via Mujuru, Mutasa, should just tell the truth and be free – NewsDay Zimbabwe March 14, 2016
RECENT claims by former Vice-President Joice Mujuru, who is now president of the newly-formed opposition Zimbabwe People’s First (Zim PF) and former State Security minister Didymus Mutasa, that they were not at liberty to expose Zanu PF’s dark past lest they play foul to the Official Secrecy Act, cannot go unchallenged.
NewsDay Comment
It’s no secret that Mujuru, Mutasa et al at ZimPF played a pivotal role in ensuring the Zanu PF party stranglehold on power by crushing dissenting voices over the past three decades.
Now that they have crossed the floor, they owe Zimbabweans nothing else but the truth in order for them to gain public acceptance by the electorate in the opposition camp.
A passage from the Bible, the English Standard Version (EVS) on John 8:31-32, will be of great help to both Mutasa and Mujuru, if they entertain any hopes of winning the hearts of the electorate, especially ahead of the crunch 2018 elections.
In case, the two do not find time to read the Bible, the passage hewn from John 8: 31-32 partly reads: “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
The message in that piece of scripture demands that Mujuru, Mutasa and many others in their trail should open up and tell the truth of what used to happen and by so doing they might win the hearts of the masses.
It’s no point for them to want to be accepted as democrats without publicly exorcising the Zanu PF ghost that has been associated with them for the past 34 years.
Why would the duo seek to hide behind the fears of the Official Secrecy Act, if they claim to have the mandate to emancipate Zimbabweans? Why do they think the masses will believe them if they do not sacrifice their own positions to let the people of Zimbabwe know who has been behind so much atrocities for over three decades.
Of course, the duo may decide not to divulge the perpetrators of such heinous acts, but this could seal their own fate. Zimbabweans cannot be taken for granted, they may seem naïve, but truly speaking they are more vigilant and have gone through thick and thin and are now politically mature.
It is not in dispute the violence perpetrated on the masses, torture and abduction of members of opposition parties, has for decades been sanctioned by top government and Zanu PF officials, all in the spirit of retaining power.
If the truth be told, senior government officials, at all material times would be alive to what would be on the ground across the country and in some instances, being the ones directing operations and giving instructions for certain individuals or groups of people to be tortured, victimised and/or abducted.
Mujuru and Mutasa need not forget that you cannot curry public sympathy if you maintain your penchant of telling half-truths. What’s the point of remaining subservient to an obnoxious piece of legislation while pretending to have parted ways with its evil machinations? Just tell the truth, and the truth shall set you free. Food for thought.
COMMENTS
FROM SAUL TO PAUL!!!! THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t think the truth would set them free at all. It would more likely land them in jail – and I don’t mean for breaching the ‘Official Secrets Act’.
It will take a very genuine and public conversion experience for these ex Zanu profligates to be trusted, not that people cant change, but these have supped up with the devil and their fall from grace seems its the one that convinced them otherwise–. One wonders if they could have left on their own consciences? If its raised and socialised in Zanu, smells like it, quite likely it still is!!!!
mazpf at heart zpf forever piporofestmy foot
give them time guys mugabe is a political thug as we speak ari buzy kugadzira mhosva dzisipo politic is a gave chimuvande muvande kuteya nekuteiwa nguva ye pena ichakwana vachaibanha give them time
Stuff Mutasa and Mujuru. Chikurubi for both of them. Mugabe’s henchman.
By withholding some information they are in a way sustaining the regime.
I don’t think everything will be covered in the Official Secret Act. An individual like Mutasa who was minister of CIO has so much information and he should be spill it out beforehand so that CIO do not continue their dirty work.
This will give other people second thoughts knowing that whatever they are doing in the dark can be revealed at some stage and they will be on their own.
These two were in the thick of it. They are as guilty as anybody can be. They do not reveal because to do so is to implicate themselves
Both are well known thieves, and both have blood on their hands. The truth will certainly not set them free.
Grace.
Robert?
Remind me of Operation Rule Forever.
We expel, an “opposition” is created, the opposition is diluted, we sign a new Unity Agreement and you rule forever!
Ah, I remember.
Samoosa?
Just the one.
How can we ever forget and forgive Didymus Mutasa’s vicious brutality in the 2008 “election”. Far less his Stalin like talk about only ZANU PF members should be allowed to be alive in Zimbabwe!
All this waffle about the Official Secrets Act is nonsense. It is simply a ploy by him to keep hidden his cruel role in those 2008 atrocities. He should be sitting right next to Bashir at the ICC in The Hague.
As for me and my mine he must pay the price…whether in this world or the next.
But ZIM PF is a dead duck as long as this wicked man is any way involved with it.