President Mugabe: Could the current wave of accidents have anything to do with his viscious actions on 11 March 2007?
Disaster struck once again when a bus crashed on Wednesday night at exactly the same spot where an accident claimed the life of the Premier’s wife on 6 March 2009.
Several mourners returning from the funeral of Susan Tsvangirai were injured in the crash.
The scene of the accident on the disintegrating Masvingo Harare road which used to be referred as the Carpet Highway because...
of its smooth drive at the time the country gained independence is a renowned accident black spot.
The Premier’s spokesman James Maridadi helped ferry several injured mourners to the nearby Beatrice Hospital.
In a separate incident Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) district chairman for Makoni West constituency in Manicaland province Francis Muswere died on the same night when the vehicle he was travelling in from the said funeral was involved in an accident in Rusape which critically injured several other passengers in the vehicle.
Muswere died on admission at Rusape hospital while four other passengers were receiving treatment for injuries at the same hospital.
It has been a bad month in Zimbabwe with errand Retired Army General Vitalis Zvinavashe succumbing to long illness at Manyame Air Base hospital a day before Mrs. Tsvangirai was buried.
In 2007 Zimbabwe Republic Police details deployed to disrupt a Save Zimbabwe Prayer meeting at Zimbabwe grounds on 11 March, shot and killed National Constitutional Assembly activist Gift Tandare and took into custody several MDC leaders.
They gave them thorough beatings that left several of them with broken limbs and severe body swelling.
President Mugabe then boasted he had instructed the Police to use corporal punishment to discipline his political adversaries who were inviting hardships to the people by prosecuting a Western regime change agenda that had culminated in illegal sanctions against the country.
The global village was shocked and disapproved of the thuggery in the strongest terms possible.
There is an apt Shona adage that says “Chisi hachieri musi wacharimwa,” which literally translates to mean indulgence in taboos may not invite immediate punishment but the punishment will be realized at some stage.
President Mugabe is yet to apologize for his excesses in March 2007 and the month is turning out to be a catastrophic month for the country.
Could a national apology exorcise the bad omen he has cast on the month I wonder?
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