Zimbabwe President Apostle Robert Gabriel Mugabe at the Johanne marange Passover after snubbing invitation to Rumbidzai's wedding to Calvin Nyarota. Rumbidzai is premier Tsvangirai's daughter.
Addressing mourners gathered at the discredited National Heroes shrine to witness the interment of his late sister Sabina Mugabe, President Robert Mugabe hit the nail on the head when he said;
“They cannot be good to us today, when they were not good to us yesterday. They detained us, jailed us, shot at us, bombed us and slaughtered us in our hundreds. We bore the brunt of their cruelties and shall never forget.”
How true except that he was pointing at a past offender he personally and voluntarily pardoned in 1980 and got our total support for the magnanimity he had shown in victory.
The British colonists did all that to us and we pardoned them when they surrendered to our demand for self rule on that momentous day of 18 April 1980 when Prince Charles lowered the Union Jack and neatly folded it before taking it back to the United Kingdom.
Simultaneously our Zimbabwe Flag was hoisted and the wind merrily blew it in all directions as if to confirm the merriment that characterised the mood of the thousands that packed into Rufaro Stadium and many more across the length and breadth of our freed nation.
Sadly none other than President Mugabe has failed us in our desire to continue reveling in the joy of our freedom from colonial rule
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Over the past 3 decades President Mugabe has systematically and deliberately transformed Zanu PF from a revered Liberation Party into the vicious, murderous, oppressive, insensitive, paranoid, misdirected, disgusting, dogmatic, avaricious and corrupt monster that it now is.
Whereas the British settlers had every reason to detain us, jail us, shoot at us, bomb us and slaughter us in our hundreds as well as loot our resources and ferret them to their country of origin can President Mugabe explain to us why he and his Zanu PF adherents are committing the same evils to a greater extent than the White settlers he hates so much.
Why in God’s name is President Mugabe still the President after his March 29 2008 defeat to Morgan Tsvangirai in Presidential elections – a defeat he personally acknowledged but then redefined to justify a re-run of the election in a murderous and lawless environment?
As he points an accusing finger to the former colonists for imposing forced rule upon us does he ever carry out a self introspection on his current legitimacy to preside over our country as Head of State, Head of Government and Commander in Chief of the Defence forces?
If he does how does he compare his clinging to power after the defeat by Tsvangirai and the actions of Lord Soames and Prince Charles after their defeat by himself and Zanu PF?
What would he have done had Lord Soames and Prince Charles connived with General Peter Walls and the Combined Operations commanders to refuse him ascendancy to the position of Prime Minister he had won back then in 1980 in similar fashion to the way he connived with General Chiwenga and the Joint Operations Commanders?
If President Mugabe in his advanced age had the nerve to declare war against Prime Minister Tsvangirai after an electoral defeat one shudders to think how far he would have gone in his youthful years back then in 1980 if he had been denied his hard won electoral victory?
It leaves a sour taste in the mouth when a President Mugabe who has led Zanu PF to commit all the cruelties he rightly the colonists of having meted upon us rants about the cruelties of 3 decades ago that he has pardoned and swears that he and his followers will never forget them yet he is presiding over worse cruelties against us.
Worse the same President has the temerity to stand at what is supposed to be the sacred shrine where our gallant liberators are interred and mourn about sanctions imposed upon the country by former colonists.
Whatever it is that makes him think that those gallant “heroes and heroines” laid to rest at the sacred shrine sacrificed their lives to ensure that he and the country’s political leaders could gallivant across the globe using scant national resources to finance their trips of grandeur when the masses they liberated were left languishing in abject poverty at home is the very reason why he is unfit to preside over our country’s affairs and leads him to rely on force to prevail?
Has the gallant Zimbabwe President forgotten that he and his ruling Zanu PF elite reciprocated the sanctions he now mourns about at every opportunity yet those sanctioned by Zimbabwe in retaliation have not uttered a single word of distress over being sanctioned by Zimbabwe?
