A former teacher in Bubi district in Matabeleland North, Mfazo Mothlabi Phuti Mpunzi has written a book titled Confrontation Inevitable: Hope and Build Restoring the Pride of Our Nation, which rips into President Robert Mugabe’s failed government.
BY SILAS NKALA
Mpunzi said he started writing the 283-page book in 2015 and completed it in May.
His prologue states that Zanu PF members presume that by leading the liberation struggle from white minority rule, “we owe them personally a debt for the attainment of independence.”
“They shamelessly do whatever they desire with the fruits of the economy ranging from confiscating other people’s properties, multiple farm ownership and mines,” Mpunzi wrote.
“They also unabatedly commit heinous crimes against humanity such as rape, murder, fraud, theft and abductions but nobody touches them because they enjoy impunity to law.”
Mpunzi states that according to their illusory reasoning, Zanu PF is free to do anything because they liberated Zimbabwe from the British.
“They blossom in opulent living with their spouses and children while the generality of the people of Zimbabwe suffer from abject poverty,” Mpunzi wrote.
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“Our country is indeed in a devastating social, political and economic state. Citizens live as though they were refugees in their own native land. Happiness and freedom seem to be a preserve for the ruling elite and their backers only.”
Mpunzi states that the scandalous looting of national wealth by Zanu PF malcontents had reached alarming levels and it is the epitome of abuse of power.
“Hard work and merit no longer count. Praise singing and patronage is all that matters in Zanu PF. If Mugabe had supernatural powers to give life to people, truly, he would give oxygen to his supporters and bootlickers only and asphyxiate all his opponents,” Mpunzi wrote.
“Nevertheless, big thanks to God Almighty because He is the sole life-giver. The illusion of power corrupted the nonagenarian Zanu PF leader into regarding himself as an infallible, peculiar and supernatural being who should rule forever.”
Mpunzi further states that election times are often punctuated with blood, rape, torture, slander and abductions as Zanu PF endeavours to cling onto power to death.
“Millions desperately accept this unjust system as a normal part of their lives because they think Zanu PF is insuperable to overcome,” he wrote. “They seem to fear Mugabe’s unspecified threats on everyone who dared oppose him.”
“Confrontation is now inevitable! Cowardice has brought our nation backwardly. Negative thoughts arrest many people’s minds,” he added.
Mpunzi asked if Zimbabwe can continue to rot because people were afraid. He said simple logic is that Zanu PF is not invincible.
“We all hate Zanu PF. The entire Zimbabwe, including both human and animal species, are fed-up of Zanu PF and its bandwagon of dull ministers who are an obstacle to life and its full potential!” he wrote.
He said Zanu PF made Mugabe seem to be irremovable from power by further endorsing him as their candidate for the anticipated watershed 2018 elections.
“Those who seemed to be beneficiaries of his patronised system of governance entailed everything necessitated him as life president despite his advanced age and threatening health,” he wrote.
“Some perceived him as an invincible demigod who would only be dealt with by the course of nature and not be defeated politically by other beings. Our elderly groups of citizens seemed to have congruously believed that Mugabe was irremovable from power. The sober truth is yes! Mugabe is removable.”
Mpunzi indicated that as a teacher, he at one time thought that Zimbabwe’s solutions would come from the powerful outsiders but has since learnt they can come from locals.
He urged opposition political parties to stop wasting people’s time by attacking the enemy separately, a strategy which he said had always failed, but encouraged them to unite.
Mpunzi wrote that Zimbabweans had hoped for new political dispensation through the MDC-led by Morgan Tsvangirai, which has proved to be a betrayal of hope for many as it failed on several occasions to wrestle power from Mugabe.
“The hearts of millions are still bleeding today. Many citizens hoped in vain that Tsvangirai and his MDC party would deliver them from a continued reign of terror and economic abyss by Zanu PF,” wrote Mpunzi.
Mpunzi, born in 1978 in Ntabazinduna, said he stopped teaching in 2013 after he participated in the MDC-T primary elections, after which it was not easy for him to go back to teaching.
He said he would be launching the book in Bulawayo at a venue yet to be announced this month end and was engaging in a deal for the publication of the text with a publisher in Harare, which is yet to be finalised. He is no longer a member of the MDC-T.
