The banality of evil: Mnangagwa is Zimbabwe's very own Adolf Eichmann and rewarded him with absolute power. W Mukori

 The banality of evil: Mnangagwa is Zimbabwe’s every own Adolf Eichmann. The latter’s excuse was that he was following orders, Mnangagwa GAVE the orders. And, if amendment bill No. 3 is passed, he will have even superdupa dictatorial powers on par with those of North Korea’s dictators. The very prospect frighten the life out o me and should do the same to every person with half a brain!

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Godfrey Majonga (often spelled Manjonga in some reports) was a legendary Zimbabwean newscaster, broadcaster, and journalist who later became a prominent advocate for people with disabilities. He was a well-known face on Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) television in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Godfrey Majonga died a disabled man because he was caught in a love triangle and his rival gave him a grime choice. He was to sit on red-hot stove plate or jump from second (some say third) floor balcony. He chose the latter. He lived but was paralysed from the waist down for life! 

Majonga’s love rival was Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, a cabinet minister is Zimbabwe’s Zanu PF government, notably the man who controlled the country shadowy and ruthless secret service and man Mugabe trusted to carry out the dirtiest and bloodiest jobs in the fight to establish and impose Zanu PF’s de facto one party dictatorship. 

What kind of monster is Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa? Good question. Have you ever heard of Adolf Hitler’s Adolf Eichmann? Emmerson Mnangagwa and Eichmann’s cold indifference to other human being’s suffering and death and pathological profile are identical in every way.  

Mnangagwa could have arranged for Majonga to disappear off the face of the earth without trace; the fate of ten of thousands of his victims. As the Minister of State Security, he would have known Majonga was dating the girl was after. He want Majonga to be a living monument of what depths of pathological brutality he, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, would sink. A challenge to all who would dare to displease him!

Mnangagwa has proven his value to Mugabe and Zanu PF’s resolve to impose a de facto one party state in the Gukurahundi massacre. When power was slipping away in the March 2008 elections it was Mnangagwa, assisted by now VP Chiwenga, who step up and ordered Mugabe to stay put. He orchestrated the 2008 Operation Mavhotera Papi, a brazen misuse of the state Police, Army, Judiciary, everything to punish the people for having dare to reject Zanu PF in the March vote. 

Mnangagwa is on record boasted that Zanu PF is the Army, the Police, the Judiciary, etc. “We are everything and we determine who can build a railway in Zimbabwe. No one else!” It is not an empty boast! He recently added the opposition to the list of state and national institutions he controls!

Rigging constituency elections have been ease, especially in the rural constituencies were Zanu PF has always return an iron grip on the voters. Rural areas have been no-go areas for the opposition date back to the liberation war days when Zanu PF freedom fighters call the shots - they wielded the AK47 refile. Rigging the presidential vote has proven another matter even during Mugabe’s days. 

The State President’s legitimacy would be tinted, to say the least, is he was seen to have been elected by the rural voters and soundly rejected by the urban voters and hence the need for Zanu PF to bus in rural voters to vote into urban areas. This has proven to be a logistic nightmare! 

The law says the vote count of each presidential candidate must be declared at constituency level as the winner of the constituency MP is announced. Zanu PF has ignored this requirement, mudding the electoral process even further. But even this and many other vote rigging measures have not been enough to end the challenge of getting the party’s presidential candidate over the winning line.

The proposed constitutional amendment bill No. 3 is designed to address Mnangagwa’s desire to extend his stay in office beyond 2028 and to end the nightmare of rigging the presidential elections. The MPs and senators are no elect state president. Zanu PF has iron grip on the rural votes plus a number of political appointees will guarantee the election of a Zanu PF president.  

"The banality of evil," coined by political theorist Hannah Arendt. 

It originated in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, based on her observations of Adolf Eichmann, a key organizer of the Holocaust, who appeared to be an ordinary bureaucrat rather than a monstrous fanatic. 

Here are the key quotes and themes associated with this concept:

The Core Quote: "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil".

On the Nature of Evil: "It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never 'radical,' that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface”.

On Thoughtlessness: "Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil”.

On Compliance: "Evil is not committed by monsters but by ordinary people obeying blindly". 

Meaning:

Arendt did not mean that Eichmann's actions were trivial, but rather that they stemmed from a terrifying, shallow "thoughtlessness"—a tendency to follow orders and conform to societal norms without questioning the morality of his actions. 

Related Quote (Contextual):

"Benign indifference of the universe" – A phrase from Albert Camus’s novel The Stranger, which was noted as having a similar thematic focus on a detached, uncaring reality, as discussed in online forums exploring the concept of apathy.

Knowing Emmerson Mnangagwa as I now do; a psychopath, with zero empathy for his fellow man’s suffering and death; I would not be surprise to hear that, after pushing Majonga off the balcony, he had a candle-light dinner and do whatever else lovers do. The psychopath retain his senior ministerial position and even became VP and is now State president. And if CAB3 pass will get even more super-duper dictatorial powers! We have a death-wish! “Kuroiwa naakafa! as one would say in Shona!