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Mutambara owes nobody an apology
Zimbabwe is a great nation which, through personal inadequacy and greed, Robert Mugabe single-handedly tried to destroy.
For a long time now, Zimbabwe has been one of the world’s most embarrassing and talked about chronic political patients.
But thanks to the resilience of the Zimbabwean people, today, the nation of Zimbabwe refuses to buckle and, although teetering, the plight of the Zimbabwean people continues to overshadow and take the limelight from other concerns, like human rights violations in China, Iraq, Iran, or North Korea.
And aah!
In addition, there is Sudan, DR Congo, Swaziland, and Uganda; situations that our so-called ‘regional bodies’ avoid as they obviously try to accommodate long entrenched political mischief.
African solutions to African problems indeed!
I talk about this spa of embarrassing political ailments because we are no longer left in any doubt as to what South Africa, regardless of its president, wishes for Zimbabwe.
Zuma, obviously with no mind of his own, has become one of Mugabe’s political wives, just like his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, along with a host of African leaders.
Oh, Botswana where have you gone?
The stupidity, selfishness, and shared disgusting bedroom manners bring Mugabe and Zuma together as they take their respective nations as personal fiefdoms.
Greed and outright mediocrity pervades and relentlessly guides Zimbabwean politicians.
For a long time now, Zimbabwe has needed urgent and serious attention.
When Zimbabwe fell into problems, it fell into the arms and mercy of a string of useless political idiots, yes, I say idiots, like Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.
And don’t cringe at that word!
One of Robert Mugabe’s greatest achievements was breaking down diplomatic barriers and protocol by opening diplomatic pouches while calling the diplomats idiots.
Mbeki and Zuma, more than any Mugabe-inspired internal catastrophe, condemned Zimbabwe to the pits of hell.
Much as we want to declare our own resolve and determination, South Africa, more than any other country in the world, has deftly and deliberately kept the Zimbabwean situation simmering for its own advantages.
How many times have we heard that nothing could be done about Zimbabwe without taking South Africa on board?
How many times have we heard that nothing could be done without the involvement of SADC or the African Union?
Zimbabwe is better than all these countries by far and yet, today, we are made to cow-tow before murderers and foolish presidents of that country or that.
The fact that some African countries elect fools for president does not mean Zimbabweans ought to beg such charlatans as in South Africa, DR Congo or elsewhere as saviours.
Not one African president or country has condemned the murder and brutality of innocent people in Zimbabwe. Diplomacy, we note, prevents them from being honest with each other. Diplomacy instructs them to ignore murders and the abuse of citizens in the next country.
Diplomacy is not anyone’s ally.
Why, for God’s sake, does Africa not look at brains and continues to mire itself in retrogressive and useless tribal nonsense?
Mbeki and Zuma have been consistent in their betrayal of the Zimbabwean people.
In Zimbabwe, we crossed racial lines in the hope that our people would be given a fair chance to reclaim their self worth and political imperatives. For, you see, we were coming out of a conflict that pitted race against race.
But the nation’s custodian who told the world that all was forgiven is the same one who is inventing the worst of Zimbabwe and displaying it to the world as our culture, killing our compatriots in the process.
Zimbabweans are not as bloodthirsty as Mugabe is.
The African National Congress in South Africa has, itself, become a joke because it is no longer owned by those who formed it.
How can the ANC government talk democracy while urging murderous vitriol from within their own youth league?
Instead of fighting for liberty, order and independence, they have turned against not only their own people but are trying to export their evil to outside countries.
But much as we may blame the likes of Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, the solution lies with the people who are facing the problem. The solution lies with us, Zimbabweans, and that is where our mediocrity is exposed.
Those in the medical profession say that it is better to perform the right operation wrongly than to perform the wrong operation correctly.
The splinter group led by Welshman Ncube and Gibson Sibanda should have taken note of this.
I am honestly surprised that it took Ncube’s supporters so many years to realise that they were following a fake, a coward who had no guts to lead the breakaway faction he himself led away from the mother body.
After that, they advertised for a leader.
Now the man who answered the advertisement, screened by Ncube and his lieutenants themselves, is in trouble with the people he is supposed to be leading.
But honestly, where did these people expect Arthur Mutambara to lead them to?
