Dementia, bonkers or both?

tty weird things lately. And although his top officials continue to close ranks around him, surely even they must be getting to the limit of their credibility.
Speaking in an interview in the hallowed halls of the UN in New York last week, Mugabe was obviously somewhat embarrassed by the barbarism of his police force. He seemed to try and distance his government from the riotous behaviour of the police at Matapi Police Station in Mbare, where 15 leaders of the ZCTU and MDC were thrashed while in custody.
He dismissed the brutal assaults as “the work of one or two overzealous policemen”. Here we have a huge reality gap – it was not one or two who perpetrated the atrocities. It was a gang of thugs in police uniform.
Didymus Mutasa is said to have been seen at Matapi Police station at the time. We wonder what he was doing there – if it wasn’t to egg them on.
Then, earlier this week, Mugabe spoke again about the savage attack – this time obviously more comfortable – from another Africa country, Egypt. This time he came out strongly behind the torturers and accused the victims of having “brought it upon themselves” by “sitting in places not allowed”.
“They want to become a law unto themselves,” he said. Although he said he did not know what the protests were about, he dismissed them as “nonsensical and stupid”. He also accused Zimbabwean journalists, presumably from the independent media, of being “the stupid ones, who always write stupid things”.
Another reality check: the leaders were not beaten in the streets. They did not resist arrest. They were not sitting in “a place that is not allowed”. They were beaten while in police custody.
He also continues to talk of an expected bumper harvest, while soldiers are going around the country beating up villagers for not surrendering their harvest to the GMB and more than half the population of Zimbabwe goes to bed hungry every night.
This country needs a leader who has his finger on the pulse. We cannot continue to be ruled by a doddering old man who is living in cloud cuckoo land. It is time somebody showed him the way back to Zvimba.