via A Mugabe dynasty affair 10 December 2014 by Tawanda Majoni
It is now beyond reasonable doubt that what was sold as the 6th Zanu (PF) congress was nothing but a Mugabe family party. The so-called congress was always meant to serve the interests of two people—Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace.
The rest were comical sideshows meant to feed into the bigger plot of solidifying the Mugabe dynasty. A lot of people might not believe this, but it is only because they have always been willing pawns in the Mugabe power game, hoping to pick up some crumbs along the way to take back home.
It is abundantly telling that the venue of the so-called congress was named—illegally for that matter—after one individual, Robert Mugabe.
The wife had her fair share in the whole fiasco, considering that a “road” was named after her. Granted, it was not Mugabe who went about digging stumps out of the public piece of land and painting the sign posts. This was done by a gang of Zanu (PF) party poopers who thought they were making a score against Joice Mujuru and her “treasonous” bunch. In the process, they hoped to get closer to the one centre of power on which Mugabe perches. In the whole narrative, Mugabe the emperor looms large. He loves power and he hates those he imagines want to take it away from him.
The pretenders managed to convince Mugabe that Mujuru wanted his throne. As a result, all the outbursts were reserved for the former deputy and her loyalists. Somehow, Mugabe had been fed with “evidence” that Mujuru had been dabbling in witchcraft in order to remove him from power.
We got the impression that, contrary to Grace’s claim that Joice was mediocre, she was in fact a very busy woman—visiting n’angas, convening with the Americans and the Europeans, stealing money and company shares and plotting to use congress to overthrow Mugabe. At the end of the congress, none of the allegations had stuck, of course, and it is clear that they were made up to entrench Mugabe’s rule.
I totally agree with Rugare Gumbo who described the summit as a praise and worship squib. It made no attempt to seriously address the acute socio-economic problems that beset us. While the theme of the congress said something about going beyond ZimAsset, the economic blueprint that Zanu (PF) claims is the panacea to our problems, hardly anything was said about this. Instead, all men and women, big and small, fell over each other to shower praises on Mugabe and vow to ensure he ruled until he died. They never told us what they wanted to happen once Mugabe was dead.
Considering his advanced age, this should have been the main worry among the delegates, but it wasn’t. Even if he were to live beyond a hundred years, age has already battered his capacities. This is evident in the myriad slips he has been making of late, even to the extent of denouncing his own party and admitting that Morgan Tsvangirai won the 2008 elections by 73 percent. That is ample evidence of growing senility on the president’s part. The fact that adults, some of them with genuine PhDs, still want to be ruled by a senile man beats me.
Mugabe and his wife were the only people whose positions were confirmed when the summit came to a close. It is tragic that thousands of people ululated and pranced to the opulent praise singing at the congress and had no inkling of what the real agenda of the event was. Against all expectation, Mugabe left the anointing of the presidium to another day. This is because the presidium is secondary to the dynasty. Mugabe told a crass fib when he said he needed to familiarise himself with the names of people elected into the new central committee before making his pick. He had access to those names well before congress, because the election of the members was done some time before the summit.
Remember, he came up with his own supplementary list of people to get into the committee. How was he able to do that if he did not know the original list? What we are seeing defies all logic and can only be explained in terms of the dynamics of the same underworld that told him about Mujuru’s “black magic” shenanigans. – To comment on this article, please contact majonitt@gmail.com
COMMENTS
Why all the hate Majoni , you aware that the central committee members had been chosen in their respective provinces before and the congress was just affirming them hence the President had their names . So then Mashonaland East was left out because disagreements so then it’s logical he had to wait in order to include them on his choice if at all there is or was someone worth being appointed to the politburo . This means it gives him more time to study the list further . Now you are also agreeing with a career rebel Rugare Gumbo about his sentiments …I wonder if you had if he was still part of the ZANU PF hierarchy . Anyway you have to sing for your supper , so you must continue to write that way .
accurate and sad.
such an unlikeable couple.