Grovelling messages for VP Joice’s ‘anniversary’

issued a full page advert “commemorating” the “second anniversary of Mai Mujuru’s election as Vice President and second secretary of Zanu (PF).
“It is indeed a first in every way,” said Makwavarara, a political turncoat voted into office on an MDC ticket who later defected to the ruling party.
“Isu tinozvida izvi. Pamberi nechimurenga (We love this. Forward with the struggle).”
Almost all parastatals, even loss-making ones, among them Zimpost, CMED, ZESA Holdings, Net One, ZUPCO, Hwange Colliery Company, ZINWA, ZIMDEF, POSB, NSSA,issued full colour adverts celebrating Mujuru’s “incredible feat” as “the first woman Vice President.”
Said Hwange Colliery: “May her wisdom continue to lead the way in the government’s efforts to turn around the country’s economy.”
The messages were laced with nauseating bootlicking extolling the virtues of a vice president who has recently been named in a corruption scandal at Ziscosteel. During her two-year reign Mujuru has only been visible in small-scale projects such as official opening of boreholes and donating day-old chicks to rural women.
Observers say the gushing messages were “dishonest” and were not in tandem with Mujuru’s insignificant contribution to Zimbabwe’s crisis-torn economy. – Own correspondent