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December 17, 2009.
Electing party leadership has national implications
Yet another ZANU-PF congress has come and gone.
It was the same thing that has always happened since these people started gathering to rubber stamp Mugabe’s whims and wishes.
In other words nothing happened.
They gathered to worship a devil who has made their lives miserable since thirty years ago.
Even Satanists could have come up with a better congress and meaningful resolutions.
How a congress can bring together hundreds of people from across the nation, among them lawyers, doctors, engineers, educationists and other professionals, to actually elect Robert Mugabe as their leader and presidential candidate, is satanic, to put it mildly.
Are ZANU-PF people masochists, I wonder? Do they love pain that much?
Do the people in ZANU-PF think or they long turned into zombies who gave their brains to Mugabe for “safe-keeping”?
There does not seem to be independent thinkers in that party.
It is now a party of people whose only ambition is to take short cuts to the bank and whose only desire is to perch themselves in a good position to rape the country.
Mugabe has successfully succeeded in turning his party supporters into unthinking robots who give unquestionable blind loyalty to him.
The party specializes in the abuse of the nation.
A glance at the ZANU-PF leadership tells a sorry story of how imbeciles and none achievers can actually succeed in holding the nation to ransom. The list of the top ZANU-PF leadership resembles an inventory of mentally stagnated citizens.
They are, indeed, mentally stagnated, if the last 30 years have shown us anything.
Robert Mugabe, Joyce Mujuru, John Nkomo, Simon Khaya Moyo, etc.
It is a shameful line-up.
Mugabe is the best example of why no one should ever aspire to be a leader.
Gifted with unequaled greed, vindictiveness and a curious hatred of Zimbabweans, Mugabe has become synonymous with cruelty, murder, arrogance and, yes, evil.
Joyce Mujuru has got to be the worst of the lot and owes her position to a combination of tribalism and marriage to Solomon.
She has never been out of the cabinet since independence and I would love to scan her resume just to see what lies she tries to tell even her own children.
She is not an under-achiever; she has never aspired to achieve anything beyond the exaggerated “teurai ropa” nonsense.
She is vice president, having been voted for by all provinces, we are told.
John Nkomo is a pathetic survivor who also climbed to the vice presidency, not because of intellect, but because of tribal balancing.
If he were good while at PF-ZAPU, then he left anything sensible when he crossed over to ZANU-PF. Dead wood does rarely comes in such large packages.
And Simon Khaya Moyo, my goodness! All he needed to do was to wear a nose ring and have Mugabe lead him wherever he wanted.
Moyo stopped thinking when Vice president Joshua Nkomo passed away.
What can Zimbabweans expect from these people who have been in and out of government for the last 30 years and who have landed us in the mess that we find ourselves in?
Recycling might be good for plastics and paper but not for failed leaders like these.
Meantime, my home boy Emerson Mnangagwa continues to dream that one day he might actually take over the presidency.
This man has been used so often and for so long that he does not seem to know where he is going anymore.
He was never a popular man as evidenced by his abandoning of his Zvishavane constituency to run for elected office in Kwekwe, where he was finally booted out.
It is this unpopularity, which persists from as far back as the liberation war days, that has caused him to connive with snakes like Jonathan Moyo to try and influence district and provincial leaderships who could possibly open the doors into State House for him.
An alleged lawyer who never set foot in a court, Mnangagwa’s patience borders on stupidity. Now that Mugabe himself no longer has enough grip on the party, Mnangagwa is doomed, unless, of course, he does something illegal, otherwise no one in ZANU-PF, let alone Zimbabwe, will let him flirt with national leadership.
It is amazing that after all these years, Mnangagwa has not even noticed that he was being used. They kept him incapacitated by regularly and deceptively pushing him forward as a possible Mugabe successor, when the puppet masters knew that he was not going to go anywhere.
Mnangagwa did not even notice that they were keeping him close to thwart or control any ambitions he harboured over the presidency. But to make it worse, he was effectively used to divide not only ZANU-PF but the nation as well.
I hope this time he can see beyond his misguided ambitions and return to earth.
Then ZANU-PF people, barren of any meaningful and encouraging rhetoric, stood up and cheered Jonathan Moyo.
