My Dear People
Poor Chris Mutsvangwa has this nauseating tendency of taking Zimbabweans for fools and wanting to appear as if he is the only one who went to school or liberated this country single-handedly.
Last week, Mutsvangwa, who some of you have nicknamed Manhize because of the marketing role he has been playing for the Chinese steel making venture, called a press conference to boast about the perceived impact of what is essentially a private enterprise.
He waxed lyrical about the Manhize steel plant being a game changer in Zimbabwe’s economic fortunes.
Mutsvangwa, without any sense of irony, claimed that Scarfmore was turning around Zimbabwe’s fortunes.
He made the same claims eight years ago when they were trying to justify the cowardly coup against Gushungo.
Mutsvangwa told us that Scarfmore was Zimbabwe’s Deng, but we now know that was an insult to the revolutionary Chinese leader who is credited for turning the economic fortunes of his country in a dramatic way.
The lived reality of the majority of Zimbabweans is that they are worse off than they were when Gushungo was removed.
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Hospitals have no medicines and health workers are demotivated.
You even heard the family of late national hero Brigadier General (Retired) Victor Rungani narrating how he struggled to get a ventilator from Harare’s top hospitals until it was too late to save his life when a private hospital that could save him was finally found.
You can imagine what is happening to poor villagers in Dotito or Siabuhwa when such health emergencies arise.
Civil servants have seen their incomes being severely eroded under the Lacoste regime’s watch.
For instance university lecturers were earning around US$2 500 a month, but now their salaries are below US$500.
Road infrastructure has deteriorated to an alarming state across the country despite billions of dollars having been spent on rehabilitation projects.
Corruption has become fashionable to an extent that some charlatans are not afraid to splash their ill-gotten wealth in broad daylight, but you hear Manhize trying to compare Scarfmore to Deng!
We also know that Mutsvangwa was just executing his role as marketer in chief for the Chinese venture.
Munopengaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Webster Shamu, that former DJ who never grew tired of licking Gushungo’s boots until the end, has not lost his touch.
When a video of Shamu begging Scarfmore to hang onto power until 2030 began circulating on social media last week I was not surprised.
This is the man who used to tell Gushungo that he was Cremora when it was clear that Zimbabwe had grown tired of his rule.
In public Ngwena pretends that he does not want to remain in office beyond his two terms that end in 2028, but we are not stupid to see what is happening in the background.
The cunning ones like Shamu have read his mind and will tell him what he wants to hear so that they keep their places on the feeding trough.
If one was to profile those behind the nonsensical 2030 campaign the common thread they will establish would be that they are all charlatans, who are not capable of winning elections without the help of the incumbent.
Their future is tied to that of the Lacoste faction and its godfather. This is why you see them making fools of themselves trying to please Scarfmore.
One such comical character is Daniel Garwe, who of late has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Last week, the former Rhodesian soldier had the temerity of insulting the cultural symbol of the Ndebele people when he launched an unprovoked tirade against King Bulelani Lobengula Khumalo.
Garwe seemed to take issue with Bulawayo mayor David Coltart, who met Khumalo some time in April during a courtesy visit.
Besides the language that he used in the letter being unministerial, the communication showed a lot of disdain for a people’s culture in an unprecedented way.
Cultural activists from Matabeleland were not amused by Garwe and they have been taking him to the cleaners.
They also pointed the Lacoste regime’s inconsistencies when dealing with people that have laid claim to the various kingships that were dismantled by the colonisers.
Garwe and his ilk have not been seen using the kind of language he used on Khumalo on people that have claimed to be King Munhumutapa or King Mambo.
The whole thing smells of double standards and must not be taken lying down. Stop it Daniel!
It is also important to mention that Garwe’s rants represented the thinking in the Lacoste regime when it comes to the Ndebele people.
In 2020 Ngwena did not censure Monica Mutsvangwa when she referred to the Ndebele people as a “righteous minority.”
The bigotry runs deep.
Munopengaaaaaaa
Still on Garwe making a fool of himself, last week he was in Mbare to launch a blitz against bedbugs known in Shona as tsikidzi, which are causing havoc in Harare’s oldest suburb, clad in a medical mask.
I wondered what message he was trying to send to the people of Mbare really. Was he trying to tell them that their habitat is too smelly?
He had no shame repeating the lie that the Lacoste government had plans to improve their living conditions.
At the height of the 2018 election campaigns, Zanu PF promised Mbare residents renovated flats with swimming pools, but what the residents got are pools of sewage.
They got the same raw deal that Zimbabweans, save for a few zviganandas, have been getting since 2017.
Munopengaaaaaaaa
Stop It!
Dr Amai Stop it! PhD (Fake)
