the implementation of the democratic reforms to end the Zanu PF one-party dictatorship and create a healthy and functioning multi-party democracy a.s.a.p. Hopefully before Zanu PF implode and drag the nation down into the abyss with it!”
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“What I did not expect but which I had a bit of information about was that some people had arranged to send persons here to boo the First Lady,” President Mugabe said.
“The First Lady speaks her mind. We can’t continue being quiet when we hear there are people who continue saying ‘this province (Masvingo) does not belong to Mugabe; this province belongs to Mnangagwa'”.
What is President Mugabe complaining about given that this is nothing compared to some of the things he has done to force the people to vote for him during elections, for example. The country is in this hell-on-earth because of his failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. Zanu PF is imploding right now because he is stubbornly hanging on to power and will not handover to someone else other than his wife.
Enough is enough! We demand the implementation of the reforms BEFORE elections and an end to his endless political shenanigans for selfish gain!
VP Joice Mujuru was booted out of the party for no other reason than that she was a real contender for taking over from President Mugabe. Now Emmerson Mnangagwa is in similar trouble for the same reason.
Zanu PF and the whole nation is in serious political and economic trouble because precisely because President Mugabe has always placed his selfish interests of staying in power at all cost and then handing over the crown to his wife regardless of the damaging consequences to the party and nation.
“If I made a mistake by appointing Mnangagwa, tell me. I will remove him,” Mugabe told a rally in the city of Bulawayo that was broadcast live on national television on Saturday.
“We are not afraid of anyone. We can decide even here. I will stand in front and have him do the same, those who want to be with me, join me and those who want to be with Mnangagwa go to him.”
No, you tell us first what wrong Mnangagwa has done to justify why you want him removed!
We, the people of Zimbabwe want the democratic reforms implemented before the next elections so we can have a meaningful say in the governance of the country. We are sick to the back teeth of rigged national elections and sexually transmitted presidency!
In a dictatorship in which only one point of view is ever heard, the people never ever get to hear anything else other than Mugabe's interpretation of events. Mnangagwa gathers supporters around him in his bid to be Mugabe’s successor and he is accused of factionalism. Grace Mugabe does the same thing and she and her supporters are showed with praise.
It is tempting for the ordinary people to support Mnangagwa, the underdog in this factional war. However, it is ill advised to do so, because the Mnangagwa faction is nothing but an off-shot of the same corrupt and oppressive Zanu PF dictatorship. Just as Mnangagwa and all his supporters have all played key roles in the creation and retaining of the dictatorship all these years they will do everything in their power, should the Lacoste faction prevail over G40, to help Mnangagwa consolidate his hold on power using the same corrupt and tyrannical dirty tricks Mugabe has used all these last 37 years.
The ideal solution for the nation is for the two Zanu PF factions to mutually destroy each other some there is nothing left. The only danger, if that was to happen, would be the regime imploding and leaving a very large political power vacuum to be filled by opportunists who will drag the nation into trouble.
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