The reason for that is very simply that President Mugabe’s public bravado is not matched by the energy in the economic spine of the country as he is ever focused on holding out the begging bowl for donations and borrowings from the international countries he rubbishes publicly.
Our true heroes did not die for a beggar country whose debts have so far been used to finance lavish lifestyles for the Junta he fronts in government but rather for the improvement of the quality of life of ordinary Zimbabweans through equitable distribution of its resources across the social divide.
The pathetic attempt by a whole Zimbabwe President, to apportion blame for his failed economy on actions by other Presidents, shows how far we have travelled to freedom under Mugabe and Zanu PF stewardship.
Not a single step forwards if we are still unable to be self reliant as we were under colonial rule.
Then there is the myopic story about Premier Tsvangirai having boycotted the burial of a National Heroine and the President’s sister in preference to dancing to Shakira’s Waka Waka World Cup soccer theme at MDC-T rallies in Bulawayo and Hwange making headlines.
First anyone declared a National Hero and or Heroine by any institution that does not involve the current government structures which has a Prime Minister and his two deputies risks having his/her status devalued to a National sectarian Hero or Heroine rather than a true National Hero/ Heroine.
That is what Sabina Mugabe is and will forever remain. A Zanu PF national heroine and not a Zimbabwe national heroine.
Secondly in our customs and traditions nobody other than in-laws is ever invited to a funeral or burial of anyone but they come on their own based on the relationship binding them to each other.
President Mugabe does not attend or pay condolences to MDC-T member’s funerals let alone attend their burial ceremonies even in instances where the deaths will have been caused by State and or Zanu PF agents /activists.
The nearest he got to behaving like a people’s President was when he paid personal condolences to the Prime Minister after the death of Susan Tsvangirai and even then he did not find it proper and fitting to be at her burial.
Recently the same President snubbed a personal invitation to the wedding ceremony of the premier’s daughter Rumbidzai to Calvin Nyarota preferring rather to dance and sing Jobho aive nemaronda and Hosanna at the Johanne Marange Apostolic Faith Passover ceremony held at Marange the hotbed of diamonds smuggling.
Is it not widely accepted sociological tenet that a good turn deserves another? When the President lost his sister the Premier did not forget that the President personally consoled him when he lost his wife and indeed reciprocated by personally paying his condolences to the Mugabe family.
When it came to burial the Premier also returned the same favour the President extended to him at Susan’s burial.
As for the dancing and political campaigns that is exactly what the President did when the premier was tied down by his daughter’s wedding.
These are the sanctions our culture imposes on those that do not relate well with communities and neighbours in their hours of need.
If President Mugabe knows and openly declares that the nation will never forget the trials and tribulations it was subjected to by the colonists and tells them to go to hell several times and obviously never return what does he expect of the same nation when it comes to the trials and tribulations they faced and continue to face from him and Zanu PF misrule.
Does he expect us to forget that his beloved Governor of the Reserve Bank transformed all of us into paupers by diminishing the value of our lifetime savings to nothing?
Does he expect us to forget the thousands massacred by the Army and Zanu PF militia under his command?
Does he expect us to forget the hunger and starvation caused by his Price Wars?
Does he expect us to ever forget the wealth accumulated by the ruling elite and many of his advisors including himself and his wife at a time when the rest of us were plunging into abject poverty?
Does he expect us to forget that no other person outside Zanu PF has been recognized for championing Zimbabwe’s cause and declared a National Hero or Heroine under his leadership of the Country?
Does he expect us to forget the tragedies of Gukurahundi and Murambatsvina?
Does he expect us to forget the corruption perpetrated by his close advisers in every aspect of our lives?
If he will not forget we will likewise not forget. President Mugabe can be rest assured of that and we will rub it into him and his beneficiaries whenever the time comes to remind him like he is doing to the colonists.
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