“Foreign Affairs
Minister Walter Mzembi has told Zambian leader, Edgar Lungu that Zimbabwe will
be stable and united ahead of next year’s polls,” reported Zimeye.
“Mzembi spoke as he
delivered a special message to Lungu from President Mugabe. Mzembi said
Mugabe’s top priority at the moment were peace and stability.”
Since when has
Mugabe ever care about peace and stability in Zimbabwe? Ever since the country
attain her independence in 1980 all he has ever wanted is to secure absolute
power by ensuring Zimbabwe was a de facto one-party, Zanu PF, dictatorship.
Before the ink was dry on the new Lancaster House constitution calling for a
multi-party democratic Zimbabwe, he was already plotting how to undermine the
country’s State Institutions like Police, Judiciary, ZEC, etc. to establish his
dictatorship.
Even when it was
self-evident that the dictatorship was not working President Mugabe ploughed on
regardless driving the nation’s economy deeper and deeper into trouble. To keep
his greedy and wasteful Zanu PF cronies loyal to him and his tyrannical regime,
Mugabe looted everything of value. When there was nothing left to loot in the
late 1990s, he turned on the white owned farms.
He instigated the violent
farm seizure, “njambanja”, it was no accident these flared up during elections;
they were used as cover for the politically motivated violence again the
opposition and their supporters.
“Mzembi also
conveyed President Mugabe’s sincere gratitude to the Zambian Government for
supporting Zimbabwe with affordable maize imports during the last four years of
grain shortages in that country,” continued the report.
One of the
consequences of the njambanja was to knock Zimbabwe of its coveted perch of not
only growing enough to feed its own people but have plenty left over to feed
the region, the bread basket of the region. Ever since njambanja the nation has
had to rely on imported food-aid.
We are starving in
the country which for all intend and purpose is the Garden of Eden; a fitting
testimonial to President Mugabe’s breath-taking corrupt and incompetence.
President Mugabe is
a control freak megalomania who love for absolute power and the trapping of
influence and wealth it brings is insatiable. He has ruled the country for 37
years and is now frail with ill health and old age, at 93 years of age, and yet
he still hangs on to power like a binnacle to a rock.
In the last three
years, he has fired two VPs and their supporters for no other reason other than
to clear the deck to allow his wife, who hunger for absolute power is sparred
on by her insatiable love for Gucci shoes and other luxuries. She knows that if
anyone else was to succeed her husband she will be reduced to being a Minister,
if she is lucky, and thus forced to give up all the luxuries and extravagant
lifestyle she and her family have enjoyed all these years.
The political chaos
gripping Zimbabwe today was all cause by first of all President Mugabe himself
to refusal to handover power to someone else although he had nothing to show
for it, other than the economic chaos and the over 30 000 political murders. The
last straw was he Machivalian machination to have his wife to succeed him!
Minister Mzembi can
talk of President Mugabe restoring peace and stability in Zimbabwe until he is
green in the face, no one will be fooled by that nonsense. Having triggered the
self-distract button overstaying in office, President Mugabe has no clue much
less control over what is going to happen next.
Zanu PF is imploding
and there is a real danger of the party dragging the nation and the whole SADC
region into the abyss with it. All because of the insatiable greed of one man
and his shrew wife!
SADC leaders had the
opportunity to end Zimbabwe’s political crisis following the signing of the 2008
Global Political Agreement in which Mugabe agreed to the implementation of a
raft of democratic reforms designed to stripe the tyrant of all his carte
blanche powers to rig elections.
Sadly, Mugabe bribed
Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends to do nothing about the reforms. Whilst
it is true that SADC leaders, who were the guarantor of the agreement, pushed
MDC to implement the reforms; given the chaos now in Zimbabwe, they know they
should have pushed even harder.
SADC leaders should
have publicly denounced Tsvangirai & co., for example, long before the end
of the five years and demanded the appointment of a competent team to implement
the reforms! Now all SADC leaders can do is wring their fingers; they too are
as helpless to stop the madness in Zimbabwe as Mugabe himself.
Minister Mzembi’s
comments to assure the world President Mugabe is still in charge are as foolish
and comical as Saddam Hussein’s “Chemical” Ali who continued to claim that Iraq
was winning the 2003 war even with the American soldiers inside the city gates
of Baghdad!
2 comments:
The trouble with some people is that they treat tyrant like gods and when the tyrant falls they are the ones left holding the bag. Walter Mzembi has been behaving as if Mugabe is infallible and so he cannot believe the tyrant is now being shown to be nothing but an idiot!
Zimbabwe is not at peace nor is she stable given all the chaos that has been going on, thanks to Mugabe's refusal to handover power. The tyrant has dragged the nation into a very dangerous situation and everyone has good reasons to be worried sick because many lives could be lost before the matter is finally sorted out!
If people like Coltart had not sold-out during the GNU and implemented the democratic reforms, we would not be in this mess. I find it hard to stay calm particularly when a sell-out like him tells me to stay calm!
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