Did Ncube’s followers ever stop to think why Ncube himself or his deputy, Gibson Sibanda, refused to lead the breakaway faction?
For all the years they have been following Mutambara, did they not see or know what he was all about?
Zimbabwe is cursed by the professors it produces as can be evidenced in the likes of Professor Welshman Ncube, Professor Arthur Mutambara and, the dean of them all, Professor Jonathan Moyo.
Last month, as he has done several times before after being appointed Deputy Prime minister, Mutambara praised Mugabe, calling the ageing dictator a "consistent and principled leader".
This time around, his followers could not contain themselves anymore and went on to write a petition, asking their party leadership to strip Mutambara of his post "if he does not issue an apology to party supporters".
"We demand that the Deputy Prime Minister should resign or be forced to resign if he does not apologise to us," said the supporters in the petition.
"We do not think such remarks are a true reflection of the party. We are fighting to remove President Robert Mugabe from power and at the same time our leader heaps praise on him.
"How can Mutambara lead our cause of removing Mugabe from power when he is admiring him?
"It is either Mutambara leaves the party or we leave the party."
So they want him to apologise and then they will stay in the party whose principles are not even known to its own leaders?
These party followers trivialise their political worth to the extent of being propping up ZANU-PF, a party they claim wanting to dislodge.
The heart of the matter is that the followers of Arthur Mutambara, Ncube and Sibanda must come back to the MDC proper and should not bother asking their so-called leaders to apologise to anyone for supporting Mugabe.
Ncube and others broke away from the MDC to assist Mugabe.
There is no issue of principles involved. Neither Ncube nor Sibanda wanted the power that presumably comes with party leadership because they knew they had nothing to offer but only existed for the purpose of slowing down the MDC.
They could earn more by being puppet masters; just like Mugabe does.
Granted, some of the points they raised were valid, especially when a party leader violates his own party’s constitution but, in the eyes of the people, these rebels without any cause, legitimised Tsvangirai’s political transgression by bolting to form another party which, contrary to the mother body and original intent, came out supporting a man they had all been fighting to dislodge.
Unfortunately, both MDC formations do not seem to have any ideology or agenda for Zimbabwe.
But unfortunately, again, who really in their right minds would care to welcome back these professors?
Political prostitutes in ZANU-PF welcomed back Jonathan Moyo, who has since proven his acumen in political prostitution to be the best in Zimbabwe. But even the rabid ZANU-PF denied Moyo the chance to get close to the top and refused him admission into the ZANU-PF political bureau.
Arthur Mutambara being called upon to apologise?
What for when his duty to harass the MDC and the people is still not complete?
What do you think?
Send me your comments to tano@swradioafrica.com
Arthur Mutambara, Welshman Ncube and Gibson Sibanda are doing a sterling job of foiling the people’s expectations and of trying to move the momentum in ZANU-PF’s farvour.
I don’t want to see Lucifer apologising to Christ as long as Lucifer refuses to remove the little sword tucked in his belt.
Ncube supporters are the ones who must apologise to the nation for supporting a group of self seeking men who only wanted to delay the emancipation of the Zimbabwean people.
An apology would be like putting a vial containing lethal poison in the family refrigerator but under what mom thinks is "controlled conditions".
The poison is there and the family is in danger.
I am Tanonoka Joseph Whande, saying to Mutambara, don’t apologise to anyone. I had rather have you as a public sell out than you as Lucifer with a short dagger in his waist belt.
And that my compatriots, is the way it is today, Thursday April 8, 2010.
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Subject: REJECTION OF GPA
We must mobilize to reject the GPA as Diaspora. I agree with your radio messages. South Africa is not honest and this GPA will not lead to free and fair elections.
Speak about it on your radio program, to give a deadline of 30 April 2010. Say yes, and I would circulate to Global Zimbabwe Forum members and hold public debate in SA this month to get support for its rejection. The GZF SA executive will meet week of 16 April, to debate this matter and I will be there too, to agree on GPA rejection.
If Diaspora rejects GPA- the international community will see that SA and SADC have failed. The sanctions will not be removed. We require a comprehensive consultation and Outreach (funding) to debate this GPA with displaced migrants in SA and rest of world.
L D ZUNGA
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