Recently Defence Minister and Zanu PF faction warlord (Garwe –The Crocodile) Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa lived up to the adage that crocodiles shed tears except that in this instance the crocodile is shedding real tears and no the crocodile tears in the adage. Mnangagwa’s anguish over the EU and USA travel ban slapped on the Zanu PF inner circle was self evident in his stupid assertion that Zimbabweans abroad must only be conferred voting rights when the EU and USA have lifted sanctions against Zanu PF leaders. Forget the sanctions against the country mantra he peddles because in this instance Mnangagwa is driven by personal anguish rather than national interest in this instance.
For a reputed Liberation war active participant like Mnangagwa to spew tosh that Zimbabwean citizenship rights do not extent to its nationals outside its borders for whatever reason due to the so called sanctions is a painful reminder of how much distance the current Zanu PF leadership has put between its Liberation war values and its current core values.
Since when have sanctions become more important to the party that rightly claims to have liberated Zimbabwe from colonial rule and restored political and social dignity to the majority of its Black citizens than the core value of upholding the one-person-one -vote that gallant Zimbabweans paid for with their lives to attain for the people. Mnangagwa is a disgrace for all Zimbabwe Liberation War heroes dead or alive today.
The reason why Mnangagwa anchored the post March 29, 2008 political thuggery is because he has lost his bearings over why the Liberation struggle was undertaken by our gallant fathers, and mothers. They all bravely fought not to have sanctions against the country lifted but rather for the colonial regime to extent voting rights to all Zimbabweans of majority age without any qualification or preconditions.
Listening to Mnangagwa telling the nation that Zanu PF will not restore voting rights it withdrew from its exiled citizens invokes chilling and infuriating memories of Rhodesia Front’s demagogue and slave catcher Rowan Conje declaring that Blacks will never be allowed to vote in their country unless they attained a certain educational standard notwithstanding UN sanctions imposed on the late Ian Smith’s regime.
Poor Mnangagwa no wonder why some in the Security forces consider him a Povo even though he was President Mugabe’s close aide during the Liberation struggle. He simply does not appreciate that most of the Zanla forces that sacrificed their lives fighting the ruthless Rhodesian war machinery genuinely believed as they still do now that voting rights of Zimbabweans are worthy defending with one’s life and cannot be trivialised to the level where they are used as a tool of fighting externally imposed sanctions against the Zimbabwe they reclaimed from Ian Smith and the British Empire.
It is never ceases to amaze why professionally trained legal people abandon the noble profession and spew balderdash as soon as they become deluded by political power.
Paul Munyaradzi Mangwana, Munyaradzi Gwisai, Johannes Tomana, Patrick Chinamasa, Tongai Matutu and Emmerson Mnangagwa are classical example of lawyers turned morons by political power.
Tongai Matutu paid dearly for uttering the same nonsense that Mnangagwa is spewing when he was rejected by delegates after biding to be the National Information and Publicity Secretary of the MDC-T and is still smarting from the embarrassment yet unaware of what hit him.
Mnangagwa will be the next victim given that his current constituency was carried through the trials and tribulations of Zanu PF fiscal plunder by diaspora remittances. It is unpardonable political stupidity for Mnangagwa to thumb his nose at the economic heroes that sustained the local population he depends own for his esteemed position in government. He will soon find out as Matutu did that the Zimbabwe diasporans have tremendous political influence on who is entrusted with power to run Zimbabwe and those that deny others the right to vote like Mnangagwa, Matutu, Chinamasa and others will pay dearly for their misguided stupidity when the electorate rejects them without disclosing reasons for the rejection.
The attempt to pre-empt the Constitution draft clauses is not missed either. Mnangagwa is now a rogue lawyer. For how else can we describe a supposedly human rights trained defender who openly attempts to pre-empt what should be included in the Constitution at a time the drafting of the supreme law for the country has just started.
Mnangagwa needs some serious reminding that Zimbabwe belongs to all who were born in that country and they are not responsible for the sanctions imposed against him and Zanu PF. Neither do they wield the power to lift the restrictions causing him anguish. His best chance at fighting the sanctions is not through openly abusing other citizens but rather through upholding their rights and treating them with the dignity they deserve.
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