I wonder what each one of those morons would say were they to be asked individually why they were giving Moyo a standing ovation.
ZANU-PF people have their noses so deep in the feeding trough that they do not realize that our freedoms are being whittled just as much as theirs. They think that by surrendering their independence to people like Mugabe and Moyo, they achieve something they cannot achieve on their own.
Many ZANU-PF people are aware of the difficulties their party created for everyone, including their own families, but they do not have the decency to put the nation first.
Instead, they keep eating their own vomit and they keep throwing up and going back to eating it again and again.
They do not worry or bother about the political nutritional value of their acts. They feel that the nation should rather die than for them to be denied the opportunity to continue vandalizing the nation.
The heart of the matter is that every citizen, regardless of their political affiliation, is responsible for the kind of leader we put in State House. To that extent, ZANU-PF followers showed a great deal of irresponsibility by allowing themselves to be coaxed into keeping Mugabe as leader.
Party leaders may end up being presidents or prime ministers so it is extremely important that each party remembers where their candidate may end up.
I do not believe for one moment that all those ZANU-PF people honestly believe that there is still something good that Mugabe could surprise his party, let alone the nation, with. Unless if we were talking about more deaths of innocent citizens. In that, Mugabe excels.
They know, just as we do, that Mugabe is as useful as a used paper napkin. In electing to keep Mugabe, ZANU-PF adherents did not vote for the well being of the nation or party, they voted for an opportunity to continue with all the bad things that ZANU-PF has been doing with Mugabe’s blessing. A change in the status quo would see some ZANU-PF stalwarts becoming destitute because they are where they are through dubious and, in most cases, illegal means.
Thus, as usual with ZANU-PF, the country’s well being has been sacrificed for greed and sleaze.
What do you think?
Send me your comment on tano@swradioafrica.com
So I sit here and wonder why these stupid things continue to happen in Zimbabwe.
I sit here thinking what all this nonsense means.
Under an evil and relentless onslaught, I recognize the reluctant weariness of the Zimbabwean people.
I recognize a dangerous despair in our people as they are forced to take the abnormal as a way of life; it is end of the year.
And proof that nothing has changed stares all of us in the face.
Zimbabweans have tried their best.
Zimbabweans picked an alternative.
It is sad that, as always, when Zimbabweans go to the polls, it is the voters who lose.
Mugabe is good at that; ask Sam Mujoma, that dull leader of the South West African People’s Organisation, better known by its acronym of SWAPO.
Mujoma was a beneficiary of Mugabe’s election rigging machine.
We have fake South African revolutionaries like Tokyo Sexwale spouting nonsense in countries that have no democracy.
If people like Sexwale had known war of liberation and how painful it is to the people and the freedom fighters, he would not cross his borders to display his ignorance and admiration for murders.
Party congresses are important undertakings because the nation’s leaders come from such national meetings.
Now, ZANU-PF supporters have sentenced Zimbabwe to more years of hard labour.
I am Tanonoka Joseph Whande and that, my fellow Zimbabweans, is the way it is today, Thursday December 17, 2009.
Comments
I think it was the late Michael Jackson who asked this intriguing question in a song, "what about us?" What is it about the Zimbabwean psyche especially among the "supposedly" educated elite which lead us to follow, defend and even worship this group of characters.
At first, Mr. Whande I thought you were too harsh but then, I could not find an alternative besides telling it as it is. It shows true bravery and patriotism on your part because the country has bled for a long time and still bleeding. Many of us would have skirted round the issues. When something is wrong there should be no negotiations with the truth. I can now hear voices in the background shouting, "things are more complicated than you imagine". Yes indeed, pathetic excuses.
We all know what the score is with regards to these characters but how does one explain the psyche of the cheer leaders.
Worryingly for us all, the new government wants all those in the Diaspora to pay income tax to an administration which cannot guarantee safety it's citizens from state agents and thugs. Then you will be allowed to vote, they say. Some things are certainly infectious and I think the inmates have taken over the asylum! And why or why are some in the MDC feeling responsible and guilty about the so called "smart sanctions"? They are negotiating on ZANU's behalf to have them lifted. In secret! Our pain continues!
Simon
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